The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-06 00:00:00

CONTENTS:

IN Tlt ODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological
tructure and Puncticns of the Reproductive Organs.
CIIA PT Mt I I.—Canses of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence;
arlv Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect.
CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications
I Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the
collies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection.
CIIAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of
gonorrhoea and Syphilis.
The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting
ages, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive
r,otion.
REVIEWS OF THE WORK.
'Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and
hould be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times,"
3d March, 1856.
"The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this
little work, in which is described the source of those diseases
which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature
old age."--.. Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856.
" This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of
professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in aplain
-ind sympathising manner on the various disqualifications
and impediments arising from hervous excitement and de-
ratty ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and
xcesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record.
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By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re-
ceived files of papers from Bombay to the 12th of
December, and from Calcutta to the 3d of De-
cember.
We take the following summary of news from the
Bombay Gazette of the 12th December.
" The Governor-General has relinquished for the
present his intention of visiting either the Godavery
or British Burmah. Lord Canning has decided on
leaving for England before the close of the present
month.
"The Hon, Mr. Laing arrived at Calcutta by the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Candia,
on Saturday, the 30th of November.
" The Kurrachee papers declare that Nana Sahib,
of Bithoor, disguised as a fakir, has been appre-
hended in that city.
" Russia is drawing supplies of cotton from Khiva
and Bokhara, and the cultivation of the staple in
those countries has been very largely extended.
The value of that sold recently at the fair of Novo-
gorod was estimated at £150,000.
Sir George Russel Clerk left Mahableshur last
week, and has arrived at Poonah.
" His Highness the Nizam has issued orders to
the talookdars to make over to the British officers
the lands required for a road to be constructed for
the Godavery traffic.
" General Birch, it is stated, is about to retire.
" Orders for the creation of a Chief Commissioner-
ship of the Central Provinces have been issued. The
new Palatinate will consist of Nagpore and the
Saugor and Nerbudda territories in 13 districts.
The administration and pay of officials will be like
those of Oude. The whole additional cost for the
good government of the most neglected of our pro-
vinces will not be more than £lO,OOO a-year,
" The amount of income-tax for the town and
island of Bombay for the year commencing Aug. 1,
1860, and ending July 31, 1861, was 11,58,000 r.;
nearly the whole has been realised.
'• Kirkee, Kurrachee, and Mhow are to be the
head-quarters of the Bombay Artillery. The Horse
Brigade, the 18th and 21st Brigades, to be perma-
nently fixed respectively at these places.
Colonel Baird Smith, of the Bengal Engineers,
who has reported so ably on the famine, is so ill as
to necessitate his return to England. His illness is
the effect of incessant work and application to duty.
"ha Chota Nagpore some fine waste lands with
an excellent cotton soil may be obtained on 20
years' leases, rent free for three years, at the rate
of half a rupee all round. The plateau is from 1,500
to 2,000 feet above the sea level.

" The senior Line officers included in Sir Charles
Wood's pension and retirement scheme, and whom
the Government cannot employ, are sending in their
adhesion and acceptance of his offers in considerable
numbers.

" The North-west Provinces, so recently ravaged
by famine, are covered with most promising rubbee
crops. The people are happy and contented, and
engaged in irrigating their fields.
" The Kurwee prize money is to be divided among
General Whitelock's and the Central Indian Field
Force, or Sir H. Rose's column.
" India is indebted to European enterprise and
capital for her tea cultivation, which is rapidly in-
creasing. The produce of the Assam Company's
gardens alone is now about £1,000,000 sterling, and
the wastes of Cachar, which five years ago scarcely
yielded to Government a revenue of 50,000 rupees,
now yield upwards of 32 lacs per annum. _ _

" A letter from Cabul states that Sultan Ahmed
Jan, the ruler of Herat, has established friendly re-
lations with Afzul Khan, the Dost's son, and
resolved to throw off his allegiance to Persia.
" Salabut Khan, the murderer of the late Major
Burton and his sons, has been convicted, sentenced
to death, and hanged at Kotah, the scene of his
crime.

" The 30th of Nov., 1861, was the last day of the
existence of the regiment of the Bombay Artillery.
113 years of good and gallant service has to be re-
corded of the corps. The Duke of Cambridge is now
the commandant of the corps.

" The proprietors of the Bank of Bombay will
meet on the 20th inst., when the following impor-
tant propositions will be submitted for decision—

" ' 1. That the directors be authorised to enter into
and make such arrangements with Government as
may appear expedient and advantageous to the
Bank for taking over the business of the General
Treasury at Bombay, and for the management of
the currency here and in the Mofussil under the
provisions of Act 19 of 1861, entitled an Act to pro-
vide for a Government Paper Currency, and Act 24,
of 1861, entitled an Act to enable the Banks of Ben-
gal, Madras, and Bombay, to enter into arrange-
ments with the Government for managing the issue
payment, and exchange of Government currency
notes, and certain business hitherto transacted by
the Government Treasurers.
" 2. That the directors be authorised to establish
branch banks at such places as they may deem ex-
pedient and advantageous for the interests of the
bank.
" 3. That the directors be authorised to take
such steps for varying, altering, or annulling all, or
any of the provisions of this Act under which the
bank is at present constituted, and for obtaining the
re-incorporation of the bank as to them may seem
expedient for securing the efficient working of the
I bank.

" Property to a considerable amount has been dug
up at Delhi under one of the apartments of the ex-
King.
" The health of the city and island of Bombay is
good. The weather very cool and delightful.
" The English mail of the 3d of November ar-
rived in Bombay on the 27th of November, on the
morning of the day of the departure of the Bombay
mail."

We take the following from the Calcu(ta English-
man of the 3d of December :

" Our markets are characterised by the most pro.
found inactivity. Instructions from home forbid
any sales of cotton goods being effected, except at
prices far in advance of present rates; and the last
telegram received here from Bombay on the 28th
ult., announcing a fall of id., has effectually pre-
vented any demand for skirtings, yarns, or mules,
even at previous rates. Under these circumstances,
with the English houses holding their goods in an-
ticipation of a rise, and the bazaar dealers holding
off in anticipation of a fall below the rates at which
transactions were effected, there is little prospect
of any activity prevailing until one or the other
give way. In the export market we have nothing
to record ; transactions have been very limited,
owing greatly to the excesbive demands made for
first-class freights. Prices keep np,—a natural
consequence of a plentiful supply of money in the
bazaar; but this must shortly change' and the na-
tive dealers give way, as very large demands for
money are being made for the Upper Provinces.
There has been a public sale of cotton, preceded by
one of indigo, at the mart of Messrs. It. Thomas
and Co. The latter touched the high price of 300 r.
per mound ; the biddings were extremely spirited
lowing to the advanced rates prevailing at home.
Of the former there was but a very limited supply
offered, and but few competitors. The lots were
knocked down at bazaar prices. It is, however, a
good feature in the trade now fast aquiring impor-
tance, that any cotton whatever should have been
offered to public competition at this early period of
the year, and it plainly shows that the 50,000
bales reported by Mr. Paterson Saunders, the
Cotton Commissioner, as being stored at Mirzapore,
are being thrown upon the market here. In a few
months more the cotton sales at Calcutta will, no
doubt, be as spiritedly contested as are the indigo
and opium sales."

THE BOMBAY MONEY MARKET AND COM-
MERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Times of India of Dec. 12.)
The London mail of the 3d ult. reached la on the

The sales of the -.;)rt.night are chiefly confined to
gray shirting ; in 'alai. descriptions of gray goods
the sales are very small. There is now an improved
demand for bleached and printed fabrics, which are
a shade higher in price, and there is every prospect
of a good business being done in piece goods gene-
rally if holders will remain moderately firm, and not
press sales till there is more vigour in the Bazaar.
Twist is again in excellent demand, and the values
of most counts have advanced from half an anna to
1 anna per lb.

THE REPORTED CAPTURE OF NANA
SAHIB.

(From the Times of India of Dec. 12.)

By far the most important item of news carried
by the present mail to Europe is the announcement
that the miscreant Nana of Bithoor was captured a
few days , 'when on the point of
embarking
Kurrachee, when
difficulty seems to
ago
rom at
a utr r
paocrhte
be experienced in identifying the prisoner, and the
conflicting evidence upon the point will be found
fully detailed below. The capture was preceded
some days by a rumour in Kurrachee that the Nana
was making his way down the valley of the Indus
in the guise of a Hinglagee, purposing to make for
Dwarka from either Sonmeanee or Kurrachee, and
to proceed thence to Zanzibar or Muscat.
" We submit our readers this morning the follow-
ing details, which may be relied on. It was decided
yesterday by the authorities to liberate the person
apprehended as the Nana, when Mr. Nugent Sulli-
van, apothecary in charge of the General Hospital,
learned from one of the patients under his care that
the Nana was known to him, he having been in
his employ at Bitboor for a long time, and having
parted from him just before the mutinies broke out.
Mr. Sullivan immediately put the man in a dooly,
and accompanied him to the place where the pri-
soner was confined, when a number of Purvoes and
others were presented to him, and he was called
on to state if the Nana was among them.
After a minute ex'tmination, he declared that the
miscreant was not there. Subsequently, another
batch, among whom was the apprehended man,
was brought forward, and he at once singled him
out, declaring that he was the Nana of Bithoor.'
He was thereupon questioned, and stated that
he had served the Nana, eaten of his salt, and
seen him for some years regularly every day ; he
could not be mistaken ' That man was the Nana of
Bithoor.' Mr. 'Sullivan had his patient carried off
to the hospital, and by four o'clock in the evening
Mr. Ingle, the Deputy Magistrate, the Foujdar of
Kurrachee, and a number of others, came up to the
hospital with the prisoner, and it was proposed to
question the sick Poorbeeah again. Mr. Sullivan
suggested that the prisoner should be disguised as
a Purvoe to make assurance doubly sure, which was
done, and the sick man was brought out to meet
the party ; he was asked if the Nana was there,
and, looking around, immediately pointed out the
man, declaring that That man is the Nana of
Bithoor and the' adopted son of Bajerow. I would
recognise him in any disguise.' A bystander ob-
served, ' The Nana has a hole on the top of his ear.'
'lf so,' said the Poorbecah, that man must have
it, for here is the Nana; look for yourselves.' The
ear was examined, and the hole was there. After
this we can only say Mr. Sullivan deserves the
highest credit for the tact, zeal, and energy he has
displayed in the matter; were it not for him the
Nana would now have been free, and the bird lost
after it had been caged. Should the reward pro-
mised by Government be granted, Mr. Sullivan,
in our opinion, merits the lion's share of it.

"We told our readers not to be startled if the
Nana were among us in Kurrachee undiscovered.
We now tell them that the murderers of the Jen-
nings family, Mogul Beg and his accomplice, were
a few weeks ago apprehended and identified beyond
dispute in Upper Scinde, and sent up for trial to
the Punjab authorities. This information we with-
held, fearing it would scare away the Nana, whom
we expected down."

THE DISCOVERIES IN WORCESTER
CATHEDRAL.

We recently noticed in The Sun the discovery of
two very ancient coffins in the sanctuary of Wor-
cester Cathedral in the course of the extensive
repairs now going on there. On Friday and Satur-
day last, by permission of the dean and chapter,
the remains were inspected by a portion of the pub-
lic, a formal examination having been previously
made by the Very Rev. the Dean of Worcester,
several Roman Catholics, lay and clerical, and Mr.
Bloxham, of Rugby, a well-known authority on
ecclesiastical antiquities. It will be remembered
that the first discovery made in the sanctuary in
digging out at the base of the north wall was a
stone coffin containing the body of a dignitary of
the church; robed in canonicals, with the pastoral
staff by its side, and the paten on its breast. The
chalice and ring no doubt were buried with the
body, but these, it is supposed, must have been ap-
propriated by some of the workmen, as they cannot
be found. The vestments must have been exceedingly
rich and costly, but they are now a mass of shreds.
They are of gold tissue and embroidered with scrolls
and other accessories. Mr. Bloxam fixes the date of
the burial about the middle of the 13th century,
and thinks the remains are those either of William
de Blois, Bishop of Worcester, who died A.D. 1236,
or of Walter de Cantilupe, who died A.D. 1266, but
he is inclined to prefer the latter. He promises,
however, to make further investigations, and to read
a paper on the subject at the next annual meeting
of the British Arebrelogical Institute, which will be
held at Worcester in the summer. The paten,
which is of silver gilt, is in the hands of the Dean
of Worcester. It is very similar to one or more dis-
covered in the graves of prelates in York Cathedral,
and Mr. Bloxam says it is clearly of the 13th cen-
tury. The second coffin was a lead one, or rather it
was an embalmed corpse enclosed in lead, which
conformed to the shape of the body, and even showed
the features of the face and the joints of the lower
limbs. Through an opening made between the
legs the cerecloth is visible ; it is very strong, and
still retains a powerful aromatic odour. Mr.
Bloxam says this may be of the 15th, 16th, or 17th
centuries. It has been suggested that the remains
are those of the Duke of Hamilton, who was mor-
tally wounded io the civil wars at the battle of Wor-
cester, and buried in the cathedral about the spot
where the body was discovered. The leaden cover-
ing was originally enclosed in an outer coffin of
wood, of which, however, nothing was left but the
iron handles. A small javelin head was found in or
near the outer coffin, which is now in the hands of
the Dean of Worcester. This body lies some two
or three feet below the floor of the sanctuary, but
the stone coffin of the ecclesiastic is close against
the pavement, which, in fact, forms the lid of the
coffin. Both are on the left or north side of the
sanctuary.

Cape Race, which is so often mentioned now in
connexion with our intercourse with the United
States, is the south-eastern point of Newfoundland,
and is the nearest point to Europe. The North
Transatlantic steamers pass near there on their way
to and from the United Kingdom and the United
States. There is a telegraphic communication be-
tween Cape Race and New York. The distance by
water is about 900 miles, and upwards of 1,000
miles by land. Outward bound steamers carry out
epitomes of English news in tin cans attached to
floats, which are thrown overboard off Cape Race,
and are picked up by boats, taken ashore, and the
epitomes are telegraphed to New York three days
before the outward packets can reach that port.
Sometimes these cases are not found, and occa-
sionally captains of steamers refuse to communicate
with Cape Race, and carry on their news to New
York or Boston, for the sake of the eclat and inte-
rest the bearers of important news excite, This
would appear to have been done by the commander
of the Europa, who might otherwise have allayed
fer six days the irritation of the American public
as to the demands of the English Government re-
specting the Trent affair. Steamers, as they leave
North America and pass Cape Race on their way to
England, receive there American telegrams, with
three days' later news to bring to this country.
Sometimes the darkness of night and rough weather
prevent these telegrams from being put on board
the steamers. If the electric telegraph cable be-
tween Ireland and St. John's, Newfoundland, had
been successfully laid down, the English Govern-
ment might have saved a couple of millions of
money spent in preparing for war with the United
States ; gambling to the tune of millions in public
securities might have been stopped, and two months
of intense excitement in this country and the United
States have been prevented.

CANADIAN PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

The following notification, dated Quebec, Dec. 20,
has been issued :
" In view of the fact that Great Britain has made
certain demands of the United States, and of the
uncertainty whether the Washington Government
will accede to them, preparations for a war which
is, to say the least, quite possible are being made
by the authorities, both in England and Canada.
Three transports, the Persia, Australasian, and Mel-
bourne, are now on their way to Riviere du Loup,
with 30,000 stand of arms, two regiments, and three
batteries of Armstrong guns. We have no doubt
that further reinforcements and more munitions of
war will be sent on very shortly by way of Halifax;
and, as the Temiscouta road is now finished, both
troops and arms can be conveniently and expedi-
tiously forwarded by it, as well as by the Kempt
road. We understand that his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief of the Militia will to-day issue
a general order for the immediate formation of one
company for active service from each battalion of
Sedentary Militia in Canada. It will be remem-
bered what valuable services in the field were ren-
dered during the last war by the so-called flank
companies,' and we suppose a similar organization
to theirs will be adopted now. There are at present,
in both sections of the province, 459 battalions of
Militia, and the organization of one company from
each will give a force, including officers, of 39,015
men. Adding the strength of the active Militia, clas-
ses A and B, which may be estimated at 7,500 men,
there will thus be organised a total militia army of
46,515 men. The flank companies are to be formed
so that each shall preserve as much as possible its
local character. This will also be kept in view in
grouping them together. Thus the Kent, Lincoln,
Quebec, Rimouski regiments and others will doubt-
less have a strong esprit de corps, and endeavour to
keep up the credit of the locality from which they
are recruited. Further details of the proposed ar-
rangements will of course be speedily made known
to the proper officers and to the public."

(From the Quebec Morning Chronicle, December 17.)

There is not a man among us who does not feel
proud of the old meteor flag this day. England has
been magnanimously patient during these many
years, remembering that, although the United States
were often insolent and overbearing, the American
people were of British blood and spoke the familiar
mother tongue. But the States have now presumed
too far. The tone of mild expostulation is exchanged
for that of decided resolution. 'We hear no more of
protocols and diplomatic correspondence; but of a
British ultimatum, backed up by British regiments,
British arms and ammunition, and British men of
war. It is a happy thought for us Canadians that
we are not responsible for the impending struggle.
No offensive act of ours has caused the quarrel or
precipitated its solution. Great Britain is not called
upon to partake in or avenge a quarrel of our seek-
ing or our making. We can therefore the more con-
fidently look to the parent State to help to defend
our territory with all its power. We may expect
rapid action now. Within a wuk L'jrd Lyons may
either he os the dick of the Warrior at Annapolis
or inside the fortifications at Quebec. Within a
month there may be 25,000 or 50,000 men threat-
ening our frontiers. And glad are we this morning
that we at least have not been sleeping, but have
foreseen the crisis, and have cried " Prepare !" so
urgently, that, in spite of the opiates administered
by a pusillanimous press elsewhere, the people
are aroused already. We shall not name the
journals to which we here allude. We 'will not
say one word now against their motives, for we
we wish to forget, as all patriots must forget, that we
have ever been divided into sections, with bitter po-
litical, national,religious, and sectional animosities.
We are all one people now; It has been the
Chronicle's aim, for months past, to urge upon the
Imperial Government the necessity of sending
hither, during the open weather, additional regi-
ments and additional arms. We have not ceased to
call for their assistance to construct the Intercolonial
Railway as a means of communication with this
colony during winter. But we would not have either
our own people or t he Americans forget that we have
arms ready for at least 50,000 men, that more are
coming, and that, though there is no railway all the
way to Halifax, there is a good broad road, tolerable
in summer, excellent in winter, with settlements all
along it. There is now no wilderness to traverse,
and half-a-dozen regiments could come to Halifax,
either on foot or in sleighs, with greater ease and in
much less time than one regiment accomplished the
task in the beginning of this century. It is, how-
ever, evident that we must put forth every effort to
help defend ourselves. The national life which is
beginning to throb in our veins is endangered. 'We
must show ourselves worthy of the Queen who go-
verns us, of the name we bear, of the history of our
fathers in England and France, and of our own glo-
rious traditions too. Let us set ourselves earnestly to
the work of preparation—mustering and drilling our
militiamen day after day. Under-estimating neither
the valour and resources of the people who may be
our enemy nor our own, let us do our duty while we
have time for making ready, silently but well. We
must knit our teeth and clinch our fists as resolute
men are wont. We must not emulate in brag and
bluster the politicians of the States—lVelles, Se-
ward, Everett, Sumner, Caleb Cushing, Governor
Andrew—but must imitate and endeavour to
excel in earnestness of purpose the Southerners,
who battle for independence, and our own
sires who fought and won at Queenstown
heights and Chateauguay. It is still possible
that peace may be preserved. The decided attitude
of England, the promptitude of the demand for
reparation, may produce a beneficial effect in
bringing to their senses the insane Government of
-Washington. We hope so. But the chances seem
slender, certainly not of a nature to admit of a day's
delay in preparation for immediate hostilities. Our
L Active Militia must drill incessantly ; the officers
of the sedentary Militia must qualify theinselTeo or

The American journals brought by the Hansa,
Anglo-Saxon, and Glasgow, are unanimous in as-
serting that the European advices on board the
steamer America, which left England on the 7th ult.,
were looked form, ard to at Washington with the
greatest interest, previous to the determination of
the Federal government as to the demands of Great
Britain relative to the Trent. Singularly, the
America, like the Europa, which took out Earl Rus-
sell's despatch to Lord Lyons, has been unusually
delayed on her outward passage. The America was
due at New York on the 21st ult., but on that day
she was at Halifax taking in coals. She could not
possibly, therefore, reach New York before the 23d,
and possibly her despatches would not reach Wash-
ington before the 24th. On that day the English
mails leave Washington and New York for Boston, to
be brought home by the Europa. Unless, therefore,
the latter is detained, it is not probable that
she will bring the official answer of the Federal
Cabinet to Earl Russell's despatch. The Spectator
of Saturday says that the answer must be given on
the 29th, and that if not given before that day it
will reach England on the 6th inst.—that is, to-day;
but this must be an error. No steamers leave
America on the 29th, and if they did they could
not reach" here in eight days. After the Europa
leaves, on the 25th ult., the Teutonia and City of
Washington leave New York on the 28th, and then
no steamer will leave any United States port until
the Niagara, which leaves on the Ist of this month,
and she will not be due at Queenstown until the
13th inst.—that is, next Monday.