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

FIVE. GUINEAS FOR A KISS.

At the last races of i?eri, 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 et the generous .okay, stood admiring, not
only the handsome dresses, but aiso the pretty laces of
the fair villagers, whose b;:auty was still enhanced by
the original and becoming bonnets ala Cauchoise. They
wero commenting freely on all they saw, and their
words could ha caught by all around, when a
beautiful girl, married the week before, happened
to pass them. She was escorted by a large number of
gay and joyous Mane's, 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 LOUiEO
kiss him!" " ah !" laughed out a dozen
young girls; " two loafs! '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 live guineas and you
shell have the kiss." The Englishman, thus
defied in his generosity, would not have backed out
Lad it been twenty times that sum. Ho pulled out a
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,
gaily; " 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 toil parties as the Duke of Argyll. He
is about twenty-eight, but looks considerably younger.
Ho has been several years in the House of Peers, but
it was not till last tesion that he began to be much
talked about, although great expectations had long been
formed regarding him by his friends. His speech on the
Ecolesiastical Titles Assumption Biil, 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 epi.3copalien persecution. The Duke addresses
the Bishop in a plain, business-like style, pointing out
the inevitable consequences of his denial
of the giseen's
supremacy, and showing how naturally the straining of
High Cnurch doctrines leads to Home. 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 tone. "
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, aid if there are rocks upon your course at all
they must be very close ahead. The water around you
is scree ed with wreck." It is pleasant to see one of our
first-class noblemen coming oat in this trenchant fashion.
The Duke of Argyll is sot merely a man of high rank,
he is alao connected by marriage with some of tho 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 influeuca aleng 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.