The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-23 00:00:00

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological
Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs.
CHAPTER ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhcca and Impotence;
arly Vicious Indulgences: Dangers of Neglect.
CHAPTER I IT.—A Review of the various Di squapcations
f Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the
Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection.
CHAPTERS V. and V. on the modern Treatment of
Gonorrhcea and Syphilis.
The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting
ases, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive
Lotion.

REVIEWS OF THE WORK.
"Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and
Mould be in the hands of young and old."—"Sunday Times,"
i3d March, 1856.
"The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this
little work, in which is described the source of those diseases
which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature
old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856.
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harmless nature of the remedies employed by him having
been demonstrated by the most complete success during a
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sufferers can rely that the utmost skill and experience will be
made available in the treatment of their cases.
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THE BLOCKMSE OP GAETA.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 22.
With retiotetice to the notification, dated the 6th day of
February inst., and inserted in the London Gazette of the
Bth February inst., oh the subject of the blockade of the
fortress of t aeta' it is hereby further notified that the
Right lion. the Lord J. Russell, her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from
the Marquis d'Asieglio, the Sardinian Minister in London,
the following official communication :
The Capitulation of Gaeta on thu liith inst., having put
an end to the Blockade of that place, officially notified to
the Government of her Britannic Majesty on the 4th of
February=, the Undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of his Sardinian Majesty, has the
honour, by order of his Government, to bring to the know-
ledge of Lord J. Russell, Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs of her Britannic Majesty, the termination
of this Blockade, and begs him to actept the assurance o"
his highest consideration.
(Sighed)
London, Feb. 19, 1861.
WHITEHALL, Fn. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Most Noble
George Douglas, Duke of Argyle, K.T. ; the Right Hon.
Thomas, Lard Kingsdown, the Right lion. Sir George
Grey, Bart., G.C.B. ; Robert Wirram Crawford, Esq. ;
Pearce William Rogers, Esq.; William George Anderson,
Esq. ; William. Strickland Cookson, Esq. ; and Edwin
Wilkins Field, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners
to inquire into the constitution of the Accountant-General's
Department of the Court of Chancery) and the provisions
for the custody and management of the Funds of the
Court.
PEBRUARY 21.
The Queen has been pleased to give and gtant unto Lieut.
Henry Ittixham, R.N., commanding her Majesty's gun-
boat Kestrel, her Majesty's Royal licence and permission
that he may attept and wear the insignia of a Knight of
Nhe Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour, which his
MOesty the Emperor of the French hath been pleased to
bonier upon him for his services against pirates in the
vicinity of Chtisan, in the course of which he recaptured a
junk belonging to the French Catholic Mission at Ningpo,
and was severely wounded.
BRIJAItY 21.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Peter
Cameron to the church and parish of Knock, in the pres•
bytery and island of Lewis and county of Ross, vacant by
the death of the Rev. Alexander S. Bethune.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
Donald Mackay to the church and parish of Cross, in tho
presbytery and island of Lewis and county of Ross, vacant
by the transportation of the Rev. James Bain to the church
and parish of Kilfinan.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 22.
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Frederick Henry Mait-
land, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Vandeleur,
promoted.
9th Light Dragoons—Cornet Perceval Clark, from the 16th
Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, viee Russell, who has
resigned.
13th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant George Gardner, to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Henry White, deceased.
16th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Bryan Burrell, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice William Veall Greetham, who
retires ; Cornet Frederick Lister Inglis, to be Lieutenant
by purchase, vice Burrell.
16th Light Dragoons—Cornet George James Gilbard, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Guy Webster, who retires ;
Perceval Clark, Gent.) to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Barron, promoted.
Royal Artillery—The promotion of Second Captain Charles
Dalrymple Gilmour, antedated to Dec. 21, 1860 ; Lieu-
tenant Edward Jain Ward, to be Second Captain, vice
IV. D. Milian, deceased ; Lieutenant Alexander Dick-
son Barnaby, to be Second Captain, vice Brevet-Major
thylls, retired upon half-pay; Lieutenant Wilmot Bur-
rows Edward Ellis, to be Second Captain, vice W. F.
Walker, retired upon half-pay; Sergeant-Major Joseph
Smith, to be Quartermaster, vice Hamilton, deceased.
9th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Richard Charles Henry
Germon, to be Captain by purchase, vice John Martley,
who retires ; Ensign Edward William Forester Leigh-
ton, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Germon.
12th Foot—Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
Meade Hamilton, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, by purchase,
vice Brevet-Colonel Thomas Brooke, who retires upon
half-pay ; Captain and Brevet-Major Richard Atkinson,
to be Major, by purchase, vice Hamilton; Captain Wm.
Hawley Fisk, from half-pay, unattached, to be Captain,
vice Atkinson ; Lieutenant John Warren to be Captain.
by purchase, vice Fisk, who retires; Ensign Thomas
George D. Latouche to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Warren.
13th Foot—Ensign William Westropp Jevers, from the
Limerick County Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Richard Leigh, appointed to the 74th Foot.
21st Foot—Staff-Surgeon Arthur Jackson Greer to be
Surgeon, vice Mackinnon, appointed to the Staff,
29th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Berkeley to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice William Boycott, who has reverted to
duty with his company.
32d Foot—Lieutenant Alexander James Badgley to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Henry Elkins Bennett, who
retires; Ensign Herbert Richard Hardinge to be Lieu-
tenant by purchase, vice Badgley.
34th Foot—Ensign Charles Hamilton Webb to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Thomas Howard McDougall
Murray, who retires.
35th Foot—Ensign John Claxton Addison, from the 22d
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Trocke, promoted.
40th Foot—Charles Francis Hulme, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Mansergh, promoted.
64th Foot—Lieutenant John Woulfe Keogh, from the
Royal North Lincoln Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Wilson, promoted.
70th Foot—Ensign John Robert Collins to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Garden Duff, who retires.
72d Foot—St. John Thomas Frome, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Barron, promoted.
74th Foot—Ensign Edward Bradby to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Archdale William Chalmers Magrath,
who retires ; Ensign Richard Leigh, from the 13th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bradby.
77th Foot, Staff-Surgeon Francis Holton, M. 8., to be
Surgeon, vice Jones, appointed to the Staff.
85th Foot—Ensign William Chipchase Henderson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lambert Houlton Ward,
appointed to the 2d Life Guards.
88th Foot—Ensign William Scott Richardson, from the
75th Foot, to be Ensign in succession to Lieutenant Row-
ley Miller, deceased ; Frederick Robert Wickham, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Patrick Dwyer, placed
upon half-pay.
94th Foot—Captain Malachi Hanley, from half-pay of the
late Land Transport Corps, to be Captain, vice Henry
Hamilton Pratt, who retires upon half-pay. Lieutenant
William Collum to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hanley,
who retires ; Ensign 'Walter Gregory Buller to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Collum.
3d West India Regiment—Robert Kyle Little, Gent., to
bo Ensign, by purchase, vice Collins, who retires.
DEPOT BATTALION.—Captain Charles Cadwell Grantham,
of the 9th Foot, to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Cap-
tain and Brevet-Major George Tito Brice, 17th Foot,
promoted.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—SUrgeOn Henry Higgins
Jones, M.D., from the 77th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice
Greer, appointed to the 21st Foot; Surgeon David Reid
Mackinnon, from the 21st Foot, to be Staff Surgeon, vice
Holton, appointed to the 77th Foot ; Staff-Assistant-
Surgeon Curtiss Martin to be Staff Surgeon, vice
Abbott, appointed to the 39th Foot.
PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.—The undermentioned Pur-
veyor's Clerks, of the First Class, to be Deputy Purveyors
under the Royal Warrant of the 24th December, 1860 :
Charles Henry Toller, Alfred Pope, John Menzies, Henry
Powell, Thos. Maltravers, George Washington Warwick,
Robert Wright, Thomas Roger Vicary, George Hendy
Pooley, John Smith Ravenkill, Andrew Henderson,
Edward Frederick Hemingway, Thomas Warsop Cooper,
Voltaire White, Oswald Frederick Beale, James Wes-
tran Sherman, Stephen Walter Rains, Blair Abbott,
William Jones Birnie, George Johnston, George Ward,
Robert Cattley Baker Saunders Adamson, William
Gray, John Kent Johnston, Richard Hardinge Stewart,
John Thomson, Charles Hammond, James A Scott, and
William Macken.

Y. E. D'AZEGLIO.