The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-20 00:00:00

No. 114, REGENT-STREET; is their Depot for Paletots, Uni-
forms, Gentlemen's Evening and Morning Dress.
No. 116, for the manufacture of the Guinea Trousers.
No. 118. for Half-Guinea Waistcoats.
No. 120, for Waterproofed Guinea Capes, and Servants' Liveries.
No. 142 is their new Establishment for Ladies' Riding Habits and
Mantle!.
No. 144 contains their other new Department for Clothing young
gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and economy whereby Messrs.
NICOLL have secured wide spread confidence.
The Wholesale Wareroorns are at the rear of the Regent-street
premises, viz, 29, 30, 31, and 4!, WARWICK-STREET.
Thor City Depot is at 21 and 22, CDR/MILL.
The addresses of the various Agents are dully advertised in the
ournals of the United Kingdom and the Colonies.

METROPOLITAN COUNTIES LIFEi
ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent- treet, Waterleo-
place, London, S.W. Life assurance, annuities, endowments, and
loans on advantageous terms.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

N.B. Policies in force, notwithstanding the Decease of the Life
Assured, provided the FITMEULIII3 be paid within the thirty days
of grace.

ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN.

Second Edition, with Illustrations on Steel, Price One Shilling,
Free for eighteen stamps,
i§k..N ESSAY on the PHYSIOLOGY and
SPECIAL DISEASES OF WOMEN, torming a complete
guide to, and with fall instructions for the removal of, the emer-
gencies of Youth, Womanhood, and Old Age.

A.D. 1720.
RoyAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPEiRATION,
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL.
Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor.
George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
Mumma.
Charles John Manning, ESQ.
Hon. John T. Leslie Melville.
Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
Sir John Henry Polly, Bart.
Alexander P. Prevost, Esq.
Abraham George Robarts, ESq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.

By Dr. Ha
OPINIONS CF 'Tug. tmEss.
" The subject is treated in a clear, concise, and practical manner,
and should be in the hands of all females."—Lancet. " Will form a
valuable addition to the domestic household."—Medical Circular.
" Every husband ought to present this Essay to his wife, and every
mother to her daughter, containing as it does most valuable infor-
mation that concerns their physical and social happiness."—Meath
Journal.

London: Direct from the Author, Dr. Hall, 1, Upper-Gower-street
Bedford-square ; and by order of all booksellers.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq.
Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Alexander Draw, Esq.
Charles Farquharson, Esq.
Rlversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.
James Stewart Hodgson, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq.
MEDICAL REFEREE---SIIMACI Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

NoxrcE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire rrc-
mtums falling due at Lady Day will expire on 9th of April.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor-
poration on advantageous terms.

In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation
in profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly
2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 48 per cent, upon the
Premiums paid.

Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable
by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The future division of Profit will take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding 15,0001. may be insured on one life.
This Corporation affords to the Assured
Liberal Participation in Profits—with exemption from the
liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Socie-
ties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock.
The advantages of modem practice —with the security of an
Office whose resources have been tested by the experiene3 of
nearly a Century and a-half.
IN CASE OF DEAT El occurring during the thirty days allovied
for payment of a Life Premium, and before such payment as
been made, the Corporation hold themselves liable under the Policy,
provided the premium be subsequently paid on or before the thirtieth
day from that upon which it became dus.

Royal Exchange, London. .
JOHN A. HIGIIAM, Actuary and Secretary.

GUARDIAN F
ASSURANCI
No. 11, Lombard-st
DIRE(
HENRY HULSE BERMS
JOHN G. HUBBARD, E.

[RE AND LIFE
: COMPANY,
,reet, London, E.C.

IS, Esq., Chairman.
sq., Deputy-Chairman.
John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
James Morris, Esq.
Henry Norman, Esq.
Henry R. ReYnolds, Esq.
Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart.
John Thornton, Esq.
James Tulloch, Esq.
Henry Iligne, Esq.
,TOl3.
A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq.
Thos Tallernach, Esq., Secretary. Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary.
LIFE DEP-ARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
lament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of
the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium
without participation of Profits.
The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 18G0, when
all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year
at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits.
At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total
reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000%
At the last valuation at Christmas, 1854, the Assurances in force
. . . _

John Dixon, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq.
Sit W. M. T. Farquhar, Brt.,M.P,
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P.
John Harvey, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq.
John Loch, Esq.
Stewart Marjoribanka, Esq

AUDI.

amounted to upwards of 4,240,0001.; the Income from the Life
- Branch in 1854 was more than 200,0001. ; and the Life Assurance
Fund (independent of the Guaranteed Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001.
FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United States of America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LlVES.—Persons who are not in such sound health as
Would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums

may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained In each case a value not under 50/.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received
and registered.
MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be
Made for Policy Stamps.

lirotlC:e is hereby Given, That Fire Policies wh,ch expire at
Lady pay must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with
Mr. S CMS, No, 1, St. JamPs's-street, corner of Pall Mall, or with
the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they be-
come void.

:";Lesses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company,

INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858: estab-
lished 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of r.race, —I t always
Das been and still is the practice of this society to pay claims un•ler
policies of assurance notwithstanding the death of the assured oc-
curring within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the
annual premium, provided payment thereof be male, or notice of
the death be given to the otlicc before the expiration of such days
of grace.

For the Court of Directors,
E. S. SYMES, Chairman.

THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
AS3UR INC E SOC IE TY,

142, Strand, London.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR
VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c.
DIRECTORS.
EDMOND SHEPPARD STIES, M.D., Chairman.
Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq.
Samuel King-Church, Esq. John 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 Bloadel, Esq.
AUDITORS.

Protbssor Wheatstone, rat.s., and Professor J. Radford Yoang.

MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
J. Mason, M.D., Cantab , F.R S., 37, Conduit-street.
ACTUARY.
W. C B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c.
ASSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Gre;ory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford-row.

The next Quinquennial Division of 'rronts will be declared In
Ray, 1860. _ _

Examples of Bonus up to May, 1555 :

Policy
taken
out in

A ssured.
•••
4 s. d. s. d.
3,000 867 17 7 424 1 4
4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0
2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0
2,000 154 2 8 103 16 fi
2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6

Sum
Assur&l.

Bonus in
addition Bonus in
to Sun Cash.

Permanent
Reduction 01
Annual Pre-
mium.

X s. d.
56 3 8
32 0 4
16 6 0
10 15 2
6 7 7

The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter-
national Life Assurance Society:—
The Society was established in 1838.
Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every
ffve years.
Its subscribed 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.
About 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.
For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair -
Man, 142, Strand.
142, Strand, London. W.C.

EDMOND S. SYMES, Chatrman.

ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE
- INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100
Anatol-a:cal Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, price,
free by post, Is.,
THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work
On the phys al xhaustion and decay of the frame, from the
effects of solitary indulgence, infection, and the injurious conse-
quences from the use of Mercury ; with observations on the obliga-
tions of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica-
tions. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Surgeons. Consultations as
usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Pa ter-
hoster-row ; Sanger, 160, Oxford-street; and Cordon, 146, Leaden-
hall-street, 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, impotency, barrenness, and debi-
ities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by
its unvarying success in thousands of easel. Price Ils. per bottle,
or four quantities in one for 335., which saves I Is.
The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphi-
litic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any of
the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as erupticns on the
"kin, blotches OR the head and face, enlargements of the throat,
tonsils and uvula ; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c.
Its action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the
Intent is undeniable. Price Ils. and 335. per bottle, also a saving
Of 1 ls.
PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an enc.
Mal remedy in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea,
gleet, stricture,
said diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d 4s. 6d., and lls.
Der box.
Sold by Daniel Church, 78, rGraceehurch-street, City; Bartlett
'looPer. 43,
P. Watts, Kl 7, Strand; W. Su tam-street (tonfour
and Co., doors from
Bow 10, London
-churchyard;
Bridge) ;
WEdwards, 67, St Paul's-churchyard; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-
eet ; Hannay and Dietrichsen,, 63, Oxford-street; 'Butler and
carding, 4, Cheapside ; Prout and Harsant; 229, Strand;; and all
'thine vendors throyslic et the United litcgdom.

TEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858.
Part price 3d., will be published on the let of April.
The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England,
Ireland, and Scotland in 1857, and Nominations for 1858, may be had
price two shillings.
W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, 11, Thorn.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' BENEVOLENT
FUND.
Established 1840.
Treasurer—John Abel Smitb, Esq., M.P.
Tars TEES.
Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomas Hankey, Esq., M.P. I The Baron Ln.de Rothscbild,M.P.
Notice is hereby given, that pursuant to the resolution of the By A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
Annual General Meeting, held on the 3d of. February last, by which
three additional annuities were voted to persons duly qualified, en "We never commence the perusal of works on this malady with-
ELECTION of ANNUITANTS will take place at the Office, on out preparing ourselves to meet most appalling descriptions of human
Thursday, the 27th day of May next. sufferings. It was, therefore, a most agreeable surprise to us to
All persons intending to offer. themselves as candidates must send find this error (as it appears to us) carefully avoided in this work,
in their applications, with testimonies, on or before the 2d day of and the subject treated in a common sense, and truly practicie
April next, according to a printed form, to be obtained at the office. manner. . . . No medical man should undertake the treatment
By order of the Board. • of Spermatorrhcea without first consulting this work."—Medical
WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Circular, Jan. 13, 1858.'
15, Moorgate-street, March 16, 1858. London : 11.13ailliere, 219, Regent-street.
The following persons are entitled to one vote for each annuitan`
I. be elected :
Annual subscribers ofone guinea.
Life subscribers of 10 guineas.
Persons assuring their lives with the Provident Clerks' Maim;
Life Anociation, and becoming members.

NEW WORK ON SPERMATORRHcEA.
Just published, price 25., by post, free, 2s. 2d,
ON SPERMATORRHCEA, and the
PROFESSIONAL FALLACIES and POPULAR DELU-
SIONS whichprevall in relation to its NATURE,CONSEQUENCES,
and TREATMENT.