The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-07 00:00:00

GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY,
AND PRONOUNCED BY DER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be
THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED.
Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &C.

_BA NK OF DEPOSIT,
Established A.D. 1811.
3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON.
Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to exa-
mine the Plan of The Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate
of interest may be obtained with ample security.
Deposits made by Special Agreement, may be withdrawn
without notice
The Interest is payable in January and July.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
Forms for Opening ACcounts sent free on application.

'CONTRACT FOR BRUSHES, BROOMS, HAIR
• PENCILS, AND TOOLS, ETC.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 4th Oct., 1858.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 19th
instant, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such
Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her
Majesty's several Dockyards with BRUSHES, BROOMS,
HAIR PENCILS, and TOOLS, Sc., under a Contract for
twelve months certain, and afterwards until the expiration
of three months' warning.
Patterns may be seen, and a form of the Tender, a sche-
dule of the articles, and the conditions of the Contract
obtained at the said office. No Tender will be received
after Two o'clock on the day Of treaty, nor will any be
noticed unless the party attends, or an Agent for him duly
authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for Brushes, Brooms, Sic.," and must be delivered at
Somerset-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by Two
responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Per-
son tendering, in the sum of £5OO, for the due perform-
ance of the Contract
ALBERT

LIFE ASSURANCE AND
GUARANTEE COMPANY.
(Established 1838.)
rrincipai Office, 11, Waterloo-place, Pall Ma.ll, London, S.W.
City Branch, 63, Dloorgate-street, E.C.

DIRECTORS.
William Beattie, Esq., M.D. George Goldsmith Kirby,
Capt. the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, ' Esq.
It• N. C.B. James Nichols, Esq.
Lieut.-'Col. James Croudace, Rear-Adm. the Right Hon.
11. E. I. C. S. Lord George Paulet, C.B.
SwYnfen Jervis, Esq.' Capt. Thos. Porter, R.N.
William King, Esq. George Raymond, Esq.
Assurances, Annuities, and Endowments granted, and every
other mode of provision for Families arranged.
Half the Annual Premiums for the first five years mityre-
Main on credit for any period until death, on Payment of In-
terest at five per cent. per annum.
Parties allowed to go to, or reside in, most .parts of the
World, without extra Premium.
Naval and Military Lives, not in active Service, assured at
the ordinary rate.
Policies forfeited bv non-payment of Premium, revivable at
any time within Six Months, on satisfactory proof of health,
and the payment of a trifling fine.
No charge for Policy Stamps.
Reversionary Interests in every description of real or per-
sonal property purchased.
Security to Employers, Guarantee for Fidelity in situations
of trust.
Forms of Proposal, with every information, may be ob-
tained at the Office of the Company or by letter, addressed
HENRY ILLIAM SMITH,
Actuary and Secretary.

THE TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Bank-buildings, Lothbury, and 4.2 and 43, Poultry, London.
With which is incorporated the business of
THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1849, and Empowered by Special Act of
Parliament.
TRUS
3lattliew Marshall, EsTEES.
q., (Bank of England.)
William Smee, Esq., (Bank of England). •
Kenyon S. Parker, Esq., Q.C.
-
Henry Blair Mayne, Esq.
r, The business of the ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE
isPIPANT having purchased bthe TRAVLLERS' AND
cLAIIiNE INSURANCEbeen COMPANY, all the PoliciEes of the late
NJ
te HIPaIIY adopted under the Deed of Purchase ed and kept in force by the Travellers' and Marine In-
surance Company, upon precisely the same terms and con-
it ons under which they were originally issued.
Total Policies issued 39,000
Claims paid since 1849 £71,003
Annual income from Premiums (1857)
eidlnsurance effected gainstd General Accidents, Railway Ac-
to cuts, and Marine Risks r either Fatal, Non-fatal, or both
gether ; with or without Medical expenses extra. For
oposal Forms, Prospectuies, and all other information,
I),p_rdy to the Manager, at the Chief Office, or to any of the
'-'olnPany's local Agents.

EDWARD SOLLY, Manager.
7, Bank-luildings, Lothbury, London.

INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858.
Established 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of
Irate•—lt always has been, and still is, the practice of this
'Society to pay claims under policies of assurance, notwith-
standing the death of the assured occurring within the 30 days
Cf grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided
payment thereof be made, or notice of the death be given to
the office before the expiration of such days of grace.
For the Court of Directors,
E. S. SYMES, Chairman.

THE INTERNATIONAL LIF E
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
142, Strand, London.
empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE
SURVIVORSHIP'S, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, ao.
DIRECTORS.
EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman.
Renworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq.
amnel King-Church. Esq. Johd Moss, Esq.
John Elliotson, M.D.,Cantab., John Symes, Esq.
F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
• •
SECRETARY TO THE BOARD.
Alexander Richardson, Esq.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Augustus Blondel, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford
Young.
J. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
Elliotson, M.D., Cantab F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street.
ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., Arc.
ASSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford-
TOW.

The next Qui
Ilny, 1860.

Lnqueunial Division of Profits will be declared

fliples of Bonus up to May, 1855 :

Policy Sum . Bonus in Bonus in Permanent
taken Abe, Assured. addition Cash Reduction
out in to Sum . of Annual
[...........„ Assured.. . Premiums.
£ £s. d. £s. d. £a. d.
!8z„38 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1- 4 56 3 8
I'2_l 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4
"47,,,a 59 2,000 232 18 0 15(1 15 0 16 6 0
i 8 GO 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2
1851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7

Intoe following, are amongst the advantages offered by the
rnational Life Assurance Society:—
The Society was established in 18:18:
Zwo-t hi rd s of the profits are divided amongst the assured
very five years. •
Its subscribad capital is five hundred thousand pounds.
Its investments at the date of the last annual report
amounted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds.
Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds.
The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand.
Ahout one thousand new policies are added every year.
Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims
upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
loor
Chairm p
an, Irospect, usestran andd every other information, apply to the
-12 S. •

EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.
142 Strand, London, W.C.

ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE
INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
isTen, and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated
by
sh 100 Asnatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub-
lied, plice, free by post, is.
THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work
on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from
the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious
consequences from the use of Mercury: with observations on
the obligations of marriage, and directions for obviating cer-
tain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Sur-
&llk Consultations as usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Allen,
20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row ; Sanger, 160, Oxford-
Street; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-atreet, London.
The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed in both
sexes to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its action is
Purely balsamic: its power in reinvigorating the frame in all
cases of nervous and sexual debility, obstinate gleets, impo-
tency, barrenness, anddebilities arising from venereal excesses.
has seen demonstrated by its unvarying sucess in thousands of
eases. Price us, per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335.,
Which saves lls.
The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an
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.
11s. and 335. per bottle, also a saving ot'lls.
PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an
effectual remedy in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet,
Stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d.,
48. 6d. and lls. per box.
Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechnrch-street, City ; Bart-
i3_,-looper, 43, King William-street (tourdoors from London-
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rrenYard • W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard ; J.
ancr,er
, 150, Oxford Street ; Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63.
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Harsant, 229 Strand, and all medical vendors 'throwhout
the 'United Kingdom.

THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND
MATURITY.
Just published, price ls., post free, in an Envelope, for 13
stamps.
SELF-PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise
on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System,
and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting
from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from
youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Phy-
siology of Marriage in its social, moral, and physical rela-
tions. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the
Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within
Life," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examina-
tion, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints,
With numerous engravinzs and cases.

• BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, ivr.D
37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON,
Hospital Medical Society, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono-
rary Member of the London
Li-
centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c.,
The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear-
ful consequences resulting from certain habits. irregularities,
and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth,
tlefr.radation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages
of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to
i'''3uern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended
,9 per entertaining secret doubts of their physical condi-
11°11, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health,
happiness' and privileges to which every
titled. human being is en-

It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that
there are principles of personal management which cannot be
violated without incurring grievous- penalties, and when
Wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-
indulgence,
how those penalties may be mitigated, how the
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and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that
there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply
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Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row,
and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leic;?ster-
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