The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

STEAM TO CHINA.
Regular Monthly Steam Communication fur Passengers and
Light Goods to Penang. Singapore, and llong•Kong, via Egypt.
The PENINSULAR and OIIIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY took Passengers and forward Goods and Parcels to the
above Ports by their Steamers from Southampton the 20th of every
month.
For particulars, apply at the Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary Axe,
London, or 57, High-street, Southampton.

GRAVESEND via BLACKWALL RAIL-
WAY, and STAP. and BLACKWALL PACKETS.
Railway anal Boat included in one Payment.o E ;
Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, NNEP
Saloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING.
To or from Blackwall or intermediate Piers,
Fore Cabin . • Gd. Saloon ...... •Bd.
No other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhlthe Piers.
From The Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 7%, 8%., 11%, 1,3,
and 5. Sundays, at 7%, 8%, 111, 1,3, and 5.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 9%, 11/ 12, I}6, 3,4,
and 5.. Sundays, at 9%, 11, 1%, 3,4, and 5..
The TRAINS starling ose quarter of an lieur before each of these
times.
Passengers marked * are run direct, the Packets not being per-
tnitted to stop at Piers or for Boats.
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London
every quarter of an hour.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 41. 4s. ; Six Months, 21. 15s. ;
'Three Months, If. 15s. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the
packets ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend; or of Mr. Sunders,
Brunswick Wharf, Blaokwall.
ffovember 22, 1847.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CALL for TWELFTH INSTALMENT of 5/. per SHARE
on 100/. Shares, making 90/. paid; for SIXTII INSTALMENT of
11.10 s. per SHARE on 25/. Shares, making 171. 10s. paid ; and for
FOURTH INSTALMENT of 21. 10s. per SHARE, on 171. Shares,
Making 91. 10s. paid.
The Directors of the Great Western Railway having resolved, at a
meeting held this day, to CALL, under the provisions of the Act of
Parliament, for an Instalment of 51. per Share on 100/. Shares ; also,
11>r an Instalment of Si. 10s. per Share on 251. Shares ; and also an
Instalment of 21.103. per Share ex 171. Shares, Notice is hereby
given, that the Proprietors are required to pay, on or before the 12tk
January next, the said suns of 51. on each of their respective Shares
of 1001. ; and to pay on or before the sth day of January next the
sum of 21.105. on each of their respective 251. Shares ; and the like
sum of 21. 10s. ou each of their respective 171. Shares, to any of the
undermentioned bankers of the Company, viz.:—
London—Messrs. Qlyn, Manilas, Mills, and Co. ; at the Great West-
ern Railway Office, 29, Gresham-street, City.
_Bristol—Messrs. Miles, Mefferd, and Co.; Messrs. Baillie, Ames, and
Co. ; Stuckey's Banking Company ; the West of Eng-
land and South Wales District lank.
Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool.
Cheltenham—The County of Gloucester Bank.
Reading-11080ra. J. and C. thed and Co.
By order of Board of Directors,
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London Terminus, Paddington, Desember 2,1847.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
2(3, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital L. 500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and sabstantial advantages
With respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
leiture'of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
barest& to meet other conveniences or oecessity.
Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors
It the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth
bonus, varying from 3s to 85 per cent. ou the premiums paid on each
Polley effected on the profit scale.
i.ICAMPLES.

..;°,4 Annual Policy Bonus inl Perms- Sum the
nent Re-I Assured
Age. 0 2 Pre- taken addition , Bonus in ductlon of may bor-
-5 fl, mien. out in Assured. Cash. Annual row on
to Premiums. Policy.
X s. 41. £ s d. £ s. d. I £ a. d.
r 1837 243 9 3,112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 10
.X Xs. d. 1838 218 4 8' 99 810 15 13 5 445 0 0
60 1000 74 3 4 1839 192 110 86 9 313 4 9 395 11 1
1840 143 5 10 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3
1841 138 14 21 61 17 6 9 3 2 296 13 4
1842 111 6 81 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5

The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be kad at the
°face, or Any of its branches in the country ; or, on application. will
be forwarded post free.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
LECTURES on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, by F. If.
Xolme,s, Esq., Daily at Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine
o'clock, except Saturday Evening. TWO LECTURES by Dr.
BACHUOFFISTER—one on the Laws of Nature, in reference
to the Lmportant subject of SANITARY MEASITRES ; the other
On the various modes of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSI-
CAL PROPERTIES of a JET of STEAM will be exhibited, with
Novel and highly Interesting Experiments, Daily at Two and at
Eight o'clock. in the Evening. The ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS
worked. The WORKING MODELS, explained. DISSOLVING
VIEWS. The CUROMATROPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER,
ith HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING under
WATER, &c.
Admission. Is.; Schools, Half-price.

STOVES.
WALKER'S PATENT PHCENIX STOVES,
for Churches, Halls, Shops. &c. The moat powerful, safe,
economical, and convenient Stoves made. Prices from 2/. 2s. to
.16/. 165. each. Small Stoves, 18s. each. Requiring no Chimneys.
302, OXFORD-STREET, LONDON, and 58, OXFORD-STREET,
ZirftMINGILLII; and of all the Ironmengers In the Kingdom.
JOYCE'S PATENT FUEL.

THE REGISTERED SYRIAN PALETOT is
repared in every colour, for selection, at Messrs. SWAIN
awl CO.'S, Court Tailors, 379, Oxford-street. Price 21.

SIR JAMES MURRAY'S FLUID CAM-
PIIOR —Three grains to the fluid ounce, the most cordial re-
iterative in low fevers, mental depression, and nervous diseases. See
The Lancet," November 90, 1847, page 553. In bottles, ls., 25.,
44r., and Bs. each, with directions for use.
SIB JAMES MURRAY'S FLUID 3IAGNESIA.
The safest Antacid, and solvent of uric salts in gout and gravel.
Sold by the Sole Consignee, Mr. WILLIAM BAILEY, Northand
-
Strmt, Wolverhampton; and all wholesale and retail Druggists
Medicine Agents throughout the British Empire, in bottles, Is.,
2s. Gd., 35. 6d.. is. 6d., I Is., and 21s. each.
The Aeeidulated Syrup in bottles, 2s. each.

A LITTLE WATER applied with Dr. SCOTT'S
.APERITIVE VASE Instantly opens the bowels, and should
be uses ,by every one in lieu of the injurious habit of swallowing
Durgativeg. The vase is applicable with that perfect ease which en-
sures to every one the greatest comfort in using it, and on that ac-
count has been adopted by the most exalted personages.
To be procured of F. Hood, 369, Strand, the third house from
Zzeter-hall. Also Soniterg, for effectively assisting deaf persons both
In public and private, by enabling each individual to magnify voices
lo the pitch required.
Descriptions sent post free on receipt of two postage stamps.

TE:,FLFECT FRILEDON FROM CoUGHs IX TEN MINUTES
AFTER USE IS INSURED UT
I)
R. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC
WAFERS,
Frani Mr. F. C. Ladbury, surgeon, &c.,
SeptembeWednesbury.
" r 6, 1847.
" Gentlemen,--I have proved your Pulrionie Wafers to be most
cflle =Jous in all pulmonary affections, and a powerful sedative in
Cie ties of the heart. The combinations I consider especially good,
It It relieves without producing any unpleasant sensations in the
Stead so generally caused by all other anodyne and cough medicines.
(Signed) " F. C. LADBURY."
Dr. LOCOCK'S WAFERS give instant relief and a rapid cure
13,f Asth.tnss, consumptions, coughs, colds, and all disorders of the
creath and lungs.
To sinvers and public speakers they are invaluable, as in a few
hours they remove all hoarseness and increase the power and flexi-
bility of the voice. They have a most pleasant taste.
Price 18.. d. 2s. 9d., and I Is. per box.—Agents :Da Silva
and cc, 1, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London. Sold by all medicine
I'enders.

ROWL AND'S ALSANA EXTRACT.
For the the Toothache and Gum Boils, and for eradicating
disorders of the Teeth and Gums. In the anguish of excrutiating
'Pain it affords instantaneous relief, while its frequent use will be
Sound to strengthen the gums, and fortify the Teeth against future
attacks. It totally exterminates scurvy, restores the Gums to the
hiliness of health, and by endowing them with additional firmness of
adhesion, it firmly fixes and roots the Teeth in their sockets. It era-
.licates unpleasant taste and injurious secretion from the mouth, and
Tepehi the approach of incipient decay. It is perfectly innocent, and
13 also an excellent stomachie in cases of flatulency and depression of
Spirits. This invaluable specific has been held in high estimation for
litany years, and is under the sanction of the first physicians. Price
22. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 105. 6d. per bottle.
CAUTION.—Each bottle of the genuine preparation is enclosed In
gl wrapper, on which arc the words—" ROWLAND'S ALSANA EX-
RACT." The Government Stamp has also the Proprietors' name
and ~address, thus —" A. ROWLAND AND SON, 20, HATTON-
CIARD,EN," engraved thereon. Sold by them, and by all Chemists
and peilumers.
EYEBROWS, mousTAcHIOS, and WIIIS-
Kllng produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
Prevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE-
ItAToR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers,
a few drops .of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a
zest delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular
bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size,
; and double this size, lis. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con-
"thling testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes'
Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, ice."
17 post, 4s. 6d., is. gd,, and 125., for money orders only.
Sold wholesale only at Grimstone's Ilerbary, Highgate, near
London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
I:oxford-street ; Messrs. Butler and Co., Cheapside Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 66, Cornhill •
Mid by all Chemists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and
kslmes, Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eresche and Son, Adver
its 'er-oflace.

TO THE LADIES.
'I 'his lady had the following letter inserted in the "Times" news-
Dap, sr on Aug. 7, 1546. Reader, remember, this letter was put late
the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me.
4. Mrs. Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor,
tam ty of publicly thanking Mr. W. Grimstone, of the ilerbary, High-
gate foy the efficacy of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having col:a-
-lpha ely restored the hair on her head, after using itabout four months,
and thew bole of her hair is much stronger and more luxuriant than
lever was befere the baldness appeared.
un, Week.ley inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. G.'s
Itegeinator, feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase
an 115. bottle if they were as certain of its virtues as she is, from ex-
perie,ace. not only in the restoration and produotion of hair in abund-
ance, but as a cure of nervous headache; as a toilet perfume iti far
beyond any to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any
lady ,Of respectability to the above fact .-3, Swan-street, PS erough."
In zases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, afo w
trope .on the crown of the head occasionally, every week, will pre-
vent the hair from coming away with the comb, make it strong, and
prevent it turning grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A
fe vr drops on your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the
b.: tir brilliancy, causing it to curl.
The most delicate ladies may use this delightful product of the
Mt Kt aromatic herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing
Won r removes headache and makes it a most necessary companion
O the toilet. In Cases of nevous headache, pour tel or twelve drops
If the frown of the ;lead; if very bad, repeat it every quarter of an
oiv. In most cases relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces
sd rou .ehildren's heads in a few appplications. If need on intents'
ea ds, it Ihas such a peculiar cooling influence
rowth the on the
brai
ofn
haas to
—See
pre-
Ve at convulsions, as well as promoting gir.
pa taphiet teotimonials.
• \Metter. SdirOSSed to Gemstone, Hoban'. lilftbgaW.

Mustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
PIIVSICAL DISQIIALICATIONS, GENERATIVE IIiCAI A.
CITY, .&-I!TD IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
1110, Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. Gd., or
by most, direct from the Establishment, 3s. Gd. in postage stamps,
THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the inOrmities and decay of the generative system, frogs ex-
essive indulgence, infection, and the ini,rdinate use of mercury,
ith remarks ou Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis-
(lt tit:lineations. illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
1•.„_. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London.
-rah lished by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ;
litte, nay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titehborne-
ltreel `, Ilayrnarket ; and nordon, 14d, Leadenhall-street.
P-5.5'.1. I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
°Nana , and Is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
Palm 11. treats of the consequences resulting front excessive indul-
gence, 'mad their lamentable elects en the system, producing mental
and bodily ,weakness, nervous excitement, aid generative incapacity.
It 15 illutrat ed by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. ',"resits of the diseases resulting from infection, either ii
the primary or :eecondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse
!oi.f mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated
Seventeen Coloured Engravings.
PART IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative Lotion, by the use of
. hich the dangers of infection are obviated. It combines with the
rus chemically, and destroys its power on the system.
DART Y. Is ,devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
Y; Wes, The Callk4S of unproductive union, are also considered, and
e • whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
Pa It 'OIDIAL B.aiot or STRIACUM is exclusively employed in treat-
lAg 't and sexual debility, impotence, fec., 11 a .and 335. per
bottle.. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
rimed y, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp-
Woe, ceruptions, and the abuse of mercury, Ils. and 33e. per bottle.
Perrs,es Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 3d., 4s. 6d., and lie. per box, a
in remedy in gonorrhcea,eeet, strictures, and chronic inflauna-
uon of -th a bladder. Perry's Preventative Lotion, an application to
'Obviate tI ie danger of infection, 335. a bottle. Consultation fee, if
lette.r„ll. 6/. Packets with advice tube had at the Establishment
'Y', by which the fee, 11. saved. Attendance daily at 19, Ber-
Ilers-etre et. Vora Eleven tilt Two, and Five to Eightj on iiußdnYs
4 'Via Ifilaven Ito Qie.