The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-02 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT OF

SWINDLING IN PARIS.

BEER-DRINKING IN GERMANY

The particular habits connected with beer-drinking
n Germany, as it is carried on, will strike a stranger
at first sight as being characteristic bow far habit goes
in giving us prejudices and predilections. In England
we drink our malt liquor out of pots, glasses, tumblers,
&c. ; but in this portion of the world such is not the
case. A German is never seen to drink white beer out
of a glass similar to that from which he drinks Bava-
rian ; nor Bavarian out of that from which he drinks
common ; and moreover, he will not drink one, two,
or three out of glasses or pots having a similar shape or
configuration. Thus every kind of beer is served in its
particular glass ; in such a manner that it is easy to be
informed, from one end of the coffee-house to the other,
even by a glance of the eye, with what sort of liquor
the various guests are regaling themselves. The white
beer is decanted, the whole bottle at a time, into a
drinking-glass about eighteen inches high, of small dia-
meter, and that the same throughout, with a bore of
similar dimensions as the mouth. When full it contains
about two English pints ; and moreover, when placed
on the table, is provided with a moveable cover, I pre-
sume, intended to prevent as much of the carbonic acid
gas from making its escape as possible. One may cer-
tainly drink out of any sort of vessel—that is, a vessel
of any shape—when thirsty ; but on raising such a one
as this to our lips for the first time, it seemed very like
as if we were drinking malt liquor from the barrel of a
blunderbuss. It requires much steadiness of hand, and
the practice of a few weeks, in order to quench thirst
from such a bicker, without, on getting towards the bot-
tom, pouring some part of the contents down the breast.
The Bavarian beer, as we have said, has got also its
own pot, arrd in configuration it is the very reverse of
the former. It is formed of flint glass, and is some five
or six inches high, containing a pint, and becoming gra-
dually narrower from the bore to the top, the latter of
which is covered with a metallic lid, in a manner re.
sembling a gill-stoup ; the lid, moving by a pivot on
the handle, of course is raised every time the pot is
raised to the mouth ; and, owing to the small dimen-
sions of the upper part of the pot, whilst the lip of the
same is in our mouths, the lid sticks, with little con-
venience, into our right eye. So much for articles
which seem so very inapplicable to the purposes to
which they are applied, yet no German would ever
think of pouring his beer into a glass, and drinking it in
that more convenient way. The common beer is drunk
out of a glass differing from either of these, it being
neither so long as the one, nor so short as the other,
but somewhere half and half between the two. So
much for the manner of beer-drinking in Germany ;
and we shall also add, that the Germans are for.d of
their beer, and drink it in large quantities—they like it
because it is their own.--Correspondent of the Morning
Advertiser.

Bells Life in London of Sunday Next, Feb.
7, will, as usual, give the best account of the Pugilistic
Contests between Caunt and Ward, Lane and Sullivan.
The price of Bell's Life is Five-pence, regularly pub-
lished in time to send by the Saturday afternoon Rail ways.
Bell's Life of January 31 contained, in addition to its
usual weekly miscellany, iscluding the Queen's Speech,
&c., the Sawbridgeworth First and Second Steeple
Chases, the Leamington, Aberystwitb, Andoversferd, and
Chignal ; the Fleetwood's, Hampton, and Spelthorne
Coursing Meetings ; several original runs with stag and
fox.hounds; Chess j Tournament at Leeds; ninety Hunt-
ing Appointments; three folio columns of the Great Fight
between Broome and Hannan at Bicestcr ; the Tables of
Matches to come' viz., Coursing, Races, Steeple Chases,
the Ring, and Pedestrianism ; Betting at Tattersall's,
Manchester, and Newmarket; with a variety of other
sporting matters.
THE HUNDRED WEIGIIT.—It is not long ago
since the Americans reduced the hundred weight from 112
to 100 pounds. The odd twelve bothered them in their
calculations, and was observed not to be of the smallest
use in any respect ; so having resolved us cut down the
hundred weight to what it ought to be, namely one
hundred pounds, they immediately, and without any
fuss, executed their resolution. This is a small matter,
but it is characteristic of the country in which it took
place. We question if the British could manage to
take the odd twelve pounds from the hundred weight
without a twer.ly years' talk. It does not signify, that
nobody can „piftin how td.. when the odd twelve origi-
must not be
Hated; " There it is—that is lulu,— your pre-
meddled with—would you ruin the country'
-tone;
tended improvements? Let the hundred weight ;
we have become a great people with it as it is, and with
that let us be content,"—Chambers.
SINGULAR CAPRlCE.—Alderinan Copeland,
anro
M. P., during a visit to Stoke-upon-Trent, a few days ago,
placed thed churchwardens,unl f
7O.aitthoer disposal
sponsaoluroifshtr.nheerivtaorifoutshemdinisi.
sters
tressed poor of that borough ; whilst at a, visit to St,
Stephen's, Westminster, but a few months ago, he voted
many hundred times that sum at the disposal of the bread-
taxing landlords from the nourishment of the distressed
poor of that borough,— Slautbrdsliire Examiner.

(From the Gazette des Tribunaux. )
A rich merchant of Martinique, named G—,
recently arrived at Havre, and having divers im-
portant business to transact in Paris, as well as
being desirous of seeing all the lions of the day,
hastened off to the capital without delay, taking
with him a considerable quantity of valuable lug-
gage. M. G— had always been rather a gay
man, and notwithstanding the fact of forty-five
winters having passed over his head, leaving a
little of their snows behind, he was not entirely in-
different to the pleasures of the world. He arrived
in Paris on Sunday morning. He took his walk,
he called upon his friends and corrdspondcnts,
and was kept to dinner by one of them. In
returning in the evening to his hotel he passed
the Salle Ventadour. The dance was proceed-
ing with all the gaiety of a Parisian ball, and
the merchant was invited to take a billet
d'enlree. He at first refused, but on being further
pressed, he thought he might as well have a peep at
one of these halls, of which he had so often heard
and read. He accordingly entered, danced a qua-
drille or two, and was much pleased with the daz-
zling appearance of the place. But he was soon
overcome with ennui, and was preparing to take
his departure, when he was accosted by a pretty
little domino of blue satin, who took him familiarly
by the arm, called him by his name, and asked
him what news from Havre. M. G— was agreea-
bly surprised, and at once entered into a very ani-
mated conversation with the fair unknown. Who
could she be who appeared to know him so well ?
In vain he attempted to discover; she would not
gratify his curiosity, although she made herself the
most fascinating creature in the world. At length
he proposed that she should sup with him, for,
let her be who she might, there could be no great
impropriety in this, thought the honest merchant.
The lady would consent on one condition only,
and that was, that they should both go to sup at
her house. Monsieur would call a coach. She
had her own there already. How extraordinary I
thought the merchant. She must be a person of
some consequence. He ventured to ask her once
more, but he was told that " that he could never
know I" Off they drove, and on their arrival
at her residence she, for the first time, removed the
mask, and discovered the prettiest pair of eyes in
the world, but her name she still persisted in not
disclosing. It is unnecessary to go into the details
of the supper. Suffice it to say, that it went off
with much eclat, and Monsieur was too much
fatigued with his journey and all the pleasures of
the day not to sleep soundly on retiring to bed. To
say the truth, he did not wake until twelve o'clock
next day, when finding himself alone, he rang the
bell for the servant. The domestic appeared.
" Have the goodness to tell me," said M. G--,
" where lam I" " Where you are, Monsieur ?"
re-echoed the attendant, " the house has not changed
its name since yesterday—you are still in the
Hotel de France."—" Oh, I am at an hotel am I ?
and who is the lady who occupies this apartment ?"
" The lady ? why, your wife, Monsieur, I suppose;
she rose early to take the bath." " You suppose
wrong," said the merchant in an angry tone, " I
have no wife. lam a bachelor. However, give
me my clothes, and let me have my Here
are your clothes, Sir, but the bill was paid last night
by the lady, when she ordered the supper. Mys-
tery on mystery. However, he would go to his
own hotel. On arriving there he found that the
same mysterious agency which had paid the bill at
the Hotel de France, had paid it at his own hotel.
He was told that he had paid it himself, and that
he had taken all his things away ; that he had put
the bill in his pocket-book, with two letters which
had arrived for him in the course of the previous
evening. Was he asleep or awake ? Was he in
his right mind, or was he no longer master of his
reason ? He looked at his pocket-book, and then,
as if to confirm the astounding intelligence which he
heard, there he beheld the paid hotel bill, and the
two letters referred to. There was no longer a
doubt. He had been the dupe of a swindler. His
luggage had been carried off ; his pockets had been
ransacked ; his letters of credit had been received,
and not a trace was left of property to the amount
of nearly 10,000 francs. The manner in which
the merchaat's identity was so successfully counter-
feited is not the least extraordinary, for even when
the hotel-keeper saw the real " Simon Pure," he
persisted in declaring that it was he who had
taken away the things ; in short, that everything
had been done by his orders.