The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-24 00:00:00

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological
Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs.
CHAPTER IT.—Causes of Supermatorrhcea and Impotence;
Early Vicious Indulgences ; Dangers of Neglect.
CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications
of Marria,Te ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the
Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection.
CH AFTER IV.—The Author's plan of Treatment, Medical
and Moral, being the result of a successful practice extending
over a period of 25 years.
CHAPTERS V. and VI. on the modern Treatment of
Gonorrhoea and Syphilis.
The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting
cases, to which is added the Author's receipt of a preventive
Lotion.

REVIEWS OF THE WORK.
"Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and
should be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times,"
23d March, 1856.
"The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this
little work, in which is described the source of those diseases
which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature
old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27,1856.
At home for consultation. :daily, from 1Z :Li andl6 to a.
Sunuays.lo to 1.

INTERNATIONAL_STATISTICAL

CONGRESS.

The session of the Congress closed on Saturday.
As most of the sections had terminated their labours
on the previous day the proceedings on Saturday
were of less interest than they had been during

the week.
LoTrdheßrgeneral m
tmeetingook the
ewashai
chair.
held at 12 o'clock;
Baron CZCERIG, on behalf of the foreign delegates,
expressed their acknowledgments and gratitude
London.
efor
the cordial reception they had met
That the Prince Consort should have inaugurated
the fourth Congress, and that a member of the
Government had accepted the post of its President,
he considered proofs of the lively interest felt in
England in the objects of the association.
Dr. Venadski (Prussia), M. de Quetelet (Belgium),
and Senhor De Carvalho Moreira, expressed their
concurrence with Baron Czcernig. The services of
Lord Brougham, Lord Ebrington, Mr. Cowper, and
Mr. M. Gibson were also acknowledged.
Mr. COWPER at the close of the sitting suggested
that Berlin should be selected for the meeting of
next congress of the Association.
Dr. ENGEL (Prussia) had no instructions to in-
vite the members formally to assemble in Berlin.
But he had no doubt both the Prussian Government
and the City of Berlin would do everything to re-
ceive the Association as it deserved, should the
'capital of Prussia be chosen as the next place of
meeting.
The Congress then separated.

An adjudication in bankruptcy was made on Satur•
day in the case of Messrs. Streatfeild, Laurence, and Morti•
more, of London, at the instance of Messrs. OTerend, Our•
key, and Co,

A letter dated Bantry Bay, Bearhaven, July 17,
received at Plymouth from an officer of the screw
steamship Trafalgar, 90, Capt. E. G. Fanshawe,
states that the fleet was to leave in a few days for
Dublin, whence it would probably proceed to the
Clyde. It is supposed that Sir Charles Fremantle
will winter in Plymouth Sound.
Yesterday three of the vessels chartered by the
Hon. Council for India for the conveyance of rein-
forcements to India were inspected at Gravesend
by Major-Gen. Eyre, who was accompanied by
Lieut.-Col. Gordon, the Brigade-Major at Chatham
—the inspection being made for the purpose of
ascertaining that every arrangement had been made
for the health, comfort, and convenience of the
officers and troops who embark in them. The ships
inspected were the Canning, 1,021 tons, Capt. J.
Robertson, which embarks 400 men at Gravesend ;
the Tyburnia, 961 tons, Capt. F. Coote, to embark
400 men at Gravesend and Portsmouth, for Cal-
cutta; and the Kate, 786 tons, Captain S. T. Lon-
tet, to embark 350 men, for Bengal.
The Torch, 5, screw gun vessel, Commander F.
Smith, has returned to Chatham from the Nore,
having gone on a trial trip of her machinery, in
which her engines were found to work very satis-
factorily. She is completing fitting for the coast of
Africa,
The Atlas, 91, screw line-of-battle ship, launched
at Chatham on Saturday, will proceed to Sheerness
this day, to be fitted with her engines, which are to
be of 800-horse power. She will afterwards return
' to Chatham to I* fitted for the second-class steam
reserve at that port.
The sudden death of Mr. James Rusden, Master
of the screw steam frigate Mersey, 40, Captain
has Henry Caldwell, C. 8., created a feeling of great
regret among the officers and crews of the Channel
Fleet, now in Bantry Bay.
The paddlewheel steam-vessel Rhadamanthus, 4,
Master Commander Frederick R. Sturdee, from
Woolwich and Portsmouth, which arrivtd at
Plymouth on Saturday, 'brought some supernume-
rary boys, and went into Hamoaze on Sunday.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Argus, Commander
G. T. Winthrop, called at Plymouth, and left again
on Sunday evening.