The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

This day, is published,

WOOD'S PROGRESSIVE DRAWING-
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BOOK.—( No. 13.)—Price ONE PENNY.
" The best and cheapest Guide to Youth ever issued."
Also, on enamelled Cards—THE WORLD, in the space of a Six-
pence; (conninu upwards of 1,100 letters) ; the LORD'S
PRAYER, in tai
Twenty Languages &c.
Illustrated Letter and Note Paper ; all the new Valentines, in
great variety, &c., One Penny each.
Printed and published by J. T. Wood, 33, Holywell-street, Strand ;
and sold by all Booksellers.

BRITISH WHALE FISHERY.
This day, with a Map, price la. 6d.,
PROPOSAL for RE-ESTABLISHING the
BRITISH SOUTHERN WHALE FISHERY, through the
medium of a Chartered Company, and in combination with the
COLONIZATION of the AUCKLAND ISLANDS as the Company's
Whaling Station.
By CHARLES ENDERBY, Esq., F.R.S.
Effingham Wilson, Publisher, 11, • Royal Exchange.

Just paNished, Part I , price ss,
PARLIAMENTARY CASES relating to
RAILWAYS, tkc. ; being a Collection of Cases on the Law and
Practice of Parliament, determined by the Select Committees of the
Houset of Part ament in the Session of 1846.
By EDWARD BEAVAN, Esq., of the Middle Temple, , and FRE•
DERICK WALFORD, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barristers• at• Law.
A. Maxwell and Son, Law Publishers, 32, Bell-yard, LiacOlths Inn.

CONTRACTS FOR WORKS.
Notice is hereby given that TENDERS for the following
WORKS will be received at the undermentioned times and places.
BRISTOL AND SOUTH WALES JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Contract No. I.—From the junction with the Great West
way at Bristol, to a point in the parish of Stoke Gifford, being it
at a'dis-
tance of about five miles.
Contract No. 2.—From the termination of Contract No. 1, to the
New Passage, being a distance of about six miles.
Plans and specifications may be seen, and printed forms of
Tender obtained at the Engineer's-office, at the Railway station,
Temple Mends, Bristol ; and the Tenders must be -addressed to the
Directors of the Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway, and
sent to the Company's offices, Exchange buildings, Bristol, on or
before Twelve o'clock on Monday, Feb. 8:
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY.
Moreton Contract and Shipton Contract, being of the respectivextend-
e
lengths of 5 miles, 29 chains ; and 11 miles,
46 chains ;
ing from a point near Cb,ipping Campden, in the county of Gloucester,
to a point near Charlbury, in the county of Oxford.
Plans and specifications may be seen at the to
Wor-
cester, and the Tenders must be addressed to the Directors of the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton- Itailway,-and delivered at
the Railway-office, 449, West Strand, London, on or before Twelve
o'clock on TUESDAY, Feb. 9.
SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.
Contracts Nos. 11, 12, and 13, Swansea Division, being
of the
respective lengths of 5 miles, 72 chains 6 Miles, 16 chains; rind 13
miles, 31 chains; and extending from near Kidwelly rough Car-
marthen to Whitland, county of Carmarthen.
Plans and specifications may be seen, and printed forms of Tender
obtained at the Engineer*office,
Carmarthen :and the Tenders m
be addressed to the Directors of the South Wales Railway,
and
ust
delivered at the Railway-office,
449, West strand, London,
before Twelve o'c,ock on WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10-
on or
MONMOUTH AND HEREFORD RAILW,),Y.
Contracts Nos. 1,2, 3,4, and 5, of the respective lengths of 2
miles, 4 chains ; 4 miles 60 chains ; 7 miles, 6 chains ; 1 mile, 51
&thins ; and 4 miles, 15 chains ; situated between Ilolme Lacy,
near
Hereford, and Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire.
Plans and specifications may be seen, and printed forms of Tender,
may be obtained at the Engineer's-office, at the Railway-station,
Temple Meade, Bristol ; and the 'render must be addressed to the
Directors of the Great Western Railway, and delivered at the Rail-
way-office at Paddington, on or before Twelve o'clock, on Thursday.
Feb. 11.

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SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER
HILL.
This EVENING, ad TUESDAY, Jn. 26, 1847, will be performed
HANDEL'nS ORATOMIO,a " THE CREATION."
PRINCIPAL VOCAL PERFORIRE II.B S.
hillips.
Miss Buck, Mr. Lockey, and Mr. P
The Band and Chorus will consist of above 500
obtained of the
Performers.
Tickets, 3s. each; Reserved Seats. 55., ma b
principal Music Sellers ;of Mr. Rowley, 53, Charing-cross; Mr.
e
Ries, 102, Strand ; or of Mr. Mitchell, 39, CliiiringAr Hon. Sec.
I HOMAS DRl__________________

_______,_
HE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
TCOMPANY'S splendid and powerful first-class STEAM-
iIIIPS are appohited to leave—
Custoin-House or Tower, for—
Custom-House
carrying her Majesty's "alts.
clacicwall Pier. for-- _ ‘,.‘...t, . m.11._
ROTTERDAM aid RHINE,
at
"er "411- ----
everY We Saturday, at Ten, Morning. The Ocean,
Wednes -ay. The Rainbow, ,4aturday.
ANTWERP and the RHINE—The Soho, every Thursday, at
Ten, Morning.
OsTEN—Every Wednesday, and Saturday Morning. Wednes-
Dday, Jan. 20, at Two ; Jan. 23, at Five ;
Jas. 21, at Eight; Jan. 30,
at Ten.

From St. Katharine's Steam Wharf, #t)r—
HAVRE—Jan. 20, 24, and 30, at eight, Morning.
From London-bridge Wharf, dun
Thursday Morning. Jan. 21, at Nine ; Jan.
SI, at Eight.
CALAIS—Every Thursday and Sunday Morning.
BULL—Every Tuesday and Friday, at Eight, Morning.
YARMOUTH—Reduced Fares—Every WednesdaY and Sat
at Six, Evening. Saturday,
From Brown's Wharf, Poplar, for—
EDINBURGH—Reduced Fares—The Trident, to-morrow, m
nesday, Jan. 20, at Ten, Night ; the Clarence, Saturday, Jan 'ed.
Ten, Night ; the Leith, Saturday, Jan. 30, at Ten, Night. . 23, at
From More's Steam Wharts, tor—
NEWCASTLE—Every Saturday, at Eight. Evening.
To secure Berths, for Freight, and for Bills, containing
sot hours
delparture, fares, &c., apply- at the Offices, 69, Lombard g o7
Regent-circus ; and 35, Leadenhall-ptreet. -st 3

1 RAVESEND S
...;.--------
STAR and BLACKWALL
Bk If PACKET.
Boat and Rail included in One Payment, avoiding the danger
and delay of the Pool.
Prom the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 91,4 inv 1, ~ .
4, and 5. The Trains''' -- ~ 4, and
',. Sundays, at 9%, 11, !
74,ay sB:ir,
09r%ee,n1111:.he, 1;13, and
starting one quar-
ter of an hour before eacill these tim
New Terrace Pier, GraVer,nadn,d
5.a ,
5. Sundays, at 8%, 11 3
N.B.—No other packets ICall ats theGr
Star Office, Gravesend, Dec. 2 , 1846. ere.

S GLASS CHANDELIERS
1
y(TSTBES, °IRAN!.
F anscIINCG.LOEtdEDRO
IBLIE LIGHT
&c., In great vanetY, at their London
ierners-street, Manufactory,
D0LF4.15 TABLE GLASS'
warehoLe 44, Oxford street, nFrir
Broad-street, Binningbarn• Established 1807, Richly cut Chande-
liers, carrying six lights,
andtwelve Lto
each ; eight li,its
91. lOs. to 501. each ; ten an_ lights, and upwards, in propor-
tion.
end Assembly-rooms lighted by estimate.') A
Handsomely cut-glass Lastres, from 17s. to 101. per air.
Theatres, Concert,
superior stock of Foreign o,rnamental Glass. Wholesale aud export
orders executed on the lowest terms.

________________
MENT TO LADIES ONLY !
ADVERTISE
PARIS WOVE CORSETS,
G. ROBERTS, of 183 Oxford-street, disposed at all times to give
every
from incidental circumstances to a numerous
connexion
aonfLgae arisingdieswose patronage he is honoured with, begs very
respectfully to inform them that the reduction in duty will enable
genuine PARIS WOVE CORSETS, manufactured by
him to sell the
Mons. J. Werley A. Bar-le-Due (for which he has been so long cele-
brated a the only importer in London), at the following very low i
s
I
priees, including the busks and alterations :
Price. Inches,
Inches. Pr. I
18 to 19% .. ••• • • • 16s. 6d. 24% to 25% .... • . 20s.ice 6d.
20 et 2l
...... „ 17s. 6d. 26 tt 27
.......
213. 6d.
21% " 22% •••• • • 18'. 6d. 27 " 28% .. • • 225. 6d.
23 " 24 .. • • • • 19s. 6d 29 t. 30
...... 235. 6d.
Ladies will observe that all extra charges •are abolished, and the
Stays much reduced.
Further Notice to Ladies of the Nobility, Gentry, and Public.—
G. ROBERTS, impressed with a deep sen,e ei• gratitude for the
very liberal support with Which he has been favoured for the last
ten years, returns his very sincere thanks to all his patrons, and'
begs to announce that, in consequence of the great increase of busi-
ness south-west of the metropolis. he has found it expedient to open
an Establishment (which will be conducted under the entire super-
intendence of Mrs. Roberts) in the populous and much-improved
neighbourhoOd of Knightsbridge, for the exclusive sale of every de-
scription of Foreign and English Corsets, for ladies and children,
pun the same principle as at Oxford-street ; and in future the ad-
dresses will be 183, Oxford-street, and
bridge, London. 4, Lowndet-terrace, Knights-