The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-03 00:00:00

FIVE GUINEAS FOR A KISS.

At the last races of Peri, the English sportsmen could
not but admire the grand and historical women of Nor-
mandy. A group of gentlemen riders, a little elevated
by the fumes of the geserous tohey, stood admiring, not
only the handsome dresses, but also the pretty faces of
the fair villagers, whose beauty was still enhanced by
the original and becoming bonnets ala Cauchoise. They
were commenting freely on all they saw, and their
words could be caught by all around, when is
beautiful girl, married the weck before, happened
to pass them. She was escorted by a large number of
gay and joyous friF•nde, in their handsomest suits, and
accompanied by the venerated curate on his mule.
" What a charming person!" exclaimed one of the men;
" upon my word, I would willingly give two so-
vereigns for one kiss of her sweet lips." " Look,
here, boys," exclaimed a tall fellow; " do you hear
him? There, that fellow with the, black moustache
says that he would give two louis to have Louise
kiss him 1" "Ab ! ah!" laughed out a dozen
'oung girls; " two lotus! Well, 'tis cheap enough."
" There, then," exclaimed the Englishman. The young
girl to whom the proposal was made turned round
towards the sportsman, and in a smiling tone,
You would be much delighted, eh ?" she said, in a
bewitching manner. " Enchanted!" exclaimed the
passionate Englishman. " Well, then," she continued,
after a little hesitation, " give five guineas and you
shall have the kiss." The Englishman, thus
defied in his generosity, would not have backed out
had it been twenty times that rum. He pulled out •
well. filled purse, presented the fair one with five bright
guineas, and, instead of one, received two sweet kisses
in
.exchange. This done, " What luck!" she exclaimed,
" what luck ! Here, Mr. Curate, here are five
guineas for the poor of the parish. Take them and make
them happy." "If that's the case, one guinea more for
the poor, " said the young Englishman. This act of ge-
nerosity was received with enthusiastic applause.—
Journal d'Alencon.

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.
Among the young noblemen of the present day who
are likely to maintain the credit of their order, I do not
know one who has produced so good an impression
among men of all parties as the Duke of Argyll. He
is about twenty-eight, but looks considerably younger.
He has been several years in the House of Peers, but
it was not till last session that he began to be much
talked about, although great expectations had long been
formed regarding him by his friends. His speech on the
Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, the other week,
was bold and straightforward, evincing a thorough
knowledge of the great question at issue. Within the
last few days, " A Letter from the Duke of Argyll to
the Bishop of Oxford" has made its appearance, in
which he administers a few words of wholesome warn-
ing to the High Church party. Among the crowd of
polemical pamphlets which the press has poured forth so
profusely during the last twelve months, I have seen no
one in which the great Church of England question has
been treated with such clearness and ability. The Duke
appears to be thoroughly orthodox, but it is after the
manner of his Presbyterian ancestors, one of whom has
found a place in the noble army of Scottish martyrs
under episcopalian persecution. The Duke addresses
the Bishop in a plain, business-like style, pointing out
the inevitable consequences of his denial of the Qiisesn's
supremacy, and showing how naturally the straining of
High Church doctrines leads to Rome. Talking of the
dangers which threaten the Church of England from
the want of prudence and wisdom on the part of its
rulers, the Duke takes rather an alarming tons. " A
ship when she is in mid ocean need not be very precise
in the course she steers in any one of her tacks; with
plenty of sea room it matters little. Her bow may point
' to breakers—but they are some thousand miles away.
This is not your case at present. You are in a narrow
channel, and if there are rocks upon your course at all
they must be very close ahead. The water around you
is strewed with wreck." It is pleasant to see one of our
first-class noblemen coming out in this trenchant fashion.
The Duke of Argyll is not merely a man of high rank,
he is also connected by marriage with some of the first
families in the kingdom; so that, if he should take a
leading part in politics during the next few years, he
will probably be able to carry a large amount of aristo-
cratic influence along with him. Were a man of his
rank, with force of character and singleness of purpose.
to come forward in these days as a bold and decided
Church reformer, he would soon rally a powerful party
around him. London Correspondent of Manchester
Guardian.

NAPOLEON BO NAPARTE.
The empire had made him old before his time. .
. .

An early Obesity overloaded him with flesh. His cheeks,
formerly streaked with muscles and hollowed by the
working of genius, were broad, lull, and overhanging,
like those of Otho in the Roman medals of the empire.
An excess of bile mingling with the blood gave a yellow
tint to the skin, which at a distance looked like a
varnish of pale gold on his countenance. His lips still
preserved their Grecian outline and steady grace, passing
easily from a smile to a menace. His solid bony chin
formed an appropriate base for his features. His nose
was hut a line, thin, and transparent. The paleness of
his cheeks gave greater brilliancy to the blue of his eyes.
His look was searching, nnateady as a wavering flame—
an emblem of inquietude. His forehead seemed to have
widened, from the scantiness of his thin black hair,
which was falling from the moisture of continual
thought. It might be said that his head, naturally
small, had increased in size to give ample scope between
his temples for the machinery and combinations of a
mind every thought of which was an empire. The map
of the world seemed to hav7t been encrusted on the orb
of that reflective heal. But it was beginning to yield;
and he inclined it of ten cn his breast, while crossing his
arms like Frederick II —an attitude and gesture which
he appeared to affect. Unable any longer to seduce his
courtiers and his soldiers by the charm of youth, it was
evident he wished to fascinate them by the rough, pen-
sive, and disdainful character of himself—of his model
in his latter days. He moulded himself, as it were, into
the statue of reflection before his troops, who gave him
the nickname of Father Thoughtful. He assumed the
pose of destiny. Something rough, rude, and savage in
his movements revealed his southern and insular origin.
The man of the Meditteranean broke out constantly
through the Frenchman. His nature, too great and too
powerful for the part he had to play, overflowed on all
occasions. He bore no resemblance to any of the men
around him. Superior and altogether different, be was
an offspring of the sun, of the sea, and of the battle-
field—out of his element even in his own palace, and a
stranger even in his own empire. Such was at this
period the profile, the bust, and the external phy-
siognomy of Napoleon.— Lamartine's History of the
liestoration in France.

Hors.—BOROUGH, SEPT. I.—The first lot of four
pockets of Farnham country hops, grown by Mr. D. Turrill,
of "%Vest Worldham, arrived here this morning, and were sold
by Mr. H. Snelling, hop-factor, to Messrs. Pike, Leaks,
and Co.

BLOTS.---4 G. H.," in the Builder, would draw at •
tention to the dilapidated houses in Skinner-street, Snow-
hill, and the vacant piece of ground at the corner of New-
gate-street. The houses in Skinner-street have been so long
in their present state, that it appears as if no change would
take place, but that they are to be left as emblems of corrup-
tion and decay. There are other homes in the same condi-
tion in Stamford-street.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE FORTH AND CLTDB
CANAL.--On Saturday forenoon last a distressing accident
occurred on the Forth and Clyde Canal, not far from Lock
16. A scow, the name of which we have been unable to
learn, was on its way down the canal from Glasgow. It
was laden with potash, and was very heavy on the top.
When a considerable way above Lock 16, a schooner hap-
pened to pass, and by some carelessness on one side or other,
a collision took place. The scow being heavily laden, was
immediately capsized. There were, we believe, 013 board,
besides the man in charge of the boat, his wife and an infant
child, and ode or two men. The woman with the child was
below in the hold when the collision took place, and ere she
had time to come up the boat was capsized. The man in
charge contrived with the others to get Ashore, but after
diving it was found impossible to rescue his wife and child.
From the fact of the boat capsizing fairly over, the water
time he
r
sat
h wier
was prevented from getting into the hold, and the woman
sat there for about half an hour, daring
screams were distinctly audible.
hich was uppermost '
The step then proceeded to
cut a hole in the bottom of the boat, w ' , .
man ibus was
how-
for the purpose of releasing the Ivo
ever, attended with fatal consequences, for immediately on a
hole being bored, the water rushed in, and we are sorry to
learn that the woman was immediately drowned, along with
her child.—Falkirk Herald.
to us that having learn
Guerin has comraunicated t from MT.
NEw METHOD OP MASING BUTTER,—MT. E. T.
f gamburgh, that there had been disoo-
W. P. Dobree, o
it with
either
success. The method is as
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vered in Sweden a new met hod of making butter, he has
sufficient fineness to prevent
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In twenty-four or twenty-five hours, on taking u th up.
the cream Twenty-, gto be converted into excellentP e bag,
Guernsey Gazette. butter.—.
BRISTOL GREAT HORSE AND CATTLE
2 —The usual half-yearly Bristol 11 FAIR, SEPT.
commenced yesterday and finished oileand Cattle Fair
to-day.
large number of horses brought to the There was a
generally speaking, was very fair, and the quality,
good
well, and there was a large demand . Good horses went off
all of which were cleared off' at for good cart colts, nearly
was a short supply of fat beef, remunerative prices. There
ranging from 425. to 4Ss and the sale was slow, prises
for fat sheep, et 5L • per cwt. There was a brisk rate
is . per lb. th 11 Of
store sheep there w , e supply being ma ; .
as a goodly show and they met watn a
fair sale. Some pens of Cotswold 'rams commanded high
prices. The supply of Devon store beasts was extremely
scanty, and the few on offer realised high rates.
A NEW WAY or RAISING TEE W.
. IPD.--Some
sensation was caused at Orleans two days age by the state-
ment that a shoemaker in the Rue Tabour"' bad won the
grand prize of 100,000 francs in the Lyons lottery..
_lmnae-
oiately all his friends and acquaintancee,regdettnherenwnithratmuiltantye
persons whom he scarcely knew,
hastehat he woulff do with
him and speculations were made as to w
I slicited not to leave the
his fortune. He was earnesteyte
"i, twined at ,a café. The
town, and was sumpt.uotuly
d his friends that he had not
day after be quietly f
h tinhltd hoaxed them, in order to receive
gained the prize, es- paid to wealth.
during 24 hours the homage
y•The Duchess of Orleans
suNDA •
13aussELs,
her
children, the Count de Paris and the
i accompanied by
es with a numerous suite, arrived at Ostend
Duc de Chartr
jug at' six o'clock, and proceeded shortly after-
this
In°ll3 u•ie to Eisenach.
wards ea ro
the North British Mail, I,
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hiroselt-eParallax," bas recently revived the ancient belief
that the surface of the world is flat, and sot round, gli af,.
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