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I_l4 XTRAORDINARY OPTICAL DISCOVERY.
Extract from the "Medical Circular," Nov. 16, 1859 :
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removing,, with pebbles. 12s. Ad., 10s. Ad. ; with best glasses,
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A MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRWE A.,
NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c.
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CHAPTER IT.—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and impotence,
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CHAPTER Review of the various Disqualifications
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The Orion, 89, screw steamer, 600-horse power,
Acting-Capt. W. C. De Vere, was paid off at Sheer-
ness on Saturday. This vessel was commissioned by
Capt. E. C. T. D'Eyncourt at Plymouth in June,
1858, and formed part of the Channel fleet till April
1859, when she received orders to proceed from
Bantry Bay, in company with the Victor Emma-
nuel, to Gibraltar, on particular service. After re-
maining at Gibraltar for a month she was despatched
to Genoa, Malta, and Palermo. She was afterwards
stationed at Gibraltar during the invasion of Mo-
rocco by the Spaniards, and she returned to Malta
in February in the following year. In May she
visited Naples, when, after a month's stay, she was,
in consequence of an accident to her screw shaft,
obliged to return to England, and was docked at
Plymouth, after which she joined the Channel fleet
at Holyhead, where she received orders to return to
the Mediterranean. A portion of the fleet being at
Corfu, the Orion proceeded to that station, where
she remained till the end of Nov. 1860, when she
proceeded to Malta, where, at the end of December,
she was ordered to Gibraltar for a cruise. After her
return, in Feb., 1861, she lay in Corfu roads until
ordered to the coast of Syria, in July, 1861, and lay
at Beyront until ordered home.
The Phaeton, 51, screw, Capt. E. Tatham, arrived
at Spithead on Saturday morning from the Nore.
Orders were subsequently received for her to proceed
to Devonport, for the purpose of being placed in dock
before proceeding to her station, understood to be
the Gulf of Mexico. The Phaeton, it is now said,
will not hoist an Admiral's flag, as it was said she
would when first commissioned by Capt. Tatham.
She had steam up soon after noon yesterday, but
remained at Spithead up to sunset. She will pro-
bably sail thence this morning, if the weather
should moderate.
The Shannon, 51, screw, in the first class of the
reserve at Portsmouth, is held in readiness to pro-
ceed from that port to Devonport should it be found
expedient to transfer Capt. Cumming, his officers,
and crew from the Emerald to another ship, owing
to the injuries the Emerald received off the banks
of Newfoundland during the severe gales she fell in
with there.

A court-martial assembled on the 2d inst. on
board the flagship Impregnable, in Hamoaze, and
again on the 4th and sth, for the trial of Henry
Sandars, seaman of her Majesty's ship Centurion,
who was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Mr.
William L. Norcock, paymaster of the Impregnable,
officiated as Judge-Advocate. Two boys, belonging
to the Centurion, now under medical treatment in
the Royal Naval Hospital, will, it is expected,
shortly be tried by court-martial. The discipline
on board this ship is not of the highest order, and
the petty officers have requested that the crew may
be paid off. Capt. Rogers is invalided, and his suc-
cessor is not yet appointed. She is under orders for
the Mediterranean.

The Childers, 12, is to be broken up by the con-
victs at St. Mary's Island, and her timbers are to
be used in the construction of the river wall which
is now being built there.

The Rosario, 11, screw steamer, in getting under
way to proceed on the trial trip of her engines at
the Nore, unfortunately took the ground close to
the White-house Guard station, Isle of Grain, but
was shortly got off again, without receiving auy
noticeable injury. The average speed attained
during the trial was 91 knots.
The Chanticleer, 17, screw (new), fitting for
commission at Portsmouth, made her trial at half-
speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay with
four runs at the measured mile, the mean of the
revolutions of engines being 71 ; pressure of steam
22114; vacuum, 25.5; and the speed of the ship
being (mean of the four runs) 8.296,—a result
which gave great satisfaction.
The Arethusa, late sailing vessel, now screw
frigate, 51 guns, after being lengthened from 40 to
50 feet amidships, was on Saturday taken into the
fitting basin at Sheerness Dockyard, for the pur-
pose of having her machinery put in and fitted by
Messrs. Penn and Sons, the contractors.

Her Majesty's ship Lizard, Commander W.
Lysaght, proceeded on Saturday from Sheerness to
Chatham with the marines who had been paid oft'
from her Majesty's ship Orion.
The Lizard steam vessel, Lieut.-Com. Spratt, ar-
rived at Chatham on Saturday, having on board
the Royal Marines from the Orion, which was paid
off at Sheerness in the morning of that day; the
marines consisted of three officers and 64 non-com-
missioned officers and privates. They disembarked
at the New Stairs, and marched to the headquarters
of the Chatham division, where they were inspected
by Col. Gascoigne, C.B.
The screw steam troopship Megmra, Commander
Henderson, from Portsmouth and Portland,
which arrived on Thursday evening at Plymouth,
disembarked some supernumeraries for the Donegal
and Conqueror, and proceeded for Queenstown to
embark troops for Malta.
The screw steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. Charles
F. A. Shadwell, C. 8., having embarked supernu-
meraries for the Mediterranean fleet, left Plymouth
on Friday. _ _

The screw steam gunvessel Sparrow, fitting at
Devonport, will, in addition to her 68. pounders,
have some small Armstrongs.
The War Department transport Bomarsund went
alongside the Ordnance-wharf at Chatham, on Sa-
tui day, and shipped upwards of 800 eases of the 8-
inch conical Lancaster shells brought from Malta
in the Orion, 89, for conveyance to Woolwich. The
cases of shell were in precisely the same state as
they were when they left England several years
since, none of them having been opened. The de-
scription of shell is not required in the service since
the introduction of the Armstrong shells.

The Thames, War Department transport, having
unloaded the grape, case, and 8-inch shot at the
Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, brought from the Orion,
0819 d, screwguns satnedameserr,roaututdhees
forNorec,osnhvipeypeaducae number
.wmbeorool-f
wich, where they will be broken up, the whole of
them being unsuitable for service.
The serviceable guns and carriages brought from
the Orion by the Marlboroughth ordnance transport
We hear that with a viewestores i
nattr
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have been deposited in
forpro
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proved ee -di s
ss
yu
educationuired. into her Majesty's ships,
vessels of a certain class will in future bear upon
their books two pupil teachers,who in due time will
be rated as seamen's schoolmasters.,
The Danish Government have ordered two iron-
cased vessels from the Thames Shipbuilding Com-
pany. They are to be 483 tons burthen, shell-proof,
and coated with 21- inch plates. They are to be
armed with one 58-pounder and two 40-pounders.
Some of our naval readers who are old enough
may recollect that many years ago one of the build-
ing slips at Deptford was occupied by what was
then considered a very fine frigate. She was, if
we are not much mistaken, about 14 or 15 years on
the stocks. Many thousands of pounds sterling
were lavished upon her, as it was resolved that she
should be a crack vessel. In due time she was
launched, and from that time to the present she has
never been to sea. In short, she has been a dead
loss to the country. We are afraid to say to what
extent; but, as money doubles itself at five per
cent. in no very great term of years, we may fairly
say she has cost the public some £lOO,OOO. We
allude to the ailing frigate Worcester, built to