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London, England, 1853-03-09 00:00:00

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BANK OF ENGLAND, March 8, 1853.
The Court of Directors of the Governor and Company of
the Bank of England give notice,
That a GENERAL COURT will be held at the Bank on Tunis-
bAY, the 17th inst., at Twelve o'clock precisely, to consider of
aDI VID END. Also that another General Court will be held at the
Bank on Tuesday, the sth of April next, from Ten o'clock in the fore-
noon till Four in the afternoon, for the election of a Governor and De.
Duty-Governor for the year ensuing, which will be declared that
evening; and the same Court will be continued by adjournment, and
held at the same place, and during the same hours, on Wednesday,
the 6th April next for the election of twenty-four Directors, which
Will also be one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the
Charter, and the election of the twenty-four Directors will be de-
clared as soon as the scrutiny is over.
Printed lists of the Proprietors having votes will be ready to be
delivered at the Bank on Thursday, 24th /larch.
JOHN BENTLEY, Secretary.
N.B By an Act passed in the 7th year of George the Third,
a° Person will be entitled to vote at the said Election who
shall not have teen six calendar months possessed, in hls own right,
of the stock for which he shall then give his vote, unless the said
Stock shall have been acquired or shall have come by bequest or
by marriage, or by succesinn to an intestate's estate, or by the
eastom of the City of London, or by any deed of settlement after
the death of any person who shall have been entitled far life to the
dividends of such Stock.

CONTRACT FOR HALF BOOTS AND BLACKING,
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and
Transport Services, Somerset-place,
sth March, 1853.
IrHE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom. of Great Britain and
Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY, the
24th instant, at ONE o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with
,such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and de-
ilvering Into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD the
undermentioned Articles for the use of the Royal Marines, viz.:—

HALF BOOTS,
LACKING
Under Contracts for 12 Monßths certain,, and farther until the expira-
tion of 3 months' warning.
The Conditions of the revised Contract, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said Office, and patterns of the
articles at the Marine office, New-street, Spring-gardens between
the hours of 10 and 2. No Tender will be received alter One o'Clock,
en the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or
all Agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed t'..) the Secretary of the Admi-
lUitY, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for

," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place,
accompanied by a Letter sign'ed by a responsible Person, engaging
to become bound with the Person tendering, in the Sum of 2001. for
the due performance of the Contract for Half Boots, and in the sum
eflool. for the Blacking.

CONTRACT FOR ELM TIMBER.

Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, sth March, 1853.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the sth April next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat
With such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her
Siajesty's several Dockyards with
2,240 Loads of ENGLISH ELM TIMBER, and
10 ELM TlikAS
Ititn_edbetween the middle of November ancl'ctrtr if February
and to be delivered at prices (including all, arriage and other
expenses). by the 31st December next.
Tenders maye
Or for the whol boef mthait for the supply of any one or more of the Yards
A Distribution and a • ori,lof receivedth eT
afterdr may beo obtained d
on
thea dah e
said office. No Tender NF'vil
of treaty, nor wl.l any be noticed unless the party attends, or any
agent for him, duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words Tender for
Elm Timber," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place,
accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engag-
ing to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of If.
per load for the due performance of the Contract.

ALLSOPP'S PALE OR BITTER ALE._
essrs• y. ALL',OPP and SONS beg to inform the TRADE
that their celebrated ALES may be obtained in Casks of 18 Gallons
and upwards, from the 'BREWERY, Burton•on-Trent ; and from
the undermentioned Branch Establishments :
LONDON, at 61, King William-street, City;
LIVERPOOL, at Cook-street;
MANCHESTER, at Dude-place;
DUDLEY, at the Burnt Tree ;
GLASGOW, at 115, St. Vincent-street;
DUBLIN, at Ulster Chambers, Dame-street;
BIRMINGUAM, at Market-hall;
Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS take the opportunity of announcing
to PRIVATE FAMILIES that their ALES, so strongly recom-
mended by the medical proress'on may be procured in DRAUGHT
and BOTTLES GENUINE from all the most RESPECTABLE
LICENSED VICTUALLERS, on " ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE" being
aPedally asked for.
ft.W,_ When in bottle the genuineness of the label can be ascertained by
" ALLSOPP and SONS" written across it.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
• YOUTH AND MATURITY.
DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUIRE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and Matric•ilated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical
Society, Licentiate of -Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.
MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irreguiarities and excesses, which have pro-
;red more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all sages of II:e, than perhair any other class of dis-
rlii known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
"lee secret causes of self-acqaired miseries and disappointed hopes in
Xistence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
•Dcbility, various .orms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitfhl Marti-
hgea, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.
__tin It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
cPles of personal managemenL• whir's cannot be violated without
grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
heyday of inconskierate sel."-tedrigence, bow these penalties
'mav- be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
that rid how the evil and 13 con evenses may be avoided, and above all,
there is scarcely any de‘i.•^3 o: fusical infirmity or functional
`,litgement to which the tiers iv aid of science cannot apply a cure.
DOCTOR LA'MERT has fur a long series of years been engaged
fid
rl_ extensive practice in the ti eatment a these
delicate com-
-0;:lass ard is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
the confidence,
taunts and envy of thehypocrltical and mock-modest, has had
confidence, through the medium of the public press, to dire&
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
_e • In selecting this department of practice, be has been amply
larded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
Lreatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
"te Of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
ht eve
patent nostrums, have Inflicted serious injury on those who
e been induced to place faith in their pretensions.
BIM home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
1.1 till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 11., and advice and
—e.dleines can be forwarded to any initials or address.
10.!`t la desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT
uld first obtain a copy of his work on
SELF-PRESERVATION.
it Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and
,lferatire Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des-
fling in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and
Cexcesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct
},csr eription of their cases, and may be hadi Price 2s 6d, in English,
11,.„,en„chs Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper
lii;imers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street
o lin, 39. Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free
deYnP_ost for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's rest-
BEDFORD•BQUARE, LONDON.

CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
47, 11, To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row , Carvalho,
per
'etatreet , Mann, 39, Cornhill. Price Ono Shilling each; by
111 6d.

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Tr; eats, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant
k Ps and Rambles—ihe Sea -London at Night—Evenings at Home
it."2,lC--The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
Ease, Occupation, &c.,

rRAGMENTS FROM THE FOUNTAINS. Two Vole.
VISIT
- TO THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, gm
Tol.
TIIIC LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, Sr.c.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
That three score years and ten oar course may run."
ipr,Z,Popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner•
i.crr-debilitated health and enfeebled constitut.on that harasses
bitt"ag. bests the man f pleasure, business or tudy, anem-
4:%311 old age; with tableso and rulesfor the diet ands physicals egu-
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W.
THE PASSION 3.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined ac Athens ever heard."
Stfßal
vent _CT .—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad-
°rue Lae Passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties
entiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra-
'c. and renaediative. Advocacy of early marriages.

THB MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be. that's the question."
Pao,
gi,„ _ 4Aiitrrtx :---Laws and obligations of nature, society, and
. Tell-
ehr:: regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
Antir:_ce, oil both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and
. to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Casty defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion .
.e.
.y
08241 •J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
tetttters.
TwenY.
VG y tMedical and Forensic Referee in there
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