The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

CITY of LONDON SEWERS.—lncorporation
of the Commissioners for LIGHTING with GAS the CITY
and LIBERTIES, and authorising' them to PURCHASE the
WORKS of existing and future GAS COMPANIES.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to Parliament in the next session for an ACT for enabling the
Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London to light with gas the
streets, lanes, highways, and other public passages and places within
the city of London and the liberties thereof, and to purchase, erect,
make, and maintain works for the purposes aforesaid, and for, sup-
plying with gas the inhabitants of the said city and the liberties
thereof. And by the said Act it is intended to incorporate the said Com-
missioners, and to authorise them to lay down and maintain pipes and
mains in the several streets, lanes, highways, and other public pas-
sages and places within the said city and the liberties thereof, and
to break up the soil or pavement of such streets, lanes, highways,
and other public passages and places. And by the said Act it is in-
tended to take powers to purchase and take by agreement such
houses and lands as may be necessary for effecting the purposes
aforesaid. And it is also proposed, by such Act, to empower the
said Commissioners, by compulsion or otherwise, to purchase and
take the gasometers, manufactories, buildings, lands, mains, pipes,
apparatus, plant,
and other the works and property of " The Gas
Light and Coke Company," and of " The City of London Gas Light
and Coke Company," and of " The Commercial Gas Light and Coke
Company," and of any other company or person furnishing or
supplying, or who may hereafter furnish or supply, gas within the
city of London, or the liberties thereof, and to vest the same and
all powers, privileges, and authorities given to, or vested in, •r
enjoyed by
such companies or persons, or any of them, in the said
Commissioners. And it is also proposed, by the said intended Act,
to empower the said Commissioners to contract and agree with any
existing or future gas-light company, or any other company or
persons for the supply to them, by the said Commissioners, of gas
for lighting the districts under their control, or within their re-
spective jurisdiction, and generally to authorise and empoWei the
said Commissioners, and ;such other companies and persons as
aforesaid, to enter into and carry into effect such arrangements, in
reference to all or any of the purposes aforesaid, as may be mu-
tually agreed upon. between them ' respectively. And by the said
Act it is intended to take power to levy and collect rates or rents
for the supply
of gas from all companies, or persons using or con-
suming the same, and to grant exemptions from the payment
thereof; and also to make, raise, levy, and collect rates and as.
sessments upon the proprietors and occupiers of premises within the
city of London and the liberties thereof; and to continue, after, or
vary any existing rates or assessments; and 'to make cchnpositions
for rates or assessments in certain eases, and to confer, vary, or ex-
tinguish exemptions from the payment of rates and assessments, and

L 0 V E is the leading feeling of the human
breast. More exalted than mere passion, it soars high above
every other impulse of nature, and is not only stronger than avarice,
but more engrossing even than ambition. No man is exempt front
its inguence, er can avoid its sway ; and business, pleasure, philo-
sophy, and divinity itself become neglected under the enthralling
power of LOVE, which, unlike most things, increases in intensity
with time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage.
When union does not take place, however, this passion, this
fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly
poison in the heart, which now darkens, as it before bright-
ened, all things upon earth. nova is it that men, of most un-
changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a life-
time spent in the fulfilment of every engagement, snap the very con-
tract asunder which should be most binding to an honourable mind?
It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early
habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be
disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been
instituted by Divine Law for the fulfilment of
important
ends. The wretched condition of such a being must subsequently he
beyond measure deplorable I Loving and beloved, he entails the
most miserable disappointments on the object of his choice, and upon
himself a desolation the most horrible, when the simple possession of
natural attributes would change the scene, yield to both a life of
analleyed happiness. The subject is interesting, and deserves the
attention of all. These desirous of investigating it will find the
fullest and most satisfactory information in the little work entitled
SELF -PR ESER Ir ATI 0 N.

Illustrated by forty colonred engravings on the anatomy, physiology,
and diseases of the reproductive orgaas ; with practical observe-
loss ea the secret infirmities of youth and maturity, resulting frem
Solitary habits, excesses, o infection.
By SAMUEL LA'MEItT, M.D.,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' gall, London, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Ace.
This treatise is the result of a long course of study in a peculiar and
mnch neglected branch of medical practice, and the author having ob-
tained the highest medical honours, is a guarantee for his profes-
sional experience, which has reference ahnost solely to the treat-
ment of these diseases.
lIEVIILW OF VII 1/11/11./C.
La'Mert on the Infirmities of Youth and Afaturity.—.. There are
scenes is the drama of life which are acted with no spectator but
Conscience ; and of these the result is ever disastrous. Happy the
mortal who meets with a timely mentor to snatch him from the gulf
into which such scenes must plunge him 1 In the book before us
such a monitor is to be found, calculated to warn and instruct the
erring, without impairing one Idea that can vitiate a mind not
al-
ready tutored by the vices of which it treats. It is written in a style
of masterly precision and lucidity, blending the profoundest truths of
philosophy and physics with the loftiest precepts of morality. It is a
production calculated to confer a vital benefit, physically and morally,
upon all who are tempted from the rigid path of abstemiousness and
propriety. A fattier may trust it in the hands of his boy, ity
tin
taught innocence the hook is not, of course, needed ; but wherever
laxity has prevailed, the tender yet awful voice breathing in these
pages is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of
a homily blended with the practical advice of a writer on medicine."
—United Kingdom Magazine.
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A STUDY FROM NATURE.—AIdIIe. Masson, a
prima donna at the Theatre de la Nation, desirous of
making herself well acquainted with the symptoms of
insanity, in order to give better effect to her new part in
Clapisson's opera of Jeanne La Folle, went to a madhouse
called " La Saltpetriere," with her mother, and whilst
watching the contortions of a furious madman, the latter
suddenly made an attack on them, throwing two idles of
hot soup on Mme. Mason. The ladies escaped with lit-
tle damage, but much fright, but it cured Mdllo. Masson
of her desire to study insanity from nature.
A memorial to the directors of the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway is in course of signature in this town, call-
ing upon the board to run a train at ten o'clock i❑ the
morning, there being no train to London between 8.45
and 11.54. The memorialists suggest that the 7.40
o'clock train, which they state generally carries
very few passengers, should be discontinued;
but we beg to suggest, instead of giving up so useful a
train to all men of business along the line, that an addi-
tional train should run at ten o'clock. The memorial
in question has already received the signatures of the
Bishop of Rochester, and many of the gentry in the
neighbourhood, to whom the required train would be an
especial accommodation.—Essex Herald.

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Afterwards the evidence of Mr. E. H. Hills, surgeon,
was taken, who proved being called to attend the suf-
ferers by an accident on the Richmond Railway, and
afterwarda having bad his attention drawn to the de-
ceased, who was wedged in the left-hand aide of the
timber. It took half an hour to get him clear of the
engine, and then his lower extremities were par-boiled.
He had since made a post mortem examination, and found
a fracture of the whole of the right side of the base of
the skull, and a piece three inches in lengtiLlac) been
driven into the brain. His death was the result u vio-
boat blow, inflicted by being thrown against some hard
substance, such as iron plaiii.g. He had also attended
the driver Healey and the sweep Rowles, and was still
attending them. He could not state that either of them
were at present out of danger.
The CORONER said that under these circumstances,
having already sat several hours, he thous:ht it would be
advisable to adjourn the proceedings until the condition
of the driver Ilea'ey was more clearly ascertained.
It was then arranged that the further proceedings
shouli be adjourned until the 30th instant.

THE SHIPWRECKED GERMAN EMIGRANTS.—
COLCIIESTEIL-It ii already known to the public that
ninety•nine of the unfortunate emigrants so providt.n-
tinily saved from the Burgundy, of Bremen, wrecked
upon the Long Sand on the 14th instant, were landed at
. .

Harwich from the revenue cruiser anti various smacks
belonging to that port. Considering the smallness of
the town, a very large contribution was at once made by
the charitable inhabitants towards relieving the imme-
diate necessities of the unfortunate creatures; their
maintenance, however, would have been a severe burden
to the little community but for the lively interest
which the case has excited in the neighbouring towns,
and indeed the whole of the eastern end of the county.
An appeal from the Mayor (Mr. F. Hales) reached the
chief magistrate of Colchester, on Saturday, and was
promptly responded to by that functionary and the inha-
bitants generally; besides individual subscriptions there
were collections in four of the churches, the Friends'
meeting-house, &c., and by these means a fund of 501.
had bean raised up to Monday night, with the probabi-
lity of further sums being received. In Ipswich also a
similar effort has been made; awl it is hoped that, be-
sides supplying the poor people with the necessary
clothing for resuming their voyage to New Orleans,
there will be something left to distribute amongst them
in cash.

THE GREAT WESTERN DOCKS AT PLYMOUTH.—
These docks are progressing very rapidly. Between 400
and 500 men are employed, and the work is continued
night and day, as the tide suits, se that no time is lost.
Works are being carried on in different parts of the
bay ; some of the men being engaged in the cofferdam,
laying the sea wall ; others moving the ponderous ma-
chines on the railway, laid for facilitating the transit of
the immense blocks of stone ; others, again, are em-
ployed in forming the embankment between, the inner
and the outer wall of the docks. There are two steam-
engines (one at each end of the works), for pumping
the water from the dams, &c. The principal work
now in operation is the south dock wall, on the Ply-
mouth side, a considerable portion of which is carried
up to its proper level. This wall is built with limestone,
of very large size, from the neighbouring quarries, and it
has a most substantial appearance. In the middle of the
bay, near the reef of rocks, an immense timber stage
has been crected, and the dock wall on this part will be
supported on piles. There is in this place a channel of
mud, about 250 feet wide, and 46 feet deep, lying be-
tween the strata of limestone and that of slate. The
western boundary of the Channel is composed of the lat-
ster material. By the repeated blasts of gunpowder the
reef of rocks is fast disappearing. On the Stonehouse
side a steam-engine has just been set to work, to pump
the water from a moveable cofferdam, so that the men
will shortly be at work on the wall on both sides of the
bay; and it is probable that the south wall for the docks
will be finished about Midsummer next. In order to
accommodate the shipping frequenting this part of the
harbour, when the inner part is closed against vessels,
the area between the docks and the pier is being cleared.
The whole area that will be occupied by the docks is
about 13 acres. When completed :it will accommodate
the largest of the Oriental and Peninsular Company's
steamers. There will also be a graving dock sufficiently
capacious to hold one of the largest steamers.
DEATH OF A WELSH SCHOLAR.—Died, on the '7th
instant, very suddenly, at Cwmdu, Crickhowell, the
Rev. T. Price (Carnuhanawc), vicar of that parish.
This gentleman took a lively interest in the
promotion of Welsh literature, and the cultivation of the
Welsh language. He was the author of " Hanes
Cymru," or a History of Wales in the Welsh tongue
•' Geographical Progress of Empire and CnivuTe,
sation," and other works. Warm-hearted, liberal,
and
charitable, his loss will be greatly felt in his parish
and neighbourhood, His death was sudden, al-
though symptoms of decay had been for some
time visible to his friends.
would not sustain As a scholar ho
an insignificant position by
the side of men holding the highest rank for scholastic
attainment, but his taste
atsookan antiquarian turn, and
he w
that too in early life; never so much in his element
as when feasting his eyes upon some relic of ancient
ROMP, or revelling amongst the coins which issued from
the Mint of some of the Ctesars, except When be bad the
opportunity of ransacking the cabinets of those who had
made the collection of British antiquities the objects of
their particular attention. lie made the drawinga of
some of the old coins, and grave stones, from which the
beautiful plates in "Jones's History of Br, conshire" were
engraves; and all the designs, many of which were ex-
ceedingly•chaste, which ornament the silver medals given
by tilt, Aberpvenny cymtelify(filion goolety, to the un-
ressful coMpetitors at their Eisteddfodau, were drawn
y our deceased
/friend attended the last meeting
of - • .
aborgavenny Eisteddfod, tied seemed inspired
with fresh vigour, but it was only transient, and the
principality has to deplore his loss at the age of sixty.
The funeral of the lamented clergyman took place at
Cwmdu Church on the 13th, when the beautiful and im-
pressive service of.the Church was read, in the Antient
British language, by the Rev. George Howell, vicar cf
Cayo, Carmarthenshire. During the two last prayers
the whole of the congregation kneeled round the grave,
when many a manly countenance was seen bearing the
impress of grief—that 'grief which indicates the loss of a
friend. When the friends left the churchytrd the bells
rung 94 mined peal.—.Counbriart.

Overture—" Der Freyschutz" C. M. von Weber.
Quititett (in C), two violins, viola,
and violoncella : Messrs. Sainton,
E. Chipp, Hill, Nickel, and H
Chipp
Notturno--two clarinetti, two oboe,
tw•o ingotti, two cond.: Messrs.
Williams, Egerton, Malsch,
Fiocke, G. Wae•zig, Win. Card,
I'. and G. Hardy Mozart.

Mr. Forster, Mr. !loan., und Mr. new, from the
Refuge for the Destitute, had an interview with Sir
George Grey on Tuesd-iy, at the home-office.

TILE A unofts. BOREALIS. •-- On Friday evening
the heavens presented one ot the grandest displays we
ever witnessed of this the most beautiful of the celes-
tial Osnotnona. Between se‘en and eight o'clock an
utinsu,d degree of liglit appeared in the eastern hemi-
sphere, and ut about the latter hour the heavens in the
same quarter glow. d With a red tint of considerable
breadth, which gradually assumed a pyramidal shape
and imit( d at the zenith w ith a pillar of a similar hue,
which sprung up from the western horizon, thus
forming a complete arch of crimson light. This ap-
pearance continued with slight variation tot upwards of
an hour, during which time the aspect of the heavens
was extremely beautiful, the stars being distinctly visible
through their coloured veil; occasionally the line of the
arch became vex' broad, particularly at the extreme
points, and age., the rays of light diverged in several
directions, at spread over nearly the entire
expanse of the heavens. Between nine and tea
o'clock the northern hemisphere shone also with
great brilliancy, from innumerable streams of pale and
rose coloured light which shot upwards, but this effect
was of shot t duration. Soon after ten o'clock, the lurid
appearance subsided, and was succeded in the eastern
horiz.ir. by splendid coruscations of pale light, the co-
lumns of which reached to the zenith; these continued to
illumine the heavens until the rising of the moon soon
after eleven o'clock, when they faded before her supe-
rior brilliancy.—Essex Herald.

SMUT IN WIIEAT.—We have received a letter from
a practical farmer in reference to this subject, in which
'he says—" Ob•erving in your columns a paragraph
respecting the smut in wheat, I beg leave to give you
my opinion on the subject. I confess lam at a loss to
know exactly what produces bags. but I assure you
I never have any, and when I explain to you the
mode its which I prepare my seed and corn, and the results,
perhaps all who can do so will be induced to follow my
example. A fortnight before I use it I fetch up as much
salt water as I shall want, which I use for the purpose;
and I am of opinion that if wheat be imprognased with
bad salt water, well limed, and sown by baud, the smut
ewaitlilnbge prevented,the enr
a i n andthe verm
ground.in
water is very offensive, but I have often stood over it a
will
lhe be
stenchoften okfepbtadfrs salt
considerable time, and never found any evil effect from
it as regards health.—Essex Herald.
WHEAT SOWING.—From the continued and heavy
rains which prevailed at the usual period for resuming
the labours of another agricultural year, when, after the

lull which follows the t
i-chr
etahretrhintglleofseoende
whhairevhesitn,
duo
to deposit
time is to burst into the golden crops of another, it was
'feared that no little inconvenience and loss would be sus-
tained. The farmer looked around in doubt upon the
saturated fields, upon which neither plough nor harrow,
'scarcely the foot of husbandman, could venture ; the
markets began to rise; the speculator was keeping a
sharp watch upon the weather, and there seemed some-
thing like a cloud hanging over the future. Happily
'this, has been dispelled by the sunshine of the past fort-
night, which in favourable situations has brought the
land into wo,king order, the sharp touches of frost
having assisted the operation by rendering the soil more
friable; and the plough actively commenced its opera-
tions in all directions. About Colchester and that dis-
trict we are told the wheat seeding has progressed very
favourably; similar statements reach us from other parts
of the county; and though no doubt is particular lo-
calities the land is too wet to be worked with satisfac-

Lion, and the season's tillage is to some extent delayed,
there is now no ground for fearing that the breadth of
the next year's crop will be actually diminished from the
husbandman being compelled by the weather to stint
the fruitful earth in its accustomed seed.—Chelmsford
Chronicle.
USYFULNESS OF LEAVES.—What shall I do with
my leaves ? Are they good- for anything ? asks a
correspondent. Do with them ! good for anything I
Why treasure them to be sure, as if they were coin of
the realm; they are good for everything which a gar-
dener has to do. They are the best of all shelter, the best
of all materials for bottom-heat, the best of all soil, the
best of all drainage, the best of all manure. It is
true they contain little or no nitrogen, but they rot
quickly, are full of saline mattf rs, on which everything
that bears the name of plant will feed gluttonously, and
from their peculiar structure allow air to pass out
with perfect freedom. If we wish to know what
leaves are good for, we have only to burn them and see
what a quantity of ash they leave behind. All that
ash is as much food for other plants as beef and
mutton are fur Ili. It is the material which nature is
perpetually restoring to the soil in order to com-
pensate for the waste which is produced by the forma-
tion of timber. In wild land, trees are annually thus
manured ; ware it otherwise a v. ood would be a roof of
life overshadowing a floor of death. If we can remove
the leaves from our plantations, it is only because of the
artificial richness of the soil in which they grow. This
sufficiently indicates the value of leaves, which are in
truth
were
ihardlytheir l e m
life, tphoorutga important
nin a tdhieffier dreneta twha
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Express.
His Holiness the Pope bas presented to Mr. Joseph
James Forrester, of the house of OfUey, Webber, For-
rester, and Co., London and Oporto, author of the sur-
veys of the river Douro, the gold medal usually awarded
by his liolinees to literary and soientifto fnr♦igners in
approbation of their works.