The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-30 00:00:00

AN ENGLISH

VIE IV OF FRENCH
1170,111EY.

A Frenchwoman is the ugliest female of the
human species. An African fiegress, with her flat
nose and thick lips, is not very attractive ; but her
ugliness has a national type, and cases are known
in which a European, after 20 years on the West
Coast of Africa, and seeing nothing else to make
him discontented, has become reconciled to her, as
we do after a time to nearly everything else in the
world, and as I did to the cooper on one side and to
the chaudronnier on the other. But each individual
Frenchwoman has an ugliness of her own, whether
it be the ugliness of a tiger, or of a ferret, or of a
monkey, or a combination of all three, in which last
case, however, the monkey usually has a slight pre-
ponderance. There is something fearful in the
expression of a Frenchwoman of the lower orders
when her animal instincts are excited—by jealousy,
for instance, or when she is paying money, a severe
trial to most faces. Come with me to-morrow to
the Halle Centrale, a market for everything near
the church of St. Enstache. We will watch the
women haggling and parting with money, and you
will be satisfied, as I am, that within a not very
long time previous to the historical period, the
natives of France were crossed with a monkey.
Look at that respectably-dressed woman haggling
for giblets ! Her hair comes down the ridge bone
between her temple and /forehead till it actually
joins her eyebrows. This is a certain sign of there
having been, some time or other, a monkey among
the branches of the family pedigree. Even in a ball-
room, where she is all smiles, and is looking all she
knows, a Frenchwoman will try—for she is a great
general—to divert your attention from her face to
her dress; but do not be diverted; look at her fea-
tures, and you will see nothing but tiger, ferret, and
monkey. Oh, my fair fellow-countrywomen ! what
a comfort it is for us to think that you can give a
Frenchwoman all her petty arts of dress and still
beat her! Yet you eight .how a little more taste
in your choice of colours; for I have had to blush
for many of you lately in the Bois de Boullgne.—
Once a Week.

JOHN BROWN.—It will be time enough to speak
of the results of John Brown's crusade when we see more
of them; they are abundantly remarkable already. Oar
business has been with the character of the man. It has
impressed the national imagination for ever in his ewn
country. Some eminent citizens of Virginia cannot bear
the force of it, and are preparing to migrate, with their
property to Europe—their slaves they must lea%e behind.
Among those who must remain, the children will never
forget the man, nor lose the impression of the winter nights
following his death. In Cumberland, the aurora borealis
is called "Lord Derwentwater's lights," because it was
particularly splendid the night after his execution. The
Virginia children will shiver for life when they remember
John Brown's lights—those mysterious lights which ascend
every night in the direction of Haiper's Ferry, and are an-
swered from various parts of the horizon—in spite of all
efforts of police and military to make out what they mean.
John Brown is as sure of immortality as Washington
1•11,--010. a Aretk.

Foreign Department-3he post of chargé ~-ak
faires and consul-general to the republic of Guate-
mala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Sal-
vador has become vacant by the promotion of Mr.
Wyke ; the vice-consulship at Mahon, Spain, has
become vacant by the death of Mr. R. A. Dalzell—
salary £300; the Hon. Henry Anson Cavendish
has been appointed to a clerkship, and passed his
examination. War-office—Mr. Robert H. Byrne
has been appointed to the Military Store Depart-
ment, Woolwich, and passed his examination ;
Messrs. Alexander Thomas Christie, John Cranage,
and James Burke Marsh have been appointed to
temporary clerkships, and passed their examina-
tion. India-office—The office of précis writer, In-
dian Correspondence Department, has become va-
cant by the promotion of the Hon. Gerald C. Tal-
bot ; the Hon. Gerald C. Talbot has been appointed
inspector-general of stores at the Military Stores
Department of the India-office, vice General J. G.
Bonner, retired—salary, £1,200. General Post-
office—Mr. C. S. Ralph has been appointed to a
clerkship at Ipswich, and passed his examination..
The Dockyards—Mr. R. P. Chaplin, accountant at
Portsmouth, has been transferred to Woolwich, vice
Mr. W. Penfold, superannuated; Mr. G. E. Gittens,
first clerk in the accountant's office, Portsmouth,
has been appointed accountant, vice Mr. Chaplin,
removed. Customs—Mr. Henry C. Manners has
been appointed a clerk at Hartlepool ; Mr; James
A. Walsh has been appointed third-class clerk at
Waterford ; Mr. John King has been promoted
from fifth to fourth class landing-waiter in Lon-
don ; Mr. K. H. Gough has been promoted from
sixth to fifth class landing-waiter in London ;
Mr. Charles F. Cannon has been promoted from
second to first class clerk in the Examiner's office,
London • Mr. William Pitcairn has been promoted
from third to second class clerk in ditto; Mr.
George Cook has been promoted from fourth to I
third class clerk in ditto. Ireland—A stipendiary
magistracy has become vacant by the death of Mr.
B. IL Holmes, resident magistrate, Fermanagh.
East Indies—Mr. C. U. Aitchison has been ap-
pointed under-secretary to the governmernt
Tor
India in the Foreign Department;
Surgeon
appointed assay master of Calcutta Miiinast
'beenap-
Downes, assay master of Bombay
W. Collum, deputy assay master, has
The pointed assay master of BombayMi
deputy collectors
fol-
lowing deputy magistrates and
Muller, to first
have been promoted :—Mr. C. J.
class, Patna; Mr. A. G. Wilson, to first class,
to first class Backer-
gunge Mr. W. R. Pogson,
erz to second class, Tir-
J.
.toWfiafltkhecrl,atsos,
gunge ; Mr. C. P. Casp , Mint, has been
fifthight,
Ao 0
ne class,
gSuen: je
Mr. W. C. Grant, to fourth class, Hoogley ; Mr.
W. Davey, to fourth class, survey department ;
hoot ; Mr. W. Sarson, to fourth class, Chittarronr, •
Mr. A. D. B. Gomes, to fifth class, Sunderbuns ;
Mr. H. H. Metcalfe, to fifth class, survey depart-
mentgunge ; Mr. J. D'Cruz, to fifth class, Serampore ;
MMr. E. Maltby has been sworn a member of council
for the Madras Presidency,andappointed
I Presi-
dent of the Board of Revenue.—Civil 'Service
Gagette.
r.A A. I.rlFirr.

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