The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-08 00:00:00

'lllriE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
Dr. Bachhoffner's Second Lecture on the Philosophy of Scientific
Recreation—Optical Effects, daily at Two, and every Evening except
Saturday, at Eight o'clock.—Third Lecture by J. 11. Pepper, Esq.,
en the Chemistry of the Metals, with brilliant Experiments, daily
and in the Evenings. —An entirely new Series of Dissolving Views
exhibiting Scenes in Ceylon, from Sketches taken on the spot by A.
Nicholls, Esq., painted on Glass by Mr. Clare. Also a Series of
Views of the Arctic Regions, wills an interesting Description, daily
at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings. The Views of London in
the Sixteenth Century, and as It now is, are shown at One o'clock.—
Experiments with the Diver and Stc., Sec.
Admission, Is.--Schools, Half-price.

TO THE INHABITANTS OF POPLAR, LIMEHOUSE, STEP-

NEY, AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.
A. PUBLIC MEETING will be held at the
TOWN HALL, Church-lane, Limehouse, on WEDNESDAY
EVENING, April 10, to take into consideration the propriety of
Establishing a Literary and Scientific Institution, and the Erection
of a suitable Building for that purpose, in the Eastern Locality of the
Tower Hamlets.
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The Chair will be taken at Seven o'clock precisely, by GEORGE
FREDERICK YOUNG, Esq., who will be supported by several in-
fluential Gentlemen of the neighbourhood.

EVENING EXHIBITION.

THE EXHIBITION of WORKS of ANCIENT
and 31 EDLEVAL ART and SPECIMENS of RECENT
PRI FISH MANUFACTURES, is NOW OPEN, at the Rouse of
the Society of Arts, J•hn-street, Adelphi, Daily, between the hours
of Ten and Five : and IN ADDITION from Seven till Ten on:the
Evenings of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Admission, Is.—Catalogue, Is.

Q.OILED LINENS AT HALF THE VALUE.
Ladies who do not object to purchasing LINENS a little
Soiled can now have an opportunity of buying some of the very best
fabrics at half-price.
These goods (samples), from which extensive orders have been
taken, are the best, being the specimen cloths of such well-known
makers as Knox, Beverage, &c., and are now to be sold at half the
pries of the same goods when clean. Irish linens, 26 yards for 12e.
6d. ; superior Irish linen, 26 yards for 18s.; finest Coleraines, 26 yards
for 235. ; positively worth ls. 9d. per yard when clean ; damask table
cloths, two yards square, from 2s. 6d. to 4s. 9d. each, those at 3s. 9d.
being double damask three yards long; rich damask, ss. 9d. each ;
three yards long double damask,' Os. 6d, each ; five yards long damask,
each, 12s. ; five yards long splendid double damask, fit for the table
of the nobility, 20s. each; table napkins, from is. 11d. per dozen; a
large lot of superb damask, a yard square, at 10s. Gd, the dozen.
There are also about 2,000 single pairs of fine linen sheets from
two to three yards wide, from 4s. Gd. to Ilbs. the pair, those at 12s.
6d. the pair being three yards wide and seven yards long; alio
dusters, diapers, tosvellings, &c., all subject to the same reduction.
The above linens aro only slightly soiled, and uninjured for wear,
and are now ready far sale, at BROJKS'S, 105 and 106, High-street,
Borough, one door from King-street, and three minutes' walk from
the London-bridge Railway Terminus. N.R.—Sanapies forwarded
into tile country, or any part of town, if written for.