The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-29 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

MISS COSTELLO'S NEW WORK.
Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with numerous Illustrations
A PILGRIMAGE TO AUVERGNE,
FROM PICARDY TO LE VELA Y.
By MISS LOUISA STUART COSTELLO,
Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines,"&e.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

WITH SEVENTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS by GEORGE
CRUIKSHANK, LEECH, CROWQUILL, and CRUIK-
SHANK the YOUNGER.
THE FIRST NUMBER FOR THE NEW YEAR,
PRICE HALF-A-CROWN, OF
ENTLE Y' S MISCELLANY.
Contents :
THE MISTLETOE.

A Dithyramb. •
By FATHER PROUT.
RICHARD SAVAGE,
A Romance of Real Life. By CHARLES WHITEHEAD.
ILLUSTRATED by LEECH.
The Razed House : Wander- Dick Dafter. By Paul Fin-
ings of a Painter in Italy. dar. Illustrated by George
With an Illustration, from a Cruikshank.
Design by V. P. Rippingille, The Night Watch.
Esq. ;Welsh Rabbits. ByDr.Maginn.
Cupid in London. By R. More., Stanley Thorn. The Arrest—
Endymion. By W. H. Long- The Proposal—The Duel,
ferow. and the Result.
A Night in Calcutta. Py H. R. Comicalitie3 of the Feelings.
Addison. By the Author of " The Co-
French Cookery. With Ill.us- mic English Grammar." ll-
trations. lustrated by Leech.
Save me from my Friends ! The Philosophy of Smoking.
By George Raymond. I In twelve volumes of Smoke.
The Country Squire. By Grig. I With Illustrationsfrom Draw-
A Kiss. From Lessing. ings by Alfred Crowquill,
My First Morning in Calcutta., engraved by Cruikshank the
By H. R. Addison. Younger.
To a Butterfly. From Herder. Raising the Devil : a Legend
The Poet at Home. By Old of Albertus Magnus. By
Scratch. Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.
N.B. Mr. Ainsworth is no longer connected with " Bent-
ley's Miscellany."
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

DEATH-BED SCENE--,, CONSUMP-
TION,"
The sick-bed state of Mr. Knot, of Swallow-street, in the
last stage of lingering illness—was, up to the 23d December,
given up as "a bad case, verbally" by his DOCTOR—and turned
over as " the usual shield" (after unseen visits, by Night, not
daily) to " BaontE" for his Bone-setting fee (11. Is.) at a
crisis when " DEATH" became " the Lip-word of LIFE." The
near relatives cf this young man—were persuaded—as alt
others would in like position—" to grasp at a straw," and to
adopt the practical views for assisting Nature in the invention
of Captain Aekerley,for an immediate creation of an Artificial
change in climate—to relieve by natural moisture the parched
Mouth of this " Gasping Epoch," as well as to encourage the
breathing through the " nostrils as the Life " for a living soul
in health.
Mr. Knot has, since the 23c1 to the date of this letter, been
sleeping under a SHAWL-TENT, about six inches raised over
his face, under which " covert " at the bedstead side, is
hung one of the vital air, or ASTHMATIC Lames. The warm
Atmosphere—without smoke—from the oil-burning flame
within, and underneath the Shawl is always ascending, and
rarities the tented space to a regular temperature, like unto
a tropic SUMMER heat. The Inventor had the pleasure of
seeing Mr. Knot " revive " at the same ratio as Mr. Nash, of
Earl-street, Exeter-street, Lisson-grove, alike in comparison,
from the " stormy tempest of spasmodic hurricane to the calm,
of the sea's tranquillity. The youth's cough, and expectora-
tion was subdued by soothing sleep, his pulse-action strong,
and in perfect time, evidenced the reaction within
as welt as by the moistened skin without.* So FAR so
coon, barring inhumanity, on the cold suffocating CALT FOG,
of Saeurday morning. This debilitated person nearly fell a
victim to " piofessional malice ;" Mr. Knot, discovering early
that the Oil of his Lamp had been taken out of the Burner
during his " sleep;" the Wet-fog having usurped the Dry-
temperature of his camp-equipage. Providentially his "GUAR-
DIAN" SOBll re-trimmed the Lamp for him, early on the morn-
ing of " Christmas-day," although the shops were all shut on
that occasion..
This ;narked "malicious jealousy," as an Oily-a-genus attri-
bute of the human passions—occasioned the LIGHT being extin-
guished, the wished-for cause and effect being father to the
criminal thought, and its results. The following " audacious
note" of the Apothecary's-shop Doctor, in set language, " fair to
the eye, but false to the ear," is offered to the public as a
calumnious attack—of a falling profession—penned by a mind
under perturbation and dismay.
" My Dear Sir—You really m ust not interfere with my patient,
Mr. Knot, or I must take some summary means of preventing
it. Remember—l do not charge you with any want of feeling
or benevolent consideration, but you know that all the world
believes you to be insane about your Lamp, and I do among
the number.—Yours, very faithfully,

,-THOMAS YOUNG,