The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-02 00:00:00

QUARTERLY SALE OF MISCELLANEOUS FOR-
FEITED PROPERTY.

DEBENHAI\I and STORK will SELL by
AUCTION at their Rooms, King-street, Covent-
garden, nn MONDAY, April 6, and slx following days (Sunday
excepted) at Eleven each day.
A very extensive assemblage of valuable FORFEITED
ROPERTY, reserved agreeably to Act of Parliament. com-
prehending many Thousand Volumes of Books, including
Nash's Worcestershire ; Milner's Winchester ; Chauncy's
Hertfordshire; Lyson's Loudon; Pacata Hibernia; Crosby's
Nottingham (scarce); Pickering's Poets; Edinburgh Ency-
clopaedia, 18 vols. ; Ruins of Diocletian's Palace at Spalatro :
and a great variety of Classical, Historical, Architectural. Law,
Medical and other Works. Remarkably fine old Violins,
Violoncellos, Flutes, Trumpets, Hor:zoutal, Square, Cabinet,
and Cottage Pianofortes, PcdA Harps, Spanish Guitars, &c.,
Mathematical, Optical, Surgical, and Philosophical Instru-
ments, collections of choice Academic Drawings, of Fine
Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings, fine old Bronzes, In-
taglios, China, Cameos, a curious Chinese Manuscript, Carv-
ings in Ivory, Statuary, and other Miscellaneous P. operty.
May be viewed, and Catalogues bad at the Rooms.

THE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL
PROVINCIAL BANK of ENGLAND hereby give
notice that there will be a VACANCY in the DIRECTION,
to be filled up at the General meeting of the Society, to be held
on the 14th of May next, and that every Proprietor intending
to become or to propose a candidate for the office of a Director
mu,t, within ten days from the date hereof, signify by some
writing under his or her hand, to be left at the office of the So-
ciety, in the City of London, either his intention to become a
candidate, or the name and place of abode of the candidate in-
tended to be proposed by him or her.
Dated this 31st day of March, 1840.
By order of the Directors.
DANIEL ROBERTSON, Agent and Manager.
No Proprietor is eligible to be elected a Director who has not
been a Proprietor of at least twenty 1001. shares, or one hun-
dred 20/. shares for six calendar months ; or to propose a can-
didate unless a Proprietor of at least ten 1001. shires, or fifty
201. shales.

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I can remember a vast nuitiber of Derbys," says
a Correspondent of the Post, " hitt never ohe for which so friany
lame horses were backed, just look at the Vlotviti:t list i
Ottoman, Bolthara, %ley Ishttlael; bleliore y, biplomatist,
Chameau, It mast be on itt'ont of the erroneous but generat
opinion that PhospliOrlis was lame when he won the Derby,
and the Qtteeh of Trumps in that usually hopeless condition
when 'the won the Oaks, I cannot myself recommend the
system, wteiever others may do. Among the ' have been
15.1.,e ones' we find Launcelot, Black Bess, Velvet colt, and
Mtassin, I bee" repeatedly been assured that these were
lame, and had no thatice. It will be very fortunate when they
are all lathe, as 1 dare say they will be before the day, as then
all will have fair play. Prince Albert and Cormorant were
backed as if they would be better favourites. Better favourites
are sadly wanted, the betting, lately having been most unfa-
vourable to the betters round,'
HINTS TO 0 oVErtN ESSES.--At an inquest held
on TtiOschty, upon the body of a child who was burned to death,
the Coroner, Mr. Higgs, said that accident byfire caused in
the metropolis the deaths of so many children, that some effec-
tual means ought to -be tried to prevent their every-day recur-
rence. He thought governesses might do an immense deal of
good, if they would strongly impress on the minds of children
entrusted to their care how dangerous it was when their clothes
caught fire to run about the room or into the streets. Gover-
nesses ought to teach children that the best way to extinguish
their ignited clothes was to throw themselves on the floor, and
roll themselves up in the hearth-rug or carpet. Nearly one-
third of the inquests held during the winter months in London
were on the bodies of burned children.
39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY.—
DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION.—A greater proof of
the value of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Invisible Opera-
tive Voice Conductor, and newly-invented Spectacle Lenses,
cannot be adduced, than the circumstance of the many thou-
sands of individuals who have obtained the greate,t, benefit and
instant relief, and the constant immense demand there is for
them, and the patronage they have, and daily continue to re-
ceive. The Messrs. S. and B. Solomons disclaim all connec-
tion with persons of the same name, and the sale of amber spec-
tacles ; 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 " Am-
ber," and calling them " Patent Spectacles." Dr. Andrew
Ure, Esq., M.D., F. R. S., &c., states amber is most power-
fully electrical by friction, very hot, to such an extent at to ex-
plode into fragments. The workmen, too, are subject to a ner-
vous tremor in their wrists, arms, &c. ; they encounter great
danger by handling such dreaslfully excited electrics. Amber
i; 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 Hems on
Chemistry. The pernicious and destructive use of such a ma-
terial for spectacles to imperfect vision may be ascertained at
any respectable optician's in London.-39, Albemarle-street.
The largest block of black marble ever produced
from the quarries in Galway, Ireland, has just been landed at
Messrs. Searle and Foot's stone wharf, Abingdon-street, West-
minster. We understand it is to form part of a most magnificent
marble staircase, now executing by the London Marble Com-
pany, Esher-street, Westminster, for Hamilton Palace, in
Scotland.
THE NEW NAV kl.. NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR
OF " RATTLIN, THE REEFER," entitled " JACK ASHORE,"
seems to be exciting greater interest than any work of its class,
which has appeared for some time. A contemporary observes
of it—" We find it impossible to use terms which shall suffi-
ciently testify the admiration of Mr. Howard's talents and genius
which this work has excited in us. There is unquestionably
no other living writer who could have worked out this story,
or rather the general idea on which it is constructed, with any-
thing like the 'power, both of passion and of humour, that is
displayed in this truly original production ; and tv,o‘venturo to
prediet that it will be read with as intense an hilliest by the
highest and most cultivated intellects in the realm, as it. will
with the most eager curiosity and entertainment, by the merest
idler of the circulating library."
LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MILITARY LIFE.
—EDITED BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES NAPIER,
K.C.8., &c.—There is great interest in these volumes, and
for the English reader, very considerable novelty ; and that,
too, on a subject of which we ought to know much, and do know
but very little,— namely, the nature, constitution, and habits of
the French army. We feel pleasure in recommending this book
to the attention of the military service of England, as one in
which they cannot fail to take as lively an interest as they have
done in those of a similar kind which have emanated from their
own body, for it is not only written with talent and spirit, but
it arises out of a state of things so different from that appertain-
ing to our own military service, that it will doubly amuse,
while it affords them an unlooked for and most welcome amount
of indispensable information. Looking at the volumes with non-
professional impartiality, we cannot help pronouncing them to
contain more amusement both for the military and civil reader,
than any two of equal size that have hitherto proceeded from
members of our own military service.—New Monthly.
TESTIMONIALS ON THE PATENT SPECTA•
CLES OF MR. E. SoLostosTs, 36, OLD. BOND-STREET, AND '
No. 1, OLD JEWRY, CITY.—From Sir Anthony Carlisle,
F.R. S., President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Se-
nior Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital :—" The Patent
Spectacles of Mr. E. Solomons seem to me likely to afford
additional aids to imperfect vision ; and, because of their supe-
rior refracting power to glass, or other dense materials, they
promise to affird new resources for the construction of spec-
tacles. "—Anthon y Carlisle, F. R. S. , Langham -place. From
Bransby Cooper, Esq., F.R.S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital,
&c. :---,• From the use I have made of the Patent Lenses,
and comparing them with those in ordinary glasses, I have no
hesitation in saying that to my sight the former are infinitely
preferable, in being less trying to the eyes"—Bransby B.
Cooper, 2, New-street, Spring-gardens. From Dr. J. John-
' son, Physician extraordinary to the late King, &c. :—`• I
have been using, and am still using, Mr. E. Solomons' Pa-
tent Spectacles, and find them more pleasant to the eye than any
other glasses which I have tried."—James Johnson, M.D. 8,
Suffolk-place. Mr. E. S. 's Voice Conductors for the relief of
deafness, which are worn unseen and unfelt, extend acute
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hearing to the deaf, and immediate release fromtheo. l, o
distress-
ing privations and inconvenience to which, without the use of
those invisible apparatus, they would be subject.—N.B. 1,-0
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Piccadilly.
THE WEATHER.—A more auspicious seed-
time than the present has rarely been known to us, and if it be
true that a beneficent spring is usually succeeded by a boun-
teous harvest, We have on this occasion reason to hope the
best. In the valleys seed-time is almost entirely concluded,
and afe -.- days will close the work on the uplands, and rarely
has the seed got a more favourable bed. The wind, which came
for nearly a fortnight from the east and north-east, has changed
within the last day or two to the westward, and already the air
is soft and balmy, and gives foretaste of the primroses of April.
Yesterday rain fell at an early hour in the morning, and the
pastures, which are now bare enough, are likely to come away
, rlenteously should no adverse crook in the elements supervene.
Glasgow Herald.
NOVEL PAPER MONEY.—The postage stamps
will be a very convenient and novel paper currency for sums of
small amount—indeed for any sum whatever under 11. sterling.
A sheet of the adhesive stamps, minus two cut off, will be good
paper for 18s. 10d. ; a sheet minus five will be good for 18s.
7d. and so on Correspondents will pay small debts of pence
through the medium of these penny stamps. You wish to order
a twopenny pamphlet cr a fivepenny newspaper; by trans-
mitting in an envelope the required number of stamps you
effect the payment, which, for such sums, there are no ready
means of doing at present.