The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

SHAVING A LUXURY.

IDRICE and CO.'S " AMBROSIAL," or
I PRINCE ALBERT'S SHAVING CREAM, sur-
passes everything ever invented for Shaving. One trial will
convince the most sceptical. It renders shaving, hitherto dis-
agreeable, and often painful, pleasant and easy ; in fact, the
luxury of a good shave can only be appreciated by those who
use PRICE andCO.'SAMBROSIALCREAM.

Manufactory, Montp?llier House, 23, Lombard-street, late
" Price and Gosnell's,' and formerly " Patey, Butts, Price
and Co.'s."
Sold Retail by J. Delcroix and Co , 158, New Bond-street,
in Pots, price 3s. 6d•
* * Ask for " PRICE and CO.'S AMBROSIAL
CREAM," to avoid worthless Imitations.

lABERN'S BOTANIC CREAM.
A By Appointment. Patronised by her Most Gracious
Majesty, the Queen.
Queen of Belgium, King of Belgium,
Duchess of Sutherland, Grand Duke Alexander of Russia
Duchess of St. Albans, Duke of Roxburghe,

Duchess of Roxburghe, Marquis of Normanby,
Lady Anne Loftus, Lord Ducie,
And upwards of Two Hundred other Illustrious Distin-
. . .

guished Personages.
Composed of vegetable ingredients, and celebrated for pro-
moting the Growth of Hair, facilitating the Curls, and com-
pletely freeing it from scurf.
Sold by the sole Proprietor, H. Labern, Perfumer in Ordi-
nary to her Majesty, 49, Judd-street, Brunswick-square,
London, in bottles and pots, at Is. Gd. ; 2s. 6d. ; 3s. Gd. ;
and 55. each ; and by all respectable Perfumers and Medicine
Venders throughout the United Kingdom.
*** Forwarded to any part of the Kingdom, on receipt of
a Post- office order.

FOIL CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TEI•l'I 11.
MRS. JOHNSON'S AMERICAN
SOOTHING SI ItUP, which has been held in such
nigh estimation for so many years, for relieving Children when suf.
ering from painfnl Dentition, still continueslo he prepared accord-
higt o Mrs. Johnson's Original Recipe, and with the same success.
by BARCLAY AND SONS, 05, Farringdon-street, whdse name and
address are engraved on the Stamp. Full directions are enclosed with
each hottle. Price 2s. 9d.
:tie mire Ip ask for MP JOHNSON'S SOOTHING SYRUP,
. .

Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 3s. ; and sent free
on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d.,
ANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
VAL MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to these suf-
fering &bra the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection; followed by Observations on the
TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET,
&c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.
By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical
Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent-
street ; 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-
row; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street,
Dublin; Duncam ,114, High-street, Edinbergb; and to be had
of all Booksellers.

The Work which is now presented to the public is the result
of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affec-
tions, which for some unaccountable reason have been either
altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost in-
difference, by the of Binary practitioner. To enter into the
details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to
mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical,
which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits,
would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have
no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of
society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whe-
ther we consider such person to hold the relation of a PA-
RENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a CLERGYMAN.
Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their
residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho, from Tcn till Three, and
Five till Eight in the Evening; and Country Patients are re-
quested to be as minnte as possible in the detail of their cases,
—as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, ge-
neral habits of living, and occupation in life of the party ; the
communication must be accompanied by the " usual Consulta-
tion Fee of 11.," without which no notice whatever can be
taken of their application ; and i 11 cases, the most inviolable
secrecy may be relied on.

The value of Sight and Hearing can never be
truly estimated but by its loss. Sedentary occupations, close ap-
plication to business, continual reading and writing, intense study,
the use of bad and improper Spectacles, and Ear Instruments, all
conspire to injure these best of nature's gifts, the Eyesight and
Hearing. It is, indeed, of vital importance that the adoption of
Spectacles to imperfect vision should be regulated on proper prin.
ciples. Messrs, S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Pic-
cadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William.street,
City, have devoted their whole .lives to this branch of science,
which has enabled them to invent Spectacle Lenses upon a new
construction ; immediately they are placed before imperfect vision,
either by day or candlelight, that mist and dulness which appear
before the eyes is at once removed, every object becomes clear and
distinct, so that the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright and
brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original
state. Their Invisible Operative Voice Conductor Sound Magni-
fiers, for deaf persons, is not the least perceptible nor uncomfort-
able ; they give immediate relief to old standing, extreme cases of
deafness. Persons can be suited at a distance; those who have
never made use of Spectacles, by stating the number of inches
they can see moderate sized print from the eye, and those who are
making use of Spectacles by sending them, and making the same
statement when in use. The Sound Magnifier Invisible Voice
Conductor and Spectacles are sent, daily, by post, to various parts
of the country.
FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE IN THE BRIX-
TON-ROAD. —On Saturday afternoon, about three o'clock, the
inhabitants of Holland-place, Brixton-road, were thrown into
a state of alarm by the report that a gentleman named
French, lately occupying a house in that terrace, had preci-
pitated himself from the second floor window of his resi-
dence. Mr. French was upwards of sixty years of age, and
had for some time past been labouring under severe illness.
He had been cQnfinetl to his bed some days, and was
left alone for a few moments in the afternoon of Saturday—
his nurse ha;ting occasion to leave the room for a few minutes
—when, it appears, Mr. French rose from his bed, and, with
the assistance of his walking-stick, succeeded in gaining the
window of his bed- room ; having done which he raised the
sash, and instantly precipitated himself into the garden be•
math. A policeman and some other persons witnessed the
melancholy occurrence, and having hastened to the spot. Mr.
French was conveyed into the house, where he only survived a
few moments. Mr. French was a gentleman well known in
the City, having been largely engaged in mercantile transac-
tions for many years, and had occupied his late residence for a
very considerable period.
DOVER, JUNE 26, 1841.—The Princess Isa-
bel, Infanta of Spain, waernarried this morning at the Catholic
Chapel here, to the Polish Count Ignac Gurowski. A great
number of persons were present. Amongst them we noticed
the Commandant of the Garrison, the Mayor, the Belgian
Consul, the French Consul, &c. The service was performed
by the Catholic Priest, M. Savage. The bride and bride-
groom left Dover for London in the course of the morning,
where it is said they intend residing for the present.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 26.—We are assured that
the inspection of the British Queen steamer, the purchase of
which was projected by Belgium, has been made with the most
scrupulous care. The British Government allowed some
officers of the Royal Navy to take part in the inspection.
Their report is highly favourable to the vessel—The Court of
Assize of Brabant condemned yesterday (at midnight) six per-
sons to death, one as an accomplice, and the others as principals.
They are to be executed in one of the squares of Brussels._
Co ur rier Beige.
Letters from Constantinople,weil as Pacha
I:le2otfidi‘,Tobsseu-i
be-
sides a confirmation of the revolt in Macedonia, brings word
that the Vizier of Bagdad, as
and Bagdad, were ready to follow the example of Orfa and
Doarbiker, and to declare themselves independent
of Bagdad
gd;abdnits tshaiedatto-
, tempt seems to have failed, the Governor
i have fled to Persia.

AMERICAN NEWS.
(Extracts from New York g Acep to !lie B,UI 11163
• received b* tub t aShington.)
THE Afttstiffilii TO ENGLAND.--The National Gazette
ihtbitas us that the :.rnissiom to England has been 'ten-
dered to the Hon. John Sa nt, in a manlier warmly
expressive of the sense-entertained by the administration
,of his eminent qualifictttiung fol.' the this'. Whether he
will aectpt the appointment has not yet transpired.
ST. LOEB MURDERS.—The last of the tour negroes,
Worrick, was tried yesterday and. found guilty of mur-
der in the first degree. The Judge has not yet passed
sentence on any 'of them . By the statute the time for
their execution will be fixed by the Court, and must not
be less than four nor, more than eight weeks from the
day that sentence is
.passed.—
St,Louis Republig tn.
ANOTHER HOMlEMEtitiVEStt?l'llqy dispute between
Major Mal* T..Ltinghtith and t
-Mfr. James Adams, grow-
ing nit Claim to' Duncan's Island, occurred
the
Li •
the above-named parties on the island, when the Major
drew a pistol and shot Adams through, the head. The
Major then came to the. city and surrendered him-
self to Squire Kre.telamar,
THE (;Ron--Considerable damage is said to have
been done to the growing cotton crons by the cool and
damp weather north of Georgia: The same cause has_
operated to , its injury to some extent in that State, but
generally, we are
Kapp to say, so far as our information
extends) that although somewhat retarded in its groWth,
no material damage has as. yet been' sustained, and that
y
prospects . are rather more flattering than otherwise.
Wheat and corn certainly promise well, we 'are told.
The former, inGeorgitt,
is now fit for harvesting.
The grain crops in Delaware, we are told, are very
promising. The wheat never looked better, and the corn
has been excited to rapid ve,,cetation by the recent warm
rains. The cut worm, which was much- feared, is
doing but little mischief ; the sun is too hot for7his tem-
perament. The prospect of fruit is not so good. -Though
the bloSsoms gave an athindant promise, yet much injury
was done by the late frosts, and , still in )re by the pro-
longed cold weather, which starved out the embryo.
The Southern papers insist that the cotton crop of the
present year will vary very little from 1,600,000 bales.
And yet, observes the Charleston Mercury, .at the very
time when this deficiency becomes apparent and ad-
mitted to the fullest extent on the other side of the
water, cotton undergoes so serious a decline as to threaten
great, if not ruinous loss to the leading houses that
deal in it.

RIDING AGAINST TINE.—A man, whose name we did
not ascertain, for a bet of 1000 dollars, undertook to ride
over the Beacon CourSe, near Itoboken, N. J., 300 miles
in 24 successive hours, on a number of different horses.
He commenced at 6 o'clock on Thursday evening, rode
200 mires the first twelve hours, and completed his task
yesterday at five minutes after 5 o'clock. being 55 minutes
within the time, and winning the bet. This is the greatest
distance, in the same time, we have ever heard of being
performed in the country , and we believe also in England,
where, if our information be correct, 270 miles is the
greatest distance ever performed in 24 consecutive hours.
.GOVERNOR SEWARD NOT A CANDIDATE FOR A RE-
ELECTION.—Governor Seward has addressed a letter to
a friend in this- city in which we find the following :
"I am not now a candidate, neither can, I foresee an
occasion when I shall either find it my duty, or have a
deSire to offer myself for the suffrages of my fellow-
citizens."

Mr. CLAY.—We have seen it intimated that Mr. Clay,
will resign his seat in the Senate at the end of the spe-
cial session of Congress. We hope not.
SUPPOSED CASE OF SUlClDE.—Yesterday afternoon a
German, named John Roth, aged 34, who kept a porter
house at No. 27, Mulberry-street, after eating his dinner
up stairs, told his wife he was unwell, wished to lie
down, and requested her to go down stairs. She accord-
ingly went down, and soon afterwards, a sailor, who was
on a short furlough from the United States brig Dol-
phin, came in, and was invited to dine, which he did.
After a short time he came down stairs, and got some
drink, and requested Mrs. Roth to send her husband up
a glass of wine, which she drew, and sent up accordingly.
Very soon after, the sailor came down in a hurry, and
said Roth had killed himself, and instantly left the house.
Mrs. Roth went up stairs with others, and found her
husband's throat cut, and he lying on the floor in his
bed, entirely dead. All the arteries and the wind-pipe
were divided, and the wound extended to the vertebrm of
the neck. On a chair by his sidegay his razor, with which
he had shaved himself in the morning. On examination, it
appeared that his pocket-book, which contained a consi-
derable sum of money, had been taken from his pocket, and
carried off; and the sailor suspected and pursued by: offi-
cer Lord, in order to arrest and hare. him at the inquest.
The Coroner was called, but as the sailor was not there,
he ordeked the house to be locked up, and two police
officers stationed there. The inquest, therefore; was not
held, but probably will be this morning.

THE CASE OF SUICIDE. —ln the Case of the sup-
posed suicide' of John Roth, who was found with his
throat cut in his room, No. 27, Mulberry-street, on
Wednesday afternoon, it was satisfactorily established
before the Coroner's Jury that the deceased had been
paid...llly deranged, had acted strangely and talked inco-
herehtly-L--and that he was the author of his own death.
The sailor named Robert Edwards, a native of Bonibay,
was found on board the ship Dolphin, and came and tes-
tified freely and clearly touching his finding of Roth, as
he (Edwards) went up stairs—with his throat cut—that
he was yet on his feet, and walking, but soon after fell.
Edwards was thereby exonerated from all censure. The
Jury returned a verdict " That John Roth committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, during a fit of
partial derangement."
" THE PRESIDENCY," AND " THETICE-PRESIDENCY."
—lt appears by the proceedings of both Houses of Con-
gress, that by overflowing majorities, the principle: has
been settled that John Tyler, late Vice-President, has
become, by the death of General Harrison, " President
of the United States," and not -Vice-President, exer-
cising the office of President. These decisions of each
House, so emphatically pronounced, leaves the second
office in the Government utterly and entirely vacant.
CANADA.—Lord Sydenham reached Kingston, the fu-
ture seat of the Canadian Government, on the 28th ult.
He was received by a large concourse of people, and
numerous addresses, to which ho made suitable replies.
The Legislature of the newly constituted Province of
Canada meets for the despatch of business at Kingston
on the 14th inst., a week from to=day.

SPANISH INSULT TO THE
BRITISH FLAG.

The following document gives the facts as sworn before
our Consul at Cadiz, of another of those outrages com-
mitted by the ipanish guarda costa on British commerce.
The place of the capture was, I am informed, near Cape
Santa Maria, Algarve : _

" Joan Baptisia Zino, master of the Gibraltar falucho,
called El Aguila—

" Pedro Cesare° and Fortunato Garcia, seamen in the
same vessel, now confined in the public gaol of the city
of Cadiz, have this day made the following declaration
upon oath, before the undersigned consul of her Bri-
tannic Majesty for this province.
" That they sailed from Gibraltar at eight, A.m., on the
2d instant, for Bayonne, in France, with a cargo of to-
bacco. That their ship's papers were in perfect order ;
and that their bill of health was countersigned by the
French Consul residing at Gibraltar.
" That about one o'clock, P.m., on the succeeding day,
the 3d instant, then steering N. W. 4 W. and in let. 36
'
deg. 38 min., long. 9 deg. 44 min., at a:distance of be-
tween 36 and 40 miles from land, and several vessels
being in company, one of them fired a shot, but the
master of the Aguila, supposing it might be fired to
bring to some of the other vessels, proceeded on his
voyage. When, however, a second shot was fired, about
half an hour after, he hoisted his colours and lay
.to,
and asked of the master, Cesar Arnau, of the Spanish
pola,cca, goleta Madre de Dios, bound to Vigo, whether
he knew the cause of the firing ; to I which he replied,
he supposed it was a guarda coast. He then asked the
1 )ngitude and latitude they were then in, that he might
eimparQ it with his own observation, and at the same
t me begged him to bear witness to their distance from
the land, and to take notice of what might occur..
" That immediately the Spanish vessel, which proved
to be the guarda costa Terrible, launched her boat,
and took forcible possession of the Aguila, having first
demanded the transhipment of half of her crew to the
Terrible ; which having been refused by the master,
six of them were transferred by force to that vessel, and I
seven from the Terrible to the Aguila.
" That the master of the guarda costa demanded the
ship's papers, which having been refused by the master
of the Aguila, an account was taken of them.
" That the master of the Terrible conferred with two
other Spanish guarda costal.
" That after two days of useless tacking and manoeuv-
ring, which bespake great indecision on behalf of the
captors, the Aguila was brought into Cadiz bay on the
night of the sth instant.
" That on the morning of the 7th, the cargo of the
Aguila was taken out : that several of the crew were per-
mitted to go where they pleased.
" That the deponent, Pedro CeSareo, was offered
money by the people of the Terrible to facilitate his es-
cape. That the master of the Aguila, and the other de-
ponents, were offered their liberty, which they refused
to accept, lest the interests of their employers should suffer
therefrom. That they were conducted to the common
gaol of Cadiz, where they now remain ; and that their
examinations having been terminated last night, and they
having been this day allowed to communicate, were vi-
sited by the undersigned Consul, before whom this de-
claration was confirmed on oath, in the 'presence of two
witnesses.
(Signed) "J. M. BRACKENBTIBY,-
Consul.
" Sworn before me, J. M. Brackenbury,- Consul •
June 9, 1841."

" The foregoing is a faithful transcript' froth the ori-
ginal document handed over by me this day to his Ex-
cellency Lient.-G en. Sir Alexander 'lAriibtifOrd, Gover-
nor of this garrison. " T. G. TURNER,
"Chairman, ExCharige Committee.
I hear, captured
tiaBT4e; lible Was,
;I G 1 bsraaml tem;,
uJatri(ii
ae_
el
s,
some short time sinceby the Jason/. brig-of-war, Captain
Boultb.e, for her piratical pranks, but was some how al-
lowed to get at large again. Captain Berkeley, of the
Thunderer, St, winch is ordered hoMe, and had already
sailed from Gibraltar, but was forced to put into Malaga
by contrary winds, intended looking into Cadiz to inquire
further about the matter. It was expected at Gibraltar
that the Lizard steamer would be on the look out for the
Terrible, on her return to that neighbourhool

. •

Mr. Goulburn, Chanceildr df the Exchequer expectant,
it will be remembered, has never lost at opportunity of
showing his enmity to the new postage system, and of
quarrelling with its details. Not once merely, but on
many occasions has he denounced the conduct of Minis-
tOfs d:lthis head: We find him saying, April 30 :
" And this was the paioti (all3ding to a former defi-
cit) and this the state of things Wiliolt they selected as a
fit opportunity • for repealing the postage (Wiles, thereby
incurring a loss of 1;500,000/.
" It now appeared to be admitted for elr! first time,
that the repeal of the Post-office duties had not ii.:.ls`vered
the expectations of those by whom that measure wh;
brought forward."
It is altogether untrue that those who put forward
the plan of penny postage have been disappointed in its
results. Never was a new experiment so decidedly suc-
cessful. It Was not contemplated by Mr. 11..iwland Hid
that, within one year, or Within five years, the old amount
of revenue would be realised by the new syStem. He
himself calculated upon a permanent doficiencY of
300,0001., to be made gbod only by the stimulus which
cheap postage would give to the consumption of all taxed
commodities ; but already, although but one year has
elapsed since the change, the number of letters passing
through the .'Post4Atice has increased threefold ; and
Mr. Hill has demonstrated, in a paper submitted by him
to the Statistical Society, that if the present rate of in-
crease should continue to be maintained (an annual aug-
mentation of 21 per cent.), the old amount of revenue will
be realised, within three and a half years from the pre-
sent time.

Whether the expectation should be fulfilled or not,
is it not a splendid result of the plan, that a system
which allows a poor man for one penny to send a letter
700 miles, from the Land's End to John o'Groat's house,
should not only pay all expenses, but leave a net profit to
Government (as it has actually done) of 465,0001 in the
first year of its trial ? The number of letters now
posted exceeds that of former years by two millions of
letters per week, or upwards of one hundred millions of
letters per year, the whole of which would hare been
suppressed had Mr. Goulburn been in office ; and that
he now contemplates, if he has not quite dtermined
upon, suppressing this immense correspondence, to re-
medy, on attaining office, what he considers the error of
his predecessors, cannot be for a moment doubtful.
Echoing the same opinions, we find, in the final de-
bate of the session (on the want of confidence motion),
Sir James Graham making observations to the following
effect :—" Next comes the Post-office scheme. He frankly
yielded the whole credit of that measure to her Ma-
jesty's Government. That measure he attributed to the
weakness of the Government. The Postmaster General
had forewarned the Government of the result; he had cha-
racterised the measure as a fatal step. Sir James Graham
wished her Majesty's Government joy of the Post-office
measure.
Mr. Sergeant Jackson said—" The Name cause in-
duced Ministers to give up the revenue derived from the
Post-office, than which there were no other means to pro-
duce a larger sum by a slighter pressure upon the public."
Sir Robert Peel observed—" Ido not believe, if her
Majesty's Ministers had possessed the confidence of the
House of Commons, that they would, in the face of an
increasing expenditure, in the face of an increasing defi-
ciency, have incurred the risk—nay, encountered the cer-
tain evil—of losing 1,200,0001. of revenue by the Post-
office Bill. I believe it was the same cause which led
you to abandon that Post-office revenue that induces
you to have recourse to the expedient to which you have
now resorted—your weakness is the cause."
So, then, if the Government had been strong, and
Sir Robert Peel at its head, no such measure of immedi-
ate, though but temporary loss, would have been adopted
by the Right Honourable Baronet ; and the " many ad-
vantages arising from the reduction of the duties," to
which he professes himself not insensible, would then
have been, and are therefore now to be, sacrificed to his
inability to make good this amount of revenue by more
legitimate means than a tax inflictinc, heavy pecuniary
fines upon all the letter writers of the United
—Westminster Review.