The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-07 00:00:00

EVENING EDI rioN.

PRICE i,F CANDLES.
The price of good Store andles in the Retail Shops is as follows
Candles, per dozen, Bs. Od. ; inferior, 7s. od. ; Moulds, 9s. 6d.
Sixpence per dozen discount for cash.
COAL MARKET.
Buddies' West Hartley 2o' 0
Original Windsor's Pontop G
Ord's Redh ugh
Russell's High Main
Tanfield Moor 23 0
West Hartley 2l fi
Wylain.
Walls End Brown's 3
Ditto unscreened
Walls End Killingworth 22 b
Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 23 0
Walls End Haswell
Walls End Lainbton '4l 6
Ships arrived since

s. d.
Walls Ead Stewart's 24 0
Walls .qlll Whitwell ..._ 2i 0
Walls End Hartlepool 23 9
Walis ,End Kelloe 23 9
W.. 113 End Adelaide
Walls End Clarence Tees l9 6
Walls Eud New 'fees 22 8
Walis End South Durham 23 0
Walls End Tees 22 9
Walls End Tees Hatton
Walls End Victoria Tees ~ 23 0
Walls End,WestHettOn 2r • 6
IBlythe
........ 17 A.
last market-day, 31.

MEDICAL INQUISITION IN ENGLAND.—
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.--Sir--Observing that ap-
plication is to be made to Parliament by the medical
profession for the enactment of certain arbitrary laws
to restrain the public from treating themselves as they
please in caserof sickness—thereby establishing a com-
plete medical inquisition in the country—l tak" this
opportunity of warning the Members of the Legislature
against passing any such enactment, on the mere peti-
tions or representations of the medical body, being, as
it is, an interested one. The very fact of applying for
the coercive enactment in question, is a proof that the
public at large have lost confidence in the mode of
treating diseases as practised by the majority of medical
men, and their present application would (if granted)
be as injurious to the public as it is unconstitutional.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES MORRISON,
the Hygeist.--British College of Health, New-road,
London, and 2, Rue des Pyramides, Paris, Jon,
4th, 1839.
DIARY or A NUN.—This singular and pleas-
ing fiction has a threefold claim on the reader—first, as
a romantic and highly-exciting narrative of the fatal
passion of a young and high-born Englishwoman for the
husband of her dearest friend, which leads her to abandon
the world for a convent of Carmelite nuns ; secondly, on
account ofthe highly pleasing manner in which (after the
fashion of the Ennuyee) the truth of a travelling nar-
rative is blended with the fiction of a graceful and pas-
sionate imagination ; and, thirdly, on account of the
many original and characteristic personal descriptions
which are represented to us of manyof the most celebrated
men and women of existing continental society. This
union of truth and fiction in one consecutive' narrative is
as effective as it is pleasing. •
ELECTION IN DEVONSHIRE.—The Tories
appear to be seized with a distressing panic about the
representation of North Devon. Every wind that blows
rustles their nerves, and the slightest movement in the
political atmosphere of the Division, fills them with ap-
prehension for the safety of their two pattern representa-
tives for North Devon. They have certainly much to
fear, for if the electors of North Devon should be 'pre-
paring, as our aldermanic contemporary informs us, to
throw off the bewildered Baronet and his brilliant
colleague, we see no hope of the old constitution de-
riving further support from them ; for we can hardly
believe that any other constituency could be found in
the Queen's dominions who would be likely to avail
themselves of their services.—Western Times.
MELTON MOWBRAY.—The Earl of Rosslyn,
Marquis of Waterford, Lord John Ber3sford, Lord
Macdonald, Lord Seymour, Mr. Gilmour, Sir J. Mus-
grave, and Count Bathyany, are still residing here.
There has been some good sport during the past week,
but the ground is very heavy, and killing work for the
horses.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey gave a splendid
ball at IVliddleton Park, on Wednesday last, to a dis
ringuished party. The festivity of the evening wa
ptolonged until an eary hour in the succeeding morning

THE NEW PORTABLE ALARUM,
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BIRTHS,
On the 2d inst. , at Ryde, the lady of Alexander Monro,
Esq., of a son.
On the 4th inst., Mrs. At. Poynter, Poet's Corner, of a
daughter.
On the 4th inst., at Dalston Mrs. William Flower, of a son.
On the sth inst., the lady of R. Stevenson, Esq., of Albion-
street, Hyde-park, of a daughter.
On the sth inst., in Portland-place, Lady Teignmouth, of a
son and heir.

MARRIED. •
On the 2d inst., at St. Martin's Church, Mr. Carte, to Eliza,
the second (laughter of the Rev. Thomas Jones, of Enfield.
On the 4th inst., at Westham, Essex, Mr. John Matthews
Lambert, of Barking, Essex, to Martha, eldest daughter of
Thomas Curtis, Esq., of Westham, Essex.