The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-02 00:00:00

CAUTION TO PERSONS NEGLECT.
ING THEIR TEETH AND GUMS.
EXTRACT FROM MONS. LE DRAY'S "TREATISE ON LOSS OF
TEETH."

Among the various disorders of the Mouth, there is none
more destructive than Scurvy, which on first entering the Gums
causes them to bleed on the most trifling occasions, and pro-
duces the most offensive and frequently putrid breath. A
soft substance invariably accumulates around the necks
of the Teeth, penetrates into the Gums, which gradually
waste away, and the Teeth then become loose, and
drop out whole from their sockets, and it is well known am
he loss of 'Teeth arises more from this cause than any other.
On this subject a distinguished Lecturer makes the following
observations When the disgusting effects of this accumu-
tion are coasidereJ, it would appear impossible that any per-
suasion could be necessary to induce persons to obviate so great
a nuisance even on their own account : or if they are too de-
based to procure their own comfort and cleanliness by employ-
,og a skilful Dentist, they surely have no right to shock the
senses of ethers, who possess more delicacy and propriety of
feeling than themselves. Yet, se it is ; and the sight and the
smell are alike constantly outraged by the filthiness of some
people, who seem to obtrude their faces the closer in proportion
to the disgust which they occasion."—Bell's Lectures, p. 199.
Could such persons only see the horrid state of their teeth
and gums, or for a moment catch the odour of their own
breath, they would not hesitate to seek immediate relief. To
professional men, shop-keepers, and tradesmen generally, who
have much intercourse with the refined and fashionable world,
a good state of the mouth must be of the greatest importance
Besides, is not an offensive breath, which in nineteen cases out
of twenty proceeds from the bad state of the teeth and gums,
eery much calculated to prevent the blessing of matrimony ?
And how often, from inadvertence or neglect, is the happiness
of the marriage state most grievously interuptcd by the same
cause
The ineonvenieneies attending the Loss of Teeth are too
well known to require comment, but to those who have not ex-
perienced the comfort of Artificial Teeth, Monsieur Le Dray
is desirous of showing some of the difficulties more or less en.
,lured by every individual without them. When the Teeth are
lost, it is impossible to make use of solid fond; and if the
stomach is then loaded with pieces without being masticated,
the patient is exposed to the most distressing inoligestions, the
stomach loses its power of contraction, and becomes weak in
proportion as it no longer digests; besides, when the Teeth
s,re gone, a great vaeuum is left in the mouth, which occasions
every muscle in the face to be distorted, and the whole features
are completely drawn from their original position.
To insist on the importance of the teeth, whether in regard
to the functions of digestion and articulation, to which they
aro so essential, or to personal appearance, in which they are
so much concerned, must appear a waste of words, were it not
obvious that there are mans persons who never give themselves
the trouble to think upon the subject ; who seem scarcely
aware that they possess teeth at all, while their gross and cul-
pable negligence renders tha fact too apparent to their friends
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origin to imperfect mastication. It is sufficient to
know that Monsieur Le Dray's
improvements will be
found to be many years in advance of any system now in Eu-
rope, and that artificial teeth are brought. to such perfection, at
Newman-street, Oxford-street, as
the, Establishment, No. 60,
to perform this function in a manner equal in every respect to
the natural teeth, and may be used with every comfort. They
are so arranged as to restore the face to its former youthful
east, correcting all deformities of the mouth, and entirely doing
away with the old system of springs, clasps, and wires.
As an essential point of beauty, the teeth must ever sten:.
Pre-eminent. No regularity of features, no brilliancy of om-
plexion, no sparkling eyes, or silken braids of jetty hair can
render that lady beautiful, who when she opens her lips
(though they be of coral), discloses a set of teeth irregular or
discoloured. On the contrary, even homely features and a
sallow complexion are embellished and rendered agreeable by a
good set of teeth. A mouth largo and ill-formed will pass
unnoticed, when it contains teeth beautifully white and even.
On the other hand the effects of decay, the accumulation of
tarts-, the blackened and denuded fangs, and the taint of the
breath, which is a common concomitant of bad teeth, will
invariably prove disgusting and loathsome.
Regular teeth, white, and free from all extraneous matter,
ire an ornament equally attractive in either sex. Those per-
tons aho do not possess this natural advantage, should en-
deavour, by extreme care and cleaniiness, and a timely resort
to artificial ?id, to remedy the imperfections, and supply the
deficiencies of nature, in order that their teeth, if not an agree-
able object, may be prevented, as far as possible, from becoming
a repulsive one.
Monsieur LE DRAY, Surgeon-Dentist, 60, Newman-street,
Oxford-street, respectfully acquaints the Nobility, Gentry,
Clergy, and the inhabitants of London and its vicinity, that he
continues to restore Decayed Teeth with his celebrated Mine-
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ARTIFICIAL or NATURAL TEETH of surpassing
beauty ,to match equal in colour and shape thou left in the
mouth, fixed from one to a complete set, without extracting
the roots or giving any pain ; and they are so exactly formed to
nature, that the closest observer cannot detect the difference,
with this advantage, that they
.never change colour, decay, or
wear out, at the following Paris charges :
A single Artificial Tooth ............................... . 0 10 0
ASet ......... ....................
Acomplete Set
A complete Set of Natural Teeth, beautifully
mounted in artificial gums, or fine gold, the same as
charged Thirty Guineas .............
An entire Set of Monsieur Le Dray's beautiful Mi-
neral Teeth, highly finished, in the first style, the
same as charged Forty Pounds
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Arranged on a principle yet unrivalled, rendering it impossible
to distinguish the Artificial Teeth from the Natural ones;
answering most satisfactorily all the purposes of the original
L'ecth in mastication and articulation, imparting to the counts-
n•.nee a younger and improved appearance, protecting the
adjoining teeth, and remaining perfecty secure in their places.
At Home everyday from 'Ten till Six.
60, Newman-street, Oxford-street.

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THE BRITISH SILK MANUFACTURERS.—
The deputation of silk manufacturers and journey:ueenesnilfko-r
silk-
weavers, which waited a few days ago upon the Marquis
of Normanby, through whose hands some specimens of
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informed conveyed
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tentior, to patronise • fancy dress ball in May next, the
objva of which wil:, to i.,lVe ei.couragement to the produc-
tion : f British p.anufaetured silks. Some patterns were
placed in the hands of the deputation which had been
selected by the Queen for the occasion.

FROM Trig DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Times.)
By all accounts, private as well as public, the situation
of Louis Philippe, if not a precarious one, must be, in no
small degree, painful and tormenting. The world has
hardly ever witnessed a mass of intrigues more complex
and embarrassing, or one from which all pretence, even of
generous motives, or patriotic spirit, was by common con-
nivance co utterly and universally banished. We do not
wonder that men, in a country where the true nature of
representative government is to this hour a sealed book,
should be driven about from pillar to post, and for want
of some fixed standard of political honour and obligation
round which to rally, should be caught by every personal
temptation that offers, and carried away in chase of every
sl eiolative opportunity which the chaos of unforeseen
events, and of passions unrestrained by a sense of right,
may give birth to ; btit what we think not a little remark-
able is, that no party of Frenchmen, and scarcely any
single Frenchman, shou'd yet have worked out, from the
reflecting powers of their own minds, the fact that it
would be useful to their country and to themselves
to recognize some one fixed principle of political
action for their guidance, instead of always hanging
upon fortune to furnish them with ends as well as
instrumenits. We know that there are those who call
themselves republicans, that there are idolators of a sys-
tem of aggressive war, and approvers for the present of
some sort of monarchy, to be found in France; but how
many of these are, attached in reality to the principle of
the political or military 'system which they call for? Is
there among the republicans any higher motive than that
of revengeful factiou—or .among the lovers of war any
nobler impulse than the desire of promotion or of plunder
—or among the friends of so-called monarchy, aught else
than a prejudice in favour of the elder branch of the Bour-
bons on one side, and of the Orleans branch as contradis-
tinguished from them on the other? The struggles of in-
trigue at this moment in progress among the Parisian can-
didates have official power, and nothing else, for their ob-
ject. Test them by any other purpose, and they arc
inexplicable. By that, and you have a certain clue.
Look at M. Thiers and his implacable animosity
towards the Guizot Ministry. What end but to
force himself into office can stimulate that firebrand poll-
tician, if indeed he may not, as he is accused of doing,
meditate office as his means to a further end, in xhich the
Orleans dynasty has a deeper concern than we here deem
it necessary to point out ? What does M. Mole look fur
through his apparently passive but watchful and pene-
trating operations? A tenure of office which might be
durable. The ground of French friction is hollow every-
where—all is ruined and countermined. The pressure
from without upon M. Gaizot is very formidable, and may
he measured by the width of his actual deviation from
the laws of his own declared and spontaneous policy.
He has announced himself as the Minister of present
peace, and as the advocate of peace " over the world,
and for ever." Yet, look at his measures, and what
are they ? A preparation of military armaments more
extensive, and of themselves, considered apart from the
hand which wields them, more threatening to the peace
of Europe than those which M. Thiers himself desig-
nated by the name of an "armed peace." Marshal Soult
proclaims the army as now on toot to exceed by many
bayonets the amount to which M. Thiers demanded it
should be raised. M. Thiers had in prospect half a
million of soldiers—M. Guizot has actually, standing under
arms, 520,000 men I And these, it would seem, arc to
be still augmented; the annual recruitment being fixed at
80,000 men, the present supply being no more than
40,000. The French marine receives an equally forinid-
aWe increase. The Minister of Marine declares that he
will have 45,000 seamen, &c., afloat, and a reserve
of 20,000, in the course of a very few months.
And why is all this ? No continental Power, or
combination of Powers, menaces the French terri-
tory. Great Britain, every man in France must
know, dreams not of an attack upon her ultra-
marine possessions; why, then, we repeat, such pal-
pable preparations for war—for war by sea and land ? If
is all very well to say that Louis Philippe and M. Guizot
can mean no harm. It is understood that they have sent-
civil assurances on the subject to England and her conti-
nental Allies. Assurances in reply to what ?—to strong,
earnest, repeated remonstrances addressed to the Govern-
ment of Louis Philippe on the cast amount of his warlike
preparations, and on the expediency of tranquillizing, by
their discontinuance, the just apprehensions of Europe.
The reply has been a polite but peremptory refusal. The
French Government follows up • the Thiers' policy of an
armed peace, and fills to overflowing the large measure of
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that Lord Palmerston should have availed himself of a
technical excuse, however flimsy and indefensible, as a
cloak for his suppression cf even the name of France in
the " concealment" Speech delivered from the Throne last
Tuesday ? Lord Palmerston could not, without exposure
to all the Governments of Europe, have alluded to France
as a friend; and as an enemy expectant he durst not. But
ought the people of England to be satisfied with a merely
argumentative insight into the relations existing between
them and their French neighbours ? Ought we to hove
no other authority for our belief upon that vital subject
than a conjecture founded on an omission in the Queen's
Speech ? Will not Lord Palmerston indicate to us, or
is he still afraid to do so, whether the negotiations with
France respecting her mighty armaments are of a
nature or in a train to compose the natural disturb-
ance which they have occasioned ? England, according to
actual appearances, has strong facts to go upon, as
grounds of deep alarm for the designs of France in her
unrclaxing and unceasing preparations; and she has no
set-off to guarantee her safety but certain vague pro-
mises of peaceful disposition on the part of M. Guizot
and King Louis Philippe, whose own Court Journal, the
Journal des Debats, has of late, us the spring approaches,
been more warlike in spirit, although measured in its words.
The Continental Powers, when they sec ai7 France, as we
are assured she is, a camp, and more than half a mil-
lion of men already mustered, and told off in their re-
spective regiments—the Powers of Continental Europe,
we say, cannot fail to look with extreme jealousy and ap-
prehension upon such an immense movement towards a
state of actual war. They harbour no designs against
France ; but they heard from the lips of the late
French Prime Minister, that France does look to a
reconquest of Belgium and of the Prussian provinces west-
ward of the Rhine, and therefore they say to France,
" Give us acts, not words. Disarm, or you will force us,
and have already forced us, to arm—either to repel, or to
anticipate aggression." Germany therefore has made, and
is making, as she must do, effective military preparations.
But,.good God ! is this a state of things to be contemplated
without awe and grief? Are we to see armed men by mil-
lions arrayed against each other, and waiting but the signal
to fall on ? How long can this possibly endure without
hostilities? Will two game cocks eye each other and part
without a battle? We call upon Lord Palmerston to tell
the country what she has to expect. It is barbarous and
wicked to leave England in the dark as to her destiny, or
to leave that destiny at the will of France.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
It has been too readily taken for granted that the farmers
are everywhere in favour of the Corn-laws. The landlords
wish it to be believed that the tenants are merely their
own double. The farmers, however, have, like other
people, profited by experience. They find that the land-
, lords avail themselves of the Corn-law to demand rents
calculated according to prices which no law can always
sustain, and that in years when, from an abundant harvest
and other causes, prices are low, they must, notwithstand.
ing, pay the rents out of their capitals. Mr. Alcock seems
to have been aware that tenants have often very different
views on the subject of Corn-laws from those which their
landlords attribute to them; for on Saturday last, the
market day at Croydon, ho addressed a large meeting in
the Town.hall of that place, boldly advocating a repeal of
the Corn-laws !—" They knew," he said, " that all his for-
tune was derived from the land, and how could it be supposed
that be would support such principles as were calcu-
lated to ruin himself in common with the rest ? What he
wished to do away with was those ruinous fluctuations
which at one time raised corn to a famine price, and at
another depressed it to such an extent that the farmers
were ruined." The reception of Mr. Alcock was flatter-
ing in the extreme. The prophecies of the Tories that he
durst not present himself before the farmers as an advocate
of Corn-law repeal were completely falsified. The reso-
lutions approving of him were carried unanimously. This
looks well. Mr. Alcock has yet had no cause to repent
of the frankness with which he has expressed his senti-
ments on the Corn-laws and other important questions. At
Croydon, a great weekly market, if any where, he would
have experienced opposition, if his opinions on the Corn-
laws had been unpalateable to the farmers. Whatever
they may be in other places, it would appear that many of
the farmers in East Surrey share the opinions of the rest
of their countrymen on the subject of the corn monopoly.

(From the Globe.)
The Post, as protector of its noble patrons, is ex-
ceedingly wroth at the historical reminiscences of the
house of Strangford, which have been revived by the
clumsy attempts to aid the election of the Hon. Mr.
Smythe. Allusions to the " virtues of his ances-
tors," and to the " eminent public services of his
father," the present Viscount Strangford, did not
originate with his political opponents. Had the
Tory Press been content to rest the Honourable Mr.
Smythe's claims on his own personal qualifications
—his superior wisdom—deep experience—comm.:riding
eloquence—inflexible integrity—or any and every virtue
with which they might have thought fit to invest him, as
likely to render him acceptable to the Canterbury
Tories, we should have looked no further than the subject
of their praise, and should not have imported his progeni-
tors into the controversy, nor regarded them as parties in
the cause. The Tory Press, however, was not content to
rest the Hon. Mr. Smythe's cause on the basis of his own
character. The claims of " hereditary virtues" were set
forth by his Canterbury supporters ; and the Times
paraded " the public services of the father " as an ar-
gumeat to enforce the pretensions of the son. What-
ever there was of argument in such claims—if
these who urged them really supposed they could
impart either strength or ornament to his cause
—surely such have no right to complain if their
argument is overturned by the evidence of in-
dubitable records of reccot date, and thus demon-
strated to be utterly destitute of truth. If we have
plucked the laurels of " immaculate ancestry.' from
the brow of Mr. Smythe, it was because he had no
right to wear them. The journals of the Irish Puha-