The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

EVENING EDITI9N._‘,„

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A WARMING-PAN
(From the Gazelle des Tribuna'a.M.i-,1-. •
It was six in the morning, when old Molttetfri.
turier-rotisteur,* had just concluded the (lie-hid:eh of
opening his venerable and modest establishment, of which
he still persists in remaining the sole and faithful ser-
vant, when he was suddenly accosted by two voracious..
looking young vagabonds, tie visitings of whose appe-
tites, to all appearance, cemmencad " black in the
morning early." 1° Come, quick, give us some fried po-
tatoes." " One moment, gentlemen, till I light the
fire." " Give us something cold, then." " Ah, that's
coming to the point ; here's something left from yes-
terday, and well worth its price." " Turkey," said one,
" I am sick of Turkey." " Veal," said the other, " it's
so devilish " Come gentlemen, make up your
minds, but don't turn up your noses at everything."
While thus addressing them, old Montonnet was ad-
justing his lower garment, which he had carelessly
slipped on in eider to attend to the immediate nece..-
skies of his shop. TniS done, he prepared to slip into
his fob the superb golden warming-pan, which had for
years been an heir-loom in the friluricr's family, and
which he had previously laid down, for a moment, on
his counter.

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The young scamps had "twigged" the watch, and the
next thing was to know in which fob it was about to be
engulfed. To take it under the very eyes of its vigi-
lant Argus would have been too audacious, and to in
duce him to take his eyes off it was no easy matter ;
what was to be done ? " You've got nothing this morn-
ing, then ; (rood morning." " Well, if you ain't dainty,
I'm Wowed!" " We'llbcome again another time ;" and
so they feigned a departure. The watch ticked tempt-
ingly in their ears. " What's that yonder ? That-
don't look bad." " Bad, I should, think not, neither ;
why that's most delicate veal." " Come, I vote we
have some ; give us sotae bread." The watch lay
close to the designated dish. " I vote for that other,
I do ; it don't look so stale, and there's plenty on it ;
hand it over, master, will ye ?" For the time beiir, poor
Montonnet was terribly perplexed ; to lose so advanta-
geous a purchase on the one hand, and, on the other, to
abandon his watch to the doubtful honesty of one of his
visitors, who was occasionally casting the most covetous
glances on it. He, however, determined on a mezzo
famine, and advanced three quarters of a distance to-
wards the back of his shop, at the same keeping one eye
on the watch and the other on the veal. Scarcely had
be proceeded three steps of this ingenious manceuvre,
than the watch vas whisked off, and carried away at full
tear by the adroit younster.
0:d Montonnet, no way disconcerted, seized the re-
mainin4 ofF,nder, with a vigorous gripe, drapged him
into the back shop, and there incarcerated him under
lock and key, during which operation he never ceased
to vociferate, " Thieves, thieves I" The mob assembles ;
Montonnet relates his disaster ; a few good-natured
legs set out in fruitless pursuit of the escaped chief.
The unlock fritutier had, however, the consolation to
see his lover of cold veal appear at the bar of the cor-
rectional police, where, as he was no stranger, he was
condemned to 13 months' imprisonment. Pcor com-
pensation, nevertheless, for the loss of the family warm-
ing-pan.
Anglice, vendor of fried and roasted eatables.

DOVER, OCTOBER 7.—His Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge, accompanied by two friends,
arrived at the Ship Hotel this morning at half-past six,
and at a quarter pact eight embarked on board her Ma-
jesty's packet Swallow, Captain Sherlock, under a Royal
salute, for Ostend. The depot of the 77th Regiment has
received its route to march to-morrow from hence to
Chatham.

SHIPWRECK wrrit Loss OF LIFE.—We
deeply regret to have to report the total wreck of a vessel,
attended with loss of life, on the Horse Bank, at Lytham
early on Wednesday morning last. The unkrtunatc
vessel was bound from Liverpool to Gottinburg, in Swe-
den, her principal cargo consisting of salt, the burden
being about 300 tuns. It appears that at the break of day,
on Wednesday morning, Captain Ashburn, the harbour-
master of Lytham, discovered an object peeping above the
Horse Bank, which, however, was so minute, that even
with the aid of a glass, he was unable to discern precisely
what the object was. The tide having receded, however,
he saw five men walking upon the bank towards Lytham,
and he then concluded a wreck had taken place, and instantly
ordered out his boat, for the purpose of taking up the
seamen, and instituting further inquiries. Having with
all alacrity taken the p3or fellows on board, he
found that four of them were foreigners, and the other a
Scotch lad, who lied only left Greenock a levy Jays before,
and who, it appeared, had the night preceding been ram-
bling about the streets of Liverpool, whence, it is supposed,
he had been kidnapucd by some crimp, for the purpose of
making up the crew of the Swedish vessel ; for, singular to
relate, he had not the must remote notion until wrecked
tha: he was on board a vessel at all, his last recollection
of himself being, that he was in ;a state of intoxication
at Liverpool. The four unfortunate foreigners could
not spent: a word of English, nod it was, therefore, ex-
clusively from the poor ScAchman that Captain Ash-
bunt could obtain any information. From him be learnt
that during the preceding evening, the storm being t x-
cessively violent, the vessel had been boating about for
several hours, and struck about two o'clock that
morning. The captain (a Swede, who was part owner, in
his effort to direct the ill-fated vessel, was washed over-
board, and one of the cress also, who from ill-health and
lameness was unable to ini.ke his escape, sunk with the
vessel and was drowned. The vessel went so completely
down, her mast and rigging being washed away, that only
a small part of her hull was left above water, and to this
the poor fellows clung in great jeopardy until the ebbing
of the tide enabled them without danger to get to the dry
portion of the bank. Doting the long and perilous night,
the only visible object to them was the Peel lighthouse.
As soon as Captain Ashburn had made himiclf acquainted
with all the circumstances attending the wreck, he hu-
manely had the men conveyed to Lytham, where every at-
tention was, under his direction, paid to their comfort. He
also purchased them caps, haviug lost theirs while buffet-
ing with the storm. We regret to learn that there is not
the least prospect of saving a vestige of the wreck, the
vessel having gone completely to pieces.—Blackburn
Gazette.