The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

DECIMAL CURRENCY.
Now ready, price 1..,
A' EXAMINATION of the REPORT and
EVIDENCE of the COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COM-
MONS on DECIMAL COINAGE, with reference to a Simpler,
Sounder, and more Comprehensive Mode of Proceeding.
By THEODORE W. RATHBONE, Esq.
" Stare super antiquas This."
James Ridgway, Piccadilly ; Deighton, Liverpool c and all Book-
sellers.

Just published, demy Bvo., pp. 48, price Is., by post is. 4d.,
THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL and ILLEGAL
PROCEEDINGS of the COUNCIL of the PHARMACEUTI-
CAL SOCIETY.

By WM. DICKINSON,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, and one of the Editors of the Annals of
Pharmacy.
London : Win. Freeman, 0, Fleet-street ; and all booksellers.

THE ROYAL BRITISH BANS on the
Scottish System (incorporated by Charter), besides the trans-
action of all ordinary banking business, grants CASH CREDITS,
allows interest on deposits and balances of current accounts, and
issues promissory notes or bills, and circular letters of credit, and
drafts or orders payable to the bearers, on demand, or at any date,
in any important town at home or abroad, and which, for merchants
and travellers, possess some peculiar features of economy, safety,
and utility. Detailed terms of business will be communicated on
application to the Head Office, Tokenhouse-yard ; or at the
Branches, 429, Strand ; 77, Bridge-street, Lambeth ; and 97, Gos-
Well-road, Islington.
HUGH INNES CAMERON, General Manager.
Royal British Bank, Tokenhouse-yard.

EAST INDIA CADETS receiving APPOINT-
MENTS, on application to Messrs. CHRISTIAN, will be fur-
nished with ESTIMATES, giving the entire cost of an outfit, with
quantities required for the routa via Egypt or the Cape.—Christian
and Rathbone, Manufacturing Outfitters, 11, Wigmore-street.
Parties waited upon with samples within one hundred miles of Lon-
don, if required.

Tcc PRESS," No. 29, This Day (Saturday),
contains, among others, Lord Aberdeen and the Eastern
Question ; What People are Saying about India; Mr. Hamilton's
Case ; City Corporation ; Noble aid Gallant Gamblers ; Repulse of
she Irish Brigade; Lord Marsareene; George Hudson, Esq., 31.1.•
The Strikes ; Correspondence—Banquet to Lord Elphinstone ; Society
of Arts ; Opening of the Session, &c. ; Lord Aberdeen's intended
Speech at the ManSion-house • Sketches of Radicals ; Radical
Novelist; The Rights of the Working Man, fitc. ; Literature—
Russian Shores of the Black Sea ; The Roses ; Intellectual Develop-
mont of the Age; Charge to the Grand Jury, by M. D. Hill, Esq.;
Visit to the Diggings, by Mrs. Clacy ; Avillion and ter
ales;
Ermengarde; Sidney ; Discovery, a poem ; Napoleon' yn
Willich's Income-tax Tables; Periodical Literature; New Music;
Dramatic Novelties—Lyceum, Haymarket, Adelphi, &c.; together
with all the News of the Week.
" THE PRESS" is published every Saturday, at the Office, No. 110,
Strand, price 6d. May be had of all newsme, and at the railway
stations. Money orders to be made payable to Mr. Alfred lye.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY for IM-
PROVING the DWELLINGS of the WORKING CLASSES.
(To be Incorporated by Royal Charter or by Act of Parliament.)
Provisionally Registered.

No person can be ignorant of the lamentable state of destitution in
which vast numbers of the working classes in London, and the large
Manufacturing towns, are compelled to exist.
Public opinion. to which a general expression is given by the
press, has latterly been much directed to the consideration of the
best means of educating these classes. To this undertaking, the
misery and degradation of their condition has hitherto presented
almost insurmountable difficulties.

It is now generally admitted, by those who have considered the
subject, that it is hopeless to organise any plan of moral reform for
these classes which has not for Its basis the improvement of their
physical condition.

This improvement must be begun at home—if such a term can be
applied to the miserable dens in which thousands of respectable poor
men are compelled to live. Modern improvements in large towns
have hitherto been carried out too much with a view of external
appearance, and without sufficient regard to the comforts and re-
quirements of the poorer classes.
It is well known that no houses pay so well as common lodging
houses. As a commercial undertaking, the result of the experi-
mental model lodging houses in London, Leeds, and other important
towns, has fully answered the expectations that were formed.
The objects of this society are set forth in its title.
It disclaims at the outset any attempt to supplant, or in any way
to interfere with, the excellent institutions now before the public
having similar objects in view : on the contrary, it desires to record
its sense of the great benefits conferred upon the country by these
institutions, and wishes to be considered a fellow-labourer in aid and
extension of the great movement of moral and sanitary reform.
It is Intended to apply for a Royal Charter, or an act to incorpo-
rate the Society, in which will be contained powers for the com-
pulsory purchase of lands and houses, and clauses for limitation of
individual liability.
It only remains to add, that all the recent improvements in drain-
age, ventilation, &c., will he adopted in the dwellings to be erected
by the National Society, with a strict regard to economy in every
department, and without any unnecessary interterence with the free-
dom of the inmates.

Prospectuses will be issued in a few days. Communications may
be addressed to W. F. De Gex, Esq., and to Messrs. H. and W. Too-
good, 30 and 22, Parliament-street.

DARTMOUTH TORQUAY AND SOUTH
DEVON EXTENSION It ILWAY.—( Incorporation of
Company ; construction of Railways from the Torquay Station of the
South Devon Railway to or near to Dartmouth, and also to the pier
or harbour at Torquay, with an approach road to the Dartmouth
Floating Bridge; power to make working arrangements with the
Sontk Devon Railway Company, and to enable that company to sub-
scribe, &c. to the undertaking ; amendment of Acts of the South
Devon Railway Company, and of the Dartmouth Floating Bridge
Company.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to
be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act or acts, to
Incorporate a company, for the purpose of making and maintaining
the railways hereinafter mentioned, or some or one of them, with all
proper approaches, stations, and other works and conveniences con-
nected therewith (that is to say) :
A railway commencing by a junction with the Torquay Branch of
the South Devon Railway at or near the north end of the Torquay
Station, at or near Torre otherwise Torr, in the palish of Tormaham
otherwise Tormohun, in the county of Devon, and terminating at or
near Hoodown Ferry Passage House, in the occupation of Mary
Burguine, in the parish of Brixham, in the same county, which said
intended railway will be made or pass, from, in, through, or into,
or be situate within, the several parishes, townships, extra-parochial,
or other places following, or some of them (that is to say): Tormo-
horn otherwise Tormohun, Torre otherwise Torr, Torquay, Tor
Abbey, Chilston, Cockington, Paignton, Goodrington, Galmpton,
Cburston Ferrers, Kingswear, and Brixham, all in the said county :
Also a railway commencing by a junction with such intended
ra lway, at a point in a field or enclosure adjoining to and on the
north-west side of the lane leading from the Brixham and Kings-
wear turnpike road to Hoedown Ferry Passage House aforesaid, and
which point is three hundred yards, or thereabouts, in a direct line
from the proposed terminus of the first-mentioned intended railway
at or near Hoodown Ferry Passage House aforesaid, and termina-
ting in the parish of Brixham aforesaid, at or near a certain public-
house, called or known by the name of " Dartmouth Floating Bridge
Inn," occupied by George Griffis, and situate at the eastern end of
the Dartmouth Floating Bridge, and on the east side of the Harbour
•f Dartmouth, and which said railway will pass from, in, through,
Into, or be situate within the said parish of Brixham:

Also a railway commencing at or near the western quay or pier of
the harbour of Torquay, in the said parish of Torrnoham, otherwise
Tormohun, and terminating by two junctions with the first-men-
tioned intended railway, the one at or near Livermead House, in the
parish of Cockington, in the sa'd county of Devon, and the other 'at
a point in a field belonging to Charles Herbert Mallock, Esquire,
adjoining to and on the west side of the road leading from Liver-
mead House, aforesaid to Torre, otherwise Torr; and which said
last named point is twenty chains or thereabouts in a direct line from
the sea-shore, and which said railway and junctions will pass from,
In, through, or into, or be situate within, the several parishes, town-
ships, extra-parochial or other places of Tormoham, otherwise Tor-
mohun, Torquay, Cockington, and Tor Abbey, or some er one of
them, all in the county of Devon:
And it is also intended by the said act or acts to authorise and
empower the said company so to be Incorporated as aforesaid, to
make a road or approach, commencing from or near the proposed
terminus of the firstly described intended railway near Hoedown
Ferry Passage House aforesaid, and terminating in the said parish of
Brixham, at or near a certain public-house called or known by the
name of " Dartmouth Floating Bridge Inn," occupied by George
Griffis, and situate at the eastern end of the Dartmouth Floating
Bridge, and on the east side of the harbour of Dartmouth, and
which said road or approach will pass from, in, through, into, or be
situate within the said parish of Brix ham :
And it is also intended by the said act or acts to con'er upon the
company to be thereby incorporated all necessary powers for effecting
the purposes following (that is to say) :
To stop up, alter, divert, cross, or break up, either temporarily or
permanently, any turnpike or other roads, highways, footpaths, streets, railways,
tramways, canals, aqueducts, streams, rivers, na ' gations, sewers, drains, pipes, and watercoarses within' the b v
efo rel-- named parishes, extra-parochial or other places, or any of them, which
it may be necessary or desirable to stop up alter, divert, cross, or
break up for any of the purposes of the intended railways, road, and
works :
To make lateral deviations from the lines of the said
n intended
railways, road, and works, to the extent andanNectitothi the limits
defined upon the plans herehaafter mentioned,
compulsion or otherwise, lands, houses. andd,
hereditampeunrtchre by
purposes of the intended railways,l road, and works, and toorvatrhy
housese
or extinguish ,nguishhered any rights or privileges, connected with such land,i,
ands duties upon or in respeetofthernitnetse,nadnedd
and itament
To levy tolls, rates,
railways, road, and works, and to alter existing tolls,
duties, and to confer, vary, er extinguish exemption from the pay-
ment of tolls, rates, and dutice, and to confer, vtiary, or extinguish
other rights and privileges :
And it is also proposed by the said act or acts to authowri,s:
ahc
"'to ttitlikye
South Devon Railway Company, to subscribe and contribute. run&
towards the said undertaking, and to guarantee to the
company such interest, dividend, annual or other paymente.,
ded
be agreed upon between such companies respectively, am,d
and hold shares in the said undertaking, to apply any capital or
funds now or hereafter belonging to them, or under th'e control of
their directors, or to raise additional capital by the creation
of new shares, either with or without preference or priority
in payment of interest or dividend, or by borrowing on mort-
gage or bond, for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them,
and to enable the said South Devon Railway Company to
vote at meetings of the company to be incorporated as aforesaid,
and to appoint directors of that company: