The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'-STREET.
Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the :above Esta-
blishment will be closed on Christmli Day. Both Dining Rooms
Will be opened as usual on Saturday, the 26th.
By order. JAS. TIIYER, Superintendent.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY._
CHANNEL ISLANDS.--Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey,
via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling
Passengers to break tha journey at Chippeuham, Dorchester, or
Weymouth.

Fares, Pall and Boat : —3ls. and 21s.
Further particulars can be obtained on application at the Com-
pany's Offices.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
The 9.15 a.m. Down Mail Train from London will run as usua' on
Christmas-day, excepting over the Chester and Holyhead Railway,
and to Leeds only over the Midland line.
The other Trains from London on Christmas day will run as on
Rundays, except the 10.0 a.m., which will not proceed beyond
Prestbn.
DAY TICKETS issued on THURSDAY, Dec. 24, and interven-
ing days, will be available until the following TUESDAY, Dec. 29.
By order. MARK lIUISH.
General.Maaager's Office, Euston Station, December, 1857.

EAST and WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.
The Court of Directors of the East and West India Dock
Company hereby give Notice, that a Half-Yearly Court or General
Meeting of the said Company will be hell, pursuant to the directions
of the'Act lit and 2d William IV., cap. 52, at the Dock House, No.
8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the Bth day of January, 1858, at
which. Meeting a Dividend will be declared on the capital stock of
the Company for the half-year ending the Ziat inst., and also for
the purpose of choosing and appointing Two Directors to fill the
Vacancies occasioned by the decease of Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P.,
and the resignation of William Dallas, Esq.
By Order of the Court,
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.
East and West India Dock Howe, 8, Bunter-square,

December 18, 1857.
N.B.—The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE ASSOClATlON.—Established 1840.

TRUSTEEH.

Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P....I—Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., 3J.P. Baron L.N. de lloth.schild,lll.P.
Tazumus OP WE BINEVOLENT FUND. —Joh❑ Abel Smith, Esq.,

M.P.

Acc-unmlated fund .. • • • • • ....... £95,000
• Annual income ...... ...... 27,000
This Association offers every advantage to all classes desirous of
*Amurlug.
•
A Benevolent Fund Is attached exclusively for clerks.
iNV3I. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
15, Moorgate-street, December, 1857.

THE GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1237.

(United with the British Empire Fire, and British Amicable Life
Companies )
62, ring William street, London.
Capital, 1,000,9001.
DIRECTORS.
•
Thomas Challis, Esq., Add. John T. Fletcher, Esq.
Jacob George Cope, Esq. James Pilkington, Esq., M.P.
Joseph Dawson, Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq.
William Delf, Esq. The Right Hon. Chas. P. Villiers
John Dinon, Esq. M.P.
Benjamin Edgington, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq.
SECRETARY. ♦CTUARY.
Thomas Price. LL.D. I David Oughton, Esq.
AGENCY SECRETARY.
Francis Cuthbertseu, Esq.

The CIIRISTMASFire Renewal Receipts are now ready, and may
be had on application at the Read-Office of the Company, or of any
Of its agents throughout the country.
Losses by Explosion of Gas made good by the Company.
In the LIFE DEPARTIIENT FOUR-FIFTHS of the PROFITS,
divisible by the Company's Deed of Settlement, all,,wed to Assurers;
and the Company transacts all business relating to Life Assurances,
Deferred Annuities and Family Endowments, on the most liberal
terms consistent with sound principles and public security.
Ne charge for Stamps on Life Assurance Policies.
LOANS granted on personal security, and the deposit of a Life
Polley to be effected by the borrower.
To all Agents, Solicitors, Auctioneers, and Surveyors, a liberal
allowance is made.

THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ASSITR .NCE SOCIETY,

142, Strand, London.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURtANCE, SUR-
VIVORSIIIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c.

DIRECTORS.
EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman.
Wm. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. henry J. Hodgson, Esq.
Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq.
John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., .Tokn Symes, Esq.
F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
SECRETARY TO THE BOARD.
AleYander Richardson, Esq.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Augustus Blonde], Esq.
AUDITORS.

Professor Wheatstone, P.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Tung.

MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
3. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street.
ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S.,
ASSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row.

The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in
k ay, 1860.

Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 :

Polley
taken
out in

Sum
Assured.

Bonus in
Cash.
_ .

Bonus in
addition
to Snit
--
X s. d. X s. d.
667 17 7 424 1 4
749 4 0 325 16 •
232 18 0 156 15 0
154 2 8 103 16 8
120 17 0 72 14 6

Permanent
Reaction of
annual Pre-
mium.

Assured.

183$
1841
1845
1848
1851

3,000
4,000
2,000
2,000
2,800

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

The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter-
national Life Assurance Society :
The Society was established in 1834.
Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every
2°e 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 ono thousand new policies are added every year.
Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards
Of three hundred and twenty titonsand pounds.
For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair -
loan, 142, Strand.
142, Strand, London, W.C.

EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.

THE RHINE AND GERMANY.—The
Shortest and Cheapest Route, 'via Rotterdam, to the Rhine
and Germany, is by THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.
Through Trains, In conjunction with those of the Cologne-Minden
Company, start three times a day.
Fifty pounds of Luggage allowed free for each passenger.
Further particulars forwarded, post free, on application to the
Company's London Agent, Mr. JOHN C. JANsoN, 61, Gracechurch-
street.

DU BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS'
FOOD, for DM-AC ATE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN-
VALIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is
lliere easily digested, and imparts more healthild nourishment than
Milk ; acidity, cramps, bowelicornplaints, flatulency, cough, restless-
ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it, and perfect regularity of
the system and soundsleop in ;tired. Many respectable families who
have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred
to, and a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding
stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Du Barry and Co., 77,
Regent-street, London Prices : —ln Canisters, Is. ; 25.; and 121 b.
at 21s. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on
Vacelpt of Post Office Order.

APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.
EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSFIIRE
_AI SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops,
Ind all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
" by its tonic arid invigorating properties enables the stomach to
Perfectly digest the food.
The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe-
attar(' to health.
Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street,
London, and Gs, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay
and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oihnen and raer-
Chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce.
14.11.—T0 guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA
and PERRINS" are upon the labs and patent cap of the bottle.

ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE
INCAPACITY, AID IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
AM and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100
Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, price,

- -
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, ant the injurious conse-
q iences from the use of Mercury ; with observations on the obliga-
tions of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica-
tions, By R. and L. PFRRY and CO., Surgeons. Consultations as
usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Pater-
noster-row; Sanger, 160. Oxford-street; and Gordon, 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-
lities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by
its unvarying success in thousands of cases. Price I Is. 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 eruptions on the
skin, blotches on 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
system is undeniable. Price I Is. and 335. per bottle, also a saving
of lls.
PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec
tual remedy in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture,
and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d ,an I I Is.
per box.
Sold by Daniel Church, 7R, Graceehurch-street, City; Bartlett
Hooper, 43, King William-street (four doors from London Bridge) ;
0, F. Watts, 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churchyard;
W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-
street; Hannay and Dietrichsen,* 63, Oxford-street ; Butler and
!larding, 4, Chea”ide ; Trout and Ilarsant. 229, Strand ; and all
medicine vendors througholt the United Kicgd am.

TILE SECRET INFIRMITIESOF YOUTH AND MATURITY
, post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps,
Just pUblishod, prim, is.
ELF-PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise
S on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System,
ervoas and Physical Debility, resulting
and on. the cure of N
Irorn vicious habits acquired during the critical passage rrom youth
to manhood; with practical observations out the Physiology of Mar-
riage in its social, moral, and physical
ins.relation To which are added
dded
!marks on the wonders of the Microscope re the h
mysteries "of j,,ife within Life,' and its advantages in detecting„by
urinary exataination, the cause and effect of every variety of these
complaints, with numerous engravings and cases.,
BY SAMUEL L.VMERT, M.D.,
37, BEDFORD SQUARF., LONDON,
Matriculated :Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Seciety, Licentiate of
Apothecaries' hall, London, &c., &c.
7he essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con-
setmences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses,
uhich have produced snore misery in Youth, degradation in Man-
hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any
other class of disPase known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is
particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of
their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded
the health, liappnessi, and privileges to which every human being is
entitled.
It Is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
principles of perso,al management which cannot be violated with-
, ut incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and. regret suc-
ceed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil 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 a cure.
Published by J. Allen, 201 Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and
may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Home, 19, Leicester-square ;
Gordon, 14d, Leadenhall street or from the Author, who may be
consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from G till 8, at his residence, 37
Bedford-square, London.
The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Li zky, Loll Bazaar ;
Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. Ilormusjez.' Apoto-street; Bombay-
Circulator Office; Madras—Motussilite Office : Acne - Dodsworth;
Colombo. Ceylvia.; and of all Boo:op:110re throughout the Colonies.