The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-09 00:00:00

LEEDS, FEB. 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a further improve-
ment in the share market this morning in all kinds of
stock. The following are the closing transactions : Leeds
Northerns, 14 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23/ 11s 3d ;
Leeds Northern Fifths, d ; York and North Midlands,
283, ; North Westerns, 8/ 6s 3d.

POLICE DUTY IN PARIS.—The number of quatrains
and other small pieces of verse in circulation in Paris,
on the Emperor's marriage, is so great that the police
are beginning to be uneasy at the effect which these
pasquinades may prod* on the public mind. In
general these pieces of verse are not remarkable for
merit ; still, as many of them are scurrilous, and as all
contain some point, they produce a laugh, and tend to
lessen the respect which the police think ought to be
shown to the Emperor and Empress. Not only are
these productions passed from one person to another,
but they are occasionally printed and posted up ; and,
being so made public, are neither the most delicate nor
the most edifying. A descent of the police was
made one day this week on the printing-office of
the Siecle, where it was thought they might have
been printed ; but after a very minute search,
nothing whatever was discovered to ,implicate that
journal. In the theatres, also, the police are ready
to pounce on any one who may chance to speak too
freely of the marriage. This actually occurred on Wed-
nesday evening at the Odder), with respect to two per-
sons who were conversing on passing events. A few
days back, a workman, who was looking into a print-
shop in the Rue du Coq St. Honor 4, happening to ex-
claim, after seeing a portrait of the Emperor, "Il eat
bien /aid / " was immediately seized by two police
agents, and carried off, the spectators taking part with
the workman, and dying out after the police, " Oui, a
at laid, bien laid 1" This affair became in the end' so
ridiculous that the man was set at liberty.
REPORTING THE DEBATES.—It's pleasant to look over
the papers in the morning, after having spent the night
in the House. But how great the discrepancy between
what you there saw and heard and what you now read
Here, for example, is the terrible speech of the hon.
member for North Workshire. For a full hour we had
to endure the infliction of his insufferable, dull, and
dreary oratory, and that, too, unfortunately, at a time
when, like another wedding guest, we " could not
choose but hear," the house being so nearly empty, that
all the noise the members present could make did not
suffice to drown the drowsy voice still drawling in our
ears. Well, here is that speech in print ; and, besides
that you can read it easily in 20 minutes, it really
is very tolerable—sensible, pertinent, and with some
point in it, too. Whence all the difference, then ? Ask
the reporter. Then, again, there is the hon. for Topleton, who, as he usually ex member
sel presses himf in somewhat lengthy and complicated sentences, finds
great difficulty at times in getting fairly to the end of
them ; and occasionally, after backing and floundering
about for a while in the endeavour to escape from one of
these verbal intricacies, gives the matter up as hopeless,
and bolts to the beginning of a fresh sentence ; even he
becomes quite a respectable speaker in the hands of the
gentlemen of the press. His speech here, in the news-
papers, reads as smoothly and evenly as you could desire ;
there is not a broken or unfinished sentence throughout,
and all the painful embarrassment, hesitation, and
tedious repetition in its delivery give place to a steady
and sustained flow of language such as no one could
object to. Two-thirds of the speeches delivered in
Parliament are similarly metamorphosed ; they are cor-
rected and condensed, and become so improved in cha-
racter that even the makers of them m-vst sometimes
fail to recognise their own productions.—Household
Words.

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