The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

THE GUY'S CLUB.

The Guy's Match, for a pair of silver oars and rudder, was also
rowed yesterday evening over the same distance, the prize being
presented by Dr. Lever, a warm patron of the club.
Messrs. Cox, Gruggin, Prance, and Edwards ; A. Poland,
steerer
Messrs. Forster, Evans, Wall, and Cole ; Thompson,
steerer ••• • •••• .... ••• ••
Messrs. G. Cooper, Manthorpe, Shelley, and Layre ; J. Poland,
steerer..
Messrs. Ferguson, Weller, Rose, and Brenchley Greenwood,

teerer
Messrs. Hunt, French, Collins, and Beck; Hicks, steerer........ 0
Won by a length, the others all close up, and a good race
throughout.

MRS. MABERLYS NEW NOVEL, aLEONTINE."—The
great attraction of this new work of Mrs. Maberly's, consists
in its exhibiting one of the most lively pictures of French
Court life that has, perhaps, ever appeared. The French
character is drawn in all its lights and shades, and the histo-
rical personages are sketched with the greatest accuracy.
The King, fickle and despotic—the Queen, bigoted to the ex-
treme—the Duc de Richelieu, dissipated, daring, and hard-
hearted, but always fascinating and witty, intellectual and
magnificent, selfish and avaricious, a strange compound of
contradictions. Hortense, his victim and accomplice, is a
most finished portrait of a coquette, and this character is
placed in admirable contrast with the clever and accom-
plished, though vain and frivolous, Marquise de Pompadour;
and with the pure and high-souled Leontine.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—BOTANIC WATER AND BEAR'S
GREASE.—When the hair is becoming thin, and falling off,
the only effectual remedy, besides shaving the head, is the use
of the two above-named articles, applied alternately—the bo-
tanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf and as a stimulant,
and the bear's grease as a nourisher. If any further evidence
was required of the virtues of bear's grease for renovating and
preserving she hair, Mr.. Catlin's account of the quantity used,
and the length of hair obtained by some of the North Ame-
rican Indians, would be a sufficient answer. Ross and Sons,
119, and 120, Bishopsgate-street, who first introduced the use
of bear's grease in this country, and who fat and kill the ani-
mals, recommend the public to purchase none other but with
their names and address printed on the pot, or the chances are
their obtaining a spurious article. All vegetable oils applied to
the hair are worse than useless.
[ADVERTISEMENT].—SIGHT AND HEARING.-39,
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, Newly-Invented Spectacles, Powerfld
Telescopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c.—Patronized by his Ma-
jesty the King of Hanover, her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Bed-
ford, their Graces the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin,
the Dukes of Devonshire, Norfolk, Argyle, Marlborough, and Man-
chester, Bishops of Exeter, Lincoln, Cork, Elphin, Kilmoro, and Kil-
dare. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, ()enlists and opticians, have
ihvented Spectacle Lenses upon a new construction. Immediately
they are placed before imperfect vision, either by day or candlelight,
that mist and dullness which appears before the eyes is at once re-
moved, every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged
defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its
youthful natural and original state. Also the most powerful Achro-
matic Telescopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, Invisible and all kinds
of Acoustic Instruments for relief of extreme deafness. Caution—
Messrs. S. and B. Solomon, opticians, are not in any way connected
with a person of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood.
To prevent mistakes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at 9,
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.
CORONERS INQUEST.—MYSTERIOUS AND ALLEGED
SUICIDE or A BOT.—Yesterday forenoon, at ten o'clock, a length-
ened inquiry, which was begun on Friday last, was continued ard
concluded at the Plough, Lordship-lane, Dulwich, before Mr. Carter,
to investigate the cause of the death of George James Benwell, aged
16, in the service of Slr. O. W. Evans, a manufacturer of Piqua tea,
which took place under the following mysterious circumstances:—
Mr. Thomas Roberts, shoemaker, Lordship.lane, said that on Tues-
day night, between nine and ten o'clock, Mr. Evans called upon him,
stating that he and his son had been out for an hour and a half, and
that when ho returned he found the house fastened. After he got-in
he observe writton the door of the bedstead, in chalk, " George
Benwell isd in the pond behind the house. Give my love to all my
friends." When he saw that, he procured a pitchfork, with which
he searched the pond, but discovered nothing except a piece
of quartering about three feet long, on which was written
in chalk, " George Benwell." Mr. Evans took off a portion
of his clothes to go into the water, when he observed that he was In
a great perspiration. He then sent his son for a boy to dive in the
pond. Deceased was rolled about upon the grass, Mr. Evans urging
them to do so, observing that he had known persons to
b
after having been two hours in the water. When deceased was
taken up it was found that his hands were
rtienda,
Nand that a quarter
m
of a cwt. was fastened round his neck. surgeon, of Dul-
wich, stated that the deceased had been dead. three' or four hours
when he saw the body. In his opinion drowning was the cause of
death. Harriet Benwell, deceased's stepmother, New Cross,
Hatcham, said that a few months ago deceased asked her which she
would rather do if she were tired of herlife, poison or drown herself?
She thought deceased had made away with himself. (The boards
with the writing on them were produced.) It was witness's opinion
that they were in his handwriting. Since this occurrence Mr. Evans
has occasionally slept at her house. He came on Thursday or Friday
morning, about three o'clock, saying that he could not sleep at home.
Deceased was of a dull temper. Some other witnesses were exa-
mined, and the jury returned a verdict "That the deceased drowned
himself in a state of temporary insanity."
ROYAL OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, CITAIIING-CRoS9.,—;
The 29th annual meeting of the subscribers to this charity as_l
hwis Graece
yesterday, at the hospital. In the absence of the presidett
the Duke of Wellington, the chair was occupied by 11 s'Grace the
Duke of Richmond. According to the report 4,187 persons had been
relieved by operation, &c., during the past of the
year, and 1,486 had been
restored to sight, being an increase 01'
in-pattents, the average
581 on the numbers
Preceding year. Of the whole 221, werea
number of the same in the house each distyindsutratittittilelyesesatrZnitel,26o3s;
since the opening in 1817 down to.ttltteie
benefits of the charity. 'llie
persons had availed themselves.ots.
y 34d: and the expenditure, it Is to
total receipts amounted to 6950/i 8/ The funded roperty amOuntS
be regretted, exceeded that su
ot).
ill be required to fully carry out
tisv to 2,8001., but the sum of 10,09
Yicw4 Of the Conunittec.