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DR. LA'hiERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND MATURITY.
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
fast published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and
Italian, in a Sealed 11;nvelOpe, Ss. 6d., or post-free, from floc
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SELF-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
usually acquired at as early period of life, which destroy
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with practical
Observations on the certain Prevention and successful Treatment c)
Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, ar.d all Diseases and Derangements resulting front Indis-
cretion,, as adopted by Lallemand, Ricord, and other eminent mem-
bers of the faculty in France. With Fifty coloured Engravings,
Illustrating the anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Re-
productive Organs, explaining their stractines, uses, and thneticris,
and the various injuries that are produced in them by solitary
habits, excesses, and infection.
BY SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D.,

87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Ldin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Hunterian
Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c.
This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana-
tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative
conditions in health and disease. The author, who has taken the
highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo-
nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man
who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to
the treatment of these complaints. lle may be consulted with ad-
vantage by all those whose constitutions may have become debili-
tated through secret practices acquired is youth, or by the excesses
of later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects
of marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of un-
ceasing misery and regret.
Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
noster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Titchborne-street,
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or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, who
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from ten till two. and from six till eight-

HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING

ROOM.

The Queen bald a Drawing Room yesterday afternoon in
St. James's Palace.
It was the first public reception for ladies this season, and
was brilliantly and numerously attended.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham
Palace shortly after two o'clock, attended by the ladies and
gentlemen of the Royal suite.
Before the Drawina Room her Majesty, according to an-
nual custom,' received a deputation from Christ's Hospital in
the Throne Room.

The deputation, which was ushered to the Royal presence
by Sir William artins, Gentleman Usher in Waiting, con-
sisted of Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., he President ; Mr.
William Gilpin, the Treasurer; Mr. James Bentley and Mr.
John Alexander Hankey, two of the governors of the Insti-
tution ; accompanied by the Rev. William Webster, M.A.,
the mathematical master; Mr. William H. Back, the draw-
ing master; and the 40 boys of the Royal Mathematical
School founded by King Charles 11., and was most gra-
ciously received.
The Queen condescended to inspect the charts and draw-
ings, and was pleased to express her high admiration and
approbation of the drawings of the boys, and especially of
those representing the ships' harbour and fortifications tf
Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was on
duty in the state saloons.
The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the Palace as
usual, under the command of Captain Bellairs, the Exon in
waiting.
The Queen wore a white Gros de Naples train, trimmed
with white crape and white bugles, and ornamented with
diamonds. The petticoat was of white Gros de Naples,
trimmed with white crape and white bugles.
Her Majesty's head-dress was composed of white feathers
and diamonds.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert were attended by the
Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Norfolk, the Countess
of Desart, the Marchioness of Douro, and the Viscountess
Canning, Ladies of the Bedchamber; Hon. Amelia ►Murray,
Hon. Lucy Kerr, Hon. Matilda Paget, Hon. Eleanor Stan-
ley, Hon. Flora Macdonald, and lion. Miss Seymour,
Maids of Honour; the Viscountess Forbes, Lady Caroline
Barrington, lion. Mrs. George Campbell, and Lady Charlotte
Copley, Bedchamber Women; the Lord Steward, the
Lord Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole to th 4 Prince,
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the
Earl of Listowel, Lord in Waiting; Lord George Lennox,
Lord in Waiting to the Prince; Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse; Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to the Prince; Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting ;
Colonel W vide, Groom in Waiting to the Prince; Colonel
Buckley, Equerry in Waiting; Lieutenant-Colonel Hon.
Alexander Gordon, Equerry in Waiting to the Prince; and
Messrs. Gordon and Forbes, Pages of Honour in Waiting.
The Diplomatic Circle was introduced, when the following
presentations to the Queen took place :
By the Viscountess Palmerston - Madame Bartholeyns de
Fosselaerti Baroness de Hunoldstein.

By the Swedish and Norwegian Minister—the Baron
Charles de Geer, Secretary of the Swedish and Norwegian
Legation.
By the Minister of the United States—Lieutenant Cald-
well, of the United States' frigate the St. Lawrence.
By the Sardinian Minister—Baron Tholozano, Commander
of the tardinian frigate Governolo ; Le Marquis Oldoini,
Secretary of the Sardinian Legation.
By the Austrian Charge d'Affaires—Mr. Buschek, Chair-
man of the Austrian Committee for the Great Exhibition.
By the French Chargé d'Affaires—Monsieur Sallandrouze
de Eamornaix, Commissaire General du Gouvernement Fran-
cais, Ancien Member de la Chambre des Deputes.
The diplomatic circla was attended by M. Van de Weyer,
Belgian Minister; M. Bartholeyns de Fosselaert, Attache to
the Legation ; and Baron Mertens d'Ostin, member of the
Agricultural Jury at the Universal Exhibition; Baron de
Cetto, Bavarian Minister; Baron de Brunnow, Russian Mi-
nister, and Baroness de Brunnow, and Count Wielhorski, At-
tache to the Legation ; General Prince Castelcicala, Neapoli-
tan Minister, and M. Canofari, Secretary of Legation ; Cheva-
lier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, and Madame Bunsen; Count
de Reventlow, Danish Minister, Count de Moltke, Secretary,
and Count Reventlow, Crimiuil Attaché to the Legation ;
Baron de Rehausen, Swedish •and Norwegian Minister; Mr.
Abbot Lawrence, Minister of the United States of America,
and Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Bancroft Davis, Secretary, and Col.
T. B. Lawrence, Attaché to the Legation; Senor Isturix,
Spanish Minister, Mr. J. T. Comyn, First Secretary, Le
Chevalier Diaz, Second Secretary, and Mr. J. L. de Urbiz-
tondo, Attach4,,to the Legation; the Marquis d'Azeglio,
Sardinian Minister, and le Comte Louis Corti, Secretary of
Legation ; Le Baron de Koller, Chargé d'Affairs of Austria,
M. Francois Uchatius, Captain of (Austria) Artillery, and
Le Baron de Scholl, Captain in the Austrian service; Mons.
de Marescalchi, Chargé d'Affairs of France, M. de Saux,
Second Secretary of the Embassy, and M. Sam payo, Attache
to the Embassy; Cabouly Effendi, Chargé d'Affaires of the
Ottoman Porte, Sadik Bey, Second Secretary, and Dilaver
Effendi, Attaché to the Embassy; Le General Mendoza,
Chargé d'Affaires of Mexico; Baron Stratenus, Chargé
d'Affaires of the Netherlands; Baron de Tuyll and M. de
Steenberghe, Officers d'Ordonnance to his Majesty the King
of the Netherlands; the Chevalier de Ribeiro, Chargé
d'Affaires of Portugal; M. Francisco de Rivero, Charge
d'Affaires of Peru; M. Emilio de Althaus and M. Fabricio
Caceres, Attaches to the Mission; M. J. T. de Amaral,
Chargéd'Atrairs of Brazil ; Le Comte Possenti, M. Schmiever,
Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., the Queen's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Viscountess Palmer-
ston, and Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.8., her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, at-
tended the Drawing Room.
The following ladies had the honour of being presented to
the Queen :
Miss Agnes Alexander, by her mother, Mrs. Du Pre Alex-
ander.
Miss Arthur and Miss Frances Arthur, by Lady Frederic
Smith.
Mrs. George Cavendish Bentinck, by her mother- in-law,
Lady Frederick Bentinck.
Mrs. H. Wollaston Blake, on her marriage, by her aunt,
Lady Mary Wood.
Lady Emma Bligh, by her mother, the Dowager Countess of
Darnley.
Hon. Louisa Boyle, by her mother, Viscountess Dungarvan.
Lady Francis Bruce, by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Bruce.
Mrs. Andras Buchanan, on her return from St. Peteriburgb,
by the Marchioness of Clanricarde.
Miss Buckley, by Lady Catherine Buckley.
Mrs. Hugh Mills Bunbury, by Viscountess Hardinge.
Miss Bunbury, by her mother, Mrs. H. M. Bunbury.
Miss Zee Burton, by her mother, Mrs. Burton.
Miss Barrington, by her mother, Lady Caroline Barrington.
Miss Calcratt, by her aunt, Lady Elizabeth Steele.
Mrs. (Sheriff) Carden, by the Hon. Mrs. Stuart Wcrtley.
Miss Carden, by her mother, Mrs. Carden.
Mrs. Carr, by the Hoe. Mrs. Annesley.
Miss Carr, by her mother, Mrs. Carr.
Miss Jane Cathcart and Miss Mary Cathcart, by Lady Geor-
gina Cathcart.
Miss Chester, by her sister, Lady Alfred Hervey.
Mrs. Clarke, by Lady Lyndhurst.
Mrs. Cobham, by Mrs. Pigot.
Miss Elizabeth Cockburn, by Lady Hamilton.
Mrs. Henry Codrington, by Mrs. William Codrington.
Miss Cornewall, by her mother, Mrs. Cornewall.
Hoe. Mrs. Cradock, on her change of name, by Lady John
Russell.
Lady Gibson Craig, by her mother, Mrs. J. H. Vivian.
Lady Cranworth, by Lady Vernon.
Mrs. Crawley, by the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire.