Star.
London, England, 1824-05-08 00:00:00

PEDES'Isitl A N IV.I.

Halton nrrivcd in Doncaster last week, and is now in regular
training, preparatory to his snatch wills his u!d opponent, Athttoir
on the 27th of May.

THE LAST DAY OF Tliß LOTTERY.—The small Num-
her of Tickets remaining to Draw, have the unprecedented Number
of Tweet Capital Pries, including Two of Tweiiry THOUSAND
Potishs, which, as well as every other Prize, Mast all be Drawn on
Sasuan-ty, the '22d instant, when ALL FINALLY CLOSES. A few
[indrawn Tickets and Shares are on &Ile at the Coatrictorse, who
hope to distribute the above at their Old Offices, N 0.37, Corathiill,
No. 11, Holborn, and 38, Hayinarket.—J. and J. Stvswittour,
Contractors.

The fOtitlil Liv raison of N:ipeitt's iEstOtie.tl Me-
moirs may be expected in a few days. 9ne mute Livraison, we
understand, will conclude this important Work, which enibi aces
not only the Political history of Eurm.e during the period, but of
the World ; for there was scarcely any part of it that was not, in
some degree, influenced or affected by his e,:lidurt.
AltTLIUsi CLARKE'S AIANUAL FOR Tiik: PilEsEfiVA
TioN or I I rail subjects which this little volume embraces,
are so important, and are reated in So popu!ar a manner, as to be
well deserving of attention. It is designed for the perusal of those
who have truck/wits to diseases, which often resist the most effica-
cious remedies, and embitter (when they dei tot cut short), our
existence. Few of them, howev, r, ale to be aceontred among
" the natio-4111s which flash is heir to," for they are the immediate
conA:quences of long trains of error in diet, clothing, temperance,
exercise, bee. of the vices of the rich, turd of 'lie hardships to which
the poorer classes are exposed. Thase trains are in a great measure
within the controul of the individual, and it requires but the ordi-
nary portion of common sense, when assisted by such general in-
formation as this little book contains, and which may be obtained
at a small sacrifice of time and attention, so to govern them, as to
ca:ry unabated to an ad,vanced period, the vigour of youth; or at
least to substitute for its elasticity, a green and healthful old age.
IMPORTANT \FORNIATION TO FAMILIES FunNiSii.•
applying at the real Manufacturer's they will find a Saving
of nearly One-Half. Every article of Furbiture manufactured on
the Premises, and Warranted of the best quality. Sixty different
patterns of Chairs ; from Twenty to Sixty Dozen of well-seasoned
Alabogauy, real Rosewood, stained Rosewood, Cottage and Bed-
room Chairs of all colours, ready for inspection, and real BOA.,
woad nearly as cheap as stained. Card, Sag, Loo Tables, and Ca-
binets to match. A large. assortment of well-seasoned Mailogibly
Sliding Dining Tables of all sizes, Sideboards, Watdroties,
Drawers, and all other articles of Furniture, too 11111111.7'MS to men-
tion, at it. W ArttlisGTON'S 7.latallaCtorit, t?l4, High liolborti, op-
posite Southampton-street, liloomsbuty-tpiate.
An additional pleasing appearame is terdered to the
countenance by the well-arranged Curl, the braided Plat, and the
flowing Tresses. In dressing the 1.!;:ir, nothixg Fr duces well a
beautiful effect on natural or liair, rt nd-.7ing it admirab!y
soft that it will lie in any direction, prridticing beaut,fel curls, which
it preserves in damp atmospht lent the 4.
time adding a most incomparable,
rendering the head-dress truly encl
On, which has by its unexampled
resi;ect the elegance and durability
the admiratiou and astonishment
tors offer for sale a pernicious corm
is necessary to ask fur Rowland's,
7s, Os. 6c1., and !a:lc. per Dottie,
Rowland and

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• or vud, in exercise, at the same
tiursceridati!,.ti.d h.nutiful lustre,
t •
:harting, as tiowt*Nn's MACAS.AIt
t-xcell, %ice in pi ou,oting in every
y of that grand ornament, gain( 1
of the whole world. As impor-
iposition instead of the genuine, it
, and observe the prices are 3s. bd. • ,
, and each Lottie is tinned—" A.

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COMBUSTION OF IRON BY A JET OF SULPHUR
IN VAPOUR.
If a gun bated be heated red-hot at the butt end, and
a piece of sulphur be thrown into it ; on closing the
mouth with a cot k, or blowing into it, a jet of ignited
sulphurous vapour will proceed from the touch-hole.
Exposed to this, a bunch of iron wire will burn, as if
ignited in oxygen g is, and will fall down in the form
of fused globules in the state of proto-sulphuret. Hy-
drate of potash, exposed to the jet, fuses into a sul-
phutet of a fine red colour.—Mil. Magaz:inc.
AN -EASY MODE OF IMPREGNATING WATER.
WITH IRON.
If a few pieces of silver coin be alternated with
pieces of sheet iron, on placing the pile in water, it
soon acquires a chalybeate taste, and a yellowish hue,
and in twenty-font hours flocks of oxide of iron appear.
Hence by replenishing w ith water a vessel in which
such a pile is Flared, after etch draught, we may have
a competent substitute for a ch.,lybea:e
Clean copper plate.; altetnatihg with ircin would an-
swer, or a clean copper wire entwined on au iron rod ;
but as the copper when oxidated yields an oxide, it is
safer to employ silver.—(bid.
DPSCRTPTION OF A ROTATIVE THERMO-NIAGNE-
TICAL EXPERIMENT. By MR. w. STURGEON.
From the PHILOSOPHICiIL MAGIVNE Hnd JOURNAL.
Having promised in a former paper to communicate
to your Readers the method I have Adopted for rotating
a thereto-combination by the influence of a central
magnet, the following description of the apparatus I
have constrectel and employ for exhibiting the experi-
ment, with an explanation of
its mattafyentent, will, I
humbly hope, be sufficiently plain to be understood.

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