The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-25 00:00:00

THE NINTH EDITION,

Just Published, in a sealed envelope, price 2s. 6d., and sent free, on
receipt of a Post-office Order for 3s. 6d.
MANLY HEALTH : a Popular Inquiry into the
Concealed Cause of its Premature Decline, with Instruc-
tions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those suffering from
the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminating in
Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, In-
digestion, and Consumption.. Including a comprehensive Dissertation
on MARRIAGE. Illustrated with Cases, &e. By C. J. LUCAS
and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London.
May be had of the Authors, No. 60, Newman-street, Oxford-street;
and sold by Brittain, 11, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co., 63,
Oxford-street; Noble, 109, Chancery-lane; J. Gordon, 146, Leaden-
hall-street; G. Mansell, 3, King-street, Southwark; C. IVesterton, 15,
Park-side, Knightsbridge; Huett, 37, Princes-street, Leicester-
square, London ; T. Sowler, Courier-office, 4, St. Ann's-square, Man-
chester; W. Howell, 75, Dale-street, Liverpool; W. Wood, 78, High_
street, Birmingham ; W. and H. Robinson, 11, Greenside-street, Edin-
burgh; T. Price, Dame-street, Dublin; and all Booksellers.

"Vie best of all friends is the professional friend ; and In no shape
can he be consulted with greater safety and secresy than in ' Lucas
on Manly Health.' The author shows how ` Manly Vigour,' tem-
porarily impaired, can be restored." The New Bell's Weekly
Messenger. _ . .

Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from Ten till Two, and
from Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence, No. GO, New-
man-street, Oxford-street, London, and country patieuts may be
successltlly treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclosing
the usual fee of 1/. for advice.

LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" lie, who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthibl charms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man!"
Just published (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 2s. 6d., or
sent by post, free, to any address, 3s. 6d.,
QELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
kY those concealed disorders, originating in youthfbi excesses,
and terminating In Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions ter their
perfect Restoration.
By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c.
" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and prevented
through the follies anti frailties of early indiscretions. To suck, among
others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many questions
may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even to tha
most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.
" Long experience in the treatment of a class of diseases hitherto
neglected and most imperfectly understood by the great bulk of the
medical profession, has .euabled the writer to prove that there are
concealed causes of Nervous Debility lu existence, where the mere
routine practitioner would never dream of finding them; traceable
to certain habits, forming the most secret, yet deadly, and fittal
springs of domestic misery, and premature mortality."—Wakefield
Journal.
Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and
52, Paternoster-row; Starie, 23, Tichborne-street, Quadrant, Regent-
street; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery-
lane Gordon. 146, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers.
At home every day till Three, and from Five till Eight.

FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Human
Frailty, with Coloured Engravings.
Just published. price 2s. Gd., free by post (in a sealed envelope) 35. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
the Infirmities of the Generative System in both sexes ; and
on the loss of the reproductive powers, with means of restoration.
The banefbi effects of solitary indulge-Ice, neglected syphilis symp-
toms, &c., are fully pointed out. Illustrated by Engravings; followed
by observations on Marriage, with plain directions for the removal of
certain disqualifications. By It. and L. PERRY and Co., Consult' ng
Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and may be ad at
their residence, 19, BERNERS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET.
Sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox-
ford-street ; Gordon, 14G, Leadenhall-street ; Purkiss, Compton-
street, Soho; and all Booksellers.
"We regard the work before us, the Silent Friend,' as a work
embracing most clear and practical views of a series of complaints
hitherto little understood, and passed over by a majority of the me-
dical profession, for what reason we aro at a loss to know. We must
however confess that a perusal of this work has left such a favourable
impression on our minds, that we not only recommend, but cordially
wish every one who is the victim of past folly, or suffering Loin indis-
cretion, to profit by the advice contained in its pages."—Age and Argus.
The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is exclusively directed to
the cure of nervous and sexual debility, irregularity, weakness, lope
of appetite, indigestion, consumptive habits, and debilities arising from
excess, &c. In bottles, price I Is., or the quantity of four in One
bottle for 335., by which 1 is. are saved. The Ilse-pound cases may
be bad as usual.
The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE EssrisTz,
yp
um remedy tsar searching olft and .purilying the blood' thin Scurvy,
blotches en the head, face, and body, ulcorations, and those palorai
affp,qtjouS arising from improper treatment or the off t
s removing secondary symptoms, and 411 MIN()of of mercury,
I Is. and 335. per bottle. the skin, Price
PERRY'.? PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d., 42. Gd.,
and I is. per box, are the most effectual rented), for strictures, inflam-
mation, irritation of the bladder, &c., withoutdethaiinldoranf casceestonebeenshissaZ
C,onsultatlon fee, if by letter, 1/. Minute
Messrs. Perry are in daily attendance, tbr consultation, at their re-
ri.lence, 19, Bornera-str,o, oY6rd.,-reet 4,
5 tl4B:* 'cln Sundays IlEtn. 10 tiff-12t de°)."l4l 41
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41
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SHIP TORBAY TAVERN, PIER HEAD, GREENWICH.
MR. THOMAS GODSELL feels great pleasure
in tendering his best thanks to the Patrons, and begs to as-
sure them that he continues to keep a similar stock of well-selected
Wines, Spirits, Ales, &c. on the premises, which has gained for the
Tavern its present celebrity.

The above Establishment combines first-rate accommodation with
economic principles,—comprising spacious Dining and Club Rooms,
with separate Smoking Rooms, also private Rooms for Select Parties.
Joints, Steaks, Chops, Soups, White Bait, &c. as usual.
Ordinaries on Sundays at Two and Three o'clock precisely.
Beds constantly well-aired.
N.B.—Business conducted also (on the anove principles) at the
Bengal Arms Tavern, Birchin-lane.
Ordinary from One to Five, daily.

41,71CHWEPPE'S SODA and other ALKALINE
I,J WATERS continue to be manufactured, as usual, upon the
largest scale, at their several establishments, and to maintain their
supremacy over -all others. Sixty years' experience, added to the
unvarying favour of the public during that long period, have enabled
them to sustain the reputation they acquired as the original Inventors
of Aerated Waters ; and their manufactories at Liverpool, Bristol,
and Derby, enable them to supply all the provinces with equal faci-
lity as from their principal establishment In London. Respectable
agents will be found in every city and town in England, Scotland,
and Wales, as well as In all the large towns on the - eastern coast of
Ireland. Each bottle has its proper proportion, of alkali ;• lint, to
prevent impOsition, consumers are earnestly requested to ascertain
that a label, with their name, is over the cork of each bottle of Soda
Water, and a label on each bottle of Lemonade and POURS Water.
Schweppe's Liquid Magnesia is of the finest quality, a .d strongly
recommended as a cure for gout, acidity of the stomach, Re., by the
first London physicians.

51, Bernen,-street, London

•
_p ATENT BELMONT MOULDS, Gid. per lb.
of a dark colour, but burning without snuffing, as well as the
finest wax or sperm:
PATENT BELMONT WAX and SPERM, is. per lb., expected
to be within a short limo the only candles used by the upper classes.
PATENT BELMONT COMPOSITES, lad. per lb.
PATENT BELMONT SPERM OIL, purer than the finest animal
Spent), 4.c. per Callon.

Any of these, as also Price's Patent Candies, and the Vauxhall
Composite Candles inay he ordered through any dealer in town or
country, and are supplied wholesale to the trade in London, by
Edward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall ; Palmer and Co., Sut-
ton-street, Clerkenwell ; and William Marchant, Regent-
circus, Oxford-street; in Manchester, by Richardson and Roe Luck,
Market-place; in Bath, by T. and O. Butcher, No. 4, Saw-close ;
In Cheltenham, by Mathews and Co., 400, High-street ; and in Salis-
bury, of C. Stokes and Son. 4.. •

- -
Parties wishing to try any of these articles, but finding difficulty In
obtaining them, are
.requested to write to Edward Price and Co.,
lielmott, Vauxhall, who will tilen send the address of a dealer whom
they know to keep the Candles and nil, or should there he no .such
dealer in•the neighbourlWoA will take °Titer measures to furnish
samples.

I)AVIES'S BEST MOULD, CANDLES, 6d.
per lb., with the improved Wax Wlehs. Store Candles, 5d.;
Hale's Superb Composite, 9!Cid.; Price's, 10d. ; Vauxhall, fq4d.
• Ogleby's Botanic Wax, Is.; German Wax, Is. 2d.; Fine Wax, Is. 5d.;
Transparent Wax, Is. 10d.; Genuine Wax, 2s. Id.; Genuine Sperm,
Is. 10d.; Palmer's Metallic, and Bd.; Bale's Metallic, 7 V,(l. ;
Yellow Soap, 461., 425., and 588.- per 112 lbs; Mottled, GOs. and 645.;
White Windsor, Is. 44. per Packet; Palm, Is. 44. ; Old' Brown
Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2a. 6d.; Superfine Sealinz
Wax, 41. Gd. per b.; Genuine Sperm Oil, 7s. 6d. per gallon; Oglehy's
Patent Oil, equal to Sperm, 4s. Gd. ; Solar, 3s. Gd.
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Mar,
tin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house.

FIDDLE AND PRINCE ALBERT'S PATTERN PLATE.
B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing
• Silversmiths, 14, Cornlllll, London, opposite the Bank of
England—The best wrought SILVER SPOONS anti FORKS, Fiddle
Patten., 7a. 2d. per ounce; the Prince Albert's Pattern, 7s. per
ounce. The articles may be had lighter or heavier, at the same price
per ounce :

The Fiddle. oz. a. d. s. tl.lPrinee Albert's. nz. s. d. s. d.
12 Table Spoons 30 at 7 210 IS 112 Table spoom• 40 at 7 6.. 15 0 0
12 Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 7 3 4 12 Dessert ditto 26 at 7 6.. 9 IS 0
12 Table Forks 30 at 7 210 15 0,12 Table Forks 40 at 7 6..15 0 0
12 Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 7 3 4:12 Dessert ditto 26 at 7 6.. 9 15 0
2 tiravySpoons :0 at 7 2 3 11 81 2 GravySpoontt 12 at 7 6.. 4 10 0
4 Soup Ladles 10 at 7 2 318 81 1-Soup Ladle 12 at 7 6.. 410 0
1 Sauce ditto 10 at 78— 316 81 4 Sauce ditto 12 at 8 0.. 4 16 0
4 Salt Spoons (gilt strong) 1 001 4 Salt Spoons (strong gilt) 2 2 0
1 Fish Slice •
12 Tea Spoons 10 at 7 8 3168 12 Tea Spoons 14 at 8 0.. 5 12 0
Pair Sugar Tongs
Messrs. Savory and Sons reconsinend the Prince Albert's pattern.
It is very navel and of unexampled lseauty.

NO FF N
PENCER'S PU
CELEOR BRATEDIMPOSITION.
CHINESE
LIQUID HAIR DYE.—The thousands of individuals who
have had the pleasure of using Spencer's Chinese Liquid Hair Dye,
pronounce it to be the only (lye extant which will effectually change,
In a few minutes, red or grey hair to a dark brown or black, and it
can be proved incontestibly that it is the safest dye in its use that
ever was prepared. Bed or grey hair, whiskers, eyebrows, mous-
taches, &c., are changed without trouble, by simply using a comb
wetted with the liquid ; one application will produce a pleasing and
a permanent change. The colour it imparts 'to the hair can never be
discovered to have been effected by dye, It being so perfectly natural,
and neither washing, perspiration, or anything will in the least fade
or affect the colour produced. Hundreds of ladies who wore false
hair, because their own became grey, wear now their oWn. Alec,
thousands of gentlemen who had grey or red whiskers, which was a
great disfigurement, have become quite dark from the use of
SPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. Any lady or gen-
tleman may dye their hair with ease and secrecy in a few minutes
without trouble. Price 3s. Gd., Gs., and 10s. per bottle.
To be had of the sole Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fleldgate-
street, Whitechapel-road, London ; also of Mr. dolinstone,- 68, Corn-
hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-
street ; Barclay, 95, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-
street; Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchyard; Connell, Camberwell-
green ; Kcanaby, Brothers, 10, Westmoreland-buildings, Aldersgate-
street ; Finnigiu, 30, Slilsom-street, Bath ; Elmore, 31, Bull-street,
Birmingham ; Shirley, 40, George-street, Hastings; and of most Per-
fumers And Medicine Vendors in Town and Country. Sent to any
part of the kingdom by sending a remittance, post-paid.
Please to ask tbr Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye.
Merchants and Captains will receive a liberal allowance fin' expor-
tation.—Observe, the Proprietor's address Is on the wrapper.

WEATHER PREDICTIONS. All who
delight In this foreknowledge should purchase, without loss
of time, (11111ESTONE'S WEATHER ALMANACK, whose Predi.-
tions of the weather, from his publication to the present day, have
been checked by many proprietors of newspapers and other works.
The " 'nines " has eulogised Its correctness and peculiar mode or
printing ; see page 57. The "John Bull " published its usual check.
Dec. 22, 1844, giving it, indeed, 336 correct daily predictions; see
copy, pages 52 and 54, Also, " The Sun," the " Globe," the " Era,"
the " Post," " Herald," " Chronicle," " Satirist," " Punch," and
many others, have noticed the correctness of this unique work.
Amongst the great variety of matter is an interesting biography of
hi: Royal Highness Prince Albert while at the College of Bonn ; also
useful Chronology, Royal Family, both Houses of Parliament, Sum-
mary of Population of the British Empire, Population of the chief
towns and cities; a Calendar, containing Sundays, festivals, anni-
versaries, phenomenons, 'chronological events, moon's age, eclipses,
tides, gardeners' monthly calendar, a column for the weather of every
day; pages 3to 25. Stamps, assessed taxes, &c. ; a list of hankers.
Copies of 31 letters, front ladies and gentlemen of the idgliest
respectability, cured of ophthalmia, gutta serena, cataract, deafness,
nervous deafness, headache, and spectacles left off, some after using
them upwards of 20 years, by using Grimstone's Eye Snuff—trans-
lations in French, Italian, and Spanish; pages 55, 60, 61, 62, 83.
Read page 54, the Medical Report in the " Forceps," Feb. 14, 1844,
proving the great advantages arising from the constant use of Grim-
stone's Eye Snuff having been the cause of clearing our streets of the
many green eye-shades, and other human disfigurements. It Is the
only fashionable snail of the day sold under the authority of the
Lords of lye Treasury and Royal Family. Grimstone'a Weather
Almanack Is a beautithl pocket size, with a steel engraving repre-
senting a bird's eye view of Oxford-street, &c., bound in Waterloo
blue, with gilt edges.
Sold, at 3d. each, by all the London wholesale publishers and book-
sellers. Wholesale only by the proprietor, W. GEMSTONE, for7lgn
Snuff and ('igar Merchant, 434, Oxford-street, London.
Copy of one of the above Letters :
St. Martin's-le-Grand, General Post-office, Inland Department,
October, 9, 1844.

Sir,—For the last three or four yeeanrsiinlehnatNa•euhrei:ns,frolal:twriinlogmUlnt,leleti
a nervous deafbess, so much so at times as to be almost incapable of
Ir'ievaerdinsgearcAel anytryingr cdiesfe, lelrvaalsvealticed at the solicitation of it friend,
to try your excellent Eye Snuff. I axeveohirdebi.nigll23:ll,gaeutisrell,
olnfeouonf found your
4s. 4tl, canisters, after taking which I found considerable benefit, so
much so that I sent for two more,
hearing completely restored, and I have not been deaf
sines. I
shoal
mention that the time I commenced taking your Eye Snuff was in
April last, and have continued taking it atnee,__l a,n, Sir, your
ohs.
clien servant,
W. H. ADAMS To Ilr. W. Grimstono. •

Any quantity of Eye Snuff can b forwarded through the fteneral
will Post, by sending money orders. A 2s. 4d. canister, with direetious.
:is., a owe proportion .

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WESTMINSTER - IMPROVEMENTS.—By
before Parliament, it is proposed to carry a Bill now
out the project
more direct communication between
the neighbourhoodfor a
of
the Houses of Lords and Commons and that of Buckingham
Palace, by means of a new street, 80 feet wide, from the
Broad Sanctuary, at the western
want of the Abbey, to
Shaftesbury-terrace, in the parish of St. Peter. The advan-
tage to l.). atained:will not be limited to a convenient
thoroughfare between points of increasing importance, but
will comprise also a beneficial opening through a crowded
and dilapidated district, long notorious as a haunt of crime
and hotbed of disease. The localities to be traversed are,
Little Dean-street, the Great Almonry, the Little Almonrv,
Jeffrey's-buildings, Cooper's-street, and Duck-lane. The
Bill seeks to empower the formation of a body of local coin.
missioners, under guarantee of qualification and security, to
of a
carry out the design ; and authorise: the raising sum,tict.
no
exceeding 109,w, on the credit of the rates
in
the disaid the pro- i
manner The tiommiistOriers a Woods and Tores
ts
I aresum-to
.4.ct by a aupply of 39,0", with a further 7
uicu.
contingent on approVai of thmanner . Ott ini pkove-
rents are oanitlet4o;

•
MR. LANGFORD'S ADDRESS TO
THE SUB-AGENTS OF KENT.
GENTLEMEN—AS Messrs. Morison, •of the Brit;Ai
College of Health, New-road, London, have been pleased
to appoint me their.general agent for North Kent, after
residing ten years in Strood as agent for the sale of their
valuable medicine, you willexpectrae to say something on
the subject. I have had to contend with a ho'st of ene-
mies, such as chemists, doctors, &c., all int<vest-d in
keeping the truth from the people, and they have, of
course, poured forth a torrent of abuse against the theory
of Mr. Morison, .viz :—that en impurity in the bloial
is the cause of nil diseases ; that such impurity can only
be eradicated by proper vegetable purgation ; that no
human being or animal body has too much blood ; and
that it is much more agreeable to nature to cleanse end
' purify in-the proper way, than to take away the pre-
cious stream of life by the tined—thus at once becoming
our own doctors. Such a theory no doubt cuts up the
trade of the doctor ! ! Of late years a host of imitators
have sprung up, who have pirated Mr. Morison's works,
and under his theory have pushed forth their (so called)
.Valuable medicines, but the greatest_ humbug and impo-
sition of all is " Parr's Life Pills," since it is a fact that
Parr never made a pill in his life, and it can be proved
that he could neither read nor write, and never nla;l2 a
will, having nothing to leave; so that the story about the
Clergyman finding his will is all a lie and forgery, from
beginning to end, and would never have been heard of
but for Morison. Examine the sellers of Parr's Pills on
this point, and you will at once find out the humbug. As
regards the efficacy of the Hygeiau medicines, I can (=ire
reference to persons in my own neighbourhood, who have
taken them with the best results. So various have been -
the cases, and some of them of that desperate nature,
that from my exp:rience I would say to the afflicted,.
" never despair, though given up by doctors, until you
have given Morison's Pills a fair trial." 1 intt.ucl in ts
short time to publish a list of eases of cure in my own
neighbourhood, and if you, as agents, can forward me in
this work of humanity (for we are all interested in this
great question), by sending me any eases of cure, they
shall be inserted with mine.—Yours, most respectfully,
JOHN LANG FORD,
General ITygeian Agent, Strood, Kent.

JONATHAN SHARP.—In the present state of our
relations with America, any work whieh should afford
us an insight into the true character of the Yankees,
from unquestionable sources, must be very desirable ;
and this, we have heard, has been done after a fashiOn
that cannot fail of producing great effect in this country,
in a new publication bearing the title of " Jonathan
Sharp ; or, the Adventures of a Kentuckian. Written
by Himself." Report speaks of this narrative as con-
veying the most extraordinary picture ever brought be-
fore the Entlish public of the recklessness and impu-
dence of Brother Jonathan, especially as regards the
state of affairs in Texas, the proceedings with the
Mexicans, with the Indians, and other intfresting par-
ticulars illustrative of things as they are throughout the
States. As these revelations proceed from an Ameri-
can, they are of course from good authority ; and they
Are said to compriae a series of advent Ares so anis'.ug
that "Jonathan Sharp" has every probability of becom-
ing as popular a character as his distinguished country-
man " Sam Slick."

31. THIERS' HISTORY OF TILE CONSULATE; AND
EMPIRE of Fisx6E.—The Thiid Volume of Mr. Forbes
Campbell's •nuthorised English Translation of this
itu-
portant Scqiiel to M. " llistory of the Ereneh
Revolution," has just appeared. The Tines, in review-
ing this work, observes that " The publication of
M. Tillers' History of the Consulate and the Empire
is an event cf an interest not confined to the world of
literature. The charms of so facile a style, the method
of so lucid a narrative, and the abundance of its authen-
tic and hitherto unexplored materials, place; this work
among,t, the most important 'preductions of our tittles.
And if the policy, the glory; and the evil of the Consu-
late and Empire are here deliberately subjected to the
judgment of the world, perhaps the future peace and
prospei ity of Europe depend on the spirit on which these
past transactions are reprobated or applauded,.
imi-
tilted or comb mned." The sale of this work, we un-
derstand. has been truly extranrdinary in England, as
well as in France. What has no doubt increased its
success in this country is the circumstance of the Eng-
lish Authorised Translation b ing published at only five
shillings per volume, each containing matter equal to
500 ordinary Svo. pages; thus forming olie of the cheap-
est, as well as most important works ever presented to
the British public.
A neatly designed and well-executed pilestal, 14
feet in height, surmounted by a striking rezcinblsrise of Sir Walter
Scott, has recently been erected at Perth.
The Board of Customs having reason to believe that
extensive smuggling transactions have been successfully
carried on by vessels engaged in the coasting trade, and that there has been a great laxity on the part of the tide
surveyors at some ports in the boarding arid romalaging
such vessels, have issued directions that the cfiicers of the
waterguard be strictly enjoined to rummage coasting
vesels as frequently and thoroughly as possible, and
keep a record at their respective stations of the vessehe so rummaged, for the inspection of the Surreyors-Gene-
cal of Customs on their official visits to the different
ports of the kingdom. The Commissioners have also di-
rected the respective Collectors and Comptrollers of the
Revenue to be impressed with the necessity which exist;
of enforcing a due compliance with the instructions con-
tained in this order, and have called their attention -par.,
titularly to a general order, dated December, 1822, by
which they are desired to report specially any informa-
tion Which they may have been enabled to obtain with
respect to runs of smuggled goods, with the result of
their inquiries, and which there is ground to believe has
n some instances, been entirely neglected.
THE SUGAR QUESTION.--A great number of ap-
plications to the Customs' Board have been made within the
last ten (lays for return of the duty of 83. per cent. allowed
by the Treasury order of the 24th ult. on sugar, on which
tie duty of the old tariff and 5 per cent. has been paid, and
•3 pith sugar still remains in bond uncleared. No difficulty
Ns in any instance been experienced in obtaining the return
'of duty on the conditions agreed to by the Commissioners
being complied with—viz., on a certificate being produced
from the Dock Company onowner of the warehouse that the
sugar was in bond on the 14th of March last, that the appli-
cant made a declaration that the duty was paid by him, and
that. he is entitled to the allowance sanctioned by the Trea-
sury in pursuance of the wishes of the House of Commons,
and no other person whatever. The numerous applications
at present being made may be accounted for by the last part
of the Commissioners' order, that all the duty-paid sugar in
bond upon which the allowance is required, must be delivered
by a certain day early in the ensuing month.
EXPLOSION or GAS—FOUR HOUSES DAMAGED.—
Yesterdarjmorning. about seven, the inhabitants of Holborn,
'near Great Turnstile, were greatly alarmed by a terrific ex-
plosion of Vas at the Robin Hood Tavern, two doors from
furnstile. It appears that the pipe burst near the flooring,
which was ripped up, and the entire front of the shop demo-
lished—the live being so great as to carry away the shutter
anti sip), time fragments of which were carried across
born, breaking several panes of glass in the houses of b,rs.
Steel, shoemaker, and Mr. Coates, hatter, opposite—the nrst
floor of the Robin flood also sustained damage, every pans
of glass being shattered, as well as those of Messrs. Baker and
Penrose in the house adjoining. Fortnnately no person was
injured,

-Spring with its effects on the complexion and con-
more or less affected at this period of the year, but to
con-
stitution generally.—The system of every perseu is
obviate these seeming natural accompaniments to a
climate like our own, has been a subject for study
hitherto unfathomed by even our most eminent physi-
cians and practitioners. An article has, however, teen
recently imported into this country from China, Lao i 6
fast gaining celebrity, which proves to be a never-4611-
ing obviate to cutaneous afflictions generally Th
substance is a white powder prepared from herbs only,e
of a most harmless nature, and is called 11} therCti
comfort
In ad addition
. t
io of its applicationethe" above.
olstiesnt:e',Ax,opitrehroCiueenticeedsdteilaatlhy:Skin Powder, : Thos Chinese
should haveAie ennodt
inestimable qualities, it will be found toi n to
retail
be skildni.
delicately white, smooth, ard soft. Sokrienretar
perfumers and chemists, in boxes 3s. 6d. and 7s. 61 by all
N‘_•i_tNhoeulNti.NlN
Watson, Fabian, and Co.), 24, Maxk-lane, London,
and wholesale by the sole Proprietor s, Fabian and Co.
(late
-invented la t tzpse
Spectacles,
et
lhees label, Telescopes, duneare
o genuine,pera
Glasses, Microscopes, &c. The artificial aid afforded to
the. sight by Lenses, is one of the most valuable gifts de-
rived from science, and it is indeed of vital important*
_that the adoption of Spectacles to imperfect vision should
be regulated on proper principles. Messrs. S. and It
Solomons, 39, bAI emarle-street, Piccadilly, directly op-
posite the York Hotel, having devoted their whole lives
to this branch of science, and their long extensive prac-
tice, have enabled them to invent Spectacle Lewes upon a
new construction, which have gained universal approba,
tion. Immediately they are placed before imperfect
vision, that mist and dullness which appear before the
eyes is at once removed, every object beeoee
o! rn
ear anti distinct, so that the most aged, imperfect
sight becornes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its
youthful, natural and original state. Achromatic Tele-
scopes, Opera Glasses, Miertiscopes, &c. &.e., of the same
'kind of-Lenses to surpass any ever invented. Their
Invisible Voice Conductor Sound Magoifiers, for deaf
persons, is not the least perceptible nor snore uncomfort-
able than having a piece of woo; in its place ; they
dgelavf-•
immediate relief to old standing extreme eases
of
the ness. Those valuable inventions4o of the principal mew-
have
gained
un-
qualified apprcoba tion of above
ilers of the medical profession.o
Caution.—Messrs. S.
in any way connected
and B. Solomons, opticians, are not
in
their
humedip,,e
with a person of the -same name
of the counticy, To
neighbourhood, nor in any part
prevent mistakes be cautious, and observe, ay to be
). .
(r
had at 99, Albemarle-street, 1 ice ad. 1114 opposite the
York Hotel.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF LORDS, April 24.
At half-past Four there was a Commission for giving
the Royal Assent to certain• Bills.
The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Buceleueh, and Lord Wharnelitie.
The Commissioners having taken their seats at the
foot of the throne, the Usher of the Black Rod was
ordered to summon the Commons to the bar of their
Lordships' House.
The SPEAKER soon afterwards appeared at the bar,
accompanied by many of the Members.
The Royal Assent was then given in the usual form to
the following Bills .—The Sugar Duties Bill, the Glass
Duties Bill, the Customs Duties Bill, the Mutiny Bill,
the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Thames Navigation Bill,
and Britton's Divorce Bill.
The Commons then withdrew, and their Lordships
adjourned during pleasure.

Their Lordships re-assembled at Five o'clock.
Messengers from the House of Commons brought up
several Bills.

MAYNOOTH.

The Earl of WICKLOW presented two petitions
from the county of Wicklow, one against the grant to
.Maynooth, and the other in favour of the grant to the
Church Education Society.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented petitions from
several places against the grant to Maynooth.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS.
The Duke of RICHMOND wished to know whether
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had come to any reso-
lution with respect to the sale of the property under
their care.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that they had come to
some resolutions, which would be laid on the table.
EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
The Earl of CLANCARTY presented petitions from
Louth, and various other places, in favour of Church
Education in Ireland. The Noble Earl also presented
three petitions against the additional grant to
Maynooth. He wished to say a few words
in justification of the vote he intended to
give against that measure, should it ever come
before their Lordships' House. He had no wish
to stand in the way of the education of any class of
her Majesty's subjects, but he thought that no money
ought to be voted by the State to support any
system of education, unless the State had un-
limited control over it, and unless the Govern-
ment was responsible for whatever was taught
The esperiment tried in establishing the College of May-
nooth had signally failed. During the fifty years that
the College had been in existence, no one individual
celebrated either in literature or science had been edu-
cated there. He believed that there was a general
opinion prevalent in Ireland us to the inefficiency of
Maynooth College. When the question came before
the House, he should certainly vote against it unless a
searching inqui y were previously made into the disci-
pline pursued at May nooth. The grant was decidedly
at variance with the oath of supremacy, and
nothing was more likely to increase the ecclesiastical
power of the See of Rome. It was said that the question
of principle was disposed of in 1795; but he must
remind the Noble Lords that those who used
this argument had repeatedly taken the oath of
supremacy. To that oath obligations attached, and in
his opinion Noble Lords were bound to observe them.
The Marquis of NORMANBY believed it was the
general desire of the House that the discussion on this
subject should be postponed until the Bill came formally
before the House ; and he merely rose Jcr the pur-
pose of referring to the statement made by the
Noble Earl in the early part of his address.
The Noble Earl stated that the College of Maynooth
had been established for more than fifty years, but since
that time it had produced no men of eminence or learn-
ing. Now, when he held office in Ireland, he made it
his duty to inquire into this subject, and, certainly, the
impression left upon his mind of the religious
learning and general instruction to be found and given
there was far different to that of the Noble Lord.
Every one knew that that institution was conducted on
such a footing as was not likely to produce very rich
fruits, but he could not suffer the Noble Marquis's
assertion that Maynooth had produced no person of
eminence for learning or virtue.
The Earl of CLANCAUTY explained that the object
of his nb-,:ervaticni tended to inquiry as to what the
College had produced.
The Duke of WELLINGTON thought it would be
better to adhere to the custom of the House of stating
the substance of any petition which was presented, and
not to speak upon the principle until the regular time
for the discussion came on.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, while allowing
the general convenience of not speaking upon peti-
tions, yet conceived that if the privilege of speaking
on petitions were done away with, much valuable time
would be lost.