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II a6aia•ra as i c a a a iss m imismeramammomseassameseass......,,,,,,,......... 0. 1 &c. i l tiE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION s„,„ C'OMPAN Y'S splendid rnd powerful first-class STEAM "".rB are appointed to leave — The Custom House or Tower for— JIAMBURGH, tarrying her Majesty's Mails —Every W e d nes d ay nog Saturday Morning. ROTT From Plnckwall Pier, for z ERDAM and" the I:HINE, c arryi ng h e r Majesty's Mano— rN' Wednesday and Saturday, at Ten, Morning. TWERPina d the E 141) N—The Wi.berrorce, every Thursday, 1 11 Ten, Blorn 8141) —Every • n --.Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Satur*ty, and Sunday _LOV lenCS' No. 16,846. LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY MORNING S T.l SEPTEMBER 16, 1846. PRICE SD. .4,Z T. BARTH() LOAIEirS :HOSPITAL AN D MEDICAL COLLEGE. From St. Katharine's Steam Wharf, for— 114V4E—Every Thursday and Sunday, at Nine, Morning. From London-bridge Wharf, cor— ing -- n , Gi s tE—Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morn. CALAIS—Every Thursday and Runday Morning. iitr l- 1, -- Every Tuesday and riday,r at Eight, Morning. rit C' MOl J'fil—lteduced :arcs —Every Wednesday and Saturday Eveni RAMS GATEb.—Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at half t ' Nine, Morning ; Blackwall, Quarter-past Ten. ED From Brown's Wharf, Poplar, for E` Fares—Sept. 16, 19, and. 26, at Ten, • v.* From:Colman's Irongate Wharf, for— Ihr / VOLS . TLE--Every Wednesday and Saturday, at Eight, Even -114/0 FrroN and DIEPPE—Every day, Sundays excepted. To ted v ER and BOULOGNE—Th e M ag i c i an, every day, Sul days TO de„Jecure Berths, for Freight, and for Bills, containing hours of 1t s, fares, See., apply at the Offices, 69, Lombard-street; 37, - 7M - circus ; awl 35, Leadenhall-street. kkIrIVERP, BRUSSELS: and the RHINE: Lona °4 CHANGE •.IN TIME OF STARTING. to COlogne in Thirty Fiours.—(Sea Passage Seven Hours The A only.) !seam ptwerp Company's r.,owerful, splendid, and very favourite (spi en ,n'D ANTWERPEN, THOMAS JACKSON Commander Ilrh s ,: i nlY decorated for the season), leaves the St. Katharine'. fro Tower, everyS'snday morning at Ten o'clock ; returning gteZ_Aentiverp every W , .... dnesday afternoon at Or o'clock. By this thi n and the ra'lroad from Antwerp, travellers going to the tion m ay reach Cologne in thirty hours. The general accommoda lkhes';r p as sengers rin board this renowned ship, as well as her spacious hor se . a nd private cabin s , ere en ti re l y unequa ll e d . C arr i ages and lta rti ; nlaY be sent to the Wharf np to one hour before the time of to me t 3 ; but a ll app li cat ' .ons for the shipment of goods must be thp re c ! the Loudon Agents, Messrs. Lightly and Simon, 123, Fen tireu.'6Btreet, where, as we ll as a t th e Packet Office, 33. RegeiA• tai.,,:'Piceadilly, berths may be secured and every information ob. r - tiE• LEEDS„ WAKEFIELD, and MIDLAND oti e JUNCTION RAILWAY. 400, e is heretbl given, that a MEETING of the SHARE of the LEEDS, WAKEFIELD, and MIDLAND JUNC ‘ Waken tAiLwA-L, COMPANY will be held at the Sessions House in o'cl oek e i l d, on ItiODAY, the 28th day of September instant, at One the a e ,,,, 11 the afternoon, for the purpose of laying before the meeting kid „"' Mtn 'of the receipts and expenditure of the said Company, bnde r l u d tterrrilning whether .the said company shall be dissolved the a f f pr'o'visions of the Statute 9 and 10 Viet., c 28, or, whether Mc 4' 4 said Company skall not be wound up, or whether it Coo of „el O . edient to prosecute the said railway in the ensuing ses tintr, rliament, and, if necessary, to empower the Directors to te„ nho arrangements with certain other Companies upon the r,jl;,3nd conditions to be laid before the said meeting, and.gene ktm transact all 'other business whatsoever that can be trans- Of 8; Wider th e prov i s i ons of the sa i d statute. Dated this 10th day Ot ettiber, 184 G. EDWARD TEW, Chairman. HENRY BERNERS, secretary. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW c„ A STLE•UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, aki ' T iv erPool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction, ,'aneashire and North Yorksh;re Railway Companies, now ai fiamated). 144 Register of Shares In this undertaking being now nearly com- Ntr a i• an holders of scrip who have not yet forwarded the same for re *lll i on ar next, e requested to do so lst day of OCTOBER without delay, as he share register L s absolutely closed on the after which irt ti„ tt il shares not t ransm itt e d f or th a t purpose will be registered 1 -11 ames of the ori g i na l a ll o tt ees . 4r, e„ r equested that the Scrip in the original Liverpool, Manches torw.,'NewcaStle upon-Tyne Junction Railway Compaq) , may be th e 4 , 9ei to the Secretary, at 22, Parliament•street, London, and toi t ‘ h eri l ) In the original Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway *lli ; M Y to the Secretary, at 31, Princess-street, Manchester, who Th e ' n ,d acknowlegtnent for the same. 'ead r ;ertiflcates under the common seal of the Company will be %th e .Z delivery in a short time, of which due notice will be given Sha reholders. By order, ( Signed) THOS. ROB. WILSON FRANCE, Chairman. W. 11. INGRAM } Secretaries. C. MOORE WILSON An ti at 11, 1846, itVSRN WALL RAILWAY. et Notice is hereby - Given, that the Act authorising the con teeson,,", of this Railway having received the Royal Assent, all ° 9oei: "Wing Scrip Certificates for Shares in this Company are iecl to transmit the same for Registration either to ihe - Secre- Ni...."'t his office, Truro, or to William Wood, Esq., 449, West 417. London on or before SATURDAY, the 19th of September tt e „ ' "th their names rofessions, and esidences distinctly lo order that the same may be r correctly , entered in lOr M i ster of the Company. An official receipt will be given SN' ed ue Scrip, which receipt will be afterwards exchanged for the Nike Certificates with as little delay as the preparation of the litlemesn'ayrequire. Due notice will be given when the Sealed Cer shar W ill be re4dy for delivery. hel". in respect of which no application for registery shall be 0 ,,, °! ! or before the above date, will be registered in the name of " 1 4 ty,gmal subscriber, after which no share can be passed other. d s or,„l 4 by a formal transfer under the provisions of the Act. "mer t t;: of letters claiming' to be registered may be - had at the Ane,„'Y's Office, Truro , or at 449, West Strand, London. N otice is hereby further Given, that ir.terest after the rate of t klit r annum will be allowed on the deposits paid upon all Cs t ,„ red shares from the following times, viz., from the Ist of De iikitue, 1 844, on the deposit of 3/. per share on 50/. shares ; and 4 0t. ist of N ovember, 1845, on the deposit of 2/. per share on kal e - ,, r es, and of 21: 10s. shares.' The interest will be i th r to the 29th September next, and the interest warrants will e a soon alter the cempletion of the registration. By order of the Board, August IR, 1546. P. P. SMITH, Secretary pro tem. ALANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON At RAIL PAY. 40 1. a y e W b tp very numerous and Influential MEETING of SCRIP- p at 4 ss thig Company, held 'this day at Herbert's Hotel, 'Yard, Westminster, pursuant to public advertisement,' , r . Sir JOHN BARKER MILL, Baronet, in the Chair. tiorig? ° e rt from the directors having been read, the following resolu -410,re.. .m un animously adopted 41:"Y the Chairman of the Company, Sir JOHN BARKER MILL , t the 41 Sece re nded Y RovrE, Esq., High Bailiff of Cheltenham, i 'v ogst the shire}ow read be received and printed for distribution eyedolders, J AMES WILKINSHAW, Esq., and seconded by Lord h„ T hat thi s it ERNEST BRUCE, M.P., adyce atet nting declares its deliberate opinion to be that the dtzzl o ught to 3' th is Company is called for by the public interests, entate path a e ni n lade, and that nothing occurred in the course of valtu:it the sh at i tacy proceedings which at all effects the confl ,.,_ ettolders in the soundness ur me undertaking as a 4 " v ed by G tli ont. e nnui therefore G:r ThORNTON, Esq., and seconded by WILLIAM LANKESTER, Esq., Va. ni g SeSSIOH, renewed With application be made to Parliament in the or an Act to uthorise the construct - on of the ran k Su a • if as to the directors ay see „,, C Changes and modifications, klit iori ." . 'fleet ; and that the directors be, a a i n lY d' they are hereb y their riled to take such steps, based upon the suggestions containe d in t tBol ,: t e,DOrt, as they may think fit, with a view to give effect to this 111 4 1"°n, awl that they be further authorised to allow dissentient id ecoltiers to witht;raw, and the scrip tie re-issued in such manner kiv,,Urol Stich terms as they shall think expedient. by JOSIAH GEORGE, Esq.; and seconded by SAINSBURY, Esq. tl?t the thanks of this meeting be presented to the Directors for 11 14 r er gY and abilitwith which they have devoted themselves to li.tiviterests of this C oompany, and f.r the tender of continued service eh their report of this day contains. Th e (Signed) J. B. MILL. utart ua irman having vacated the chair, and Lord Er nest Bruce It w ' a r t o een. called thereto— ulcived b y RALPH ETWALL, Esq., M.P. ; seconded by HENRY Th a „ NEWBERY, Esq., and unanimoutly resolved : ` s llhl i. t t ue cordial and united thanks of this Meeting be given to Sir Bart., for his able and satisfactory conduct in the chair. (Signe . tl) ERNEST BRUCE. JOHN WHEELER, Secretary. Get George-street, Westminster, September, 15, 1846. MOND CARCEL LAMP—NEW LIGHT. ~*?rid . .,b r e h e DIAMOND CARPEL LAMP is the best light in the b ut Carcel Lamp is used in all the Palaces in Europe ;it burns ;Zth ~n 3 free from all imperfections of ordinary 01l lamps ; burns t , 141 11_, 4 4 : e t till morning without attention ; is so simple it cannot he ,:q o led ;no cleaning required for years. he Gem, the Vesta. a b, s 'oer Spirit or Camphine Lamps given awa. at half-price. but %I: I :illations are dear at a gilt. The Diamond Cared Lamp is ght—perfectien in light—the public will have none other. ‘ 4 , th e . ; to Snit every taste. To be had only, and seen burning daily ••?.. °. 3 r ro A TENTEE'S Immense Lamp Depot, 447, West Strand, ten Lowther Arcade. ANT S SUPPLIE D. I WANT A HAT ! I want a Hat ! and off 111 start For MOSES' celebrated Mart, Since I have often heard it said, That Hats from MOSES "go a-head." I WANT A COAT. I want a Coat, whose charming style Makes all with admiration smile ; And, therefore, I at once will search; For MOSES, facing Ahlgate Church, I WANT A VEST. I want a Vest—a well-made Vest, With quality the very best ; And, therefore, I shall purchase one Of, you know whom—E. M. and SON. I WANT A PAIR OF TROWSERS. I want a pair of trowsers, made Better than any in the trade ; And as I want them cheap as well, I'll try what Messrs. HOSE A sell. Yes, I will hie where crowds have bled, And have my various "wants supplied." LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. T s. d, ed Taglioni ....... ..... from 0 7 6 terlield and Codrington Tagßonn ........ •••• •• • • 0 18 6 Amer Coats in every description and make, including Blouses gistered Coat • •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 01 203 R ,.,n every material .......... •• • • • • • • • • • • from AP , Mid pattern Summer Vests • ...... 0 2 3 aghtuere and Persian ditto, in endless variety • • 0 4 6 Black and Fancy Satin, ditto .. ...• .• •••.••• • • • • • • • 0 6 0 Dress Coats ..• •••••••• • • • • • • . ••• • • • ..... • • 1 0 0 MADE TO MEASURE. O ats, of every material adapted for the season, in any n 2ariety of style and fashion, to order from 0 16 0 CVests, 6s. 6d. each, or three for.. • • tu a s ,liniere ditto, in every variety of pattern ..........0 8 6 jitn ditto, plain and fancy .• • 0 14 6 g` , % Cloth or Casimere ditto • • .... •• • • .... •• • • .... 0 8 0 „,, Black Single-milled ditto • ...•• 0 13 6 Eir,.,3 Trousers, in every pattern. .......• •. 0 10 6 "I'e-Milled and Albert Victoria ditto • • ...... ••• • .. 0 19 0 I,)est Slack Dress ditto ••••••••• • • • • • •• .............. 1 6 0 1); . ?,_ Coats •••••••••••• • • • • • • • •• • •••••• • • ,• 1 12 0 ", best manufactured ••••••••••••• • • • • • •• •• • • • • 2 15 0 ~Ck Coats , best manufactured .. •••••••••••••• •• • • • • • • • • 3 3 0 An Mourning, to any extent , at fiv e m i nutes notice. Vflu Litrticie purchased or made to measure, if Rot approved of, immediate) y exchanged, or the money returned. er ig _ MOSES and SON, Tailors , Wo oll e n D rapers , Hat• e vlothiers, Outfitters, and general W arehousemen, re g ret to be itb a ed to guard the public against imposition, but, having learned tits% the nntradesmanlike falsehood of " being connected with lota , or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many in let), ee ,.2 , and for obvious reasons, they h ave no connexion with A nnet house in or out of London. u. those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should, to prevent Lenl D°l titment, call at or send to the Miaories, and Aldgate, C ity, —SES and SON. Tailors. Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers, 4,4 Ou tfitters , Nos. 154, 155, 156, 157, Minories, and 83, 84, 85; bt: Aldgate, City, London. AldgateiclThe entrance to the Bespoke Department is at 84, Fri o bus'ness transacted at this Establishment from sunset cn at evening till sunset on Saturday evening, Jaen it is reamed o'clock ylsiti LADIES TRAVELLING, PIZ the Sea Coast, or otherwise exposed to the scorching rays of Sun will find OWLAND'S the KAL , YDOR a most refreshing tbo r Preparation for tLe Complexion, dispelling the cloud of lat!- lit e l” ' a nd relaxation , allaying all heat and irritability, and immedi 'affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity of S kin.Dtb. The numerous vari.ties of Cutaneous Eruptions, Sun b3 t Tan, and Discolouratlens, are pleasingly eradicated Puri f I( alydor, and the skin rendered delicately soft and clear. Its tic% i Y,'ng and refreshing properties have obtained its exclusive selee he3:the Court and the Royal Family of Great _Britain, and those to er , Continent of Europe, together with the " elite" of the Aris br,:e.Y and " Uaute Volee," from the sultry climes of India, and the eza,... ln g - rooms of Calcu!ta and Madras, to the frozen realms of the a lb f s aild the Salons of St. Peteraburgh and Moscow.—Price 4s. 64. ik 6 d. per bottle. geti, Be ware of spurious "Kalydors" containing mineral astrin 'l Utterly ruinous to the complexion, and hich by their repel action, endanger health. The only gen w uine , has the words IL,W W LAND'S KALYDORP on the wrapper, and A. ROWLAND 1/ 04. 5( 2 1 g, 20, Rattan-garden. is also engraved (by desire of the bottl e '" n anissioners) on the Goverrunent Stamp affixed on each Bold ltin e. ), - 7 the Proprietors, and by respectable Chemists and Per- All oth Kalydors" are fraudulent counterfeits, The WINTER SESSION will commence on THURSDAY, October Ist, 184 d, with an Introductory Address by Mr. Paget, at Seven o'clock p.m. LECTURES. MEDICINE—G. Burrows, M.D. SURGERY—WiIIiam Lawrence, F.R.S. DESCRIPTIVE AN TOM—F. C. Skey, F.R.S. PHYSIOLOGY and MORBID ANATOMY—Mr. Paget. SUPERINTENDENCE of DISSECTIONS—Mr. M'Whinnie and • Mr.' Holden. CHEMlSTRY—Mr.'Griffihs. MATERIA MEDICA—G..L. Reupell, M.D., R.R.S. MIDWIFERY, • Rigby, M.D., F.L.S, SUMMER SESSION, 1847, commencing May Ist. Farre, M.D., .F.LIS. • FORENSIC MEDICINE—W. Daly, M.D. MIDWIFERY, &c.—E. F.L.S. COMPARATIVE ANATOMY—Mr. M'Whinnle. XRACTICAL CHEMISTRY abd NATURAL PHILOSOPHY— Mr. Grifilt! s: Hospital Practice.—The Hospital contains 530 beds, and relief is afforded to 48,0'00 palients - annually. The in-patients are visited daily by the Physfeians and Surgeons, and during the Summer Ses sion four Clinical Lectures are delivered weekly—those on the medical cases .by Dr. Barmen and Dr..G. Burrows ; those on the surgical cases by Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Stanley. The out patients are also daily attended by the assistant Phisician and assistant Surgeon. Colieglate Establishment.--:Warden, Mr. Paget.—Students can reside w;thin - the Hospital walls, subject to the rules of the collegiate system, established under the direction of the Treasurer and a Com mittee of the Governorwef-the Hospital. Some of the teachers and other gentlemen, connected with the Hospital, also receive students Ao reside with them. _ Schohir'ships, Prizes itc.—At the end of the Winter Session the - ahnual*Fxantination will be 'held for a Scholarship, of the value of '45/. a-year, and tenable fbr three years. The Examination for the Wix, Bentley, .and-Collegiate Prizes, and those of all the Classes for Prizes atui,Certificates•of Merit, will take place at the same time. Further information_n:ay, be obtained from any of the Medical or Surgical Officers or Lecturers, on application at the Anatomical - Musetuh, or the Library of*the College. ATIONAL 1,0A.N FUND LIFE ASSUR --ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIIILL 1.0ND014. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act or Parliament. This Institution embraCesiMportant and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurancei Ent Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all oceasions, the - pourer to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums 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 has 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. Bonus Bonus ha g Assured_ Premium. dded Cash. E maY a 0a • • • - pc3 Borrow. Xs.d. 18371 18381 1839 18491 1841 £217 15 1 1 £100 0 111 192 3 0 87 1 4 165 11 10 74 1 9 116 7 6 54 0 10 I'll 6 8, 49 10 0, Xl6 0 4:X445 0 0 13 10 2! 395 11 1 11 3 lf 346 2 3 718 10 296 13 4 710 4! 247 4 5 .60'1000 3 4 1.1 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in December of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. U NITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. •• • Established - by Act of Parliament in 1834. DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED. DIRECTORS. JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman MANANEL• DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Samuel Anderson, Esq'. Hamilton B. Avarne, Esq Edward Boyd, Esq., Resident E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Assistant- Resident Charlei Downes, Esq. Surgeon—F. Hale Thomson, Esq., 48, Berners-street. Charles Graham, Esq. F. Charles Maitland, Esq. William Raiiton, Esq. John Ritchie, Esq. F. H. Thomson, Esq. This Company, eStablished by Act of Parliament, affords the most "pt , "fect security in - a large paid- up Capital, and in the great success - which .has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its annual income being upwards of 82;00/. . . In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 2/. per cent. per annum on die min assured to all policies of the participating class from the time they'iveriifte-cted. The &Mos Added' to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of De csmheri 1840, is as follows: - Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sum added to Policy. - £5,000 •• .• ••-- 6 years 10 months •• •. .£683 6 8 5,000 ...... •. 6 years • • • • .... 600 0 0 5,000 .... •.• • 4 years ........ • ..... 400 0 0 5,000 •. ••.• •• 2 years ........ ••• • • • 200 , 0 0 The premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and -only one-half need be paid for the first• five years, where the insu rance is for life. f 'Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, Lodon. PUBLICATIONS. ARITHMETIC FOR YOUNG LADIES. Now ready, in foolscap Bvo., price ss. cloth, a N ew Editi on o f THE LADY'S PRACTICAL ARITHME TICIAN; or, Conversational Arithmetic, in which all the Rules are explained in easy and familiar Language : to which is added, a Short History of the Coinage, with Tables of the Weights and Measures of the Ancients. Adapted to the use of Ladies' Schools and Private Families. By Mrs. HENRY AYRES, Authoress of " Addresses to the Young." 2d Edition. *** A Key to this Work is in preparation. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. NEW WORK ON TIIE FOOD OF ANIMALS AND FATTEN This na ts ING OF CATTLE. _ y EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES on the FOOD of ANIMALS and the FATTENING of CATTLE : with Remarks on the Food of Man. By ROBERT DUNDAS TIIOMSO.T, M.D. of the University of Glasgow. " The question of the origin of the fat of animals appears to be completely resolved by these beautiful and elaborate expert ments."—Baron Liebig. • London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Just published, price 6d. plain, or Is. coloured (6d. extra if sent by post), THE ORGANIC THEORY of DOCTORS EXPOSED by the THIRD HYGEIAN PRINT, illustrating the variourways in which the Medical Profession - (as a body) are in terested in keeping up and teaching a false theory in Medicine, and also in using rank poisons in Medicine. This print tends more to open the eyes of the public to wrong medical treatment than any which has yet appeared. May be had at - the 'firitish College of Health, New• road; and at re Hygeist Office, 368, Strand, London. - It is the third illustration brought out by the British College of Health on this important question. " NEW MIYSICAL PERIODICAL. On the First of October will be published, price 6d., printed from En craved Plates, on paper of the usual ;Ingle size, No. I, of dE MUSIC BOOK, a Weekly Periodical of ORIGINAL' Mini by the mast Eminent Composers, com prising Mrs. a Beckett, Balfe, Benedict, Alex. Lee, E. Loder, F. G. Reed, J. IL Tully,.V. Wallace., &c. No. L will contain " SING, MAIDEN, SING," the words (by permission) by Barry Cornwall, the music by Balfe. - London : publ!shed at the Office of The Music Book, St. Bride's Avenue, Fleet-street. and ao'd by all Booksellers and Newsmen; of whom, and at the office, Prospectuses may be had. PRICE EIGHTPENCE-HALFPENNY. H E PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. Part %111., for SEPTEMBER, contains : ENGRAVINGS. llaydon's Dentatns. , r Joshua Reynold's Infant Hercules. Portrait of Father Mathew, with Memoir, by William Howitt. Scott Memorial, Edinburgh. Faust and Margaret, by Scheffer. ORIGINAL PAPERS. Harriet Martineau's Survey from the Mountain, Lake and Moun tain llolydays, and Household Education. The Kafirs of the Cape of Good Hope, by G. C. Munro. Story of a Penny, by Mary Leman GiHies. William Howitt on Flogging ; on Grey, the Author of the Railway System; 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. Mazzlni ; No. 1. Poems, Tales, Essays, 8r..c., by H. 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. SILVER TEA SERVICES OF NEW PATTERNS. B. - SAVORY - and SONS, Working 1. Silversmiths, 14, Cornkill, London, opposite the Bank, respectfully inform their customers that they have recently finished a few new desi g ns, in accordance with the present improved taste, and that they are sold at reduced prices from those customary in the trade. Uxbridge Pattern. Thalia Pattorn. Strong Pilver Tea Pot.. £lO IS 0 -ltrong Sliver Tea P0t..£13 0 0 Ditto Sugar Basin.... 614 (' Ditto Sugar Basin.... 711 0 Ditto Cream Jug .... • 410 (3 Ditto Cream Ewer•... 5 2 0 Ditto Coffee Pot ..... 14 10 0 Ditto Coffee Pot.-- 16 17 0 Complete ••• • • • 12 Complete •• • . £42 10 0 A variety of upwards of Fifty Silver Tea and Coffee Services may be seen b. the Show-rooms, and on application the illustrated Price Current, containing drawings, with the weights and prices of recent designs, will be forwarded to any part of Great Britair, Ireland, India, or the colonies. Drawback on Silver Plate exported Is. Gd. per ounce. - - TH.E UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER. 30 to - 50 per Cent. Saved! To be had at the Patentees. 60, St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross. The Patentees beg to call public attention to the following facts, the advantages resulting from the invention are various and striking. independently of a saving of 30 to 50 per cent„ the com bustion is perfect, and the brilliancy produced superior to any light hitherto discovered. it emits neither smell nor smoke, and burns steadily for any period ; and such is its purity, that it neither affects or soils-the most delicate colour or the fittest fabric. Objections have made to the introduction of gas' in dwelling-houses, to the expense of fittings, to its destruction of furniture, draperies, gold moulding, &c.; these are entirely obviated by the "PATENT UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER." As the cost of laying on gas is muck lower than is com monly supposed, it is adapted for private dwellings, as well as for club-houses, hotels, manufactories, and public buildings. One of the small burners is amply sufficient to light a good-sized room, at a sum immeasurably lower than spirit, oil, or candle, with the avoidance:of waste or trouble. The merits of the " Burner," its brilliancy and economy surpassing every other known light, are shown by the annexed authentic opinions of the qualities of the UNIVERSAL GAS. BURNER. Extract from the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Tuesday, 26th May; 184 G, Sirdoux RENNIE,Pre3MPTIii in the Chair. " A gas burner of a novel and ingenious construction wa.s exhibited. The principal novelty was the introduction of a s'reain of air to the centre of the flame by a hollow butt on i n the middle of the burner. The air passing up through the holloW stem of the button, was heat ed, and passed out by two series of fire-holes around the periphery', and impinging with force on the flame of the gas curved it outwards in the shape of a tulip, while the oxygen of the air, mingling with the carburetted hydrogen gas, produced a very p,thct combustion, The flame was quite white down the top of the burner, w2s very steady, as was amply demonstrated by the excellent light of the Institution; where these burners have been used. In comparing the consumption of these burners with that of the concentric ring burners, and trying the power of the two Dollish) , the photometer, the new burner gave a better light, with a saving of rather more than one-third." CERTIFICATE. POLYTECHNIC CHEMICAL ScnooL.—" In testing Clark, "Me Niel], and Co,'s Universa )Gas Burner with one of the best shawdowloss turners, It gave a more pure and brilliant light, with a saving of 20 to 25 per cent." GEORGE CRISI', Engineer, ROUT. LONGBOTTOM, Secretary, REMOVAL. DR. CULVERWELL has REMOVED to No. 10, ARGYLL-PLACE. EGENT-STREET, (leading to Great 3 farlborough-street,) where he may be consulted, as usual, I)aily till Three, and in the Evening from Seven till Nine ; and where also his several publications, of which entirely new and en larged editions have recently been published, may be obtained. TO be PEREMP FORILY SOLO, pursuant to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a Cause of " BATTEN v. PARFITT," with the approbation of Sir GIFFIN. WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at the White Hart Inn, Glastonbury, in the county of Somerset, on THURSDAY, the 24th day of September, 1846, at Three o'clock in the afternoon, in 13 lots. • A FREEHOLD ESTATE, called the GLASTONBURY PARK ESTATE, comprising a farm-house and buildings, and about 170 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture ground, including Weary-All- Hill, situate in the united parishes of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Benedict Glastonbury, in the Eastern Division of the County of Somerset. Particulars and conditions of sale, with plan, may be obtained (gratis) at the said Master's office, in Southampton -buildings, Chan cery-lane, London ; of Messrs. Clowes, Wedlake, and Co. 10, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London ; o f M r . J o h n B atten, jun., ; of Messrs. Wiglesworth, Ridstiale, and Co. 5, Gray's Inn-squa re , London; of Sir. Raven, 2, King's Bench-walk, London ; of Messrs. Newman and Lyon, solicitors, Yeovil; of Mr. Short, solid tor, Bristol; of Mr. Pratt, solicitor, Glastonbury; of Messrs. • lark, Gray; and Woco'cock, 20, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; of Messrs. Cooke and Sons, solicitors, Bristol ; at the Commercial Rioms, Bris. tol ; the White Hart Inn, Bath; the Castle Inn, Taunton; the Cla rence Inn, Bridgewater, the Swan Inn, Wells; and at the place Cf sale. The estate may be viewed on application to Mr. Thomas Coiner, at the farm-house; or to Mr. A. Bailey; at the White Hart Inn, Glastonbury. , • CLOWES, WEDLAKE, and CLOWES, Temple, London, ... Plaintiffs Agents, CERTIFICATE, " In a series of experiments made upon Clark, Sic Niel!, and Co.'s Patent Universal Gas Burner, its superiority was satisfactorily esta Wished In economy and the quality of the li,ht. Tested against argand burn rs, Nos. 4 (12 boles), and 6 (15 holes), it afforded a saving of at least 25 per cent., and against three fish-tall burners, N. 4, 40 per cent. The colour and brilliancy of the flame is supe rior to any other burlier." T. W. REATES, Consulting Chemist, J. D. PALMER, Mechanical Inspector. The UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER is used nightly at the Poly teghnie Institution, and may be had and seen from 11 till 4, at the Pdtentees, 60, St. martin's - la ne, Charing-cross and of all Gas Fitters. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 14. STOCK EXCHANGE,—The sales arc—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, dis.—Boston, Staniford, and Birmingham, Us. 6d. dis.—Cam bridge and Oxford, par—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1 9-16 p.—East Lancashire (late Blackburn and Preston), 8 p.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 71—Iludderstield, Halifax, and Bradford, 2% p.—Hud dersfleld and Manchester Railway and Canal Extension, 9-16 Kendal and Windermere, % di s .—L ee d s, Dews b ury, and Manches ter, 2% p.—Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Southport, % London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters (V), 8 p.—London and York % dis.— Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 7% p.—Ditto, Ex tension, 2 p.—Manchester and Southampton, 34 c. dia.—North Western, % p.—Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., % dis.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (B), 5-16 p: -Ditto, Sixths, 54 —Sheffield and Man chester, Quarters, No. 3, par—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, % dia.—Trent Valley, Midlands, &c. % p.— West Riding Union, 2% p. • _ • LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 31s. p.—East Lancashire, 8% c. p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Docks, 40s. c. dis.-:- Huddersfield and Manchester. 1•U c. D. Leeds and Dewsbury, 2 % —Ditto, Branches, 2% C. p..—Leeds anti Thirsk, 4% c. dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, 12 1 4 c. p.—North Bri tish, Half Shares, 5 p.—Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 545. Gd. p.—York and Newcastle, New, 91. 18s. 9d. p.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, I2s. dis.-litheroe Junction I dis.—Grand Union, 15s. din. s.— Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 16s. dis: s. —Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 28s. dis. —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 14s. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, Us. dis.—London and York, 10s. dis. Mallon and Driffield Junction, 12s. p. —Manchester, Buxton, Mat• lock, and Midland, 265. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p. —North Western, Is. 6d. p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole. 12s. dis..— Shropshire Union, 3s. Gd. dis.—West Hiding Union, 4/. 13s. s. HULL; SEPTEMBER 14. STocK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Boston, Stamford, and Bir mingham, I is.—East Lincolnshire, 12s. 6d.—Leicester and Bedford, 10s. 9d. —North Western, 225. Gd. p.—Shropshire Union, 3s. 6d. Ws.— West Riding Union, 4%. SIIEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 14. STOCK EXCUANGE.—The sales are—Great Grimsby and Sheffiell Extensions, 19s. dis.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9s. dis. —Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, Is. p.—North Western, Is. 6d. p.—Sheffield and Lincoln, Bs. dis. —Ditto, Extension, 14s. dis. YORK, SEPTEMBER 14. STock Excnetroz.—The sales are —Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 2 1 ,6—Ipswich and Bury (Cambridge and Ely). 144 —Leicester and Bedford, I Is. Gd. —Leicester, Tamworth, &c., 2—London and York, 2 —Malton and DriMeld Junction, 2% Newcastle and Ber wick, 27%--North British. 37%—Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 3/. 18s.—North Staffordshire, s%—Sheffield, Rotherham, &c., 2—West Riding Union, 4/. I Is. 6d.—York and Newcastle, New, 10% —York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 12%. BANK OF ENGLAND, SEPT. 10, 184 G. HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the GO .YERNOR and COMPANY of the DANK of ENGLAND give notice, that a GENERAL COURT will be held at the Bank on TimasnAr NEXT, the 17th instant, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to copsidcr of a Dividend. This will also be one of the QUarterly General Courts appointed by the Charter. •JOEIN KNIGHT, Secretary. BILLS. OF EXCHANGE.-FRAUD.- TO RANKERS, BILL BROKERS, DISCOUNTERS, AND OTHERS. ..Two SILTS of EXCIttNGE for 250/. each, bearing date the 28th or 29th of August, 1846; . draint upon and accepted by the Rev. Francis Glossop, at four moths after date, payable at Messrs. Young and Fallings', St. M dared's-court, Poultry, London, having been OBTAINED by means of conspiracy and FALSE REPRESEN TATIONS made to the acceptor, the Rev. Francis Glossop, of West Eieati, Wiltshire, all persons are hereby cautioned against receiving, negotiating, or iii 'any manner dealing with the said Bills of Ex change, or either of them. For further information, &c., apply to Messrs. Bush and Mulins, solicitors, No. 7, St.. Mildred's-c ourt, Poultry, London. INVENTORS and DEPOSITORS o f WORK, ISG MODELS and of other Specimens of the Useful Arts (a; 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. COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC POR TRAITS by the improved process which Mr. BEARD (the sole Patentee of the Daguerrcotye), has recently introduced, are taken daily at 85, King William •street, City; 34, Parliament-street, Westminster; and at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent street. " We have been much pleased with the inspection of some pc , rtraits taken by Mr. Beard. They exhibit a degree of boldness, and stand ut with a relief greatly desiderated in all the earliest specimens ; while the method of colouring renders them agreeable and life like." HOT WEATHER.—TRAVELLING.SEA SIDE.—The REGISTER') 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 1). NICOLL, 114, Regent-street." HEREFORD MUSIC MEETING. HEREFORD, SATURDAY.—The meeting of the three choirs of Hereford, Gloucester, and Worcester, for 1846, has now closed, and has proved successful beyond the most . Sangnine expectations of all parties interested. The collections for the charity for the relief of clergy men's widows and orphans have exceeded considerably those of former meetings, and so well has the festival been attended on each day—the first concert proving the only exception—that it is expected that the receipts will fully defray the expenses of the professionals, fittings-up, advertising, &c. Should this turn out to be the case it will form a novel feature in the history of these festivals, for hitherto there has always been a deficiency in this respect, and the stewards of the meeting have been called upon to make up the difference out of their private purses. Hence it is, that gentlemen have always been very reluctant to undertake the duties and respon sibilities of the stewardship of these meetings ; and the highest praise is due to the half-dozen gentlemen who have so nobly taken upon them selves these responsibilities on the present occasion. The stewards of the meeting just closed are the Venerable the Archdeacon Vickers, the Rev. R. L. Frier, D.D., Rector of Bishopstone ; the Rev. W. Hassell, Rector of Nurch Dewchurch; Joseph Bur ley, jun., Esq., M.P. for Herefordshire; Robert Puls • ford, Esq., M.P, for Hereford ; and W. Lacon Childe, Esq., of Kinlet-hall, .`Salop. Of course it will be readily understood, that the accounts of the festival cannot as yet have been made up, but there is reason to believe, that while a very considerable sum will be realised for the Clergy Widows and Orphans' Charity, the expenses of the meeting will be defrayed (or nearly so) by the receipts for admission tickets to the cathedral, concert room, and ball-room. Yesterday, as was anticipated would be the case, proved the crowning day. The Mes -s..lah is a sure card—if we may speak thus irreverently of this great work—in the provinces. It is the first point of attraction with the young, and the old gladly avail themselves of every opportunity afforded them of listening to this well-remembered oratorio. The fine old cathedral—though at present in a sadly dilapi dated condition—was crowded by a fashionable and - most attentive company. With regard to the execu tion of this immortal masterpiece of Handel yesterday, - to be brief, it was as near perfection as the fallibility of human powers would admit of. The chief parts were, as a matter of course, allotted to the leading vocalists and instrumentalists ; and, well acquainted as they are with every bar of the music in the oratorio, there were but few points at which the most fastidious critic coull carp. Altogether the oratorio, which was given entire, went off admirably. The choruses were not so massive as those commonly heard at Exeter Hall, or at the Norwich or Birmingham festivals ; but they were, nevertheless, sufficiently full to give a grandeur and so lemnity to the music which never can be attainad in any plaCe so well as in a cathedral. There were only one or two slight hitches in the many choruses of this oratorio ; but the " Hallelujah," " And the glory," For unto us," All .we, like sheep," "The Lord gave the word," " Their sound is gone out," and the con cluding- chorus, " Worthy is the Lamb," were given with most impressive grandeur and effect. The Messiah formed the e hole of the morning's performance, and was not concluded until four o'clock in tho afternoon. At its cl , q,e the company proceeded to recruit them s• lees fOr the evening's concert, which was again well attended. The first part of the concert consisted of meodelssohn's music to Midsummer Night's Dream ; the Earl of Mernington's favourite glee, •• 0 Bird of Eve," admirably sung by Miss Birch, Miss Dolby, Messrs. Lockey, Hobbs,. and Phillips ; and Mozart's pianoforte concerto in D minor, by Mr. Hatton. The second part of the concert consisted of a miscellaneous col lection of music. The Zampa overture, with which it commenced, was an easy task in the hands of the picked men of the orchestra, who made the best of what the matter admitted. Ths pretty madrigal, " Flora gave me," which followed, afforded much pleasure to the audience. These old pieces are now becoming general favourites, not only with the -general public, but with the musical . portion of it, who find, in some of these scraps of out. of date music, merits of a far more sterling character than can be discovered in much of the trash of modern days. Ito the air, " Regnava nel silenzio " from L uc i a de Lammermoor, Miss Birch fully developed he r wonder ful powers, and both ast , )nished and pleased her audience. ' Miss Dolby's ballad, "Primroses deck," was also a favourite, a were the Misses Williams's duet, and Miss A. Williams's song, " The home of love," with Mr. Williams's obligate accompaniment. The co ncer t may be said to have been well closed by the song (Phillips) and. chorus, " Haste thee, nymph." Phillips seemed quite himself in this sparkling and delicious bit of Handel's composition, and in the laughing chorus many of the audience (as u4ual) found themselves involuntarily joining. The virtual close of the music was the national anthem, as it was originally composed by Dr. Bull, • formerly organist of Hereford Cathedral. There was a ball after this, concert, as was the case on Thursday night. , Both were well attended, and dancing was kept up till an early hour in the morning. Adams's band attended. LAYING the FOUNDATION -STONE OF THE NEW WORKS AT MORICE TOWN, DEVONPORT. (From the Second Edition of the Devonport Independent.) On Saturday the foundation-stone of the new dock yard works for steam-ships, at Morice-town, near Devonport, was laid by the Earl of Auckland, the First Lord of the Admiralty. The site of the new steam-yard comprises 74i- acres. Referring to the present position of the undertaking, we may allude to the date of the commencement of opera tions. On the 19th of November, 1844, the first spade was pat into _the earth, when the foundation for the offices of the clerks, of the works was begun. There was nut much done beyond inspecting, planning, &c., for several weeks, but the 30th of January., 1845, the first pile, which is technically termed the Dolphin pile, was firmly driven. This was the commencement of the great preliminary labour, the formation of the coffer dam. Nasmyth's tilt hammer was then used, and on the sth of February the first engine was set in action. to the astonishment of all who witnessed its powers of performanot especially those who took the opportunity to contrast them with those of the old monkeys. It is not necessary to enter into a description of the inven tion here; the majority of our readers at least. are no doubt well acquainted with it; snffice it to say, that within a few mouths the great coffer-dam was effectually completed, and the water-washed foundation quite dry, although the dam is of 1,600 feet, and 8,000 loads of timber have been used in its construction. The saving of money, not less than time, occasioned by the employ ment of the tilt hammer, must have been extraordinary, yet it is said that the cost has exceeded 130,000!. in all. Over the wurks is a complete net of railways, as the phrase is, the lines intersecting each other in all direc tions, there being as many as nearly thirteen miles laid. The rapidity with which heavy weights are transported is consequently very great, and it is exceedingly inte resting to notice the way in which things are managed, especially the traversing of the piles by the traveller. The excavations have been astonishingly rapid, the ground being of a soft clayey nature, for the most part of the character of a marine deposit. Up to the present time about 200,000 cubic feet of granite, and more than 400,000 cubic feet of limestone, have been delivered at the works. Tickets were issued by Messrs. Baker to a very large party of the elite of the neighbourhood, including the whole of the authorities, to witness the ceremony, and afterwards to partake of a dejeuner a la fourekette. These parties, a great number of whom arrived in carriages, were admitted at the entrance near the Canal, and they were somewhat prepared for the scene inside the yard by the gay decorations of William-street, Morice-town, from most of the houses of which flags and banners of all descriptions were exhibited. At the extreme end the band of Royal Marines was stationed, and continued to play several choice musical compositions. On a railway carried along upon wooden piers was placed the " traveller," from which the foun dation stone was to be lifted into its place. Flags were floating over various parts of the works, nor was the triumph-symbol, the fresh hale laurel, wanting to en hance the beauty of the tout ensemble. Persons possessing tickets were admitted at twelve o'clock, and at one the gates were thrown open for the public generally, and though they had not the advantage of seats, they could command a view of the proceedings almost as well as their more fortunate neighbours. About this time the scene was exceedingly animated. The large spac e was fill e d w i t h spectators, who were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty. The fact of their Lordships lsulding at the works was announced by the Admiralty's flag being hoisted at the adjacent engine -house. At a quarter after one their Lordships, who had been received. by Mr. Baker, pro ceeded to the sit e o f t h e dock. r.The Right Hon. Earl Auckland, the F:rst Lord of, pie: Admiralty, with Miss West, the daughter of our galliint Port Admiral, first entered the inclosure, folilaved by Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., and Lady West, Admiral Sir C. Adam, Sir Samuel Pym, and Mrs. Drake, Captain Berkeley, M.P., Hon. IV. Cowper, M.P., H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P., of Captain Burgmann, RE, Resident Directo r o f th e Works, Captain Eden, R.N., Private Secretary to the First Lon!, Henry Wolley, Chief Clerk, Captain Dixon, H.M.S. Caledonia, Commander Potbury, &c. Precisely at 25 minutes past one the stone was lifted, and the Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland (the coins having been deposited) spread the cement with a silver trowel, when the order was given to " lower." The stone was then firmly fixed, and the Nable Earl having used the mallet in accordance with the usual custom, and tried the level, was satisfied that all was right, and the stone was declared to have been laid, the band playing " God save the Queen." A round of cheers was then given. The ,tight Hon. the Earl of AUCKLAND then offered a few remarks, to the following effect :—liis Lordship said, Mr. Baker, before I conclude this ceremony, allow me to express the high gratification that I have expe rienced in having had the honourable duty imposed upon me of laying the first stone of these great works. I re gard it as among the greatest of the national works, commenced within my recollection. Notwithstanding all that has been done in former years, it was " the one thing wanting " to render complete the great Naval Arsenal of Devonport, and I must, as an act of justice, say, that it is due to my "predecessors in office, that this work has been commenced ; great as are the naval resources of this arsenal, they were certainly incomplete as long as the dockyard was deficient of a basin, in which steamer., requiring repairs, could enter, and of the factories, by the means of which steam engines could be effectually made. I must also say that to Cap tain Burgmann and to Captain Brandreth, to whose energy and skill we are indebted for the plans of these works, our thanks are due. To you, sir, whose talent and activity have bean exhibited in so conspicuous a manner, in executing the duty that has devolved on you, I have also to present our thanks, and I would also offer the meed of praise that is due to all who have been concerned in these works. I might name especially, Mr. Corry, the late Se cretary of the Admiralty, who brought forward the plan and to whose information lam so greatly indebted. As respects the Lords of the Admiralty, we shall earnestly do all in our power to promote the interest of this na tional undertaking, and to forward it in the best possible way, and I trust encouragement will not in any way be wanting to induce those whose efforts have been so pro ductive, to continue their exertions. It may not be un interesting to those present to learn that this work has now been commenced but a little more than one year, and yet within this short space of time the ground has been inclosed, no less than 630,000 cubic feet of stone have been accumulated around us, and upwards of twelve miles of railway have been laid. In less than three years we may hope to see one of her Majesty's steamers sailing into this basin and laying here for the purpose of under going repairs. In less than three years from that time we rnayshope to see the factories constructed for the pur pose of completin f ; all the engines that may be requisite. I am confident it is by such preparations as these that we can best secure the honour of this country should war ever unfortunately arise, and at the same time it is by these means that we have the best guarantee for the happy continuance of peace. The assembled multitude then loudly cheered his Lordship, and the band struck up " Rule Britannia." Their Lordships and those of the spectators (about 200) who had received invites, then proceeded to the model room, there to discuss THE DEJEUNER. This had been laid out by Mr. Moorshead in his usual elegant style. The viands comprised everything to suit the most varied appetites, and there was a profusion of champagne and other choice wines. The company having done justice to the good things which lined the ample table, 'the Earlof AUCKLAND proposed the health of " Mr. Baker," which having been drank, Ladies, Mr. BAKER said— e ily Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, ldgshiinp, which power to retain the he h as thi s —I beg sincerely to return you my b est thanks for the honour done me by the way in whi c h my exertions have been mentioned, and the m anner i n which the mention of them has been receiv e d. I shall, believe m me good e endeavour to do of everything day been pleased to express. I hope that many, I may say all, who have done me the honour of their com pany to-day, will afford me the extreme pleasure of meeting me at the completion of these works, I beg again, my Lord, and ladies, and gentlemen, to return you my thanks.—(Cheers.) Their Lordships then retired. HENRY BAKER, Esq., son of the respected con tractor, directed the Marine band to play the " Polka," and with a young lady led off the merry dance, in which they were soon joyfully followed by several ladies and gentlemen. About three o'clock, the contractors, George Baker, and George Baker, jun., Esq.,., paid a visit to the dining booths of their workmen (about 750), wht were at that time seriously discussing large " blocks" of plum pud ding, roast beef, and other substantial fare, not forget ting approved drinkables. On their entrance the men rose simultaneously and greeted their employers with the most enthusiastic and deafening cheers, which lasted for several minutes. _ ad , L.,Captain Ed en , R.N., We observed among the company the Lords of th e Admiralty, viz. Earl Auckland, Sir C. Ad am, C apta i n Per, accompani e d by (Private Secretary to the First Lord,) C apta i ns Bran sßierrkvvel.esy; a Bran dreth and Borgmann, R.E. There wer e a l so present ale Symonds, n d t hs,e fir. I-fo n. W. F. CPo veer, Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Sir John, Lady ' and 'Miss West, L a d y and Miss Leek e , th e M ayor of Devonport and Mayoress, . General the Hon. H. and Mrs. Murray, Sir Samuel Pym, and Mrs. Drake, Sir Anthony, and the Misses Buller, Mrs. and Miss Nooth, Colonel and Mrs. James, Mr. and the Misses Norman, Dr. Butter, Captain M. 11. Dixon, Mr. Snow Harris and family, Mr. and Mrs. Pridhatn, of Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Glynn, Mr. Tripe, Mr. Woollcombe, .Colonel Aslett, R.M., Colonel Old field, the Officers of the Dockyard and their families; Messrs. Edye, Henderson, Stigant, Aylward, Spiller, Gottleib, Dent, Dr. Tobin, Lieut. Williams, the Officers of H.M. Caledonia, Colonel Sutherland and the officers of the sth Fusiliers, officers of the Royal Artil lery and Engineers, Mr. Loudon, R.N., Captain Frank lin, R.N., Commanders Potbury and Wriford, Mr. H. 'l': Smith, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Walker, Harbour Master, Mr. and -the Misses Stewart, Mr. Pye, and a large as sembly of the rank and fashion of the- three towns, whose names we had not an opportunity to ascertain correctly. THE POPE AND THE PRINCE DE JOIN VILLE. A letter from Rome, published in the Semaphore of Marseilles, gives the following details on the subject of the presents exchanged between the Pope and the Prince de Joinville:— " His Holiness has presented to the Prince the com plete collection of the engravings of the pontifical chal cography, representing all the ancient and modern monu ments of Rome. The value of this collection is estimated at 6,000 f. To this his Holiness, has added two alabaster vases, which had attracted the Prince's notice, and which are formed of the magnificent alabaster sent to Gregory XVI. by Mehemet AIL The Pope also presented to him chaplets for the Queen and the Princesses. That for her Majesty is of great value. The box containing these latter objects was brought to the French embassy by his Holiness himself. The presents made by the Prince were not less magnificent than those given by. the Duke' d'Aumale, on his ►isit to Rome. The family of the Poi* (for such is the designation given to the household) received from the Prince 1,000 Roman crowns (5,5001.) All the Rumen personages who visited his Royal High ness recejaed souvenirs suitable to their social position. The objects given by the Prince were all in gold, and enriched with diamonds. The servants of the embassy received 1,200 f. The presents made by the Prince are estimated at-40,000f. He has left with his Holiness, as with every one who has seen him, the most agreeable impression, and he -is now the subject of general con versation." Viscount Palmerston came to town at an early hour on Saturday morning from Broadlands, Hants, having the previous day received highly important dis patches from his Excellency Mr. Bulwer, at Madrid. The Noble Viscount was busily engaged up to the even ing, when his Lordship returned to his seat near Romsey, by the railway to Southampton. THE HORRIBLE MURDER AT CHESTERFIELD. Connected with this horrid affair an opinion prevails that the deceased's body was cut up and carried away in parts to the cesspool, in which his mangled remains were discovered. This idea, however, is not supported by the surgeon who examined them . ; he clearly ascer tained that the first vertebrie, which connects the head with the spine, had not the appearance of having been separated by any violence, as it was found complete. But it must be borne in mind that the second and third vertebrEe are not to be found, and if the head were sepa rated from the body after death, those bones would be so broken up as to be undistinguishable afterwards. The mangled remains were interred in St. Thomas's church yard, Brompton, on Monday last, followed by a large party of friends and relations, including Ellen Beres ford, and attended by an immense concourse of spec tators. The . prisoner was removed to Derby gaol on Friday morning, in the custody of Sharpe, an active constable of Chesterfield ; a great number of people congregated at the railway station to witness his de parture; he arrived a short time before the train, and made a request to see Mr. R. Statham, butcher, by whom he was employed, and with whom he conversed, seemingly without reserve, and did not seem in the least unnerved; when the train arrived, he was hurried through the crowd to the carriages, upon which he ap peared pale and agitated. He shook hands with some a..quaintances, and bade them good-bye. He also told Mr. Statham that he was innocent of the murder. There was some groaning on his proceeclig? to the carriage, otherwise there was no strong feeling manifested by tire congregated throng. He is a very diminutive man, being only five feet one inch in height, stout built, active, and having a repulsive countenance. Among the fraternity he and his brother, in derision' of their small stature, were known by the ,inames of " Gog" and " Magog." A few days' ago he . addressed a letter to Mr. R. Statham, which contained little more than desiring his respects to his acqtiaintance and assertions of his innocence. He did not, however, forget his old friend " Nero." a favourite doe.. to %vh Q, be sent ployer as being remarkm ay temperate in his na M nits, ann a rather timid disposition. Collis, the supposed mur dered man, was a good-looking person, 26 years of age, about the middle size, dark hair, and light whiskers, and well known and respected in the neighbourhood. Ellen Beresford, the young woman to whom he was betrothed, is a pretty and respectable-looking young woman, and her case has excited much sympathy, as it is stated to have been the intention of Collis to marry her had he live d. A number of benevolent individuals, feeling that she was deprived of a husband, and her child of a father, gy this tragical occurrence, have laudably determined to raise a subscription in her behalf, and there is no doubt but their praiseworthy object will meet with the success which its merits,—Derbyshire Courier. THREE LIVES LOST ON THE RIVER.—On Sunday evening two accidents happened in Erith reach, near the Half-way House, and we regret to add that one of them involved the loss of three lives. A pleasure sailing boat, called the Miriam, went down the river to Erith, on a pleasure excursion ; she was managed by Joseph Leonard, a waterman of Blackwall, and brother of one of the Thames police inspectors, and another man con versant with the management of pleasure yachts. There were three gentlemen on board, who names have not transpired. The wind freshened in the evening, and while the boast was coming up the reach one of the men went aloft to reef the gaff-topsail, and while he was doing so a squall of wind caught the sail, and the top weight of the man above caused the frail barque to cap size, and the whole party were immersed in the water. Two of the party almost immediately disappeared, and were drowned ; Leonard clung to the hatches and other floating gear for some time, but ultimately sunk before assistance could reach him, and also met a watery grave. The other waterman, and one of the gentlemen, said to be owner of the boat, were saved by Margatroyed, a waterman and sailors' lodging-house keeper, who was rowing his boat up the reach at the time, and who also recovered some of the materials of the pleasure boat. The unfortunate occurrence has created a great sensa tion among the owners of sailing yachts and Pleasure boats on the river. It is reported that the Miriam had actually been sailing a match with another pleasure boat and came off the winner on Sunday, and having parted with her opponent, Leonard, who had been down the river with another gentleman's pleasure boat, and re mained ashore at Erith till she was gone, requested a " cast up" in the Miriam, which was granted. None of the bodies have been recovered. Soon afterwards another accident occurred in the same reach ; a quay skiff of large dimensions, and containing seven persons, which had been down on a pleasure trip, was capsized in a squall ; six of the party clung to the boat, while R. Hamilton, a waterman, swam towards a sailing barge at anchor, and made known th e d anger o f his companions ; the bargemen immediately put off in th e i r b oa t, an d save d the whole of the party, who, after drying themselves on board the sailing barge, were sent up, to London in a steamer. DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENTIAT THE WHITE.. EARN COLLIERY, NEAR NEWCASTLE.—A frightful acci dent occurred at this colliery, yesterday morning, to Joseph Lovatt, an old man, sixty-five years of age. It appears that he was employed to attend to the engine fire from six o'clock at night till six in the morning, and on the morning in question he was seen about half-past three o'clock sitting in the engine-house, within a yard of the fly-wheel. On Mr. Platt and two or three of his men going to work at half -past five, they found the en gine stopped, and on proceeding into the engine -house deceased was discovered forced between the wall and the fly-wheel, a space of about four inches, hanging head downwards, and dreadfully crushed and mutilated. It is supposed that the deceased had fallen asleep, and neg lected the fire, and that on awakening and finding the engine almost stopped, he got up in a hurry and, sturob liug, fell on the wheel, which appeared to have carried him about three parts round, and must have killed him instantly. When Mr. Platt arrived, at half-past five, the fire was quite out. Deceased was removed to the house of his son-in-law, in Pepper-street, Newcastle. An inquest will ba held on the body to-day.—Stafford shire Mercury of Saturday. COLLISION ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.-- BRENTWOOD, MONDAY EVENING.—An accident of a most serious and alarming character occurred near this station this morning, which it is feared will terminate fatally to one if not to two individuals. At seven o'clock this morning an excursion train, consisting of thirty car riages and two engines, Mr. Taylor, chief of the locomo tive department of the Eastern Union Railway, being upon one of them, started from Ipswich. They reached the Brentwood station in safety, and atter stopping for a few minutes, proceeded on towards London at a slow' pace. On reaching the Brentwood incline, the gradient of which is 1 in 90, the driver, on account of the increased weight of the train, shut off the steam, but had got but a short distance down it, when the train came in collision with a truck left on the line. The engine -driver and stoker jumped off the engine, by which they were se riously injured. The passengers were much shaken by the collision. Information of the accident was for warded to the terminus at Shorediteh, and several of the principal officials of the Company proceeded in the after noon to the spot, and after a most minute investigation, they felt it their duty to give the parties who left the truck upon the line into custody. A policeman has been dismissed from the Bir mingham force because he refused to go down a lane which was on his beat, where he had seen his uncle's ghost—Birmingham Gazette. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.—This being the day se , lected by his Royal Highness Prince Albert for his visit to the several sections into which the association every morning resolves itself, the town was in ,no small stir from an early hour. Flags were waving in all directions, and a number of the neighbouring gentry came into the town. At half-past ten o'clock the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, assembled in their robes in the reading-room at the utmost extremity of the pier, close to the principal landing-place. They were soon after wards joined by Sir R. Murchison, to whom the Mayor ntroduced the several members of the corporation. The room had been handsomely fitted up and decorated, and a carpet was laid down to the water's edge. His Royal Highness had fixed to arrive at- eleven o'clock, and pre cisely at that hour the Fairy was within 100 yards of the pier, and the Prince stepped into her barge, and was rowed to the landing steps. He was attended by the Hon. G. E. Anson and Colonel Bouverie, and was re ceived on landing, under a salute, by the- Mayor and corporation, Sir R. Murchison, and Captain Ellice, R.N., and conducted to the reading 7 room, where the Mayor presented the following address, agreed to by the corpo ration : 'TO FIELD-MARSHAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS FRANCIS ILBERT AUGUSTUS CHARLES EMANUEL, DUKE OF SAXE COBURG AND GOTHA. " May it please your Royal Highness,— " We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the ancient and loyal town of Southampton, beg respectfully to approach and welcome your Royal Highness, and to offer our sincere and cordial congratulations on the aus picious event of the visit of your Royal Highness to our town at the time when it is honoured by receiving the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and that here for the first time your Royal Highness has been pleased to testify by your presence at its meeting the interest which your Royal Highness is well known to take in all that tends to the progress of science, and to the general and permanent well-being of the com munity. That your Royal Highness may long continue in the enjoyment of uninterrupted health, and in the beneficial exercise of that patronage which your Royal Highness has ever afforded to objects of national utility and importance, and that it may please Divine Provi dence long to spire her most Gracious Majesty to rule over her loyal and devoted subjects, and that the royal children may continue a blessing to her Al ajesty, as well as to your Royal Highness, is our fervent and anxious prayer." The MAYOR having read the address, His ROYAL HIGHNESS bowed and said—Mr. Mayor, and gentlemen, I return you my best thanks for this loyal address. It g►ves me great satisfaction to revisit Southampton on the occasion of this great scientific meeting. His - Royal Highness then stepped into the Mayor's carriage, accompanied by that functionary and Sir R. Murchison. The carriage was driven first to section A, which was sitting in the Bugle-hall, where about 150 persons were waiting to listcn to a report by Mr. Phillips, of York, the assistant-general secretary of the association, on anemometry. The section rose to re3eive his Royal Highness, who took a seat on the right of the president of the section, Sir J. Herschel. The report was then immediately read. It detailed what had been done by Mr. Whewell and others to arrive at an accurate process of ascertaining the velocity of the wind. Mr. Whewell also explained the mode adopted for ascertain ingsvoe s m t g u e a h t n i n i d n e t e o d h t e h ti a , t i wind's s d d e o n c o i t ty fo . the height of the clouds—an ingredient in the in vestigation some moments The Prince paid great attenti o n to th ese s t a t emen t s , ob serve the entrance of Lord Palmerston, who came upon the platform during the reading of the report. When Mr. Whewell had concluded, Sir J. Herschel addressed the Prince; and solicited his acceptance of a geological coloured drawing of the Isle of Wight, done with ex treme care by Mr. Drew, of Southampton, one of the secretaries of section A; the strata were all distin guished upon the drawing. His Royal Highness ac cepted it with the utmost courtesy, and listened atten tively to Mr. Drew's explanation of it, in answer to questions put to him by the Prince. His Royal Highness having remained in this section for nearly half an hour, drove off, accompanied by Lord Palmerston and also by Sir J. Clark, to the sub-section of ethnology, which was sitting in the Long Rooms, a place appropriated to section E (physiology)—a section which on Friday adjourned till to-morrow. Here Dr. Latham was found detailing to about 70 persons the re searches of Professor Von Middendorf in Siberia. Dr. Latham made a detailed statement respecting the dif ferent tribes met with by the Professor, their dialects and their physical conformation. The Prince listened with much apparent interest to this account, and also to a further explanation which the Professor himelf added in the German language. His Royal Highness remained about a quarter of an hour here. The next place visited was section G (mechanics),held in a large house in the High-strebt, - late the South nptonClub-house. Here Mr. Fairbairn stated " the way and r ilenai ; 61"WecTi i "11 model was exhibited to the audience. Here also the Prince seemed much interested. Mr. Fairbairn re marked that the application of wrought iron to bridges of a peculiar form was perfectly novel, and originated, as he believed, with Mr. liobert Stephenson. In the case of the Menai Straits, the extent of the span, and the determination arrived at by the Lords of the Admiralty, with a view to prevent the interruption of the navigation, rendered the construction of arches next to impossible ; a chain-bridge would not carry a railway train across, because of the undulations; Mr. Stephenson, therefore, conceived the idea of a large cylindrical tube of wrought iron. The span would be 400 feet from tower to tower; and the tube would be made of a strength equal to four times the utmost weight it could ever have to bear. Mr. Fairbairn described the experiments which had been made on the strength of materials. The thanks of the section, which consisted of about sixty persons, were voted to Mr. Fairbairn, the discussion on the subject being postponed; and having remained a quarter of an hour, the Prince left this section. His Royal Highness then went to the Polytechnic In stitution, to section B, which i 3 devoted to chemical science, including its application to agriculture and the arts. Professor Grove was in the chair, and Professor H. C. ONsted had been discoursing " on the changes which mercury sometimes suffers in glass vessels her metically sealed." The chairman explained the state of the question to his Ro) al Highness, and the discussion proceeded, the chief point under consideration being the purity of the mercury employed in some processes which had been described to the meeting. The Prince did not remain above ten minutes. There were fifty or sixty members present. In the Victoria-rooms, to which his Royal Highness next drove, at section C (" Geology and Physical Geo graphy"), the secretary proceeded to read a paper by Dr. Forchhammer, " On arctic currents as exhibited in the distribution of the northern drift." This room was very well attended ; there must have been 180 or 200 persons present ; the Marquis of Northampton was among them. The paper read detailed various indica tions that the north of Europe formerly had had a lower temperature than it had at present, though there might have been no general change in the temperature of the earth. The discourse intimated that there were means of fixing somewhat more closely than hitherto the period of the separation of England from the continent, by an examination of the nature of the currents and the direction of the tide. The German Ocean was probably once a bay, with the shores of Denmark at its innermost parts. A little before this period it was whispered about the room that her Majesty was nearing Southampton in the Fairy, which had gone back to Osborne-house after the Prince had landed ; and the president of the section, Mr. L. Horner, now rote and said, that the paper which was being read was going so much into detail, that it was not of a nature to be finished with advantage in the section. Dr. Forchhammer therefore added a few words respecting the sub-marine forests and peat mosses found in his country. In one place a submarine tumulus was found, in which were knives of flint ; the doctor seemed disposed to date the separation of England from the con tinent between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago. Professor Forbes then read a paper on some natural history phenomena, bearing on geology, observed since th e l as t meeting, and stated the results of the dredging in the European seas. His Royal Highness having remained in this section a full half hour proceeded to section D (Zoology and Botany), which was held in the same building. As soon, however, as the Prince had been introduced to the Pre• sident, Sir J. Richardson, M.D., Sir R. Murchison stated that his brother geologists had unfortunately been so extremely long-winded, that they had taken all the time which could be devoted by his Royal Highness to the visit. The Prince accordingly took leave at once, and drove to the pier at half-past one o'clock. The Fairy was lying a short distance off ; and her Majesty was sitting on the deck in conversation with her ladies. His Royal Highness ran gaily up the side of the vessel from his barge, and presented the Queen with a splendid bouquet of rare flowers, which he bad brought with him. He also introduced to her Majesty Sir R. Murchison and Lord Palmerston, who accompanied him on hoard, and who conversed for some minutes with the Queen. Her Majesty appeared in excellent health. In about ten minutes Lord Palmerston and the President returned to the pier, and the Fairy started for Osborne House under a salute from the platform, and amidst the cheers of the spectators. The water was covered with boats ; on 3 attracted some attention from its only occupant being a lady, who was rowing herself. The Prince was loudly cheered in the streets through out his progress. In the several sections there was an evident wish to avoid noisy and exciting demonstra tions • the company received him most respectf u lly, b u t in only one instance was there any cheering in the dis cussion room. About a dozen was the limit of the addi • tion to any audience, in consequence of his having ar rived at that particular room. Out of doors the crowd was considerable, but the admirable arrangements made by the Mayor for the accommodation of the press rendered it impossible for the reporters to be inconvenienced. At three o'clock the general committee met in the Town-hall ; at this meeting,. Sir R. lilnßcmsoN took the chair, and congratulated the 686iniAti94 on the circumstance of the attendance of • Prince Albert at the sections, skowing as he had by the questions which he put to the presidents and others, the liveliest interest in all their proceedings, and a very considerable knowledge of all the branches of science cultivated by the association.—(Cheers.) But on day not only had the 'sun shone upon the association, but the Queen of England also, Victoria, had shone upon theth—(Cheers)—the Queen herself, desiring to express her great interest in the society, had arrived in the port an hour and a half since, and conveyed his Royal Highness back again to the Isle of Wight ; their one honorary member had gone back with her Majesty, and her Majesty had been pleasedto express her particular wish to have an account of the progress the association had made, and expressed her deep":mterest in its advance. - --(Cheers.) They would also hear immediately of a practical proof of member ship on the part of royalty, and it ,would be found in that most important department, the banker's book. Mr. TAYLOR then stated that Colonel Anson had in formed him that it was Royal Highness's wish to pre sent to the association the sum of 100/, and that he wished to do so without in any way directing to what purpoSe it should be applied, leaving it in the hands of the association entirely, as he wished to convey his en tire approbation of their proceedings.—(Cheers.) The object:of the present meeting being to arrange for the next year's "Parliament," the invitations were then called for. From Oxford, the Ashmolean Society sent the asso ciation an invitation, and Professor Walker stated that he had ascertained that the Vice-Chancellor and the University authorities would render every accommoda tion in their power, though it would not be quite suitable perhaps that they should send a special in vitation. For Belfast saeima,sMofr.thGantotvowEnsaaitdi,eas"thfeoraplpBe4aB. red," and holding in his hand appa ren tl y a b arrister ' s brief,. he put in a claim f or 1848 b y D r. Ro bi nson It was then agreed, on the motion of th e M arqu i s or o u f r g A ed rm Stahwgeha alsoe.nl NORTHAMPTON, seconded by Sir J. HERSCHEL, that the next meeting be held at Oxford ; and the time for it to commence was fixed to be Thursday, June 24, 1847. The Dean of WESTMINSTER moved that Sir R. IL Inglis, Bart., M.P., D.C.L., and F.R.S., be the President elect. Sir R. Inglis, besides the honours . just enume rated, was also a member of the Royal Society Club'(as we understood), and had that truly Anglican propensity of meeting at a club to digest the good things of this life before proceeding in the evening to study the arcane of philosophy.—(A laugh.) It was needful that the presi dent of this association should be one who bad no reluc- tance to take the chair at a public dinner. If they_had be Sirsadly e. L dr E ) 3 , r a o n N d s m e c e o a n g a r e e d . — t ( e L m a u o g t o t n e a a n n d d c s h t e a e t e r s d . ) no social meetings their phil oso phi ca l meet i ngs wou ld other claims of Sir R. Inglis to the presidential chair. The motion being agreed to, the following were named Vice-Presidents elect:—the Earl of Rosso, the Bishop of Oxford, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, Mr. Estcourt, M.P., the Dean of Westminster, Professor Daubeny, and Professor Baden Powell. The Rev. R. Walker and Mr. H. W. Acland were appointed local se cretaries, and the Rev. E. Hill local treasurer; and at half-past 4 o'clock the meeting broke up. We subjoin a list of the business on the paper for the day: . _ _ SECTION A.—MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. Phillips, Professor.—Rt , port on anemometry. Sykes, Colonel.—On the fall of rain on the coast of Travancore. Miller, J. F.—On the fall of rain in the Cumberland Lake district. Alctehni,ldienrsF,iniumr.arwk,. avvnd.—Cohrnistthiaenma,eitneoNroolrowgyay. of Jersey. Lee, Dr.—On meteor o l og i ca l o b servat i ons made at Dollond, Mr. G.—On an atmospheric record. Edmonds, Mr. R.—On the;thunder-storms of July .sth, and August Ist, 1846. Lee, Dr.—On the aurora, at Alten, in Finmark. Rankin, Mr. Thomas.—Account of a halo, parase lene, and remarkable Aurora Borealis. Wartmann, Professor.—On some meteorological phe nomena. Brooke, Mr. C.—On a new self-registering baro meter, thermometer, and psychometer. SECTION 8.-CH E MIC AL SCIENCE, INCLUDING ITS AP PLICATION TO AGRICULTURE AND THE ARTS. Leeson, Dr.—On crystallography and a new gonio meter illustrated by apparatus and models. Forchhammer, Professor.—On comparative analytical researches on sea water. Oersted, H. C.. Professor.—On the changes which mercury sometimes suf f ers iu glass vessels hermetically sealed. Rose, H., Professor.—On a second new metal (pe lopium) in the Tantalite of Bavaria. Connell, Professor.—Analysis of the American ne malite. Percy, Dr., and Miller, Professor.—Report on chrys talline Mallett, Mr. Robert.—Report on the corrosion of iron rails in and out of use. Daubeny, Dr.—On Cavendish's experiment respecting the production of nitric acid:- Gassiot, Mr. J. P., F.R.S.—On the electricity of ten sion in the voltaic battery. SECTION C.—GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. Buckland, Very Rev. Dr.—On the applicability of M. Fauvelle's mode of boring Artesian wells to the well at Southampton, and to other wells, and sinkings for coals, salt, and other mineral beds. Forbes, Professor E.—On some natural history pheno mena, bearing on geology, observed since the last meeting. Forchh a mmer,'llr.—On arctic currents, as exhibited in the distribution of the 'northern drift. h • - f Ditto-- Sketch o. e georogica srruatr&iiransehaAin SECTION D.-ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. Owen, Protesser.—On the vertebral structure of the skull. Thompson, Mr. \V.—Zoology of Lough Neagh (the entomological part by Mr. Halliday). Portlock, l•aptain.—On the natural history of Corfu. Allman, Professor.—Un the structure of cristatella mucedo. Price, Mr. J.—On the embryogeny of palmogrades and ciliogrades. Thompson, Mr. W.—On additions to the fauna of Ire land, including species new to that of Britain. Rankin, Mr.—On the hybernation of snails. Beech, Mr.—On the marine zoology of Cornwall. Carpenter, Dr.—Report on the microscopic structure of shells. Carpenter, Dr.—On the application of photography to the microscope. Knox, Dr.—Will conclude his inquiries into the na tural history of certain species of the Clupeadte, Corre goni and Salmonidcas. • SECTION E.—SUBSECTION OF ETHNOLOGY._ Jukes, Mr. J. B.—On the Aborigines of Newfound- Land. Latham, Dr. R. G.—Remarks on a Newfoundland vocabulary. Jukes, Mr. J. B.—Varieties of the human race in the neighbourhood of Torres Straits. Port Essington.—On the inhabitants of Port Es sington. Davies, Mr. H. B.—On the Tasmanians. Von Middendorf, Professor.—Ethnological notes on Siberia. Brien. Captain.—On the Africans of the neighbour hood of Bonny. Freeman, Rev. J.—On the inhabitants of Prince's Island. Rotting, Professor.—On the ethnological distribution of round and elongated crania. Latham, Dr. R. G.—Report on ethnological philology. SECTION F: STATISTICS. Guy, Dr.—On duration of life among professional men. _ _ _ Neeld, Mr.—Remarks on the criminal and miscel laneous returns of the Manchester police in 1845. Knowles, Mr.—On the annual consumption of coal in England. Porter, Mr.—Report on the iron manu facture of Great Britain. SECTION Gr.—MECHANICS. Sharp, Mr.—On improvements in ga, meters. Fairbairn, Mr. — The res ults as obtained from the experiments in connexion with the proposed tubular bridges across the Conway and Menai Straits. 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 national granaries. Russell, Mr. Scott.—Account of some recent experi ments on railway ti ains, for the d e ter m i na tion of the resistance at high velocities. Ricardo, Mr. M.—A description and models of self registering mechanism fur recording the velocity and resistance of railway trains. Dr. Guy's paper showed that the result of inquiry, and of the tables produced by him, proved a fact which may be somewhat startling to those who fondly believe that health comes along with ease ; the average of life is greatest in those who are the most accustomed to la bour. Labour, therefore, has its advantages to counter balance its privations. A short discussion followed the reading of the paper, the speakers confirming the doctrines therein laid down. The sections were all better attended to-day than on any previous day. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.—OXFORD, SEPT. 12. —The following members of this University have been preferred :—The Rev. John Eddowcs Gladstone, 8.A., of Magdalen Hall, to the in c u m be nc y of St. Mark's Church, Lakenham, near Warwick. The Rev. G. Had field, M.A., late fellow of Pembroke College, has been appointed Principal of the Malta Protestant College,in the room of M. Gobat, now Bishop of Jerusalem. The Rev. James Elwin Millard, 8.A., dcmy of Mag dalen College, has been appointed head master of the school, in the room of the Rol , . W. G. Henderson, M.A., resigned. The Rev. George Drinkwater Bourne, 8.A., of Oriel College, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the rectory of Weston •Su bedge, Gloucestershire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Hugh Smith. Patron, Mrs. Margarat Bourne, value 8111.; population, 367 CROTON OIL.—On a recent representation respect ing the mode in which the duty was charged by the officers of the revenue, on the article called croton oil, it was decided that it should be leviable with the duty of ls. per lb. as a chemical oil, in conformity with a pre vious decision on the same subject in the latter portion of the year 1842, which did not appear to be generally known or put into practice by the proper officers, and directions have been issued for this rate of duty to be charged on all future importations of this article. Croton oil is a distillation or extraction of the croton s:Ecl, and is made use of for medicinal pu - rposcs, being a most pawerful purgative, and it is t iperne( . l bi that it must be 3o considered for duty, and not atheism e_as . _ i f it wtiiF.ll . 4tased or :,queezed from the seed , as seed oils are generlly , and useful in large quaAtiOe for and ether kitili,4o6 purposes. _ - MARKWELL, PROPRIETOR of LONG'S HOTEL, New Bond street, London, and for many years at Ibbotson's, begs to announce that Mr. IBBOTSON, having RETIRED FROM BUSINESS, has transferred the whole of his interest to the above Hotel: • J. AI. subjoins Mr. I.'s letter to his late Patrons, with many thanks for the liberal support he has already received from them : "I. Ibbotson avails hints,lfof this opportunity to return his sincere thanks for the long-continued kind patronage he has received, and at the same lime begs leave to say, that if it should please his patrons to confer the same on Mr. Markwell, of Long's Hotel, Bond-street, where he is convinced every attention will be shown, it would add 16 the many faVours hitherto conferred upon him. Ibbotson's Hotel, Vere-street, Jan. 1, 1846." 30 , a no lr fl er gon e ti tnc 0 of raor lea . nil' )110