The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-26 00:00:00

UNDER THE IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE OF HIS

MAJESTY.
STIRACIA'S ITALIAN OlLS,formaking
the Hair Grow. Long Hair being so universally
worn, particularly by Young Ladies, Mrs. JOHNSON
takes theliberty of acquainting the Nobility and Gentry,
that STIRACIA'S ITALIAN OILS are the only articles
that have ever been discovered to accelerate its growth,
which is acquired by rubbing the Oils in the hair twice
a week. They also render the hardest hair as soft as silk,
and completely eradicate the dry scurf, which is so very
troublesome (more especially since powder is out of use),
and will keep the hair in beautiful curl. Young gen-
tlemen at school, who have in general coarse hair, at-
tended by a quantity of dry scurf, would find great benefit
from the use of these Oils, not only by the present comfort
they afford, but by letting the hair be rubbed now and
then, when they become old they would not have either a
grey hair or a bald place on their heads, which has been
experienced far the last forty years. A more astonishing
property of these Oils is that of their being a remedy for
the loss of hair on the knees or other parts of horses, as
they infalibly restore it to its former natural colour.
. To be had of the Proprietor, J. Johnson, 28, York-
place, City-road, London ; and, by appointment, of Messrs.
Gattie and Pierce, New Bond-street ; Mr. Rigge, 65,
Cheapsitle; and by all principal Perfumers and Medicine
Venders in town and country, ss. per pot.

BRITISH INSTITUTION.—The premiums of
this season have been awarded, the first of 100 guineas, to
Mr. PICKEt.SGILI., R.A., and the second, of 50 guineas,
to Mr. LEE. Mr. P.'s picture, it will be recollected, was
the Head of a Black, a very fine production, but not per-
haps enough in itself to distinguish such an Artist as Mr.
P. ; therefore we cannot help thinking that his noble por-
trait of Jeremy Bentham and his Greek Girl at the
Royal Academy had their weight in this award; as, no
doubt, that admirable Landscape of LEE'S at Somerset
House, left no doubt in the minds of the Directors that the
palm for Landscape, in all its truth and beauty, was due
to Mr. LEE. His pieces, however, at the British were
alone sufficient to entitle hint to the most marked distinc-
tion amongst his competitors.

The individual who is traversing the kingdom
in the character of a Scotch piper, to decide, as it is said,
a considerable wager, made his appearance in the streets
of Worcester on Friday morning. lie was followed by a
considerable crowd, and the " coppt•rs" appeared to flow
iu to him pretty liberally. There is much cenjecture as to
who this personage is, and he guards against being recog-
nized by wearing spectacles, and a thick black handker-
chief over his mouth; he is positively said to be Captain
Banc LA Y, of pedestrian notoriety.

ELOPEMENT.—A good deal of sensation has
been excited in Dronfield, this week, by an affair of the
heart, terminating in an elopement. A young medial
practitioner, Mr. H. having gained the affections of Miss
and the connexion not being altogether approved
by the young lady's mother, the d ?noise& was put under
lock and key, and held in " durance vile," for some
tedious days. But the uselessness of " locks, bolts, and
bars," when opposed to the efforts of the winged god, has
been proved in this instance, as it has been a hundred
others. Miss C-----, under the favour of the still hours
of night, and guided by the young crescent moon, was
victor ions over all the enemies of her hopes and wishes, and
safely reached the half-way house nearest to Sheffield,
where a carriage anti expectant lover were waiting. The
fugitives were seen at Hope next morning, probably on
their way to Gretrt's far-famed shrine, for the young
lady being but seventeen, the marriage must necessarily be
clandestiae.—Derbyshire Courier.

A phenomenon, not unexampled indeed, but
singular in its kind, occurred in the village of Springfield
near this place, last week. Ac it belonging tonne of the
good dames of the place had a kittee, the hinder part of
whose body was double, presenting the complete appear-
ance (when the fore part of the animal was concealed) of
two kittens placcd side by side. The two bodies were
united at the waist, and continued nearly of the natural
appearance till the head, which was much larger than or-
dinary, but presented no other external singularity; on ex-
amining the mouth, however, the same twofold organiza-
tion Again presented itself in the appearance of a double
tongue. '1 he ariimal had died immediately on seeing the
light—if indeed a cat of that age can he said to have seen
light at all ; and it was sent afterwards to Mr. Lucks of
Edinburgh, to whom, as an illustration of Comparative
Anatomy, it must be of some interest. The stuffed skin,
and the skeleton of such a monster, would both be curio-
sities in their way. The other kitten of the same litter,
(there were only two) was quite of the natural appear-
ance : and it may be remarked, that the mother is of great
lige fur a cat, having served in the family where she now
is for eight years, and being no kitten when she came
there : she hat produced many litters before? all of the
natural appearance. File Herald.