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4,ZELF-PRESERTATION; 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 exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
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 Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the iteproductive Organs,
explaining their strictures, uses, and fbnctions, and the various
Injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
37, BED FOR D-S QU AR E, LONDON.

Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
Marriaga 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 is 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, become', 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 Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, wad of
their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly
requires the closest attention and study, for what subject can
be of more importance than the preservation of the health
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frequently, but erroneously entertained that those complaints are
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for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting this, he
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characterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the
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LA'MERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas
certify, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a
guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost
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THE SPIRIT DUTIES.
A communication has been received by the Com-
missioners of Customs from one of the secretaries to
the Treasury, stating that he has been commanded
by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea-
sury to call their attention to the resolutions re
specting rum, &c., which were agreed to by the
House of Commons on the 19th instant, of which he
was directed to transmit a copy, and that in accordance
with the said resolutions he was to desire that the Commis-
sioners would take the necessary steps for the admission
of rum, &c., at the rates of duty therein specified, under
the usual conditions of the parties abiding the ultimate
decision of Parliament. In pursuance of this order from
the Lords of the Treasury, the commissioners have caused
copies of the resolutions referred to to be furnished to
the principal officers of the Customs department in Lon-
don, and throughout the several ports of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for their inform •
tion and government, with directions to take care that
the same be duly obeyed. The following is a copy of
the resolution referred to:—

Rum, &c., duties.—Resolution reported :
That, in lieu of the duties of customs now chargeable
on the articles undermentioned imported into the United
Kingdom, the following duties shall be charged, viz. :
Spirits or strong waters—For every gallon of such
spirits or strong waters, of any strength not exceeding
the strength of proof by Syke's hydrometer, and so it
proportion for any greater or less strength than the
strength of proof, and for any greater or less quantity
than a gallon, viz.:—
Spirits or strong waters, the produce of any British
plantation in America, not being sweetened spirits, or
spirits mixed with any article, so that the degree of
strength cannot be exactly ascertained by such hydro-
meter—
If imported into England, the gallon Bs. 2d.
Ditto Scotland
Ditto Ireland ... ••• ..• 3 0
Rum, the produce of any British possession within the
limits of the East India Company's charter, not being
sweetened spirits or spirits so mixed as aforesaid, in re-
gard to which the conditions of the Act 4 Vict., cap. 8,
have or shall have been fulfilled :
If imported into England, the gallon Bs. 2d.
4 0
Ditto, Scotland
3 0
Ditto, Ireland
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shuoewhepvecsrsessws-ieeentse,nedih,
rtehgeatpdrtoeduwcie of and
tieh the
conditions of the Act 4 Vict., cap. 8, have or shall have
been fulfilled, or the produce of or imported from any
British possession in America—
If imported into England, the gallon ... 848. 2d.0
Ditto, Scotland ... ••• ••• •••
Ditto, Ireland ... ••• ••• 3
Resolutions agreed to July 18, 1848.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT PUTNEY BRIDGE.
—The two young men who lost their lives on Sunday
evening by the upsetting of a skiff, near Putney-bridge,
have been recognised to be Francis Thomas Walters,
aged twenty, and George Paradise, aged twenty-one,
both of Chelsea. A coroner's inquest has been held on
the bodies, and a verdict of accidental death returned.
The bodies of the two young females, who also lost their
lives on the same occasion, have, it is stated, since the
holding of the inquest been found locked in each other's
arms. Their names are ascertained to be Mary Anne
Reader, and Catherine Allen, both of Oakham-street,
Chelsea.

TOTAL Loss OF THE ROYAL WEST INDIAN MAIL
SCHOONER LEE.—Yesterday the authorities at Lloyd's
received information of the total loss of the above-named
vessel. She was on a passage to Belize from Havannah,
and struck on the 10th of last month, on a formidable
rock called Glover's reef, about sixty miles northward
of the former port. She is understood to have been in-
sured to some extent. The passengers and mails were
fortunately saved.