The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-12 00:00:00

PENALTIES

The Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes hereby give Notice, that
every person taking, killing,, or pursuing game, without first obtain-
ing a certificate, incurs a penalty of 201., and is also liable to be sur-
charged in double the amount of the certificate duty.
Any person in pursuit of game refusing, on being duly required, to
produce his certificate, or to permit the same to be read, or a copy
thereof to be taken, or refusing to declare his true name and place of
residence, also incurs a penalty of 201.
Gamekeepers are desired to take notice, that a certificate at the
rate of 1/. 7s. 6d. will not authorise any person to kill game beyond
the limits of the manor for which he is deputed ; and, in order that a
certificate at such a rate of duty may protect a gamekeeper, it is re-
quisite, not only that he should be deputed by some lord or lady of a
manor or reputed manor, but also that such deputation should be re-
gistered with the Clerk of the Peace, or the gamekeeper will be liable
to be surcharged in double the duty of 4/. Os. 10d., and also to be pro-
secuted by any common informer for the penalty of 201.
N.B.—lt is the intention of the Commissioners of Stamps and
Taxes to publish in a separate List the names and residences of all
persons surcharged in double duty for sporting without certificates.

STERILITY.—Whatever is unproductive is with-
out intrinsic value. Man and his Maker alike condemn that
which " yields no fruit," and we find large tracts of land abandoned
for the same reason that caused the barren fig tree to be cursed.
This curse clings to Sterility in every shape ; it brings upon the earth
famine. But the malediction breathes loudest and deepest into the
ear of those of the human race who remain childless in a community
which must altogether fail, without continual additions. Not only
do such encounter the silent scorn or pity of their fellow creatures,
but their own hearts condemn them ; wealth brings no consolation
to the wifeless bosom—brings no return for the childless home.
It is a remarkable fact that the unproductiveness of soil and
species arises from similarity of cause. Some lands are
the produce of vitiated strata that yields an offspring as
unhealthy as itself. Others nurture in their juices the poison of
minerals, which form the foe to vegetation. Others again lose value
by being too early worked, before they are fit for cultivation, Some
soils, originally fertile, become barren by excess of tillage; others
are spoiled by unwholesome manures ; and others, again, by the
want of perseverance and nerve In the husbandman. Mark the ana-
logy ! Mao also is too often vitiated by the parent from whom he
springs. Man is too often ruined by the indiscriminate use of mine-
rals, such as mercury, &c. 3f an also tries his 'constitution too early,
and avertasks it too late. Man, by unwholesome contact can also in-
feet his frame ; and, to render the comparison complete, man can
render a naturally vital constitation.unproductive through ignorance
of his organization and difildencOln his powers. Nor does the analogy
cease here. The detriments to cultivation above detailed have been
recently se entirely overcome by modern improvement in agricul-
ture, that farmers are now enabled to produce crops almost from
stone itself; and, in like manner, Sterility in the human race is now
removable through the profound discoveries in physic which enlighten
the present age. In testimony of this, a volume has recently been
produced whith fills the heart with hope and is calculated to remove
Sterility altogether. . It is from the pen of Messrs. J. L. CURTIS
AND CO., Consult= Surgeons, 7, Frith. street, Soho-square,
London, and bears the title of " MANHOOD: The Causes of its
Premature Decline, with Plaits Directions for its Perfect Re-
storation ;" and is sent by W. STRANGE, bookseller 21, Tater-
noster-roW, London, post-paid, in a sealed envelope, by initial or to
any address, for 2s. 6d. in postage stamps, secure frora observation.