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The Sun. — 1841-01-06 (London, England)

BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW, NO. XXII. I. Poland—her National Dynasty.2. ILllam's Introduction to the Literature of Europe. 3. The Education Question—Special Religious Instruction. 4. Prussia—her Manufacturing Prospects. 5. The Odes of Pindar. 6. The Court and Government of Russia. 7. Ilistorical Publications of Italy. 8. The Porte and the Pacha—Foreign Policy of England. London : R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleetstreet : Edinburgh, A. and C. Black : Dublin, J. Gumming.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. 4PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILIi TIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure. By a M EM BE It of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and no fit to live,"—Last's Records of t Suicide. Sold by Onullyn, Catherine-street, Strand ; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country N.B. Persons in the Country may have th:s work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inciosing a remittance ?.s.  NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA Just published, price 55., PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CAUSES; NATURE, and TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their Consequences; with a Review of the different Modes of Cure, and an account of the Method of Treatment the Author has found the most efficacious. The whole illustrated by cases, some of them the reccrds of thirty-five years' extensive and successful practice. By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, 42, Great Marlborough-street. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London; and late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of St, ictures of the Urethra. Sold by Bailliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, Regent-street; Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers'-eburt ; Onwhyn, Cathe rine-street, Strand ; Barlow, Birmingham; Ross and Night. ingale, Liverpool ; and all Booksellers in Teen or Country. 01 whom may also be had, by the same Author, price 65., PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the CHRONIC ENL kIIGEMENT of the PROSTATE GLAND in OLD AGE; with Suggestions for an Improved Mode of Treatment. 'f o which is profixed, Remarks on the various other Diseases to which the Prostate is liable at all periods of life.
The Sun. — 1841-08-31 (London, England)

ADVERTISER.—So long as the people only suffered from the defective and corrupt consitution of the representative body, so long have the Whigs pertinaciously adhered to the positions, —that the Reform Act should be regarded as a final measure, and that organic change should be deprecated as something equivalent to, if not worse than, revolution. Now, however, that the Whigs themselves have been expelled from office by the same perversion of the representation which had long kept the people excluded from their just rights, the late sticklers for finality may view from the opposition side of the House the Reform Act and organic change in a light far different from what they did when seated on the Treasury Benches. In expressing their hostility to a further Reform of the House of Commons, and delaying to bring forward measures for extending and protecting the franchise, the Whigs—as we at the time warned them, in frank but friendly terms—became accessories to an act of political suicide, which the recent decisions of the Houses of Parliament have completed, and upon which the inquest of public opinion can pronounce no other verdict than that of fdo de se. That they foresaw the consequence in which their anti-progressive policy must have resulted, was evidenced by their fitful indications of a more liberal course of action ; but these virtuous intentions—the evidence of a suicide pausing in the act of self-destruction— always failed, from the absence of that moral courage necessary to subdue their aristocratic predilections, to brave the reproaches of their class, and votantarily and boldly to take that position to which they are now driven, by the decision of profligate, corrupt, and despotic majorities an both Houses of Parliament. By a just retribution, Ministers have fallen by the same hands which they refused to deprive of the power of mischief whilst employed only in the spoliation of the people. It is true it was not the same House of Commons, but it was a House of Commons elected under auspices similarly and more excessively corrupt, that rejected almost all measures even approaching to practical and efficient reform, and declared their want of confidence in the Cabinet now in articulo mortis.
The Sun. — 1841-08-31 (London, England)

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. On the motion of Viscount DUNCANNON their Lordships then adjourned to Monday next.  HOUSE OF COMMONS, Au;. 30.  The SPEAKER, haring taken the Chair a few minutes Won- Four o'Clock, Sir S. Canning took the oaths an, i his seat.  Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from 132 working people of the vicinity of Newcastle-uponTyne, which stated, " That the Petitioners heard with joy the declaration of Lord John Russell, that it was her Most Gracious Majesty's intention to dissove her Parliament and appeal to the people ; that your Petitioners accordingly proceeded to the place of election, but were told they were no part of the people, and had no right to take part in the election ; that her Majesty's intention was thus rendered of no etT,iet. Petitioners pray—That you will address the Queen to send you all back again to the people ; having first enacted that all her Majesty's adult male population of 21 years and upwards should be allowed to vote. Petitioners further state, if such a law had existed previous to the late election, instead of a few only of the late Parliament of blessed memory being displaced, the services of nearly the whole would have been dispensed with." Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented petitions from Leeds, Nottingham, and Durham, praying the House to commit political suicide by addressing her Majesty to dissolve the present Parliament after having passed an UniyerFal 'Suffrage Bill. Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from 180 inhabitants of Montreal, in Upper Canada, stating that they approved of the proposed changes in the tariff of duties on proviiions imported into the West Indies. The pdtitione.-s further prayed that that House would be further pleased to repeal the duties• upon beet; pork, butter, wheat, flour, and other articles, the produce of Canada. and allow them to be imported into British ports free of dun•.  Dlrrimrso-Frmeinua a petition from a working, man, prajing for a repeal of the Corn-laws ; a step dem:tutted by the sacred principles of religion, as well as of COM literati policy. Sir VALENTINE BLAKE presented a petition, praying that all Members of Parliament might be exe mpietl from the necessity of taking the oath of sispre— miwy in as fun and ample a manner as persons proti!sslug the Roman Catholic religion are exempted. The SPEAKER having obLerved that the petition was signed by the Hon. Member himself, Sir VALENTINE BLAKE said he had already stated that the petition with signed by an Hon. Member of the House.—(Great laughter.) GOULBOURN objected, to Cie petition being aceot:.d.
The Sun. — 1841-08-19 (London, England)

MISCELLANEOUS.  Colonel Clitherow, Chairman of the Brentford -Petty Sessions, has resigned, in consequence of the state of his health; and on Tuesday his brother Magistrates presented their sincere thanks to the Colonel for the ability and zeal with which he had long filled the office. Last week a young gentleman of the name of Clarke, while standing on the brink of a rock at Grene de Lee, Jersey, in company with two friends, was swept off by a wave which dashed in from the sea, when he sank to rise no more. Sir Francis Burdett is announced to take the chair at the Tory dinner to be given next Friday to Captain Botts at Drury-lane Theatre. This silly old renegade has only to turn Chartist, and then he will have boxed the political compass. • The following ridiculous mistake occurs in a Morning Contemporary :—" A surgeon was caught last week in the Severn, weighing seventy pounds." This surgeon ust have been an odd fish, and as much out of his ele, ment as the Tamworth quack-doctor is likely to be on the Treasury Bench. • -- The Post, in a letter addressed to Sir R. Peel on the subject of literature, proposes that 13_,1nt::!,24c1e tirr  V' .7 Violin • 1 Kniuilblfci Ars ft ("Pi: he warrior and the-renowned, and why not an order exclusively for the poet ?" The best order Sir R. Peel could confer on a poet, would be an order on his banker for the production of a new poem. Tuesday morning a young woman attempted suicide by poison. When asked what had induced her to do so, she said that she " wished to go to heaven !" The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel has been appointed one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to her Majesty. On Friday last, while on his way to the Derbyshire moors, Sir Robert Peel was so overcome by sleep, that instead of getting out of the railway carriage at the Amber-gate Station, he was hurried on to Chesterfield. We have no doubt that this heavy slumber was induced by the Right Hon. Baronet's perusing one of the Church articles in the Times.
The Sun. — 1841-10-28 (London, England)

SURREY SESSIONS.  Henry .Noble and Caroline Smith were indicted for stealing, on the 18th instant, a candlestick, a sheet, a )rattle, and various other articles, the property of Mary IfeweLoil. From the evidence It appnred that the male prisoner engaged lodgings in the &Me Of the prosecutor. He brought the female along with him, itresenting that ::he was his wife. They remained only six days, and on the landlatii entering the room she found it entirely stripped. Bhe gate information to the police, and the prisoners were taken into custody. The greater part of the property was found in the lodgings they had subsequently gone to. Mr. llonny addressed the Jury for the prisoners, and very ably endeavoured to shift all the responsibility to the shoulders of the male, prisoner, contending that if the female had any guilty Knowledge of the transaction she was acting under the coercion of the male, and therefore not guilty in law, rPha Jury, however, roturned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners 7 cad the Chairman sentenced them to six months' inaprisonme.".4: and baid hbour • , the one in the gaol at Brix i ton •md the ()In--- In thatat Guildford. • •  POLICE INTELL 1 (3,ENCE, G UIL HAL L Joseph Parker, whose identity at the Old Bailey oti Tuesday, was so doubtful when he appeared at the bar on an indictment charging him with being a party in a conspiracy to defraud Messrs Tarn and Co, of Addle,street, of goods to the amount of 5,000/., and who availed himself of his right to traverse, was brought before Mr. Alderman J. Wood. A solicitor who appeared on behalf .of the prisoner, rail he was not the person against whom the indictment had been found. lie was in a condition, if the case were postponed, to show thzt the prisoner's name was John Parker and not Joseph Parker. Mr. Alderman WOOD inquired of the solicitor for the prosecution if he were prepared to prove that the prisoner was the person named in the indictment.-11c answered_in the affirmative.  After some conversation between the Alterman anti the solicitor, • The ALDERMAN said he would commit the prisoner on the charge of conspiracy, but would accept bail, himself in rOOl., and two sureties in 2501. each. An intersting looking woman was charged With attrmpting. to commit suicide at Blackfriars-bridge, about eleven o'clock on Tuesday night. In reply to the Alderman, the prisoner said distress had driven her to distraction. She had five children at home, to whom she had not a morsel of bread to give, as her husband had been for a long time past without employment. The agony of mind caused by seeing :five young children crying through hunger, induced htr to attempt the rash act.  The husband here stepped forward and said his name was Kecip. Some Tears since he had been publisher of the Sunday Times, and after leaving that paper acted as canvasser for various publishers and newspaper establishments, but being unsuccessful latterly he was reduced to thc,. lowest depths of misery and privation. The ALDERMAN, after admonishiug her on the consequences of her conduct, ordered some present relief to be administered, and she was discharged.
The Sun. — 1841-05-27 (London, England)

GIFT OF FLUENCY IN FRENCH CONVERSATION. A set of Exercises for the Learner of the French Language, calculated to enable him, by means of practice, to express himself fluently on the ordinary topics of life. With Notes, 3s. 6d.  2. THE LAST STEP TO FRENCH; or, the Principles of French Grammar displayed in a series of short Lessons, each of which is followed by Questions and Exercises, with the Versification. 3s. 6d. 3. The Three Parts bound in one volume, price 10s. 4. THE FRENCH MASTER FOR THE NURSERY; or, First Lessons in French. 3s. 6d. London : Effingham Wilson, 18, Bishopsgate Within.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. A PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va. rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure. By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " lam impotent, and not fit t live."—Last's Records of Suicide. Sold by Om; hyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country, N. B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing, either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of ?4.  Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 31. ; and sent in MTown or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., ANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to these suffering fr,im the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medica BoAseller, 219, Repntstreet ; 59, Pall Mall ; Szange, 21, Paternoster-row attie 4, Brydges-stree, Strand ; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers. The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affections, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the 0' dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain liabits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1841-05-31 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.:O, Saturday D epantfoinrdq,u Lower-road Oil respectable Jury, upon view of the body of Mi,1114,,e1k Castle, aged twenty-six years, daughter (..f 1",,e„,,ine0 known ship-owner of that name, - carrying on burnt at Notherhithe, who was found drowned in the -t foi' besetfowreasMhre.lCd .aCt ItirhtetalrV:llles Surrey Canal on Thursday eve nine last under th ' lowing lamentable circumstances. ' - of iv The first witress. called was William Jonet., on Victualling-office, Grovi!-lane, Deptford, who saw 11flain named Nash 'dragging the canal for the deceasetb,,lhni about an hour the body was found. The deeWeet, on a figured dress, but no bonnet. Witness sawn b' 0,0 and bottle labelled " Prussic Acid—Poison." Tir,r}Vil' atso a parasol picked up. The bottle was market' son, Druggist, liotherhithe." r, mnief' Thomas Sadler, foreman of the carpenters, Co cial Dock, said that he pulled deceased out of the `can Jacob gall, of Grove-lane, said that he left thew, mercial Docks at half-past three o'clock on Thui;eo and on going to the canal he saw a bonnet in the ‘ mied and one string fastened to a tree. A paper wt's f;othe to the bonnet and a parasol and phial were lying -roil ground. The note appended to the bonnet Os %/le, on ; it was the address of Mr. Castle, namely. Alin 11, Lucas-street, Rotherhithe. . I ti ego Ann Linton said she was servant to Messrs. I.e-- • et Charles Castle. The deceased was a single twenty-six Years; and resided with her brothers, 3fie,a moos' H. and 'C. Castle. Mr. Castle, sen , came in the:k nil ing and told Miss Castle that her .brother Freder% the been lost on board the sh. Henry llesleY 1- fete' lip enr e , ..,a, fe Channel off the French coast. deceasen,,,„toro low spirited all the morning. She went out and L' 0! without saying word, which was not her custom' te i returned about two, declined taking dinner, but wl.`'i, letter and went out, as witness the supposed, to office. ,I itne" lady, aik  at
The Sun. — 1841-11-04 (London, England)

DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT. By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single Deferred Annuity is made, not only to answer the same object. but to far exceed in amount the, entire benefit of all the anvantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious classes through separate investments in Savings' Banks, Benefit Societies, and Loan Banks. 1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12e. per annum ( Is. a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy }solder the following option, at the age of 65 Annuity for remainder of life £47 16 6 Cash Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0 oat death. Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also taken with similar advantages. 2. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a and alwt ys available during sickness or want of employment. 3. Two..hirds of all payments returned to representatives in case of premature death. N.B. Policies, as collateral money security, for periods of one to five years, effected at lower rates than are charged by any other Office, (See Tables A. and B.), with option of continuance for Life at the usual rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.  15 I 20  •25 130 35 140 I 45 150  "0- **** • • d. Annual r: s.d.r s.d.r..d s, s. d. k.. s.d. Xs. Premium 11081 14 7 19 0 2 4 32 10 1112 19 9311 94 8 0 per cent.  The Bonus declared in 1834 amounted upon an average to £l6 per cent. on the premiums thcn paid ; and in 1839 a further Bonus was awarded, amounting on the average to £3l per cent. on the premiums paid during the preceding five years. Bonuses may be applied to the increase of the sum assured, to reduction of premiums for life, or for a term of years. Policies on the lives of persons dying by suicide, duelling, or by the hands of justice, are not void as respects the interests of parties to whom they may have been legally assigned. Assurances may be effected on any and every day, and instructions forwarded to parties resident in the country on application. By order of the Board of Directors, CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.  A CHILLES BRITISH and FOREIGN LIIL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION and
The Sun. — 1841-06-26 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—The following horrible suicide is related by the Cherbourg Journal:— " A brigadier of the sth Dragoons, named Fabre, who was in confinement at Saint-Lo for drunkenness, being told by Lis commandant. that he should be handed over to the gendarmerie, exclaimed frequently that a soldier who, like him, had served thirty years, would not disgrace his comrades by allowing a gendarme to lay hands on him. As there was reason to believe that he contemplated suicide every instrument of danger was removed ; but at the expiration of three days' confinement, he contrived to procure an old blade of a knife and an old pair of scissors; with these he inflicted fifteen wounds in the abdomen, and. finding that death did not arrive, he tore i out a portion of his ntestlnes, and cutting them into pieces with the scissors, threw them at his feet. In this state he was discovered still living, bat he died two tours afterwards, perfectly sensible, and declaring that he had resorted to suicide to spare his regiment from the disgrace of one or their comrades being arrested by the gendarmerie. MARCH OF ItaTnEto,i, ntE c T.—At a farm-house N in the ham of Teigb blank form which was left for the uigranctranil oprall'ivshb, the o s N taking the census, was thus filled up Popman, aged 93; profession &c., sets by the fire; Ant e Popman, 85, makes fire." "liy son Will hath filled up your paper,". said the old farmer, " right, he told me ; but I don't know anything about it. I can mind what happened seventy or eighty years ago better than what was done last year. I know very well, continued he, " when the new style took piece ; I was then in my eleventh year, and what a fine holiday there was on the first new Christmas-day."—Western Luminary. On Tuesday last a meeting of the Commissioners of Supply and Justices of the Peace for Aberdeenshire, was held in the Court=house, Aberdeen, for the purpose of expressing their sympathy with the eight ministers of Strathbogie, under their pretended deposition, and their disapproval of the conduct of the majority of the General Assembly. Mr, Grant, of Tillyfour, the Convener of the County, was called to the chaa'. Sir J. Forbes, of Craigievar, proposed a series of resolutions expressing regret at the severity with which eight respectable clergymen have been treated, merely because they bowed to the authority of the law of their country ; as well as their warmest sympathy with the individuals who have been made the victims of a protracted oppres-, sion so entirely unmerited. Col. Fraser seconded the resolutions. Mr. Thomson, of Banchory, said that he would not propose any direct amendment on the resolutions, but would simply move that the meeting do now adjourn, which was seconded by Sir W. Seton. On a division, Sir JeForbes's resolutions were carried by a majority of 101 to 8.