The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

LONDON, TLESDAV, JULY

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ON the DEBILITIES of the GENERA
TIVE SYSTEM in MAN and WOMAN ; the
Causes that pioduce a Premature Decay of the Reproductive
Powers in both ; and the Means of their perfect Restoration.
To which are added, Practical Observations on the Nature and
Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhcea,and other Diseases peculiar
to the Organs of Generation in both Sears.

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By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
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This WOrk,-a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to
the public, ten thousand copies have bem exhausted since its
tint appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged
by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general
prineiplei, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in-
teresting, cases. The book, as has been already *tweet, is tin
result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
of diseases, which,-for some unaccountable reason, have been
either altogether overloAed, or treated almost with ind.ffer-
.
encei by the military medical practitioner. The proverina
and well known rapacity of unqualitle.l practitioLers, who
traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been en-
couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the
regular surgeon. In order to obviate the_perniciens e;e47ts
44i0, -„,*s-,/....3-osisis from, iNo praesierrtr-CaTC PF:7Fnders, The
authors' have fur a considerable time devoted themselves ex-
clusively to a certain class of diseases; of the neceesity of so
doing, they were further conv'need by feeling that tact in in-
vestigating the latent sources of many disease;, which arise
from certain secret praetices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medica:
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, whersin
affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of
consumptioe, which, however, when traced to their source,
are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves
that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more
applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in
saying that there is no member of society by whom the book
will not b?, found useful, whether such person hold the relation
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman.
The PARENT, who beholds his beloved chi'd pining
away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse-
quence of some disease, which, for want of careful investiga-
tion of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con-
sumption, will, on perusing th's work, be astonished to find,
that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption,
heart disease, tapes, &c., the sole and. exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by
youth much more frequently than it. is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds (temporarily at
least), the relation and responsibility of a parent, will,
by perusing this work, be directed and very much
assisted in investigating and detecting the too often con-
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the
health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be com-
promised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time. He will
here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of
this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when
delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instructor, will
here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which
youth is addicted; he will also be enabled to point out the d s-
estrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not
relinquished.
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residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
Country Patients are requested to be as minnte as possible in
the detail of their cases—as to the duration of the complaint,
the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occupation in
life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by
the usual Consultation Fee of 11., without which no notice
whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases, the
most. inviolable ~ecreev may he relied on. •

THE. TRADING AND LANDED INTERESTS.—
It is alamentable fact, but it is true, that the friends to
the bread tax act more cordially together in the agricul-
tural district than the enemies of that tax act in the manu-
facturing districts, as the returns at the present West
Riding election sufficiently show. The bread eaters are
inadequately represented in Parliament, while the corn
growers in that assembly outnumber the manufac-
turers and merchants in the proportion of ten to
one. No wonder if, in such a state of things, the
people of England should be condemned for many years
to come, to cat dear bread—to endure the in?.ictions of
monopoly—to see their trade and manufactures pass
to other nations, and their workpeople suffer under
the troubles incident to an increasing deficiency of
labour. All this
,might have been reversed if the ma-
nufacturing and commercial interests had supported
their friends as unitedly as the bread taxers have sup-
ported theirs. It is impossible to hear a shout in a ma-
nufacturing town over a Tory triumph at an election
without exclaiming .‘ they know not what they do." The
returns show that the 'Tory majority in the agricultural
districts amounts in round numbers to 3,000 ; and the
majority. for the Liberal candidates in the trading dis-
tricts to 2,000, Though there are nearly twice as many
voters in the trading as in the limning districts, the lat-
ter adhere to their monopoly fir keeping up the price of
grain, and act with more union than the former for
securing the advantages of cheap food and better em-
ployment.—Leeds Mercury.

CRIMINAL OFFENDERS.—We extract the
following statistical information relative to criminal
offenders, &c., from a return moved for in the last Par-
liament •by Mr. Joseph Hume. From this return it ap-
pears that the total number of persons committed for
trial for various offences, both against person and pro-
perty, in England and Wales, amounted in 1838 to
23,094—0 f whom 16,785 were convicted ; in 1839 to
24,443—0 f whom 17,832 were convicted ; and in 1840 to
27,187—0 f whom 19,927 were convicted. The number
of persons committed for trial in Scotland in 1838
amounted to 3,418—0 f whom 2,679 were convicted and
outlawed ; in 1839 to 3,409—0 f whom 2,615 were con-
victed and outlawed ; and in 1840 to 3,872—0 f whom
2,945 were convicted and outlawed. • In Ireland the
number of committals amounted in 1838 to 17,723-of
whom 9,609 were convicted ; in 1839 to 26,392—0 f whom
12,049 were convicted ; and in 1840 to 23,822—0 f whom
11,194 were convicted.
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pleasure to state that their valuable inventions have also gained the
sanction and unqualified approbation of above four hundred of the
principal members of the medical profession ; as also of numerous
individuals of high distinction, who have been greatly icriefited by
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which thousands of deaf persons have been greatly benefited, is not
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is heard with exact distinctness.-39, Albemarle-street, opposite
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The Voice Conductors, invented-by E. Solomons
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as a fourpenny-piece, and, notwithstanding their small construction,
no instruments extant have proved of such • advantage to the
deaf. Fro .n their metallic vibrating quality, table-talk is rendered
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years, and as E. Solomons and Co. have secured the exclusive
disposal of them tr their- establishments by " Royal Letters Pa.
tent,' the public should be guarilcd . against the various attempts
of parties of a• similar name to counterfeit the above invaluable at.
sistants ; it is therefore necessary that particular attention should
be paid to their ,address, name!y, 1, Old Jewry, City, and 36, Old
Bond-street, Piccadilly.
It. Cootes, the pedestrian, commenced his great
match of walking 1,000 half miles in 1,000 successive half
hours, on Wednesday, June 30th, at the Green Hills Gardens,
St. Augustine's -gate.s. The match exci'es intense interest,
the gardens having been thronged with visitors every day since
the commencement, and it was calculated that on one occa,
sion not less than eight or ten thousand persons were pre—
sent. The books of the umpires and referee show, that up to
the present time, this extraordinary ta,k has been correctly
performed. Cootes is in good health, and appears confident of.
recomplishing the feat; he eats -heartily and steeps well during
the very, short intervals of. rest allowed by this undertaking.—
Norwich Mercury.
•
DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—We are sorry to
have to announce 'diet Nicholson Becket, clerk
in the Sheffield New Gas: ()Tee, put a period to his existence
late on Saturday
,evening, or early on Sunday morning, by
banging himself in the cellar' of his father's house, Crookes-
moor-side. This imitance of -'self.•destruction is very mysteri-
ous and distressing. Mr. Becket, who was only 25 years of
age, was a young man -of great •ability, and of unsullied moral
.$ and even religious charatter.—,Siteffield Mercury.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FitOM THE. MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The dose of wormwood and ;ell which every post
Administers to fhe mortified self-importance of the Ministerial
.vriters would rosily be very amusing, score it not that the deep
ifflic!ion of one's fellow-creatures is scarcely, on any occasion
legi einate ground foe merninent. Most justly may we say
.f them, that " hasiog sewn the wind, they are now reaping
.he Whirdwitisl." For several sears these laborious gentlemen
tave'been literally throwin,g as-av their exertions upon a thank-
ees and untcachable people. Sght and slay have their brains
nem inces,aetly-at work to produce political esseys of.evesethe best
possible quality. TO ivrite up ueiveisal liberalism t
lepartment of our foreign; celen•al, administration,
and home administraton,
has been as much. their undivided effort as it has keen our
to write it (intro. Whig policy, according to their sanguine
a'
end -profound con d alone save the country. The
Whigs, the whole -hag Whigs, and nothing but the Whigs, must
-needs be .predomireant in our national councils. Oecesioniil
reverses, such as humili sting defeats in Parliament, and accu-
mulated losaes at singe elections,- did not damp them at all.
Much flattering unetion did the last to their liberal souls—
perhaps a little overflattering, if one -might dare to say so. But
no—the public press was-liberal—the been ed victuallers were
y
liberal—the Lumber Troopers were liberal—the ticket porter,
sere liberal—the Eat ineehouse Keepers' Association was liberal
—the M-irylehone vestry was liheral—the Papists and Dissen-
,ers were liberal-.-the Windsor and Bri Atoll tradesmen were li-
eeral—her Majesty herself was liberal; so Liberalism, in spite
of all mi chances, was held -to be the preya'eut pall-
tell creed of the empire ; and bY ra
to be silenced for ever mist peals -of this ielity force
of public opinion the whisFri of the Tory faction were
1 atrtotic thunder.
'Nothing was so impatiently •
;desired by the
g
gen-
tlemen of the Ministeri press asa ev-ile ral election; at least,
ethen it could no don er be averted.
. With such a tempting
budget to found an appeal upon as the Whigs had hung tie to
the dazzled and delighted country. a 'Alorious triumph for the
cause of Liberalism was confidently predicted. It would then
he seen how the enlightemed and powerful reasonings of the
Liberal press had toad upon the pubic mind. Tartar philippics
against Toryism were to produce a
.osop of Liberal returns as
eseeplifie as tartar oats. liroreleaeteAltas4s,en free trade were to
--wieski.re has vest of nntipolgt.S. isms ria/mkt benish protection from
every British market. The d ill husbandry of the Whig, school
was to put. Tory farming out of fashion. In short, the elec-
•ions were to prove to demonstration that the Whig news-
papers, instead of having disseminated their inanities in
v..in, had irrigated and fertilized the entire community to
their own perfect satisfaction. Ales. for the gentlemen of the
Ministeriat press ! Their self-complacency has certainly been
somewhat wounded—wounded, we should think, almost be-
yond recovery. Deeend upon it, the gentlemen who have
been wearying thc.nselves to death in the pleasing cianvic ion
that they were thereby impressing the age with the form and
substance of their own opinions, find it no light twitter to be
told at every poking booth in the kingdom that their labours
have been wholly unproductive ; that all their political essays
have been scouted with scorn—that their- party guns hail been
loaded with damp powder and mouldy wadding—that their
elaborated pasemoades bad exploded among their own ranks
with disastrous havoc—nay, that their whole course of strata-
gems, ambuscades,' marchings, retreats, sallies, and vauntines,
had ended at last. in sheer defeat. -Alas, again, for the gentle-
men of the Ministerial press.
CHRONICLE.—The rejection of Lord Howick for N; rths
umberland is a remeikable feature in the present contest.
The words h d hardly fallen from Sir Robert Peel's lips, in
which he declared that the sole object of his Embition for the
last ten years hail been to obliterate old party distinctions and
re. rup a solid bulwark against democratic innovation, before
a rancorous and determined personal cpposition is got. up
-gainst a Conservative Whig whose attachment to the ancient
institutions of the country is as undoubted as that of Sir R.
Peel himself. Lord. Howick stood exactly in the position in
which, if there had been one word of sincerity in the Tani-
worth flourishes. his return to Parliament ought to have been
looked upon as a gain to the Conssrvative party If the Tories
really believed that the ancient institutions of the country
were in danger, and it their object really was to press rve these
institutions from the inroads of democruic innovation, is it con-
ceivable that they would declare open war with a man of Lord
Howiek's talents and influence, whose abhorrence of every
thing that savoured, however remotely, of Radicalism had
been tested by the resignation of office, and by votes
given at a most critical periodagainst his connections and party.
But if the object really is the possession of place and power,
and the professions about apprehended danger to the iostitu-
tions of the country are mere humbug, then the conduct of the
Tories towards Lord Howick becomes perfectly explicable. It
is. quite consistent with party motives, though not with prin-
ciple, that the conscientious Conservative who refuse to go-
the whole hog, and vote upon every question at the
beck and bidding of a Tory whipper-in, should be the ob-
ject of inveterate hostility, while the revolutionary
Chartist or Republican, who plays the game of the Tory
candidate, arid abuses the Whigs, is courted and caressed.
It is a pro•titut ion of the name 'at " Conservative " to apply it
to a party who have adopted such means as the Tories to get a
majority. They have got it, but how' By exciting expecta-
tions about the Poor-laws which they well know can never be
realised, but which, nevertheless, will rankle in the minds of
the labouring classes, and sow the seeds of wide-spread discon-
tent, by appealing to religious prejudices and widening the
breach between Catholic and Protestant, between Dissenter
and Churchman, by spreading unfounded alarms about the
Corn-laws, and arraying the landing and manufacturing in-
terests in arms against each other, and, finally, by unmuzzling
the Orange blood-hound, and letting loose all the
worst passions of a malignant faction to wreak their
vengeance on unhappy Ireland, and undo the good that
has been effected by five years of impartial government.
It we looked merely as rartisans, we shelf(' rejoice in the tem-
porary- triumph of the Tories, for .we aecsfully convinced that
it will in she long run accelerate the progress of It form. We
are convinced that the total repeal of the Corn-laws is much
nearer than if the compromise offered by Ministers had been
accepted by the landed interest. ave are convinced that the
practical proof which will shortly be given of the imeossibility
of conducting the Government of the country upon the prin-
ciples of monopoly, will be the fiist thing tor rally an over-
whelming majority in favour of free-trade. We e a-e convinced
that the p tssession of power will be the first thing to demon-
strate the inanity of Peel's pompous plausibilites, the disror-
dant elements of wriieli his party is composed, and the irre-
claimable perversity of genuine Toryism.
MORNING POST.---Lord Howick, who until now was
so unfortunate as to please nobody but himself, has suddenly
found out the way to please every body but himself. Ile has
contrived to get beaten out of the representation of the county
of Northumberland, an event• which appears to give u
unanimous
satisfaction. Even they who on party grounds think them-
fax,
selves bound to put forth a faint under-growl upon the occasion,
can occason,
can scarcely keep down a smile of satisfaction while pretend-
ing to be vexed. If there be any man who really feels at a.
loss upon the occasion, it is Mr. Wood, the Member for Halt-
of Commons without Lor.l Howick at his
who will find it almost as impossible to speak in the House
side, as the orator
mentioned in the Spectator did when he lost the pack-thread
by which he was acctutorns d to twist round his thumb during the
overflow of his eloquence. By degrees,however, Mr. Wood
may get t id of this embarrassment, and feel as satisfied as the
reef of the public that Lord Howick is relieved from represen-
tative cares.

HE 4,1 LD.—As we anticipated in our leading article or
yesterday, the city of Dublin has th.ust Mr. Daniel O'Connell
net of his long usurped reprercntation. The " Member for
al Ireland" who but last year was giving boroughs and coun-
ties away to his satellites—before who n good men retired in
disgust at the scandalous execs es to which he pushed his fac-
tious " ag tation," and timid men seccumbed because their
political courage in action was not commensurate with their
moral rectitude of purpose—this burly demagogue is pu-bed
from his seat. The citizen electors of Dublin have had
enough of him. All th• canting, wheedling promises he has
made to them of the inconceivable glory and splendour
to which their metropolis must immediately attain,
when, through electing him, the " baleful union" (as Joseph,
the hottest and the loyal, would say, in Canada or Connaught)
when the baleful union with England should be repealed, and
a Parliament be again sittirg on the College-green ;"—all
these they have given to the wind'. They thoroughly under-
stand the tortuou., treacherous election-broker who let in poor
Mr. Raphael, on a pretence of letting out the county. of Car-
low ! '1 he bustling, ancient gentleman, who, but a few short
weeks ago, edified the Irish public by inform ng them that
one of his name and kin would be returned by a certain
constituency,—which he named,—and that his youngest
son would lead the contest in Athlone against the Beres-
ford interest, is unable to retail), his own footing in the
Irish capital, and is driven limping, from the hustings with
small chance of ever returning thither a successful candidate
for the suffrages of his brother electors ! Two youngest son,
who was appointed to conduct the contest for Athlone has
now the more appropriate task to effect of making good his
retreat out of the county of Westmeath. The father finds that
the Dublin people are too cold upon him, and therefore is
obliged to avail himself of the " warming-pan " good offices of
Meath. The son, who was to have carried Athlone by storm,
has only the mournful satisfaction of storming the men
of Athlone for not carrying his election. What has become
of the other scion of the modern " Grncchi," we cannot imme-
diately remember. But it is pretty evident that the event we
have for some m nths past predicted, as being about to hap-
pen, is now on the very cri.is of its fulfilment. The spell
which bound to the personal interests, to the selfish and mis-
chievous ambition of O'Connell a very large and important
portion of the Irish people—is broken. All the medd'ing,
restless activity of the lower class of the Irish Roman Catholic
priesthood,—all their custoonti y and reckless resort to the most
palpable means of moral and physical intimidation will, pre-
sently, have availed them—nothing !
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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

• FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. •
CIIRONICLE..•-.-The same heaviness which we have already
observed pervaded the Railway Share Market, and in the
Brighton and Great Western Railway Shares a marked altera •
Lion for the-worse took place, the former giving way about 15s.
per share, and the latter nearly 2/. per share. We believe
that some disappointment prevails amongst the dealers and spe-
culators in the Great Western Company's Shares, at not being
informed as to the results (in money) of the late working of
this line, and the circumstance of tie Directors having made
a secret of these results leads people to infer that they have
not .quite answered the high expectations formed of this
"splendid" line. Though we are not of the number of those
who expect that the profuse expenditure of capital which has
been laid out on this line will meet with an ariequate.return,
we must say that the first fortnight's workings of a line forma.
very ins-ufficient criterion by which to judge of its merits.
.TIMES.---The high duty levied on cinnamon exported
filim:Ceylim. has long been a matter of complaint, both with
the prbducor there and the trade here, and Government !eateu.
Lion his been more than once attracted to the subject.- It seems
to have been again brought before the notice of the Secretary
of State by the East India and China Association. The
reply they have received states,.that the question will have
all due censideration, but that Government attention was
IS4O, for such modifica-
called to it not lout; ago in consequence of a representation
from the Governor of Ceylon, and that instructions were
gent
reclAttle'reil'it on all kinds of cinnamon
to the of pound, which has hitherto been
n!ttiriaeittred the:ritls
sow. uot hur
ledor f
payable on the inferior
!quality oral}'.
fsernreenqtuired on alterations
That reduction,
inby which a pre.
o ‘ti-hste7ndoorutttliFecoeio• fi
n'N:tthretaen sale tmie()pnrtaihrersea on f the Government cinnamon,
in
would have taken effect from.the Ist of June last. Advert Mg to
. the large stock of cinnamon which would appe; r to be at present
held in this -country, in consequence of-the-extensive consign-
rrients made from .the colony sues the discontinuance of the
Goverment monopoly, an upon which the rates of
duty must have been paid by the exporters, and also to the
state of the
.revenees of Ceylon and to other modifications of
the fiscal arrangements of the colony which have been author-
ized, t' e-Government think it right to abstain at present from
authorizing further alteration of the fluty uptil:the effect ottho