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The Sun. — 1841-04-01 (London, England)

PRESENT TIME. By Dr. AIILLINGEN, Author of " Curiosities of Medical Experience," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.  THE MONTHLY CHRONICLE for APRIL contains—  1. The Scotch Church Question.-2. Stanzas. By R. Newton Lee, Esq.-3. Biographical Recreations under the Cranium of a Giantess. From Richter.-4. The Gathering of Israel. By Mrs. Charles Tinsley.-5. The Minstrel. From Goethe.-6. First Love of Lady Anne Nevyl: a Tale. -7. The Minor Poems of Joanna Baillie.—ts. Cora : a Legend of Somersetshire. By Sydney Whiting.-9. Sketches of Spanish Generals, No. 15; Espoz y Mina, Part 11.-10. Napoleon's Funeral. By J. E. Reade.-11. Nature's Voice, or the Future.-12. Characteristics of New Books.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties., Causes, Treatment, and Cure. By a I! tEMBEII. of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a:. Illetropolitan Infirmary. " I tm impotent, and no.. lit is live: —Last's Records of Suicide.. Sold by Onvihyn, Catherit se-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow.. Birmiugham ; and all Booksellers in 'fawn and Countu: N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing ( either of the above Booksellers, and inclosmg a remittance of 35..  Just published, in royal lemo., cis ,tli, price 3s. ; and sent in Town or Country free, t y post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CA USES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATIC 'N; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection •, folios ired by Observations on the TREATMENT 7 of SYPHILIS,. G ONORRIREA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS ant 1 COMPANY, Consulting Surg son s, London. Aiblished by the Authors, ai K 1 sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, Regent-street; 59, Pall Mall; S sange, 21, Paternoster-row; Pattie, 4, Brydge.,s-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan, 114, Idi,gh-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers. _ _  The Work which .is;;;presei itei I to the public is the result of very extended experience in a el ass of diseases and affechens, which for some unaccountable reason liave been either , altogether overlooked, or treated wit h apathy, and almost indifference, by the oh dinary practitic ner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, soe ial, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from inctai gence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in au advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying-ti sat there is no member of society, by whom the book will not.: be found interesting, whether we consider such person to b ald the relation of a PARENT, a
The Sun. — 1841-08-28 (London, England)

THE LATEST IMPORTED. FROM THE NEW YORK PAPERS. MURDER AND SUICIDE. LYME, CT., JULY 28.—Our community was much agitated yesterday and to-day by an awful occurrence here. Atwell Tucker, one of the residents, yesterday morning purchased at Warren's store three pints of rum, which he drank in the course of the forenoon. In the afternoon he met old Dr. Noyes, with whom he had previously a quarrel, and followed him for about a mile, threatening to shoot him. The Doctor finally escaped and took out a warrant for the apprehension of Tucker, and gave it into the hands of Huntley, the constable, who immediately proceeded to serve it. A short distance from the village he saw Tucker in a field near the road. He alighted from his waggon, and proceeded to the culprit, who fired and shot him through the bowels, inflicting a wound so serious that the unfortunate man lived but fifteen minutes. He has left a wife and five children entirely dependent upon him. He parted from his wife in full health half an hour before the occurrence, and the first information she had of it was when he was brought home a bleeding corpse. A guard was placed around Tucker's house last night. This morning he was tracked into the woods, and it was ascertained that he was concealed in a swamp near the jumping rocks. The spot was surrounded, when the report of a gun was heard close at hand. On proceeding to the spot whence the sound proceeded, Tucker was found stretched on the ground, a disfigured corpse, part of his head blown entirely off. He was a murderer, he was a suicide, all through the influence of rum, rum,_rum. When sober, Atwell Tucker was an excellent workman, and an honest man, but when under the influence of liquor, he was as furious as a tiger.—New York Aderaser.  Some Yankee has invented a new kind of ink, called " the love letter ink." It is a sure preventive against all cases of " breach of promise," as the ink fades away and leaves the sheet blank again in about four weeks after being written upon!
The Sun. — 1841-09-25 (London, England)

FINE ARTS.  L'ESPAGNE, ARTISTIQUE ET MONET. MENTALE.—Paris, 1841.  We have been shown the first part of a work devoted to the illustration of Spanish paintings,  scenery, monuments, antiquities, &c., which is now, we understand, in the course of publication at Paris, where it is brought out in monthly numbers. The Part contains four engravings, executed by Spanish as well as French artists, and in a style worthy to vie with the efforts of any of our own engravers. One of the plates represents the cloisters in the interior of a rno nastery at Burgos, and is remarkable for a long reach of perspective, such as Martin has exhibited in h:s el Ish azzar's Feast, and which is handled with consummate skill by the artist, M. Benoist. The group in the foreground, consisting of three figures, who are conversing together in an earnest tone, displays much grace and animation, and serves to break the monotonous still-life of the scene. Not less effective is the sketch of the Grand Chapel in the Cathedral of Toledo, which is a wonderfully rich specimen of the more florid style of ecclesiastical architecture. In front, on the steps leading up to the altar of the Chapel, where the priest stands arrayed in full pontificals, several figures, male and female, are represented kneeling; the variety of their costumes greatly enlivens the picture, which, notwithstanding its numerous details, stands in need of such accesseries. A Market-place in a Spanish town is a sketch of a tar different character. :It is as lively and bustling, and crowded ,with figures, as one of Teniers' familiar, every-day scenes. Here, a group of women are engaged in selling fish; there, numbers of men are assembled under tents, where they are drinking, and otherwise enjoying themselves; and in a third place, several young girls are drawing water from a well, which stands opposite a fine old church, i❑ •the front-ground of the picture. We do not often see, among modern works of art, an engraving so full of stir and vivacity, without ex. aggeration, as this sketch of a Spanish marketplace. If the future Numbers of this publics. tion keep the pioniise held out by the prescn we cannot doubt of its success.  At Baltimore, on Sunday, the thermometer stood at 100 in the shade. meltedbachelors,onthe and oaena aesql oun.a I number heot h maids,col:l"f several frigid old are said to have act of suicide was about five o'clock, the followinag desperaterespectable married woman, DESPERATE SUICIDE _—On Thursday morning, committed by Mrs. flellam pears that at the above She took down with her les in bed.. living at No. :35, Bowling-green-street, gotlt :pp: leaving her husband played herself against her I\shoulders,,hen found the water-butt in the razor, and having • • untouched but f limningheadsli ittalfrom bone. searching her a note was found, as )Ilows : On sca • yard, nearly separatedhtehre will findat the foot 1 to-morrow you ame oWaterloo-bridge." " Good bye-quite &ltd.
The Sun. — 1841-12-31 (London, England)

MURDER OF THE BOY THOMAS -MAGUIRE. —Additional depositions have been taken by the county Coroner, but no fact of importance inculpating any one has been disclosed, though several witnesses swear to the fact of having seen the boy along with Delahunt on the evening in question. On Christmas morning the body of the murdered boy, which had lain at the Irishtown Station-house since the view of it by the Jury en Tuesday, was consigned to the grave in Kevin's churchyard. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Delahunt, the mother of the prisoner, was delivered of a son in the Coombe Lying-in Hospital.—Dublin Paper. SUlClDE.—Wednesday night, between five and six o'clock, the following suicide was committed by a respectably-attired young lady, apparently between 24 and 25 years of age, at present unknown. It appears that a man was crossing the Albion-bridge of the Regent's canal in Maiden-lane, Battle-bridge, St. Pancras, when he observed a bonnet and shawl on the ground. On looking into the canal he observed a person struggling in the water. Being unable to swim, he immediately ran to the Albion Tavern in Maiden-lane, where the drags are kept, I,khich being procured, after a short time the body of the unfortunate young lady was found and immediately conveyed to the Albion Tavern, and surgical assistance being procured with as much speed as possible, every exertion was used to restore animation, but without effect.  The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland had lived separate for a great many years ; and it is an amiable trait of his Lordship that he took every means he could for a reconciliation, which was accomplished about five years ago ; and her Ladyship was at Brighton when his death took place, up till which time she resided a great deal abroad. The Bramham hounds have long been kept by the Fox family : at the edge of Bramham deer-park very fine kennels exist, built by George Fox Lord Bingley, uncle to the late Mr. Fox Lane : they had been transferred for the last few years to the late Lord llarewood, in consequence of the present Mr. Fox preferring to hunt with the Leicestershire pack.—Leeds Mercury.  This day is the anniversary of the meeting o the Protestant Princes and the Deputies of the Lutheran cities in Smalcade (principality of Hesse), to unite in a common league of defence against the Emperor Charles the Fifth, who was desirous of destroying the elective rights, and of establishing one hereditary monarchy. The meeting was on the 31st of December, 1530. The Emperor, who was then at war with the Turks, was compelled, in the Diet at Nuremberg, to accede to the demands of the Protestants, namely, the abolition of all legal proceedings against them and entire liberty of conscience, also the holding of councils.
The Sun. — 1841-07-19 (London, England)

HOME. MISCELLANEOUS.  At a great dinner given at Bury, on Friday evening, to Richard Walker, Esq., in honour of his return for that town, Mr. G. W. Wood stated that Lord Spencer told him a few days ago that any Administration, however powerful, would commit an act of felo de se if it interfered with the Corn-laws. The Ministers must have been aware of that opinion, and could, therefore, have brought forward their proposition only from a sense of duty, as Mr. Wood said, and were determined not to shrink from the consequences. We . have before stated that it was impossible to listen to Mr. Labouchere, and not believe that he spoke from the most complete and sincere conviction that if something were not done our manufacturers would be ruined. At the same dinner Mr. Cobden, though he expressed himself dissatisfied with the Whig measures, said the manufacturers were immeasurably indebted to the Queen's Ministers for bringing forward measures at all to initirOve the Corn-laws. He also told the 'factoryowneis some home truths. The landlords rely, he said, on the- diiebed prevailing between the master manufacturers and their workmen. The tendency of the bread,tax is to diminish the wages of labour, and the factory masters are the agents for levying that tax on the workmen. Thus they are made the instruments of their own ruin, or, as Mr. Cobden said, the cat's-paw of the landlords, by consenting to impoverish and degrade their fellow-labourers. 'The factory masters must prove to the workmen that they are not to blame, and both must make common cause against the common plunderer. At Manchester they are late in discovering this important truth. The factory masters have preferred imitatifig the landowners, and have been ridiculously afraid of their workmen. They now have their reward.  Twelve months and a severe winter have tested the Oxford-street wood-paving. At a special meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, a memorial was presented signed by 370 rate-payers of Oxford-street, in favour of a wooden pavement for the whole of the street. Richard Lloyd, the person who secured Hatfield, the lunatic, when in the act of firing a pistol at George 111., in Drury Lane Theatre, died last week in the Salop Infirmary.  The preparations for the meeting of the British Association, at Devonport, are nearly complete. It will commence on Thursday, the 20th inst., and continue until the 4th of August. Richard Russell, a shoemaker, of Hereford, committed suicide on Wednesday last. He had voted for Mr. Burr, and sworn that he retained the same qualification as that for which he registered, though his house had been taken down. The idea of having taken a false oath so preyed on his mind that he could no longer endure life.
The Sun. — 1841-08-24 (London, England)

GALPIN, V.P. Central Board Office, 57, Pall-mall, Aug. 23, 1841.  SHOCKING ACClDENT.,—Saturday morning, be— tween three and four o'clock, Benjamin Farley, a-market gardener, who was coming up to Farringdon-market with a waggon loaded with fruit, fell off the shafts, on which he had .been riding, in the New Kent-road, and one of the wheels passed over his cheek. He was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, but is not expected to survive. • SUlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. Higgs, the Coroner :fur-Westminster, received information of the suicide of Mr. J. B. Toussaint, wax candle manufacturer to the Queen, at present residing at 3, King-street, St. James's It appears that Mr. Toussaint was rebuilding his premises on a very extensive scale, and had taken the house in King-street as a temporary occupation. On Friday evening he went out walking for about two hours ; and, on his return home went up stairs to bed, without taking his supper, which was a most unusual circumstance. At four the next morring, the boy who sleeps in the shop, and who had heard his master• walking about during the night, saw him come in, and pace up and down for some minutes, but said nothing. He returned to his bed-room, and not coming down at the usual hour one of the servants went to call him at eight o'clock, but receiving no answer the door was opened, and he was found suspended to the bedstead by two silk handkerchiefs. He was cut down, and medical assistance procured, but he was quite dead.  We regret to state that the Hon. LieutenantColonel Molyneux expired yesterday at his house in Arlington-street. On Saturday his disorder assumed such a serious aspect that expresses were forwarded to the Dowager Countess of Sefton, at Stoke Farm, and in the afternoon the Countess and the Ladies Molyneux arrived in Dover-street. The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman has been gradually losing his strength since Sir Benjamin Brodie perfarmed the operation, and although that eminent surgeon and Dr. Chambers have been in constant altendance on him, his complaint has defied their skill.
The Sun. — 1841-12-11 (London, England)

TIMES. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1841. There are many memoirs and scattered notices extant of Frederick the Great of Prussia, but we have never happened to meet with a memoir su full and so every way satisfactory as the present, which not only gives in detail the leading features of the hero's political and military career—for he was eminent alike as a soldier and a statesman—but discusses also the character of the remarkable times in which he flourished ; and furnishes, in addition, biographical sketches of his half-crazed father, the First Frederick, and his celebrated ancestor the Elector of Brandenburg, deservedly styled by his subjects " the Great." The Second Frederick was beyond all question the most illustrious man of the age in which he flourished, and on which in some degree he stamped the impress of his own character. Though a great portion of Europe was arrayed in arms against him; and he was frequently opposed in the field by forces immeasurably superior to his own ; though he was reduced at times to such a state of despair that he more than once thought of ending his troubles by suicide ; yet, in the end, his indomitable courage and perseverance vanquished all obstacles; and at the termination of the famous Seven Years' war, he was the only gainer, having achieved the object for which he drew the sword ; raised Prussia from an inconsiderable State to the rank of a first-rate European Power, and established his claims to the title of the most consummate warrior of his age. The great blot on Frederick's escutcheon is undoubtedly the active share he took, in conjunction with the Empress Catherine—a despot capable of any atrocity—in the partition of Poland. The excuses he made for this infamous act of wanton spoliation, when it began to excite the indignation of Europe, are anything but valid, and indeed serve, if possible, to aggravate the enormity of the case. But Frederick, though he appears to have found a gentle biographer in the author of the volume before us, was always a desvat in his heart; and though he was laudably anxious to promote his country's prosperity, yet it must be after a fashion of his own. When, however, the circumstances of the times in which he lived, are considered, he may be pronounced on the whole a liberal and enlightened Soveveigo I awl when we think of him in connexion with Louis the Fifteenth, for whom he possessed the most hearty contempt, lie shines with redoubled lustre. As a literary man—for Frederick was ambitious of the character of an author, as well as of a soldier and a statesman—he displayed but very indifferent ability. His works, which are voluminous, have long since descended
The Sun. — 1841-08-30 (London, England)

VERTISER.—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 vic.sy 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.delatying to bring forward measures for.extcnding and protecting the Itanchise, 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 felo de se. That they foresaw the consequence in which their anti -progressive policy most. 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 voluntarily and boldly to take th it position to which they are now driven, by the decision of profligate, corrupt, and desFolic majorities in 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 Ilouse of Commons electedunder auspices similarly and more excessively corrupt, that rejected almost all measures even apliroaching to practical and efficient reform, and declared their Want of confidence in the Cabinet now in articulo mortis.
The Sun. — 1841-09-14 (London, England)

HINTS TO THE CHOLERIC.—AII experiments with cups and saucers, glasses, vases, mirrors, &c., are much better performed, for obvious reasons, at other people's houses than at your own. It is very pleasant and quite pardonable to sweep a few glasses off the table in a fit of enthusiasm now and then—when you are dining out ; but it is perfectly ridiculous to proceed to such extremities at home, where the modes of venting rage are infinite. For a somewhat similar reason, I differ from those who systematically tear their own hair when they fall into a paroxysm ; there is no occasion for it, because you might happen to be wearing a wig, and the effect would be ludicrous. It is far better to thrust your hands desperately into the loose locks of somebody sitting next to you, tearing them violently for the space of an instant, and then apologizing for the wildness of your excitement and the extreme susceptibility of your feelings. Your sensibility and the frankness of your disposition will find many admirers ; but to pull your own hair has at best but an affected and theatrical look. The practice common to many of the choleric—that of taking off their hats, flinging them at the first object they see, and then kicking them, regardless of expense—is one that seems to have arisen out of an instinctive feeling, but until lately it was to be condemned as ruinous to those who fall very frequently into a passion. It is less exceptionable now ; the cheap hats are immense conveniences to the choleric. It is better, however, to snatch a friend's off his head and set your foot upon it, taking care to pick it up immediately, tenderly putting it into shape a little and brushing its injured nap, and returning it with your unfeigned regrets. I should not forget to mention one ingenious expedient, which is sure to produce a speedy relief to over-excited feelings. It is recommended on authority as infallible. You shall first lock the door of your sitting-room, and then lie down on your back upon the rug before the fire, taking at the same time one of the bell-ropes in either hand. In this position you will find a little violent pulling very pleasant. But don't leave off merely because every body in the house comes rattling at the door, desiring to know, not for their own, but for Heaven's sake, what's the matter. Keep on tugging at both bells until the door is broken open—you will then come-to quite comfortably.—George Cruikshank's Omnibus.  On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the William the Fourth, Lewisham-road, before Mr. Carter, on the body of Mr. Archibald Trollope, aged 53, who committed suicide by hanging himself under very afflicting circumstances. The deceased was in early life in the merchant service, and for a number of years commanded a West Indiaman. After leaving the service he became a general merchant, and carried on business in the Commercial-road. He retired about four years back. The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary derangement."