The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

No. 17,6 10.] LONDON, MONDAY
EY

IMPORTANT TO GENTLEMEN, FARMERS, AND OTHERS.
J
WAITE, Seed Merchant, 181, High Hol-
born, G.
London, has spared neither Limo or expense in selecting
all the grasses worthy of cultivation, which enables him to offer
the following :
Grass—fine mixturo for forming lawns, to suit any soil, 40s. per acre.
Ditto, a mixture of selected natural grasses for laying down laud to
permanent meadowo and pasture, to suit any soil, 30s. per acre.
Ditto, mixture lbr improving old grass land, 80s. per cwt.
Ditto, a mixture sufficient for laying down one acre for healthy and
mocry lands, 30s.
Ditto, a mixture sufficient for one acre for permanent pasture In or-
chards, or other grounds, much shaded by trees, 30s.
Ditto, for pasturage and covers in thick shaded woods, to suit any
soil, 28s. per acre.
Ditto, a mixture for marshy groun,ls, and such as are occasionally
overflowed by fresh water, 255. per acre.
J. G. W. has just received a large consignment of Italian Rye Grass
direct from the continent, Bs. per bushel.
In giving or,lers for grasses it is requisite to state whether for light,
medium, or heavy soils ;
With every other kinds of wtricultural, horticultural, and floricul-
tural seeds worthy of cultivation. Catalogues can be tad on appli-
cation.

VOMMISSION.—A Gentleman, having travelled
IL.) twelve years through the West Riding, Yorkshire, calling
Imo* Grocers, Tea Dealers, and Manufacturers, is open to treat for a
respectable Commission. Ills journies are monthly, and a quick re-
turn may be relied upon.
Address A. Z., at the office of this paper.

ART-UNION of LONDON.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
The Subscription List will CLOSE on the 31st instant.
Each Prizeholder, at the Annual Distribution, will be entitled to
select FOR lIIMS'ELF a Work of Art, as heretofore.
Every Subscriher will receive for each Guinea an impression of a
Line Engraving, by P. Lightfoot, after W. E. Frost, A,R.A.
—" SABRINA," a proof of which may now be seen at the office, and
in addition to this, an Engraving, after a design in bas relief„ of
" Christ entering Jerusalem," for which the Premium of 100/, has
been awarded to Mr. J. Hancock.
GEORGE GODWIN, 1 Honorary
LEWIS POCOCK, ' j Secretaries.
444, West Strand, March, 1849.

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
Lectures explaining the Art of Magic by Mr. Shaw, with il-
lustrations, changed every week, daily at a Quarter to Four,
and every Evening at Nine.—Lecture on the Chemistry of the
Breakfast Table, daily at a Quarter to Three o'clock.—Dr. Bach-
hoffner's Illustrations .n Astronomy, Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at One o'clock.—Lectures on the Ventilating of Mines, &c.,
by means of the Steam Jet.—A. View in the Gold District of Ca-
lifornia is aided to the New Dissolving Views.—New Chrome-
trope.—Machinery and Models explained, &c., &c.—The Music is
directed by Dr. Wallis.
Open daily from► Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including
,aturday) from Seven till Half-past Tea.
Admission, lg.—Schools, Half-price.—The New Catalogue, Is.

THE NICOLL.—REGENT- STREET and
CORNIIILL.

" Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy— rich, not gaudy ;
For the aparel oft proclaims the man."
TIIE spirit and meaning of the above quotation
may with justice he applied to The NICOLL, a patented
Paletot or outer coat, adapted for a variable climate, by means
of a novel and most ingenious contrivance, whereby it can be
converted at pleasure from a warm to a light garment, or vice
versa. The wearer's personal appearance is moreover im-
proved, and he possesses a most gentlemanly and graceful gar-
ment for either cold or warm weather ; not only this, but tke inner
hieing, when detached, can be worn alone, and forms a most corn-
foita,le reading or dressing Jacket; and though ibe tout ensemble is
rich in quality, yet It retains a moderate cost, such varying from one
and a halt to three and a half guineas, hut can he had in London
only of the Patentees, H. J. and I). NICOLL, 114, 116, 1210, RE-
GENT-STREET, and 22, COItNIIILL.

FOREIGN WOOLS.—" At the recent Wool
Sales, the whole of certain qualities of Foreign Wools, after
some competition, were purchased for Messrs. Nicoll, the extensive
Woollen Drapers and Clothiers of Regent-street and Cornhill. They
are all marked for Gloucestershire, as in that county the mills are
situated wherein the raw material will be converted into the beau-
tiful fabric known as the Nicollian Cloth, a species of manufacture
introduced by the firm from wherry it derives its name."—The Sun.
WOOLLEN BUYERS and CONSUMERS are reminded that
Messrs. NICOLL were the first, and continue to be the only, house
in the United Kingdom that ever offered to the buyer and consumer,
for cash payments, the saving of all the several profits of the In-
termediate grades that continue to exist between the wool growers
and themselves. As will be shown by the above extract from one of the
public journals, the wool used in the manufacture of the Nicollian Cloth
does not leave Messrs. N.'s po-sessien until it is produced in the piece
ready for sale, either by their Agents, or themselves at the Whole-
sale Warehouse, 120, REGENT-STREET, and afterwards when
made up into the fashionable and Patented garments known as the
NICOLL, the REGISTERED PALETOT, and NICOLL'S
MORNING COAT, all of which can be purchased singly of the
several recognised Agents, as also of the Patentees.
11. J. and D. NICOLL, at their Retail Ware-rooms, 114, 116, and
120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNUILL. LONDON.

THE REGISTERED PALETOT
(6 and 7 Vict., Cap. 65)
of .Nicollian or Llama Cloth, as adapted for the approaching Spring
by Messrs. NICOLL, who are the ORIGINAL INVENTORS, and
continue to be honoured with the patronage of their Royal High-
nesses PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE,
PRINCE EDWARD of SAXE WEIMAR, his Grace the DUKE of
WELLINGTON, and all others distinguished in rank and fashion,
the Court, the Pulpit and the Bar.
The above is now produced in the richest and best-manner, con-
taining all the new and patented improvements for the extremely
moderate price of Two Guineas, to be had in London only of H. J.
aid D. NICOLL, 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, or 22,
CORNIIILL.

UNDER the SILIDOW of the GRASS•
HOPPER (22, CornhM, opposite the Royal Exchange) may
be seen the City Depot for the NICOLL, the REGISTERED
PALETOT, NICOLL'S MORNING COAT,: and other garments,
with some portion of each of the beautiful fabrics daily exhibited in
the spacious warerooms, 114, 116, and 120, Regent-street, as not
only these last-named premises, bit alss those in Cornhill, are the
property of sae and the same firm.
The following agents have a large rari.t,r- 600 as tor mspe,ri..,
viz. :—Messrs. Wareing and Son, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs.
Dawbarn and Son, Bold-street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Macdona, Moles-
worth-street, Dublin ; Messrs. Christie and Son, George-street, Edin-
burgh.
y a des agents pour la vents de ces articles breTetes dans teutes
les principales villes del'Angleterre et des colonies qui ant des as-
sortiments prets a etre examines.

ANOVELTY.—There has lately been registered
an article that cannot fail to find a place in every Gentle-
man's wardrobe, as it effectually provides for a long-acknowledged
want therein. The said novelty consists in a body garment some-
what in the form of a dress-coat—that is to say, it can be
worn without any distinct infringement of the laws of cos-
tume recognised in society upon ordinary dress occasions;
but yet the garment is more especially intended for morning
wear, as a Riding er Walking Coat ; and as, for such exercises, each
will maintain his own idea as to the requisite ease necessary for its
dt, the inventors, in order to insure the full convenience of their
patrons, will keep ready an extensive graduation of sizes, Fe that a
selection can be made proportionate with the nature of exertion or
the wearer's own taste—thus at once obviating any annoyance
arising from the cutter not iminediatelely comprehending what is
wanted.

Although composed of the NICOLLIAN CLOTH, yet a most
moderate price is charged, viz., Two Guineas for NICOLL'S
MORNI.tiG COAT, as that is the name given to the said novelty,
and which can be had in London only of 11. J. and 1). NICOLL, 114,
116, and 120, REGEN f.-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL.

TO TIIE COUNTRY TRADE, &c.--Such re-
spectable Houses as may be disposed to add to their present
trade the very important addition of a first-rate connexion, consisting
of purchasers of first-class Goods, principaLy PALETO IS, &c., can
effect their object by applying for terms, &o. to the under-men-
tioned, who will duly forward same, with tullert particulars,
in the event of there being an opening for an agency in the
town from whence they write.—H. J. and D. NICOLL, IVIIOt.E-
-SALE and COUNTING-HOUSE DEPARTMENT, 120, REGENT-
STREET, London.

CARRIAGE FREE.—Families resident in the
country, whose consumptioa of TEA is considerable, are par-
ticularly invited to the Establishment of MANSELL and CO.,
Wholeiale Tea and Coffee healers, 2, BucklersDury, Cheapside.
When the order is for 61bs. in weight and upwards, the carriage is
paid direct to the house, and the lowest wholesale price is charged;
thus the frequent addition of accumulative profits is saved.
MANSELL and CO., Backlersbury, Cheapside.

GAS CHANDELIERS AND GAS PIT-
TINGS.—AII who require Gas Fittings of any description
should inspect the Immense Stock at the Establishment of th e
Metropolitan Light Company.—Designs of Chandeliers, Brackets,
Hall Lanterns, Pendants, &c., to suit every taste. The prices are
so low, all must be pleased. The Fittings can be done with all
dispatch consistent with proper workmanship. The proper Gas
Burners for dwelling-rooms aro the Glass and the Reflecting
Burners.

The Compasy, to prevent their Gas Work being defaced, use
Glass Handles for the turn-taps.—Contracts entered into, and the
work guaranteed.

RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand,
corner of Adelaide-street, next doer to tke Electric Telegraph
Company.

A NEW DISCOVERY.

MR. HOWAitii,StlieOnbentist, 52, Fleet-
street, has introduced an ENTIRELY NEW DESCRIP-
TION of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or
ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as net to be
distinguished from the originals by the closest observer; they will
never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any
teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction
of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve
teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and
mastication.

Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication
52, Fleet-street. At Home from Ten till Five.

MEDICAL ADVICE.

MESSRS. Surgeons, 60,
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interview only is required to ensure a sound and permanent cure. A
new edition of the " Control of the Passions," with coloured engrav-
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Newman-street Oxford-street, London. Attendance daily from
Nine in the Morning till Eight at Night. On Sundays from Ten till
Twe.

Illustrated by 25 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
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THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
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Pali I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
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PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul-
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Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
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PART IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease
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Just published,

RUFF'S GUIDE TO THE TURF (SPRING
EDITION) for 1849.

CONTENTS.—Ths Nominations for 1649, and the Derby, Oaks, St.
Leger, and Great Yorkshire Stakes for 1850.—A Calendar of the
Races in 1848 and of the Spring Meetings this year.—Copious
Lists of the Jockeys, their Employers,: and Lowest Riding Weights
for the (*suing Season ; aid a List of the Trainers, their Employers,
Addresses, &c. ; Darby, Oaks, St. Leger, and Chester Cup Lots ;
Laws of Racing ; Colours of the Riders; Lengths of Courses, &c.,
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terpress, embracing a general view of the Physical Phcenomena of
the Globe. :Ily the Rev. fROMAS MILNER, M.A , Alai's!' of "
lery of Nature," &c.

A t K Y A li E.
One halt the wend are desolately single, and the akin
Apposing them married, questiotably contented. Diffidence, or a
i,ase et right deterodne the former, and miscalculated hopes ern-
e; tter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret tin-
.•onaprcsiag harry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
cud broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
tad social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form as item
in the compact; it alone dignifies the affiance. Blighted hopes er
seglect wound mere sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, 11
these surmises concern yea, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
MEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vets., Is.
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the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
Atha publications claim yoar attention (same price le. each,
by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
omphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral scribbliags of the hour, but the study of the author's
life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ele-
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would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
m the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of
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39, Cornhill; Nalson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other-
wise) from the anther (who may be conferred with personally,
mornings esti evenings), 10, Argyll-place Regent-street; and all
Booksellers.

I SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The occupation and possession of the prin-
cipalities of Moldavia and Wallachia by Russian troops
are objects of traditional interest to the Imperial Cabinet
of St. Petersburg!), and of no less constant apprehension
and repugnance, not only to the Porte, but to all the
Powers of Europe. Although the position of those pro-
vinces removes them from the more familiar interest of
European policy, and their social condition has done
little to raise them into g neral notice, they are of the
utmost importance in the eyes of reflecting statesmen.
They are still the outworks of the Ottoman Empire, to
which they once were snore closely attached, and they
command the course of the Danube from Orsuva to Ga-
latz, thereby affecting the most important channel of
communicatin between Southern Germany, Hungary,
and the East. At Constantinople and at Vienna alike,
ciiean,ovtodnaal
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the presence of the Russians in these countries has been
1772 it was the
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regarded
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been constantly directed to making good all the rights
an connive
vaoeet
of her protectarate'on the Danube, and to extending her
indirect supremacy and influence begun by the Treaty of
Kutschule Kenardji, and a'l hut completed by the Treaty
of Ackermann in 1826. The country has been not only
ruled on many occasions by Russia Generals, hut the
present constitution was framed by Russian authority,
and the name atone of conquest is wanting to finish the
work of annexation, to extinguish the last vestiges of
Turkish power north of the Danube, and permanently to
array upon the banks of that stream the threatening
armies of the north, wlaieteehave seemed for ages to be
on their march to Constantinople. Accordingly, when
the general convulsion of 1848 broke out, and the shock
of the revolutionary explosion was felt to the confines of
Europe, it was in Moldavia and Wallachia alone that the
direct power of Russia was immediately exeecised. An
insurrection occurred on the eth of April amongst the
Boyars at Jassy, tind in June similar disturbances extorted
the customary list of democratic concessions from Prince
Bibesco in Wallachia. But the Russians entered the
northern principality, and the Turks the southern one,
and the visionary scheme of forming a Dacian empire of
the provinces interposed between those great states was
naturally crushed in the bud. What remained was a
considerable Russian army in full possession of the
country, and ere long the outbreak of civil war in Hun-
gary and Transylvania gave this corps an additional
motive for holding the position it occupied within reach
of the Austrian lientier. A few days ago, in the course
of the confeted operations bete. eon the Austrian forces
and the Hungarian insurgents, General Puchner, the Im-
perial commander, solicited and obtained the temporary
aid of the Russian division, which had for stone time past
been quartered within sight of the laud of the Szeklers ;
and, although the Cabinet of Vienna has since re-
proved this intervention, the lucid, nt sufficiently
indicates the uses to which the Russian posi-
tion in Moldavia may be turned. Whether it be
the object and the policy of the Emperor Nicholas to
assist or to assail the Austrian or the Turkish empire,
the army now in the province of the Danube is a most
convenient instrument, and it forms but the left wing of
that prodigious power which encerupasses the east of
Europe from Finland to 13essara'oia. The Emperor of
Russia has sufficiently shown by his language and his
actions, during the past year, that ho is by no means dis-
posed to precipi
• •tate any attack on the privileges of other
nations; and the policy of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh
is still wholly of an expectant kind. On the Danube
alone he has made a move sufficiently decided to revive
all the habitual fears of the Porte, and to excite doubt,
if not suspicion, in other quarters. The first impression
of Sir Stratford Canning, the British Ambassador at
Constantinople, was one of considerable anxiety. It did
not require his sagacity and experience to perceive that
at no former time was that effective concert of the
European powers, by which the integrity and indepe-
deuce of the Ottoman empire are defended, so feeble
and powerless for the purposes of resistance. France
and the German States were paralyzed by a fearful
internal revolution. Austria, whose interests are most
nearly engaged on the Danube, and whose means of
action are most direct, had been thrown into a closer
dependence on Russia by her own difficulties, aggra-
vated by tho coolness of England. The British Go-
vernment, which alone retained the means of action,
was intent on peace, and was probably anxious to avoid
at such a crisis anything like a dissension with the only
other Government in Europe which had maintained its
balance. All these circumstances rendered it evident
that the Emperor of Russia might pursue his own policy
without any fear of -immediate consequences from any
other of the great Powers, and the Turks were
therefore the more alarmed as to what that policy
might prove to be. The language of the Russian
Ministers wee, however, eau moderate. They con-
fined themselves to the suppression of the revolu-
tionary movement in Moldavia and Wallachia,
which they alleged that they had a right to effect,
and pledged themselves to no positive acquisition of
territory. Snell was the state of things in the course
of last summer and autumn. At a later period, how-
ever, the English Ambassador was instructed to act
with more vigour, to remonstrate with more energy, and
to give the Turkish Government more positive induce-
ments to withstand the influence of the Northern Power.
It cannot be doubted that in so doing Lord Palmerston
acted in conformity with the established policy of this
country in expressing his dissatisfaction at the attitude
assumed by Russia on the Danube, and it was his duty
to express that opinion, provided it was backed by such
a political combination as might give it the weight due
to the interests and principles not only of England but
of all Europe. Unhappily, the result shows that the
Russians have no intention of withdrawing ono step from
the position they Occupy, and our relations with the
other continental Powers are not such as to give us any
effectual means of supporting Turkey against this
species of encroachment. Within certain limits—
that is, with a pretext of justice, and by
slow degrees the advance of the Russian
forces on the Danube is an occurrence not
easily to be checked or resisted, unless by the joint de-
termination of all Europe.' But we do not participate
in the opinion that the Russian Government, whose
military forces are undoubtedly in a high state of efli•
ciency, contemplates at this time the execution of any
grand scheme in the Esst. The material obstacles to
a campaign, which should cad under the walls of Con-
stantinople, and be celebi ated by a Te Ileum in St.
Sophia, may be diminished by the distracted state of
Europe, but the moral obstacles are enormously in-
creased. The Emperor of Russia stands forth in the
world as the representative of fixed principles of autho-
rity, tinged with religious enthusiasm, but regulated by
established laws of conduct. His attention is directed
to the anticipated failure of these 'experiments of popu-
lar government in which the Germanic states are still
absorbed with small chance of a speedy deliverance ;
and he possibly reckons on a time when the military
authority of the North will be the last anchor of ex-
hausted Europe. For that purpose he collects his re-
sources, and with these views he suspends his resolu.
tions. But to suppose that, because the world is con-
vulsed by revolutions, Russia is herself intent on
accomplishing a revolution of the greatest magnitude, by
planting her flag on the Bosphorus, is to convert the
Emperor Nicholas into the most daring of anarchists and
the most unscrupulous of aggressors. He would give
the signal of a bloody war, and aggravate a thousand-
fold the universal confusion. The spoliation of Turkey
would be the consummation by absolutism of that vio-
lence and injustice which was begun by democracy on
the 24th of February; and no act of the Emperor of
Russia could be more gratifying to the revolutionary
party on the Continent, than an enterprise which should
divert his steady gaze from their follies to the towers of
Constantinople, and relieve them from their dread of his
might by an exseaa of atubiti4u and imprudence more
culpable than their own.
HERALD.—It was remarked the other day by the
Learned Cursitor Baron, the Member for Dorsetshire,
in bringing forward the motion relative to the supply of
Ordnance stores to the Neapolitans—that there was
great apathy in the House in respect to questions con-
nected with the foreign policy of the Government. But
we really think the lion. and Learned Member over-
rated this apathy in reference to the House. and cer-
tainly in reference to the country. When Mr. Bankes
was first called to the bar, or when he first entered the
House of Commons, some three-and thirty years ago,
unquestionably there was considerableitspathy in refe-
rence to every foreign topic. For a quarter of a century
previous to 1816 the Continent had been hermetically
sealed to our nobility and gentry. None of the younger
among them had travelled, and the few of the older,who
had lived much abroad, returned with a horror of French
principles and French propagandism, determined Anti•
Jacobins and Anti-Gallicans. But with the peace
of Paris and of Vienna these feelings have gradually
died away ; and for the last twenty years the intercourse
with the Continent has been so wide and general, and
for the last years it has, day by day, so much increased,
that every man of education is now more or less in a
condition to discuss, and therefore to feel an interest in
foreign politics. Whatever, therefore, the feeling may
be within the house, we can assure Mr. Bankes that out-
side of the walls of St. Stephen's a very general and
growing interest is taken in the affairs of Europe. We
do not, for instance, mean to say that the inhabitants of
the English metropolis take that eager and vivacious in-
terest in interpellations on foreign affairs which so pre.
eminently—we will not say so advantageouslydistin-
guishes the badauds and quidnuncs of Paris. But, if the
Londoner be neither so active, so noisy, and so demon-
strative as his Lutetian contemporary, his interest is, in
foreign polities, more inquiring, more rational, more
reflective. Tee reason of this will be apparent on the
slightest reflection. From the magnitude, extent, and
variety of cut commercial relations, there is scarcely a
great change in any part of the Continent of Europe
which must not materially affect our merchants, our
shipowners, our manufacturers, our bankers. Our vei-
sels plough tarough every open and every inland sea—
our capital, our enterprise, our manufactures, penetrate
to every latiawk, however distant. This simple state-
went of fact will account for the anxiety and solicitude