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Oct. l • alt , 'll 1 ,1 0 01 - E 0 n?"'. oePt" .01.17............ r. 11. wits, of On the gesso)', ed tain in price. )d supply' bnyell: , Bet; 60 w i 1,7 d tc 7 i .. 'at, 50 Lino, 3i' , 12 , t 'good c i r; o s. P V 64144 10 0 down. TER. I.l2tbg , i 8.1.2tb& i 142°1. 11 0 rlyPPfigf:rotri: nigbt , v hite, SOloots Od' 01 of A d b. olv• rlef,l 9 ,4 to 30 , ; rO, ,t 1 , ro''' eneti ---- ---- ,P, , e l do! i o ~ ,P 1 - V i )0,, - • - o sop. , )0 1 , m;' , '! . • • PO' 4 1 rot ,r; f ~ ~~ tMI tVI O I4I I ItLANe will boot!, To-MORROW NIGHT, Fept. 15. ANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL-MALL EAST. LONDON. Established A.D. 1844 P i desirous of IN VESTING MONEY are re , ,uested to examine ? lan of obtained this Institution, by which a high rate of interest may be withperfect security. akie Interest Is payable in January and July. PETER MORRISON. Managinz Director. tation l'lr Pectlises and Dorms for Opening Acccuits sent free on appli , ST. GEORGE ASSU RANCE COMPANY. Offices, 118, PALL-MALL, London. h2 riAl amew—lilscount RANELAGH, Park-place, St. James's. —4II7T T - CaArantew —H ENRY POWN ALL, Esq., Lsdbrook-square, Notting-hill. SECRETART—W.C. URQUHART, Esq. POLICIES ABSOLUTELY INDI , PUTABLE. Abzolties and Endowments for families, children, and others, on I lt ost favourable terms. rca llaMs payable yearly, balf-yearlyllot quarterly. No c harge for medical fees or stamps. T ta e h ( ' anted for long or short periods, payable by month l y, rly, o gr r half-yearly instalments. Defective Titles, Reversions, &c., assured and guaranteed. hETROPOLITAN %LIFE e .ASSURANCE SOCIETY. No. 3, Princes-street, 134nk. is e Director hereby give notice to Members whose Premium. fall 11,Lall the sth of October next, that the same must be PAID within IEY days from that date the Premiums are paid Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on • eth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October, y ea ! r , Of which several days constitutes the commencement of the el et Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So ule( as Members on the sth of October next, should appear or lodge /Z,ProPosals at the office on or before that day. 1,,,,8 pr for Mutual and Gene*al Assurance, appropriates the „ its profits to the benefit of - parties assuring their own lives as year term of lite as Members of the Society. per • t year ending the sth of April, 185.1, an abatement of 51 per I has been declared on the Premiums of all Members of Five taro' standing and upwards. HENRY MARSHAL, Actuary. l'l lnces-street, Bank, Sept. 3, 1855. CO NTRACTS FOR SUGAR, COFFEE, COCOA, AND TEA. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset House, 6th September, 1455. rrE Commissioners for executing the Office of 1" m , Lord High Admiral of the Unite(' Kingdom of Great itritaip 1 r : o, — ' 4 Lreland, DO HERESY GIVE NOTICE, that on THIJIISD %Y, `uth instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with ttPersons as may be willing to contract for supplying and deliver her. Majesty's Victualling St gyres, at Deptf.rd, Gosport, and ........_ , uth the undermentioned Articles, viz : Deptford Gosport. Plymouth. It When to be delivered. Half of the quantity for I each place in 1 3t , eeks,and } the remain ! derin3weeks I afterwards. lor ear'ier if preferred by the party J terd.rinq str aw ..... .. COFFEE (Raw) Tons. 300 Tons. 200 Tons, 100 CO COA . lbs. 0,000 lbs. 50,000 40 000 Th T en eir ders may be made for the whole, or any portion of the Articles de_ tordehips reserve to thernselres the power, when the Ten t 6, are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part ti'eef only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of ;,_ eo ntraeting for any, an t also an unlimited power of set ction. t e ," 4l e articles to be exempted from the rustoms Duties, and partie qde t a ring are to state where they are respectively tying eh Tend= r for Sugar must specify the several marks, the ships ikan'eh imported, and the coutries or la sof its grow hor pro ettea!,and an average sample of the Sugar (not less th in 2lbs., for set an malt) must be pro laced by the par lea tendering, and th 4 ".il average of different marks r several import., aild an , parcel si t ," ' 5 found not to he of the same mark or average quality as the • tendered and accepted will he rejected hy the officers. 21,7eniPles of the Coffee (not less than 41bs ),of the Cocoa (not less than il t 4) , and of the Te a ( n ot l ess th an 3,b5., from the bonded ed warehouse), be produced by the parties tendering. kr e _e samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted th,Lbested to be taken away by them immediately after the con have been decided. vi,r 0 tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro th'ed for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application .t t o Zlid Office, at the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth, or Tnander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or RI thei Collector of Customs at Bristol. t„ is conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular alien eilils called, may be seen at the s-id office, at the Victualling' Yards t ty ,° q P , rt and Plymouth, and also at Liverpool and Itristol. No Will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, and it 17 aot be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his or t t l fishould attend at the office on the day of contract, a , the result sk i L e offer received from each person will be communicated to him airypo sureties in writing. , tender must be addressed to the Secretary' of the Admiralty, Dear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset House. A RGYLL ROOMS.—LALMENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN/ for the winter season . The P,Pnwine 111,"' e W , ll be performed by hia celebrated Band during et 0 , Week : Nfareb iIUX Flamheanx. Waltz... The IBy k s ue Valley (ll'Albert), Zephir Pue (Gung'l), Fenella ( rinney) Abel Newcome (Laurent), La tultane (Bosts , o). Querilles -4.44 Pavtel (I smotte), Les tlugenota (Laurent), Palermo 'Al j+ol,.J. Bride of Lammermoor (Tinnev), Tr - utton). be l Vtg—Des ITulands (Lamotte), Italie ( , :aviolo), ovatoro The Mi ( n (D' Al- Des Conant's (Bouquet) The Zottave. (Lanrent). Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Heel -t (gtreather). qehotti.che tb2Gulrlande Fleurs (Bogritict), La VarQov , ana (aurent) Prin -o,7"eornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 3. Admission -qe Shilling. LA ST WEEK OF THE FRENCH FAIR, AND LAST WEEK ItBUT TWO OF THE SEASON. OYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR a,_ , DENS. Friela ~ Sept. 14, 1855, and during the Week - t i rIOURS of a FRENCH VILLAGE FAIR, and Grant Fi.: rg ekUPET RE, Written by Mr. NELSON ,n, r”anged by Mr tEj 1 Mom . Programme of Amusements : -French Vil age an d Es -I~net-French Villa iers -New Ballet Dance by Fl exmnre 's De of Artistes - Dancing on the G reen - F renc h S ta ll,- ,i n ch Goods-French Attendant, in Costume -Fr enc h Vl van di e res s Sench Eauau Sucre Venders-Frmeh Quack Doctor, , elllng his k „ Ztrurns in Carriage and Pair, attended by Pierrot, Trumpet and lit - Russilli Family-Slack Rope -Gipsies-Punch, &c. &c.! - NC Picture by PutudPs, SWF: ABORG AS IT Is!-Vocal and stiVertiental Concert !-Extra Quadrille Band !-The Snanish Min /it; C0,711-Triumphal Arch leading to the Fair I-DANOING, after ' , rt. in the New Salle de Danse, under the Direction of Mr. Be i Pilinitt!-The whole to conclude with the SIEGE and DOM k .1) qp NT of sEB AATOP )i,. and :rand Pyr +technic Tableau! ta b . ° 'Ztra Charge-Admittance, ONE Snimaxo. The Fat.* to CM IV." each Day at Three o'clock. announced by discharge of cannon. n, , hies of every description will be introduced as they present - ......_ pelves. dr°ZEATTS COPAFIINE, or SACCHA RATED PsULES, approved of by the French College of Physician., le k h ektfully administered in the Paris and London Hospaalg, and (i`"ledged by them to he the best remedy tor a certain disorder. N I " 'Lancet" of Nov. 6, A copy will be forwarded o appli- Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To he had of the inveator, ` th e Principal French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and "e Principal chemists. R. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet k,. street, has introduced an entirely new desc inn of ARTI- DiWAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so the ee ,.,2 1 3 , resemble the natural teeth as not to he distinguished from MRlnal by the closest obsarver: they will never change colour or 1 1 114 3 ' , and will be found very superior to any tee h ever before used. Ope,„ t netbod does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful tta r Pon, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is k ter h iflteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth e k ''d sound and useful iu mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At n 'ronn ten till five. WAR and BUS I N E S S. One olject of our encounter with Russian powers is the tit',_Elloss of commerce, the prevention of monopoly, and lulustte. en tbtmf !tent. on the rights of nations. Many victories have been 0 452'1 ,1 and memorials ..f tho'e events will be cherished by every Illo n The object of the name Osten by E. M' ES and SON . to the ett e „,nnvel and ER usetu' garment now worn is to perpetuate the great at 5 e red, Jacket is the most business-like invention which has se ‘ ,"ed. It is comfortable, elegant, and serviceable: it is made Itr oa '7 fashionable material suitable for the present season and ap t. r i ng autumn. et. t Hertch Jacket is only made by E. Moms and eon. Its recu ,l4„clit will render imitation perfectly ensucce.scal The lie telt 11 1. 4 7.1 . may now he inspected at tneir Establishment and its 1 04,nes in all s zes required, or made to order at the most roe tr,:ne charges. Ilr,;;S:e Emperor's Cape a light woollen fabric, thoroughly water. 1 41 4 ' IS the most novel and useful article o attire—gentlemanly in eit,a e p rance, su .erlor in workmanship, and highly apiroved b•a vast kith of Patrons ; its price is 265. plain : 33e. trimmed with silk. lb `nese garments are made by E. MosES and Sox excl.rsively. ( 41 tt, e new abrics for Autumn are selected 'y lions and Soli Ilth4lr usual magnificent scale ; and in Dress for Ladles sod Oen • ter „:" every novelty which art and commerce have devised is rPady Lases at their I. stablishmen's. The Stock for ‘uttrn not hei;_extr Capa of the newest and most highly finshed order. Boots . Shirts and TJrrierc'othing, unp,ral i eled superiority, at post reason ble prices.. Fee),; _ 7 W l l ,, lesale Department exhibits the newest and the largest %ee l clothing, Shirts, Boots and Shoes, &c., suitable for the ,Le - Vade , T the colonies. Ik e n, Establishments—Minories and Aldgate, opposite to Ald "'bur h c • 8„. - end Branch—New Oxford-street and Hart-street. kevitneld and Bradford, Yorkshire I "°u ne, Viet •ria (Wholesale). fip,„ lAL rl'lC E. —The Establishments will he closed on Tkurs 111e_Friday meat, Sept 13 and 14, re-opening on Saturday even "l - , e 16th instant, at 7 o'clock SPORTING DRESS. „, • "O ll e ll tti Production of the be t and the most comfortable Dress for P , Or R s ngs in e the is the - o tebje •t of E. Mom S.r. r O application of n.arials, in the adoption o o m w Thei s t e titti tit uti ne and msking sporting dress, is generally known ; hut it g it n ‘ to he observed that they have complen d a ,, an •ements for gtxber e sent season which abundantly iTove their supormritv, ?or e jting Coats, new designs, for elegance in the r fit ami make, V e :Fellence in materials. for utilly and cheapness, nnparalleled. s I 1 Boots, lists, Caps, and Hoiietv, in fact ers ' ' eggll.'g ' et, emnplement of dress for fl Id sportS, the best and the cheap -1.0-„"A- AosEs 9n4 Sow's Fstablishment.and its t• ranches. ' l llll- ° n E.itablishment—Minories and Aldgate, opposite to Aldgate Rh, — end Branch—New Oxford-street and Hart-street. Zeldand Bradf 9 ,rd, Yorkshire. Eip t , Ilrne, ctoria (Wholesale). 4 a„ 14 k1.k1. NC ITICE.—The Establishment will be closed on Thurs ,t, fa `` rriday tlext, Sept to and 14, re-open'ng on Saturday even -'N't...„..2.2..L_15t., at 7 o'clock. R A VESEND 8T A 1,,tt 0 PACKET R. Paeltets Pa skets call at the Greenhithe and Pufiet t rs. ca tit the Piers as underlined (weAthe r r e perm Pi , g). FRO M TERRACE PIER, ORAVESE q Ksts ri a ri. t ere • ra . " I - I - .. .. . ~ ~- -6 - 111 r . 44 I 1 -- Time ,-.... 4. •C 4 .1 , - 4 P ~.., r. - - - . ,:.• ,-.4 =, 'i .% 9—B% - _ IN .., ~ 8 36 , - -a - —. IN - 6 -- - . 0,,_. ----- -- - -- - ___ - 7 h, h oses •--- 114; / ' ( Du e JP ra Feachurch-street Station to all parts of Lo id 1 , IN vi , rof' an hour. 1 ,,,,, / WU kRF BLAPIKWALL, on the arrival of th-t '(.l - •I're ins from ' the Fenchurch-street Station. ''''..----- :1 1-141. g DAYS. SUNDAY/4 Nell.h ' - 2 1 ) . . _ tz,, -re. : 1 ..,_ , :II 5 Fen- '6 ... . - 1 -•• l 'N-1 ' 7 .E. c . 5 `,....-. church 1 'EI t 'fl, Street 7 - ',...: ,:-• ...__ e, .. 3 5, - Z :e• tf - - . 59- - - :• 10 - I ..- _ —. --- __ a - t_— 0 • „ 0 t'Zt, o , FARES. Fore Cabs. Smoot , . h " Cha ve r4 re vota Id and t.,oeuou ........ .. 10.1. .. Ir. Ic. t,,, , , l 'rilti, ' e nd as, I Illackscalf or Woolvrcb Bd. ••n'• ' O,- . eit ' ,,,,,'-rifl i '"‘ ,l I.nn ion.— ......... .... 8 ( 1. .. Os. 10,1 ,vt ~ , ,..t (4,,.. - n n ,, (l 1 %lac kwall or Woolwich... .. fkl. .. Os. Sd. - FARES. Fore Cat , ln. Smoot , . C lrav,„‘:r a Veda id and ~O kU011•• • • •• • • t 4.1... Ir. i.tc. C L'ilithf rl(l I Illackwall or Woolwich n' • 0, •• :" I.f+n - lon • • •....... Bd. .. es. 1 0, 1 p Pen (4,'nf-1 %lac kwall or Woolwich... .• 6 , 1• .. Os. 8 d• Or b o ‘'T MY' tntermediatr Piers.. .':• 41 1h !tel —One onth, 15.. ;to be bad of the C 011. ., :ors 1 8th ) 1a55. tt. +a or of Mr. Monk, Terrace ,Pier, grave; enl.l -- ;ipto' , port , 150' n ptlP • • nota t ' *ll o' of ' lei 4as? 6# 1 / rke• d y d the * r ipe A , ind, 1 509 's 6 Ler 6sl , 00 00 15b1 - bcO r lo ittl e o fia t v peed jj.115, re, a P' t 01'114 siro' d 1ef5.1 , t 04 11 4, $ 3 10 Ce. 131 it r , ti ro) r0,100' , " icos ku' s Oi t - , 0 3 0 , - 1 / stocp, 0 1 ' t. 13. Se eit ot oi If , o°ri bl?f ' 10 pi' Pt"' ,' , ~ 5 4 ' tro''' ber as 30 f t 'lit o pA' tio;' N pri` e ,:ii° tiO )f r r c bel 4 : e , f ,t, f , 00 ). 10 Tons. 150 N o , 19,644.1 PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols , TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, " GERTRUDE ; or, F ➢LILY PRIDE." "A novel fro" the talented pen of " rs. Tro , lore is sure to poq stS9 some of the most brilliant quaiities of a go<,lnovel. In the ore sent ins ante the o ject at welch the autlaor aims is to place in strong contrast with nobility of birth th•. nobility of character. The theme is admirably worked out,"—John Bull. Hurst and Blackett, Punlishers, successors to Henry Colburn. 4,1 RS. ors_ :Nut Ready in 2 vols.. with illustrations, PORTING ADVENTURES in the NEW WOR. D. _ . _ By C & NTPTIELI, HARDY, Roy I Artillery. Hurst and lqackett, Pub:lsta rs, successors to Henry Colburn, 13 Great Marlborough. tre et. THE NOCTEA This tin‘ is published. the Fir t Volume of th WORKS (f PROFESSOR WILSON, Edited by his gon Prof , s=or FEr , RI ER. Contalnin Vo!. I. of the NOCTE'i AMBRoSIAN,E. To be com pleted n tour 'to be nubl , shed to Quarterly Volumes, , rnwn Svo., rrice Gs. each Wiliam Blackwood and ~0 175, Edinburgh and Lon ton. FALL of SEVASTOPOL.—The Seventl. Edition of STANfi'ORD'i; Mx P of 'EVAST9POf, is ju , t Puiilished. with the Positions, Works, and Ratterte., previous ti tin noinliardineiit, the important nu , sian Works on the North s.dd o the Ilarh ur, Geological Notes, &c., &c. trice, in one sheet, 2s. case, 4s Gd. Also, 1 3ATTLE of the TCTURNAYA.—A Plan sketched hr Captain WOLSELET, fifitiißegt., and Lieut. FREDERICK BRINE, R.E. Price Is.; case, 2s. 6d MAJOR. I.III)DULPIV9 SKETCHES of the GROUND before SEV ‘STOPOL. I vol. folio. 10s. rd. Th. Third Rlition of ~ TANFORD'S BIRD'S-EYE VIEW, a Pictlrlal map much prized for ite attractiveness,' as wail as accu racy. Price, Wain, poOtions co'onred, 2s. Gil. ; full coloured, 4s SIVFAROTIO and lIELSINGFORS A Photographic View, Is. Gd Any of the above cent free per post, on receipt of stamps or P.O Order. London : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing Cross: PARIS EXHIBITION .- STANFORD'S NEW GUIDE to PARIS and the PARIS EXIIII3ITIONis j tst publ sh7d. price ojim. "It contains ahundanee of Information, well selected, well arranged and plea-antly conveyed, on all p of Inv , riable inqu'ry—pas , ports, r'utes, money, apartments, restaurants, sigh's, and promen ades, and centres of pleasure."— thenrenm, Se t I, 1855. Lon- , on : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross. QETIA,TOFOr..-COLVA(ITII'A APTHENTIC SERIES'. • PA.uL and DOMINIC COLNAGFII and Cn., 13 and 14. Pall-mall East, Publishers To her Majesty, will immediately publish the following:— SPH Ol'OL IIEFORF IT.; FALL, from the Drawing the pro- Deny of hi , Grace the Duke of Wellington. t ken on the spot by CARLo Bossoct, sh. wing the en ire ila - bour, and every Public Monu ment of interest in that noble city. SEnISTOPUL IN RUINS, drawn on the spot by WILLIAM SIMPSON. Both Prints will be exeented in the hizhest stele of Lithozr •PilY by Mes•rs. I),y. Size, 57 by 21 inches. Price, each, 21s ,or framed and glazed, 425. The Third F:•lition.—Just published, price 59., by post, free, be. 6d. • ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORMREA, tvin the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real sufferers under this disease, and C , lrrecting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From 'he of Dr. PICWFDRI i, With an Introduction by the Editor, containing s complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are iretiulous enough to seek their aid. _ . 61 : n. Pickforci is known to English readers by his frequent preen oat contributions to German medical literature. This is the first e he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the al reader. We trust this mat' not be the last, if he shall ietect 503 ther equally flrgrant evil which It may be in his , ower to cor rect."—London Me iical gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' tnil ' Ntedical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this hoof: lould find its wily Into the hands of those who sisffQr from the com. daint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds %nook , to saved much needie,s suffering of isody and mind, and what is of ess importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize.- ouch ~.,This volume is well qualified to put an end to thr •metrical system of treating Soe'rtuatorrhcea, and to place the treat nent upon A more rational and physiologiCal basis. It is, therefor+• ilteiy to do much good." I ibudon ; Rattlers, 219, Ite,ent-street. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. rRrEs p.:m A 14.-011 the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction w s granted by the High con.l of Cha-cery atr on the .Ith June followinz wa. made perpetu against .1-sepli raoklin and ethers, to restrain them, an ler it penalty of one thou and pounds, from imitating this Medic ne, which is protected b, :oyal Letters i , ateot o: England, and secured by the Se,,. 0. th ~ con, .1 narmacle de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medloiny. 'TIUESENT IR., No, 1, remedy fnr Rniqvrtto,n 41‘nromtnrrilml sold Extooratinn ti y tem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate those persons who are prevented entering the married state b e coroequences of early errors it Is invaluable. 142114' , W1T Alt No 2 . - - ,etitally, in thy: short spec , . of three days, completely and onttro; Adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivl and Cuheh ,ve so long teen thought An mittdote for, to the ruin of th, heat a vast portion of the copulation. TItIPISEM AR, No. 3, 's he great Cont , nental Remedy for that class of Disorders, whit' torortunately the English physic , rui treats with Mercury, to the in. 3,.t,thie destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all th 44 - saparilia in the world cannot remove. ritIE,4EMA it, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smel of all nauseating (mantle:. They may lie on the toilet taio -othont their use being suspee.ited. .;old in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 2s extra, divide/ int.• +:,arate doses, as administered by Valpean. Laileman4, Roux ce., scc.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of John •ton, 6g, Hannay and fin_ Ga. Oxford-streat, and ganger 1 0, Ds .,rd-street ;R. fl. Ingham, drugtzist, 46, arket-street, Manchester ;1. firadhury, bookseller, Deanagate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, .ortl-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street. ; Winnall, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. HR SECRET INFIRKITTEi OF YOUTH AND NIATURITY, f,jitt published, price 25., illustrated with eases; free by poet for 26 stamps,_ lir ER VOUS ''Dt.IIIILITY. Its CWISCS, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Piper natorthma, with Practical Observations on a safer and mor, ,•ssful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Oenerativ. obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting an. - by urinary examination, the real cause and effect o, ,ry variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habit, scesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, 10011t10 ,s twenty years' experience in the treatment of finpaissanc, r -Trolls Debility, Local Weakness, tiermatorrhesa, &e. To whist ,^.• , aided, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre !mitionary hints on the evils emanat in g from emp ir ical prt tines .nd on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writels of eso important disorders. 8y AA VITEL LAN . ERT, 37, E DFOR Q A E, LON DON. teeter 01 Medicine, Matriculated Member ot the University o= ~,rgh, Honorary Member of the Condo Hospital Medical S,ciet deentis , a of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. toe essentid.l ob.ect of this treatise is :o point out the fes.rfu cor, .quences re,,u;ting from certain habits, Irregularities, and excesses snob have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man, .cd, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, a m . - her class 01 disease known to modern pathologists. • Its Perusal It •rticularly recommended to persona entertaining secret. doubts c sir physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazardee. e health, happiness, and privileges to wh , ch every hiun,n being is titled: is absolutely necessary that all men should khow, that there isr , !;triples of personal management wrnch cannot he violated withou erring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succee' heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties y be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may he removed 1 t•ow the evil and its consequences may Se avoided, anti above all ; , t there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functiona 7 angement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure e utizor for a series of years been engaged in an extensive. ,etice in the treatment (0 these delicate comptaints, which have ortunately been too generally confided to the care of igno• a em titles, who inflict great iciusw on those who are induced to pl an ,;th n their pretensions. t;NesUi4 DEBILITY may a had, price 2s, of Metre. Sher wood acid Co., 23. Paterncster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxiord-street ; Leicester.-seitare; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or tree by post tot !ri st •tans to •sii .ddres 'corn the A, , ithor's residence, 57. rte.- fo-d At home for consultation daily from eleven. till two, and from six till eight. CORPORATION ESTATES FOR SALE.—The Evening Post states as a startling fact that on Saturday la , t committee of the I lublin town council was no to consider the expediency of selling off all the estates the property of the c,rporatien. The attempt Is regarded by the Post as a practical movement to extinguish the metropolitan municipal body—an event whict), if con summated, would perhaps, after all, be received by the great body of the citizens with provoking indifference. A few nights ago Charles Moore, an under-keeper, and four others, in the employ of the Marquis of Staf ford, were watching between Rough Park and Lilly burst, Salop, three-quarters of a mile fr.mn when they became aware of poachers netting hares. The keepers made for the men, and Moore laid hold of two of them, upon which a fight ensued, when ten to fifteen others came to their rescue, armed with bludgeons, and succeeded in releasing their companions, when they all made off. CAVALRY FOR THE EAST.—On Wednesday orders were forwarded to the Colonel-Commandant at the ca valry depot, Maidstone, to hold in readiness all the available unattached to the 10th Hussars, 12th Lancers, and 13th Light DragoonQ, for immediate embarkation for the Crimea. It is expected that the depot will fur nish upwards of 200 disciplined men, who have volun teered for these regiments from the 2d and 7th Dragoon Guards, 3d Light Dragoons, 7th Hussars, and 16th Lancers ; reinforcements will also price, d to join the I , t and sth Dragoon Guards, 2(1 Scots Greys, 4th Light Dragoons, 6th Inniskilleus, Bth Hussars, and 17th Lancers, and in addition the 7th Hussars et York, and 13th Hussars at Manchester have been placed under orders for foreign service, e at FATAL GIG ACCIDENT AT QUEENSFERRY. Two MEN KILLED —Mr George Kyeoch, manager of the distillery at Kirkliston, belonging to Messrs. John Stewart and Co., of this city, was entering Queensferry in a gig, on Wednesday forenoon last, accompanied. by Mr. Wm. Gilfillan, painter, of Gordon-street, Glasgow. The approach along which, they were passing is down hill, and from something getting wrong with the harness the horse started off, dashing in toward-the town at a furious rate, when one of the wt eels of the vehicle came into vio lent contact with a corner kerb-stone, jolting up the gig. when Mr. Gilfillan was pre jected on to the road. A fee: paces fat tlex on a second ague was eecountertel, and Mr. Kynoch was precipitated or, to the rea,: in the same way as his companion. The hor:-m. and vehicle were immediately brought to a stand un scathed. The gentlemen who had been thrown out were found to have alighted on their heads within a f ewyar d s of each other, and Mr. Gilfillan oily lived a few minutes, while his companion was killed on the spot. Mr. Kennel' was 26 years of age, unmarried, and belonged to Aber e.eer. 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'..;*/ . ~ ,..:, 4 . , '' , .l-7.Z.e.,y . ,7 5 -V '',.• . 1. '..L.....41/ 1.; t _...,;'LV•%5.,1,': -. "'.....:iL., , , , :,,,'".:. 4k1.,. ' _.., / '` .7 - ' t* - 1,..4.7, -1 Now thy brows are cold We see thee, what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old." What we want in the teaching of the young is, not so much the mere results as the methods, and, above all, the history of science. How and by what stops it has advanced; with what large admixture of error every caw truth has been at first surrounded ; by what patient watchings and careful reasonings, by what chance suggestions and hapPy thoughts, by what docility of mind and faith in the fullness of Na ture's meanings—in short, by what kinds of power and virtue, the west men—aye, and the lesser men of science have each contributed their quota to her progress—this is what we ought to teach, if wo desire to see education well eonducted to the great ends in view. It is not merely for the sake of investing the abstractions of science with some thing of a living and human interest that we should recall from biographies and other sources of information thr meagre page of the general historian. It is for something more than this. It is both that -they may be more en coura,ged to observe nature, end that they may better un derstand how to do so with effect. It is that they may cultivate that temper of mind to which she ;oust loves to reveal her secrets. And as regards those whose own opportunities of observation may be small, it is that they may better appreciate the labours of others :and may be en 'bled to recognise, in th e m id s t, per haps, of much ext:avagance, the tokens of real genius, and. in the midst of much error the g.d , len sands of truth. It is one of the many observations of Sir C. Lyell, which Irave a much wider application than that to which they were specially directed, that the mistake of looking too ex clusively to the grand results of geological change, and of referring them too readily to sudden agencies of tremens done activity and power tended to check the advance or that science, by discouraging habits of watchfulness over those operations which are contemporary with ourselves, and the secret of whose pawer is to be found in the lapse of time. An effect precisely analogous is produced on the prege.ese of science as a whole by a similar method of re garding it; and even when the history of that progress ir, attended to at all there is a natural disposition to loot. back to a few great names among the number of its chief promoters as beings who, by dint only of some unapproach :able superiority of intellect, have taught us all We know. It is true, indeed, there have been a few such men, just as there have been periods of sudden geological operations, which have 'upheaved at once stupendous and enduring . monuments. But even in respect to those great men, is will often be f o u n d th a t a t l eas t one great secret of their power has lain in virtues which might be more cetumo than unfortunately they are found to be. That openness and simplicity of mind which is over ready to entertain e New idea, and not the lees willing that it may be suggested by some common p•n,l familiar thing, is one of the surest :accompaniments of genius. But it is clearly separable from extraordinary intellectual power, although, where both are found together, the great results produced are too often attributed to the more brilliant faculty alone. Pro fessor Whewell, in his most interesting history of the in .lnctive sciences, while deprecating the degree of attention width has been paid to the well-known story respectin_. the origin of Newton's 'zhoughts on gravitation, has never th,less stated, with his usual clearness and precision, the essential truth which the traditions of science have done well to cherish. Those who have been competent to jailge of the calibre of Newton's mind, of its powers of pure ab stract reasoning, have with one voice assigned it the highest place in the records of human intellect. Doubt less it was those powers which enabled him to prove what otherwise would have remained conjecture. But it. is not the less important to observe that the suggestion on which those powers were called to work was one eminently characteristic of a mind where sim plicity and greatness were indeed synonymous. That the celestial motions, about which so many wonderful facts were then already known, and which had been re ferred to so many mysterious and imaginary forces, should he indeed identical in kind with the motions which took place close beside him, and that the same rules should be applicable to each,—this was an idea in which, to use Dr. Whewell's words, " Newton had no forerunner." We do not need to compare the relative importance of those qualities of mind which are indicated in the first concep tion of such an idea, and of those other faculties which could alone crown it with demonstration, and add it to the uinhe r of established truths. For the attainment by a single individual of results so grand and so complete as those which were reached by Newton each was necessary to the other. But characteristics which wore in him united have not the less had their separate value when divided in other men ; and it cannot be too often repeated that habit of wakeful observation on the commonest phenomena of nature are often alone enough to yield a rich harvest to the man of science and to crown his labours with an immortal name. This has been a result of continual recurrence in the progress of knowledge. It is the expression and evi lance of a truth of equal importance in the moral and the physical world, that the common things which surround us in our daily life, and many of which we do not really see only because we see them too often and too familiarly, are governed by principles of infinite interest and value, and whose range of application is as wide as the universe of God. And this brings use to say a word on the value of instruc. tion in physical science, not merely with a view to its owl advancement, but as in itself a means of mental training and an instrument for the highest purposes of education. It is in this latter point of view that its claims seem to be least admitted or understood. We may bear an exceptios made in favour of the exact sciences, which involve the ap plication of mathematical knowledge, since this has been long recognised as requiring the highest intellectual exer tion ' • but with regard to other sciences how o ft en d o we hear them condemned as affording " mere information,' and as tending in no sensible degree to strengthen and in vigorate the mental powers ! But, again I say, this woult entirely depend on how science is to be taught—whether by a mere cramming of facts from manuals, or explaining hoe and by whom former problems have been solved—what and how vast are other problems yet waiting for and capable of solution. Anti even whore the researches of physical science can do little more than guide conjecture, or illus trate merely what it cannot prove, how grand are the questions which it excites us to ask, and on which it ena bles us to gather some amount of evidence ! In geology, is it true, or is not true, that " we can see no trace of a beginning—no symptom of an end ?" To what extent anti in what sense aro we yet entitled to say that there has been advance in organisation as there has been advance in time? In tlysiology, what is the meaning of that great law of adherence to type and pattern, standing behind, as it were, awl in reserve of that other law by which organic struc tures are specially adapted to special modes of life? What is the relation between these two laws ; ,and can any light. he cast upon it, derived from the history of extinct fortns, or from the conditions to which we find that existing forms are subject ? In vegetable physiology, do the same or similar laws prevail, or can we trace others, such as those on the relations between structure, .form and colour, of which clear indications have already been established, in communications lately made to this association by Dr. M'C'osh and Dr. Dickie, of Belfast? In chemistry, how is it that some of the most powerful actions escape ow finest analyses ? In medicine, what is the action of spe cifics ; anti are there no more discoveries to be made such as rewarded the observations of Jenner, in the almost total extinction of a fearful and frequent scourge ? It is in reference to such great questions, and ten thousand others equally interesting and important, that the pursuits of science call forth the highest activities of the mind, and exercise every power of thought and reasoning with which it has ueen endowed. Indeed it may fairly be questioned whether those sciences which are called exact are neees eerily the best preparation for the actual business of the world. It is the rare exception; and not the rule, when exact and perfect demonstration becomes applicable to the affairs of life. In general, men have to balance between a thousand probabilities, and to take into account a thousand conflicting tendencies. Surely there can be no training better than that which teaches us by what careful inductive and reasoning—by what separation between permanent accidental causes—by what constant reference .from the present to the past, and from the past backagaul present, our existing knowledge has been obtained to the in the paths of physical research. It is true, indeed, that where men's passions and prejudices are much concerned n o Amount of teaching will ever induce them to follow or attend to the best methods of arriving at the truth. But even where there are no such disturbing causes, Where moderate and candid men are expressing their sincere con victions, how constantly do we hear them ascribing effects to causes which the slightest habit of correct reasoning would have been sufficient to dismiss ! In questions of great social or political as well as o f philosophical imP° r twice the want of such habit i s often roostpainfully ap parent, m and serves in no small d egree to retardthe progress of tsankind. The necessity of c ons id er i ng with reference to fundamental all questions principles or laws, and these again with reference to the disturbing causes which delay or suspend their operation, the mode of weighing evidence, and the degree of value to be attached to ttp:l which is of a matey negative kind—these are things of which we are perpetually reminded in the pursuits of science, and these surely are no useless lessons, whether in religions, social, or political affairs. And then there is another considers , *ion of no small importance. As science has now come to NEW SP 7 kI!Eli, • - - - - • .; (4 4 ✓ • ' ' YAIN, 40 " ,:dri,:olT- s SV Alp her r----s *Am she hes,4 •Ws it ) back upon them er reflected light, so also hes shtenoW - 1 s reached a degree of development which casts some rats forwaril on question% of higher import than'those which she can fully answer. It is in vain that we try au araw doliuite lives between the physical and the metaphysiitel. between the secular and the religious. There is a felt Tee lation between , the laws which obtain in. each—such, deed, as we might expect to find in provinces of sr naiveval empire.: The eetisequence is that in every speculation on those higher questions on' which men will end must *peen late, In every syetern't , f . philosophy, Whether ancient-or modern, they draw Aot,Merely their illustrations, but net a few of their caneltialoita,:front science or from that which passes by the name. If, , therefore,- her discoveries, and, above all, her methods and litivlailitory be but partially and superficially understood, the poptilar Mind will be a pin-- petual prey to the most sPecioni forms Of bitor. But that history toadies caution. It is full of warning as welhas of example. In being a history of the progress of know ledge, it is - a history alsd of the obstructions which know ledge has' eecountered and an index' of 'those to wbfch she' is still etpeied. The - irillhOrke Of opinions rt)aci theories preconceived,--of rash ••oon . clUtions, and of false analogies--lias been, and still is, a perpetual source of danger. mall is this the °ate that we soon learn to receive with extreme caution the inferences drawn by men of science from the facts they may bring to light, wher ever these inferences touch upon other departments of knoeledge. The relation in which a new fact or law stands to others is seldom at once rightly understood. It is enly through fighting, and controversies of every kind that it gradually finds its place, and becomes not .unfroquently instrument in defence of truths which at first it was 195. posed to sap and undermine. I do not mean to say that the full meaning of the discoveries of Science is always brought to light. Far from it— It would be more true to say that their ultimate meaning is never reached ; and that fur every question which science answers she prop ounds i another w hi c h i s b eyon d h er power s to solve. Bet n this we may see th e strongest o f a ll argumen t s against our en. tertainin g any fear of science as regards the interests of religion it is sometimes proudly asked who shall set bounds t o sc i ence, or to the widening circle of her horizon ? But why should we try to do se when it is enough to ob serve that the horizon, however it may be enlarged, is an horizon still— a circle beyond which, however wide it be, there shine, like fixed stars without a parallax, eternal problems in which the march of science - never shows any change of place. If there be one fact of which science re im_winniiltsjoisisitinnio,ereLipiegrpeustutoalelsyktqlinaneeatinnoutaliewr,hiticihs th w a e t h w a e y h e a n v e e powers enabling us to answer. What better lesson of humility than this—what better indication of the reason ableness of looking to a state in which this discrepancy shall be done away, and when we shall "know, even as we are known :" But, gentlemen, I have already detained yon too long, and occupied your time far leas profit daly than it would have been occupied by many who are present on this occasion. The hospita!ity of this great city will afford you, I trust, a pleasant, and your own exertions will secure a profitable, meeting. You may well engage in its busi ness and discussions with a sense of the high interest and value of your pursuits, not leas int meeting in themselves, not less conducive to the progress and happiness of man kind, not less tanking the noblest faculties of tho mind, than those which engross the attention of jurists, of sol diers, or of stitesmen when their motives are the purest and their objects are the best. I PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5D _ we may have sometimes overstrained our language, and have thereby given such vantage-grOundlo prejudice that it gas been enabled to assume the .fOrm of just elejection: We cannot too earnestly disclaim the idea that the know ledge of physical laws can ever of itself form the ground., work of any active influenc e i n mora l s or religion. Any such idea would only betray our ie ' nerance of some of the deepest principles of our nature. But this does not affect the estimate which we may justly p u t on an early tra i n i ng in the principles of physiaal research. That estimate may be not the less a 'high ono because it does not assign to science what belongs to other thiegs. There is one aspect iu which we do not require to plead the cause of science at an element in education, and on that therefore I shah not dwell—l mean that in which certaiu applied sciences are recognised as the essential bases of professional train ing, as, for example, when the engineer is trained in the principles of mechanics and hydrostatics, or the physician in those of chemistry. Of course, with every new appli cation of the sciences to the arta of life this direct influ ence will extend. But what we desire, and ought to aim .t, is something more. It is that abstract science, with special reference to its departmental application, should be mere recognised as an essential element in every liberal education. We desire this on two.grounds mainly—first, that it will contribute more than anything else to the further advancement of science itself; and, secondly, we believe that it would be an instrument of vital benefit in culture and strengthening of the mental powers. But, es regards both these great objects, we must remember that much will depend on the manner in which elemen tary instruction in science is conducted,—on the concep tion, in fact, which we en , ert a iu o f what science really is. Nothing can he easier than so to teach science as to feed every mentsl vice or weakness which obstructs the progress of knowledge, or blinds men to every evidence ef new truths in self-satisfied contemplation of the few. i:hey . have already ascertained. May we not illus. trate this by the effect which has not seldom been pro duced by the scientific education of professions ? 'lt is true, indeed, that professional men have often enlarged the field of science by the discovery of new and important trnths some of the strongest-armed pioneers of science have been of this class. But how have their discoveries been too often received by their professional brethren ? IL -ve many of them heva been assailed by every weapon in the extensive errnoury cf prejudice and bigotry ! How many of them have had their name recognised only after it had been written on the grave! and over whom we might well re peat the noble lines JOAN BULL'S VIEW OF TIIB " BELEA GUERED CITY." There is in some divisions a considerable accumulation of stores in advance. Rum fora month, forage fur three weeks, and several days' supply of meat, but fuel is brought up de die in diem by-a most thriftless process. It is no unusual thing to see a string of fine Spanish nodes and ponies, each of which has cost a good round sum, coming from Kasatch or Belaklava with a couple of stout boughs lashed to each side of their pack caddies, :.he ends trailing on the ground, and the drivers urging iliem at full speed. The pr per load of wood for a mule is 2001 h. Judging by the loads I have seen weighed ;hey actually carry less than 1001 b., and at the Fame time the c4etly pack saddles are ruined, and the animals dstressed and injured by this clumsy mode of carriage. How the money is flyiog ! If Mr. John could bat get op on one of the hill tops here, and after gladdening his heart with the sight of his fine fleet flsating grandly on the water outside the " beleaguered city," rejoicing over his brave sorts whose a bite tents stud the brown steppe row after row, and rubbing his lands with de light at the thunder of his batteries, just wipe his glasses and look at the less glorious and exciting por• • ions of the scene, he would have some uneasy tingliegs ut his breeches' pocket, depend on it. " Where are all these horses going to !" " Oh, they're Spanish horses. We cart for the artil:ery, and they're going to be sold as unfit for service." " Why, Lord bless me ! is only a few months since I paid 30,000/, for that eery ' lot, and they've done nothing I hear but stand at their picket ropes ever since. They cost me, I'm sure, carriage and ail, 1001. a-piece. What do you thick I'd get for them ?" " Well, sir, to tell you the truth, I don't think 14 how they'll fetch mere than 101. a head, if so much." In fact, for the old gentleman's peace of mind, 1 would not advise him to be too inquisitive, and a visit to the tamp, although he would see it in a most flourishing and healthy aspect, might injure his nerves irremediably. " Who are those fellows in that secluded valley, hunting tmong the vines for some grapes, while their horses wan .er through the neglected gardens " They belong to Division A, or B, or C, or D see the letter branded on tee her-ee' flanks. They are Turks, Elamitos, Affghane, dwellers in Mesopotamia, Kurds, Parthiane, Canaanites, :reeks, for whose services in the Land Transport Corps you, John, pay daily the *nal of 3s. per man, and they ought now to be carry ieg up provisions ?or your soldiere, John ; but, being philosophers of tke Epicurean school, they prefer the pursuit of the grape and the insou.cianct of the siesta to tramping over dusty roach; or urging the r madtareer d iwn stony ravines on thy inueli hew•lacked quadruped e." " And those miles of mules and carts all .long the plain, emeroingfrona rat ices, ascending hills, and that vast erre v of drivers in quaint attire, the (tonnages t:on of the floating vagabondaoe of the world, the flotsam end jetsam of the social life of every nation, civil end berbaroue, on earth— to whom de they belong, and vho pays them and for them I" " Even you, me , dear - sir, end very handsomely too, I can assure you." " And 'hose ships in Balaklava ?" "Yours again, stir e but don't be uneasy, things are really better there new ; occasionally the authorities root out a great demurrager, end send her off bopping after she his lain perdu some etonths doing nothing. There was the Weimer Castle he other day, a fine Indiaman, sir, sent off at last—lay :a Balaklava since last February, doing nothing—coul ee-table lodgings for a few of the authorities ; but we won't talk of these things ane more, for really the ar -angements are now much better." " Who are those officers in blue, with grey, yellow, and red facings--men f reek apparently, with stars and crowns and lace on heir collars ?" "They are of the Land Transport erns captains and quartermasters of brigade." " Hallo ! is there a theatrical company here ? Who're queer-looking chaps with the huntsmen in Der Preischutz caps and tonics, smoking short pipes, and driving their carts like so many Jehus!" "Well, we . have the Z--nave Theatre arid the Sailors' Theatre, bet t'ieee men belittle to Colonel 111. 4 Mureio, and certainly' hey have let their bats get cruelly out of shape ; it was a neat thing, and looked well while the r .settee 'vero clean, but now —" " And who are the eentlemen in grey, with black braid and swords Ind pouch-belts and telescopes —some new rifler - Nee, eh ?—capital dress for sharpshooters:" " Why, dear use, sir, don't you know those are harmless civilians, who never was and never wish to shoot any one or to be shot at either ? They are civil engineers and eiviee :inns helon g i no t o your recently formed Army Works Corps." " Hallo, here's another—what's he ? a felt helmet with a spike in it. and bra-at binding—a red frock with black braid—a big hor - e—a cavalry man, eh ?" " Well, Le's one of the Mounted Staff Corps, and he sets as tnuiih as an ensign in the line for being ready to oo anywhere when he's wanted." " Who's that Trunken fellow—an old soldier is the odd uniform, with - medals on his breast ?" "Hush ! he's the last one left -f the Ambulance Cords. They cost a lot of money, and did some good, but Ikl‘Merilo won't have them now, unless he gets his own way with them, and—" "I eg yo ur p ar d on , b u t w h o i s t h at foreign officer with a white bourtious and a brilliant staff of Generals—with the blue and diver stripe down his trousers I mean, and gold braid on his waistcoat, and a red and white cap ; it must be Pelissier ?" "Th a t I w h y t h at ' s M. Sayer, chef de nos hetteties de cuisine, and it you go and speak to him you'll find he'll talk to you for several hours about the way your meat is wasted ; and so I wit4 l ll o Yos good morning, s i r , an d every success i n t ra de a n d am. memo to enable you to pay all the gentlemen 702 have seen to-day, and a s p ee d y entry , into Sebastopol. " LON DON. FRIDAY EVENING, SE PTEMBEit 14 I. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. Tho 25th meeting of the members of this association was , pened in Glasgow on Wednesday. The general com nittee met in the Mercheats' Hall at 1 o'clock for the elec ion of sectional officers and the despatch of business isually brought before that body. Among the gentlemen , resent we observed Sir William Jardine, Dr. Whowell, Professor Phillips, Colonel Sabine, Mr. Movckton Milnes, .11r. James Heywood, M.P., Mr. Yates, Liverpool, Mr. leorge Rennie, Professor Penny, Earl of Harrowby, Sir :harles Lyall, Sir James Campbell, Dr. Strang, Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Count Frolich, Mr. Edward Cheshire, anchor of the " Results of the Census," Mr. Wm. NTewmarch, one of the honorary secretaries of the Statis ical Society of London, Sir Roderick Murchison, the Hon. ho Lord Provost, Mr. William Gourlie, The Earl of Harrow by took the chair. Professor PHILLIPS, of Oxford, read the minutes of last neeting, hell at Liverpool, which were approved. Colonel SABINE then read thi , " Report of the Council of the British Ass•)ciation to the General Committee assem bled at Glasgow." After which Mr. NINNIS submitted the statement of ..tccou;its. Professor PHILLiv then addressed a few words for the guidance of the office bearers in the various sections, and 'his finished the business of the meeting. Prepiratory to the first general meeting in the evening the Lord Provost of the city gave a brilliant entertainment in the 111`Lellan-rooms. The following distinguished guests sat cl , wn to dinner:— the Duke of Argyll, Mr. James Graham, Sir W. Jardine,. Bart., Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. James Smith, of Jordan-hill, Mr. Walter Crum, Professor William Thomson, Professor Anderson, Principal Macfarlan, Colonel Sabine, Professor Phillips, Mr. John Taylor, Professor Ramsay, Mr. James M`Lellan, Dr. John Strang, LL.D., Mr. William Gourlie, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Elgin, the Earl of Eglinton, Sir R. I. Murchison, Sir 'John Ross, Sir John Maxwell, Professor Syme, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Dr. Allan Thomson, Baron Liebig, Dr. Retzius, if Stockholm, M. C. Graban, Count Campello, the Rev. Dr. Whewell, Viscount Ingestre, Lord Belhaven, Sir Philip Egerton, Mansura Mahmund, Lord Wrottesley, Dr. Rae, Lord Talbot, Professor Sharpey, M. Freaky, the Duke of Hamilton, Prince Bonaparte, the Earl of Harrow by, Sir John Richardson, Mr David Brewster, Sir C. W. Paisley, Colonel R iwlinson, Rear-Admiral Beechy, Profes sor Sadgwick, the Ray. Dr. Robinson, of Armagh, tbe ltev. Dr. Scoresby, Mr. William Murray, Dr. Kolliker, Agassiz, Mr. William Hopkins, Sir M. Shaw Stewart, Sir Jatnes Ferguson, Sir Archibald Alison, M Petigot, Sir E. Belcher, Count Frolich, Sir Thomas Hesketh, Dr. Dickinson, and Mr. N. B. Ward. The following address of the Duke of ARGYLL was de livered at the evening meeting : Gentlemen of the British Association,—l knew, gentle men, that the duty of presiding over this meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science has been assigned to me in-duly in tionsequenee of my local connection with the district and city in which we are now tasembled. It cannot, therefore, be departing from the special duty of that position if I address you in the first place as one of those who are receiving the honour of your visit. I am sure I cannot express in terms too warm the feelings of this great community.. It would be strange in deed if Glasgow did not hold out to you a cordial reception. Here, if anywhere, we have reason to honour science, and to welcome the men whose lives are devoted to its pursuit. the west of Scotland has itself contributed not a few illus trious names to the number of those who have enlarged the boundaries of knowledge, or have given fruitful application to principles already known. I need not dwell on the fact that it was in this valley of the Clyde that the patient genius of Watt perfected the mechanism which first gave complete control over the powers of steam, ani that it was on thee° waters, too, that those powers were first ap plied in a manner which has given new wings to commerce, and is now affecting not less decisively the terrible opera tions of war. These are but single examples, more striking ant palpable than others, of the depeadeuce of the arts upon the advance of science. Tide, however, is a depell'i elite; which I am sure the citizens of Glasgow would be the first to acknowledge, and which, no doubt, with them, as with all men, mutt be an important eleueeet in the value which they set upon physical research. But I am sure I should deeply wrong the intelligence of the people of Glas gow if I were to represent them as measuring the value of science by no other standard than its immediate applica bility to commercial purposes. They seek to honour act euce for its own sake, and to encourage the desire of knowledge as in itself one of the noblest instincts of our nature. It is my duty, also, gentlemen, to speak on behalf of a special body—one of which Gla gow has so much rea son to be proud—l mean its ancient and venera,ble eersity. If the mechanical arts owe to this district of Scotland the greatest impulse they have ever yet received, it is not less true that our knowledge of the laws which re gulate the pursuits of industry and determine the distri bution of the " wealth of nations " has been almost founded on the researches of one whose name is indissolu bly associated with this seat of learning. Here, again, we have an illustrious example of the mutual relatioue be tween science and politics iu its best and highest definition. But, indeed, our convictions are independent of such ex amples. It is impossible to appreciate too highly the in fluence which science is evidently destined to have on the prospects of education, and we look for the time when its methods, as well as its results, will form the subject of teaching, not only as partially it has long done in our col leges, but also in the humblest of our schools.. I feel it to he no stnal privit ge arising out of the academical office which this Year I have the honour of hulling to be able to assure you, on behalf of the University of Glasgow, of the deep jute. est with which we regard your visit, and of our hige appreciation of the euds which it is your object to promote. It is now 15 years since the last meeting of the British Association here. There are probably few even annual meetings of any considerable body of men which are not marked by some melancholy recollections. Srid more must this be the case after the lapse of so lung an in terval —one which measures, as is usually reckoned, full half a generati o n in th e lif e of man. Among the mauy vacancies in your ranks which that period has occasioned Matra are some which, from local association or from other causes, are naturally impressed more deeply on the maid than others. I am sure that one venerable name will rise to the memory of all who took any interest in the proceed ings of 1840,—0f one whose early tastes for natural science hue only yielded before his devotion to a yet higher ser vice, but whose powerful mind still sought to found all his efforts in the cause of religion and humanity on obedience to the eternal laws, which are as sure and steady in their operation over the minds of men and over toe progress of society as are other laws over the sub jects of material change. Who can forget toe zeal and more than youthful eagerness with which Dr. Chal mers entered into the discussions of the statistical sec tion, and how he saw in those discussions the means of spreading the knowledge of principles which are of vitil interest to the welfare of the State? But that name, though the lapse of years has not carried it beyond toe regio of regret, is one with which we have at least be _owe familiar as belonging to the number of the departed great. Such is n o t the e a se with other vacancies, and especially with one which ie still affectiug us with almost bewildered sorrow and an abiding sense or irreparable loss. Who shall I take up the torch which has fallen from the hand of E ward Forbes ? Who shall hold it us he held it to those der k places in the history of life which science is striving, per haps in vain, to penetrate, but which seemed already open ing their treasna a tor his flue and advancing genius tidt while sad recollections are thus forced upon us as regards the life of individual men eve have every reaeon to be sa tisfied with the inheritance they have left. Many labourers are gone, brit the cause iu which they laboured has been steadily gaining ground. Long as 15 years may be as a period in human life, it is generally but a fraction in the history of national progress. Yet since the last meeting of the British Association here I am greatly mistaken if we cannot mark great strides iu the advance of science. I wish, gentlemen,you h.ed x pre , l(l4l.lt inure competent than I am to chronicle that a. vance and direct the retrospect to practeal and useful end. There are, however, smile features so remarkable that 'cannot omit referringto them as well calculated to raise our hopes and stimulate our ex ertions. In that science which is the oldest and most ve nerable of all—l mean astronomy—if there had been nothing else to mark the progress of discovery, the con struction and application of Lord Itosse's great reflector would have been enough to constitute an important epoch. Its systematic operations may be said to be still only in the first stages of their progress; yet already bow often do we see reference had to the mysterious revela tions it ban made in discussions on the principles of that science, and in not a few of the speculations to which they are giving birth ! My distinguished friend, Sir D. owlfhifit which h e oftmhl Neur o n , r s e r w t. ( , ) v r n e l d h i e l a r a f s s u l y d e z e t s o i m g e n e b e a i la te . a d ” Brewster, in his rec on e n u cee t d A ttilici l a i nt w sto b efl o easc a ro r tp e l i da n s t s e c r ‘i e e sted in the devotion of abilities, of means, and of leisure to the noblest pursuits must ear nestly wish to see Lord Rosso rewarded by that which he will value most—the steady progress of discovery. It must always be remembered, however, that astronomy is a science of which hitherto at least it m'ght almost be said that one great genius had left us no more worlds to con quer—that is to say, he carried our knowledge at a bound to one grand and apparently universal law, to which all worlds were subject, and of which every new discovery had been but an additional illustration. The reign of that law, whether universal or not, was at least so wide that we had never pierced beyond the boundary of its vast dotnain. For the first time since the days of Newton a suspicion has arisen in the minds of astronomers that we have passed into the reign of other laws, and that the nebular pheno mena revealed to us by Lord Rosse's telescope must be governed by forces different from those of which we bays any knowledge. Whether this opinion bo or be not well f o unded—whether it be or be not probable that our limited command over time and space can ever yield to our re eerch any other law of interest or importance comparable with that which has already been determined —still inside that vast horizon there are fillings-in and fillings -up which, Will ever furnish infinite reward to labour. Of these not a few have been secured since our last meeting here. Be sides the patient work of our professed astronomers and the good service rendered by such men as Mr. Lassen and Mr. Nasmyth, who have so well relieved the business of commercial industry by their devotion to the pursuits of science, we have had one event so remarkable that in the ;thole history of astronomy it stands alone. If in leokin, at the wonderful objects revealed to us in Lord Reese's e telescope we turn instinctively sometimes from the thing 1 shown to the thing which shows—from the spiral nebulas . to the hnoWledge and resources which have collected their feeble light, and brought their mysterious forms under the cognisance of the human eye—how much more curiously do we turn from the single planet Neptune to that other instrumeut which has felt, as it were, and found its obscure ' and distant orbit ! Se long as our species remains that body will be associated with one of the most g'orious proofs ever given of the reach of the human intellect—of the sweep and certainty of that noble science which now honours with en during memory the twin names of Adams and Leverrier. In geology, the youngest, but not the least vigorous of the sciences, every year has been .addinq to the bee eith of its foundation—to the depth and meaning of its results. Pro bably no science has ever advanced with more rapid steps. In 1840 the then recent publication of the "Silurian sys tem," had just established those landmarks of the Paleo zoic world which all subsequent discovery has only tended to confirm. The great horizons which were first defined by the 1 hours of M urchison and Sedgwiek have since dis closed the same phenomena which they so accurately de scribed in every quarter of the globe, and the generalisa tions founded thereupon have been definitively established. The same period has sufficed, partly by the labours of the same distingnished meet, to clear up the relative position of the strata which represent the closing epochs of ancient life and those which form the base of the secondary age. But, above all, the last few years have seen immense pro gress made in our knowledge of that vast series of deposits which usher in the dawn of existing forms and carry us on to those changes which, though the most recent, are not the least obscure of any which have affected the surface of the globe. The investigations of Edward Forbes on the laws which , 'etermine the conditieee of marine, zoology have ,upplied !is with data altogether new on some of the highest c tiolusions of the science, while his profound spe culations on the centres of creation and areas of distrib tion have pointed out paths of inquiry which are theen selves of inexhaustille int ereet;and hold out the promise of great results. Another branch of investigation, which, if not entirely new, is at least pursued on a new system and with new reson veal bres-beetropen'ed up in dyne - R4(I4J geology by the learning and ingenuity of Mr. Hopkins; while the thor ugh elucidation of the conditions of glacier motion, which we owe to Professor James Forbes, of Edinburgh, has given us clear and definite ideas on one, and that not th least important, of the agents in geolo gical cle.nge. The observations aceuinulated durin g the recent Arctic voyages have materially added to our know ledge of the operation of the same agency under different conditions—conditions which we know must once have extended widely over the firths and estuaries near where we are now assembled—leaving behind them those ens during records of the glacial epoch which were first ex plore d by my friend Mr. Smith, of Jo dan-hill. We owe many impo tent observations on the same phenomena and on the vari seri changes of sea-level to Mr. Robert Chambers ; and if the thanks of science are duo to those who advance her interests, both directly by adding to her store of facts or of her discovered laws, and also indirectly by investing them with popular interest, and thus enlarging the circle of observers, we must mention with special gratitude the classical works of Mr. flu ;h Miller and those writings of Sir Cherie. Lyell which his inuefaligable induetry is ever bringing en abreast with the progress of discovery—a progress stimulated in no small degree by his own exertions —and which are alike remarkable for completeness of knowledge, for fertility of suggestion, and for stunt !Allies ethical reasoning. I think we cannot mistake the general tendency of geological re search, whether stratigrephical or zoological. It has been to prolong periods which had been considered short ; to divide others which wereclassed together; to fill up spaces which were imagined blank, and to connect more and more in one unbroken chain the course of physical change and the progress of organic life. We pass from geology by a natural transition to another science, which stands to it in close alliance. If all our most sure conclusions iespectine the superficial covering of the globe have been founded on the classification of its animal remains, it is not less true that our knowledge and understanding of organic structure have been infinitely extended by theeneans which geology has afforde I of studying that structure in relation to its history in past time. In the hands of our great country man, Professor Owen, physiology has assumed a new rank n science, leading us up to the very threshold of the . „ . deepest mysteries of nature. If the fast few years had been marked by no other event in the advancement of sci ence, there would have been enough to signalise them in the publication of his treatise on the " Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton ;" and we may recollect with pri.le the fact of that hi eh argument having been first opened at a meeting of the British Association. A sad interest indeed alt mite. in one direction at least to the progress of our knowledge in geography. All serious doubt seems to have closed new over the grave of Franklin., Even in a year during which war has been claiming the noblest vi .time by thousands anti tens of thousands, it would ill become this association not t , mark with an expression of our sorrow and admiration the self-sacrifice of that gellant band which has perished in the cause of science. But their devotion has been emulated, under a still higher stimulus, in the more successful career of others; and at last in the discovery of the Nonh-West Passage (still so called in spite of its having been found iinpasseble), the courage and endurance of eeptain M'Clure and his associates have ascertained with certainty a insist remarkable f act in the physical cenforrnal ion of the glo`ee. Results of still larger anti cer• tainly of more iinme bate interest are being arrived at by the rapid march of African exploration—not, surely, be fore the time. Every pelt of the circumference of that vast continent has been either known or accessible to us for centuries. On its sell hive flourished some of the most ancient atel faenoue monarchies, and one Of its great val leys is the fatherland of science. Yet up to comparatively recent. times our horizon there has been bounded by the same sands or mountains which bounded the knowledge of antiquity, amid we had almost is little acquaintance with its interior as had the Tyrian merchant when his eye reste I of old on the peaks of Atlas. Nothing but familia rity with the fact could have reconciled us to the ignorance in which we have so long remained of one of the largest and most interesting regions of the world. That ignorance is at last being cleared away; and the exertions of many individuals, among whom the names of Mr. Galton, of Mr. Anderson, Dr. Livingston, Dr. Baikie, and Dr. Barth stand conspicuous, havo contributed results of the deepest inte rest and importance. No man who values science can fail to appreciate the extension of our knowledge respecting geography even where, as in the Arctic Regions, that knowledge is pursued simply for its own sake; but it be comes invested with tenfold interest when it brings with it the largest influence on the destinies of millions of the human race, anti tolls, as we may confidently h o p e it w ill ultimately do in the case of Africa, an inexhaustible field for manufacturing and commercial enterprise. In con nection with the diffusion of geographical knowledge I cannot omit to mention the magnificent publications of Mr. Alexander Keith Johnston, of Edinburgh, in his " Atlas of Physical Geography." It is seldom that 011 de a mass of i formation has been presented in a form so beautiful and attractive, or one which tends so much to place the study of geography on a truly scientific basis— that is to say, on the basis of its relation to the other with rid sciences, and those grand costnissal views of terrestrial phenomena which have found their most distinguished in terpreter in Bsron Humboldt. The kindred science of eth nology has receive' of late years great development, not only by its increasing store of facts, but by the more sci entific use which is being made of facts which have been long familiar. The investigation of the laws which regu late the growth of language promise to cast the moat important lights on the history of our rale • but eon clusiens to which that inv es ti ga ti o n m a y lead are still matters of keen and anxious controversy, and ars exposed to all that suspicion which has been directed against almost every science at some stage or other of its growth, and which, we must allow, every science has, at some stage or other, justified by hasty generalisation anti premature de duction. Of all the sciences chemistry is that which least requires to have its triumphs recorded here. The imme diate applicability of so many of its results to the useful arts has secured for it the watchtul interest of the world, and every dayis adding some new proof of its inexhaustible fertility. There is one department of inquiry, and that perhaps the most interesting of all—l mean organic che mistry— which has received an especial impulse during the last few years—ati impulse in duly due to the genius of one distinguished matt whom we have the honour of number ing among o it gu Ftts upon this occasion. I think Baron Liebig will find in Seotland that kind of welcome which a man of science values most —a readiness to profit by his instructions, an i an t nlightened appreciation among the farmers of the country of the practical value of studying in their hush 'miry the laws which have been revealed by his research. I am reminded, through the kindness of Dr. Lyon Playf air, of some facts which give yet a more special interest to this subject in connection with our meeting here. It was to the British Association at Glasgow in 1840 that Raron Liebig first communieated his work on the ;application of she uistry to vegetable physiology. The philoettphical explanation there given of the principles of manuring anti cropping glare an immediate impulse to agriculture, anti directed attention to the manures which are valuable for their amtnenie and mineral ingredients, end especially to guano. of which in 1840 only a few speci mens heti epeeare in this country. The consequence was that iu the next year, 1841, no less than 2,881 tons were imported ; anti during the succeeding years the total quan tity imported into this country has exceeded the enormous amount of 1,500,00 0 teas. Nor has this been ad; che mistry has come in with her aid to do the work of nature, and, as the supply of guano becomes exhausted, limited as its production must be to a few rainless regions of the world, the importance of artificial mineral manures will increase. Already conside ra bl e capital is invested in the manufacture of sup er p hos p hat es of lime , formed by the solution of bones in sulphuric acid, the use of which was first recommended at the last Glasgow meet ing. Of these artificial manures not loss than 60,000 tons are annually sold in England alone ; and it is a curious example of the endless interc han g e o f services between the yariceiasci sciences that geology has contributed her quota to the same important end, and the exuviae and bones of ex tinct animals, found in a fossil state, are now, to the ex tent of from 12,0.0 to 15,000 tons, used to supply annually the same fertilising materials to the soil. The exertions of Professor Danbeny, of Oxford, on the same important subject, and the continued attention which he has devoted to it, have done much for the cause of agricultural chemi stry in Englsnd ; while the thanks both of agricultural anti of scientific men are due to Dr. Lyon Playfair and Pro ' fessor Gregory, of Edinburgh, for those admirable transla tions of Baron Liebigs works which have rendered then? accessible to every English reader, and have thereby had no unimportant influence in extending the knowledge of the laws affecting both vegetable and animal physiology. I am indebted to the same quarter for the 'mention of one remarkable instance of the manner in which—so use Dr. Playfair's words- " the overflowings of abstract science pass into and fertilise the field of industry," One of the newest and mast obscure se 'jects of chemical research has been the discovery of certain conditions under which bodies alike in their composition are neverthenies endowed with unlike properties, and thereby become convertible to new purposes. .., It is in the application of this p r i nc i p l e th a t a this city, Mr. James Y oung, h as succeeded illuminating principl e o f coa l gas e i t h er i n a solid id state ; and it has proved t o b e a su b stance gentleman,ll obtaining or liquid o q if the ll u tf immense valise for the lubrication of machinery, vast quantities of it being now manufactured and sold for that purpose, 1 hardly know whether it is strictly in connexion with the advance of chemical knowledge that I ought to remind you.of, one great discovery made long since we last assembled here—l refer to the discovery of the effects of 1 chloroform on the animal eystetn—one which (Anima for my friend Dr. Simpson, of Edinburgh, a high place indeed among the benefactors of mankind. Chloroform ass mere chemical composition had indeed been known before, and had been made the subject of elaborate research by the dis tinguished French chemist, M. Dumas, whom we have here the honour of receiving as a guest. Bat the discovery of its application is not the less a triumph of science and of the best and highest scientific faculties. Seldom, indeed, has that dispesitien of mind which is ever ready to receive a chance suggestion, and to pursue it, believing what great things we have vet t o l earn , be e n crowned with a more brilliant and (Hied reward. It marks the growing sense entertained of the value of statistical research that during the late session of Parliament a committee of the House of Lords sat for a eousiderable time en the best means for securing a complete system of agricultural re turns. We owe much in this matter to the exertions of this Highland Society of Scotland, and, as has been spe cially recorded by the committee, to the zeal and activity of their able secretary, Mr. Hall Maxwell. We owe not less, also, to the high intelligence of the farmers of Scot land generally, who have rendered every assistance in their power, and that with a willingness which can only arise from an enlightened appreciation of the great objects to be gained by the inquiry. No one has rendered snore impor tant servic- to statistical science in one of Uri most interest ing Ilepartmen's than the able chamberlain of this city. Dr. Strang. His petite lical reposes on the growth and pro gress of Glasgow are among the most curious and useful records of tie; kin-I which have been published in any part oft he Unite I K•netben. I need hardy say that they supply materials fur much refl- ction on many questions connected wit h th e soc i a l we lf are o f th e peeple. I believe Dr. Strang has lately visited Perla with a view to communicate to this meeting of the association various fact connected with the great improvements which are in the coarse of pro gress in that city. Should his investigation cast any lteht on the best the ins of impowing the dwellings of thelabour ing classes in the great centres of p e pelation, arid on the Dosibility of doing so on a large scale by public authority, he will have rendered no small service to his country in t matter of vital interest and of much difficulty. Closely connected with the subject of statistics, as familied to agri cultural returns, 1 am happy to say that, mainly owing to the exertions of Sir .T. :Forbes, of Fettercairn, and of Mr. Slane Home, a meteorological society for Scstlend has been established, warmly seconded by the Highland So ciety. The wonderful results on a great scale, which have been obtained in this department of science by Lieutenant. Maury, of the United States, give us ground to hope that, even on the small areas of indivi dual countries, where, of course, from the crossing of local influences, the general result is infinitely compli cated, some approach may he made towards ascertaining the laws which regulate the seasons. The admirable agency which is now afforded by the Kew committee of this association:for the verification of instruments, and by the slew meteorological department of the Board of Trade, under Captain Fitzroy, for the reduction of local observe tions, will, I trust, be taken advantage of by the new Scottish society. I cannot help coneratulating the asso ciation on the position which his been secured by science in connection with both of those establishments. The thanks of the commercial as well 33 of the scientific world are due to Colonel Sabine and the °ther members of the. Kew committee, whose assistaece is now highly appre ciated by practical seen, and eagerly sought for by the be!t in,trumentanakere ; while Captain Fitzroy's office and duties are in themselves an acknowledgment of no small imps) tence of the public value of systematic observation. The increasing employment of iris" in shipbuilding has brought into corresponding notice the uncertainty which attends the action of the cesnpass on board vessels of that construction. This important and intric to subject has been treated by Mr. Archibald Smith, of Jordan-hill, with all the resources of his high /mathematical and scien tific attainments, in publications which have -appeared under the sanction anti with the re •ornmetelation of the Admiralty It will not fail to interest this great cornmer cial city, whose freights are on every sea, that this ques tion was taken up at the last Liverpool meeting by Dr. Scoresby, that it has continued to occupy his else atten tion, anti that he intends to c immunieete to this meeting of the association some of the valuable results of his in vestigation. Feeling deeply, as I do, my own inability to give anything like en adequate sketch—even in outline— of the progress of the science during the last few years, I remember at the same time with some satisfaction that it is less the business of theaeseciation to boast of the achieve ments which have already been efficteti titan to devise means of facilitating those which are yet to come. You have appointed a Parliamentary committee for the consi deration of one important branch of this inquiry. We shall, doubtless, hear from my noble friend Lord Wrot tesley those recommendations which have been the result of its recent labour'', and which will be found to owe much to his enlightened zeal, to his great know'etige, and his sound judgment. In the reeentime I trust I may be allowed t' make a few general observations on what ap pear to me to be Borne of the best means of promotive in this country the advancement of physical science. It will ree•lily he understood that, in referring for a moment here to the aid which may be afforded by the State to the ail vancement of science, I divest myself en tire'y of auy offi cial character, other than that which belongs to me as your president, and Olt I seek to give exereeeion to my own opinions only. lam not one of those who ate die posed to look to public authority as the prim :ry or the best supporter of abstract science. In the mein it most depen , S for its advancement on its own inexhaustible attractions— on the delight which it afloalsue to study the constitution of the world around us, and to endeavour to understand, thou Jr it be but slackly, how the reins of its government are held. Nor am I disposed to indulge in any complaint on a matter which has lately attracted some attention anion; scientific men. In a groat manufacturing country like ours, the disposition of whose people is eminently practice], it is perfectly natural that greater attention shmal be bestowed on the arts than on the abstract sciences. This, indeed, is but adherine to what has been hitherto, at least, the natural and historical order of pre cedence; for it is a just observation of Profess •Whewell, in his lecture on Co' results of the Great Exhibition of 1851, that practice has generally cone before thecry—re suite have been arrived at before the laws on which they depend had been defined or understood. Art, in short, has preceded science. But it is equally important to observe that in recent times this order hes been in numberles' in • stances reeersed. Abstract science has gone ahead of the arts, and the conduct of the workshop is now perpetually receiving its direction from the experiments of the labora tory. Perhaps the most wonderful discovery of modern day's—that of the electric telegraph —was thought out and perfected, so fee as its principle was concerned, in the closet and the lecture-room, and flashed ready-made on the astonishment of the world. In chemistry the lead taken by abstract science in reacting on the arts is manifest and constant, and, in a greater or less degree, the same result is appearine in connection with every branch of physical research. The interest, therefore, of the State, even if it be considered merely in this economic point of view, in the encouragement of abstract scienee, is obvious and im oscillate ; and there is this additional motive to be remem bered—the moment any result of ec'ence becomes ap plic -ble to the arts the unfailing enterprise of the corn mereial anti inenufacturing classes takes it upand exhausts every resource of capital and skill in giving to that applice.- tint' the lamest possible development. But, so long ea science is still petrel- abstract, it has often to be prosecute-I with slender resources, and speoially respires fostering care and a helping hand. But I rejoice to believe that the conviction of this truth is sensibly gaining ground. The fonieletiou of the geological museums, b nth in England and in Scotland, and the cerrying out of a complete geo lessical concurrently with a geographies! survey by pubic authority, and at the public cap inse,were erect steps in the right direction. Another such ease was the investineut of 1,0 'O/. annually in ailing eeperimental research. through the agency of the Royal Society, which uudertook the trouble of its epochal el looation. It is the intention of my noble friend, Lord Palmerston, to brine the principle of some expenditure in this direction spesi7ally smiler the no tice of Parliament for the future ; end it is worthy of re mark, as illustrating how far a small sum may go in aid of abs' :act science, and how cheaply the largest and most fruitful results may thereby be attained, that, as I have been informed on very high authority, this apparently trivial sum has been felt as a moat imp Tteet help in num berless instances, sometimes in the conduct of experiments, !sometimes in the publication of their results, and some times in secarine accurate artistic delineations. The rade tiens now established between the Board of Traee and various branches of scientific ievestieetion are such as to lay the foundation for further progress in the serne direc tion. lam happy to Rey that, in cosine item with the new national museum which is being organised for Scotland, there is to be a special branch devoted to the industrial applications of science, and that anew professorship—one which has long existed in almost all the continental Uni versities, that of technology—has just been instituted by the Government. Tam not less happy in being able to an menace that to thet chair Dr. George Wilson has been ap pointer!. The writings which we owe to the pen of Dr. Wilson, and °smell elly his beenti mernoirsof Cavendish anti of Dr. Reil. are among the happiest "reductions of the literature of science. 1 trust also that the aid of the State may he secures! in providing a house and home for the !scientific bodies in the metropolis. lam die posed to agree with those who s altacb no small import-ince to this consummation. When rise Royal Society alone adequately represented or nearly tall, who were engaged in physical science, 'that great body ulfilled all the neces sary conditions of a scientific council. But now, when almost every separate division of science has a separate societeeof its own, it has become almost indispensable that some new arrangement should be come to, in order that abstract science may have that degree of organisation with out which its interests will never receive the public atten tion which they ought to have. The influence, if not the authority of the State, may also, I think, be most benefi cially exerted on behalf of science throne!' the educational rules and principles of administration of the Privy Coun cil. But the Committee of Council, in the adoption of these rules, is necessarily governed to a certain extent by the feeling!' and opinions of the various churches and bodies which are the primary supporters of oar existing educa tional system. In the last report of the Council of the Geographical Society they announce a communication from the Committee of Prieyeouncil, requesting the society to appoint an examiner in geography, to be ass aciated with other examiners on other branches of education. It may be well worthy of consideration whether the same expe dient might not be usefully adopted in reference to other branches of science which have hitherto formed a less ad mitted part of ordinary instruction. And this, gentlemen, brings me to say that the advancement of science depends, above all things, on securing for it a better and snore ac knowledged place in the education of the young. There are many signs that the time is corning when our wishes in this respect will be fulfilled. They would be fulfilled, per haps, still snore rapidly hut for the operation of obstruct. ing causes, some ef which we should do well to notice. How often do we find it assumed that those who urge the claims of science are desirous of depreciating come one or more of the oiler and more sacred branches of education ! In respect to elementary schools we are generally opposed, srs :aiming at the dieplecenient ef religious teaseling ; wbile in respect to the higher schools and colleges, the cudgels are taken up in behalf of classical attainments. A remark able example of the influence of these feelings will he found in a speech delivered by Lord Lyndhurst during the late session of Parliament.. With ell the power of his dignified and commending eloquence. be asserted the right of the elder studies to their time-hoeonred pre-ernmence , ' • and in the keen pursuit o f this argument even he was almost tempted to speak in a tone of some de preciation of this noble pursuits in which the University of which he is a distinguished ornament has won no small portion of her fame. But surely no enlightened friend of the natural sciences would seek to challenge this imaginary competition. Perhaps, indeed, like other zealous advocates, ROYAL CREMORNE GAIWENS. wa s give , ' at thee* garden s Last evinena a gran d fete to celebrate the capture of She 3falakhoff, the Redan, a n d Sebastopol by the Allied armlet., and, despite the gloomy arid threatening aspect of the evening, a goodly number of her Majesty's subjects assembled on the grounds to witness the grand military spectacle prepared for the occasion, and they were well rewarded for the pluck which they displayed in the matter. The evening had cleared up, and the gorgeous Panorama of Sebastopol, with a ll its defences, was revealed to view —the cannons loudly rattled, the deadly strife was again ena c ted, and the enthusiastic cheering which greeted the triumphant termination of the fearful conflict, the flags of Francs and England, floating over the capture I forte, w hil e the Russian stronghold was reduced to a mass of burning ruins, proved how earnestl y the audience participated in the pentad, heartyE n g lis h. feeling. Nor was this the only cane that led to the rapturous applause with which the brilliant effort of Mr. Simpson, the enterpris ing proprietor, was recompensed. It was known that he had resolved to devote other nights to charity, or rather to the creation of a suitable testimonial to those who bad in well merited the highest honours and most sub Atari. tial rewards which Englishmen can offer, With libera lity similar to that which so lately produced more than 1,100/. sterling to the Wellington Cellege, he has determined on devoting the - whole proceeds of Mos day next, and every night throughout the week, to a fund for the solace of the wounded, and the alleviation of the sufferings of the widows and the orphans. Who can re sist such a claim I Who will refuse to add his mite, for ehich he will receive such ample value, to render the " Cremorne Fund" worthy of the spirit in which it bee been conceived? The appeal strikes borne t• the hearts of " the Peerand the Peasant " To use the emphatic languaro of the advertisement—" Patriotism suggests it--Jnistioe demands it—and Sympathy requires it. The gardens were brilliantly illuminated. and wal l of the mottoes were most appropriate. AP"gst the mo-t conspicuous were the two following:--" Sebastopol has fallen —rejoice," "Them is he arzeued who has his quarrel ju,t.' The various attractive enter rtaintne ate to be met with at Cremorne were duly appre mated ) )3 , the 'visitors, and the entire fete went off with t he gret *test eclat. m rt^*~ rtiptoi i oce e , seP° Isel'o'il )0 1 ' ' ~,~~. , ie#