The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-02 00:00:00

MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY

As this has only just come to hand OW I)
o'clock) we can merely say of it that, judgiq
from its chapter of contents, it appears to con'
tarn much that is useful, and more that is enter—
taining to amateurs of Natural History.

DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL
LUSTRATED.
The engravings in this number (the thirtieth)
exhibit no falling off' in point of excellence, .1
while the literary explanations, though necessa-
rily brief, are agreeably written and to the point, hi!
hip
THENATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLER
The portraits in this, the thirty-third, num.:
ber, are Sir Thomas Plumer, late i'.l"-.ster of the :,
Rolls ; Warren Hastings, immortal so long as di,
the recollection of Burke and Sheridan endure;
and the late Lord Melville. They are all clever in
samples of engraving, and the slight biographic:3 ),
attached, exhibit Mr. Jerdan in the light of
an easy, agreeable writer.

To show the apprehensions which are enter- -
tamed nbout the new Bankruptcy Court, it is a fact that
one list of the Commissioners have, in three weeks, in
the months of November and December last, realised each
man Lis eighty-five pounds, and that the same list, nu
Friday last, pocketed thirty-five pounds each. The new
Court will have nothing to do.
ALICE PAULET, BY THE AUTHOR OF
SYDENIIIOI."—This new novel, from the eloquent and
s-itirical pen of one of our best modern writers, has, as
might have been expected, excited great curiosity in the
fashionable world. We question whether, with the excep•
tion of the " Waverley Novels," any work has for years
created so general a demand, or been read with greater
pleasure ; indeed, it is written in a style of cool irony and
elegant sarcasm, that has seldom been surpassed—while
the vices and foibles of the more polite classes are pourtrayed
in their true colours, by the pen of a severe critic cer-
tainly,
but a decided master of his subject.-- Cheltenham
Chronicle.

Professor PORSON and the late Mr. JoHNI
KEmBLE had the most extraordinary memories of any men
in modern times. They were first introduced to each
other by the writer of this paragraph. On that occas'olt
at a humble dinner, they remained until four or five o'clock
in the morning, reciting, from their inexhaustible stores of
recollection, SILAYSPEARE, DRYDEN, and Porz.
MATRINIONY.—A poor helpless fellow was
carried to Oewestry Church in a sedan this week, and
supported himself on crutches to the altar, while his fair •
spouse went round about the nearest way, to escape the
gaze of a great throng who had accompanied her partner
to the place of union.—A poor girl in Meole parish was
married last week to a parish apprentice in St. Chad's
parish, Shrewsbury ! What are the consequences of such
unions ? Pauperism—profligacy—misery. Nor are these
the only evils. The murderer HOLLOWAY, executed last
week, attributed the commencement of his vicious courses
to his having been compelled by parish officers to marry
pauper like himself.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
THE YOUNG DUKE.—The demand for this
last work, by the author of " Vilian'Grey," continues un-
abated. The writer has recently returned from a tour in
Italy and Greece, and has just prepared a new edition
which will be published very shortly. The gambling
scene in this work, in which the " Young Duke" is initi-
ated into the mysteries of play by the blacklegs of the
West, forms one of the most brilliant scenes ever intro-
slimed into the pages of modern fiction.
CHOLERA.—The Coventry Mercury of
this week contains a letter front Newcastle. upon-Tyne, of
Wednesday's date, addressed to Captain Jr.u.icox, of the
recruiting staff in that city, by Mr. MELIN, surgeon of
the 9th Lancers, who has been residing at Sunderiand and
Newcastle for some weeks, for the purpose of studying the
symptoms and treatment of the disease, from which the
following is extracted : —" The disease is really one of the
most formidable I ever saw. Every medical man I have
conversed with here, many of great experience and high
character, admit that they had no conception of its awful
character until they had seen it. The disease may be
briefly defined to be a total suspension of the functions
of all the secreting orders_ the eyes secrete no tears
—the kidneys no urine—the liver no bile—the bowels
no fecal matter—and the stomach no gastric juice—the
cold apparent perspiration is not secreted front the blood
as in health, but resemble more the exudation that pre-
cedes decomposition after death—the skin on the hands
and feet particularly is shrivelled—the blood ceases to flow
through the external vessels--and carries on but a very
languid circulation through the inteiior ones—the eyes
suddenly sink in their orbits, with a blackened hue around
them—the body assumes a darkish tint, someti.,-"es blue,
becomes clammy and cold, and the tongue and btath also,
During this rapid decay, I may almost say deal, of all
mentalthea n
mal
facultiesft
t
Paris, most appropriately compared the diseas, to the
nm tairoen ,p e
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fheen t
andrain
prrenmfeasianner u:ltao
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of
soul withont a body ; and, on another occasin, said,
that the disorder began where most others terninated,
in death.

We copy from the Hackney Carriage Pocket
Directory for 1832, a cheap and useful, as well Is season•
able little work, just published, the following bref state-
ment of the advantages which will accrue to tht public
from the new Hackney-coach Act :—" The chief benefit
that the public will at once derive from the reforated law
is in the reduction and simplification of the farts. The
additional 61 charged on every two completed miles set
all calculation at defiance, when reckoning one tare for a
course comprehending two or three separate known die- •
tances. An ingenious person has demonstrated that he
could go a certain distance cheaper by hiring two vehicles
than continuing to employ one ! Nothing could be more
absurd than such a mode of charging; the rate should
have been less rather than more, for the coach lost no time
in standing, as between different short fares: the advan-
tage was wholly in favour of the driver•. The charge,
however, will be by the mile, as before—namely, Is. for
the first, or any distance less than a mile, and 6d. for
every half mile beyond ; but the additional 6,1. on every
two miles completed is by the new law abolished; and the
charge by the hour will be Is. for the first half 1-sour, and
6(1. for every fifteen minutes completed, or any fractional
part of fifteen minutes, throughout the whole come ;
there will, therefore, be a considerable saving to the public
on all fares above two miles, or one hour, as shown in the
comparative table (p. 10). All one horse carriage!, it
has been already oh,erved, are only entitled to two-thirds
of these rate. The option of going by the mile or the
hour remains with the driver ; but it is very likely to be
transferred to the hirer by consent when the licences a e
unlimited. Fares a/a minute are certainly preferable tc
those by the mile, as every one carries (or may carry)
time-measurer in his pocket ! but the distance by the mil
is so difficult to hit exactly, when the hirer has require
to go an irregul,r curse, that dispute or extortion me•l
frequently follows."

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BY EFFINGHANI WILSON, 88, Royal Exchange.

The Two concluding Volumes of

'HE TOUR, of a GERMAN PRINCE,
WITH A PORTRAIT.

Containing his rout through Germany and Holland,
his Descriptions of the external aspect of England, and
his Observations on the Society and Manners of the Metro-
Oohs, and of other places of fashionable resort.
fis These Volumes have been consigned to the Trans-
lator of the former portion of the work, (which has been
BO favourably received) who is preparing them for imme-
diate Publication.

A NEW EDITION of Vols. I and 11. is just Pulslisbcd,
price 18s. boards.
For a character of these Volumes see The Sun, Nov.
), 1831.