The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

ALMANACKS FOR 1849.

LETTS'S DIARIES for 1849.—LETTS'S
INDISPENSABLE ALMANACK, enabling
Everybody to secure to Himself a Faithful Record
of the Past, Present, and the Future.
Letts's Diaries have long been considered by every
gentleman, every merchant, every banker, every
shopkeeper, every one in short who has any appoint-
ments to keep, indispensable to the proper carrying
on of business, and here we have them of various
sizes, and all containing an immense mass of useful
information. It appears that many persons have at
different periods applied to Messrs. Letts to publish
the printed information attached to the Diary apart
from that work, and this year they have yielded to these
requests, and have published the Indispensable
Almanack, in which—
" The Past is considered in the shape of a Mercantile
Digest of the season intervening between the Ist Sep-
tember, 1847 and 1848, which, containing many valuable
tables of monthly fluctuations in Produce, Stocks, and so
forth, and edited by a gentleman of high literary stand-
ing, in possession of extraordinary facilities for obtaining
such class of information, will no doubt be appreciated.
The Present is provided for by numerous tables of
Information and Calculation in daily requisition by all
classes of the community—also (in immediate connexion
with an Almanack printed in unusually largo and dis-
tinct type) a series of lines and columns for registering
any remarkable fact, the state of the barometer, ther-
mometer (for which especially separate tables aro com-
piled to compare the several scales of Reaumur, Celsius,
and Fahrenheit), and any feature in meteorology, flori-
culture, agriculture, horticulture, mechanics, chemistry,
surgery, or other science, of interest to the purchaser.
" And the Future by a variety of notices and tables
calculated to put ono in possession of what will occur,
or what will be required of us, in the ordinary course of
events, and discharge of our duty as members of the
highest and most civilized nation on the globe." _ _

This Almanack is admirably got up, and is one of the
most generally useful ever published.

BRITISH ALMANACK and COMPANION,

1849.

To Mr. Charles Knight, the proprietor of the
British Abnanack, is due the honour of having been
the first man who published an almanack of common
sense in opposition to the nonsensical astrological
publications, which up to that period the public had
been content to accept as their only year books. The
present edition of the British still retains all those
features by which it has ever been favourably dis-
tinguished from its contemporaries, and which render
it worthy of its national title.

THE LATE INQUEST at LAMBETH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—My notice hiving been directed only last even-
ing to a lengthy paragraph in your paper of the 2d inst.,
purporting to be a report of an inquest held by Mr.
Carter, the coroner, at the "Angel," Lambeth-walk, the
day previously. I have no doubt you will, from the
liberal character of your journal, allow me space in your
columns, to contradict statements contained in that
paragraph, at variance with truth, and calculated, if un-
noticed, to injure my professional character. .The real
facts of the case were these:—A man, whose name it
appears is " Meredew," residing at 25,Union-street, came,
it is true, to my surgery, ou Tuesday, the 26th ult., at
about 6 o'clock, P.M., representing a lodger of his to have
been taken suddenly ill in labour, and to be in want of a
doctor's assistance. After a few inquiries as to whether
she had engaged any one to attend her, &c., I mentioned
the fee I usually expected in such cases, .wheml was
answered " She was a very - poor woman." The
woman not residing in my district, = 1' accordingly
referred Mr. Meredew to Mr. Wagstaffe, the
surgeon of the district in which shei, resided,
adding, that I had no doubt ho would attend directly.
Upon this, the man left my house ia.oomplitsuce, appa-
rently, with my directions; and I havtr,sittithority for
stating that Mr. Wagstaffe's assistant was the second
surgeon- in attendance. As regards the inqUestv the me-
dical testimony was to the ;effect, that even if the woman
had been seen directly atter the occurrence ,(for it•seems
•.premature labour had been induced by- aiNacaideut). no
weans would hare been of any avail-toisare the• lite of
the woman. Mr. Meredew did attenapt.sto make- un-
founded -charges against me, which the Coroner, of
course, repressed, and the verdict tof the jury, not even
alluded to in the paragraph referred to,'was " Deceased
died from hsamorrhage, from accideuktally seatiug iherself
on a man's knee." 'So much for "24t, charge of inhu-
inanity against a Parish Surgeon."
I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant,
J. E. SMITH, &c.
Jan. 4, 1849.
•
[The report was copied from the Morning Post.]—
ED. Sun.

SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Handelts -Judas
.31accabeus is to be revived by this society on Monday
next, the Bth inst. The spirited martial strains of this
fine oratorio will afford ample scope for the display of
Costa's energetic style of conducting.
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worth has again appeared in the realms of fiction,
giving satisfactory proof, in the freshness and vigour 9f
the present work, that nothing
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abated.witche Witches,' the
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The saocess-
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he subject of the
triumphantly witne""iT "Tione"Yd Miscellany.
Tuc GALLisite "TEAL CRIMINAL
TION OF PRICES.—
The
of the
letting out Central Crimi-
nal Court, to a person who regulated the .
prices of ad-
mission has been so often brought b
the public by the press, that efore
the
notice
of
Loudon and Middlesex have at length, the Sheriffs of
COURT--/ITUhfre
sad introduced regulations abolished the old system,
soma satisfaction, considering which are calculated to give
had excited. The' the feelings the old plan
person who has hitherto rent the
galleries from the sheriffs at the rate of 21/. per session,
refused,. at the last session, to continue to pay the sum
any longer, alleging that it exceeded the receipts, but he
uttered, at the same time, to continue to hold the
galleries and pay 15/. per session for them. The
sheriffs, for some time past, have been anxious to have
the control of the galleries in their own hands, and
they took the opportunity thus offered to break
the engagement with the lessee, who has
not at this time anything whatever to do with them. The
new regulations came into operation on Monday last, the
first day of the January session, and now a uniform
charge of is. each for admission to the galleries is esta-
blished. It will be recollected that there have been oc-
casions when halt-a-guinea and even a guinea has been
demanded ; and on the late trial of the Baroness St.
Mart the price was 55. and 7s. Gd. The money-takers
have been appointed by the sheriffs, into whose hands
the receipts are paid every night. The practice of per.
suns being employed in the streets, and in the avenues
of the court to " tout " fur customers for the galleries
has been done away with. The receipts in the Old
Court gallery on Monday amounted to 2s. ; in the New
Court gallery to 95.; the Old Court gallery on Tuesday
yielded 18s.; and yesterday, 2/. 10s. It was said that if
the price were reduced to 6d, the receipts would be
doubled. These regulations,will be applied also to the
new Third Court, which is now rapidly approaching
,ompletion. The money-takers receive 75. a-day.
'lnc Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are receiving
a limited circle at Badminton, where the usual hospi-
tality will be displayed during thi, *co,. soon.