The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-11 00:00:00

PARIS POLICE

MY AUNT'S LAST TOOTH.—M. Michard and his
wife, a fine portly dame, of rather beyond a certain age,
appeared a day or two since at the bar of the Correc.
tional Police, accompanied by a hopeful nephew of theirs,
against whom they had to make a charge of the most
serious nature, he, the said nephew, having, in defiance
of all the laws of nepotie affection, inflicted on his vane.
rable aunt a blow by which the last of her masticators
was removed from the situation it bad occupied for so
many years. The following colloquy took place among
the dramatis versonre of the affair.

President—:-Wnat offence have you to complain of ?
M. Michard—Simplice is my neplL3w, that I must.
allow, but the crime of which he has been guilty has
broken every tie of blood that was between us. Simgce,
you are no longer my nephew.
Simplice—That is folly. Will you deny that lam
still the son of your brother?

M. Michard—Physically, it cannot be otherwise ;
but morally I discard you.
Simplice—Oh, uncle, what a blockhead you are !
Instead of heaping blessings upon me for what I have
done, you have brought me before the Tribunal of Cor-
rectional Police, as if I were a Turk.

M. Michard—You have conducted yourself towards
your aunt like a savage.
Simplice—And you—you are a henpecked husband,
to say nothing more.
Madame Michard here tried to be hysterical. had
recourse to her smelling-bottle, and exclaimed, " Oh,
Heavens!"

M. Michard (supporting her)—Oh, Emeline ! my
love !—(To Simplice)—Wretch you wish to ba her
death—you wish to be guilty of aunt-icicle.
Simplice—ln that case you allow that I am still lour
nephew.
M. Michard—Hold your tongue, scapegrace, and let
me state what I have to charge you with.
Simplice—With all my heart ; but you had better
not, for you will expose yourselves the m9st by it.
M. Michard—Heartless wretch ! (Bowing to the
Judges) Gentlemen I have in the 'provinces a brother,
who has had the misfortune to give birth to this serpent
here. Six months ago he was sent to me on a visit, and
to see what I could mlke of him. I have treated him
with every kindness as it he were my own son.
Simplice—That is true ; and that is why I am so
much attached to you. _ _

M. Michard—But would you believe it, gentlemen,
one day last week, when we had a large company to
dinner, he gave his aunt a slap in the face !
Simplice—l know I did, and knocked out her last
tooth. I tell you what, uncle—you are deceived by
her. But it is in vain for you to persecute me, for I
shall never cease to love you all the same.

Madame Miehard (with a faint voice)—Mereith
Heaven T.

Simplice—Your wife is a good-for-nothing prude,
uncle, and deceires you along with M. Leroche, that
old dandy, whose smell of musk makes his approach
known when he's more than a mile off.

M. Michard—Hold your tongue, you calumniating
scoundrel.

Simplice—Ah ! that's the way you take it, is it ? I
was behind a curtain, and heard them talking like real
friends—not to say lovers. I, who love you, seeing
that, could not restrain my indignation, and so I gave
aunt a slap in the mouth. If you are offended, 1 can
give you satisfaction.
Here Madame Michard raised a languishing pair of
eyes towards her husband, and faintly said, " Ah !
Michas d."

M. Michard—Never mind, Emeline. I don't believe
a word of all these horrors. I know you to be Virtue
personified.
Simplico—Ah, you are the best of husbands.
Simplice was sentenced to a week's imprisonment.

THE TEMPERATURE.—The weather here has
been extremely severe since our lest. Wednesday was
cold, but the temperature became still lower in the even-
, ing • and, about midnight, Mr. Ronchetti's thermometer,
kept in the open air, though within the town, namely, at
the top of his house in Greengate, Salford, was down
to 12 deg. Fahrenheit, or 20 deg. below the freezing
point. The cold, however, became still more intense on
Thursday morning, end the minimum temperature seems
to have been attained between seven and half-past eight
o'clock, A. m. Knowing the careful and constant observa-
tion of the temperature continued during many years by
our illustrious and venerable townsman, Dr. Dalton, we
made inquiries of him and learned that his thermometer,
which, though in the air and shade, is in a central part of
the town, indicated the lowest temperature to be about
eight o'clock on Thursday morning, when it had fallen to
15 deg. The Doctor added, that, in the country, he bad
no doubt the temperature would be full 10 degrees lower.
Indeed, we find that, in the vicinity of this town, several
observers, in different situations, found it much lower.
Mr. Ronchetti's thermometer indicated 9 deg. as the lowest
point, which was attained about seven o'clock. Mr. T.
Gale, engraver, of Irwell-place, Lower Broughton, had a
thermometer in the air, which, about the same time, indi-
cated the lowest temperature to be 7 deg. And Mr. J.
E. Bowman, F.L. S., F.G. S., observing that the cold
was intense, suspended two thermometers outside his re-
sidence, Elm-place, New Stretford-road, abeut half.pest
seven o'clock, at which time they stood at 9 deg., but
subsequently both of them fell to the remarkably low point
of 5 deg., somewhere about eight o'clock, or a little after
that time.—Manchester Paper.
A NEW WAY or INCREASING A FAMILY.--
On Thursday week, a tradesman from Huddersfield, in
Yorkshire, whose name we could give if necessary, was
coming from Liverpool to Manchester by the railway train
A respectable looking woman, apparently from twenty-
five to thirty years of age, and who had a female child
about fifteen months old on her knee, travelled in the same
carriage. The tradesman took the child and dandled it
on his knee, and said it was worth a sovereign. She said
she would take the money for it; and, after some joking,
he handed her the money, which she put into her pocket.
Arriving near the end of his journey, he wished to put an
end to the joke, and asked her far the sovereign back, which
she gave him. When they got to the station, the woman
got out first, leaving the child with him, and when he got
out and looked about for her she was
gone, and he could
discover no trace of her. Being a married man, and pro
halal), deeming it imprudent to take the And home, he
took it to the Manchester police-office, where he informed
the officers how he became possessed of it, but could give
no decription of the woman,
except that she was a good•
looking
woman, of from twent --five to thirty years of age.
He left the child at tho office, and a sovereign to defray
the expense of its maintenance
until the mother should be
discovered. The child, which we understand is a very
fine girl, is now at the house of one of the officers ; but
nothing has yet been heard of its mother.—Manchester
Paper.

RAILWAY CONFERENCE.—We
arc glad to an-
nounce that the next meeting of Railway Directors will take,
place on the 19,h, at Bira,i„gham. As the meeting is
pony is expected to be present ; but it will be attended by
the engineers, and other official persons, from the different
railways, for the purpose of collecting all the experimental
information they can. One of the principal objects is to
. only one Director from each Com-
arrange an efficient system of signals to be used on all rail-
ways. This is the proper course to take, both for the safety
of the public and that of the railways. Collect and con-
centrate the results of all the experience upon railways,
and bring them before men radically acquainted with the
subject, and it will be betterPten thousand times better, than
all the Government Railway
Commissions, and the em.
ployment of military engineers and other inexperienced
persons.—Railway Magazine.
In consen
‘inence of the heavy fall of snow in
Lni: ;...,d the 1,0,,i0n ni.il did not arrive in Glasgow yes-
terday till about half.past four o'clock—being nearly three
hours behind her fixed titne.—Glasgoto Chronicle.