The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-30 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS,

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
The Celebrated Juvenile Harpists (the Lockwood Family) will
perform Trios, under the direction of Mr. Frederick Chatterton, daily
at Four.—Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on Voltaic Electricity, in
which will be exhibited Aliman's Patent Electric Light, on Tuesday
and Thursday Evenings, at Nine.—Lecture by J. H. Pepper, Esq., on
Fire and its Antagonists, illustrated with brilliant Experiments.—
New Lecture by Mr. George Barker, entitled an English Christmas,
illustrated by appropriate Ballads, every Evening (except Saturday)
at Eignt o'clock. —Exhibition of the Oxy-Hydrogen Microscope.—En-
tirely New Series of Dissolving Views, illustrating some of the Royal
Residences of Europe.—Diver and Diving-bell, 8r..e., &c.
Admission, ls.—Schools, Half-price.
Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex-
.ept !Saturday) from Seven till Half, past Ten.

SEASONABLE PRESENTS
At this festive period of the year, when friends and lovers as-
semble at the social board, or join in the mazes of the dance, a more
than usual anxiety is created for Personal Attraction, and the fol-
lowing unrivalled discoveries for the Toilet are called into increased
requisition, namely—
ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL,
for creating and sustaining a luxuriant head et hair ;
ROWLANDS' ICALYDOR,

for rendering the skin soft, fair, and blooming; and
ROWL ANDS' ()DONT°, OR PEAR% DENTIFRICE,
for imparting a pearl•like whiteness to the Teeth.
The patronage of Royalty throughout Europe, and the high appre-
ciation by rank and fashion, with the well-known infallible efficacy
of these articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled, and render them
a Peculiarly Elegant and Seasonable Present.
*4.* Beware of Spurious Imitations. The only genuine of each
bears the name of " ROWLANDS' " preceding that of:the article on
the wrapper or label. Sold by them at 20, Hatton-garden, London,
and by Chemists and Perfumers.

CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho;
147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct from the author,
wiee One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
" Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."
Cowraprre:—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Diorninga--Ex-
oarsions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
rein and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evening., at Home
—Mnsio—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
Zest, Ease, Occupation, Ste., 840-
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FRAGMENTS FROM TREMOITNTAINS. Two Tolo.
poll._____ _

VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH*OF EDINBURGH, &a.

Vol. 11.

THE LAKEs or KILLARNEY; REMINISCENCES or
DUBLIN, &c.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
" Tliat three score years and ten ova' course may run."
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vonsly-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
:he young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
,,itters old age, with tables and rules ibr the diet and physical regu-
lation of every-day ufe.

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

v.
TLIE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."
Paeolastsra:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and ro.
Lizion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy oftlspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
CUM &c.

By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.B.C.S. (1827). L.B.A.
1824). Twenty-An Pan Medical and Forensic Referee in then
Tatters. Reoeption been daily till Ave, Evenings, upon till nine.
10 Aran-plus, Refentlitletti