The Sun. — 1842-09-12 (London, England)

NEW MODE OF RAISING THE WIND.—The following humorous and extraordinary anecdote, illustrative of the degrading extent to which even Lords and M.P.'s will sometimes go to achieve pecuniary ends, is daily furnishing conversational food for the gossips at the \Vest-end :—Some short time since a scion of nobility, who recently acquired some notoriety in Paris, being desperately pushed for a " cool" couple of hundred pounds, and having ineffectually tried every probable source to obtain it, at last, as a Bernier resort, applied to his Noble parent (a Gallant Marquis) for the trifling accommodation; trifling, however, as the sum may appear, the heroic M.P. is reported to have met with a plump, and not very courteous negative to his application. Disappointed and enraged at the refusal, and the peremptory tone in which it was conveyed, he, as a brave son of Neptune, hit upon, and, Proteus-like, carried into execution, the following eccentric stratagem to effect his purpose:— It happened that at a crossing opposite the window of the room in which slept the Noble Marquis, his father, a ment dican sweeper was in the habit of taking his stand in pursuit of his daily avocation. To this " knight of the broom' he hero repaired, and for a small sum bought him off his' lifehold," or crossing for a day ; and, on the following morning, about the hour the Marquis usually rose, the distinguished scion, disguised as a beggar, with a brannew broom, was seen industriously employed in sweeping clouds of dust towards the Gallant Marquis's window. On looking out, the Noble Marquis, to his utter astonishment, beheld a fresh and ill-conducted sweeper, and incensed at the rude manner in which he was carrying on his operations, dispatched a servant to know the cause. The servant having, in the person of the mendacious sweeper, discovered Lord returned in breathless haste to his master, and informed him that it was his own son who was thus occupied in kicking up such a dust ! " Oh, hang him," said the noble and brave veteran, " that is done to raise the wind, (writing) here, take this to him—a cheque—tell him to be off and change his rags—his morals he never can." The command was no sooner given than obeyed, and the beggar quitted his post of honour and retreated in double quick time, highly gratified, however, with his new mode of " raising the wind."—Sunday Paper. A letter from Galatz, in Moldavia, which we find in the Courrier Francais, gives the following narrative : —" The Count •de L., coming from Russia b3rthe hotel Danube, took up his residenco in this town at an kept by a species of Boyard, named Ventura. The Count had just baffled an attempt by the Russian Cabinet _ to complete an important negotiation with one of the Indian Governments. In the evening of July 2 he was assailed in the house itself by about twenty men armed with sticks and staves. He made a bold and obstinate resistance, but, having no other means of defence than a slight cane, ho was overcome by numbers,. and cruelly maltreated. At last he got clear of his assailants, and made his way to the house 9f the Austrian Consul, M. Hubert, where he was confined twenty days by the injuries be had received. A complaint was laid before the French Consul at Galatz, who transmitted it to the Consul at Yassy. At length an order came from the Moldavian Government to the Governor at Galatz to administer due punishment to the offenders ; but he confined himself to giving seven lashes with a whip to only one of them, though all were equally guilty of the base and cowardly attack, which might have ended in murder. The Count, dissatisfied with this inadequate satisfaction, has removed to Constantinople, to require interference the-i Baron de Bourqueney, who, it s to be hoped, will act on this occasion as the British Ambassador did in the ease of Mr. Churchill."