The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

EVENING SUN.

TO MERCHANTS,

'ANTED immediately, a it S PECT-
ABLE WHOLESALE HOUSE in London, those
connection is among the Linen-drapers of the Country, to re-
ceive Consignments of IRISH and SCOTCH LINENS. No
advances required until the goods are actually sold. Two se-
curities will be required, and none need apply whose commer-
cial standing in the City is not first-rate.
Address (post paid) J. W.. care of Theodore Jones, Esq.,
consulting accountant, 24, City-road, London, which will
receive an early attention. None but principals will be
treated with.

BRITISH IRON COMPANY.
A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the
SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the London Tavern on
THURSDAY Next, the 26th inst., at Twelve, to consider and
determine the following Resolution :
" That the British Iron Company be dissolved; at which the
attendance of every Proprietor is earnestly requested who is
desirous to put an end to his losses and liabilities.

THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA-
TION COMPANY'S splendid and powerful First-class
STEAM SHIPS are appointed to SAIL from off the Custom
Rouse, for
HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, and OSTEND—every
Wednesday and Saturday Morning.
ANTWERP and HAVRE—every Thursday Morning.
From Blown's Wharf Poplar, for
EDINBURGH—every Saturday, and every alternate Wed-
nesday Evening—To-morrow and Saturday.
From Downe's Wharf, for

NEWCASTLE—every Wednesday and Saturday Evening
s.t Eight.
SUNDERLAND—every Tuesday Evening, at Seven.
From London Bridge Wharf, for

CAL AlS—every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
BOULOGNE—every Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
YARMOUTH—every Saturday Evening, at Six.
IPSWlCH—every Wednesday and Saturday Morning, at
Eight.
RAMSGATE—DaiIy. :at Nine Morning.
GRAVESEND—DaiIy, at Twelve Noon.
Between BRIGHTON and DIEPPE— Twice per week.
To secure Berths, and for all info-mation, apply at the
Offices of the Company, 69, Lombard-street ; and 37, Re-
gent-circus.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the next HALF-
YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this
COMPANY will be held, pursuant to the Act of Parliament,
Its Bristol, at the Bristol Station, on THURSDAY, the 26th Au-
gust, at Twelve &Clock, or the general purposes of business.
The Chair will be taken at One o'Clock precisely.
CHARLES RUSSELL, Chairman.
ROBERT BRIGHT, Deputy-Chairman.
Clause 123 inovides that no person shall be entitled to vote
1.- 16.-5,...”... proxy unless the instrument a.pponting him Allan have
been transmitted to one of theituretartes of the Company at
least five days before the meeting.—By Order,
CHARLES A. SAUNDERS,
THOMAS OSLER, } Secretaries.
Railway Offices, 2, Princes-street, Bank, London ;
Railway Station, Bristol.

SAFETY ROTATION RAILWAY COM-
L., PA NY. The Directors invite public attention to this highly
important IMPROVEMENT in the CONSTRUCTION of
RAILWAYS, whereby the advantage of equal speed with
those in ordinary use will be found to be combined with dimi-
nished expenditure to proprietors, and perfect security to tra-
vellers from danger to life or property. An experimental test
of the efficiency of this valuable Invention is about to be im-
mediately made by laying down a line of sufficient dimensions
for the purpose,
Application for shares, on which a deposit of 1/. only will be
rammed, may be made at the Office, 1, Wallbrook-buildings,
wgere models and drawings may be examined and prospectuses
obtained.

THE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND
DUBLIN GUARANTEED MUTUAL and PRO-
PRIETARY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION HOUSE, and 19,
REGENT-STREET, LONDON.
21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH.
And 64, FLEET-STREET, DUBLIN.
DIRECTORS.

Alexander Anderson, Esq. JohnJohnson,Esq.,Alderman
John Atkins, Esq Kennett Kingsford, Esq.
James Bidden, Esq: John M‘Guffie, Esq.
Captain F. Brandreth John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Vice-Admiral Robert Honytnan J. Marmaduke Rosseter, Esq.
Benjamin Ifill, Esq. Alexander Robertson, Esq.,
James Hartley, Esq. Managing Director.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer.
SECRETARY.—F. Edgell, Esq.
IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS have been introduced
into LIFE ASSURANCE PRACTICE by this COMPANY.
The POLICIES are INDEFEASIBLE and INDISPUT-
ABLE, unless they have been obtained by fraudulent misre-

1 presentation.
The Beard of Directors satisfy themselves upon the va-
rious questions proposed before they. enter into contracts of
assurance, and frame their policies in such terms as to pre-
clude all future questions as to their validity, and thus ren-
der them indisputable and negotiable documents of future debt
against the Company.
Parties may be assured either upon the participating or non-
participating plan ; the assured are relieved of all responsi-
bility, and the participating class is entitled to the whole of the
profits upon that branch of the business.
Table to Assure £lOO, with addition of profits :

. - --
Ago 25. I Age 35. Age 40. I Age 45. Age 50. Age 55.
£2 2 7 I £215 101 Z 3 5 0 £3 15 5I £4 10 7I £5 13 8

Persons interested in the lives of nominees or debtors may,
.
for g trifling extra premium, be relieved from the risk of Own.
Policies being forfeited by the parties going to foreign coun-
tries.
ONE-HALF of the PRE MIUMS MAY
SEVEN YEARSREMAIN UN-
PAID for ,
Affording a greater facility for Loan Transactions and Fa-
mily Provisions than any other plan whick has been sug-
gested.
Credit Tab's to Assure £lOO Payable at Death.

A-F, ; -29.
Ro is d

Age 25. 1 Age 30. Age 40. Age 45, Age 50.
£1 0 7 IEI 3 711 £1 II .5I El 16 611 £2 3 9

The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents,
and Medical Gentlemen are in all cases remunerated for their
reports.

ITALIAN ALABASTER, BLACK
MARBLE, BRONZE, and DERBYSHIRE SPAR
ORNAMENTS. -- An Extensive Assortment of the
above is Manufactured and Imported by James Tennant,
149, Strand, consisting of Groups, Single Figures, In 7
laid Mosaic Tables, Candlesticks, Vases, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, Pen-trays, Watch-stands, Paper-weights, &c., for
the Drawing-room, Library, or Dining-room. A. Great Variety
of SHELLS, MINERALS, and GEOLOGICAL SPECI-
MENS, can also be had, either in single Specimens, or care-
fully arranged in Collections for Beginners, from Two to
Twenty Guineas each,—by J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to
her Majesty, 149, STRAND, LONDON.

SUPERIOR CANDLES.
DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb. ; Wax
Candles, is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Cocoa Nut,
; Extra Fine Wax Wick Moulds, 70. ; Transparent
'Wax, 2s. Od. ; Genuine Sperm, 2s. Od. ; Genuine Wax,
s. 3d. ; Yellow Soap, 465., 545., and 603. per 112 lbs. ;
Mottled, 625. and 665. ; Windsor and Palm, ls. 4d. per pac-
ket; Old Brown Windsor Soap, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. Od.: Cam-
Shat, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lb. ;
perm Oil, 9s. Od. per Gallon ; Solar Oil, 3s.
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63,
St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter s Coffee-House.

r”. 0 SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINS, and OTHERS
. Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents.
GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the
Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally
recommended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing dis-
orders incident to the Eyes and Head.
RIGHT RESTORED !—NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE
AND DEAFNESS CURED!
By the most simple, delightful, and fragrant Compound!
Its mode of application is fraught with pleasure ; many thou-
sant: cures have been accomplished by its use, at a trifling ex-
Dense, yet certain in its operation. If testimonies be necessary
tai a duk-e the sufferer to make trial, Kings, Lords, and Com-
mons hay* used it. The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned
its use, neir late Majesties, the Duchess of Kent, the most
eminent Oeniists, Medical Practitioners—with that gigantic
balance, the Press—have eulogised Grimstone's celebrated
Herbaceous Compound, known as " Grimstone's Eye Snuff,"
for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident to the Eyes and
Read. G. .1. Guthrie, Esq., F. R. S. See J. B. Lachfield,
Pmt.'s Letter, Whitehall. Dr. Thomas. Dr. Andrews calls
it a national blessing---see his Reports touching its utility. The
late Mr. Abernethy, with many others, recommend Grim-
stone's Eye Snuff, and call it " Man's best Friend," and the
" Student's wade Mecum."—See the many thousand Letters
of Testimonies, of undoubted medical authority, with others of
the first respectability.
Extract from the Second Edition of " Grimstone's Weather
Almanack."
7, Skinner's Almshouses, Mile End, Jan. 26, 1840.
think it sly incumbent dlity to return you my grate-
ful acknowledgments of the efficacy of your invaluable " Eye
Snuff." You must understand, Sir, that 1 have for the last
four or five years suffered much with giddiness in my head and
dimness of sight. I naturally concluded (being in my 69th
/ear) that it was the decay of Nature, and was advised by a
'meted, who said so much in its favour, and the extraordinary
"irtues of your inveation, I was inducc.d to give it a trial, and
awed
happy to say that the great and signal benefit I have de-
'''ved from the use of four of your 2s. 4d. canisters has ei!ablei
lee to lay aside my spectacles,
has given me
igreatsb relief in my
bead, and I feel so thoroughly convinced of enigl.virt.ues,
that -my gratitude shall ever be evinced in recorumen mg it to
all I may hereafter meet suffering with those afflictions.
au, Sir, your much obliged an grateful servant,
ANN COLE.
"To W. Grimstone, Esq., 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury,
Copy of a Letter dated Leeds, July 4, 1834.
Sta,—l have received great benefit from your Eye Snuff.
have been afflicted ten
years with Cataract, and was given
up by the Medical Men, bug was recommended to use your
Snuff, which completely cured me in a few weeks. You may
make use of my name, if it will do you any good. Excuse
my writing. Your's, ever faithfully,
Harper-street, Leeds. PETER SANDERSON..
To Mr. Wm. Grimstone, 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury.
Last Testimony, Feb. 10, 1 MO.
Observe the Caution.—W. GRIMSTONE 1.. the sole ina
ventor, and the only genuine is prepared by him.
This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in
canisters, at Bd., ls. 3d., :Is. 'td., 4s. 4.1., Bs., and 15c. CA
each, by the Proprietor, W. Grimstone, at 38. Broad-street,
Bloomsbury, and can be obtained in all the principal towns and
cities. A liberal allowance to shippers, owners, captanis, and
all .eielors of Orimstone's Eye Snuff. This celebrated Snuff
is shipped to all quarters of the globe, and retains its benign
qualities in every climate. all Sniffs ann Cigars shipped on
the shortest notice.

RUPTURES.
WRAY'S IMPROVED TRUSSES, pro-
perly adapted to the anatomical construction of the
individual; single, ss. 6d., 75., and 10s. 6d. ; double, 10s. 6(1.,
and 21s. each. Laced Stockings and Bandages for Va-
ricose Veins. Ladies' Umbilical Belts, Bandages, &c. for all
3urgial purposes.
WRAY'S IMPROVED SUSPENSORY BANDAGES,
of superior workmanship, and made of the best materials ; ap-
proved of and recommended by the late Mr. Abernethy for
their excellent adaptation ; patronized by the Members of the
Melton Mowbray Hunt, and the Subscribers to Tattersall's ;
and should be worn by all sportsmen, gentlemen hunting,
riding, walking, suffering from disease, relaxation, local de-
. &c. ; best Jean, Is. 6d. ; knitted or wove Silk, 2s. 6d. ;
ditto,... with fronts, 3s. 6d. ; India Dimity, with real China net
silk Purses and elastic Springs, 7s. 6d.
May be had direct from the Inventor, M. 0. WRAY, 118,
Holborn-hill, and 344, Strand, one door fr nn Catherine-street.