The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-15 00:00:00

No. 16,976. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING SIT Ng FEBRUARY 15, 1847.

THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTE for the
TREATMENT and CURE ofSTRICTURE of the URETHRA,
and all DISEASES of thq GENITO-URINARY ORGANS.
Surgeon, F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L.

This Institute founded, and partly supported by subscriptions, and
placed under the supervision of a Commit tee of Subscribers, offers to
the industrious classes, IN ALL CASES, THE GRATUITOUS
♦DVICE •f an able and experienced Surgeon, and, in some cases,
Medicines also free of expense. The guarantees for uniform, humane,
aid skilful treatment, which such an Institute affords, will, it is
hoped, induce the afflicted humbler classes to seek its aid, and
thereby avoid the waste of pecuniary means, and the risk to life
they are sure to incur, by app'ying for surgical, or medical, relief to
ignorant and unprincipled quacks, and nostrum•vendors.
Applicants for relief must apply at the Surgery adjoining the
Surgeon's private residence, 2, Chandos•street, Cavendish-square.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
CHEMICAL LECTURES y Dr. RYAN, with brilliant and
varied Experiments, daily, and on the Evening. of Moadays, Wt.].
nesdays,, and Fridays. On the commencement of Lent, Dr. BACH-
HOFFNER will deliver a Series of Lectures on ASTRONOMY, ex-
hibiting the latest elincoveriee, on the Mornings an& Evenings of
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with new and appropriate
Music, by Dr. Wallis. On the alternate Mornings and Evenings he
will Lecture on the EL ECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH, including
the recent Patent of Messrs. Nett and Gamble. The Models and
ether Works in the Useful Arts are daily described. The beautifel
Optical Effects include the NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. Expert-
rients by the DIVER and DIVING-BELL, fee.
Admission Is. Schools, half-price.

IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
CORNHILL, LONDON.

DIRECTORS.
HENRY JAMES PRESCOTT, Esq., Chairman.
GEORGE FIELD, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
James C. C. Bell. Esq. Daniel Mildred, Esq.
Michael Bland, Esq. James G. Murdoch, Esq.
Charles Francis Cobb, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Andrew Celvile, Esq. Henry Pearse, Esq.
George Henry Cutler, Esq. George Reid, Esq.
George Hibbert, Esq. William R. Robinson, Req.
Thos. Newman Hunt, Esq. Newman Smith, Esq.

FOUR-FIFTHS, sr 80 per Cent., of the PROFITS will be as-
signed to policies every fifth year, and may be applied to increase the
sum insured, to an immediate payment in cash, or to the reduction
and ultimate extinction of future premiums, as shown in the follow-
ing example:—
PROFITS to POLICIES of 211 YEARS STANDING, entitled to
partioipate in the Bonus declared in 1846.

al Sum
Entry., Insured.

15 litoo
20 1000
30 1000
40 1000
50 1000
60 1000

Annual
Premium.

X ■. d.
19 5 10
21 15 10
26 14 2
33 19 2
45 6 8
63 13 4

Bonus
added.

X s. d.
451 5 0
451 5 0
481 5 0
451 5 0
451 5 0
481 5 0

Cash paid on Or Prem. And an
surrender I reduced nue]. re-
of Bonus. I to. turn •f.

X s. d. IX s. d.IX a. d.
174 12 3 8 6 9
193 12 2 8 15 0
236 18 7 710 5
284 0 G 4 9 8
:185 9 11 .. 4 19 4
384 12 5 .• 36 10 6

Insurances without participation is profits
rates.
Prospectuses, and an, explanatory statement of other advantages
now given by this Company, may be •had at the Chief Offices as
above; at the Branch (Me, 16, Pall-mall; or of the Agexts.
SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary.

faded at reduced

INVESTMENT forum LARGE or SMALL

The attention of the public is invited to the following notice :
The Deeds for carrying out the resolutions of the Shareholders in
the Guarantee Fund of the BRITISH MUTUAL LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY are now ready, and the respective Shareholders
are hereby requested to attend at the offices, between the hours of
Eleven and Three, to sign and execute the same, when the old shares
may be exchanged.
Applications may be addressed to the Secretary for the remaining
unappropriated Shares entitled to the advantages set forth in the
following

lIMOIXTIONS :
That for the purpose of extending the usefulness of the British
Mutual Life Assurance Society, it is desirable to grant loans In con-
nexion with life assurance, and tkat a guarantee and loan capital
of 100,0001., in shares of 101. each, with a deposit of 11. per share,
and future calls not to exceed ss. per share, at 60 days' notice, be
substituted for the present Guarantee Fund. The Shareholders' lia-
bility to be limited to the number of shares they hold.
That all profits accruing from the loans shall;be ascertained at the
expiration of three years, and afterwards at the end of each year,
and subject to the payment of Interest at 51. per cent., such profits
shall be divided and paid as follows, viz.-2-sths thereof as a bonus to
the Shareholders, 2-sths to be added by way of accumulation to the
capital, and the remaining I-sth to be added to the Assurance Fund
of the British Mutual.

That upon each subsequent division of profits the interest to be
paid to the Shareholders shall be at the same rate, not only on the
amount paid up on the shares, but also on the capital increased by
such accumulations. .

—And that when the capital, by means of such accumulations shall
have increased to double the amount actually subscribed, it shall be
divided and paid to the Shareholders in discharge of their respective
shares.
That In consideration of the anticipated advantages to accrue to
the British Mutual by the assurances which will be thus gained, and
that the Mritish Mutual Society shall have at all times the guarantee
of the capital to meet unexpected claims by death, and in considera-
tion also of the one-fifth of the profits from the loans being paid to the
Assurance Fund as beforementioned, the British Mutual shall gua-
rantee, item the Society's funds, to the Shareholders the payment of
the interest, at the rate of 51. per cent, per annum, payable lug=
yearly. By order,
CHARLES JAMES THICEE, Segritify.
17, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.

LIFE ASSURANCE.—BRI fISII
SOCIETY, 17, New Bridge-;

MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE
.street, BlackfriArs, London.

Jahn Atkinson, Esq. --
Captain Twisleton Graves
Henry Wm. Beauclerk, Esq. Thomas Hamber, Esq.
Henry Charles Curtis, Esq. John Lodge, Esq.
0. Godwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A. Lieutenant-Colonel Montresor
Hon. William Gore George Alfred Walker, Req.
rI.IHE BRITISH MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY entertains proposals of any descrip-
tion involving the contingency of human life.
.. .. .

Prospectuses and every information may be had on application at
the office, 17, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
CHARLES JAMES THICKE, Resident Secretary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
28 CONNLIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurance, and Deferred Aenuities. The assured
hag, 01 all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense er for-
eitnre *1 the Policy, two-thirds of the sremituss paid (see Table) ;
,ise the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his !s-
-erest& to moot ether conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted of the lowest possible
ates.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
Tke remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a worth berms, varying from 35 to 85 per eeht. ea the premiums paid
ea each Polley effected ea the ProMPLES.fit scale.
EXA

4 R. 7
> "4 Banns Bonus is 1 ri. i Assured
ftt i Premium. ; added. Cash. c g may
: ; Borrow.
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Z £e. d' 1188rli 4218172 "3
Vl° ? 141 'll 1: 24 £445 1° ?
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0.000 3 4 1839 165 11 18 74 1 9 11 3 1 346 2 3
1840 116 7 6' 64 010 718 10 296 13 4
1841 111 6 8i 4910 0 710 4 247 4 8

DeTkeemebdievisr eirth.erpPrreelatst yiseaarx.nual, and the next will be made la
F. FEItGUSON CAMROUX. Secretary.

R()NYLAND'S KALY DO R
an ORIENTAL BALSAMIC PREPARATION of singular
efficacy in thoroughly purifying tho Skin from all Pimples, spots.
Blotches, Freckles, Tan, and Discolourations, producing a healthy
freshness and transparency of Complemion, and an admired softiies,
and delicacy of the hands, arms, and neck. Its purifying and re-
freshing properties have obtained the exclusive patronage of the
Court and the Ito) al Family of Great Britain, as well as the
principal Courts of Europe, and the most distinguished Nobility and
Gentry of all civilised nations.
Beware of Spurious " KALTDORS," containing mineral as-
tringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and which, by their re-
pellent action, endmiger health. Some are announced under the im-
plied sanction of Royalty, &c., &c. Each bottle of the genaine has
the words " ROWLANDS' KALYDOR" on the wrapper, and A.
ROWLAND and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, is also enzraved (by desire
of the Hon. Commissioners) on the Government stamp affixed on
each. Price 4s. Gd. an 1 Bs. Gd. per bottle.

Sold by the Proprietors at 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by all
expectable Chemists and Perfumers.

COPY OF A YOUNG LADY'S
VALENTINE.
A nice young lady, with a fond intent,
Address'd a letter to a nice young gent.
Her sole design, of course, was that of wooing,
And this the season sanctioned her in doing.
I shan't disclose the name of this young lady,
It might be Toinkins, or it might be Adey.
Nor shall I name the gent. in this affair,
For broken confidence I cannot bear.
'Twould matter nothing if his name were Loppy,
The Valentine's the same, and here's
A COPY
Dear youth ! when I look at your form,
I long for your hand to be mine.
And often my heart has felt warm,
At the thoughts of my lov'd Valentine.
The elegant manner you dress, •
My high approbation has won;
And I think I shall make a good guess,
If I hint at E. MOSES awl SON.
It may be a fond failing to own,
That my thoughts of your fashion are such ;
But, certainly, nature alone
Could never delight me so much.
The dresses of MOSES and SON,
Add beauty to beauty, forsooth ;
And hence has my notice been won,
Ti thy charming appearance, dear youth.
If we'r • ever united in life,
ores
ye(sN,Vilfliecyhefrawncey,rte sbohoufenaldilya
'Twill be all through the dresses of MOSES.
LIST OF PRICES.
saunpdp wife, )
MUM ULM

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g 6
!leaver Tagllonts, trona .. ••••.•••• • • • •• •• • ••• • •
'' Ole 6
Chesterfields and Codringtons .. • • • • • • • • • • ' • ,„
ra.:flus4inDte•Or 06
Boys' Winter Coats, in every style and neake•• •• •••• • 0 4 6
Tweed Trousers, lined
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Doeskin
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Drees • • •
Frock Coats •• •• ... 1 5 •
Double-breasted Tests .••
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Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suit; .. ••• •• •
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G
'toys' Wint

.oysounan...gtetcrTarno
Dwiitntoteirr et::: .at.s.,
yuse7tent at lve minutes' notice.
warrante(mi. ik:vp.a4:eTrp.s.romonf,kimuas.die• to any style,
• • • .• • .
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handsomely trimmed ..
Milled Cloth Coats, trimmed,•••• • • ••
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TweedWinterTweed
Trousers,
Trousers ..... •••
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Best Drees Trousers ..
Dress Coats ...... •
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Best quality made ........... .. .... ••
Frock Coats ............. .... ••
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Best quality made .... ...... ..:::• ••"•••••• •• • • • • • ... 1 lb 0
Fancy vents
Satin, plain or fancy ........ .
A new Work, entitled " Costume Castle," wl•t•1;• St • ;1•1•
Boys' Hussar and Tuliie Suits ....
dirodirections2o.o,
1 i 0
for self-measurement, may be had on application, or forvrardcd
poet free,
Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to
Mea-
sure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the
money returned.
E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters
Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, fo;
Ladies and Gentletnen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Miuories, and 83,
84, 85, and 8G Aldgate, City, London.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the
public against impostors, but have learned Hist the untradesraan-
like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern,
has been resorted to in many instances, rind for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion with any other houve in or out of Loudon;
and those who desire genuine and che•T clothing, &c., should call at,
or send to, Minories and Aldgate, City, Loudon.
Notice. -No business transacted at this establishment from sun-
set Friday, till otwoet SattuditY, nett business is round till tw:lve
o'clock.

A 3 o
0 1 ti

GRAND MEETING on the Subject of
CRACOW.
The MARQUIS of NORTHAMPTON in the Chair.
On TUESDAY, the 2d March, a Meeting to petition THE CROWN
on the annexation of the free c ty of Cracow to the Austrian Empire,
in ♦iolation of the Treaty of Vienna, will be held at FREEMASONS'
HALL, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-flelds. The Marquis of
Northampton will take the chair at one o'clock precisely.

THE OBNOXIOUS, VEXATIOUS, AND OPPRESSIVE RATE
AND TAXPAYING CLAUSES IN THE REFORM AND RE-
GISTRATION' ACTS.
APUBLIC MEETING will be held at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, On WEDNESDAY EVENING
next, Feb. 17, 1847, at Half-past Seven o'clock.
THOMAS WAKLEY, M.P., in the Chair,
To petition the Lelis'ature to repeal these much detested clauses.
Mituy M.P.'s and other Friends stand pledged to attend.

FEUALE SERVANTS' HOME SOCIETY,
For the Encouragement of Faithful Servants.

Established 1836,

Homes 21, Nutworth-place, Edgeware-road ; 110, Hatton-garden.
• The PUBLIC MEETING of the above Society will take place
To-Mogitow, February 16th, at the HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.
The Right Hon. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, M.P., will take the
Chair at Two o'clock. By order of the Committee.

JOSEPII BROWN, M.A., Chairman,

COMMERCIAL INN, BIRMINGHAM.
TO be DISPOSED of by PRIVATE CON-
TRACT, with IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, the LEASE and
GOOD-WILL or that old-established and well-known Commercial

Inn, the WHITE HART, Digbeth, Birmingham. It has been in the
occupation of the present proprietor and family for the last twenty-six
years, and is now, and for years past, doing a very profitable busi-
ness of upwards of 4,000/. per annum. The Rent and Taxes are
exceedingly moderate. The premises are in excellent repair. The
only reason for disposing is in consequence of the present proprietor
retiring from the business.

For particulars apply to Mr. G. W. Cockerel], 47, Blackman-
street, Southwark ; or to 2,1 r. B. Bull, on the premises.

HENRY RUSSELL at the STRAND
TrIEATRE.
HENRY RUSSELL, composer of "Woodman spare that Tree,"
" The Ivy Green," " The Old Arm-chair," "The Ship on Fire,"
"The Gambler's Wife," " The Maniac," " Some love to Roam,"
"I'm Afloat," "A Life on the Ocean Wave," "The Newfoundland
Dog," Itc. &c., will have the honour of giving his VOCAL EN-
TERTAINMENTS on MONDAY EVENING, Feb. 22, and following
evenings, interspersed with Anecdotes of Negra Life and Character.
Boxes. 35.; Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. ; Gallery. 6d. Doors open at
Half-past Seven; commence at Eight. Private Boxes. 11. Is. Box-
office open from One till Four.

Abi TdERIAL INHALER, as constructed by
Dr. BOOT and Mr. ROBINSON.
Mr, HOOPER has the greatest satisfaction in stating that at each
of the Mettopolitan sad Provincial Institutions at which this appa-
ratus has been used, it has succeeded ; Messrs. Lawrence, Ferguson,
Guthrie, Aston Key, Morgan, Thomson, M‘Murdo, and many other
eminent Surgeons, have operated on patients whilst under the in.
flounce of :Ether, by means of this Instrument, with the most com-
plete success, to whom Mr. Hooper begs to refer, and to the reports
in the recent Medical Journals. The success attending this Inhaler
is in great measure owing to the construction of the valves.
Orders addressed to Mr. Hooper will be executed on the day they
are received.

7, PALL-MALL EAST.

PUBLICATIONS.

NEW NOVEL BY JAMES SIIERIDAN KNOWLES.
Just published, in 3 vols.,
GEORGE LOVELL.
A Novel. By JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES.
In the Press, in 3 vols.,
A New Work. By Mrs. BUTLER (late FANNY KEMBLE.)
Edward Moxon, 44, Dover-street.

FLORENTINE HISTORY.
Just published, in small Svo., price 9s. cloth, Vol. IV. of
FLORENTINE HISTORY, from the earliest
authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third,
Grand Duke of Tuscany.

By Captain HENRY EDWARD NAPIER, R.N.
To be completed Ist six monthly volumes.
Edward Dloxon, 44, Dover-street.

Just published,
TUCK'S MAP of the RAILWAYS, showing in
a bold and novel manner the entire lines worked by each
Company, and the lines projected for next session ; the termini,
length, route, &c.. of all the railways in England ; with tables of re-
ewers" showing the lines leased and amalgamated, &c. &e. ; the
I Miele forming the most complete map ever published. Price ss.
siowitod on canvas. in cloth.
Wilson, railway publisher, 11, Royal Exchange; and all booksellers.

DR. CIILVERWELL on HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and
LONG LIFE.
In pocket 'volume/ li. tach, by post (in stamps), Is. Gd. each.
HOW TO BE HAPPY
" Jucunde There."—Cie.
2.

WHIT to EAT, DITNK, and AVOID.
(With Diet-tables for all Complaints )
a.

MARRIAGE and it; MYSTERIES.
" T• be, or not to be, that is the question."—Shakspeare.

The PASSIONS—Their ADVENT and CONTROL.
" Cura ut Tales's."

These publications are free from empyrical mysticism, and are
adapted to the intelligence of the times.
To be had of 'herwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Mann, 39, Corn-
hill; Carralho, 147, Fleet-street; and all Booksellers, or direct from
the Author, whose practice is exclusively devoted to home consulta-
tion, Mornings till Three, and la the Evenings from Seven till Nine.
at IS, Argyle-place. Regent-street.

ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS "IHR DURATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.

ILLIISTIATED WITH C411.01:11E3 xstaxavisres,
Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d.. or free
by post, 3s. Gd.

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 consequoßces of excessive indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehenl
sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-

street, Oxford-street, London.

Published by the authors ; Hauuay vtd Ce., 63, Oxford-street ;
Noble, 114, Chancery-lane; G. Mansell, 116, Fleet-street; IL,
Winhal, 78, High-street, Birmingham; H. Whitmore, 119, Market-
street, Manchester ; J. Howell, 54, Church-street, Liverpool; W.
and H. Robinson, 11, Greensitle street, Edinburgh; I. 11. Powell,
10, Westtnor,tland•streot, Dublin ; and sold by Brittain, 11, Pater-
uoster-row ; J. Gordon, 116, Leadenhall-street ; and all Booksellers
The best of all friends is the professional friend, and iu ne shape
can he be consulted with greater safety and secrecy than in Lucas
on Manly Health."—The New Bell's Weekly Messenger.
Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to
apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it
direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. 6d., or Postage Stamps.
The security of happiness in the Marriage state is the chief anxiety
of all ; but many dread entering upon wedded union, through a
secret fear of unfitness for the discharge of matrimonial obligations.
Tkis essay is most particularly addressed to all suffering under a
despondency of the eliaracter alluded to ; and advice will be found
calculated to cheer the drooping heart, and point the way to renovated
health.

Messrs. 'Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from Ten till Two, and
from Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence, No. 60,
Newman-street, Oxfoni-street, London, and country patients may
b• successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclos-
ing the usual fee of 11. for advice.

I POPULAR TREATISE •n the HEALTH, LIFE and VICOUi.

of the BODILY FUNCTIONS.

SINETEENTIL EDITION price 2s. 6d.) Free loy Pest (in 2 Seale

Envelope) 35. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND. A Medical Wor
on the loss of the reproductive powers, with moans of restore
tion. The baneful effects of Indulgence, neglected Strictures, Se-
condary Symptoms, &c., are fully pointed out. Illustrated by En-
gravings ; followed by observations on Marriage. By It. and L.
PERRY mid Co., Consulting Surgeons, London.
Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence.
Sold by Strange, No. 21, Paternoster-row; Gorden, 146, Leadential,
street ; Purkis, Compton-street, Soho ; Hammy and Co., 63, Oxford-
street, and 37, Ito al Exchange , and all booksellers.
Part I. of this Work Is particularly addressed to those who are
prevented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance, through fear of cer-
tain disqualltications, and will bet ound an available introduction to
the means of perfect and secret restoration to manhood.
Part 11. treats perspicuous]) 'lion those fermis of diseases, either
in their primary or secondary state, arising from infection, showing
how numbers who neglect to obtain competent medical aid, entail
upon themselves years of misery and suffering.
The CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM is exclusively directed to
the cure of nervous and sexual debility, irregularity, weakness, bar-
renness, loss of appetite, indigestion, consumptive habits, and debili-
ties arising from venereal excesses, &c. Price I Is. and 331. per bet-
tie. The Five-pound cases may be had as usual.

The CONCZNTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE. An anti-
syphilitic remedy for searching out and purifying the blood from ♦s-
neroal contamination, scurry, blotches en the head, face, and body
ulcerations, cud those painful affections arising from improper treat-
went, secondarysymptoms, cad all eruptions of the skin. Price lls
and 335. per bottle.
PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price Is. 9d., 4s. Gd.,
and I le. per box, are the most effectual remedy for strictures, in-
flansmatAon, irritation of the bladder, /cc., without hindrance to
business.

Consultation foe, if ay Letter, V. A minute detail of ease is ne.
cossary. Messrs. Perry are in daily attendance at their resldeace.
19, Ilerners-street, Oxford-street, London, from eleven till two, had
five till eight: and on Sundays from eleven till twelve.

ON TIIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AbID
MATURITY.
WITH TWENTY-FIVE ED ENGRAVINGS.
Just published, Twentieth Thousand, la a sealed envelope, price
2s. 64. or post paid, to any address,for 31. CI. in Postage tamps '
eaN : A Medical Treatise
udirEectLfFrom.
ptliteEAsittEhoirisvreAsldTenl
0 on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity.
Illustrated with Twenty-five ColourodyPainadtesiteen
ithe Anatomy.
and
ninctiros active Organs,
habits,
anti showing
n the Treatment of Nervous
and other
Physiology, and Diseases of the Urinary
ee xx pc 1:$1510.,111
.1 g theirlrth variousrracue practical
structures,
obseryat i
°n uses, O
the injuries that are produced in them, by solitary
Dobility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of
C:ofHEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,LIcenIate9, itedfora-street, Bedford-square, London;
Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
tiMleatUri
ree:tylairted
AMpeontitibeecraorifespulean,Lotodiotdnonl,lscoscp.l,tas,le.Medical Society,
CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE.
CRAFTER I. 011 the I'lloo3ooly Of Marriage, with its Hindrance.
and 0 bligstions, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.—
CHASTE& '2. On the Anatomy and thysiology of the Generative
Organs, their functions, structures, and secretions, proving that groat
Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action
--CuarTsa 3. Ou Solitary Habits; their various eflects on the
Annual Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the fuuctioni
of te Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the
Mental Faculties. CLIAPTEI 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youth
and Maturity, and the Treatment of NervousCrlAPT and
SRS Los
cal
and 6Weakness.
the Disordere arising from indiscriminate Excess, Gonsorlicea
. On
Mental Debility, and Premature Decay.—
Gleet, Strictures, and other DISCESOS of aie Urethra.
REVIEWS OF Tilt WORK.
"tie author of this singular and talented work is a legally quail.
fled va3 li cal man, who has xvidently had considerable experience of
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LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON.
EARL GREY ON THE EXTENSION OF STEAM
NAVIGATION FROM SINGAPORE TO PORT
JACKSON, AUSTRALIA.

My Lord,—On the 20th of May last, I bad the honour to
address a letter to your Lodshik)'s predecessor in the Colonial
Office, the Right Hon. W. E. Uladstone. on the subject inti-
mated m the title-page, and to which letter I received the
following reply:—
" Mr. W. E. Gladstone pr.,sents his compliments to Lieut.
Waghorn, and returns his best thanks for the pamphlet on
the extension of steam navigation from Singapore to Port
Jackson, which Lieut. Waghorn has been so good as to trans-
mit to him.

" Mr. W. E. Gladstone begs to assure Lieut. Waghorn
that he regards with a lively interest a proposal, the effect of
which would be to diminish by one-half, for many important
purposes, the distance between the United Kingdom and the
Australian Colonies, and that it will be fo him a matter of
sincere regret, if, upon examination of the charges attending
the execution of such a plan, those departments of the Go-
vernment which are peculiarly responsible in that respect,
shall arrive at the conclusion that the expenses are too heavy
to warrant any early attempt to give it effect.
" Colonial Office, May 28, 1846."
Since the date of the foregoing, the Sub-Committee of the
Association of Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and others, of
the city of London, interested in the extension of steam na-
vigation to Australia, have, as your Lordship is aware, laid
before you an elaborate report descriptive of the various
routes for the proposed connexion of our Australian and New
Zealand dependencies with this country and India—analysing
the respective merits of each, and recommending to your
Lordship's notice the one first advocated by me, in conjunc-
tion with the gentlemen composing the Committee, and
whose names are appended to this letter. In answer to that
report, your Lordship directed the annexed communication
to be made by the Under- Secretary for the Colonies, B.
Hawes, Esq., M.P.:—
" Downing-street, November 3, 1846.
" Gentlemen,—l am directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 19th ultimo, enclosing the
report of a committee appointed by merchants, and others,
connected with the Australian Colonies, to examine into the
merits of the various routes by which a communication by
steam-vessels between those colonies and Great Britain
might be established; and I am directed to acquaint you in
reply, that Lord Grey attaches the greatest importance to the
subject, but that the necessity of communicating with "the
governors of the Australian Colonies must prevent _ any
definitive arrangement being made at present..
"I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
" B. HAWES.
" Sir George Larpent, Bart. ; Hon. F. Scott, M.P."
My Lord, the incessant pressure on my time in organizing
the machinery for the transmission of the Overland Mails, in
the face of hitherto unattempted difficulties and with un-
exampled dispatch, asis not unknown to -your Lordship, has
prevented me carrying out the intention I first conceived on
the perusal of Mr. Hawes' letter—namely, to entreat your
Lordship to allow me, with the greatest deference, but at the
same time with the utmost earnestness, to urge upon you at
once to lend your countenance to the great object of bringing
our Australian possessions within the sphere of those blessings
which steam enables us to confer upon nearly all our other
colonies. Believe me, my Lord, I speak after anxious and
careful reflection, when I venture to assure you that this
noble project may be advanced a long way towards maturity
before you can receive any reply from the Colonial Governors.
I well know the disposition that exists in the mercantile body
of London, and also in the large commercial and manufac-
turing towns of Great Britain, to draw Australia and New
Zealand into the closest proximity to the mother-country by
steam, within the shortest possible period. I know to what
extent that disposition may be made available, in seconding
whatever assistance the Government might be pleased to ex-
tend; and I know that, owing to various causes, such dispo-
sition will be materially damped and will not be easily
revived, should delay intervene in setting about the accom-
plishment of a purpose to whose importance your Lordship
bears witness.
Whatever may be your sense of that importance, it cannot
be exaggerated. lam well aware of your Lordship's in-
timacy with the condition, prospects, and requirements of our
colonies in every part of the globe ; but it cannot be supposed
that your Lordship should have bestowed on our Australian
territories in particular that minute practical observation
necessary to possess you of the full commercial and social de-
sirability, as well as the political value, of extending steam
navigation to those remote but important regions. lam
sure, if I could prevail upon your Lordship to examine the
data adduced in the pamphlet addressed by me, on this subject,
to Mr. Gladstone, and if you would fortify, by inquiry, the
accuracy of the calculations therein made, and the reason-
ableness of the inferences drawn from those data, you would
be induced forthwith to advise the Crown to allow Australia
to participate in those advantages which so many other colo-
nies sow enjoy, through the instrumentality of private steam
companies, who are assisted by public grants. It is in vain
to wait to know what the colonies will do. Be it much or
be it little, the most that could be hoped from them would
not be equivalent to the gain that would accrue from a
prompt decision on your Lordship's part to make a pecu-
niary grant, and leave the rest to the merchants of London.
I ask no more than that your Lordship should make such
e'er as your own appreciation of the interests affected may
dictate, and as the precedent of state donations towards
steam communication with the West Indies, China, North
America, &c., may seem to you to justify. If that offer be
not met in a corresponding spirit by the gentlemen whose
Sub-Committee have already reported to you, and in whose
name I now speak, I am content to forfeit whatever slight
credit I may pretend to, as a promoter of rapid intercommu-
nication between England and the Eastern hemisphere, and
to be accounted the visionary and the dreamer which so
many 'people were kind enough to pronounce me, when I first
undertook to carry the Government dispatches from Bombay
to London, through Central Europe, in the depth of a more
than Alpine winter, in one calendar month.
But my Lord„ if you would impart full value to the offer
I solicit, let it, I pray you, be made at once. Notwithstand-
ing the various unusual claims on the national treasury at the
present moment, no wise economist can look at the popula-
tion, wealth, and hourly-increasing capabilities of our vast
colonies in the Pacific, without admitting that any reason-
able amount would be well laid out, that should bring them
and us within half, not to say one-third the distance, in
point of time, that now separates us, and must continue to
separate us, without the adoption of the plan already sub-
mitted to you.
I cannot think of taming your Lordship's time by a reca-
pitulation here, however brief, of the pamphlet already
alluded to—and in which, I persuade myself, several points
tending to enhance the humble estimate of Australia,
formed by the general English public, were brought pro-
minently forward. But I will venture to make an extract,
in which a great deal of matter appears to me to be con-
centrated in a very small compass, strongly illustrative of
the merits of the project now being reinforced by me, with
all the energy I am master of.
The extract consists in a passage from a speech delivered
en Friday, the 17th of April, 1846, at the London Tavern
meeting, called by me, and at which Sir G. Larpent presided
—many leading London merchants interested in the colonies,
being present—most ably assisted by J. W. Sutherland,
Esq., together with the Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., the agent
for the colony of New South Wales—to whose indefatigable
labours, solidity of judgment, and unflagging zeal, no praise
of mine can do adequate justice, nor can his services to the
Australian colonies generally be possibly over-esti-
mated. The speaker I allude to was Mr. Mark Boyd,
of the eminent firm of Boyd, Brothers and Co., whose
intimate connexion with Australia, and the large possessions
of members of whose family at Boyd-Town, Two-fold Bay,
and in all parts of New South Wales, are well known to
every one acquainted with the colonies. But to those who
do not possess such knowledge, it will perhaps be sufficient
to say, that the speaker is brother to Mr. Benjamin Boyd,
chairman of the Pastoral Association of New South Wales,
member of the Legislative Council, &c.; and a gentleman
who is not more esteemed for those private virtues which add
lustre to his well-acquired opulence, than for the public spi-
rit in which he to worthily exercises his great energies and in-
tellectual accomplishments. After citing many cogent facts,
as to the increase of letters and newspapers between Eng-
land and Australia, Mr. M. Boyd said :—"To attempt to define
a limit to the advantages which the introduction of steam
would afford Australia is impossible, but there can be no
question as to the following. It would facilitate the invest-
ment of capital for the gradual development of the bound-
less resources of Australia and New Zealand. It would
establish much greater confidence in all mercantile trans-
actions connected with the colony by preventing loss from
over-stocked markets, and also obviate the inconvenience
arising from the scarcity of supplies of European merchan-
dise. It would enable the merchants and shippers in the
colony duly to effect insurance of their ships and merchan-
dise in England. It would enable East India invalids either
to settle or recruit their health in that most congenial climate;
the distance to Swan River only occupying fourteen days, to
Sydney thirty. It would lead to a large emigration of a
highly respectable class of capitalists, with their wives and
families, who are at present deterred undertaking the voyage
from its tediousness. A steam communication would there-
fore be of incalculable advantage to the colony, both morally
and politically. It would greatly facilitate the pacification of
New Zealand, by affording the means of promptly introduo-
ing the requisite precautionary measures sin case of need. It
would likewise produce the same effect as in Australia, by
encouraging the introduction of wealthy settlers and the
consequent employment of the native population. It would
be of the utmost advantage, by affording facilities for the
further extension of the present Pacific trade carried on from
our Australian colonies, and the civilisation of the inhabitants
of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. It would enable us

promptly to anticipate and frustrate any attempts of foreign
aggression, either upon our settlements or trade in those seas,
It would accelerate the introduction of numerous necessary

reforms in the local governments of the Australian co-
lony, and permit public opinion in England to exert its
salutary influence on the acts of the colonial executives
and aid in preventing the colonists suffering the most
grievous wrongs to which they are at present constantly sub-
jected. In conclusion, by the establishment of an Australian
steam communication, the entire link between Great Britain
and all the colonies will be complete, as well as those colo-
nies with each other respectively."
These are the heartfelt sentiments of a gentleman whose
house has been conspicuously engaged in Australian affairs
for many years. They are the result of a diversified experi-
ence of the wants of nearly all our settlements in the Pacific,
and of the important region of the Indian Archipelago, from
which such substantial advantages will be derived from our
increased propinquity between it and Australia. by the
steam communication recommended, and which becomes
of even greater importance, when we bear in mind
our invaluable new trading station of Labuan, on
the west coast of Borneo,—supplying, besides innumer-
able other advantages, inexhaustible quantities of coal.
When that communication shall have been established,
as at no distant day it must be, the Australian and New
Zealand colonies will owe an inexpiable debt of gratitude to
the Messrs. Boyd fur their exertions in awakening public
opinion at home to our obligations regarding those great tri-
butaries to the extent and weight of the parent
the services of
state. It
would be unjust to withhold my
testimony to
the able coadjutor of Messrs. Boyd—viz., Mr. Samuel Brown-
ing—who, as a resident in Australia, and having Visited
almost every part of the Indian Archipelago, China, 1,,c„
has brought to the discussions in which the committee have
been engaged, a personal familiarity `mosth localities, and
a comprehensive knowledge of the judicious mode of
dealing with them in reference to the present object, that can-
not be too warmly commended.
Since the date of Mr. Mark Boyd's speech nothing has
occurred to diminish, but much to enhance, the value of
Australia to us, and to render more and more desirable the
means of speedy interootiro with hor, Tho memorable

PRrcl SD.

events in India have invested it with fresh importance as a
locale for the restoration of the shattered health of our
troops. Occurrences in New Zealand warn us, that
in no way can their repetition be more effectually
prevented, than by encouraging steam communication
between that colony and Australia, and between the
latter and England, so as to admit of the transmission
of instructions from the Home Government with the
least loss of time. The alteration in the laws affecting the
importation of food opens the Lome market to many
of the productions of Australia he-etofore inadmisible
here ; and the exhaustless supplies of meat, in a portable
form, and adapted to English and Indian wants, that miy
he brought hither, is, alone, a consideration not to lie
overlooked in seasons like the present, whose recurrence
may, unfortunately, at any time be expected. The cha . s
that are being introduced into the colonial system of
administration, according to public report, under the
auspices of .your Lordship, must further increase the
desirability of learning the effect of thewe changes speedily
hdi
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land, emphatically demands that Australia be no longer sub-
jes;ted to the hardship and injustice of being the only great
dependency of the Crown whose geographical remoteness is
not virtually diminished by steam
My Lord, I say that, if it were only on the score of the
value of the Australian settlements to England in respect to
future emigration, these settlements alone would be entitled
to the Government aid now sought at your hands. In my
dater to Mr. Gladstone, I said, "If I did not hope that these
remarks may come under general attention through the me-
dium of the press, which has already given an extended pub-
licity to the question of 'Steam to Australia,' I should pot
attempt to hint to a gentleman whose knowledge of public
affairs is as extensive as yours, any one of the various
momentous considerations embraced in the single word
Colonization,' as affected by Australia being brought one-
half nearer than it is to England. The distance diminished
one-half, and the improvement immediately created by that
diminution, Australia would become, as it ought, the focus
of all emigration from the United Kingdom. The ungrateful
soil and trying climate of our North American possessions
would no 'longer baffle the industry and exhaust the means
of our small farmers. The HAtttd:States would no longer
absorb the of our medlitriMtqandleare them to learn that
the habits, the comforts, and the independence of an English
home, if poor even to poverty, may be unwisely exchanged
for affluence where these accessories are wanting. The Cape,
the West Indies, Sec., would no longer act as quicksands to
the industry that annually flows thither, where it is lost or
frustrated, because the locality is altogether unsuited, to
such of our population as live by labour, for the most part,
out of doors. No, sir; emigration would flow to Australia,
where soil, and climate, and produce, and the currents of
traffic, and, in short, every circumstance an intending end-
grant should take into account, invite him to settle, and
where nothing repels him, but the distance and the evils this
distance alone occasions. I repeat, that emigration, on the
largest scale, will find its way to Australia once steam is
established, and that the benefits to all parties will be im-
mense." If there were any truth in these remarks in May
last, I trust you will be of opinion that nothing has since
transpired to impair their force and applicability. For
my own part, I am more and more convinced of their
correctness the more I ponder upon the subject. I
am convinced, that the mere announcement of a monthly
steam communication being about to be established with
the Australian settlements, would, at once, turn the eyes
of the great bulk of intending emigrants in that direction.
I do not mean, of course, that emigrants would think of
proceeding there by steam. Comparatively few, and only
the more wealthy, would be able to do that; but the know-
ledge that the intercourse with the mother-country would be
doubled and trebled as compared with the existing state of
things—that a letter and its answer might be received in
London and at Sydney in less time than the letter alone now
tames to reach its destination—that, in fact, for all purposes
of correspondence and communication, Sydney and London
would be almost as near to each other as are London and
New York by the sailing packets ;—this knowledge, I say,
would remove nine-tenths of the objections now entertained
towards the Australian colonies.

I abstain from touching on the mercantile bearings of the
question ;—that is pot my province; though I cannot help
reminding you that, but for Australia, all our manufacturers
of the west and north of England, who require line wool,
would be totally dependent on the Germans for that commo-
dity at ruinous prices—not less than 100,000 bales having
been received from our southern colonies last year. It must
be sufficiently obvious to every one, that an immense impetus
would be communicated to the commerce of the settlements
by the more increased facilities for the merchants and traders
advising their agents of the state of the Australian markets,
and being advised in return of the state of the markets of the
world suited to the produce of the Pacific; for, it should be
remembered, that it is not the English markets only which
steam would bring closer to tkese colonies, but the markets of
the whole Chinese and eastern seas,from Hong-Kong,Calcutta,
and Ceylon, to the southern extremity of New Guinea. On
these points I would take the liberty of referring you to my
previous pamphlet, and to the map accompanying it.
I take for granted, my Lord, that you have no hesita-
tion whatever to admit the easy practicability of the plan
therein laid down, confirmed as it has been by the careful
and voluminous report of the sub-committee. The sum and
substance of it is—to place adequate steamers, at Singapore,
to proceed with mails, passengers, and valuable goods to
Port Essington, through Torres Straits, to Wednesday Island.
and so to Sydney—the nature of the navigation, coaling,
depots, kc., being detai;ed in the former pamphlet, and ample
references given to the authorities from whose official reports
my calculations have been compiled, and especially from the
surveys of the Beagle, conducted by that most able navigator,
Captain Stokes, R.N., to whose exertion and intelligence all
connected with this project are deeply indebted. To make
this invaluable extension to the ends of the earth as it were

—to perfect that system which I have be.n the humble in-
strument of carrying so I,r as Singapore—to belt the world
with steam, and consummate the great design of which the
Overland Route to India is a part, the sum of 100,0Ctif. per
annum only is required,—a sum very much less than one-
half of what Government now gives towards steam navi-
gation with our West India Colonies, and a little more than
one-half that already given annually for the same object in
connexion with Singapore and China.
I have said to Mr. Gladstone, and I now•earnestly repeat
to your Lordship, that for the Government to work out this
great undertaking in a manner worthy of it, and worthy of
the objects involved, there should be no niggardly econo-
mizing attempted at the outset, as that, before long, would
prove as bad, or worse, than the most reckless extravagance.
Government should make their offer (through me) to the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, and if
an exorbitant price be asked, I am perfectly confident that,
with a grant from the Crown, a monthly steam communica-
tion between Sydney and Singapore, and vice versa, may be
entered upon by a private company of merchants, which
would be forthcoming in the city of London in two or three
months, provided your Lordship will at once assure Sir George
Larpent and the committee, that the Crown is ready to afford
such pecuniary succour as the Australian Colonies are entitled
to expect. lam certain that the offer of 100,0001. would in•
stantly call forth all needful energies in the city; and for
that sum, I repeat, in my former words, you bring into com-
parative contiguity with England a region far more in want
than any other of the harmonizing and moral influences thus
to be imparted ;—a region that would repay the generosity
and care of the mother country with ten times the good to
be expected elsewhere ;—a region that has long cried aloud
against our mismangement and neglect, and which accom-
panies those cries with the bitter and costly fruits which never
tail to spring from the discontent that is produced by a sense
of indifference at the hands of England.
It would be easy, my Lord, to extend these observations
to an almost indefinite length; and it would not be a little
gratifying to me to lay fully before you the results of my
experience, in the prosecution of the Overland Route, as to
the vast benefits which I clearly foresee are springing up for
England in her relationship with Central Europe through
our adoption of that channel in reaching the East. It is
because steam to Australia is part and parcel of the Over-
land design that I advocate it. But vain would be my ad-
vocacy if the merits of the case did not fully sustain the
prayer of this my petition to you, that you will not delay an
hour in saying to Sir G. Larpent and the Committee,—
" Gentlemen, draw on her Majesty's Treasury for 100,0001.
a-year, and place Sydney and London as near together as
the existing machinery of the Overland Route will permit,
availing yourselves of every possible improvement to in-
crease their proximity." Do this, my Lord, and you will
at once effect a most beneficial revolution throughout an im-
mense extent of our colonian empire, and lay the founda-
tion of a prosperity in the New World which the future his-
torian of the present Administration cannot fail to record to
your enduring honour.
The cost is as nothing compared with the certain and the
lasting advantages that must immediately spring from it.
Knowing what I do from my own observation of the ever •
gies that France is putting forth—seeing the immense, but
at the same time sagacious, expenditure she is incurring in
perfecting her steam mails and packets, and accelerating her
intercourse in every direction, and by every possible means—
labouring, in shert, to become, as it were, the highway of
all intercommunication between all other countries; I am
quite sure I do not speak extravagantly when I say that
site would gladly devote a million pee annum, had she such
colonies as ours in the Pacific, to secure the benefits which
we may now secure by one-tenth of that outlay, which would
diminish yearly after a brief time, owing to the increased
traffic on the route rendering the Government bounty less
and less necessary.

Trusting that the deficiencies of this hasty appeal to your
Lordship will, in some respects, be found compensated for iu my
letter to your predecessor in the Colonial-office,—again en-
treating you to believe that much of the value of the grant
applied for will depend on the quickness of its bestowal, and
begging that you will on that head take the opinion of the
Lords of the Admiralty, upon whose co-operation I am war-
ranted in fully calculating, I have the honour to remain,
my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient servant,
111031 AS WAGHORN, Lieut. R.N.
Cornhill, Feb. 10, 1847.

CITY OF WESTMINSTER LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
INSTITUTION.—The veteran comedian, Mr. J. Russell, gave
the members of this institution a very agreeable reading of
the "Merchant of Venice" on Friday evening. His concep-
tion of the characters is just, and his general reading kept
up an unflagging interest, while the revulsions of feeling in
the scene with Tubal, and the deep, implacable, bigoted
vengeance of Shylock, in the trial scene, were delivered with
consummate power. The audience evinced, by repeated
expressions of applause and the profoundest attention, that
they were highly gratified.
TESTIMONIAL TO TILE REV. G. T. ANDREWES,
A.M., CLIME IN ORDERS OF ,ST. JAMES'S, AND CHAPLAIN
TO THE HON. THE HOUSE OF OommoNs.—This is a de-
monstration on the part of the parishioners of St. James's,
Westminster, in order to testify the admiration, respect,
and esteem they have long entertained for that Rev. Gentle-
man, by raising funds sufficient to purchase such a testi-
monial as would be both acceptable to him, and creditable
to the subscribers. The articles selected by the committee
for presentation, consisting of several valuable works, in
elegant and appropriate bindings, and other articles of
splendid workmanship, chiefly connected with the library,
together with a valuable gold chronometer. &c., have been
exhibited during the past week, in a spacious gallery in St.
James's-street. The address,
which accompanies the
a
testi-
monial, and which is intended to be lasting record to his
family, is a must elaborate and beautiful piece of penman-
ship, richly embellished, and written on vellum, by Mr.
Robertson, of the writing institution, Coventry-street,
Haymarket.
The Government are about to allocate a grant in
atiedenofmathdegoirapthQarnir charities of Ireland. Similar grants have
years,—Lonterich Chronicle.