The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-19 00:00:00

IHE CHINESE COLLECTION
ST. GEORGE'S-PLACE, HYDE PARK CORNER.
This Splendid Collection, consisting of Objects Exclusively
Chinese, surpassing in extent and grandeur any similar display
in the known world, entirely filling the spacious saloon, 225
feet in length, by 50 feet in width ; embracing
upwards of
Fifty Figures as large as life, all fac-similes, in groups, in
their native costumes, from the highest mandarin to the blind
mendicant in his patched garment. Also, many thousand spe-
cimens, both in Natural History and Miscellaneous Curiosi-
ties, illustrating the appearance, manners, and customs of more
than Three Hundred Million Chinese, respecting whom the
Nations of Europe have had scarcely any opportunity of judg-
ing, IS NOW OPEN for Public Inspection from Ten in the
Morning till Ten at Night.
Admission 2•. 6d.—Children Is.

This day, price ls
IH E L AN D, IRISH POOR-LAWS, and the
PERMANENT CAUSES of IRISH POVERTY.
Respectfully dedicated to the Right Hon. the Earl de Grey,
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, by F. C. WORSLEY.
Printed for the Author, and sold by William Blackwood and
Sons, 45, George-street, Ediourgh ; and 22, Pail-mall,
London.

ECOND-HAND WATCHES and CHRONO-
METERS.—A large gstgriment, of superior Second-
hand Watches on Sale, at WESTER and SON'S, Gluon°.
met r Makers to the Lords of the Admiralty, established 150
year =, consisting of the finest Chronometers, Duplex and Lever
Watches, with several Repeaters by the most eminent Makers
in Lo dun ; many nearly equal to new, at half their original cost:
all are warranted in their performance, having been repassed and
carefully examined. To country Gentlemen, the Clergy, and
those to whom accuracy. and economy are an object, the selee-
tion is worthy attention. Also some elegant and superior
FOREIGN WATCHES at low prlces.—W. and Son have
on the premises the finest Workmen in the repairing depart-
ment for English and Foreign work, to which equal attention is
devoted with their own manufacture, at the lowest possible
charges. W. and Son's new work consists of the most accu-
rately compensated Duplex and Lever Watches, adjusted to
counteract the variations of temperature upon the principles of
their Chronometers, to which Government awarded the Prizes
three years in succession. Old Watches taken in exchange.
Letters promptly attended to. WEBSTER and SON, 3,
Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London.

STARcII—BROWN and POLSON beg to in-
vite the attention of laundresses and the public to their
PATENT POWDER STARCH, unequalled for strength,
coloar, and purity. It gives a fine and glossy finish, does not
stick to the iron, and requires no boiling. The annexed certi-
ficate of that eminent chemist, Dr. Fyfe, will prove that it is
free of potatoe, and contains no deleterious ingredient.
‘. I hereby certify that I have submitted to chemical investi-
gation the starch manufactured by Messrs. Brown and Poison,
of Pais'ey, and that I have found it to be a pure article, conse-
quently free front any ingredient that would act injuriously
even on the finest fabric. From trials conducted with it under
my own superintendence, I have found that in starching it
toes farther than the best kinds of patent starch, that it gives
an equally fine finish, and that articles starched with it are not
iable to lose their stiffness. Having witnessed the proce.s of
manufacturing the starch in all its stages, I am satisfied that
potatoe flour is not used in its manufacture.
AW. FY FE, M. D. , F. R. S. E. ,

" Lecturer on Chemistry, Edinburgh.

" July 25, 1842."
Sold by all respectable oilmen and grocers, &c., in packages
of ilb., ilb., Ilb.. and 41b.
Also, their IMPROVED ARROW-ROOT, warranted free
of Potato, proven by the most competent judges to be equal in
all respects to the finest West Indian (as the annexed certifi-
cate from the celebrated Dr. Fyfe will show ), consequently as
well adapted as a lightsome and nutritious article of food for In-
valids and Infants • and makes excellent Blanc Mange without
any admixture of isinglass or Gelatine.
Sold by Chemists, Italian Warehousemen, and Grocers, in
" Edinburgh, June 25,1842,
half-pound and one pound packages, at 9d. per pound.
Brown and Poison's Improved Arrow Root, the manufacture
of which I have inspected, is prepared without any admixture of
Potato-dour. It possesses all the qualities of Wtst Indian Ar-
row Root, and therefore may be used as an equally wholesome
and nutritious article of food.
AW. FYFE, M.D.,F.R.5.E.,
" Lecturer on Chemistry."
Brown and Poison, Paisley, sole manufacturers; David
Brown, 29, Bread-street, Cheapside, Agent for London.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.
London, Aug. 19, 1842.
The Gazette of this evening will announce the
average prices of British, Brown, or Muscovalo
Sugars, exclusive of duty, la follows :
West India
East India .
Mauritius

Total average price.... . ...... 365. 611 „
The actual quantities of Sugar sold in the week
ending the 16th inst., according to the returns made
upon oath by the sugar brokers, in conformity with
the Act of Parliament, and on which quantities the
above prices are computed, consisted of 21,559 cwt.
of West India, 3,045 cwt. of East India, and 7,238
cwt. of Mauritius.
On Tuesday about 200 hhds. of Muscovado Sugar
from Cuba, of a quality (both as regards strength
and whiteness) superior to West India Sugar, were
sold in Mincing-lane, at public auction, for from 16s.
to 17s. per cwt., being 20s. per cwt. cheaper than
British Plantation Sugar, proving, beyond all cavil,
that the consumers of this country are paying the
monopolists, as we stated last week, four millions ster-
ling per annum in excess of price beyond the conti-
nental market value of their sugars.
We understand that the importers of sugar from
Cuba have realised a very handsome profit by the
above sale, and that other cargoes of it may be ex-
pected to follow—the price in Cuba being only one
dollar and a-half, or 6s. 6d. per cwt.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
SODA wAvER.

ROUGHSEDGE and SUMMERS have hitherto relied on
the discernment of the public to discover and appreciate
the superior quality of the Arated Water produced by
their manufactory, and they have scorned to have re-
course to any tricks. In the present day some persons
consider it requisite to make use of puffs and quackery
in order to extend the sale of their own productions by
detracting from the merits of rival establishments. R.
and S. have such strong grounds of reliance on the supe-
riority of their own soda-water and lemonade, found.el
on the recommendation of. the most eminent of thz‘
faculty, on the results of the most searching chemical
analyses, and the extensive and still increasing demand
for them by the public, both at home and abroad,
that they have hitherto treated the insinuations
of quackery alluded to with the contempt they
deserve. But if these indirect insinuations are
still to be obtruded on the public, R. and S. feel
themselves justified in offering those explanations that
may enable the public to judge for themselves. If R. and
S. have placed,the name of Schweppe upon their bottles,
it was never to mislead the public as to connexion with
that firm, but for, the purpose of a legitima'e
fact, and always subordinate to their own. Without im-
puting undue credit to the name of Schweppe, they have
simply stated that they came from the house of Schweppe
and Co.,—an undoubted fact, or doubtless it would have
been denied. For five and twenty years, during the very
period that the waters. sold by Schweppe gave to that
name all the celebrity it ever obtained, Mr. Summers
was the engineer and manufacturer of the waters sold
by that house in London, Derby, and Bristol. It is
many years since any person, having the slightest
connexion with the name or family of the late Mr.
Schweppe, has been connected with any house in the
trade. In the year 1834, the proprietor of the busi-
ness carried on under the name of Schweppe and Co.
sold his interest to persons with whom R. and S.
declined to remain : they preferred employing their iu-
dustry and practical knowledge in establishing a business
for their own mutual profit. Whether the waters sirwe
manufactured by the present firm of Schweppe and Co.
retain the quality which acquired for that house all its 1
celebrity, R. and S. decline to give an opinion ;_ but, in
justice to themselves, they do, with the most perfect con-
fidence and good faith, say that—highly as some ma-
nufacturers seem to estimate the bottles which bear
their name (expensive an item as bottles are), and diffi-
cult as it is to prevent retail tradesmen from returnint
wrong ones—there is no bottle bearing any other than
their own, however celebrated, to which Roughsedge and
Summers would wish to add the reputation to be derived
from filling them with waters of their own manufactory.
ROUGHSEDGE and SUMMERS only desire such patronage
as may be deserved from the JErated Waters produced
at their own manufactory, and sold under the labels of
their own name.-37, Bridge-street, Bristol.
THE CANADIAN PROPHECY.-Our readers will, no
doubt, remember the prophecy mentioned in our pages
some weeks ago. The highland seer, resident in
Canada, predicted that war was to descend upon us, and
the peaceful banks of Lochness were to be deluged with
blood ! The belief is still as strong as ever. We have
tried to throw cold water on the imposition, b 7 ridi-
culing it ; but, though men are sometimes to be laughed,
rather than reasoned, out of a belief, this delusion has a
hold that seems strong enough to defy the power of either
means to eradicate it. The accounts that reach us of the
state of doubt and anxiety into which the minds of
ti.,,usands have been thrown, are almost incredible.
Many arc anxious to emigrate before the blow comes
upon the country—many are hanging on in continual
fear; while others, putting a bold face upon on the mat-
ter, are furbishing their "fathers' swords" for the
strife. Old blades, that have hung in peace upon the
wall since they shone among the clans at Culloden, are
rtigleved from, their honoured resting-place, to await the
1 of the drab-coated
Itiverness Courier. Wurper upon our shores,--