The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-02 00:00:00

ling I NAME OF RAILWAY.

L. 26 Aberdeen •• •• •• •• •• .• •• •• •e• ••
27 Amiens and Boulogne
26 Belfast and Ballymena ••• ••
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27 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
27 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y.
27 Bristol and Exeter .• • • ••• •••• • • •
20 Caledonian....
26 Chester and H01yhead....... •••• • • • •
24 Dublin and Drogheda• •• • • ••••• • • • •
29 Dublin and Kingstown •••• • • • ..... ' •
26 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen........
27 East Anglian.... • • •• ••••" " " "
26 Edinburgh and Glasgow. •• • •••• • • • •
26 Edinburgh and Perth •••••• • • • • • •
27 Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
20 East Lancashire ............ •••• • • • •
26 Eastern Union •• •••• ••••
26 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • •
26 Glasgow and Greenock.. •••• • • • •• • •
20 Great Northern and E. L. ••••• • • • • •
26 Great Southern and Western • .......
27 Great Western, &c•• • ....... •••• • • "
27 Lancashire and Yorkshire..• ••••• • • • •
20 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• ••••• • • • • •
Leeds and Thirst: ••...••••• •• •• •• ..27 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
26 Londonderry and Enniskillen
27 London and North Western, &c......
27 London and 81ackwa11...... •••• • • • •
2G London and Brighton ..... ••••• • • • • •
27 London and South Western •••• • •
27 Manchester, S'heilleld, and Lincolnshire
27 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
27 Midland Great Western (Irish) ......
26 Monklands ... •• • ..... • . •• .• ••
27 North British ......................
26 Paris and Rouen • ..... •
26 Rouen and Havre
27 Scottish Central "••• • • • • .... • • •
26 Scottish- Midland
27 Shrewsbury and Chester ............
27 Shrop,hirs, Union ..... ...........
2G South Eastern and Branches ........
20 Louth Devon— •••• . ..............
26 Taff Vale .....• • • •.........
27 Ulster . ......................

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20 Witachaven Junction ...............
27 York and North Mid'and. •• •• •• •• ••
27 York and Newcastle . ..............

631 i
1,142
414

732
420
3,245
15,246
1,139
713
583

621
2,439
1,751
13,532
2,588
1,604
2,407

810
2,398
3,521
16,434
11,419
3,028

114
39,347

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6,344
7,0b9
'4,110
19,214
1,131

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2,837
5,274
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1,291

399
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355
695
336

3,483
1,097
645
667

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7,731
1,356
1,671
749

35,777

581
6,709
8,195
1,707
18,611

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1,9 6
4,919
2,064
758

161
11,374
5,824

22i
1,235

(;,(136
1,176
1,782
549

168
12,163
5.717

DISTRESSING SUICIDE Dr A LICENSED VIC-
TUALLER'S WIPE.—On Thilinidacy an inqut was n
before Mr. M. Wnkley, at the Middles. x Hospital, or
vie w cf the body (f Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell, aged 35
years, the wife of Mr. Mitchell, the proprietor of the
Crown public-house, at the corner of Broad street,
Golden-2quatie. The deceased, while labouring under
delirium tremens, leaped from a second-floor window into
he 3 ard, a distance of 30 feet, and sustained some dread -
fbl injuries in the fall. She died on Tuesday last at the
above-mentioned hospital. The jury returned a verdict
of " Death from delirium tremens; but whether the de-
ceasedjuraped from the window %itli a suicidal intent or
not there was not sufficient evidence to prove."
WARNING TO MAGISTRATES' CLERIIB.—TiI(I Cri-
minal Court of Appeal yesterday declared that the convic-
tion of Christopher and others, at Liverpool, was bad be-
cause the depositions, on which they had been committed,
had been taken by the magistrate's clerk in the absence of
the prisoners, and because the Recorder refused to permit
the counsel for the prisoners to put a question to one of the
witnesses for the purpose of eliciting from him what had
passed between himself and the magistrate's clerk. The
Chief Justice in giving judgment said "The clerk had done
an act which the law would not sanction. The convic-
tion was therefore bad, and the prisoners must be dis-
charged.

EXECUTION OF MARGARET LENNOX ALIAS
HAMILTON.—This criminal suffered the last penalty of the
law for the crimes of forgery and murder, on Thursday
morning, in frent of the Court-house, at Glasgow. Strenuous
efforts had been made by a number of ladies and other per-
sons to obtain a commutation of the sentence, but
their efforts were in vain. During the three weeks which
elapsed between the sentence and the execution, the
unhappy woman conducted herself in a way becoming
her awful situation, and it appears she was wellthe
ac-
quainted with the Bible, and could repeat by heart
greater
exceedinglypart of the
guarded, Psalrn s a n Ond
so
the
farw
subject
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making
was
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mur-
dered woman.
the daybefore her guilt,
the
her last
execution, interviewh e
be
besought
ther e
rh husband, an d
confess,, o n
if guilty ; she replied, she was not guilty, to her
knowleage. By eight o'clock in the morning a crowd of
20 OW persons
about , was assembled to witness the excels-
t
ion ; they consisted chiefly of people of the lowest grade,
with numbers of women mixed up here and there with the
mass. The miserable culprit, who had retained her firmness
up to Wednesday evening, had undergone from that time a
complete change, and become perfectly. helpless. She was
supported on the scaffold between two officers of the police,
by whose assistance she walked slowly to the gallows. The
rope was then placed around her neck, and the officers
having quitted her, she fell backwards, evidently in a
swoon. The executioner at this moment pulled the rope, the
drop fell, and she died instantaneously while in a state of in-
sensibility. The body, after hanging the usual time, was
cut down, and interred within the precincts of the prison.
The deceased was in the 25th year of her age ; she had been
married two Tech and hall 10(1 all iaf tIiA Motile tid.

INDIA, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Within the compass of sixty four pages are here
comprised the whole of the varied fortunes of the
peninsula of Hindostan, for a sum of the most trifling
character. Inasmuch as the publication forms one of
a new series of the " Library of Useful Knowledge,'
it is eminently entitled to consideration, affording no
it does a large amount of valuable information, and
rendering that information accessible to all classes of
the community.

THE JUSTIFICATION OF WAR.
A clever treatise on the famous • views of
Aristotle has been here presented under the title
above given, by Mr. George Stephens, already known
by his dramas, essays, and "Manuscripts of Erdely."
At a period when the peace movement is exciting so
large a share of public attention, the little volume
before us, written in a sagacious mood, and with con-
siderable argumentative point, will be perused with
interest, and its merits will only the more readily be
appreciated. We commend it to the attention of all
those who would aid in the advancement of the cause
of civilization.

r • LAYS OF THE LAKES.
The principal merit in this little volume of poems,
descriptive and reflective, by Catharine Ponsonby, is
that of its inoffensive mediocrity. Otherwise we can
say little in commendation, the book consisting of
somewhat the same materials as those which Mr.
Wakle3r, the coroner for Middlesex, regarded as the
staple of the poetry of Wordsworth.

BAILY'S QNITED SERVICE RECORD
Decidedly the most copious, cheap, and compre-
hensive catalogue of the officers in the British army,
the British navy, and the forces of the Hon. Nast
India Company, yet published. Nearly 30,000
JUMPS are here compacted together within the very
portable compass of 228 pages.

THE SHAKSPERE ALMANAC!
A clever little conceit has been embodied in this
publication by the ingenuity of Mr. J. W. Leth •
bridge. We can best intimate the character of
the almanack by one or two almost haphazard
quotations:-
10th September.--Attempted assassination of General
Cavaignac, 1848.
" The time is out of joint;-0 cursed spite!
That ever I was born to set it right!"
ILzmlei, a. i. S. 5.
19th September.—Lord Brougham born, 1779.
"I am sir °rack,
And when I ope my lips let no dog barli!"
Merchant of Venice, a. i. a. 1.
6th August.—A sea serpent seen by Captain M`Quhaa,
of H.M.S. DreJalus, 184 i.
" Very like a whale."—Hamlet, a. iii. a. 2.

20th April,—Louis Napoleon Buonaparto born at Paris,
1808.

" What is this,
That rises like the issue of a king;
And wears upon his baby brow the round
And top of sovereignty ?"—Afacbeth, a. iv. s. 1.
7th February.—Charles Dickens born, 1812.
" This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish
extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects,
ideas, apprehensions, motion:, revolutions: these are
begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the
womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing
of occasion: But the gift is good in those in whom it is •
acute, and I am thankful fur it."
Love's Labour Lost, a. iv. s. 2.
And so on throughout the 365 days, the scraps of
verse from the golden works of Shakspere being
sometimes delightfully appropriate.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
An experiment has been institutA for the purpose of
breaking up ice, which was at' ended with complete suc-
cess, mud deft), ves notice on the eve of a new Arctic
expedition. A trill was made, and the device tested on
a large pond, cotered over with trust several inches
thick. A hole was bored in iho centre, and a jar filled
with gunpowder introduced, suspended by a cord f,om
the handle, wilt] a conductii g wire inserted through
the cork, which was sealed with wax to exclude the
damp. An explosion was effected by means of a voltaic
artery, at.d the result was ay.( eioily surprising, the
whole hAy or ire being in sh ore(' iris tr-;-
ti fri,lll fhi for.:e C ;11, s o•T', 11,0 pa,e
entirely cie.ircii. A blast in the of.en vi ouch r
in the ordinary stage 4 xhibits, eowpmatively, but a f lint
conception ot the effect produced. Tke tact be;ng estab-
lished, the cause may, perhaps, be thus satisfactorily
explained :—Water Is known to be incompressible ; it
seems, therefore, probable tl.at, when subjected to con-
fined and sudden action, it is calculated by nature
to burst through all obstructions, and to rival
the elastic power of steam. In case the plan
is adopted on an extensive scale the neces-
sary apparatus should be similar to that rm•
plc)} el in the operations of blowing up the wre.:k of the
Royal George, and with which it is advisable that every
vessel proceeding to the northern regions may be sup-
plied. The proper depth to which the powder cylinders
ought to be sunk in the sea can Le easily ascertained, in
order that there !night not be any needless expenditure
of the
of strength arising from an undue pressureo
element. In like manner, a loaded
acrhorizontal direc-
tion, when that course iscu on attached to
a rope can be fired .under water
scheme eou lodf
such modes a ship block,
and its saf,ty secured. Tun
du up
deemed
bly moreic e cmoraivymbieenrescued
from a perilous position,
navigation is impeded in more southern latitudes by the
ially
intensity of the frost. This expedient possesses the
aber e
boo tnheefire tl ee
practisedsin which
at times;s wh e
n o f
lirehe
progress kind
merit of being free from ;danger, can be ex“:uted with
facility, and combines the advantages of cheapness and
efficiency. Such an agency, when its value is generally
known, is sure to be used as occasion requires, and will
not fail to accomplish the desired object whenever cir-
cumstances demand its application.—K.

„„
[ADVERTISEMENT.]-11/INDSOR CASTLE THEATRI-
CALs.—The Era newspaper of to-morrow, Feb. 3, will contain
a full and accurate Account of the Performance of Julius
Casar, last Friday night, at Windsor Castle, before her 31ajesty
and the Court, with exclusive and interesting particulars con-
nected with the representation. Among the most important
articles in this week's Era will be fuund :—Conunento on
the Queen's Speech ; The First Conservative Fire ; Debate
and Divisions in Parlament ; Captain Smith, the Tartar ;
Cobden's Model Farm Exposed; Shop Impositions; with all
Theatricals of the day. Acceptances for the Great Spring
Handicaps, and Remarks upon the same, by "Touchstone.”
The Era is published at five o'clock on Sunday morning,
price sixpence. The sale of this rapidly rising Family,
Theatrical, and Sporting Journal now exceeds 10,000 every
week.

LAUNCH OF A STEAMER.—The Dement, steam
ship, of NO tons, built for the intercolonial service of the
Royal Mail Steam-packet Company by Mr. W. Pileler, was
launched from his dockyard at Northtleet, on Thur:day, the
31st ult. She was placed immediately in the dry do ck, to ise
coppered, &c., preparatory to her being taken. rotuul lOWA
ampton, where lor mathiaory it to be &W I.

LITERATURE.
A FEW WORDS ON KINESOPATHY ; or,
_ Swidish 2lfedical Gymnastics : the Application of
Active and Passive Movements in the Cure of
Diseases, according to the method of P. 'N. Ling;
and the importance of introducing Mechanical
Agency into the Practice of Medicine. By Auguitus
George.
The public are indebted to the writer of this valu-
able pamphlet for bringing them acquainted with
Ling's system of treatment, a system the discovery
of which forms an era in 'the history of medical
science. In applying the word medical to gymnastics
it is not intended to imply athletic exercises, but the
agency of movements on the part of the medical pro-
fessor, and their local action on the seat of the disease.
The cures effected by
apparently the most simplemeans, are truly surprising ;
but simple as the means
arc, they require a most perfect knowledge- of the
anatomy of the human frame, a knowledge which lies
at the foundation of all that is successful in medical
science. We live in ati era when the mint opens
iNe!f eagerly and thankfully to tte, reception of new
truths, snore especially where the health is concerned,
that first of blessings, without which life has no eii-
was earnestly patronized
kiyment, with whatever attra.Ci.isms it may be sus -
rounded. Professor Ling
and received every aid from the :King of Sweden 4nd
the Saedish Government. A royal institution was
established, and a certain number of pupils publicly
taught, who devoted themselves to the teach-
ing and practice of the science •of medical
gymnastics throughout the country. The Pro-
lessor fully tested the therapeutic agency
of muscular and local movements, by repeated ofieee-
vations and experiments. He observed bilong and
attentive application that movements were of different
natures ; that they acted differently, according to the
different organs influenced by theta, and that the
phenomena they occasioned were" in some measure
comparable to the effects of internal medicines. 'He
further observed that by the application of general me-
chanical laws to those of the organization of the human
frame we are-able to affect any organ by movements,
and that due regard being had to the relation and
state of the various organs, it will be easy to regulate
and determine the requisite strength of the influence
to be applied. Professor Braking, the head of the
Central Institution in Stockholm, and Augustus
George, the author of the present work, were the
only two persons whose thorough anatomical know-
ledge enabled them to take the lead, and to acquire
the reputation they obtained. In the present pam-
phlet Air. George enters into a minute description of
Professor Ling's mode of operation, and of the prig-
/
cipal points of his physiological operations and
.views.
A tabular view is given of the patients treated
at the
Central Institution at tockholw, from July, 1848, to
July, 1849; and the list of cures in the most afflictive
cases are so extraordinary, and so well attested, as to
leave no patient without hope, under whatever degree
of nervous relaxtion or bodily debility, he may suffer.
We recommend the general perusal of this pamphlet,
from having witnessed the successful operations of
Mr. George, to the surprising success of which we
can bear testimony.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 1.
The SPEAKER. took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.

NEW WRITS.
On the motion of Sir W. FIAYTER, new writs for the
borough of Windsor, in the room of Lord John Hay,
who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and for the
borough of Colchester, in the room of Mr. Smith, who
has also accepted the Chiltern
_Hundreds, were ordered.