The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-17 00:00:00

THE HUMAN HAIR.

ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL is justly
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in nourishing, preserving, and beautifying the human hair. Its
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ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL has superseded the ornaments of
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growth of whiskers, eyebrows, and mustachios, it is also unfailing
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rendering the use of the fine comb unnecessary.
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are these words in two lines, "ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL."
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JJAIKERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND MATTTRITY.
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY roLouRED ENGRAVINGS ON iTEEL.

lust published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and
Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 22. 6d., or post-free, from the
Author, for forty-two Stamps,
GI ELF-PRESERVATION;
to Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
.sunny acquired 4 as early period of life, which destroy
'he physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, anti exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations onthe certain Prevention and successful Treatment of
Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
itdeture. and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
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bers of the faculty in France. With Fifty coloured Engravings,
illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Re-
productive Organs, explaining their etrectures, uses, and fanctizas,
and the various injuries that are produced in them by solitary
habits. excesses, end !efectioa.
BY SAMUEL LA'MERT,
87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Min-
burghinOnOrary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Hunteriau
Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c.
This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana-
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conditions in lhealth and disease. The author, who has taken the
highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo-
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who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to
the treatment of these complaints. He may be consulted with ad-
vantage by all those whose constitutions may have become debili-
tated through secret practices acquired is youth, or by the excesses
of later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects
of marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of un-
ceasing misery and regret.
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Vol. 11.
Tall LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REA,
DUBLIN, &c.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
" That three score years and ten our course may ran."
A pepnlar review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the yonng, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
bitters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu-
ation of every-day life.

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Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
!, What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Trutho as refined as Athens ever heard."
SUBJECT : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
attha passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and remedlativo. Advocacy of early marriages.
V.'

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To he or not to be, that is the question."
AIIOGRAMME:—Lawe and obligations of nature, society, and re-
deen regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, With the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Oases, Br.o.
By R. S. CULTERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
- 1824). Twenty five year 3 Medical and Forensic Referee in these
we tiers, Reorptints hours 4111 y till Ova. Mveninia. s.v6n till ulna.
10 Argyll-place. Regent-street
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CLAPHAM-COMMON CONVENT.
During the last month considerable excitement has
prevailed at Clapham, under the following circum-
stances:—ln Bedford-lane, Clapham-common, is a con-
vent. As in similar Roman Catholic nunneries, young
ladies of that persuasion are educated there in the ac-
complishments imparted at all boarding-schools. About
six weeks ago it was rumoured that one of the nuns had
been taken in premature labour, and that a surgeon in
the confidence of the sisterhood was called out of his
bed to attend the accouchement. This rumour, as it
rolled along, augmented like a snowball, and a frigid
silence on the part of those who had it in their power to
dissolve it, when applied to by several Protestant gentle-
men of standing, was taken as a tacit admission of the
truth of the allegation; and there being a large number
of the higher class lady boarding-schools in the neigh-
bourhood, the scandal engendered an excitement that at
last, from its intensity, led to an inquiry acquiesced in
by the spiritual advisers of the parties impugned.
There is attached to the chapel of the convent a lay
committee of ladies, whose duties are to visit the Catholic
poor of the district, and administer such relief and con-
solation as the circumstances of the distressed might
warrant. In one of these visitations a lady (Miss B.)
had her
.attention directed to a young woman, residing
a within few doors of the convent, as a stranger to the
neighbourhood, and who had been noticed for her fre-
quent outbursts of grief as well as being in an advanced
state of pregnancy. Miss B. waited upon her, and
learned her history. She was of respectable family, and
had left her home to save her friends the shame of her
indiscretion, and knew not a soul in the metropolis, but
was amply provided with funds. Miss B. proffered to
make arrangements for her accouchement, and the young
woman gratefully accepted her services. The medical
-man was accordingly engaged, and the whole case of the
patient, family connexion, and other circumstances. _re-
lated to him in confidence, and out of regard to the feel-
ings of the unhappy woman, who enjoined secrecy in the
matter. In a few days, and at midnight, the surgeon was
sent for by a messenger from the convent, directing
him to an immediate attendance upon his patient. The
messenger gave the instructions to the medical man's boy,
—magnified the matter, and it would appear not
and he--knowing the applicant to be a servant at the
liwuillifilulelry), but mistakenly, into the certainty that his mas-
ter had to attend a labour at the convent. This, it is
now proved, was the basis of the allegation, and the
mystery attending the case, arising .out of the young
person's anxious desire that her family might be spared
thel n
d in
consequentso upon exposure, fortified those
who e weeks refused anything like an ex-
planstion, believing that an accouchement had taken
an
awti
iseogrer
fcoerm
place in the esteblishment, notwithstanding the positive
denial of such being the fact by the medical man, himself
it member of the Church of England,. and at the head of
the profession in the locality. The , result was that the
really is, became the mother of a healthy boy, and when
young lady, for such by her education and family she
convalescent, expressed a wish to become a convert to
the Church of Rome, and several times waited upon the
clergyman of the chapel, the Rev. Father De Held, for
that purpose. At the earnest request, however, of Miss
8., a communication was made with the young lady's
family, sod a complete reconciliation was effected, and
expedited, by the repugnance of the parents to their
daughter embracing the Roman Catholic faith, she being
in reality of the Protestant Church.. Such are the par-
ticulars of a case, which, if at once explained, would
have spared much scandal.— Weekly Dispatch. ,

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March 14, 1851.
Notice is hereby given, that the Books for Transferrin
this society will be Closed on Thursday, trio
20th instant, and will be
Re-opened on Thursday, the 10th day of April next. The Dividends
for the year 1850 will be Payable on Monday, the 7th day of April
next, and on any subsequent day (Tuesdays excepted) between the
hours of Ten and Three o'cloek.
By order of the Directors,
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N.B. Policies for the whole term of life effected during. the present
year will participate in the profits to be declared to the •end of 1854.
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Lectures on the Culture and Appliances of Flax, by,Thomas
R Beale Browne,
—B6l, on Wednesday and Satarday, at 'Pvie clock.—
Lecture on the Prepwration and Bleaching of Flax, by J. H. Pep-
per, Esq.—Lecture on the Chemistry of Ignition and Co mbustion.7ll
Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on Voltaic Electricity, in which will
be exhibited Allman's Patent Electric Light.—Lectures on the
Music of Wales, by Ellis Roberts, Esq. (Harpist to .11. the Prince
of Wales), with Vocal Illustrations by Miss Blanche founge, R.A.
of Music, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Fridas Evenings at
Eight, and en Saturday, at Three.—The Celebrated Juv male Harpists
(the Lockwood Family) will Perform Trios under Me direction of
Mr. Frederick Chatterton, daily at Four.—Exhibition of the Day-
Hydrogen Microscope.—New Series of Dissolving View's, illustrating
some of the Royal Residences of Europe.
Admission,
Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every E' Ming OM-
cept Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten.

A poL oNIC 0 N.
Misses Emma, Victoria, and Rnsina
Collins, and Master Joefiph Collins ;
PGoroaltet,aMn ics sixtMkee
me nrt.,
also, the Juvenile Harpists (the Lockwood Family), pupils of Mr.
CollinE,Mtdisrs.
Frederick Chatterton.
TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY, MORNINGiS, at Two ;
EVENINGS, at Eight.
The Proprietor has great pleasure in announcing the engagement
of the above delightful Artists, in addition to the Apollonicon per-
formances.
Pending the alterations consequent on the addition of The Great
Tuba Mirabilis to this already extraordinary Instrument, Mr.
Mather will give extemporaneous pUSerformances.
ROYAL MUSIC HALL,
ADELAIDE STREET, STRAND.
(Adjoining the Lowther Arcade,)
Conductor
• Mr. Grattan Cook e.
• •
TO-MORROW.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.

Math*r.

Apollonicon—lntroduction
Trio—The Misses Collins
Song (morning)—Miss Victoria Collins
Song (Evening)—Miss POle
Apollonicon (Morning)—Mr. Mather—Favourite Airs
Juvenile Harpists (Evening)—The Lockwood Fa •
rally —Trio, Fanny, Ernest, and Adolphus

F. CleAtterton,

Lockwood -
Song (Morning)—Misi Emma Collins
song (Evening)—Miss Messent
Solo—Oboe—Mr. Grattan Cooke
Divertissement—Mr., Master, and the Misses Collins.

PART H.
Apollonicon—Mr. Mather—Overtm e
Duet—The Misses Emma and Victoria Collins
Solo, Violin—Miss Rosins. Collins
- Matbter.
Apollonicon (Morning)—Fantasia -ng)—The Lockwood Fa
Juvenile Harpists (Evening)—The

,
mily—Trio, Fanny, Ernest, and Adolphus
Lockwood—Scottish Fantasia - - F. CPAlterton.
Song (Evening)—Mies Poole
Solo, Concertina—Miss Rosina Collins
Song (Evening)—Miss Messent
Sole, Violoncello—Mils Victoria Collins
Trio—The Misses, Collins—Flute Obligate, Mr.
Collins—Natalie - J. C,
The wonderful mechanical powers of the Instrument pill be illus-
trated isy its performance of Mozart's Overture to •• Figaro ;" or
Weber's celebrated Overture to " Der Treyachuts."
Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, Is. 6d. • Stalls, 2s. 6d.
Doors open at Half•past One, and Hal-put S awn.
Carriages may be ordered Mornings, at Four; Eveni jigs, at Tea.

The poor-rateiof the parish of Sheptori Pallet are
not more than one-third the amount they were about four
years since; and there are not sufficient' able-bodiedSh pauperrne
s
in the union house to do the work of the hon§e,—erbo
Journal.