The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is very
firm, and a good business has been done considering the
small quantity on show; about 500 hogsheads have been
sold at extreme prices. The public sales have only
offered 1,875 bags Mauritius, 3,220 bags and 55 casks
Bengal, which went off without spirit, but nearly the
whole found buyers at about the previous quotations,
viz. at 50s to 57s 6d for low to fine brown Mauri-
tius, 58s to 67s for low to fine yellow ditto ;
low to fine white Benares Bengal 63s to
68s 6d, mid to fine soft yellow ditto 57s 6d to 62s 6d,
and low to good brown 50s to 545. The quantity of
British Plantation landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 752 hhds, 1 tierce, 27 barrels ;
and there were taken for home consumption, 1,514 hhds,
155 tierces, 133 barrels. The stock in the same places is
9,351 hhds, 1,000 tierces, and 1,039 barrels.
COFFEE-1,064 bags and 50 casks Ceylon, offered by
auction mostly sold at 63s 6d to 68s for fine ord pale to
tine ord colory, and good ord pale to fine ord British
Plantation kind, at 65s to 775, all of which were higher
rates than were expected ; but being generally of a su-
perior description to the average quality, no material
alteration can be quoted.
Ruar.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
"West India Docks was 74 puns 174 hhds ; and there
were taken for home consumption 243 puns 22 hhds ;
and exported 110 puns 6 hhds. The stock in the same
places was 12,625 puns 2,046 hhds.

TALLow.—The 'market is rather dull ; P.Y.C. at 41s
to 41s 3d ; and Town Tallow at 43s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The public sales of 50,000 packages com-
menced to-day, and are going off tolerably well as re-
gards the quantity finding buyers.

COAL M.
Ships arrived since
s. d.
Ord's nedheugh l2 6
West Wylam l9 i
Wylam
Walls End Clennell l5 0
Walls End Heaton lB 0
Walls End Hilda l7 6
Walls End Hetton
Walls End Morrison
Walls End Caradoc 2O 3
PRICES OF SEEDS
Per Cwt. Per Quarter
New English Red C10ver...35s 56s St. Foin .... ....... —s It's 45!
Old Ditto Ditto , —s —s —s Rye Grass —s 28s 40s
New Foreign Ditto......—s 353 54s Pacey Grass —s —s —s
Old Ditto Ditto —s —s —s Linseed, for feedin....—s 54s 56s
New White 4 'aver 45s yes COs Ditto, for sowing —s h2s 66
Old Ditto Ditto —s s—s Ditto, for crushing ....—s 505 535
New Trefoil —s 12s 21s Hemp..... .--s 36s 42,3
Old Ditto —s —s —s Canary —s 60s 6.'8
I'm folium s —s —s Per Bushel.
English Carraway —s 40s 41s White Mustard....los Od to 1210 d
Foreign Ditto —s 40s 46s Brown Ditto ...... ~,10s Od to 14s Pr)
Coriander —s 14s 20s Tares 4s Cd to I:. it

HKET

last market.day, 49,

s d.
Walls Eud Quarrington l9 6
Walls End Hopper'
Walls Et, d eek.
Howard's W. Netherton )4 9
alls End West kletton
Powell's Duffryn Steam , 2O 6
Sidney's Hartley ... . ... 15 0
Walls End Devonshire l7 6

NEAPOLITAN TRADE with INDIA.
East India-house, Jan. 11.

Sir,—ln reply to your note of the 9th inst., inquiring
"If Neapolitan merchant vessels under the Neapolitan
flag can take cargoes in the port of Singapore for the
kingdom of the Two Sicilies, " I am commanded by the
Court of Directors of the East India Company to trans-
mit to you a copy of " a regulation relating to the trade
of foreign ships with India," which was promulgated by
the Government of India on the 2d December, 1839.
I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
JAMES MELVILL.
To Mr. W. Dobson, Secretary at Lloyd's.
Extract from the Calcutta Gazette, Dec. 11, 1839.
" Legislative Department, Dec. 2, 1839.
" The following regulation made and passed by the
Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company,
under the authority given to them by the Act of the
37th George 111., cap. 117, is published for general in-
formation . by order of the Hon. the President of the
Council of India in Council
" `A REGULATION RELATING TO THE TRADE OF FOREIGN

LITERATURE,

his aged parents had been attacked by les Chouans,

who had murdered them both and mutilated their

bodies. The grief and indignation felt by Broussais
cannot be described. Forty years afterwards, says
Mignet, he became pale as he spoke of it."

ADVENTURES OF MR. LEDBURY. 3 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1844.

In these volumes we have a re-publication of
a tale that appeared last year in successive num-
bers of Bentley's Miscellany, and which we have
more than once noticed in The Sun. The story
of Mr. Ledbury, and his numerous mishaps and
adventures, is by no means deficient in interest;
the details, in particular, of his journey by way
of the Rhine to Switzerland, and afterwards to
Italy, and of the strange vicissitudes that betel
him on the road, exhibit much descriptive
ability; and the story possesses the additional re-
con►mendation of being cleverly illustrated by
Leech.

GLOSSOLOGY ; or the Additional Means of Diag-
nosis of Disease to he derived from Indications and
Appearances of the Tongue. By Benjamin Ridge,
M.R.C.S.L. Churchill, Prznces-street. 1844.
This treatise contains the substance of a paper
read by Dr. Ridge before the Senior Physical
Society of Guy's Hospital on the 4th of Novem-
ber last ; and certainly, should the truth of the
doctrines propounded in it be confirmed, Dr.
Ridge has made one of the most vitally import-
ant discoveries that has been made since the
days of Hunter. His discovery is
" That certain appearances in parts of the tongue
indicate the presence of certain diseases, and that these
parts correspond with certain organs of the body."
The state of the tongue has always been con-
sidered as diagnostic of disease, but the amount
of information hitherto afforded by it is thus de-
scribed by Dr. Ridge, who follows up the state-
ment by an account of the manner in which he
made his discovery :
" I found the tongue was looked at as an organ of
diagnosis, and I looked at it too : but the amount
of information I gained from it was trifling; and
very little more did I gather from books, or from per-
sonal instruction. I still thought there must be some•
thing more substantial to be learned from it, or other-
wise it seemed a waste of time to look at it at all.
Dissatisfaction on the point led me gradually to re-
flect on its diversified appearances. As disease came
before me, so different observations obtruded them-
selves, until, after carrying these in my mind for
years without being able to arrange them or adopt
any regular system, I was led at last to draw the rough
form of a tongue, and map out its compartments. I
had no Sooner accomplished this than I perceived
that the divisions corresponded very closely with its
anatomy.

" The first observations I made were in 1836-7,
during the prevalence of the epidemic influenza. The
cases which came before me were numerous; but my
own observations differed so widely from those of the
writers on that epidemic, that I hesitated in obtrud-
ing them. I noticed three distinct stages of this dis-
ease—affecting, first, the stomach ; then the lungs ;
and lastly, the brain ; and that three distinct charac-
teristics of the tongue presented themselves."
The work is profusely illustrated by diagrams
and plates, showing the divisions of the tongue,
according to the views of Dr. Ridge, and the ap-
portionment of those divisions to the various or-
gans of the body. The Doctor then goes into a
minute anatomical description of the structure
of the tongue, for the purpose of showing that
these divisions are founded on structure, and that
there is a nervous connection between the va-
rious divisions of the tongue and the organs to
which they are appropriated. Should Dr.
Ridge's views prove correct, it is impossible to
exaggerate the importance of the science of
Glossology, not only in the diagnosis of dis-
ease, but as a means of detecting deception :
_

" I must here remark that a thorough knowledge
of Glossology will sometimes detect deception.
When the tongue is silent, it will tell the truth. The
sick tale is not unfrequently an untrue one : those
who have had most practice are best acquainted with
this fact."

This book is well worthy the careful attention
of the medical profession. Every practising
member of that profession has the power of in-
vestigating the truth of these doctrines; and it
is a duty he owes to himself, to his profession
and to his fellow-creatures to do so; for the
nearer the approach to certainty in diagnosis, the
nearer the approach to certainty in application
of remedial agents. In conducting these inves-
tigations we would earnestly impress upon the
minds of the investigators the importance of
this, the concluding observation of Dr. Ridge's
work :

" Important truths are only to be elicited by a great
expenditure of time and patience; and he is the
wisest man who spends them liberally and ungrudg-
ingly, when they are paid down for a good purpose—
to add to knowledge, and benefit mankind.'

OUR INDIAN MAIL.—Our Indian papers contain
Indian Ink to the latest moment ; and we have received
pickles up to the time of starting. Our Courier, in an:
tieipation of the Overland Mail, has arrived in anticipa-
tion of his pay ; but he will not get it. Among our
other Indian arrivals, we have been put in possession of
Indian rubber from which we find tha there is a good
deal' a elasticity- in the isarkets.—Punch.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EIE

FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIETV,IVo..II:XIV.
Chapman and Hall, London, 1844.
Alluding, some few weeks since, to the past
and present state of American litera Lure, we
took the opportunity of observing that the
United States had not yet produced or to single
author of eminence of whom it could justly be
said that he was original. We remarked that
the writings, whether in prose or verse, of the
New World, were merely so many faint, feeble
copies of those of the Old; and that evert Cooper
himself, though supposed to convey a :faithful
image of national peculiarities in his works, was
often nothing more than an echo of Sir 'Walter
Scott, just as Emerson is of Carlyle, and Bryant
of 'Wordsworth. An article in the present
number of this journal, entitled " Aanerican
Anthology," fully bears out our opi Dion, by
passing in review a whole tribe of Yankee
authors, and pointing out the sources whence
they derived some of their best ideas._ Not a
few of the poetical specimens quoted. by the
Reviewer are of the most grotesque ch aracter it
is possible to conceive, and satisfy us that
America has yet much to learn, as well as
much to unlearn, before she can cultivate
the Muses with any prospect of success. The
memorable " Congress of Vienna" in 1815, when
Europe was coolly partitioned Out by a set of
despotic Legitimates, without the slightest regard
to any other consideration than their own conve-
nience, forms the theme of an amusing critical
notice, in which occur several whimsical sketches
of illustrious individuals who figured prc'minently
in that scene of royal tom-foolery. The! portrait
of his fat Majesty of Wirtemberg—that " tun of
a man," who possessed all the obesity of Falstaff
without a tithe of his wit, is, we have no doubt,
perfectly accurate ; and the passing glimpse we
have of the sentimental Alexander, whom Napo-
leon justly described as " a Greek of the Lower
Empire," gives us a vivid idea of the character
of this royal dissembler. In the review of
" Mignet's Historical Essays," we find a
hasty memoir of the notorious Abbe Sieyes, so
well known during the early period of the Re-
volution for his constitutional theories, as also
for the part he played on the occasion of the
Eighteenth Brumaire, when Citizen Bonaparte
upset the Directorial Government, and under the
specious form of the Consulate established a
systematic, military despotism. " Sinde, its
Arneers and its People" makes no great addition
to the stock of knowledge we already possess on
this subject, still it is an interesting article; and
is put forth at a seasonable juncture, when all
eyes are directed with eagerness towards this
new conquest of the Indian Government. From
the notice of Mignet's " Historical Essays" we
quote an anecdote or two respecting the eminent
French physician Broussais :
" He had not quite finished his studies when the
revolution burst out. His family embraced the cause
of liberty. His ardent and impetuous imagination
was inflamed by it. The time arrived for participa •
tion. The Prussians, in 1792, had advanced to Ver-
dun, and the alarm had roused the patriotism of all
France. Broussais, then twenty years of age, enrolled
himself in a company of volunteers, of which he was
named sergeant. In one of the frequent encounters
with les Chouans he signalized his force, his genero-
sity, and his courage. The company of volunteers
had been surprised and beaten. In retreating, one of
his comrades was shot, and fell at his side. The war
was without quarter, and the enemy were but a few
paces in arrear. Yet Broussais, at the peril of being
taken himself, stopped, lifted his wounded companion
upon his shoulders, and continued his retreat, his pace
somewhat slackened by the burden. Les Chouans
fired upon him. One ball passed through his hat.
But he escaped. Arrived at a place of safety, he de-
posed his comrade on the ground ; and to his horror
found him dead. He had run that risk to save a
corpse. He could not long animate the company with
his example. Seriously ill, he was obliged to return
to his family ; and on his recovery he embraced the
paternal profession. His progress in study was rapid;
and having attended the hospitals of St. Malo and
Brest, he was appointed surgeon to the frigate Laße-
nominee. On the eve of departure he received a letter
from the Mayor of St. Malo, which commenced in
these terrible words :—` Tremble in . receiving this
letter !'

FINE ARTS.

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We have just seen a portrait of Mr. Charles
Phillips, one of the newly-appointed Commis-
sioners of the Court of Bankruptcy. This por-
trait is a half-length, and represents the Learned
Gentleman, with his right arm stretched forward,
and his left resting on a law book, in the act, we
presume, of addressing one of the Judges in
Bankruptcy. The likeness is a very striking
one ; and as a work of-,art, it deserves great
praise for the neatness and skill with which it is
finished off. The artist is a gentleman named
O'Driscoll, who has painted it from life, and
drawn it on stone.

STRAND THEATRE.
A new one-act farce, from the pen of Peake (we
presume an adaptation from the French) was produced
at this theatre last evening, under the title of Madelon;
or, The Devil of a Dancing-master. The scene is laid
in a French village, in the time of Louis XV. Madelon
(Mrs. Montgomery) is an orphan girl, living with her
aunt, the hostess of the village inn. Monsieur Salathiel
(Mr. Alfred Wigan), the Devil of a Dancing-master, is
the dancing-master of the village, and has been in days
of yore the prineipal dancing devil at the Grand Opera.
He makes love both to Madelon and to her aunt, to
Madelon for the sake of her beauty, and to the aunt for
the sake of her purse. Madden, however, treats
him with contempt, for she loves Pierre Paul
Placidon (Wilkinson), an honest journeyman-hatter.
A carriage drives up to the door of the inn, and
Mademoiselle Guimard (Miss Fitzjames), a danseuse
from the Grand Opera, accompanied by her lover, rush
in to seek for refuge from the persecution of the Prince
de Soubise and Madame du Barry. Mademoiselle Gui-
mard had been, in former days, kind and charitable to
Madelin's mother, and the grateful girl determines to
render her every assistance. The Prince de Soubise
arrives, and Mademoiselle Guimard effects her escape,
leaving Madelon disguised in her cloak and bonnet. The
devotion of Madelon, however, rouses the jealousy of
Placidon ?and Salathiel, who seems to delight in mischief-
making, lends his assistance to increase the imbroglio.
All, however, is cleared np at the conclusion, and Madelon
and Placidon are made happy. The quiet humour of Wil-
-I(inson told excellently in Placidon,and Wigan, as Salathiel,
j u:nped about as though his limbs were of Indian rubber.
Mrs. Montgomery as Madelon was admirable. This lady
thoroughly understands the French character, and de-
lineates it to the life. Her Madelon had all the vivacity,
the elegance, the espieglerie, and the warmheartedness
of a genuine French girl. There were several little
touches of pathos in the part, which were exquisitely
given. Nothing, for instance, could be better than the
description of the visit of Mademoiselle Guimard to the
distressed family of Madelon's parents. It was beauti-
ful. We should like much to see this lady in tragedy. ,
illadelon was preceded by Rodwell's successful drama of
Adele, and followed by the " Nigger" songs of Palmer,
the banjo player. The Hunter's Bride concluded the ,
e vening's amusements. The house was exceedingly
well filled.