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Order for
MANLY VIGOUR; a Popular Inquiry into
the CONCEALED CAUSES of its PREMATURE DE-
CLINE; with Instructions for its. 'COMPLETE RESTORATION,
addressed to those suffering from the Destructive Consequences of
Exca sive indulgence in Solitary and Delusive Habits, Youthful
Imprudence, or Infection; with R emarks on the Troatinent of Go-
norrhcea' Gleet, Str cture, and Sys' Illustrated with Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and CO., ClJnsulting Surgeons, London.
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Published by the Authors ; and .sold by Brittain' I I, Paternoster-
row ; Effingham Wil on, 18, MA, opsgate-street ; Field, 65, Quad-
rant, Regent—street; Burgess, iff., Coventry-street, Haymarket;
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Kingdom.
" the various forms of bodily at id mental weakness, incapacity,
suffering, and disease, faithfully lel ineated in this cautiously written
and practical work, are almost us %known, generally misundersto^d,
and treated upon principles co rrespondingly erroneous and super-
ficial, by the present race of i nedical practitioners. Hence the
necessity for the publication os F a timely safeguard, a silent yet
friendly monitor, or where deb' iity has made threatening inroads,
the means of escape and the cet tainty of restoration. The evils to
which this book adverts are extes Wive and identical in their secret
and hidden origin, and there are rio ne to whom, as Parents, Guar-
dians Heads of Families, and e•spe cially of Publ c Schools, is con-
fided 'the care of young people, ,wh o ought to remain for a moment
devoid of that information and th ose salutary cautions this work is
intended to convey Not only are the most delicate forms of gene-
rative debility neglected by the fa wily physician, but they require
for their safe management the ex elusive study of a life entirely ab-
stracted from the routine of gem .ral practice, and (as in other de-
partments of the profession) attentively concentrated in the daily
and long-continued observation rt ',visite for the correct treatment
of s • xual infirmities. . .

.....
" If we consider the topics fot iched upon, either in a moral or '
social view, we find the interests and welfare of mankind seriously
involved. The effects of Been' tiou s, indiscriminate, and secret i n-
dulg:nre in cet lain practices, ar a described with an accuracy and
force which display at once pa ifound reflection and extensive prac-
tical experience."—Planet.
" lhebest of all Friends is the Professional Friend; and in no
shape can be consulted with greater safety and secresy than in
Lucas on Manly Vigour." T 'he initiation into vicious indulgence
—its progress—its results in but h sexes, are given with faithful, but
alas ! for human nature, with a: &acting truth. However, the Authors
have not exposed the evil will haat affording a remedy. It shows
how " Manly Vigour" tempora. filly impaired, and mental and phy-
sical emasculation, produced by -uncontrolled indulgence of the pas-
sions, can be restored; how the : sufferer, who has pine' in anguish
from the consequences of early indiscretion -afraid almost to en-
counter his fellow man, can resit in the vigour of health and moral
c >urage. The work is written its a concise and perspicuous style,
parent ; are deceived by the outward phy-
displaying how often fond
sical appearance of their ystutlsfed offspring; how the attenuation of
the frame, palpitation 01 the tie rt, derangement of the nervous
system, cough, indigestioia, and a train of symptoms indicative of
consumption or general decay, as a often ascribed to wrong causes,
and instead of being the nativism% results cf congenital debility or
disease, are the consequences oe-,a > alluring and pernicious practice
alike destructive to the mind amid body."—New Bell's Weekly Mes-
senger.
" Although a newspaper is n A the ordinary charnel for the ex-
pression of opinion upon the rrs 'its of a medical work, this remark
is open to exceptio i in any ins truce where the public, and not the
isolated and exclusi e members of the profession are the parties ad-
dressed. Upon that which is r directed to men indiscriminately,
the world will foim its own o union, nd will demand that medical
works forpublic study should I ie drvoid of that mysterious techni-
cality in which the scie ice of medicine has hitherto shrouded its
own ignorance. The work befi rre us treats of subjects ,ve believe ge-
nerally, yet very strangely, nes Sleeted by the medical attendant, and
requiring doubtiessly (as in opei alive midwifery and thesurgery of the
eye) an entire devotedness to : t 'deeplyd it abounds in well written,
important branch of study.
The tone o! this book is highly rno rat, an
narrowing, yet correct displays of the suffering consequent upon un-
bridled sensualism. No hum: to being can to the worse for its
perusal. To multitudes it musit prove a warning beacon, a well-
told appeal to reason, aperrnastend blessing. It is written in a clear,
intelligent style; and is eisdssou
and practically converse y the production of a mind long
division of the human. o,gardiass,
The security with t he diseases of the most delicate
e marriage state is the chief anxiety
of all ; but many dread
secret fear of unfitner., for t led.) sc arge of matrimonial obligations.
is p'a Phis essay articular entminis upon the wedded union, through a
rticul Sy a ddressed to all suffering under a de-
spondency of the character alluded to; and advice will be found
sated
ealculatehealthd to cheer the droo pic.g heart, and point the way to reno-
.
Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be daily consulted from Ten till Two,
and from Five till Eight in t 1 to Evening, at their residence, No. 60,
Newman-street, Oxford-sta.( at, London.'
Country Patients are reque tied to be as minute as possible in the
Wins, age general general habits of
detail of their cases, as to the duration of the complaint, the synap-
party. The communication
con-
sultation tee of 11.; withon' •
Must be Accompanied by the usual :living, and occupation in life of the
of their applicati n; and '
la all cases ne most inviolable secrecy
may be relied on . -
which no notice whatever can be taken

Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free,
on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d.,
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf-
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the
Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, &c. Illustrated
with Cases, &c.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
Published by the Authors, and sold by Bailiere, Medical
Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent-
street; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London; Guest, Bir-
mingham ; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Philip,
South Castle-street, Liverpool ; Fannin and Co., 41, Grafton-
street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh; and to
be had of all Booksellers.

This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to
the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its
first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged
lay the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general
principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in-
teresting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is, the
result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer-
ence, by the ordinary. medical practitioner. The proverbial
and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who
Traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been en-
couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the
regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects
sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the
authors have for a considerable time devoted themselves ex-
clusively to a certain class of diseases ; of the necessity of so
doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact in in-
vestigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise
from certain secret praetices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, whersin
affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of
consumption, which, however, when traced to their source,
are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves
that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more.
applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in
saying that there is no member of society by whom the book
will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman.
The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining
away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse-
quence of some disease, which, for want of careful investiga-
tion of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con-
sumption, will, on perusing this work, be astonished to find,
that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption,
heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by
youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds (temporarjly at
least), the relation and responsibility of a parent, will,
by perusing this work, be directed and very much
assisted in investigating and detecting the too often con-
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the
health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be com-
promised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time, He will
here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of
this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when
delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instructor, will
here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which
youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point out the dis-
astrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not
relinquished.

Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their
residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
Country Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in
the detail of their cases—as to the duration of the complaint,
the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occupation in
life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by
the usual Consultation Fee of IL , without which no notice
whatever can be taken of their application ; and iu all cases. the
most inviolable secrecy may be relied on.

GLOBE.— We yesterday alluded to the Io
triumphe of!the Tory journals which have, as yet,
abstained from advocating Anti-Protestant prin-
ciples in the National Church on.the nomination
of Dr. Gilbert by Sir H-,Peel to the; see of Chi-
chester; and the strangej*guage in which the
grounds of theSe triumphings was expressed=
that the Premier had given another Protestant
Bishop to the Protestant Church of England.
Whatever the merits of Dr. Gilbert may be as a
Protestant,par excellence, we cannot but consider
the appointment as any thing but creditable to the
Tories, and as a practical violation of the pro-
mises put forth by the party, that a first-rate man I
should be selected for the vacant mitre. It is, we
are justified in saying, a shabby appointment. !
Dr. Gilbert is only known at Oxford as equally
the violent opponent of Dr. Hampden and
Mr. Williams. He is one of the prominent
political partisans of one of the sections into
which the Church has, unfortunately for its
character and efficiency, become divided—and
nothing more. Mr. Newman, Dr. Vasey, Dr
Hook, and Mr. Keble, are men of acknowledged
great literary and theological attainments ; but
they are avowedly of the Pusey school. If Sir
Robert Peel wished to avoid committing himself
by a supposed preference of one of that section,
there is Dr. Turton, Dean of Peterborough, a
most accomplished scholar and eminent divine;
Dr. Benson, the Master of the Temple ; Dr.
Wordsworth, the late Master of Trinity ; and
others, eminent in the theological literature of
the day. All these have been overlooked; and
Sir R. Peel, with his usual policy, has preferred
Dr. Gilbert; who has about as much claim to
such a distinction, and is as likely to raise the
character of the Bench and extend the salutary
influence of the Church in this crisis of its his-
tory, as Mr. William Holmes or Mr. Bonham
would have to the post of Cabinet Minister, with
the view of benefiting the country in the present
difficult and embarrassed state of its interests.

COURIER.—The Chronicle this morning,
following up its discoveries of mares' nests and
its career- of mendacity, astonishes us with the
fact as its very latest discovery, which, " if true"
in all its bearings, should undoubtedly be classed
as the greatest wonder of the day, of the Royal.
West India Steam Packet Company having en-
tered into contracts for ten or a dozen Bremen
vessels to proceed to Sunderland and Newcastle,
there to take in cargoes of coals, and to proceed
with them to the Company's stations in the West
Indies. Here is an evident admission that foreign
vessels. can afford to sail on lower terms than
British ; and the difference must be considerable
since the Bremen vessels lose one entire voyage,
namely, that from Bremen to the British port,
at which they are to load. Indeed the difference
must be very considerable to justify such a step
on the part of an important public company,
which is to receive a large annual amount
of public money for the conveyance -of the Go-
vernment-mails." We had written thus far when
we received our daily article from the " City."
From its explanation of this famous Bremen
bugbear, it will be seen that the Bremen ves-
sels (vessel rather) are taken up because no Bri-
tish vessels were to be had, and the occasion did
not admit of the slightest delay ; that the same
rates of freight are paid to the Bremen as would
have been paid to
,and accepted by the British,
and no less; lastly, that the Bremen vessels are
not at the diSadvantage of losing a voyage, that
is, of coming from. Bremen to this country to take
up freight, as they chance to be on the spot ; and
all the disadvantages, therefore, to which they are
subject amount to the payment of such extra toll
and tonnage duesas may be leviable overand above
the rates paid by British vessels; no heavy tax
it may be conceded.: So much for the new mare's
nest of the Chronicle so suddenly and rudely ex-
ploded. "On inquiry being made of the West
India Steam Packet Company (says our City
friend), by a party somewhat interested in ship-
ping, this explanation of the astounding mare's
nest was given ; that it :was necessary to send
coals to St Thomas's, in order that no deten-
tion of steamers might take place on the
homeward voyage, and no British vessels
offering at the moment, the urgency of the case
was such that they were obliged to take up a
Bremen vessel for that purpose, for which the
same freight is to be paid as would have been
paid for our own;' so much for the saving to the
Company. The vessel in queStion having to pay
the extra tonnage dues, and the difference in
duty on the coal, will not make quite so much
freight as it is stated she would; and the only bene-
fit to be derived from the contract will be by the
English revenue, to the extent of about three
shillings and eleven pence out of four shillings
per ton on the cargo. This fact' may now sleep
quietly by its twin brother about the cloth." The
Company, it further appears, had advertised for
a vessel (not several), and no British vessel offer-
ing the Bremener was of necessity secured. Ac-
cording to the Chronicle, a whole fleet of Bre-
•meners had been chartered.
STANDARD.—The Houses' of Parliament
have long established a rule that the vindication
of their privileges, when any of these is supposed
to be violated, shall take precedence of all other
subjects of consideration. The people, and its
organ, the Press, cannot do better than to imitate
this wise provision of self-defence, sanctioned li
by the usage of the collective wisdom of
the country. It is only in the cases
of individuals that the privileges of the
people can be violated, but fbr that very reason,
because the public wrong involves private injus-
--ace and opproQzion, the people ought to be more
sensitive and prompt in asserting their rights, and
in redressing the injury inflicted. The United
Service Gazette, the vigilant and faithful guardian
of the interests of soldiers and sailors, on Saturday
presented a case of oppression and injustice suf-
teredby one of the people,which we think the people
ought to take into immediate consideration, if her
Majesty's Government do not, as we trust it will,
anticipate the public decision. We allude to the
trial and conviction of Mr. Elton, midshipman of
her Majesty's ship Cambridge, for writing a
disre-
spectful letter to M Captain other Ma-
jesty's steamer Stromboli._ For this offence Mr.
Elton has been sentenced to dismissal from the
Queen's naval service,
when, according. to all our
ordinary notions oflaw and justice, thenavalautho-
rities have done with him ;
_but the Court-martial
adds to dismissal six months'
.472.8risonment in, a
common gaol in England, With,of course, several
months of intermediate imprisonment until his
arrival in this country—the Court claiming
the merit of mildness in only imposing such
a sentence. This judgment startled us until
we saw that the Court-martial bad been se-
lected by Sir John Ackworth Ommanney, a
person whose notions of liberty have been made
notorious by certain proceedings in the Courts
at Westminster, and that. the members of a
Court appointed to try a.midshipman for disre-
spectful conduct to a Captain, were all, at the
least, of the degree of the
offended prosecutor.
As civilians, we are perhaps not qualified to judge
of questions of discipline, or of the degree of seve-
rity with which breaches ot discipline ought to be
punished; we therefore do not quarrel with the
sentence, much as we have been startled by its
harshness, inconsistency, and apparent repug-
nance to the principles of British law. Mr.
Elton certainly wrote one objectionable letter; and
though, before he knew of a court-martial being
intended., he Apologised for that, letter in terms
as ample. •and•as humble as a gentleman could
employ,. the, Court was probably right in disre-
garding his apology, whatever effect it ought to
have produced 'upon the prosecutor. In its ori-
gin, however, the affair was not one of discipline;

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—It is understood that the Spanish Commis-
sioner, M. Borrajo, had an interview to-day with the Chair-
man of the Committee of Spanish Bondholders, and
officially assured him that the money for paying the divi-
dend on capitalised arrears of interest was already here,
and that the delay in giving publicity to the contem-
plated conversion is owing to certain formalities in the
preparation of the instruments not having been gone
through, and to the non-arrival of the other Commis-
sioner, who is, however, daily expected from Paris. It
was this that had the favourable influence on Spanish
stock.
The journeymen confectioners, who hold their meet-
ings in Aldersgate-street, and whose
.object it is to
get rid of the present anomaly in the duties on manu-
factured sugar, continue their operations, and have
been actively employed in getting up memorials
to the President of the Board of Trade and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. They have sent us spe-
cimens of manufactured sugar, which are so far curious
that they show the variety of shapes which sugar is
made to assume, in order to pass off as confectionery at
the Custom-house. Formerly a kind of black sugar was
in vogue, and this, in combination with charcoal, was
the prevailing method of carrying on the fraud ; but
now this plan seems to be abandoned, and the sugar
comes over in the shape of acidulated drops, which com-
pletely deceive the eye, but contain no acid whatever,
and a candy, in large pieces, of which, we are informed,
one man could make 12 cwt. per day, and which
can be converted into refined sugar, fit for use, at a most
trifling expenditure. These various shapes, to
which, by turns, the manufeeturers of the Channel
Islands are obliged to have recourse, show that it is
not quite fair dealing on their part ; and that, de-
fective as the law is, they are resolved to
adopt every expedient to evade its provisions and elude
the vigilance of the Custom-house officers, a fact which
would operate against them in case they should think
themselves entitled to a compensation upon the law being
altered. At the same time no vigilance on the part of
the officers will ever be sufficient to prevent the injuries
to the revenue when the material is susceptible of such
endless disguises as sugar, and the only effectual remedy
will be to impose a duty on the confectionery which shall
deprive that from the Channel Islands of all advantage
over our own, and thus, while protecting the revenue, do
an act of justice to our operatives.
A pamphlet has just been printed "On the Case
of the bona fide Holders of the Repudiated Ex-
chequer bills," the object of which is briefly to state
the law and facts of that case for the consideration
of Parliament, with the conviction, which the author
shares with all other impartial persons who have re-
flected on the subject, that in enforcing the claims of
the bona fide holders justice and sound policy con-
cur. Most of the authorities he cites have already been
before the public from time to time, but the arrange-
ment of the whole in a concise form is very useful. One
of the best points the author raises in favour of the
holders is, that during the whole six years of the circu-
lation of the fraudulent bills the forgery was never de-
tected nor even suspected till the discovery of the dupli-
cate bills forced from Smith by his confession. During
this time almost every banker in London, as well as the
Bank of England, must have had some of the bills in
their hands, the Government took them for the funding,
and surely, if the acuteness of these bankers, as well as
of the Bank and the Government, was foiled, it is too
much to insist that the present holders should have been
clear sighted enough to detect the fraud. The question
of the bills will gain a new interest at the approaching
Session of Parliament, and, when it will be of greater
practical utility, we may perhaps return to the notice of
this pamphlet.
CHRONICLE.—Our correspondent may rest assured
that the people of this country will never rest satisfied
now until a moderate fixed duty is substituted for the
sliding scale, and we therefore deem it unnecessary to
offer any opinion upon the expediency of his suggestion,
which in truth is intended to get the better of a fluc-
tuating duty by means of an option to the importer.
The clear and simple plan of doing so is to fix the im-
port duty, so as to give fair play to all.
The rumour regarding the Ministerial measure of
Corn-law reform, which we announced at some length
this morning, has produced no small sensation, and the
main part of the plan, that of taking the returns from the
principal market towns of the United Kingdom, from the
growers only, seems to be looked upon on all hands as likely
to'be authentic. The employment of the district officers
of Excise, as the returning officers, is looked upon as
removing one of the chief obstacles to the proposed im-
provements in the system of taking the averages, as any
increase of patronage and expense in the machinery will
thus be obviated. On the Corn Exchange to-day the
affair was in almost every body's mouth, and created a
very general movement. Some parties say that the pre-
cise range of the modified scale is not to be from 15s. to
ss. as a maximum and minimum, but from 645. to 545.
or 565., with a 2s. fall of duty for every rise of ls. in the
average price, the maximum range of duty to be 20s.
and the minimum 4s. per quarter. We need only repeat,
that these rumours, now becoming more strong and
specific every day, are to be taken only by the friends of
free trade as the handwriting on the wall, which foretels
the downfall of the fortress of monopoly. They should
only lead the friends of commercial liberty to more de-
termined and powerful exertions.