The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

ON MRS. NISBETT'S LAUGH.

As heard in her " Pamela" during her representation of the
Election Scene in Douglas Jerrold's new Comedy of Bubbles
of the Day.

Bless it !—Nisbett's music-laugh !
Nought I know so sweet by half
As when from her twins of lips
Sharp its silver titter trips--
Still with arrant wit-shafts ringing—
Still with quips sitiric springing :
Merriment delighted tetls,
How she there has hosts of spells ;
While, with wine-stoups, toasters quaff
NISBETT'S MUSIC-LAUGH !"

Tho' her form be fine and slim—
Round her head, and braided f rim—
Tho' her cheeks, on both sides bright,
Blend with red and balsam-white—
Tho' a running sweetness plays,
O'er her arch capricious ways—
Tho' before her pranksome wiles,
Stoic-fronts suffuse with smiles
Tho' these all in Nisbet shine,
Win they less, and less entwine,
Than the one delight divine—
One—to which we toasters quaff
" NISBETT'S MUSIC-LAUGH

Dear-bewitching Whig !—when next
England's with elections vent,
Arm in arm, with you I'll go
Canvassing all Muckboro',
Then, I swear, more votes shall bold
By scores to us, than Tory gold;
Those Goths shall doff their horrid Blue,'
And Whiggish " Yellow" wear, like you !"
And you the plumpers—you the split—.
Shall re4p in conquest infinite ;
While each ten.pounder with his vote, .
To quit his conscience and his coat,
Will own, t' excuse his new enlisting,
" 'Twas Ni=bett's face, and no resisting !"
Face won him part—the other half
HER LUSCIOUS MUSIC-LAUGH !

The Haniburgh Gazlette of the 20th ult. publishes
the following from a correspondent, as his opinion of the effect
which would be produced in Germany by the tn,sv Corn-laws,
proposed by Sir Robert Peel:—" The siding-scale of import
duties in England on foreign corn, not only prevents safe specu-
lation in distant ports, but necessitates the purchase of corn in
the ports of the north of Europe, particularly Hamburgh and
Dantzie. The sliding-scale of Sir Robert Peel is, therefore,
much more advantageous to Germany, whose pets would thus
have the exclusive supply of England, than the fixed duty of
Lord John Russell, as that would admit of the competition of
the speculators in corn of Odessa and of North America."
A letter from Gratz, of the 18th ult., announces
the arrival there on that day of the Duke de Bordeaux, who left
Vienna on the 16th by the I•Zeufkirchen railroad in a special train.
His Royal Highness was in good health, and not at all fatigued by
his journey. On the day before his departure from Vienna, the
Empress, and all the other members of the Imperial Family, paid
hi Royal Highness a visit to take leave.
Two deaths were caused the day before yesterday,
in the Rue Coquenard, by the eating of mushrooms which had
been stewed and left to stand in a copper-pan badly tinned in-
side. The parties were a greengrocer, and a woman, his
neighbour, who dined with him that day, on his invitation.
The greengrocer's wife, who prepared the dish and partook of
it, is hardly expected to live, from the same cause.
Two clerks of a cloth-merchant in the Rue de la
Bourdonnais stifled themselves accidentally, two nights ago, by
osing the valve of the flue of the stove in their room, to
throw out the warmth of the braise. They were both found
dead in their beds next morning.
A subscription is being raised for the benefit of the
widows and families of those who met with premature deaths
by the late explosion at D'Frnst's fireworks manufactory, to
which her Majesty, it is said, has been graciously pleased to
contribute 601.
One of the caves in the rocks near Saumur, in the
Maine et Loire, which afford habitstions to numerous fami-
lies, fell in a few days ago, and buried a man and his wife.
Their neighbours immediately set to work to dig them out, hut.
after five hours' labour, their bodies were found crushed and
lifeless. Another cave gave way, but the dwellers were fortu-
nate enough to escape.
A LESSON FOR SCOLDING WIVBS.—" And I dare
say you have witted your wife very often, Newman," said I,
once. Old Newman looked down, and the wife took up the
reply. " Never to signify—and if he has, I deserved it.'
And I dare say, if the truth were told, you have scolded him
quite as often." " Nay," said the old woman, with a beauty
of kindness which all the poetry in the world cannot excel,
" how can a wife scold her good, man, who has been working
for her and her little ones all the day ? It may be for a man to
be peevish, for it is he who bears the crosses of the world: but
who should make him forget them but his own wife? And she
had best, for her own sake—for nobody can scold much when
the scolding is all on one side."—Brawer's Student.
The Correo Aracional of Madrid states that among
the remains of the bodies interred in the vault of San Felipe
el Real, there has been found the body of a woman in a won-
derful state of preservation. It has retained its natural form,
the deceased having been of remarkable embonpoint. The
nails on the hands are still perfect, the countenance has under-
gone no change, the lips are half open, and show between
them a double row of beautiful teeth. It should seem that
the female must have died in the flower of her age. Even
the clothes are astonishingly free from decay.. The robe, of a
Clark gre n, is trimmed with silk, and of a richness that indi-
cates she Was of a Wealthy family. A thousand conjectures
have been. formed as to her identity ; but whether she will be
again bu.ied, or placed In a cabinet of natural history, is not
yet decided ill on, as the civil and religious authorities are at
variance on the shhjeet.
'We find the filliovVing frOnl COnsfantinople, fth
tilt., in the AugsturgA Gazette.—."A firman has Jost been
read in all the mosques, ordering the people to adhere to the
the old Turkish cestiirrie ; Only ohne ftinctiOalifies are t ► be
pertnitted tb *ear the EtirOpean costume. The Porte has tea
fused to iccede to the irrangedient prdpeSed by the British
Attibtlisider relative to the creek indemnity or a titillioti of
drachmas. The Divan prefers paying what it owes to England,
and leaving Greece to pay the Porte: It is said also that the
English Ambassador requires that the Porte, iii addition to the
orthhary expenses of the campaign in Syria, shall pay the pens
sions of the widows and orphans of the English soldiers and
sailors who lost their lives in that service. The Porte has not
replied to this application."
LONG MEASURE.—A person has calculated that
persons now weave cloth forty inches wide and one mile in
length for 3,35., and that fer this sum the shuttle has to travel
2,160 miles, and thefect have to move upwards of 900 miles !
In addition to this, some have to walk Oigh or ten miles for work.
A new mode of evading the entrance duties has
lately been tried at a town in the department of the Nord. Some
washerwomen had entered the barrier several times with a
quantity of wet linen. At length an old officer of the ref.!,
whose nose had become keen by practice, perceiving that the
linen emitted a stronger odour than it could have acquired
from the ordinary process of washing, examined it more closely, and
found it Completel.' saturated with spitits above proof, on eta.
urination, it appeared that, when the linen was got into the tOwht
the spirit was wrung out, and, being reduced to a proper degree of
strength by admixture of water, was sold for consumption.
A letter from Leipsic states that, on the 18th ult.
a Student of that University, who had been killed in a duel
arising out of a fight between the dogs of the respective
parties, was buried by express order of the Senate of the Uni-
versity without any of the usual ceremonies. A single coach
with th? deceased's father followed the body to the aenietery,
• -0
and a clergyman a uiscourse over the grave, in
which he said—" The deceased has lost his life to satisfy a false
prejudice." Upon this, a Student exclaimed—" No ! He died
n defending his honour." Notwithstanding the 'injunction of
the Senate, the burying4round was filled with students. The
adversary of the deceased has become delirious from distress of
mind at the fatal result of the meeting.
A. letter from Vienna announces the death of the
Count d'Alcudia, formerly the agent of Dou Caklos at Vienna.