The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-17 00:00:00

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_EVENING EDITIPN:4I

SCARAMOUCH AND PIERROT.

A PARALLEL.

(From the Charivari.) ,
We remember an amusing scene, in which Scam.
mouch warns Pierrot that Harlequin is too great, with
his wife.

" Mordieu !" cries Pierrot, " is what you tell me true,
neighbour ?"
" Upon the word of Scaramouch."
" Saperlotte! How do you know it ?"
" He has long been Buttering about her, and is with
her every evening, when you go out to make bread at
the baker's, Cassandre's. And, what's more, he has
succeeded." _ _

" Cristie ! He has succeeded, do you say ?"

" I mean to say that he is on the point of succeed-
ing. Sic has promised to receive him this evening in
her chamber, when they will walk into a bottle of your
old wine."
" Mille tonnerres I If I was only certain of it I"
" There is nothing easier than to make yourself cer-
tain, my dear Pierrot. At ten o'clock to-night, the
moment you shall have set out upon your business,
Master Harlequin will knock at your door. Your wife
will run to open it for him. The wine and the glasses
are all ready. They will have nothing to do but
drink it."

" Vertudieu ! You have covered my forehead with
a cold sweat, neighbour."
" You have only to hide yourself, Pierrot. Then,
when you see Harlequin knock, and your wife open
the door, fall upon bins like a thunderbolt, and put him
out of the condition to do you an injury."
" I shall not fail ; mille b&mbes, I shan't. Ah, you
devil of a Harlequin, you wanted to play me a trick.
But I shall catch you in your own trap. You threaten
my forehead, scoundrel ; take care of your own back."
And Pierrot sharpens his sabre, new flints and loads
his pistol, hangs from his arm a great fat powder-horn,
fortifies himself with a complete arsenal—in a word,
takes up the posture of a regular swashing slasher, a
true tranche-niontagne, to such a degree that Sara-
mouch, frightened by his terrible big oaths, and his
furibrund demonstrations, recommends him not to
allow himself to be too much excited, and carried away
by his valorous emotions, lest he should exterminate
Harlequin all at once in his fury.
To this Pierrot, foaming with rage, replies with an
interjection so expressive, that it is impossible to repro-
duce it here.

At half-past ten Scaramouch takes a turn towards
the house to learn what is passing there, and finds Pierrot
in an ambuscade near the door.

" Well," he inquires, " Harlequin has not yet come ?"
" Ycs, he is here these twenty minutes."
" And he knocked ?"

~ yes.,,

" And your wife opened the door ?"
" Yes."

" Then you gave him a devil of a beating; but 3ou
haven't killed him, I hope ?"
" No, I did'nt touch him. I didn't even show myself.
I have been reflecting."
" How ! you have been reflecting ?"
" Yes ;" I said to myself, " this devil of a Harlequin
is lusty and vigorous. He can flourish his bat with per-
fect science. If I attack him now, be will perhaps be
tco strong for me. Let me wait till be is guilt; out.
When he shall have drunk deep of my wine above
stairs, his sight will he confused, his limbs unsteady.
Then I'll take him at advantage and make sure of the
scoundrel. Isn't this well-reasoned, neighbour ?"
" And you arc waiting for him now ?"
" Yes."

" And you say that he has been above these twenty
minutes?"

Egad ! it's now nearly half-an-hour."
" Pierrot, Pierrot, poor devil ! you are a fool ; and
you ssiil be so to the end of your days."
M. Thiers is the very counterpart of Pierrot. He
is determined to let the coalesced Powers act until they
shall have accomplished ail their projects ; then, when,
having nothing more to do, they shall dissolve their
alliance, ye gods what a terrible vengeance he will in-
flict upon them!
&arm-Douche-la Presse informed him of the inten-
tions of the Four Powers, as indicated plainly enough
in the treaty. How energetic were then Pierrot's oaths,
as he drew his sword, brandished even for an instant
the bonnet rouge, and took his hundred millions from
the Exchequer, to equip ships and raise soldiers! Like
every other coward, he blustered ferociously at the
commencement, and threatened to extinguish the Four
Powers.

But, at twenty minutes past ten, when Scaramouche-
la-Presse comes to ask Pierrot-Neuf-Aout for some
news from the campaign, he finds Pierrot still armed
to the teeth, while the Four Powers arc capturing ships
and scattering proclamations. Pierrot "is taking time
to reflect." Mcanwhile Harlequin has supped with
Pierrot's wife, and drank his wine. The Pacha of
Egypt is vaLquialed, and Constantinople will probably
enough be taken. Pierrot you are a fool and a coward ;
but France will neither be one nor other in dealing with
you.

DUTCH AeD GERMAN PAPERS.

141"Il:RDAM, SEPT. 11.—IIer Highness Duchess
Ida of Sax,! Weimar and family arrived here yester-
day from London, and, after dinner, proceeded to the
Hague.

HAGUE, SEPT. 13.—An Ordinance of his
Alajesty, dated the 4th, contains the changes and ad-
dition> made by the three !ranches of the Legislature
in the fundamental law, and declares that the said
changes and additions arc to be considered as having
the same force as the enactments of the fundamental
law itself. It is further decided that this Ordinance
shall be promulgated in a solemn public sitting of the
Supurna Council of the Netherlands, the Provincial
Tribunal in the Criminal Tribunal of. Holland, &c., and
shad be published in the official Journal.

Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Princess of
Orange and the ) oung Prince continuing in good h.ialtb,
no morn; bulletins will be issued.

WARSAW, SEPT. 6.--Her Majesty the Empress of
Russia and the Grand Duke Alexandria, with his
august bride Princess Mary of Hesse Darmstadt,
arrived at Warsaw yesterday. Prince Wolkonsky is
also arrived.—Prussian State: Gazdte.

PRAGUE, SEPT. 7.—We learn from Konigswoith
that Prince Metternich means to prolong his stay there,
and will net be at Vienna before the 2011 or 2 1 st.

Tue Ambassadors of France, England, and Prus;ia,
and M. Von Streeve, first Secretary of the Russian
Legation, at Vienna, are still cn a visit to his Majesty.
—Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 11.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 14
Money. 13lip.
Actual 13;.'bt, 21i per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A lilot t Svndie,4% per cent S4' P 5
Jitto, ditto, 3% per cent 72 %
Commercial Company, 4!, per cent 157% 1604
Ditto (I8:15 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 100% 1 0,4
Loan 1537, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2
Two months
Dutch Papers, Sept. 14.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, SEPT. 11.
Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4'4 per cent. 104% 1034
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102%
Exchange on London, three months 6lb
—Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 12.

WOOLWICH, SEPT. IG.-NAVAL INTELLI-
GENCE....-The Lightning steam.vessel, Lieutenant Com-
mander R.N. Williams, arrived at Woolwich :Dock-yard,
at nine o'clock this morning, from Chatham, with the Earl
of Tinto, Sir Charles Adam, and Mr. More O'Perrall.
Their Lordships immediately afterwards loft for town.
Appointments—Lieutenant Henry Bing (1834) to be First
Lieutenant of the Salamander, vice Sycr, to the Comet.
To the Medea—Mr. George F. Leigh to be Mate ; Mr.
George Wilson, Acting Master, has been confirmed.
To the Etna—Mr. W. C. Pettigrew to be Second Ma-
ter, vice Loney, to the Albert, iron steam-veseel, fitting
for the Niger expedition.

FRAUDS U['ON TILE POOR.-(From a Corre-
spondent of the Ilerald.)—The expose of the frauds prac-
tised upon the pocr by petty tradesmen and shopkeepers,
has been attended with a very beneficial result, by exciting
the attention of the several parochial officers, and in a
great measure putting a stop to a continuation of such
gross and heartless robberies. The cheap bread sellers
arc amongst the most active robbers cf the poor. 11
bread scale has a fiat moveable pan, on which the bread
to be weighed is placed. Between that pan and rest
they place a large penny piece, which weighs about an
ounce. This coin they so introduce without fear of detec-
tion before nine in the morning and after six in the even-
►ng, as awing those hours the Juries do not visit them.
Since the exposure of these heartless frauds the market
Juries have been indefatigable in their endeavours to de-
tect the perpetrators of them, and have been, in several
instances, successful.

AN EXTRAORDINARY VISITOR AT WIND-
Solt CASTLE.—On Friday last a person of rather gentle-
manly exterior and address arrived at the Castle Hotel, in
this town, where he remained until the following Monday,
and having regularly dischargcdhis bills no suspicions were
entertained of his sanity until the morning of that day,
when it was discovered ho had forwarded a letter to her
Majesty. The contents of this letter we have not been
able to learn, but they were of such a nature as to cause
immediate directions to be given to Russell, a police officer
at the Castle, to narrowly watch his movements. The
landlord at the Castle Hotel, finding what customer ho
had, respectfully intimated to him that his absence was
more agreeable than his presence, and he accordingly took
the hint and shifted his quarters to the White Hart Inn,
where he Las remained ever since. The man's conduct
up to this period has been perfectly harmlensse,hbeust he
ine
height,i is
inches
thsoeu
con-
stantly going to the Castle and making inquiries relative
to the Queen, and expresses a great desire to have an
audience of her Majesty• He appearscalls to be about o,u,tHfecinrtry
lightE s q
~, "'lll ebxaicokn'i s excoriated
yenta of age, and is about five feetten
though he bad
He
lunatic asylum.—Corre-
spondent undergone corporal punishment, and it •
and of a
sup-
posed lie has escaped from some
spondent of the Morning Post,
Maporth,
Yesterday took place at the
Li-
censed Viet Lallers, in the Old Asylum of the
six inmates, in addition to I?? Kent-road, the election for
wives, already in the Asylum, inmates, including their
benclited by the
elected yesterday 11 • institution, three cut of the six candidates
y having wives.