The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-11 00:00:00

ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, ls. ; sent for
14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s, 6c1., or 54 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or su stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 64 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 218,
High Holborn, London.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
eared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
,affer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind.
4pasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &a. For habitual
!ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
lf the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and gratefb.l to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver FMB. The genuine are a square
green package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.

Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, H.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of In-patients, and, in
Addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are 'capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer. Edvrard Bias •
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.
Barclay and Co. ; W Iliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Barned and
'Jo.. Liverpool and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5,
STANFORD SMITH, Secretary.

NEW RAILWAY SHACKLE.—Messrs. Freeman and
Grundy, of 78, Cross-street, Manchester, engineers
and machinists, invited their friends on Saturday to in-
spect a new shackle or coupling apparatus for railway
carriages, waggons, and other vehicles, which they have
invented and patented with the view of superseding the
coupling chains now in use. Every one who has travelled
much on railways has seen the system of attaching
engines and carriages now in use, which requires a man
to go in between two carriages approaching each other
in opposite directions, at considerable risk to his per-
sonal safety, to affix a link on one of the carriages
at the proper moment to a hook on the other. The risk
is well known. Great numbers of men are crushed and
maimed, if not killed, every year by the present system,
and it would no doubt be desirable to adopt an easier and
safer mode of accomplishing the same purpose. The
model of the apparatus by which Messrs. Freeman and
Grundy seek to effect this object is very simple. Each car-
riage has a reversible screw• wedge and bell-mouthed cone,
so that by the working of a lever over it either may be put
in position, as wanted. Supposing two carriages approach-
ing each other, one with the bell-mouthed cone in a hori-
zontal position and the other with the screw wedge in a
similar position, they are self-acting. The wedge goes
within tho bell mouth, where there are four spring catches,
which at once seize the screw and:hold it, so that the coup-
ling is effected in an instant, without the intervention of a
railway servant to guide it in any way. To uncouple the
carriages a porter at either side the line is within reach of
short levers, which liberate the screw from the spring
catches, and the uncoupling is effected in an instant. For
the sake of humanity one cannot help hoping that the in-
vention may prove so successful as to meet with the ap-
proval of railway engineers and directors. In the model it
appears to work admirably and efficiently enough.