The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1839.

MR. ALBERT SMITH'S CHINA, TO-NIGHT
at 8; and TO-MORROW AFTERNOON at
three o'clock; and EVERY NIGHT (but Saturday), at 8
o'clock ; and Tuesday and Saturday. Afternoons at 3 o'clock.
NEW EDITION, and MONT BLASO revisited. Stalls, 38.
(which can be taken at the Box-office, Egypti...n Had, daily).
Area, 2s. ; Gallery, ls.

-UR. and MRS. GERMAN REED will
kVA- repeat their NEW CHARACTERS at the ROYAL
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street,
Waterloo-place, EVERY EVENING except Saturday, at
Saturday Afternoon at 3. Admission, 18. and 2s. Stalls, 3s.
to be had only at the Gallery, and at Cramer, Beale, and
Co.'s, 201, Regent-street.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE CIRCUS,
Leicester-square. The performing Bull, DON
JUAN, continues to'delight the most enthusiastic audiences
ever congregated within the walls of the Alhambra Palace.
Brilliant reception of Mr. Davis Richards, acknowledged the
most daring and dashing Equestrian in the world. Dan
Castello (the American Humorist), Clementine, Leon, Jose-
phine, Romeo, Sebastian, Buckley, &c., &c., appear at both
Representations. daily. Morning at 2, Evening at half-past 7.
Great preparations are being made for the Christmas Flo-
lidays. Proprietor, Mr. T.M'COLLUM.

A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Grand
4-3.- CASINO, open every Evening, with the celebrated
Band. Established 10 years. Conducted by Mons: Lamotte ;
principal, cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt. Doors open at half-
past 8, commence at 9. Close a few minutes before 12. Ad-
mission, is.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS,
I- High nothorn, formerly CASINO DE VENISE—
'Phis Establishment, pre-enainently, distinguished for the
ele7,ince and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined
with the perfection of its management is OPEN EVERY
EVERING. The celebrated band, under the direction of Mr.
W. M. Packer, plays a _nightly varied selection of the most
approved eassical and modern- music. Doors open at half-
past S. Overture at 9. Closing at 12 punctually. Admis-
sion, ls.

DR. KAHN'S MAGNIFICENT ANATO-
MICAL MUSEUM, Top of the Haymarket (acknow-
ledged by the whole of the Press to be the most useful and
instructive of any in existence), is OPEN DAILY (for gentle-
men only), from 12 till 5, and from 7 till 10. Admission,
One Shilling. Descriptive handbook gratis. Dr. KAHN'S
Popular Lectures on the "Philosophy of Marriage," daily at
3 and 8 o'clock precisely. SVLLA nus.—Happy and Unhappy
Unions, and their causes—Youthful Vices and Indiscretions,
and their results —Disqualifications for Marriage, and their
cure—the Physiology of Reproduction—Self-inflicted Miseries
—Sterility and its causes—How to secure Moral and Physical
Happiness.
N.B.—Dr. Kahn's Treatise on the above subjects, entitled
"The Philosophy of Marriage," sent post-free on receipt of
twelve stamps, direct from the Author, 17, Harley-street,
Cavendish-ignore. W.

THE ROYAL STATION HOTEL, Paragon-
street, Hull, requires only to be visited to be pronounced
one of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is
open and healthful, a few minutes' walk from all the public
buildings and places of husinesk and being connected with
the Railway Station, affords railway passengers arriving or
departing by every train day or night, the advantage of being
on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately
attended to.
The public should know that under the present manage-
ment they 'will find every comfort 'and convenience at the
same „charges they are paying at the 'minor hotels. It has
accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors,
is fitted.up with every 'luxury an •hotel•can command, and is
so arranged for the advantage of every class of visitor, that
Beds can be had from Is. to 25. ; Private Rooms, from 2s. to
Is. ;-Breakfasts, from ls. 6d. to 2s. ; Dinners, from 2s. ; and
all other charges of that moderate Character which will give
satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a
visit.) •. • •

The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ;
a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen
Private suites of Rooms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner
Parties, Public Meetings, ttc., arc. ; two first-class Refresh-
ment Rooms ; two Smoke Rooms ; lath and Billiard Rooms.

X Night Porter in attendance.
EDWIN TAYLOR,

Proprietor of the Royal Station Hotel, Hull, and Crescent

Hotel, Filet'.

N.B.—TAYLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting the sea,
for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodatima for up-
wards of one hundred and fifty visitors. Table D'Hote at
five o'clock. Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the
trains. Good stabling and coach-houses. Moderate terms.

SEWELL and CO. beg to annouhce that they
have purchased by public tender the stock In trade of
Mr. JAMES SHEARER, of 56 and 57, Tottenham Court-road,
at a large discount from the cost price. The stock consists ot
SILKS, SHAWLS, LACE, HOSIERY, HABERDASHERY,
FAMILY DRAPERY, FLANNELS, WOMEN'S and
CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING, RIBBONS. &c., which
will be sold on Monday next, the 19th inst., and following
days, at Compton-house, 44, 45,46, Old Compton-street, Soho.

DECAYED 'TEETH AND' TOOTHACHE.-
HOWARD'S ENAMEL for stopping decayed teeth,
however large the cavity. It is used in a soft state without
pressure or pain, and hardens into a white enamel. It remains
to the tooth many years, rendering extraction unnecessary,
and arresting the decay. Sold by all medicine vendors.
Price is.

TNDIGESTION CURED at last by MEN-
THANODYNI43, or Pain-relieving Mint.—lt is now dis-
covered that the power of restoring health to the stomach
depends upon the normal condition of that very sensitive
pneumozastric nerve. The miseries of melancholy, despair.
rheumatism, spasms, diarrhoea, piles, are removed by the use
of menthanodyne t irritability is allayed, sleep restored,
pulsation rendered more equal, and man becomes more evenly
energetic in his ditties of life, and happy.—Sold by all medi-
cine vendors, and wholesale at J. GROSSMITH'S, 8.5, New-
gate-street, London.

THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.—Every
1. person having an interest in domestic or farm animals
4honld obtain a supply of this celebrated and economical
food, which will prove invaluable during the approaching
ieason. For keeping hors?s in good condition it is unequal-
led. Pigs fatten with surprising rapidity upon it, and their
flesh increases in flavour and value. Cowkeepers will find
great advantage in the increased quantity and improved qua-
lity of the milk during its use. All animals are benefited by
It. A pamphlet on this interesting subject, accompanied by
Testimonials from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and Agri-
znlturists, forwarded on application. In casks containing
148 feeds (measures enclosed), price 505., carriage paid to any
Railway Station in the United Kingdom. Post-office orders
Payable to Joseph Thorley, 77, Newgate-street, London.
N.B.—The public arecautioned against being imposed upon
V worthless imitations.

GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY,
I.ND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be
THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED.
WREN YOU ASK FOR
GLENFIELD P A.T ENT STARCH,
REE TRAP YOU CET IT,
As Inferior kinds are often substituted.
Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, Am, km
WOTHERSPOON alr CO., GLASGOW AND LONDON

CERTAIN RELIEF for the AFFLICTED.—
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOLE and LIVER PILLS, pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, are a sure remedy for affections of the
liver, indigestion, bile, sick headache, giddiness, loss of appe-
tite, lowness of spirits, &c. They can be taken at any time,
without any danger from wet or cold, act mildly on the bowels,
without pain or griping, clear the skin, remove sallowness
and Pimples, purify the blood, brace the nerves, and invigo-
rate the whole system. Sold by most druggists, in boxes,
Is. lid. And 2s. 9d. each. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's
Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green
package, with " W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street,' engraved
on the Government stamp.

ON DISQUALIFICATIONS AND IMPEDIMENTS TO
MARRIAGE.

, .
New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 Ana-
lomte,al- Engravings on Steel, just published, free by post,
on receipt of two penny stamps, sent by MuDicus, direei
from No. 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London,

• •
TIRE SILENT FRIEND:
a Medical Work, by a Physician, on indulgence, and
the injurious consequences from the use of Mercury.
with observations on the obligations of marriage, and direc-
tions for obviating certain disqualifications ; and containing
a valuable prescription of a Lotion to prevent Infection.
The Proprietors of PERRY'S justly celebrated Patent Me-
dicines have confided their Prescriptions to a Physician of the
Royal University of Erlangen, and Member of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons of England (who is registered under the
New Medical Act) and attends daily at No. 19 Berners-street,
Oxford-street, between the hours of 11 and 2, and from 5 till 8
(Sundays excepted) to advise Patients on their Diseases and
Treatment, and thus add to the speedy certainty of Cure.

ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD ON
CONVICTION.
The fearful dangers to invalids from spurious imitations of
DU BARRY's invaluable HEALTH-RESTORING REVA -
LENTA ARABICA FOOD led to an investigation, and,
upon application in 1854 for protection, the High Court of
Chancery granted an injunction restraining 'Alfred Hooper
Nevill, and his agents, under, a penalty of £5,000, from selling
any article resembling or being a colourable imitation of Du
Barry's Revalenta Arabica, .vz.iffh we arc the sole pro-
prietors. Now, therefore, this i give notice that the above
reward will be paid, upon con on, to anyone giving infor-
mation of any breach of the injunction. An intelligent
public requires no admonition to shun all shopkeepers who
mn.v attempt impositions. London :IBARRY DU BARRY
8c O,
NO HO LIE SICKLY OR ILL-CONDITIONED HORSES

OR OTHER CATTLE.
RAREY'S HORSE and CATTLE-IMPROVING FOOD
restores the efficiency, vigour, endurance, and muscle of 111-
7anditioned or apparently worn-out Horses, Cows, Bul-
locks, Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. In a short time it improves
!heir appearance and value by 20 and 30 per cent. RAREY
Lnd Co., 77, Regent's Quadrant, London. In tins at 35., at 65.,
lls. ; in casks, of about 450 feeds, 50s. ; of about 1,000 feeds,
t 5, being about lid. per feed.
Forwarded on receipt of Post-office orders. The casks free
of carriage.

IRON, SHIPS.

On the very day appointed to launch the first
iron steamer ever built in this city, and while the
wreck of the iron steamer Royal Charter is still the
topic of public interest,, we receive the sad details
of the total destruction of the iron steamer Indian.
Thus, at the dawn of this great revival of our
manufacturing and commercial interests, we are
startled by, two warnings which we cannot mis-
take. If we do not heed them, the third may
strike at the root of our 'new hopes. Not only
have 'foreign nations established the building of
iron ships, bringing it once for all through
early perils and adversities, and saving us a costly
course of experiments by placing their standard de-
signs, tools, and processes within our, reach, but
they have exhibited to us, at their own cost, the
frightful consequences of bad workmanship and bad
materials. Our national ingenuity, indeed, might
have taught us in time to make iron ships, but our
propensity to neglect engineering completeness for
the sake of hurrying, on commercial results has
retarded our progress and seriously injured our
reputation abroad. But now, without the risk of
failure, we may enter upon a successful career of
iron steam navigation, at once incited to the utmost
energy by the economy of.foreign vessels, and most
solemnly warned by examples of death and destruc-
tion against the devices of counting-room engineers,
and especially against using bad iron and bad work
because they. are cheap. It is scarcely necessary to
say that these ships have not been lost because they
were made of iron, or that, the fact 'of their loss
proves nothing against the' eading principles of
their construction: Even if the proportions and
arrangements of iron steamers could not be altered
—even if it were physically impossible to improve
their design, these accidents would not by any means
prove that there is necessary and inherent danger
in the fact that the hulls of these ships consist of
iron plates instead of wooden planks. The short
history of iron steamers . teaches a very different
lesson. it proves conclusively that well-built iron
ships are arc almost indestructible, even when ham-
mered and ground upon the rugged crags of lee
shores for years together. The entire hull of the City
of Philadelphia has lain for three or four years upon
the Rocks at Cape Mace ; the Tyne was exposed nearly
as long on the Dorset coastwithout apparent change;
the enormous hull of the Great Britain, having
thumped and chafed a whole winter upon the rugged
bottom of Dundrum Bay, was got off and has been
in service ever since; the Persia stove in and filled
her forward compartment by striking an iceberg at
full speed. and. finished her trip to New York in very
good winter time; the 'Edinburgh and the North
American have both struck at full speed npon rocks
in the St. Lawrence, the latter without material
injury. And these are only, average iron ships, not
in any way remarkable for excellent construction.
'What, now, is the history of iron vessels known to
have, been badly constructed ? Only last season
the Cuba, a' new steamer, opened her seams and
foundered on her first trip—not in an ocean hurri-
cane, or on the rocks Ora cape, but in the English
Channel. 'lie fact is that the experience with iron
ships, and with iron in all its forms, is now so large
and well defined, that it is not at all necessary to
go back to the construction of any given machine to
find out the character of its material and workman-
ship ; its results are more authentic and readable
than its history. No engineer would be so insane as
to investigate the character of the materials And
the successive stages in the manufacture of a rail-
way bar which had splintered and worn to pieces
in six months, simply to satisfy himself that it was
not a well-constructed rail, of unexceptionable
material. Neither is there the slightest necessity of
our inquiring into the character, and manufacture
of the hulls of these ill-fated vessels; the very fact
that they broke up at all is the most reasonable and
positive proof that they were wretchedly built.
'Phis belief mast also be strengthened by well-
known' collateral facts:—.Nete York Times.

OPENING OF TIIE DETROIT DIVISION
OF THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.

(Front the Detroit Advertiser.)
On Monday- that division of the Grand Trunk
Railway s between this city and Port Huron was
formally opened for traffic and travel. This was
the last link in the largest railway owned by, and
under the management of, one company, not only
upon the American continent, but in the world. It
is over 800 miles in length, costing the enormous
sum of 60'11:anions of dolls, and ponnecting not only
Detroit and Port Huron and the whole west with
Portland, but directly with Europe through the
Canadian line of steamers. ~Though this work has
been built with foreign capital, it is almost as much
an American as a Canadian road. It has both its
termini in the United States, while sixty miles of
it lies in Michigan, and over one hundred and fifty,
if we are
.not mistaken, in Maine. Its great re-
liance, too, for business, must he on the trade of the
United States, the vast West particularly. Though
it cannot but prove of vast benefit to that portion
of Canada that will,be trihutary to it, and must re-
ceive an immense local trade, yet it must depend
upon the trade between the Western States and
the East—its through traffic—for its profits. As
the Western terminus of this great enterprise, De-
troit must partake of a large share of its benefits.
If opens to us, and, through us, to the West, a new
avenue to the East, and what is equally important,
a direct trade with Europe. This is ultimately to
be a source of wealth to us that it is not easy to
estimate. Detroit, therefore, has a right to rejoice
at the final completion of this stupendous work.
The first train of cars over the Detroit division
of this road ran to Port Huron on Monday, and
though not an excursion train, several of our citi-
zens, were invited by Mr. Hall, the agent of the
company in this city, to avail themselves of the
occasion to visit Port Huron and Port Sarnia, with
the view of examining the line, and the company's
works at those places. The invitation was ac-
cepted by a goodly number of them. The train left
Detroit at 61 o'clock a.m., and arrived at Port
Huron at 10, there having been no change of cars
after leaving the Central depot. When the ferry
at Port Huron is completed, there is to be no
change between this city and Portland. The road
is probably one of the best constructed on the con-
tinent, and is one of the smoothest and most solid
new roads over which we have ever travelled. The
motion of the care was as steady and even as the
best ballasted railways in the country. No expense
has been spared to make it a safe and durable work,
it having been completed under the general super-
vision and'received the approval of engineers sent
out from England to examine it.
The works at Port Huron and Port Sarnia, in-
cluding -docks, depot, engine-houses, store-houses,
wheat elevators, &c., have been constructed with
the same disregard of cost, and the same regard for
durability and safety. The flour depots at each of
these places have capacity enqugh for storing
nearly sixty thousand barrels each, and the
wheat elevator is one of the most admirably
arranged and massively built edifices of the
kind' we have ever seen. The docks on
both sides.of the river have also been built in the
most substantial manner possible, and if they do not
defy time as well as the elements, it will not be the
fault of the company nor the mechanics.
Having inspected all the company's works, and
thoroughly explored the beautiful and prosperous
city of Port Huron, and the town of Port Sarnia,
the company, about 50 in all, sat down to an im-
promptu dinner got up for the occasion at the com-
pany's new hotel at Sarnia. Though
it is still nu-
finished and has not yet been opened to the public,
the proprietor provided an entertainment that
would have done credit to the best hotel in the
Country. Mr. Christie, the superintendent of the
road, assisted by Mr. Hall, presided at the repast.
The addresses were all to the point, and in admi-
rable temper and tone. The most striking and
gratifying feature was the cordial good feeling and
kindly regard they proved to exist between the
people of Canada and the United States. It would
have been hard for a stranger to have told, from the
sentiments expressed, whether the company were
all Canadians or all Americans. The language and
conduct of the English and Canadian gentlemen
present was marked by uniform courtesy towards
their Yankee neighbours, and their feeling was re-
,ciprocated with interest. The whole affair was one
of the pleasantest of the kind in all respects that we
have ever attended, and such was the universal sen-
timent of those present.
The completion of this division of the Grand
Trunk thoroughfare, besides giving us a direct oom-
munication with Portland and Europe, opens up to
us a new and extensive district of count/7 in our
own State that has until now been almost a sealed
book to us. It runs through a portion of our State
that has hitherto been wholly shut out from all
railroad advantages, and brings us within less than
three hours of Port Huron, one of the most flourish-
ing. and wide awake cities in Michigan.
The country through which it runs, though for
some of the way very level, is yet rich in its agri-
cultural capacities, and capable of producing its
full share of al: those articles which go to make up
our wealth. It will now begin to be rapidly settled
and developed. There is already a large popular

Sim, and many highly cultivated farms. Most of
the land is excellent, and the local traffic that will
flow into the Detroit and Port Huron division can-
not fail to be large and important, both to the com-
pany and to Detroit, but to neither so importantas
to the people who will be accommodated by this
new means of reaching a market, and by a cheap
and quick communication with the rest of the world.
As one of the immediate results of the completion
of this branch of the Grand Trunk we are informed
that a mail is to be made up in and leave Detroit
this morning direct for Europe, in charge of Mr.
Griffin, the agent for this company. This mail
consists, we presume of the mail matter of the whole
north-west which is -designed for Europe, and is in
accordance with the arrangement which we an-
nounced a few days since that the government had
entered. into for despatching a European mail
weekly from this city, via the Grand Trunk and
Canadian steamers.