The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-10 00:00:00

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological
Structure '2 n d Functicns of the Reproductive Organs.
CITAprER. ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhma and Impotence;
Early Vicious Indulgemes ; Dangers of Neglect.
CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications
rt Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the
Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection.
CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of
Gonorrhoea and Syphilis.
The Book oncludes with numerors varied and interesting
cases, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventlye
Lotion.

REVIEWS OF THE WORK.
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"Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and
be in the hands of young and old '—" Sunday Times,"
41 march, 1856.
"The author has conferred aeat boon by publishing this
little work, in which is describedgrthe source of those diseases
bdiTl Produce decline in youth or more frequently premature
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This meeting, although devoid for the last few years of
the Guy Stake•, in which many a candidate for honours at
Doncaster has shown his quality or received his coup de
grace, began with a well-filled list of runners and promise of
good sport. Rain during the previous night had laid the
dust and improved the condition of the racecourse, on which
a fair sprinkling of the aristocracy met the professionals of
the turf. Some little betting went on during the half hours
allowed between the decision of the different events, and
Carisbrook appeared likely to join the outside rank of the
favourites ; Hurricane met with such support as caused the
price taken on Monday about The Marquis to be offered on
the field. Argonaut was in demand at the odds we quote
below. The fields for nearly all the races were good, and
the fund benefitted by the sales of two winners to the
amount of £172. Punctuality was attended to, and the
last event decided within a few minutes of the time for which
it was advertised.

The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added; for all
ages. Winners extra. The winner to be sold for 600
sovs, or to carry 91b extra. One mile. 8 subs.
Mr. Hodgman's Libellous, 5 yrs, 9st 41b (in 41b ex)
(Fordham) 1
Mr. Osborne's Weatherspy, 2 yrs, 6st 61b (in 41b ex)
(Whiteley) 2
Mr. Samuel's Twilight, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b (in 16 ex) (not to
be sold) (Adams) 3
The following also ran :—Hopeful Duchess, Lady Derby,
Vulture, Mountain Maid filly, and Jack's Alive.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Twilight, 4to 1 agst Libellous, sto
1 agst Weatherspy, 6 to 1 agst Vulture, and 7 to 1 agst
Lady Derby.
Jack's Alive, Lady Derby, Mountain Maid, and Weather-
spy were first off, but after going a few strides Lady Derby
took up the running and carried it on to the Swan Meadows,
Hopeful Duchess and Vulture being in the extreme rear.
Jack's Alive then passed Lady Derby, and had a slight
lead until approaching the straight, where Libellous, fol-
lowed by Twilight on the inside, with Weatherspy at her
girths, came through his horses and went immediately to
the front. From that point the race was never in doubt ;
Weatherspy passed Twilight at the distance, but could not
reach Libellous, who won easily by half a length, Twilight
finishing three lengths from Weatherspy. About eight
lengths from her came Mountain Maid, Lady Derby, and
Jack's Alive, in the order named, the last of all being
Vulture.

The Racing Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 soya added, for
horses of all ages. Optional selling weights and allow-
ances. Winners extra, Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. Lincoln's Harvest Moon, 2 yrs (£3O), sst 81b
(A. Woodhouse) -1
Mr. Saxon's Wave, sst 81b
Mr. Bruce's Sybil, 2 yrs (DO), sst 111 b (inclu. 31b ex.)
(J. Grimshaw) 3
Mr. I. Woolcott's Plum, 4 yrs (L4O), Bst 21b.. (Dowling) 4
Mr. Vaugban's Maurice, 2 yrs (X3O), 6st .. (E. Taylor) 5
Mr. Hart's Phantom, 6 yrs, (£3O), Bst (Clement) 6
Betting-6 to son Harvest Moon, 7to 2 agst Wave, and
10 to 1 agst Phantom.
After breaking away three times Sybil set off with the
lead in a straggling start, Harvest Moon, Plum, and
Maurice being the next three. On coming round the bend
Harvest Moon took up the running, Sybil lying second, and
Wave third to the Stand, where they changed places. The
favourite won in a canter by a length and a half, a similar
distance separating the second and third. The winner was
sold to Mr. Fleming for 130 guineas,and Mr, Bruce claimed
Wave.

The Shorts Handicap, of 5 sovs each, 3 ft., with 25 added
for all ages ; winners 51b. extra. Five furlongs. 18
subs.
Yrt, 7st 31b
Mr. John Whittaker's David Ann, 43

_ _ _
- (Wheatley) 1
Mr. Bruce's Gipsy Girl, 2 yrs, 6st Sib .. (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Goatees Vandermulin f., 2 yrs,sst 101b(Woodhouse) 3
Mr. G. Crooks's Redpole, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Clement) 4
Mr. Hodgman's Sheerness, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Reeves) 5
Mr. G. -9.ngelPs Astarte, 4 yrs, Ist 121 b ... (Perry) 6
Betting-6 to 4 agst Redpole, sto 2 agst Gipsy Girl, and
6 to 1 agst David Ann.

David Ann jumped off with the lead, with Gipsy Girl
and Sheerness next, and Redpola last. Before reaching the
turn the Mississippi filly took third place, and no further
change occurred among the leading horses& David Ann,
who swerved slightly in front of the stand, won easily by
two lengths, the Mississippi filly being a bad third. The
rider of Gipsy Girl objected to David Ann for crossing him,
but the objection was overruled.

Match, £lOO, 25ft. One mile.
Mr. Wallace's Peeping Tom, 6 yrs, list 131 b (Mr. Blake) 1
Mr. Weysford's Consternation, 3 yrs, 10st
(Mr. Granville) 2

Betting-13 to 8 on Consternation.
Peeping Tom made his own running, and won in a
canter by two lengths.

The Leamington Stakes of 25 soya each, 15 ft, and 5 only
if declared, &c., with 100 soya added. Winners extra.
The second received back his stake. Two-mile Course.

52 subs, 34 of whom declared.
Mr. Saxon's Bally Edmond, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Midgley) 1
Mr. Grevillo's Victrix, 3 yrs, 6st llb (Carroll) 2
Mr. R. Sutton's Man-at-Arms, 5 yrs, Bst (Clement) 3
Mr. Fleming's Magnum Bonum, 3 yrs, 6st. 21b

Grimshaw) 4
The following also ran :—Master George, Bryn Gwyn,
and Donne Canne.

Betting-7 to 4 agst Master George, sto 2 agst Bally
Edmond, 6 to 1 each agst Magnum Bonum and the Pro-
phet, and 100 to 8 agst any other.
Atter Magnum Bonum had shown temper and broke
away, he was led back from th, stand to the post, and at
last started very unkindly. Master George led off, with
Bally Edmond on his near side, and Bryn Gwyn on the
whip hand, close up, Man-at-Arms being last. They went
thus to the turn in going oat, when Bally Edmond headed
Master George, and led the lot over the hill, Victrix taking
third place and Magnum Bonum fourth. On again
ap-
pearing in sight Bally Edmond was still first, but Magnum
Bonum had taken second place, Master George being third,
and Victrix fourth. All through the Swan Meadows the
whole field lay close together, Man-at-Arms continuing as
before, and Victrix passing Master George before entering
the straight, where Magnum Bonum and Bally Edmond
were side by side. Man-at-Arms then joined the front
rank, and a very interesting race ensued. Bally Edmond
finally won without difficulty by half a length, a head only
separating each of the next three. About two lengths from
them Master George and Donne Canne finished abreast,
with The Prophet next, and Bryn Gwyn pulling up last.
The Castle Park Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, for
2-yr-olds ; colts Bst, 101 b, and fillies Bst 71b; winners
extra, with maiden allowances. T.Y.C. (three-quarters
of a mile). 18 subs.
Mr. Payne's Olitipa filly, Bst 71b .......... . . (Goater) 1
Mr. It. C. Naylor's Equinox, Bst 21b ........ (Challoner) 2
Mr. Penton's Overstone, Bst 101 b (Drew) 3
Baron Niviere's Fontenoy, Bst 51b (H. Grimshaw) 4
Mr. T. Wadlow's Herdsman, Bst 51b (Fordham) 5
(Clement) 7
Mr. Sutton's Glengowrie colt, Bst 101 b
Mr. Murphy's Erin-go-Bragh, 9st 31b (includ 7(l:llloeo.xetrrasi 6
and h Betting-5
ettteing;esngtoowr2 agst
colt, 6to 1 each g
tHerdsman,4to laeasct
h OverstoneagstFon. andtenoy
Equinox, 8 to 1 agst Erin-go-Bragh, and 10 to 1 agst the
Olitipa filly.
The Glengowrie colt, followed by Overstone and the Oli-
tipa filly, made running for a quarter of a mile, where they
were joined by Fontenoy and Erin-go-Bragh. After round-
ing the turn for home, Equinox went towards the front on
the in side, and the Glengowrie colt dropped back beaten.
A fine race from the distance was decided in favour of Mr.
Payne's filly by a neck, Overstone losing second place by
four lengths, with Fontenoy close up.
The Avon Stakes of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with 30 sovs added,
for 2-yr-olds, 7st, and 3-yr-olds, 9st, with certain allow-

ances. The winner to be sold for 50 sous. Five furlongs
13 subs.
Mr. Fleming's Ma Belle, 2 yrs, Est 81b.. (J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. E. T. Bower's First Attempt, 2 yrs, Est 41b
(J. Plumb) 2
Mr. R. C. Naylor's The Perfect Cure, 2 yrs, 6st 71b
(T. French) 3
The following also ran :—Passion, Maid of Cadiz colt,
Lord Clyde, Miss Edmondson, and Yanworth.
Betting-5 to 4 agst The Perfect Cure, sto 1 each eget
Ma Belle and First Attempt, and 6 to 1 agst the Maid of
Cadiz colt.

Perfect Cure, followed by First Attempt and Maid of
Cadiz, made running to the turn, where First Attempt took
the lead and held it to the distance ; there Ma Belle joined
her, and after a very pretty race won cleverly by three-
n, The Perfect Cure being a bad third,
Cadiz colt was fourth, and,Miss Edmondson
length, qrruhaer te
Maidr s o f
oaf Ie
fifth. The winner was sold for 122 guineas to Mr. Josephs.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas ; 3-yr-olds, Bst 71b ;
4-yr-olds, 9st 71b; 5-yr-olds, 6-yr-olds, and aged, 9st
121 b. Two-mile Course.
Mr. E. Mills's Knutsford, 4 yrs, 9st 71b ...... (Goater) 1
Mr. Wood's ACM
......... (Kendall) 2
,who made the running
for nearly a mile, when he indUlged his opponent with the
ng-10 to 1 on Knutsford
leaßdeftotri a few strides ; he then resumed his lead, and won
in a canter by eight lengths.

LATEST BETTING,
ST. LEGER.
sto 2 agat The Marquis (offered)
9to 2 agst Buckstone (taken and offered)
9to 1 agst Carisbrook (taken)
12 to 1 agst Exchequer (offered)
14 to 1 agst Argonaut (taken)
100 to 7 agat Hurricane (taken)
20 to 1 agst Johnny Armstrong
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
12 to lon the Add (offered)

A letter from Leghorn, dated Sept. 4, says—l have to
report a most atrocious and unprovoked onslaught on a
party of English and American sailors which was perpe-
trated the night before last by a party of the roughs of this
town, who go about constantly armed with bludgeons and
poignards, The facts are as follows :—Amongst the crew
of the English ship Launceston, of Newcastle, Capt. Jas.
Spence, now in this port, there is a well-conducted seaman
rather superior to his class, named Thomas Ray, of Larne,
near Belfast ; a fine young fellow of 25. On Tuesday at
about 6 p.m. he came to land in a shore-boat to get his
watch mended. In passing the American ship Alexandrine,
four seamen belonging to that vessel got into the boat also
to come ashore. On arriving at the stairs two of the Ameri-
, cans went to the post-office, and the other two with the
Englishman went to a grog-•shop known as belonging to
" English Mary," from the fact of the mistress being an
old acquaintance with every British sailor, merchant or
man-of-war's-man, who has ever visited Leghorn. They
were here joined by one of the Americans from the post-
office. The men affirm that they only drank at this place
a small liqueur glass of rum and a glass of wine each, after
which they left for a ramble, during which they joined
company with the boatswain and cook of the Alex-
andrine, who had also come ashore. The six men then
turned into a grog-shop in the Via San Giovanni, not
exactly one of the most respectable quarters in Leghorn.
They found a number of people drinking at tables, so with-
out sitting down they walked up to the counter and asked
for a glass of anisette each, but before they had time to
drink the liquor a party of Livornese blackguards came up
to the counter, and pushed them aside so rudely as to pro-
duce a row immediately. The first blow was bestowed on
the black American cook's curly head with a bludgeon,and
a regular rush was made at the others to overpower them
by numbers,whilst from the door stones and brickbats were
copiously discharged at them. The attack was so sudden
and so unlooked-for that the sailors were stupified and
daunted, and fearing for their lives, with good reason, as
matters turned out, escaped into the back shop and cellar
to hide amen& the casks. These were Thomas Duval, of
Canada, Charles Adeono,.Charles Stepney, Charles Selding,
and Henry Whaley, American seamen. The American
boatswain, a young fellow of Herculean proportions, seeing
that the mob had closed the door of the shop, and seemed
determined to surround and finish their intended victims,
shouted to his men not to " stow themselves away" in
the back shop, as they would certainly be found and
murdered, and setting them a vigorous example
himself, he made a rush for the door, dragging
his assailants with him. His impetus was so great that
he went smash through the panels, and plunged head for-
wards into the street, where he met with no better treat-
ment than inside, the mob attacking him with bludgeons
and daggers till they got him to the ground, where they
kicked him most brutally until he could resist no more.
The Englishman Ray did his best to follow the boatswain,
but suffered more in the rush, from having more dastardly
assailants round him. He succeeded in breaking through,
but not without severe injuries, inside and outside the shop,
and was finally left insensible on the ground, whence he was
carried by police and bersaglieri to the hospital in a deadly
swoon. The poor fellow was stabbed in 17 places—head,
throat, body, and limbs—besides bruises and kicks innu-
merable. The arrival of the police probably saved the lives
of the whole party, as the refugees in the cellar were found
by them and carried off to gaol; as was also the other sea-
men, who had gone to the post, and had only returned in
time to see the end of the fray, as a surprised spectator I
In fact, the assaulted party were captured, and the assail-
ants were left scot free, as is customary in this town, as if
the police were really afraid of the roughs, and averse to
chastising them. I saw poor Ray this afternoon at the
hospital, where he was well attended to certainly; but his
poor body presented a most lamentable spectacle—bruised,
pierced, and patched in every direction. Many of the
wounds are in ugly situations, especially all down the right
side, a circumstance which shows that the dastards who
stabbed him were behind him at the time, as they would
of course use their rights hands in piercing him. Ray was
of an ashy leaden hue, but whether his wounds will prove
fatal or not can only be decided in a few days, when it will
appear how far the more important viscera have been
punctured. I also visited the boatswain, who was better
off, having been only battered and kicked all over the head
and body, besides a stab in his thigh and two in his arm.
He was sitting on his bed, in the mad ward, where, by-
the-bye, they had put him, and the vice-consul and myself
had to pass a lot of roaring and strait-waistcoated fellows
before reaching his cell. He narrated the affair in terms
quite agreeing with the depositions of the other men, from
whom, however, he was kept separated entirely. He was
disgusted at being fed with water gruel, and much put out
at the whole occurrence, as his ship was ready for sea, and
the captain " calculated" to have sailed yesterday morning.
Ills narration of the fray was graphic, and enriched with
some very choice flowers of Yankee rhetoric. His personal
appearance, cast in " nature's largest mould," was certainly
imposing, and I can fully imagine that his rush at the
door, which eventually saved the lives of the whole party,
must have been terrific.

Now, what did these murderous wretches want with the
seamen ? Were they the scum of Leghorn armed with a
Mazzinian revolt which they were angry at not being able
to get up, and glad to wreck their rage on some victims or
other ? Did they remember the anniversary of Sept. 2,1848,
when they used their daggers with such effect as to bring
an Austrian occupation for 10 years on the city ? or did
they merely intend to kill and pillage the poor fellows who
had tumbled into their haunt ? We must look for the ex-
planation of these mysteries to the police, which has hither-
to shown its chief activity by imprisoning the victims. The
people of the shop claim indemnity for the damage commit-
ted, and declare the seamen were drunk; but the boatswain
assured me that they were not so in the least, and that the
glasses of spirit they had ordered were only just set upon
the counter when the affray began. Mr. Macbean, the con-
sul, and his brother, the vice-consul, are occupied in exa-
mining the affair thoroughly, in order to obtain justice, if
possible, from the authorities. Unfortunately, this is not a
very easy matter, it appears, for the ruffian railway staff
holder, who, as I told you in a preceding letter, so brutally
assaulted Mr. Jopling's cashier, Mr. Wilkinson, about a
fortnight ago, is walking about quite at his ease, and
feels so little that he has done wrong, that he is going
on in the same line, having now selected a new victim
in the person of Mr. Pettigrew, the head carpenter of the
first section of the Maremma Railway, whom he so perse-
veringly threatens to murdei Mr. Pettigrew is obilged to
go about with a pistol always in his pocket.
Why the authorities take no notice of such things is
utterly inexplicable. Patrols are on the look out night and
day to prevent Garibaldian proclamations from being stuck
up, and to overawe Republican bullies; but the peaceable
citizens and the foreigner who comes to introduce civiliza-
tion and the advantages of British invention and manufac-
ture
i
ture are n a great measure unprotected.