The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-30 00:00:00

No. 19,42G.]

PUBLICATIONS.

This day is published, No. 2, price One Shilling,
THE MARTINS OF CRO' MARTIN.
By CHARLES LEVER.
V 6 ith Illustrations by Prim.
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

NEW NOVEL.
THE HOUSE OF RABY ; or, Our Lady of
Darknesm.

Three Vols post avo.,
"The authoress has displayed powers which Aro great enou'h to
enable her to take a very lolly position amongst the writers of
romance. . . The House of Baby' is one of the few romances of
the day that will live."—Dally News.
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

Five Vols., post Bvo., 405.,

THE POETICAL and DRAMATIC WORKS
of Sir EDWARD BULWER TAT CON, Bart.
Collected Edition, containin many Poems neyer befl,re published.
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
for JA NUARY, price 2s. 6d., contalna
1. Janus the Double-Faced.
2. •Snow-Flakes for the New Year.
S. Foreign Crime and Credulity.
4. The Dramatic Writers of Ireland.—Ne. 1.
5. The Lichtensteiners ; or, convert-Makers —Part I.
6. Educational Experiments in Ireland.
7. Alt Antique Dream.
3. The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Esq.
9. How shall we deal with tke War?
10. Gossipping Recollections of the Old Crystal Palace..
11. Winter Life and Scenery.
12. Strife by the Darro.
13. The session Extraordinary.
Dublin : James ➢l'Giashan, 60, Upper Sackville-street, and all
booksellers.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
Price Half-a-crowri...or Dy ;goat Thrilttftilltga.
CONTENTS FOR JANUARY. :TO. CCXVII.
The Spendthrift. A Tale of the Last Century. By W. Harrison
Ainsworth, Esq. Book I.—Chapters 1., 11., 111., and IV.
Things in General.
John Gibson Lockhart.
Don Al nzo de Tahera. By John Oxenford.
Edmund Waller.
The Ecrivain Public. By Dudley Costello.
The Last Words. By Mary C. F. Mouck.
Winter in the Crimea.
Miss Letty Larkins's First Drive in a Hansom.
War; and the Paris Mesmerists.
" Only Visions " By E. P. Rowsell.
New Year's Adventures of a Box of Bonbons. By the Flaneur.
Inkerman, the City of Caves.
London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

WEDDING GLOVES. NOTICE. The
Publisher regrets that, in consequence of the haste in sup-
plying the large number of this Work ordered, a portion of the Illus-
trations in the First Edition are Incorrectly Placed. Any such
copies will be exchanged for the New Edition, to be issued on Satur-
day next, December 20.
Paternoster-row, Dec. 23.

Just published, in 12mo , cloth, price 25., by post 28. 6d..
THE DIAGNOSIS and TREATMENT of
VENEREAL DISEASE; by Dr. ALuirr, L.S.A.,

TO BUILDERS.--SEALED TENDERS for
BUILDING BARRACKS and STABLES for Royal Artillery,
to be erected at Devonport ; with separate Tenders for the Asphalt.
Work, will be received at the Ordnance Office, Pall-mall, London. on
or before MONDAY, the Bth January next, at Noon, addressed to
the tk ecretary to the Board of Ordnance, and endorsed "Tender for
Artillery Barracks, Devonport," an the left-hand corner of the
Envelope.
Tke Royal Artillery Barracks Comprise a Building containing six
of quarters and servant's rooms ;-a range of stables, with har-
ness rooms, artillery store., ablution rooms, with internal stair cases,
and soldiers' rooms over the whole range; infantry stables and yard;
forage barn for hay, straw, and corn ; forge,shoeing shed, pharmacy
and cooking house ; guard house and cells; orderly room and work
shops ; privies, dung and ash pits ; enclosure walls, gates, Side doors,
roads, parades, drains.
Plans, terms, and conditions, with specifications, and addenda
thereto, may be seen, forms of tender and all necessary information
bbtained, at the Royal Engineer Office, Devonport, between the
hears of Nine and Four o'clock; from Tuesday, 19th instant, to
Saturday, the 6th of January next Sandays and Christmas Dv
-mteeptect.
Royal Engineer Office, Devonport, 13th December, 1854.

THE • 165. TROWSERS REDUCED TO 14s.
Trowsers and Waistcoat, 225. ; Coat, Waistcoat, and Trow-
sere, 475. ; made to order frora Scotch Tweeds, all Wool, and
thoroughly shrunk, by B. BENJAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74,
Regent-stmt. N.B.—A perfect fit guaranteed.

PATENT FURNACES, AND THE LAW

QF Fl TENTS.

(Front the Mining Journal.)
In the matter of Letters Patent granted to Mr. John
Lee Stevens, for improvements in furnaces, grates, &c.,
proceedings have been recently taken against a person
who had previously been in the patentee's employment,
which have elicited the needless and vexatious sacrifice
of time, labour, and expense to which plaintiffs may be
put by unscrupulous defendants under the new law ;
and to which we call the attention of our readers, to
prepare them for another crusade against the legal
fictions that still remain in our statue books relative to
Letters Patent.
It appears that, notwithstanding the ingenuity of the
defendant, and his acquired knowledge of the patentee's
specifications and practical application of the system
founded thereon, the colourable evasions of the former,
being mere additions to, undoubtedly, the simplest and
most successful means in existence for the prevention of
smoke and economy of fuel, were too palpable, and the
evidence against him toe conclusive, to allow the re-
motest chance to his defence. Still the so-called Patent
Law Amendment Act admitted of his throwing difficul-
ties in the way of justice, which, to an inexperienced,
hesitating, or unprovided patentee, might have been in-
surmountable ; and, in which case, the wantonness of a
dishonest man, the wickedness of an ungrateful servant,
and the recklessness of an impoverished schemer, might
have made the existing law a triumphant instrument in
the perpetration of the grossest fraud.
Under the new law, it appears, the defendant's pleas
and objections amounted to the extraordinary number'of
forty-three ! They included everything that could be
brought to bear upon the subject of furnace and other
grates, however inapplicable to the case at issue. They
declared that the patentee was not the first inventor ;
that the invention was not properly described ; that it
was not any manner of manufacture ; that it was not a,
new manufacture ; that the invention was not new
•
when patenteed ; that it was not specified in
time ; and that it was not sufficiently speci-
fied. Then the defence went on to declare that
the invention had been previously published, during a
period ranging from about 1814 to 1853, inclusive, in
the Journal of Arts, do., the Repertory of Arts, &c.,
the Repertory of Patent Inventions, &c., and in the
Combustion of Coal, by Mr. C. W. Williams. Further,
that the invention had been previously described in the
specifications of numerous patentees, including those of
William Johnson, Josiah Parkes, John Wakefield,
James Gilbertson, Charles Wye Williams, Samuel Hall,
W. F. Eggleston, George Holmes, William Bedington,
&c. And lastly, that the invention had been absolutely
in use at enumerated places in town and country ; the
particulars of which we omit, out of consideration to
the highly respectable firms mentioned, to prevent fur-
ther inconvenience to them in gratification of *velem;
curiosity in addition to the trouble already given and
the annoyance to them by such unauthorised references.
As, however, the last category 'comes fairly under the
denomination of ascertainable facts, it may be satisfac-
tory to our readers to learn that, at some considerable
cost of labour and expense, their real value, which as re-
garded the purpose of the defence was positively nil,
could be more easily learnt than the vague assumptions
(equally worthless when examined) to be gleaned from
scientific works some of which have long been out of
print, and from specifications, the enrolment of which
began in 1818 and only terminated with 1152.
All this toil and expenditure oftnoney had necessarily
to be made, in order that no allegation on the part of
the defence should be overlooked. To that extent it
' will, no doubt, be valuable to the patentee, since the
result has been entirely in his favour. And the process
has obtained for him those statutory certificates from
the Lord Chief Baron which clothe any one, the novelty
of whose invention, and whose rights as a patentee,
have thus been established at law, with great ulterior
advantages. The verdict, therefore, against the
defendant, who may not be able to defray
the damages and costs, will not be altogether barren, as
the power of prompt proceedings in Chancery, or of the
enforcement of onerously increased damages and costs
against defendants at law, must be of considerable im-
portance in respect of an invention so universally adapt-
able as that of Mr. John Lee Stevens'. And our little
narrative of the facts may not be without service to pa-
tentees who are determined to protect their property ;
nor, on the other hand, in the way of caution to parties
who do not give themselves the trouble to ascertain the
responsibility of those who offer to subdue their smoke,
and economise their fuel. As a matter of course, the
patentee, should such an occasion arise, will prefer re-
spectable firms as defendants to quondam servants ; and
the speediest and most stringent means of enforcing his
rights.

&e.
London: Hippolyte Balllere, 219, Regent-street, and 290, Broad-
way, New York.

Just published, New and Improved Edition, price Is.,
THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION ;
being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and
important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease.
By FRANCIS 11. RAMADGE, M.D.,
Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the
Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, &c.
Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. 6d.
♦ TREATISE on ASTHMA and on DISEASES of the HEART.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

QUACKS UNMASKED.
The Third &Mon.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, 55. 6d.
ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORREICEA,
with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the
Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread
Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the German
of Dr. PICKFOItD. With an Introluction by the Editor, containing
a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued
by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are
credulous enough to seek their aid.
" Dr. Pickford 's known to English readers by his frequent practi-
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time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the not-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if be shall Ictect any
other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his -ewer to cor-
rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribeof' Quiet Sympathisers,'
and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book
could find its way into the hands of thosa who suffer from the com-
plaint of which it treats, we aro satisfied that many hundreds would
be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of
fess importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize—
much money ......This volume is well qua".flcl to put an end to the
empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat-
ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore,
likely to do much good."
London: 11. Balllere, 219, Regent-street.

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-
100 real YARMOUTFI BLOATERS for Gs., package included.
rho above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps,
or P. 0. 0. (preferred) for the amount. Send plain address, county,
and nearest station.—Address, Thomas Lettis, jun., Fish-curer, Great
Yarmouth.

TEETH.—By her Majesty's Royal Letters
Pa'ent.—Newly-invented and Patented Application of Che-
mically-prepared White India-rubber in the constrtrnion of Artificial
Teeth, Gums, and Palates.—Mr. EPHRAIM MOSELY, Surgeon-
Dentist, 61, 3rosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Sole Inventor and
Patentee.—k new, original, and invaluable invention, consisting in
the adaptation, with the most absolute perfection and success, of
CHE3I IC A LLY-PR EPA RED WHITE INDI RU RH ER as a lining
to the ordinary gold or bone frame. The extraordinary results of
this application may be briefly noted in a few of their most promi-
nent features, as the following'-411 sharp edges are avoided; no
springs, wires, or fastenings are required ; a greater increased free-
dom of suction is supplied ; a natural elasticity hitherto wholly un-
attainable: and a fit, perfected with the most unerring accuracy, are
secured, while from the softness and flexibility of the agent em-
ployed, the greatest support is given to the adjoining teeth when
loose, or rendered tender by the absorption of the gums. The acids
of the mouth exert so agency on the chemically-prepared White
India-rubber, and as it is anon-conductor, fluids of any temperature
may with thorough comfort be imbibed and retained in the mouth,
all unpleasantness of smell or taste being at the same time wholly
provided against by the peculiar nature of its preparation.
To be obtained only at 61, Grosvenor-street, London;
22, Gay-street, Bath ;
34, Grainger street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

DR. CULVERWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND
INDIGESTION.
Also, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and Ilmmorrhoids, Is.
each, by post is. Gd.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
" Abstentia multi curantur morlsi."
A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless
feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints,
with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should
live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal
in the day, and full instructions for the regimen and observance of
every hour out of tke twenty. four. Illustrated by numerous
cases, &c. •
2.
LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE.
" re which that hath no wit, I hold him lost,
Helpless, and all dcsolat. He that bath no child,
Like sun and winde."—Chaucer.
subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities—Development
of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded
Unions—Marital Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental
Incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness—Advantages of Inter-
marriage—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of
determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas-
similable Alliances—Law of Divorce, &c., &c.
3.
CHASTITY AND ITS INFEINGIEMIINTS.
A Lecture to Young Men.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
Subject : Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casnalties if
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages, &c.

13PORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.

There was a moderate attendance at the rooms to-day
and a marked improvement in business. Since our last
quotations, St. Hubert, Lord of the Isles, Grozoulus
Esuriens, and De Clare have been in strong force for
the Derby. The following were the latest prices :

4.
On Secret Diseases, their Self-management and Cure.
The GREEN BOOK.—A comprehensive and popular exposition
of genito and urinary diseases--their nature and treatment, com-
prising especially primary and secondary symptoms, all forms of
urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhosa ; with 250 en-
gravings and prescriptions.
i.
The BLADDER, URETHRA, and RECTUM.—Comprising
Urinary Derangements. Constipation, and Hanorrhoids.
Vole 6 and 7, companions to the pieeeding.
TIM ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY.
" Jucunde 'invert."
"Few words to fair faith."—Shakespore.
Norwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of
DP. RICHARD CULVERWELL,
Brother, Successor, and Twenty Years Consulting Colleague of the
late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London,
who may be advised with on the above matters daily, from Ten till
Five, and in the evenings, ttom Seven till Nino.

MANCHESTER STEEPLECHASE.
4to 1 aget Rosa (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
59 to 1 agst Rotheram (taken)
50 to 1 aget Neville (taken)
50 to 1 agst The Reiver (offered)
66 to 1 agst Arthur Wellesley (taken)
500 to 5 agst Llanforda (taken)
1000 to 1 aget Dr. O'Toole (taken)
TWO TIIOUSAND GUINEAS.
4to 1 aget St. Hubert (taken)
5 to 1 agst any other (offered)
DERBY.
11 to 1 aget Grasculus Esuriene
11 to 1 aget De Clare to 251. each
11 to 1 agst St. Hubert
11 to 1 aget Lord of the Isles (offered)
15 to 1 aget Rifleman (offered) •
22 to 1 agst Cruiser (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Dirk Hatteraick (taken)
• 25 to
,1 agst Polydore (taken)

FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—
E. MOSES and SON have ready for inspeetion a new and very
superior stock of Tests for Balls and Christmas parties. These com-
prise the latest introduction, English and foreign, in fabrics of ele-
gant aid fashionable manufacture—and they are made with the
skill for which the firm of B. Moses and Sow is everywhere cele-
brated.
N. Moses and Sete have prepared a new Stook of Juvenile Attire
for Christmas holidays —it comprehends every variety, is made from
the lest aid most suitable materials, has the recommendation of
being desigied and finished by the most skilful aad experienced
artists and workmen in the trade—it fits gracefully and easy, and is
charged the lowest possible price.
Capes,
For the Christmas holidays E. Moss's and Sox, who have Teady
for inspeetion an unparalleled variety of Overcoats, Teletote,
Wrappers,
erfectly imitable,in and the prices such as are
cos See., tec style, workmanship, and gene-
ral excellences are p
'd s E. Moms and SoN's Establishment, and
For Christmas ho i
fayd-street, are eqsally provided with Hosiery
only rendered remunerative by immense transactions.
its Branch,
Goode,dee during the Christmas boll-
Boots and 6 oes, ,
Hats and Caps.of E Moses and Sox.
dvantageonsiy selected
which excel xin°nroveltyh, elegance, and cheapness.
days may be most a
of the most suitable Goods
the largest Stock .
departments present
A lat the most reasonable prices.
E. mons and SoN's Wholeaale Clothing, Shirt, and Boot and Shoe
for the export or home trade)
MO
„.4F
SPECIAL NOTICE.-17n
CLOSED at EIGHT O'CLOCK EVERT
EVENING, except Saturday, when they will be open till 11 o'clock.
til March 1, 1855, E. Mo. eS and SON'S
ESTABLISHMENTS will be
CAUTION. —E. ntradesman-like
icriot learned that the ii „
"It's
Establishment," or
falsehood of '`Beimg connected with their Este
instances,and far
obvious reasons,
E. MOSErI and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, h
the same conceru," has been resorted to in many
No CerneexioN WITH ANY oTusa Rouse IN 01 OUT of LONDON,
they beg to state that they have
except their own Establishments, as follows : .
London City Establishment, 154, 155. 154, and 84, . - , ee
85, and 88, Aldgate, oPPosite the Church. all communieeiting. RUSSIAN PRODUCE AT MEMEL.—The Journal de St.
1,
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 50s New Oxford-street, 2,
and 3, Hart-street, all coetwouni tin ' Petersbourg parades the following account of Russian
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch,
Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Austral'
19 andcsl
2g.• Bridge-street.
3linories
trade in North Germany :—Since the setting in of
Sheffield Branch, 30. Varmint. 0-
winter, the quantity of Russian produce imported into
A Hemel has been much larger than at the beginning of
Merchant Tenon', Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Furriers, Boot ans,
IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, shoe Makers, and General Ontlitters for Ladies' and Gentlemen. spring.
The streets and squares of that town are en-
,xetuingcd if desired, or, if preferred, the . summered it will be isered with Russian sledges and waggons. Hemp,
without hesitation. All are money will be returnee
goods marked in plain fl
price, trom which no abatement can be made. tallow, wheat, linseed, and copper are received by the
merchants on their own account, or as transit agents.
The Establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to S Ithe 0
figures, the lowosi
other hand, vessels are arriving, and landing far
on Saturdays, when husinee3 is resumed till 11 o'clock.
c On .
A new Book for Autumn and Winter. "The Commercial n
copia," containing full lists a prices, our system of sCorn n-
and more especially very large supplies of olive oil, of
aunt, &c., Esc., may be had on application, or post-free. -measur,e-
transmission to Russia coffee, sugar, tin, cotton goods,
Ici Von parle Francais. Qui si Perla Italian°. a great deal is used in Russia during Lent. En-
Hier spricht man Deutsch Aqua sa habla Esparto, otense quan
A.1:1 niustrAtoCiinianAc_ for 16M grallmmappllcatioa, or mime which•tig wn
atcitoioeus
notfosalfaalso exported from Memel
. - t. on 1 0 •

MANCHESTER STEEPLECHASES, JAW. 1.

Acceptances for the Manchester Steeplechase, a Free
Handicap of 5 cove. each, with 46 added. Winners
71b extra. The second to save his stake. About
three miles and a half.

Age st lb
Nons de Guerra a 10 4
Rosa
Columbine a 10 0
Jemmy the Black 6 9 10
Gradeley Lass 6 9 4
Acceptances for the Stretford Steeplechase, a Free
Handicap of 3 soya. each, with 25 added. Optional
selling allowances. About three miles and a half.
Age st lb Age st lb
Augean
Falcon
WHITEWALL STABLES.—This celebrated training esta.
blishinent has contributed 251. 2s. in ail of the Patriotic
Fund, Mr. John Soott heading the list with a donation
of 101.

Age et lb
Ivanhoe (h b) a 9 4
Garland a 9 3
Royal Blue (II b) a 9 3
Enchantress, 5 9 2