The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-06 00:00:00

TRUSTEES.

John Deacon, Esq., John G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., F.R. S.,

-Charles Johnston, Esq.
In this Office Assurers for the whole term of life have the
option, as most accords with their views and circumstances,
either of securing a certain sum at death at a low rate of Pre-
mium ; sr of participating in 34 of the nett profits of the Com-
pany on paying an increased rate of Premium.
The following are the annual Premiums for the assurance of
100/. en a healthy life in either case:—

, - . - ----- -- 4 -----
WITHOUT PROFITS, WITH PROFITS. William 'fan, .Luinnurgh ; Sunpkin, Marshall and C
r....._____--.A.—.---.-...., , ---A-
London.
TO BE WON, 8,333,760 FLORINS. Age2o. AgeM. Ago4o. Ageso. Age2o. Age:3o. Age 40. Age:a
PROFESSIONAL RECORDS; OR,AIARRIA GE MEI
91HE GREAT SALE, by SHARES, of the --- - -
x s, d, f s. d. X s. d. At s. d. X s. d. £ a. d. £ s. d..£ s. d. ('ALLY CONSIDERED.
JL' PALACE of OBERMEDLING, situated in Sehon- 11182 2 2 2 17- 8 4 0 8 116 11 2 8 2:3 6 6414 2 Alt 01.10.:1321 ThPcic (in 2 cpnlpil envalryr.l 13-:-,. ._ Isrunn (frinr inilsis from V;.,,,,, A Ile4nin 1 ...:11 4-L....A-- _ !___

TO BE WON, 8,333,760 FLORINS.
rIPHE GREAT SALE, by SHARES, of the
I. PALACE of OBERMEDLING, situated in Schon-
brunn (four Miles from Vienna, Austria), will take place irre-
vocably the 11th olnext January, 1840, by the authority and
with the guarantee of the.Anstrian Government.
This Sale, entitling the Shareholders. to a Second Drawing,
offers mire advantages than all other preceding ones.
The Second Drawing will take place positively on the 11th
of March, 1840, and contain a quantity of Gold and Silver
Goods (the property of Viscount Reviezky ), wnich are taxed
loy the Government at 850,001 florins. These goods are in
the mist fashionable style.
Price for a Share 1/. ; Six Shares, 51. ; Thirteen Shares, 101.
E The amonnt will be remitted in Bank of England notes, or
any other way.
All gains are paid, without the smallest deduction, a fortnight
after the drawing, and the Bulletin of all numbers sent to the
purchasers.
Apply for Shares, Schemes, and other particulars to the un-
der-named Banking-house (principal Agents for this Sale, and
who will forward them free of postage to London).
HENRY BEER and CO., Bankers. Paris.

PROFESSIONAL RECORDS; OR, 111 A RRIA GE MEDI-
CALLY CONSIDERED.
An OrN•ina.l Thesis (in a sealed envelop). Price 55.,
PAN MARRIAGE—its Intent, Obligations, and
Ph:lical anti Constitutional Disqualifications; with Illus-
trations graphic, narrative, and remediate.
Also, by the same Author,
A RATION.AI. EXPOSITION of the TREATMENT
of.MOR RID SECRETIONS, Stricture, and Irritability of
the Uretha, and other infirmities of the reproductive system;
with numerous cases and woodcuts, entitled Medical COR.
sultations. Price 2s. 6d.
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster row- ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-
street ; Harris, 25, Bow-street; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ,
Smith, drugg'st, 48, Lothbury, City ; and of all Booksellers in
Town and. Country.

A division of the nett profits will take place quinquennially.
Bonuses accrue on all beneficial policies on which three annual
premiums shall have been paid, at the time a division occurs;
and the holders of such Policies have the option either of re-
ceiving their bonuses in a present sum, or of having them ap-
Plied in augmentation of their Policies, or in reduction of their
future Premiums.

38, AL BEAIARLE7STREET, PICCADILLY, AND 96,
CHEAPSIDE,
IGHT and HE kRING-PATRONIZED
by their Majesties, the Ring and Queen of Hanover,
and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia,
her Sereile Highness the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses Mary
and Rosa, her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and their
Graces th Dukes of Devonshire and Manohester.
Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians and Aurists during a
professional experience of thirty years, have had ample' opportu-
nities of verifying that the Organs of Sight and Hearing are sym-
pathetically related to each other in such a peculiar manner, that
when the former becomes imperfect, the sense of hearing becomes
rapidly dull—this fact is admitted by Scientific Authorities, and
must be observable by many thousands of individuals thus circutn-
stanced—which is deserving the Public's most serious attention.
The Messrs. Solomons, with a view to remedy such an affection, and
after they have devoted their whole lives to this interesting branch
of science, have succeeded in effecting, for Imperfect Vision,
a r
a host
scientificimprovement in a Transparency for Spectacles, and e-
vcntive and Cure for Deafness ; they have invented an Operative
Voice Conductor, upon a very small construction, not percel.tible ; it
requires no h ‘ltling, and the individual immediately becomes one of
the party in the general conversation. By these important disco-
veries not only is defective Vision brought to n .tune, but the sense
of Hearing N restored to its original acuteness ; those lenses are so
constructed and adapted to weak and imperfect eyesight, upon such
scientific principles, combined with the lon4 extensive experience of
the Messrs. Solomon:, that they will be found to effect an
extent of relief which will far exceed their utmost and most san-
guine
expectations. On pLeing those lenses before imperfect Vision,
either by day or candle liehi, every object becomes clear and dis-
tinct, and the most minute pa,ticle seen with exact distinctness.
The Messrs.Solornons hive in their possession, WITHOUT ONE
EXCEPTION, Spectacles and Ear Instruments of every kind, which
are offered to the Politic by other individuals, to point out the su-
periority of their improvements over all others. The patronage of
Nobility and Gentry, and recornmendationsof the principal Oculists,
Physicians, and Surgeons in London, and through Great Britain, as
well as en the Continent, would be too numerous for insertion.
he Messrs. Solomons are enxious that the public i'aou'd not con-
found theta with persons of the same name, it being admitted by
professional gentlemen of the highest character, and may be rib-
; served by any iudicidusl, that their newly-invented Spectacles and
operate Voice Conductors for deafness, surpass anything of the
kindyet put beforcthe public, they request attention to the first part of
. their names and address, 39, Al'iemarle-street, Piccadilly, and t 6,
Cheapside. No Agents nor Travelers are einp!oyed.

Assurer 4 en the non-binius system may contract to pay their
Premiums either in one sum, in a given number of payments,
in annual, half-yearly, or quarterly payments, or in any other
way most suitable to their convenience.

Officers in the Army and Navy, when in active service, Per-
sons afflicted with chronic and other diseases, and such as are
going beyond the limits of Europe, us also Assured at mode-
rate Rates.

Prospectuses, and all necessary information, may be obtaineel
at the Office. Proposals can be passed daily.
MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary.

UNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY, 1, King William-street, London, con-
firmed by Act of Parliament, for the Assurance of Lives at
Home and Abroad, including Gentlemen engaged in the Mili•
tary and Naval services.

DIRECTORS. •
Sit...HENRY WILLOCK, K. L. S., Chairman.
JOHN STEWART, 'Esq.' M.P., Deputy Chairman.
Colonel Sir R. Armstrong, C. B. William Kilburn, Esq.
John Bagshaw, Esq. • • Charles Otway Mayne, Esq.
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq. John Rogers, Jun., Esq.
Charles Dashwood Bruce, Esq. Robert Saunders, Esq.
Ellis Watkin Cunliffe, Esq. James Duncan Thomson, Esq.
1
Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P. Capt. Samuel Thornton, R.N.
Rates of Premium as moderate as are consistent with perfect
security, an annual division of three-fourths of the Society's
protitsamongsttheassured, and a prompt adjustment stall claims
are among the advantages of this Society.
The attention of Gentlemen connected with India is particu-
larly requested to the regulations of this Society; as, on com-
parison with other offices, its rates will he found very ad-
vantageous, having been accurately calculated from extensive
showing the true risk of life during residence in
r retirement from any foreign service, exclu-
sively
in the possession of this Society.
Policies taken out in England may be continued in India,.
sr those taken out in India may be continued in England, en
definite and equitable terms ; while pretniums and claims may
be paid in either cou'ntry, at the entire option of the parties in-
terested.
Terms and full particulars may be obtained at the office, as
above ; or of the Agents in India—Messrs. Bagshaw and Co.,
Leckie and Co., Bombay.
Calcutta; Messrs. Hall, Bainbridge, and Co., Madras : Messrs.
By order of the Board,
DAVID JONES, Actuary.
The Universal was established in the year 1834, since which
.
miuras
en those at present in existence amount to
period it has commanded such extensive support that already
issued, and the annualre
%bout 1,600 policies have been
..- ..,
.60,0001. P

Just published, price 2s. 6d.,
4PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILL
TI ES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va.
rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure

By a Ai EM BEII of the ItO‘rAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS,
London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary.
" I am impotent, and not fit to live. "—Last's Records •f a
Suicide.

Sold by Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand ; Templeman,
348, Regent-street; T. Hill, Medical Bookseller, Great Wind-
mill-street, Haymarket, London ; Ross and Nightingale, Liver-
pool ; Barlow, Birmingham; and all Booksellers in Town and
Country.

" Neeet empta dolore voluptas."—Ho
FOR the greatest ameliorations of civilized life,
we are indebted to the modern division of attention and
labour ;n the various pursuits of society, and in none have its be-
nefits been so manifest as in the healing art. Early convinced of
this great truth, MESSRS. GOSS and Co., Members of the Royal
College of Surgeons in London, have for twenty-five years confined
their attention to the successful treatment of a few prevalent corn.
plaints,viz., the general and local debilities of both the sexes', whe-
ther arising from the solitary indulgence which a too highly inflamed
imagination brings like a destroying fiend over the.constitution, the
mind; and the affections of youth ; or from a long residence in hot cli-
mates, excessive drinking, or any other baneful indulgence; and from
their daily experience they can with confidence offbr a restoration
of the debilitated to vigorous health. Married females or a 'pure and
affectionate disposition, whose " fondest hope" has been painfully
deferred, may learn with consolation that perseverance in a proper
remedial course, will renovate general health, and remove hidden
impediments to maternal happiness.
An insidious *disOrder, however inveterate, as also Gonorrhoea,
Gleet, and Stricture, may be removed without material restraint
in diet or exercise.

IVIESSRS. BOSS and Co. are to be consulted every day at their
resLience ; and Patients in the remotest parts of the country can
be treated successfully on transmitting their report,' which will be
immediately answered; their letters must minutely describe the
case, and contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine, which
can be forwarded to any part of the world, however distant. No
dltticulty can occur, as the Medicines will be securely Packed, and
arelully protected from observation.
GOSS and CO. (M. R. C. Surgeons),
7, Lancaster-place, Strand, Lendon
• ust pnblislied (Twenty third Edition), lot, THE 2EGIS OF
LIFE, a familiar 'commentary on the above Diseases.-2d. HY-
ea' Gonorrhoea, de. May be had
of all Bookseller. (Price ss.
GEI ANA, addressed exclusively to the Female Sex.--3d. THE SV-
aPtigl.LPlaStle'rnaorrs treear-r,
each. • '-- " - •
frntignVractd r,

GENERAL POST-OFFICE, J. 6, 1840.
,NO,TICE TO THE PUBLIC.
On and after the 10th instant the Boxes at the Receiv-
ing-houses in London will be closed for the receipt of General
Post Letters at 5 p.m.
The Boxes at the Branch Offices at Charing-cross; Old Ca-
vendishstreet, and the Borough will be dosed at 45 past 5 p.m.
The Boxes at the Branch Office in Lombard-street, and at
the Post-office. in St. Martin's-le-Grand, will be closed for the
receipt of such Letters at 6 p.m. Letters will, however, be re-
ceived at, this last-mentionesl Office till 7 p.m., on payment .of
a penny each Letter; and till 30 past 7 p.m., on payment of a
fee of sixpence. ,
There is no alteration with respect to, Newspapers. • .
'By command, -
W. S. MABERLY, Secretary.

QTRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY in-
stituted in the year 1785, for Visiting and Relieving the
Sick and Distressed Poor at their own habitations in Lon-
don and its•vieinjty
The 'funds of the Society are now quite inadequate to the re.
lief of the numerous,cases which are presented tolhe notice of
the Committee, but they cherish a confident hope that the
claims of the cie's,g'ry.ing poor will not fail to meet with the
liberal 'support;ef .an enlightened and generous public.
For fifty-four years this Institution has continued to share
the bounty, of the benevolent; and the Committee pledge them-
selves to carry out the original plans in behalf of suffering man-
kind, inyelievingthEwidow, the orphan, the old, the young,
the sick, the dying, the starving.
The Society has now upwards of 800 cases on the books,
which are duly investigated by nearly 500 gratuitous visitors,
whose chief regret is that the means are so disproportionate to
the wants of their suffering fellow.lereatures.
The following subscriptions and donations, received' since
their last appeal, are thankfully acknowledged, together with a
few smaller sums which will appear in the annual report ;
The Worshipful Corn- W. L. nodding, Esq... 10 0
parry of Goldsmiths '£so 0 Eades Sumcneca, Esq... 5 0
The Worshipful Corn- H. 'Colville, ..... 5 0
pany of Skinners 25 0 Sir C4eorge Cv.evre,llt. 10 0
Messrs. Drummonds A. 8., by Hatchards... 10 0
and Co.
11. Barclay, EM,, Sen 5 0 Bevan, Esq. ...... 10 0
Hon. F. Caltherpe 5 0 Miss Archer Houblow 7
Hon. Miss Calttiorpe 5 0 Miss M. A. Archer
George W ht, E'

rig q
ar 5 0
Thomas James Agar
B obartes, -Esq.
Robert Barclay, Jun 5 0
De F:, by Mr. Clarke 20 0
Lady Alderson
Countess Fortesque 5 0
Sir W. W. Pepys 'lo 0
Mrs. Chute
Miss Maria West
Henry Holland, Esq.,
Montagu-square lO 0
Lady Buxton 5 0
J. J. Buxton, Esq.
Miss M. West ... lO 0
James Wilde, Esq 5 Ot
Subscriptions and donations are received by Thomas Farmer,
Esq„ Treasurer, Gunnersbury, and 18, London-wall ; Mr. H.
Clarke, 52, New Bond-street, Secretary ; Mr. J. Hiley, . As-
sistant Secretary, Seniety's Office, 18, London wall; Messrs.
Hoare, Bankers. to the Society, Fleet-street ; Messrs. Currie,
29, Cornhill; Messrs: Whitmore, Wells, and Co., Lombard-
street ; Messrs. Hammersley, Pall-mall ; Messrs: Drum-
monds, Charing-cross; Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and
Co., Birchin-land; Messrs. Coutts and Ce., Strand; Messrs.
Saunders and Benning, Fleet-street ; Messrs. • Hatcbards, Pic-
cadilly ; Mr. Nisbet, Berbers-street ; and Mr. W. Sims, 51,
Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

Houblow .
T. Smith, Esq.
D. W. Garling, Esq 5 0
Miss Satterthwaite
.Ir. De St. Len 5 0
G. H. D. Pennant,
Esq 2O 0

A. B; C., by Mr. Sims 10 0
Collection after a Ser-
mon, on, the evening
of Christmas day, by
the Rev. Thos. Mor-
timer, 8.D., at the
Episcopal. Chapel,
Gray's.mn-lane, 411. ls. 10d.

Donors whose addresses are not known, and two whom Re-
ports have not therefore been sent, are respectfally requested to
make application for them to the Secretary, or at the Society's
Office. •

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.

The attendance of speculators, considering the number of
absentees at the Southport Coursing Meeting, exceeded our
expectationst Probably they were drawn together that some-
thing definite would come out respecting the numerical strength
and quality of that important handicap race, the Chester Cup.
Nothing, however, transpired, -although it was pretty clear that
the horses named at Chester were known. But to those are
to be added the nominations sent to Messrs. Weatherby, of Lon
don ; and, if we are net. much mistaken, Mr. Lockwood, of
York, can receive the same. As these 'would not be sent off
for Chester before twelve o'clock p.m. on the Ist of January,
they must travel pretty 'smartly in order to reach es by the
There were no offers, nor will there,be any until the full list
appears. We have every-reason for thinking the Cap entry
will be superior to that of last year. There is nothing to re-
mark upon'respecting the Derby, 100 to 7 is offered still on the
field. Ottoman was offered against yesterday at 300 to 10, but
offered against only at 11 to-day ; this was owing to his farthez
rise in London. - Confederate was backed at Tattersall's yester
day at 36 to 1, and at the same figure here at noon ; he is de-
cidedly looking up, and so is Gambia, who is offered to be
backed against Lucetta for a round sum. Two or three other
horses were numed in cross bets; -but nothing was effected in
the shapd of real business. We may adkthat Ruler was backed
at 50 to 1. SOO to '2.5 would have been taken on Mr. Robin,
son's St. Andrew this evening.

SINGULAR CASE OF BURNING.—On Friday
afternoon, the following dreadful circumstance occurred
to a woman named Sarah Simmonds, living at 19,
Phillip-street, St. George's-in-the-East.. She was in
the habit of smoking, and carelessly placed in her
pocket a pipe which she supposed was empty. She
shortly afterwards went into the shop of Mr. Childs, a
pawnbroker, in High-street, Shadwell, and while there,
her clothes became ignited, and she was soon enveloped
in flames. Before her garments could be taken off she
was burnt so severely that she now lies in the Lon-
don t Hospital in a lamentable condition.
." THE SPITFIRE."—Captain Cliamier's new
Naval Romance, entitled " The Spitfire," will doubtless
form the favourite fire-side reading of this in-door sea-
son ; for the nature of its plot enables it to make a
double claim on the, novel-reading. class of 'the commu-
nity ; it has not only all the attractive features of a
nautical" romance; but many of those which are usually
confined to that class of fiction which busies itself with
the deeper-and darker passions of our nature. A usurped
inheritance—gained by the deepest fraud, and held by
the darkest crime—are the elements which give a
stronger moral interest to the adventures of the.pirate
hero of “. The Spitfire" than his mere sea changes and
chances would have done alone—strange and romantic
as they are.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION SO-
ciETY.;—At a Committee Meeting of the above Society
held at their office, No. 3, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, on Friday, January 3, Mr. Thomas. Keesley in
the chair ; it was moved by Mr. Byron, seconded by
Mr. Willeock, and unaniniously carried, .that the cot'.
diallhanks of this Committee be given to our late
Chairman, Mr. George Walter, for the very
sable and
zealous manner in which lie has dis Charged the duties of
that office during the past year. At the same meting
a reward of one guinea was paid in each ofseveral eases.
It is understood to be the intention of the Libe-
ral electors of the county Wicklow, who returned Sir
Ralph Howard at the last election, to call upon him to
resign a seat which they say he can no longer hold with
honour, having abandoned the principles which caused
them to vote for him. Indeed, it is rumoured that the
lion. Baronet will spare them the trotible,:by accepting
the Chiltern Hundreds at .the meeting of Parliament ;
.in either event, the Liberal candidate,will be the second
son of Earl Fitzwilliam.

LONDON DOCK COMPANY.—On Friday the
halt-yearly general meeting of, the Proprietors in this
[ Company was held in the Dock-house,. Princes-street,
near the Bank of England, to receive a report from the
Court of Directors relative to the state of the affairs
of the establishment, and to declare a dividend.
HOGG AS A SPORTSMAN.-Hogg was passion..
ately fond of all the sports and pastimes of his native
land ; he was a fair, but I should say not a good shot :
in fact, he did not preterd to this distinction. As a
" knight of the 'gentle craCt," however, few could com-
aPhretsalmon in " close time"
of the stream had to
psuebtemwitittho him,
d,
eaordid nylymilaies.
found a sure friend in Hogg from the nightly blaze of
the leislering poacher, which was carried on to a fearful
extent in that neighbourhood, and was the means of
destroying hundreds of salmon, which, even when killed,
were not worth dressing. 11047 was, in' all senses of
the word, a true sportsman. Not a shot would' he fire
at black game before the 20th of August a SC ; nor would
he set a foot upon a moor unless he had lull permission
and also his game certificate in his pocket. The pro-
.prietors of Blackwood's Magazine, with whom the Shep-
herd was connected, made him a present of a certificate
for upwards of twenty years, and he was proud to tell
of their kindness to him. He had also a great' many
peculiarities. Nothing put him so much out of sorts as
to read in the public papers ofgwivlemolevecrlrt-looaiddssopf
Sporting
inngie
being slaughtered. lie used to remark upon those oc-•
casions, that if every gentleman had to carry his own
game-bag, as he always made a point of doing, they
therive
river
aboutlb i Albion
,Wvoaugldazkinneow
for better when to
IpsBwTicEhAsi:le-aBmO-bAoTat,
nine o'clock on Thursday night she ran aground off
Globe Stairs, Rotherhithe,
owing to her endeavours to
CoLL!slONS.—Athse
keep clear of a small wcarasfte.omSinhge wupas, with some diffi-
culty, got afloat again. Shortly after this, when off the
upper entrance of the London Dock, she ran foul of a
heavily laden coal barge belonging to Mr. Hoppe, of
Whitefriars. The barge escaped without injury, but
the guard-iron of the larboard paddle-box of the Al-
bion was stove in in such a manner as prevented the
wheel going round. After about an hour's delay the iron
Was extracted from the paddle-wheel, and the Albion
arrived without further mishap at London-bridge,
and landed her passengers. Soon after twelve.o'clock
on the same night the Leith steam-ship, in proceeding
down Gravesend Reach, on her voyage to Scotland,
came in contact with a collier brig, and carried away
her mainmast and a great portion of the running rigging
on the larboard side. She had scarcely got clear of this
craft when she ran into the bows of another collier,
striking away her bowsprit and doing other considera-
ble damage. It being very dark at the'time great con-
fusion prevailed both on board the steamer and the col-
liers, but lucktly no one rlas injured.