The Sun. — 1834-07-15 (London, England)

GOOD BARGAIN.—Mr. L., a well-known professional singer in the metropolis, one day entered a cheesemonger's or grocer's shop, to make a purchase. " Have you any more of this paper ?" said he to the master, regarding with curiosity and astonishment that in which his purchase was wrapped. " Plenty, Sir, a great pile of it." Mr. L. requested to see it, and followed the tradesman into a little back room, where many reams of waste paper were collected, to be used in his business. " Well," said Mr. L., after inspecting the pile from whence the wrapper, of his parcel had been taken, " will you sell this--what 'would you ask for it ?" " Twopence-halfpenny per pound," answered the man, much astonished at the uncommon greenness of his customer.— " You can have it, if you like, for waste paper at that price." Mr. L. readily assented, and thus purchased for a few shillings 33 complete oratorios and operas of Handel, besides fragments of the best,—viz., Arnold's edition ! Henceforth, let no one dpspise the literature that may find its way to the trunkmaker's and chandler's, &c.—Mirror.  Neer did the Monarchy of the Barricades experience a more severe secousse than by the dissolution of the Grey Administration. It is, as you will observe by its organ, the Journal des Debats, laying the flattering unction to its soul, that a Liberal—that is, in the French sense, a manageable—Cabinet will succeed to it. ...One thing is, however, seriously apprehended, namely, that some how or other Sir Robert Peel will become a member of the Government about to be constructed. This I give you as a fact, without troubling you with the why or the wherefore. The Hon. Baronet is, I am assured, one of the very many cauchernars that trouble the repose of the King-Citizen. Let your Administration take any shape but that, and through the Archbishop of Autun his perturbed spirit will sink to rest ; for all the others eligible to office Prince Talleyrand is said to have boasted he carries in his pocket. The effect produced among the gamblers at the Bourse, yesterday, by the news of Earl Grey's retirement, was not, as you will have seen by the Stock list, so unfavourable as might have been expected. It were idle, however, to occupy you with those gentry, than whom, in all weathercock France, there exists not so sensitive, so changeable a class. On the general public the affair has made, however, a very deep impression ; for it has reminded' them that the national spirit and the national strength have been so depressed and so broken down by the peace-at-any-price system of the juste milieu, that France would be incapable of successfully resisting a combined attack of the Holy Alliance were England to be detached from her—an event deemed possible should a Tory Administration succeed that of the Whigs. This is all that it strikes me, at present, you would desire to know of the impression made here by the news from London. A little later in the day I may, perhaps, return to the subject. The dearth of intelligence from Spain continues. By your private correspondence you are in advance of the Paris Press ; but even your arrivals through me become less frequent. This is to be accounted for by the occupancy of the Basque provinces by the insurgents. From Bayonne no letters have reached me these.two days ; not because of any impediment to their arrival from thence, but, I am convinced, because your correspondent, owing to the circumstance just mentioned, had nothing to communicate. We have no domestic news. The heat of the weather is again becoming intolerable, for it promises to be as great to-day as on this day fortnight, when he had 92 degrees of Fahrenheit in the shade. Storms, and suicides, and assassinations, its natural accompaniments in France, are not only- already frightfully frequent, but may be expected, I fear, to be considerably increased by the intensity of this day's heat.