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In, I n4G. i% ,,, • ' , it R e of D ECT( RS of tbc , G - .-. • NOR and COMP ANY o f t h e BANK o f ENGLAND give lee, tha t :4ta g , ," a GENERAL COURT w ill b e h e ld at the Bank on NExT, the 17th instant, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, %se w - aof Divi,end. Thiswill also be one of the Quarterly °arts appointed by the Charter. • JOHN KNIGHT, Secret:try. COAI M A Zs; D the 0 SIMA STER GENERAL. NOTICE. DELIVERY OF LETTERS IN LONDON. Ihi c h i GENERAL POST-OFFICE, August, 1846. iftti,„ I nconvenience having been occasioned, in some instances :t4ain 14441n0 Person being in readiness . to receive the letters from the carrie r on his Ikiorning DeLvery, and in others from parties ti) take in letters, in consequence of not being prepared with teel4' °f Paying the postage, or not tieing properly authorised to 0 „ 1 "ia, the public are requested to provide for the reception of L kter-carrier go in" , his round, as, if there are no means 4 4.41 4. ig the correspondence ' when first presented. it must be " , eit to the ()dice. to be sent oat by another opportunity. .t 4 A ,00 was of opin on that the rings another combatted the opin: least an extension of the rings .ag dug a trench si inches deep around one, which never theless appeared and it. SECTION C.—GEOL AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. s arose from lightning, and tious of seeds producing at s from the fact of his having Ibbetson, Captain 8., and -Forbes, Professor E.—On the vertical tertiary strata of White-cliffe Bay, Isle of Wight. _ —lc I .. . 4 . , • . a. ... . 4k.,, • 11 ... - 4,,:._ G sEr N • ,4. , 9 SEPTEMBER 14 184 G. 2 4;4 , In , / LONDON, MONDAY - _____ Prestwich, Mr.—On the occurrence of cypris, at Ham stead-cliff, near Yarmouth. No. 16,844. PRICE SD. Fitton:Dr.—Observations on the arrangement and nomenclature of some of the subcretaceous strata. REMOVAL. FAR.. CULVERWELL has REMOVED to No. 10, ARGYLL-PLACE. Z. EGE:%.,'F-STREET, (leading to British coal-field. Beyond this, however, the perspec tive was dark and doubtful. Great Marlborough-street,) where he . may. be consulted, as usual, Daily till Three, and in the Evening flora Seven till Nine ; and where also his several publicationA, of Which entirely new and en larged editions have recently been published, may be obtained. Lti,oIC,....NTRACTS FOR SALT BEEF AND PORK. of the COMPTROLLER for VICT CALLING and rtipAsPORT SERVICES, Somerset-place, Au g . 3, 1846. Commissioners for executing the Office of i Ng iri-°nl H igh Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Lltera - b,„ 4 ,." , do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the 24th p, r „ , " next, at O ne o ' c l oc k, th e y will be ready to treat with Nitit;" of ns as may be willir g to CONTRACT for the supply of a Ift4 e SALT MEAT, kef,: a t e of the United Kingdom, equal to 12,000 Navy tierces of th. k Nliii', lB,o oo Navy tierces of Pork (in separate tenders), all to be 71501ve-r-e ensuing season, their Lordships reserving to themselves „ 4 1th„," wnen the tenlers are opened, of contracting either for 'ot e , Tt rr'e, or for such part thereof only, as they may deem fit, or of do,P.ctink for any part. 7rltlb; dl 'ds of the Beef to be delivered in tierces, and the remain 'tieh "rrels, and a quantity of Pork equal to 250 tierces (and for ,r)titatnrDarate tenders are to be made), to be delivered in casks. 1„ 1*41 11 , n ,, g ,_ l ° ol b. each, and of the remaining quantity of Pork three oe delivered in tierces, and the remaining one-fourth in ‘Eitth u is h le lier M • y' Victualling Stores at Deptford, Ports kekete rlYm outh, Ne a s n t d wline, in such pi °portions as shall BEE F directed, and within the following periods : pO `'4P, T‘vo-thirds 31t March One-third On or before the 31st1st diet' 1847 4N, One-third Two-thirds 31st May kneee raid for b bills a able at sight, but not during the first Th e In delivery f y or any payable beyond those specified. ut4ll,fre°llditions ' of the contract may be seen at this office, or by ; Ler' t° tile A ent f the Victualling at Cork, or to the Collectors 4 a j e ,, g Or to '7, S Customs at Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, aad 41 '11 t he Secretary of the Postmaster-General at Dublin, er esident t'f T ansports at . 1 4 f r , tl „ ° : for a rm less 4rant Transports at Leith. 3 r a its, quantity than Leith be equal to 300 tierces of 4.0 gi of Pork (except for the Pork, to be delivered in No loom eac h) will be admitted. an kl °r will be . received ' after One o'clock on the day of treaty, . t calf / c; i'lleed Unless the party attends, or some person on his O ti ib - a Q t .l ., 44 thon'sedin writing ; and it is to be expressly tinder ..j"Darate ``le tenders must contain a separate price for the Beef, and t t l hle p ri D e r iee for the Pork ; and that every tender must also spe 'ei,et ' 3 both in figures and words at length, or the tenders will t,,, N tea; tender Must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, 4jrS,dtiNirle,, and left-hand" Compt r r n co ollerer of the envelope the words " Tender ' ere,' for Victualling," and must also be N. ° re s - :_ S °tnerset-placc, and be accompanied bo bz d a letter signed (Nitmerag.stinble persons, a e i nrc 2 e s l r e r be ce e° n e on the amount of the 'let, for the 4`use performance eciu of . the same. LEEDS , WAKEFIELD, and MIDLAND 8 0r ° -ee JUNCTION RAILWAY. rit ß a hereby given, that a MEETING of the SHARE ttAT'',Of the LEEDS WAKEFIELD, and MIDLAND JUNC- Ati'Zliel' lV AT COMPANY will be held at the Sessions House in 1 4',.k V i n Tunasoar, the 24th day of September instant, at One e aCernoon, for the purpose of laying before the meeting 4, 1 of Li of the receipts and expenditure of the said Company, th e ete rrninlng whether the said Company shall be dissolved th; h 4 rfai ri Previsions of the Statute 9 and 10 Vict., c 28, or, whether , z ° f the said Company shall not be wound nit or whether it It p ar rlient to prosecute the said railway in the ensuing ses loN7 into 14 nient, and, if necessary, to empower the Directors to and ar rangements with certain other Companies upon the kti: tr conditions to be laid before the said meeting, and gene wk.l one n sact all other business whatsoever that can be trans "nletia,r t he Provisions of the said statute. Dated this 10th day uer, 1846. EDWARD TEW. Chairman. HENRY BERNE'IS, secretary. tfA7 ‘ LN , S'FAMFORD, AND MAIMING dt, i ii e ,RAILWAY (STAMFORD AND WISISECH) ACT. b een brought OF SHARES AND CALLS. kti, u een brought before the Committee of Directors super - It, Zay ti the registration, that many of the Scrlpholders in this 1 4' 4 , ke f , ve ,been tnformed that it is the intention of the Directors 440 , t, tr -ad o f di per share immediately f‘n the completion of z' t, ati On, with continuous calls as speedily as the Act will iliZ t ke 1, , eo—iereb given, that such information has been promul 1114,11Lirtotitr:17 Without the sanction or knowledge of the Committee I, and that NO CALL has been determined upon, and Ikrer/qrnbability, unless highly beneficial circumstances . render L eas necessary, the first call, when male, will be for a few Ac t kithi e Z , •ta equalise the credit to be given on the reduced shares, `ne holder to interest thereon at 51. per cent. under the ic)ti ce is b4 t l TEN.as., O given, that the time for REGISTRATION of shares A I, the ar pu from the 19th day of' September instant; to Sawa to f " clay of October next. I N , I v . or registration, and communications, are to be addressed t kn'-st e e r a : l43 a, Esq., or to the Solicitor, at 18, Abingdon-street, By order, 18 , , 4,,b, 'ngdpn-street Westminster, Bent. 10, 1846. S. S. BAXTER, Solicitor. t i 11 --------- I \ G, READING, and BASIN GSTOKE Sept the RAILWAY. 0. 2 , 4 , 0 d0n Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the city of London, ItkPtlts lB46 , at a - GENERAL MEETING of the SHAR,E -% 3 / 4 WA, ot the TRING, READING, and BASINGSTOKE Tiszete;t C OMPANY, convened by advertisement in the London 141 4' t ,! , , ti i n e cli ,,, o three London daily newspapers, that is to say the 9th"qaat hs ..orning Chronicle, and the Evening Sun, held here .‘,-,4114 In the previsions of an Act of Parliament, passed in . the th'' to f a Z t lyears of the ram of her present Majesty, intltuled " An trk. ta e the dissolution of certain Railway Companies, for D I ,. , as Ze Of determining if the said Company should be dissolved. 11,„,llt - „„ e4 _, at the meeting if any member of the Committee was u"ki . "'", no one answering John Wray Scott, Esq., of 75, Old •ge te 's,re, t, Was within one hour ' of the time appointed for holding P4,:,., ti ng, called to the chair. It was resolved that James Prior I%ta, eeni, o fChambers, Regent-street. Esq., Robert ITlloc of J , Th ro lq., 5 5, South Audley-street, and Henry Poore Cox, Esq., t ~, , . , ,p r or o rtou-street. be appointed scrutineers. alt as reposed that this Company be now dissolved. . _ . lly 4;;.ia,_rilier Ps oposed that the resolution to dissolve this Com tj!te ser Z e t i l l to 1 : an act of bankruptcy. 1 11 11 ' 44 that scrutineer appointed to take the votes . at the said meeting an ia 8 , 1 , c the total number of shares, scrip, or receipts , . issued g q ti "'MTV, Previously to the 31st March, 1846, was 6 , 371 , km 'at Peru •th .es representing 2,250 shares were present, and voted; pttheyat. :h4113., aat,%2'.2o3oll,areert were in favour of the dissolution of the Corn 74ttnogi baannakertuftlanakrntiutn favour of such resolution being taken as an 20 were in favour of such dissolution not ROBE RT lILLOCK POTTS, J' r. DE pARAVICINI, Scrutineers. lhp er eu HENRY POORE COX, i 4 Pon the said Chaim n declared that the resolutions , that the should be now dissolved, and that the dissolution COrnpany should be taken to be an act of bankruptcy, , reg ri .„ ."` , ..Vely carried in the affirmative. J. W. SCOTT, Chairman. J. P. DE PARAVICINI, Scrutineers. HENRY POORE COX, Henry Gilbert, 49, Torrington-square, solicitor. ),45USIC-INGIIAMSHIRE RAIL WAY. KINCIIIAM BRACKL (144,_`,IILEY JUNCTION and RAILWAYS E . Y, and OXFORD land ' 46,1 Pour per ' Cent., and Half Surplus Profits, by the Landon and North Western Railway Company. eA NOTICE TO SCRIPHOLDERS. ,str i '_ s eilltence of Acts of Parliament having been obtained for the ‘4ed, rt a a , tion 1.; of part only of the lines Oeposited, the capital of this ba kki - 4 , - ` ll B has been reduced to 45,428 shares of 171. 10s. each, o a total capital of 795.000/ , divided as under : Buc kinghamshire and Brackley • • • • .... £200,000 ultford and Illetch ey • •• •• • • .......... 595,000 1 4 1 tat shares £799,000 10 . or will be appropriated to the scripholders, .11 the pro hecl f or one share of 171. 10s. for every two shares of 201. sub ailizefuglirdeenposfoirt a bein returned 43. on fractional allniments. payment account of each t o kid 4 n arg, and interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum will rt‘fro,' the "%n the Ist of July, 1846, on this deposit, and on future thug of payment. r )r threy lwill be allotted to e shares in th e O xford and Bletchley line. NCles • REGISTRATION OF SCRIP. 4,4 4 01,0'9 1111 g to be registered, or holding scrip or bankers' re to 4: , Cumpany, arc required to transmit the same for regis i e ster ' n S r ecretary, at the o . ffic t e b , e 29, t G b re a ft e t y G o e t o . Geor ge - t street, r W i, es t - , 1' 2 , 0 14; i :t t t eri , I ° )y a b:f a o p r p e lle A a fo ti n e c n a), be 15 to registered of the proper form, tolitT:nexed, and of which copies can be obtained at the office, let at s 4re ot ';urge-street, Westminster ; fr om Mr. Ashworth, 13, Nor -14 ytanchester ; Mr. S. Wood, 3, India-buildings, Liverpool; ta k lat, 4 , . ,V aterloo-street, Birmingham. 1, - ;1,, ni respect of which scrip is not received on or before the te rn tZ fB :Ptember will (at the option of the Directors) be regis- Itner he n ..,.arne of the original allottees. tot of security parties are recommended to sen d their I stered letters, writing across each certificate Sent in lei t h : t ion," with date and address, nd inform posing the Secre- C7rt' numbers of the scrip so sent by e s separate t letter. es tbr the scrip will be acknowledged, and certificates o f po 'get s ,;!`ler the seal ef the Company, will be issued to the share .,ter the completion of the registry. order of the Board of Directors, HARRY VERNEY, Chairman. ee, 20WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary. teat George-street, Westrninster, Aug. 10, 1846 OF — A PPLICATION TO BE REGISTERED TO ACCOM kek, PANT SCRIP. I .Sy ICE/ A RAMSHIRE RAILWAYS.—OXFORD AND BLETCII- 4 Air 4 -ND BUCKINGHAM AND BRACELET JUNCTION i her request to he registered as the proprietor of such number Iryih~es in the above undertaking as I am entitled to in accordance e terms of the advertisement of the 10 th August, in respect \l_Lfor 201. shares, v-z.: Denoting From Numbers. I To h ..ror One Share ....... • • ' 1 Five Shares . Ten Shares ........ . h Fifty Shares 14, 1 1-' &o request you to issue to me eeali ..` me as follows : elt. certificates; in which de- •istian name In full ;eriptlon • • • • • • .. • • • • • • • • a(Wit , 0 Ad( th! „'" nIY hand this day of oecretary of the Buckingham hire l itl E UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER. b,„ 30 to 50 per Cent. Saved! v Ti„ _nad at th e P a t e ntees. 60. St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross. yatentees beg to call public attention to the following facts, !taki n au vantages resulting from the invention are various and ~u 4 tlo „ g ' , Independently of a saving of 30 to 50 per cent„ the com gith ' . 8 perfect, and the brilliancy produced superior to any light fit:l;to discovered. It emits neither smell nor smoke, and burns 'I,: for any period ; and such is its purity, that it neither affects 144 the most delicate colour or the finest fabric. Objections have !nth, ' 0 the introduction aim in dwellin:•-houses, to the expense of boa,. are to its destruction of furniture, dr;, PATENT "'old moulting, &c. ; UaNpl ti r , entirely obviated by the UNIVERSAL GAS ~, ' • As the cost of laying on gas is much lower than is coin "111).1, 'unnosed, it Is adapted for private dwellings, as well as for °ns es, hotels, manufactories, End public buildings. One of ho h ornets is amply sufficient to light a good-sized room, at a sum Nst asurahly lower than spirit, oil, or candle , with the avoidance of everr trouble e o ery Q Merits of the " Burner," its brilliancy a nd economy surpassing 9„Plia on ° ther known light, are shown by the annexed authentic ?f the qualities of the UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER. tomthe Proceeding' of the Institution of Civil Erwineers, _ r'aY, 26th May, 1846, Siriotis RENNIE, Prei!dent, in the Chair. li,`gas.burner of a novel and ingenious construction was exhibited. 'entr. ",undal novelty was the introduction of a s• ream of air to the ; i o, the Rime by a hollow button in the middle of the burner. "4e - t i r „ P ., ass ing up through the hallow stem of the button, was and on. Passed out by two series of fire-holes around the periphery, 1p th 'a -Tinging with force on the flame o the gas curved it °award s the (s l t a pe of a tulip, whle the -xygen of the air, mingling with th e drett-cl hydrogen gas, produced a very p:rf.ct combnstion., fla me was quite white down the top of the burner, was very stea . t , I ther q riplY demonstrated by the excellent light of the Institution, of th, s ' P se hurt.ers have been used. In co eparing the consumption the T, e burners with that of.the concentric rim burners, and trying 14ettarZer of the two lights by the photometer, the new burner gave a ught, with a saying of rather more t one-third." 1846. 'e Railway, oi . „ CERTIFICATE. e,: - ; MIMIC - CHEMICAL iCHOUL —" In to - ti..g Clark, Mc Niel , tu rn „s_'. Universa 'Gas Burner with one of the hest sha w d owless tO it ttave a more pure and brilliant Belt, with a saving of 20 percent" G.'9IIGE CRISP, Engineer, ROUT LONGBOTTOM, Secretary, CERTIFICATE. 1.:;:n a series of experiments male upon Chia Mc Niell, and Co.'s bli4; Universal Gas Burner, its superiority was satisfactorily esta tin economy and the finality of the light. Tested against a 115 tirntrs, Nos. 4 (12 holes), and 6 (15 holes ), It afforded a of at least 25 per cent., Full against three fish-tail burners, nor °Per cene ") any Other burner t. The colour and brilliancy of the flame is siv" T. W. tE.kTES, Consulting Chemist, J. 1). PALMER, Mechanical Inspector. the UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER is used nightly at the Poly leaie Institution, and may be had and seen from 11 till 4, at the - " m ttea, 60, St,Nartileg-lane, Charing-Crops; and of all Go Fitters. INVENTORS and DEPOSITORS of WORK ING MODELS and of other Specimens of the Useful Arts (as well as the Visitors ofthe ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION) are respectfully informed that the Directors have given their anxious consideration to the new appointment of DEMONSTRATOR in MECHANICS, whose duty will be to explain to the Visitors the Principles and Uses of the above Specimens with clearness and simplicity. The Lectures now comprise the ELECTRIC TELE GRAPH, as well as other objects of present interest. The beautiful Optical Exhibitions, &c. &c. • • Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. g) IRKENHEAD DOCK COMMISSIONERS. The Birkenhead Dock Commissioners are ready to receive LOANS of . MONEY 'for periods of five or seven years, under the authority of their second Act of Parliament, passed Bth May, 1845, at the rate of five per cent: per annum. The interest will •be paid half-yearly, on the Ist of January, and Ist July, in London or elsewhere, as the parties lending may prefer. Sealed tenders, stating the amount and term of years for which the money is propoied to be lent, to be addressed to the Commis sioners, endorsed .• Tender for Loans " _ By order, Birkenhead;•lOth-of August, 1846, RICA. HIND, Secretary. AST.URIAN MINING COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that all Shares on which the Call of 1/. per Share, (lite on the Ist inst., shall not be .paid on or before the Ist proximo, will he declared FORFEITED, and the numbers pub lished. • •By order of the Board of Directors, K. MACKENZIE, Secretary. No. 9, Austin Friars, Sept. 7, 1846. JOTICE is hereby given, that the BUSINESS of LETTER FOUNDERS heretofore carried on in GREAT NEW STREET, LONDON, under the Firm of ALEXANDER WILSON and SONS, 'will be carried on from this time by the undersigned FREDERICK COLLIER, under the same Firm. The Operative Department will be condueted,by Mr. Alexander Wilson, as. heretofore.. - _ London,. September 8, 1846 FREDERICK COLLIER, TO THE LETTER-PRESS PRINTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. ALEXANDER WlLS67l4 — aidk•iii, Letter Founders, .Great New-street. London, beg to intimate, in reference to an Advertise ment Which lately. appeared m the names of Marr, Gallic, and Co., of Edinburgh, announcine the purchase by them of the entire Plant in London and Edinburgh of the Glasgow Letter Foundry, that Mari, Gaulle, and Cci.; having this (I,:y, at the urgent solicitation of Mr. Alexander Wilson, handsomely surrendered their purchase of the London Plant in favour of Mr. Frederick Collier. of London, the bu.iness there will be continued, as formerly, under the old Firm, while the hasiness which was carried on in Edinburgh, under the Firm of A. and P. Wilion a will be conducted, as already advertised, by Marr, Oallie, And'Co. ' " London, September 8. 1846. FFICE of the GAS LIGHT and COKE wasp ANY. 19, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. London, Sept. 8, 1846. Notice is hereby given, that the Court of Directors of the Gas Light and Coke Company do hereby declare that a vacancy has oc curred in the Court of Directors, by the resignation of Sir David Pollock, Governor. Notice is hereby also givee, that a Special General Court of the Proprietors oft •is Company will he held. at this office, on Tuesday, the 6th day of Octob r next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the election of it . GoverniSr, to surilly the said vacancy; and that should a ballot be requh ed it *will continue open for four hours from its com mencement. - By order of the Court of. Directors. - . CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. N.B. The chair will he taken at twelve o'clock precisely, and none but ,p,oprietors admitted. ATIONAL t: sz. Liifii Aaiun • ASCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL LONDON. Capital X-500.000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces. important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances an 4 Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the oremiums paid (see Table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. _ DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society his enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. bay Bonus Bonus in Fl g g Assured' added. Cash. 5* § may Fog; Borrow. 11 1 g Premium. 1 F. X £s. d. r 1837 1 X217 15 1 'XIOO 011 1838 192 3 0 87 1 4 1839 165 11 10' 74 1 1840 116 7 6 54 0 101 1841 111 6 8, 49 10 0, '£l6 0 4 1 X445 0 0 13 10 2' 395 11 1 11 3 11 346 2 3 7 18 10, 296 13 4 710 4; 247 4 5 60 1000 34 1. The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in December of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. HOT WE ATHER.-TR AVELLING.-SEA SIDE.—The REGISTERD PALETOT in London, only at 22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange ; and the chief Llama Cloth Warehouse, 114, Regent-street. Do not be deceived by a similarity of name, placed in the windows of a few petty shops in the neighbourhood of the Patentees. Each Paletot is stamped " H. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, Regent-street." AS.—From FORTY to SIXTY PER CENT. SAVED.—CONTRACTS TAKEN for LIGHTING owns, Villages, Mansions, Mills, Factories, Railway Stations, Signal-lights, Dockyards, Lighthouses, Churches, CAleges, Hospitals, Theatres, Public Institutions, Prisons, Barracks, Asylums, Schools, Unions, Poor-houses, Pul•lic Gardens, &c., with pure and brilliant GAS, by FRANCIS' PATENT GAS-LIGHT APPARATUS, either by rental or purchase. Applications at the offices and factory, 112, High Hoßorn, and Eagle-street, Red Lion-square, London, where the Gas can be seen manufactuied on the principle of this invention, from Ten till Four daily. Prospectuses and every information may be obtained. n IA MOND CARCEL LAMP-NEW LIGHT. The DIAMOND CAR - lEL LAMP is the best light In the world. The Carcel Lamp is used in all the Palaces in Europe ; it burns oil, but is free from all imperfections of ordinary oil lamps ; burns from sunset till morning without attention ; Is so simple it cannot be mi: managed ;no cleaning required for years. he Gt•m. the Vesta, and all other Spirit or Camphine Lamps given awa• at half-price. but such abominations are dear at a gilt. The Diamond Carcel Lamp is the only light—pertectien in light—the public will have none other. Designs to suit every taste. To be had only, and seen burning daily at the PATENTEE'S Immense Lamp Depot, 447, West Strand, ten doors from Lowther Arcade. A NEW NIGHT LAMP. CLARKE'S PATENT MORTAR LAMPS and PATENT LAMP MORTARS. For elegance, simplicity, and cleanlinesa, this night light is very far superior to any hitherto submitted to the public. To medical gentle' en, invalids, hhtel-keepers, and all persons requiring a night light, this invention will prove invaluable, being the best, safest, and most economical ever produced; it will also be serviceable in halls and passages. It can he carried in perfect safety without extinguish ing the light, supplying a desideratum that has long been felt. It is tree from danger, uncertain burning, and the offensive odour and smoke arising from rush•lights and other night lights, and so portable At it will be found a great comfort to ladies or invalids travelling. Price of the Lamps Is. 9d. each, and upwards ;an the Mortars Gd. per box, twelve, ten, or eight Mortars in each, to burn, six, eight, or ten hours. CLAW :E'S PATEYT NURSERY LAMP. This Lamp burns the Patent Lamp Mortars, and will be round in valuable, not only in the nursery but in the bachelor's•room ; it will keep hot a quart of water, or a pint of food and a pint of water, at an expense of one halfpenny for six hours, besides serving as an ex cellent, night ligh it is entirely free from smell or smoke, and may be carriedabota with perfect safety. CLARKE'S PATENT ALBANY LIGHTS, with metallic bottoms, will consume all the material, and are warranted not to ignite the wrapper, at one-third the price of Wax 'Mortars. Sold by John Bla , kbur ‘, 19. Bedford-street. C'oyent-sarden. T,ondon. WANTS SUPPLIED I WANT A HAT I I want a Hat ! and off I'll start For MOSES' celebrated Mart, Since T have often heard it said, That Hats from MOSES "go a-head." I WANT A COAT. I want a Coat, whoie charming style Makes all with admiration smile; And, therefore, I at once will search For MOSES, facing Aidgate Church I WANT A VEST I want a Vest—a well-made Vest, With quality the very beat And, therefore, I shall purchase one Of, you know whom—E. ➢I. and SON. I WANT A PAIR OF TROWSERS. I want a pair of trowsers, made Better than any in the trade ; Anti as I want them cheap as well, I'll try what Mews. MOAEIA sell. Yes, I will hie where crowds have hied, And have my various " wants supplied." X a. d. Tweed Taglion! ....... ;:nd Codrington Tagliorns ................ 0 18 6 Summer Coats in every description and make, including the regis:ered Coat • • .... • • 1 2 • Blouses in every material . . LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. iiplendid pattern Summer Vests 0 2 3 Cashmere and Pers•an ditto, in endless variety 0 4 6 Black and Fancy Satin, ditto .........• •• •• •• -• • • 0 6 0 Dress Coats .. • • • • • rock ditto •• • • • • • • • • ............. 1 0 0 •1 3 0 MAD 3 TO XILADVIIZ. Coats, of every material adapted for the season, in any variety of style and fashion, to order.... - ---from 0 16 0 Quilting Vests, 6s. 60.. each, or three for...—. Cashmere ditto, in every variety of pattern Satin ditto, plain and fancy •. •• • • ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 0 14 6 Ditto, Cloth or Casimere ditto 0 8 0 Ditto, Black Single-milled ditto 0 13 6 Spring Trousers, in every pattern. • • 0 10 6 Single-milled and Albert Victoria ditto 0 19 0 Best Black Dress ditto— • . Mess Coats •••••• • • • • • • - 1 12 0 ditto, best manufactured •• •• .• .• • ... 215 0 e'rock Coats -• •• • • ...... ............. .. 'tom 115 0 Ditto, best manufactured •• • • •• • ....... • • .... 33 0 Mourning, to any extent, at five minutes notice. Any article purchased or made to measure, if Rot approved o', ill ha immediately exchanged, or the money returned. Observe—E. MOSES and .SON, Tailors, Woollen Drapers, Ilat. t , rs, Clothiers, Outfitters, and general Warehousemen. regret to be - tinged to guard the punt. against imposition, but, having learned tat the untra,lesmanlike falsetiood of being connected with t .em." or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many in- Pnces, and for obvious reasmus, they nave no comiexion with ily other house in or out if London. And those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing' should, to orev , r,t •iaatipointment. call at or lend to the Mianries. and Aldgate, City, London. E. MOSES and SON. Tailors. Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers. .oid Outfitters, Nos. 154, 155, 156, 157, Minories, and 83, 84, 85, s 6, _tidgate, City, London. .NOTICE.—The entrance to the Bespoke Department is at $4 ApAgate. hus ne's transacted at this nstahlish , nent frlni sunset rn ,".. even i„ z 911 ant , ,,tet .tratiir IR, vrnfnp. yvhesn It at twelve o'clock Porphyry and China Vases, Buhl Clocks, Furniture, Wines, &c., late the. property of his Excellency Baron Dedel, deceased, removed from his resilence, 25, Wilton Crescent, Belgrave-square. MESSRS. WOOLLAMS and CARPENTER will SELL by AUCTION, at the Rooms, 26, Conduit-street, on TUESDAY, 22d September next, at Twelve, by direction of the Ex- ecutors, A small CELLAR of CHOICE WINES, consisting of Burgundy, Claret, Hock, Sherry, &C. ; a few bottles of Liqueurs ; a magnificent pair of Red Porphyry Vases, a smaller pair, a noble Oriental China Jar and Cover, Buhl Bracket Clocks. The Furniture comprises dressing tables, pier tables with marble slabs, Persian and other car pets, ottoman seat. elegant needlework screen in massive carved and hilt cheval frame, ladle,' tambour work-frames, drawing-boards, work-tables, &e. ; a deal painted press, kitchen requisites, &c. ; also a small quantity of useful plate and plated articles, service of richly cut glass. To be viewed on Monday preceding the sale. Catalogues may be had at the Auction-rooms, Conduit-street; at Garraway's ; and of Messrs. Woollams and Carpenter, auctioneers, 16, Old Burlington street. The wines may be tasted at the time of sale, and will be de. livered from the cellars, 25, Wilton-crescent, on Thursday, the 24th of September: ~^ LAT PATENT LEVER WATCHES, Lon don-made, with the late improvement of placing the balance level with the other wheels of the watch, so as to render it flat for the waistcoat pocket, with the detached escapement, capped and jewelled in four holes, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, maintaining power to continue the action of the watch while wind ing, are offered in silver engine-turned cases, price six guineas each, or hunting ewes six and a half guineas. An undertaking is given, with fixed terms on which the watches will always rectivo at tention. T. COX sAvortY and CO., Watchmakers, Jewellers, Ste., 47, Cornhill (seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London. Second-hand Watches puchased in exchange. LADIES TRAVELi.I. Visiting the Sea Coast, or the Ser oihwlae will expo find sed to the scorching ray s of un, 1 1) OWLAND'S KALYD.i . JR n most refreshing Et preparation for tl,e Complexion, dispelling the cloud of lan guor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability. and immedi ately atf trdiqg the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity of the Skin. The numerous vari lies of Cutaneous Erupticns, Sun burn, Freckles, Tan, and DlicolouratNns, are pleasingly eradicated by tin Kalydor, and the skin rendered delicately soft and clear. Its purifying and refreshing properties hare obtained its exclusive selec tion by the Court and the Royal Family of Great Britain. and thos, dais Contmenfof Europe, together with th^ "elite" of the Aris tocracy and " laute Volee," from the sultry climes of India, and the Drawing-rooms of Calse to and Ala iras, to the frozen realms of the . Czar an' the Salons or St. Fetersburgh and Moscow.—Price 43. 65 and gs. td. per bottle. * e * Beware of spurious "Kalydors" containing mineral astrin gents utterly ruin tus to the complexion, and which, by their repel on the wranper, and A. ROWT,ANI endanger health. The only genuine has the word attnn'dtt°%SaVcOLNl•o‘..nl'2Do,giliCat‘toli'll:girrdnen, is also engraved (by desire of thi Ron. Commissioners) on the Government Stamp affixed on earl bottle. Sold by the Proprietors, and by respectable Chemists and Per umers. o th er ~ Ndydora" are fraudulent counterfeits, BURGESS' ESSENCE of ANCHOVIE S Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps,London , JOHN BURGESS and SON, being apprised of the numerous enl - . •eavours made by many persons to impose a spurious article for their oaks, feel it incumbent on them to request. the attention of the üblic, in purchasibg what they conceive to be the original to ob l.rve the Name and Address correspond with the above. The Renee al appearance of the spurious descriptions will deceive the un uarded ; and, for their detectien,J. B. and Son, submit the following actions:—S , oroe are in appearance at first sight, " the genuine," but ithout,ame or address ; some " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies," .„1 others " Buraiss's ;" and many more without a dd ress. Johr •.rgess and Son, having been many years honoured with such dis ..guithed approbation, feel every sentiment of respect towards the 'l;c, and earnestly solicit them to inspect the labels previous to l,,,shict what they conceive to be of their make, which they hope :;) prevent many disappointments. BURGESS' NEW SAUCE, for general purposes, having given such •eat satiiiae-tion, continues to be prepared by them, and is recom ended as a most useful and convenient sauce; will keep good in all ~imates. Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, London. " The Original Fish-sauce Warehouse. . . HALL OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL STREET, HAYMARKET. Professor TURXOUR begs most respectfully to inforn the Nobility, Subscribers, and Public, that he has produced that novelty never beforiattempted, viz.; the introduction of FEMALE MODELS of COLOUR, who will appear every Afternoon and Evening, in varied groupings; expressly arranged for them_ Stalls, 2s. bd.; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. Doors open at Half-past Two in the Afterfiiion, and commence at a Quarter past Three punctu:illy. Evening performance, Half-past Eight o'clock. Venus•will rise from the sea till further notice. REMINGTON'S LONDON and MAN CHESTER RAILWAY. At an Adjourned Meeting of the Committee appointed by the Shareholders to investigate the affairs of this Company, held the 26th day of August, 1846, - . D. W. HARVEY, Esq., in the Chair ; It was Resolved,—That as the number of Shares returned to the Committee exceeds 15,000, yet as the total issue of Shares exceeds. 50,000, the Committee feel, that until a far larger amount of Shares shall be notified, no negotiation can be opened with the Directors. Holders of Shares, therefore, who desire to bring the affairs of this Company to a speedy and equitable adjustment at the least possible expense, are requested to transmit their names, and the number of Shares they respectively to the Chairman of the Committee, D. W. Harvey, Esq., Old Jewry, London, not later than the let of October, after which day no communication will be received. D. W. HARVEY, Chairman. SALES BY AUCTION. Tithe Rent Charge of above 3,0001. per annual (Freehold), offering an equally secure Investment for Capital as Land, with a higher rata of Interest, and no drawback for repairs. mESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will offer for SALE by AUCTION, at the Mart, on THURSDAY, September 24, in one Lot, the very valuable FREEHOLD TITHE RENT CHARGES, arising from about 18,000 acres of first-rate Land, in the parish of Whittlesea, close to Peterborough, comprising Estates belonging to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, Childers, Esq., and other large proprietors, producing about 3,0001. per annum, clear of parochial rates. Particulars may be had at the chief inns at Whittlesea and Peter borough ; of Mr. Waddelow, of Whittlesea; of Messrs. Jones, Bate man, and Bennett, ; Lincoln's Inn ; and: of Daniel Smith and Son, Land Agents, in Waterloo-place, London. THE GitEAT AND VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE OF WHITTLESEA, EXTENDING TO WITHIN TWO MILES OF THE CITY AF PETERBOROUGH. ESSRS.. DANIEL ~sivirrx and SON are commissioned by the Noble Propiletors •to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, near the .Bank of England, on THURSDAY, 24th of September, at Twelve (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by private contract), The above truly important and valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTY, between Peterborough and Wisbeach in Cambridgeshire ; comprising tho vast manors of Whittlesea, embracing nearly 25,000 acres, and in which are nearly 200 or 300 copyholders, paying quit-rents and fines, the greater part of the flourishing town of Whittlesea, the bank premises, several private residences, inns, £hops, &c., being held of the said manor. Also, above 2,100 acres of most fertile land, divided into compact farms, and let at low rents to a highly respectable and intelligent tenantry, with some very valu able dispersed parcels of land adjoining, and contiguous to the town, portions eligible for building. Also, the Advowson of the Vicarage of St. Mary, and the Freehold Rent Charges in lieu of tithes, ex tending over nearly 18,000 acres, of the annual value together of up wards of 6,0001., exclusive of the valuable manors and living ; offering with its many advantages, a fine, influential, and solid pro perty for the investment of capital. There is a navigable river through the estate, and the railway from Peterborough to Ely passes through Whittlesea, . . _ . The entire property will belirst offered in One Lot, and if not sold, will be immediately put np in Three Lots ; viz., 1. THE TITHE. RENT-CHARGES. 2. THE MANORS AND FARMS. 3. THE ADVOW,ON. Particulars may be obtained of Messrs. Jones, Bateman, and Ben nett, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn ; at the Auction Mart; of Mr. John Waddelow, Whittleses, who will show the estates ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land agente, in Wa'erloo-place, Pall-mall. Very IMPORTANT and VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, embracing the entire PARISH of ADDINGTON, free of Tithes and Land-tax, and almost of Poor-rates, with its spacious Mansion, excellent Manor for Game, the Advowson, and several first-rate Grazing and Dairy Farms, extending nearly to the town of Win slow, and only five miles from the county and borough town of Buckingham, distinguished as the family seat and domain of the late Hon. General Vere Poulett, forming a singularly eligible and Solid investment for capital, in a proverbially rich and fine sporting country. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITHand SON are commissioned to announce that the above remarkably valuable and truly important FREEHOLD ESTATE will be SOLD by AUCTION, at the Mart, near the Bank of England, on THURS DAY, 24th of September (unless an acceptable offer shall be previ ously made by private treaty). It . comprises the spacious and substan 4 lal MANSION OF AD DINGTON, with walled garden, capital stabling, &c., placed on a gentle elevation, nearly in the centre of one of the MOST FERTILE DOMAINS in the county, embracing the entire parish, nearly encircled by a fine brook, and chiefly rich grazing and dairy land, the whole tithe free, and let to old respectable tenants at rents amounting to about 2,6001. per an num. The perpetual Advowson, with its parsonage and glebe, and the Manor, which is well stocked with game, appertain to the es tate. The timber is nearly all elm, a certain proof of the fertility of the soil. The high turnpike road from Aylesbury to Buckingham passes through the property, close to the town of Winslow, and it is within a very easy distance of the several markets of Buckingham, Bicester, Stony Stratford, &c. This description of grass land is unlikely to be affected by any chancre as to Corn-laws or Tariffs, and the property therefore presents, with its peculiar and great local ad vantages, an indisputably line and choice property for the invest ment of money, with a most enjoyable domain for resideace, being in a perfectly rural district, and in the centre of several packs of hounds. A station on the Buckinghamshire Railway will be very near. • _ . The property may be viewed by application to Mr. King, surveyor, Winslow, of whom .particulars may be had; also of Messrs. Walker and Gridley, solicitors, 5, Southampton-street; of Messrs. Kerslake and Crealock, solicitors, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street ; and every information obtained of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land agents and surveyors, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. The ESTATE of NEW PLACE, with its MANSION - and famous TROUT FISHERY, close to ALRESFORD, Hants, about six miles from Winchester, and 18 from SOUTHAMPTON. NIESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and 'SON are commissioned to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, near the Dank of England, on TUESDAY, Sept. 18, at Twelve o'clock (unless an acceptable offer shall be made by Private Treaty), the above valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTY ; comprising the mansion of NEW PLACE, the prominent feature amidst the picturesque scenery on approaching the town of Alresford from Win chester, at present occupied by Lady Paxton, who will give early poQsession. The house stands elevated, sur rounded by well planted grounds, having an extensive and impor tant frontage upon the high road, from which it is screened by orna mental plantations. The estate comprises, in a most perfect and compact ring-fence, about ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE ACRES, part very valuable water meadows, extending to and embracing the river, which bounds it on the lower or tic rib side for a mile, afford ing some of the best trout fishing in the county. It is a remarkably healthy and a famous sporting part of the country. It may be viewed with cards, which, with particulars and litho graphic plans, tni* be had of Messrs. Jacob and Johnson's library, Winchester ; at the Hotels, Southampton ; at the Mart ; of Messrs. Dunn, Hopkins, and Carter, solicitors, Alresford ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. CLAREMONT, NEAR SOUTHAMPTON A delightfully situate and modern spacious VILLA, with beautifully planted grounds, &c., the whole being Freehold, and within two miles of the town, and commanding grand views of the river, Isle of Wight, and the New Forest, with immediate possession. ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are 1 directed to OFFER for PUBLIC SALE, at the Mart, near the Bank of England, on FRIDAY, September 18, at Twelve, unless previously disposed of by Private Contract, The above very desirable and beautifully situate FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, on a commanding elevated part of MILLBROOK, within a short distance of the church, and only two miles from Southampton. The MANSION is modern, and contains rooms of very handsome dimensions, and ample large airy bed rooms, all finished with excellent taste and in a superior manner. The domestic offices are very convenient; the grounds, comprising about nine acres, are well laid out, and ornamentally planted. There is a productive walled garden, good stabling, and various out-offices, the whole very complete, and fit for instant possession. _ . . . , The' estate may be viewed by application to Mr. Perkins ' upholder, Southampton, of whom particulars may be had; also at the chief Hotels at Southampton ; at the Auction Mart ; of Messrs. Coombs and Son, solicitors, Dorchester ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, who are fully authorised to treat for the Sale. TO THE MUSICAL PUBLIC. This day is published, to be had gratis and postage free, CATALOGUE of the latest MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS for the VOICE, and for all instruments. Every amateur and professor of music should not fail to procure a copy of this list of invaluable compositions for the voice, piano, organ, violin, flute, cornet, &c., as well as theoretical works. London : published only by her Majesty's music•sellers, Messrs. Ti. Cocks end Co., 6, New Burlington-street. WINDSOR FOREST, vicinity of BRACKNELL and BINFIELD , and in the centre of the QUEEN'S HUNT, and within easy reach of Sir JOHN COPE'S FOXHOUNDS. 31 ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, near the Bank of Eng land, on the of October (unless acceptable offers shall be pre • viously made by private contract), by direction of the Executors, The very desirable FREEHOLD SPORTING BOX, or COTTAGE, and late residence of Captain Coxwell, R.N., deceased, with well dressed pleasure grounds, good garden, three•stall stable, loose box, coach house, and eleven acres of rich pasture land, in convenient well-timbered paddocks, attached. The house is airy, and com mands pleasant forest scenery. It has three best and three servants' bedrooms, and, though on a small scale, will be found replete with every comfort for a bachelor, or a small family. Also, in a separate lot, THE WEST-END PARK ESTATE, con sisting of nearly sixty acres of good park-like meadow and arable land, with the ancient mansion and offices (out of repair), and a good modern cottage, with walled garden, &c., attached. This estate is copyhold of the Manor of Wargrave, but the measures for improving this tenure, which have lately received the sanction of the Legislature, will no doubt, in a few years, render it equal to freehold. Par.iculars may be had, when the day of sale is fixed, at their Offices in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, and Windsor; of Messrs. Ilioxam and Ellison, solicitors, 3, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; also at the Inns at Bracknell, Maidenhead, &c. ; at the Mercury Office, Read ing ; and at the Anction Mart. PUBLICATIOSS. This day, in post Bvo., price is. 61. cloth, TOTES ON THE EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. By H. HARTLEY KENNEDY, M.D. Late Physician General and President of the Medic.iilDoard, . Bombay. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 6.5, Cornhill:, THE OXFORD GRADUATE ON PAIN riNG. • Just published, In Imperial. Bvo., price 18s. cloth, T 1 -if FIRST VOLUME‘ OF MODERN • PAINTERS. • By a GRADUATE OF OXFORD. A. New Edition, revised by the Author, and printed uniformly with Volume It. Also, lately Published, in Imperial 8v0.., price 10s. 6d. cloth, THE SECOND VOLUME OF MODERN PAINTERS. Treating of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. TO ADVERTISERS AND PARTIES ItEQUIRING;AGENTS FOR THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. THE "GUERNSEY SUN," published Weekly, contains the latest English and Local _News. Terms—Single Number, 1%41. ; per Quarter, Is. 6d.; per Annum, 65.: payable in advance. - - —.- The — large circulation of this journal in England, in addition to the local sale, and advertisements being free from duty, renders it a very adantageons'and cheap rneßium for advertising. Agencies of all kinds for the Channel Islands undertaken. Post-office orders payable to Chapman' and Co.; Sun-office, Guernsey, where all com munications addrssed to the Editor may be made. _ This paper may be sent through the post M any part of the 'United Kingdom free of charge. PRICE 'EIGIITPENCE-H ALPPENNY. THE PROP LE'S JOURNAL. Part VIII., for SEPTEMBER, contahuq=-- ENGRAVINGS. Haydon's Dentatus. . r Joshua Reynold's Infant Hercules. Portrait of Father Mathew, With Memoir, by W m Howitt. Scott Memorial, Edinburgh. Faust and Margaret, by Scheffer. ORIGINAL PAPERS. 4... • Harriet Martineau's Survey from the .Mounta' ;.*/ ;. lain Holydays, and Household Education. . The Katlrs of the Cape of Good Hope, b. G. . • ' Story of* Penny, by Mary Leman Gil*.s. William Howitt on Flogging ; on Grey,. the Author of the Railway Systefn ; and the Robber Band at Tusculum. Mademoiselle Rachel, by Angus B. Reach. The Birmingham Athenic Institute. Life in New South Wales. Ragged Schools of Liverpool. Life of a Sailor, by Franklin Fox. Music—Part Singing, by H, F. Chorley. Democracy in Europe, by J. Mazzini ; No. 1. Poems, Tales, Essays, &c., by 11. F. Chorley, R. H. Horne,Richard Howitt, Mary Howitt, Thomas Campion, Caroline A. White, &c. &c. In preparation. Portraits of and Papers on Lloyd, Garrison, Charles Knight, W. C. Macready, W. J. Fox, &c. London: People's Journal Office, 69, Fleet-street. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen. Moan- BRITISH ASSOCIATION FUR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. SOUTHAMPTON, PRIAM—The first general meeting of the association was held last night, and the expecta tion of Prince Albert's presence collected a very full audience in the Victoria Rooms. The room selected for the meeting will hold 600 or 700 persons, and was crowded to excess; a number of ladies formed part of the company. The apartment is a handsome one, and the reason of its being below stairs is, that the house is built upon the side of a hill; if there were an approach at the back from the lower ground, the peculiarity would disappear; but, as it is, it is a house with the door at the top. Through the courtesy of Mr. Klitz,•the pro prietor, and master of the ceremonies for this occasion, ample accommodation was provided for the representa tives of the press. At half-past eight o'clock his Royal Highness arrived; he looked extremely well; he was in plain evening dress, wearing a black coat and trousers, and white waistcoot and neckerchief. He took his seat on the platform on the right of the chair. Next to the Prince were Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine (the General Secretary); Viscount Palmerston, M.P.; the Marquis of Northampton, the Bishop of Norwich, the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Mayor of Southampton. It was said that the Bishop of Oxford was too unwell to attend. The Marquis of Winchester, the Dean of West minster, Mr. Tite, and a whole host of scientific persons were present. The company rose to receive the Prince. His Royal Highness having taken his seat, they sat down ; and the chair was taken by Sir J. F. W. HERSCHEL, Bart., the retiring President, who congratulated the meeting on a presence which gave a dignity and sanction to its proceedings such as on no former occasion the society had received.— (Cheers.) For the honour thus conferred they felt the warmest emotions of grateful respect • it was a recogni tiou of the glorious cause in which they were embarked —a cause in which were involved the glory of England, and the prosperity of every inhabitant of this country, from the Queen upon her throne, God bless her— (Cheers) —down to the lowest inhabitant of a cottage. For himself, in returning on this occasion to a town as- sociated with the reminiscences of his younger days, he could not but see, as in every town in England, a great change, a start forward into civic and commercial ac tivity, which would make it, as of old, a link of commu nication between England and her distant colonies—one of the poles of that electric circuit with which Great Britain must animate and might convulse the world. The itinerant character of the association brought it the more in contact with that great phenomenon—the im mensity of our national progress, the intense activity pervading everything in England at this moment, with the fact that it was every year more and more placed under the guidance of that science which it was the society's office to promote and to diffuse. Believing firmly that the resources of science were inexhaust ible, and that its scope extended to ameliora tions of every description, he could look forward to the future, not only without gloom and foreboding, but with the temperate exultation which Providence per mitted to such as desired no aggrandisement but that which was in unison with its own grand and beneficent designs. With regard to his own year of presidency, he would just remind the audience that that year had given them the discovery of a new planet, and the prospect of another; they saw it as Columbus saw America, from the shores of Sp.min. In the subdivision of a member of our system, we had also beheld one of the recognised ingredients of that system separated into two, each pur suing an independent orbit round the sun. After passing a high eulognim upon the new President, Sir John then resigned the chair to Sir R. J. MURCHISON, who immediately afterwards rose and said,—Gentlemen of the British Association, deeply conscious as I. am of my inferiority to my emi nent predecessor in the chair of the British Association in all that respects the higher branches of physical science, I still hope that my ar d en t d e votion to your cause rom your very cradle, from your very institution, may plead in my favour, and may be held by you as some guarantee for the zealous execution of my office. Give me leave to assure you that I consider being placed in this position as a mark of approbation on your part, which is to me the highest honour that could have been confered upon me through life,—an honour the more cherished because it has been confered upon me in a county with which I have long been connected by family ties, and in which I made my first essay as a geo logist. —(Cheers.) Those feelings are strongly enhanced when I look around, and see that this association has for the first time been honoured with the presence of royalty.—(Loud cheers.) You cannot conceive the gra tification it gives me, when. I know that his Royal High ness, the consort of our beloved Sovereign—(Cheers)-- comes fresh from the mines of Cornwall, and has been making himself so good a geologist, that, in addition to all those other numerous branches of science with which his Royal Highness is already acquainted, we shall see him here attending our sections in a few days ; for we know him to be—what I now inform his Royal Highness of—the one and only honorary member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.— —(Loud cheers, during which his Royal Highness bowed his acknowledgments to the President.) But, when gentlemen trust to memory they are very discur sive, and on these occasions it is necessary to keep pre cisely to the point, and therefore I must now trouble you with my sermon—(A laugh)—l must put on my spectacles—(Laughter)—and read to you a discourse, which I have prepared with as much care as is in my power. The PRESIDENT then proceeded to read his inaugural addres.. After observing that the origin, progress, and many of the objects of this their " Parliament of sufficientlys branches of science. The dwell explainedon recent progressform er occasions S a ri c i d e n present e" h h a e s d t ap tr b eec e o e ef n e dv eda various oteu discourse was of great length, and will hardly admit of abridgment; one or two of the most interesting portions of it will convey an idea of its nature. Sir Roderick said, " A request from the association to Professor Bunsen, of Alarburg, and our countryman, Dr. Lyon Playfair, coupled with a contribution of small amount towards the expenses involved in the undertaking, has produced:a report on the conditions and products of iron furnaces, which is of the greatest value in a commercial view to one of the most important of our manufactures, and possesses, at the same time, a ver y high interest to chymical science in some of the views whi c h i t d eve l opes. On the one hand, it exhi bits an entirely new theory of y the reduction, by cyanogen gas as the c hi e f agent, o f iron from the ore; on the other, it shows th a t, i n ad dition to a vast saving of fuel. about 2c w t. o f sa l am moniactctee at the si ng l e establish ment experiment s were ma d e; thus leading us to inf er that in the iron furnaces of Britain there may he obtained from va p our e which now passes a wa y an enormous quan tity ent of m A a l y f re to daily , b where collected of this valuable substance, which would materially lessen the dependence of our agriculturists on foreign g uano. It is, indeed, most gratifying to observe, that in pursuing this inquiry into the gaseous contents of a blazing furnace of great height, our associates traced out, foot by foot, the most recondite chymical processes, and described the fiery products with the same accuracy as if their researches h a d been made on the table of a laboratory. * '' * * * • " When our associate Conybeare reported to us, at our second meeting, onthe actual state and ulterior prospects of what he well termed the archaeology of the globe,' he dwelt with justice on the numerous researches in different countries which had clearly established the his tory of a descent, as it were, into the bowels of the earth —which led us, i n a word, downwards through those newer deposits that connect high antiquity with our own period, into those strata which support our great " Res alts terra et caligine mersas.' Now, however, we have dispersed this gloom, and by researches first carried out to a distinct classification in the British Isles, and thence extended to Russia and America, geologists have shown that the records of suc cession, as indicated by the entombment of fossil ani mals, are as well developed in these very ancient or palmezoic strata as in any of the overlying or more recently formed deposits. After toiling many years in this department of the science, in conjunction with Sedgwick, Lonsdale, De Verneuil, Keyserlince and others of my f e ll ow -l a b ourers, I h ave arr i ve d at the conclusion that we have reached the very genesis of animal life upon the globe, and that no further vestigia retrorsum' will be found beneath that protozoic or lower Silurian group in the great inferior mass of which no vertebrated ani mal has yet been detected amid the countless profusion of the lower order of marine animals entombed in it. But, however this may be, it is certain that, in the last few years, all Central and Eastern Europe, and even parts of Siberia, have been brought into accordance with British strata, whilst our kinsmen of the Far West hare so ably developed the structure of their respective states, that our countryman, Lyell, has informed us that the excellent map which accompanies his work upon North America is simply the grouping together of data prepared by native state geologists, which he has paralleled with our well-known British types. If, then, the astronomer has, to a vast extent, expounded the me chanism of the heavens; if lately, through the great telescope of our associate the Earl of Rosse, he has as signed a fixity and order to bodies which were previously viewed as mere nebulae floating in space, and has also inferred that the surface cavities in our nearest neigh bour of the planetary system are analogous to the vol canic apertures and depressions of the earth; the geolo gist, contributing data of another order to the great storehouse of natural knowledge, has determined by ab solute and tangible proofs, the precise manner in which our planet has been successively enveloped in divers cerements, each teeming with peculiar forms of distinct life, and has marked the revolutions which have inter fered with there successive creations, from the earliest dawn of living, things to the limit of the historic era. In short, the fundamental steps gained in geology since the early days of the British Association are so re markable and so numerous that the time has now come for a second report upon the progress of this science, which may, I trust, be prepared for an approaching, if not for the next meetings' * * * " When M. Quetelet remarks, that the phases of the smallest insect are bound up with the phases of the plant that nourishes it ; that plant itself being in its gradual development the product, in some sort, of all anterior modifications of the soil and atmosphere,' he compels the admission that the study which should embrace all periodical phenomena, both diurnal and annual, would of itself form a science as extended as instructive. Re ferring you to M. Quetelet's report for an explanation of the dependence of the vegetable and animal kingdom on the meteorology and physics of the globe, and hoping that the simultaneous observations he inculcates will be followed up in Britain, I am glad to be able to announce that the outline of a memoir on physical geography was some months ago put into my hands by Mr. Cooley, which, in a great degree coinciding with the system of M. Quetelet, has ultimately a very different object. M. Quetelet chiefly aims at investigating the dependence of organized bodies on inorganized matter, by , observing the periodical phenomena of the former. Mr. Cooley seeks to obtain an acquaintance with the same pheno mena for the sake of learning and registering compara tive climate as an element of scientific agriculture. Speaking to you in a county which is so mainly depen dent on the produce of the soil, I cannot have a more favourable opportunity for inculcating the value of the suggestions of this British geographer. The complete establishment of all the data of physical geography throughout the British Islands ; i.e. the registration of the mean and extremes of the temperature of the air and of the earth ; the amount of conduction, radiation, mois ture, and magnetism ; the succession of various phases of vegetation, &c. (with their several local corrections for elevation and aspect), must certainly prove conducive to the interests of science, and are likely to promote some material interests of our country." The oration concluded with a complimentary welcome of the foreign visitors, and Sir Roderick sat down amidst great applause. Lord PALMERSTON then rose, and said—Although, gentlemen, upon the present occasion, there are assem bled in this room a great number of persons eminent for their attainments in science, yet there are also many who, like myself, are only humble admirers of the at tainments of others, professing to possess no knowledge themselves of the matters in which those distinguished individuals have attained their eminence. I trust it will not be deemed presumption on my part, if, being one of this, perhaps the most numerous part of those here assembled, I venture to propose to you that we return our thanks to our distinguished President of this day, for the admir able discourse with which he. has explained to us the objects of tho meeting.—(Cheers.) It would be pre sumption indeed in me, gentlemen, if I were to endea vour to point out particularly to your attention the many claims which our worthy President has established to the gratitude and to the admiration of his fellow countrymen. It would be impossible for anybody more adequately to point out to you those claims than he has himself just d me, by a discourse which shows that, however eminent he is in that particular department of knowledge to which he has more particularly directed his attention, he is equally versed in all those departments of intellect and science in which mankind have excelled ; that he has directed his attention to the progress which other scientific men have made, and that he is as capable of ex plaining to you the results of the researches of others, as of himself contributing a valuable addition to the stock of human knowledge.--(Hear, hear.) It must be gra tifying indeed to us that the present meeting of this as sociation should be presided over by so competent a ehief ; and, however important may be the many other ranges of science over which he has cast his rapid, glance yet there surely can be none more interesting than that particular department in which he has so successfully laboured—that department by which he and others have been enabled to interrogate our mother earth, to extort from her the knowledge of what had passed in ages long gone by, and to read in the traces which still remain of former periods the history of antecedent hundreds and thousands of years.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, it is im possible to estimate too highly the importance of those pursuits in honour of which, and in the prosecution of which, this meeting is here assembled ; and it is diffi cult to estimate their value, so also it is almost impos sible for us to fix a limit to the progress which the human mind may be destined to make. Each successive step which mankind has made in the departments of science has rendered simple that which was wonderful before ; has added to our stock of knowledge facts which, before they were ascertained, would have ap peared to be impossible, but which, when ascertained, have not only contributed greatly to the con venience, advantage, and interests of the exist ing generation, but have laid the foundation for future progress in similar investigations and discoveries. Why, gentlemen, if any man in the earlier ages of the world had told those timid mariners who went creep ing about from cape to cape, and from bay to bay, halt. ing at night, and never losing sight of the land, that an invention would be made by which, in the dead and darkness of the night, men might traverse the trackless ocean, directing their unerring course to the distant regions to which they were bound, would he not have been treated as a man indulging in the most chimerical imaginations ? And yet that great invention is now so identified with the practice and the memory of man, that if you were to ask many of those who are in the daily habit of using it they would hardly believe there was a period when the knowledge and practice of it had not been enjoyed by men of their profession.—(Hear, hear.) If, in the earlier periods of war, men had been told that a time would come when the lightning and the thunder bolt of heaven would be placed in the hands of armies for the purposes for which they were assembled, they would have thought that the people who told them so were trifling with their credulity. And what would have been said in the earlier ages of Europe, if they had been told that means would be discovered by which the results of the learning and the thoughts of man would be recorded with a precision and a rapidity which, to them, would have seemed impossible; and that even the discussions of such a meeting as this would, before the dawn of the next morning, be travelling upon the wings of the wind to every portion and every corner of an extended empire ?—(Cheers.) Why, gentle men, we ourselves can remember the time when the greater part of mankind would have scouted the notion that you could infuse into a vessel an impelling force which would defy the baffling of adverse winds and the contending influence of adverse currents, and would enable the mariner to reach the most distant portions of the globe in defiance of the winds and the waves ; and yet this great discovery has in our days been applied extensively to the use cf mankind, not only upon the ocean, but even upon the land, and is now become a fa miliar instrument to the minds of the most unlearned. But, gentlemen, what would Warren Hastings, and what would the great Clive have said, if, when they were founding in the East that vast and magnificent empire which now owns its connexion and subjection to English rule, they had been told that, in a few passing years after they had established that great dominion, an invention would be made which should render it physically possible, if it were politically arranged, that a Minister in the House of Commons, interrogated upon a question connected with India, might say to his inter rogating opponent, " Have the goodness, sir, to repeat your question at the end of half-an-hour, and in the in terval I will obtain an answer from the Governor- General at Calcutta ?"—(Laughter and cheers.) Yet that, I apprehend, is physically possible, by the late discoveries of some of the distinguished men of science of our clay.--(Cheers.) What would have been said by those men who first began with rude instruments to examine the resplendent heavens, if they had been told that a time would come when a great astro nomical instrument would be constructed by which mankind should obtain a knowledge of the existence of celestial bodies, whose light, it has been calculated by astronomers, could not reach the small speck of earth which we inhabit, in which the investigator dwells, in a shorter period than 30 , 000 , 000 of years ? Why:Gen tlemen, these contemplations almost overwhelm the powers of human imagination to con ce i ve ; an d yet these are the results of human science—results which we may hope to consider as only the first step of that progress which mankind is hereafter destined to make, and in which, no doubt, the world will be greatly bene fited and assisted by the labours of such institutions as that of which my Hon. Friend is so worthy and distin guished a president. Gentlemen, these contemplations, and these results of science, are not only useful as con ducing to the enjoyments and the prosperity of mankind, but they must have a considerable and salutary effect upon the minds of mankind. Is it possible that they who are in the enjoyment of great and overweening prosperity must not be brought to feel a more proper sense of their position, when they see the utter insigni ficance of this globe as compared with the mighty uni verse which the telescope of Lord Rosse unfolds to the eye ?—(Hear, hear.) Is it possible that they who, on the other hand, ate broken by misfortunes, or bowed down by affliction, should not find sources of resignation and of patience its that sense, of which they are more specially reminded by the great duration of time which these astronomical phenomena occupy—a sense that the small period of time during which they are destined to suffer in this world is as insignificant, compared to that eternity to which they belong, as is the grain of sand which they tread upon that sea-shore, compared with the earth which we inhabit, or the earth itself compared with the mighty universe of which it forms so small and insignificant a portion ?—(Hear.) Gentlemen, these scientific investigations also tend to unite nations together. —(Cheers.) They bring together men of different coun tries, embarked in similar pursuits, engaged in a rivalry the most honourable in which mankind can embark ; and I trust that the more science is pursued, the nearer we shall arrive at that period when mankind will think the greatest glory consists in the advancement of knowledge, and that the most honourable conquests which nations can make are the conquests over the secrets of nature.--(Hear, hear.) It is indeed, gratify ing to us to find, upon this occasion, gathered in this our town that brilliant assemblage of distinguished fo reigners, whose names and whose titles of honour my Hon. Friend has detailed in his address.—(Hear, hear.) I trust that those illustrious foreigners will go back with minds still more disposed, than even, as I am sure, at the present moment they are, to feelings of friendship and regard for the British nation.—(Cheers.) I trust that as men who have sailed in the same vessel or have fought in the same ranks are attached to each other for the rest of their lives, so those distinguished foreigners who find themselves here among their fellow-comrades in that honourable pursuit to which they devote their faculties and their time, will have consolidated and in creased in their minds those friendly feelings towards us, which we entertain so strongly towards them. — (Cheers.) It is also most gratifying, I am sure, to you all to see that this love of science is confined to no par ticular ranks; that from the lowest to the highest it en gages the attention and excites the energies of all classes in this country; and that while in every part of the land we have institutions established, at which the lowest mechanics devote their hours of leisure to the study of these interesting topics, here, on the other hand, we have the highest persons of the realm, the Consort of the Queen—(Loud cheers)—honouring this meeting with his presence, testifying by that presence the in terest which he takes in these important pursuits, and giving to the development of the national mind, and to the encouragement of these national pursuits, that support which cannot fail to be afforded by ' his presence upon an occasion like this.—(Cheers.) ! His presence, too, gentlemen, is an earnest that he is not an indifferent spectator of the progress . of science in this country, but that devoting his ()An energetic mind also to these pursuits—not indeed as the business of a life, because that life is occupied by mat ters of a more active description—but making that the enjoyment and amusement of his leisure, which in other men, perhaps, is the object of laborious study, he ren ders that development of science, which is the object and end of our institution, the ornament as well as the amusement of his life.—(Much cheering.) Gentlemen, I trust that you will receive with that satisfaction which I am sure the speech and address of my Hon. Friend, the president, must have afforded you, the proposal which I make, that you should vote him your thanks for the gratifying manner in which he has explained to you, not only the objects of our meeting, but the gene ral progress which has been made in the different branches of science. —(Cheers.) The Marquis of NORTHAMPTON briefly seconded the motion, and congratulated the society on its possession of a president who had attracted, as a star, the Consort of our Queen. The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, informed the association that Prince Albert had announced his inten tion of actively participating in their pursuits by attend ing the " sections."—(Cheers.) The meeting then, shortly before eleven o'clock, ter minated. Prince Albert remained for some minutes on the platform, conversing with Professor Oersted and other distinguished scientific men ; some of the new gun-cotton was exhibited to his Royal Highness. lie then proceeded to the Fairy, and crossed the water for Osborne House immediately. The utmost attention and respect were paid to him by the Mayor and authorities of the town. The sections were very much better attended this morning. What was done will be seen from the sub joined list : SECTION A.-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. Challis, Professor—Provisional repoit on the present state of astronomy. Stokes, Mr. G. G.—Report on recent researches in hydrodynamics. Brewster, Sir D.—On a new property of light as ex hibited in the action of chrysamonate of potash on com mon and polarized light. Powell, Professor—On elliptic polarization. Dale, Mr.—On elliptic polarization. Ditto—On the duration of vibrations. Brown, J. Allen—On magnetic observations made at Sir T. M. Brisbane's Observatory, Makerstoun. Hopkins, Mr.—On the relations of the semidiurnal movements of the barometer to daily sea and land breezes. SECTION 8.-CHYMICAL SCIENCE, INCLUDING ITS AP PLICATION TO AGRICULTURE AND THE ARTS. Grove, Mr. W. R., F.R.S.— On the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat. Daubeny, Dr.—On the rationale of certain practices employed in agriculture. Way, Professor—On the cause of fairy rings. Joule, J. P.—Playfair, Dr. Lyon—On the expansion of salts. Reade, Dr. J.—Notices of experiments in thermo electricity. a a . . Knowles, E. R. J.—On a singular appearance in the flame of a candle. _ _ _ Dr. Daubeny's paper detailed the principles on which dressing land with quick lime differed from chalking, by disengaging the alkalies from the materials of the primi tive rock, including also the volcanic, and thus furnishing what is wanting to vegetation in argillaceous soils, which the application of chalk does not produce ; of course this is not applicable to calcareous soils. Gypsum also furnishes the means of eliminating the dormant princi ples of soils ; but, of necessity, all who intend to deter mine the applicability of particular agents to restore activity to a soil apparently worn out, must attend to the chymical analysis of that soil. Mr. PRIDEAUX stated some experiments on the Dart moor granite, treated on this principle, by which they had facilities on the spot for producing abundance of alkali. He remarked that the roots of plants generally were acid, and hence he inferred the necessity of alkaline earth for their growth. Some plants were benefited by soda, but most by potash; they, of course, flourish most with the particular alkali which suited them. With respect to one observation of Dr. Daubeny that gypsum appeared to be most beneficial to leguminous plants, he thought that it would be proved to be a fact, that applied to the leaves of plants it became converted into carbonate of lime ; some ;parts of plants were acid and others alkaline, and the object in view with chymists was to supply either to the plant or its roots, what it required for its development. The question was asked, if by high manuring, the growth of wheat, for example, was rank and luxuriant— the stalk was invariably weak , and it was sure to be laid —how could the stalk be strengthened? Mr. PRIDEAUX replied that the best mode he knew of stiffening the stem was by furnishing the plant with silicate of potash. Mr. SPOONER spoke of the use of supersulphate of lime, and other salts, and of they errors of agriculturists in using, at hazard, lime or chalk, or other ingredients, which frequently failed from misapplication ; and he introduced some diseased turnips as, in his opinion, the result of something wrong in the soil. The Bishop of NORWICH said, probably it would turn out that the diseased turnips introduced rather an ento mological than a chymical question, and depending on electrical causes, which might also be the case with the potato disease. Professor DAUIENY replied that he thought the weak acid of roots, such as the ascetic, ought not to be com pared with the sulphuric or strong acids, advised by him to bring the dormant ingredients of soils into activity. Professor GROVE detailed the particulars of his com munication to the Royal Society on the decomposition of water by heat only, which gave rise to a discussion on this prin iple as explaining the case of the bursting of boilers of steam-engines, but which he considered inap plicable (as did the Chairman). Professor Play fair sus pected that some chymical change in• the constitution of the water took place, which the Professor strongly combatted. 1)r. LEESON drew attention to the subject of steam boilers, which he thought favoured the non-decomposi tion principle, as he had observed no evidence of the oxydation of the metal of the fractured part (as we un derstood). It was generally considered to depend more on spheroidal repulsion of bodies. Professor Faraday appeared to concur in this view. Dr. J. READE produced an apparatus to explain the effect of heat in producing a deviation, and also a rota tion of the compass needle. The mode pursued was by placing a suspended needle in the focus of a copper re flector; and on placing a disc on the one side or the other, so as to throw the heat to either pole; so was the needle deflected on lighting a spirit lamp. It was stated by the Chairman to arise from currents, and not from thermal electricity, which seemed probable. Professor Way's paper on Fairy Rings attributed the appearance to seeds with a tendency to grow outwards. A member considered them to arise from Fungi, and an interesting discussion ensued ; one Learned Gentleman Buckman, Mr. James—Notes on the Silurean beds, at Hay-head, near Barr Beacon, Staffordshire. Ibbetson, Captain—On the oolitic sections of the Great Western Railway. Jukes, J. 8., F.G.S.—Notice of some tertiary rocks in the islands stretching from Java to Timor. Ditto—Sketch of the geological structure of Australia. SECTION D.—ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. This section had a very long list before it. ZOOLOGY. Allman, Professor—On an undescribed alga allie.l to Coleochnete. Knox, Dr.—On recollections of inquiries into the na tural history of certain species of the Clupeadm, Corre goni, and Salruonidew. _ Thompson, Mr.—A few notes on the land Mollusca, zoophytes. and alga 3 of the Isle of Wight. Gould, Mr.—Will exhibit some rare forms and some new species of the family of the Iroehilidw, or Humming Birds, from the eastern slopes of the Andes. BOTANY. Hogan, Mr. W.—On the means of escaping the ravages of the potato disease. Ogilf)y, Mr.—Will make a communication on the po ato disease. Clark, Mr. B.—On the foliage and efflorescence of the genera Philanthus and Xylophylla. Whitby, Mrs.—Exhibition of moris multicaulis (a species of mulberry on which the silkworm feeds). • Strickland, Mr.—Report on the vitality o f see d s. Knox, Dr.—Note respecting the application of Dr. Thibert's modelling applied to the natural history of fishes. Dr. Knox's paper was confined to a new method of modelling fishes. The brilliant colours of the living fish were stated to be very difficult to represent; the tints could only be given by metallic powder. The papers on the potato disease were postponed till three o'clock, and the discussion could not be brought to a close when the President was obliged to rise. SECTION E -PHYSIOLOGY. Bennett, Dr. Henry—On inflammatory ulceration of the cervix uteri. Retzius, Professor—On the distribution of round and elongated crania. Ctirpenter, Dr. W.—On the physiology of the en cephalon. Searle, Dr.—On the identity of electricity and the nervous power. SECTION E. -S TAT IS TIC S. The only paper read was by Mr. Heywood, " On Ox ford Educational Statistics." It detailed the general course of the system pursued in Oxford, comparing it with Cambridge in various particulars. It stated that the number of students at Oxford was rather diminish ing of late years. In the ten years, from 1813 to 1829, the number averaged 415 per annum; in the next ten years, 385; and in the seven years since 1839, it was 407. The lecturer attributed this to dogmatic theology being taught in connexion with general literature, in stead of being confined to those for holy orders; and this was the cause of most of the unsuccessful men being in that plight. He also objected to so much stress being laid on an intimate knowledge of Aristotle, and more especially the abstruser parts of his ethics. The unsuc ce.sful candidates for the degree of B.A. were stated to range from 111 to 140 per annum. Among the more re markablemen of our time who had been double!first-class men at Oxford, were Sir Robert Peel, Dr. Hampden, Lord Sandon, Mr. C. Wood, and Mr. W. E. Gladstone; but it was stated that few of our younger public men figured in the Oxford records. Dr. COOKE TAYLOR added a brief account of the course pursued at Trinity College, Dublin, remarking upon the viva voce examination of students there on en tering—a system which often produced some odd answers. On one occasion the Rev. John Martin was examining a class in hydrostatics, and asked a student who was not very popular, " Mr. Spencer, what would be the consequence if I thrust you into a pond ?" the examiner's object being to test the student's knowledge of the law that water rises in proportion to the weight of the body immersed. The student not being able to give a solution of the question, another was put to his neigh bour, Mr. Plunket, " What would be the consequence if I thrust Mr. Spencer into a pond ?" " 'Pon my word, Sir," was the reply, " I think it would be of very little consequence." Another student, being examined on Locke where he speaks of our relations to the Deity as those which we most neglect, was asked what relations were most neglected ; the youth answered very coolly, " Poor relations." After a laugh at these anecdotes, a long conversation ensued on the subject of the system of education pur sued in the French and American universities. In the latter, the chief feature noticed was their insisting less than our own on the study of the dead languages. Great praise was awarded to the French schools for their teaching so universally the art of drawing and design. 1)r. Cooke Taylor attributed much of the superiority of the French in this art to the time they were able to spare in consequence of the simplicity of their decimal system, while our own barbarous and complicated method of arithmetic and weights and measures con sumed so much time unnecessarily. SECTION G.—AlEcirANics. Robinson, Dr. T. R.—Account of a modification in 1)r. Whewell's anemometer. Russell, Mr. Scott—Accounts of some recent experi ments OH railway trains for the determination of the re sistance at high velocities. Ricardo, Mr. M.—A description and models of self registering mechanism for recording the velocity and resistance of railway trains. Phipps, Dr.—An account of the construction and performance of two sailing vessels built on the wave system. Bodmer, Mr. J. G.—Description of an apparatus for storing and preserving corn in large n a ti ona l gra naries. The paper " On a new method of boring for artesian wells," communicated to the association by M. Arago, was read by Mr. C. Vignoles. It was accompanied by a diagram. It appears that an intelligent artisan at Perpig nan, in France, named Fauvel, was led to the discovery by noticing that in several cases of success in boring for water with solid iron rods, so soon as the spring was tapped all the triturated particles were brought up without the use of the auger. He inferred, therefore, that if the boring could be effected by a hol low tube about two inches less in diameter than the width of the auger, communicating with any injecting force pump by a flexible tube from the surface, the same result would follow to this mechanical application of power as resulted from the natural power of the rising column of water. Being a poor man, it was a long time before he could get any interest taken for his in vention. At last, the fellow-workmen clubbed together for the materials, and assisted him with their labour Success attended the first experiment. He competed with the old system in one or two places, and produced the most successful results in half the time ever accom plished before. The principle became so established that Fauvel has now orders for, and in hand two hun • dred artesian wells. Mr. Vignoles had not himself seen these, but he was assured that one of 24 inches in diameter had been completed, and one of six inches diameter had been carried a depth of 540 feet. This paper was listened to with great attention, the subject being so important to the town of Southampton. FOREIGN ONIONS.—A vessel, arrived from Bor deaux, has brought 1,800 strings of onions, the produc ion of France. ,!-:" A WITTY PRISONER.—Not long since, the chaplain of one of our state prisons being engaged in preparing o f a s tablener. Chaplain crime, sr eil followin g what broughtdia log cze you a ou ith he p re rt i Prisoner : The sheriffs, Sir. Chaplain : But I want to know if liquor had anything to do with it ? Prisoner Oh yes, sir, they were both drunk I—American Paper. A correspondent informs us that there is a labourer now employed upon the railway works at Ely, who was once tried and convicted of highway robbery, and was sentenced to be hanged. The morning arrived for his execution ; he was placed under the fatal beam, and as the clergyman commenced his melancholy office, the poor fellow protested his innocence. Just as the exe cutioner was about to " launch him into eternity," a man was perceived at the distance, galloping furiously, ;hold ing up a piece of paper—it was a reprieve I In ten minutes the horse died from exhaustion. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life. At the expira tion of ten years and nine months, the prosecutor in the case, being upon his death bed, sent for the mayor of the town, and told the dreadful tale that at the time when he swore he had been robbed of a large sum by the man in question, he had the money in his own pocket, having been led to this atrocious crime by feelings of revenge Shortly after this acknowledgment he died. The ac cused was sent for, a free pardon granted him, and 15L given him by Government on his arrival at home. A person, the other day, asked him how he felt when he was under the gallows ? He replied, " I didn't care so very much about it because I knew I was innocent."— Bury and Norwich Post. FRAUD OF THE MILLERS AND BAKERS.—Great dis satisfaction has of late been expressed by the inhabitants of Bowden and its neighbourhood, at the high prices at which bread and flour have been kept up by the millers and bakers. A short time ago, wheat having been re duced about 14s. per quarter, bread and flour were lowered in price two pence per stone ; but wheat having risen a few shillings per quarter, about a fortnight ago, the old prices were again adopted ; and now that wheat is again considerably lowered in price, there is no prospect of any abatement in the prices of bread and flour. To the labouring classes this is of no small con sequence, and should not be permitted ; some enact ment ought at once to be adopted by the Legislature, regulating the flour according to the price per quarter of wheat. We hear that several families have procured, and, except fair and reasonable prices be charged, tend to procure, their flour from Hull and other places. A company, with a capital of 200,0001. is being esta blished in the metropolis, to supply bread at 4d. the 41b. loaf, which will include a profit of five per cent.—Don caster Chronicle. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A CHILD.— On Wednes day a girl not more than eleven years old, was taken out of the Serpentine, below the iron railing, near 'Knights bridge barracks. She was in a very exhausted, and for some time helpless state, but the proper remedies having been applied at the Royal Humane Society's receiving house, she ultimately recovered. A gentleman whowit nessed the transaction said that she dejiberaeely crossed the iron railings, and flung hers& into the water. s.tf cif „ f , f on .lo rer,"" IA I, L ' et . l e ' ir e JO o,he " I. ',J•• Jo - • to ~.,~ D `, /: 1, , ,0