The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

THE REGISTERED SYRIAN PALETOT.
Pursuant to Act 6 and 7 Tic., cap. 65.
Messrs. SWAIN and Co., 379, Oxford-street, in announcing the
preparation of this garment, desire to have it known that it bears
no affinity to the common produce vaunted as built of the Llama
Wool, a material possessing no property by reason of which it can be
woven into a cloth, and which is to every manufacturer of the em-
pire, or of Europe, a thing unknown.
Sir. Charles Saxelby, Shrewsbury; Mr. George Davison, Sheffield;
Mr. Robert Pinhorn, Newport, Isle of Wight; Mr. Henry Hewitt,
Manchester ; Mr. Maddox, Liverpool ; and Mr. John Whitty, 8, Col•
lege-green, Dublin, sole agents for its sale in the above towns,

LONDON ORPHAN Asmat.—The annual meeting
of governors of this institution was held on Monday at
the London Tavern. Mr. James Capel having taken
the chair, the secretary proceeded to read the report,
from which it appeared that the total receipts for
the past year were 8,298/. 4s. 7d., and the ex-
penditure 8,5871. 4s. 7d., leaving a deficit on
the year's account of 2891. Since the last gene-
ral meeting, 67 children, having completed their
terms, had left the institution, seven had died in the
asylum, and two were under the care of their friends ;
74 had been admitted, and of this number nine were ad-
mitted under the rule 37, 60 by election, and five in conse-
quence of having been expelled from the Asylum of Bri-
tish Orphans in Paris. It was intended to admit two
more under similar circumstances. The day's election
would admit 30, making the total number in the asylum
397. The total number of children who would have re-
ceived the benefits of the institution since its establish •
meat on the completion of their terms by the present
inmates and candidates would be 1,765. The re-
port having been adopted, the secretary moved that
two orphan children be admitted from France, 2001.
having been paid for them by the Refugee Committee.
Agreed to. The election of thirty children was then
proceeded with, the number of candidates being 144.
The following are the names of the successful candi-
dates, with the numbers polled by each. Girls—Lam-
prey, 10,351; Dan ks, 8,816; Brightwell, 8,415; Morris,
8,272 ; Davis, 7,961 ; Reece, 7,501 ; Callaway, 7,475;
G ain,7,468 ; Haynes, 7,466; O'Neill, 7,415; Stone, 7,281;
Clarke, 7,140; Cluff, 7,091. Boys—Marten, 8,435;
Wallis, 8,142; Johnston, 8,134; Stevens, 8,044; Sharp,
7,959; Mills, 7,956; Prichard, 7,922; Turner, 7,748;
Allen, 7,577; Scott, 7,398; Gunson, 7,347; Wiggins,
7,280; Tizmur, 7,160; Hopwood, 7,083; Arnold, 6,995;
Wink, 6,923; Smith, 6,786.

ABUSES IN THE NAVY.—The new Lord of the
Admiralty has been, for the long period of 27 years, re-
presentative of Portsmouth in Parliament, and there
can be no doubt that he will be again returned for that
borough. This of itself is sufficient to show that he
must know more about ships and dockyards than most
of his immediate predecessors. He was recently one of
the select e ,mraittee appointed to overhaul the estimates
of the three great military branches of the public ser-
vice. While joining in all the propositions fur economy
wherever it was practicable, he would not assent to
cripple the amount of warlike materials in the public
stores; and we are pretty certain that all the old officers
of the navy will do honour to his name, as one of those
who resisted the attempt to abridge the hard earned pro-
motion of the senior ranks. With regard to the labours
of the committee, we must repeat, that it is not the
personnel or materiel—neither the officers and seaman,
nor the hemp, tar, and timber in the dockyards and
stores, that created the excess in the estimates, but the
fancy building and tinkering of ships. They were con-
structed on some beau ideal, and when taken to sea were
inefficient in some point or other. The word then—
different from the commands in the steamer, " Stop
her," " Ease her," &c.—was, "Lengthen her," " Shorten
her,"' " Cut down her masts," " Give her more ballast."
Iron steamers were built, and then it was discovered that
shot would knock them to pieces like crockery-ware;
frigates were cut down to be steam•tubs; with other fan-
tastic tricks. There being no specific remedy for a
ship rocking like a cradle, when one was proved to be in
that dilemma she was sent to " sleep on her shadow" in
Dorchester Lake or Hamoaze All these alterations
were put down as " repairs," and a pretty penny they
cost. The money laid out in these experiments in the
list two or three years would have kept 10,000 able
seamen in constant employ.—Naval & Military Gazette.
THE CASTLEREAGH LETTERS.—The third and
fourth volumes of this important work, completing the
Irish Rebellion and the Union, are just published. The
most valuable contribution to modern history that we
know of is to be found in the Memoirs and Correspon-
dence of Lord Castlereagh. They are indeed invaluable
records of facts, and without them it is impossible for
any man to say that up to this moment he has had the
opportunity of knowing the real history of the Irish Re-
belt(); or the arrangements for a Union. The great value
of the work is the correspondence—the letters which
passed between Lord Castlereagh and others at the very
time the great, and in many instances awful, events, to
which they recur were passing. In these documents all
is unreservedly exposed. There have been assertions
and suspicions on one side—here are the statements and
facts on the other. Full justice never was done, and
never could be done, to the acts as well as the motives of
Lord Castlereagh, but by a publication such as now lies
before us. The more widely these volumes are circu-
lated, the more certainly will truth be vindicated, false-
hood exposed, and calumny refuted.—Morning Herald.
DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN POTTERY.—The opera-
tions at Sunderland New Docks proceed apace, and the
water, it is expected, will be admitted at an early date
in February. When there is 141 feet at the tide gauge,
there will be 22 feet of water at the dock entrance from
the river. During the excavation of this part of the
works, a singular discovery was made. Under the site
of some old houses on the pier quay was found what an-
tiquarians pronounced to be remains of an ancient Ro-
man pottery. About 8 feet below the surface appeared
a circle, about 25 feet diameter, hewn out of the lime-
stone rock. In the interior of this was a circle of small
rubble stones, in arrangement resembling a gin or horse-
mill, which had apparently been erected for the purpose
of grinding clay. Near this place was found a quantity
of red and yellow ochre, and some broken earthenware,
with four perfect specimens of Roman bottles, with necks
about a foot in length, the under part being globular.
They were common red ware and unglazed. One of
them has been sent to the Antiquarian; Society of New-
castle, and another, a very perfect one in all respects,
was presented to the Sunderland Museum.
PRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW-ROAD, Lost-
DON.--MORISON'S VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE.—
It appears that the sum paid to Government up to
January, 1849, for stamps for Morisou's Pills, amounts
to 115,000/. Such an amount would give 18,400,000 of
stamps at lid. each, and there being 45 pills in the small
boxes, would give the number of pills 828,000,000 (eight
hundred and twenty-eight millions). Besides the above,
200 of the " family packets," each containing 600 pills,
have been sent annually for the last twelve years to the
Exeter Hygeian Dispensary, to be given to the poor,
which amounts to 1,500,000 more of pills.—With such
facts, can any one doubt that Hygeists have had more
practical experience in a system of good vegetable pur-
gation than all the doctors in the world put together,
who by ever changing their medicines and poisons do
not really know the effects of any of them. It is only
by an accumulation of facts that truth in medicine can
be ascertained.--British College of Health, New-road,
London. Jan. 16, 1849.

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