The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-26 00:00:00

THE UNITED MERCANTILE and TRA-
VELLERS' ASSOCIATION, and General Mutual Life
Assurance and Annuity Society, 68, Cheapside, for securing An-
nuities to Aged Travellers, Warehousemen, Clerks, and others, and
Endowments to their Widows and Children ; and for Mutual As-
surance of Lives and Survivorship s, Granting Annuities, and the
Purchase and Sale of Reversionary Property and interests.

TRUSTEES.
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor. Jamea Pat tison. Esq., 111.13.
George Grote, Esq., M.P. I Thomas Brockelbank, Esq.

DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—The Right lion. the LORD MAYOR.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN.—WM. HUGHES HUGHES, Esq.,

Edward Baker, Esq.
Robert Currey, Esq.
Thomas Dakeyne, Esq.

Joseph DowsOn, Esq.
John Evats, Esq.

3d L. q.
Gies Redmayne, Esq.
Peter Rolt, Esq.
Joseph 11. Warter, Esq.
James Webber, Esq.
Robe: t Wilcoxon, Esq.
AUDITORS.

F. A. ai

Mr. John Robert Cuffley I Mr. J. Stokes
Mr. George Frsd. Finden I Mr. William Tilt
Mr. W. Williams.
BANzsas.l7Messre. Prescott, Grote, Ames, Baillie, and Grr

SOLICITORS—Messrs. Newbon and Evans.
PHYSICIAN—George Cursham, M. P
CONSULTING SURGEON—Eusebius
Life Assurances and Annuities of ever
by the Association.
To those parties who desire t
of Life, tho system of D.'
cisty, offers great advr

„.
Lloyd, Esq.
.f description are granted

secure a provision for the decline
...erred Annuities, as granted by the So-
.utages.
.ne Tables will show that a person aged 25, by the
of less than 4s. 6d. per week, will obtain, at the age
nis option, an Annuity of 501. for the remainder of his life,
sum in Cash of 5771. 10s., and other suers in proportion ' • and
to the event of his dying before the attainment of that age, ALL
the Premiums paid to the Association will be returned.
Books of Tables and Forms of Proposal may he obtained at the
Office, No. 63, Cheapside, London ; or of the Agents in the
Country.

A reference to'
appropriatio—
of 55,

JAMES DRANSFIELD, Actuary and Secretary.
ul A R ELD'S DIAMOND PLATE POW-
DER, warranted not to wear the plate.
.1-10
It instantly clears tarnish and dirt, and magically produces a
most inimitable Polish upon Gold, Silver, Plated Goods, Brass,
Tin, Copper, and makes British Plate, Zinc, and Pewter, look as
white as the best Silver.

Sold, wholesale and retail, at Hallet and Co.'s British Plate
Factory, 41, Ludgate-street.
Bateman, Chemist. to the Queen,' Poole, Manchester.
No. 8, Castle street, Leicester-. Holbrook, I 15, Grafton-street,
square. Dublin.
J. Chappell, 84, Lombard-street. Parkinson, Birmingham.
.Vilson, 87, Fenchurch-street. Nettleship, Lincoln.
Warren and Son, Carmarthen. Bloomfield, Poole, Dorset.
Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight.
And at the Manufactory, 92, Fenchureh-street.

AGENTS WANTED for
N.B.—Platte cleaned with this

every
e Town in the Kingdom.
powder will not again tarnish.

THE INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE
DUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. and B. SOLO-
IIONS, Opticians and Aurists to the Royal Family, 39, Albe-
marle-street, Piccadilly, by which thousands of deaf persons have
been greatly benefitted, is the size of a seven-shilling piece, and
when fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not
more perceptible than having a piece of wool in its place, by
which the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with
distinctness. And defective VISION is brought to nature by the
use of newly-invented SPECTACLE LENSES : immediately
they are placed before weak and imperfect eye-sight, either by
day or candle light, every object becomes clear and distinct, and
the most minute particle is seen with exact distinctness, by the
use of which both the sight and hearing become much improved.
The Messrs. Solomon. disclaim all connection with the sale of
amber spectacles—and in doing so they state,the history of Amber
—" it gives out electricity by fractions ' • it is an indurated vegetable
juice, and not produced by the laws of crystalization, but by the
same causes which influence the mechanical condition of gum, in-
sects are often found embedded in it.—Perke's Chemistry.

" When amber is exposed to heat it becomes soft, swells, bubbles
ip, is apt to take fire, it burns with a yellowish flame, and turns a
red colour."—Hern's Chemistry.
They also refer to Messrs. Curtis a d Dolland's second edition on
the Preservation of Sight, pages 55 and 56, as to the injurious ef-
fects of amber spectacles to imperfect vision, in consequence of the
eolour and soft stickey state of the material, it being impossible to
form it into a perfect lens, and an imperfect lens is certain to prove
a most serious destruction to vision.

Those statements of facts may be ascertained at any respectable
optician's in London.
The Messrs. Solomons newly-invented Spectacle Lenses, and
very small Voice Conductor for deaf persons; are only to be had at
their Establishment, 39, Albemarle-street.

yo LA ND'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION,
sold by all chemists, &c., price 4s. 6d. and I Is., by its own
merits has attained the very highest repntaticu, which is daily confirmed
by the extraordinary rapidity and certainty with which it cures Gonor-
rhoei, Gleets, Strictures, Stone, Gravel, local debility, and all diseases
of the urethra, and urinary passages. There is no preparation extant to
be compared to it, for it cures when all others have failed, and is pre-
scr.bed (in preference to every thing else) in lio,pittls, and the private
practile, by the most eminent medical men.

Tea inionial.—We pledge ourselves to the safety, certainty, and supe-
rioril of Yoland's Solution for curing all urethral diseases, &c., in both
sexes, and earnestly advise our medical brethren to prescribe it in such
.aes. Signed by Dr. Ley, Dr. Clarke, Surgeon Cooper, Dr. GI een ,
:c.. &c.

Prepared at Messrs. Graham and Co's., 13S, Holborn Bars, where the
Physician attends as usual from nine till three daily, who guarantees to
effectually cure Gonorrhoea, Gleets, &c., sooner than any other indivi-
dual, or forfeit all he may r.-ceive. Yoland's Solution has recently effect-
rd a most wonderful cure of steno in the bladder, having expelled ene
weighing one ounce and a half, which may be sren, and all particulars had,
with reference to patient, on application to the Physician as above.
Agents for the above medicine, Hannay and Co., f• 3, Oxford-street ;
iAnston, Cornhill ; Dordoy, the Golder Star, Stones'-end, Boronh.

No. :36, OLD BOND-S I'REET
VYESIGHT and DEFECTIVE HEARING.
Li The success of llr. ELIA SOLOMONS' PATENT
SPECTACLES, and a similarity of names favouring the decep-
tion, has induced parties to offer publicly as a new invention, profess-
ing to relieve simultaneously vision and deafness, common glasses
of many years' standing, ground on the principle of the pernccpic
lens (the meniscus employed for Spectacles 40 years ago), and which
although attainable at most respectable opticians, are set aside by
them as decidedly objectionable. These quack and absurd misre-
presentations, unsupported by weight or authority, might have
been safely allowed to pass unnoticed before the eyes of a discern-
ing public; but as the names of some medical gentlemen are used,
it behoves one to inqure by what means, or on what grounds, their
signatures have been obtained (if obtained at all) as sanctioning a
direct untruth by proclaiming such as " Newly-invented Spectacle
Lenses," which are unanswerably nothing more than common
glasses, of a pink or purple tint, to be purchased at. the above esta-
blishment, at Is. 6d. per pair.
Mr. E's. VOICE CONDUCTORS for DEAFNESS, which
are worn unperceived, without requiring to he held, enable the
individual using them to participate in all the -various enjoyments to
which the sense of hearing is subservient.
TESTIMONIALS on the PATENT SPECTALES of Mr.
ELIA SOLOMONS, 36, Old Bond-street, nearly opposite
the Western Exchange.
From Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R. S., President of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons, and Senior Surgeon to the Westminster
Hospital, &c.
Mr. Elia Solomons' Spectacle Lenses seem to me likely to afford
additional aids to imperfect vision, and because of their superior
refracting powers to glass or other dense materials, they promise to
afford new resources for the construction of Spectacles.
ANTHONY CARLISLE, F. R. S., Langbam-place.
From Dr. J. Johnson, Physician Extraordinary to the late
King, &c.
I have been using and am still using Mr. Elia Solomons' Amber
Spectacles, and find them more pleasant to the Eye than any other
glasses which I have tried.
JAMES JOHNSON, M.D., 8, Suffolk-place.
From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F.R. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hos-
pital, &e.
From the use I have made of an Amber Lens, and comparing
it with those in ordinary glasses, I have no hesitation in saying
that, to my sight, the former is infinitely prefeable, in being less
trying to the Eye.

BEtANSBY:I3. COOPER, 2, New-street, Spring-gardens.

I am much pleased with Mr. Elia Solomens' Amber Lenses, and
a Gentleman who made trial of them for several days, says that
they relieve the Eye much more than any Glasses he has before
used.

MARTIN WARE, New Bridge-street.

I have examined the Amber Spectacles made by Mr. Elia Solo-
mons, and I am of opinion that they are calculated to answer every
purpose for which they are intended—that they soften the light to
teak and irritable Eyes, and are likely to be useful to persons
whose sight is thus affected—being preferable to Glass or Pebbles.
J. COP L AND, M. D. , F. R. S. , 13 ulst rode-st. , Manchester-sq.
From an examination of the Amber Lenses, I have every reason
to ',include that they possess many and decided advantages over the
ordinary Glass Spectacles.
J. T. CONQUEST, NI.D. , 13, Finsbury-square.
They are also recommended by the following, and many other
practitioners :
Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., F.R. S., &c.
C. Aston Key, Esq., St. Helen's-place.
J. Scott, Esq., New Broad-street.
C. J. B. Aldis, Esq., M.D.
Sir James E. Anderson, M.D., Ece.
Marshall Hall, Esq., M.D., F.R. S.
W. Coulson, Esq., Old Jewry.
John Stephenson, Esq., Oculist to the late King.
R. Keate, Esq., 15, Albemarle-street.

PUBLICATIONS.

On the 30th instant will be published, price 121.,
THE COMIC ANNUAL FOR 1839,
By THOMAS HOOD, Esq.
London : A. H. Baily and Co., 83, Cornhill.
*.* HOOD'S OWN, No. XII., will be published on the Ist
March.