The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

Samuel Elgnold. Esq.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
The Mayor of Norwich. Edward Willett, Esq.
The Sheriff of Norwich. John Wright, Esq.
ilenry Chamberlain, Esq. John Billing Barnard, Esq.
BANagos.—Messrs. Gurneys and Birkbeal, Norwich.
,SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Backham, Cooke, and Rackham, Norwich
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SSCRETARY (pro. tern.)—Charles S. Gunman, Esq.
Offices, St. Giles-street and Bethel-street, Norwich.
A prospectus of the undertaking and further information may be
obtained of Messrs. Itackharn, Cooke, and Itackham, St. Giles-street,
and C. S. Gillman, Esq., Bethel-street, Norwich, and al," of the fol-
lowing sharebrokers :—Richard Clark and Co., 3, Austin Friars,
Broad-street, London ; Thomas Barber, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings,
Liverpool ; Thomas Tootal, Esq., Marsden-street, Manchester ;
Messrs. Tootal, liarff, and Peint, Leeds • and Messrs. Grayston and
Earle, York, at whose respective offices forms-of application for
shares may be had.

CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY FOR ACCUMULATIVE AND GENERAL AS-
SURANCES,

2, Royal Exchange-buildings.
CONSULTING ACTUARY —J. M. Rainbow, Esq

Notice is hereby given, that, pursuaid. to the Deed of Settlement
of the City of London Life Assurance Society, the First Ordinary
Meeting of the Society will be holden at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, in the City of London, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th day ofJa-
nuary, 1847, at Twelve o'clock at noon exact time, to receive a Report
from the Directors and Auditors, to fill 'vacancies in the office of Di-
rectors, to elect Auditors for the ensuing year, and to declare a Di-
vidend on the Shares in the Company.
Dated the 24th day of December, 1846.

E. F. LEEKS, Secretary.

THE NEW PORTABLE ALARUNi, size of
a small snuff box, can be placed on the dressing-table, and
set to ring at any hour that may be required. Price, three guineas,
foreign made, or three guineas and a half, English made.
T. COX SAVORY and Co., Goldsmiths, Watchmakers, &c., 47,
Cornhill (seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London.
N.B. A stock of second-hand Plate always on hand for sale.

HINTS on the DAGUERREOTYPE
As a great deal of the effect of these portraits, as
pictures, results from the manner in which people go
dressed for a sitting, we wish to give our readers a rub
or two, which they would do well to bear in mind.—
Avoid pure white as much as possible. Some ladies
dress themselves out in snowy berthas and spotless
wristbands; but many a good picture is spoiled by the
spottiness occasioned by the powerful action of this
colour upon the plate. Violets have also the same effect
upon it. A lady takes her sitting in a purple dress, and
is astonished to find herself in a white book muslin in
her portrait; this particular colour acting more intensely
than the pure light upon the prepared silver. The very
best kind of dress to wear on such occasions is a satin
or a shot silk, or any material, in fact, upon which there
is a play pf light and shade. Plaids always look well;
and an old tartan shawl thrown across the shoulders, and
well composed as to folds, would form an admirable
drapery: but this is an artistic liberty which ladies are
very loth to submit to. At most of the Daguerreotype
establishments, articles of apparel, suitable as regards
form and colour, were at first provided ; but nobody
used them. "We wish to be taken as we are," was the
invariable remark ; and so they were stereotyped to
their heart's content in a heap of finery put on merely
for effect. We wish ladies would be a little less prim on
such occasions. It is quite melancholy to see the care
they take to brush the hair, and apply that abomination,
fixiture, to make it " look nice ; ' whereas, if a good
breeze had broken it up into a hundred waves, the effect
in the Daguerreotype would have been infinitely more
beautiful. And let them by all means abjure the system
of making up a face for the occasion. The effect is
painfully transparent. The mouth, so expressive in all
faces, in these portraits is nearly always alike ; and for
the simple reason, that we put its muscles into attitudes
which are not at all natural to it—we substitute a volun-
tary for an involuntary action ; and, of course, stiffness
is the result. If the ladies, however, must study for a
bit of effect, we will give them a recipe for a pretty ex-
pression of mouth—let them place it as if they were
going to say prunes.—People's Journal.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
On Wednesday last Mr. Bullock Webster gave his
second lecture at this establishment, on practical drain-
ing. On this occasion he confined himself exclusively
to the method of draining strong clay soils for surface
water only—not where the subsoil itself was filled with
water, but where the injury arose from the water resting
on an impervious bed of clay. He urged that very deep
draining on that kind of soil had been tried and failed
years ago, and he mentioned the names of several per-
sons who had proved this, amongst whom we observed
was Lord Portman. He also said that the strong lands
in the Weald of Kent, they were, returning to the old
system of 30-inch drains. There however were, he
stated, circumstances under which deep draining may
have answered, viz., where there had been a great deal
of water under the subsoil which could not get away.
He thought that drains at a depth of four or five feet in
clays, could certainly do no harm if filled with porous
material ; but he conceived that it would add much to
the expen-e, without adequate advantage, and he warned
his hearers not to form conclusions too hastily.
In the course of last year he said he had travelled
about 16,000 miles in search of the data upon which he
had based his reasoning ; he had examined draining
which had been done in various parts of the country
within the last 30 or 40 years, and he found in all in-
stances he was fully borne out in his own opinion on tine
subject. He then touched upon the subject of the dif-
ferent
tiles with much sound philosophy, and concluded
by expressing his belief that the cylindrical tile, divided
horizontally, Nas preferable to the flat solid tile, as from
a more effective current, and consequently a greater
capability for clearing the drain.

ACCIDENT TO THE EMPEROR
OF RUSSIA.
On Wednesday, the 9th of December, an accident,
which had nearly been attended with fatal results, oc-
curred to the Emperor of Russia, at Kiow, in Poland,
upon the high road between St. Petersburgh and War-
saw. The Emperor was on his route to Warsaw, and
had arrived at the border of the large river at that
place, where there is no bridge. A temporary platform
had been con, tructed to run the Emperor's travelling
carriage into the ferry-boat, when by some accident the
platform broke down, and the carriage was precipitated
into the water. The Emperor, with Count Orloff, who
was also in the carriage, was obliged to escape from the
windows and wade up to his middle in the water, and as
the current was running very strongly and the river full
of ice, no little danger was incurred.
Emperor, who had
arranged
at St. Petersburgb,
So
much timeto be wbays lao st,
certaintha t tdayhe
was obliged to renounce altogether his visit to War-
saw, and to turn back immediately to the Russian
capital.
The river at Kiow is nearly half an English mile in
width, and the erection of a suspension bridge, which
has long been contemplated, will no doubt be now imme-
diately decided on, especially as the Emperor was unable
last year, on his journey to Warsaw, to pass the river at
Kiow.

SECOND COURT-MARTIAL, ATCHAT/IAM, DEC.
24.—Immediately after the Court had
general
se
rms assembled epdl thisplea
o f
morning, Lieutenant Grant commenced reading his de-
fence. He did not mean, he said, in his
not guilty, to deny the facts ; but he submitted that he
had not acted contrary to military discipline, and quoted
sisnth point.
the case of Lieutenant-Colonel Hogg,ofa
the
case
regi-
ment of Foot, in 1819, at Plymouth, as
lie dwelt much upon the testimony of Lieutenant Chads,
to show that at the time Captain Bull was the-actual
officer in command. He assured the Court he had been
influenced in what he had done by feelings of a desire to
do good ; and he trusted the Court would not fix him
him with wilful disobedience of lawful orders. He then
called upon the Deputy Judge Advocate, the lion. Capt.
Gordon, to produce the correspondence with the Acting
Town-Major :at the Cape; after which, :Assistant-Sur-
geon Jackson %as recalled by the Court to speak to what
transpired on the poop of the Mary Anne on the morn-
ing of the 10th of relativeJuslyh,adforths , toordtheers. Thisprisoneeswhitenseitsast,s-
ing to obey Major
testimony finished the proceeding, and the Court broke
up. The sentence, of course, cannot be known until con-
firmed by her Majesty.
RAMSGATE.—From the many families of distinction
at present sojourning here, it is clear that Ramsgate has
become a favourite winter residence. Perhaps scarcely
at any place in the kingdom is this season and its at-
tendant festivities better or more worthily observed ;
and it is satisfactory. to find that the poor are not for-
gotten. We are informed by a credible authority that
the value of the beef distributed among the poorer
classes of Ramsgate during this week alone will amount
to between 2001. and 3001—Kentish Observer.