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s. d -13 0 13 6 29 6 16 6 19 0 33 6 HANWELL COLLEGE SCHOOL, MIDDLE. SEX. MICIIAELMAS TERM, OCTOBER 4th. R OME AND FRASCATI RAILWAY CO 31PA ANY. Tin Half-year's Interest on the Bonds of this Company, Nos. 1 to 120, due on the 22d of September and Ist of October, 1858, will be paid at the Agency of the Banque Generale Suisse, 2, Royal Exchange Buildings ; or at the Succursale of the same Bank, 30, Rue Louis le Grand, Paris. By Order, F. FRIELIG RATH, Manager of the London Agency of .the Banque. Generale Suisse. t'IREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. kfi —CHEAP EXCURSION to the SEA SIDE.—On SATURDAY, the 2d October, an Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 2.30 p.m., for - CHIPPENHAM, STOUR BRIDGE, WESTBUR Y, and FROME (Fares, 125.6 d. and 68.), YEOVIL (14s. and 75.), DORCHESTER and WEYMOUTH (20i. and 10s.); to return on Tuesday, October sth, from Weymouth at 7 a.m., and intermediate stations as per hand bills. Also, at the some time, a Train will leave for CIREN CESTER, STROITD, GLOUCESTER, CHELTENHAM, ROSS, and HEREFORD, returning* on TUESDAY, October sth, from Hereford at 7.15 a.m., and intermediate stations as per handbills. Fares :—Cirencester and Stroud, 12s. and 6s. ; Gloucester and Cheltenham, I.ls. and 7s. ; Boss and Hereford, 16s. andSs. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. =THE: LAST EXCURSION OF THE SEASON TO THE WEST OF ENGLAND. On WEDNESDAY, the 6th of October, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Paddington at 8 a.m. for PLYMOUTH (offering facilities for visiting Torbay, Brixham, Dartmouth, and the South Coast of Devon), calling at Weston-super- Mare, Bridgewater, Taunton, Tiverton Road, Exeter, Barn staple, and Bideford (for Ilfracombe and the North Coast of Devon), Starcross, Dawlish, and Teignmouth, Newton, Tor quay, Totness, and Kingsbridge Road, and returning on Saturday. the 6th of Oct., from Plymouth, at 6.20 a.m., and intermediate stations as per handbills. Fares, There and Back :—Weston-super-Mare and Bridge water, 20s. and 13s. ; Taunton and Tiverton Road, 225. and 158. ; Exeter, 225. 6d. and 10s. ; Starcross, Dawlish, and Teignmouth, 255. and 17s. ; Newton, Torquay, and Totness, 275. and 18s. ; Barnstaple and Bideford, 30s. and 20s. ; Kings bridge Road and Plymouth, 30s. and 20s. Children under 12 years of age half-price. LONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. CHEAP EXCURSION from LONDON to HUDDERS FIELD, MANCHESTER, and LIVERPOOL, on Saturday, October 2, returning on Wednesday, October 6. DOWN TRAIN, OCT. 2. RETURN TRAIN, OCT. 6. a.m. a.m. _London (Easton Stat.)dep. 9.20 Batley dep. 9.30 p.m. Dewsbury . t, 9.35 Warrington Liverpool Stockport Manchester Staley Bridge „ 3.45 Manchester Greenfield Marsden , „ .4.15 Liverpool , 10.35 Huddersfield „ 4.30 •Warringtow , ,. 11.15 Dewsbury Batley ' FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY Covered Carriages. Ist Class. To Liverpool To Manchester and other Stations los. 20s. _ ... _ The tickets are not transferable, and are only available by the above Trains. Particulars may be had at any of the Company's offices, or tickets and bills at the office of Mr'. Marcus, Crosby-hall chambers, Bishopsgate-street, City. . By order. Euston Station, Sept. 22, 1858. . INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1853. — Established 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of Grace.—lt always has been, and still is, the practice of this Society to pav claims under policies of assurance, notwith standing the death of the assured occurring within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided payment thereof be made, or notice of the death be given le the office before the expiration of such days of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman. T HE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London.. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE SURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. • DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. W. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. I Henry J. Hodson, Esq. Samuel King-Church. Esq. Johd Moss, Eiq. John Elliotson,M.D.,Cantab., John Symes, Esq. F.It.S. I Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson; Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wbeatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, }Ng., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. • BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford- TOW. The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in May, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Bonus in Permanent Policy Sum Bonus in taken Age. Assured. addition Cash.' Reduction to Sum of Annual out in • Assured. Premiums. re-- - £ £a. d. £a. d. £s. d. 1838 55 . 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 1811 48 4,000 749 4 0 - 325 16 •0 32 0 4 18'15 59 2,000 232 18 0: 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 C 0 0 ,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1851 -55 2,800 1120 17 0 72 1-1 6 67 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the International Life Assurtinee . Society:—. The SoCiety was established in MS. Tvo-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five years. Its sabScribed 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 one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman, 112, Strand, EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 142. Strand, London, W.C. 9 -1 0 THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. J. CHARLES WATSON, M.D., Fellow and Honorary Vice-President of the Imperial African Institute of France, Correa. Member of the Medical Societies of Rouen and Peru, National Academy of Sciences, Paris,. &c., and late Resident Physician to the Bedford Dispensary, 27, Alfred-place, Bed ford-square, London. continues to issue, on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." 6' Those about entering the Marriage State' should peruse Dr. Watson's invaluable little work, as the advice he gives on health and disease reflects myth credit upon him as a sound medical philosopher."—Critic. " The true Guide to those who desire a. speedy and private cure."—University Magazine . 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The horse rapidly grew fat, and in the course of a few weeks had gained no less than 12 stones. Again we find at the late asrri cultural shows at Birmingham, Cardiff, &c., the animals which carried oa' the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thor ley's food for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we are forced to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely from its own intrinsic merits, and the great demand for it can proceed alone froM the good opinion and testimony of those who have tried it. All parties interested in horses and cattle will do well to apply to 77, Newgate-street, London, for a pamphlet which is sent post-free. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. 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Open on Sunday at Five ; refreshment ticket, 6d. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps. (SELF-PRF,SERVATION.—A Medical Treatise L 1 on the Functions and Disorders of fh e Generative System, and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the cri teal passage from youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Phy siology of Marriage in its social, moral, and physical rela tions. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting, by nritezry examina tion. the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engraving's and.cases BY SAMUEL LA'MEBT, M.D.. 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON,. Matriculate(iMember of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li- centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., The' essential object of this treatise is to point nut the fear ful consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps,' any oilier class-of disease known .to modOn pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condi tion, and who are conscious of having. hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human. being is en titled. _ _ _ It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of ineonaiderate 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. 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They certainly deceived us in this instance, and if we thought them erring from excess of spiritual science—if we believed them too adventurous in the use of the . moral probe—if we , ascribed to them any very deep desisSm, -or • thought that in the case of Mrs. Nancy Arnold they had been treading on the dangerous verge between spiritual discipline and spiritual defilement, we have now to apologise for our simplicity; they are simply fools. This, at l e a s t, i s on l y a practical joke, and we have been so credulous and so dull as to think it some thing real, and sermonised accordingly. If our readers would understand the new light in which the inquiry has placed this ridiculous affair, they must transport themselves to a bal masque, such as that which had been going on, we know not how many hours or days, when Covent-garden was burnt down. A solemn.-lookin g friar, telling his beads and conning his book, addresses in succession the frail nymphs that make half the throng. With the same solemn. grimace, and the same " syste mistic course" for all, he asks some g rave fluestion, the gist of which consists in its being utterly inappropriate to the known character of the poor thing addressed. Her life and acts are patent; there is no disguise. Her defence is effrontery. Use your eyes, hear one tone of her voice, and yon know all you want to know. The humour of the occasion is, however, not to -use .one's eyes or ears for any honest purpose; so the masquerader ad dresses himself to the pangs of a conscience that has long ceased to feel a wound, and ,to the " spiritual" interpretation of a Commandment that has long been trampled under foist by every act of body and soul. He softly probes her conscience with terms which to her arc suggestive, not of ideas, but of facts, the horror of which has long departed from the mind of both exa miner and examined. If such a mummer were found to be a recreant clergyman, and if the performance were reported to his Bishop and a commission of inquiry appointed, most certainly the commissioners wentld nottrecognise in the ease an attempt to introduce the confessional. They would probably think the wretched jester the last man to confess really in any form whatever. Whe ther they thought there was a prima .facie case for further proceedingS might depend upon the terms of the commission. We have now to return from Covent-garden to Boyn-hill, and there we see the very thing, with scarcely less levity and even more absurdity.. Of course, we have not the least wish to say - More harm than we can help about the poor creature who has been made the victim of this sport; indeed, we should have an interest' in be lieving her a person justly aggrieved by too minute inquiries. So we only take the woman as described by Mr. West himself, and the witnesses for the defence. His knowledge of the woman is itself the just measure of his folly. ... Here is a woman, then, who, on Mr. West's own showing, and by the evidence of competent wit nesses on his side, had been openly living with two men at once at a publichouse for a year together, and had a child, .of whom she was accustomed to , declare, with an oath or a 'jest, that she did not know who was its father. On the same evidence, —that is of . Mr. West and his friends—we learn that the woman was an habitual liar and profane talker ; that nobody , would belie - Vs; her on her oath, and 'that ' her most solemn affirmation, therefore, was good for nothing. By one man or another she had had eight children ; and the most flagrant of her criminalities were ten or twelve years back, though not the less fresh in the memory of her Neighbours, including Mr. Gressly's own gardener, summoned in the defence. • Supposing any clergyman of common sense and simple feeling visiting such a woman on the bed of sickness, and on the eve of her confinement, we all know what he would do. He would assume what was known ; he would not ask the woniati to confess with the lips what was notorious in her life; he would not appeal to sins of imagi nation and disorders of the heart when deeds were sufficient. Think of gently asking a woman min) had openly lived with two men at once whether, twenty years ago, before she was mare d, she had ever had any improper feelings toward any other man tha n the one who became her husband! Is it possible to conceive more astounding tolly ? We should hardly believe it, except on Mr. West's own willing and obtruded testimony. He insisted on his evidence - being taken, and, once in cant, he took the opportunity of pleading his own ctiuse, with the usual result. He says he knew in a general way, on the informa tion of his predecessor, - that the woman had had illegitimate children.- Her's was the first house he was gals-n, to nn entering upon his - charge, so it was a prominent as well as a notorious case. Such was the woman whom Mr. West selected for the trial of his "more systematic course" of confession. The .process he described. For the special information •of Dr. Robert Philli more and the other Commissioners, he premised that " each Commandment contains more than the. letter." Proceeding upon this great arcanicm of his . art, " he had explained to the woman," he said, " in the best way he could, the spirit and intention of each precept in the Dccalogue." " He went through the various Commandments in this way, explained their spirit, and asking her if she had broken them." On coming to the seventh, "he explaining to her its spirit, and when she denied having broken it he told her it con tained more than the letter ; " and then, knowing, as he said, that she had had illegitimate children, and that all the world knew it, he asked, " Have hou ever lusted after a n y o th er man b es id es your usband ?" What possible occasion could there be - for such a question ? The greater includes the less, and the actual crime implies the vitiated mind. • Who needs to inquire, who cares to know, the steps of a moral decline the result of which is manifest ? If there ever was u case in the world for that gene ral confession which is enjoined by our Church, and if there ever was just reason to suspect an improper motive in superfluous interrogatories, this is the case, and the only escape from the suspicion is that which the Commissioners appear to have taken— viz., the utter absurdity of Mr. West's conduct,. The result of the inquiry therefore is, not to dis robe a too prying , confessor, but t o s t r i p a woo d en lay figure. The confessional was to be part of the system, so a Father Confessor was ordered from town, sent down by luggage ' train, warranted of the best seasoned materials, and certain no t to s h r i n k . It had only to be wound up, and then wheeled to the • tedside of the patient to be experimented upon, and it would go through its " sy s t ema ti c course '' , w i t h out the omission of a Commandment, a letter, a spirit, an intention, or a word. The machine, of course, could not be expected to regard any nice distinction in the persons to be operated upon. Man or woman, old and ugly, young and pretty, husband of one wife, wife of two or more husbands, young ladies, town scandals, good, bad, and indifferent, fish, flesh, and fowl, white and black, sound and rotten, were all the same to it. Pull the string, and there it goes, click, clack, click, clack, right through the Ten Commandments, letter and spirit, " acts," " lusts," " looks," " feelings," and. everything, till the " systematic course" is gone through, and the penitent, or no penitent, is duly con fessed. Mr. Gresley appears to be , perfectly satisfied with the working of the machine. He says the fathers and mothers of Boyn-hill -and the neighbourhood scud their children to be confessed by it, and, as its application to young gentlemen and young ladies would certainly not be ridiculous, as in the case of the strong-minded Mrs. Nancy Arnold, no doubt it has worked to admira tion in their case. For our part, however, we beg to demur to the use of wood, or machinery any kind, in spiritual affairs, particularly in the treatment of consciences. A barrel-organ is a disagreeable neces sity, but a barrel onfessor, blundering through all sorts of brutalities, and dragging the purest minds and tenderest consciences through its villanous " systematic course," has not even necessity to de fend it. The Church of England, evidently, has no wish to send round a spiritual reaping-machine to collect daily mountains of secret offences into an ecclesiastical granary. Except in extraordinary eases, where the conscience is evidently burdened, and where the sense of some secret crime drives the offender from religious ordinances,. the Church does not encourage penitents to reveal their hidden sores; nor does she desire the clergy to receisesr t ie of hus bandry h rreve lations. There is pollution in this sor ; it is pollution to tell, pollut l iontOheai— e and., if there is anywhere in the Wosd , which w • , beg to doubt, a class of persons who can be trusted vath confessions of a startling and interesting cha rsMter, affecting the reputations of ladies, of fathers of families—of any persons that anybody cares about, that safe depositary is not to be found in the clergy of the Church of England. //„. '^ -~ PRICE 4D• STAMPED, 5D STAFFORDSHIRE AGRICULTURAL 80CIET1r. THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY, LORD SAN-DON, AND MR. ADDERLEY. At the close of the exhibition of the Staffordshire Agricultural Society, at Lichfield, on Wednesday, the annual dinner was held in the Guildhall, in that city. The chair was occupied by LordHather ton, Lord Lieutenant of the county and the presi- dent of the society for the year. Viscount SANDON proposed " The Army and Navy," mentioning the name of Lord Shrewsbury as connected ,with the latter service. At the present time a good deal had been said at every public meet ing., at every assembly of that kind, at every place where men had met together during the present autumn, about the expenditure on the military de fences of the county-. He thought the country was now fully. awake to the necessity of keeping our shores inviolate from the tread of the foot of mere aspect of the stranger foeman. He was one o those who was rather afraid—from having the hon our of being a member of the House of Commons he could not help thinking of money matters—he was. rather afraid that now the spirit of the nation was roused, it might push them forward into too great and too general an expenditure for the pur poses of national defence. What he felt to be the real necessity of the case was, that they should keep a gallant, a great, and an overwhelming Channel fleet, which would effectually prevent any possible invasion of our coasts. He did not think that they should keep up an immense army, but that they should keep up what might be called the skeleton of an army, which could be increased at any mo ment. Let them keep up the machinery of the army sojo speak, and its scientific branches ; but for the good of the_pountry—for the sake of those wha.paid the taxes, whiCh were already sufficieUtly heavy, let them not keep up an enormous army, but keep up an overwhelming Channel fleet, which was really the only safety of the country. Money should not be expended in defending small places ; let them defend" their great arsenals, let them defend their great commercial ports, but let not the money of the country be expended in defending every little creek and inlet, but under no plea, whatever the emergency, whether of a commercial crisis at home or on any other ground, let not the country allow the diminution of the Channel fleet. The Earl of SHREWSBURY, who responded to the toast, said he was glad to see that at last there was a spirit abroad that the main defences of the coun try, the wooden walls of Old England, should not be neglected. (Applause.) At the same time he felt that they should not disregard the salutary warning of his noble 'friend. Some members of the House ,of Commons, after buttoning up their breeches' pockets for the last 50 - years, now appeared ready to, dip their hands deeply into them, and to scatter. their contents with the greatest profusion. (Laughter and applause.) There was no necessity for that. He had always advocated a proper, con sistent, manly expenditure on the navy, and was never afraid of giving his vote as a former member of the House of Commons for what was necessary to maintain the proper efficiency of bOth services. Buthe had lately felt afraid from symptoms he had seen of a danger of too large an expenditure. He went over to Cherbourg and saw the magnificent sight which that great fortress presented ; and he saw another sight—a great number of the members of the House of Commons—(laughter)—and from what he saw and what he knew of them he feared there was a danger of their running into the oppo site extreme of extravagance, for some of them seemed so struck with the number of the ships, the extent of the fortifications, and the multitude of ordnance, that they appeared ready to vote million after million for the defences of the country. Such an expenditure was not at all nct3ssary. Hq was happy to say that they had now an efficient Channel fleet—a small one, it was true—but he did not think they need have a very large one. They wanted a standing navy, which they might amplify at any time when occasion arose. They ought to have it in the most complete state of efficiency, so that, if need arose, every ship's company could be turned into two or three by mixing raw hands— volunteers; who would, he trusted, if any danger appeared, flock into their ships. It must always be remembered that the real resource for manning the navy was in ill:: merchant service, but when com merce was prosperons and the ships away in China, America, and other distant places, a lengthened period must elapse before their return ; and they required a provision to meet any . sudden emergency that might arise in the meantime, when they would always be ready to come forward in defence of their country. He would not detain them any longer by any observations on that head. He did not believe that there was anything to be alarmed about ; he felt quite sure there was not ; but if by any chance, in a short and sudden interval, a foe should land, lie doubted not that the yeomen of England would give them such a reception that, with a Channel fleet in their rear, very few of them would ever get back again. " The House of Peers " having been proposed and responded to by Lord . Shrewsbury-, the Chair man proposed " The House of Commons." The Right Hon. C. B. ADDERLEY said that though at an agricultural meeting he might not be allowed to allude to politics, he might possibly be permitted to unite the character of both ; and it would be the duty of himself and his friends when they returned to their posts to stand.as scarecrows to 1 .- tighten away that flight of birds—the voracious consumers of the national resources—which might be expected after such a splendid harvest. (Laugh ter.) If he might compare the political to the agri cultural field—and what would not agriculture serve to illustrate ?—he appealed to them whether they might not be grateful to both fields for the satisfac tory harvest which had been realised—whether the winds and storms that ushered in the spring had not been succeeded by a serenity of atmosphere which had served to bring to maturity very im portant crops ? (Applause.) He could mention some of them, and he was sure his hon. friend (Mr. Bass) could mention others. (Laughter.) There was one crop which he was told was quite certain to appear in the course of the next session. It was generally said that we might confidently look for it, whatever be the soil, whatever be the weather, whatever be the nature of the atmosphere, whoever be the administrative cultivators. The crop usually went by the name of reform. He had nothing whatever to say respecting it, except that as it was a very important crop lie hoped its treatment would fall into safe and good hands, and if it did he cared not whose hands they were. It was introduced into this country some 30 years ago by very dis tinguished cultivators—and he was not sure if he did not see one of them on his right hand—it was introduced with every possible stimulant, and its culture carried to such an extent that the whole soil had become impregnated with it, and calm as was the weather, free as the atmosphere was from convulsions of any kind, and although there were no stimulants of any kind, they were told that they might confidently expect the recurrence of this crop. (Loud laughter and applause.) One thing he ob jected to was that any old cultivators of that crop should consider that they had acquired any tenant right in it at all, or that they should be surprised that, in the passage of time, or in the succession of events, other cultivators had to deal with that crop ; that they should consider that they had in any way a monopoly in any principles they had once promoted, or that they should consider that they had any right to bind down any other culti vators, whatever might be the progress of science, or whatever the change of circumstances, to adhere to the practice of the past century. He should conceive that no party could on any possible ground establish a claim for a fixity of tenure in that crop. He begged their pardon for making such an un usual number of remarks upon a strictly agricul tural subject. (Continued laughter.) Mr. BASS, M.P., proposed the healths of the vice-presidents of the society, which were responded to by Lord Sandon and Mr. Chawner, and shortly afterwards the company separated. HOWDEN HORSE FAlR.—This fair was held at Howden last week, and was attended by all the principal dealers in the country. There was a scarcity of good ani mals of all classes, and sellers consequently realised high figures for these descriptions ; but the secondary and in ferior sorts were only partially disposed of, buyer s supply ing themselves pretty nearly on their own terms. The Journal d' Indre et Loire contains the fol lowing account of the effects of the electric fluid :—" Count Thierry de Montesquieu, when out sheeting in the neigh bourhood of Charnizay, with one of his friends, M. Roger, auditor at the Council of State, were obliged to take shelter from a thunderstorm in his gardener's lodge. All of a sud den they. heard a violent report, and M. de Montesquieu was actually lifted up in his chair, and moved a distance of more than a. yard. A glass, from which he was drinking wns ihattered in his hand. The electric fluid had struck the chimney, in a room above, which it knocked to pieces, and then, breaking through the ceiling, fell on the table near which M. de Montesquieu and his friend were sitting, and finally disappeared through the window. The count was uninjured, except that, above the ankle, the lightning left Blight wound. The other escaped altogether, THE RECENT VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO LEEDS. —Lady Fairbairn, the Mayoress of Leeds, has just had the honour of receiving from her Majesty a beautiful bracelet set with diaMonds and turquoises, accompanied by a letter from Sir Charles Phipps, expressive of herMajestv's grati fication for the attention the Royal Family received during their visit to Woodsley-house, the residence of Sir yckr Fairbairn, the Mayor of Leeds, and also for the admirable arrangements so successfully carried out in the town of Leeds during her 1114e5ty'ta visit. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1858. WINTER KNEE BOOTS, 3TO S T ec l r C e E tary l . S f st H ate E f lt or E W ß , Y r Is pGrlevVaEreNd receive the to Ten. ders for the purchase of a number of WINTER KNEE ROOTS, which may be inspected on application to the Fen cipa 1 Military Storekeeper at Weedon,. on any day up to the 4th. October (Sundays excepted) between the hours of 10 and 4. . The party or parties 'whose_ tenders may be accepted will have to pay for and remove the Boots within one week after stu th acceptance. 'Parties disposed to tender must submit their offers on or be fore the sth October, stating the number of pairs they will ta7kQ, as. well as the price per pair ; such offers to be addressed to "The Under Secretary of State for War, War-Office, Pall mall, London, S.W." and marked on the outside "Tender for Knee Boots." - • W or-office Pall-mH T 2 H lt h Sep te mbe r OS. OWELL, Director of Contracts , all, , lecBsB. •E) OARD AND RESIDENCE. A Superior Home is offered to a Gentleman of steady habits, en gaged during the day, by a family residing hear Regent's- Park. For a young man coming to London for the first time this would be found a desirable residence. Terms moderate. References to be exchanged. Address, J. 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THE EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, in the absence of direct information from their own-Cor respondent, can only rely on that received through Russia, and will consequently continue their extraordinarily low quotations of 2s. per lb., for Black, Green, or Mixed Teas, in lilb. bags ; and Coffee, in the Berry, at 11d. per lb.—Ware houses, 9, Great St. llelen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. credence to numerical generalisations of this sort, because we are apt to find their authors either tak ing some liberties with the numbers themselves, or demanding a wider margin of e r ror in th e applica tion of their principles than the precision pf the ex perimental data renders it possible to accord, so that the result is more or less wanting in that close ap pliance to nature which makes all the difference between a loose analogy and a physical law ; but in this instance it certainly does appear that the groups so arising not only do correspond remark ably well in their theoretical numbers with those which the best authorities assign to their elements, but that it really would be difficult to distinguish the elements themselves into more distinctly cha racteristic classes by a consideration of their quali ties alone, without reference to their atomic num bsrs. When we find, for instance, that the prin ciple affords us such family groups as oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine self-arranged in that very order ; or again, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth ; when we find that it packs together in one group all the more active and soluble electro-positive elements, hydrogen, lithium, sodium, and potassium, and in another the more inert and less soluble ones. calcium, strontium, barium, and lead and ' that, without outraging any other system of relations, it certainly does seem that we have here something very like a valid generalisa tion ; and I shall be very glad to learn in the course of any discussions which may arise on such matters as may be brought before us in the regular conduct of our bmsiness, troinkthose more competent to judge than mysell, whether I haVe been forming an over weenin g estimate of the value and importance of such, generalisations. I will only add on this point, in, reference to what fell from our excellent presi dent in his address to the assembled association last night, that this kind of speculation followed out would seem to me to terminate in a point very far from that which would regard all the members of each of these family - groups as allotropes of one fun damental one, inasmuch as the common difference of the several progressions which their atomic weights go to make up, ars neither equal to nor in all cases commensurate with the first terms of these progressions. For instance, in the chlorine group the first term being 8, the common difference is 9. Something very different from allotropism is surely suggested by such a relation. It would rather seem to point to a dilution of energy of one primary ele= ment by :the superaddition of dose after dose of some other modifying element, and this the more strikingly since we find oxygen standing at the head of very distinct groups having very striking correspond.ences in some respects, and very striking differences in others. But all these speculations take for granted a principle, with which .I must confess I think chemists have allowed themselves to be far too easily satisfied—viz., that all the atomic numbers are multiples of that of hydrogen. Not until these numbers are determined with a pre cision approaching to that of the elements of the planetary orbits, a precision which can leave no possible question of a tenth or a hundredth of a per cent., and in the presence of which such errors as are at present regarded as tolerable in the atomic numbers of even the best determined elements shall be considered utterly inadmissible, I think can this question be settled—and when such gigantic conse quences, so entire a system of nature is to be based on a principle, nothing short of such evidence ought, • I think, to be held conclusive, however seductive the theory may appear. Ido not think such precision unattainable, and I think I perceive a way in which it might be attained, but one that would involve an expenditure of time, labour, and money, such as no private individual could bestow on it. If the phe nomena of chemistry are ever destined to be reduced under the dominion of mathematical analysis, it will no doubt be a very circuitous and intricate route, and in which at present we see no glimpse of light. We should therefore be all the more care fully on the watch in making the most of those classes of facts which seem to place us, not indeed within view of daylight, but at what seems • an. opening that may possibly lead to it. Such are those in which the agency of light is concerned in modifying or subverting the ordinary affinities of material elements, those to which the name of actin o-chemistry has been affixed. Hitherto the more attractive applications of photography have had too much the effect of distracting the attention from the purely chemical questions which it raises, but the more we consider them in the abstract; the more strongly they force themselves on our notice, and I look forward to their occupying a much larger space in the domain of chemical inquiry than is the case at present. That light consists in the undulations of an ethereal medium, or at all events agrees better in the characters of phenomena with such undulations; than-with any other kind of mo tion which it has yet been possible to imagine, is a proposition on which I suppose the minds of physi cists are pretty well made up. The recent re searches of Professor Thomson and Mr. Joule more over have gone a great way towards bringing into vogue, if not yet fully into acceptation, the doctrine of a more or less analogous conception of heat. When we consider now the marked influence which the different calorific states of bodies have on their affinities—the change of crystalline form effected in some by a changing temperature--the allotropic states taken on by some on exposure to heat—or the heat given out by others on their restoration from the allotropic to the ordinary form (for, though I am aware that Mr. Gore considers his electro deposited antimony to be a compound, I cannot help fancying that, at all events, the state in which the antimony exists in it is an allotropic one) ; when, I say, we consider these facts in which heat is con cerned, and compare them with the facts of pho tography, and with the ozonization of oxygen by the chemical rays of the electric spark, and with the striking alterations in the chemical habitudes of bodies pointed out by Draper, Hunt, and Bec querel ; and when again we find these carried so far that, as in the experiments of Bunsen and Roscoe, we find the amount of chemical action numerically measuring the quantity of light absorbed, it seems hardly possible not to indulge a hope that the pursuit of these strange phenomena may by degrees conduct us to a mechanical theory of chemical action itself. Even should this hope, remain unrealised, the field itself is too wide to re main unexplored; and, to say nothing of discovery, the use of photography merely as a chemical test may prove .very valuable, as I have myself quite recently experienced, in the evidence it has afforded me of the presence in certain solutions of a peculiar metal having many of the characters of arsenic, but differing from it in others, and strikingly contrasted with it in its powerful photographic qualities, which are of singular intensity, surpassing iodine, and almost equalling bromine. There is another class of phenomena which, though usnally considered as belonging peculiarly to the domain of general phy sics, and so out of our department, seems to me to want some attention in a chemical point of view. It is that of capillary attraction. The co-efficient of capillarity differs very remarkably in different liquids, and no doubt also in their contacts with different solids, a fact which can hardly be separated from the idea of some community of nature between the capillary force and those of elective attraction. I hardly dare to hint at the existence of some slight misgiving I have always felt as to the validity of the received statistical theory of capillary action which carries with it the authority of such names as those of Laplace and Poisson. Any discussion of this point would be matter for another section of this association, and if I here touch upon it, it is only to observe my impression of the requisiteness of a force so far allied to chemical affinity as to be capable of saturation, rests on other grounds besides that of the mere diversity of action above alluded to. But I must remember that you are not met here to listen to generalities of whatever nature, but that we have plenty of real and special business be fore us." The chemical section yesterday displayed more activity than any other, and photog ra ph y , w hi c h Sir John Herschel part icularly noticed in his address, formed the subject of several papers. Mr. SYKES WARD, an amateur photographist of Leeds, who has been very successful with the dry collodion process, explained the means by which he operates, particularly the manner of preserving the sensitiveness of the plates ; and he exhibited some excellent photographs taken by him in ,Dublin, with plates prepared in Leeds. One of the objects of Mr. Ward's experiments has been to obtain a preparation that will be impervious to the action of light after the image has been properly im pressed on the plate, so that the process may be used for practical purposes, by unskilled persons.- He exhibited some stereoscopic view s , i n w hi c h one views had been exposed twice as long in the camera as the other without any perceptible difference in the effects. Mr. R. J. FOWLER read a paper on a process for the estimation of octinism, which, if practically applicable, might have the effect of rendering the length of exposure to light more determinable. Mr. LYNDON SMITH. a photographist, who ex hibits niany beautiful specimens in the Leeds Exhibition, read a paper on the adaptation of different processes, in which he adyocated the wet collodion process, and contended that true artistic effects cannot be obtained by the dry process. The most important communication, however, was one from Mr. Mercer, who exhibited photo graphs in colours. The coloured photographs were not the natural colours of objects impressed directly on the paper, but they were produced afterwards by a process similar to dyeing. The impressed image acts as a mordant, and when it is dipped into the developing fluid all the lights and shadows are brought out in various shades of colour, accord ing to the menstruum used. The per-oxylate of iron is one of the agents employed by Mr. Merc er in his processes. umerous specimens in various colours were exhibited and distributed among the company. By this application of photography it would be possible to print cotton goods from nature, of almost any colour required. EAST SURREY AGRICULTURAL MEETING. The annual ploughing match in connection with this association took place on Thursday at Croydon, when upwards of 40 ploughs competed for the vari ous prizes. In the afternoon a dinner was held in the King's Arms Hotel. Mr. T. Byron, president of the association, occupied the Chair, and Mr. Alcock, M.P., and a number of the gentry and agriculturists of the district were also present. The usual loyal toasts having been given, Mr. CLEASBY proposed " The health of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the clergy of the diocese." The Rev. E. F. BEYNON, in responding, said he thought such associations deserved support, whether they were regarded as educational institutions, or merely as channels of sympathy between one class and another. He was one of those who believed that our education could only end with our lives, and that when we ceased to learn we might in one sense be said to cease to live. All agricultural associations - were to some extent educational insti tutes. He did not undervalue the blessings and ad vantages conferred by the various schools scattered throughout the country, but at the same time he did not view as an unmitigated evil the early age at which the children of the labouring classes were taken from school. There was something to be done beyond making these children scho lars. They required to be taught those things upon which they were afterwards to employ their talents and by which they were to gain their liveli hood, and, though it was highly desirable that they should also be taught the elements of the Chris tian religion, and be instructed in the rudiments of education, he did not regard as an unmitigated evil the early age at which they left school. (Hear, hear.) If they were made scholars only they would ultimately prove unfitted for the station of life which they were destined to fill. (Cheers.) He had said that he also regarded these agricultural asso ciations as channels of sympathy. Great interest ' had been taken in that Atlantic cable which had just joined two worlds together, but, however im portant that cable might be as a commercial artery, it was, in his.opinion, far more important and valu able when considered as a sympathetic nerve beat ing at the bottom of the deep, and connecting the two countries together, not merely by parchment treaties, but by that sympathy of heart which made us brothers in affection, as we had always been brothers in blood, language, and interest. (Cheers.) He regarded these agricultural societies in a similar light. They, were the means of bringing all classes together, whether landlords, tenants or labourers, owners, occupiers, or wirkmen, and of enabling them to take an interest in each other's proceed ings. (Cheers.) He sincerely believed that such in stitutions were calculated to elevate the social, moral, and physical condition of society, and they deserved the greatest encouragement and support, because they advanced the interests of those sons of toil to whom we were so much indebted for the bright position which the country occupied; who, by their industry and good qualities, had invested the country with both a material and a moral great ness ; and who, as the golden pillars on which the basis of society was founded, were, under Provi -dence,-the main source and the true secret alike of a nation's wealth and a nation's power. (Cheers.) Mr. MORTIMER proposed " The health of the members for the eastern division of the county." Mr. ALCOCK, M.P., responded. In the name of his lion. colleague and of himself he sincerely thanked them for the compliment they had paid to their representatives. He deeply regretted that his hon. colleague, Mr. Locke King, had been prevented from attended the meeting. For about two months Mr. Locke King had been danger:. ously ill from a fever caught iii London while attending to his Parliamentary duties, in conse quence of "the bad • state of the river Thames. He was happy to state, however, that at this moment his hon. friend was gradually recovering. (Cheers.) Since the last meeting of the association peace had been concluded with China. About a year and a half ago, when the subject of the war was much discussed, strong doubts appeared to be entertained as to the probability of the speedy termination of a war with so vast a community at such a great dis tance 'from this country. It was a matter of sincere rejoicing to find that the predictions then made had been falsified; and that peace had been concluded upon terms so highly favourable to this country. (Cheers.) He thought we were fully justified in expecting that great advantages would arise from the resumption of our intercourse and commerce with China. (Hear, hear.) Up to the present moment our commercial relations with China had been exceedingly limited in extent. With one or two exceptions, tea was almost the only article which we obtained from that country, and, though the exports from the United Kingdom to the world at larg e amounted to about £115,000,000 annually, only about £1,250,000 went to China, notwithstanding that that empire formed more than three-eighths of the entire universe. Hear.) He trusted, and he thought it not unlikely with a man of the original ideas of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, that advantage would be taken of the altered state of our relations with China to reduce the duty on tea, so as to extend our commerce, and to render an article which had now almost become one of the necessaries of life more accessible to the humbler classes of society. (Hear.) At the present moment tea was more heavily taxed than almost any other article of general consumption. The duty was no less than ls. 9d. a-pound, though the price of tea itself in bond was only ls. 4d. a-pound ; and consequently a duty of about 140 per cent. was levied, and the result was that the consumption of tea was much more limited than its importance as an article of general consumption required. If the duty were reduced to one-fourth of its present amount he be lieved the consumption would increase so enormously that in a very short time the Exchequer would lose nothing whatever by the reduction. (Hear, hear.) As an instance of the effect which the present high rate of taxation produced he might mention that in the United Kingdom the annual consump tion of tea was about 2.-11 b. per head, while in the colony of Victoria, in consequence of the absence of taxation, it was 101 b. per head. (Hear.) He had been induced to make these observations simply because he wished to point out how much good might result from the improved state of our rela tions with china. Hitherto we had regarded China as a barbarous country, but he trusted that every , year as our intercourse with that empire extended such a stigma would be more and more removed. (Hear.) There were other subjects besides the probability:of extended commercewith China which demanded attention at the present moment. In a short time he hoped to see the system of turnpike tolls, which was now so loudly complained of, espe cially in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, en tirely done away with. In Ireland turnpike-tolls were now got rid of, and, as the experience of that country proved that no harm resulted from their abolition, he saw . no reason why they should not also be done away with in this country. (Cheers.) But the abolition of turnpike-tolls was not the only instance in which Ireland was beforehand with us. Twenty-four years ago great dissatisfaction was expressed at the church-rates in Ireland, end in a much less number of months than the church-rate abolitionists in this country had been fighting years they were got rid of to the satisfaction of both Churchmen and Dissenters. (Hear, hear.) This question of church -rates was, in his opinion, one of the questions which ought to be settled in some way or other in the course of the ensuing session. His own impression was that it should be an adjusted. question. He had no wish to see the Church in jured, nor did he believe that it would sustain in jury if it was prepared to deal with the question in a spirit of conciliation and concession. The time had arrived, however, when the whole matter ought to be settled and finally set at rest, and he believed that before long it would be settled. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman then briefly adverted to seve ral topics of local interest, and concluded by ex pressing - his warm wishes for the increased pro- sperity of the society. Several other toasts having been given, the pro ceedings terminated THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. LEEDS, SEPT. 25. Yesterday was an, idle day with the members of the British Association, for though all the sections assembled as usual, with a good array► of business to dispose of, most of them discontinued sitting after one o'clock. Saturday, in the former days of the Association, was the excursion day, and though that regulation has been formally broken through and the excursion day is postponed to the Thursday following, yet the old members still remember Saturday as a holiday. A horticultural slioW at Kirkstall Abbey, and a public distribution of prizes to the successful candidates at the• Oxford middle class examination, also tended •to thin the section rooms, and the many objects of interest thrown open for inspection in the town required a leisure day. The weather, which had previously been very , unfavourable, cleared up yesterday, and invited strangers to look about them, so that science did not advance far in its progress. There has been a very full attendance of vistors at the meeting, and the friends of the asso c iati on will, no doubt, benefit by the visit to Leeds. Amongst the names entered on the list, in addition to those already given, are Professor Airey, Sir Charles Anderson, the Earl of Bradford, Mr. M. T. Baines, Sir Charles Barry, Mr. Bazley, Sir Ben jamin Brodie, the Rev. J. Barlow, Si r D av id Brewster, Lord Alwyn Compton, Mr. E. Chad wick, Sir Phillip Egerton, Professor Eckard, le Marquis de Fontenelle, Capt. Fishbourne, Professor Faraday, Lord Goderich, Admiral Grace, Lieut.- Col. Goodenough, Rev. Dr. Hook, Professor Hark ness, Mr. J. Heywood, Sir W. Jardine, Sir John Johnstone, Rev. J. Kemick, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. J. S. Russell, Col. Rawlinson, the Dean of Ripon, Professor Rogers, Count de Strzelecki, the Marquis of Stafford, Mr. Robert Stephenson, Mr. James Yates, &c. The sum received up to Friday night Was £1,714. l'rofessor PHILLIPS on Friday evening delivered a lecture in the Town Hall on the ironstones of Cleveland, in Yorkshire, and showed the great development which the working of V iron has undergone in that district since 1848, when it was first undertaken. The want of coal in the imme diate neighbourhood delayed the progress for some time, but the supplies since received by railway from the Durham and Yorkshire coal fields have removed that obstruction to the development of the works, and nearly two million tons of iron stone are now annually quarried and smelted there. The bands of iron stone vary in thickness from 8 to 32 feet, and the quantity of metal amounts in some to 50 per cent. Three bands of ironstone extends over an area of 200 square miles. The opening address of Sir John Herschel, in the Chemical Section, was unfortunately inaudible to most of the company, owing to the low tone & voice in which he speaks, and he has consequently been induced to print it. Copies were issued yes terday, and the greater portion of it is subjoined. 'lt is to be hoped that his remarks on the growing confusion arising from the multiplication of terms in organic chemistry not correctly applied will have good effect. After some introductory remarks he observed : Since organic chemistry has assumed, by the experiments and reasonings of Dumas, Liebig, Hoffmann, and it s other distinguished cultivators, that highly abstract and intellectual form under which it now presents itself, and which by the links of the platina bases, and compounds such as those described by Gibbs and Genth under the name of the ammonio-eobaltic bases, and by those which are every day coming into view by the mutual interweaving, if I may use such an expression, of the organic and inorganic systems of composition in bases such as those of the metallic ethyls and those of boron and silicon, it seems to place these conceptions in much the same sort of relation to the ordinary atomic theory as put iorth by Dalton and Higgins, and the elementary notions of oxide, acid, and base of Lavoisier, that the tran scendental analysis holds to common algebra. And here perhaps I may be tolerated if I put in a word of reclamation against the system of notation into which chemists, who for the most part are not algebraists, have fallen, in expressing their atomic formulre. These formulae have been gradually taking on a character more and more repulsive to the algebraical eye. There is a principle which I think ought to be borne in mind in framing the conventional notations as well as nomenclatures of every science, at every new step in its progress, viz.—that as sciences do not stand alone, but exsist in mutual relation to each other—as it is for their common interest that there should exist among them free communication on their frontier points —the language they use and the signs they employ should be framed in such a way as at least not to contradict each other. As the atomic formulw wed by the chemist are not merely symbolic of the mode in which atoms are grouped, but are intended also to express numerical relations, indicative of the aggregate weights of the several atoms in each group and the several groups in each compound, it is distressing to the algebraist to find that he can not interpret a chemical formula (I mean in its nu merical application) according to the received rules of arithmetical computation. In a paper which I published a long time ago on the hyposulphites, I was particularly careful to use a mode of notation which, while perfectly clear in its chemical sense, and fully expressing the relations of the groupings I allude to, accommonated itself at the same time perfectly well to numerical computation, no symbol being in any case juxtaposed, or in any way inter combinedwith one another, so as to violate the strict algebraical meaning of the formula. This system seemed for a while likely to be generally adopted, but it has been more and more departed from, and I think with a manifest corresponding departure from intelligibility. The time is perhaps not very far distant when from a knowledge of the family to which a chemical element belongs, and its order in that family, we may be able to predict with confi dence the system of groups into which it is capable of entering, and the part it will play in the combi nation. A great step in this direction seems to me to have been lately made by Professor Cook, of the Haavard University, of the United States (in a me moir which forms part of the sth volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), to extend and carry out the classification of chemical elements into families of the kind I allude to, in a system of grouping, in which the first idea, or rather the first germ of the idea, may he traced to a remark made by M. Dumas, in one of his reports to this association, and which is founded on the principle of arranging them in a series, in each of which the atomic weight of the elements it comprises are found among-the terms of an arithmetical progression, the common differ ence of which in the several series are 3,4, 5,6, 8, and 9 times the atomic weight of hydrogen respec tively: So arranged they form six groups, which are fairly entitled to be considered natural families, each group having common properties in the highest degree characteristic ; and what is more remarkable, the initial member in each group possessing in every case the characteristic property of the group in its most eminent degree, while the others exhibit that property in a less and less degree, according to their rank in the progression, or according to the in creased numerical value of the atomic equivalent. 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