The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

MEDICAL BOOKS

Lately Published by SHERWOOD, GILBERT, and PIPER,
23, Paternoster-row.

1.
11/4-3 IR JAMES CLARK (Physician to the
Queen) on PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.
Bvo., 125. cloth.
2. Dr. MARSHALL HALL'S PRINCIPLES of the
THEORY and PRACTICE of MEDICINE. Price 16s.
cloth.

3. HOBLYN'S DICTIONARY of TERMS in MEDI-
CINE. Pric,•e 9s. cloth.
4. Dr. COLLES'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on
MERCURY and the VENEREAL. Sro., 'price 9s. cloth.
5. Dr. MONTGOMERY'S SIGNS and SYMPTOMS
of PREGNANCY. 16v0., 18s. cloth.
6. Dr. PARIS on DIET and REGIMEN. Price 12s.
cloth.

7. Dr. PRICHARD on INSANITY. Bvo., 14s. cloth.
8. Mr. SOUTH'S COMPLETE DESCRIPTION of the
BONES. 7.. cloth.

9. Dr. PARIS'S PHARSIACOLOGIA. Price 245. cloth.
1.1. Dr. BOSTOCK'S HISTORY of MEDICINE. Svo ,
price 7s. 6d.
11. PORTER'S OBSERVATIONS on the SURGICAL
PATHOLOG Y of the LARYNX and TRACHEA. tiro.,
price Ss.
12. PLUAIBE on DISEASES of the SKIN. Price 21s.
13. Dr. WILLIS on URINARY DISEASES. Bro.,
12s. cloth.

14. WAGNER'S ELEMENTS of PHYSIOLOGY.
Part I. Ms. cloth.

THE PENNY POSTAGE.—The Tory papers
complain that this liberal measure was uncalled for. They
forget that the bill passed the House of Commons by a
majority of 100, and that Members of all parties voted for
it. When the duties were taken off gin, beer, and leather,
no one seemed to care how the deficiency was to be made
up ! Now, we assert that no tax that has been repealed
has conferred such general benefit as the penny postage ;
in fact, the public have the full benefit of the reduction,
which was not the case when the duties were taken al
the above named articles. One of the witnesses who
gave evidence to the committee of merchants in Lon-
don, stated that it ought to be called " An Act to faci-
litate tract( , and emancipate Members of Parliament
from the trouble of franking letters for others." Some
assert that the rich merchants are alone benefited by
the reduction, but this is a fallacy, the advantage being
very great to the small shopkeeper, who has been accus-
tomed to remit his 51., 101 , and 151 ; and men cm.
ployed apart from their families, at iron works, rail-
ways, &c., and who can now send their weekly remit-
tances of 10s. or 205., also find it a great convenience.
Such persons can now remit a half sovereign for 4d.,
whereas the charge used to be from Is. 6d. to 29. 11 The
enemies of cheap postage try hard to persuade the public
to believe that the taxes put on last year were to make up
the loss of the postage revenue : this is a sad error, as the
deficiency in the Post-office is but one quarter the amount
of the new taxes and increased duties. Not only have
we cheap postage, but a vast improvement in the con-
veyance and delivery of letters. Many new mails have
been put on the different roads; day mails have been
established in several places, and we shall no doubt have
One from London to this city OR the completion of the
Great Western Railway. Until January last the market
town of Tredegar, with its 10,000 inhabitants, was with-
out a post-office, as was Nant) glo and many other very
populous places; so that not only is the price of postrge
reduced, but letters are delivered, in very many instances,
in less than half the time they were two years ago. In
this city alone we have the advantage of four new mails,
which have recently been put on.—Bristol Mercury.
DARING BURGLARY AND ROBBERY IN EAST
SUSSEX.—On Tuesday morning, between one and two
o'clock, the house of Mr. Samuel Holland, Bexhill, was
broken into by a body of six armed men, and plundered of
between ea: and two hundred pounds in geld, Hastings
bank-notes, and cheques. The burglars were apparently
provided with all manner of housebreaking instruments.
Tecy effected their entrance at one of the sitting-
room windows, by first taking out a pane of glass,
raising the sashes, and then bursting the abutters.
The first alarm was by Mr. Holland being awakened
by a person standing at the foot of his bed with
a light in one hand and a carving knife in the other, who
desired him to get out of bed. At the same time the side
curtains were withdrawn and disclosed three other men,
who declared they did not wish to hurt him if he imme-
diately gave up his purse, the key of his bureau, and his
pocket-book. Resistance was vain, and the demand was
acceded to. Mean:chile a visitor, on hearing the distur-
bance, approached to the room, at the door of which lie
was
present-
ed at He seized hold of the gun, but was
knocked down by one of the patty. One of the
ladies gave up her purse to one of the robbers, and herself
stoppedhim. by the muzzle of a gun being
and her companions were kept prisoners in their rooms.
The man servant, by a door being barred against him, was
unable to get to the assistance of the family, but this cir-
cumstance is, perhaps, not to be regretted, as the formida-
ble villains vvould have been too much for the inmates, and
a serious or fatal assault might have taken place. The
transaction occupied only a few minutes. The villains es-
caped, and, though an active search was instantly com-
menced, they have hitherto eluded detection.—Norwich
Gazette.
StiDe
or of
tE.—\t‘re regret to state that Mr. Levy,
the proprietor immense bazaar in College Green,
announced h
Bristol,
tCpto be opened yesterday with a a gre t
accession of valuable property, destroyed himself
yester-
day morning about half-past ten. He had conversed
with several acquaintances a short time before he com-
mitted the dreadful act. We refrain from giving further
particulars until the inquest has been holden. --Bath
Herald.
INFANTICIDE.—An inquest was held at the
Ringers Inn, Hingham, before Edward Press, Esq.,
one of the Coroners for the county, on Friday, the Ist of
January, and by adjournment on the following Monday,
on the body of a female child, found dead under peculiar
circumstances in the parish of Hackford. A post mortem
examination was made by Messrs. Cooper and Smith, sur-
geons, who were of opinion that the child was born alive,
but died from neglect. The Jury, after a lengthened in-
vestigation, found a verdict of Wilful Murder against Sarah
Ann Harvey, the mother; and the Coroner issued a war-
rant for her apprehension, and placed it in the hands of
Mr. Andrews, the superintendent of police...a-Norwich
Gazette.

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Comet, sailed on Tuesday
for Falmouth. Her Majesty's packet Pigeon sailed on
Sunday for Falmouth. The Devon, lighter, sailed on
Monday, with stores, for Pembroke. The Rochester,
lighter, arrived on M..nday, with stores, from Portsmouth.
Iler Majesty's transports, Adventure and Diligence, ar-
rived on Thursday, with stores, from Portsmouth.

The Tortohe,-lighter, sailed on Friday, with stercs,
for Pembroke.

Ships in liarnorze—Caledonia, 120, Capt. Eden ; San
Josef, 110, Capt. Taylor, C. B. ; Riven, cutter ; Avon
and Carron, st,am-vessels ; Adventure, naval transpo•t.
En the sound.__ltnpregnable, 104, Capt. T. Forrest,
C. B. , 72, Capt. Toup Nicolas; Inconstant,
36, Capt. D. Pring ; Endymion, 38, Captain the lion.
F. W. Grey. . . .

Mr. Thomas Aylen. First Assistant to the Master Ship-
wright of Portsmouth Dock.> ard, has been superannulted
on a pension of 3001. a ear, after fifty years' servitude.
His successor has not been named.
Lieutenant- Colonel Walker, C. 8., who commanded the
Royal Marines in Syria, had been invalided in consequence
of ill health, and wc have now to announce the death of
this gallant officer, on his voyage home to England. His
successor in the command is Colonel Nl`Cullum.
PROMOTION.—Mate John H. Woolward, to the rank of
Lieutenant.

APPotwrmENTs.—Cristopher Wyvill, to the Cleopatra.
Lieutenants—W. G. Mange, of the Indus, to the Phoe-
nix ; J. P. Denni,-, of the Phoenix, to the Indus.
Mates —Henry Chads, to the Endyrnion; A. C. Key,
to the Excellent ; Edward Hill, to the Indus ; D. M. L.
Mackenzie, to the Iris; EL de Lisle to the Phoenix.

Aasistnnt-Surgeons—R. Hayward, to the Edinburgh ;
D. H. Gamble, to the Revenge, vice Baker; T. Beattie,
to the Stromboli, vice Houghton ; T. C. Miller, to the
Queen ; D. O'Callaghan, to the Phoenix.
Mr. Dole, clerk of the Apollo, and Mr. Patmintor,
clerk of the Phcenix, have passed their examination for
pursers.
Dlr. Frederick Gruzelier, son of Mr. Gruzelier, master
ropemaker of this dock-yard, is promoted from second
master to the rank of master in the Mediterranean.

Tho hempen hawsers which were of so much service to
the Pique in her late narrow escape from shipwreck on the
coast of Syria, were made in this dock lard.
LOSS OF LIER MAJESTY'S PACKET SPEY.—It iS with
painful feelings we announce the loss of her Majesty's
brig Spey, Lieut. James. on her outward voyage to
Mexico. On tho 24th of November last, she struck on a
coral reef, in the Bahama Straits, but fortunately held to-
gether a sufficient length of time to get out the mails,
stores, &c., which, with the crew and passengers, were
all saved. The vessel is, however, a total wreck. The
crew and passengers were under tents at Raccoon, and a
sloop was expected from Nassau to take them and the mail
on to the Havannahs.

A private letter from her Majesty's steamer Hydra, with
which we have been favoured, gives.some details of the tre-
mendous gale of the 2d of December. The Hydra laid in
an awkward position, to the leeward of the ships and ves-
sels, so that everything that broke adrift was likely to
come in contact with her ; she got her steam up, and put
out to sea. On the 3d the Austrian corvette, that had
lost her foremast, was towed to Cyprus by the Gorgon, to
get repaired ; seven or eight vessels drove on shore in
George's Bay, and some sank at their anchors. On the
15th. Sir Charles Smith embarked on board the Hydra at
Beyrout, and she proceeded to Alexandria, where she ar-
rived on the. 17th. The Liverpool had arrived the same
day bringing the news of the birth of the Princess Royal,:in
whose honour a Royal salute was fired by the Carysfort.
The Hydra was to sail on the 20th of December for Mar-
morice. The harbour of Alexandria is full of shipping,
and the town is of course extremely busy ; provisions arc
nevertheless cheap, fowls being a shilling a pair, and geese
twenty pence each.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

LONDON, JAN. 18.—It blew very fresh on Saturday
night in squalls from the West, and with rain ; and on
Sunday it blew a moderate breeze at S. W. with dark
heavy clouds from the westward, but cleared up at about
4p. m. Wind this day at noon light airs at S. W. to
W. S. W. with rain.

DEAL, JAN. 17.—Wind S.W. strong.—Arrived West
Indian, M'ArthLr, from Sydney, New South Wales.
LivERI,JOL, JAN. 16, 17.—Wind S. W., moderate.
Arrived the Caledonia steamer, from Boston, left 2d inst.,
and Halifax, 4th ; Eleanor, Lancaster, Calcutta. Sailed
the Philadelphia, Great, for Baltimore ; Burrell, Patti-
son, Savannah ; Trinidad packet, Hudson, Ti inidad ;
Horsford, Brennan, Barbadoes; Ncvi, Jarvis, Azores.
Off port, the England, from St. John's New Brunswick.
The Margaret, Cross, front hence to St. Hues, River
Plata, was drietn on Dulas Rocks (broadside on) on the
night of the 14th instant, crew saved. The Rose, yester-
day, bound to Larne, got in contact with a steamer at the
mouth of the river, and drove on shore near New Brigh-
ton, with bows stove, but was afterwards got off. The
Broad Oak, from Bahia, on shore near Mock-beggar, was
got off this morning, and went into dock.
RAMSGATE, JAN.I6. Arrivcd;the Joanna, Clausen, from
Para ; Alexander, Hughes, London, with damage and
leaky, and is discharging, bound to Cork. It has blown
a heavy gale from S. E. all night, but moderated this
morning at 6 5 A.M.-8 P.M., strong westerly breeze.
GUERNSEY, JAN. 15.—Sailed the Joseph, Lowe, for
Havannah.

MARYPORT, JAN. 14.—The Stamper, Lister, from
Quebec, has arrived here, with considerable damage.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 16. —Wind S. to S. \V., fresh
breezes. 17.—1 t blew a heavy gale last night at W.S. W.,
but moderated this morning. Arrived the Westminster,
11,1:,ore, from New Yolk.

COWES, .JAN. 17.—Arrived Rajah, Ferguson, Lombock.
Corm, JAN. 17.—Arrived the Beceles, Mantborpe, from
Monte Video.

VESSELS SFOKEN WITIL-Hector, Constantinople to
Liverpool, 13th instant, lat. 49, lon. 11, by the West-
minster, Moore, arrived at Portsmouth. Challenger Ist
inst., lat 42, lon. 13 ; Hope of Brixham, for • Lisbon, 9th,
lat. 45,10 n. 10, by the Lady Brougham, Dawc, arrived at
Cork. Caroline of Bristol, Waters, lat. 38 N., lon. IE. ;
British Queen, Odessa to Falmouth, 23d ult., lat. 39,
lon. 2, by the Hannah, Handley, arrived at Falmouth.
Trusty, Liverpool to St. John's, New Brunswick, 10th
ult., lat. 44, lon. 45, by the South America, arrived at
New York. Nutna (transport) Barclay, for Malta, 7th
instant, lat. 47, lon. 10, by the Star, Seller, arrived at
Falmouth.