The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-21 00:00:00

No. 17469.] LONDON, THURSDAY
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LONDON, SALISBURY, and YEOVIL
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The London and South-Western Railway Company having ar-
ranged to pay tae 30s. per Share due on the Certificates granted by
the I drectors Of this Company, by Two Instalments r f 155,each, the
holders of such Certificates are informed the FIRST INSTALMENT
of 15s. per Share may be receive t on any Monday or Wedne;day after
the 221 of September, between the hours of Elevert and Three
o'clock, at the (Mee of the Waterloo Station of the London and
South-Western Railway, in York road, Lambeth. Parties resident
in the country, who may prefer sending their Yertiflcates to the Se-
cretary for this purpose by post, are recommended to write across
them " Forwarded for payment of First Instalment of Vis.," and add
their signatures.
The day for payment of the Second Instalment in January next,
will be duly advertised.

By order,
L. CROMBIE, See.

London, August 31, 1848.

NEW LIGHT.-BY ROYAL LETTERS
PATENT. CLARK'S DIAMOND OIL LAMP. Its equal Is
umknown, its superior will never come. By recent Royal Letters
Patent, improvements are added, making it faultless. This Is not
asserting more than its merits justify. The best of lights, the most
economical of all. It cannot be mls.nsanaged. No cleaningreuired
fur years. Can be had at all prices and for every ase. Any lamp
can be fitted with the Diamond principle.
Ts he had only at the Establishment •i the METROPOLITAN
LIGHT COMPANY, RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447,
West Strand, Ten Doors from Lowther Arcade.

.P ATENT HYDRO-CARBON GAS.—Parties
requiring this cheap and beautiful Gas for lighting towns, fac-
tories, dwelling-houses, &c., may procure any information or licenses
for the same by application to Mr. George Fowler, at the Hydro-
Carbon Gas-orfice, No 9, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
The advantages of this Gas are as follows :—lt does not require
any purification. Its cost is much less than the ordinary coal Gas,
and the apparatus necessary for its production only half the price.
It is perfectly free from sulphuric acid, sulphurous arid gas, ammo-
nia, &c., &c., and giving a most brilliant light, not injuring the
health of the inmates. or destroying their goods in the houses where
it is made or consumed.
It may be seen in full operation at the Polytechnic Institution,
309, Regent-street, where its properties are explained daily by Pr -
fessor Ryan, M.D., 31.1., &c.

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
The Cause of the Fatal Explorien in Albany-street explained and
illustrated by Experiments, in a Lecture by Dr. Ryan, on Gas Mak-
ing, in which the new Patent Gas Apparatus of Stephen White, Esq.,
is exhibited daily at Half-past Three o'clock, and in the Eve-
nings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.—A Lecture en the His-
tory, Uses, and Manufacture of Gutta Percha, by Dr. rachhoffner
daily, at Two o'clock, and in the Evenings of Tuesday, Thursday, and
Ssturday.—The various Optical Effects.—Diver and Diving-bell.—
Working Models explained. The Music is conducted by Dr. Wallis.
Opea daily front Eleven to Five , and fa the Evenings (including
Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Tea.
Admission, la.—Schools, lialf-price.—The New Catalogue, Is.

On Monday, the 25th instant will be published, price One Shilling,
CANADA in 1848: being an Examination of the
existing Resources of British North America, with Consi-
derations for their further and more perfect Development, as a Prac-
tical Remedy, by means of Colonization, for the Prevailing Distress
lu the United Empire, and for tha Defence of the Colony.
By MILLINGTON HENRY SYNGE,
Lieutenant. Royal Engineers.
London : Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange.

TERlLlTY.—Whatever is unproductive is with-
-1,17 out intrinsic value. Man and his Maker alike condemn that
which " yields no fruit," and we find large tracts of land abandoned
for the same reason that caused the barren fig tree to be cursed.
This curse clings to Sterility in every shape ; it brings upon the earth
famine. But the malediction breathes loudest and deepest into the
ear of those of the human race who remain childless in a community
which must altogether fail, without continual additions. Not only
do such encounter the silent scorn or pity of their fellow creatures,
but their own hearts condemn them ; wealth brings no consolation
to the wifeless bosom—brings no return• for the childless home.
It is a remarkable fact that the unproducliveness of soil and
species arises from similarity of cause. Some lands are
the produce of vitiated strata that yields an offspring as
unhealthy as itself. Others nurture in their juices the poison of
minerals, which form the foe to vegetation. Others -again lose value
by being too early worked, before they are fit for cultivation, Some
soils, originally fertile, become barren by excess of tillage; others
are spoiled by unwholesome manures ; and others, again, by the
want of perseverance and nerve In the husbandman. Mark the ana-
logy ! Man also is too often vitiated by the parent from whom he
springs. Man is too often ruined by the indiscriminate use of mine-
rals, such as mercury, &c. Man also tries his constitution too early,
and avertasks it too late. Man, by unwholesome contact can also in-
feet his frame ; and, to render the comparison complete, man can
resider a naturally vital constitution unproductive through ignorance
of his organization and diffidence in his powers. Nor does the analogy
cease here. The detriments to cultivation above detailed have ;seen
recently so entirely overcome by modern improvement in agricul-
ture, that farmers aro now enabled to produce crops almost from
stone itself; and, in like manner, Sterility in the human race is now
removable through the profound' discoveries in physic which enlighten
tie present age. In testimony of this, a volume has recently been
produced which fills the heart with hope and is calculated to remove
Sterility altogether. It is from the pen of Messrs. J. L. CURTIS
AND CO., Consulting Surgeons, 7, Frith• street, Soho-square,
London, and bears the title of " MANHOOD: The Causes of its
Premature Decline, with Plain Directions for' its Perfect Re-
storation;" and is sent by W. STRANGE, bookseller, 21, rater-
noster-row, London, post-paid, in a sealed envelope, by initial or to
any address, for 2s. 6d. in postage stamps, secure from observation.

much by one-half to make London healthy as is now
spent in neutralizing its unhealthiness. There is nothing
naturally insalubrious in the atmosphere of our city.
We are not inevitably liable to the malaria of Rome or
the plague of Constantinople. On the contrary, • where-
ever common attention has been paid to ventilation and
drainage, it has invariably been found that London is as
healthy as any country district. Strange indeed it is
that all this argument and expostulation should be called
for on such a subject as the present, and that people
should require such unceasing efforts to cajole them into
clean'iness and cheat them out of fever. -