The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

MEDICAL TIMES. Vol. X.
Carfrae, London, 1844.
The present part, which is the tenth of this miscel-
lany, contains an infinite variety of information
respecting medical matters, and suggests remedies for
some of those maladies—such as consumption, for
instance—which are most common among the inha-
bitants of this country. We also find in it occasional
extracts from the lectures of the ablest surgeons and
physicians of the day.

PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOK. London, 1844.
Our facetious and indefatigable friend Punch ex.
hibits to great advantage in this, his most recent, pro-
duction, and has given us a pocket-book which
abounds in all sOrts of grotesque drolleries. We have
an infinite variety of sketches both in prose and verse;
and, among other diverting extravaganzas, we find an
article entitled " The Stranger's Guide to the
Great Metropolis," in which, in a spirit of the gravest
and most insidious irony, Punch, with that love of
practical joking peculiar to him, gives the country
visitor to London such directions, as if implicitly
adhered to, cannot fail to procure him the high and
enviable honour of a personal introduction to a police
inspector at the station-house ! In addition to its
humourous verse and prose sketches, this pocket-book
contains much useful information such as, an
an Almanac for the year, a list of the Members of
the two houses of Legislature, Astronomical Notices,
and particulars respecting the Taxes, and the Transfer
Days of the Public Funds, &c. As a specimen of
Punch's humourous rhymes, we quote his " Invective
against Attorneys," with the spirit of which we cor•
dially sympathise :
Friends, neighbours, countrymen, I take
The liberty to warn ye
Against that universal scourge,
A rascally Attorney.
In ev'ry town you travel thro',
The first thing you discern is
A plate of brass, with letters large,
Some " Rogue and Co., Attorneys."
When debts and duns are plaguing one,
The thought a constant thorn is,
All others may be satisfied,
But never the Attorneys.
When lands are gone and body bare
As any babe new-born is,
The wretch may call his soul his own—
His skin is his Attorney's.

From good men's hate I'd screen the man
Whose name my bitterest scorn is;
To yield him to that deeper curse,
The friendship of Attorneys.
When dawn dispels the feverish dream,
My first prayer in the morn is,
Oh keep me from all evil things!
But still more from Attorneys.
And when, at night, I go to bed,
It always my concern is,
To finish with a bumper-toast,
" Confusion to Attorneys."
So I will lead a pious life,
That, when to die my turn is,
My soul may find a resting-place,
Where there are no Attorneys.

PROMISSORY NOTES.
The Bank Returns for Scotland and Ireland exhibit
for the four weeks to Nov. 9, a general increase in the
circulation as follows :

SCOTLAND.
Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks,
Now
Last time

3,284,295
2,987,665

Increase
IRELAND.

276,630

Bank of Ireland, Now 3,896,750
Last time

Increase 298,900
Private and Joint-Stock Banks, Now 2,832,397
Last time 2,456,261.

Increase

376,136

A few days ago a lady travelling in Liverpool, by
one of the Waterloo omnibuses, got seated by the side
of a member of the swell mob, equipped fur his vocation
with a cloak and false pair of hands, the latter being de-
murely folded before him. While he thus appeared to
be sitting harmless as a lamb, he was busily engaged in
cutting through the lady's apparel to get at her pocket,
from which he succeeded in extracting her purse, con-
. taining six sovereigns.— Sheffield Iris.