The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-22 00:00:00

CHINESE DOMESTIC AC

TECTURE. Intl) of
Extract of a letter from Shanghae, dated the --
February on " As soon as I could get a place I removed on sh°re.:
My house is neither very large nor very ding.
consists of six small rooms, name:y, dining-room, sitt 0 _
room, and office (all in one), bed-room,
store-room, and two rooms occupied by my linguisteghe
Shroff, so that all are in use. The roomspa °' the
house is built entirely of wood ; the about Ind
feet high at the sides, and 15 feet in the centre (I°P to
the roof), and the tiles visible, there being no ceilingd
so
muster-re
no/d
cover the rafters. By dint of papering the walls, 511 the
stopping up, or rather covering, the chinks betweeil
and cl?°o_,
planks, putting curtains to the windows
making a ceiling of mats, by nailing them to the raftodeg.
and carpeting the rooms, I have made the place,,lfin of
rately comfortable, at least habitable, and by the %Inc-
a small stove, and a pan of charcoal, or rather c°`-',,cl
sition of charcoal and other substances, which is 110-.
here, I keep myself from freezing ; but it is utterly Id
possible to ke,,p draughts out of a Chinese house,llsbs,
occasionally get a twinge of rheumatism. flowever'ol.
next winter, I hope I shall have things wore c°
fortably arranged. n the
" The weather is very cold, and snow lying °"--; -
ground. The thermometer, when I got up this moral;
was 28 deg. in my room. lam sometimes cold at
with four blankets and a quilt over Me, and frequentl.o
find the water in the basin, nail-brushes, Bce.; fre'lefftlet
the morning. Although not very pleasant to me, "otl
being
accustomed to a tropical climate, it is bracinghen
will, I trust, strengthen me to stand the hot welltnjs
I have been told that the thermometer sometimes sta;%.
at 127 deg. here in the shade. I suspect it must be 're
agg,,rated. Fortunately it does not last long, 11°_!;.,11::"
than three months, or it would be impossible to ax'''

FAIR SUFFERERS.

(From Punch.) t of
By fair sufferers we mean about ninety-nine oaoo.
every hundred of those poor dear young ladies'
deinned, thrcngh the accident of their birth, to latigliesr
in silk and satin, beneath the load of a fashionableer9,
istence. Ah ! little think the gay licentious P9'11,1; be
who have no plays, operas, and evening parties ride
forced to go to, and no carriages to be obliged t'°,tbe
about in, of the miseries which are endured bltbio
daughters of affluence ! It is a well-known fact'. 5
scarcely one of these tender creatures can 10%eig
theatre or a concert-room ten minutes without -fitif
seized with a violent headache, which, more freclue,e i 5
than not, obliges her to leave before the perfornne;tice
over, and drag a brother, husband, lover, or qtetof
young man, away with her. If spared the headache'
often is she threatened with a fainting fit (nay, nlber
then seized with it), to the alarm and disturbance °f still
company ! Not happening to feel faint exactlYh'ey, it,
there is a sensation, " a something," as she doer be
" she doesn't know what," which she is almost suree;tbe•
troubled with. Unvisited by these afflictions, never
less, either the cold, or the heat, or the glare of tuitee
or some other source of pain, oppresses or excrilelob
her susceptible nerves. And when we take one 00
young lady, and put together all the public amuse
of
which she must either go to—or die--in the courtdieo,
London season ; and when we add up all the he9w-wbst!
and swoons, and the somethings she doesn't 100.00
the shiveriags, burnings, and other agonizing sens;olo9
which she has undergone by the end of it ; ther„,e-915t!
an aggregate of torture truly frightful to colipc-'4s'
Suppose she is obliged to walk—this is soine-oti
actually the case—happy is she if she can go two
yards without some pain or other ; in the side, the
shoo'
the shoulder, the great toe. Thus the pleasure of sio
ping, promenading, or a pic-nic is embittered • thq sbe
colocynth infused into the eau sucree of bliss! t bet
reads a chapter in a novel, the chances are thi:l
temples throb for it. She tries to embroider a 9°, lief
doing more than an arm of him at a time strulo-feell
eyes. Employ herself in what way she will, silefsh9
fatigued afterwards, and may think herself well off 'tits;
is no worse. Nine days out of ten she has no lem, ilti
on the tenth she enjoys her dinner, and is ta,451
Then comes-that horrid physic ! She cannot time '.bes
she objects to powders • draughts are insufferable 0010
Poor unfortunate ! What is she to do ? W:l4 nu
care to vex her, save, perhaps, some slight *,-,11 O
respecting the Captain, she is unable to rest, thone ben
a couch of down. Exercise would procure her sillincor
but oh ! she cannot take it. Whether a little 10991,000;
finement of the waist, earlier hours, plainer inll°,;eolP
more frequent airings in the green fields, and 14.
and bodily exertion generally, than what,
spects, is the fashionable usage, would in any titiloneci.,
viate the miseries of our fair sufferers, may be quo-- r
It may also be inquired how far such miseries.4o.
imaginary, and to what extent a trifling exercise of Pr
lution would tend to mitigate them ? Otherivistireo
posing them to be ills that woman is necessarily Twill
to—unavoidable, irremediable : gracious powers ea
torments, what anguish, must fish women, washe'-51-
charwomen, and haymakers, to say nothing of seas
of of all-work, and even ladies' maids, endure every -
their lives ! in thescor

DEAFNESS.
TESTIMONIAL from John Sawyer, Esq., °f 5
wood Lodge, Maidenhead, Berks, to Messrs. S. and 13.
mons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Gentlemen, Mo
4le
been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the month 00,
vember, 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Condo/70
and, although at my advanced age, at that time past n3/0/1
year, I had no hope of obtaining any relief, yet immedild Ol
applied them I could hear the general conversation, 51,310°
hearing has become so much improved bheir use, that
now hear acutely without their aid. I am, Gentlemen'
0
most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 22d June, 1841;41;
the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen Waters,
Messrs, S. and B. Solomons :—Gentlemen, having berlroie/
for many years, I was induced to try your Invisiblitops4
Conductors. They enable me to hear persons in 001
and at a place of worship most distinctly. The ped° ,
Handglass which you have sent me are very excellen
suit my sight perfectly, the transparency of which is lryd,,
liant, that although I have passed my 86th year tbeht,l2
May last, yet they enable me to read, and by eandle-ligtoibr,
the greatest ease and comfort to myself. I return 1,.„°2."
thanks, and remain your obedient servant, Henry
22d June, 1839.--Telescopes, Opera Glases,
Dgicr
&c. of the same kind of Lenses.—Caution.—Messrs. S.lll 4.41 a
lomons, Opticians and Aurists, arc not in any way Comte' orlio°'
a person of the same name in their immediate neighb°b";
Nor n any part of the country. To prevent mistake!'
ittee
tious, and Observe,—Only to be had at 39, Albemsilt"
Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. 111
PLEASING RESULTS.—With the gaiety assillnre
nature in the brightness of the summer season the 0(0
few disinclined to participate; and in pursuit •
tbeii
rational enjoyments, personal agremens, in ne,
variety, are necessarily objects of desire-4°„%flor
which the perfection and durability are at onee
and important, meet their most available preserlot
Gowland's Lotion ; first, as a decided remedy ltd
cutaneous impurities ; and, secondly, as an elegfrefe.,4"
and effective appendage to the toilet, removl,eoftos
species of local discolouration, defending the
all the well-known effects of heat upon its surfni • 're
as contributing largely to continued delicacy and
,f 1
ness of the complexion.
A WONDERFUL CURE BY HOLLOWA:-;
7
AND OINTMENT.—Edward White, residing a' 0.1
Clement's-lane, Strand, was an in-door patient OS , oil 14
College Hospital, for an abscess in the thigall'
wound, nine inches long, on the same limb. L'eroollt,
neither bend his knee nor put his foot to the bbeeo
He remained at the hospital five months in bed, 1„
H ril?„4.
was informed "that nothing more could be done "d 0.01
Fie was then carried to his home, and commence sb!,ll,
the above invaluable medicines. He can now wa`o
all the day long ; but, to complete the cure, be 50))1/9',,,
the remedies. Sold at Professor Holloway's es, 0;
meet, 224, Strand, where advice may be had gra,,iit v
by all respectable venders of medicine throng"'
civilised world. ,
THIRD EDITION OF " CONINGSBY."-- e pr." 01 quested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great
rough-street, has this day published a Third x,' PYI:8
" Coningsby or, The New Generation," by "—noi°„.l raeli, Esq„ M.P. in 3 vols. post Bvo. which eslAiir. vo;
had
of alf booksellers and at all the libraries. Pstott;
burn has also just published-2. The Hon G.,,0004-1,,
Smythe's " Historic Fancies," J val. Bvo., 12s. "
3. The second volume of Ur. Townsend's Meal ess of
the Rause of Commons, Bvo.-4, The Marchieontirts°
Londonderry's Narrative of fret. Visit to the C.,01, SI;
Vienna, Constantinople, fLchens, Naples, &c.,_.1
—and, The sevenfa volume of miss tr'e,,e 913:
" Lives of the Queens of England," com rising t'naplet"
elusion of the Life of Queen Elisabeth, andr the
sg 0
Life of Anne of Denmark,
‘.gt.
SINGULAR TREFT.—On Wednesday 7.-o-af,f°'
boy was in a spinney adjoining the turnpik',.:el, con
this town to Loughborough, he discovered a 1311—c10:1;
tainitg, twenty-three. shrouds fifteen breast" tit
twenty-four face-cloths, and four caps, evideflioefq Property of some tradesman who furnished n, sock
q have been made in Leicester, but as, sic
`l, tides have been missed by the drapers beret
,Iraper
posed that they have been stolen from some "
Nottingham or Derby. —Leicester Mereury.,..,

1111' of
BIR. Wield°
On the 15th inst., the ladyTHS
of the Rev....
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Twyford, Hants, of a daughter. , of
On the 16th inst., at Ely-grange, Frant, the Law
James Hebdon, Esq., of a son. 11
va,
On the 17th inst., at Polygon-terrace, Soutba;n"-c
Joseph Lobb, of a son. Pe° On the 18th inst., at Streatham-hill, Bll.ll* J. 0• r eAri,
of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Brunswick-square, the 18d7 d m
il.
E. Kendall., jun., Esq., of a son. ale, 1/I.l*
RoOwno:.:onfeal9dtahuginhstte.r,. ""at Beaufoy-terrace, Maida

are'
MARRIED.
ono r-scloud 0C
On the 10th inst., at St. George's Church,
only
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Tloratio Kemble, Esq., to Margaret Amelia, :',l3:,i'dieseAletr•
Lieutenant- Colonel Carpenter, of Potter's-bar, _ "'"" tho '"•te,
On the Bth inst., at St. Alkmond's, Shrewsbury', _..09111
J. Poole, 8.A., incumbent of landsillo, 111-ontgonAi., wr
Pauli
Berlin
On 110.te,:hBeFlani138antoYhi:
t° Emily, eldest elan hlB. Blythe' s g ter of the late
1,004
goon, of Cound, Shropshire. T..— to
On the 10th inst., at the British Embassy, Berlin* Ail' of
Bentley-, Esq., of the Free Grammar School, Shrew-uioth
ior
common, to Caroline Augusta Field, sixth &tug
egohrtpeer,oEf
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Surrey...ipYll:SataigAe youngest
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On the 10th inst ,Franene ---
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big'
Leigham House, gtreatham. rm,fner 9-
On the 11th inst., Mr, Cuthbert Relpb, of A .."---
Pa' Cheshunt,.aged 69, John
On the loth inst., at Brand-street, Greenwich,
Edward- Seat. f of
6n the 18th inst., pall-malbeast, John ~„fesso
On the 18th inst., Hyman Hurwitz, Esq.' -"-
Hebrew at University College, London.
h Holborn.
Ou the 19th inst., Mr. F. G. Berry, of Hig--
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