The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-01 00:00:00

TIME TABLE
FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD

1 41.

The following Diary, showing on what day of the week each
day falls throughout the present year, will answer many of
the purposes of an Almanac, and is so portable that it may
be transferred into a Pocket-book without incumbrance

(Friday.
Satur- Sun- Mon- Tues- Wed- IThur
day. day. day. day. nesday. day,
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JA N...... 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
FEB. 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 '27 28
MA nett
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
APRIL ..
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16- 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30
MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
JUNE. 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
2.5 26 27 29 29 30
JULY
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 'l7 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
AUGUST.
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
SEPT 1 2
-3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 • 15 16
17 14 - 19 20 21 222 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
OCT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
3 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 '2O 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
Nov
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30
DEC
a4JS 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 i 26 27 28 29 30
31

EDINBURGH CEMETERY COM

PANY.

We understand that a numerous and respectable
meeting of the subscribers to the new cemetery, was
held in the Merchants' Hall, on Monday, for the pur-
pose of receiving the Report of the interim Committee
regarding the state and prospects of the Company. A
proposal was considered to raise the number of shares
entitling a partner to a vote from 5/. to 20/. in order to
meet the wishes of an influential party who had, some
months ago, entertained a similar project, and who now
propose to unite with those by whom they have been
anticipated. The alteration was objected to as de-
stroying the popular basis on which the undertaking
was commenced. At the same time the importance of
the union was admitted, and a general desire ex
pressed that an amicable arrangement might be effected.
Accordingly, it was agreed, after some discussion, that
the Committee should propose a 10/. suffrage—that is,
that each individualtholding ten shares at 1/. per share,
should be entitled to a vote. This offer, to meet
the other party half-way, which was almost
unanimous, will, we trust, be accepted. An impression
has gone abroad that the cemetery is intended exclu-
sively for the poor : and the co-operation of a number
of gentlemen belonging to the more opulent classes would
tend to raise the character and secure the success of
the undertaking. The object of the new cemetery is
to obtain a burying-ground beyond the control of Kirk-
Sessions or any other exclusive body, and in order
that it may be carried out with spirit and success, it is
essential that men of all classes and parties should
unite. We have no doubt that, if the arrangement
now pending be completed according to the wishes of
the shareholders, it will give a vast impetus to the
scheme, which is one of great public importance. A
new and ornamented burying-ground, established on a
popular footing, is obviously much wanted in Edin-
burgh.—Scotsman.

DOCTORS DISAGREEING.—He told me that
Sir Thomas Millington, Dr. Radcliffe, and Dr. Lawrence
were yesterday at a consultation concerning the King's
health, in presence of my Lord Albemarle and Lord
Jersey; but the two first agreed in nothing, neither as to
the distemper nor the remed;es. Dr. Radcliffe thinks the
swelling in the King's leg is little less than a dropsy, and
he advises purging and asses'milk. Sir Thomas Milling-
ton thinks them both contrary to the King's constitutions
and he was for the King's taking garlic, as it might be pre,
pared and qualified. Radcliffe says, that will destroy lung.
so weak as the King's ; and Millington thinks the King's
lungs the soundest part about him. The first says the
King will be worse for going to sea; and the other says,
he will be better for going to Loo. Both these opinions
may be well enough consistent. But Millington happen.
ing to say that Dr. Hatton ought to be called to the con-
sultation, he being the King's first physician, and long ac.
quainted with his constitution, Radcliffe, as if he were
frightened at the name, flung out of the room in a passion,
and so they broke up, resolving on nothing.—James's
Court and Times of William 111.
A BLUE JACKET'S OPINION OF STEAMERS.
—lf you wish to put an old sailor's patience to a severe test,
although it is not quite fair, talk to him about steam-boats.
It is his questio vexata—the hedgehog that he cannot help
attacking, though he knows that he will suffer by it. Ile
will tell you that this smoky, dirty craft will ruin all good
seamanship, and put all valour and gallant bearing out
of the world. Although he hates a steamer as a nui-
sance, and damns it as an impertinence, he has a se.
cret and superstitious dread of it, and holds it to be
a machination of the devil. Thus runs his opinion :
—46 While things was as they was, d'ye see, we blue
jsckets had it all our own way ; for d'ye see, if Johnny
Crapau fought, we wopped him; if he built more ships, we
took them I And so Beelzebub grew spiteful ; and sea he,
whilst a British sailor get his grog and prog, d'ye see,
I shall never be able to shove my oar in his boat, and turn
the world tapsy-turvey, d'ye see ? So he plans with the
teetotallers and the sair.ts, and tries to disrate the grog_
tub and promote the tea-kettle, d'ye see ? But he could
not do that job by halves, for which, d'ye see, may there
be an eternal frost in his fire-place, and his coals run short.
So, having partly failed, what does the devil do ? }laving
got the right hint, he turns the tea-kettle into a boiler--
claps wheels to the ship's sides, as if they were no better
than hackney coaches or so many dung-carts—and thus
ruins d'ye see, the out-and-out blue-water English sailor
for ever. I've done it, says he, d'ye see ; and I never
hears one of these varmint steamers sputtering, fizzing,
hissing, but I thinks I hears the devil a saying,' Ab, Jack,
you willain, I've done you at last 1' d'ye see ?"
A GHOST STORY.—In the hot weather of
this last summer Lord Ashburnham's very old uncle, the
Bishop of Chichester, was waked in his palace at four
o'clock in the morning by his bedchamber door being
opened, when a female figure, all in white, entered, and sat
down near him. The prelate, who protests he was not
frightativd, said, in a tone of authority, but not
with the usual triple adjuration, " Who are you ?'
Not a word of reply, but the personage heaved
a profound sigh. The Bishop rang the bell, but the
servants were so sound asleep that nobody heard him. He
repeated his question : still no answer, but another deep
sigh. Then the apparition took some papers out cf the
ghost of its pocket, and began to read them to itself. At
last, when the Bishop had continued to ring, and nobody
to come, the spectre rose and departed as sedately as it
had arrived. When the servants did at length appear, the
Bishop cried, " Well, what have you seen ?" " Seen, my
Lord?" " Ay, seen ; who or what is the woman that has
teen here?" " Woman, my Lord l" ( I believe one of the
fellows smiled; though, to do her justice, Lady Onslow did
not say so.) In short, when my Lord had related his
vision, his domestics did humbly apprehend that his
Lordship had been dreaming; and so did his whole family
the next morning, for in this our day even a Bishop's
household does not believe in ghosts ; and yet it is most
certain that the good man had been in no dream, and told
nothing bet what he bad seen ; for, as the story circu-
lated, and diverted the ungodly at the Prelate's expense,
it, came at last to the ears of a keeper of a madhouse in
the diocese, who came and deposed that a female lunatic
under his care had escaped from his custody, and, find.
ing the gate of the palace open, had marched up to my
Lord's chamber. The deponent further said, that his
prisoner was always reading a bundle of papers.—Letters
o H. Walpole.
JOHN MILTON'S AGREEMENT FOR " PARA-
DISE LOST."-This curious document—namely, John Mil-
ton's original agreement, bargaining with Samuel Symons,
in 1666, regarding the copyright of " Paradise Lost," is
stated (by the Inverness Courier) to be now in the posses-
s:on of Mr. Rogers. who is better known to the world ge-
nerally as a poet than as a banker; indeed, it is doubtful
whether the fact of the poet being a wealthy banker, and
having a splendid mansion in St. James's-place, may not be
news, or an apocryphal statement in the estimation of many,
The document was for some time in the possession of a dis-
tinguished publisher. It consists of one page of foolscap,
signed by the contracting parties, and witnessed by "Jahn
Fisher," and "Benjamin Greene," servant to Milton. The
poet was blind at the time of the signature, nevertheless
his autograph is remarkably clear, and regularly written.
The copyright of the roem was sold for 101,, there being
51. paid in advance, and Si. at the expiration of two
years, when 1,300 copies had been sold. For each edition,
not exceeding 1,500 copies, the poet was to be paid 61. ;
but in seven years the poet died, and the widow sold the
remainder of the copyright for 7/. And yet seventy
guineas, it is said, was the purchase money for even the
agreement. It is now framed and glazed, and occupies a
conspicuous position in the the banker-poet's dwelling in
St. James's. place.