The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-07 00:00:00

PARIS POLICE.

THE HUNCHBACK COUSINS.
A peasant appeared to prefer a complaint against three
journeymen tailors of having robbed him of his raspberries,
If there were any fruit this year I'd say nothing ; but
there's none or next to none ; and if the Parisian is to
come and ravage my land, I had better leave the tax.col..
!cctor to get in the harvest.
President—The accused have stolen your raspberries ?
Peasant—Here's my receipt for my tixes, seven francs
and seventeen sous. That's not a liard, you see. Then
why don't the Government leave me-to enjoy my own. in-
stead of letting the Parisians pillage me ; above all on 8,
Sunday, when there's a deluge of them, worse than a cloud
of locusts.
You caught the delinquents in the act, and they beat you?
Just so ; and yet I had no right to be beaten as it was
my own property and my own raspberries, and here's Oh
receipt for my taxes.
Without, troubling our readers to the whole of the dia-
logue, as given in the Gazette des Tribunamr, see °Ttl
cut short the peasant's story by saying that one of the
three he was more particularly enraged against, because'
being his cousin german, he ought to have respected Itioh
Oh, you are cousin german' and you ?
Yes, you see I have a hunch upon my right shoulder.
True ; I do see it.
Oh yes, it's visible enough ; I've had it from my
birtb.
Now, this vagabond, you see, has one twice as big as !Ili"'
and it's atrocious for one hunchback not to respect another:
The Cousin—Upon my honour, I never noticed you 110
a hunch when we had our little chamaillerie.
Peasant—Perhaps you never saw my raspberries either'
while you were stealing them ?
Cousin—Stealing is not a proper word to use ; if You
please, call it marauding, and I have no objection. Anhonest man may allow himself a trifling act of marauding
but stealing—fye---no, that's dishonourable.
President--And where's the difference, pray ? Whet
you call marauding appears to me to be neither more o°'
less than stealing.
Cousin—Your pardon, Sir. A man steals if he puts the
thing into his pocket ; but if he puts it into his mouth,
Kay of refreshing himself, he is only guilty of marauding.,
This delicate distinction was overruled by the tribunal'
the three tailors were found guilty of the double offence °
theft and assault, and severally condemned to a month's 411'
prisonment.

A FREEktAN'S PRIVILEGE.
President—You are accused, Phalambot, of having P
drunk, of having beaten your wife, and of having insulted
the agents of the public force who attempted to prevent You'
Phalambot—l have only a dozen words to say in reply
Do I live in a free country—yes or no ?
That has nothing to say to the fact with which you lira
charged.
The deuce it hasn't ! Who has a right to' meddle with
my drink, if I paid for my wine, as the song goes ? did
You did quite right to pay for your wine, but you
wrong in insulting the guard, and beating your wife.
How ! Is it conic so far that a man has not a right now
to beat his own wife ?

He never had any right of the kind.
Oh, there you must excuse me, M. le President ; as
Montesquieu says, a man may beat his wife, provided be
don't knock her brains out.
We must hear the witnesses.
A Municipal Guardsman—On going, with one (4,11
comrades, at midnight, through the Faubourg du TetuP'e'
perceived in the dark something lying on the grounds an
another threshing upon it. On approaching I saw this i""
dividual murdering a woman. •'Hollo,"'says I, " 11:1Y ra'n'
what are you doing there?" " Don't you see," says
" that I am explaining myself to my wife ?" " You ha
ulet
a droll way of explaining yourself," says I. What's tu3/
to you ?" says he. So, seeing he was drunk, instead
e
losing my time talking to him, I laid hold of him, for he °I
threshing away at his wife all the while he was talking. -13°t
it was impossible for me to get him away, for ho stuck to
his work, and his arm was going all the while like a steam'
engine. So I called my comrade, and between us we mss
tered him. But he hadn't spent all his wrath on his Wile•
for he said all sorts of impertinence to us.
What impertinence ?
He called us Bobeche, and gingerbread soldiers.
Then why did you interfere in my family affairs
Were we to let you kill the poor woman ?
Poor woman! Come now, wasn't she dead drunk, Oil
poor woman of mine?
Why, yes, she was, M. le President, fer she seiuled to
feel none of the blows that her man ga•;e her, though
were hard enough to break the heat, of Henry the Fourth
horse.
What a disgusting thing a drunken woman is! I v1;4,1
in the act of approaching her by way of showing 111""
satisfaction.
loa
President—lf your wife does get drunk it seems she -
follows the example set before her.
•
Quite the contrary, M. le President. Whenever ~,
have a presimentiment that I shall get sowed up, I
her in the morning, Marie, do you stop at home and ma%
some onion broth. for me, for I shall have some snuff ri""
evening. Well, instead of that, I find her lapping eau
(brandy) with one of her gossips. Now, if both drill k
there's an end to all harmony in a man's house. I O_
hard all the week, but a man may refresh himself on "
Sunday.
But the affair in question seems to have happened °P
Thursday.
Did it ? May be it did.
What'i your trade?
I'm a cooper ; and if a man has to tete-a-tete all dal with
a wine cask it does put certain notions into his head. a
Phalambot was sentenced to 1.5 days' imprisonment, a°
a fine of 20 francs.
Phalambot—As to the prison, needs must when the
devil drives ; but as to the fine, en once le gouvernment,
I havn't a sou,
but that's all as one. °
as the sow, goes, or as Montesquieu sala--.

_ULL'iI BLOOD AND COW BM:att.—it 1ia,:631;
opinion of the ancients that Lull's blood is poison. r"'o,
affirms this, and says that the physician Agatboclee Pr,i.
scribed the juice of white sow-thistle as an antidote to
The antidote was no doubt infallible where the PO4°° '4of
imaginary. Herodotus says that Psammenitus, King be
Egypt, was condemned by Catnbyses, King of Persia, tea
poisoned for inciting the Egyptians to revolt. Bull's bl .0%
was the mortal draught selected ; and Psamrnenitus, halo
swallowed his dose, immediately died. It is very Pr°l"'
that Cambyses added a little of something else to the bloc 8
to make his work more certain. According to the PS
historian, the cow was worshipped by the Egyptians it
more profaturd reverence than any other kind of cattle. r
is still reverenced by the Hindoos, and to use its flesh:
a,
even the water in which it was boiled, would be an ab°r,;
tion. A compendious method was adopted by 'l'l4:lit:
Saib of convincing these people of the errors of their ism, and persuading them of the truth of Idahomet4un:l;
He sprinkled them with cow-broth ; they were forL"' Ito
shunned by their own sect, and had no lternasive but
become subscribers to the Islam.—Do:ovater Mniestte.
Econoiny—Hunian Food ; being Vol. 94 of Dr. Lodge('
Cyclopeedia.
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On Friday evening last the effects of the tlitluirdd..
storm was severely felt as it passed over Blackheath, Rjry
brooke, Scc., taking a south-easterly direction. A vi4.id..
valuable cow, the property of Mr. D. Coatswortb, of
brooke, was killed in a field near Shooter's-hill by lightlslo
Francis Weaver, an old shepherd and faithful servant,
has been employed on that estate upwards of sixty ye+tr.r_
and still an active man, was thrown
to
the
groundb)fren:
violence of the shock, he being but a short distanceo
the animal when she was struck dead. Ve are
learn that he did not receive any serious
ace'
Ninjury,
h
happy
althoug
he could not see for some minutes alter the shock took pl

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On the 2d inst., at Sandwell, in Staffordshire, the Co°
Dartmouth, of a daughter. toPt9D-
On the 4th inst., the lady of Dr. A. C. 'Wood, of Br°
crescent, of a son. • s°l
On the 4th inst., in Torrington-square, Mrs. rW.
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a son.
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On the 31st ult.,n. won,
at Douglas, Isle of Man, the lady of A. ,
Esq., late of King's Dragoon Guards, f a daughter. t. ieedr
Oa the 4th inst., in Woburn-square,o Mrs. J. Bauk4l4
a daughter.

MARRIED. le Ball'
On the sth inst. at Kingston-upon-Thames, Mr. Sam° of the
yard, of Kingston, to Mary, daughter of Win. Mercer, Ei'l'+
same place. n E94'
On the 6th inst., at All Souls', Marylebone, John Scrile,:o, of
barrister-at law, to Selina, daughter of Henry Perkins, '
llanworth Park, Middlesex.

DlED.Georg*
On the 8d inst., Eller, Jane, youngest daughter of Mr.
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Richards, of Motnt)gton-place, aged II years. 30 5u
On the 19th ult., Mr. Charles William Haley, age-A -
riving son of the lets Mr. Haley, of Wigmore-street.
On the INA last., at -Nithrop, near Banbury, Thomas noiel
00 the 4th inst., Charles Dormer Watkins, third sou
sq,_"re.
Watkins, Esq., surgeon, Manchester-street, Manchesternds,unat
On the 7th ult., at Santa Maura, in the lonian on °f .tbe
G. H. D'Oyley, of the 10th Regiment, eldest surviving 5
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