The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-26 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1837.

ROYAL ACADEMY, TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
NOTICE. THE EXHIBITION BEING
CLOSED, Exhibitors are requested to send far their se-
veral Performances To-Moanow or FRIDAY NEXT, without fail.
HENRY HOWARD, R.A., saaretery.

OLD ANGEL FAMILY HOTEL,
COMMERCIAL INN, AND POSTING-HOUSE,
DONCASTER.

WILLIAM BROOK most respectfully returns
his sincere thanks to the Nobility and Gentry, posting the
Great North Road, for the very liberal favours conferred upon him
since he took the above elegant and fashionable HOTEL and
POSTING-HOUSE ; and takes this opportunity of announcing,
that he has added several excellent Post Horses to his previous
superior stud. He has, also, been fortunate in the selection of
a Stock of WINES of tke choicest vintage, wkieh have received
the unbounded praise of all who have hitherto honoured the
Old Angel with their patronage ; and trusts, from the general
comforts that will be found in having well-aired and excellent beds,
in the cleanliness of the Establishment, in the attention that is
unremittingly paid, and (in addition to his excellent stud of
horses) in the safety of commodious stabling, coach-houses, &e.,
that he shall be honoured with a continuance of that support which
he earnestly but most respectfully solicits.
At the same time, with grateful feelings, acknowledges the kind
support be has received from Commercial Gentlemen, and begs to
assure them that everything shall be done to promote their comfort
and convenience. _ _

N. B. Coaches to all parts of the Kingdom every day.

July 17, 1E37.

THE PROTECTOR, or THAMES WATER-
MEN'S FRIEND STEAM-BOAT COMPANY.
Established to carry Passengers to and from London Bridge to the
Temple, Hungerford Market, the Courts of Law at Westminster,
the two Houses of Parliament, the Park, Vauxhall, and Chelsea.

The first object of this Company is the Employment of the Li-
censed Watermen, many of whom, with their families, are nearly
reduced to starvation : 5,000 of this class of men are called to assist
to man the Navy, in case of hostilities, and 14,000 of them actually
served in the Navy during the late war. The number of passengers
will ensure to the Shareholders ample interest for the capital that
may be invested.
Capital, £20,000, in 4,000 Shares of £5 each.
Deposit, 10s. per Share.
PIWvISIONAL COMMITTEE.
W. Moss, Esq. J. Lackman, Esq.
Ed. Elwick, Esq. Wm. Hawtry, Esq.
Thomas Monday, Esq. S. Cottale, Esq.
Wm. Lyall, Esq. John Such, Esq.
With power to ad to their number.
BANKERS—London Joint Stock Company.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Wire and Child. _ .

Applicationsio7Srare; to-I; made to the Secretary (if by letter
post-paid), at the Company's Temporary Office, No. 3, Charlotte-
row, Mansion House.
*,,.* The few Subscribers who have not paid their deposits are
requested to do so on or before the 31st instant. No Shares can be
reserved after that period.—July 20, 1837.

PROVIDENT ENDOWMENT ASSOCIA-
TION ,for GRANTING ENDOWMENTS on an AD-
VANTAGEOUS:and ENTIRELY NEW PRINCIPLE.

=,, Capital 250,000/. in 25,0001. Shares of Mead'.
Deposit 11. per Share.
TRUSTEES.
SIR WILLIAM YOUNG, Bart.
SIR HENRY WEBB, Bart.
HENRY WATERTON, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M. P. K. F. H. Mackenzie, Esq.
W. Adam Smith, Esq. I Sir William Younl, Bart._
Sill Henry Webb, Bart. W. Jesse Sturch, Esq.
♦UDITORS.
Sir Francis C. Knowles, Bart., F.R.S. J. Anstice, Esq.
BANKERS.

Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., Gracechurch-street, and
Messrs. Wright and Co., Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Williams, Vaux, Fennell, and Williams.
32, Bedford-row.
SzcRETAIIY—C. B. Johnstone, Esq.
The principle upon which this Association is founded, offers in-
ducements to the public not hitherto contemplated by any other
Institution.
Instead of the endowed being required to await the lengthened
period, when arrival at the stipulated age would entitle them to
the Endowment, they v:ill be divided into clang, warding to Out
term of years when the endowments are to become payable, and
the Association will grant an early payment of the endowment to
be determined by allotment at the end of each year to some of the
members of each class, (all having an equal chance), remitting to
such parties the payment of any future premiums.
By this arrangement some of the members must gain the amount
for which the endowment has been granted for one year's premium,
and again some of them for two years premium, &c. &c.
To those who may not obtain these early payments will be secured
the amount subscribed for, together with a proportionate share of
the profits when the endowed, arrive at the stipulated age.
To Shareholders it will be sufficient to observe, that the cha-
racter of this Association is not speculative. The profits are certain,
and its contracts free from those casualties to which Life and other
Insurances are necessarily exposed.
Applications for Shares, to be addressed by letter, post paid, to
the Bankers, Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., racechurclr-
street ; and Messrs. Wright and Co., Henrietta-street, Covent-
garden ; also to the Solicitors, Messrs. Williams, Vanx, Fennell,
and Williams, No. 32, Bedford-row, of whom Prospectuses may
- be had. y
rfir No Applications received from persons resident in London
after 31st instant.

Yairon gnothi—Fugit hors.
ABelief in the existence of the fountain of youth,
from which those who bathed in its waters gained a pristine
energy, was among the speculations of the 15th century ; it will, how
ever, serve as no inapt type of the revivifying powers of art and medicine-
Those why, early victims to a morbid imagination, have sought fatally tc;
anticipate the purposes of nature, and have consequently lapsed into a
state which brings with it weakened capabilities and clouded hope., may
by timely application to professianal treatment, regain those first, noblesi
and best of powers that have been compromised by the criminal propan,;:
ties of "guilty solitude," the progress of which is marked by the :s
phatica somnia" of Pliny, attended with bodily weakness an,/ mental
apathy. We may indulge a natural exultation in referring to our daily
correspondence with grateful and convalescent patients, not confined to
our own country, but diffused over the whole world. For twenty-five
years has our peculiar treatment in cases of Nervous Debility proved emi-
nently successful, and we have hitherto resisted the earnest solicitations
of cur patients to publish their cases in a public address : the following,
however, has been so urgently pressed upon us by a medical friend, that
we have yielded toan importunity sufficiently excusable by the gratitude
t evinces :
" Dear Sirs—My fondest hopes are realized! Accept my most heart-
felt thanks; words are inadequate to express my unbounded gratitude.
May you long live to reap the rich reward of your labours in the treat_
omit of that class of diseases which have hitherto baffled the skill of your
medical brethren.
" Nov. i 8.52." Your's, most sincerely, L. H."
There are many disorders of the generative system (which, when corn.
pared with the above, may be termed subordinate) that are consequent
upon the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, exhi-
biting in some, debility from excess, in others, the relaxing etreas of a
tropical climate, and in many, indeed in how many, the various maladies
which afflict the student, the misanthrope, the gay, the dissipated, and the
.ibertine. In all these cases our practice, which embrace: every grade in
society, from the man of rank to him of the humblest sphere, has been
uniformly successful; and as secresy belongs to our profession, the most
delicate and diffident may apply without fear or hesitation
MESSRS. GOSS and Co. are to be consulted every day at their resi-
dence; and Patients in the remotest parts of the country can be treated
successfully on transmitting their reuprt, which will be immediately an-
swered; these must contain a remiffhnee for Advice and Medicine, de-
scribing minutely the case, which can be forwarded to any part of the
world, however distant. No difficulty can occur, as the Medicines wit' be
securely packed, and carefully protected from observation.
GOSS and CO. (M. R. C. Surgeons),
7, Lancaster-place. Strand. London.
Just published (twenty.first edition)—lst. The JEGIS of LIFE. a Simi-
liar commentary on the above Diseases.-2d. H YGEIA NA, addressed
exclusively to the female Sex.-.4c1. The SYPHILIST. a Treatise on
Lues Venerea, Clonorrhcea, &c.
May be bad at 23, Paternoster.row, London; 12, Calton-street, Fain-
burgh ; 86, Trongatc Glasgow ; Grafton-street, Dislains.

Friday morning, about one o'clock, a most das-
tArdly and malicious attack was made upon the dwelling-house
of one of the proprietors of an extensive spinning mill in
Bridgeton. A tremendous volley of stones was thrown
against the gentleman's bed-room window, and burst open the
shutters, which were fortunately well secured, otherwise the
lives of the inmates might have been sacrificed. Three large
stones were found in the room, and nearly every pane of glass
in the window was shivered to pieces. There can be little
doubt that this outrage was perpetrated by the turn-out cot-
ton-spinners or their emissaries, and if so, the circumstance
furnishes sufficient proof that the spirit of intimidation which
prevailed among this body of workmen during the strike of
1826 still exists, although the season of the year at this time is
not so well adapted for its manifestation. The grievance
which these operatives have to complain of is their wages
being reduced to about 30s. per week, a sum nearly double the
amount received by any other class of workmen in the country.
These men have stood out since the Bth of April, rather than
accept this handsome remuneration, which amounts to nearly
as much in one day as many poor weavers can earn in a week.
Glasgow Herald.
It is said of a gentleman in Boston that he has a
passion for the purchase of second-hand furniture at auction,
and that, in making " good bargains," he has filled his house
with antiquated and almost useless articles. Upon one occa-
sion his wife took the responsibility, without consulting or ap-
prising her husband, to have a portion of the least useful re-
moved to an auction room. Great was her dismay, and ex-
treme her astonishment, when, on the evening of the day of
sale, a majority of the articles came back to the house. The
husband had stumbled into the auction-room, and, not know-
ing his own furniture, had purchased it at better bargains than
at first !—Boston Paper.
We are happy to state there are good grounds for
believing a second Liberal candidate for the North Division
%ill be brought forward at the nomination on Friday next.
The freeholders and electors in the neighbourhood of Lincoln
are determined, if possible, to oppose a man of character
against the unpopular individuals whom the Tories have set
up.—Lincoln Gazette.
The yaeht club have commence.] the season by elect-
ing six subscribing and seven honorary members.

THE ASCENT and FATAL DESCENT

OF THE PARACHUTE.

The melancholy consequences which have resulted from
the perilous ascent of the late Mr. Cocking in his newly-
constructed parachute have become already, unfortunately,
well known to our readers through the medium of the cus-
tomary vehicles, the daily journals, and therefore, prior to
reverting more immediately to the descent and its lamen-
table termination, we shall present for their perusal the ac-
count of the voyage, with which we have been favoured
by Mr. Green and Mr. Spencer, the gentleman whom he
selected to be his companion on this hazardous occasion.
Mr. Green has thus detailed the proceedings :
" In consequence of the sad and fatal catastrophe which
has befallen the late Mr. Cocking, I feel myself called upon
to communicate to the public the whole of the particulars
of my ascent with the Vauxhall Balloon, taking up with
me Mr. Cocking in his parachute. The inflation com-
menced about twelve "o'clock, under the able direction
of Mr. Hutchinson, the engineer to the London Gas Com-
pany, and was completed by five o'clock. Prior to the
parachute being attached to the balloon, I caused a
trial to be made with the view of ascertaining whe-
ther the buoyancy of the latter was sufficient to carry
up the former with safety. The result of this trial was.
after some arrangements with respect to the ballast, of
which I was compelled to give out about 6501 b. in weight,
had been effected, satisfactory: The abandonment of this
large quantity of ballast I found to be absolutely requisite,
in order with safety to commence the ascent. The balloon
was then allowed gently to rise a sufficient height to be
conveyed over the parachute ; but in consequence of the
great and unavoidable delay which was necessarily caused
: about
troauy uffir
te. considerablyxi
n tt the ei
thereupon
uo
condensed,ponb
became machines,
camefrom
a a
ae
the
m gast reduction
in theo f
c of o
mr n
of
compulsion
tl r
ssmp
otentbecameiae
t.
I should get rid of 1001 b. more of ballast, which I emptied
out of the bags through a tube, constructed of canvas, and
50 feet in length. The object in having this tube
was, that any ballast I might deem it advisable to throw
out during our voyage should take such a course as would
entirely clear the broadest expanse of the parachute. The
Connection between the balloon and the parachute was at
length completed, by the rope of the latter being made fast
to the liberating iron by which Mr. Cocking was to free
himself from the balloon.
" It is but justice to myself I should here state, that I
had on several occasions expressed my determitation not to
liberate the parachute from the balloon, upon the ground,
setting aside any other considerations, that I might select a 1
moment for the severance wheu Mr. Cocking was not
altogether prepared or ready for his descent, and therefore if
any accident were to accrue to him, that I of course should
be regarded as the responsible party, and the one to whom
blame would naturally attach.
" Mr. F. Gye, every thing being in readiness, about 25
minutes to 8 o'clock, gave te signal for the whole of the
apparatus to be released from its trammels, and we instantly
rose very steadily, taking an easterly course.
" Mr. Cocking had always desired that we should ascend
to an elevation of 8,000 feet, about one mile and a quareer, at
which height he proposed to detach himself from the balloon,
and to commence his descent. Finding, therefore, that our
upward progress was very slow, I requested Mr. Spencer to
discharge some more ballast, and he accordingly threw the
contents of a bag weighing 201 b. through the tube already
named. This proving of little avail, I directed a second and
then a third bagful to be got rid of by the-same means.
" At this period we were floating nearly over the Surrey
Zoological-gardens, at an elevation of about 2,000 feet. It
was at this moment that a portion of the lower end of the
ballast-tube became detached, a circumstance which was
caused by the occasional swinging to and fro of the para-
chute. This accident led to the inconvenience which I
had foreseen some days before the ascent, and which led to
the adoption of the tube, and of that of rendering it ex-
tremely difficult for us to discharge the ballast without its
falling into the parachute.
" Our inability to do this as we were then situated I
communicated to Mr. Cocking, adding that under the cir-
cumstances it was impossible for us to rise any higher unless
we were to attempt to throw the ballast in bags beyond the
outer spread of his machine, a course of procedure which
we considered to be attended with much danger to any per.
sons who might chance to be beneath, but that we would,
if he wished it, make the experiment as soon as we had
cleared the houses. Mr. Cocking replied, Very well, it
is of no consequence ; if you think I have time to rise as
high as I want, and to descend before dark.' I remarked,
I think you have ; and you will then also have a more
open country for the descent.' We now continued to glide
along guided by the pleasure of the wind at nearly the same
elevation until we had cleared all the buildings. During
this time Mr. Spencer and myself were busily engaged in
dividing our ballast into small parcels, so that we might be
able to throw them over without injury to the parachute.
" As soon as we found that we had arrived over the
fields, and presuming that no danger could arise from the
falling of the ballast, we quickly began to relieve ourselves
of that essential commodity. In doing this our anxiety
respecting any of it lodging in the parachute was much re-
lieved by finding that that machine continually swung back-
wards and forwards, evidently occasioned by the operation
of the currents through which we passed, so that we were
enabled without any difficulty to cast away the bags with-
out damage to the vehicle immediately below us. We con-
tinued to discharge ballast until we had lessened our quan-
tity by 501 b., in addition to that already sent over. The
balloon now began to rise, and soon entered a tier of clouds,
when we lost sight of the earth. So great, however, was
the resistance offered by the parachute to this denser at-
mosphere that we were again obliged, in order to attain the
elevation Mr. Cocking pressed for (that gentleman consi-
dering that the greater the distance be had to fall, the
greater would be the atmospheric pressure under the para.-
' chute, and therefore the easier his descent), to rid ourselves
of 4001 b. more ballast, and even then we only arrived at
the height of 5,000 feet, which is a trifle less than a mile.
" We were still 3,000 feet lower than Mr. Cocking's de-
sired elevation.
" Whilst these operations were going on, Mr. Spencer
and myself held a conversation with our appended neigh-
bour and friend, which was entirely confined to the pro•
gross we were making upwards, Mr. Cocking manifesting
much anxiety, and wishing to be informed how we were
rising, requesting to know when every additional elevation
of 500 feet was accomplished.
" As soon as we had attained the height of 5,000 feet I
told him that it would be impossible for us to get up as
high as he desired in sufficient time for him to descend by
the light of day. Upon this Mr. Cocking said, Then I
shall very soon leave you ; but tell me whereabouts I am.'
Mr. Spencer, who had a few minutes before caught a
glimpse of the earth, answered, We appear to be on a
level with Greenwich.' I then asked him if he felt himself
quite comfortable, and whether he found that the practical
trial bore out the calculations he had made? Mr. Cocking
replied Yes ; I never felt more comfortable or more de-
lighted in my life.' Shortly afterwards Mr. Cocking said,
Well, now I think I shall leave you. I answered, I
wish you a very good night and a safe descent, if you are
determined to make it, and not to use the tackle.'
" I should here observe, that with an anxiety to prevent
any accident arising in the event of the violence of the wind
rendering it impossible for a descent to be attempted, an
apparatus had been constructed under the direction of Mr.
F. Gye, to afford us the facility of assisting Mr. Cocking
to haul himself up into the car of the balloon, and that
this is the tackle to which I thus alluded.
Mr. Cocking to this question made no other reply than
Good night, Spencer ; good night, Green.'
" At this instant I desired Mr. Spencer to take fast hold
of the ropes, and like myself to crouch down in the car. In
consequence of being compelled to keep hold of the valve
line, of course I had but one hand which was available for
the purposes of safety. With that hand, fortunately, in the
perilous situation into which we were speedily thrown, I
was able to maintain my position.
" Scarcely were these words uttered before we felt a
slight jerk upon the liberating iron, but quickly disco.
vered, from not having changed our elevation, that Mr.
Cocking had failed in his attempt to free himself. Another
but more powerful jerk ensued, and in an instant the bal-
loon shot upwards with the velocity of a skyrocket.
" The effect upon us at this moment is almost beyond
description. The immense machine which suspended us
between heaven and earth,' whilst it appeared to be
forced upwards with terrific violence and rapidity through
unknown and untravelled regions, amidst the howlings of a
fearful hurricane, rolled about as though revelling in a free-
dom for which it had long struggled, but of which until
that moment it had been kept in absoluto ignorance. It
at length, as if somewhat fatigued by its exertions, gra-
dually assumed the motions of a snake working its way with
astonishing speed towards a given object. During this
frightful operation, the gas was rushing in torrents from
the upper and lower valves, but more particularly from the
latter, as the density of the atmosphere through which we
were forcing our progress pressed so heavily on the valve at
the top of the balloon as to admit of comparatively but a
small escape by that aperture,