The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-17 00:00:00

110 W TO PRESERVE BEAUTY.

" That the extraordinary and almost fabulous dura-
tion of her beauty was in a great degree due to the pre-
cautions which she adopted, there can be little doubt, for
she spared no effort to secure it ; she was jealously
careful of her health, and in the most severe weather
bathed in cold water ; she suffered no cosmetic to ap-
proach her, denouncing every compound of the kind as
worthy only of those to whom nature had been so nig-
gardly as to compel them to complete her imperfect
work ; she rose every morning at six o'clock, aLd had
no sooner left her chamber than she sprang into the
saddle, and after having galloped a league or two re•
turned to her bed, where she remained until midday en.
gaged in reading. The system appears a singular one,
but in her case it undoubtedly proved successful, as after
having enslaved the Duke d'Orleans in her thirty-first
year, she still reigned in absolute sovereignty over the
heart of the King of France when she had nearly
reached the age of sixty I It is certain, however, that
the magnificent Diana owed no small portion of this ex-
traordinary and unprecedented constancy to the charms
of her mind and the brilliancy of her intellect."

HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER.
(From the Court Circular.)
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager passed a tolerable
night on Monday, but continues very ill. Sir David
Davies remains in attendance on her Majesty.
EXCHANGE.

COURSE . OF
naterAsm ...... •• .• 12 3

GibraltarLegho • • • • • • :
•. • •,. •: ..
: . .
31.;
20
Germ& .• •• ••.••• •• .• •• 2G 2S
Altai .• •••••••• o• •• •• ••'.
Venice• • • • • • •• • • • • •• •• .••••
laples •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 40%
ealermo,peroz— ...... 121 y 4
iMessina • . ............ 121%
Lisbon.... • ....• ...... p. 63%
Oporto • • .. • • • . .. • • .. • • 453%
itio Janeiro ...... • . ..

Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 114
Rotterdam ...• •• •• 12 3
kntwerp ••.••••• •• • • •• 25 85• -
liamburgh —II.B. 13 13%
&itona• •• •• .• •• •• .•
Paris, 3 dayesight . 25 47%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 67%
Varseilles ............ 25 70
80urdeaux......... . 25 70
Frankfort on Mains.... 122%
Putersburgb, Sil. Rble.. 36%;)
Vienna, effec. d 0...... 10 56
Trieste, ditt0.......... 10 56
Idadrid .... •• •• •• •• 4976
Cadiz • • •• • • • • • • • • • • •• b 056
Bilbao •• •• •• •••• ••
Barcelona • • • • • ••• • ••

Buenos Ayres ...... •.
New York. 21 days'sight
Philadelphia ..........

PRICZB 01 BULLION, Mt OS.
Foreign Gold in bars.. .£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Now Dollars ...... 0 4 9h
Silver In bars ...... • . 0 4 11%

SOVille• • •• •• •• • • • • •• ••

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Rear-Admiral superintendent Prescott went
out with the officers from the pay-office, and paid the
Hercules, store ship, and the Superb, 80, Captain.
Parcell, at Spithead, on Monday. The Hercules,
Fulton, sailed on Monday evening for the Mediter-
ranean, and the Superb, 80, sailed yesterday morning
at eight o'clock, for the chops of the channel and
Cork, touching at Plymouth, where some seamen are
in readiness to join her. • We hear she is to further
complete her sea-going complement at Cork.
One of the Superb's lieutenants was on Admiralty
leave when the ship received her orders to proceed to
Cork; he was at Reading, and by electric telegraph
on Sunday night he received an order from the
Admiralty to join his ship immediately, which he did
on the following morning. The Superb had the
" blue peter" flying on Monday. Both she and the
Hercules were anxious to get off and take advantage
of the fair wind down channel.

APPOINTMENTB.—Lielltenant C. D. B. Kennedy
(1846), to the Excellent, gunnery-ship, at Ports-
mouth; Master John Garner (1841), to the coast-
guard service.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Scourge steam-
sloop, Commander Lord F. 11. Kerr, was docked
yesterday to have her copper scrubbed, &c.
The Serpent, 16, Commander Barker, will be at
Spithead in a day or two, ready for sailing orders.
Th. Leander, 50, Captain S. C. Dacres, is nearly
rigged, and has entered some good seamen lately, but
they still, as a body, hang back.
The Raleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert,
K.C.8., is daily expected at Spithead from the River
Plate.

The Constance, 50, Captain Courtenay, is expected
at Spithead from the Pacific, in the early part of next
month, with freight on merchants' account to the
amount of upwards of 2,000,000 dollars.
The Octavia, 50, newly launched at Pembroke,
sailed thence on the 12th lust; for Plymouth, to be
advanced.
The Dolphin brigantine, Lieutenant the Hon. B.
Boyle, is expected from the coast of Africa on a
change of wind.
Wind—E., light breezes, and hazy.
WooLwlcn, OCT. 16.—The Monkey steam-vessel,
Master Commander William Bryant, with Mr. Bel-
lamy, master attendant, and a number of riggers
from Woolwich Dockyard, want up the river yester-
terday to Blackwall, and navigated the Magicienne
steam vessel from the East India Docks to Messrs.
Penn's establishment at Greenwich to have the fit-
tings of her engines completed. Mr. Bellamy and
the riggers afterwards laid down moorings for the
Dreadnought where she was formerly stationed, and
that hospital ship was taken out of dock at Woolwich
to-day, and towed up the river by the Monkey, the
Jasper, and the Advice steam-vessels to Greenwich.
The Vulcan steam-troop-ship had her masts put in
on Friday last, and the masts of the Styx steam-sloop
were put in yesterday, and these vessels are both now
in an advanced state.

Ten boiler-makers were discharged from the fac-
tory at this yard on Saturday night last, the work
executed in that department being now comparatively
little to what it used to be. The number of boiler-
makers reduced this year has been about sixty
altogether.
TUE ROTAL YACHT PROMOTIONB.—The annual

promotion for service in her Majesty's:yachts have
been conferred upon Lieutenant Edward Vansittart,
1842. and Mutes Hubert, Campion, Charles T. Jago,
and Neville G. 'W. Nicolas.
P_ECIMITING FOIL THE NAVY.—The Hon. Lieute-
nant De Isiaquiere, of her Majesty's ship Ganges, ac-
companied by several other naval officers, arrived in
Queenstown yesterday, and opened a rendezvous for
the enrolment of ordinary and able seamen. The La
Hogue is ordered off to join the fleet destined for the
Dardanelles.—Cork Examiner.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WHITEHAVEN RAILWAY.
---The inquest upon Jane Pennington, the little girl
killed by the bursting of a locomotive engine into her
father's house at the Whitehaven terminus of the White-
haven and Furness Railway, was held at the Public•
office. Whitehaven, on Monday morning last, before W.
Lumb,Esq., coroner. (The particulars appeared in our
paper of yesterday.) 'rho inquest occupied nearly five
hours, during which no less than 15 witnesses were ex
attuned. The jury, after a lengthy discussion, returned
verdict of "Accidental death, in consequence of an
error in judgment of the engine-drivar; and they consi-
dered that there is a great want of protection to life and
property at the Whitehaven and Furness terminus."