The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

Y C-H NI N E-BITTER BEER-LIFE
INSURANCE OFFICES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—ln Hooper's Medical Dictionary, ith Edition, 1839, page
1226, under the head " Stry-chnia," we find the following awful an-
nouncement :—" The eighth of a grain taken into the stomach has
proved fatal to a strong dog." And, again, in the same page, refer-
ring to the dose for a human being, it goes on to say :—" The dose is
one-twelfth of a grain morning and evening, repeated more frequently
as the patient gets accustomed to it." So that, according to doctors,
the eighth of a grain will kill a strong dog, but the twelfth part of a
grain, twice a day, will cure a patient. We think, sir, that it re-
quires no medical knowledge to pass a judgment on such an infernal
poison as this. " Gets accustomed" indeed ! Can anything be more
monstrous ?

The case of the unfortunate Miss Abercrombie, who was poisoned
feloniously with this poison, In order to defraud Life Insurance Offices
to the amount of 20,0001., which is reported by the learned Mr. Jus-
tice Talfourd, in his Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, published by
Moicn, Dover•street, vol. 11., page 7, proves the injurious effects
which these deadly poisons must necessarily have en the social
state.

By the Hygeian system of James Morison, all these poisons are
denounced as being totally useless in the cure of disease, and we re-
peat again that there can be no safety In the social state so long as
these poisons are held out as medicines.

We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
The MEMBERS of the BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH,
New-road, London,
For and on behalf of the Society of Hygeists.
London, Jane 1, 1852.

DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho,
147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cernhill ;or direct from the author ;
price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.

ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and Rational -Use of Time."
places—Country
CONTENTS :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex.
cursions about the Environs of London —The Parks, Lanes, Hills,
nigh-roads, and other pleasant
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
—Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, sleeping, Bathing,
Forests, Fields,
Occupation, &c., Etc. Air, Rest, Ease,

TRAGM:ENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols.
Vol. I.

VISIT TO THE LAKES ;
VoISICETCH OF EDarguRGR, 44,
. 11.
THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REMIITISCENOES OF
DUBLIN, &c.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
"That three score years and ten our course may rum',
A popular review of lmost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated he dth and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
bitters old age ; with tables and rules for the diet and physical rev.
alien of every-day life.

Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
"What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths a 3 refined as Athens ever heard."
SUB"CT .—Life'a pilgrimage, from infancy to old ago. The ad-
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual-
ties oflleentlousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nar-
rative, epd remediativo. Advocacy of early marriages.
'

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be, that is the question."
PROGWablit :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, tot secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal, titerility and its conversion.
Gases, &c.
13y R. d. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
(1624). Twenty-five years Medical and FOrenge Referee in these
=atter& Reception hours daitY Lai FIYS' ...NYeningst 130von tin
Nine. 10, Regent.street.

CHELMSFORD, JUN'S 4.—Prices to-day iwere as follow:
Wheat, white, 42s to 48s ; red, 37s to 425; barley, 27s to 30s;
chevalier 28s to 335; grinding 22s to 28s; malt 55s to 565;
chevalier 55s to 58s; oats 19s to 255; peas, partridge, 28s
to 31s ; white, 29s to 31s ; boiling, 30s to 33s ; dun, new, 23s
to 30s ; beans, tick, 26s to 30s ; harrow ticks, 27s to 31s;
mazagan, 253 to 295.
CoLcHEsTaa, Juivz s.—Wheat, white 44s to 47s ; red 393
to 42s ; oats, 20s to 235; beans, mazagan 28s to 295; middle
and small 30s to 325; peas, white 38s to 495, grey, new 30s to
32s • barley, 28s to 305 per qr.
KIRICALDT, JUNE s.—The following are the quotations
for grain :
Wheat. Barley.
First 45 Od 31s 6d
Second 42s Od 30s Od
Third 37s Od 293 6d
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs
HADDINGTON, JVNE 4.--Th
grain at our market to-day:—
Wheat.

Oats.
23s 6d
22s Od
19s 6d
imperial,

Beans.
—s Od

Peas.
—s Od

. -
—s Od --8 Od
—s Od I Oci
30s Od to 00s 01
are the prices of

Barley. Oats. 13fials.
33s Od 24s Od 36* Od
31s Id 22s 9d 343 8J
27s 6d 21*
qrs. Od 33s Oi
market 434 , 355 sold
do. 48 qrs., 48 sold
do. 174 qrs., 156 sold
do. 46 qrs., 32 sold

First .. -----
4ls 6d
Second ................. 4ls 7d
Third ...... .... ...... 37s Od
Total quantity of Wheat ii
Do. Barley
Do. Oats
Do. Beans

00AL MAMIE'
Prices of Coal per ton at t
Chester Main . . . . l3s 6dl
North Percy Hartley 13s 6di
Ravensw,rth Pelaw 12s Od,
Wall's End, &c.
Gosforth ... . l4s Od
Hedley l4s Odl
Lawson l3s Oct
Riddell ..... ...... 13s 9d
Harvey Wylain (uns.) 12s Od
Eden Plain
Lambton Primrose
Belmont l4s 6
Eletton
Haswell l6s Od
Keepier Grange
Lambton .............
Ship at market,

r.-YESTXRDAY.
he close of the market :
Itussell's lietton ...... 158 6d
jßichmund ......... . ..... 15s Od
Stewart's .. 16s Od
Plummer ........ 15s Od
Hartlepool ............. 16s ai
IHeugh Hall ...... ..... 153 0'
Ke110e.............. 15s fid
South Kelloe ............ 153'0
Seymour Teas ...... 14s Od
St. Helen's Tees ..... 13s 6d
Tees ...... . ......... 15s 9
‘Voodhouse C105e...... 13s 6d
Atkinson's Merthyr... 18s Od
Nixon's Merthyr and
Cardiff ......... 21s 0
Seymour Harvey Coke 21s Od
207 Sold, 53.

CANDDvERTisEmENT.]
ASCOT RACES A
THE ROYAL EXHIBITION.--A
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by
which a person can be
seen and known l miles distant ; they answer every purpose
on the Race-course, at the Opera-houses ; country scenery
and ships are clearlyseen at 12 to 14 miles; they are invaluable
for shooting, deer stalking, yachtin., to Sportsmen,
Gentlemen, Gamekeepers, and Tourists.2Te be had at Messrs.
S. and B. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Picca-
dilly, opposite the York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most
important invention in Telescopes, possessing such extra-
ordinary powers, that some, 3} inches, with an ettra eye piece,
will show distinctly, Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's Ring, and the
Double Stars. With the same Telescope, weighing only three
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance 3b miles distant,
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every
other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and Race-
course glasses, with wonderful powers; an object can be
clearly seen from 14 to 16 miles distant. Messrs. S. and B.
Solomons, Opticians, have invented invaluable preserving
Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed before imper-
feet vision, every object appears clear and distinct, the most
aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to
its youthful, natural, and original state. The Invisible Or-
ganic Vibrator, and all kinds of Acoustic instruments for relief
of extreme deafness.-39, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, op-
posite the York Hotel.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
Du Barry's delicious Food cures Indigestion, Dys-
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and liver complaints in all their varied forms—with spasm's,
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order.—Barry Du Barry and Co., 127, New Bond-street,
London; Fortnum, Mason,and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Hedges
and Butler, 155, Regent street; and all respectable grocers
and chemists.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE RACES AND FETES.--.
Visitors to these fashionable resorts would do well to pro-
vide themselves . with Rowland's Aqua d'Oro. This fra-
grant and spirituous perfume refreshes and invigorates the
system during the heat and dust of summer, and will be
found an essential accompaniment for the opera, the public
assembly, and the promenade. In all cases of excitement,
lassitude, or over exertion, it will prove of great advantage
taken as a beverage, diluted with water. Price 3s. 6d per
bottle. " Rowland's Kalydor " will also prove a most re-
freshing preparation for the complexion, dispelling the
cloud of langour and relaxation, allaying all heat and
irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sen-
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the skin. Freckles, Tan, Spots, Pimples, and Discolorations
are effectually prevented and eradicated by its applica-
tion ; and in cases of sunburn, stings of insects, or in-
cidental inflammation, its virtues are universally acknow-
ledged. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. Sold-by A.
Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton-Garden, London; and by
Chemists and Perfumers.

THE FOREIGN TRADE OP THE PORT OF LONDON.
It appears from a return to Parliament that in IS4I the num-
ber of British vessels which had entered the port of London
engaged inantdheinfct)ernelygenartiatdien wlaBs 4,016
51,th
e sailingnumber
was
6306
m 5,19206
1,403 steamers; while of foreign vessels there
swstileeialriernngienras'luB(l4l, 1,927 sailing and 72 steamers, and last year
the number lisd increased to 3,474 sailing and 274 steam-
vessels.