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No. 17,584.] LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING N7 FEBRUARY 2, 1849.

GUILDHALL, FEBRUARY 1, 1849.

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November 7. 1848.

CLOSE OF HOLIDAYS.
Nov that tho season of annual festivity is about to termi-
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throng of youthful aspirants, the personal comfort and attractions of
whom become naturally an object with friends and relatives of great
solicitude, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, for accelerating the
growth and for improving and beautifying the hair ; ROWLAND'S
KALYDOR, for improving the skin and complexion and removing
cutaneous eruptions ; and ROWLAND'S ODONTO, for beautifying
the teeth and preserving the gums, are universally considered
indispensable in the requisite accompaniments of the decorative re-
pository.

The especial patronage of her Majesty the Queen, H. R. H. Prince
Albert, the Court, and Royal Family of Great Britain, and of every
Court of the civilized world, together with numerous Testimonials
constantly received of their efficacy, affords the best and surest proof
of their merits.

BEWAXIL OF SPURIOUS IMITATION'S.
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YEBROWS, MUUSTACHIOS, and WHIS-
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stricture, and that a want of practical knowledge and manual dex-
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vere, long-protracted, and complicated cases of that disorder so fa-
tally prevalent.

A K R I A G E.
VA One half the world are desolately single, and the other
lapposin them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
ianse of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
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2 caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
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OR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
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SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise
on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive
t„ coons, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma-
turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, er the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
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Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the 'Reproductive Organs,
explaining their strnetut es, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D..
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
Marriage requires the ildfllment of several conditions, in order
that it may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the
veil, which covers the erigin of domestic wretchedness, be raised,
and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could
it be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap-
pointments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when
used in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when
abused, the prolific source of mischief and of greater or less injury
to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on
the nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate,
are productive of greater severity of misery to the human frame,
than any other to which it is subject.
This work contains an accurate and complete account of the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, and of
their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly
requires the closest attention and study, for what subject can
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and of the physical capabilities of which every man should
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from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap-
plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so
frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are
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forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the eaeses of
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great extent of his practice for many years is a
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ON PHYSICAL -DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-

CITY, AND IMPEDIMENT§ TO MARRIAGE.

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ithATitt, iturA.L, LIAYMAttm r,•
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The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during
the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the
whole re-decorated.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
tinder the direction of Madame Celeste
During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the
original designs by Dlgby Wyatt, East , executed by Mr. Sang. A
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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
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'PHIS EVENTN(.,

Will be performed a new—and original petite Comedy, entitled
WHO SPEAKS FIRST ?

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ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Season 1849,
FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMBZUB.
THIS EVENING,
The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock, with
L'IMAGE.
To conclude with the popular Opera Coraique, entitled
LA DAME BLANCHE.
Georges, Mons. Bonnamy ; Anna, Mdlle. Charton ; Jenny, Mdlle.
Gulehard.

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at the very moment when he was compelled
to make allusions to the British intervention
through the medium of Mil. TEMPLE in the affairs of
Sicily, and through the medium of Lord MINTO in
the general affairs of the Roman peninsula. Had
M. DE LAMARTINB been elected President (as he
would infallibly have been had the balloting taken
place in March instead of December) policy would
have prevented such words from escaping from
the mouth of the English Premier. Now that a
causeless reaction has tranformed the poet from a
ruler into a simple representative, a sentiment of
magnanimity, if not of justice or of candour, should
have protected him from this unprovoked and paren-
thetical insult. Otherwise, the speech of the chief
Minister of the Crown was marked with all that
careful explicitness of elucidation by which he ac-
quired for himself distinction.

Viewing the debate of last night in one compre-
hensive glance, it is by no means difficult to dis-
cern through the maze of its discursiveness,
the portents of the three paramount sub-
jects of the session just commenced. Ireland is
dealt with more or less by every one of the political
athletes who participated in the preparatory skirmish
of the campaign. Financial retrenchment was for-
gotten by no one—from the QUEEN, who recom-
mended it to her faithful Commons, to Lord
BROUGHAM, who denounced it to the sympathising
Lords. And beyond these arch-difficulties of the
present epoch and of the present Government, there
were copious allusions to that foreign policy which is
stigmatised by the enemies of Lord PALMERSTON as
altogether unconstitutional; but which, in truth, is
the worthy emanation from his enlarged and liberal
intellect. With such themes for deliberation, the
records of Parliament during ] 849 cannot fail to be
fraught with peculiar interest and extraordinary im-
portance.

It is now certain, not only from the intimation
contained n the Royal Speech, but also from the
statement made by the Hon. Member for Devonport,
as to the matters that will be brought forward by
the Government during the ensuing fortnight,
that the condition of Ireland will be one of the
first, as it will be one of the most important topics
to be submitted to the consideration of the Imperial
Parliament. How are the labouring population of
that unhappy land to be fed ? By what means can
productive employment be afforded, so as to relieve
the proprietors of the soil from the enormous burdens

that press with such overwhelming weight upon their
resources ? These are questions which must be an-
swered, which cannot be postponed or neglected.
Something must be done, and that speedily.
If we were influenced by no higher motives, if we
were insensible to every feeling of humanity, our own
interests would demand that the earliest and most
attentive consideration should be given to the subject.
The landlords of Ireland will undoubtedly be the first
victims if matters should remain much longer in their
present state, but they will not be the last. They
may be involved in bankruptcy and ruin. The occu-
piers of the soil may be reduced to pauperism
gnd become burdens on the estates they
once cultivated.; and the labourers may be
decimated by the combined effects of famine and its
twin-sister pestilence. But the evil will not termi-
nate at the other side of St. George's Channel.
When the lands are suffered to lie waste and uncul-

tivated—when the entire eountry has become one
vast lazar house, and the wretched inhabitants are
dying by thousands—relief must be administered.
No alternative will then remain. It will cost far
more to preserve the people from absolute starvation,
to enable them to drag on a miserable existence, than
would now suffice to develope the national resources,

to elevate the social condition of the country, and to
divert the labour of its inhabitants into channels alike
beneficial to themselves and to their neighbours.
Can any doubt exist as to the course that should be
adopted ? There cannot be a second opinion on the
question. The line of conduct dictated by philan-
thropy and benevolence will also prove the soundest
policy—the most unquestionable economy.
It is not, however, by large grants, to support the
people in unproductive idleness, that these great
objects can be obtained. It is by stimulating
the national industry, by providing employment for
the people, that the regeneration of Ireland can be
accomplished. That is the first great want of the
country. If employment be afforded we shall no
longer witness the discontent that prevails in every
district, that produces agrarian outrages and inse-
curity, and thus banishes capital from the country.
Employment, full, adequate, and remunerative em-
ployment for the people, is the only remedy that can
be applied to the social ills_ under which Ireland has
so long suffired.

How, then, can that employment be afforded ?
That is the great problem that must speedily be
solved; if we would avert the most fearful misery
from our Irish brethren, and, perhaps, eventually
from ourselves. It is not by the Government be-
coming the general employer, and thus usurping the
province of private enterprise. Every facility should
be afforded, every assistance rendered to those will-
ing to embark their capital, but public works should
be avoided save as a dernier resort. Our experience
of the working of the Labour-rate Act, the enor-
mous expenditure that was then encountered, without
one single good result, except mere temporary sup-
port for the people, forbid a recurrence to that un-
wise and most impolitic system.
Many means have, however, been suggested by
which the labour of the country can be directed
into profitable channels. The reclamation of the
waste lands, the extension of the fisheries, the cul-
tivation of flax,--all afford beneficial channels for in-
vestment, in which large profits may be realised by
the parties embarking in the speculations, and great
advantages conferred upon the country.
There is, perhaps, none of those that have been
suggested which affords more propitious au-
guries than the plan to employ the Irish
peasantry in the preparation of peat fuel,
and charcoal, and thus to effect the full reclamation
of the bog lands, put forward by Mr. JASPER
ROGERS, the eminent engineer, and adopted by the
"Irish Amelioration Society." If fully carried into
execution, it will provide a constant source of bene-
ficial employment for the people, while it will afford
handsome and remunerative dividends to the share-
holders. A royal charter has most justly been
granted to the society, by which the individual
liability is limited to the amount of shares
subscribed for. The prospectus truly sets forth some
of the many advantages that will result from the
working of the project. It says—

" To the capitalist who joins this undertaking a larger
return for his capital will be secured than by any mea-
sure which has been submitted to the public for many
years past. But to the benevolent a far higher reward
is promised. To them are offered the means of achiev-
ing much more than was conceived in the emancipation
of the slaves in the British colonies—the present relief
and permanent amelioration of the condition in mind
and body of millions of their fellow-countrymen pressed
down to the lowest state of wretchedness."

It is shown that peat charcoal may be pre.
pared according to a process invented by Mr
ROGERS (and for which that gentleman has obtained
a patent), " fully equal, if not superior, to woodshar-
coal, for all purposes of iron manufacture ;" that it
may be made " superior in density," and at about
"one-fourth of the cost;" that it possesses the most
valuable qualities as a fertilizer or manure, and
that its properties as a deodorizer of feculent animal
matter are superior to any that have hitherto been
discovered. It will, therefore, prove of extraordi-
nary value for sanitary purposes. The health of
the British metropolis may be secured by the
same means by which employment, with all
its accompanying blessings, is afforded to the
Irish peanut. An atmosphere redolent of dis
ease and death may be purified, disinfected, and ren-
dered innocuous. All those who have perused the
reports of the Sanitary Commissioners, who have lis-
tened to the harrowing revelations of Mr. GEORGE
WALKER, in his lectures on metropolitan grave-yards,
who have considered the tables of comparative mor-

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tality in different parts of London, will easily con-
ceive the benefits to be derived from its use. When
we find that in the more healthy parishes
the average duration of human life amounts
to 55 or 56 years, while in the more densely inha-
bited, badly drained, and badly ventilated localities,
it only reaches to 19 or 20 years, the absolute
necessity of some adequate remedies will be fully
recognised. An able pamphlet that has recently
appeared from the pen of Major-General BRIGGS*
fully explains the manner in which the proposed
charcoal will act, and exhibits the manifold advan-
tages of the project in the strongest light. If his
statement be correct, and we cannot discover any
error or mistake therein, we shall be amply
rewarded for the philanthropy that dictated
the establishment of the Irish Amelioration Society.
We shall find that " the quality of mercy''
is indeed " twice blessed," and that England will be
more than compensated for the benevolence exhibited
towards the destitute and starving Irish by the im-
proved health of its metropolis and the increased fer-
tility of its soil.

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