The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-08 00:00:00

WYLD'S MAP OF ROUTES TO

INDIA, &c.
Mr. Wyld, of Charing-cross, has published a finely
executed map of all the' routes at present travelled from
London to India and China, by sea and land, with a scale
of distances, and other valuable particulars, not to be
found in other maps. There is also indicated on tills
map a new route, chiefly overland, avoiding the terri-
tories of France and Russia, as well as the inconvenience
and uncertainty of a long sea passage. This route is re-
commended by Mr. Wyld, after (we believe) a personal
examination of the whole line, and it is interrupted only
bj a passage of 130 miles across the Black Sea, from
hostingi to Sansoom. The roads the whole way are
good, and the countries peaceable, and most likely to
continue so.

We have likewise-seen a very ingenious and most use-
ful " Corn-law and Currency Chart," compiled by the
same gentleman, which -shows the fluctuations of corn,
currency, and Consols, and of our exports and imports,
revenue and expenditure, from 1790 to 1840. So much
valuable information, upon so many important subjects,
was never before compressed into se small a space, or
presented so clearly and strikingly to the observation. It
will be an effectual aid to the Anti-Corn-law advocates,
in the illustration of the manner in 'which the " Devil's-
law" has operated.

MUNICIPAL ELEI
(R., Reforme:
R. T.

3TION RETURNS
,---T., Tory.)

Aberdeen
Albans (St.)
Andover
Andrews (St.) 9
Ayr ..
Barnstaple
Bath
Bedford
Beverly
Bew•dly
Bideford
Birmingham ... 17

Kirk aldy
Lancaster
Leeds (Leeds paper) 12 4
Leicester l2 2
Leith
Liverpool
Lyme Regis
Lymington
Lynn Regis 1 5
Manchester l5 1
Musselburgh .
Newcastle-upon-
Tyne
Northampton 2 4
Nottingham
Oxford 4 6
Paisley
Penryn
Pontefract
Port Glasgow 3 1
Preston
Reading
, Ripon
Rochester
'Scarborough
Shrewsbury (Tory
Paper) 9 21
Southampton
Stirling
Stockport 7 .• .
_ -

Brecon
Bridgewater
Bristol
Bury St. Edmunds ...
Cambridge
Canterbury
Carlisle lO

Chester
Chesterfield
Chippenham
Colchester...

Cork
Cupar-Fife
Derby
Devizes

Dover

Dublin
Dumferline
Dunbar ..•
Durham
Edinburgh
Evesham
Exeter
Falkirk 4
Falmouth 4
Gateshead 6
Gravesend & Milton ...

!Sunderland ll
Tamworth
Truro

Wallingford

Walsall
War wick

Welchpool
___.

Wigan 3
'Windsor

Guilford
Haddington
Harwich
Hastings
Helston

Worcester

Wycombe

Ya-rmouth
York

Total ...531 375
Reform Majority, 156.

Kendal
Kingston
The above returns are from the provincial papers and
may be relied on for their accuracy. The meagre re-
turns, afforded by the local prints in many cases, furnish
such unsatisfactory data as not to enable us to present
them in the same shape as those above. The following
summary will, however, give a fair idea of such :
Reformers in majority, but no numbers sent :
Arundel, Dartmouth, Devonport, Hertford, Hereford,
Norwich, Tiverton, Greenock, Portobello, Ludlow.
All Reformers who were returned, but no numbers
sent :—Lincoln, Macclesfield, Morpeth.
No contest :—Newport (Isle of Wight), Richmond.
All Tories :—Newark. In Scotland the Tories have
done next to nothing.
Perth : great preponderance on the Liberal side. In-
verness : the whole of the new Councillors Liberals.
Glasgow : a gain of one Liberal. Inverbury, Banff,
Peterhead, no numbers or statement of politics given.

PHRENOTYP ICS OF BENIOWSKI.
On Saturday evening we had the great pleasure of
attending Major Beniowski's class (his last lecture) for
artificial memory, his improved system of which he calls
by the appropriate name of Phrenotypics. It is to us
the more gratifying to be able to testify to the ease
and certainty with which this system has been mastered
by two classes of adults, each in six lessons, at the
Adelaide Gallery, as we have repeatedly and strongly
expressed our prejudice against the art of Mnemonics,
and have been very slow to recognise the merits of this
gentleman's adaptation. If we have been cautious in
our approbation, we shall not, on that account,
be the less frank in the avowal of our con-
viction that the learned and ingenious Pole

has really contrived a simple and easily acquired series of
phrenotypies, by which every kind of knowledge, in the
acquisition of which merely technical memory is useful,
can be rapidly and permanently imprinted on the mind.
One gentleman, who had received but four lessons, com-
mitted to memory from our dictation, and repeated
thirty-six words in six strange languages—Hindu,
Hebrew, Arabic, German, Polish, and Celtic, in less
than five minutes. It is not too much to say, deliberately
and earnestly, that the Major's system is well worthy
the attention of all who are concerned in the education
of others, or who desire to improve themselves.

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His Excellency Sir Stratford Canning, paid
farewell visits to the corps diplomatique and the Earl of
Aberdeen yesterday, preparatory to his departure for
Constantinople. Sir Stratford, who has been detained a
few days longer than was expected, leaves this evening,
or early to-morrow morning, for the Turkish capital.
His Excellency intends to proceed via Trieste, accom-
panied by the Hon. R. Curzon, his Excellency's Private

Secretary.
CORNS.—In the Lancet of last week, is a com-
munication from Mr. Wetherfield, surgeon, of Henrietta-
street, Covent-garden, in which he mentions the novel
and ingenious application of amadon, or German tinder,
to a variety of important purposes, and among others to
the cure of corns. It is contrived so as remove all pres-
sure, there being
don, which protects the corn from the friction of the shoe,
a small aperture in the piece of ama-
while the anodyne plaster tends to raieve the pain, and

promote the aliorpiion,of the corn.
THE EXCHEQUER BILLS FRAUD.—Edward
Beaumont Smith, who is charged with being principal
in the frauds in Exchequer bills, is son of C. D. Smith,
Esq., who was Governor of Prince Edward's Island from
1816 to 1823. He was removed from the government
of the island in consequence of his exaction of quit-rent,
contrary to Royal instructions. Notwithstanding his
disgrace, and a strong remonstrance from the inhabi-
tants of the island, Sir Robert Peel granted him a pen-
sion of 50C/. per annum during the time he was in office
in 1834, which he still enjoys. Sir Robert justified the
grant of a pension on the ground of Mr. C. D. Smith
being the brother of Sir Sidney Smith, the hero of Acre.

—Globe. „
ROBBERY AND MURDER IN THE CHEDDAR
CLIFFS.--The celebrated chasm in the range of the Men-
dip Hills, known as the Cheddar Cliffs, was on Monday last
the seen" of a brutal murder and robbery, committed on a
farmer named Baker, who occupied Higlinet farm, near
Cheddar. The murderers are suspected to be two per-
sons in the dress of navigators or railway men, for
whom search has been making.—Dorset Chronicle.
WORTH KNOWING.—A chimney on fire in

London was, a day or two since, effectually put out in
the following easy and expeditious manner:—ln the first
place, a large pitcherful of water was thrown into the
grate. which, of course, generated a considerable quail-
ti!,f of steam. A sheet was then fastened up in front of
the fireplace, in such a manner as to prevent a current of
air from ascending tho chimney, and in less than five
minutes all signs of blaze or fire in the chimney had en-
tirely disappeared.
DISTRESSING SUlClDE.—Thursday afternoon
an inquest was held at the Duke's Head, Fore-street,
Lambeth, before Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, on
view of the body of Mr. William John Rich. For-
merly he was in very wealthy circumstances, but for
some years past he had suffered greatly from embar-
rassments, so much so that he was obliged to work
latterly as fellowship porter, but his hetath being
very indifferent he could earn very little at such em-
ploy. He was discovered suspended to a beam in an
out-building of his premises by a cord, on Tuesday
morning.—Verdict, " Temporary mental derangement.'
DEATH OF GEORGE CONDY,
as Iv! Condy had been declining in o'clock in the afternoon, aged
Condy, for many years Proprietor and Editor of the
Manchester Advertiser, departed this life on Thursday
last, aboutfifty-four
years.hl f-p mt
health for upwards of three years, and during the last
six months he had endured great suffering. He retained
his faculties to the day of his death. Of the integrity
of his principles as a politician, we may speak in unqua-
lified terms. Many have been the opportunities pre-
sented to him—not a few of them studiously thrown in
his way—of advancing his personal interests, had he
been capable of betraying the cause of sound Radical
Reform for private advantage. As a scholar, Mr. Condy
was most accomplished, and as a critic, either of music,
painting, or the drama—on which subjects his pen has
been too rarely exercised of late years—he has left be-
hind him few equals.—Manchester Advertiser.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO A YOUNG LADY
IN THE REGENT'S PAns.—Yesterday afternoon, between
three and four o'clock,. a dreadful accident occurred
in the carriage drive, in the Regent's Park, to Miss
Ellen Rodway, daughter of Colonel Rodway, re-
siding in Harley-street, Cavendish-square. It appears
that as the unfortunate young lady, in company with
her father and brother, were taking an airing on
horseback round the circle of the Regent's Park, her
horse, a high-spirited animal, suddenly became restive,
andthe roadunin unmanageable,
haobtine dashing furiously from one side of
r. In her alarm, she lost all com-
mand, and was thrown to the ground with great violence,
falling on her face. She sustained serious injury. Most
fortunately, the horse was secured by her brother seiz-
ing the reins, otherwise she must have been dragged by
her foot until the animal could be stopped.
NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.+The trains
upon the North Midland Railway are distinctly heard in
Warmsworth-field, and even on Hexthorpe-common,
when the wind is favourable. They can also be heard
OR Barley-moors, a distance of upwards of ten miles from
the line of rails."—Leas Mercury.