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LONDON, ,SATURDAY 113 V

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Just Published, an entirely New and Corncted Edition of
ALIGNANI' GUIDE TO PARIS ;
G S
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PATRON-H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT.

ROYAL POLYTEC NT IC INSTITUTION.
LECTURES. _ _

By 3. H. Pepper, Esq., on Testing Gold, and on Vac Australian Gold
Districts.
By Dr. Bachhotrner on the Patent Polytechnic Gas Fire: and on
the Mode or Preserving Fresh Provisions, illustrated by Specimens
from Messrs. Ritchie and M'Call, and Samplvs of Fadenilbe's So-
lidified Preserved Milk, and Moore's Patent Concentrated Milk.
By Mr. Crispe, en Morrall's Patent Needles.
By George tiuckland, Esq., on Music, entitled Musical Varieties,
with Vocal Illustrations, assisted by Miss Blanche Young°, R.A. of
Music.
New Series of Dissolving Views, &c , &c.
:Omission, Is. ; ichools and Children under Ten years of ago,
!Taff-price. For Hours, see Programme.

CREMO.RNE GARDENS.
On the Banks of the Thames, ring's-road, Chelsea.
Waterside Entrance close to Battersea-bridge Pier.
Fare by Steam-boat from Lonion-brid,m or any of the interme-
ilate Brid.tes or Wharf Piers, 3d. Strangers should request to be
landed at Battersea•bridge far Cremorne. Fare by Omnibus from
Charitr,;-cross, 3d.; from the City and remotest parts of the East-
lid, 6d.

Proprietor, Mr. T. B. SIMPSON'.
The Pyrotechnic Displays by the Chevalier Mortram.
Open for the Season.
By Dcsire.—lle-engagement of Louis Soullier's Cirque Oriental.
A new Grand Spanish Comic Ballet, entitled Le Barbier de Cadiz,
every Evening at llalf-past Seven o'clock.
THIS DAY, the Italian Brothers in their Double Trapeze Per-
formance. at an elevation of 90 feet.
TIIIS DAY, Signor Devanl, the celebrated Ourang-Ontang Con-
tortionist.
Wednesday and Saturday, Grand Globe and Wheel Ascents, by
Herr Franz de Bach, on a Narrow Platform, 160 feet long.
An uninterrupted succession of Entertainments from Three o'clock

until near Midnight, including
Every evening, at a Quarter to Nine o'clock, in the newly-decorated
'avilion, in addition to the following attractions, Louis Soullier's
.irque Oriental, and the best Equestrians of the age. For particu••
Lars, see Special Bills.
Principal Artistes:—Messrs. M'Cullom, Albert do Bach, Franz de
Bach, Jean de Bach, Tlcvani, Mackney, Victor godlier, Kemp, Leon
Madlies„ Clementine and Olga gptilliTa;
Admission to the Circus from the Gardens :—Promenade, Pit, and
Boxes, Is.; Amphitheatre, 6d.
Open at Three o'clock.
Admission, ls. ; Children. Half-price.
On Sundays, after Four o'clock, by Refreshment Card, price 6d.
Table d'llote at Six o'clock, 2s. 6d.
Private Room for Dinners and Coffee.

LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO,
AIRGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
St. James's,
Lessee, Charles Emele Laurent, Onslow House, Brompton-road,
Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, 25th of King George 11.,
Are Re-opened for the Winter Season.
During the recess the Rooms have been entirely Re-decorated, by
G. S. Bryer, regardless of cost.
Banrent's Matchless Band every evening. Principal COrnet-a-
Piston, M. Boulcourt.
Admission—ONE SHILLING.
Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to commence at
Nine, and terminate. at Half-past Eleven.

ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SECRET
INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.
WITH FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
In French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a
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SELF ,PRESERVATION; nn
Analytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions of
Marriage, in all the bearings in which that important subject affects
the health and happine.s ef Man, with its Disqualifications and Impe-
diments, tracing their origin to the effects of juvenile solitary habits,
youthful excess, trol,ical climates, or close study ; followed by prac-
tical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment
of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrliwa,
syphilis, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative system. Il-
lustrated by 50 coloured Engravings, on the Anatomy of the Repro-
ductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease.
By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
D.,ctcr of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Nlember of the Loudon llospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.
The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful
consequences resulting from irregularities and excesses, which
have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man-
hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any
other class of disease known to modern pathologists. The treatment
adopted is founded on experience gained in the most celebrated
schools of medicine both in this country and in continental Europe.
The results of the knowledge thus acquired are here condensed under
the personal supervision of Dr. La'Mert, himself one of the few
legally qualified physicians who have devoted their whole and un-
divided studies to this important branch of medical science. In short;
every peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental
to the generative system, and the means of immediate relief and
ultimate cure are described in detail. The professional reputation
of Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the most distinguished medical
and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient
guarantee that those who may place themselves under his care
will, in every instance, meet with that delicate consideration and
inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these

cases.
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stamps, from the author, who may be consulted personally, or by
etter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Six till Eight.

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M.NJO T OF LIFE.
"Health, teereation, and Rational Use of Time."
CorrrENrs:—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Itior-dn,t-s--ry-
e irsions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Itambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
—music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing,
Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, Bsc., &c.

FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Volt
Vol. I.

VISIT TO THE LAKES , SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &A •
Vol. 11.
TIIE LAKES OF KILL &RNEY ; REXINISCENCES Or
DUBLIN, Sac.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
" That three score years and ten our course may run."
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
bitters old age • with tables and rules for the diet and physical rep.
_Viola of every-day life.

Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
"What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as relined as Athens ever heard."

Stsgrrcr :—Lifes pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual.
ties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nar.
r dive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.
V.

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BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD-
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
BELFAST, SEPT. I.—On the morning of Septem-
ber 27, 1831, the theatre of the Yorkshire Museum
was filled by an assemblage of more than 300 persons,
including many distinguished members of learned and
scientific bodies in different parts of the kingdom, who
were collected together in consequence of a general
invitation to the friends of science, issued by the
Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Lord Milton, the
president of the society, was called to the chair, and in
his address to the meeting gave the details of the
working of the Yorkshire Society, which had then
been established for eight years, and had origi-
nated in the interest taken in the curious
discoveries in Kirkdale. So much benefit had
had resulted from the free interchange of knowledge
due to fixed general meetings of those interested in
the same objects, that the society felt the time had
arrived to lay their scheme for a wider basis before
the various scientific bodies of the kingdom, and to
claim their aid in the formation of a society whose
area and whose objects should not be confined by the
limits of a single county. The President was fol-
lowed by the Reverend W. Vernon Harcourt, Vice-
President and Chairman of the Committee of
management, who stated that the object of the pro-
posed society was "to give a stronger impetus and
more syeteinetic direction to scientific inquiry; to ob-
tain a greater degree of national attention to the ob-
jects of science, and a removal of those disadvan-
tages which impede its progress; and also to promote
the intercourse of the cultivators of science with one
another, and with foreign philosophers." Thus origi-
nated the Association- for the Advancement of
Science, whose 22d annual meeting is about to be
held in this city during the week commencing with
the 13t of September. The past meetings have, by
judicious regulation of the society, been held at
various important places threughout the country; with
a view to make known its existence and objms, and
to extend its operations as much as possible. Our
great Universities have been both visited twice—Ox-
ford in 1832 and 1847, and Cambridge in 1833 and
1845 ; and the association has held meetings in the
seaports of Liverpool, Bristol, and Plymouth, and in
the manufacturing districts of Manchester, Birming-
ham, and Newcastle. In Scotland three of the annual
meetings have taken place—at Edinburgh in 1834 and
1850, and at Glasgow in 1840. Ireland has already
received the association twice—at Dublin in 1835, and
at Cork in 1843. The ensuing meeting in this:city will
be the third, and bids fair .to rival the preceding
ones, both in numbers and in the importance of the
communications to the different sections. In the list
of annual presidents may be seen the names of some
of the most eminent men of science, and also of no-
blemen who have distinguished themselves from their
order by their love for and prosecution of scientific
pursuits. Of these too rare instances, we have
pleasure in giving the names of the Duke of North-
umberland, the Marquises of Lansdowne, North-
ampton, Burlington, and Breadalbane, the Earl of
Rosse, Viscount Milton, and Lord Francis Egerton,
now Earl of Ellesmere. The number of members,
which at the York meeting in 1831 amounted to
353, has reached as many as 2,500 at the Newcastle
meeting in 1838—since which time, owing princi-
pally to the meetings of other societies which have
emanated feom this being held about the same time,
the numbers have decreased, and are now consider-
ably influenced both by the locality and by the time
of the year at which the meeting takes place. Not-
withstanding the important centres in which the
association has met 11:1 successive years, the
number of persons who have attended its
meetings, and the favour with which it
has been regarded by the scientific world, it is evident
that the public generally possess but a limited ac-
quaintance with its objects, and that thousands are
daily enjoying the benefits resulti▪
ng from it, without
even knowing the existence of the source from whence
they are derived. If we take a short review of the
past transactions of the association we shall find that
some of the most important advances, both in the
exact and natural sciences, have been made under the
auspices, and frequently through the direct instru-
mentality, of the society. One of the first of its obe
jects was to assist in the prosecution of scientific in-
quiry by the formation of committees, to which a cer-
tain sum of money was voted for the special object of
their duties. In this way many thousand pounds
have been disbursed, and many important questions
solved, which probably, owing to their complex
nature, and the time, care, and actual outlay involved,
would not otherwise have been investigated. From
the earliest meetings many distinguished foreigners
have attended personally, and others have ably
represented the science of their respective coun-
tries by the valuable papers they have con-
tributed to the objects of the association. Among
these may be seen the names of Agassiz, Arago,
Bunsen, De la Rive, Dove, Dumas, Milne, Edwards,
Ehrenberg, Encki, Forchammer, Humboldt, Jacobi,
Liebig, Matteucci, Nilssen, Orated, Quetelet, Rogers,
Shumacker, Struve, Schonbein, and many others
equally distinguished in their several departments,
but whose names are less familiar to the public gene-
rally. At the Edinburgh meeting, in 1834, Professor
S. D. Rogers, of the United States, contributed a
valuable report on the geology of North America.
In the same year Scott Russell communicated a no-
tice of the reduction of an anomalous fact in hydro-
namics, and of a new law of the resistance of fluids
to the motion of floating bodies. This led to the
organization of a special committee to investigate the
form of ships, a report of which was read at the Ply-
mouth meeting in 1841. Public attention has been
recently drawls to the " wave principle ; and proba-
bly, now that its advantages have been practically
demonstrated by another country, we shall be more
ready to carry out a principle, the theory of which is
due to our own. Luke Howard gave some valuable
data in reference to our climate, and Lord
Fitz william called attention to the import-
since of statistical reports regarding agricul-
ture,a
i
l
which was confirmed by
in
of the
the statistics of " suggestions in
f
by Porter, at the
Bai‘r,nmuirn gnfh ani n
agriculture." This is a want which s now more than
ever felt, but which can only be supplied by the
machinery of a Government. At the next meeting
as;seteenteißatgic in
collectionl
8
another illustrious foreigner (Agassiz) made known
his views on the principles of classification of the
animal kingdom. At the Bristol meeting, in 1836,
Eaton Hodgkinson published hi▪ s experiments on the
relative strength and other mechanical properties of
cast-iron obtained by hot and cold blast, by which it
was shown that the hot blast was produced at a far
less cost, and yet, for general purposes, was not in-
ferior to the cold blast; indeed, the average results of
the trials give a superiority of the hot blast over the
cold blast in the proportion of 1,024 to 1,000.
The
statistics of the iron trade speedi▪ ly showed the effect
of this discovery. The meeting at Newcastle was re-
markable, not less for the number's that attended it
than for the nature and importance of the subjects
brought before it.
Among these we may notice the magnetic survey
of Great Britain, compiled by Colonel Sabine, who,
still following up the object of his researches, has at
the ensuing meeting some very remarkable pheno-
mena, probably intimately connected with magnetism,
to make known to the scientific world.
The first report by Mallet on the instance of water'
either fresh or salt, on both cast and wrought iron
was also read; and Wheatstone, in demonstrating the
principles of binocular vision, first told us of an in-
strument he had adapted for illustrating its pheno-
mena, to which he gave the name of " stereoscope,"
and with which we have only quite recently been
made familiar. The use and advantages of wire ropesfor mining purposes was advocated by Count Breun-
ner, and Ehrenberg made known to us some of his
beautiful and interesting microscopic discoveries. At
the ninth meeting the zoology of, our country was
importantly advanced by Owens first report on
British reptiles, and by a communication from Ede
ward Forbes " on the distribution of pulmoniserous
molluscs in the British isles," who subsequently, un-
der the auspices of the association, undertook the in.
vestigation of British marine zoology, and gave the
first report of his valuable researches at the Swansea
meeting in 1848. Grove's voltaic battery was first
made known at this meeting; while communications
of a more directly practical tend.ency were made by
Fox Talbot, on photographic processes
Gossage, on the disc (a rotatory) engine;
and by Eaton Hodgkinson, on experimental
researches into the crushing . points of
dif-
ferent woods. The tenth meeting was held at
Glasgow, at which some statistical papers created
much interest, and tended greatly to establish that
department as a distinct branch of political science.
The papers generally had reference to local subjects,
and Dr. Chalmers, in a communicati▪
on, explained
the application of statistics to moral and economic.
science. The first reports on the fari▪
na of Ireland,
by the late W. Thompson (of this city), and of the
committee appointed to experiment on the growth
and vitality of seeds, both undertaken at the instance
of the association, was read. Murchison and De
Verneuil gave us much valuable information respect-
ing the geological formation of Lorth and Central
Russia; while Agassiz and James Forbes, by their
respective communications, added greatly to our
knowledge of the glaciers and boulders of Switzer-
land. The following year produced an important
paper by Professors W. and H. W. Ilogers, of the