The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

PUBLICATIONS.

On the 2d of January, 1841, was issued the First Number, and
on the Ist of February will be published the First Part, of
THE PENNI MAGAZINE,
SERIES.
The object which is proposed in thus commencing a New
Series is to place the PQNY, MAGAZINE still more com-
pletely at the head OUTriiblicatinns of large circulation and uni-
versal interest. It has had the distinction of diffusing through-
out the community a source of enjoyment formerly inrccessible
except to the rich ;—it ha; made the productions of Art cheap.
A sum not less than Twenty Thousand Pounds has been ex-
pended upon its Wood Engravings ; and it has been mainly in-
strumental in creating the desire for Illustrated Works, and
consequently in terming the School of English Artists, now
unrivalled in the world, who have supplied the demand which
has grown up during the last nine years. The improvements
in Wood Engravings during that period are .most remarkable,
and in this New Series it is proposed that these improvements
should be available in their full extent. To effect this, the
paper upon which the " Penny Magazine" is now printed will
be slightly reduced in size ; but in thickness and fineness of
quality a larger expense will be incurred by the Publishers.
With this advantage the quality of the printing will be greatly
advanced, and justice will be done to the eminent Artists, both
as Designers and Engravers, who have been engaged for the
New Series. Other improvements are also contemplated, of
which the work itself will present the best evidence. Whilst
its general character of utility will be strictly preserved, it w
aspire to a beauty of Illustration which has never before been
combined with extraordinary cheapness.
The Part for February will contain the following Illustra-
tions :
Designed by Engraved by
1. Caxton, and the Local Associa- Nicholls and
tions of his Life Dickes Jewitt
2. The Cid : I'm Rodrigo of Bivar' Harvey Jackman
3. Dogs, Groups of
4. The St. John of Murillo
5. William the Conqueror and Ha-
rold, and the Local Associa-
tions of the Battleof Hastings Anelay Smyth
6. The Dutch Housewife—Aloes Fussell Jackson
7. The Cid: " Son of my soul !" Harvey Jackson
7. 'f he Cid : " Troth ! no honour
do I count it"
9. Camels .....................
10. Louis XIV. and his Bedcham-
ber ; from Laborde's " Ver-
sailles"
11. Dumbarton Castle
HAT MANUFACTURE.
12. Machine for cutting hair from
Pelts
13. Blowing-engine
14. Bowing the Materials for the
Body.. Anelay
15. Felt Body .................... B. Sly
16. Kettle and Plank, with Men at
Work
17. Microscopic View of Beaver's
Hair
18. Stretching the Body over Block Anelay --
19. Stages of Blocking
')O. Cage and Vat for Dyeing
21. Body on block for Hat
22. Ditto, for Bonnet
Nos. 1,3, 5, 10 to 22, drawn and engraved under the super-
intendence of Mr. Stephen Sly.
London : Charles Knight and Co., 22, Ludgate-street.

Just published, price 2s. tid.
APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILI-
TIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va-
rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure.
By aMEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS,
London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary.
" I am impotent, and no' fit to live,"—Last's Records of
Suicide.

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NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF TIIE URETHRA.
Just published, price 55.,
APRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE
CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of
STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their Consequences;
with a Review of the different Modes of Cure, and an account
of the Method of Treatment the Author has found the most
efficacious. The whole illustrated by cases, some of them the
records of thirty-five years' extensive and successful practice.
By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY,
.122, Great Marlborough-street.
Member of tbe Royal College of Surgeons, London; and late
Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Stl ie_
ture. of the Urethra.
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Of whom may also be had, by the same Author, pCrice (is
PRACTICAL OBSERVA 119Ns on the HRON"IC
EN L kRGEMENT of the PROS '[ATE GLAND in OLD
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i
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FACTS and OBSERVATIONS relative to
a successful MODE of TREATING PILES, EIS
Just published, in
TULA, HENIORRHOIDAL EXCRESCENCES, TU-
MOURS, and STRICTURES, without CUTTING or
c.',ONFINEMENT; illUstrated with numerous cases. Being
.t familiar exposition of the practice of S. J. VAN BUT-
CHELL, Surgeon Accoucheur.
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the Author, at his residence, No. 16, Percy-street, Bedford):
square.
"Few men connected with the complicated departments of
surgery are deserving of more grateful mention than Mr. Van
Buichell, whose unwearied dedication to the cure of those most
painful of all diseases, which this book treats of, has resulted in
a continued course of success in cases of the most hopeless and
forbidding nature ~, We find nearly every page re-
cording some astonishing cure in patients whose sufferings
had been of many years' duration, nd most excruciating in
their nature. The warmth of expression with which the gra-
titude of some of the restored is couched must be truly gratify-
ing to the feelings, and highly creditable to the skill and judg-
ment, of Mr. Van Bache% '—Weekly True Sun.

DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL IN BELFAST.
—Yesterday evening the promised entertainment to Mr.
O'Connell was given in a pavilion, erected upon the site
of the late Victoria Theatre, at the lower end of Chiches-
ter-street. The pavilion was elegantly decorated with
festooning: and devices, and was certainly handsomely
fitted up for the occasion. Robert *Dowell, E-q., pre-
sided, and amongst the gentlemen present were-... Alex.
M‘Mullan, Esq., Cabra House (county Down) ; Owen
M'Mullan (do. ); John M'Adam, Esq ; John Work.
man, Esq. ; Henry Murney, Esq. ; E. O'Rorke, Esq. ;
Capt. Boyd James M'Conkey, Esq.; John Wallace,
Esq., solicitor; Alderman Smith (Drogheda); Nicholas
Markey, Esq., J. P. ; John Sinclair, Esq. ; Thomas Steele,
Esq. ; R. D. Browne, M. P. (Mayo); John Martin, Esq.
( Killileagh); Right Rev, Dr. Denvir ; Right Rev. Dr.
M'Loughlin (Derry); Samuel Carson, Esq. (Belfast);
Charles M•Allister, Esq. (Belfast), &c. &c. The
usual loyal and constitutional toasts having been
given, Charles G. Duffy, Esq., one of the secretaries,
read letters of apology from H. Grattan, Esq., M. P.,
Right Rev. Dr. Blake, G. Ensor, Esc, D. R. Ross, Esq.,
Right Rev. Dr. Kernan (Roman Catholic Bishop of
Clogher), and Jan O'Connell, Esq. To the toast of the
" People," the Rev. Mr. Dorrian replied in a strain of
considerable eloquence, and was loudly cheered. Mr.
O'Neill Falls spoke to the toast of " Lord Melbourne and
her Majesty's Ministers," amidst continued plaudits. The
sentiment of the " Lord Lieutenant and prosperity to Ire-
land," was ably responded to by the Rev. Dr. Curoe. The
next toast on the list was " Our illustrious guest, Daniel
O'Connell ;" and on its announcement the cheering was
tremendous, accompanied with waving of handkerchiefs
from all parts of the house. The Honourable and Learned
Gentleman deprecated, in the strongest terms, the
idea of invading Ulster, or of generating dissension
amongst the Reformers of the North. On the contrary,
he exhorted them to unity, and referred to the case of Sir
A. B. King, in order to show that he was ready to do
justice to all classes of men—even Orangemen. In refe-
rence to Dr. Cook's challenge, he said that he would
challenge him to a competition as to who would do most
for the advancement of human liberty all over the world;
and in regard to Universal Suffrage, he declared himself
an adherent of Mr. S. Crawford. Triennial Parliaments
were established by the Revolution of 1638, and by this
principle he was willing to abide. He concluded by de-
precating, in animated terms, all persecution on religious
grounds. The late hour at which the proceedings ter-
minated, puts it. wholly out of our power to attempt a de-
tailed report, but we may remark that all passed off in a
quiet and peaceable manner. Nearly 1,000 persons might
have been present at the entertainment.—Belfast News
Lettes.

ELECTION FOR THE OFFICE OF BRIDGE-
MASTER.—FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL •-• Yesterday af-
ternoon, at Four e'Clock, the numbers were :

Gibbs
Ledger 9,444
Majority for Gibbs

SINGULAR ESCAPES OF WELLINGTON AND
NAPOLEON.—It is narrated by a military writer that Lord
Wellington, on receiving an official notification of his
appointment to the Colonelcy of the Blues, observed play.
fully to those about him at the time, " That he was the
luckiest fellow in the world, and had been born under
some extraordinary planet ;" and assuredly the expe-
rience of after years verified the remark. Fame and
fortune do not always reward desert--but on Welling-
ton they flowed continuously; and wlrile an admiring
country munificently testified its gratitude to the great•
est warrior it had produced, her favours were enhanced
by the proud consciousness in him who received
them, that all bad been honourably earned. In many
striking points, the careers of Napoleon and Wellington
exhibited a remarkable similitude. Born in the same
year—following the same profession—passing that dan-
gerous ordeal unharmed, in which so many of their
contemporaries perished—and both surviving to gain the
loftiest objects at which "ambition's self" could strain.
Beset with dangers, their preservation seemed mira-
culous —as both exposed themselves recklessly and
from their most perilous situations both had singular
escapes, and by the most opposite agencies. When at
Acre a shell dropped at Napoleon's feet; a soldier
seizing him in his arms, flung him on the ground, and
the shivered metal passed harmlessly over the prostrate
General, and but slightly wounded his preserver. In
Paris, the furious driving of his coachman cleared the
street before the infernal machine could be exploded.
These were probably his greatest perils ; and from one
he was delivered by the devotion of a grenadier—from
the other, by the accidental drunkenness of a servant.
Nor were Wellington's escapes less remarkable ; for
there was rarely an action in which some of his per-
sonal attendants were not killed or wounded. At Vit-
toria he passed unharmed through the fire of the
French centre bristling with cannon, for there eighty
pieces were in battery. At Santarem he wrote a me-
morandum on the bridge while the enemy were
in actual possession of the village. During the
bloody contest that ensued, for a time he sat
upon a height within close musket range of the
enemy, watching the progress of the battle; and in
the evening his danger was still more imminent. "He
had carried with him," says Colanel Napier, " towards
Echallar, half a company of the 43d as an escort, and
placed a sergeant named Blood with a party to watch
in front while he examined his maps. The French, who
wereclose at hand, sent a detachment to cut the party off;
and such was the nature of the ground that their troops
rushing on at speed, would infallibly have fallen
unawares upon Wellington, if Blood, a young in-
telligent man, seeing the danger, had not, with surpris-
ing activity, leaping rather than running down the
Frecipitous rocks he was posted on, given the General
notice; and as it was, the French arrived in time to
send a volley of shot after him as he galloped away."
It was said of Napoleon that he bore a charmed life—and
certainly a special Providence watched over that of Wel-
lington—" God covered his head in battle, and not a hair
of it was scathed."—[From the new number of Maxwell's
Life of the Duke, a work of great merit.]
The National Intelligencer of Saturday states,
that on the previous day, " an hour or teo before the usual
hour of meeting o. the House of Representatives, the
gorgeous chandelier which has been lately suspended in
the hall, with all its fittings and appendages, fell to the
floor with a force proportionate to its weight, and was
smashed to pieces. Fortunately, owing to the earliness of
the hour, no one was within reach so as to be injured by
it. An hour or two later, had it fallen, it might have
caused rhe death or wounding of many members. In con-
sequence of the confusion caused in the hell by this aeci
dent, the House adjourned soon after meeting. Thee
chandelier was of American manufacture, wethed over
7 000 lb., and cost $4 000 or ,x"5.000. It was 13 feet in
diameter, contained 78 argand burners, and it is said to
have been ornamented by 2,650 cut-glass lustre, and
3,000 cut-glass spangles.

A PIG TWELVE WEEKS WITIIOUT POW).—
On the return of Mr. Leonard, of Bouldown, near Tet.
bury, in this county, from Dursley Market, on Thursday,
the Bth of October last, one of his servants informed him
that two of his pigs were ill ; he did not go to see them
that night, but next morning went into the yard for that
purpose, when one of them, a sow, was missing, and every
search and inquiry was made, but without effect. On Sun-
day, December 27, as one of the servant boys was walk-
ing in the yard where a stack of straw had been stand-
ing, he thought he heard a pig squeak; he made his
master aware of the circumstance, who immediately
called one of his men, and in a short time discovered
the pig buried under the straw, but so much reduced as to
have become a mere skeleton, and quite blind. She was
taken to a warm sty, when nourishing liquids were given
her, and she is now going on well. At the time the pig
was missing, Mr. Leonard had barley thrashing with a ma-
chine, and, it is supposed, the pig being unwell, had crept
under some straw unnoticed by the workmen, and the
machine throwing off large quantities, soon made a stark of
nearly 20 loads ; but recently the straw was made use of
by the cattle, and the timely removal of the bulk low!.
rudely led to the discovery.._ Gloucester Journal,