The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-26 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

Henry Winston Barron, Esq., M. P., Mrs. Winston 'Bar-
ron, and family, at the Burlington Hotel, from Ireland •; Capt.
Arbuthnot, in Waterloo-place, from the Isles of Greece • Col.
and Mrs. James Murray, in St. James's-street, from Paris ;
Captain Burgess, in St. James's-place, from the l';etherlands ;
Major William Theobald, in Dover-street, from Lisbon ;
Captain Needham, in Charles-street, from Paris ; Colonel
and Mrs. Crawford, in Piccadilly, frum Pay is ; Major Donald
Maclean, in Cork-street, from Jamaica; Captain Russell, ill
Jermyn-street, from Paris ; Captain Cowley, in Duke-street,
from the Netherlands ; Major Coke, in King-street, from Dub-
lin; Major and Mrs. Gordon, in Grosvenor-place, from Paris;
Major Hudson, in Brook-street, from the Continent ; Mr. and
Mrs. Moore, and J. Ram, Esq., at Crawley's Hotel, from a
tour ; E. D. Holbech, Esq., and the Misses Holbech, aY
ditto, from Brighton ; J. Sturt, Esq., in Piccadilly, from
Sherborne ; Mr. and Mrs. John Harvey, at Raggett's Hotel,
from the Continent ; Captain Harris, at ditto, from Brighton ;
Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard, in Brook-street, from Cheltenham-
DEPARTURES.
The Hon. Frederick Shaw, M. P., from Symmon's 'dote],
for Dublin ; Colonel and Mrs. L. P. Jones, from Batt,'s Hotel.
for Bath ; William Annand, Esq., from ditto, for. Scotland;
Mr. and Mrs. Reid, from ditto, for Scotland i • 'An and Mrs;
Reid from ditto ; Captain Burke, from ditto, i.or Dublin ; C 02.;
Parke, from ditto, for Cheltenham; J. .1 . Guest, Esq., and
Lady C. Guest, from Fenton's Hotel) for Wales; the Bev'
E. Moore, from ditto, on a tour ; Mr, and Mrs. Holland, (real
Brook-street, for their seat in Norfolk ; Captain Gervase
Smith, for Paris ; Capts.ln Ravvlinson, for Dublin ; Cole°i
Audrand, for Paris ; Major Ludlow, for Malta ; Lieutenant"
Colonel Sebastian Mallet, for Paris ; Colonel and MI;
Jones, for Brighton ; Major Young, for Salisbury ; Captald_
and Mrs. Harrison, for Dublin ; Major and Mrs. Woodwar
for Bath ; Captain Abbott, for Canterbury ; Major Andrew
Melville, for Northumberland ; Captain and Mrs. Clemenstol:
for Bath ; Major and Mrs. Johnson, for Bath ; Captain Howl
ton, for Brussels ; Captain Austin, for Deal ; Colonel and fdrs'
Douglas, for Bath.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE• ,41

CAmeranor, Nov. 25.—The Rev. William James W.'
vart, of St. John's College, in this University 'has been Pre;
minted to the perpetual curacy of St. Ives, Cornwall, vaco
by the resignation of the Rev. William Malkin.
the Rev. Uriah Tonkin, vicar of Ewny-Lelant.
On the 17th inst., the Rev. Jermyn Pratt, of Tar'tir:::
College, in this University, was instituted to the rectory
Campsey Ash, Suffolk, on the presentation of Sir. J°l'
George Woodford, Knt., and others, on the nomination I"'
Lord Rendlesham. 1
The Bishop of Norwich has licensed the Rev. Samuel
Fisher, vicar of Corpusty, to the chaplaincy of the 001°6,
Workhouse, in the Aylsham Union ; and the Ilev• ton
Jarvis, vicar of Tuttington, to the chaplaincy of the 1301
Workhouse, in the same Union.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol will 1101 ab::
ordination at Gloucester on Sunday the 18th of Deal°

The Duke of Cumberland's establishment at
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burg lintel, paid visits yesterday to the Secretary
for Foreign Affairs.
Beaudesert, in Staffordshire, the splendid seat 4
the Marquis of Anglesey, is now occupied by his LordshiP.:
eldest son, the Earl of Uxbridge. Great improvelnew
are in progress at Beaudesert. 0
The Countess of Sandwich has arrived at ler ri-
residence in Carltodens.
General Alava,n-gar the late Spanish Minister at °l.jr
Court, has again, it is said, fixed his residence at TOO'
where the Gallant Officer resided during his former 007
triation from Spain.
The Duke of Palmella, and his two sons, Con4et
Villa Real, Baron Rendorff, and suite, have arrived 4
Grillon's Hotel, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square.
It is stated that Mr. Barkley, who is on the Con"
tinent, will not again offer himself for York should an elee,7
tion occur eithervadxurringxprtehgestwinter,
,o,r spring,: Dow; _
tfoeir•wcatirudarthee,:
tiMt *Nu's. of
the Duke of Wellington's son, In connection with Mr' Tories talk oaafitbrßinrgoiinngp
the late George
commencing on Mor,ii. 0 ensutngt
12C:iwie'tnhillecanr.'"—iliellfixed for tl -.
-• week, t4e Public v 1.0
loove will no doubt I?
a very amusinri• One. visit
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Th e Y roice,
10°15 remarkably well, and apparently posseess_eooo,lll,." to Tauntcva and theanYeligibTehuerbcoa aed 'for - some tiwe-a..4 li-lii
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taut embassy in his absence.

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LITERATURE.

THE COMIC ALMANACK.
Tilt, London, 1836.

Those who relish a hearty laugh will find abundant
food for merriment in every page of this Almanack,
which is embellished with twelve illustrations, in
George Cruickshank's most grotesque manner, accom-
panied by comic rhymes not surpassed in ingenuity or
broad humour by Hood's Whims and Oddities."
Moreover, each page contains not less than two etch-
ings, or outlines, in black—typical of the natural phe-
nomena of the different months—to say nothing of a
Choice variety of wise saws and droll proverbs, which
alight split the sides of Herachtus himself. The most
Whimsical illustration is that entitled " July, Fancy
fair," which is a quiz upon these aristocratic fooleries,
provocative of inextinguishable laughter. " June,
haymaking," with its rarce show of young men and
women tumbling about amongst the hay-cocks, is
another choice production, and furnishes us with two
or three such faces as Cruickshank only can pourtray.
One, in particular, of a squat young man, who is
underjawed like a shark, with his nose a little on one
side, is a prodigious invention in physiognomy. Among
the literary drolleries of the Christmas season, we an-
ticipate that none will be more popular than this. Its
very title-page is full of humour, containing small
wood-cuts illustrative of the different signs of the Zo-
diac, that of " Pisces" being represented by two thirsty
wooden-legged sailors pulling away, each at his pot of
porter, with a zeal and prowess which publicans, no
doubt, would be delighted to see generally diffused
among the community.

II 0 .111 YE OPATHY EXAMINED ; or, HOM CE °PA-
THY in THEORY, ALL OPATHY in PRACTICE.

BY ROBERT rviurr,
Of the Universities of Edinburgh and Gottingen.
Galignani, Paris ; Highley, London.
This is quite a philosophical little essay, rather
abstruse for the multitude, but its inductive character
will give it value in the minds of the thinking few. If it
te true that the intellectual schoolmaster, by neglecting
the :moral nature of his pupils, qualifies the evil-disposed
to he i;etter rogues, it is not less certain that the accu-
mulation 6
objective knowledge, when not regulated by
inductive rea,,oning, too often leads to error and mis-
chief. Facts necessarily constitute a very essential ele-
ment of every doctrine having scientific or philosophical
pretensions ; but for its complete establishment it is not
less necessary that the intitual relation of a doctrine and
its facts should be in strict conformity with the laws of
reason. Now, according to these laws, it would seem
that, cateris paribus, the powers of all objects, and the
energy of all phenomena, are increased in the direct
ratio of their quantities. An infinitesimal quantity of
lead added to a mass of the same metal will increase
its weight arid its volume. The same law is true with
regard to all solid, fluid, and gaseous substances ;
'lay even with regard to imponderable objects ; for,
if you increase the quantity of light, heat, or elec
tricity, you increase the intensity of their effects.
Nevertheless, in order to accomplish the extinction
of morbid action, the dogma--similia sinrilibus curan-
tur—avowedly requires the employment of an addi-
tional quantity of the same sort of morbid action. So
that the original disease seems thereby to be enabled
to commit'a sort of suicide !—or, if the infinitesimal
part of the malady, like the rod of Aaron, swallows up
the original disease, it would furnish an example of
destructiv.;ty much beyond that of the two Kilkenny
cats ; for, alt.`iough they fought till they devoured each
other, yet part of the tail of one of them was left.
But the laws of nature are constant and invari-
able, and doctrines Oiould be made conformable to
these laws, and not the laws to the doctrines. It is
evident, however, that the homoeopathic doctrine is' con-
trary to all the laws yet known, whether of the internal
mind, or of the external world. Hence its absurdity.
But diseases are cured during the homoeopathic treat-
ment. This our author is in no wise disposed to deny.
He only denies the rationalness of the doctrine. He
ascribes to sanative agents powers of modifying the
qualities of action peculiar to the different organs and
tissues of the body, and shows that the homeopathists
have mistaken this modified quality of action, effected
by remedial agents upon the glands, surfaces, and tis-
sues, for something identical with the diseased action :
and that they have confounded identity of locality with
identity of action, by observing only one circumstance of
resemblance, and disregarding the many others of diffe-
rence. So that admitting for the sake of argument that
the facts of the homoeopathist be true, he explains the
Phenomena on entirely different principles, and main-
tains that when the infinitesimal doses act at all, they
act as alteratives; that the successful practice of the
homoeopathists is in fact allopathic ; and he concludes
with some warniaqs on the danger of losing time in
acute diseases, and on the probable increase of the
Morbidly nervous constitutions so prevalent, especially
among the higher classes a: the present day, by the
long continued use of the narcot:e poisons even in small
doses--a prominent feature of homoeopathic practice.