The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-12 00:00:00

MR. WELLSTED'S NEW WORK.
Just ready, in 2 Vols., Bvo., with Illustrations,
TRAVELS TO THE
CITY OF THE CALIPHS,
Along the Shores of the
PERSIAN GULF and the MEDITERRANEAN.
'lncluding a VOYAGE to the COAST of ARABIA,
And a TOUR on the ISLAND of SO3OTRA.
By J. R. WELLSTED, Esq., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., &c.
Author of ' Travels in Arabia.".
Henry Colburn. Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
THE DUKE of WELLINGTON'S LIFE,
Edited by SIR •JAMES E. ALEXANDER,
May now be had complete, in Two handsomo Volumes Octavo,
embellished with numerous Portraits of distinguished Officers,
Views of Battles, Plans, &c., by Landseer, Heath, and War-
ren. Price 211 s. bound.

Sir James Alexander's Lire of Wellington is at once the
cheapest and the best we have perused."—Sunday Times.
" Sir James Alexander's Life of Wellington has the treble
advantage of being the cheapest—of inserting a large portion
of the original correspondence—and of condensing within po-
pular limits the dry military details."—Globe.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

MOUBRAY ON POULTRY, PIGS, AND COWS.
Just published, Seventh Edition, very considerably improved,
7s. 6d. cloth bds.

APRACTICAL TREATISE on BREED-
ING, REARING, and FATTENING all kinds of
DOMESTIC POULTRY, PIGEONS, and RABBITS;
also, on Breeding, Feeding, and Managing Swine, Much
Cows and Bees.

By BONINGTON MOUBRAY, Esq.
Seventh Edition, illustrated with numerous Coloured Plates
of the various Breeds of Fowls, and enlarged by a Treatise on
Brewing, on making British Wines, Cider, Butter, and Cheese ;
adapted to the Use of Private Families.
This is unquestionably the most practical work on the sub-
ject in our language, and the information is conveyed in plain
and intelligible terms. Sir John Sinclair pronounces it the
best work hitherto printed' on the subject of which it treats."—
F 1 rmer's Journal.

London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-row.

MIDWIFERY ILLUSTRATED.
Just published, No. 3, Price Is. 6d., containing 6 Engravings, of
AN ATLAS of PLATES, illustrative of the
Principles and Practice of MIDWIFERY; with De-
scriptive Leter.press.
By FRANCIS H. RAMSBOTHAM, M.D.
Lecturer on Obstetric and Forensic Medicine at the London

Hospital.
Ibis Work will be completed in Twelve Numbers : the
Plates being engraved on Steel, allow of an unlimited number
of equally good impressions : enabling the Publisher to offer it
at an unprecedented low price, trusting to an extensive sale to
remunerate him for the great outlay incurred in its production.
London : John Churchill, Princes-street, Soho.

Just published, Bvo. cloth, with plates, price 14s.
INTERMA RIAGE—Why Beauty, Health,
and Intellect, result from certain Unions, aad Defor-
mity, Disease, and Insanity from others ; demonstrated by De-
lineations of the Structure and Forms, and Descriptions of the
Functions and Capacities which each Parent, in every Pair,
bestows on Children, in conformity with certain Natural Laws,
and by an Account of Corresponding Effects in the Breeding of
Animals. Illustrated by Drawings of Parents and Progeny.
By ALEXANDER WALKER, Esq.
" This work is essentially scieatific,•although Mr. Walker
has written it with a view to general circulation, and has
treated the subject in as popular a spirit as its peculiar nature
would admit. The production of certain results by certain in-
termarriages is now a matter upon which no controversy can
exist."—The Atlas.

London : John Churchill, Princes'-street, Soho.

This day is published, in Bvo. (pp. 60), price One Shilling,
CONSIDERATIONS on the STATE of
the LAW regarding MARRIAGES with a DE-
CEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
By a BARRISTER of the MIDDLE TEMPLE.
London : Longman, Orme. and Co.
MARRIAGE ACT, sth and 6th Wm. IV. c. 54; com-
monly called LORD LYNDHURST'S ACT.—Parties ag-
grieved by the above Act, which prohibits Marriages with a
Deceased Wife's Sister, are earnestly solicited to co-operate
in an endeavour now making to obtain its repeal. The pro-
hibition has no foundation either in Religion or Morality, and
cannot be supported upon any ground of rational expediency.
Communications to be addressed to Messrs. Wilson and
Ogilvy, Printers, 57, Skinner-street, Snowhill.—Names will
be scrupulously concealed, if desired.