The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-31 00:00:00

PITA LFIELD S WEAVERS' RELIEF
FUND.—The Committee have been in active operation
during the last three weeks and regret that it is their painful
duty to inform the public that numerous cases of the most ap-
palling destitution have been discovered in families dependent
upon the silk trade. A visiter reports that in fif.y families in
one district he found only ten beds, the remainder were hud-
dled together in the corner of the room wtthout any covering
what ever.

The Committee have, during the last week, relieved
above 4,000 families, and have supplied them with 14,879
411). loaves, 85,2301 b. of potatoes, and 155,8861 b. of
coals, which has entailed an expense of above 7001. Every
day the applications are more numerous and urgent, and
the Committee, therefore, most earnestly appeal to the bene-
volent Public for enlarged Subscriptions, as the Funds now at
their disposal will very soon he entirely exhausted. Every
case is personally visited by the local Committees, and relief
afforded according to its exigency.
Subscriptions already received.
By the Right Hon. the Lord Mr. Thompson and
Mayor. Friends, Penicuik .. £5 0
Her Majesty the Queen E. Penrhyn, Esq. lO 0
Dowager £lOO 0 Dowager Lady Arden 50 0
Earl Cornwallis ...... .. 50 OI.E. M. Z
Bishop of Durham 42 0 Richard Ellison, Esq.
Lord Dudley C. Stuart 20 0 Subbrock
Rev. J. H. Fisk, of A Friend, per Drum-
Norwich, per Lou- mond and Co.
don and Westminster Lady Pulteney ......
Bank.
Mr. Justice Bosanquet 50 0 Buckingham lO 0
Sir R. P. Glyn lO 0 Duke of Northumber-
An Old Citizen l5 15 land ... 5O 0
Anonymous. 5 0 John Gardiner ...... ... 210
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An Inhabitant of West- Miss Forster

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Henry Sturge, Esq 5 O'Miss Trundle 5 0
Mr. Iggulden, 8, Rus- Mrs. Rainier, per
Eell- Nu are, per Mr. Drummo.,ds
Symonc ... 2 0 Andrew Statley, Esq.,
Mrs. Iggulden, ditto... 2 0 per ditto 2 2
M.'s. Backhouse, ditto. 1 OS. Dunuombe. Esq lO 0
John Wood, Esq.
Collected from the Lady Carr

5 0

Establishment of the John Labouchere 5 0
Bank of England, Oliver Anderson
and other good Joseph Street ......
J. S. 13. Friends, from id.

upwards, per Mr. Lord Geo. Seymour... 3 0
H icks 121 19s. 40. Thos. Porter' 1 0
Miss Jones Burdett.... 50 0 Swan Pearce and Co 5 5
Sir. Secondary Potter 5 5 Bruce Castle School
Mr. Carnertin, of Benevolent Society 1 0
_.. _ _ _

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Lechiel. - . ... 5 0 John Bygrave
Robert Byass, Esq ..... 5 SJ. H. Urquhart 2 0
Child and C 0........... 5 0 William Jones ...
Anonymous .
Ladies at Brighton, An Old Al uggletonian 2 2
)er }Terries, Farqu- _R. H.

liar, and Co
Mr. Body, 32, Mark-

5 0,

5 0

Geo. Woolley ...... _
George Metcalf 1 0

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Jane 5O 01Two Friends
A Friend
Chas. Wolslay, Esq., Anonymous
by Stevenson, Salt, T. P. Platt
and Sons . 1 0 Hon. E. Byng, 5 0
John Hall, Esq., :of D. Rowland
Weston Colville 5O 0 Ridgway and Co.
A Lady of Taunton ... 1 OF. B. Hookey
Farmer Taylor, Esq., C. F. Barnwell 1 0
per Barnett and Co. 2 0 Per Messrs. Hanburys and Co.
Robert Richard Wood 100 01A Friend to the Dis-

Eliza G
Mr. Lynch 1 0 and Co.
J. P. Stubbs, Esq. ... JO 0 1-i. R 1 0
A British Soldier ...... 010 Anonymous, per Glyn
Miss Hester Duffield... 3 0 and Co.
Miss A. M. Duffield... 3 OF. M 3 0
W. E. D. and Family. 105.6 d. J. B. Brooke, Esq.
Rundell, Bridge, Sz Co. 5 0 Manufacturers' Relief
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39, ALBENIARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY, (opposite
the York Hotel), and may be had also at

76, KING WILLIANI-STREET, BANK of ENGLAND.
IIGHT AND HEARING TESTI-
MONIALS on the Messrs. S. and B. SOLONIONS'
newly-invented SPECTACLE LENSES and INVISIBLE
OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR for Deaf Persons.

" We, the undersigned, have been for some time making
use of Messrs. Solomons' newly•invented Spectacle Lenses;
the astonishing relief they afford to imperfect vision gives
them the decided preference to every other kind of Lens
—the clearness of the transparency brings every object very
distinct, and enables individuals to view the most minute par
tide with perfect accuracy. They are particularly pleasant
by candle light, as they appear cooling to the sight, and soften
bright and brilliant lights :
James Blundell, Esq., M.D., 1, Great George-street, West-

minster.
George G. Sigmond, Esq., M.D., 24, Dover-street.
T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., Surgeon, F.R. S., Saville-row.
Join Ramsbotham, Esq., M. D. , Broad-street- building s .
Anthony White, Esq., Surgeon, 3, Parliament-street.
John Hooper, Esq., Surgeon, 29, Newington-place, Kennington
Frederick Leighton, Esq., M.D., 7, Upper Gower-street.
Messrs. Griffiths and Duncan, Surgeons, 3, Leadenhall-street.
W. Day, Esq., Surgeon, lsleworth.
T. Daldv, Esq., Surgeon, 33, New Broad-street.

R. H. Lii,tas,'gsq , M.D., Exeter.
J. Taylor Gordon, Esq., M.D.
Wm: Bowie, Esq., M.D., Bennett-street, Bath.

C. Heywood, Evi., DI. D. Blandford.

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Henry Lawrence, Esq., M.D., Tenby.
Wm Jeafreson, Esq., urgeon-oculist, 21, South Audley-street.
S.D. Robinson, Esq., M.D., Cheltenham.

C. Shillito, Esq., 111.1)., Bri;hton.
William Conolly, Esq., M.D.,Cheltenham.

E. H. Allnatt, Esq., M.D. Wallingford.
Thomas Willis, Esq., M. D., Brighton.
G. Grifgths, Esq., Surgeon, Hammersmith.
Tohn Kenderick, Esq., Surgeon, Manchester-street, Manchos
ter-square.
Charles Tonally, Esq., Surgeon, Camden-town.
H. Colebourn, Esq., Surgeon, 2it,
Harleyford-place, Ken-
nington.
N. M.Cann, Esq., Surgeon, 50, Parliament-street.
Samuel Banner, Esq., Surgeon, 26, Berkeley-square.
W. Jones, Esq., Surgeon,
15, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-

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square. _
W. English, Esq., surgeon, Denmark-hill.
A. Barklemere, Esq., Surgeon, 10, Charlotte-street, Blooms-
bury.
R. J. Pollock, Essi„ Surgeon, Kensington.
E. Stoddart, Esq., Surgeon, 32, Golden-square.
J. H. Walker, Surgeon, 23, Charlotte.street, Bloomsbury.
C. Higham, Esq., Surgeon, 46, Davies-street, Berkeley-square
Edward Nason, Esq., Surgeon,Nuneaton, Warwickshire.'
In placing the above list of Testimonials before the public,
the Messrs. Solomons, Opticians and Aurists, state that their
INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, by
which thousands of Deaf Persons have been greatly benefited,
is not larger than a seven-shilling-piece, and when fixed into
the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not more uncomfort-
able nor perceptible than having a piece of wool in its place.
By its use the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard
wits distinctness.

These important new inventions are patronized by their Ma-
jesties the King and Queen of Hanover and their Royal High-
nesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene High
ness the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses Mary and Rosa,
her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Bedford, and their Graces
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dukes of Devonshire and
Manchester, &c. &c.

39, Albemarle• street, and 76, King► William-street, Bank.
in consequence of the gross imposition in the Country, it is
necessary to state that no Travellers are employed in the above
Establishment. ND connection with persons of the same name.

Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free,
on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d.,
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf-
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the
Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, &c. Illustrated
with Cases, &c.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeor.s, London.

Published by the Authors, and sold by flailiere, Medical
Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent-
street; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London; Guest, Bir-
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be had of all Booksellers.

This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to
the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its
first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged
by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general
principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in-
teresting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is the
result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer-
ence, by the ordinary medical practitioner. The proverbial
and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who
traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been en-
couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the
regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects
sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the
authors have fur a considerable time devoted themselves ex-
clusively to a certain class of diseases ; of the necessity of so
doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact i n in-
vestigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise
from certain secret praetices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, whersin
affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of
consumption, which, however, when traced to their source,
are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves
that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more
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saying that there is no member of society by whom the book
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The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining
away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse-
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tion of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con-
sumption, will, on perusing this work, be astonished to find,
that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption,
heart disease, tahes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by
youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds (temporarjily at
least), the relation and responsibility of a parent, will,
by perusing this work, be directed and very much
assisted in investigating and detecting the too often con-
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the
health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be corn-
promised, unless the evil be arrestedin proper time. He will
here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of
this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when
delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instructor, will
here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which
youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point out the dis-
astrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not
relinquished.

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