The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-02 00:00:00

EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY.

NEW EDITIONS JUST PUBLISHED.
BRITISH INDIA, from the most Remote
Period to the Present Time. By Hugh Murray,
F. R. S. E. ; James Wilson, F. R. S. E.; R. K, Grevillo,
LL.D. ; Professor Jameson ; Sir Whitelaw Ainslie, M.D.,
M. R. A.S. ; Professor Wallace ; and Captain Clarence Dal-
rYmple. Third Edition. In 3.iSsti: With a Map -and, al
Engravings. 15s. cloth bds.
The period since the last edition was published has been
diligently employed not only in bringing down all the informa-
tion to the present time, but also in illustrating from fresh
sources the topics formerly handled. The history of British
affairs in India has received important lights from the Des-
patches of the Duke of Wellington and of the Marquis Wellesley,
as well as from the Biographies of Clive, Munro, Baird, arid
other public characters ; while the recent events, including the
campaign in Cabul, are now embraced in the narative. Mate-
rials, both published and in manuscript, roost liberally furnished
by Professor Wilson, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society,
have afforded the means of giving a very complete summary of
the Ancient Literature and Science of the Hindoos. The Mer-
cantile and Monetary Transactions of India having undergone
remarkable alterations, are treated much more copiously, and
partly from original sources ; while to the Maritime part is
added a full view of the progress and present state of Steam-
Navigation. The political changes under the New Charter,
the increased efforts to diffuse Christianity and Education
among the Natives, the recent Travals in the North of India,
and the extension of the Trigonometrical Surveys by Colonels
Lambton and Everest, hay* all afforded fresh materials for this
edition. The work, thus revised, enlarged, and in many prin-
cipal parts entirely re-written, will it is hoped, be found still
more deserving of that public favour which has already been so
liberally bestowed upon it.
LIFE of SIR WALTER RALEIGH :
Founded on Authentic and Original Documents, some
of them never before published ; including a View of the most
iwportant Transactions in the Ite'gns of Elizabeth and James
I. ; Sketches of Burleigh, Essex, Secretary Cecil, Sidney,
Spenser, and other Eminent Contemporaries.
Ily PATRICK FRASER TVFLER, Esq.
Third edition, improved. In 1 vol., with Portraits, Seals, and

Autograrhs. 55., cloth bds.

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thorough searching up of the history of his day."—Spectator.
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Co., London.

Just published, price 2s. 6d.,
APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILI-
TIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va-
rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure

By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS,
London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary.
" I am impotent, and not tit to live."—Last's Records of a
Suicide.

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Country

FALMOUTH, THURSDAY.-Last night, the
convict-ship having on board Frost, Jones, and Williams, put
into this port with loss of topmasts. It appears that these
" leaders" were embarked on board the Mandarin at the last
moment before she left Portsmouth. From our inquiries we
learn that they are separatefrom the other convicts, and that they
inhabit a cabin of 12 feet in length, and about eight in breadth,
having threw comfortable sleeping berths, a bathing machine,
&e., fitted, and other conveniences; although dressed in con-
victs' attire, they were not shackled. When visited to-day at
noon Frost was reclining on hid berth, and appeared very de-
jected ; but his companions were in good spirits • they bad a
large supply of books, from which Jones and Williams appa-
rently had been amusing themselves. The convicts were ge-
nerally occupied to-day in writing letters. From the expedi-
tion manifested in getting the vessel re-masted, it is 'Rid that
she will go out to-morrow at noon.

At a late meeting of the inhabitants of Andovet,

it was suggested that the congratulatory address to her
Majesty upon her marriage, adopted at it, should be presented
by the lord Lieutenant (A the county ( Han's), the Duke of
Wellington. The proposition to this effect was, however. over-
ruled in favour of the Mayor, accompanied by the Town Clerk.
THE KHAN OF CIIIVA.—" The Khan of
Chive," says a letter from St. Petersburg, in the France, " is
53 years of age—brave ,but indolent, He is said to be very de-
sirous of being on good terms with Russia, but is controlled by
his principal wife, a beautiful and haughty woman of 22, sister
of the Sultan of the independent Kirghis, and very fond of
war. She has armed 5,000 Kurdowz infantry and 26,000
Chivian cavalry for the defence of the town, and has applied
for assistance to her brother, who has, however, positively re-
fused to go to war with Russia. She is said to be under the
influence of an Italian, who acts as major-domo of her husband's
palace. The Khan supposed to be possessed of large, trea-
sures, and his stables are tilled with the finest horses of Asia.
He has 600 slaves in his service, the Chivians themselves being
all military, and unwilling to act as domestics. The popula-
tion of his territory consists of 426,000 Chivians and 85,000
slaves."

The Exeter Gazelle has been corresponding with
certain milliners' girls—sill of honest repute be it known, and
above suspLion—touching the manufacture of the Queen's
dresses. He states that they are all foreign, and that the Queen
has only had English dresses made for a blind, choosing rather
to have foreign dresses made exactly like, because she will not
wear anything British ! Her Majesty .‘ was bred a foreigner
for foreign purposes." Thus speaks the Gazette of the Queen,
and then accuses her of the most outrageous duplicity, because
she will disguise her preference for foreign manufactures over
British. A more cruel, contemptiLle, and unmanly attack was
never made upon any woman, than these which the Tories are
uow levelling at our beloved Queen. There is one consolation
left—if the Tories hate the Queen, her Majesty despises them,
and lie as they may they will never more be admitted to power
as Tories. Western Times.
STOCKDALE V. HANSARD.--In the fifth ac-
tion brought by Mr. Stockdale v. Messrs. Hansard, in which
the damages are laid at 50,0001., the venue is laid in Surrey,
and the writ of inquiry will therefore be executed before the
Sheriff at the next assizes for that county.
Lord Liverpool is, it appears, the Prothonotary
of the. Court of Common Pleas for Lancashire, receiving be-
tween 3,0001. and 4,0001. a year for performing by deputy the
duties of the office.