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E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.

CONTRACT FOR WINE, SOAP, AND COCOA.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
Somerset House, 28th March, 1855.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Ind Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, he
17th April next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and
delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, the
Undermentioned Articles, viz.:—

Gallons. When to be delivered.
'WINE S" Marsala
Port
Tons. weeks afterwards, or
"4? —• • ...... 50 earlier if preferred by the
........
COCO t lOO party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any pdrtion of the Articles.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the ten-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part
thereof only as they may deem flt, or for a greater quantity, or of
not contracting for any, and a'so an unlimited power of selection.
The wine and cocoa to be exempted from the Customs Duties, and
Parties tendering are to state where they are respectively lying.
Samples of the wine (not less than 2 bottles of each), of the soap
(not less than a bar), and of the cocoa (not less than 2 lbs.), must be
Produced by the parties tendering.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con-
trait; b
—ave been
decided.
cued
for the tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro-
vided
Purpose, and which may be obtained on application.at
o geld Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Sera ice
at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and
Bristol. No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of
treaty. and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an
agent on bis behalf, should attend at the office on the day of contract,
as the result of the offer received from each person will be communi-
cated to him and his proposed sureties in writing.
P.very tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left•hand corner the words, "Tender for
and Must also be delivered at Somerset Mouse.

DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM
. RE-OPENED at 4, COVENTRY—TREET, LEICESTER-
SQUARE.—Open (for Gentlemen only) daily from half-past 11 till
5. and from 7 till 10. A NEW' SERIES of LECTURES, by Dr.
SexTorl, F.R.O.S , &c., at 12, 2,4, and half-past 7 in the evening.
Admission, Is. A new catalogue, containing lectures on the most
interesting branches of Physiology by Dr. Kahn, illustrated ; price
6d., free by post 6d. extra.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON—H.R.R. PRINCE ALBERT.
4/11 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Evening, at Eight o'Clock,
LECTURE by Dr. BACIIIIOFFNER on ASTRONO viY, Illustra'ed by
a Splendid Dissolving Orrery and appropriate Music.
TELEPHONIC CONI'ERT by INVISIBLE PERFOR3IER4.
Thursday Evening, DRAMATIC READING by Mr. Rune LESLIE,
11,..AAILET. LECTURE on the NEW BA.NTK NOTE. DISSOLVING
VIEWS of the WAR, SINBAD the SAILOR, Ste., &C.

CASINO DE VENlSE,Higholborn.—Mr.
W. 1. PACKER'S BENEFIT BAT, MXSQUE, WEnNES-
b_►Y, April 4th, positively the Final Ball of the Season.— Gentle-
rnen's Tickets, ss. ; Ladies' ditto, 3s. each.

LAITRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS. -
Great success of the new dance, La Varsoviana. Music by
Laurent. Danced every evening.—During the course of this week
the following Music will be played by Laurent's (irchestra :—Over-
lure. Der Freysehutz ; Waltzes: La Bienfai.anee, Musard; Wellen
Wogen, Strauss; Douce Harmonie ( 1 st.time), Missler ; Le Pro-
Mete, Meverbeer ; Quadrilles : Vive l'Empereur, Bergman ; Bonjour
Ilerrot, Blancheteau ' • Le Juif de Venise (Ist time), Bonneterre ;
toe Highlanders, H. Laurent ; schottische, Dona Maria, Tolbecque
Polkas : Une Fleur d'Automne (Ist time), Pilede ; Marionette, Pilodo ;
Caroline, A. Lamotte ; La Musette, Matthieu ; Gallop, Dover Ex-
rless, T. Browne. Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. Boulcourt. All
Information relative to music to be obtained at the music repository
tinder the orchestra. Doors open at Eight ; commence at half-past.
Admission, One Shilling.

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PACKETS.
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Between Gravesend and Intern Late Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd.
1 OAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, ss. Os.; Six Months, 31. Os.
gree Months, 21. Os. ; to be had of the Collectors on board tb
ets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
Meech 31. 1855.

TIM SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY
`Just published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for &
stamps,
NERVOUS DEBILITY;
Its causes, symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay ond Smpoerre-
Ma "nr/icea, with Practical Observations on a safer
Generative
sue sesseful mode of treatment of the diseases of
lLs,,teln, obtained by the use of the Microscope in de thetectin ane
:°"eignishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of
..... •ery variety of complaint. whether arising from solitary habits.
et. set.les, accident, or climate. followed by practical remarks, totionodoeee
N "wehtY years' experience in the treatment of Impuo
air Vous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrheea, &c. T "which
eau, ~added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre-
aar,eonary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice.
tai ,;', ~.4)ti the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers or
irePortant disorders.
By SAMUEL LA'NERT, M.D.
jr) '7. REDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Ltill. of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University or Edie
?irk h. Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society
see bate of Apothecaries' Hail, London, fkeeelte•
essential (Affect of this treatise into point out the fearful con
istAirien ees resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses
'which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in MaLl•
hood, a nd premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, an)
Otter c', iv of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal i'
Articul arty recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts o
tti er pis veinal condition, and Who are conscious of having tiazardes
t , heatth, happiness, and privileges:to which every human being if
c. t tied.
It is absolutely necessary thatall men should know, that there are
cries
ineu, toles of nersonal management which cannot bs violated without
ring grl vons penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeee
t4O teyday of inconsiderate , self-indulgence, how these penalties
may kii mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed
and 1 wa, the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all,
t Ist :here lc scarcely any degree of physical infirmity
0 era dement to which the timely aid of science cannotapply re
ir he. isith or functiona
a cur
e.
r has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive
inracUece in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have
sinfortiunately been too generally confided to -the care of ignorant
%metric s, who indict great injury on those Who are induced to place
faith in their pretensions.
NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had, price 2e, of Messrs. Piper,
Brothers, and 23, Paternoiiter-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street.
.:hlgne, 19,ty st.i Leicester-to square; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or free by post tom
f ird-r quare. tups any address from the Author's residence, 87, Bed-
At home for consultation daily from Eleven `ill Two and from
iii X till Eight.

DR. CULVERWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND
INDIGESTION.

klso, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and Hemorrhoids, Is.
each, by post Is. 6d.,
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
" Abstentia multi curantur morbi."
A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless
seeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints,
with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should
live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal
in the day, and full instructions for the regimen and observance of
every hour out of the twentyfour. Illustrated by numerous
eases, &c.

LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE.
" He which that hath no wif, I hold him lost,
Helpless, and all desolat. Ile that hath no child,
Like sun and winde."—Chaucer.
Subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities—Development
,f the Affections--Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded
Unions—Marital Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental
incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness—Advantages of Inter-
marriage—Theory of Gestation—Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of
ietermining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas-
iimilable Alliances—Law of Divo3rce, &c., &c.

CHASTITY AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS.
A Lecture to Young Men. ,
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
Subject: Life's pilgrimage, trom infancy to old ago. The advent
)f the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties of
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
Ind remediative. Advocacy of early marriages, &c.

4.
On Secret Diseases, their Selt-management and Cure.
The GREEN BOOK.—A comprehensive and popular exposition
of genito and urinary diseases—their nature and treatment, com-
prising especially primary and secondary symptoms, all forms of
urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhcca ; with 250 en-
gravings and prescriptions.

The BLADDER, URETHRA, and RECTlT3f.—Comprising
Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and FfrennirrholaS.
Vols. 6 and 7, companions to the preceding.
THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY.
" Jucunde Vivere."
"Few words to fair faith."—Shakespere.
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of
DP. RICHARD CULVERWELL,
Brother, Successor, and Twenty Years Conenitlng Colleague of the
late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-greet, London.
who may be advised with on the above matters daily, from Ten till
Five, and in the evenings,from &yen till Nine.