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.".
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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 Alinanach, 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 "Angelo" 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, on Tuesday, the 2ith ult., at
about 6 o'clock, P.X., 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, .wheirl was
answered " She was a very poor Woman! The
woman not residing in my district, •.4!t accordingly
referred Mr. Meredew to
.24r. Wagstaffe, the
surgeon of the district is which abei,:resided,
adding, that I had no doubt he would attenP.ditettly.
Upon this, the man left my house in•oompliance, appa-
rently, with my directions; and I have,nittithority for
stating that Mr. Wagstaffe's assistant was the second
surgetnr in attendance. As regards the inquest, the me-
dical testimony was to the ;effect, that even if the woman
had been seen directly alter the ocourrenesh(fer ilseen"
premature labour hid. been induced by-afkacaiaent), no
means would have been of any avail-tasare the life of
the woman. Mr. bleredew did atterapt 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 hosmorrhage, from accicleTally seating herself
on a man's. knee." 'So much for charge of inhu-
manity against a Parish Surgeon.9_
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.—Handers -Judas
Maccabeus 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
Tisheboaltisdcelle.
eheBa-
Costa's energetic style of conducting.
THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES.—BY W. HARRISON
AINSWORTH, ESQ.—" Silent for some time, Mr:Ains-
worth has again appeared in the realms of fiction,
giving satisfactory proof, in the freshness and vigour of
the present work, that nothing of his former skill is
abated. We find, on the contrary, irt ` The Lasicastel
Witches,' the same stirring interest, the same po.weru,
t _ ic Vie: romance of
delineation of character, and the same glowing !c' in his
t 7
of description, with which we have been charmed imore
best productions. ' Rookwood' contains nothingac'Jack
startling; ' Crichton' nothing snore p 14 q
Sheppard' nothing more dramatis,
mil:ln:lent of the
Pencil° Forest. Mr. Ainsworth's t
sub-
ject is as masterly, asgreat (I'M and
original. lie grapples at
°roarer would choose
1 culty
which presented itself te
but that Mr.
the
writer of fiction •
his a
,: conception
t,evwi
t.ehnoedf I. t
ItYernatural agency is of
theme, end unfalteringe
ful employment of Pr all tasks
the most difficult to
e° _
~.,d d . The Lancashire'
Ainsworth has sof;.„_Bextien's i Witches'
triumphantly witn ._ _ .7 Miscellany,
THE GALLBSIES a, Tilll CENTRAL °
CRIMINAL
REDucrioN OF PRICREL—Th
COURT.-- hire of the e subject of the
letting sot for galleries at the Central
of Crimi-
nal Court, to a person who regulated the prices ad-
mission has been so often brought before the notice of
the public by the press, that
Loudon and Middlesex at length, the Sheriffs of
have abolished the old system,
and introduced regulations which are calculatad to give
some satisfaction,
had excited. The person
the feelings the old plan
person who has hitherto rented the
galleries from thee
refused, at . sheriffs at the rate of 21/. per session,
the last session to continue to pay the sum
any longer, alle • '
alleging that it exceeded the receipts, but he
offered, at the same time, to continue to hold the
galleries and pay 151. 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 ss. and is. 6d. The money-takers
have been appointed by the sheriffs, into whose hands
the receipts are paid every night. The practice of per.
sons being employed in the streets, and in the avenuts
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, 21. los. 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
completion. The money-takers receive 7s. a-day.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are receiving
a limited circle at Badminton, where the usual hospi-
tality will be displayed during phis in
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