The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

MR. PIPS HIS DIARY.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1849.—With my Wife this
day to Westminster, and walking thereabouts in
Regent-street and Oxford-street, and the principal
Streets, though contrary to my Resolution to walk
with her only in tb. *. 2.,„
sun Reep ner in good Humour, but in mighty Fear of
what it might cost me, tremblihg to observe her con-
tinually looking askance at the Shop-Windows. But
I cannot wonder that they did catch her Eye ; parti-
cularly the Haberdashers, and Drapers, and Mercers,
whereof many were full of Bills, stuck in all manner
of Ways across the Panes, and printed in Letters or
from Two Inches to a Span Long, and Dashes of Ad-
miration two and three together, as staring as a Notice
of Hue and Cry. Mighty shocking to read in one
Window of a " Tremendous Sacrifice !" in another
of an " Alarming Failure ! 1" in a third of a " Ruin-
ous Bankruptcy !!" by Reason whereof the Goods
within were a selling off at 50, 60, or 70 per Cent.
under prime Cost, but that at any Rate the Owner:,
must raise money. Good Lack, to think of the des-
perate and dreadful pass the Drapery Trade must
have come to ; so many Master Mercers and Haber-
dashers on the Threshold of the Prison or the Work-
house, and their Wives and Families becoming
Paupers on the Parish, or Beggars, and their People
out of Employ, starving; if their Notices do tell
true : which made my Heart eke; I mean through
laughing at their Roguery. But my Wife did say,
very serious, that- we were not to judge, or to
know of their Tricks and C?amage, and that it was
no matter to us if they did cheat their Creditors,
provided we could buy then Wares at a Bargain,
and besides, if we did no, others would. So
going by Ragge, Rip, and Cc, their Establishment,
as they do call their Shop, the would needs stop in
front of it to look in, and, l knew, consider what
among the Things there she could find to want :
which did trouble me. Ito lead the Posters in the
Window, which were the worst and most pitiful o'
any, and by their showing M. Ragge, and Mr. Rip,
and their Co. were going altogether to the Dogs. My
%Vire did presently, as I expecttd, find somewhat she
had a mind to : a Muslin she dd say was Dirt cheap,
and I knew was Dirt-worth. I plainly refused to
let her buy it, or anything el 2 at Ragge and Rip's,
who have been, to my Knowledfe, making a Tremen-
dous Sacrifice any Time the lilt two Years ; but the
Simpletons their Customers the.)nly Victims. But I
do not pity such Gudgeons a W hit as are caught by
these Tricks of the Drapery Trade; and methinks
they are rightly served by being cheated in seeking
to profit, as they think, by Frald and dishonest Bank-
ruptcy. I told my Wife tilt Ragge and Rip do
sell off at a loss to none but those that deal with
them, and were like at that moment, instead of being
Bankrupts, to be making merry a', the expense of their
Dupes. But she being sullen at my Denial of her
Muslin, I did quiet her by the Promise of a better
Piece at Faircloth and Pryce's, who do carry on
Business without roguish Puffery, and after the old
Fashion of English Traders, according to the Maxim
that " Good Wine needs no Bath," which my Wife,
poor silly Wretch, not understaiding, I explained to
her did mean, that Stuffs worth the buying to find a
sale do stand in no need of Haberdasher? trickish
Advertisements.—Punch.

AWKWARD PREDICAMENT...-On Saturday evening
Aast, as a lady was walking along High-itreet, Wisbech,
she was followed at a short diaanco by two or three
sailors, who observed the bustle belonging to the lady
trailing along the ground, and holding only by one
string; one of the sailors took tae liberty to put his foot
on the bustle; he then stepped up to the lady, and
politely informed her that she hid lost an appendage;
she at once told the good-heartedsailor not to insult her,
saying it did not belong to her, sad requested him to go
about his business. Ile in reply said, " Very well," and
handed the bustle to an old ady close by, who de-
clared the beautiful silk on the aricle would make her a
splendid bonnet. It is an ill wild that blows no one
good.—Stamford Mercury. •
ENLIGHTENED JURYMEN.--About a week since, in
a neighbouring village, an inqutst was held upon the
body, of a poor man. Now it often happens that after
the business has been ended and the coroner left, the
" gentlemen of the jury" discuss the matters in ques-
tion," at the same time inhaling the contents of some
three cr four glasses of foreign spirits, and metamor-
phosing a certain foreign weed into ashes. In this last
state of unalloyed happiness sat these verdictorians—
glorious sons of Bacchus—when we eitered the room;
and having an interest in the came of ;his man's death,
we asked their verdict. One joll:-facel man, very con-
tentedly paling away at his long tube, asked ,his left-
hand friend if he recollected what " tLe krunner caw'd
it," but he had forgotten. In strcession each and all
were applied to, and in vain. Bit suddenly a light of
inspiration seemed to suffuse the flee of the jolly gentle-
man aforesaid, and he instantly replied, "Ah know
neaw; it wur a Latin word the krthner .:aw'd it." This
satisfied all present, ourselves inclusive. Afterwards we
were passing through the village, and heard one man
ask another what the verdict was. " What]," he says,
"it's a quare word; ah think they WWII it erica. con, or
else sine die."-- Wigan Times.
PENZANCE, SEPT. 26.—The Marnora, of and from
Scilly has been run on shore on the beach, half a mile
from Newlyn Pier, but will be got Al' if the weather
moderates. It is blowing a fresh gale from E. to E.S.E.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 27.—The Elise London to New-
port, was in contact this morning vith her gajesty's
stearaer Volcano, and towed in dMoWitel. •