The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-02 00:00:00

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo-
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed
by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
tof .ii),000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro-
pean
~,llfsitorY, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, In 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
daring the last and present year, by the Royal Fami'y, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes,' Ambassadors, and their Ladles,
also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; ant the Pro-
peletor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine
pictures, fice., his previous almost incredible number an variety of
118 S" W°ri" °f Art, and a multitude of valuable Relic,. and other
ercirloaltice, in this most ~i.iiructive and. as hundreds hare said it
otlght to be, a National Miseum. a-y thousand have inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS -d the PUBLIC PRESS
have stated that it °ugh' to be seen by every one. The price of admis-
Hon is reduced to ONE SHILLING.
The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to i,c. seen only at the " Egyptian
VIall," Piccadilly, daily ti OM Tea tin Dusk,

We have to announce the death of Mr. l Franc •s
Bailey, F.R.S., President of the Royal Astronomical
Society, who expired on Friday last, at his residence in.
Tavistock-place, Russell-square, in the 71st year of his
age. His scientific attainments were of the highest
order ; he was a doctor of civil law, member of the
Royal Irish Academy, a fellow of the Linnean and
Geological Societies, and a fellow of the Royal Society,
having been elected of that body in 1521. He was cor-
respondent for several learned and scientific societies
abroad, amongst others—the Royal Institute of Paris,
and the Academy Royal at Berlin. His death will be
regretted by a large circle of friends and acquaintances,
by whom he was deservedly esteemed.
DEATH FROM LIGHTNING.—During a thunder-
storm, on Saturday evening last, three persons were
struck by the electric fluid on Sandford-hill, in the parish
of Widscombe, Somerset ; one of them, a lad, about
eighteen years of age, named George Hares, was killed
on the spot; the poor fellow's clothes, including his hat
and shoes, were literally torn to pieces and scattered on
the ground. A man, named William Adams, who was
near him at the time, had an exceedingly narrow escape,
the s)le of ooe of his boots being completely torn away
with out injury to him further than blistering his foot.
The
track the electric fluid is visible on the pound
for about thirty yards, in some places on the surfa;e, and
at others dipping 6, few. •
ches under.—Bristol Gazette.

THE WEATHER.—STIN OFFICE, SEPT. 2.
T lERMOKETER, Lowest, 47 ; Highest, 70; Noon, 73.
BAROMETER, 30.65.—W1ND, W.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
fraezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
zually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Miming ..$5O minutes after 4 I Evening ... 5 minutes after 5