The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

Boxes, Is., Half-price, Cd. ' • it, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. —" The Black
Doctor," with the grand " Go-a-Head Pantomime," form the
two most powerful attractions ever produced on any stage on
the same night.

THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin-
cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce,- and• Messrs: N. T. Hicks,
Howard, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform.
After which will be produced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en-
tit;ed THE BIRTH OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin
" Go-a-Head," and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown, Mr. T. Barry.

U'XTRAORDINARY RICH SILKS.-
SEWELL and CO., have just purchased from a French Silk
Manufacturer, three lots of magnificent NEW SILKS (yard wide) in
Damazines, Brocades, and Chonies. The first number will be Three
and a Half Guineas the Dress, asually sold in Paris at 150 francs.
No. 2, Foter and a Half Guineas; Paris price 180 francs. No. 3,
Five and a Half Guineas, richly brocaded; Paris price 200 francs.
Also, several cases of GENOA VELVETS, in the richest qualities.
Compton House, 44. 45, and 46, Old Compton-street, and 46 and
47, Frith-street, Soho-square.

THE CRYSTAL SPECTACLES of THOMAS
HARRIS and SON'S are of well known excellence for
strengthening weak sight and preventing its decay ; being accurately
fitted to the face they neither disarrange ladies' hair, mark the nose,
nor in any way disfigure the countenance, but combine every quality
for the wearer's comfort. Best blued steel Crystal Spectacles, 15s. •
Silver, 205. ; Solid Gold, 425. ; Glass Spectacles from 2s. 6d. the pair,
sent carriage free to the•country.
Thomas Harris and Co, Opticians to the Royal Family, No. 52,
Great Russell-street (opposite the Old Gate of the British-Musetun,
London) established 70 years.
Caution.—To avoid mistakes, recollect the number of the shop is
52 ; T. IL and Son have no other.

HENDREE'S PETROLINE eQsmEric
SOAP is prepared under special licence from the Patentee,
with the highest medical testimonials of the sanatory virtues upon
the skin of this efficient auxiliary to the toilet. For fine and tender
skins it is an emollient and beneficial preservative : and in cutaneous
affections is an advantage° la specific for removing spots and
blemishes.
R. Hendrie, 12 and 13, Tichborne-street, Quadrant.

31[ASTERMAN'S PATENT BOTTLING and
CORKING MACHINES enable two men to bottle and
cork forty dozen in one hour with considerable less waste and break-
age than usual. Four battles are simultaneously tilled to any desired
point, and no frothing occurs. Cash price 3/ 3s. each. Licences
granted for +iasterman's Patent Refrigerator. Dolphin Brew, ry,
Ratelifi, London. Porter, 4s. 6d. ; stout, ss. ; double ditto, ss. 9d.;
bitter ale, ss. Od. per dozen.

rPO GE NTL MEN.--ED WARD'S Sealed
_IL Packets of richly coloured Foreign Plates, 35., 55., 7s. 6d , and
10s. 6d. each, postage 4d. to Bd. The Gentleman's Picture Gallery,
24 superb large plates, 2/. 12s. 6d., postage 38. A new descriptive
catalogue of amusing works. l'arisian novelties, &c., on receipt of
six stamps. Observe ! William Edward's Magazine Francaii, 183,
Fleet-street.

oIPENING of PARLIAMENT —Orders re-
-7 spec sully solicited for the Times, and all the other Daily
Morning and Evening Newspapers, when ordered for Half a Year,
the name and address on the envelopes is printed in full to ensure a
punc,ual delivery.
William Dawson and Sons, London and Country Newspaper and
Advertising Office, 74, Cannon-street, City, London (established 1709)

TOOTHACHE SUFFERERS. •
11/IUSSiLL'S truly Extraordmary Discovery,
JL DENT U... STCIPPING FLUID, is an Immediate and
positive cure. Try it I
Can be had-of Prout, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford• street ; John-
'stone, 68. Cornhill ; Barclay. Farrinolon-street ; Edwards, St.
Paull. Sent, on the receipt of fifteen postage stamps, by the Pro-
prietor, Mr. MUSSILL, Dentist, Camberwell.

Why should our sculptors, with all modern statues,
says a popular and witty author—why should our sculptors
turn aside the coated and trousered man, as an unfit subject
for the divinity which inspires every blow bestowed upon the
chisel ? Why should they strip off the registered paletot
and put on the toga ? Indeed, we do not see why the
Falet& should not be adopted by them, as it must be ac-
knowledged to have a more graceful appearance than
almost any other garment that has of late years been
the fashion amongst us ; but one of the best 'argu-
ments in its favour is that it will serve to perpe-
tuate the almost universal costume of this country,
during the 19th century. Again quoting from this author,
do we not generally take our notions of dress and personal
appearance of an age from the statues and coins which come
down to us? Imagine, then, ages after this, when England
shall be England, but living England no more, when the
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tumuli, or, perhaps, fished up out of the reedy waters of our
river. If our great men, they will say, had little Roman
virtue, they, at all events, made up for it by seizing every
opportunity of aping Roman attire. The natural presump •
tion from our statues will be, that the people of England
in the nineteenth century wore the dress assumed by the
people of Ronie two thousand 3,,ears further back still
and that the tailors on the banks of the Thames worked
by the same patterns as the tailors on the banks of the Tiber,
and that the crowd on Lord Mayor's Day hurried along, fo
all appearence, exactly a similar congregation to that which
might have greeted Caesar depositing his spoils is the Capitol.
And yet, what have we to do with ancient Rome or ancient
Romans ? Can we not dress the statues of Englishmen as
English:nen ? Here let Messrs. Nicoll speak for themselves.
Has not their Registered Paletot been, by its moderate cost
addressed to nearly all classes, and more particu-
larly the great middle class ? and has it not on,y
been adopted by the princes and nobles, and equally
by the gay and fashionable promenaders past their
Temple for costume in Regent-street, as also by the busy
and thoughtful merchants passing their depot on Curnhill :
yes, by all these presumed opposite tastes has the Registered
Paletot been adopted. Then why should not also our na
tional sculptors recognise it as part t f the national costume?
FRENCH PLAYS as.: r Ma.,• ty and Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Marchioness of Douro, Miss Dawson
Lord Dud,
e Lord A. Paget, and Colonel Seymour, honoured
the French Plays with their presence last evening. Their
was also present the Marquis of Bristol, the Marquis of Dauro,
the French Ambassador and suite, the Russian Ambassador,
the Baroness Brunow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner,
the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrichstein,
the Belgian Minister and Madame Vanderweyer, the Baro-
ness Rehausen, Prince Jerome Buonaparte, Earl St. Germans,
Lady Caroline Maxe, Viscount Anson, Count and Countess
de :J.trnac, Sir Ralph:and Lady Hoivard, Sir .1)lin and Lady
and &Issas Burgoyne, Baron Nteulai, M. G.outaui, Count
Avigdon, Sir Henry Webb, Honourable Mrs. Norton, M.
Kadroffski, &c. &c.