The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-09 00:00:00

"SANITAS AC FELICITAS."

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DR. LA'MERT on the Treatment and cure of
NERVOUS and PHYSICAL DEBILITY, resulting
from pernicious habits contracted in -Youth, excesses in Man-
hood, or residence in Tropical Climates. With Cases and En-
gravings from Life, representing the various Organs in
Health and Disease.

The extensive circulation of this work may be attributed In
great measure to the fact that the Author is the only duly
qualified and legally registered Practitioner who for 20
Tears has made the Diseases arising usually from
Imprudence the peculiar objects of his attention. The im-
pediments which so often either prohibit wedlock, or embitter
and render it a state of misery, by disappointing its fondest
hopes and marring its highest objects, are, though varied in
form, closely analogous in reality. The mischief may arise in-
nocently, from deleterious influences devolved from the
necessities of position—from circumstances which occurred
years before the sufferers were born, from accident or the in-
fluence of tropical climates, but chiefly from Self-incurred
Afflictions, dating back, in too numerous instances, to a period
long preceding that at which reason could be matured by ex-
perience.
A professional prejudice, which happily is now fast disap-
pearing, though it still lingers with no little obstinacy in
some of the more antiquated medical schools, for a long time
almost ignored the morbid affections comprised under the
general designation "Nervous and Physical Debility," though
these affections are probably more destructive and widely pre-
valent than any others.
The consequence of so important a department of pathology
being neglected is, that sufferers from the infirmities in
question, virtually repelled from consultation with prac-
titioners of standing and character, are thus liable to fall into
the hands of unqualified Empirics, sometimes assuming titles
of Physicians and Surgeons, whose names are not to be found
in the Medical Register (whereby they incur serious legal
penalties\ whose ignorant meddling with the treatment of
these cases render these disorders a standing reproach to the
medical profession. Those who may have a suspicion
that any of the observations here made have peculiar applica-
tion to themselves, may consider that cases are indeed rare
in which practised science cannot fully realise long-deferred
hopes, remove all causes of mutual reproach, and replace
chro lie embitterment by permanent content.
1)r. La'Mert. M.D., Honorary Member of the London Hos-
pital Medical Society, ttc., is the only legally qualified regis-
tered practitioner who, for 20 years, has devoted his attention
to the treatment of these disorders. At home for consults-
tatien daily, from 10 till 2, and from 6 till 8.
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TVESDAY.

For the Chester Cup King of Kent was again in demand,
and was supported for all the money that could be got on
at 40 to 1. Dundee for the Derby does not improve in this
market, and offers to lay against Nautilus meets with no
response.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
7to lon tho field (offered)

CHESTER CUP.

100 to 3 agst King of Kent (take 40 to 1 freely)

DERBY.
6to 1 agst Dundee (offered)
20 to 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
40 to 1 agst Nautilus (offered)

THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH AND
NATIONAL SPORTS.

His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, who is said to be
strongly opposed to racing, has forbidden any of his tenants
either to let their downs for training or to keep racehorses
or greyhounds. But for this restriction Count Lagrange and
Baron Niviere would have taken Mr. Jones's late training
establishment, and it is feared that, at the expiration of
another year, A. Taylor will have to move his stables at
Fyfield. Such is the tenor of an announcement made in a
contemporary not in the habit of publishing untrustworthy
information or exaggerating actual facts. We must there-
fore congratulate Exeter Hall on the noble accession it has
received. The intelligence contained in the foregoing para-
graph is of itself sufficient to send the entire tea-drinking
and psalm-singing world into violent hysterics. Mr. Spur-
geon, on hearing of the pious resolutions at which John
Winston Spencer Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough,
has arrived, will doubtless jump into his brougham, pro-
ceed to the railway station, and rushing righteously to Blen-
heim, throw himself upon the bosom of his ducal brother.
His grace has cast out the swine, and all that defileth.
" Racehorses and greyhounds" are no longer to pollute the
soil which the grateful and free people of England presented
to the great John Churchill, the first Duke, after his vic-
tories of Blenheim, Ramilies, and Malplaquet. The present
bearer of the ducal title has determined to live no longer
in splendid insignificance, and although his illustrious an-
cestor made battle-fields his arena of action, his descendant
has girded his loins to wage war against national sports.
Thus, according to report, has the present occupant of
Blenheim sought to render himself notorious, if not famous.
Macaulay, in his history, draws no very flattering picture of
the private character of the great founder of the house, and
everybody knows what kind of woman his wife, old Sarah,
was ; and though it was said that John, Duke of Marl-
borough, "would caress a woman while he stole her neck-
lace," we doubt whether either he or his " better half"
would have descended to an act of pettifogging narrow-
mindedness like this. Bigotry and filth have always been
identical.o,Ve are sorryto have to comment on another dirty
alliance, and to come to the conclusion that religion, as it is
the fashion of the day to dignify this hollow stuff, has joined
itself to the most wretched intolerance. This bright and
distinguished pillar of Church and State has, we unhesitat-
ingly avow, tarnished his coronet and his order. If it is thus
the peerage intend to demean themselves in the exercise of
their high prerogative and admitted power, the people had
better awake and assert their right to be heard in opposition
to such outrages upon their free will and liberty of action.
It is not our custom to rake up past offences or grievances,
but if we remember rightly the present Duke of Marlborough
was a short time since "pulled down" by popular opinion
for charging a paltry toll to visitors for the privilege of in-
specting grounds and relics of Blenheim. At the time
it was declared that his grace was converting his mansion
into a huge show, and virtually adopting " all• the-fun-of-
the-fair-only-ah-penny-ah-penny" principle. Much indig-
nation and contempt were excited at the time by such state-
ments, but what shall be said of this attack upon the free
sports and independence of Englishmen. Every acre owned
by the Duke of Marlborough he owes to the generous
liberality of his countrymen. His domains were given to
his illustrious progenitor as the reward for valour and
national services. Does his grace intend to requite such
munificence by a shameful and overbearing interference
with the cherished pastimes of our land ? A man has a right
to his religious opinions and convictions when he does not
use them as the instruments of persecution, or intrude them
upon others. The Duke of Marlborough is entitled to that
freedom of thought and action which all under the sove-
reignty of Queen Victoria are supposed to enjoy; but Eng-
land is too old to suffer landlords, even though they wear a
coronet and ermine, to override and persecute their tenants.
Horse racing is a national diverson, patronised by an im-
mense majority of our countrymen, and countenanced by
royalty and the Ministers of the Crown. The participators
in sporting pursuits have a right to expect that their
sentiments will be treated with a certain degree of defer-
ence, and it is not from a dozen Dukes of Marlborough
that they would quietly endure an insult and a slur upon
that which a better and higher man than his grace de-
signated "the chosen sport of a great and free people."
We could almost have understood his grace's objections
and line of conduct, had he simply forbidden anything like
active sport upon his estates. It is no new thing for people
to perceive in the congregation of betting men and low
characters much that is open to complaint and condemna-
tion. That any imaginable distortion of the mind, how-
ever, could discover aught against which the merest ex-
ception could be taken in the simple training of racehorses
and greyhounds, must be plain to all unprejudiced persons.
According to report, however, the Duke of Marlborough is
of a widely different way of thinking. Count Lagrange
and Baron Niviere, who wish to train horses upon his
grace's estate, are not to be allowed to do so, even though
they be willing to conform to the usual laws of landlord
and tenant. Perhaps his grace inherits an instinctive dis-
like of Frenchmen from his heroic ancestor, and the blood
of the great John Churchill kindling in his veins, he re-
solved to " spurn the haughty Gaul 1" But Taylor, of
Fyfield, who, it appears, is in dread of eviction, is an Eng-
lishman to the back bone. What is the head and front of
his offending ? Simply that he trains horses for the turf,
and possibly, for aught we know to the contrary, he may
be guilty of the additional offence of " schooling" a grey-
hound for the slips. Against such of his tenants it would
seem his grace has determined to direct his pious shafts
Should the threat be carried out let Exeter Hall hail with
enthusiasm an act which will please the whole world of
cant, but arouse the contempt and indignation of all
healthy-minded, free-spirited Englishmen.—Sporting Life.

A HEALTHY PARISH.—In the parish of Inner-
leithen, which has a population exceeding 1,500, there have
been no deaths during the quarter just passed. During the
whole of the year 1860 there have been only 15 deaths, giv-
ing a death-rate as low as 10 per thousand. Of these 15
deaths there were only two below five years of age, one of
the two dying a day or two after premature birth.
THE DELHI AND LUCKNOW PRIZE MONEY.—It
is generally understood that the prize money resulting from
the capture of Lucknow and Delhi in the year 1857 will
shortly be distributed. The amounts realised are very
large, and we believe we are correct in stating that the sums
stand in round numbers as follows :—For Delhi, 36 Lacs of
rupees, or £360,000; for Lucknow, 15 lass of rupees, or
£150,000.

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF A STEAM-SHIP, AND
PROBABLE Loss or ALL ON BOARD.--110 New York
Harald of the 25th December reports the following:—
" Captain Hewes, of ship Scargo, below Boston, reports
having seen a steamer on fire N.N.E. of Bermuda. Ran
for her, it blowing a gale of wind at the time. When about
a quarter of a mile from her, heard the cries of people in
the water. Rounded to and tried to got to them, but could
not. Laid by the steamer until five a.m. when she sank.
Kept near the same position to try and save some of the
people for two days, but saw nothing but lemons, oranges,
and puncheons, apparently rum. The steamer looked like
an iron Tessa,"

The St. George, 91, screw, Capt, the Hon. F.
Egerton, left Spithead yesterday morning under
steam, and proceeded to Osborne for her Majesty's
pleasure to inspect the ship in which his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred will do duty as midship-
man oil the North American and West India sta-
tion. The ship was dressed, manned yards, and
saluted. The Queen, Prince Consort, and Royal
fin.ily went on board, and her Majesty minutely
inspected cabins and quarters, and was pleased to
express her approval of the general arrangements.

The Cossack, 21, screw, Capt. Moorman, arrived
at Spithead yesterday from the West Indies, sail-
ing from Barbadoes on the 10th of December. She
has, on the whole, experienced a rather rough pas-
sage home. At 6 30 p.m., off Portland, she was in
collision with the schooner John and Henry, Reece
master, from Dieppe for Runcorn. The schooner
had her mainmast carried away, !with upper spars,
rigging, and sails, and her port quarter stove in.
The Cossack took her in tow, and brought her in
to Spithead to repair damages, which fall upon the
Admiralty. The ship awaits orders at Spithead.

The Edgar, 91, screw, Capt. James Katon, flag-
ship of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine, left Ports
mouth harbour yesterday morning, and took up a
berth to the eastward of the ships at Spithead. The
ships now anchored at Spithead, in addition to the
Edgar, comprise the Algiers, 91, screw, Capt. G.
D. O'Callaghan ; the Trafalgar, 91, screw, Capt.
Fanshawe; the Immortalite, 51. screw, Capt. G.
Hancock; the Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. G. Cock-
burn ; the Cossack, 20, screw, Capt. R. Moorman ;
the Desperate 7, screw, Commander Ross ; and the
Triton, 3, paddle, Lieut.-Commander R. Burton ;
the whole representing a force of 477 guns, and
4,410-horse power, nominal.

The screw steamship Centurion, 80, Capt. H. D.
Rogers, C. 8., which left Lisbon on the 30th Dec.,
arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning.
She started from the Tagus under steam, with a
southerly wind, which continued until the 4th inst.,
when she was taken aback with east and south-
east winds. On Sunday is changed to southwest,
and so continued until 8.30 a.m. on Monday, when
baffling winds were experienced, and at 2.30 p.m.
steam was got up and continued until she reached
the Sound. The weather was moderate and fine all
the passage home. The Centurion brings only 10
invalids, who were taken from Lisbon hospital,
where they were left by the Channel Fleet; she
was ordered to go up Hamoaze yesterday after-
noon to make good defects; her crew will be paid
down and granted leave of absence. The screw
steamship St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Capt. the Hon. C.
Elliott, which arrived Dec. 29, was left in the Tagus.
The Centurion spoke, Jan. 4, at 4 p.m., the ship
Phcenix, homeward bound.
The paddle-wheel steam tender, Advice, from
Queenstown, with supernumeraries and boys for the
receiving ships Adelaide and Implacable,inHameaze,
arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning.

The War Department steamvessel Lord Pan-sure
is discharging ammunition, &c., at the Bull Point
powder works in Hamoaze.
Her Majesty's steamsloop Spiteful arrived at
Falmouth on Sunday afternoon from Plymouth, to
tow the ship Epsom, which put in there on the 3d
inst., with detachments of troops from Hong Kong
to the first-named port. The Spiteful, with the
Epsom in tow, left at 9 a.m. on Monday.
The Trincomalee, 24, sailing ship, destined for a
training ship at the port of Sunderland for the
newly-entered men of the navy, was commissioned
at Chatham yesterday by Commander Tho 3. Heard
(1850). As soon as she has completed fitting at
Chatham she will proceed to her destination.
The Linnet gunboat, 60 horse power, left Sheer-
ness harbour yesterday for the trial of her machi-
nery and speed at the measured mile off Maplin
Sand. The vessel was under the superintendence
of Capt. Schomberg, of the steam reserve at Sheer-
ness, accompanied by Mr. W. Price, inspector of
machinery afloat, and Mr. J. Baker, chief engineer
at Chatham dockyard. The machinery of the vessel
is built by Messrs. Maudsley, Son, and Field. The
results of the trial were successful, both the machi-
nery and the boat giving the greatest satisfaction.
Draught of water aft, 7ft. 3in. ; forward, 6ft. Sin. ;
high pressure of steam, 60; revolutions, 150;
speed, 8.4.
Her Majesty's troopship Dee, Master. Commander
Thos. C. Pullen, having undergone repairs of ma-
chinery, left Woolwich yesterday laden with boilers
and steam gear for the screw steamship Black
Prince, under construction at Glasgow. On ac-
count of the enormous bulk and weight of the
boilers—namely, 23 tons each, and the total ab-
sence of any arrangements for their being stowed
below deck on board the Dee and the Rhadaman-
thus, it was deemed unsafe to transport more than
two on each voyage, exclusively of machinery and
small gear. The engines of the Black Prince, in-
tended to work at the nominal rate of 1,250 horse
power, will be supplied with 10 of these huge
boilers, two of which were conveyed by the
Rhadamanthus, and six others are in readiness for
shipment. The greatest precaution has been ob-
served in loading both vessels to avoid encumbering
the decks, and to provide against the risk of the
boilers filling in case of a heavy sea.
On account of the increasing severity of the frost
the Vividpßustler, and other ships lying in ordi-
nary at Woolwich were yesterday ordered to slip
their moorings and haul alongside the wharf, to
facilitate communication with the shore, which had
become a task of some difficulty. Yesterday morn-
ing, on attempting to send a boat off, the proceed-
ing was not accomplished within a full hour, in
consequence of having to cut through the flakes of
ice which had collected during the night, and had
frozen in a solid mass from the wharf side and the
pier to the line of the river taken up by the flag-
ship and other vessels stationed for service off the
dockyard. On the flow of the tide and some heavy
gusts of wind from the north-east the ice broke up,
and the impediment was thoroughly cleared away,
when the ships were brought alongside and secured
for the time. The Black Eagle returned from Os-
tend on Monday with Prince Alfred, and is now
coaling alongside the Hebe hulk. She is also under
orders to make fast at the wharf in a similar man-
ner.

The following sailing vessels have been taken up
by the War Department under contract to ship
from the Military Store Department at Woolwich
for foreign stations, viz.—the Providence, Era, Af-
rican, Refuge, Media, Cyclops, Waterlily, Shannon
and Liffy, and steamer prompt.
Mr. J. Tucker, master R.N., has been appointed
additional to the Impregnable, for service as har-
bourmaster at Falmouth, vice Lieut. S. G. Robins,
deceased.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander E. Madden, to
the Banshee, vice Commander C. Campbell, super-
seded at his own request ; Lieut. A. T. Denham, to
the Trafalgar; Lieut. H. It. Stewart, to the Daunt-
less ; Lieut. B. Cochrane, to the Barracouta ; Lieut.
J. W. Dennistoun, to the Trident ; John H. Tully,
master, to the Trident ; Robert Gow, chief engi-
neer, to the Hero; James Harwood, chief engineer,
to the Aboukir ; John W. Montgomery, acting
second master, to the Diadem; Dr. Wm. J. Baird,
surgeon, to the Barracouta ; Thomas Somerville,
surgeon, to the Cornwallis ; Dr. Wm. Wood, sur-
geon, to the Edgar; IV. Price, paymaster, to the
Trident; Charles E. James, assistant-paymaster, to
the Hero; Charles W. King, clerk, to the Jason;
John R. Starling, clerk, to the Aboukir; and W.
W. Manly, clerk, to the Trident.
Second-Masters Francis 0. Simpson, Wm. L.
Southey, John H. Tully, Colman M. Hamtnond,
Bernard B. Dowling, Charles It. Martin, Edward
C. Smyth, Wm. Haydon, and Wm. C. Cronin have
been promoted to the rank of Masters; and Metiers.