The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-03 00:00:00

LIFE ASSURANC P.

Life assurance, annuities, and endowmcati.
payments taken
Monthly as well as quarterly, Scl. Policies indlsputAble, save
nt
eases of fraud. Arrangements can be mate w;;h this office to pre-
'vent the lees of a policy where the asquted is unable, trout temporary
trabarra.,sment, to keep up the payments.
11. B. SHERIDAN, =►Tanager.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.
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No. 11, Lombard-61r(

et, London,

DIRECTORS.
Sir WALTER R. FARQUHAR, Bart., Chairman.
FRANCIS HART DYKE, Esq., Deputy-Chaliman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Stewat t Marjoribanks, Esq.
John Dixon, Esq. John vart°n,Esq , M.P.
Sir W. M. T. Fatcmhar, Ban Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Thos.Hankey,juri.,Esq , M.P. James Morris, Ei.q
John Ilaivey, Esq. Heney Norman, Esq.
John G. Huttard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., F.sq.
George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouch, re, Esq. James Talloch, Esq.
John Loch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
Ammons.
A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Eery y Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq.
Sacarrartv—George Keys, Esq.
Acrusur —Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UniIer the provisions of an Act of Par-
liament. this Company now Wife: to :u..u-e insureas Four-fifths o
the Profits, with Quinquennial D.vision, or a Low Rat:; of Premium
Without participation of Profits.
The next division of Profits will be decLreci in June, 1855, when
a'°l Participating Policies which s'la't h,ve subsisted at least one year
at Christmas 1854, will be allowed ;o s'aere in the Profits.
At several past divisions o; Pi outs made by this Company, the
Reversionary Boneses added to the Policies f.om One-half the
Profits amounted, on an average of the d'fferent ages, to about Ore
Per Cent. par Annum on the sums ins,•ed, and the total Bonuses
adde*at the Four Septennial Div's'ons exceeded 770,0001.
FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies, the British Co,onles, end the northern parts of the
United States of America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LlVES.—Persons who are not in such sound health as
Would enable them to insure their Dyes at the Tabular Premiums.
May have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS grante
es d on Life Policies to :he extent of their valueS, Pro-
vided such Polici shall have been etrected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLlClES.—Written Notices of, received
and registered.
Medical fees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for-
Policy Stamps after the 10th October, 1853.
Notice is hereby given, That F.m .Policies which excite at
Michaelmas must be renewed' within fifteen ci,ys at this Office, or
with Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. Jamcs'a-street, corner of Pall-mat; or
with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise
they become void.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITLEii OF
YOUTH AND MATURITY.
DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, 11E,DnaltD•SQUA RE. LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Atenaber of the London Hospital Medical
11 Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &C.
ff AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
i .1 a, the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from Juvenile Irregraarities and excesses, which have
.pro-
duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and
premia
he ir deca3- at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of ds -
cases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
In the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfraitffil Marri-
ages, Impotency. Local theirnl Weakness, and their
endless modifications owe almost eatire origin.
It is absolutely necessary that all men ehoald know that there are
principles of personal management which cannot be violated without
incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil and its consequet c es maybe avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of - ,ysical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the tin-e' a a'a of science cannot apply a cure
DOCTOIt LA'MERT has foe a long series of years been engaged
In an extensive practice in the taeatment of these delicate com-
plaints, and is tie only legally qaalifled Physician who, regardless
of the taunts and enyy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, thrfth the medium of the public press, to direct
mention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
selecting tia i deaartnnant of practice, he has been amply
rem arded by the great succesa that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases. which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and Ignorant etnpirica,es‘vlaton,dWith their pirated
Publications, assumed foreign name, and t itl
01 mar patent noßtrurnm, have inflicted serlou'a iti pretended virtues
inn? on those who
have been induced to place faith in their pretensfa
At home for consultation daily from Eleven till and
and from
Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/ , and aavice and
medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address
consult Dr. It at patients wishing aa Is cleSrable
• LA' th
MERT
Should firsti obtain a copy of his work on
SELF•PRESERVATION.
ifioltarrriage and Nervous and
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy ofcs
graving,' and des-
Generati act Debility, illustratedbyfitry
es.ultingetoelm'
assistdisorders in the correct
excesses. The perusal farad may be had, price as Gil, in
ths treatise win
English,
Rion. of their cases,
French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs, i' per
Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street;
Mann, 39, Cornhlll ; Storie, Titehborne-street, Haymarket ; or free
by post for
forty-two
stamps, to any address from the Author's reka..
daace, 37. REDFOILD.SOIJARE. LONDON.

TAKE NOTICE!
MESSRS. R. & L. PERRY & CO. CONTINUE TO BE
CONSULTED AS USUAL,
AT 19, BERNERS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET, LormoN.
ON THE SECRETCAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES

AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES.
THE SILENT FRIEND.
In Six Langurcres--Flfileth Edition. •
CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE,
Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloared Engravings and
Cases.
New Edition, enlarged to 203 pages, Trice 2s. 61., by post, from the
Establishment, 3s: (31. in stamps,
THE_SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the cnchaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
excessive M diligence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of
mercury, wi th directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol-
lowed by obsiervittions on Marriage, and the diequalificationswhich
nPEPrevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L.
RRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford-
atreet, Lon& ni. Published by Sherwood and Co., 23, Paternos,ter-
eO,w, aiid ilOl Iby street 3, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; (.or.
1,'"0", 146, Le idenhall ; 05, Farriirritlo--street ; W. Sutton,
.10,
°eherck-yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapsicie ; R Jollnson, GS, Corncl.9lvLe
trunt I. tMats Of the anatomy' and physiology
1,4 jra.n.d. is illustrated by 38CotounA Enitravir.
of the reproJu ti
duia,,,,e:l. treats of the consequences resultant'
rod acing
mental h
lamenable on system
orn excessive in-
ineapaciatyn ilts d -dllytheir akn t
we
er:s. nervous excitethem ent, and' generative
Nay
in Tllustrated by 10 Explanatory
the primary'
•treats of the dise•tees resulting from infection, I.th
for
Patera:rings:
c r seeo - ''- ' licit directions
ndary term, and contains exP
„,'
their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav-
ngs.
PART IV. cent
by a
a a remedy for the Prevention of Disease
simple application, by
in!
,
PART V. is deeo,. iWhich
its duties.,
-'• to the consideration of marriage and
The emus 15 of un produeti the danger of infection is obviated.
subject c- titically and il', union are :also considered,
w bically inquired into.
THE C WITHAL BALM OF 41) employed in trea-
log nery one and sexualand the whole
debtliAt cum is exclusively,
bottle. The Concentrated I,,Yt'e, impot
le'rTnce; an anti-syphilitic
remedy. for purifying the blenxri. in
ss's of infection, secondary
& I Is. and 31s. per
symptot is, eruptions. and the abuse nefte r * Ils. and Ma. per
bottle. Perry 's 1' u rifyi ng Spcein, fill,--w.21793d ,
per ho x, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea,. abet, stricture, and
eillronic intlanammion of the bla.d,!er. Consultation fee.
4s. 6d.. and lie.
if by letter,
tion i• A- minute detail et the ells..
--- is required : age, habits, and
_post
n. society. si. Packets, With advice, to be had at the Establish-
Utearenonly, by which the fee, 11., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons,
dew, laf attendance,
~..dally, at 19, Renters-street, Oxford-street, 1,01,-
Z --"
.ro eve II" TWO, and live to fight; on suwisY froln
leyell to ORO,

Camilla,
S 0 13 T H Axt pr 0
14, OCT. L—The Royal Mail steam-ship
arrival out' tlilirl'ing
de Janeiro, Captain R. E. Warner, sailed to-day for Rio-
Ayres, and co4inwueen. Rio,
mail station . only at St. Vincent for coals. On
b tsteamer will relieve the. Prince, on the
with continue
run between these places m cor-
respondence Monte Vidio, and Buenos
ing out the regular monthlyteers from Southamptohbri
is a steamer-purchased by the Royal
contract mails. The Camilla,
this particular service, and has been fitted specially for
it, her speed being 11 knots an hour, and her accommo-
dations for passengers very excellent. - The Prince will,
we believe, return home for a refit." The Great Western
is appointed to take out the mails of the 10th inst. to
'the Brazils and River Plate, the 9th falling on a Sun-
day. The General Screw' Steam Shipping Company's
steamer Harbinger leaves on Wednesday, the sth inst.,
for Mel! ourne and Sydney, and the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Euxine on the 4th for Gib-
raltar, Malta, and Alexandria. The Indus, with the
heavy portion of 'the East India, China, and Mediter-
ranean mails, and the Tagus, with mails from the Penin-
sular ports, are both expected to reach Southampton on
Monday or Tuasday. The United States' mail steam-
ship Franklin, Captain J. A. Wotton, with dates.from
New York to the 24th ult., is expected to arrive off
Cowes, on her way to Havre, on Wednesday or Thurs-
day next.
PROPOSED MINING STOCK-EXCHANGE. —A meeting
was held at the Bull Hotel, Bishopsg,ate-street, on
Thursday evening, to consider the establishment of a
Mining Stock-Exchange, to he conducted on a system
similar to the Corn, and Coal Exchanges ;L--it. appearing
that at present no facilities, or place of assembly, existed
for transactions connected with the increasing business
of mining adventure, the main object beim,: to place the
purchase and sale of mining shares under proper rule
and regulation, and to abolish those discreditable prac-
tiees that are -understood to attach to operations con-
nected with that class of speculation. - - . •

By the steamer Asia we have advices from New
York to the 21st ult. Shehas brought 64 passen-
gers, among whom is Mr. It. Stephenson, M.P.,
and 0,236;000' Specie on freight.
The Asia passed the steamer Arabia, hence for
New York, on the 28th ult., in lat. 50, long. 28 ;
and at one o'clock this morning passed the steamer
Canada, hence for Boston.
The steamer Arctic arrived at New York from
Liverpool on the 18th ult., and the steamer Hausa,
froni Bremen, arrived at New York on the 20th,
with machinery injured.
The accounts from Washington are very meagre.
Neither the French nor the China mission had yet
been filled ; Mr. Mason was spoken of for the for-
mer.

The American fishery squadron had been dis-
banded, the fishing season being Considered over.
Mr. James C. Forsyth had absconded from New
York in the steamer Atlantic for Liverpool, and
taken with him between $lOO,OOO and $150,000
in cash, the property of his father and father-in-
law.

A dispatch from New Orleans states, that fright-
ful accounts were reaching•that city of the ravages
of the yellow fever iu the plantations and in the
small villages along the lake and•river coasts. The
fever in New Orleans was on the decrease, only 24
persons having died of that disease on thel7th ult.
The deaths for the week, ending on that day, were
241. At Mobile the deaths were upwards of 20 a
-day. --

New York and its vicinity was visited by a very
violent storm on the 20th ult., which almost sus-
pended business operations.
,Havannah letters of the 9th ult., published in

the New York _Herald, present a most gloomy pic-
ture of the state of affairs on the Island of Cuba.
An epidemic of a choleraic nature, assisted by the
pernicious fever, was sweeping off sailors, soldiers,
negroes, and others with frightful rapidity. Some
estates, numbering from 200 to 300 slaves, had
been sa reduced in the space of a week that there
were scarcely men enough left to bury the dead.
The kidnapping of the Yucatan Indians, and taking
of them to Havannah to be sold as slaves, was ex-
citing considerable attention. The Mexican Consul
having represented this outrage to the Captain-
General in the strongest language, some 60 of the
Indians were brought before that functionary for
examination on the 241 ult.
The New York Journal of Commerce states that
the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian Ministers had
given in a protest against the conduct of Captain

Ingraham.
There was an improved demand for most descrip-
tions of securities in the New York Stock market.
Erie Railroad shares opened at 84, and closed at 84
and t. Money was more freely offered on call, but
for time loans there was no change. Exchange on
London, 1081 to 1091 ; Paris, 5 161 to 5 131 ;
Amsterdam, 40a to 41; Hamburg, 36k to 36/; and
Bremen, 79 to 79i.
The cotton market remained quiet without ma-
terial change. Stock in New York was estimated
at 56,000 bales.
Flour in good demand, at a slight improvement
in price. Wheat in active request, without change
in price. Indian corn scarcely so buoyant for
common descriptions, but firmer for the better
qualities.
Pork in good demand, with a steady market ;
beef firm ; good brands were scarce.
300 tons of Scotch pig iron had been sold at $36
to $37 50c. at six months.
Freights to London without change.