The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-13 00:00:00

ST E AM TO CHINA.
Reguity: Monthly Steam Communication for Passengers and
Light Good; to Penang, Singapore, and liong-Kong via Egypt.
The P".:NINSITI.,NR. and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
-.°MI'nNY book Passengers and forward Goods and Parcels to the
ahoy a Ports by their Steamers from Southampton the 20th of every
nv.mth.

ror particular., apply at the Company's Offices, 51, St. ➢iary Axe,
tOmlon, or 57, High-street, Southampton.

TO FAMILIES ABOUT TO VISIT ITALY.
STEAM DIRECT from 6OUTIIAMPTON to GENOA,
LEGHORN, CIVITA VECCHIA, and :NAPLES.
The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM _N•\VIGATION
COMPANY'S Steamship PACIIA, Captain JOHN OLIVE, will
start from Southampton on SATURDAY, October 30, at Two P.M.,
for the above Ports.
This vessel carries an experiended Surgeon, and has been fitted up
expressly for First•class Passengers and their servants.
Horses and Carriages taken on Deck.
Private Cabins can ho secured by early application.
Rates of passage and plans of the vessel can be obtained at the
Company's Offices, No. 51, St. Mary Axe, London.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
No. IS, RING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
At the first Septennial Meeting of this Company, held on the 11th
March, laSt, a BONUS, averaging 23 per cent. on the amount of
Prf':..nittms paid, was declared on Policies entitled to participate in
Profits. •
Four fifths, or 80 per cent. of the entire Profits of the Company,
Will at future divisions be appropriated to all Assurers entitled to
elp,A, therein.
Crery advantage is offered by this Company to Assurers.
On Policies taken out for the whole term of life, one-half of the An-
lnual Premiums thereon may remain unpaid for five years.
Parties Assured with the Company are allowed to reside In many
of the Cirlonies without additional charge, and the Premium required
for the East or West Indies, and other extra risks, is more than
usually moderate.
a plan originating with this Company, great security is offered
t parties Assuring the Lives of others.
Advances continue to be made to Assurers on Assignable Property
tor Income, and also on the guarantee of most undoubted personal
Isureties.
Detailed Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, by
application at the Office, or by letter addressed to the Actuary.
WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary.

FREEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE, LOAN, ANNUITY, AND REVERSIONARY
• INTEREST COMPANY, 11, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL,
ondon.
This office unites the benefit of a mutual association with the se-
curity of a proprietary company, and offers to the assured the fol-
lowing advantages :-
1. Credit until death, with privilege of payment at any time pre-
"°,l2lY, for one-half of the premiums for the first live years, upon as-
Surances for the whole of Life—a plan peculiarly advantageous for
Securing Loans.
2. In Loan transactions the lender secured against the risk of the
borrower going out of Europe.
3. f!tims assured to become payable at Given Ages, or Death, if
brovlouB.
a. Policies indefeasible. fraud alone, not error, vitiating them;
knd in case the renewal premium remain unpaid, the assurance may
be revived at any time within Six Months, upon satisfactory proof
-- Of health, and payment of a trifling fine.
a
• Officers in the Army and Navy, and persons residing abroad, or
Pfet peding to any part of the world, assured at low rates..
!). tunne.diate..Survivorihlp, and Deferred Annuities granted ; and
zndowments for Children, and every ether mode of Provision for
ramilles arranged.
Information and prospectuses fUrnished, on application at the Office.
JOSEPH BERRIDGE, secretary.

TTNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.-8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London; 97,
qi:orge-street, Edinburgh; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow.

DIAICTOAS.

JAMES STUART, Esq.,
HANANEL DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. D. Q. Henriques, Esq.
namilton Blair Avarne, Esq. f F. C. :Maitland, Esq.
lc:. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Resident. j William Railton, Esq.
Charles Downes, Esq. 1 John Ritchie, Esq.
Charles Graham, Esq. 1 F. 11. Thomson, Esq.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most
perftet security in a large paid-up Capital, and In the great success
Which has attended it since its commencement in 1834—ITS ANNUAL
kfCCONDS Immo UPWARDS OF 92,C00/.
In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 21. per cent. per annum on
sue sum insured to all Policies of the participating class from the
time they were effected.
The bonus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of De-
cember, 18.10, is as follows:—
Sum Assured. Time Assured Sum added to Polley.
£5000..........6 years 10 months • . X6B3 6s. Bd.
5000.....• ••• • 6 years .. • ....• 600 Os. Od.
5000..... •..• • 4 years ........ 400 Os. Od.
5000.... .. • . • .2 years 200 Os. Od.
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first five years, where the In-
surance is for Life. Parties wishing to secure the benefit of the next
division of profits, in 1848, should make immediate application.
No Entrance Money or charge except the Policy Stamp.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Director, s, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital X. 500,000. Empowered by Act of Farliament.
Thls Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
With respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured
ha; on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversioa of his in-
terolts to meet other conveniencies or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The increasing prosperity of the Society kas enabled the Directors
at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth
bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per CCLA•AIt the premiums paid on each
policy effep4pd oa the pAofit scale.
EXAMFLES.

I Pcrma- 'Sum tke
Annual Policy Bonus In! nent Re- Assured
L7e. a w Pre- taken addition Bonus ii duction of may bor-
Go=4 ralum. out in Assured. Cask. Annual row on
Premiums. Policy.
s. £ s d. £ s. 41. £ s. d.
1837 243 9 3,112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 19
d. 1838 218 4 8. 89 81015 13 b 445 0 0
60 100674 3 4 1839 192 1 10! 86 9 313 4 9 395 11 1
1840 143 5 10, 66 8 4 9 19 1 346 2 3
1841 138 14 2 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4
1842 111 6 8, 49 10 0 710 4 ,247 4 5

The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be had at the
office, or any of its branches in the country ; or, on application, will
fomartled post free. _ .

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

PATENT RAMONEUR ASSOCIATION.
(Provisionally Registered.)
COUNTIES of SURREY and KENT.
Clipitel, 20,0001. in 10,000 Shares of 21. each. Deposit, 11. per Share
on cenaplete registration.
No further call will be made without three months' previous
laotice. The liabilities of each shareholder limited to the amount
IlUbscribed for.
The PATENT RAMONEUR MACHINE is exclusively used in
the offices of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Treasury, the Royal
4,Bricultural Society, the Royal Horticaltural Society ; the Royal
Exchange-buildings, Re. The objects of the promoters are ap-
proved by
The Most Noble the Marquis of NORTHAMPTON, President of the
Royal Society.
The Right Hon. Earl DE GREY, K.G., President of the Royal In-
stitute of British Architects.
Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President of the British kalsoda-
tion for the Advancement of Science.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Norwich I of Lichfield
The Right Hon. the Earl of Lei- The Most Noble the Marquis of
cester Bristol
'The Lori Rendlesham, M.P. ,The Hon. and Rev. Thomas R.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop' Keppel
of Gloucester and Bristol The Hon. Fred. Byng
The Hon. and Rev. Edward S. The They. Sir Thomas Gray Cal-
Keppel lum, Bart.
The Very Rev. the Dean of West- Sir William Foster, Bart.
Minster, Dr. Buckland
,Sir Robert Harland, Bart.
The Venerable Archdeacon Shir- Sir Francis Darwin
ley
IThe Norwich Union Fire Office
Sir John P. Boileau, Bart. IThe Saffolk Fire Office
Sir Richard Paul Jeddrell, Bart. ;The District Fire Of of Bir-
Dr. Outrara, F.R.S., F.G.S., In- mingham
Right Hen. Earl of Naval Hospitzherdinitalsge The Norwich Eqnitable Insuranee
F Office
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort The Nottinghamshire and Derby-
Philip W. S. Miles, Esq., M.P, t shire Fire Office
Right Hoe. F. 11. F. Berkeley, The West of England Fire Office,M.P.
IV, Miles, bit, M.P. RI.

The object of this Association is totally to abolish the use of
Climbing boys, who, notwithstanding the penalties to which those
employing them are subjected by the 3d. and 4th Victoria, cap. 85,
are continually resorted to. This breach of the law is acquiesced in
by a large portion of the public, from a conviction of the utter im-
Inoseibility in innumerable cases of cleansing a chimney or flue with
the old machine. For the laudable purpose of furthering the objects
bf the law by avoiding all necessity for its infringement, the inge-
nious and effective Ramoneur machine has been invented. This
invention consists of four brushes forming a square head, which
by means of elastic springs contracts or expands, according to
the small or extended space in which the machine moves, thereby
creating an even pressure on all four sides of a chimney. The
rods attached to this head or brush are supplied at intervals with
Universal spring joints, capable of turning even a right anglr.
and the whole is surmounted with a double revolving ball, having
also a universal spring joint, which leads the brush with certainty
past every angle, and into every corner cleansing its route most
perfectly. The capabilities of this machine are best demonstrated
by the fact, that it is exclusively used in the Government and
numerous public offices, while the patronage bestowed by a large
number of the nobility and gentry in continuing their annual con-
tracts to the patentees evidences their sense of its superiority, as well
as of the philanthropic views of the projectors. Detailed prospectuses
May be obtained, and a working model of the machine seen, at the
offices of the solicitor, F, Dolman, Esq., 39, Jermyn-street, St.
James's; at Messrs. Barry and Co.'s, brokers, 7, Itirchin-lane ; at
W. Heath, Esq.'s, Nag's Head-court, Gricechurch-street; and at the
principal Mlles, 1, Wellington-street, London-bridge, Borough, where
applications for shares may be addressed.

DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND MATURITY.—WITH 25 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.
Just published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, 25. 6d„ or post-free, from the author, for forty-two
Stamps,
SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise
on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive
Unions, 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 exkaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practica:
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indisestion,
Whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
cretion. With twenty-five coloured Engravings, illustrating the
Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection.

BY SAMUEL LA'MEIIT, M.D.,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD SQUARE,
LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Ilespital Medical Society, &c.
Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions, in order
that it may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the
veil, which covers the origin 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 Play&iology 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
more importance than the preservation of the health,
and
em the physical capabilities of which every man should
yittywssed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy
in 'al et excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired
early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering
from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap-
f.,.Pl_ying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so
—rflaentlY, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are
beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking
for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he
forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of
riabl
disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva-
y characterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the
Medical man who can show by his posse-sion of the requisite legal
qualifications that he is entitled to esteem and respect in hie profes-
sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr.
LA'MERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas
testify, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a
guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost
solely to the treatment of these diseases.
Published by the Author, and may he had of Kent and Richards,
62, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne-
steadereet, Hall-aymarket ; Mansell, 115, Ileet-street ; Gordon, 146,
Lnh, London ; or, free by post for stamps,
from the Anther,street who may be consulted on these disorderstorty-two personally
or by letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from rive till Eight, at his
rireklenCe. 91 Beanditreet, Medford-square, London.