The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-09 00:00:00

" A PALTRY PRESS."

These be hard lines, as the sailors say, but " non noster hie
sermo." _ .

will now, we imagine, be admitted that something i the
shape of an able and honest Journal is required to " stop the
gap." To put such an intellectual vehicle upon the road, we
think, would be considered Quixotic, even by so speculative and
excellent a judge of such matters as Mr. Peter Purcell. " A
Party is necessary," exclaim the Tory parson, and the Liberal
placehunter, "or else you will reckon but few readers." Upon
this point we join issue, and hope, for the honour of civilized
humanity, that as the Irish public maintain a sufficiedt number
of newspapers to tell them falsehood, they will vouchsafe to sup-
port one which, at all risks, is determined to announce to them
the truth.

" All that mortal art bath wrought,
In our cell returns to nought ;
The molten gold returns to play,
The polish'd diamond melts away.
All is altered, all is flown—
Nought stands fast but truth alone."
In Politics we all be Radicals, and devoted to the People,
utterly regardless of the smiles or frowns of the select and
interested few. Such a course, we know, is always perilous
and often profitless—
" Hard is his task who edits—thankless job—
A weekly journal for the factious mob ;
Alike undone, or if he praise or rail ;
For this affects his safety, that his sale
He sinks, at last, in luckless limbo set—
If loud, for libel—and if dumb, for debt."
We sha always be happy, when we can agree with those
men who, newever they may sometimes err, have rendered
efficient service, and made many sacrifices for the cause of
liberty; but iv shall not advocate that wait-a-while policy
which holds out 7romises to suffering millions which are never
likely to be real.zed—
,‘ My father, Time, is weak and grey,
Wit,h waiting for abetter day,"
We shall judge the Government by its acts, and shall oppose
a Premier, be he Whig, Tory, or Radical, when we find him
averse to the removal of the remnant of the Penal Code, which,
absurdly enough, forbids the appointment of a Roman Catho-
lic Chancellor ;--a Colonial Secretary. when he resists the
Ballot; or even so amiable and enlightened a Statesman as
the present— Irish Secretary, when he seems half disinclined
to grant an increase of popular privileges to the Irish people.
Conscientiously believing that Ireland never can become gene-
rally happy and contented until she again has the advantage
of a DOMESTIC LEGISLATURE we shall persevere, by
arguments and facts. to advocate the
REPEAL OF THE UNION,
as not more beneficial to Ireland than the Sister Kingdom.
staWidewviitit,ll
tbbreingsteiandto the field the heavy artillery of reason,
aided by the light brigade of wit and humour. We shall be
and mirthful with
" From grave to Pursuing "the even tenor of our way," we shall "run on
The Statesman will find 'us political glittering like a brook in the sunshine,"
• "
discoverrucla thatus lovers know nuofwthae thhei .atrw:o;
cealwlyi tthaonsdtehvetetrieel light-hearted.
ed .
shall
p
alin
Lawyer will
;ththee shall
learn that we can clear a muntry with him "THE WORLD"
to the Lady of Fashion shall be as * and the
Court Gazette,
Agriculturist shall not have to complain sPphurytssimciaanu
interests of the Merchant and manufacturer of our negligence ; the
close attention ; the United Service l shall receive our
find us, as of old, at-
tached to the cloth ; we shall " takewo
robes about us" with the Poet ; visit ther studioaland and singing
and deal our impartial criticism at the Theatre. of the Artist ;
Every number of " THE WORLD," in richness
will he a Magazine ; and arrangements have and variety
embellish
thefts columns with sketches from some _ been made to
of the best pen-
cils of a.
THE WORLD" will be a large quarto, printed with su-
perior type upon first-rate paper,and will be '
.. published every
Saturday morning, with late edition for the country, „n
• ' ,11 London, Thibl"n. an 1 Proviroiro Intelligence
up
to the tusp.‘ich of the eveung inns biascription,
per Annum.—Sept. 10, 1639

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Just published, Bvo., price 3s. 6d. sewed,
lIISTORICAL ESSAY upon the SPA-
NISH SUCCESSION. By Professor ZOPFL,
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the French version of M. Le Baron de Billing, by C. T. O'G.,
many years attached to the British Embassy in Spain.
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By Miss ELLEN PICKERING-,
Authoress of " The Heiress," " The Merchant's Daughter,"

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LINGARD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
On Tuesday, November 12, will he published, complete, in 13
vols. fcap., price 3/. ss.
A HISTORY of ENGLAND, from the In-
vasion by the Romans to the Accession of William and

Mary.
By JOHN LING ARD, D. D.
The Fourth Edition, with great Additions, and revised through-
out by the Author.
London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row.

THE LANCET, NOVEMBER 9.
Edited by Mr. WAKLEY, M.P.

CONTENTS :

1. M. De Blainville on the Bones-2. Sir B. Brodie on
Ulcers-3. Chemical History of the Blood-4. Mr. Wakley's
Vindication by the Middlesex Magistrates-5. The Sanatorium
—6. Treatment of Epilepsy-7. Diseases of the Ear-8.
Acute Anasarca of the Scrotum-9. Strangulated Hernia-
-10. Reviews of Works, by Drs. Hope and Little-11. Rode-
rick's Theory of Medical Ethics-12. A Worm Doctor in
Wiltshire.
Lancet Office, 49, Essex-street, Strand ; and to be had of
all Booksellers and Newsmen.

Just published, Price 3s.
A.PRAC ricAL TREATISE on the
TREATMENT and CURE of STRICTURES of
the URETHRA; wherein is recommended an improved mode
of treatment the result of many years' extensive and successful
practice.
By C. B. COURTENAY, M.D.,
42, Great Marlborough-street.
Sold by P. Hill, Medical Bookseller, Great Windmill-street
Haymarket; Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Tem-Tiernan]
246, Regent-street ; and all booksellers in town or coun.ry.

TIOREIGN AND BRITISH SPIRITS.
The attention of Consumers is called to one of the
Largest Stocks in this Country, and which cannot be excelled
for qualify, age, and flavour, at the under••mentioned Cash
Prices
BR AND Y.—Genuine Cognac...24s., 265. 6d., 28s. per Gall.
The Pale' Ditto (vintage 1808)....725. per Doz., bottles included.
RUM.— Best Jamaica . 125., 14s. per Gallon.

The Old Pine-apple (in bottles)...36s. per D'ozen.
ENGLISH GlN.—Excellent quality and strength, Bs., 9s. 4d ,
10s. tad. per Gallon ; the strong and high-flavoured (in bot-
tles), 245. per Dozen.
HENEKEY and COMPANY.
Gray's Inn, Wine Establishment, 23, High Holborn.

96, CIIEAPSIDE, AND 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET,
PICCADILLY.

TESTIMONIAL LIST No. 2.—SPEC-
TACLE LENSES upon a new construction, and
INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTORS for DEAF PERSONS. The
Messrs. S. and B. SOLO MONS, Opticians and Aurists to the Royal
Family, wish to call atte, tion to the testimonies in favour of their
newly invented SPECTACLE LENSES, from some of the most
eminent members of the medical profession :
`• We, the undersigned, have been for some time making use of
Messrs. Solomon.' newly invented Specticle Lenses ; the astonishing
10. c: they afford to imperfect vision gives them the decided prefer-
ence to every other kind of Lens--the clearness of the transparency
beings every object very distinct, and enables individuals to view the
most minute particle with perfect accuracy. They are particularly
pleas •nt by candle light, as they appear cooling to the sight, and
nften bright and brilliant lights :
J. Taylor Gordon, Esq., M D
Wm. Bowie, Esq., NI,D., Bennett-street, Bath.
C. H.eywood, Esq., M.D., Blandford.
Henry Lawrence, Esq., M. D., Tent)}
1)r. Krauss, Maddox-street.

`r. Cox, Naples.
William Jeafrcson, Esq., Surgeon oculist, 21, South Audley.street.
R. Noble Elwyn, Esq., Surgeon, 36, Albemarle.street.
J. Russell, Esq., Surgeon, 23, Broad street, Golden square.
A. Berklemore, E,q., Surgeon, 10, Charlotte.street, Bloomsbury,
Samuel Bonner, Esq., Surgeon, 26, Berkley-square.
J. H. Walker, Esq., Surgeon, '23, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury.
R. J. Steel, Esq., Surgeon, 5, Wilmot-strect, Brunswick-square.
Wm. Jackson, Esq., Surgeon, Poland-street, Walworth.
Frederick L. Pulling, Esq., Surgeon, 39, Upper Thames-street.
Win. Barnham, Esq., Surgeon, I, P rsonage.row, Newington.
S. 11. A mphlett, Esq., Surgeon, Paradise-street, Birmingham.
Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Surgeon, Wrexham.
D. Donnelly, Esq., Surgeon, Falmouth.
Q. Barton, Esq., Surgeon, Rosen, Lincolnshire.
&c. &c. &c.

In placing the above List of Testimonials before the Public, the
Messrs,Solomons, Opticians and Attrists, state that their INVISIBLE
OPERATIVE VOICE ONDUC I OR, by which thousands of Dean
Persons have been greatly benefited, is not larger than a seven-shilling
piece, and when fixed into the vavity at the earit_soft and easy. and
not more uncomfortable nor perceptible than havini(a--Freceor--wows.
in its place. By its use the faintest whisper at a public assembly is
beard with distinctness.
These important new inventions are patronised by their Majesties
the King and Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the
Princesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess
Estertazy, the Princesses Mary and Rosa, and his Grace the Duke of
Manchester, &c. &c
96, Cheapside. and 39, Albemarle-street,
In consequence of the gross imposition in the Country it Is neces-
oary to state that no Travellers are employed by the above Estab.
I,shment.

FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF
COPAIBA.
Within a period of Two Months upwards of Three Hundred Patients
were successfully treated at the Metropolitan Hospitals with
FRANK ,'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION of COPAIBA.
By Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of the
Royal College of Surgeons, surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and
Professor of Surgery in the King's College, London.
" I have maoe trial of Mr. Frank's Solution of Copaiba, at St.
Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the ma'e
and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an ef ica.
cioas remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant
effects of Copaiba.
(Signed) "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN.
46, Lincoln's-Inn.fields, April 15, I 835,
By Bransby Cooper, Esq., F.lt S., Surgeon to Buy's Hospital, and
Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. &c., and others most eminent in the
Medical Profession.'

1, (E.Bransby Coop.er presents his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks
and has great pleasure in hearing testimony of the efficacy of his So-
lution of Copaiba in Gonorrhoea, for which disease Mr. Cooper ha
prescribed e Solution in ten or twelve cases with perfect success.
Ncw-street,Spring-gardens, Aprill3, 1835."
This invaluable Medicine is confidently recommended in all case
of tionorrhcea, Gleets, Urethral Discharges, Spasmodic Strictures,
Irritation of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra, and Prostate Gland;
its purifying eflects upon the gentral health render it particularly ap-
plicable is all cases of relaxed fibre and nervous debility.
Prepared only by George Franks, Surgeon, 90, Blackfriars-road,
Londoo, and may be had of all Medicine-venders in the United King
dom, in Bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is. each.
CAtir !ON,— Unless 11 George Franits, Bialtfriars road," is engrawd
on the Government Stamp it cannot he genuine.
lir. Fr int:. ma" he enncultnd tint it Two n'elnel.ci Iv

TR A VELLING.—From last Thursday evening
until the following Saturday morning, no persons with
horses or any vehicle whatever, passed through Red
Hone turnpike-gate, on Salisbury Plain, it is supposed
on account of the late robberies committed on the Plain.
N.B. The toll-gate keeper imagined it was Good Fri-
day, having not taken so much as a mite.—Wills lade-
pendent.
Twoexperienced officers, Colonel Considine,
who has just returned from his Government mission
from Tunis, and Major John Henry Cook, of the 25th
Regiment, and late candidate for the Chief Commis-
sionorship of Police for the C:ty of London, left town
k) L,l;c! tilts corotoond of the troop 3
at Newport.

S I R,-A gfeat deal. has lately been written about
the last mode of carrying into effect Mr. Rowland
Hill's plan of Universal Penny Postage. Some
persons, who advocate the compulsory pre-payment,
propose that it shai'l be done by paying the
penny at the post-o Ace window ; others, that
the payment shall remain optional, as at
present ; and some, that it shall be done by
means of a kind of wafer-stamp, or one like
what is now used for patent' medicines. I believe
Mr. Hill's plan is (and upon which it is presumed
all his calculations are founded) that it shall be
done by the payment of the penny in advance, or
by the compulsory use of a stamped envelope. If
you will permit one who has given the subject much
consideration, and who has had many years' ex-
perience in the Post-office service, to occupy a
little space in your columns, I will briefly remark
on the various p!ans, and state what in my humble
opinion would be the best practical mode, either as
regards economy or public convenience, for carrying
Mr. Hill's plan into effect.

To the compulsory payment of the penny at the
post-office window, I object that it would be at-
tended with vast inconvenience and great additional
expense to the public, inasmuch as every post-office
in the kingdom, in proportion to its size and im-
portance, would have to increase its window accom-
modation and to employ a great many additional
clerks to receive the postages, which, at any office
in a large town, just before the departure of a mail,
it would almost be impossible to effect. At these
times, too, the public would be annoyed at having to
wait until their letters could be received by the
clerks. There would of course be no receiving-box.
Letters could only be posted when the office was
open, instead of being dropped into a box at any
hour of the day or night, as at present. This in-
convenience would be felt by all classes, but espe-
cially by commercial men, who frequently have to
post letters late at night on passing through a town.
With regard to the optional payment, I am of
opinion (and I am sure there are few of any expe-
rience in the service but what would agree with me)
that it would not work so well as the preceding,
while it would be attended with much greater ex-
pense. As few letters, comparatively, would be
paid on being posted, a great delay in their delivery
would necessarily be occasioned : supposing, in
the first instance, they were to increase only twofold,
the letter-carriers in every large town would have to
be doubled ; for instead of the time of these men
being chiefly taken up (as Mr. Cooper states in
his pamphlet) "in discovering, reckoning, and dis-
puting," every person may know that it is in waiting
to receive the postage charged upon the letters.
The unavoidable increase in the number of
clerks and letter-carriers would be enormously
expensive to the country, -without conferring
a corresponding benefit. Should, however,
this optional mode of payment be adopted
by Government, the numerical plan for keeping the
different post-masters' accounts, as proposed by
Mr. Cooper, would no doubt suggest itself to the
post-office authorities as being the most simple and
convenient, especially as it is the system used for many
years past in the Post-office for keeping an account
of letters passing the Menai and Conway bridges,
which letters are subject to an additional penny rate
of postage : yet the system, although more conve-
nient, would not, I think, effect so great a saving of
time as might be imagiped, for the entries would still
have to be made both on the letter-bill to be for-
warded with the letters, and in the office books,
from which the accounts would have to be made out.

The wafer stamp, or one like what is used for
patent medicines, would not, I feel sure, answer
the purpose. Such stamps would be very liable to
be rubbed off when posted hastily after having
just been affixed ; they could also he the most ea-
sily forged. But my strongest objection is, that
there is nothing to prevent their being used a second
time, for the idea of placing_ an impression of the
office stamp over them would not be entertained by
any person acquainted with the rapid mode indis-
pensable for stamping letters in all large offices.
Mr. Rowland Hill has so fully shown the advan-
tage of pre-payment, either by paying the penny at
the time of posting, or by means of a stamped en-
velope, that I shall not occupy your space by no-
ticing the objections made by various parties ; I
refer them to his pamphlet, which has not yet been
answered. I shall, however, state my firm convic-
tion that the compulsory use of a stamped cover is
the mode of all others best calculated for carrying
that gentleman's plan into operation—it would prove
most advantageous to the public, the least difficult
to arrange, and the least expensive. It would
facilitate and simplify every operation that a letter
has to undergo after being put into the-office until it
reached its destination. The rapid delivery it
would enable the postmen to effect would he of
immense advantage to all classes. It has, however,
been objected, by paper manufacturers and other
interested parties, that the use of a stamped en-
velope of a peculiar kind of paper would create
an injurious monopoly ; and to do away with this
objection, why not have the paper itself upon which
the letter is to be written stamped ? Let every
paper-maker or stationer be allowed to send what-
ever kind of paper he pleases to the Stamp .office,
to have the postage stamp impressed on it ; the
public would thus be enabled to obtain the stamp
with as much facility as they can now obtain a
sheet of writing paper ; and there would be this
advantage in the mode proposed, that the stamped
sheet might either be used to write upon or as an
envelope.
The stamp would of course have to be placed
on the middle of the sheet, so that it might
appear en the same side as the direction when the
letter was folded up. It might be in colour some-
thing like the newspaper stamp, which might be
written over, and it might be for different weights;
for instance—

Postage
One Penny.
Half an Ounce.

Postage
or, 1 Two Pence.

One Ounce.

and so on : or the same sheet of paper might be
impressed with one, two, three, or four penny
stamps, according as it might be wanted to carry
half-ounce, ounce, ounce-and-half, or two ounces.
This latter plan would be most convenient in the
-transit-through the Post-office, because the number
of stamps upon the direction would show the sort-
ing clerks, without the delay of reading each
stamp, what weight the letter was calculated to
carry ; and for the same reason it would be equally
convenient to the public, and the least liable to
occasion a mistake.

If there is any difficulty in arranging as to the
postage on foreign letters, I certainly think it is notthe
overcome by the plan proposed by a writer in the
Polytechnic Journal, which plan, although it might
do for letters passing between this country and
Continent, yet it would be totally inapplicable to
the immense number of letters brought into the
country by private ships. Mr. Hill's plan, on the
contrary, is quite easy and simple. Let the stamped
paper or envelope for foreign letters sent from this
country pay for those received into it. A postage
stamp of sixpence, I should say, would be sufficient,
and few of those who send or receive such letters
would object to that sum, or even to a shilling, if
thought necessary.
There are many minor details, under the stamped
cover system, which I will not trespass on your
space by noticing further than to say
I think
there
now
are none but what might be arranged without dif-
ficulty.
I submit these observations to you, Mr. Editor,
with much deference, perfectly agreeing with the
remarks in a late number of your Journal, that
whatever will facilitate the collection, the transit,
and the distribution of letters is the principle
to be kept in view. I am, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Y. Y. Z.

Nov. 7, 1839.

INCENDIARISM.—The stack-yard of Mr.
Askren, of Hough on the Hill, near Grantham, was set
fire to by an incendiary on Tuesday night last; when two
barley-stacks, a wheat-stack, and a hay-stack were de-
stroyed. The night was exceedingly dark and windy,
and maing kw),„1.1 rf iho fire at. Grin 4111 until
I Wednesday morning, although but six miles distant.

The " Fatalist" is the story of a Cornish Ba-
ronet, Sir Ralph Godolphin, who, some few years
previous to the opening of the narrative, has suc-
ceeded to the title and estates by the sudden death
of his elder brother. This relative has left behind
him a lady, supposed to have been his mistress,
and a sun, just springing up into manhood, both
of whom go by the name of Valletort, and live at a
small cottage, in the neighbourhood of Sir Ralph's
estates, in a state of privacy and comparative des-
titution. Notwithstanding, however, the cloud that
hangs over Mrs. Valletort's reputation, she is much
respected by the neighbours, for the general meek-
ness and amenity of her conduct, many of whom
disbelieve that she was ever other than the wife
of the deceased Baronet ; and among those who
most respect her is a jovial, kind-hearted Cornish
Squire, who'has a termagant wife—as consummate
a specimen
hFalo% Florence
nreeead Trelawney,
oo fthe
of
a vixend
awbo:aashuat
ig everynoout
young
remember en ngideamugb betterehrt
daughter,
roo,
amuse herself with in the retirement of the country,
turns her attention to sentiment, and hastens to fall
in love with Sidney Vailetort. He reciprocates
her affection, and the affair is " progressing"
steadily, but clandestinely, when, sad to say I Sir
Ralph Godolphin takes a sudden fancy to Florence,
and after many teats and sighs, and protestations of
indifference, not to say dislike, on the lady's part,
gains her hand, and is actually standing
beside her at the altar, when, behold,
he suddenly feels some sharp twinges in the
epigastrim, turns exceedingly pale, and almost
instantly afterwards make the alarming discovery
that the twinges in question are not the result of
Glauber salts, or calomel, but of poison, and that
this poison has been administered by no less re-
spectable a personage than the parson, who is at
that very moment marrying him to Florence I On
ascertaining this fact, which he seems to have
done by intuition, the indignant Baronet rushes on
the surpliced ecclesiastic, and collars him ; where-
upon a highly impressive scene of pinching,
scratching, grappling, and clapper-clawing takes
place between them, which is at length brought to
a close by the parson dropping down as dead as
mutton in the " chancel," with a big dagger stick-
ing in his heart Sir Ralph Godolphin dies a '
short time after, but not before he has confessed
that he is a usurper, and that Sidney Valletort is
his lawful nephew, his mother having been married
to the deceased .Baronet. Of course, under these
circumstances) the heir gets his own, and, what he
likes still better, the hand of Florence Trelawney ;
and all parties are left, in the three hundred and
twelfth page of the third volume, in a perfect extacy
of enjoyment. There is some talent in this novel,
but it is almost neutralized by the extreme prodi-
gality with which the author deals out his horrors.
He should be more parsimonious in this respect.
A little terror, and even a stray murder now and
then, are not amiss, but too much of them makes
one sick. The first volume of the work is the best,
for there we find some attempt at analysis of cha-
racter, in the person of Sir Ralph Godolph,in,
which the writer afterwards abandons, in his anxiety
to produce effect. From his spirited—though in
places, too highly coloured—sketch of the canting
Puritan, Gabriel Goodenough, we augur that he is
capable of better things. The style of his narra-
tive is easy, and flowing, sometimes eloquent ; but
as we have already observed, his besetting defect is
exaggeration. If he desire to succeed in his next
work of fiction, he must studiously avoid this, for
it is less a symptom of strength than of weakness.