The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-27 00:00:00

SELF-PRESERVATIO N,

Illustrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, physiology,
and diseases of the reproductive organs; with practical observe-
ions on the secret infirmities of youth and maturity, resulting from
Solitary habits, excesses, or infection.
By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
This treatise is the result of a long course of study in a peculiar and
much neglected branch of medical practice, and the author having ob-
tained the highest medical honours, is a guarantee for his profes-
sional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treat-
ment of these diseases.
REVIEW OF THE WORE.

La'Mert on the Infirmities of Youth and Maturity.—" There are
scenes in the drama of life which are acted with ne spectator but
Conscience ; and of these the result is ever disastrous. Happy the
mortal who meets with a timely mentor to snatch him from the gulf
into which such scenes must plunge him ! In the book before us
such a monitor is to be found, calculated to warn and instruct the
erring, without impairing one idea that can vitiate a mind not al-
ready tutored by the vices of which it treats. It is written in a style
of masterly precision and lucidity, blending the profoundest truths of
philosophy and physics with the loftiest precepts of morality. It is a
production calculated to confer a vital benefit, physically and morally,
upon all who are tempted from the rigid path of abstemiousness and
propriety. A father may trust it in the hands of his boy. By un
taught innocence the book is not, of course, needed ; but wherever
laxity has prevailed, the tender yet awful voice breathing in these
pages is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of
a homily blended with the practical advice of a writer on medicine."
—United Kingdom Magazine.
The work may be had price 2s. 6d., of Kent and Richards, 52,
Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne-
ereet, Haymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; Mansell, 115,
Feet-street; or, free by post, for forty-two stamps, from the author's
residence, who ntay_be consulted on these disorders personally, or
b/ letter, daily, from Ten to Two, or from Five ItEigbt.
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THE TEA TRADE, Dec.' 26.—The deliveries of tea
last week from the London warehouses were 464,3661 b.,
being less than in the preceding week. The following
is the movement in the London trade to the 16th of
December:—

1847.
Total delivered 36,018,0001 b.
Exported 3,700,900 2,750,000
Sent coastwise 6,900,000 7,090,000
--- 10,600,000 --

1848.
36,102,0001 b.

9,750,000

Home consnmption from London 25,218,0001 b. • • 26,152,0001 b.
The chief feature in the market during the past month
has been the new season's congou, the arrival of which
per Sursda and Mary Sparks excited some little in-
terest, while the simultaneous arrival of the two ships
occasioned the opening of the market at mo-
derate rates, which nevertheless have not been main-
tained; the first sales out of the former ship were effected
at Is. 9d. for best descriptions, and Is. Ed. for inferior;
those ex Mary Sparks have principally sold at Is. 6d.
and ls. 7d. The arrival of the Chartley Castle and
Isabella Watson, and the anticipation of further sup-
plies, will render even these rates difficult of attainment,
for such as prove inferior, while choice quality will pro-
' bably command about ls. 9d. during the season. The
quality on the whole has more than equalled the antici-
pations founded on first reports of the new crop from
the other side; the best chops, however, proved more
or less " tarry," while the leaf, generally, is inferior in
make; in other descriptions of congou but little has been
done, and rates rather in favour of the buyer. Greens
are generally lower—young hysons and gunpowders
(from ls. 6d. to 2s. value) some 2d. per lb.; hysons
remain difficult of sale. Imperials, on the other hand,
have brought better rates, the market being ill supplied
with both these and Canton kinds. The limited arrivals
of scented teas have been taken off at moderate prices;
on the whole, the demand for these descriptions has been
less active during the latter part of the month.
SUICIDE IN THE MILITARY PRISON, FORT CLA-
RENCE.—CIIATIIAM, DEC. 25.—0 n Saturday evening,
about six o'clock, Sergeant James Dwane, 60th Royal
Rifles, put a period to his by shooting himself with
his rifle. He was in charge of a detachment guard, do-
ing duty in this prison, and he committed the act in his
own room, which is in the rear of the guard-room, by
placing his rifle, which was loaded with ball, under his
chin. The discharge shattered his head to atoms; seve-
ral of his teeth were picked up in the room. The cause
for committing this rash act appears to have arisen
from his being in arrears of some public money due to
some of the men of his depo , and which he had men-
tioned previously to one of his comrades, adding that
he had been threatened with being reperied to his com-
manding-officer. Mr. James Le els, the Rochester
_co.
roner, held an inquest on the body, at a late hour the
same night, when the jury returned a verdict, " That
the deceased shot himself during a fit of temporary
insanity."