The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

THE SUN,

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rraE EARL,OF ALBEMAR
" MEMOIRS of the MARQUIS of ROCKINGHAM and his
CONTEMPORARIES.
2 Vols. Bvo., with Portrait. 30s.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street (Publisher in C rdinarY
to her Majesty).

LONDON and NWITH-WESTEB.II-1
RAILWAY.—NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
next HALF- YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING of the
London and NorthlWestern Railway Company will be held at
the Elston Station, London, on FILIDAY, the 20th day of
February, 1852, at Twelve o'clock at noon, for the
determine
upon the Consolidation into Stock of the Coventry and
Railway Shares, the whole of the calls on which Shares have been
paid up.
Dated this 2d day of February, 1852.
GEORGE CARR GLYN. Chairman.
THOMAS SMITH, Deputy Chairman.
HENRY BOOTH, Secretaries.
C ILAS. E. STEWART,

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BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION VOLUME.
Now ready,
THE ILLUSTRATED EXHIBITOR for 1851.
In One Splendid Volume, embracing upwards of 600 Pages,
and 1,000 Engravings of Works of Art, Machinery, and Objects of
Manufacture in the Great Exhibition, with List of Prize Exhibitors,
and the Bistory of the Undertaking, handsomely bound
in extra cloth, gilt edges, admirably adapted for presents, Bs. This
is a marvellous Volume, and, forms one of the most interesting mo-
numental records of the Grent Exhibition published.
Cases for binding the Volumes handsomely got up in ornamental
cloth, with gold back and sides, are also ready, price Is. 9d.
J. Cassell, 335, Strand, and all Booksellers.

PRIZE MEDAL.—COOKING RANGE...—
Noblemen, gentlemen, architects, builders, hotel keepers,
and others, are respectfully requested to inspect EDWARD
BROWN'S. PATENT COOKING APPARATUS, with automaton
roasting-jack, as exhibited in Class XXII., No. 370, and for which a
prize was awarded. For economy in fuel it is invaluable • for sim-
plicity, cleanliness, and non-liability to get out of order, :mrivalled.
Testimonials of the highest respectability, and full particulars, to
be had on application to the manufacturer, Lyme Regis, Dorset;
and at the London warehouse, 53, Watling-street, Budge-row, where
stock is kept, and cards given to view :one in operation at a first-
class hotel at the West-end. Manszer, Mr. JAMES ILIFFE.

CUBE OF HOARSENESS AND SORE THROAT BY
DR. LOCOCK'S YULMONIC WAFERS.
Market-street; Oxford-street, London, January 22, 1E152.
" Gentlemep,.—l have been suffering from a severe cold and sore
throat for some tine -indeed was so bad that I could not speak—l
tried all the usual remedies. but without obtaining anrelief. lat
last tried a ls. 134 d. box of Dr. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS,
which I m happy to say has quite cured me, and restored my voice.
"M. GIDDY."
—Yours, &c.
They have a pleasaht taste. Price Is. 134.1., 2s. 9d., and 1 ls. per
box. Sold by all druggists.

Also, •
Dr. LOCOCICS ANTIBILIOUS WAFERS, a mild and gentle
Aperient Medicine, having a most agreeable taste, and of great
efficacy for ret:niating the secretions and correcting the action of the
Stomach and Liver.

ROYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE
Determined, we supple, not, to be altogether behind
li
the other and, larger theatres, ,the managemnnt here
brought out last night a pantomimic piece that may
very safely bear comparison with its mere ostentatious
companions, although called only a " Divertissement."
Ic is a genuine Italian mime, in which Arleclaind,
Columbine, Pantalon, and Vierrot, flit about the stage
in a novel style; and in which the music and scenery
a-e appropriate, and the iricke, though but few, well
done. The chief character, however, as far as amuse-
ment is concerned, bore he name of Salmeilo, who
really is the prime of pantornimiste, and by the aid of a
small hoop performs certain fea:s of agility that would
de:y the rivalry of Mr. Flexmore and all the acrobats of
the b'st circus in the world. The house was well at-
tended, and the performances evidently afforded great
gratification. The spirited proprietor seems deter-
mined to-keep up the popularity that he has so rapidly
and so deservedly secured for this small but elegant
theatre.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Last night a most interesting lecture was delivered
in the large theatre of the above institution on the
" Music of many Nations." The lecturer was a Mr.
T. T. Peed, who, we believe, was educated at the
Musical Academy, and was in the singing class of
Crivelli. He possesses a fine pure tenor voice of
great power, and he did ample justice to the many
beautiful songs he selected to illustrate his subject.
There is too much pressure on our space to permit us
to follow him through his instructive discourse; suf-
fice it to say, that he brings to his task much taste,
ability, and research, with a very happy, agreeable
manner of delivery ; and we are sure all who listen
to him will leave the institution much gratified, and
his lecture will be a source of attraction for a long
period.

DEATH Or A VETERAN.--The Windsor Express
of yesterday, in an obituary of Mr. Joseph White, of that
town, at the age of eighty-four, who was in the Blues during
the expedition to Holland, adds that he was once brought
before a court martial for a breach of discipline. During a
time when the two hostile lines were lying opposite to each
other, and watching, it may be, for any opportunity afforded
by a laxity of their opponents of which they might take ad-
vantage, a French colonel, in showy uniform, left the ranks
of his regiment and advanced in a menacing and insulting
manner towards the front of the British lines, seeming to
wish to be understood to challenge to single combat any one
venturous enough to encounter his well-known skill as a
swordsman. This lasted some time, until our hero had
quietly saddled and mounted his horse, and making a con-
siderable detour, to avoid the observation of his superiors, at
length approached the chivalrous Gaul, whom, after a
combat of some little duration, in view of both armies, he
overthrew and killed, stopping only to dispossess his fallen
foe of watch, purse, epaulets, and such spolia opima, he re-
turned safe and unharmed to his regiment through a shower
of bullets from the French lines. On his arrival he was, of
course, arrested and tried for the breach of discipline, in
leaving the ranks without orders, found guilty, and sentenced
to be severely admonished.
OMNIBUS FARES.—Very great dissatisfaction is
expressed by the immense mass of passengers on the Oxford-
street and Holborn line of road at the sudden abandonment
of the cheap fares by the Paddington companies. It is
urged, and with good reason, that such a mode of proceeding
on the part of the proprietors was not warranted, and
shows the indifference they feel to the proper and universal
desire of the metropolitan public in this matter. It is fur-
ther urged, and with no less reason, that as the numerous
residents on the south side of Hyde-park have the oppor-
tunity of riding from the furthermost part of Pimlico, and
even as far as Sloane-square to the Bank, and even beyond
that distance, by
i the whole of the Chelsea and Pimlico om-
nibus's, there s no just cause why the same facilities
should not be afforded to the inhabitants of Paddington and
Bayswater, and the vast neighbourhood which has arisen in
that locality during the last few years. It may be (which
we very much doubt to be the case) that the extreme dis-
tance of the journey from Paddington to the City is greater
than from Chelsea or Pimlico, but at all events the latter
are beyond the three-mile distance from the Post-office,
which the Marble Arch is not, and it is considered that the
least concession which the public have the right to expect
is the adoption of the threepenny fare from that spot to the
City, in order in some degree to assimilate the fare to the
more favoured route on the other side of the park. An
organized opposition on this road is, however, talked of, by
the establishment of a new company, with a superior de-
scription of vehicles to those at present in use, which stand
in great need of improvement, and which will probably pro-
duce the desired effect.
DINNER TO JAMES BAIRD, ESQ., M.P.—On
Thursday, in ccmpliance with a requisition addressed to him
by the electors of Lanark, Mr. J. Baird, M.P., met the con-
stituents of the burgh. In the forenoon the freedom of the
burgh was presented to him, and in the evening upwards
of 70 of the electors entertained the Hon. Gentleman to
dinner in the Commercial Inn. Dundas M'Queen Gray,
Esq., of Crofton-hill, in the chair. Allusion was made by
the chairman to the manner in which Mr. Baird had dis-
charged his Parliamentary duties, and the satisfaction with
which these had been regarded by the constituency.—North
British Daily Mail.
DINNER TO WILLIAM LOCKHART, ESQ., M.p.—
Friday afternoon Mr. Lockhart, M.P. for the county of
Lanark, was entertained at dinner in the Clydesdale Hotel,
Lanark, by the gentlemen of the Upper Ward, as an ex-
pression of the value which they attached to his services as
representative of the county. The party, which numbered
upwards of 120 gentlemen, many of them of high standing
in the county, embraced all shades of opinion, it being un-
derstood that the demonstration was entirely irrespective of
politics. Hope Vere, Esq., of Blackwood and Craigie
'....ischarged the duties of chairman.—Nortli British Daily

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Yes-
terday the directors of this company resolved to re-
commend to the proprietors, at the half-yearly meeting
to be held on the 12th instant, that the dividend for
the half-year ending the 31st of December last, be at the
rate of 5
company, l per cent. per annum on the capital stock of the
It appears that this result was arrived at
afterwh ich p a
_ hadym
laying aside 10,0001. towards providing new plant,
payment
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thefurn diisvhieddenddu,riangbaiathnecepasoftseyveeraalr,
thleoauvsianngd,
pounds.

few daysN. MRS. AUGUSTUS JOCELTN.---
DEATH OF TR]; Ro
and was the Dun-
dalk, Ireland. The deeaselce
This lady died a
, at the cottage near Dun-
otlL Jocelyn, step brother to
second daughter of Sir John
Hon. Augustus George Frade was the second wife of the
the Earl of Roden,
Macneill, the eminent engineer.
e, daughter of (xen.
asl Corn-
years of age. She was married
so
recently
Jocelyn was but 22
January, 1851. Mr. Jocelyn's first wife,
and
itliien,dB:ll; day of
Sir Neil Douglass, K.C.8., died in 1847.
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
Saturday the building passed formally from the PIOG.—On
Com-
mission into the hands of Messrs. Fox an
Royal Coni-.
contractors, And all the articles
.remaining outside becanln'etttee
such as are not re-
quired
for the purposes of a national museum', will be
sold,
property of tie Royal Comnau-sicn, and sue
and their proceeds added to.. the general fund. The gra-
tuitous admission of the public commenced yesterday, b 3
applicationTh enufrmobnerthe.
tmicikveito,nteors,beorobotaaincwill be limited
until after the visit of the Queen and Members of Parliament.
At a Ref ,rm meeting he;d in St. Pancras, last
night, Sir B. Hall announced his intention to bring out, in
eodntroalict,rs.
the House of Commons, this evening:' " the truth of the
matter with respect to Lord Palmerston.
THB DUKE or CAIIBRIDGE.--It is understood
that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will remain
in command of the Dublin district until March next, when
he will enter upon the duties of Inspector General of Cavalry.
-
His successor in Dublin has not yet been Appointed. Major-
' General Cathcart, now ainted to the Cape, was to have
been the Commander in h ppo
is Royal Highness's stead. The
outgoing Inspector of Cavalry was appointed on ' the occasion
of the Brevet of 1846.
BOULOGNE, FSB. I—F. ranee is recruiting her
navy from the fishermen in every port, and it is an excellent
way of manning the navy. The fishing-boats are obliged to
carry always an extra number of men, for which Government
allows a certain remuneration, and the immense number of
sailors they have at their command is astonishing. How
far they will bear oat the character of sailors I Will not
presume to say, for these men know nothing about • g
aloft, always being used to their small fishing craft; but
they are, nevertheless, a flue race of men.—Shipping Gauto.