The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-07 00:00:00

No. i7,276.] LON DON, MONDAY
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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

DIRECTOI9.
JOSEPH MOORE, M.D., Chairman.
George G. Babington, Esq. . Rev. Richard Garvey, M.A.
John Mackell, M.D. . Joseph Henry Green. Esq.
Sir Beej. C. Brodie, Bart., r.R.s. Oliver Plargreave, Esq.
Rev. Alfred B. Clough, M.A. Clement flue, M.D.
Samuel Cooper, Esq. Samuel Merriman, M.D.
Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A. f Andrew A. Miaville, Egg.
Thomas Davies, Esq. John Rt. Mowbray, Esq.
Jame. Dunlap, M.D. Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq.

In addition to Assuranees on Healthy Live*, this Society wittiness
to grant Policies on the Lives of Persons subject to gout, astimna
rupture, and other diseases, on the payment of a Premium propor-
tioned to th^ increased risk. The plan of granting Assurantes uu
Invalid Lives originated with this office in the beginning of I$ I.
Every description of Assurance may b effected with this Society,
and Policies are granted on the lives of persons In any station, and of
every age.
The Hates of Premium are Lower than at toast ether offices.
130 N USES.

The two first Diviolons averaged 221. per cent. on tho pretniinns
paid ; the third 281. per cont. Tne fourth bontia, declared Jan. Hifi,
averaged rather more than Mt per cent., and from the large amount
of Profit teferved for future appropriation and ether cattaes, the
nonusers hereafter are expected to exceed that amount.
. . . . _

The Society's Income, which is steadily increasing, is Row upwards
of 116,000/. per Annum.
Tabl of Rates (with the last Report), can be obtained of
GEO. H. PINCKARD, Residont Secretary,
No. V), Great Rassell-street, Bloomsbury, London.

CITY of LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY, for Accnatulative and General Assurances.
2, Royal .Exchanyze-buildings.
EDWARD F. LEEKS, Secretary.

Ilingtrated by 24 Anatomical Coloured Engravings or, Steel.
ON PHYSICALDISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIYE.INCAIA.

CITY, ii.ND I NIPEDIMENTg TO MARRIAGE.

New Edition, enlarged t• 196 paWstinstpuvlshed, price 2s. 6d., or
by post, direct from the Establishment. 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
r rHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
11 the Infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating pertain dis-
qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By It. and
L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London.
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Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Stade, 23, Tltehinsrae-
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PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-prisilactive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART 11. treats of the consequenw., reeulting frets excessive indul-
gence, and their lamentable effects en the system, produeing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative Incapacity.
It is illustrated 1, Three Es?lanatory Engravings.
FART 111. Treats of the diseases resulting from
early
infection, either in
f the abase
their treatment. c,• of neglect d •
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions Mr
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PART IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative L•tisn, by the use of
which the dangers of Infection are obviated. It combines with the
virus chemically, and destroys its power en the system.
PART T. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and Its
duties, The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, and
the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
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DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND MATURITT.—WITII 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON
STEEL.
Just published, and may le had in French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, 2s. Sid„ or pest-free, from the Author, for forty-two
Stainpe,
SELF-PRESERTATION; a Medical Treatise
on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive
Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disoriders of -Youth and Ma-
turity, visually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the nataral
ft,elings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations en the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close etudy, er the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutions/ Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
Anatomy, Physielogy, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their struetnres, uses, and fumalleivis, and the various
Injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection. RV SAMUEL LA'MERT, ATM.,
9, REDFORD-STEEET, ESDF4JED•SQUARR,
LONDON. . _

Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of tier Tniverslty of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, Lothian, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Modica' Society, &c.
Marriage requires the hilfilineut of eeverel conditions. In order
that it may be really the cause of mutual htAimineee. Could the
veil, which covers the origin of domestic wri ttchednees, be raised,
and its true source in every instance disclosed,. in how many could
it be traced to physical disqualification' and t heir attendant disap-
pointments'. Excesses are always injurious; ithe ;rift, which when
used in moderation is fraught with advanmee, becomes, when
abused, the prolific source of mischief, and of ;waster or less !Wary
to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on
.he nature and consequence of which this Treatise: professes to dilate,
are predictive of greater severity of misery to Site Yuman frame,
than any other to which It is sabject.
This work contains an accurate and completes account of the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, and of
their relative conditions In health and disease. It deservedly
requires the closest attention and study, for w•lvtt subject can
be of more importance than the preservation of the health,
and of the physical capabilities of which eve 7 man should
be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the nnhalVY
victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired
its early life •r from the follies of advanced age, while suffering
froth their invariable consequences, unwisely entertali us a fear of ap-
plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so
frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are
beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent- his seeking
•or assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thns, he
forgets that accurate discrimination n ascertaining this canoes of
disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva-
riably characterise the intelligent and practical physician, And to the
medical man who can show by his posse-lion of the req cisite legal
qualifications that he is entitled to esteem and respect in Isis profes-
sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr.
LA'MERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his ellplomas
certify, and the great extent of his practice for many yours is a
guarantee for his professional experienee, which has references almost
solely to the treatment of these diseases.
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Leadenhall-street, London ; or, free by pest for forty-two s+Amps,
from the Author, who may be consulted on these disorders pert unally
or by letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight At his
eesidence. 9. Ito4ford-street lieelfoud-souare London.

I,____ ,-&7•
LOSS OF THE BRITISH SO-YE-

REIGN WHALING SHIP AND MURDER OF
TIIE CREW.

Letters were received at Lloyd's on Saturday,
dated Sydney, August 17, communicating the total
loss of the barque British Sovereign, a whaling. ship,
Captain W. H. Jules master, on the eastern side of
the Sandwich Islands, and the reported horrible mas-
sacre by the natives of nearly the whole of the ship's
crew. The vessel left Sydney on the Bth day of
January last, for New Zealand, and thence to the
South Sea Islands. In the course of the passage site
called at the island of Thanna, where she shipped
about twenty of the natives, to assist in procuring
sandal wood. The captain then determined to make
for Sandwich, first sending hack the natives to
Thanna in the ship's boat, in charge of the chief
mate and several of the men. The ship left Erro-
manga on the evening of the 23d of April, and at
daybreak the next morning, the 24th, she was found
to be close in upon the eastern coast of Sandwich.
She was immediately hauled on a wind, and two
boats were lowered for the purpose of keeping her
off the land, but being within the influence of
the ground swell the boats had no effect upon
her, and she soon struck upon a rock, within a
cable's length of the shore. She then fell on her
broadside, and though her masts were cut, and every
means adopted to save the vessel, she in a few hours
broke up and became a total wreck. For three days
the crew remained near the wreck, in the hope of
saving some of the stores, the natives behaving in the
kindest manner. The captain and the crew, it should
be observed, were rescued from the rock by the
natives, who threw ropes to them from the shore.
They wished them to remain, but it was coi:sidered
necessary by the captain to make to the leeward
harbour, to which vessels resort in visiting the island.
After about four days' travelling, they came to a bay
on the south side of the island, where the natives
appeared on the same friendly terms. They gave
them sugar-canes and cocoa-nuts to eat, and the chief
to whom they were introduced took great liking to a
child, a fine little boy, who was along with the captain.
Amidst this apparent good feeling a tumult broke otit
among the natives, who fell upon the unfortunate
crew, who were off their guard, and most of them
were brutally slaughtered. The captain endeavoured
to escape, and retreated into the water. They were,
however, too close upon him, and his skull was
smashed in. The man Weir and three others suc-
ceeded in getting clear by springing forward into the
sea, and swimming to a canoe, with which they
reached an adjacent island. The natives pursued
them, and Weir's companions were overtaken, but
their fates were unknown ; Weir contriving to con-
ceal himself in the bush, where he remained for
several days. Fortunately, the first day he ventured
out to the beach the Isabella Anna hove in sight,
when he swam off, and was picked up. The number
supposed to have been massacred is twenty-nine.

ALLEGED ALTAR DENUNCIA-
TIONS IN IRELAND.
RESCRIPT FROM ROME.
The Dublin Evening Post of Saturday says—
" The following most important communication—
issued, as will he seen, by the command of Pope
Pius the Ninth—has been received from the Eternal
City :
" CIRCULAR ADDRESSED BY TIIE DOLT SEE TO SOllll3,
IF NOT .ALL, OF THE CATHOLIC PRELATES OF IRE-
LAND.

"' ILLMII. AC ItMl➢. DOMINE.

" Quo in vulgus, nonnulliS abbinc mensibus, per
publican Anglite Ephemerides disseminantur super.
partium politicarum studio, quo nonnuili Ecclesiastic'
viri abripiuntur et abustt aliquarum Ecclesiarum
Iliberniensium ad negocia civilia in iisdem vel per-
tractanda, vel coadjuvanda, nee non super homicidm,
qurc iterari per Ifiberniam narrantur, sacrisque minis-
tris affiguntur, utpote glue per quorumdarn ex istis
in S. conctembus nnprudentiam, aut etiam e suggestu
indirectam provocationem in antecessum designate,
vel saltem iniqua rati habitione comprobata, S. hujus
Congregationis sollicitudinem excitare juro merito
debent.
" Qum, licet sibi persuadere, minime possit, verum
esse quod tanto cum rumore jactatur, et viros ecele.-
siasticos oblitos, Ecclesiam Dei domum esse orattorns
debere, et non negotiationis, vel civilium studiorum
oflicianam, eosque pacis ministros, dispensatoresque
mysteriorum Dei, haud, se implicare negociis salcu-
laribus et a sanguine et ultionibus abhorrere oportere ;
nihilominus sua quam maxime interesse, duxit, op-
portunss plenesque de hisce omnibus informationes
exquirere, ut quosnam fides publicis hujus modi
dif-
famationibus danda sit, videri possit. Quapropter
Amplitudini tuse has litteras dandas, ex mente etiam
SSmi. Dni. Nri. Pii. PP. IX. statui, ut quarepri-
mum justissimse huic nostrse solicitudini facere
satis dignetur, commonitis interim sacris omnibus
ministris, ut qusetentes semper gum sunt Jesu Christi,
fidelium sibi commissorum saluti alacres incumbent
et impigri, Deoque militantes mundanis rebus se non
immisceant, enixeque curent, ne ulla ex parte, minis-
terium eorum vituperetur, et illi qui contra aunt nihil
habeant dicere de ipsis.
" Interim Deum precis', ut Amplitudinem Tuam
diu sospitem ac felicem servet.
" Amplitudinis TUD9.
" 'Romeo ex Aed. Sac. Congregationis de Propa-
ganda Fide.—Die 3 Januarii, 1848.
" Officis Paratissimus.
" J. PII. CARD. FRA.NSONIUS, PRA F.
" Reverendissimo,' &c. &c."

(TRANSLATION.)
" Most Illustrious and Reverend Lord,—The
reports now for some months circulated by the Eng-
lish newspapers, concerning the political party strifes
in which some ecclesiastics have allowed themselves to
be carried away, and the desecration made of some
of the Irish churches for the purpose of aiding and
promoting secular concerns—nay, more, the reports
which have reached us relative to the murders which,
we are informed, are so frequent, and by reason of
which the clergy have been stigmatised, and some of
them charged with imprudence, and as giving indi-
rect provocation from the pulpit—or, at least, exte-
nuating the guilt of these murders—these reports
must, surely, awaken the solicitude of the Sacred
Congregation.
" This Sacred Congregation cannot bring itself to
believe that such reports, so extensively noised abroad,
can be true; nor can it believe that ecclesiastics have
forgotten that the church of God should be the
house of prayer—not of secular concerns, or the
meeting place of politicians ; neither can the Sacred
Congregation believe that ecclesiastics have ceased
to recollect that they are the ministers of peace, dis-
pensers of the mysteries of God—men who should not
involve themselves in worldly concerns—in a word,
men who should abhor hlood and vengeance. Never-
theless, this Sacred Congregation deems it its duty to
require satisfactory and speedy information concern-
ing all these matters, that it may know what im-
portance it should attach to the above-mentioned
damnatory reports. "Wherefore, at the suggestion of
his Holiness, I have deemed it my duty to forward
this letter to your Lordship, praying you to satisfy
this most reasonable solicitude of the Sacred Congre-
gation ; and meantime, it exhorts you to admonish
the clergy, that seeking the things which are of Jesus
Christ, they sedulously apply themselves to watch
over the spiritual interests of the people, and in no-
wise mix themselves up with worldly affairs, in order
that their ministry may not be brought into disre-
pute, and those who are against them may not have
wherewith to cl-arge them.

" I pray God long to preserve your Lordship.
" Rome, from the Congregation of the Faith,
Jan. 3, 1848.

J. PII. CARD. FRANSONI:"

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Fen..s.—Se.yernl of the Roman Catholic
bishops have arrived in town to attend a meeting,
convened by the Primate, Archbishop Crolly, which
is to be held at the Presbytery, Marlborough-street,
on Tuesday next. The rescript from Rome will no
doubt be the first subject for consideration.
AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.--The
monthly meeting of this society was held on Thurs-
day, Lord Clarina presiding. A cominunica:ion from
the Lord-Lieutenant was read, allocating the sum of
1,0001. for promoting the project of practical instruc-
tion, and eight snore instructors were appointed,
making the entire number sixteen, the districts being
reduced in size, to allow of more concentrated and
efficient exertion in the teaching of the peasantry.
The Secretary stated that since the last day of
meeting his Grace the Duke of Devonshire had in-
timated his intention of applying the premium of 50/.
which he had gained for thorough-draining in Muns-
ter last year, to Lord Clarendon's fund for practical
instructors. The following additional contributions
have been also received :—The Earl of Essex (per
the Earl of Clarendon), 20/. ; 'Wm. Henry Curran,
101.; Hon. Charles J. Trench, 51.; and Captain Win.
Stuart, Royal Artillery, 51.
The thanks of the council were ordered to be con-
veyed to his Excellency, for his munificent contribu-
tion, and the confidence he still continues to repose in
the exertions of the society, and to assure his Excel-
lency that no effort will be spared by the council to
render the project of practical instructors for the
farming classes as effective as possible during the ap-
proaching season.
STATE or THE COUNTRY.—There was a meeting
of the magistrates and landowners of Upper Ossory,
Queen's County, on Tuesday last, to consider the
state of the district, in consequence of the discovery
of a conspiracy to take away the life of Mr. J. It.
Price the agent of the Lansdowne and the Fitzpatrick
estates. The Right Hon. W. Fitzpatrick, M.P.,
presided. Resolutions were adopted, expressing
horror at the contemplated crime, attributing the
conspiracy to strangers who had come into the dis-
trict, and recommending the formation of local asso-
ciations for the preservation of tranquillity.
THE LATE SPECIAL COMUISSION IN TIPPERARY.
—The following is the rule of court at the Commis-
sion for Tipperary :
"To be Hanged—On Ist March, John Lonergan,
Henry and Philip Cody ; on the 4th of March, Te-
rence Corboy, John Daly-5.
"To be Transported for Ten Years—Thomas
Britt, John Cleary, Thomas Magrath, Thomas Brien,
and John Ryan. For Seven Years—Patrick Mul-
lampy, Patrick Ellard, George
Hewitt, Patrick
Hickey, Timothy Hogan, Patrick Coonan, Michael
Whelan, and Denis O'Brien—l S.
" To be Imprisoned for Twelve Months—James
Nolan. For Ten Months—John Gorman, Patrick
Rourke, Daniel Tierney, John Smith Edw. Hogan,
and Thomas Sadlier. For a Fortnight—James
Kennedy-8.
" Total number of convictions-26:,
STATE Or TuaToon.---The provincial journals of
the south and west contain further afflicting intelli-
gence of the spread of destitution and the progress of
the " clearance system.
In Macroom union, county of Cork, the ratepayers
have sent an address to the guardians, declaring that
" hundreds of the poor must inevitably perish if not
assisted," and calling upon them to grant " out-door
relief to the aged and infirm and other helpless
classes."
The Ballyshannon (Donegal) herald states that
threatening letters have been sent to the poor-rate
collectors in that union.
THE MURDERS OF TOR Rev. MR. MAGUIRE'S HE..
LATIVEL—In the Gazette of last night a reward of
1001. is offered by Governmeut for the apprehension,
&c., of the perpetrators of the homicide of Terence
Maguire and Anna, his wife, by administering poison
to titan in January last, at Ardrutn, county of
Leitrim.
The Anglo Celt, a cal,s, paper, contains the fol-
lowing :—" A correspondent, upon whom we can
Place implicit reliance, informs us that notwithstand-
ing all the denials to the contrary, the body of the
Rev. T. Maguire was exhumed on last Tuesday
ev_ sing, and the stomach sent to Dublin for analyze-
tion, It appears by the evidence of Mr. Maguire's
confidential housekeeper, who was eighteen years in
his service, that the Rev. Gan; ieman stated several
times, immediately before his decease, that he was
poisoned by some pills which had been administered
to him. The witness states that she considered the