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LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE imparts the Inwit exquisde rens i to Steaks, Chi ps,
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TRI ESEM AR, protected by 'Royal Letter 4:
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Is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea, and Exhalation of the
Sy'tem

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Direct the Rev. E. Douglass, IS, Holland-street, Brixton, London.

TRIEgEId AR, No. 2,
effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely
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of a vast portion of the ropnlaon.
T Rlt i
3t k R, No. 3,
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evitable destructi mof the patient's constitution, and ..1). M 1 the
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TH CIIOLE R A ! !!
Prevented by the destruction of all noxious effluvia.
CRF.WW4 Di4ANFECTING FLUID:
RECOMMENDED BY THE COLLEGE OF .PHYSICIANS.
TUE CHEAPEST AND STRONGEST CHLORIDE OF ZINC.
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JOZEAU'S COPA.IIINE-MEGE, or Sacellaratt,
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successfully administered in the Pails and London Ilosoitals. andf
acknowledged by the to b. the best remedy tor the cure o
er 100
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l'.lce, p,
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TRIM) EDITION.—WITII ADDITIONS.
Just published, Svo., In cloth, price Is., by rst tree. Is. 6d.
V TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRIICEA,
V with the View to the Correction 0, wide-spread Errots
in ,iation to the Treatment and Cure of the Impuissan' and Sexual
klypochondriSCS,
Translated from 'he German of DT. PICK FORD.
71) which is added, an EiSAY on SEXUAL DEBILITY, b, the
Editor.
"Dr. Pickfor"s known to English readers by his frequent preen-
Cal contribution., to German medical literature. This is the first
• time, he informs us, that be has addressed himself to the noa-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not he the last, if he shall etect any
other equally flagrant evil which it may be 'Ti his ,ower to correct."
—London Medical Gazette Nlit 30, 1411. The tribeof 'Quiet Sympa-
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could find its wr.y into the hands of those who stiffer fr. m the com-
plaint of which it tre:tts, we are satisfied that many hundreds would
be saved much needless suffering ot lately and mind, and what Is
leas Importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize--
much mouev --This volume is well qualified to put an end to the
empirical system nt treating Soermatorrhcea, and to pines the treat
Writ upon a more rational and physiological hash.. It is, therefore,
likely to do much etre".tune lc. Iv&
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Lieutenant H. James, by Sir C. World.
Ensign A. A. James, on appointment,by Colonel Wilson.
Lieutenant W. H. jeffcock, by Colonel I'Vylde.
The Queen held yesterday afternoon in St. James's ' Lieutenant H. It. Johnston, by Lieutenant-General Sir
Rear-Admral Hope Johnstone, on appointment to active
Palace a levee, which was numerously attended. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert arrived soon after two
T. Hawker. .
service, by Sir J. Graham.
o'clock, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, Mr. E. V. Jones. on appointment to Royal London
Militia, by Colonel Wilson.
and' escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards.
Lieutenant-Colonel E. Jones, on promotion, by Colonel
The Great Officers of State received her Majesty and
Myddleton Biddulph. M.P.
Rear-Admiral Kelly, on promotion, by Lord Charles
his Royal Highnesa.
Russell.
Before the levee the Earl of Aberdeen had an audience
Mr. Hartley Kennedy, late Physician-General and Pre-
of the Queen. sident of the Medical Board, Bombay, on his being elected
The Earl of Warwick had an audience of her Majesty, an Alderman of Loudon, in succession to the late Alder-
and delivered the badge of the Order of the Thistle, man Thompson, by Sir C. Wood.
worn by his father the late Earl of Warwick. Lieutenant A. Key, by Lieutenant-Colonel G. Key.
~l Lord Seaton had an audience of Lieutenant B. C. Kidd, on return from India, by Lieu-
--4.-General Sleigh.

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confirmed. They had always said that he was animated by
an unscrupulous ambition, and that he sought to put down
liberty all over the world. They had been called revolu-
tionists and disturbers of the public peace for stating so.
and it had been asserted that the Emperor was the friend
of order, the ally of England, and an enlightened and
glorious prince, at the mention of whose name all eoc.'d
men should turn up their eyes with reverence ; but now he
was universally denounced. England, France, and Turkey
bad entered into an alliance to repel his aggressions, avid
even the German Powers had gone the length of recordheg
their condemnation of his conduct. These things wave
very encouraging, and he hoped would lead to results fa-
vourable to the independence of the nations of the world,
and especially Poland. If Poland was restored, and hada
flag and Government of its own, it would hardly be a greater
change than what had taken place in the prospects of the•
association since the last annuli meetii g. He did not ex-
pect that the war would be Er ugtit to a epee, iy conclusion.
The Cabinets of Eurep 3 still regarded tie re-establishment
of Poland as an event too great and dazzling to be looked to.
but his conviction was that the course of the war would prove
it to be necessary. Governments were already step after step
compelled to take unexpected views of their situation. The
formation of a Polish legion did not at first meet with the
approbation of the Allied Powers. It was the opinion of
Lord Palmerston that it would be wise for Turkey to
enrol a Polish legion, but he was not the head of the Go-
vernment. On his (Lord Dudley tuait'e) visit to the
East he found the Turkish Ministry a I willing and ready
to employ the aid of the Poles, wl.o were united with
them in a common hatred of Russia ; but they were with-
held from doing so by the rep. ta intations of the ambas-
sadors. It was not long, howev r, before the French Go-
vernment saw the error they w ere committing, and the
French Ambassador gave the measure his support. So
completely, also, had our owe Government become favour-
able to it that official despatches had been addressed to
Lord Stratford de Redclitle directing him to give all his
aid to the formation of a Polish legion. The Government
of this country were now sensible of the advantage to
Turkey of employing Poles in the service, and had given
directions for a largo supply of arms, to be placed at the
disposal of the commander of the British forces for the use
of a Polish legion. 1 hat legion was likely, therefore,
soon to be formed, and he had no doubt that, animated
by patriotic sentiments, when it came in contact with
the soldiers of the Czar, it would give a good account
of them. He was anxious that all the Poles who were able
to do so should place their swords at the disposal of the
Sultan. Many of them might prefer to serve directly un-
der England or France, and he admitted that it would be
preferable, but they would go on by degrees; and by-and-
by the Government of this country might be induced to
take more direct steps for availing itself of the services of
the Poles. In resisting Russia in any way they were paving
the way for the restoration of their country. The noblo
lord having referred to a meeting with Cossacks on the line
of the Danube, officered by Poles, during his recent visit
to the seat of war, proceeded to disclaim, on the part of the
Polish nation, any participation in the visionary principles
of the Reil Rspuutic. tie did not know what govern-
ment
migh Le Polan. 1 when the hated
yoke of ime foreign opi ressor was destroyed, but he
sboull wish to see any government established there
v, hien wes a Polish Government, ai d which would
meet with the approbation of the great mass of the
people. It might not be so liberal as some thought
desirable, but if once they obtained a national government,
and broke the yoke of the foreign oppressor, they might
improve it at their leisure. He was afraid that the English
Cabiuet flattered itself that it would be able to get to the
end of the prest nt war at a small cost and without great
sacrifices. The Chaneellor of the Exchequer talks iof pro-
vi,ling for the necessities of the war by doubling tLe income-
tax for half a year, and discountenanced the idea of saddling
posterity with the expenses. That was all very ell, if money
could thus be provided to effect the desired o ect ; but he
(Lord 1). Stuart) did not cos s der the arAutonii.n;:lia_ sound
one. In driving back Russia to her owe tem _ dain-
taining the balance of power in Europe they were fightinfor
pro-
posterity,
for the future liberty of natisns, and the
ressive civilisation of the woad. The noble lord pro.
gceeded at some length to explain his views on the subject
of the war, and concluded by thanking the association for
re-electing him to the office of president.
The vice-presideut and members of council for the year
having been formally appointed, the proceedings of
he
t
meeting terminated.
Lord BEAUMoNT announced during the meeting, amid
loud cheers, the news just received of the victory achieved
by Omer Pasha over General Luders.

but to interfere, as far as it may, between the meritorious
and those calamities against which no rank of merit can be
always a security." Its purpose was to give assistance 'to
genius, which, notwithstanding its efforts, might for a time
remain obscure. The greatest eventual success might be
preceded by trial and affliction, and it was not desirable
that authors should always be encouraged to look merely
to temporary objects and to the popularity of the hour.
It had also been said that such an institution was unneces-
sary, as the patronage at the disposal of the Crown was
sufficientfor,i,Twhoetrochismeroeofetrwtohiple cases which it was intended to remedy.
But it must be remembered that the patronage of the
Crown had not al ways been bestowed with discrimination;
eri—am, and the martyr Charles
" One knighted Blackinore, and one pensioned Charles,
And Prince Albert, by presiding at the society, and lend-
ing it the sanction of his name, had acknowledged that the
claims of suffering merit were so great as to require for
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assistance, and that the circumstance of relief having been
administered to him could be.tome known only by his own
free will. He believed that the only case in which that cir-
cumstance had become known was that of Chateaubriand,
who, while he resided in this country as the Ambassador of
France, had had the magnanimity to say that, as
man, he had received benefactions from this society. That
case had, therefore, become known to the world in a man-
ner which redounded highly to the honour of him who had
made the avowal, He would suggest to the committee
whether it would not be desirable that one, of the persons
a future anniversary who
asked to occupy the chair at .
de over ou, re-
who had experienced the benefit of the society should be
might be able to say—" I, who now prem. l _ y,(1.1
es." ear,
ceived your bounty during my early stru
institution, to
in paying a tribute of honour to this great
which
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which he thought he might apply those lines D •
hear.) On these grounds he hoped they would join him'
Johnson had applied to an individual :
" In misery's darkest caverns known, _
• _ ' Its weak help is ever nigh,
Where hopeless anguish pours his groan,
Aud lonely want retires to die."
They might remember that Boswell said that the last line
had been originally written by Dr. Johnson in a different
manner. It stood thus :
" And labour steals an hour to die."
He doubted whether the line, as it stood at first, did not
more feelingly express the hardships endured in the pre-
sent age of pressing competition, which claimed almost the
last hours of life for an effort of labour—intellectual labour
being certainly no exception to the general remark. He
was convinced, by their presence, of their sympathy with
the objects of the institution, and he hoped that they
would join with him in wishing " Prosperity to the Lite-
rary Fund." (Loud cheers.)
The toast was drunk with great applause.
The Treasurer then announced that grants to the
amount of 1,4901. had been distributed during the last
year among 47 persons—of whom 31 were gentlemen, and
16 were ladies, and read a long list of donations, includ-
ing those of 100 guineas from her Majesty (17th year), 20
guineas from the Chairman (4th donation), and 10 guineas
tram the Duke of Somerset, the Earl of Ellenborough, the
Earl of Ellesmere, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Hallam, Etc.
Lord STANLEY, in proposing the health of the chairman,
said that his noble friend had now been before the public
for more than a quarter of a century, and had passed a
large portion of that time in the noblest school of politics
which existed in the world—the House of Commons. In
that assembly he had earned no small degree of credit and
distinction; but, although he was qualified to have risen
to the highest eminence as a politician, he had always pre-
ferred to consider literature as his profession. He fully
concurred in all that his noble friend had said with regard
to the relation between literature and politics ; and he
might have added, as a striking testimony of the honour
in which literature wash now held among politicians, that
the leaders of the three great political parties of the day
were not merely men of literary sympathies and tastes,
but had themselves been authors. Lord John Russell was
not only an author, but a historian. Mr. Gladstone was
responsible for the expenditure of a good deal of the income
of publishers, and the early triumphs and reputation of
Mr. Disraeli had been gained in literature. (Cheers.) His
noble friend's " History of England" had acquired a stand-
ard place in our literature, and had received the sanction of
universal approbation, for not only, in the phrase of book-
sellers' advertisements, was it "a book which no library
could be without," but, what was a surer test of literary
merit, it, was very often taken down from the shelves of
libraries—(hear)—and, although it had not been published
in a form which multiplied readers from thousands to hun-
dreds of thousands, yet it was one of those works which was
the most thumbed by the hard hands of operatives in the
pui;lic libraries of the great towns of England. It would al-
ways be a book of reference, and approached as near to
political impartiality as he believed any history could do.
His noble friend had published volumes of historical
works ; ho had been an active literary reviewer, and for
many years an active member of Parliament, and was
therefore entitled to credit for more than a common share
of industry, even in this industrious country. (Cheers.)
He had laboured thus perseveringly in order to obtain that
honourable reputation which followed the successful exer-
cise of intellect. (Cheers.) He concluded by proposing
" The health of the Chairman."
The CHAIRMAN, who was loudly applauded, in returning
thanks, announced that the Marquis of NormanbY would
take the chair at the next anniversary. ! (Cheers.)
The remaining toasts were —" The "Writ... on Classical
Literature, and Dr. W. Smith," by Mr. BOWEN
Writers on Science and Mr. Lassell," by Sir E. PERRY ;
"The Historians and Biographers and the Rev. A. Stanley,"
by the Rev. W. ELWIN ; " The Literature and Science of
other countries, and the Rev. Dr. Waterbury," by the
PROVOST of ETON ; " The Visitors and Mr. Whiteside,"
by the CHAIRMAN; and "The Ladies," by the CHAIRMAN. .
Several glees were sung in the course of the evening by
Messrs. Geuge and Lawler, assisted by some other vocalists.
A number of ladies were present in the galleries to witness
the proceedings.
Amongst the subscriptions announced were the follow-
ing :—The Queen, 103/. ; Lord Mahon, the chairman, 21/ ;
Duke of Somerset, Eat' of Ellenborough, the Commander-
in-Chief, Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., Mrs. Alexander Karke, err,
Mr. John Murray, Mr. Joshua Bates, Sir C. M. Cl
Bart., Sir James Bardsley, M. D., Mr. Jules Benedict, Mr.
C. F. Bowen, Rev. Dr. Bruce, Mr. Peter Carthew, Dr. Dic-
season, Liverpool ; Professor Eastwick, Haileybury ; Mr.
John Fenwick, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. J. Lewis Fytche,
Thorpe Hall ; Rev. Dr. Gilly, Durham ; Dr. Guest, LL.D.,
Mr. W. Knighton, Mr. W. Lassel, F.R.S., Liverpool ; Mr. R.
M•Andrew, F.R.S., Liverpool ;. Mr. T. C. Savill, Dr. W.
Smith, LL.D., Mr. T. Webster and Mr. J. H. Parker,
101. 10s. each ; Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Sir John
Swinburne, Bart., the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Dynevor,
Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr. John Pepys, Mr. Henry Thomas
Hope, and Baron de Goldswid, 101 each ; A FriendM to
Literature, 301 ; the Stationers' Company, 20/. ; r
John Dickinson, 151. ; Messrs. Longman and Co., 51. ss. ;
Hon. Mounstuart Elpinstoue, 51. •is ; Mr. R. S. Holford ,
51. ss. ; Mr. R. M. Blilnes, M.P., Si. ; Hon. Charles
Hardinge, M.P. 51. ss. ; and his Excellency M. Van de
Weyer, Belgian Minister, 51.

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