The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-02 00:00:00

Z. g. d.
1915—52 1 o,elo 18 6
1422-211 :20,971/ 3 5
1825-211 41,750 110 3
1 SW-34 77,723 12 4
114';3-37 inelus 121,543 1 1

L. 0. d. X. s. ti.
41,090 11 .11 251,011 6
161,076 6 5 458,161 13
189,146 2. 6 165,607
364,1.9 0 4 1,640,000 12 8
61,614 Sll 2,641;762 16 10

Assurances which may now be opened will rateably participate,
agreeably to the Laws of the Society, in the additions to be declared
at the Third Periodical Investigation, which takes place this Year.
Copies of the Prospectus—Forms of Proposal—and every neces-
sary information—may be obtained at the
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MANCLIDIVIFEA BOAR, 07 AIANAGEMINT.
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John Chippendall, Esq. James 'Ebben. Wanklyn, Esq.
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Thomas Boothman, Jun., Esq., Seeretary to Board of Management.
Office in Mane4iester, Town-Hall Buildings, Cross-street, King..
street.
LONDON.
HUGH MACKEAN, Esq.
Offiao, No. 15, Bridgzstseet, Blaskfriars.
Bradford—George Rogers, .
Huddersfield—Hugh Walk, Esq.
Leeds—William Ward, Esq.
Liverpool—Messrs. Arthur Oughlserson and Co., Exchange_
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UNDER the PATRONAGE or HER MAJESTY the QUEEN of
HANOVER, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of SUSSEX,
HER GRACEthe DUCHESS of RICHMOND, &c. &c.
R. E. SOLOMONS, OPTICIAN to the
Royal Eye Infirmary, patentee of tke Amber Spectacles,
ke., 36, OLD BOND-STREET (nearly opposite the western
Exchange), whose recently invented and highly approved SPEC-
TACLES may be adapted to the various circumstances of indivi-
dual cases appertaining to defective vision. Whilst these Specta-
cles excel all others, as regards their very superior refractive pro-
perty , and their comparative lightness, they possess the further ad-
vantage of modifying bright and strong light, which, at the same
time, is transmitted through the various humours of the eye, so as
render vision most perfectly distinct, conveying also a sense of cool-
ness and pleasure to the organ, with the additional equally impor-
tant recommendation of being FREE from the 'pernicious attributes
of common glasses ; in short, the qualities of Mr. Solomon's Spec-
tacles admirably adapt them to afford ease and comfort, by protect-
ing and strengthening the eyes, and to extend to vision the most
decided and instantaneous relief that art can accomplish. Their
superior efficacy is attested by the following eminent professors, who
(amen many others) have given them their unqualified approba-
tion :
F. Tyrrell, Esq., Surgeon to the Opthaimic Infirmhry, Moor-
fields.
Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., F.R.S., Saville-row.
Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S., President of the College e
Surgeons.
John Stevenson, Esq., Oculist to his late Majesty, &c., Mar-
garet-street, Cavendish-square.
Sir James E. Anderson, M.D., Ere., New Burlington-street.
Sir Charles Aldis, Old Burlington-street.
Dr Aldis, Ditto Ditto.
Martin Ware, Esq., Oculist, New Bridge-street.
Titus Berßerry,ogne Surgeon,
the Ge oEr gye r
rnr
es ee t fyi,anßoavtehr.
J. Soden,Hodgson - s qu a r • .
J.
T. F. Ledsam, Esqrs., Oculists, Eye Infirmary,
dgg
andsq.,
Birmingham. E qS"u rS:yr
Professor Hufoland, Physician to the King of Prussia, Berlin.
Professor Keysig, Physician to the King of Saxony, Dresden.
Professors Clarus and Ruhl, Oculists, Ceipsic.
Professor Ponits, Oculist, Dresden.
Doctor Schmeisser, Hamburgh.
lir Mr. Solomons is totally unconnected with persons of the
same name in this country, and the Amber Spectacles bearing the
ONLY PATENT now extant, their disposal is exclusively con-
fined to his house No. 36, Old Bond-street, and to his branch
establishments in IRELAND.
Hours of attendance from Ten to Six o'clock.

PETER PARLEY'S TALES ABOUT THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
In One Volume, 16mo. embellished with Maps and Plates, price
4s. 6d. bound,
11ALES ABOUT THE UNITED STATES
of AMERICA, Geographical, Political, and Historical ;
with Comparative Views of other Countries. The Third Edition.

By PETER PARLEY,
Author of " Grammar of Modern Geography," " Tales about the
Sun, Moon, and Stars," &c. &c.
London : Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, 73, Cheapside;
and may be procured, by order, of any other Bookseller in the
Kingdom.

THL AN T
MARCH 31.—Edited by Mr. WAKLEY, M.P.

CosmiTs:--
1. Diet and its Effects ; the London and Dudley Dietaries corn•
pared with those of the French and English Armies.-2. Expo-
sure of the Trickeries of the Dublin Monopolists with respect to
the Irish Mediae Charities Bill.-3. Case exemplvfying tho Effects
of Druggists Practising Medicine, by Thomas Weatherill, M.D.-
4. Letters on Assurance Office Fees.-5. Total Abstinence Socie-
ties : Effects of their Regulations.-6. Lecture by Dr. Marshall
Hall on Diseases of the Nervous System.-7. Lecture by Dr. Sig-
mund on the Medicinal Powers of Gold and Silver.-8. Case ex-
emplifying the Cure of Club foot, by T. Little, M.D.-9. Remark-
able Case of Injury of the Brain.—lo. M. Ricord's Practice at the
Hopital do Midi, Paris.-11. Condemnation of five English Physi-
cians at Boulogne; with various Medical News. Price Bd.

THE CIVIL ENGINEER and ARCHI-
TECTS' JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC and RAILWAY
GAZETTE; containing 32 pages quarto, closely printed; Illus-
trated with numerous Wood Engravings.
The APRIL NUMBER contains a description of the Potomac
Aqueduct—Great Western Steam-ship—Chanter and Gray's Pa-
tent Smoke Consumer—Original Papers, by Ralph Redivivus—
Philotechnicos—An Antiquarian—Reviews of New Works---Full
Report of several Important Papers, read at the Civil Engineer
Institute of British Architects and Architectural Society—Progress
of Railways—Engineering Works—New Churches_Public Build-
ings—List of New Patents, &c.
H. Hooper, Pall mall East ; and Groombridge, Panyer-alley.
N.8.--A Stamped Edition of the Civil Engineer and Architect's
Journal, is published on the 24th and 31st of every month.

" But some, nor more sportively, call me Thingumbob."
Philogrammata on the Idols of Namquir.
A FEW WORDS OF OBVIOUS TRUTH.
Price Is.
• - - • - -

The Son of God having, at various periods of his ministry, told
his disciples that the Father—by whom he lived—without whom he
were nothing—the sole object of his worship—his Father and
theirs, their God and his—the only true God—was greater than
all—at the close of his ministry, suddenly and in a breath tells lik•
disciples, that He is but one of three co-equal Persons, of whom
himself is another, in a Truine Deity. And these disciples, so un-
derstanding his words, hear them without the slightest emotion of
surprise, and forthwith shape their creed and preaching by the
whole and sole tenor of his previous discourses. Credulity must have
more than her proverbial powers of deglutition to swallow this.
G. Fawdon, May's-building's, St. Martin's-lane.

110 OPING-COUGH cured without Inward
Medicine.
la sonaequence of the beneficial erects of ROCHE'S EM RROCATION
far the sure of that distressing complaint, the HOOPING COUGH,
Royal Letters Patent were ranted to J. ROCHE, to secure twhim his
valuable composition.
Many thousands of children are cured annually by this remedy; on the
first attack, an immediate application of the EMBROCATION will pre.
vent the complaint taking any hold of the constitution, and a few time,
ray ionSpletely cure. In ulost cases, ace bottle will produce the desired
°elect ; and CO remedy can be so well calculated for children as this, for it
requires no medicine to betaken inwardly.
In no case can this medicine be genuine unless signed on the wrapper,
"J. ROCHE," and on the Stamp," Evan Edwards, 67, St. Paul's." Price
4.5. and 11 2s. per Rotile
Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Sanger, 150, Chand.
ler, 75, Oxford street; White, 84, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange;
and by most-Dealers in Medicines.

WHITE TEETH.
ROWLAND'S ODONTO.
or PEARL DENTIFRICE,
A Vegetable White Powder, prepared from Oriental Herbs of the most
Delieious Odour and Sweetness, and free from any mineral or pernicious
ingredient—the usual, but,jist objection to other Dentifrices • it eradi-
cates the Tartar from the I eeth, removes slocayed Spots, preserves the
Enamel, and
axes the Teeth firmly in their sockets, rendering them
beautifully 'White. Being an Anti-Scsrbutic, it eradicates the Scurvy
from the Gums, strengthens, braces, and renders them of a healthy red ;
It removes unFloasant tastes from the mouth, which often remain after
k.., and imparts a delightful fragrance to the
fevers, taking medicinal,
breath.

Priest 2s. 9d. per box duty included.
LOWLAND'S ALSANA EXTRACT,
Immediately nen.yes the most Violent Tooth. Ache, Gum Boils,
Swelled Face, AC ; it is also an excellent Stomachic, in cases of nen.
.
Spasmodie Anet.lens, &e., and gives instantaneous relief.
Trice 2s. 6d. and 10s. 6d. per bottle.
tar Notice—The Name and Address of the Proprietors
A. ROW AND and SON, 21, HA I'TON GAR DEN, LONDON
I, engraved en the Government Stamp, which is pasted en each ; also
printed is red, on the Wrapper in which this Article is enclosed
Be sure to ask for " ROWLAND'S."
Said by then', and by respectable PerNmers and Medicine Venders.

THE MARKETS.
COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEI..
Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. •
per Quarter. IS.to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. s. s. to E.
Carlisle.-----a 61 29 —• 23 41 29
lie Xharn ...w00...vv... 56 64 29 35 24 27
53 60 25 24 20 124 34 Sfi 33 56
Pcnrith 61 39 23 53
_ 53 _ 52 21 37 35
Winchester *0 6S 26 33 22 121 44 46 37 37
Per Bushel. s. d. s.d. s. d. a. d. c. d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s. if. s. d
Carmarthen.........—. 89 74 36 40 30 40 00 0(1 0 0 0"0
Gewbridgew-- 70 7 6 3 6 0 0 2 0 3ti 56 0 0 0 0 Q
Newcastle (Staff.) 60 7g' 36 40 20 39 50 53 (i 0 of.
Nortliallerton 60 73 36 46 33 40 56 60 00 OF
80 86.40 4 8 3 0 3 4 6 0 6 7 0 0 00
Swansea 56 7 0 3 6 4 0 2 3 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 09
Warwick 90 110 3tl 46 2 0 33 56 60 0 0 00
Per ,doll.
Barnardeastle --- 136 160 80 96 5 4 6(s 90 10 076 110
Durham
X12(1 14 61 7 0 80 5 3 7910 0 110 86 9
Richmond :130 170, 70 90 50 S 0 96 lio 90 1 C
Stockton 0 0' 96 106 54 60 76 SG 00 00
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET—March 30.
%rneat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. 565. to —s. fine 611.
Lin. and Cam.
Yorkshire s. —s. to 545. fine 5%.
-----

RKET -March 30.
56:3 to-5. fine fils.
~ 525. -s. to -s. fine 595.
1 orl „ s. -s. to Ms. fine 58e.
- white
--- Foreign, Red -s. -s. to -s. fine -s.
---------- White -a. -S. to -4. line -a.
Earley, Norfolk and Sutlelk
--- Lincolnshire
--- Yorkshire Wold
-.--__ Foreign
Beans, Small 375. to 40s. fine 425.
---- Tick
Oats, Potato 24s. to 265. fine ',ISs.
--- Poland --s. 226. to '2ss. fine 275.
Friesland and SinsP.
-- Healing
Shelling .-.... I Id. to ;4d, per Stoll,
COs. to 32a. Od. per Load.
halt,
********** ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ...--s. 335. fine 401. per Load.
Rapelived .....: ' 1. Os 241. Os 261. Os. per Last.

DEVIZES CORN i‘
Per Sack. s d. s. d.
First Wheat ......... 32 0 to 23 0
Second ............... 30 0 32
1247 0
Third ................ 29 0 2.9 6
Sacks. of t sold. 1
Whea/ iy
at the a verage of

.ARKET.—March 29
Per Quarter. s. d. s. d.
Barley 0 to 36 0
Oats lO 0 30
Beans (per sack) l6 0 1.13
Flour (per bag) 45 0 46 o
'Bread (per gall.) 1 9 0

BlWheat, 6 IItbAIINGIIA Al CORN MARKET, Alarch •29
is. 6d. to r, s SA,
Barley, imperial quarter
Do. Grinding, 49 lb.
Oats, 39 Ib
Old Beans, 061,i lb l6 6 IS 0
New ditto
New White Boling Pease, 3 imp, bush.
Ditto Grey ditto

MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt, QrE,
Quantity of Copper Ore sold 3,339 21 0
Quantity of fine Copper 254 16 0
Average Produce 7%
Amount of Sale, 19,20/ hsAid.—Average Standard, 1111.133. Od,
.

Previous to that period "a much larger class of bcok-
buyers had sprung up, principally out of the middle
ranks. For these a new species of literature had to be pro-
duced—that of books conveying sterling information in a
popular form, and published at a very cheap rate. In the year
1827 Constable's Miscellany led the way in this novel attempt;
the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge corn-
' menced its operations ; and several publishers of eminence
soon directed their capital into the same channels. Subse-
quently, editions of our great writers have been multiplied at
very reasonable prices; and many a tradesman's and mechanic's
house now contains a well-selected stock of books, which,
through an annual expenditure of 2/. or 31., has brought the
means of intellectual improvement, end all the tranquil enjoy-
ment that attends the practice of family reading, home to his
own fireside.
The increasing desire for knowledge amongst the masses of
the people was, however, not yet supplied. In 1832 the
Penny Magazine, and Chambers' .Journal commenced to be
published ; and subsequently the Saturday Magazine. The
Penny Sheet of the reign of Queen Anne was revived in the
reign of William IV., with a much wider range of usefulness.
The wonderful success of this class of publications led a few
persans, who did not know the great truth—that the more
paoio- rev the more the! will read—to proclaim that the trade
in beaks would be ciestroyed. The futiowirig taL!., of the Hum
ber of new publications, without pamphlets and reprints, froi;!
1828 to 1836, furnishes the true answer t these objectors to
cheap literature:—
Year. Publications. Volumes.
1828 . . 842 . . 1101
1829 . . 1064 . . 1413
1830 . . 1142 . . 1592
1881 . . 1105 . . 1819
1132 . . 1112 . . 1525
1883 . • ILBO . . 1567
1834 . . 1220 . . 1494
1835 . . 1382 . . 1713
1836 1332 - 157'

• • • • -_i3
The most remarkable characteristic of the Press of this
country is its periodical literature. Looking back to the
first half century of printing, we see Gutenberg and his an-
cestors slowly producing a few costly books, for which they
had great difficulty in finding purchasers. We think that it
might be asserted, without exaggeration, that the periodical
works issued in Great Britain during one year comprise more
sheets than all the books printed in Europe from the period of
Gutenberg's discovery to the year 1500. A few of the details
of this wonderful branch of the commerce of literature may
amuse our readers.

The number of Nitaspapers published in the United King-
dom is about 370—0 f which 51 are published in London; and
190 in the English provinces ; 53 io Scotland ; and 76 in
Ireland. The stamps annually issued for these newspapers is
now about 45,000,000. In the quarter coding Ist Ar .1.1 last
(the last return), 11,500,000 were issued. This numl,er shows
an annual increase of about 15,000,000 since the roduction of
the stamp to one penny. The quantity of paper required for
the annual supply of these newspapers is 90,001 In a
petition to the Pope in 1471, from Sweynheim and Pannartz,
printers at Rome, they bitterly complain pf,',.he want of de-
mand for their books, their sty •lt amounting to 12,000 volumes ;
and the— " Yo' :11 a.lmire hr- id where we could
pros!. .uantity'(-4 iven rags, for such a
numb, Abr• ,201 ,ms of paper would
have ,ek. Such are the
' changt
The .lts (not newspapers)
issued • 16, was ehout fifty.
Of tb
.fibers' Journal," the
Per Ic,rrazine," the "Mir-
ror," the "Lancet," the
" Chi )f several others of
the moi than 200,000 copies,
or aboi these weakly perio-
dic al
6
2 Athenreum.

2 Saenti
2 For the Advocacy of rolliar opinions,-1 advocating
opinions similar to those,in the works of Carlile, and I
by the friends of co-operation. "

ire,!!!..tr'd wecl;ly
periodicals belong to this class. New ones are con-
stantly added, and perish in a few weeks.
Tales and Stories.
7 Attempts at Fun, some of them called forth by the suc-
cess of the Pickwick papers—mostly trash.
1 Sporting Slang.

48
Out of this number twenty-one are published at ld., eight at
lid., and seven at 2d. Of the remainder the prices are higher,
varying up to Bd.
The monthly issue of periodical literature from London is
unequalled by any similar commercial operation in Europe
Two hundred and thirty-six monthly periodical works are sent
out on the last day of each month, to every corner of the
United Kingdom, from Paternoster-row. There are also 34
periodical works published quarterly, making a total of 270.
Of the monthly periodicals—including the weeklies issued
in parts—there arc, 53 devoted to general literature ; 43 to
various branches of science, natural history, &c. ; 46 religious
and missionary—many the organs of particular sects; 4 histo-
ries of England—appearing periodically ; 17 works issuing in
volumes—a few in parts ;20 fine arts—picture galleries—to-
pography ; 6 fashions. Of the remainder, many are very
cheap periodicals, addressed chiefly to children.
A bookseller, who has been many years conversant with the
industry of the great literary hire of London on Magazine
Day, has favoured us with the following computations, which
we have every reason to believe perfectly accnratc :
The periodical works sold on the last day of the month,
amount to 500,000 copies.
The amount of cash expended in the purchase of these
500,000 copies is 25,000/.
The parcels dispatched into the country, of which very few
remain over the day, are 2,000.
The article concludes with a vivid description of the cere-
monies which took place at Mayenee last August, four hun.
dred years after the invention of printing, when the citizens,
assisted by deputations from the principal cities on the conti-
nent, dedicated a statue to the memory of their townsman, of
whom they have so much reason to be proud.
Passing his life amidst the ceaseless activity that thus be-
longs to the commerce of literature in London, the writer of
this paper felt no common interest in the enthusiasm which
the festival in honour of Gutenberg called forth throughout
Germany. The fine statue which was to be opened to public
view on the 14th August, had been erected by a general sub-
scription, to which all Europe was invited to contribute. We
apprehend that the English, amidst the incesuant claims
upon their attention for the support of all sorts of un-
dertakings, whether of a national or individual cha-
racter, had known little of the purpose which the good
citizens of Mayonce had been advocating with unabated
zeal for several years ;—and perhaps the object itself
was not calculated to call forth any very great liberality,
on the part of those who are often directed in their
bounties as much by fashion as by their own convictions. Be
that as it may, England literally gave nothing towards the
monument of a man whose invention has done as much as any
other single cause to make England what she is. The re-
moteness of the cause may also have lessened its importance ;
and some people, who, without any deserts of their own, are
enjoying a more than full share of the blessings which have
been shed upon us by the progress of intellect (which deter-
mines the progress of national wealth) have a sort of instinc-
tive notion that the spread of knowledge. is the spread of
something inimical to the pretensions of mere riches. We
met with a lady on board the steam-boat ascending the
Rhine, two days before the festival of Mayence, who, whilst
she gave us an elaborate account of the fashionable dullness
of the baths of Baden and Nassau, and all the other Ger-
man watering-places, told us by all means to avoid Mayence
during the following week, as a crowd of low people from all
parts would be there, to make a great fuss about a printer who
had been dead two or three hundred years. The low people
did assemble in great crowds: it was computed that at least
fifteen thousand strangers had arrived to do honour to the
first printer.
The modes in which a large population displays its en-
thusiasm are pretty much the same throughout the world.
If the sentiment which collects men together be very heart-
stirring, all the outward manifestations of the sentiment In r-
monize with its real truth. Thus, processions, and orations,
and public dinners, and pageantries which in themselves
are vain and empty, are important when the persons
whom they collect together have one common feeling which
for the time is all-pervading. We never saw such a po-
pular fervour as prevailed at Mayence at the festival of last
August. The statue was to be opened on Monday tlle
14th ; but on the Sunday evening the name of Gutenberg
was rife through all the streets—and the whole population
was gathered on the bank of the river to look upon a trans-
parency displayed from a stearnhott. In the morning all
Mayence was in motion by six o'clock ; and at eight a pro-
cession was formed to the Cathedral, which, if it were not
much more imposing than some of the processions of
trades in London, was conducted with a quiet precision
which evidenced that the people felt they were engaged
in a solemn act. The fine old Cathedral was crowded ;—the
Bishop of Mayence performed High Mass ;—the first Bible
printed by Gutenberg was displayed. What a field for rake-
. tion was here opened ! The first Bible, in connexion with

they say, " You will a.,:mire how an(
sure a sufficient quantity of paper, or e
Aber of volumes." About 1,200 roan
e produced all the poor printers' stoc
nges of four centuries.
he number of weekly periodical works
ed in London on Saturday, December
these the we 1:13r sale of " Chaml
penny Magazine " Saturday
" the " Mechanics' Magazine," th
'irth of 17,ngland Magazine," and of
more important, amounts to little less ti
bout 10,000,000 copies annually. Of t
.1 works the following is an analysis
Religious.
Literary Criticism—Literary Gazette,
Musical. Criticism.
Medical.