The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-07 00:00:00

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DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.
By the plan exclusively developed by the Society, a single,
deferred annuity is, made, not only to answer the same object,
but to equal in amount the entire sum of all the advantages
heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious classes
by separate investments in Savings' Banks, Benefit Societies,
and Loan Banks.
1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the
most ample return fur after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum (I s.
a week) at 20 will at 65 give the policy holder the ckoice of an
annuity for life of 471. 16s. 6d.: 3941. 11E. in cash; or policy
without further contributions of 466/. at death.
2. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a
fund always available during sickness or V. ant of employment.
3. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in
case of premature death.
The report to the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors,
r3speetuses, tables, &c., may be obtained at the office of the
Society, by letter or otherwise, 26, Cornhill, London, or at
any of its Branches throughout the country.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAN..§ION.HOUSE.
The Lord Mayor has received several communica-
tions, recommending the adoption of some means of
abating the great smoke nuisances which abound in the
crowded neighbourhoods of the City of London and on
the river Thames, through the instrumentality of steam-
engines ; his Lordship requested that his correspon-
dents and the public should be informed, through the
press, that Mr. Anderton had given notice of a mo-
tion on the subject for the consideration of the Court of
Common Council, and that all that the Corporation
could do to remedy the evil, wculal, no doubt, be
attempted.
One of the letters received by his Lordship relates to
steam-vessels, and stated as folio as :—" I address your
Lordship, knowing that your influence in accomplish-
ing improvements tending to benefit the health, and in-
crease the comforts, of your fellow-citizens, is, as
Chief Magistrate, considerable. The object I have in
view is the removal of a nuisance of what most people
complain, and not without reason—l mean the steam-
vessel nuisance, arising from the smoke. The pro-
prietors of vessels have only to use the anthracite coal
instead of what they now consume, and the required
alteration is effected. In doing this, no hardship is in-
curred, for though the price of anthracite coal is rather
higher, a much smaller quantity is required, and a
saving of a fourth, if not a third, is sure to be effected
No doubt you are aware that this kind of coal gives
out neither flame nor smoke, and is much used in dry
ing hops and malt. It might with equal advantage be
used when large and constant fires are neccssary
and thus the quantity of smoke which smudges our
metropolis might be immensely diminished. I have
seen it used in kitchens as well as in steam-vessels, and
from experience can speak as to its utility. A sample
of it was lately sent to Paris from Wales, and was
analysed at the &Die des Arts, and the report is as
follows :—',',
' This coal must be much in demand, on ac-
count of its remarkable purity, both for domestic con-
I sumption and for blast furnaces, and as a discovery of
great importance for ~the reduction of ores in the
quality of the smelting products.'
" It is surprising, my Lord, how little this treasure,
which abounds to an inexhaustible extent, indeed, in
South Wales, as at Llaneliy and Burr-y-Pont, in Car-
marthenshire, and other parts of that coast, is known
and appreciated. Some cargoes, I believe, are sent to
the London market, but if it were brought intc general
use the national advantage, especially in steam-vessels,
would be incalculable, and t,he comfort of it wou'd soon
be discovered, and duly prized."

39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY (OP-
POSITE TUE YORK DOTED), AND 76, KING WILLIAM.
STREET, BANK OF ENGLAND --DEAFNESS AND DE-
FECTIVE VISION,—A greater proof of the value of the
Messrs. S. and B. Solomon's Invisible Operatic Voice
Conductcr and newly-invented Spectacle Lenses, can-
not be adduced, than the circumstance of the many
thousands of individuals who have obtained the greatest
benefit and instant relief, and the constant immense de-
mand there is for them, and the patronage they have and
daily continue to receive. The Messrs. S. and B. Sola-
mons disclaim all connection with persons of the same
name, and the sale of amber spectacles ; the pernicious
use of amber spectacles being now well known to the
public, and the vendor being aware of it, be has therefore
altered their name, by leaving ant the word " Amber, '
and calling them " Patent Spectacles." Dr. Andrew
Ure, Esq., M.D., F. R. S., &c., states amber is most
powerfully electrical by friction, very hot, to such an ex-
tent as to explode into I:agments. The workmen, too, are
subject to a nervous tremor in their wrists, arms, &c., they
encounter great danger by handling such dreadfully-ex-
cited electrica. Amber is of such a soft and sticky na-
ture, that it is apt to take fire ; and whin exposed to
warmth, it swells, bubbles up, and will burn away with
flame. This st2tement is fttrter confirmed by Sir D
Brewster and Pliny, and also by Parks and Hearna on
chemistry. The pernicious and destructive use of such a
material for spectacles to imperfect vision may be ascer-
tained at any respectable optician's in London.
We hear from a quarter which justifies our as-
suming it as a fact, that Government has determined on
introducing a Bill into Parliament for the estutlishment of
courts of local jurisdiction. Such a Bill, having fur its
object the simplification of the present expensive and tedi-
ous process for the recovery of debts, or for obtaining sa-
tisfaction for civil injuries, diminishing the expense and
expediting the proccodicgß, will be hailed with general sp.
probation.—Evening Paper.
The British and North American Royal mail
steam ship Acadia, Captain E. C. Miller, left Liverpool
on Sunday at half past two o'clock, p.m., with 92 passengers
on board, for Halifax and Boston.