The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-17 00:00:00

HORTICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT.

4READ, begs to inform Ladies, Gentlemen,
• Amateurs, &c., that he has now made improvements
in his PATENT HYDRAULIC MACHINES, which are
so portable that a lady may enjoy the pleasure of watering her
flowers without the least fatigue. Water may be dispersed in
form of a gentle shower or dew-fall. It is the most beautiful
instrument for the above purpose ever offered to the public, and
is never liable to be out of repair. May be seals and proved at
35, Regent Circus, Piccadilly.
N.R. As spurious imitations are offered to the public as
" IMPROVEMENTS " on Read's Patent, please to observe
the Royal Arms and the Patentee's name stamped on the in-
strument, without which none are genuine.

BLOWING-UP OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.—
During the last fortnight much interest has been man.
fested at Chatham by the preparations now in operation in
the dock-yards for effecting the blowing-up of the wreck
of the Royal George at Spithead, which is expected to
take place in the early part of the ensuing week, under the
direction of Colonel Palsey, of the Royal Engineers, and
his men. The mode of effecting the demolition of the
wreck will be on a similar• principle to that practised on the
blowing-up of the brig William, off Gravesend, last Au-
gust. The apparatus consists of two large cylinders, about
seven feet in height, and three feet in diameter. Tney
are bound with iron and lead, and filled with powder, which
will be fired by a galvanic battery.
FALLING STA RS.—During the night of Friday
and Saturday last, the 9th and 10th August, the heavens
were bestrewed with little falling stars of extraordinary
brightness. Mr. Forster counted above 600 of them. It
is not a little singular that the peasants of France (Query
Franconia?) and Saxony, have believed for ages past that
Saint Lawrence weeps tears of fire which fall from the
sky every year on his fete (the 10th August). This
ancient popular German tradition, on observation, has been
found within these few years to be a fact, which engages
the attention of astronomers. The inhabitants of Brussels
can bear witness that in the night of the 10th this year
Saint Lawrence shed abundance of tears.—Brussels
Paper.
DEATH OF AN INFANT FROM GODFREY'S
CORDlAL.—Wednesday forenoon, an inquest was held at the
Red Lion Inn, Pinner, Middlesex, on the body of Frances
Baker, an infant three months old, whose death was occa-
sioned by an overdose of " Godfrey's cordial." Mrs.
Mary Baker, the mother of the infant, deposed that she
resided with her husband and children at Pinner. On
Thursday night last the deceased was very restless.
She had from her birth been in good health.
Witness on Friday morning purchased a penny.
worth of Godfrey's cordial, half a tea-spoonful of
which she gave to the deceased. In the after-
noon of the same day the child was seized with convulsions.
Mr. Kelly, a surgeon in the village, was called in, but the
poor babe expired on the same night. Mr. Kelly, sur-
geon, said he bad opened the body of the infant, and found
about a tea-spoonful of a greyish milky fluid in the sto-
mach, and, testing the fluid, he discovered a small portion
of laudanum. He ( Mr. Kelly) considered that the death
of the child was natural, but accelerated by the effects of
laudanum, of which Godfrey's Cordial contains a portion.—
The Jury returned a verdict of natural death, accelerated
by an overdose of quack medicine, called Godfrey's Cor-
dial, administered by tho mother.
MR. CURTEIS'S CHALLENGE.—The chal-
lenge put forth by that eminent Sussex grazier, Mr. Cur-
teis, to show 100 beasts, now in his possession, against an
equal number of short-horns brought forward by any per-
son in England (which has been accepted by Earl Spen-
cer, on condition that the number on his part should be
limitesi to 50), has naturally created considerable sensa-
tion amongst our agriculturists, more especially as the
numbers are so extremely large for two breeders to show.
That the pure Sussex beasts are deserving of a distinct
class at agricultural exhibitions, as has been asserted by
Mr. Curteis, there can be no doubt, since, from long ex-
perience, I have found them to be both profitable, and in
every respect useful animals ; whilst my only surprise
being, that they have not been more extensively attended
to. Let it not be considered, however, that lam attempt-
ing to detract from the merits of the short-horns, or, in-
deed, any ether breeds, any principal and only object being,
in making these remarks, the improvement of stock in
general. The beasts will, it is understood, be inspected
on the respective farms of the competitors, and the deci-
sions made by the judges in August or September next
Essex Paper.
VAN AMBURGH OUTDONE.--The very great
success and liberal patronage which have attended the
achievements of Mr. Van Amburgb, as a brute tamer in
----_
Just published, price 3s. England, have induced many of his countrymen to try tin 'r
stances with extraordinary success. The principal aurae-
. and '
HAS HE A STRICTURE OF THE hand at their subjugation of the forest, and in some il-
-
eat. present in the city of Philadelphia is a gentleman
URETHRA OR NQT?—or Cautions against,
d Cater, who draws immense audiences to the Wal-
tooObservations on, the ERRONEOUS DIAGNOSIS that
naut-street Theatre, to witness a p:cce called The Litin
frequentl renounced on this important subect, whereby
the P •y p ' of P
a WOODCUT
uTn,necessarily exposed to a Course
andU L King, in
OPERATIONS. This subject is illustrated by CASESSFwhich be exhibits so complete a command cf the
which
exist in the
eowutgEtThue NRAAltiolJtfthaAilsntOroildSunToßnnUoCfTalnONS brute creation, that the " monarch of the forest" submits
IN- to be harnessed to a chariot in which his master is seated,
STRUSIENT,and from an ignorance of which, such disastrous and draws it several times round the stage, and on some
errors originate,
RorAigNincatles.
11URDETT COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L.
And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan infirmary for the Cure occasions Mr. Carter drives through the principal streets
of Strictures of the Urethra. y
Published by the Author, and sold
seller, Great NVindmill-street, .
by T. Hill, Medical Book-
, Hamarrtket ; nwhyn, Cathe- his lion. He has also a tiger which,
being shown a clock by his master, will stamp cu the
cofothe city, drawn by
filer with his foot the number of times necessary to cor-
respond with the hour of the day. Thus, if it happens to
rsh be twelve o'clock, he knocks twelve times. Mr. Carter
rino,street, Strand; Templeman
1 24, Cavendish-street, Cavendish:squar'e, eagnetra-satyrroct4lloa—f a-li 1,43 resolved upon visiting England with his extraordinary
Booksellers in town or country. menagerie.

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A SUMMER'S DAY AT HAMPTON
COURT,
Being a GUIDE to the PALACE and GARDENS.
By EDWARD JESSE, Esq.,
Author of " Gleanings in Natural History."
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