The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-09 00:00:00

CONVERSATION AT THE WARSAW

COYFERENNCE.

AUSTRIA, RUSSIA, PRUSSIA.
(From Punch.)
P. Well, here we aro !
A. Is not that remark worthy rather of a clown than a
Sovereign ?
It. Perhaps he learnt it in England.
P. Where, indeed, they are most potent in their plot-
ting.
A. Just so, and does not that consideration suggest that
we might as well proceed to business ?
P. The question is, how to arrest the Revolution ii
Italy ?
R. Don't you think we are a little too late ?
A. Ah, if you had only prevented, or helped me to win,
Magenta and Solferino.
R. I was alluding to an earlier omission. Ah, if you
had only saved Sebastopol I Certain parties held back
then—do they call that backing their friends ?
P. What's done can't be undone. Let's change the sub-

ject.
A. Change the Sovereign seems to be the order of the
day.
R. Who's seen the Times ? What's the best news'
A. Bad is the best—for us. You saw all about young
Wales in America.
R. Dreadful! Shameful I I say, Austria, fancy a grand 7
son of your own, one of these days, shaking hands and
waltzing with the descendants of your revolted Lombards,
and standing, hat in hand, at the tomb of Garibaldi.
A. He hasn't got a tomb, yet.
P. What, do you, too, think him immortal f
A. You'll see, if I catch him. Ho won't have a tomb,
though, even if he is buried—at the foot of the gallows.
P. You saw how Blondin crossed the Falls of Niagara ?
R. On a tight rope with another fool at his back.
A. I wish he had been that fellow at the Tuileries, with
Victor Emmanuel or the other vagabond on his shoulders,
and that his foot had slipped and they had both tumbled

P. Garibaldi would have been saved even then, if your
wishes could bo fully gratified with regard to him—and if
there is truth in proverbs he wouldn't have been drowned.
R. If Blondin had, what a sight for Wales I But no,
they love the people—l may say their species ; for they ara
not of us. They have taught their family to truckle to de-
mocracy—confound them I
F. Your Majesty I—l say I—l hope you will remember
the connexion with that family which—
R. Pardon! of course I wished confusion to them in
politics only. Is there anything new at the Opera ?
A. I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of State.
P. The remark of a rather celebrated Venetian senator.
A. Rather of an Emperor who would be glad if you
would help him to remain Sovereign of Venice.
R. Well, but what's to be done ? You want troops to
fight France. Can you pay them ?
P. Where's the money to come from ?
A. Israel. Those Jews could lend it if they chose. Bu
they won't negotiate another loan. I wish the Holy Father
had surrendered that young Mortara I
R. Suppose we persecute our Jewish subjects?

A. We might at least do that.
P. No, no, not in these times ; and you would get no
money if you did—only drive them and thoir wealth to
England—which is sufficiently rich already.
A. Rich enough to settle a handsome fortune on a
daughter.
P. Now, come. I call that delicate. Well, I don't see
what we can do.
R. Nor 1.
A. Humph I Then I can only implore the help of the
Saints.

R. I wish you may get it.
P. What's your opinion of things in general ?
R. Well, they really seem at sixes and sevens. A fine
October.
A. A bright alitumn after a gloomy summer. Let us
hope for a change of political weather.
P. Oranges are late this year.
A. Yes, and potatoes scarce. But that won't affect us
Monarchs—that's a comfort.
P. When shall we three meet again ?
R. This evening, and—by Jove, 'tis time to be off and
dress for the ball

P. To dance the Polonaise, without, I fear, the assist-
ance of many Polish ladies. N'importe ! We can be each
other's partners at 'Warsaw I
[Their Majesties dance the Varsovienne round the
table, and exeunt dancing.]

A " STEEPLE JACK" FEAT IN SALFORD.—For a
day or two past, some workmen belonging to Messrs.
Hibbert and Co., the well-known lighting conductor
manufacturers, of Manchester, have been engaged with
kites in getting ropes over the top of the steeple and cross
of St. John's Catholic Chapel, Salford, for the purpose of
some repairs. We understand that the large metal figure
of a cock which surmounts the vane is too heavy for its
position, and as it was seen that the vane spindle had been
somewhat bent by the strain of the weight and the wind, it
was decided by the bishop and clergy of tho church to
obviate danger from the breaking of the vane and the
possible starting of the stone work. Yesterday afternoon,
the preliminaries being completed, one of the workmen
ascended the beautiful steeple (216 feet high from the
ground), and soon made more permanent arrangements for
the necessary works. A very large crowd assembled to
witness the feat, which although apparently most dangerous
and really painful to look upon, has been pretty well proved
by experience to be practically safe and very economical.
But little will be needed to be done beyond the removal of
the figure of the cock; and we understand that the work
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