The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-02 00:00:00

BRILLIANT CHEAP LIGHT.

ROBINSON'S PATENT LAMPS, to Burn
ILLUMINATIVE NAPTHA, an economic substi-
tute for gas. oil, or eandles,require little trouble in trimming,
no snuffing, or any attention whilst burn mg, consume their
own smoke, are free from grease, dirt, or sparks, never chill,
and not liable to be out of repair. A post franked circular of
pattern, with prices, will be sent, by forwarding the address
(free) to H. M. Robinson and Co., 19, Minories, Aldgate.

NaPtha sent regularly to order. Agencies and Licenses
granted. Dealers supplied.

39, ALBENIARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY, (apposite
the York Hotel), and may be had also at

76, KING WILLIAM-STREET,-BANK of ENGLAND.
SIGHT - TESTI-
MONIALS on the Messrs. S. and B. SOLONIONS'
newly-inverted SPECTACLE LENSES and INVISIBLE
OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR for Deaf Persons.

" We, the undersigned, have been for some time making
use of Messrs. Solomons' newly-invented Spectacle Lenses ;
the astonishing relief they afford to imperfect vision gives
them the decided preference to every other kind of Lens
—the clearness of the transparency brings every object very
distinct, and enables individuals to view the most minute par
tide with perfect accuracy. They are particularly pleasant
by candle light, as they appear cooling to the sight, and soften
bright and brilliant lights :
James Blundell, Esq., M.D., 1, Great George-street, West-
minster.

George G. Sigmond, Esq., M.D., 24, Dover-street.
T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., Surgeon, F. R. S., Saville-row.
John Ram sbotham , Esq. , M. D., Broad- street- building s .
Anthony White, Esq., Surgeon, 3, Parliament-street.
John Hooper, Esq. , Surgeon, 29, Newington-place, K ennington
Frederick Leighton, Esq., M.D , 7, Upper Gower-street.
Messrs. Griffiths and Duncan, Surgeons, 3, Leadenhall-street.
W. Day, Esq., Surgeon, Isleworth.
T. Daldy, Esq., Surgeon, 33, New Broad-street.
R. H. Lue.as, Esq., M.D., Exeter.
J. Taylor Gordon, Esq., M.D.
Wm. Bowie, Esq., M.D., Bennett-street, Bath.
C. Heywood, Esq., M.D., Blandford.
Henry Lawrence, Esq., M.D., Tenby.
Wm Jeafreson, Esq., Surgeon-oculist, 21, South Audley-street.
S.D. Robinson, Esq., M.D., Cheltenham.
C. Shillito, Esq., M.D., Bri;hten.
William Crmolly, Esq., M.D., Cheltenham.
E. H. Allnatt, Esq., M.D. Wallingford.
Thomas Willis, Esq., M.D., Brighton.
G. Griffiths, Esq., Surgeon, Hammersmith.
Cahn Kenderick, Esq., Surgeon, Manchester-street, Manches
ter-square.
Charles Tunally, Esq., Surgeon, Camden-town.
H. Colebourn, Esq., Surgeon, 2s, Harleyford-place, Ken-
nington.

N. 11.kann, Esq., Surgeon, 50, Parliament-street.
Samuel Banner, Esq., Surgeon, 26, Berkeley-square.
W..lones, Esq., Surgeon, 15, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-

square.
W. English, Esq., Surgeon, Denmark-h;11.
A. Barklemore, Esq., Surgeon, 10, Charlotte-street, Blooms-
bury.
R. J. Pollock, Esq„ Surgeon, Kensington.
E. Stoddart, Esq., Surgeon, 32, Golden-square.
J. H. Walker, Surgeon, 23, Charlotte.street, Bloomsbury.
C. Higham, Esq., Surgeon, 46, Davies-street, Berkeley-square
Edward Nason, Esq., Surgeon,Nuneaton, Warwickshire."

In placing the above list of Testimonials before the public,
the Messrs. Solemons. Opticians and Aurists, state that their
INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, by
which thousands of Deaf Persons have been greatly benefited,
is not larger than a seven-shilling-piece, and when fixed into
the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not more uncomfort-
able nor perceptible than having a piece of wool in its place.
By its use the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard
with distinctness. _ _

These important new inventions are patronized by their Ma-
jesties the King and Queen of Hanover and their Royal High-
nesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene High.
ness the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses Mary and Rosa,
her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Bedford, and their Graces
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dukes of Devonshire and
Manchester, &c. &c.
39, Albemarle-street, and 76, King William-street, Bank.
In consequence of the gross imposition in the Country, it is
nece.sary to state that no Travellers are employed in the above
Establishment. No connection with persons of the same name.

CIOUGHS, COLDS, AND ASTHM AS.
I.} The 42d Testimonial in fayour of that excellent Mod:-
eine HOLLAND'S BALSAM of SPRUCE:—

" Brompton, 14th April, 1841.
" DEA R SIR-My prejudices being somewhat strong, 1 could
not prevail upon myself to try your Holland's Balsam of
Spruce,' until accidentally hearing of a wonderful cure being
effected upon a friend of mine by its use, I was induced to over-
come my scruples and give it a trial ; and upon using it, I have
the pleasing satisfaction of stating, for the information of others,
who, like myself, may be labouring under the cruel affliction of
confirmed asthma, that I have experienced so much benefit as
to truly say I have not been so easy for many a long and weary
year ; and am convinced that, in all cases similar, your Balsam
of Spruce will be, as it shall be with me, a constant companion
and bosom friend.

" I have not attempted to describe any sufferings ; they are
too well known and felt by all asthmatic persons to neod de-
scribing; but earnestly hoping that others may be induced to
make the experiment, and obtain the same gratifying result,
and that you may be rewarded for your ingenuity in discover-
ing so valuable a medicine, I remain, Sir, yours gratefully,
" THOS. DAVIS."
Upwards of a hundred cases of cures are now in course of
publication in 200 newspapers throughout the kingdom, in-
eluding many of extraordinary character, to which sufferers are
referred; its astonishing power in subduing coughs and colds
exceeds all belief, whilst its healing, balsamic, and soothing
qualities instantly relieve soreness and tightness of the chest,
sense of suffocation. sore throat, &c.
N. B. Sold byW. Hallett, N 0.83, High Holborn, nearly apposite
the George and Blue Boar Inn; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street;
Prout, 229, Strand ; Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; and by all the
Medicine Venders in the kingdom. Price Is. lid. per bottle.

FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF
COPAIBA.
The different ingredients contained in FRANKS'S SPECIFIC
SOLUTION OF COPAIBA, are those advised by the most practi-
cal and scientific in the profession, but, by a peculiar chemical pro-
cess so compounded that each drug greatly increases the efficacy of
the other.
This invaluable Medicine Is recommended in the public and pri-
vate practice of
SIR ASTLIF:Y P. COOPER, Bart. F.R.S.
SIR BENJAMIN 13 HO DI E, Bart , F. R. S.
JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, Esq. F.R.S.
BRANSBY B. COOPER, Esq. F.R.S.
Members of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, London,
and many other highly distinguished members of the medical profes-
sion, by whom it ,s deemed the only Specific for the cure of those
diseases to which it is more immediately applicable.
The testimony of these ye tlemen cannot fail to convince every
reflecting mind that FRANKS•S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF
COPAIBA is not only in every essential what it professes to be, but
is considered a most valuable addition to these legitimate and adopted
Medicines daily prescribed by the faculty.
FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SO LU'l lON OF COPAIBA is proved to
be the most effectual, safe, and speedy remedy for the cure of
GONORRHCEA, GLEETS, all URETHRAL DISCHARGES,
FLUOR ALBUS, SPASMODIC STRICTURE, IRRITATION of
the KIONEYS, BLADDER, URETHRA, and PROSTATE
GLAND; its purifying effects upon the general health renders
it particularly applicable in al cases of relaxed fibre and nervous
debility.
The most delicate persons may take it with perfect safety.
Prepared only by George Franks, Surgeon, iso, filackfriars.road.
Lordcn, and may lie had of all wholesale and retail medicine-venders
ii the United Kingdom, in Bottles at 2s. lid., 4s. rid., and Ifs. each.
CAM lON.—None is genuine unless "George Franks, Biackfriars-
road," is engraved o_ the Government Stamp attached to each bottle.
the following Testimonials are selected from amongst numerous
others forwarded ,ci Mr. Franks.
From Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of the
Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and
Professor of Surgery in King's College, London.
" I have inane trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St.
Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of eases of discharges in the male
and female, anel the results warrant my stating, that it is an effica.
ieus remedy, and one ,hich does not produce the usual unpleasant
eflects of Copaiba.
(Signed) "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN.
"15, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, April 15, 1035."
From Bransby Cooper, Fsq
,F.R.S., one of the Council of the Hoye
College of
Surgeons, London ; Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and
Lecturer on Anatomy, &c.
" Mr. Bi ansby Cooper presente his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks,
tndhas great pleasure in hearing testimony to the efficacy of his So-
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.. MT DEAR SIIR,I have From Alexander Tweedie, Esqreit, Lincoln's Inn.fields.
~ Surgeon to the Metropolitan Free
nistered your preparation of octoeis,aoitbas:xfocruthfes,ciunrew.hficGh
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all of which the disease has be en subdued in a shorter period of time
than according to the ordinary Besides
plans hitherto made use of.
these cases of which I have taken notes, 1 have tried it in several in.
trances at the Greville street Hospital, and am quite satisfied that it
possesses a control ever the urgent
symptoms of Gonorrhcea, relieving
the discharge and mitigating the
nave not observed in the usual meetV,ding
one instance only did it disagree with'di of
in making water that I
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the stomach ; but in this it
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after commending this treatment. entinued longer than ten days
I am, dear Sir, your's vervtr ls
(Signed) ..,/, LE XA u :'
Neithin a period of l wo Months NDER TWEEDIE."
upwards of T
tents sere treated with b R AN K,,,s spEcll,ll.; SOLUTION of
'Three Hundred Pa
COPAIBA, with perfect success, at the above
tale, viz. St. Thomas's, Guy's, and the Free
uMetropolitan Hospi.
spactive Surgeons, whose Testimonials a re give:=l).. by their re.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the next HA LF- YEARLY
GENERAL .MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this
COMPANY will be held, pursuant to Act of Parliament, at
the Company's Office, Princes-street, in the City of London,
on THURSDAY, the 24th of February next, at Twelve o'Clock,
for the ELECTION of FOUR DIRECTORS, in the place
of the same number, who will retire by rotation, and for
other purpose of business. The Chair will be taken at One
o'Clock precisely.
CHARLES RUSSELL, Chairman.
ROBERT BRIGHT, Deputy Chairman,
The Directors retiring are re-eligible, under the provisions
of the Act.

The TRANSFER BOOKS WILL BE CLOSED on and
from MONDAY, the 14th of February, and will not be RE-
OPENED until after the said Half-Yearly General Meeting
on the 24th of February ; and the Dividend for the half-year
ending 31st December last, will be paid to the Proprietor who
may be registered on the Company's books when closed.
By order, C. A. SAUNDERS, } Secretaries.
Jan. 26, 1842. THOMAS OSLER,

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been announced for the let of February, is, on account of some
valuable additional matter, delayed for a few days, when it will
appear, with the addition also of a beautiful Frontispiece from
a steel engraving by Fmden after Cattermole.
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price ss. bound,
THE LIFE of BRUCE, the AFRICAN
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HEAD. The Third Edition, forming part of " The Family
Library."
" Let us, for one moment, pause again, to reflect on those
theories of the present day, in support of which victim after
victim is sent."

London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside ; where
may be had, just published, " A Narrative of the Mutiny at
tie Nore," forming the concluding Volume of " The Family
Library."

THE LOWEST PRICED LONDON DIRECTORY.
Small Edition, Eight Shillings. Complete Edition, Twenty-
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POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY
For 1842.

" The plaintiff's publication was one of considerable bulk,
and most probably of great utility : and so the Vice-Chan-
cellor of England must have thought by granting the injunc-
tion ex parte, and continuing that proceeding upon motion made
to dissolve it."

Vide " Times" of 20th December, 18.11.—Judgment of his
Honour Vice Chancellor Knight Bruce, confirming the Injunc-•
tion obtained against the " Post-Office Almanac," for pirating
' Post-Office Directory."

The following Reviews of the Complete Directory have al-
ready appeared.:—
Times, December 3, 1841.

This useful matter-of-fact volume has just been published by
Messrs. Kelly and Co., of Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar,
and will no doubt be, as it ought to be, in the hands of
every merchant, banker, and tradesman in the country. It
is, independently of its utility, by which it is rendered indis-
pensable to every counting-house and shop, a curious sta-
tistical monument of the extent, importance, trade, and
wealth of the metropolis, and as such a document deserving
the attention even of persons who are not immediately in-
terested in commercial and business pursuits. The present
volume for 1842 contains some important new matter, with
which the preceding volumes were not furnished—it has an im-
portant addition, " The official Directory," an alphabetical
list of all persons holding situations under the Crown, of all
persons holding situations in the East India House, in the
Bank of England, and in the various law, city offices, and all
other public offices. This addition is of itself enough to show
the great pains taken by the Proprietors to render the book
perfect. There is also some useful information given relative
to the " Money Order-office," to which, if the public would
pay more attention than they have hitherto dote less would
be heard of the loss of money by the transmission of, remittances
by post in the manner usually adopted. The number of stamps
issued to the various newspapers published throughout England
and Wales is given, together with the amount of stamp duties
on advertisements paid by each paper respectively, and, indeed
a mass of information is brought together from which the best
informed may derive some increase of knowledge, and to
which the attention of the most ignorant and careless can
hardly be called in vain. As far as the cursory examination
can justify an opinion, and it is next to impossible to pay to
such a work as this the minute attention it deserves, it appears
to be compiled with indefatigable industry, extreme vigilance,
and an excellent judgment for arrangement.
Morning Chronicle, December 21, 1841.
Wehave had occasion to commend the extraordinary diligence
and accuracy shown in getting up the " Post-office Directory"
for former years, and no less praise is due to the publication of
the present volume. It contains the same immense mass of
information relative to the metropolis, which, renders the work
one of the most astonishing monuments of the greatness of
London that can well be conceived. This informaton appears
classified, distributed and arranged in a variety of ways so as
to make the facility of reference nearly perfect. The
corrections necessary from the changes of a year appear,
as far as it is possible to judge, to have been carefully made,
and it would be difficult to over-estimate the labour involved
in such corrections. We recommend it to the favourable consi-
deration of the public ; and, in fact, it must be regarded as indis-
pensable in every house or office where business is trans-
acted. To those, if there he any, who have not seen it, it will
convey the best notion of the variety of its contents to say, that
the single volume of 1,500 pages contains a Streets' Directory
—Trades' Directory—Law Directory—City—Parliamentary—
Courts—Postage—Banking.—and Official and Conveyance
Directories—each a large work, and complete in itself ; though
the whole are requisite to a publication which professes to be a
Directory for London.
Morning Herald, Nov. 30, 1841.
This is a most complete and extremely useful work. It em-
braces every point of interest in and near the metropolis that
can affect the wants of the community at large, and is service-
able to all classes of society. Under one general head, it con-
tains a series of Directories, in which are enumerated all the
trades, streets, names, official designations, Parliamentary,
legal, banking, and Post-office references, that are in daily re-
ty
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nd ng over is i i ono;arso
and,
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it is
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sf
atchceunrsaotset
inamthe dimensionspleminuteminutest
part u
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lars. No public office or mercantile house should, in fact, be
without it.

Morning Post, December 29, 1841.
The charge, whether true or false, brought against the
" Annuals," that, however pretty they may be, they are of
little or ne use, cannot in any degree apply to this singular
publication. Within the single volume, neatly brought out
by Messrs Kelly and Co., of Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar,
is comprised all the information that can be useful ti) the
fashionable, legal, or commercial communities. "It in-
cludes a 44 Court Directory," which alone contains about five-
and-twenty thousand names; a " Law Directory" of the
most ample description, giving, among other details, no fewer
than sixteen large pages of a " General List of Stamps ;" an
Official Directory,' with an index of six thousand persons
holding situations under the Crown, in the Bank, the East
India House, and other public departments ; the " Commer-
cial Directory," perhaps the fullest and most complete that
has ever yet appeared, and a variety of miscellaneous matter
which it is impossible to particularise here. In short, from
our own observation, we can safely pronounce this work a sine
qua non to everybody who desires to become acquainted with
the great metropolitan world of London.

Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Dec. 22, 1841.
On our reference from time to time to the Post-office Direc-
tory of 1841, we felt convinced that nothing could have been
produced more perfect for the purposes for which the huge
compilation was designed ; it appears, however, we were mis-
taken. The thick volume before us is vastly superior to the
last, and is unquestionably " the most complete work of the
kind ever published ;" the information is so judiciously classi-
fied, that although it extends over some fifteen hundred large
closely printed pages, every department of the compilation
might be consulted in a few seconds. It is surprising how
such a mass of intelligence can have beed collected and ar-
ranged so accurately, expeditiously, and cheaply, neither of
which could of course be accomplished without the extensive
and peculiar resources of the General Post-office. No count-
ing-house, coffee-room, or public office, should be without this
excellent record.
Sun, November 25, 1841.

We have great pleasure in noticing this useful work, of which
we have received an early copy. It exceeds the size of the
Directory of last year, arid probably is the most complete and
correct town-guide yet published. The following outline of
the contents will enable the reader to form some idea of the
vast undertaking. It contains an Official Directory, with the
names alphabetically arranged, of all civil officers under Go-
yernrne4t, 111 !tie Bank of England, East India House, and all
other public establishments. A Street Direelory;'whicli
eludes gentry as well as traders; and subjoined to this, are two
others, giving the names at full length, of sixty thousand per-

Weekly Dispatch, Nov. 28, 1841.
We have been favoured with a sight of this elaborate work ;
and we must pronounce it vastly superior to the previous vo-
lumes. The contents are admirably arranged. There is a dis-
tinct alphabetical list of the names, in number, of all civil
officers under Government, in the Bank of England, East India
House, and all other public establishments ; an alphabetical list
of streets in the metropolis and its vicinity, the inhabit-
ants according to their numerical order in each street ; the only
Street Directory yet published which includes Wary as well as
traders. There is also a list of all officers, from iheiord Chan-
cellor down to the Usher of the moat inferioi Court; Police
Courts, with their officers and jurisdictions ; alioßk.;eticill lists of
Queen's Serjeants, Queen's Counsel, Sergeants af low, Benchers,
Barristers, Special Pleaders, Conveyancers,' Proct ors, Attorneys,
Notaries. &c. The names of all persons in the metropolis and
its immediate vicinity not engaged trade, are given with the
most accurate lists yet published of the New Parliament, and
the most rec, nt addresses of the Members of both Houses.
There are, besides, the name and addresses of City Officers and
Common Councilmen; City Companies and their clerks ; lists
of sworn brokers; Lieutenancy of the City, &c. A list is
given of all the principal places in England, Ireland, and Scot-
land, distinguishing those which grant and pay money orders,
and eferring to the money order office nearest to those which
do not; and an alphabetical list of the streets of London, with a
reference from each to the nearest receiving-house which grants
and pays money-orders. This will afford the opportunity in
all cases, in town and country, of applying to the nearest office
for a money-order, and of obtaining it upon the office most
contiguous to the residence of the party in whose favour
it is drawn. Another important introduction this year
shows the time at which a letter from London should
be delivered at any place in England or Wales, and
the time at which the letter-box for London closes in each
place; thus affording the opportunity of calculating in all
cases the " return of post." Independent of all this informa-
tion, we have copious accounts of all conveyances by railways,
stage-coaches, waggons, vans, carts, vessels, barges, and boats ;
with complete accounts of all the bankers, joint-stock banks,
and banking establishments of the United Kingdom ; the
names of the Directors and officers of the various Assurance
Companies, with the rates of Assurary_!e, &e., are also furnished
in ample detail. One great feature in this work is, that it
directs an individual to the position of any number in the
street, by noting the intersection of churches, courts, streets,
lanes, alleys, &e., between one house and another. It often
happens that a person may forget the name of the tradesman
he wants, although he knows the street. The Street Direc-
tory in this book helps him out of this difficulty by giving the
names of the inhabitants of each house of No. 1 upwards.
Sunday Times, December 5, 1841.
This useful work is just published ; it is, in short, a com-
mercial, trades, law, court, parliamentary, city, postage, con-
veyance, banking, and an official Directory. It contains an
almanack, list of stamp duties, Post-office rules, and, in fact,
a body of intelligence too great for detail. Respecting :the
accuracy of such a work, it is, of course, impossible to speak ;
the most inveterate Magliabechi that ever gulped quartos, or
bolted folios, would scarcely undertake the perusal of a Direc-
tory. It is not saying too much to declare that the Post-office
Directory is a work unexampled even in this country. To ap-
proximate closely to the communication ( f the names, resi-
dences, and trades of the inhabitants of London, is a task from
which a literary Hercules might flinch.
Railway Magazine, December 4, 1841.

Judging from the great superiority of the last edition of this
work over its competitors, we did not anticipate the improve-
ments which have been effeeted in the present, which not only
place this Directory at the head of the list, but must drive the
others out of the field. An entirely new division has been

introduced, viz., the " Official Dir-ectory,"WhiCli Fu7nislies.
the full names and positions of all persons holding public
situations under Government, the East India Company, the
Bank, &c. The scope of that important branch, the " Street
Directory," has been very considerably extended ; and thou-
sands are now included, who re'ide without the narrow limits
beyond which our books of reference have not before passed :
here we have a register of all, whether dwelling in Barns-
bury Park, Basinghall-street, or Belgrave-square, in King's-
road, Chelsea, or in Kingsland ; and one of the great advan-
tages peculiar to this publication is, that all inhabitants are
inserted in their nu ~erical order. Wt. know of no other
street list in which either all the gentry, or all the mer-
chants, traders, and tradesmen are not—incredible as the
fact may appear—entirely omitted. We may mention that it
gives the names of the Directors of most of the Railway and
Insurance Companies, and a complete List of Officers of Joint-
Stock Companies. The " Parliamentary Directory" is co-
pious ; in it the offices held by every Peer and Commoner are
accurately detailed, even to the recent appointment of Lord
Ellenborough as Governor-General of India, and of his sue-
cessor at the India Board, Lord Fitzgerald. The " Postage
Directory " furnishes much original and highly valuable in-
formation in reference to Money Orders, and to the precise
time of the deliveries of letters throughout the country. A
volume so valuable as this will be generally appreciated. It
does honour to the establishment which can put forth so vast
an amount of authentic information of character so diversified ;
and it reflests credit on those who have so arranged it that the
work is equally a model of compilation and of typography. We
cannot but think that a title more appropriate than merely
" Post-office London Directory "might
surely merits a name that would convey. a definite idea of in-
formation so vast and varied, uniting as it does, in one volume,
,ichio. The wor
. k
Directory, Court Guide, and CourrKalendar, and superseding
the whole class of similar publications.
Britannia, November 27 be
st chosen
The old proverb says, it is good to let well alone; but, we
see no possible reason why well should be left to stand still, so
long as better is clearly attainable ; and such appears to be the
opinion of the enterprising proprietors of the " Post-office Lon-
don Directory." The present edition is superior in many re-
spects, to any of its predecessors. On its first appearance, it
was a neat and correct pocket-volume—nothing more; but
it has gone on im-proving and augmenting from year to
year, till, by the mere force of its manifest superiority,
it has fairly beaten every competitor out of the held, and
become, from the variety, copiousness, and accuracy of
its information, an indispensable requisite to every count-
ing-house and shop in the metropolis and its suburbs. It
would be quite impossible, in a brief notice, to give anything
like an adequate idea of the contents of a closely-printed
royal octavo volume, running to upwards of 1,500 pages. It
can only be justly described as a series of Directories, each
one complete in itself, and each of peculiar value to every per-
son engaged in business. For instance, is the residence of
any particular person required, a reference to the " Commer-
cial' or " Court Directory" will at once give the desired in-
formation. If a complete list of all
persons engaged- in any
one of the vas ions professions or trades exercised in the me-
tropolis is sought, turn to the " Trades' Directory," and you
have, ready to your hand, arranged in alphabetical order,
and with the residence attached, a return of every ac-
countant, apothecary, artist, Sac., &c., within the limits of
the bills of mortality. It is the same with every other depart-
ment of the work. We have never seen any volume containing
so much matter, so well divided, and clearly arranged. The
intimate connexion of the Proprietor with the Post-office en-
sured him the most accurate information ; and his printers'
extensive printing-office and steam-presses enabled him to issue
his sheets with surprising rapidity ; so that every change is
made up almost to the day of publication. The whole book is
worthy of the mighty city it anatomises ; the most correct, as
well as the most useful, record of its industry, its vastness, and
its intelligence; and, if we keep in mind the enterprise ncces.
sary for the conception of such a work, the immense care re-
quired in its preparation, the enormous capital required to pro-
duce it, and, considering its bulk and variety, the surprisingly
low price at which it is issued, we must pronounce it, notwith-
standing the typographical wonders daily issued from the press,
the most surprising volume to which the first city in the world
has yet given birth.
John Bull, NoveriNber 27, 1841.
Again we have to bestow our praise on the completeness and
cheapness of the multifarious information comprised in the
" Post-office London Directory," which comprehends within
one moderately sized volume, of clear and easy reference, a
Commercial, Trades', Law, Court, and Parliamentary Direc-
tory. It is at once the fullest volume of the kind, the most ex-
act, has the most recent intelligence—the information it
of itself. This
em-
bodies having been collected within the last seventy days from
lo-
cal knowledge, and altogether the completest guide-book to
is
official sources, ant; through agents possessing the requisite
ivtst?ti
the metropolis that has hitherto appeared.
Dec. 4, 1841.
Spectator, ssee
work still continues to grow. Besides a revi-
sion
This extensive
branches, the Official •
and extension of the other . . Directory
rl-aroll l—an army,
like the other sections of the subject, is subdivided ; one
part,
Government and other public
offices,
part containing a list of
as
to
form
ad
of th
has now been increased so
under which the names and employmentse persons are
list of persons
holding offices under the Crown,_ a st India House,
Bank of England, &c. And suri
due to all
nay, a population, of place-holders
• December 8, 1841.
Nonconformist,
arranged ; the other presents an alpinhambtheuetsitceEa
Another edition of this colossal work has just issued from
the steam presses of Messrs. Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Bos_
• connected with the compilation of this book, for the
parties
exercised, as well as assiduity which must have been
displayed in the execution of every
branch of it. This has been
well-court, Temple Bar. The greatest credit_. is
achieved by dint of great labour • Asa . whole, we luok upon
the Post-office Directory as the most complete work of the kind
ever published.
National Advertiser, Dec. 18, 1841.

gpiparyoa theyeh ing perfection.
are
roved to
This work is in 1,527 imperial octavo pages, and the study of
the compilers appears to have been to render each page a speci-
men of systematic arrangement, and of how much information
it is possible to convey in a given space. We do not believe that
any The
rworkesouor
resources
ethe o
ofkind the
l
exists, Post-office, soce , nearlyand mighty
m ai
0
obe, are here wrought out into every useful variety of combina-
tMn, and to each division of the book has been imparted a labo-
rious finish, that only those accustomed to literary labour can
entirely appreciate. We nev, r before, saw a Directory which
st
included an Official Kalendar, a Law Guide, and a Peerage and
a,
Parliamentary Chronicle, besides all the Nobility and Gntry,
Merchants, Professional men, and Shopkeepers of the metro-
polis and its vicinity.
Globe, December II 1841..
This useful ~ A1.,,,,10 n coi.oprises among- other information,
4n Official St,'eet, Oomineicial, Trades, Law, Court, Parlia-
mentary' City, Postage, Conveyance, and Banking Directories.
It is only necessary to announce the publication itself, and to
add that arranged as it as been with great care and attention,
aided by sources of official information peculiar to itself, iv maybe taken a: a zafe 1,-sde 4:1 i.4,''.-:bri6.4 triati'ers upon which it
pi-ofesies to enlighten the public.
W. Kelly and Co., 19, and 20, Old Boswell-court, Tern-
ple-bar, and all Booksellers.

Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free,
on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d..
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf-
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection; followed by Observations on the
Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, &c. Illustrated
with Cases, &c.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPAN Y,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
Published by the Authors, and sold by Bailiere, Medical
Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent-
street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London ; Guest, Bir-
mingham ; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Philip,
South Castle-street, Liverpool ; Fannin and Co., 41, Grafton-
street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh; and to
be had of all Booksellers.

This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to
the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its
first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged
by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general
principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in-
teresting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is the
result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer-
ence, by the ordinary medical practitioner. The proverbial
and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who
traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been en-
couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the
regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects
sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the
authors have for a considerable time devoted themselves ex-
clusively to a certain class of diseases; of the necessity of SIP
doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact in in-
vestigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise
from certain secret praetices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, whersin
affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of
consumption, which, however, when traced to their source,
are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves
that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more
applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in
saying that there is no member of society by whom the book
will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman.

The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining
away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse-
quence of some disease, which, for want of careful investiga-
tion of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con-
sumption, will, on perusing this work, be astonished to find,
that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption,
heart disease, tapes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by
youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds (temporarily at
least), the relation and responsibility of a parent, will,
by perusing this work, be directed and very much
assisted in investigating and detecting the too often con-
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the
health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be com-
promised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time. He will
here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of
this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when
delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instructor, will
•here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which
youth is addicted; he will also be enabled to point out the dis-
astrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not
relinquished.

Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their
residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
Country Patients are requested to be as minnte as possible in
the detail of their cases—as to the duration of the complaint,
the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occupation in
life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by
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BARON PARKE AND TICE 'PIKE-MAN.—Last
Tuesday Mr. Baron Parke took a short airing in his car-
riage an the Skelton-road. On arriving within a few
yards of the turnpike-gate, the coachman turned the car-
riage round, and the horses were soon on their return to
York. This was too much for the Argus-eyed toll-col,
lector, who was watching the approach of the
not
carviage,
P
as he thought, of a customer. Th Alicia]bear to see himself thus igO l'arly done 'he set out on
the hue and etty, On coming up with the driver, the
barman made his demand in form, and the squabble made
the Learned Baron inquire why the carriage was stop-
ping, just as the coachman was about to tin the ;ilYeft
On being informed that it was a cleNaud C* toll, the
Baron required the gate:keeper. • to produce the Act of
Parliam„e;it Which m epowered him to collect tolls. The
'pikeinan demanded the name of the occupant of
the carriage, and wax answered, " Baron Parke."
The man immediately went back to his cottt ley She
road-side, and the worthy Judge vetwAeci to York.—
York Courant,

.LECTURES ON AMERICA AND
THE AMERICANS.
(From the Exeter Flying Post.)
Mr. Buckingham's courses of lectures in this city,
descriptive of a voyage along the shores of the Medi-
terranean Sea, on Palestine, and America, are now
concluded, and that gentleman has taken his leave of
ns, but we hope only for the present, since no one, we
think, who has attended the Athenaeum during the de-
livery of these can fail to be impressed with a convic-
tion of the superiority of talent he possesses, and that
he is eminently calculated to smooth down the aspen--
ties of our nature—to root out prejudice—and to do good.
With Mr. Buckingham the religious sentiment is con-
nected with the most valuable truths. lie intertwines
our best affections with the noblest acquisitions and
highest aspirations of the human mind, and hence
his lectures confer an amount of olpenefit on his fellow-
creatures, such as it is not easy fully to estimate. Indeed
the course he is pursuing—and we trust for the sake of
all will yet many years be permitted to pursue—will do
more to promote the social and individual well-being of
man than is likely to be done in any other way. In all
that he says—be the subject what it may—he never fails
to show us that though religion has been perverted and
abused—turned from its best purpose, and sometimes di-
rected to its worst end—yet that religion itself, in its truth
and essence, is one of the necessities of our nature. Of the
two first courses we spoke at the time, as far-as our limited
space would admit, and last week briefly introduced to
our readers the first lecture of the course on America.
This was continued on successive evenings before the
most respectable audiences, and brought to a close,
amidst the plaudits of his instructed and delighted
hearers, on Saturday. To follow this singularly gifted
man in detail through these—though most pleasant in
itself—would be travelling beyond the province of a
newspaper, but we must be allowed to say of a country
in which no Englishman can fail to take great interest.
that Mr. Buckingham gave proofs of prosperity and future
greatness in the revenue and population of the United
States, such as few indeed of the older countries can pro-
duce. That the Americans are proud of these can excite
no wonder, since in them is not only the promise of happi-
ness and power, but also of that full degree of freedom
with which they will be accompanied. In that country, n-
deed, has been solved that great political problem—
namely, the possibility of liberty to so great an extent
being compatible with union andorder. Mr. Buckingham,
with the greatest candour, sought not to conceal defects,
but he reminded his hearers that America is as yet but
young. Ile admitted that at present there is a counter-
balance to the sum of liberty, but he also showed
that this is neither likely to read to disunion nor dis-
organization ; indeed, so far otherwise, that there is
even in these the promise of future exultation. In speak-
ing on this head, he remarked that it had been charged
on the Federation that it is fraught with the prin-
ciple of disunion ; and far was he from affecting to
deny it. But he contended that this is no reproach
to a republic, the greatest bond of union probably in
which consists in the very looseness of it, and in the li-
berty enjoyed locally by each State. lie also remarked
that it had been alleged that in America religion is not
permitted to occupy its proper place. It had been
charged upon that country that it has no established
church ; that no state provision is there made for eccle-
siastics. And this was very true, since in America there
is a perfect liberty of opinion, leaving flock and pastor
to choose each other mutually, and to take the path upon
which both may agree. This, however, was only an-
other phenomenon, and the evidence of his own
eyes and senses had taught him that so far from
there being any danger that religion will perish
there, and general immorality ensue, there is no
country on earth in which religion is more thought of
and carefully cared for, or in which the religious feeling
more strongly abounds. On the great question of the
holding of slaves, which exists in the Southern States,
Mr. Buckingham admitted that it is the cause of party
as well as territorial division, but he is not among
those who believe the integrity of the Union to be
menaced by it. It is undoubtedly the greatest blemish,
as also the most menacing source of future evil to a free
country, but the question having now put on this com-
plexion even with the slave-holders themselves, that
while fancied ideas about self-preservation are placed in
one scale, justice is allowed to seat itself in the other,
he thinks that by and by it will be settled on con-
ditions alike philanthropic and honourable. On the sub-
ject of the treatment of these our unfortunate fellow
beings, his observations must have gone far to disabuse
the minds of his hearers. In fine, with an accurate and
discerning mind, and in a spirit of candour honourable
to humanity, he showed, that though not destitute of im-
perfections and blemishes, yet that in a vast territory
bounded by the Mississippi on the one hand, and the St.
Lawrence on the other, all the purposes of human asso-
ciation hare, up to this time, been effectually accoMplished,
and at a cost that contrasts strongly with the expendi-
ture of the older European Powers.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
A few days ago, a young man of Briey, in the Mo-
selle, was informed that a wolf had made his appear-
ance in the neighbourhood of the village. He immedi-
ately loaded his gun with ball, and went in search of
the animal. It was towards nightfall, and seeing some-
thing move among the bushes in a likely spot for the
Ivolt7 he fired. The ball .took effect in the body of his
own father, who happened to be at that very spot,- set-
ting a trap for a fox, and his life is said to be in im-
mediate danger.
Mme. de Puymontant was, a few days ago, burnt to
death at the chateau of her husband, near Cintegabelle,
in the Haute Garonne, by her dress having caught fire
from her approaching too near the hearth. She was
alone when the horrible accident happened, and it was
not discovered till she had become a corpse.
The Toulouse papers state that all the Spaniards who
stopped the Bordeaux mail, a few days since, have been
arrested. They prove to be part of the men employed
on the works of the canal near the former place.
On Friday last, a young woman genteelly dressed ap-
plied to the keeper of the Tower of the Cathedral, at
Rouen, for permission to go up. Observing that she was
much agitated, the man determined to watch her, and
twice saved her from effecting an attempt to throw her-
self over the battlements. He induced her to return into
the nave of the Cathedral, where she sunk on her knees
in great distress. The keeper sent for a commissary of
police, and being interrogated by him and the Procureur
du Roi' she confessed that she came from Paris ; that
having been promised marriage by a young man to whom
she was warmly attached, and learning that he had mar-
ried another, despair had driven her to a resolution to
destroy herself. The kind remonstrances of the Magis-
trate induced her to make them a solemn promise that
she would relinquish her intention.

The Journal Iu Loiret relates that, Serein, the mur-
derer of the two children near Orleans, made, a few
hours before his execution, confessions to several persons
which put an end to all doubt as to the fate of his vic!--
tims. He acknowledged that he was the murderer of his
own nice, eight years ago, on the very day on which she
received her first communion, and who was found on the
following day strangled in a field. He is also said to
have admitted that he carried off a little girl from a fau-
hourg of Orleans some years ago and, after having vio-
lated her person, threw her at midnight over the bridge
at Orleans into the Loire, His body has been dissected.
The hinder portion of the brain said by phrenologists
to indicate the animal passions, is said to be unusually
large.
The Hermime states that the brig Ceres has been sunk,
by striking on a rock at St. Nizaire. She was laden
with sugar, part of which was saved, but the loss is esti-
mated at 600,000 f. A sailor who was asleep in his
cabin was drowned,

Of sixty-nine fires in the,departrnent of the Aisne, lir
1841 (says the Quotidienne)tforty-sevenrare said• to have
been the work of incendiaries,, but only seven persons
have been brought to trial on a charge of arson, of whom
'six were condemned, and one acquitted.
M. Duval, an inhabitant of Gancourt, in the Seine-
Inferieure, a few days ago committed suicide, after hav-
ing murdered his wife, lie was nearly sixty years of age,
enjoyed a fortune sufficient to place him at his ease, was
without children, and was believed to live happily with
his wife, who was about fifty. His friends are lost in
conjecture as to the cause of the catastrophe.
The captain of a merchant vessel, recently arrived at
Havre from Port au Prince, reports that he fell in with
three schooners, believed to be pirates, off St. Domingo,
on the 15th ult. They sailed round his ship, and ap-
peared inclined to stop her, but ultimately they made off.
The Toulonnais states that, from the Ist of the next
month, there will he a mail for Algeria six times per
month, viz. the 10th, 20th, and 30th of each month from
Toulon, and the sth, 15th, and 25th from Marseilles.
There will also be six arrivals monthly, but the days of
departure from Algeria are not stated.
One, of those perambulating dealers who infest the
public places with their stalls, selling trinkets of base
metal and false stones, which they pretend are gold and
jewels, and on which they put an imitation of the Go-
vernment stamp, was arrested two days ago kt his
lodgings in the Hue Notre Dame de Nazareth, and a con-
siderable quantity of these articles, with the tools and
materials for manufacturing them, were seized:
A few days ago a porson named Chamblin, who re-
sided at Corbeil, mid who was formerly a sergeant in the
60th regiment of the line, was found murdered in his
honae, with a carving knife, which had been used by the
murderer, lying by the side of the body. It appears
that the neighbours had been disturbed by a noise in the
house of Chamblin, at about one o'clock in 'the morning,
and from the appearance of the place, a severe struggle
had taken place between the murderer and his victim,
who was generally supposed to be in possession of a con-
, siderable surf of money. Suspicion has fallen upon a
person Allq had been seen to call on Chamblin, belt who
W4S a stranger to the place.
The ordinary tranquillity of the Faitbourg St. Ger-
main was disturbed three days ago by a violent conflict
between two classes of journeymen carpenters, called
Compagnons and Gavots, who, after beginning their
quarrel at the Barriere de Mont Parnasse, came to
biowa in the Rues de Vaugirard and Notre Dame des
Champs. They mustered about 60 combatants, and
could not be separated until a party of 20 soldiers and a
squadron of Municipal Canards oame and seized the ring-
leaders and cli the rest. There were many
wounded, but all except two were carried off by their
ftienda,
Yesterday morning, a family at La Villette dismissed
their female servant for getting drunk and being inso-
lent ; and, in order that they might be immediately quit

MORNING SUN.
of her, paid a week's wages in advance. The womaa
however, declared that she would remain in the house
twenty-four hours more in spite of every body, and went
up stairs. After remaining two hours, some of the fa-
mily went up to urge her departure,. and found her
dead, having hung herself in a esirret.
The lndependant of Brussels says that the owner of
the Hotel des Bains, at Ostend, has had the unconscion-
able impudence to charge the King of Prussia for stop-
ping .one night, and breakfasting, with his suite of
twenty persons, in that house; five thousand francs. It
adds; that the King could not, of course, stoop to bar-
gain about the matter, and therefore submitted to
the extortion.
Two men, the evening before last, quarrelled over
their liquor in a wine-shop, near the Place des VictoireS,
and went out into the Place to fight. The combat was
extremely ferocious, and the by-standers endeavoured in
vain to separate them. At length the weakest of the
two, finding he was likely to be overcome, took a pistol
from his pocket, and find it at his adversary. Fortu-
nately the ball only grazed his clothes ; but after pass-
ing through the apron of a grocer's man, one of the spec-
tator's, it wounded a third person beyond him in the
hand. The report attracted the men on duty at the
guard-house of the Bank, who came and took
lboth the
antagonists into custody.
A murder, attended with atrocious circumstances, was
committed a short time ago at Ajaccio, in Corsica. A
violent hatred had for some time existed between the
Vignali and Canacci families, of which latter one of it.*
members had been brought before the Court of Assize,
on a charge of having been concerned in the murder Of
the Abbe Vignali, chaplain of Napoleon at St:Helena,
but acquitted. All open hostility between the two fami-
lies had ceased ; but one evening as the Canacci family
were quietly seated near the fire, two of the Vignalis
entered, and fired at them. The Canaceis attempted to
defend themselves, and a desperate struggle took place
with poniards on both sides, which ended in the expul-
sion of the assailants, one of whom was severely wounded.
Before they were expelled, however, the daughter of the
chief of the Canacci family, had been killed by a musket-
ball, and two of her brothers were much wounded. The
murderers had fled, but the police were in active search
for them.
" A vessel from Madagascar," says the Globe, " has
brought intelligence of the loss of the brig of war Ars
tilleur. The crew had been saved."
The Semaphore of Marseilles states that a telegraphic
despatch was sent off by Marshal Soult early on the
18th inst., ordering General Levasseur to embark in-
stantly for Oran, with the view of preventing the duel
between him and M. Arrighi, but that the weather was
so bad that the order did not reach Marseilles for three
days, anti after the fatal rencontre had taken place.
The Brest journals mention that the English collier
Harvests, Captain Wilkins, bound for that port, was
wrecked in the night of the 23d inst. on the Black Rocks,
three miles from St. Mathieu. The Captain and crew of
nine men took to their boats, and reached Breit in safety.
The Pharedu Leman, a Swiss paper, mentions a re-
port that an attack had been lately made by 14 brigands
on the Hospice of the Grand St. Bernard during the night.
The brethren of the Hospice defended themselves with
courage, let loose their dogs, and killed five of their as-
sailants, but lost their Prior, three servants, and several
dogs. The journal we quote does not guarantee the
truth of the rumour.
In the remote districts of the Canton of Soleure, says
a Swiss Journal, there still exist persons who believe in
magic, read the planets, and deal with an elderly gentle-
man not to be named to ears polite, with the hope, or
rather, perhaps, under the pretence, of finding hidden,
treasures. At Appenzell, the very seat of ignorance,
dwells a physician, who gave a dyer, some time ago, 20
florins for a pitcher of pure blood mixed with copper-
filings, and a bond for 200 florins more on this precious
compound being converted into gold, as he was assured
it would be in a few years. The alchymist lately died
insolvent, and the physician's bond was found among his
papers. - The representative of the deceased has sued the
physician on his bond, but it remains to be seen whether
the condition has been performed by the conversion of
the blood and copper into gold.
The Courrier du Pas de Calais states that the woods
of the southern part of the department, and particularly
Pas and Bertincourt, are overrun with wolves,.who have
entered the folds, and committed great ravages. At
Hebtiterne some children were playing at the skirts of
the village, when one of those animals came suddenly
Among them; and seizing a little girl, between nine and
ten years old, tore her in a shocking manner, and then
carried her off to the woods, followed by some of the hi-
habitants, who were alarmed by the cries of the terrified
children. On the way one of the shoes of the poor child
was picked up, and in the wood her dead body was found
horribly mutilated.
The Marquis de Clausonette, the Quotidienne states,
who had been imprisoned for a month at Nimes, by sen-
tence of the tribunal, for having resisted the agents of
the Government on the occasion of the census, was set at
liberty a "few days ag.o, and returned to his residence at
Beattcaire. On his arrival, he found the streets lined
with the populace, who had erected a triumphal arch for
him to pass under, and who received him with loud ac-
clamations. In the evening he was serenaded, and the
air of Vive Henry IV. was sung by the populace in
chorus.

Two or three days ago, as two labourers of the. port
of Bercy, were on their way to Paris early in the Inord-
ing, they perceived on the bank of the. Seine, near tho
Pont d'Austerlitz, the cloak and muff, of a female,
which, not being covered with snow, had evidently lain
there only a short time. Suspecting a suicide they made
a search, and soon discovered the body of a young fe-
male, whose dress was floating on the water, between
two boats. They drew it out, and soon afterwards every
possible attempt was made by a medical man to restore
animation, but in vain. Just as the body was about to
be taken to the Mor,,tte, it was recognised and claimed
by the family of the deceased, who, it appears, although
only 22 years of age, had for some time been in a state
of melancholy madness.
The National dc l'Ouest, of Nantes, of Wectiesday,
states that one of the steam-boats of the Upper Loire was
blown up that morning, while stopping at Aneenis, on its
passage ~from Nantes to Angers, by the bursting of its
boiler. The precise particulars of this sad accident were
not known, but it appeared that the whole of the fore-
deck was torn up, and twenty-four persons in that part
of the vessel either killed or seriously injured. Of these,
fifteen are said to have been carried to the hospital at
Ancenis in a deplorable condition, M. Lemaitre, Jig.
de Pais of Louroux Beconnais, is named among the suf-
ferers.

On Monday last, at nine in the morning, a robbery
was committed in the Hotel de Bath, Rue de Rivoli, of
several articles of plate. The opportunity was taken
when the servants belonging to the family were vs•
riously engaged, and it appars that the thief had been
disturbed in the midst of his proceedings by the ringing
of a bell, as there was a portion of plate remaining in the
drawers, which he had left wide open, as well as the
doors,conducting to the staircase.
A student in pharmacy was two days ago arrested
and carried before a Commissary of Police on a charge of
theft. While about to be examined he secretly got a
small phial from his pocket, swallowed the contents, and
dropped down in violer:t convulsions. A physician was
called in, who inniK,diately fund that the young man
had taken a `Arong dose of prussic acid. Antidotes
were admir:Lstered, and he was so far recovered as to be
able to 'Dear removal to the infirmary of the prison of
L? force, where lie lies in a precarious state, but not
without hopes of being saved.
A trait of honesty was shown a few days since by a
soldier of the 4th Regiment of the Line. He was going
to Asmeres by the St. Germain Railroad, when he was
requested by an individual unknown to him to take care
of a rather large sum of money for a few minutes. This
individual never made his appearance again, and the
soldier hastened to deposit the money in the hands of the
treasurer of his regiment.

ORIGINAL ANECDOTE OF CHARLES LAMB
AT CAM BRIDGE.—A Correspondent, who, we suspect,
might truly say pars magna fui, has furnished us with. z
the following anecdote of
not only true,, but unpublished the winter _
Etia,7! which he assures
1794
7s
College, to spend a few dap with him. Lamb ar-
rived I--oub was iavited.by.
' Coll , nity , his friend, L. G., of
rived by the night coach, when Ins friend L. G. asked, hini
if; after his fatigue, he felt himself equal to joining a
party at breakfast, to which L. G. was invited. Lamb
would have assented to go, but he complained of a chil-
blain on his heel, which rendered it necessary for him to
slip his shoe down, which, he remarked, would be very un-
comfortable in passing through the snow, and would also be
very unseemly in appearance; " but," said Lamb, " if you
could accommodate me with an easy boot, I might ma-
nage it." " Oh !" said his friend L. G., " that I will do,"
and after a short absence brought in a pair which suited
very comfortably, and off they went to the breakfast.
" Well," said L. G., on their return to his rooms, " how
did you like the breakfast ? What do you think of my
College friends ? are they not pleasant men ?"—" I liked(
them very much," said Lamb; " pleasant, chatty, clever.
good fellows ; but there was one of them, gentlemanly in
his manners in other respects, and a sensible man, who
stared at me in so pointed a way during the whole morn-
ing, nay kept his eyes so fixed upon me, that it was quite
disagreeable,--quite vexatious."—" You mean," said L.
G., " a dark gentleman, who sat opposite to
yon."—
" Yes !"—" And he stared at you very much, did he ?" —"
said L. Yes !"—" I should wonder if he had not done so,"
G.?"—" Why, I introduced you as a
gentleman who had arrived from London by the night
coach, and he was puzzled to think how you, had come in
his boots !"—Cambridge Advertiser.
NICETIES OF LANGUAGE....-.A Frenchman
once established the fact that the word " at" was in
English a negative. He offered to sell a party 100 bales
of cotton, and the purchaser only wanted one-half the
lot, or 50 bales.—So after a little farther talk the par.-
chaser left the sel,,ier, simply saying that "he would not
take it at all., The seller did not hear the word " at"
distinctly, and so lie concluded, after being left alone, to
sell the half, and sent the note round to the purchaser
accordingly, who in reply told him he would not take
This brought back a rebuke: " You said, Sair, yeti
would not take it all; I suppose, therefore, I sell de half
as first offered by you, Sair. The reply to this wU.
"I toldyou, Sir, I would not take it atilt!, and I refery6ll
to Mr. ----, who heard me." " Then, Sair,'respondo
the Frenchman, " this English language is very curie cost
I study it much, and this is the first time I find the
relate
at' is a negative." Though a " non-sequitur," 1
z n very'
another curious mistake of oversight,
rto a difficult or " curious" our language musshtrioin-
- tiela circular,.
fo-
reigner. We have now before
_tan
Englajnted with the mode
done in English, but not in printed
closing pa-
ragraph reads, " Tho roughlya
we offer you Our beat
of doing business in this market,
services," &c. &c. The he
printer little thought how
wronged the able merchant by an erroneous division of
one word.—New York Anzeriean.
WHAT'S IN A NAME ?---The brig Tempo-
ranee, from Rotterdam, has brought 140 pipes of gin, it cases opium, and one case fiddles.—Doston Post.

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