The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

28th Oct. 1857

latOß GENTLEMEN.—GEO. HOBSON begs
to call the attention of the pnblic to his NEW STOCK in
AUTUMNAL &OOHS, consisting of West of England Beaver and
Venetian Cloths, Scotch and Heather Twist, Mixed Doeskins,
Cashmere and Tollanette Waistcoatinv, both of English and Conti-
nental manufacture, which will be found ea inspection at price' most
vaderato for Best Goods.—GEOEGIA HOBSON, 47. Lombard-street.

DR. KAHN'S GRAND ANATOMICAL
MUSEUM.—Open daily (for Gentlemen onty), at No. 4,
Coventry-street, Leicester-square. Admission, One

CHRISTI'S MINSTRELS, POLYGRAPHIC-
HALL, King-William-street. Strand, every Evening during
tke Week, in their Novel and pleasing Olio of Songs, Dialogue, and
Masical Character Delineations, which for eight years at New
York, and lately at the St. James's Theatre, have been fully en-
dorsed by houses nightly filled, as " Par Excellence." Doors open
at half-past 7, commence at S. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre.
Is.; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Mitts can be secured at Mr. Mitchell's,
88, Old Bond-street, and at the Nall. On Saturday, a Morning En-
ertaimitent, commencing at 3.

EICKTER HALL. —IN DI A. Rev. Mr.
BELLEW. -MONDAY NEXT, NOVEMBER 2.-Mr

Macitnim begs to announce that the Rev. J. M. Btaxzw (late
• Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, Ca'cutta), has consented to
DELIVER A LECTURE, at Exeter Hat!, on Monday Evening
Next, November 2, upon INDIA, its Past and Pre-ent Condition,
and Future Prospects, the proceeds of which will be handed over to
the Indian Relief Fund. To commence at Eight o'clock punctually.
The arrangedents of the Hall will be superi tended by Mr. Mitchell,
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, where Tickets may be obtained.
Reserved and numbered Seats, upon the Platform and front
Rows, Five Shillings; Reserved Seats (not numbered), Three Shil-
lings; West Gallery, Two Shillings ; ORCHESTR k. AND UNDER
THE GALLERY, ONE SHILLING. Tickets may also be obtained
at the Office in Exeter Hall.

DELAIDE GALLERY, Adelaide-street,
West Strand.—Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament.—
GRAND CASINO.—The abcve scaclous rooms, elegantly decorated
With extensive alterations and improvements, opened for the
Winter Season on SATURDAT, with the original Argyll Band,
conducted by Mons. LAHOTTE, of Paris. Principal cornet-a-piston,
Mona. BOULCOURT. Leader, Mr. CHAS. HALL. Admission, One
Shilling. Doors open at half-past Eight.
The above Band Is at the service of the nobility and gentry for
Private Balls, &c., &c.—Apply by Letter to R. R. Bignell, Argyll-
Rooms, Great Windmill-street.

CONTRACTS FOR GOLD LACE AND MARKS OF DISTINC

TION.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
Somerset House, 27th October, 1857.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
sad Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the 10th November next at half-past One o'clock. they will be ready
to treat with such persons as.may be willing to Contract for sup-
plying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Dept-
tbrd, all such

GOLD LACE and MARKS of DISTINCtION for Patty Officers
and Leading Seamen of her Majesty's Navy,

as shall from time to time be demanded under contracts for twelve
months certain, and further until the expiration of three months'
Warning.
Patter's of the articles, and the conditions of the revised contract
may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after half-
past One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless made
OR the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be
obtained on application at the said office.
ti2Every tender must be addressedto the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for
and must also be delivered at Somerset-place.

DU BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS'
FOOD, for DEW &TE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN-
VALIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is
more easily digested, and imparts more healthful nourishment than
3111 k ; acidity, cramps, bowel complaints, flatulency, cough, restless-
ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it. and perfect regularity of
tbesysturt and sound sleep in iured. Many respectable families who
Lave reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred
to, and a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding
a stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Da tarry and Co., 17,
kegent-street, London. Prices : —ln Canisters, Is. ; 2e.; and 121 b.
at 21s. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on
receipt orros; vMce Order.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
—The AID of the benevolent Ds earnestly whetted.
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, by whom
donations will be thankfully received : also by the following bankers:
—Messrs. Coats and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; llerris and Co. ;
Ransom and Co.;Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smyth. Payne, and Co.;
Glyn and Co.; iones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and
Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Mas-
terman and Co.; by Messrs. Nisbet and Co., Benner,-street; and at
lie Hospital from Ten till Five.
By order,

S. S. SMITH, Secretary.

PROSPECTUS of the next EXAMINATION
for ADMISSION to the ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY at
WOOLWICH.

The Examination Ibr the Admission of Cadets to the Royal Mili-
tary Academy at Woolwich, will be held in London, in the month of
January, 1858.

Froviaed a sufficient number of the Candidates are found compe-
tent. thirty admissions will be made to that Institution. Candidates
Moat between the ages of seventeen and twenty years. The suc-
cessful candidates will remain under Instruction at the Academy
for about two years, or until they are sufficiently advanced In scien-
tific knowledge satisfactorily to pass a final examination, and they
will then receive Commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal En-
gineers. Payment at the rate of 1251. per annum will be required
during this period of gentlernen not being sons of officers of the Army
or Navy. and for sons of officers, upon a scale according to rank. A
deposit of 221. /os. will be required of the whole.
The subjects of examination will be as follows :-
1. Mathematics j Pure 2,000
2,500
1 Mixed 1,500
2. English .. 1,250
3. classics 5 Latin 1,000 1 , . 1,750
Greek 750
4. French .. • • 1,000
5. German .. • • .. • 750
6. Experimental Sciences 1,000
7. Natural Sciences 0
8. Drawing, Geometrical and Landscape 1,000
No Candidate, who does not obtain at least 1,000 marks in Mathe-
matics, 700 of which must be in Pure Mathematics, will be eligible
for an appointment, and any Candidate who shall not select French
and Drawing amongst the subjects of examination will be required
to pass a qualifying examination in those subjects.
Further information may be obtained on reference to the War
Office, Pall-Mall, S.W.
Gentlemen desirous of becoming candidates sheuld send in their
names to the War Office on or before Ist January, accompanied
1. By a Certificate of Rapt sm.
2. By a Certificate of Moral Character.
3. By a statement of the subjects in which they desire to be exa-
digilta• H. R. DREWRY.

Marks.

ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVB
INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
. New 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, and the injurious conic-
uences from the use of Mercury ; with observations en the obliga-
tions of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica-
tions. By R. and L. PP RRY and CO., Surgeons. Sold by J. Allen.
20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row; Sanger, 160. Oxford-street;
and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, London.
The CORDIAL BALM of SY RIAC UM 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 lls.

- •
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
akin, 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
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PEItRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec.
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THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY
Just published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps,
SRIX-PRESERVATION. —A Medical Treatise
on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System.
and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting
from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth
to Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar-
riage in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added
remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden
ruyeteries "of Life within Life,' and its advantages in detecting, by
Illinaryexamination, the cause and effect of every variety of these
"'Plaints, with numerous engravings and cases.
BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Iderriber of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
.._bApothecaries'. Hall, London, &c., &c.
1 essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful eon-
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Class
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Published by J. Allen, 1011warwi:f science cannot apply a cure.
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GIJARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN G. HUBBARD, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
John Dixon, Esq. John ikfartin, Esq., M.P.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Brt.,M.P. James Morris, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt. Henry Norman, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart.
John Lahouchere, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
rohn Loch, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq Henry Vigne, Esq.

AUDITORS.
A. W. Roberts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, Jun., Esq. f John Henry Smith, Esq.
George Keys, Esq., Secretary.
Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
Pament, 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, 1860, 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
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 c'uaranteed 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 LIVES.--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 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received
and registered.
MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be
made for Policy Stamps.
FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insurances are effected upon every
description of property, at moderate rates.
Losses caused by Explosion of Gas aro admitted by this Company.

NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE
CURES( n ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation,
Flatulem y, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints,
Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhcea, Acidity, Palpitation,
Heartburn, Headache. Debility, Despendency, Cramps, Spasms,
Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits,
Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com-
plaints ate effected by
I) IT BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA
AHAB ICA FOOD, which restores health without purging,
inconvenience, or ekpense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other
remedies. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids
generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter-
feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch
and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and
muscular energy to the most enfeebled.

We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati-
tude from invalids:—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right lion.
the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit
front Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider It due to
yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.
etuart do Decies."—Cura No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable
agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation,
flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have
been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham
Ling, near Dies, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs,
of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner-
vousness, Indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—
Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver-
pool : a cure of ton yea-'s dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita-
bility. Cure No. 18.216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep-
sia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland of dropsy
and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan •f epileptic fits.
Curs No. 42.116 MaJor Edie of enlargement of the liver and total
prostration •f strength. Cure No. 38,418. Rev. Dr. Master of
cramps, spaema, and daily voiriltings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Har-
vey of diarrloea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer
of consunaptian. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, Esq., barrister,
of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant,
of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement,
partial deafness. Cure No. 4 ,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester,
of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess
•f Castleatrart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and bull-
gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con-
sumption, after ker medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of
recovery. Cure No, 18e. " Twenty-five years' nervousness, con-
stipation. indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great
misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been
effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. It.
Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis-
pepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms,
and
which my servant had consulted the advice of many,nharivees'befeonr
efleetnally cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. 1 shall be
happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec-
tory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. "Three years' excessive nervousness,
with pains
been and g e
radicallyn e ral d e I)
removedili ty, whisk y
DußarrY's
ren-
dered
my
health restoring Food. Stuart, Archdeacon of Nets,
rfem
veryne cmk las en rda bl el
fte
, all' asm '
have been removed by Du Barry's . and general debility
Skil/Screen," Cure No. 3,906. `Alex.Thirteen years' cough, indigestion
excellent
Revalenta A rabies Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth."
tation s:
1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for
lath March, .
Food
~
lion on the
Revalenta Arabica .
The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an 'Milne-
r ates, and with full instructions. In
Suitably packed for all c ism6d ;
51b lls 121 b 225. The 121 b car.
canisters, Ilb '23 9d ; 21b 4
Imitating " Du Barry's
Barry Du Barry and
Fortnum,
Co.. 77, Regent-street, LondOnleadill .
y . also at 60, Gracechurch-
veyors to her Majesty, 182,
riage free, on receipt of Post-offiCe order.
Mason, and Co., pur-
Fie
- h slde ; 149, 13151100 W-
es treet, and 150, and IN, Oxford-street.
street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, C eap