The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-11 00:00:00

SMALL CHANGE FOR PERSON
GOING ON THE CONTINENT.

Persons of importance being in the habit, at this sea•
son of the year, of rushing to the Continent, we hays
drawn up the following rules, after six trips up and down
the Danube and Rhine, to enable travellers to support
the character of Englishmen with that degree of pride
and gentlemanly spirit for which they are noted abroad :-
1. Write your name in large letters, with date and
address, wherever you go. For this purpose, you had
better carry about with you a bottle of Warren's black-
ing and a large brush, and you can then lay it on as
thick as you please.
2. If you go into a cathedral when service is going on,
never mind talking or staring, or pointing, as much as
you like ; for it stands to reason, if the people are really
as intent on their devotions as they pretend to be, they
cannot hear or see you. The best way to test this is to
walk down the aisles with your hat on.
3. Always suspect you are being imposed upon. It is
well known that the innumerable small foreign coins
were expressly invented to puzzle the English. To guard
against giving too much, bargain for everything you
have, and try to bate down every item in your bill.
Recollect it is the notion of foreigners that every Eng-
lishmen is stuffed full of money. The sooner you dis-
abuse them of this notion the better.
4 Laugh at everything you do not understand, and
never fail to ridicule anything that appears strange to
you. The habits of the lower class will afford you
abundant entertainment, if you have the proper talent to
mimic them. Their religious ceremonies you will also
find to be an endless source of amusement.

5. Never mind what damage you do, as long as you
can afford to pay for it. Your brothers and sisters will
naturally expect some remembrance of your t)ur, so do
not scruple to carry off a souvenir of every monument you
visit. A saint's finger, or a whole statue itself taken
during the night from its consecrated niche in some
lonely street, will convince your relations you have not
forgotten them, besides affording you capital sport and
healthy excitement in making the collection.
6. Recollect very few people talk English on the Con-
tinent, so you may be perfectly at your ease in abusing
foreigners before their faces, and talking any modest
nonsense you like, in the presence of ladies, at a table
d'hotc. Do not care what you say about the Govern-
ment of any particular state you may be visiting, and
show your national spirit by boasting, on every possible
occasion, of the superiority of England and everything
English.
7. If you go to a theatre, and do not know a word of
the language of the pieces, do not hesitate to talk as
loudly as you can, or to laugh preposterously at the
gibberish which it is a marvel to you anybody can un-
derstand.
8. If foreign states will have foolish laws about pass-
ports, it is not to be expected that you, as a free-born
Englishman, will tamely submit to theta, so always
move about as independently as if you were in your
own country. If, by a stretch of despotism, you are
taken up or sent back, you have your redress by com-
plaining to the British Ambassador, or else by sending
your case to be laid before Parliament as a casus Belli,
to any distinguished Member of the Opposition of the
time being.
9. Be particular about your diet. Avoid foreign
dishes ; be sure that the wines are poison, and grumble
at everything you get. Recollect that beef-steaks and
bottled porter are always kept in the smallest villages
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can indulge in any violen.,e you please, as long as you
have the means to pay for it.
11. Be sure t 3 take English servants with you. They
are useful in speaking the language, settling the bills,
and taking you to see the most remarkable sights of the
country. Besides, they are so good-tempered, -and so
pleased with everything—the eating and drinking
especially—that it is proverbial an English John and
lady's maid add materially to the comfort of a conti-
nental trip.
12. Buy something at every place you stop at. The
foreign articles are not only so much cheaper and better
than any you can get in England, but there is also the
pleasure of looking at them, and the pride of displaying
them before other people, every time your boxes are
examined at a custom-house. If you aro asked to pay
anything extra for them, on the ground of duty, sooner
allow every article to be confiscated than submit to the

imposition.
13. Take all your wardrobe with you. Extralug-
gage is never charged for on the Continent, and it would
be very foolish to miss an important ceremony, or a royal
invitation, for the want of a proper gown, coat, bonnet,
cocked hat, pelisse, or regimentals. You can always
avoid the nuisance of having your boxes examined by
asking to see the officer on duty, and slipping a bank-
note of the country (price 35.) into his hand.
14. Be sure to cultivate your moustachios the very day
you start for the Continent, and allow your hair to grow
down your back. Buy a dialogue-book, and if you study
it attentively all the way up the Rhine, and at all the
places you visit, you will be able by the time you reach
London, to ask, " Which is the nearest way to Cologne?"
in no less than eight different languages.
Attend most scrupulously to the above golden rules,
and you will never find any difficulty in getticg on with
the small change with which we have provided you for
your trip. Disburse it liberally wherever you go, and you
will certainly succeed in making the name of an English-
man respected and beloved all over the Continent, and
will impress foreigners with the belief that England is
without a doubt—what you must always be boasting
she is—the most civilised country in the world.—Punch.

A green plover (pewitt), of a pure white colour,
with the exception of the tips of its wings and tail, which are a
light dun, was shot on Prestwick Car, near Newcastle, a few
days ago, by Mr. Matthew Wilson, gamekeeper to Captain
Mitford, R.N.—Durham Advertiser.
FALL OF TILE ALMON AUCTION ROOMS, BIRKEN-
IiF:AD.—On Tuesday night List, just before twelve o'clock, the
extensive auction rooms of Mr. Green, of Birkenhead, fell
down with a tremendous crash. It is fortunate the accident
happened in the night, or many lives might have been lost.
The amount of damage must have been considerable, for the
rooms were filled with valuable furniture of almost every descrip,
tion.—Chester Cronicle.

On Saturday night last the grand stand on the
Stamford race-course was broken into, and the whole of do

bats, &c., belonging to the cricket club stolen.
The Government contract for 60,000 gallons of
rum for the navy was again taken on Friday by Messrs. Lemon,
Hart, and Son.
THE DESCENT OF MR. C. GREEN IN HIS BAL-
LOO N.—On Thursday night, when the " Albion" balloon, with
Air. C. Green, left Cremorne Gardens, it was carried in a di-

rection, south of east, passing near Battersea-fields, when its
course was continued nearly in a straight line towards Foots
Cray, the altitude being between 1,000 and 2,000 feet. Here
Mr. Green lowered the machine for the purpose of making
choice of a spot on which to descend, and in doing which,
being about a distance of 600 feet from the earth, he found
the current more to the east. It was Mr. Green's object to
alight where ho was likely to cause the least possible injury to
the produce. He made a few attempts to descend, and at the
same time displayed some Bengal lights, but which drew no
one to his assistance. About twenty minutes past eleven
o'clock he made choice of a large turnip field, about fifty
acres in extent, two miles on the other side of Far-
ningham, Kent, the property of Mr. James Rus-
sell, of Horton King, on which he fixed his grap-
pling irons, after having been in the air above forty minutes.
Having got out of the car, and observing that there was ne
one near, Mr. Green immediately emptied the balloon of its
gas, the first time that he has been compelled to do so un-
assisted. After he had effected that, he made himself a tem-
porary residence for the night in his car. From five to sit
o'clock in the morning he was employed in walking about,
looking for assistance, when he came to the farm-house of
Mr. J. Russell, who, upon being informed by his servant of
the visit that was paid to him, got up immediately and went
to the spot where the balloon had alighted. Ile subsequently
invited Alt. Green to breakfast, expressed himself highly de-
lighted that he had landed in safety, and exhibited the most
kind attention, a respect which Mr. Green states it is not
usual for farmers in Kent to show towards him. Mr. Green
arrived at Cremorne-gardens on Friday afternoon about three
o'clock, where the greatest anxiety was manifested on account
of his long absence. He was received with three cheers. The
distance of Farningham from Cremorne Gardens is about
twenty-five miles.
ALL ALIVE, 0 !—On Monday morning last, Mr.
Hoyle, surgeon, of Heighington, near Lincoln, the particulars
of whose mysterious disappearance caused so much excite-
ment a short time ago, arrived at his home from a rustication
in the neighbourhood of Spilsby, it u
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FAT LAMB.-An extraordinary fat lamb was shown
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