The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-11 00:00:00

EIVENING SUN

A.LMANACKS FOR 1842.

THE WEATHER ALMANACK, 1842.
By P. Murphy, Esq.
This indefatigable weather-seer- has, in the
" Scientific notice" for the year, introduced a
new element into his system of calculating the
seasons and weather, namely, a barometer, not
30 inches, but 2,000 miles long,. The reader no
doubt will be anxious to know the name of the
maker, in what part of the world it is erected,
and who the enormous giant is that, with an arm
one thousand miles in length, marks with the
sliding-pointer the rise or fall of the fluid in the
tube. Mr. Murphy shall answer for himself .--
"Our barometer of the seasons," says he, "is
the work of nature, in whose hands both time
and space are elements indispensable to her ope-
rations; the tube of the barometer is no other than
the bed of the Nile, whose length, from Donga
to the Mediterranean, is estimated to be 2,000
miles." He then goes on to point out the con-
nection between the inundation of the Nile,
and the weather for the ensuing year, for
which we must refer to the Almanac all those
who are desirous to know whether a fair is
to be held on the Thames on the 25th of Ja-
nuary, or Windsor Castle is to appear like an
" oasis" rising out of the waters on the day fixed
for the christening of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales. We are glad to see that Mr.
Murphy has taken the hint, and given the pub-
lic something more than prophecies and discus-
sions on meteoric phenomena, unintelligible to
ordinary minds. The Almanac is now one for
general use, containing a good calendar, with
many of the lists usually given in such works,
and all sold at sixpence less than the price of
that extraordinary publication which stamped
his name with immortality.

TIODSON'S LONDON AND WESTMINSTER

POCKET ALMANAC. 1E442.
This Almanac is accompanied by "an annual
picture of London," which will be found, by tra-
vellers and persons engaged in trade, of great
convenience. It contains, among other lists, the
Steam-packet Companies' offices and wharfs,
with the places to which passengers resort ; the
Railways, describing the metropolitan terminus
of each, the intermediate stations, distances from.
London, fares, &c. ; and the Cemeteries of the
metropolis, with the charges and fees payable to
the general cemeteries at Kensal-green and the
Tower Hamlets. It contains also a list, which we
have seen in no other publication, of the omnibus
lines of road, naming the streets of the metropolis
through which the omnibuses pass to the sur-
rounding districts.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CALENDAR
AND FAMILY ALMANAC. 1842.
W. Tyler, London.
This Almanac is compiled chiefly for the use
of the Independents, a class of Christians to whom
the historian Hume pays the following just com-
pliment—" Of all Christian sects," says he, " this
was the first which, during its prosperity, as well
as its adversity, always adopted the principle
of toleration." It contains a great deal of mis-
cellaneous information on ecclesiastical statistics,
complete lists of Independent ministers and
churches throughout the United Kingdom, and
sketches of new chapels, with some neat wood-
cuts. The work extends to 120 pages, the type
and paper being of a superior quality, and is sold
at the moderate price of one shilling.

AN EPHEMERIS AND WEATHER GUIDE

1842. By Win. Se d. Siniphin and Marshall.
.This Astrologer having studied carefully the
horoscope of the birth of the Prince of Wales,
draws the following picture of his Royal High-
ness :—" He. will be of a-Middle stature and gen-
teel figure, rather slender, with flaxen .hair ; but
will grow darker in manhood, the visage oval,
broad in the forehead, grey eyes, slender waist,
tall and well proportioned in the leg and thigh,
in disposition generous and free-hearted, of a
hasty temper and forgiving turn, yet will be very
confident in opinion, and determined in his own
principles."

THE POST MAGAZINE, ALMANACK, AND
COURT AND PARLIAMENTARY .REGISTER.
This is the greatest wonder of all. Indepen-
dent of numerous advertisements of an interest-
ing character, it contains fifty-two pages in large
octavo, with the Calendar, the Members of both
Houses of Parliament, Post-office Regulations,
a Legal Guide, a description of the more re-
markable Shops of London, the Bench of Bishops,
with their incomes, patronage, and ages,, and a.
variety of Lists and Tables, all for the charge of
sixpence. The publisher, IVIr. Pateman, of Wine-
office-court, intends to continue it annually, and
have each number stereotyped, so as to meet the
demand, however large.

MURDER THROUGH FEAR•—At the Carmar-
then Assizes in 1742, a girl only eight years old was
tried for the murder of a brother and sister, the one six,
the other four years of age, and acquitted. It appeared
that the three children, who lived in a cottage not far
from the sea, had been frightened with stories of the
cruelty of the Spaniards, and the danger of their land-
ing upon that coast. These children having been one day
left alone, when there happened to arise a violent storm,
became so terrified as to imagine the Spaniards were
coming, and the eldest, to avoid falling into their
hands, took up a hedging bill in order to destroy her-
self, which the two young children observing, cried out
repeatedly, "Pray, sister, kill us first," upon which sho
actually despatched them. She afterwards desperately
wounded herself, but not having strength, or perhaps
courage enough, after feeling such pain, to complete her
design that way, she ran out of the house to a river near
it, and was going to throw herself in, but was prevented
by some casual passenger, to whom she said, in great
terror, that she was going to drown herself for fear of
the Spaniards, and that she had killed her brother and
sister for the same reason.—The TVelshman.

THE CONVICT WARD.—The day appointed
for the execution of this wretched man, is Monday, the
20th instant. He has not made any confession, as has
been reported, nor does he allude in any way to the crime
of which he has been found guilty. He now occupies the
same cell in which Blakesley, Courvoisier, and others
were confined. Great efforts are being made by many
persons, to obtain a mitigation of the sentence.
Two under-graduates of St. John's College,
Cambridge, having quarrelled at a party, resolved to
settle the dispute by a duel. Fortunately the affair ter-
minated without bloodshed, the seconds having taken the
precaution to load the pistols with currant jelly.
Our attention has been called to a paragraph
which appeared in a recent number of the Hull Packet,
whence it was transferred to many of the London and
provincial papers, stating that Mr. Kennedy, editor of
this journal, had gone out in the employ of Government
to Texas. We are authorised to state that Mr. Kennedy's
visit to that country is wholly unconnected with any
Government mission or diplomatic appointment what-
,ever.—Hull Advertiser.

FATALythijs-lAnr.cC°Cl3tlayne, at LD.—ENYTesterßdßay"evenAing PanA NinqueoesFt
Coe,Bartholomew'saged Hospital, on
of William Shefrd,so3f. No. 10, Great
'wasfroml, tC ;
evidenceltrehEldnb
view of the body of Jaine
that It appeared,doeeased
Ormond-yard, Qneen-square, Bloomsbury,
was a fellow-servant with him in the employ of Mr.
Snowden, candleztahnuoffaxeturer, Theobald's-road. On the
to go into the room whereovember last witness happened
There a was pan o.fthlieghtenderch."ar.
afternoon of the
found him lying on floor
deceased usually worked, and
It had been upset,
Pro-
cured the attendance andof a sosomreg
itclotalhcisloscelobthyesdeconeasfiered:
scattered about floor. Witness immediately
the wont., andthe cdhannarcaosaeld,wbasy
surgeon's desire,to the above hos-
pital. Deceased's clothes,wastaken
before the fire was extin-
guished, were not in flames, but were burning slowly
away like tinder. Deceased was completely insensible. The
account he subsequently gave of the accident was, that
he was drying some cottons to be used for the wicks of
candles, over the charcoal, when he was suddenly over-
, come by the fume of the charcoal, and fell . senseless on
the floor. Mr. Edward Blake, house surgeon, stated
that deceased had been dreadfully burnt about the abdo-
men and legs, and that he died of the injuries on Wed-
nesday last. Verdict, " Accidental death."
A WIBSEY GOOSE.—On the morning of Tues-
day week, the watchman at one of the mills in Bowling.
lane, Bradford, had his attention drawn to one of the
outhouses, from whence proceeded some strange noises.
He there found a man dressed in a most fantastic man-
ner, having on light shoes, black stockings, bright yellow
breeches, a girl's slip, through the arm-holes of which
his shirt sleeves protruded. He had also on a black oil-
skin hat, on which. was painted, in white letters, "Born
so." In this dress he had paraded the town, and when
found was on his way home to Wibsey . he is stated to
be one of those who the day before had joined in the
Chartist demonstration.—Leeds Mercury.
EARLY LAMB.—On the 7th instant, a fine
Southdown lamb was yeaned at Park, near Truro.--
West Briton.
THE OLDEST FRENCH SHIP.--The oldest
of our ships of war, says the Temps, is the Ocean' of 120
guns. She is 51 years old, having been launched
Brest in 1790. She is still in a fit state for service, at
she underwent a thorough repair at Brest in las
SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—A Person named
Winifred Ibbetson, 74 years of age, died at Leeds on the
24th November last.' She was daughter of
Ann Dickinson, the latter of whom was wet John and
family of the late Earl of llarewood. si;nse in the
same day of the month as the first Earl, t died on the
ago. Mrs. Ibbetson was about six monthswenty years
the Earl just deceased, and died on the
year and within an hour or two of his roue day of the
was accustomed to go every Christmas-day rdship. She
to Harewood
House, when she always received a handsome present.—
Leeds Mercury.
LYNN AND LONDON.--.A steam-vessel has
been hired for a certain time to trade
the two ports ; and the said vessel, which
between
is named the
Brokelbank, will commence the under
. taking on Wednes-
day next, the 15th instant, when she will leave Harri-
son's wharf, London, with
rfolk Chronicle. goods and passengers for.
Lynn.—No