The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-27 00:00:00

AIRS.ELLIS,S NEW WORK.

THE DAUGHTERS of ENGLAND ;
Their Position in Society, Character, and Responsibi-
lities. By the Author of " The Women of England" (and
designed for a Companion-Volume to that Work, now in its
Seventeenth Edition)—will be published with the Magazines,
on the 31st instant.

ITALY, GREECE, and the RHINE. Illus-
trated in a Series of beautifully-executed Engravings,
from Drawings on the Spot by Colonel Cockburn, Major Irton,
Messrs. Bartlett, Leitch, and Wolfensberger. With Histo-
rical, Claqsieal, and picturesque Descriptions by the Rey.
G. N. WRIGHT, M. A. . . . _ _ _

A Part of the Work is published regularly on the let of the
Month, and contains Four highly-finished Line Engravings,
printed on superfine paper, Quarto size, at the moderate price
of Two Shillings.
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COLLIER'S SHAKSPEARE.
On the Ist of February will be issued, and continued every
other month, a volume of
ANEW EDITION of SHAKSPEARE'S
PLAYS and POEMS, collated with the Original
Editions, and comprising Notes, a Biography, and a History of
Dramatic Performances in England, to the time of the Poet.
By J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., F. S.A., Author of " The
History of English Dramatic Poetry and the Stage," &c. In
eight handsome vok'mes, Bvo., price 12s. per volume, being
41. 16s. for the complete work, including the biography, his-
tory, &c.
'" „,* See Prospectus at the end of the Reviews, Magazines, &c.
" No person who is acivainted with Mr. Collier's past con-
tributions to the history of our dramatic literature can doubt
his competency. To him it is labour of love to illustrate the
masters of the Elizabethan period ; although the modesty with
which he executes such services is as remarkable as the ability
and the judgment which his performances display.—Monthly
Review.
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MARRIAGE.
New and Enlarged Edition (in an Envelop), price 55.,
by post 6s. 6d.,
WRII.I.A.GE—Its Intent, Obligations, and
_ll_ Physical and Constitutional Disqualifications, Medically
considered; with Essays on Hereditary Health, and on many
of the CiAleealeil Infirmities of Human Life. To which is
added, the Confessional—comprising details of Melancholy,
Nervousness, and Feeble Health, arising from Care, Grief
Anxiety, Dissipation, Gourmandism, Corpulency, Love, and
Religion, with numerous Engravings, &c., the entire forming
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dressed especially to those approaching and arriving at Pubert;
and Manhood, and called " PROFESSIONAL RECORDS.

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The Observer of Sunday and Monday next, the
30th and 31st instant, will contain engravings illustrative
of the ceremony of the christening of the Prince of
Wales, including a view of the interior of St. George's
Chapel during the ceremony of baptism, the interior of
St. George's Hall, during the banquet, with vignette re-
Eresentations of the history of the Princes of Wales from
dward I. to Edward VI. ; together with copious and
accurate details of the ceremonies. Price of the Observer,
6d. Monday afternoon edition is preferable for the
country and abroad. Sixpence can be sent in a letter
for a copy of the Observer by return of pest.
On Sunday, Mr. James Meredith, the hair-
dresser under the cloisters, Temple, who had been en-
gaged in the business upwards of twenty years, was
found drowned in the Thames, opposite Bankside.
The unfortunate man had been missing before
Christmas, and it was supposed that he had left for Ame-
rica. His wife and family could gain no intelligence of
him, And were, as might have been expected, in great
suspense at his continued absence. On the person of the
deceased was found the key of his shop n tho Temple,
his cud, and fourteen-pence in his po4ei.
Information
was brought to the shop, and the body was identified.
pecuniary distms, it is paid, led to the rash set,