The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-07 00:00:00

FRANKFORT.

Six o'CLocK.

WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLE CHASE.
7 to 2 agst Jerry
CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Heiman Platoff colt
50 to 1 agst Peep o' Day Boy
66 to 1 agst Eagle's Plume
66 to 1 agst Elthiron—taken
66 to 1 agst Canezou
66 to 1 agst Great Western.
66 to 1 agst Glutton
1,000 to 10 agst Egret
1,000 to 15 agst Limestone
DERBY.
33 to 1 agst Escalade—taken
40 to 1 agst The Knout—taken
40 to 1 agst Saucy Dick—taken
66 to 1 agst Elthiron—taken
66 to 1 agst Magician
1,000 to 20 agst Chatterer—taken

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday, at five o'clock,
his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess
of Clarendon, accompanied by their suite, arrived at
Kingstown from Holyhead by her Majesty's steamer
Banshee. This splendid vessel made the trip against
a sharp head wind and rough sea in four hours and
some minutes. There was a special train in waiting
at Kingstown for the Viceregal party, and at twenty
minutes past five they arrived at the station, West-
land-row, where his Lordship's carriages were in
attendAnce. His Excellency then drove off to the
Lodge in the park. His Lordship and the Countess
locked remarkably well, notwithstanding the rough
passage which they had encountered.

SHIPWRECK —We understand that on Monday
evening, about six o'clock, a large Spanish vessel,
with a cargo value over 10,0001., was driven ashore
near Wexf,rd, and was totally lost. Crew saved.
Sh'p went to pieces immediately. Cargo completely
destroyed.—Freeman's Journal.
Loss OF AN AMERICAN BARQUE.—Friday last the
Henrietta, Jones master, left this port in ballast for
Swansea. The weather was unfortunately very
boisterous, and on her getting outside the harbour
she missed stays and went on the rocks, between the
Cow a-A Calf. She remained until Saturday morn-
ing beating fearfully, when, being no longer able to
hold together, she tient to pieces, and shortly after
not a vestige of the vessel was to be seen. The
Henrietta was a new vessel, not more than nine
months built, and arrived here from New York on
the 9th ult., with 1,600 quarters of maize, which she
discharged at this port. The captain and crew were
with considerable difficulty saved by the Coast Guard,
who rendered every assistance that it was possible
any body of men could afford.—Cork Constitution.

THE SOCIETY OF ARTS.
're-) third ordinary meeting of the above body, for the
pre-o, t eer,sion, took place last night in the great room
of :he society's house, Juhn-street, Adelphi. There was
a iarge attendance of members and their friends present
en the occasion.
At seven o'clock the model-room for the exhibition of
rnatAtivery and rueclyinical inventions, which has been
reeirrenged during the recent vacation, was thrown,
open fir the reception of via tors, and a variety of inge•
neeis aed useful modern and other contrivances and im-
provement, in science, art, and manufactures were dis-
A moegst these, one attracted a good deal of
avest!i was a sort of arm-chair for the greater
ot. opera ions in dental surgery, designed by Mr.
Gilbert, of Pali -melt, East, by which the painful and
of en dangerous process of tooth-i xtracting appears to
be ry corisid-rably modified by the application of ob-
viett.. mechanical prix ciples to the purposes required.
The invention is simply this :—A moveable back and
sear eermit the patient to recline at any necessary angular
elev:ltion. A series of round jointed bars (like gas-
pipes), eflixed to ono side of the back of the chair,
allow a small but powerful additional one, covered
with lint or cotton, a few inches in length, to
rest in the mouth immediately over or under the
tooth to be drawn. This bar serves as the fulcrum upon
which the surgeon may use a forceps for the direct and
upward or downward extraction of the diseased bone
withiet he horrible laceration of the gums and. jaw-
bone, which is the almost inevitable consequence of the
old mole of performing the operation. Several medical
and ,eientifie gentlemen present expressed their approval
of the ins erition.
At eight o'clock the company assembled in the coati-
ci-ro rn. Many of those ;n attendance on the occasion
had never belore seen the magnitleent paintings of
Barry, by which that chamber is adorned, and wich
were apt cially pain:ed for the society. It is unneces-
sary to remind most of our readers that England does
not boast of any works of a higher order of art, of
native preductien, than those eel:, brated pictures. The
eircuaiseences under which they were executed were
sufficiieoly curious, but it would be out of place to ad-
vert at any length to them on the present occasion.
It is that he I.beraily offered the society
(a;theug's he subsequently eceivcd, at the sug-
g; sir. ir of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the sum of
.5f.10/. :el. them) to paint those great pictures for "as much
br- a l e.d cheese" as he might require during their com-
pl -con, so devoted was he to his are, and anxious to have
art gip- rrnnity of developin; his grand designs, and a
tvor by field for their display. It may not be until-
teres:freo, as this exhibition is nut as patent to the public
gem rally as the National Gallery and other exhibitions
of the kind in London, to state briefly that these pic-
tures we!e meant originally to illustrate the proposition,
that, " the ;,:t!ainment of happiness, individual and public,
(leper cis on the cultivation of the human faculties., ' In
the six pictures by which the artist sa successfully en-
deevoured to carry out the above idea, he has thus
d the subject. The figures are the size of life.
The tint represents mankind in a savage state ; the
second, a Grecian Harvest Home—a Thanksgiving to
Ceres arid Bacchus ; the third, the Victors in the
Olymple Games; the fourth, Navigation; the fifth, the
Society of Art:; arid the sixth, the Elysian Fields, or the
state of fii al nitribution arid reward.
As soon as the members of the society had assembled
in
_s_ctahe council, room, the chair was taken by John Lewis
E>q., M.P., vice-president.
Thu minutes of the last meeting were then read and
confirmed, after which,
• Mr. 'l'. B. JORDAN re d
the application of machian a most instructive paper on
.to sculptural purposes, de-
corative, architectural, oar:airYtestic—showing how carving
of ell hinds on wood
ndstene might be effected by
mechanical contrivances
m_itlustrating his remarks in
a must lucid and scienac
ences to drawings, models, a by occasional refer-
Theand sculptures.
ahlayandteresting, parti-
specimens exhibited were h%
cularly those by which was ulnae
subjects
and practicability of manufacturing eemptahnei P°"ibilitY
of the same designs, reversed as they might
alsupposed
to appear in a mirror.

.Kfter the conclusion of the conversation which aro,,,
on Mr. Jordan's lecture (so to call it), a vote of thank;
vrai passed for his commuuication. _

-In consequence of the lateness of the hour at which
the discussion on Mr. Jordan's inventions terminated,
Mr. J. A. LEON said he wished to postpone the read-
ing of the paper which he had to submit to the society,
on high-pressure steam generators.
The following members were balloted for, and admitted
during the evening:—Sir William Curtis, Bart., Ne-
t';er3von, Wiltshire; Henry Pickton, Normal School,
.13,,rough-road, Southwark. James Lyne Hancock, Gos-
wo!1 mews, Creswell rcad; George Frederick Morell,
119, Fleet-street; Alfred S. Jee, 6, John .street, Adel-
phi; Thomas Musgrave, 6, Gordon-square, London;
Solomon Maw, 11, Aldersgate-street, and Hornsey;
Edward Varnish, Hyde Park-gate Villa, South Ken-
sington ; John Edward Errington, C.E., Adam- street,
Adelphi; Thomas Parry, 38, Bloomfield-road, Pad-
dingtou •
The

following were proposed for admission to the so-
dot) : —The Hon. Edward Cecil Curzon, Scarsdale
Rosso, Kensington; William Williams, 6, Rood-lane,
Cur; G2orgo Claridge, 2, Regent-place East, Regent-
squA-e; John George Bonner, 7, Furnival's Inn; J. R.
Gardiner, the Duchy of Cornwall, Somerset House; J.
JLtelison, Grove-road, Brixton.
The meeting then broke up.

OPIUM IN AUSTRALIA.—Recent accounts from the
a- ti;,o;le,A announce the fact that the cultivation of opium
Lai l,aF n commenced in the district of Western Australia
vri:il success of no mean amount, and a prospect of an
importaitt feature arising thereby at no distant period
in the growing trade of our colonial empire in that part
of the world. The quality is reported to be very high.

Von Gagern has returned from Berlin. He has,
it is said, succeeded in dissuading the King and
Ministers from putting in practice their favourite pro-
ject of a charte octroyee.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING