The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-25 00:00:00

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On the other side of the Rhine there are 200

leagues of railroads either already brought into use or on the
point of being so. Further undertakings, some of which have
obtained a guarantee of the minimum of interest, will afford
conveyance by this means to the extent of 400 leagues more
within a few years. Of the lines finished, or near being so,
those in Holland run 30 leagues, Prussia, 51, Austria 50,
Bohemia 18, Bavaria 18, Saxony 30, Frankfurt-Nassau and
Darmstadt 11, Brunswick 2i, Duchy of Baden 4 leagues.
lltst of these roads have only one line of rails.
FEMALE NON-INTRUSION PETITION.—ThiS
petition is called the " Edinburgh Petition," and is said to
have 22,379 signatures. We need not again allude to the
discreditable means taken to muster a host of signatures, but
we demur to the name of the petition. It is not a petition
from Edinburgh alone. It is well known that almost every
village in the county has been ransacked for signatures—some
of them sending 400 and 500. Were all these signatures
deducted from it, the petition would not be so formidable an
affair after all. Very likely the country ladies exceed their
town sisters in numbers and gullibility.— S'cottish:Pilot.
The Fife and Kinross Voluntary Church Asso-
ciation have recommended that Dissenters should withhold
their suffrages frem non-intrusion candidates. The Fife
Voluntaries arc ever on the qui rice It would not surprise
us though the recommendation were acted on to no small ex-
tent. if so, the Government, should it persist in its cajolery of
the Kirk, may get Perthshire elections to its heart's content.
It may lose the Dissenters, but there is no possibility of its
gaining the Establishment, except as a tyrant to make it
experience the rigours of a Popish ascendency.—Scottish Pilot]
A poor woman named Lake, of Weston, near
this town, after being married seven years without children,
was a few days ago safely delivered of three fine girls, who,
with their mother, are all "as well as can be expected."—
Sussex. Express.
THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.--For several
years past, Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P., has let out an extensive
field in the neighbourhood of Chippenbam, for the benefit of the
deserving portion of the working classes, at a mere nominal
rent.—Salisbury Herald.
APPENDAGE TO A DUEL.—It will probably
be recollected that a few weeks since a duel took place near
Tallahassee, between Gen. L. Read and a M:. Allston,
in which the latter was killed. We learn from the Bruns-
wick (Geo.) Advocate of the 14th inst., that on the sth inst.
the General and Mr. William Alston, brother of the deceased,
met in the dining room of the principal hotel of Tallahassee,
and that an affray took place between them, in which Mr. A.
discharged two pistols at General R., thea ball of one of which
passed through his side, and
General R. dand cut him se-
verely with a bowie knife. . was alive at the last
accounts, and expected to survive. How delightful this " chi-
valric" state of society, where you kill one day and are killed
the next.—Baltimore Patriot.
AN OLD OFFENCE.—The Churchwardens of
Eckington have just been issuing hand-bills, offering a reward
to any one who will give information respecting an attempt to
force open an iron safe in the vestry, 360 yoars ago, (A. D 14- 8 ).
—Derby Chronicle.
39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY.
DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION. _A greater proof
of the value of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons'
Invisible Operative Voice-Conductor, and newly-in.°'
is
vented Spectacle Lenses, cannot be adduced, than
the circumstance of the many thousands of individuals who
have obtained the greatest benefit and instant relief, and
the constant immense demand there is for them, and
the patronage they have,and daily continue to receive. The
Messrs. S. and B. Solomons disclaim all connection with per-
sons of the same name, and the sale of amber spectacles ;
the pernicious use of amber spectacles being now well
known to the public, and the vendor being aware of
it, he has therefore altered their name, by leaving out
the word " Amber," .and calling them "Patent Spec-
tacles." Andrew Ure, Esq., M.D. F. R. S.. &C..
states amber is most powerfully electrical by friction,
very hot, to such an extent as to explode into fragments.
The workmen, too, are subject to a nervous tremor in their
wrists, arms, &c. ; they encounter great danger by hand-
ling such dreadfully-excited electrics. Amber is of such
a soft and sticky nature, that it is apt to take fire ; and
when exposed to warmth, it swells, bubbles up, and will
burn away with flame. This statement is further confirmed
by Sir D. Brewster and Pliny, as also by Parks and Horns
oa Chemistry. The pernicious and destructive use of
such a material for spectacles to imperfect vision may ba
in
ascertained at any respectable optician's London.
The Oxford and Cambridge University rowinc-
-watch, from Westminster-bridge to Putney-l)ridin!, for
Wednesday, the 15th of April.