The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

Iv.
TUE rAssioNs.

"What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
SCEJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad:
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual-
ties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nar-
rative, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.
V.
THE MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be, that is the question."
PROGIUMME :—Lnws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sea. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physicaldefectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, Sec.
(1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D.
1F,24). Twenty-tive years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
natters. Reception hours daily till Five. Evenings, Sevell
till
ulna. lAD Arsvii-olaca. itment-atreet.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION TO
AUSTRALIA.
In consequence of the numerous applications at the
office of her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration
Commissioners in Park-street, Westminster, from arti-
sans and agriculturists for a passage to our Australian
colonies under the Government regulations, the Com-
missioners yesterday concluded another contract for
three first-class vessels for the conveyance of passengers
to Victoria and New South Wales, either from Deptford
or Plymouth, the ships to be ready to receive the emi-
grants as follows:—For Melbourne, on the 4th of Oc-
tober; for Sydney, on the 6th of October; and for Mel-
bourne, on the 11th of October. The following ships have
also been contracted for to convey emigrants to the under-
mentioned ports during the current month :—For Hobart
Town, on the Bth inst.; Perth, on the 13th inst.; Port
Stephen (Sydney district), 15th inst.; and Adelaide, on
the 20th inst.; to take them on board at Dept-
ford, and touch at Plymouth. Last month the Commis-
sioners took up from 16 to 20 ships for Government
emigrants, amounting to upwards of 3,500, consisting
chiefly of agricultural labourers and a few mechanics
of the trades most required in the colony ; also, a certain
number of young single women of good character, who
will be provided with situations immediately on their
arrival. The present and next month will be the last
the Commissioners will send out ships this year, although
they have upwards ot. 20,000 applications entered on
their books from nearly every part f the country and
different trades, so that they will be obliged to confine
themselves to those most wanted by the colonists. Be-
sides the Government emigration there are from 25 to
30 vessels entered to sail in the course of this month
from the St. Kitharines, London, and West and East
India Docks, with fortune-seekers to the " Gold
diggings."

NEW INVENTION.—In the early part of this year
the barque Eos of Sunderland, Captain Bridges, in her pas-
sage to Ceylon, and about 1,000 miles from that port, found
the water in the tank salt. owing to a leak from the pump.
The carpenter was ordered to fit wooden lids to the cooking
coppers (holding four gallons each), with a plug in one as
feeder, and also safety-valve—in the other lid, a common
brass tap, from which he placed a musket barrel. Having
cut off the breech, and placed the musket barrel within a
pork cask filled with water, it acted as a condenser, and by
that simple means they were able to distil 10 gallons a day,
and distilled the whole 1,000 gallons—and thus were enabled
to terminate their voyage in gcod health.