The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-02 00:00:00

INTERESTING TO LADIES.

To Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London.
Percy-place, Landport, Portsmouth, April 4, 1844.
Gentlemen, —I think it but an act of justice to inform
you of the benefit I have derived from the use of your
admirable Macassar Oil. About six months ago I found
my hair getting daily more weak rnd thin, and much
discoloured, from a practice I had adopted of wetting it
continually ; fearing that I should lose it entirely, and
hearing of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil, I have for
some time past constantly used it, and the result is, that
my hair is now perfeetly restored and much improved
in appearance and colour, having become thick, dark, and
glossy ; it also curls freely without the use of paper,
which it never did before. To all my friends I have
warmly recommended your Macassar Oil as an eacellen t
restorative and preservative for the hair. As I have an
objection to see my name in print, I beg you will not
publish it; but you are at liberty to show this letter, or
make any other use you please of it, and refer applicants
to me, if necessary, in proof of the efficacy of your Ma-
cassar Oil.—Your obedient servant,

Rowland's Macassar Oil preserves and reproduces the
Hair ; prevents it from falling off or turning Grey ;
Changes Grey Hair to its Original Colour ; frees it
from Scurf and Dandruff, and makes it beautifully soft
and curly.
Ask for " Rowland's Macassar Oil."
All others are fraudulent counterfeits.

At a meeting of the high constables of Portobello
held at Mr. William Rose's Inn, for the purpose of
electing office-bearers for the ensuing year, the follow-
ing gentlemen were unanimously chosen :—Mr. Juhu
Claigee, Moderator ; Mr. John Rathbone, Secretary ;
Mr. Peter Spane, Treasurer ; Mr. James Paterson,
EAST INDIAN MAIL. --In consequence of the 3d of
this month falling en Sunday, the mails for Malta,
Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and India, via South-
ampton, will be made up and dispatched this evening.
The overland closed mail, via Marseilles, will be dis-
patched on the 7th instant.
APPARENT DEATH FROM DROWNING.—About six
o'clock on Thursday evening a lighterman, engaged in
mooring craft off Smith's wharf, Upper Thames-street,
suddenly slipped from the barge upon which he was
standing, and disappeared beneath the surface of the
water. Another lighterman rushed to the spot, but
nearly five minutes had elapsed ere the body was re-
covered. It was then carried into a public-house, life
being apparently quite extinct. Mr. Hutchinson, surgeon
of Farringdon-street, promptly attended, but it was
nearly an hour before he discovered any symptoms of
returning animation. He, however, now redoubled his
efforts, and in the course of twenty minutes longer his
patient recovered consciousness, was soon enabled to
speak, and last evening was in a fair way of recovery; a
striking proof of the necessity of untiring perseverance
in the endeavour to resuscitate bodies which have been
submerged in the water.
LORD MAYOR'S DAY.—Yesterday workmen were
busily employed in preparing the Guildhall for the ban-
quet on Saturday next, being Lord Mayor's day. The
stone flooring has been covered with boarding, on which
is painted a beautiful scroll work, surrounding the arms
of the Lord Mayor Elect and those of the City. At the
west end of the building a spacious gallery has been
erected, at the back of which is a splendid revolving
glass star, illuminated with gas. From the centre of
the building are suspended three large new glass chan-
deliers, and on either side of the building smaller chan-
deliers. The eastern end will be decorated in a splendid
manner; under the window, flags, drums, and pieces of
armour are being put up to form a trophy, under which
is the motto,—" God save the Queen, in gas jets.
Tho several monuments have been thoroughly cleaned,
and are covered over with canvas to keep the dust from
settling on them. The lcmer part of the walls is to be
hung with crimson cloth, wh,lst in different parts of the
building suits and pieces of armour, with instruments of
war, will be displayed. The civic procession after leav •
ing Guildhall will, it is understood, proceed through
King-street, Cheapside, Poultry, Mansion-house-street,
and Icing William-street to London-bridge, returning by
the usual route up Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Ludgate-
hill, St- Paul's Churchyard, Cheapside, to the Guildhall.
NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES.—The Earl of
of Shrewsbury, who subscribes such large sums of money
towards the erection and ornamenting new edifices for
the performance of Roman Catholic worship in every
part of the kingdom, and whose name appears among
the list of contributors on every occasion of the kind, is
building, at his own expense, a splendid church at
Cheadle, in Staffordshire, about five miles from his
beautiful seat, Alton Towers. In addition to the mate-
rials for building this new church, which is to be com-
posed entirely of stone, he intends to spend no less than
25,0001. in ornamenting and completing the same. The
ornamental portion of the building is to be of the most
magnificent description, and altogether it will be one of
the finest things of the kind in the kingdom. His Lord-
ship is also erecting a new church at the village of
Alton, about a mile from his seat, solely at his own
expense, with a monastery for a new order of monks
about to be established there. This building will cost a
great deal of money, and will be of the most complete
character, containing every description of department
suitable to the extensive undertaking.
SALE OF A SUGAR PLANTATION.—Yesterday, at
one o'clock, a sale by auction took place at the Auction
Mart of five hundred and sixty -three acres of cane plan-
tations, cane holes, and plant and pasture land, in a high
state of cultivation, together with the machinery, build-
ings, &c., forming the Auchenskesch estate, situated at
Sandy Point,Little Rockley Bay, in the island of Tobago.
Of the land forty acres were appropriated as garden
ground for the negro population employed on the plan-
tation. The valuation of the whole property was ap-
praised at 15,762 i., including two copper clarifiers of 600
and 500 gallons respectively, &c., and the crop for 1845
consisted of 32 acres of full plant, and four acres3oo.foloand
opened, besides rattoons. The first offer wwasa s •
std for
and after a smart competition the prope y
5,1501.
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FbMETROPOLITANOEHoIborn
LINE.—The
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side build houses, intended to be erected on
panrodpFosoarles AN ill be cffered by the Commissioners of Woods
formed for the several buildings; a spacious sewer, about
to
9 000 feet in length, has been constructed the entire
sts
oftothbeui road.T he
whole of the vaults are
extent of the roadway, joining the one in Holborn, and
either
the great sewer in Tottenham-court-road ; the gas-pipes
are nearly all laid down, and it is expected that in the
course of a week or two the water-pipes will be placed
in the ground, as surveyors have taken a measure of the
distance for that purpose. The foot-paths are narked
out, and there are now regular thoroughfares fur foot-
passengers between Holborn and Oxford-street. At the
south end of Plumtrc-street the Commissioners have
given instructions for the erection of three large houses,
from designs by Mr. Pennethorn, the architect, and they
arc to be specimens, according to which those in the line
are to be raised. They will be in the Elizabethan style,
composed of Bath stone and brick.
Some travelling drapers, as they term themselves,
have recently visited Wales, for the purpose of selling
cheap ready-made clothes. A cargo arrived last week
at Ruthin, and several sales were effected; but the pur-
chasers soon found that the garments had not been
sewn, but stuck together with some adhesive preparation,
and were liable to drop into pieces in the stmts.—.
Shrewsbury Chronicle.