The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-24 00:00:00

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fying the TEETH and strengthening the GUMS. It eradicates
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to the gums. It removes from the surface of the Teeth the spots of
incipient decay, polishes and preserves the enamel, Imparting the
most pure and pearl like whiteness; while, from its salubrious and
disinfecting qualities, it gives sweetness and perfume to the breath.
tieing an anti-scorbutic, the gums also share in Its corrective power.
scurvy is eradicated from them, and a healthy action and redness
vsia induced, so that the teeth (if loose) are thus rendered firm In
their sockets. As the most efficient and fragrant aromatic Tooth
Powder ever know, ROWLAND'S ODONTO has for a long series of
years occupied a distinguished place at the toilets of the Sovereigns
And the Nobility throughout Europe. Price 2s. Scl. per box.
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be engraved on the Government stamp, than " A. ROWLAND aid
140 N, 20, Hatton-garden," which is affixed on each box. Bold by
the Proprietors, and by Chemists and Perfumers.

DR. CULVERWELL on HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and
LONG LIFE.

In pocket volumes Is. each, by post (in stamps), Is. €d. each.
W TO BE HAPPY.
Jucande Tivere."—Ctc.
2.

WHAT to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID.
(With Diet-tables for 11 Complaints.)

MARRIAGE and its MYSTERIES.
To_be, or not to be, tkatis the qucs:hm."—Shakepeare.

The PAASIONS—Their ADVENT and CONTROL.
" Cunt at velem."
These publications are free from empyrical mysticism, and are
adapted to the intelligence of the times.
To be had 01 diorvrood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Minn, 39,
; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street.; and all Booksellers, or direct from
:he Author, whose practice is exclusively devoted to home consulta-
tion, Mornings till Three, and in the Evenings from Seven till Sine.
at 'O, Argyle-place. ileirsnt-street

ON NERVOUA DEBILITY AND GENERA VE
;UST PUBLISHED, THE THIRTIETH THOUSAND,

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An Improved Edition, revised and corrected, 120 pages, price 25., in
a sealed envelope, or forwarded, p ,st-paid, to Any address, secure
from observation, for 2s 6d. in postage stamps, illustrated
with numerous Anatomical Coloured Engravings,
MA N 11 0 0 D:
The Causes of its Premature Decline; with Plain Direc-
tions tor its Perfect Restoration.

A Medical Essay on those diseases of the generative organs,
emanating from solitary and sedentary habits, indiscriminate ex-
cesses, the effete of climate, and infection, &c., addressed to the
sufferer in youth, manhood, and old age ; with practical remark's on
marriage, the treatraent and cure of nervous and mental
debility, impotency, syphilis, and other urino-gesital diseases.
by which oven the most shattered constitution may be restored, and
reach the lull period of life allotted to man. The whole illustrated
with numerous Anatomical Engravings ou steel, in colour, explain-
ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the reproduc-
tive organs in health and disease; ith instructions for private cor-
respondence ,cases, &c.
By J. L. CURTIS and 0., Consulting Surgeons, 7, Frith-street,
Soho-square. Lomion.
RIVIEW OF TOE WORK.

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its perusal breathes consolation and hope to the mind of the patient."
—Naval sad Military Gazette.
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2s. 6d. In postage stamps.

ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT fl YS ON TILE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE Di/RATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.

ILLUSTaITaD WITH COLOURtIII IXOIATINGS,
Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. id., or free
by post, 3s. 6d.
CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular
Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline,
with Instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
Weaknoss, IndigesPon, and Consumption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting ,turgeons, Ne. 60, Newman-
street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. it;
CONTENTS Of THIII WOaK,
Chap. I.—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by Inordinate
indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chop. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 3.--Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt ho practice
of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrlicea, its symptoms, complica-
tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate.
Chap. 5.---4yphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases,
and concluding observations, Plates, &c.
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THE POLISH BALL.

Last evening one of the most splendid reunions of
milk and fashion of the season took place at Willis's
Rooms, St. James's, in aid of the Literary Association
of the Friends of Poland, of which Lord Dudley Stuart
is the well-known and distinguished patron. It was a
most gratifying, philanthropic, and festive espousal of
that chivalrous cause which has so long enlisted the
sympathies of enlightened Europe. and which of late has
4ecuine more intensely interesting than ever is connec-
tion with Russia's re-impressment, if we may so speak,
of an unnatural wrong upon a noble people, and her
flagrant violation of laws that were sacred among nations.
The attendance was of a character truly distingue, as
the following selected list of the principal persons will
show :—Tbe Hon. Mr. Murray, Prince Louis Bonaparte,
Major Schonswar, Lord Walsitigliam, Lord Dudley
Stuart, lion. Mr. de Grey, Colonel Singleton, Earl of
Dartmouth, Lord Grosvenor. Lady Jervis, Alderman
Farebrother, Sir Willoughby Junes, Viscount Milton
Captain Gardner, lion. Arthur Duticlas, Lady
Stratheden, Hon. Miss Campbell. Hon. W. Scarlett,
the Earl of Fingall, Countess of Fingal!, Lady
Emma Plunkett, Major Harvey, Chevalier Pittre,
Colonel Meyrick, Sir Percy Shelley, Captain Chiches-
ter, Mr. Hume, M.P., Lord Morton, Lady de Clifford,
Capt. Compton, Marchioness Clanricarde, Lady Emily
de 13ourgh, Hon. Captain Lindsay, Captain Sotheby,
Lady Eleonora Palmer, Hon. Sydney Pierrepont, Sir
M. Bruce, Capt. Broke, Sir I'. Broke, Hon. E. Forester,
Lady C. Fitzroy, Lord Chas. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Spencer,
Hon. Mr. Pechell, Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P.' Countess of
Malmesbury, Sir J. Drummond, Lady Sarah Finch,
Lady Guernsey, Marquis of Northampton, Lady Kaye,
Lord Henry Loftus, Sir Stratford Canning, Princess
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Callimaki, Lord C. Chichester, Lady FerussonDvat
Hon. George Keane, Hon. Fane Keane. Capt. Forrester,,a
Baron Zedwitz, Sir IL Meux, Sir IL Blake, his cel-
lency M. Van de Weyer and lady, Hon. Miss De Solis
Sir W. and lady Molesworth, Mr. Gibson Craig, M.P.,
Mr. Vivian, M.P., Lord Carew, Lady L. Wilbraham, Sir
C. Morgan and Lady, Conte De Burke, Countess Faulett,
Lady James Stuart, Colonel Elphinstone, M.P., Lady
Adelaide Clarence, Lady Caroline Gower, Lord and Lady
Blantyre, the Ladies Fitz *Dhoti], Hon. Dudley De Ros,
Countess of Glasgow, Lady Diana Boyle, Countess of
Bective, lion. G. Astley, Lieut. Bruce, Mr. Macgregor,
Lady R. and A. Russell, Hon. F. Blake, Lady Walls-
court, Sir R. B. Phillips and lady, Lord Cranstown,
Mr. Manners Sutton, M.P., Miss E. Gower, Honour-
able Miss Brown, Lady Mostyn, Sir Pierce Mostyn,
Lord Leigh, Lady Leigh, Miss Lascelles, Lady Melville,
Lady Leslie, Viscount Bury, Lord and Lady Mayoress
and Miss Carroll, Colonel Angerstein, Earl of Norbury,
Marquis of Kildare, Honourable C. Lawless, Viscount
and Viscountess Ebrington, Honourable Mr. Mostyn,
Marquis of Abercorn, Lord Claud Hamilton, Lady
Palmer, Marchioness of Aylesbury, Comte Revel, Earl
of Munster, Lord Walsingham, Count Eisendel, Prince
Witold Czartoryski.
The ladies patronesses rendezvoused in tho ante-
room at ten. they were the Duchess of Sutherland,
the Duehes of Bedtord, the Duchess of St. Alban's, the
Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Lady Charles Fitzroy,
the Lady Caroline Sandford, and the Lady Agnes Duff.
Whilst the procession entered the ball-room the Polish
national anthem was played in striking style. The
dances then followed. They were the Camelia Qua-
drille, under the direction of her Grace the Duchess of
Bedford; the Strawberry Quattrillo, under the direction
of Lady Charles Fitzroy and Viscountess Milton; the
Polish Colours Quadrille, under the direction of Vis-
countess Ebrington; the Mazurka, under the direction of
Lady Agnes Duff.
Altogether the ball was one of the most brilliant of the
season.

ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT ANNUITY FUND.—
Friday the sixth annual general meeting of members
of this charity was held at the Freemasons' Hall, for
general business, and the el. ction by ballot of twelve
annuitants, from a lift of 51 candidates. W. John
Savage, in the chair. The report stated that last
year there were 39 annuitants, at a charge of 7201,
which seven deaths had reduced to 32. The receipts
from all sources were 1,8441. 4s. 10t1., which, after ex-
penditure, left a balance of 9291. Is. 2d., of which
balance the committee had ordered to be invested 5001.,
in addition to a funded capital of 5,0001.
Sir Charles Napier hoisted his flag at Portsmouth,
on Thursday, on board the 6t. Vincent ; he expected to
go to sea on Sunday.