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A‘,` , - ... ... 4,- t - ..... ~, ~ es . •..,.. , • • ', - .r.... ~.) ki ll : OtL BERT SMITH'S WIONT BLANC, a t 8 cAoclr. . 2 -) AGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), e F ry e ,, and Tuesday, Thursday, and atirday Mornings at Ss. ; area, 2s. ; gallery, la.—Fgyptian Hall, Piccadilly. • r~r EntINCE'S CLUB.—RACQUEr and TENNIS - T b COURTS, Hans pl ace , Belgrave-square. - Gentlemen dcsirot,s t ° .ecoming members ar e requested to communicate with the secre- Ilr y, at the club, who will furnish every information. . ---------- - Sporting intelligence, ,GRAND MUSIC RALL.-ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.—JUL LIEN'S CONCERTS. —Madame Rodars dorff—Change of Programme each Evening Danson's' Colossal Views of Constan tinople and the Al ps —Philli ps ' s Di oram i c Vi ews — Turkish Kiosk and illurninated Terrace—Fairy Caverns and Fatima's llonvi--Grounds lighted i n a perfectly novel manner—Southhy's Fireworks and Brilliant Emblematic Tableau. Admittance Is. Con cert at Seven. Fireworks at a Quarter past Ten o'clock. THE ZOUAVES.—ROYAL SURREY l EmN4.—The public is informed that the ZOIJ AYES, ram the 2d Regit of the Imperial Guard. will appear EVERY NIGIIT fora monthnly, the permissi in from the French authorities expiring positively on the sth September next. fi th August, 185 6. WILLIAM . ELLIS, Secretary. DR. ______________ K.A FIN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4. Coventry- street. Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen only) iron, 10 till 10, con taining upwsrds of one thousand models and Preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in health and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, and half-past 7, by Dr:, G. SEXTON,' F.R.G.S. ; and a new and highly-int eresting series of Lectures is now In course of delivery by Dr. KAHN, at 4 p.m. precisely. Admission, One ,hilling. LA ST TREE WEEKS IN LONDON. R . W. 8 . WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES. M TO-NIGHT Ft 7 tel every evening, at B.—The above entertain- Ment has received nor al additions, Vocal and Visual, including a New ?Loco-Joko-Motire Ly ric, entitled OFF BY THE TRAIN, illustrated by numerous changes, facial, lingual, and conoreal. Mr. W. S. Wood in around," and as Mrs• Florence, I a t he " Yankee Girl," with the songs of " Bobbing Slag "Pe at'', won't you try me, oh!"—Polygraphic-hail, Wi lliam.stret It Charing-cross. --,____ CREIVIORI CR—Open Daity.—One Shilling.— THIS DAY, , August 7, and during the , a eek.— First Represen. tation of an entire] r new Fairy Ballet of Action, entitled, The Vine dressers of Como ; Dr, the Fairy and the —. The Brothers Hutch inson in the Silver Dance and Clas4cal Gymnasium ; Dancing on the Ifonstre C P latfonn to the Great Cremorne Band; M'Cullum, the Ameri can s on der, in the Cirque Oriental ; M. Henderson as Le de Fer Yolant ; Tanner's Troupe of Performing Dogs ; Grand scale of magnitice Vocal and Instru mental Concert. The Illuminations on the usual oce only to be found in these grounds. Fireworks on the river esplanade. Open on Sundays for promenade. Admis sion free ; table d'hote at six; 2s. 6d. each. Tuesday and Wednes day, August 19 : end 2Q ~ a Grand Flower Show of Dahlias, Holly s. Fruit, &e . CANTF,RBURY HALL, Westminster-road. - -OP' et NT I VERY EVF.NING.—The celebrated HUNGA RUN BAN It, under the direction of Herr KALOZDY, will perform EntertainsE'e Aug at 9 and 11 o'cleck, in addition to the usual Vocal nent The following company of talented Vocalists are P en nanertly engaged for the performance of Selections from all the Can Popular '‘)peras, Madrigals, Choruses, Duets, &c., viz.:—Mrs. J. Miss Brunel, Miss Sommers, and Miss Pearse ; Sam Cowell, 34 rs Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghm ans S . Jones, T. Farrant, W. 7fdelling, Barker, Russell Grover, and P. Carrie ; Masters E. Con nell, Airstin, and Bennett, and Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte. Mr. Harroway, B.A. harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c , until - twelve o'clock. THE CHANCELLORSVILLE FREEHOLD GOLD MINING COMPANY. Capital 50,00nr., in 0,000 shares of I/. each. Offices —No. I, Great W inchester -street, Old Broad-street. City. The statement of the Directors of this Company to the Sharehol ders and the public (already advertised at length in the newspapers), ontaining a full account of its past proceedings and present position, and a calculation of the profits, may be had on application,persooally er by letter, to Mr. W. S. TROTTER, the Secretary, at the above address. , METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and J-74. GENIAL LIFE A , SURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent , Street, W aterloo-place, London . C a pital, 100,0001. Rt. 11-n. Spene,,r TRUSTEES. Henr Walpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M P. y Peter Fuller, E sq. E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches. N.B, The bonus declared at the last division of profits averaged 33 per cent, on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON* CAMROUX, Manager. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIF E ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London. DIRECTORS. FRANCIS HART DYKE, Esq.. Chairman. HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. John Dixon, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bait. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Tho mson Hankey, Esq. M.P. James Morris, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. H enr y N o r m a n , E sq . John Harvey, Hubbard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. George Jobnstone,Esq. John Thornton, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq James Tulloch. Esq. John Loch, Es • Henry Vigne, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq. A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Johnii i.dykesy Smith, Thornton, Esq. George Keys, Esq., Secretary. tII M DEPARTMENT. Samuel Brown, E sq ., A c t uar y. —Under pro of an Act of lia ment, this Company now offers to the future visions insurers Four-ilfths Par- of withettrourottits, with Q u i nquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium p a rticipation of Profits. The next division of Profit s w ill b e d ec l are d i n June, 1860, when ~ s •••tut,ciPeting P olicies which shall have subsisted at least one year , a atll Chistmas, 1839, Will be allowed to share in the Profits. reversionary the live divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000 i of 7:l 2i nr o la g na Zi n S 's l, the assurances in force amounted to upwards than' ; ."0,•1 . t he Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more Guarantee 00,0091. and the Life Assurance Fund (independent of the r oraßlee Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001. tnd We s t 'l." RIS S.The Extra Premiums required for the East nitecl "dies, the ffritish Colonies, and the northern parts of the States of America, have been materially reduced. INVALID LIVE S. —Persons who are not in such sound health as 34Would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums, ..7 have their Lives insured at Extra PremitliAL ...0 'l n granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values. ' li ed such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have Attained in each case a value not under 501. ASUGNIKENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company 4 and no charge will be wade for ~obey stamps. tieP FI RE DE PARTMEN r.—lnsurances effected upon every descrip of P r •Perty, at moderate rates. Lessee caused by Explosion of Gas aro admitted by this Company. ........_____ SCRWEPP'S MALVERN SELTZER WAT ER.—Having leased the Holy Well Spring at Malvern, 4TE It aXiowned for its purity, J. S. and Co. can now produce a SELTZER with all the Chemical and Ifedicinal Properties which have rendered the Nassau S n ered prinz so celebrated. They continue manufac- E E f3 SOD& NIAGNESIA, POTASS WATERS and LEMON rat London, Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby. Bottle is protected by a Red Label bearing their signatures. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. EA and PER RINS ' WORCESTERSHIRE IL SA UCt imparts th e most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, Sad Sad all Roast Meat G rav i es, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily ugeof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe lizard to health. ... Sold by the p roprietary, Lea and Porrlns, 19, Fencburch-street, Lo don, and (A. Broad-stre e t, Worcester • also by biessrs. Barcl ay a nd Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the ' principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitatioas, se that the names of "LEA and PERRIN'S" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. ___________ GREY HAIR RESTORED tr , its ORIGINAL COLOUR with ease. safety. and certainty, by the PATENT GALVANIC COMBS and BROSIIE-, which are als , an unfailing fertledy for nervous headache and all neuralgic affections. Illus trated Pamphlets." Why Hair becomes Grey, and its Re , nedy," zrat is, orarebyveprofsetetfloyr eforaudrisetarms. Neuralgia, and all Rheumatic affections Most safe, ample, and'lmhycietnhte G alvanicgPaalvtaennitein - Brushes, the Maw! by the fiteulty. Offices : —F. M. HERRING, 32, Basinghall s rurn e Flesh s ex t ß a street. Agents ; —Child. South Gallery, Crystal Palace ; Savory and Moore ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond -street • Godfrey and Cooke, Conduit street ; Bend. le, 12, Ti ckborne-street; Twinberrow, 2, Edwards street, Portman -square; Saunders. 315 a, Winter, 205, and KennedY, rard-ree, Soho; 166, Oxfr t d- street ; Ross, 119, Bish o p s ate-street ; Rimniell, Ger- Worth- t Worn, 17, Da wson - street, and Birch. 1, Moles street, üblin. Sold by all chemists and perfumers of repute. A LLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—Reduction in Price. "a nts --LiAR RINOTON. PARKER. and CO., Wi ne and steer er e ii o 5 5‘. Pall-11fall are now delivering the March Brewings above c elebrated Ale, in Casks of 18 Gallons at 335. each. Als ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE IN BOTTLE, 5„Ln . Pall-Dertal Pints at 5 5 .. I m p er i a l H alf-pints, nr Luncheon, 3s, N inall, June 13, 1856. MR. Row A p D sul ------- .Dentist, 52, Fleet. street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI- F/CIAr.TtETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so !Pe!Peperfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from o riginal by the closest observer; they will never change colour or or and will be found ve superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require rY the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is Fru teed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in nuutir.ation.--52, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five. "TOURISTS and T the scorching rays of thusun and heated particles of dust Will find VELLERS exposed to ROWLANDS' KALYDOR a most refreshing preparation for the Complexion, cloud of languor and relaxation, a'layi •ng all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored dispelling the elasticity and healthful state of the skin. Freckles, Tan, Spots, Pimples Flushes and Discoloration fly before Its application, and give place to delicate clearness with the gloW of beauty and of bloom. In cases of sunburn or r kings of insects its virtues have long been acknowledged. Price 4s. 6d. and Sc. 6d, per bottle. ROWLADS' MA.CASiAR OIL. in de lightfully fragrant and transparent p r eparation, and, as an tigorator and purifier, beyond all precedent The Prices are 3s. Cti., 6( l'' and double that size, i 215.5., family bottles (equal to four small), 10s. ROWLANDS' °DONT°, repea t! Dentifrice, compounded of the rarestondm breath .it It bestows on the Teeth a pearl-lik e w teneost fragrant es, frees rr°4l 'artar, and Imparts to the gums a healthy firmness, and them to the gra teful sweetness and purity. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Sold by A,. CheßliSts and PeriUmers. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by .......,......_ 4 l'rEl'r ';;; l'N -----. PORTANT DISC OVERY IN TUB SCIENCE Patent n,.. OF MEDICINE. Patent gieli Real of Great Britain. Diplome d'Eeole de Pharmacie ,Ewen de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TBit q devoid peau, Laile ERAIt No. 1 2 and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge of tut, Fold in or smell, Lel can be carried in the waistcoat pocket 'Val in t— c ues divided into separate doses, as administered by TRlEnaancl, Roux , Ricord, &c., &c. SEMAR Fonsee No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAxA Tyr..., ~ - , 2 4 S PERMATORRIRE A, and all the distressing whatever the enjoyment "nee ' a n , ing from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual strength ...i . ""'" vI o thousands of debilitated individuals who are „s.r ~,,,,,may he the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS inr MAR -1"4"r" t hey are effectually subduel by this Wonderful Discovery ! effectuall, in the short 8 ac of three days, omPletelY TRIESEMAR No. IL, 1 3rin eradicates all traces of Go P norr e hcea, both in its mild and aggravated and enely v e : ya,l,net:, Strictur es, Irritation of the Bladder. Non-retention of *- ers which Copet yl 'n l Of the Loins and Kidneys, and disord ruinofthelea bebs haves° long been thought those an antidote for, to the ealth of a vast portion 0 , the population. is the tCo ti TRItNEMAR No. 111., toms. Insso neonnsental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary 8 O cone utaneo Eruptior ti kites a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofu , la and all lions and irn . is. re mng an course all corrup purities fromthe d expelling in its the virus of disease, vital stream, as altogether to eradicate through the n tedi and expel! it with the insensible perspiration um of th never-failing e pores of the skin and urine, and is a remedy for t the English Physician treeht:t lass of di sor d ers which unfortunately tion of the patient's constit with Mercury, tot he in ev i ta bl e destruc the world cann ot restore, u tion, and which all the sarsaparilla in Price I ls., or four cas e s sin e n cases, whereby there is a avings for 336„ which saves Ils., and in 51. retail in London,n of Johnson, 68 e'll' 12s, To be had wh lesale and ford -street Sgr, 150, Oxford-sternbill; Hannay and Co., 63, Mte, Manchester; ti, ifeet Ingham, druggist, 46, Ox- Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 51 radbury, bookseller, Dcansgate, bookseller. )5, westmereiltna.s,r , Lord-street, Liverpool ; Powell, Eah ltreeteßUTaipgham. I yet, Dolin;:minnau, bookseller, *TO' rt ot roo. 19th 21 him aof MO 29th & :18t ad 16 nd. 29 od. )9 nd 24 [ce dal loedaily nd 21 Al it 29 ta 15, 21,29 L a nd 21 and 16 t & 16th a 16111011 ontbly and 16 eek'Y be de- :11,11a ;;i the mlmok! .. ---.---... yin. de-park, the e the Wll withou t ' e, of OP ierks. uare, ary,Bt•P laughter , twr i g ht, n y of pf d ). Streeto Partuelt ), Lieu t '' Fusilier low, late ant, 131" bf, Mrs' •g i- o CAP' ..~ 'oo °l No 112 ' ounl ol N o . 20,010.) PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the libraries, in 3 vole., MODERN SOCIETY in ROME. By J R. BENTE Esq., Author of" The Wabash." "Mr. Beste has written a work of great interest, His sketches of Roman society are admirable. His knowleige of the elements that comprise that strange mosaic of contributions from all nations calle.l Roman Life in the upper circles is complete. In addition to th s, he is thoroughly versed in the whole history of the late troubles in Rome, which he describes minutely and graphically." Daily News. Hurst and Blackettrublishers, 13, Great Marlbbrough-street. P OST OFFICE DIRECTORY of DEVON SHIRE and COIINW SLL, Now I üblishing, price Vs. Also miy he had, Directories of the followinz Counties : —Cam bridge, Norfolk, and Suffolk ; Warwickshire, Worcestershire, an t Staffordshire; Bedford hire, Buckingham , hire, Huntingdonshire, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, and Oxfordshire; the Town and Neighbourhood of sheffiel I ; Essex, Hertfordshire, Keqt, Middlesex, Surrev, and Sussex; Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Rutiandshire; Hampsh re, Do• s?tshire, and Wiltshire ; Lin colnshire; Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire, with the Cities of Bath and Bristol. KELLY & Co., 19, 20, and 21, Old Boswell-court, St. Clement% Strand ; and all Booksellers. The Third Edition. Just Publish e d, pr i ce 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMA.TORRHCEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this diskse, and Correcting of wide spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Pickford Is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that ho has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to cor rect. " —London Medical Gazette. " The t r ib e of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and 1 1!ifedical Friends, are mercilessly exposed; and if this book =ld find its way into the hands of those who seffer from the com plaint of which it treats. we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of 'leas Importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize much m0ney...... This volume is well. qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, like'y to do much good."—Medical Circular. • London: H. Makers, 419, Regent-street. CURE of STAMMERING.—Mr. HUNT begs to announce that his annual sojourn at his Marine Residence, Swanage, Bonet, will commence on the 21st of August. Those cases of Defective Utterance attended with nervousness will find that the tonic influence of the sea air and change of scenes, combined with the only rational system for the cure of Impediments in Speech, will yield the most speedy ands Itisfactory results. A card of terms may be obta ned on application to Mr. Hunt, 8, New Burlington-street. N.B.—Mr. Hunt's new Work on Stammering is just published by Longman and Co., price 3s. Gd. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY._ CIIEAP EX , ,URSIOY to BATH and BRIRTOT. —On SUND Vl', August 10, a Trak will leave Pad iington at 7.45 p.m., returning the same day from Bristol, at 6.30 p.m., and Bath at 7 p.m. Fares—Bath, 58. and 95.; Br stol, 6s. and 103. No luggage allowed. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. EXCURSIONS to Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednes bury, Bilston, Wolverhampton, Wellington, Shrewsbury. Omivestry, Llangollen-road. Wrex' , am, Chester, Birkenhead, and Liverpool.— Trains will leave Paddington on Saturdays, Auaust 16 and 23, at 8 a.m , returning either on Aucust 30 or -leptember 6, from Liverpool ( anding stage) at 8 a.m., and intermediate stationi as per hand-bills. Fares: —Birmingham, 20s. and 9s. 6d.; West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston. 21s. 6d. and 10s.; Wolverhampton, 223 6d. and 10s. 6d., Wellington and Shrewsbury, 27s 6d. and 13s. ; Oswestry, Llangollen road, Wrexham, and Chester, 335. and 155.; Birkenhead and Liver pool, 375. and 17s. Tickets not transferable, and only available for the trains specified. Children under 12, half price. G REAT WESTERN and SHREWSBURY R [LW VI'S. NORTH WALE TOURIsT PICKETS available for Three Weeks from the day of issue. These tick is will he issued until the 15th October, at Paddington, Oxford, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, to Chester and back, with permission for the passengers to stop at Shrewsbury either going or returning, to proceed either from Llangollen-road to Oornwen, or from Oswestry to Welshpool by coach, the London passengers hav ing the option of calling at Leamington and Warwick, and returning to London either via . .hrewsbury, Hereford. Ross, and Gloucester, or via Shrewsbury, Birmingham, and Oxford. Ist Cass and 2d Class and Inside Coach. Outside Coach. From London and back.... £3 10s. .... £2 10s. From Oxford and back •• •• 2 10s. .. • • 1 15 3. From Birmingham and back ...... 2 03. • • a 1 103 . From Wolverhampton and back .. 1 15s. 1 7s. These tickets are available by any train, but are not transferable, and they do not entitle the holder to travel twice in the same direc tion over any portion of the lines of railway. Passengers can proceed into the interior of Wales by coach from Corwen or Welshpool, by arrangement with the coach proprietors from those places. Fares. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. TOURISTS' TICKETS, COMMENCING 19T JUNE, AND TERMINATING 30TH ` I EPTEMBER, 1856. NORTH WALES. Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, enabling the holder to stop at Rhyl, Conway, Bangor, Caerna:von, and Holyhead, either going or returning, , re issued at the following fares by the through trains. The First-class Tickets are available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached. Css. 2d Class. 3Londoi to Plolyheact and back...... £3 lst 10 la 0 ..... £2 10 0 Oxford Peterborough Ito ditto and back.... 210 0 1 15 0 Birmingham to ditto and back . . 2 0 0 .... 110 0 Wolverhampton to ditto and back.... 115 0 ...• 1 7 0 To TILE LAKES OF WEiTIWORF.LAND AND CIIAMERCAND Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, to the above Lakes, are ;sated at the following Fares by the through Trains. The First class Tickets aro available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached int Claw:. 2d . London to Windermere and back ...• £3 10 0 .... £2 10 Class 0 oxford Peterborough ditto and back 215 0 20 0 Birmingham to ditto and back 2 5 0 1 15 0 Wolverhampton . ••• To THE FAVOURITE LANCASHIRE WATERING PLACES, LYTHAM', BLACKPOOL, FLEETWOOD, Oil SOUTHrORP. Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, are 14stied by the ordinary trains of the Companv. The First-Class are available ty any train, and the Second by such as have second-class caniaces attached. let Class. 2d Class. From London £3 0 0 ...• £2 5 0 „ Oxford Peterborough p „ Birmingham wolverhampton 5 115 0 .... 1 8 0 From Fleetwood Royal Mail Steamer sails every evening (Sunday excepted) for BeWas', and Weekly Excursion Tickets are issued at the Steam Packet Office for Belfast, Armagh, the Giant's Causeway, and back. EXCURSIONS TO TIIE SEA SIDE. Tickets, available for TWENTY-EIGHT DAY-, are issued by the ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are avail/able by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class car riages attached, to Harrovrgate, Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, or R ridling,ton. HARRO WOATE and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 435. ; 'ecoirl Class, 325. 6d. SCAR/1011011011 and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second Class, 355. wIITTRY arid Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Se cond Class, 355. FILE Y and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second Class, 355. lI , tIDLINGTON and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 515.; Second Class, 355. These Tickets are not transferable, nor will they be available for the Return Journey unless they have been endorsed at the Booking office of the Station on the day of retuning. Passengers to all the above places, ex wept flarrowg ste, are at liberty to break the journey by remaining one night at York, either going or returning, IRISH TOURIST TICKETS, A.vailable for ONE MONTH, will be issued at the following prices :- 1 at Class. 2d Class. From London £6 10 0 .. • • £5 5 0 Oxford .„ ...... 515 0.. • • 415 0 Birmingham, Leamington, and Co ventry ....... And from the other principal stations at proportionate fares. These tickets (which in no case are transferable) will be available for One Month from the date of issue. They will enable the Holders to proceed to Chester, thence to Bangor, Holyhead, and Dublin, from Dublin to Cork, situate On the picturesque River Lee. and within ten miles of the celebrated Harbottr, Dockyard, and Naval Station of Queenstown (Cove) ; from Cork back to Mallow, and thence by the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-famed LAKES OF KILLARNEY. The Tourist can remain as long as convenient to himself at Chester, Bangor (for the inspection of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy head, Dublin, Cork, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his return to the Station at which he took his ticket must be not later than One Month from the date of his departure therefrom. Supplemental Tickets for CONNEMARA. GLENGARIFFE, the GIANT'S CAUSEWAY. and other places of interest, are issued at Reduced Fares to Visitors holding " Irish Tourist Tickets." General Manager's Office, Euston Station, June, 1856. 2. MILNERS' HOLDFAST and FIRE RE,zISTING SAFES (non-conducting and vapourising), with all the improvements, under their Quadruple Patents of 1840.51-54 and 1 4 55, including their Gunpowder Proof Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure. THE STRONGEST, BEST, AND CHEAPEST SAFEGUARD EXTANT. MILNERS' PIRENIX (212') SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the most complete an extensive in the world. Showrooms. 6 and 8, Lord-street, Liverpool. LONDON DEPOT, 47A, MOORGATE STREET, City. Circulars tree by post. 4 RE YOU GOING TO THE HIGHLANDS, L - 11 unrivalled for scenery, famous in story and song, to visit the land of Sir Colin Campbell and the Highland Brigale ? Ifs make a note to call at (when in the Capital of the beautiful North) MAC DOUGA LL'A W tREHOUSE, High-street, Inverness. There only can the varied products of the Highlands, natural and industrial, be seen. In his extensive rooms MACDOUGALL has gathered together all the best productions of the Highland looms, in TWEEDS, TAR TANS, LINSEYS, PLAIDS, SHAWLS, DRESSEs 2 , the favourite HIGHLAND CLOAK, FLORA MACDONALD ditto, &c., &c., with the best Native J E WELLERY, CAIRNGORMS, PEARLS, th nittin e pretty N products of the Skye, Lewes, and Gairloch Looms and Kg eedles ; the Home-made. Undyed PLAIDS of Ord, Suther 9land, and Aroch ; the SNUFF-BOXES, COUPS, BICKERS of the _nelloclen Carvers, &c. Side by side w ith a ll this he has placed all th nec essary clothing of every descriptio n f or D eer Stalk i ng, Grouse Sh° nting. and for T our i s t s . & c . Vi s it ors to his rooms can at once compare the varied products of the Three Kingdoms. D. MACDOUGALL, Inverness. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Pa tron —The QUEEN.— Founded 1828. recommendat The sick pooion r i$ are requadmitted on their own application a l one ; no ired. During the past month the following , number received the benefits of this application;-- Charity, eith er as out or in-door patients, on their personal Week ending 7th July 2 , ,03 Ditto 14th July —••••'• ' • 1'966 Ditto 21st July .• • • 2,045 Ditto 28th July .•• • *" 29th, 30th, a nd 31st Jul 2,11 i Y ---...... Te in July ...... . • .. • • 9,343 of which 3,843 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. Heavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such eaten. sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual General Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The liospiotl is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun tary contributions and )evades, whi c h are received by the Treasurer. John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts Drummond and Cc.; Ber r i es and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Grote, and Co. Smith. Payne, and C o.; Glyn and Co. ; Prescott,and Co.; Drummond Co.;Jones Loyd and Co.; ;c Smit h . and Co.; Denison and Co.; Williams. Overend, Gurney, a n d C o. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber- 1 Deacon, and , the destitute patitilie will b e th ankfully received. el' Cletlll96 L J, B. OWEN, 481,14L1i• ners-strcet ; Masterman and Co.; and at the H ospital. py cyder. LON DON, ruuRsDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1856. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. CHELTENHAM, AUG. 6. The 26th annual meeting of this eminent body com• menced its sittings this day at Cheltenham, under the presidency of Dr. Daubeny, F.R.S. The meeting pro mises to be one of the most su3cessful and interesting of any which the association has yet held, and it is indeed gratifying to find that every year brings with it an in creased amount of interest in connection with the objects and movements of the association. The directors of Cheltenham College have placed that building at the disposal of the officers of the association, and the most active preparations have, for some days past, been made to render the different school-rooms suitable for the sit tings of the various sections. The two largest of these rooms have been assigned to the Geological and Geographical Sections. Beth these rooms have been lighted with gas, it being intended that the in augural meeting and the evening lectures of Colonel Sir H. Rawlinson and Mr. Grove shall be held there. Cheltenham College is admirably adapted for the purposes of the association, and the various class-rooms bave.been most judiciously arranged and elegantly de corated under the direction of Mr. Hu3all, one of the local secretaries. _ . The Duke and Duchess of Argyll arrived at Chelten ham this morning, and, though there is a large attend ance of members - - of the association and a considerable influx of visitors, there is no lack of accommodation in the town, owing to the absence of so many of the resi dents, and the lodgings are better and cheaper than at any place the society has previously visited. The follow. ing are among the number of arrivals :—Earl of Ellen borough, Earl Ducie, Sir R. J. Murchison, Lord Wrot tesley, Lord Stanley, Sir J. Kay Shuttleworth, Sir 11. Rawlinson, Professor J. D. Thomas, Dr. M'Adarn, Mr. J. E. Appold, Dr. W. Gladstone, Mr. H. C. Sorby, Professor Corbett, Professor Ramsey, Mr. J. P. Gas siott, Professor Harkness, Dr. N. Shaw, Mr. J. T. Dawson, Dr. W. N. Hancock, Mr. It. Cull, Profes sor Steveley, Dr. Lankester, Dr. Booth, Dr. Lee, Dr. Danbeoy, Professor Sedgwick, Professor Lloyd, Mr. I'. Tooke, Dr. Anderson, Colonel Yorke, Mr. Tite, M.P., Professor Phillips, Mr. J. Yates, &c. The proceedings of the association commenced this morning by a meeting of the general committee in the College at 1 o'clock ; Dr. Daubeny in the chair. Professor PHILLIPS, the assistant general secretary, read the minutes of the previous meetings, and the re port of the council of association, which was ordered to be printed. Mr. J. P. GASBIOT moved that the cordial thanks of the General Committee of the British Association be offered to Lord Wrottesley and the officers and council of the Royal Society, for the promptitude with which they have responded to the request of the Committee of the British Association, in granting the sum of 2501. for the purpose of lighting the Kew Observatory with gas. The motion, having been seconded by Mr. J. TAT alf of himself an d the offi- LO L R, or w d a w s c ß a o rr r i r e z d st u z n y a , n o im n o b u e s h ly cers and council of the Royal Society, acknowledged the vote of thanks. The General Treasurer (Ur. J. Taylor) then read the following account - THE GENERAL TREASURER'S ACCOUNT, FROM SEPT. 12, 185;5 (GLASGOW MEETING), TO AUG. 6, 1356, AT CREL TENHAM. lington and Lord Stanley were elected to fill the vacan cies in the committee occasioned by the deaths of Ea Cathcart and Sir John Johnstone. Professor PHILLIPS moved the appointment of the fol lowing officers of the different sections : SECTION A ,-- MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. President—Rev. R. Walker, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents —Rev..B. P. Price, F.R.S., Sir W. Snow Harris, F. R. S., Rev. W. Whe well, F.R.S., and the Rev. H. Lloyd. Secretaries—Professor Stevelly, Mr. C. Burke, F.R.S., Rev. T. A. Southwood, Rev. J. C. Turnbull. SECTION B.—CHEMICAL SCIENCE. President—Mr. B. C. Brodie, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents —Mr. N. S. Maskelyne, F.G.S , Mr. W. Gregory, F.R.S., Mr. Lyon Playfair, F.R.S., the Master of the Mint, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Anderson, Secretaries--Mr. P. Woraley, Professor Voelker, and Mr. J. Horsley. SECTION C.—,GEOLOGY. President —Mr. A. C. Ramsey, F.R.S. Vice-Presi dents—Rev. Professor Sedgwick, Mr. J. Hamilton, and Mr. J. P. Jukes. Secretaries—Rev. S. B. Brodie, Mr. T. Wright, and Mr. J. Scongall. SECTION D.—ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, INCLUDING Pay. SIOLOGY. President —Mr. T. Bell, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents-- Rev. L. Jenyns, Dr. 'Robert Ball, Mr. J. E. Grey, F.R.S. ; Professor Balfour, and Professor Henslow. Secretaries—Mr. E. Lankester, F.R.S. ; Mr. J. Buck man, F.G.S. ; and Dr. J. Abercrombie. SECTION E.--GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. President—Sir H. C. Rawlinson, F.R.S. Vice-Presi dents—Sir J. Davies and Sir R. J, Murchison, F.R.S. Secretaries.—Dr. Norton Shaw, Mr. Richard Bull, Mr. F. D. Ragland, F.R.C.S., and Mr. H. W. R amsey , F.R.C.S. . . SECTION F.—STATISTICS. President.—Lord Stanley. Vice-Presidents.—Dr. John Strang, Mr. T. Torke, F.R.S., Mr. W. Tite, Mr. J. T. Dawson, and Mr. J. Heywood, M.P., F.R.S. Secretaries.—fir. W. Newrnarch, Mr. E. Cheshire, Rev. C. H. Bromley, Mr. W. M. Tartt, and Professor Handeock. SECTION G.—MECHANICAL StIENCE, President.—Mr. G. Rennie, F.R.S. Vice• Preside Mr. J. Nasmyth, F.R.S., and Mr. J. Taylor, F.R.S. Secretaries.—Mr. C. Atherton, Mr. aM. Jeffrey; and Mr. B. Jones, jun. The following letter, in explanation of a proposal to change the title of one of the sections, addressed to the general secretary by Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P., D.C.L., president of the Statistical Seclion at Glasgow, 1855, was then read by Professor Phillips : " Dear General Sabine,—At the last meeting of the Bri tish Association I gave notice of my intention to propose at the Cheltenham meeting, that the Section of ' Statis tics' should in future be entitled the Section of Economic Science and Statistics.' "I am desirous that this change should be effected, be cause I think it will bring the objects of the section more legitimately within the scope of the association. Political economy is now recognised as a science, not only by the establishment of chairs in the chiJf universities of Europe, but also by the confirmation which experience has given to its principles and deductions. At the same time it is im portant that public attention should in every way be at tracted to its study at a time when its terminology, neces sarily imperfect from the period of its formation, is under going considerable revision, and when the investigations, now in progress on the Continent and in the United States are subjecting the doctrines of the most distinguished Bri tish founders to a severe and often hostile scrutiny. "At the same time I do not wish to give up the word statistics,' because its retention enables the section use fully to entertain many subjects of general interest which the wholesome abstinence of the association from political and moral questions must otherwise exclude. I believe the public has derived great advantag e f rom th e ma t er i als of social and economical- truths gathered together and pre sented at the meetings, and would see with regret any further limitation of it s o bj ects. "I shall be glad if the general committee of the associa tion think fit to adopt the alteration which I propose, and I remain, dear General Sabine, yours very sincerely, "RICHARD MONCIC "16, Uppe r Brook-street, July id." TON MILNER. After some conversation, the committee agreed to change the title of Section F from " Statistics" to "Economic Science and Statistics," upon the motion of Mr. NEWHARCH, in the absence of Mr. R. M. Milnes. Mr. HOLLAND, M.P., on behalf of the inha'iitauts of Cirencester, invited the association to visit and examine the Roman remains in and near that town and also the Museum and Agricultural College on Saturday next. The invitation was accepted, and the thanks of the committee were given to Mr Holland and the inhabi• tants of Cirencester. The meeting then brake up, having sat one hour. cerned at the rapid destruction of the trees which yield the Peruvian bark, limited though they be to a very narrow zone and to a certain definite elevation on either side of the equator. Already, indeed, chemistry has given token of her powers by threatening to alt , :r the course of commerce, and to reverse the tide of human industry. Thus she has discovered, it is said, a substitute for the cochineal insect in a beautiful dye producible from guano. She has shown that our supply of animal food might be obtained at a cheaper rate from the anti podes by simply boiling down the juices of the flesh of cattle now wasted and thrown aside in those countries, and importing the extract in a state of concentration. She has pointed out that one of the earths which consti tute the principal material of our globe contains a metal as light as glass, as malleable and ductile as copper, and as little liable to rust as silver; thus possessing proper ties so valuable that, when means have been found of separating it economically from its ore, it will be capable of superseding the metals in common use, and thus of rendering metallurgy an employment not of certain dis. tricts only, but of every part of the earth to which science and civilisation have penetrated. And may I not also say that she has contributed materially towards the advancement of those arts in which an agricultural coun try like this is especially interested ? It is not often that the same individual has reaped a high reputation at once by establishing general principles in science and by ren dering popular their application to practice. . But Baro n Li e bi g s t an d s equally d i stinguished for. his ingenuity in devising new methods of analysi4, for his originality in propounding great theoretical principles in science, and for his happy talent in applying these prin ciples to purposes of practical utility." Referring to the discussions which have taken placefor sometime past between this distinguished foreigner and certain experimental agriculturists in Eiigland with regard to the principles that ought to regulate the manuring of land, Dr. Daubeny proceeded : " In so far as concerns the relative advantages of mineral and ammoniacal manures, I presume there is little room for controversy ; for, although most soils may contain a sufficiency of the inorganic constituents required by the crop, it by no means follows that the latter are always in an available condition and hence it may well happen that in most cases in which land has been long under cultivation, the former class of manures becomes, as Baron Liebig asserts, a matter of paramount necessity. Now, that the same necessity exists for the addition of ammoniacal manures can hardly be con tended when we reflect that, at the first commencement of vegetable life, every existing species of plant must have obtained its nourishment, solely from the gaseous constituents of the atmosphere, and from the mineral contents of the rock in which it vegetated. The only divergence of opinion, therefore, that can arise relates to the degree of their respective utility in the existing state of our agriculture, and to the soundness of Baron Liebig's position, that a plant rooted in a soil well charged with all the requisite mineral ingredients, and in all other respects in a condition calculated to allow of healthy vegetation, may sooner or later be able to draw from the atmosphere whatever else is required for its full development. And does not, I would ask, this latter position derive some support from the luxuriant vegeta tion of the tropics, where art certainly contributes no thing towards the result? And is it not also favoured by such experiments as those carried on at Lois Weedon in Northamptonshire, where the most luxuriant wheat crops have been obtained for a number of consecutieeyears with out manure of any kind, simply by following out the Tul lien system of stirring up and pulverising the soil ? How, too, are we to explain that capacity of subsisting without any artificial supply of ammonia which Mr. Lawes is led by his experiments to attribute to turnips and other plants of similar organisation, unless we assume that the power residing in the leaves of absorbing ammonia from the air may render plants, in some cases at.least, inde pendent of any extraneous aid ? . . . Still the prac tical question remains whether, admitting the theoretical &iris of Baron Liebig's position, a larger expenditure of capital will not be required for bringing a given farm into a condition to dispense with ammoniacal manures than for procuring those materials which contain that ingredient ready for use. And here experimental re searchei, such as those conducted on so extended and liberal a scale by Mr. Lawes and Dr. Gilbert, come in aid of theory. They stand, as it were, midway between the abstract principles which science points out to the farmer and the traditional usages with respect to his art which have been handed down to him from one genera. tion to another. They bear the same relation to the farmer which the records of the clinical practice in a large infirmary do to the general principles of medicine expounded by the modern physiologist." Having awarded a meed of praise to the researches carried on iu our own country, and especially those conducted under the auspices of the Highland Society by Dr. An dersen ; at our own Agricultural College, by Professor Voelcker ; and through the aid of the Royal Agricul tural Society by their consulting chemist, Mr. Way, the President next approached the departments of botany and vegetable physiology. In these branohes of natural science he observed that— "It cannot, perhaps, be said that whole provinces have been added to the domain of the science since the period alluded to, as we have seen to be the case in our review of the progress of chemistry. As long ago as the year 1832 the elder De Candolle, who, if not the most original or the most profound of the botanists of his day, was at least the most conspicuous for the wide range of his information, and for his happy talent of imparting it to others, published that admirable work on vegetable physiology which, even at the present time, is capable of serving as a most useful guide in many branches of the subject. And yet what a mass of impor tant information has been brought together since that period ! The improvements in the microscope which have since taken place render us familiar with particu lars relating to the structure and functions of the vege t able creation which the ruder methods of investigation fore resorted to would never have revealed to us. We a, ito them the interesting discoveries of Brown and Ao. Aphe Brongniart as to the mode in which the pollen is l :ought into immediate contact with the ovules, by means of the tubes which it protrudes by a prolongation of the innermost of its two investing membranes. . . While the researches of Brown and others have shown there is no abrupt line or division in the vegetable king dom, and that one common structure pervades the whole, the later inquiries of Suminski, Hofmeister, Unger, Griffith, and Henfre, have pointed out several curious and unlooked-for analogies between plants and animals. I may mention, in the first place, as an in stance of this analogy between plants and animals, the existence of moving molecules or phytosperms in the antheridia of ferns and other cryptogarns, borne out as it has been in so remarkable a manner by the almost simultaneous observations of Bischoff and Aeiseuer on the egg, confirmatory of those formerly announced by Barry, and Newport, and by the researches of Suminski, Thuret, and Pringsheim, with respect to the ovule •f plants. I may refer you also to a paper read at the last meeting of the association by Dr. Cohn, of Breslau, who, in bringing this subject before the Natural History Section, adduced instances of a distinction of sexes which had;corne under his observation in the lower Algza Ire like manner a curious correspondence has been traced between the lower tribes of animals and plants in the circumstance of both being subject to the law of what is called alternate generation To the elder De Candolle we are also indebted for some of our most philosophical views with re spect to the laws which regulate the distribution of plants over the globe—views which have been developed and extended, but by no means sub verted, by the investigation of subsequent writers ; among whom Sir Charles Lyell, in his Principles of riology, and the younger De Candolle, a worthy inheri tor of his father's reputation, in his recently published work on Botanical Geography, have especially signalised themselves. But it is to the late Professor Edward For bes, and to Dr. Joseph Hooker, that we have principally to attribute the removal of those anomalies whieh threw a certain degree of doubt upon the principles laid down by Da Candolle in 1820, in his celebrated article on the Geography of Plants, contained in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, where the derivation of each species from an individual, or a pair of individuals, created in one particular locality, was made the starting-point of all our inquiries Geology, by pointing out the probability of the submergence of continents on the one hand and the elevation of tracts of land on the other, enables us to explain the occurrence of the same plants in some islands or continents now wholly unconnected, and the existence of a distinct flora in others too isolated to obtain it under present circumstances from without. • • .An inquiry has been carried on for the last ; 15 years under the auspices of and with the aid of funds supplied by this association, the results of which, it is but fair to say, by no means corroborate the reports that had been from time to time given us with respect to the extreme longevity of certain seeds, exemplified, as it was I said, in the case of the mummy wheat and other some what dubious instances ; inasmuch as they tend to show that none of the seeds which were tested, although they hed been placed under the most favourable artificial con ditions that could be devised, vegetated after a period of 40 years ; that only 20 out of 288 species did so after 20 years ; while by far the larger number had lost their ger minating power in the course of ten." Having described some of the services rendered to botanical science by the late Professor Forbes, Dr. J. Hooker, and Dr. Thomson, the president continued : "The will which confines the variations in the vege table structure within a certain range, lest the order of creation should be disturbed by the introduction of an indefinite number of intermediate forms, is apparently the earns in its motive as that•which brings back the celestial luminaries to their original orbits after the com pletion of a cycle of changes induced by their mutual perturbations ; it is the same which says to the ocean, thus far shalt thou go, and no further ;' and to the winds your violence, however apparently capricious and abnormal, shall nevertheless bo constrained within certain prescribed limits '— Ni facia, maria et terras ccenemque profundum Quippe ferant rapidi secum, verrantque per auras.' • • • • • • • • • " The law, indeed, seems to be nothing else than a direct consequence of that unity of design pervading th e universe, which so bespeaks a common Creator —of th e existence in the mind of the Deity of a sort of archetype to which His various works have all to a certain extent been accommodated ; so that the earlier forms of life myy ba regarded as tying of thole of later creatiga, and RECEIPTS. To balance brought on from last account Life compositions at Glasgow, and since Annaal subscriptions, ditto Associates' tickets, ditto ... Ladies tickets, ditto Composition for future publications Dividend ou stock, 12 months l6l 11 0 Received for sale of 769/. 103., 3 per Cent Consols, at 95, leaving 5,0001. 3 per Cent Consols invested 732 13 5 From sale of publications, viz.— Reports of meetings £99 13 0 Cataloguesofstarsand Doveslines 42 2 9 141. 15 9 £1,276 1 10 PAYMENTS. By paid expenses of Glasgow meeting, sundry printing, binding, advertising, an d payments by general treasurer-and local treasurers £3l9 6 7 Printing report of the 24th meeting, engrav ing, Sze . . Paid for 2,2691. 10s. 3 p e r Cent. Consols at 83 2,000 0 0 Salaries for 12 m on th s Engraving, &c., for report of 25th meeting 26 0 0 Maintaining the establishment of Kew Obser vatory— Balance of grant, 1854 £7s 0 0 Balance of grant, 1855 Ornithological synonyms Chemical action of light Periodical phenomena Strength of iron plates Dreciging and dredging forms Propagation of salmon Balance at tho bankers £192 5 5 Balance in the hands of the gene ral treasurer and local troeurors 15 16 11 575 0 0 10) 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 9 13 9 10 0 0 08 2 4 £4,276 1 10 The Rev. R. WALKER read the report of the Parlia mentary Committee to the meeting of the British Asso elation, which was as follows : " We have the pleasure otannouncing that one very im portant subject to which our labours have been directed hail been materially advanced since the date of our last report. We allude to the juxtaposition of the scientific societies of London in a convenient and central locality. The main building at Burlington-house has been placed by the Go vernment at the di s p osa l o f th e R oya l S oc i ety, on t h e under standing that they accommo d a t e th e Li nnean an d Ch em i ca l Societies with rooms therein ; and the west wing will bo converted into a capacious hall, which is to be occupied by the Royal Society at all times when it is not required for the examinations and public meetings of the University of Lon don. We trust that the period is not far distant in which permanent accommodation will be afforded to all the prin cipal scientific societies in buildings to be erected near the same site, and in pursuance of some general plan. Your committee, however, anticipate most important advantages to science from the present partial adoption by the Go vernment of the principle of juxtaposition ; and our chairman has, in his address to the Royal Society, on the occasion of their last anniversary, alluded to the benefits likely to accrue from this salutary measure. In the same address also will be found a summary of our labours since our complete organisation in 1851, a perusal of which will show to what extent the proceedings of our committee have justified the anticipations of those who promoted its formation. During the past year two subjects have been referred to us, viz. —first, the question of the expenses in curred by scientific institutions not incorporated in ap pointing new trustees of their property when vacancies occur ; and, secondly, we were requested by your council, in January last, to support an application to Parliament in reference to lighting Kew Observatory with gas, when made by the Chief Commissioner of Woods. The first sub ject above adverted to has been considered by us, and we shall resame its discussion when as opportunity offers for remedying the evil. With respect to the second, we must refer to the report of the Kew Committee for an expla nation of the reasons which have made it impossible for us to render that species of assistance which was contem ated at the time when the reference was made to us. The most important subject of our last report—viz., the ques tion ' Whether any measures could he adopted by the Go vernment or Parliament that would improve the position of science or its cultivators ? has since its discussion at Glasgow been again considered by us, and during the last session of Parliament it was brought before the House of Commons by Mr. Heywood, as an individual member of the house, and not as representing your committee. The discussion of our report by the Committee of Recom ti mendations at Glasgow in September last, the result of the debate which took place in the House of Commons on the occasion la s t re f erred to, and subsequent communi cations members o fmt men ne of legislature g e i e s i e h a h v a e v e a c y o e m t b f in e r e m d e t d no o convince definite w uit p e h —0 linetiO thatn on the i mportant question raised in the report ; and, 2 dly, that, until such a re su lt b e a tt a i ne d , it is improbable that an y i mportant improvement will be effected in the position of science or its cultivators either through the agency of the Government or Parliament. It is desirable, therefore, that some measures should be adopted which may be instrumental in inducing scientific men generally to apply their minds to the consideration of these questions, and to agree upon some definite proposals. We, therefore, recommend that the subject should be again brought before the Committ ee of Recommendations. Mean • while that the General Committee will b e gra tifi ed on learning the importance of the question has been recognised by the Council of the Royal Society, who have referred its consideration to the Government Grant Committee. That committeehave appointed a sub-committee consistingof the President and officers of the Royal Society and seven other members, who will meet on the 7th of October for thepur pose of discussing the subject prior to the re-assembling of the society after the recess. Your committee recommend for the consideration of the General Committee, whetherit would be expedient to relax the rule by which vacancies in our committee must be filled up exclusively from members of the British Association, b 0 far as to admit members of either House of Parliament who have advanced the inte rests of science. Your committee also recommend- that two vacancies in our body, caused by the non-attendance of the Earl Cathcart and Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., during two consecutive years, be filled by the election of the Earl of Burlington and Lord Stanley, Member of Parliament for King's Lynn. " WBOTTESLET, Chairman," A vote of thanks having been given on the motion of Sir R. J. MURCHISON to Lord Wrottesley and the mem bers of the Parliamentary Committee for their unceasing attention to the interests of science in the Legislature, Lord W ROTTESLEY, in acknowledging the compliment, stated that it was most desirable that the rule should be altered by which vacancies in the Parliamentary Com mittee were only allowed to be filled up by members of • the association, and concluded by a formal motion to a that effect. Professor PHILLIPS seconded the motion, which Vfaii adopted. - 04 the motion of Lord liVitorrzehsx the Earl of Bur•, - - - THE PRSSIDENT'S OFENING ADDRESS. Dr. DAIIBENY, the ['President, delivered the 'usual opening address, taking for bia subject._" The Pr egress of Physical Science within the last 20 years." After some introductory observations, the learned president commenced his review with the science of chemistry, the subject with which, he said, he was most familiar. He first reminded his auditory that at a period not much more remote than the date at which that association sat in the city of Bristol, 20 years ago, all that could be quoted as really wort h y the name of chemical science was comprehended within the limits of the mineral king. dom : "There was a world almost as little known to the chemists of that period as was the Western Hemisphere to the Macedonian Conqueror —a world comprising an infinite variety of important products, called into exist ence by the mysterious operation of the vital principle, and therefore placed, as was imagined, almost beyond the reach of experimental research. This was the new world of chemistry, which the continental philosophers in the first instance, and subsequently those of our own country, had, during the last 20 years, been busy in exploring, and by so doing had not only bridged over the gulf which had before separated by an impassable barrier the kingdsnte of inorganic and of organic na ture, but also added provinces as extensive and as fe:tile as those we are in possession of before to the patri mony of science ... World might never have been discovered, or at all events, would not have bee n b rought under our subjection, with out those improvements in naval architecture which had taken place prior to the age of Columbus, so the secrets of organic chemistry would have long remained unelicited but for the facilities in the methods of analysis which were introduced by Liebig. Before his time the de termination of the component elements of an organic substance was a task of so much skill as well as labour that only the most accomplished analysts—such men, for ' instance, as his lamented friend Dr. Prout in this coun try, or as the great Berzelius in Sweden—could be de pended upon for such a work ; and hence the data upon which we could rely for deducing any general conclu sions went on accumulating with extreme slowness. But the new methods of analysis invented by Liebig have so simplified and so facilitated the processes that a student, after a few months' practical in , truction in a laboratory, can, in many instances, arrive at results sufficiently pre cise to be made the basis of calculation, and thus to enable the master mind, which is capable of availing it self of the facts before it, to breathe life into these dry numerical details—just as the sculptor, by a few finishing strokes, brings out the expression of the statue which has been prepared for him by the laborious chiselling of a number of subordinate workmen Formerly it had been the rule to set down the bodies which form the constituents of the substances we analysed, and which had never yet under our hands undergone decom position, as elementary ; but the discovery of cyanogen in the first instance, and the recognition of several other compound radicals in organic chemistry more lately, naturally suggest the idea that many of the so-called ele ments of inorganic matter may likewise be compounds, differing from the organic) radicals above mentioned ,merely in their constituents being bound together by a closer affinity. It is curious to reflect that while the bold speculations of Democritus had been realised by the Manchester philosopher, the reveries of the alche mists derive something like solid support from the minute investigations of his successors, indeed it is not a little remarkable how frequently the discoveries of modern days have served to redeem the fancies of medieval times from the charge of absurdity. If the direction of a bit of steel suspended near the earth can, as General Sabine has proved, be influenced by the posi tion of a body like the moon, situated at a distance from it • mere than 200,00 e miles, wh o s h a l l say that there was anything preposterously extravagant in the concep tion, however little support it may derive from experience, that the stars might exert an influence over the destinies of maul" Passing to the practical results bearing on the arts of life which have either been actually deduced, or might be anticipated to accrue from chemical discovery, the president remarked— "Of these, perhaps, the most important is the possibi lity of forming by art those compounds which had been formerly supposed to be only producible by natural pro cesses, under the influence of the vital principle. The last 2 years hav e a dd e d materially to the catalogue of such bodies artificially produced, as in the formation of several species of alcohol from coal gag by Berthelot, that of oil of mustard by the same chemist, and the generation of taurins, a principle elaborated in the liver by Strecker. And if the above discoveries should strike you at first sight rather as curious than practically useful. I would remark that they afford reasonable ground for hope that the production of some of those principles of high medi cinal or economical value which nature has sparingly provided, or at least limited to certain districts or cli mates, may lie within the compass of the chemist's skill. If quinine, for instance, to which the Peruvian bark owes its efficacy, be, as would appear from recent re searches, a modified condition of ammonia, why may not a Hellman be able to produce it for us from its elements, as he has already done so many other alkaloids of simi lar constitution? And thus, while the progress of civilisa tion and the development of the chemical arts are acce lerating the consumption of those articles which kind nature has either been storing up for the uses of man during a vast succession of antecedent ages, or else is at present elaborating for us in that limited area within which alone the conditions would seem to be such as to admit of their production, we are encouraged to hope that science may make good the loss she has contributed to create, by herself inventing artifi chi modes of obtaining these necessary materials. In this case we need not to much regard the exhaustion of our collieries, although nature appears to have pro vided no glejua for repleuielaing them nor 'veil be GOB* [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• the more complex one but as developments of rudimentary parts existing in the more simple. Here, too, we may perhaps trace an analogy with His dealings with man kind, as unfolded in His revealed word; from which we find that the earlier events recorded are often typical of those more modern, and that Christianity itself is in some sense a development of the Jewish dispensation which preceded it." Turning his attention next to geology, Dr. Daubeny said : "This science has during the last 20 years made such rapid strides that those who endeavoured from an early period of lite to !follow at a humble distance the footsteps of the groat leaders in that science, obeying the impulse of such zealous and ardent spirits as the one now, alas ! by jthe inscrutable decrees of Provi. dence, lost to his friends and to science, who consti tuted the head of what was once called, I hope not too grandiloquently, the Oxford School of Geology, have, if I may judge of others by myself, been often distanced in the race, and when they endeavoured to make good their lost ground found themselves trans ported into a new, and, to them, almost unknown region. Thus the thorough exploration which has taken place of the Silurian and Cambrian systems, through the exertions of two of our oldest and most valued associates, has added a new province—ought I not rather to say, a new kingdom !—to the domain of geology, and has car ried back the records of the creation to a period pre- Viously as much unknown to us as were the annals of the Assyrian dynasties before the discoveries of Sir H. Rawlinson." Among the principles recently regarded as axioms in geology none seemed so little likely to be disputed as this :-- " That the classes of animals and vegetales which possessed the most complicated structure were preceded by others of a more simple one ; and that when we traced back the succession of beings to the lowest and the ear liest of the sedimentary formations, we arrived at length at a class of rocks the deposition of which must be in ferred, from the almost entire absence of organic re mains, to have followed very soon after the first dawn of Creation. But the recognition of the footsteps and re mains of reptiles in beds of an earlier date than was before assigned to them tended to corroborate the infer ences which had been previously deduced from the dis covery, in a few rare instances, in rocks of the secondary age, of mammalian remains ; and this has induced cer tain eminent geologists boldly to dispete whether from the earliest to the latest period of the earth's history any gradation of beings can in reality be detected." After touching lightly on the controversy raised among geologists on this question, and adverting to the investi gations of Boussingault, Deville, and Bunsen, relative to the gases and other bodies evolved from volcanoes in their various phases of activity, the president glanced cursorily at the nearly allied science of geography. The important undertaking set on foot in connection with this department of knowledge, and the interesting disco veries made in it since the last meeting of the associa tion, were thus briefly enumerated : " 1. Dr. Kane has extended Arctic discovery through Smith Strait, at the head of Baffin's Bay, to about three degrees near the Pole. 2. Mr. Kelley has announced the result of several independent•serveying expeditions des• patched by him to the Valley of the Atrato, with a view to the formation of a great navigable channel through Central America, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. When Humboldt directed attention to this re gion 50 years since he had only uncertain reports to guide his anticipations • and these surveys have been the first to throw actual light upon this region. 3. An ex pedition has been despatched t) North Australia for the purpose of exploring the interior and tracing the extent of the northern watershed. Its arrival at the mouth of the Victoria River has bean announced. 4. It is proposed by the Geographical Society to despatch an expedition to Eastern Africa to explore the extent of the inland waters known to exist there, and if possible to discover the long sought sources of the Nile. 5. The explorations in the Rocky Mountains by several parties in South America, in the Pacific, and elsewhere, are far too numerous to be further alluded to." The president then referred to the change which the sen timents of the public have undergcne in relation to the claims of physical science—a change, he observed, that afforded equal ground for congratulation with the actual progress made in those pursuits. It was gratifying to find that the attention of the Legislature had at length been seriously called to the consideration of what measures of a public nature might be adopted for improv ing the position of science and its cultivators. The Royal Society had appointed a body of its members to receive suggestions:on that subject, and to report upon it, in order that a matured plan to meet this object might be presented to Parliament at its next session. He also cited the School of Mines, the Ipswich Museum, the Oxford Museum, the growing interest taken in the pro ceeding. of that aagoeiatioo, together wil t the increasing recognition of the importance of science in the educatien of youth, as gratifying ; signs of advancement, He I )okecl forward, he said, with confidence to the day when the requirements at Oxford in the department of physi cal science would become so general and so pressing that no institution which professed to prepare the youth it instructed for academical competition would venture to risk its reputation bydec:ining to admit those branches of study into its educational course. Having eloquently combatted the prejudice entertained against scientific studies on the gr mud that they are inimical to revealed religion, Dr. Daubeny concluded as follows:-- " We are told that in a future and a higher state of existence the chief occupation of the blessed is that of praising and worshipping the Almighty. But is not the contemplation of the works of the Creator, and the study of the ordinances of the Great Lawgiver of the universe, in itself an act of praise and adoration ; and, if so, may not one at least of the sources of happiness which we are promised in a future state of existence, one of the re wards for a single-minded and reverential pursuit after truth in our present state of trial, consist in a develop ment of orr faculties, and in the power of comprehend ing those laws and provisions of nature with which our finite reason does not enable us at present to become cognisant? Such are a few of the reflections whi c h th e study of physical science, cultivated in a right spirit, na turally suggests ; and I ask you whether they are not more calculated to inspire humility than to induce con ceit—to render us more deeply conscious how much of the vast field of knowledge must ever lie concealed from our view, how small a portion of the veil of Isis it is given U 9 to lift up—and therefore to dispose us to ac cept, with a more unhesitating faith, the knowledge vouchsafed from on high on subjects which oar own un assisted reason is incapable of fathoming. Let us not then,' to use the words of a living prelate, think scorn of the pleasant land. That land is the field of ancient and modern literature, of philosophy in almost all its branches, of the arts of reasoning and persuasion. Every part of it may be cultivated with advantage, as the land of Canaan when bestowed upon God's peculiar people. They were not commanded to let it lie waste, as incur ably polluted by the abominations of its first inhabi tants ; but to cultivate it and dwell in it, living in obe• dience to the Divine law, and dedicating its choicest fruits to the Lord, their God.' At a meeting of the Manchester Town Council held yesterday it was agreed to repeat the invitation given to the British Association a few years ago to visit that city. The intention is to invite the association to hold its meeting in 1857 at Manchester, and a committee of the town council was nominated for that purpose. The op portunity is understood to be favourable, because it has transpired that at Dublin the magnificent hall at Trinity College, where the association were to meet in 1857 if they accepted the invitation from that city, will not be completed in time. This being the case, it will pro bably bernore convenient to Dublin to postpone its claim, and as the exhibition of art treasures at Manchester will then be open, the meeting there would afford the mem bers of the British Association a favourable opportunity of visiting this collection of works of art at the same time. The literary and other societies of Manchester will join in the invitation. EXTRA MAIL COMMUiIICATIOIi WITH DUBLIN.—The Government and the Chester and Holyhead Company are in communication upon the question of an increased number of mail trains along that line ; and the former are also desirous of a greater speed being attained by the mails than at present, and for this arrangement they are willing to enlarge the yearly quota. The question of the sea transit is also engaging attention, as it is well known that, with a better class of boat, nearly a couple of hours could be saved, and the communication between London and Dublin brought within the compass of half a day. 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Betting-7 to 4 agst Lady Florence, 3to 1 agst Fires light, 4 to 1 aget South-Western, and 7 to 1 aget Joshua. Won by a head; a length and a-half between the accord and third. The Brighton Stakes of 15 soya each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, &c., with 100 added. The second to re ceive 50 sovs out of the stakes. The old course (1 mile, 6 furlongs, 265 yards). 27 subs, 12 of whom declared. Lord Clifden's gelding, by S urplice—Clementina, 4 ................ yrs, Est 71b (carried Gst 91b) . (Crouch) 1 Lord Anglesey's Termagant, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (includ ing 51b extra) ......... (Fordham) 2 Mr. Sherwood's The Earl, -1 yrs, 7st 51b (Quinton) 3 The following also ran :—Romeo, Merlin, and Speed the Plough. Betting-6 to 4 agst Clementina gelding, sto 1 each agst The Earl and Termagant, 7 to 1 ea c h agst Merlin and Speed the Plough. At one time Clementina geld ing was backed at evens against the field. Clementina gelding led front start to finish, and work in a canter by two lengths ; The Earl was beaten about ten lengths from the second, Merlin and Speed the Plough took no prominent part in the race—the old horse was pulled up and did not pass the post. Quince was declared not to start at 1 p.m. this day. The Brighton Nursery Stakes (Handicap) of 10 soya each, with 100 added, for 2-yr-olds. Winners extra. T.Y.C. Three-quarters of a mile. 32 subs. Mr. Howard's Martinet, by the Cure, Bst 41b (includ ing 71 b extra) (Wells 1 Mr. E. Day's Bannockburn, 7st 91b (J . G oatee ) Mr. J. kawson's Orianda, 7st 51b (Plumb) 3 Mr. Allison's Evelyn, 69t 51b (Cresswell) 4 The following also ran :—The Rejected, Tinwald, liimburn, Fright, Lady Malcolm, Sunbeam, Media, Noce, England's Beauty, lareca, John Peel, and colt by Cotherstone—Ellen Horne. Betting.-7 to 4 agst Orianda, sto 1 agst Evelyn, 10 to 1 each a g st Bannockburn and M e di a N oce, 100 to 8 aget Lady Malcolm, 100 to 6 agst England's Beauty. Won by a length ; half a length between the second and third, and a head between the third and fourth. lareca was an indifferent fifth, Tinwald sixth, Media Noce seventh, and England's Beauty next close up. The Rejected was beaten a long way, and Fright came into collision with England's Beauty at the start, and walked in a long way behind. On returning to scale Plumb, the rider of Orianda, thinking Bannockburn had won, made a complaint against him for closing on him near the finish. When he was informed that Martinet had won the objection was, of course, withdrawn. Sec ind year of the Fourth Brighton Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added ; for 3-yr olds ; colts, 71b ; filles, Bst 41b. Certain winners extra. The see end to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes. Bristol Mile. 29 subs. Captain Christie's Bandalore, by Tadmor, 89t 41b. . (Wells) 1 Mr. J. Hart's Aleppo, Oct 2lb (including 71b extra) (A. Day) 2 Lord Ailesbury's Intimidation, Bst 71b (Flatman) 3 Mr. J. Barnard's Sirocco, Bst 71b (D. Hughes) 4 Betting 5 to 4 agst Aleppo, 3 to 1 agst Intimidation, 4 to 1 tryst Bandalore. Won by a length ; half a length between the second and third, and the same distance between the third and fourth. The Marine Plate (Handicap) of 100 sovs. T.Y.C. Lord Clifden's Bishop of Osnaburgh, by Surplice, 3 yrs, 6st 3lb Captain Christie's Kestrel, by Tearaway, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (Pritchard) Mr. F. Fisher's New Brighton 6 yrs, 9 , t 111 b. (in. eluding 51b. extra) (1). Hughes) 3 The following also ran :—Claret, Rajah, Roebuck, Van Tromp, Queen Mab, Little Bird, Jeu d'Esprit, Eloquence, Arsenal, Blue Mantle. Betting-3 to 1 asst Bishop of Osnaburgh, sto 1 agst New Brighton, 6 to 1 agst Eloquence, 8 to 1 agst Queen Mab mare, 9 to 1 agst Rajah, 100 to 3 agst Blue Mantle. Kestrel made the running to the stand, where Bishop• of Osnaburgh challenged. A fine race i n resulted in a dead he - at. A length separated the Bishop and Kestrel from New Brighton ; Queen Mab mare was fourth, and Eloquence fifth ; the others tailed off. Tne Bishop of Osnaburgh afterwards walked over, and Lord Clifden and Captain Christie divided the" Plate." The Corporation Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, 'for yr-olds and upwards. Optional selling weights, &c. T.Y.C. 6 subs. Mr. Howard's Chow, 2 yrs (1001.), gst slb (For3hain) 1 Mr. French's Fashion, 3 yrs (501.), 7st 61b (carried 7st 81b) (J. Steggles) 2 Count Batthyany's Raphael, 4 yrs (801.), 9st (A.. Day) 3 The following also ran : —Little John and Firelight. Betting-5 to 4 agst Chow. Won by a length and a half ; two lengths between the second and third. The winner was sold for 145 guineas. BETTING ON THE COURSE. EDON. HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Warlock (taken) 7to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken freely) 8 to 1 agst Pretty Boy (taken) 12 to 1 agst Lady Tatton (taken) Yellow Jack in considerable demand. ST. LEG ER. 8 to 1 agst Ellington (taken to 1001.) 3to 1 agit Fazzotetto (taken to 1001,) DERRY. 1,500 to 100 agst Blink Bonny (taken) (1,500 to 90 also laid.) 25 t.) 1 agst Athlete (taken) 3,000 to 60 agst Lady Hawthorne (taken) BRIGHTON RACE CLUB.—FRIDAT. PROGRAMME OF THE SPORT. The Brighton Club Stakes (Handicap) of 10 sous each, h ft, with 50 added. Winners of a handicap after the weights were published 51b extra. New Course. Five subs. Mare by Van Tromp—Queen Mab, 5 yrs, list Bed Rose, 5 yrs, 1 Ost 1016 Perea Nena, by Spanish Jack, 6 yrs, Ost. Mr. Bacon and Mr. Elwes did not name. Plate of 100 sous, added to a sweepstakes of 5 sow: each, for 12-vr-olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b. Wi nners once, 'slb ; twice, Fib extra. Maidens which have been beaten twice allowed 41b, three times 71b. T.Y.C. Nine subs. Orianda I The Banner Bearer Gem ma di Vergy Fright Medea, Noce I Filly by Orl an d o , out Vorkshireman of Farmer's Dau;hter Tinwald (allowed ilb) I ( a ll owe d 71b) lareca I Sweepstakes of 5 sovs with GO added, for 2.yr-olds. Colts Bst 10ib, fillies Bst 71b. The winner to be sold by auction for 1501. ; if entered to be sold for 1001., allowed 51b. ;if for 501, 121 b. Half a mile. To close and name by 8 o'clock this evening (Thurs day). Plate of 70 sovs (Handicap) for 3 yr-olds and upwards. Gentlemen riders ; professionals 51b extr.t. The win :ler of any handicap after the weights are published 51b extra. T.Y. C. To enter by 7 o'clock this evening (Thursday). The Brighton Club Plate of 70 sovs for 2-yr•olds, 7st 7113, and three 9st 31b, fillies and geldings allowed 31b. Three-yr olds, which have never won 501., allowed 10Ib ; maiden 2-yr-olds, which have run twice, allowed 41b. The winner to be sold for 2001. ; if entered to be sold for 1001., allowed slb ; if for 501., 121 b ; and if exemption from sale is claimed, to carry 141 b ex. tra. Last half mile. To enter at 3 o'clock this evening (Thursday). Handicap Plate of 100 sovs.--3 ockoys to ride. Bristol mile. To enter at 8 o'clock this evening (Thursday). Plate of 70 sous. for beaten horses during the week (3 yr-olds excepted). The second to receive 10 soya. out of the plate. Gentlemen riders (professionals) 51b. extra. T.Y.C. To enter at the stand at 3 o'clock —the weights to ap. pear immediately after the preceding race. NO RTH STAFFORDSHIRE RACES—WEDNEAIDAY: The Borough Members' Plate of 50 sovs, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sons each, for two-yr-olds. One mile. Captain Christie's Amati, Bst (T. Cliff) 1 Mr. Whitehouse's fby Phlegon, 7st Bst ...(Bearpark) 2 Mr. Tittenson's Duchess of Sutherland, 7st Blb The following also ran :—Silkmore, Josephine, Jane, and b c by Touchstone. The Scurry Stakes of 5 son each, with 20 added, was won by Mr. Wilkin't b g Salmon, beating Dwarf and Betsy B. The Copeland Handicap, of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with 50 added, the second horse to save his stake. One mile and a half. Mr. G. A. Hind's Lance, 3 yrs, 7st 51b ...)Wilberford) 1 Mr. T. Flintoff's Whalebone, 6 yrs, Bst 31b...(T. Cliff) 2 Mr. N. T. Copeland's Hi s Piper, 4 yr, 7st 81b (Bearpark) 3 The innkeepers Plate of 20 sovs, 5 sovs en t rance, once r ound, was won by Mr. Carr's Betsy B, beating Salmon and D wart, A Hurdle Race Handicap, of 5 NOVB each, with 20 added (beats), was won by Mr. G. Richard's Miss Hatch, beating Preston Strike and Peter Snipe. INTERESTING INCIDENT. —The Gloucestershire Caro. nide says—A strange circumstance has been communi cated to us as having lately been revealed in an ancient borough near this city. Several years ago, a young man, the son of respectable parents, left home, and as months and years passed away, and nothing was heard of him, his father and mother mourned him as dead.' Occasionally, however, a beam of hope would flash across their minds that one day the wanderer would return ; and many a toil-worn wayfarer received relief at their hands, with the hope that should their son be still alive, and in distress, some one might be found to minister to his necessities. A few years ago the father died, and a stone was placed on his grave, on which the death of the son was inscribed in addition to that of the father. One day this week, however, the aged mother received a letter from, her son, wribtos, about two months ago, and stating that he had amass.d a considerable foi tune in the new world of enterprise at the antipodev, and that he hoped, in the course of a few weeks at the furthest, to revisit his native town, when he would pbur oue•half his wealth into the-lap-of hit mother for the gratification of ono? more seeing her. 9 0 1 0 1% u eh nks ter- lay, 10 i !6 day, nom. lver- Item oath .ofr e• '4. S 0 MO ert*lt• nd 16 of SW nd 16 reekl7