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THE DISCOUNT CORPORATION (Limited). EstDblished under the Companies Act, with Limited Capit al Liability. Two Millions Sterling, in 20,000 Shares of £lOO each. First issue, 10,000 Shares. I) e'posit, £1 per Share on application, and £1 10s. on allot 'tient. It is not contemplated to call up more than £2O per S hare. Calls not to exceed £5, at intervals of not less than Three Months. DIRECTORS. James Bruce, Esq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Abchurch-lene. Charles Bye Colchester Esq. (Messrs. Colchester and Wool ner), South Sea 11. D. Cartw r ig ht, "se. and Esq., 61, Moorgate-street (Messrs. Leckie India Co., Bombay), late Chairm an o f C o mmercial Batik of Itoratic; Sydney Coulson, Esq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Ab cec_obrge urch-lane. Lyall, Esq., UO., Hong. Kon) Mincing lane (Messrs. Lyall, Still , a nd Charles Edward Mangles, ' Esq., Director of the Union Ba nk 011 f Australia. 7.mas Stenhouse, Esq., Director of the Chartered Meroan todlnainunTo,r_rance, _ Bank of India o Director of the Alliance Bank. - -u Westby, Esq., Director of the Bank of Victoria. KERS. Al liance Bank of LondonßAN and Li v erpool, LothburY, and Southwark, London. Brown's-buildings, Liverpool, and Birkenhead. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Flux and Argies, 9, Mincing-lane. BuoirEas. Messrs. J. and J. Whitehe4d, S, Moorgate-street. SEcutTAny (pro tem.)—Robert Slater, junior, Esq. Temporary Offices of the Corporation-20, Change-alley, Cornhtli, E.C. PROSPECTUS. The Discount Corporation is established to aid the mone tary arransiements of the increasing commercial interests of Great Britain and its dependencies. In founding this undertaking the Directors have secured the co-operation of an old and highly -respected Discount Firm in London, with whom arrangements have been made for the transf. r of its lucrative business to this Corporation, and two of whose partners join the Direction. It will thus be manifest that the Discount Corporation starts with a large and valuable connection, and acquires the experience of Directors whose influence and intelligence are certain to command the confidence of the public. The material basis of the Corporation will be a large sub scribed Capital, judicially distributed. The recent creation of several large Indian and Colonial banking institutions, coupled with the expanding home and continental trades of the country, and the greatly extending commercial transactions with India and the Colonies, lead to the conviction that greater discounting facilities than at pre sent exist are required A n establishment, which from its ample means will be able to supply such requirements, will no dout•t be favourably re ceived by the tr a di ng community, and will at the same time afford a safe and profitable return equally to those who seek the permanent investment of their money, and to those who merely desire the te m p orary emp l oyment of their surplus /no 8 . 'ne known profitable operations of the old private Vs coo nt Firms, and the new Discount Companies, give the as almance that a purely Discount business, prudently managed, Will prove a complete success. The Head Office of the Corporation will be In London. No promotion-money will be given for originating the undertaking, and the preliminary expenses will be strictly confined to such as are indispensable. Applications for Shares may be addressed ill the annexed forna to the Dirictors, and copies of the os may be obtained at the Temporary Offices of the CorpCpoiaiion, or at the Offices of the Brokers and solicitors ; but no application will be considered unless a deposit of £1 per scare ou the number of shares applied for has been paid. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. No. To the Directors of the Discount Corporation (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of h , being a dPposit of I. per Share on Shares in e above Corporation, I hereby request that you will allot one that number, and I agree to become a member of the Cor poration in respect of such Shares, or in respect of any less number you may allot me, and to execute the Articles of Association when required ; and I request that my name may be placed on the Register of Members for the Shares so allotted. Name In full Residence Profession or Business Date T HE DISCOUNT CORPORATION (Limited). —NOTICE IS HEREBY , That no further APP LICATIONS for SIIARES in GIVEN th's Corporation will be received after SATURDAY next, the 17th October inst. By order, ROBERT SLATER, Jun., Secretary, pro tem. Temporary Offices, 26, Change-alley, Cornhill, October 13, 1883. THE MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). • 39aital £500,000, in 20,000 shares of £25 each, with power to Increase, a deposit of 10s. per shay, to be paid on applic a ti on , and £1 10s. on allotment. First issue £250,000, in 10,00 shares, of which only £l2 10s. per share is intend e d to be called up. No second issue will take place until £l2 10s. Per share has been called up on the first issue. Calls not to exceed £2 105. per share, at intervals of not less than two months. DIRECTORS. Captain R. W. PELLY, R.N., Elder Brother Trinity House (Director of the London Assurance. and late Director of the Hudson's Bay Company), Chairman. James Borman, Esq. (Messrs. Hickie, Borman, and Co. Mer chants), 127, Le a d en h a ll- street. , Alexander Calder, Esq. (late Director of the India General Steam Navigation Company, Calcutta), Putney. Abel Chapman, Esq. (Director of the Mid-Wales Railway), 79, Old Broad-street. Ambrose Emerson, Esq. (Messrs. Newby, Carson, and Co.), Grtsham House, Director of the West African Company. Henry Fox, Esq., Director of the London and Provincial Marine Insurance Company. John Hall, jun., Esq. (Messrs. J. Hall, jun.. and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), New London-street, Fenchurch street. Robert Hewett, Esq. (Messrs. Hewett Brothers, Merchants and Shipowners), Trinity-,quare. Anastasius Jones, Esq., late Local Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mint Company, Wilton Lodge, Croydon, Surrey. John Rogerson, Esq. (Messrs. J. Rogerson and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), Royal Exchange-buildings, and Newcastle-on- Tyne . tle-on- Tyne John Gustavus Russell, Esq. (Director of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company), 61. Meorgate street. Captain Lube Thomas,late td• Aden. 136. Leadenhall-street, and Nevill Lodge, Tunbridge Wells. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Dawes and Sons, 9, Angel court, Throgmorton-street. BANKERS. London and County Bask, 21, Lombard-street. The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon street. AUDITORS. Messrs. Edwards and James, 18, King-street, Cheapside. STOCKBROKERS. Messrs. Froom Brothers, 20. Change-alley, Cornhill. SURVEYORS. Timothy Harrington, Esq„ Consulting Engineer, 61, Grace church -street. Captain Thomas FribP, The Jerusalem, Cornhill. ECKETARY-111r. Thomas Sharer, 27, Leadenhall-street. TEMPORARY OFFICES OF TIIE COMPANY. 18, King-street, Cheapside. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is established for the purpose of granting temporary loans and advances on eligible ships and other marine property, by way of mortgage or assignment, covered by policies of insurance, and on such other security as may be found desirable. Money will also be received on deposit for stated periods, upon interest to be Rgreed, and will be employed in like manner with the capital, the uncalled por tion of which, and the property held on mortgage by the emPallY, will at all times afford ample security to depo- Et ° tor e. The estimated value of British vessels mortgaged is up- Wards of five millions sterling. It thus becomes apparent that a wide field exists for a well-established Company of this kind. The want of some ready channel for obtaining loans on shipping has been so severely felt that the Directors enter with confidenc. on the prosecution of a class of business hitherto transacted by private individuals with considerable profit. in addition to the profits on capital, which are estimated at from 10 to 15 per cent., the Directors have facilities for borrowing at such rates as to yield a surplus profit of 5 to 6 per cent. The detailed prospectus and forms of application for shares may be obtained of the Secretary, Brokers, and Bankers, and at the Offices of the Company. Should the full number or shares applied for be in excess of those at the Directors' disposal, the surplus will be credited to the allotment, or returned at the applicants' option, MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). ME NOTICE. —The Directors will proceed to an ALLOT NT on SATURDAY, 17th instant. Applications for the liemaining Shares to be made not later than that da'e. By order of the Board, 18, Iti n ( Signed) THOMAS SHARER, S ecre t ary. b'-street, Cheapside, Oct. 9, 1863, ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, ind Diningroom, consisting of a new and eiegant assort ment ot VASES, r,,,Fures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, be autiful , aid Tables, Paper weights, dm., in Italian, Alabas • er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, (to. Imported and m anufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Olsjesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Loncton. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MIN ERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. ind GEOLOGY, at 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). P ATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRE SIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CrrAinmAiv—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P.,F.R.5., V.P. DtruTY-CIIAIRDIAN—Thomas Chapman, EN., F.R. B ' , V l- APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning, of the year 1861, the Royat National Lifeboat Institution has expended L 28,550 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. tioVThe number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the ety, and other means, since its formation, !:,),..which services 82 Gold MPdals 733 Silver Medals, and is 13,220; Ti e Voo in cash have been paid in ' rewards. The Institu- T;4 4 s also expended £75,330 on Li fe- b oats, L i fe -b oa t , r , o:. Portine-caniages, and Boat-h ouses. The Co mmittee desire to express their grateful sense of tritiVfroui support which they have received from the ha s enarlabc during the past few years, a support which ot 125 Lad them to establish their present magnificent fleet Deepl y l' e ll;)_ats on the shores of the United Kingdom res's th e _ul t e, however, of the great responsibility that state, and „o maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient boats, whit,i:c,,rews practised in the management of their annual inc ome " only be effected by a large and pe, manent countrymen to th aid them in upholdinr , and perpetuating so The Commi tt tributions:— ee gratefuliy acknowledge the following con- TTer Majesty th e , Campbell, the n o te„„en .£ s. d Clerk, Colonel, R. A . .irs. G . •• • • .. annual 50 0 0 Coutts and Co., le ser •. . • • • • annual 50 0 Currie, Wm., Esq!, B * , Batiliers .... • ' annual 11 0 Erie, Lord hief Jußtiew. • • annual 10 0 0 •• .. 4th don 10 0 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir •. 1;,, Ti .. 7 „ .,. .. do n. .10 10 0 Fenwick, G. j., Esq. Cost or a " 1 ) • • 2d don. 25 0 0 sportin2; Carriage . Lifeboat and Tran parvey, Rev. G. G. and m re. • • .• •• .. 250 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. •• •• don. 30 0 Palmer, Sir Roundell, M.r., ii .3r , .. .. 7 thdon. 10 0 0 tor-General .• • • .. s Solici- Royal Yacht Squadron .. • • annual 2 2 0 Steel, Michael, Esq. .. .„ •• • • annual 10 0 0 Thom, s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, cull • • don. 100 0 0 Ladyship • • • • • • • . ectedby her will be annual 5 Or 0 Willoughby d'Ercsby, Lord .. ••• • • 16 16 0 , khankfully e Donations and Annual Sescriptions tts and Willis, reived by the Bankers of the Institutio n Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard -greet ; 111es:rnsealrosou. Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, James's -street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of 3 1 16 ' St ' and Bankers in the United firingdom; and by the sec ret atoms ary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the institution, 11, adn-street, Adelphi, Loudon, 11.-%-;• i d , / j 7 / N O . 22,246. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1863. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., (24_0 0D SOCIETY. k By Mrs. GREY, Author of " The Gambler's Wife," &c. "Mrs. Grey writes well and with spirit."—Post. "There is no question that this will be a popular novel. The book carries the reader along with it irresistibly. " J ohn Bull. not only to avoid the dangers of the land, but the possibi lity of collision with another vessel. Bearing in mind the judicious conduct of the master during several days on this voyage while crossing the Banks, I am utterly at a loss to account for the subseqaent want of caution. But the safety of the public demands that so grave a fault should be visited by heavy censure, and should be followed by such a sen tence as shall mark the determination of the Court to pre vent, if possible, the recurrence of similar disasters. It is my painful duty, therefore, with the full concurrence of my assessors, to suspend the certificate of Mr. Andrew M'Master, for the period of 12 calendar months from the date of this report,—l have, &c., T. S. RAFFLES, Police Magistrate. Liverpool, Oct. 10th, 1863. We concur in this report, HY. HARRIS ' Nautical Assessors. h. B. BAKER, THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. EDINBURGH, Wednesday. DINNER OF THE ASSOCIATION. At 6 o'clock the annual dinner of the association was held in the Music-hall, and was attended by from 400 to 500 ladies and gentlemen. The chair was occupied by the Right Hon. Lord Brougham, at whose right hand sat the Lord Provost, the Lord Advocate, the Right Hon. Joseph Napier, Lord Ardmillan, Mr. J. A. Lawson, Solicitor- General of Ireland ; Professor Christison, Admiral Ramsay, Mr. C. Cowan, Mr. H. Fawcett, and Professor Archer. On the left were the Hon. Judge Longfield, Lord Neaves, M. Gamier Pages, Mr. Sergeant Shee, Professor Douglas Maclagan, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. Henry Brougham. The Rev. Dr. LEE said grace, and the Rev. Dr. ALEX ANDER returned thanks. Lord BROUGHAM, who, on rising to give the first toast, was loudly cheered, sald,=-/4-liave very - great satisfactioiltt proposing " The health of her Majesty the Queen ;" and I shall only repeat what I have said over and over again at our festive and other meetings, that there never was a monarch who better deserved the thanks of the people as ruling strictly according to the Constitution. In the dis charge of all the duties of her eminent position she is an example to all her subjects; and as a parent in bringing up her family she is an example to all mothers. I have, there fore, great pleasure in proposing "Her Majesty the Queen." (Loud cheers.) Lord BROUGHAM, in giving the next toast, said—We have drunk to the cause; I have now to ask you to drink to the effect—l mean the effect of the good education and the admirable training by her Majesty and the late lamented Prince Consort, who have brought up their family in such a way as I believe no other family in their position were almost ever educated. They say comparisons are invidious, and therefore I shall neither, to find a contrast, go to former - times in this country, nor look abroad to other countries for the state and the position of princes ; but I will give you at once " The Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family." We have had a sample of the Royal family here during the congress—a most excellent young prince—(loud applause)—and all who have associated with him have expressed their admiration for his talents as well as for his modesty. (Cheers.) Lord BROUGHAM again rose and said—l have to trouble you once more to ask you to offer your respect, your grati tude to our brave defenders by sea and land, the "Navy and Army and Volunteers." (Applause.) Let no man sup pose that he who rejoices in this great addition to our national forces, the Volunteers, does so from any apprehen sion that the peace will be broken. (Hear.) Thank God I there is every reason to count on a lasting peace. (Cheers,) But that is no reason why the precaution ought not to be taken of insurance. (Hear.) When a man insures his house he does not expect a fire. He does not do it because he thinks a fire probable. He knows that a fire may hap pen from the negligence of the people in his own house, or from the negligence of the neighbours, or by the accident of lightning. In short, he means to take security against it happening, or rather to be secure of not loosing if it should happen. Now, the Volunteers, or whatever else we do to improve our national defences, are an insurance; but they are an insurance far superior to our insurance against fire; for when I insure my house against fire, I don't in the slightest degree lessen the chances that a fire may happen, I only make sure that if it does happen I shall not be a loser. But improving our national defences not only secure us against loss by invasion, if it should happen, but it makes it very unlikely that that invasion should take place. (Loud cheers.) The insurance is, therefore, of a double nature and of a double value, because it not only prevents loss if the mischief happens, but tends to prevent the mischief from happening. (Loud Cheers.) I, therefore, gave you " The Navy, Army, and Volunteers." Admiral Ramsay, Sir J. Alexander, and Lieutenant- Colonel M'Gregor successively replied to the toast. The Lonn-Pnovosz then gave "'.l he National Associa tion and its President. He said,—lt would be equally beyond my ability and beyond the limits of one toast to attempt that comprehensive allusion to all the varied and lofty qualities which is due to the widely-honoured name of Henry Brougham. If I did attempt it I should have to speak of a career which for brilliant success, the application of extraordinary powers of mind, for extended duration and unabated vigour, has rarely, if it has at all been equalled in the history of great public men. (Loud cheers.) Perhaps not the least celebrated feature in the life of our noble Pre sident is that untiring determination to remain, while health and strength permits, in full working harness; and it as suredly forms a noble record that, after a professional career which has yielded every honour due to distinguished emi nence, after and amid the turmoil of parliamentary life, Lord Brougham has devoted his great energies of mind to the philanthropic objects of this association. (Loud cheers.) Lord BROUGHAM, in reply, after expressing gratification at the presence of the ladies, said—lt gives me great delight to preside over such a vast assemblage as this—all members or the friends of members of our great national association. (Cheers.) Now I hear it carped at in different ways. One objection is to the name " Social Science." We have heard that cavil at our former meetings, and it has been renewed on the present occasion. Now, I can only say we did not in vent the name. Upwards of 40 years ago Mr. Mill, a cele brated literary man, and author of a History of Egypt, and father of John Stuart Mill, used the term " social science" in one of his valuable essays, But the fact is, there can be no doubt whatever of the meaning of the expression, and of the nature of our pursuits. (Hear.) Now, the delight which I have in this institution and in its success is not little. (Applause.) If anybody ask—as those who carp at the name ask—what does it do, I will not go into particu lars, but 1 take my stand on one name—the name of our fellow-member Mr. Chadwick, and I say look to his great 1 and successful exertions in improving the sanitary condition of our Indian army—look at the improvements which have arisen from his exertions at Liverpool, and after wards at Bradford. Look also at the great addition to the education of the country by the adoption of the short ' time process; and I say that these two-instances, and all effected by this association, are quite enough to show how useful, practically, we have been, (Cheers.) I have seen very great exception taken to one or two things I stated in my opening address, and among other things exception is taken to my having praised and recommended the Sisters of Charity. It is said, But you recommend Catholics; you recommend the importation from France of Catholic Sisters of Charity, who will immediately set themselves to prosely tise this country. My answer is this--that in the case of Lady Georgina Fullerton and Miss Easton we did not im port Catholics from France or Ireland, for they are our fel low-countrywomen, who happen to be Catholics, and the only person who came from France was the sister superior. The rest are all English Catholics, and I have seen here to day some most worthy persons, Sisters of Charity also, who come from France, and they are Catholics, no doubt, but they are Englishwomen and Scotchwomen who have been settled in France, and have come back . to this country. But it is not to be supposed that I only praised or recommended the Catholic sisterhood. I expressly pointed out Miss Brownlee Byron's Home Refuge for Ea glish Sisters of Charity, and stated that they performed all the nursing at the North London Hospital in connexion with University College. (Applause.) I have also got a letter from a man connected with America, who tells ale the re i s great excep tion taken on the part of th e American newspapers in this country to my differing with the United States Government on the subject of this horrible war. It is said that I under rate and undervalue the emancipation of the slaves. I under value the emancipation of the slaves I (Loud and pro longed cheers). Why, have all th e a d vocates of slave emancipation done half so much for the liberation of the slave and the abolition of slavery as I myself have done ? (Loud cheers.) At the very beginning of my Parliamentary life it was signalized by the Act of 1811, the one which of all the many Acts I have had a hand in passing gave me the most real satisfaction, namely, the Act abolishing the slave trade. Before the Act the slave trade was considered a mere act of contraband, and was punished as contraband ; and my act raised, or rather, sank it to its real denomina tion of a crime—and a bad crime—punishable by 14 years transportation. (Cheers.) And that act effectually extin guished the slave trade in as far as British subjects were engaged in it. Then, in 1836 or 1837 I shortened the period of negro apprenticeship, and occasioned the complete liberation of the slaves three or four years before it otherwise would have taken place. Then, I may add, though it is a trifle as compared with these exertions, I i may add a very great personal sacrifice. I gave up a very considerable estate in Barbadoes and a large estate in the a kind-heart e d gen tl eman h a d county of Durham, which left me by a will which he afterwards revoked on my re fusing to abstain from further proceedings for the libera tion of the slaves, though he said in his letter in which he called on me to abstain, " I assure you that your peasantry on yourßarbadoes estate are better off than your peasantry on your Durham property." (A laugh.) It was enough to make one's mouth water to hoar of having a good property • ' .... , .... 1 , , .......):0 , -, . ...i • -- , . , . • •• .• ~...,..;, ..4 , ,.. . . . . • - ,z, .......:_•._,- . 4L 1 . ,e s o.n " +A>. • ler. . . . ~ . -. _ . . ,L ) ; " ra,itt , , ~V - _ - . - _ -- - 4. ~, i7r, .. )• . • i .7)11 .., t , .. , % - -.?" , ,,z N ~ ~‘, %No%` 49 ' ) ' c°Attr - 4144,4011K1CL , - -- ~, : , ,-- „„ ..,.. . , 5. f : ' • •• 14 41 - .--, _ ,b 11110, , ,,, . -4i, ‘ lv '''''' l %". ~.iii.fr: :-.-. .,..,'. . .H. . ... ' Ji -. • -„, • ~ • .. --, . - •4... . - ..,„, ti lo t p lars , , .....(.41V -0.ii., , ,A& 4 '.% , i 4- 1,, . :46 . - ,--Nz\t . ..i 0-, •' •. , L - " . -...: k.- Si • Mk .7. T, , ... .... ~_.l .. _ - k 4 .1 : , ‘..1 • •.-, Al • , e 4, , • . ..p. , ....L..,, : . ~., . IN, - ... 4. _ 4 1' ""•)1,..e - O le ' - ~ D • ,t m , • . . ... .. 16.0 . 1 _MOM ' .41.‘" . . in the county of Durham. I should not have valued the B ar badoes estate so much, but I declined taking the course he desired, and sent him a copy of a report of my friend the Duke of Richmond's committee of the House of Lords on slavery, after which I ceased to have any correspondence with that excellent proprietor, and a few years afterwards he died, and no doubt his will was cancelled. (A laugh.) I only state these things to show that for anybody to sup • pose that I am slow, or unwilling, or hesitating on the ques tions of the abolition of negro slavery is really a most mon strous delusion. (Loud cheers.) All my efforts were to wards emancipation without violence—emancipation by change of law and change of system,—and never did I lend the slightest countenance to acts of violence against the slaveholder. Much as I detest slavery,and much as I pitied those who were its victims,--and I pitied among its victims the masters as well as the slaves themselves—never did I ra i se my finger or raise my voice for an instant in support of any violent proceeding to effect their emancipation. Consequently when I heard of North America issuing a proclamation to emancipate the slaves, I knew very well before they confessed it that it was not for the sake of e mancipating the slave—(hear, hear)--but for the sake of beating the whites. It was a measure of hostility, not an act of emancipation, ani a measure of hostility of the most detestable kind, by raising an insurrection of the slaves against their masters, which only the much-enduring nature of the negro prevented from succeeding, so that the great mischief that was intended against the whites did not take place. (gear, hear.) But I must be g y our par d on for 1 3 • ( hav ing defended myself against so ridiculous a charge, which could only have arisen from utter delusion. They call out for the extermination of the whites, not in order to liberate pie blacks, but to restore the Union. (Cheers.) The - union, and not the negro, is the object of the emancipation pr oclamation, and to that proclamation, therefore, I could not give any kind of support. It is a most unhappy contest, .. n iget miserable in all respeCts, but I hope we shall continue e n the principle on which we have hitherto proceeded—of interfering with neither party. (Cheers.) The Federals are a ngry with us because we don't join with them, and the Confederates are angry with us because we do not acknow ledge them ; but if we were to acknowledge them we should on ly prolong this horrible and miserable contest. We have not hi n g to do with either one party or the other. (Hear.) W e are bound to maintain our own independence of them, an d leave them to fight it out among themselves, only heartilypraying that their fight may be as short as possible. (Lou d cheers.) Lord B roug h am aga i n rose an d propose d 4 , The Lord Provost, Magistrat es , an d C o uncil, and pros perity to the city of Edinburgh." (Load cheers.). 7 . . PRICE... ........4d. STAXIPED ....sd. printed, without the names of the writers, for the amuse ment of the readers of Notes and Queries, First Series, xii. 57 7. An elderly man came t o me to show me how the uni verse was created.—There was one molecule, which by vi bration—Heaven knows how I—the san. Further vibra tion produced Mercury; and so on. I suspect the nebular hypothesis had got into the poor man's head by reading, in some singular mixture with what it found there. Some modifications of vibration gave heat, electricity, &c. I lis tened until my informant ceased to vibrate, which is always the shortest way, and then said, "Our knowledge of elastic fluids is imperfect." " Sir," said he, " I see you per ceive the truth of what I have said, and I will reward your attention by telling you what I seldom disclose, never except to those who can receive my theory ; the little molecule whose vibrations have given rise to our solar system is the Logos of St. John's Gospel." He went away to Dr. Lardner, who would not go into the solar system at all; the first molecule settled the question. So hard upon poor discoverers ate men of science who are antiquaries in their subject ! On leaving, he said, " Sir, Mr. De Morgan received me in a very different way; he heard me attentively, and I left him perfectly satisfied of the vt hina et truth emanydeve o ud f i m os en y sy oe v ewr s eh t reosm, is 0 . ' 1 f' allno t classes, have pe h peremptory em pdt believemo much ht othey reason the have think cecon vinced noi incivility. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. THE HEIRESS AN]) HER LOVERS, by GEORG lANA, Lady CHAT TERTON, is now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. PEOPLE'S EDITION OF MAC AULAY'S HISTORY ON' ENGLAND. On Monday, Nov. 2, will be published, in crown Svo , Part 1., to be completed in 14 monthly Parts, price Is. each, LORD MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Peovle's Edition, uniform with the People's Edition of Lord Macaulay's Essays, and the Rev. Sydney Smith's Works embodying . the Author's last Cor rections and Notes, and including the brier Memoir by the Very Rev. the DEAN of ST. 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THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONNAMBULA. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eurtene, W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND. Also, a Peiformance by Herr SCHALKENB &CH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. PANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order ILJ to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper and HenryDircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST," to the Concert Dail, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and b)dy of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at half-past Nine o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand. OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The .111 GHOST new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN— Grand Divertissement—Favourite Opera Selections—NlCO- SlA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL DE SOLLA. the Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler. Every Evening. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. BuOYAL ALHAAIBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction Immense success of SIGNOR NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elezant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele hrity. The band ,s selected from the Crrtal Palace, th Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, l s. Manager—M. GRENET. LUXURIANT WHISKERS or MOUSTACHES.—Mv formula flrcis them to grow heavily in six weeks upon the smoothest face, without injury to the skin, and a sure remedy for bal Iness. 13 stamps.— Mr. FOX-Macclesfield. Fox's celebrated 'lair wash Formula, for removing scurf and curling the hair, seven stamps, PECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented KJ Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary mile to weak, din, and detective vision.—S. and SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street Piccadilly. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN TIIE GREAT t e XHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of 11 ERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, 's here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is Supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so mu c h ease And closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fhil to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, - Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 5 2 5. 6 d. Postage , le B d. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Poet office, Piooadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, ac., for Varicose 'Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, tte. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on ill re an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 78. 6d., 108., to 168. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply FLOUR AND MEAT, in such qußntities as may be required, from the Ist December, 1863, to 31s - May, 1864, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at A Idershot Camp, and within the command. Separate Tenders are required for Flour and for Meat. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The v Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Army Supplies,") and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be Commissariat-office, a e A ldershot, h tis Office , 00ct.9e. until ,lB63. 1863, from pers ons who , may be willing to ente r into C 12 o'clock, noon on TUESDAY, the 3d Nov o e n m t b ra e o r t , to supply in such FLOUR FOR HOSPITAL B READ, quantities as may be required, from the Ist Decem ber, 1863, to 31st May, 1.64, for the use, of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Ald ershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, be tween the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Army Supplies"), and no tender will be noticed un'ess made on forms obtained from this offic e and delivered by the hour app o i nted. , Commissariat ARMY CONTRACTS.Office, Aldershot, Oct._ TENDERS will be received at thisOffi 9 ' 1863 ' 12 o'clock, noon, on THURSDAY, the sth INov 9e. "61 1863, from persons who may be willing to ente r in ebo o n ternul tract to supply PAILLASSE STRAW AND STRAW FOR ROYAL ENGINEER SERVICE, in such quantities as may be required fram the Ist Decemb er 1863, to 30th November. 1864. for the use of her Majesty' Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders mut be properly filled up and signed, and delivered atthis office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside "Tender for Supply of Straw)," and no Tender will be noticed unles4 made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, t in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Blasterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is :mem pcnied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mai terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Ilerries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Blame, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barued and Co., Liverpool and at the hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary, UNAPPRECIATED GENIUS. (Professor De Morgan in the Atheneum.) 1 Of the class of discoverer s who square the circle, upset 1 Newton, &c., I suspect I know more than any man in 1 Brita i n , I never kept any reckoning i but I know that one year with another —and less of late years than in earlier times —I have talked to more than five in each year, giving more than 150 specimens. Of this lam sure, that it is my own fault if they have not been 100. Nobody knows how they swarm, except those to whom they naturally resort. They are in all ranks and occupations, of all ages and char teThey are very earnest people, and their purpose i s char acters. ide the dissemination of their paradoxes. A great num y...-the mass indeed —are illiterate, and a great many waste their means, and are in or approaching penury. But I must sa y that never, in any one instance, has the quadra ture of begging; even to be ask e d t o purchase a book is of rare oc currence. These discoverers despise one another; if there were the concerts among them which there is among a man wh o a d m itt e d one t o a con ference mendicants, ce wouldbeplagued to death. I once gave some thinge in to the a very genteel F renc h applicant, who overtook m s treet, at my own door, saying he had picked pmy handkerchief ; wheth er h e p i cked it up in my uy cam e another Fre nc h man to my house, and that d poc k e t for an introduction, I kn ow no t. B u t t h a t d ay y ; both fail e d, an d I h a d n o more trouble. The same thing happ ene d w ith P o l es . It i s wa‘Yek fortn i g ht a French l a d not circle-square rs , &c,. ; they know nothing of each so with will read thi s li st, and will say I am right eno ugh, generally i speaking, but th at t h ere i s an exception , other. if I could but see t. Ido not mean, by my confession of the manne r in whic h I ha ve sinned agains t th e 24 h ours , t o h o ld myse lf out as accessible t o personal explanation of new plans. Qu it e the contrary : I cons i der myself as having made m y report, and being discharged from further attendance on the subject. I will not, from henceforward, talk to any souarer of the circle, trisector of the angle, duplicator of the b cons t r uctor of perpetu a l motion, subverter of gravita ctiuone,,stagnator of the earth, builder of the universe, &c. 1 will receive any writings or books which require no answer, an d read them when I please : I will certainly preserve them; this list may be enlarged at some future time. There are three subjects which I have hardly anything upon —as trology, mechanism, and the infallible way of winning at play. I have never cared to preserve astrology. The me chanists make models, and not books. The infallible win ners—though I have seen a few— think their secret too , an d prefer mutare quad ? e t a rotund i s—to turn dice dcoin—at a gaming-house; verily th ey h ave their re personal knowledg e o f t h ose who think they s hall now select, to the my st i c number seven, in ist r o . I havestances in illustration of as many misconceptions, 1. Attemp t b y help of the old philosophy, the discoverer not rot ene beingiina in poss ession of modern knowl e d ge .—A poor in rags, introduc e d hi mself to a scientific d with w hom I was talkin g, and an nounce d t h at he had f oun d out the co m p osition o f the sun. " How was th a t done 2 : friend hest e rßy consideration of th e f our elements."—"What are they? " —Of course, fire, ai r , earth, and water. " —Did you not know that air, earth, a nd water have long been " known to be no elements at all, but compounds ?"--(, What do you mean, sir ? Who ever heard of such a thing ?" 2. The notion that difficulties are enigmas, to be over come i , a moment by a lucky thought. —A no bl eman of very high rank, now l o ng dead, read an articl e by me on t h e number of the P enny M agaz i ne. He o in set an y sc e h a o r o l lrecollections of geo me t r y. H e put had, 1 to paper , drew a circle, and constructed what seemed quadrature, su suppose, pencil likely to answer, and,indeed , was—as he said—certain, if 1 o nly this bit wer e eqaa t to that ; which of course it was not. He forwarded his diagram to the Secretary of the Diffusion Sooiety, to be handed to the author of the article, in case the difficulty should happen to be therein overcome. 3. Discovery at all hazards, to get on in the world.— Thirty years ago, an officer of rank, just home from foreign service, and trying for a decoration from the Crown, found that his claims were of doubtful amount, and was told by a friend that so and so, wh o h a d got the order, had th e a dditional claim of scientific distinction. Now this offi cer, while abroad, had bethought himself one day that there really could be no difficulty in finding the circumference of a circle ; if a circle were rolled upon a straight line until the undermost point came undermost again, there would be the straight line, equal to the circle. He came to me, saying that he did not feel equal to the statement of his claim in this respect, b u t that if some clev er f e ll ow would put the thing i n s, proper light, he thought his affair might be man aged. I was clever enough to put the thing in a proper light to himself, to this extent at least, that though perhaps they were wrong, the advisers of the Crown would never put the letters K.C.B. to such a circle as his. 4. The notion that mathematicians cannot find the circle for common purposes.—A working man measured the alti tude of a cylinder accurately, and--I think the process of Archimedes was one of his proceedings—found its bulk. He then calculated the ratio of the circumference to the diameter, and found it answered very well on other modes of trial. His result was about 3 . 14. He came to London, and somebody sent him to me. 1 happened to have on the table a proof-sheet of the Astronomical Memoirs, in which were a large number of observed places of the planets com pared with prediction, and asked him whether it could be possible that persons who did not know the circle better than he had found it could make the calculations, of which I gave him a notion, so accurately. He was perfectly astonished, and took the titles of some books which h e said he would read. 5. Application for the reward from abroad. —Many years. ago, about 28, I think, a Jesuit came from South America, with a quadrature, and a cutting from a newspaP.er,Thg. an nouncing that a reward was ready for the discovery ul .is E .11g Eng land. On this evidence he came over. After satisfying him that nothing had ever been offered here, I discussed bet ter when quadrature, which was of no use. I succeeded I told him of Richard White, also a Jesu it, and author of a of " Chry- quadrature published before 1648, under the namehaving never srespis," of which I can give no account, quadrator who seen it. This White (Albius) is the i only Jesuit was shuck by was ever convinced of his error. read y ore geometry—he was the instance, and promised to his book. He no Clavius before he published his.relapsed, I saw his book advertised in afew dayo. I however, for may say, as s ufficient proof of my being no c o l lector, that I had not the curiosity to buy this bo ok ; and my friend the Jesuit did not send me a copy,which he ought to have done, after the hour I had given him. 6. Application for the reward at home.—An agricultural labourer squared the circle, and brought the proceeds to London. Ho left his papers with me, one of which was the copy of a letter to the Lord Chancellor, desiring his lordship to hand over forthwith £1,000,008, the amount of the alleged offer of reward. I returned his papers, with a note, stating that he had not the knowledge requisite to see in what the problem consisted. I got for answer a letter in which I was told that a person who could not see that he had done the thing should "change his business, and ,ap propriate his time and attention to a Sunday school, to learn what he could, and keep the title children from ducting their close." 1 also recived a letter from a friend of the quadrator, informing me that I know his friend had sue , ceeded, and had been heard to say eo, These letters were LAUNCH OF THE VALIANT. Her Majesty's iron-clad frigate Valiant was launched from the Admiralty yard, Millwall, yesterday. The ship is 4,141 tons builder's measurement, and 4,063 tons by the Navy List. The dimensions are : length over all, 280 feet; breadth, extreme, 66 feet 3 inches ; and depth from spar deck, 39, feet. The draught of water will be 25 feet 2 inches. The engines by Messrs. Mandalay, Sons, and Field, with which the ship will now be fitted, are 800-horse power. The armament on each broadside will consist of twelve 68- pounders and three 110-pounder Armstrongs, giving a broadside weight of metal of 1,146 lbs., and 2,292 lbs. from both broadsides. On the slip the Valiant looked short and dumpy, and the appearance is not wholly lost in the water. For deep sea water the ship forms a formidable addition to the fleet, but for war with America, Russia, or even France, ships of half the tonnage and draft of water would render incalculably greater service. The Valiant will always have to lie off the coast, and in heavy weather will be unsafe unless in mid-ocean, while a handy, small craft could be kept off a harbour's mouth, and seek shelter at any time behind a breakwater. But the Minotaur, the Nor thumberland, the Agincourt, and the Achilles are each 2,000 tons larger than the Valiant. The Valiant, so far, has been the most unfortunate of all our iron dads, and unless changes are effected will in all likelihood remain the most unfortunate to the end. Quoting from Admiral Robinson, " The Valiant should have been delivered, according to the original contract, in August, 1862. The contractors failed, and requested the Admiralty to annul the contract. Another contract was made with a fresh party to deliver the ship in March, 1863. There is no prospect of the work being finished for six months after that date." If Admiral Robinson had said there was no prospect of the ship being finished before March, 1864, he would have been nearer right. Much remains to be done in the inside of the ship, the armour plating is far from being complete, and last of all, there are the fitting of the engines and the spars and rigging. Messrs. Maudslay and Field have been long waiting to perform their part, and the blame rests between the Admiralty and the Thames Shipbuilding Company. All that we can say is that between the two the public have been badly served, and that the public ought to know who the offender is. The future danger of the Valiant consists in this, to quote an American authority on iron clad construction,—`• The Valiant is armoured with the singular deficiency of a short distance at the water line near the bow and stern." This is a quotation from a book published recently in New York by the Appletons, and the deficiency may be well characterised as singular. It is a deficiency that positively renders the ship unfit for action, because a shell penetrating the side of the ship before or abaft the armour at the water line could not fail to blow the deck above into the air. At the meeting of the Institute of Naval Architects, over which Sir J. Pak ington last presided, this defect was insisted on in strong terms by Mr. S. Russell, in the presence of Mr. E. J. Reed and Admiral Robinson, but it remains, and most deservedly provokes American ridicule. In the Achilles the forward and aft plating has been reserved, and is therefore unobjectionable. Perhaps the knowledeeof this eefect of the Valiant has some thing to do with the delay of the ship, because neither the Admiralty nor the Thames Shipbuilding Company can ex pect any credit from the construction of what in action would prove a mere slaughter-house for British seamen. The weight of metal which it is proposed the Valiant shall deliver will considerably exceed that of the Warrior. The Warrior's broadside is no more than 8841 b from 1L" 68-pounders. The Valiant's broadside will, however, be less than that of the Royal Oak, the converted iron -clad, which is 1,2561 b. from twelve 68-pounders, and four 110- pounders. But the disparity is less real than nominal, be cause the 110-pounders are, it is to be feared, not trust worthy. They are at least guns not used so freely nor con fidently as the old 68-pounders, because something or other may blow out or give way. This is a reflection of a painful character, particularly when it is considered that as long ago as 1845 the Mersey Steel and Iron Works manufactured for the Princeton, American frigate, a gun still in use. with a bore of 12ft., by a diameter of 12in. This gun throws a solid shot of 2191b5., and its weight is 7 tons 17 cwt. 1 qr. Plain forging and boring would, however, not suit the Ad miralty and Ordnance authorities, and the consequence is that we are behind France and America in guns, when we might easily have outstripped them both. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Warrior and Resistance, iron frigates, steamed into Portsmouth. Harbour yesterday, and will be placed in dock. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—John West, engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary ; and William Murray, as sist.-engineer to the Columbine. THE ARMY. There was a field -day at Wormwood Scrubs to-day at 10 o'clock before his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding-in- Chief. The Ist and Artillery Company took part the evolutions. The inaugural lecture of the course to ba delivered Ronal Engineers was to the officers and men of tha Roy given in the lecture theatre at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on Tuesday even ing. The subject was—" On the Solu tion of Mechanical Problems by Geometrical Con struction," and the lecturer Lieut. T. Fraser, Royal Engineers. The following is the order in which the course of lectures will be delivered :—Oct. 15, " Iron ; cast iron gun metal, as manufactured at Continental establishments. Influences of structure and compo sition upon the durability of cast iron ordnance. Various applications of cast iron for the production of projectiles," by Professor Abel, F.R.S. Oct. 20, " Malleable iron, and considerations bearing upon its conversion into ordnance and armour-plates; cast produced by Krupp s teel, as and other German manufacturers, by Bessemer, &c. ; homogeneous iron, and the employment of varieties of cast steel as materials for cannon, projectiles, &e." by P ro fessar Abel. Oct. 22 "On e application of the principles of dynamics to practical engineer ing," by Professor Pole, F.R.S. Oct. 27,6 , Copper, and the influence of foreign metals, &c., upon its properties ; obje c ti ons to bronze as a material for ordnance ; alloys of copper with aluminium, phos phorus, copper and zinc alloys ; ,stereo-metal,' alloys of copper and iron," by Professor Abel. Oct. 29, " On the connexion of heat with mechanical problems," by Professor Pole. Nov. 3, "Meteoro logical Instruments," by Major Scott, Royal Engi neers. Nov, 5, .‘ On steam and fuel,' by Professor Pole. Nov. 10,"1 its • ' Lead, impurities and their influence upon its susceptibility to corrosion ; small arm projectiles, their corrosion, and boy' guarded against ; corrosion of lead by wat cr s ' and means proposed for avoiding the B rits; o tamination of water by lead ; their tnpur applications of alloys of lead to milsitt3orYthem ; poses ; white metal fuses, and obi compound projectiles, their manu , 4 Mechanical Icfe2ct:t7re and pre -17, Theory of servation," by Prof. Abel. prime movers," by Prof. po l e. a l results obtained by spectrum analysis and p and thal lium of metals ; it; detection of very minut e P u m,riuitum, discovery of tho metals cces! properties of these metals ; f ro m spectrum analy hum ; sources and lecture will be illustrated by portant inferencerneliirsaw: by Prof. Abel. Die experiments ar ranged Mr. Luld• Nov. 11, " „ steam-engine, Prof._ Pole. Nov. 21, 4, m unio. randa relati n g to building stones; th e i r var i ations in Dircv e l and durability; ~ ..et.'s of the decay of 'TIE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. Office, Horseferry-road, Westminster, 14th Oct., 1863. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a Half-yearly GENERAL COURT of the Proprietors of this Company will be held at this Office, cn FRIDAY, the 6th day of November next. The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'clock precisely. Notice is hereby also given, that at the same meeting the Annual Election of Auditors will take place; and, should a Ballot be required, it will continue open for four hours from its commencement. By order. JOHN ORIVELL PHILLIPS, Secretary. WILLIE, D-R. YES; Another Lot of TAPER DRAPERY. as the last, aficl some Patent Safety ENV:•:LOPES, from GRAINGER'S, 303, Holborn. STA➢fP YOUR PAPER, JNVELOPES. INVOICES. &c., with JONESS' PATENT PERCUSSION EMBOSSING PRESS. The above would be found useful to youths at school for embossing their Books, Drawings, Papers, &c. The Press complete, with Plain Crest, Name, or Business Die, As. 6d. Note the Address :—WILLIAM JONES, Die Sinker, Press Maker, and Embosser, 3, Queen's-court, High Holborn (op posite Day and Martin's). OELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of k) the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart, K.C.8., is Ch)irman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co, bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion lint to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. Abolition of Capital Punishment, Yesterday afternoon a meeting was held in the Mayor's Parlour at the Town Hall, Manchester, for the purpose of forming an Association for the Abolition of Capital Pun;sh ment—the Mayor (Abel Heywood, Esq.) in the chair. There were present Messrs. D. J.Watts, Dr. Pankhurst, W. Stokes, A. ➢legson, Isaac Wright, P. B. Alley, J. J. Allen, R. Griffiths, G. Harrison, T. Harrison, and J. Bryce. The CHAIRMAN said that when the request was made to him to grant the use of one of the rooms of the Town Hall for the purpose of holding the meeting, he felt very little difficulty in acceding to the request, because in the early part of the year the Corporation had taken steps to bring the question prominently before the public at, as to bring the matter before Sir George Grey. He was present when the deputation which was appointed waited on Sir George Grey, and he in reply to them urged many objections to the abolition of capital punishment. The deputation urged him as strongly as they well could to introduce the matter in some act of Parliament, but ho shook his head and smiled at the suggestion. No communication had been received since from Sir George Grey, and he therefore took it for granted that it was not the intention of the Government to take any steps in the matter. The proposition now was to establish a Manchester Association for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, and Mr, Stokes, one of the secretaries, would be glad to state the reasons. Mr. STOKES said they had not met for the purpose of discussing the question, but from their presence it was assumed that they were all agreed on the importance of the abolition of capital punishment. There were some of them who took the highest possible grounds in supporting the movement, namely, the inviolability of human life ; others supported it on the ground of general expediency; and others supported it on the question of local expediency, in consequence of the erection of the new assize courts. But whether they took up the question on the higher, inter mediate, or lower ground, they were glad that they sup ported the proposed Association. It was plain that nothing could be expected from the Government, and great move ments must be commenced from the bottom of society. Dr. J. WATTS said he had to propose " That a society be now formed, to be designated the Manchester Association for the Abolition of Capital Punishment." The society being formed, it would be necessary for it to go to work, and perhaps the most effectual mode would be to get up a large petition, and in connection with that to hold occasional or sectional meetings throughout the borough. He was fur ther of opinion that no time should be lost in getting to work to carry out the objects of the society. There was no fact more settled than that exhibitions of capital punish ment created crime, and he was satisfied that if public exe cutions took place in Manchester, the Recorder would not have the opportunity in future sessions of repeating the remark he had made at the sessions which were now being held—" That it was the lightest he had had ?or 21 years." Punishment had only two objects—one being to reform the offender, the other to deter from crime. They knew that capital punishment did not deter offenders ; and instead of deterring from crime it rather incited the commission of it ; and it was very natural that it Should do so, because people who had a tendency to commit crime and who went to see a murder committed under legal sanction, has their morbid feelings excited, and thus other spectacles were furnished oa future occasions. Dr. PANKIIURST seconded the resolution. He said it could not but have been remarked that at the late execu tions at Liverpool, a kind of half and half public execution was adopted, a screen being drawn in front of the drop. The question there seemed to have been partly yielded, and if the society was obliged with the other half its object would be accomplished. The motion was adopted. Mr. G. HARRISON said he thought there were not many people in Manchester who had thought much on the sub ject, but now as there was a possibility of the demoralising spectacle of capital punishments being brought to their own doors, there were many in Manchester who would wil lingly aid the socioty both by subscriptions and in other ways. He then proposed the appointment of a committee and officers. Mr. P. B. ALLEN seconded the resolution, which was adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro ceedings. The Loss of the Norwegian Steamer.--- Official Report. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL FOIL TRADE. My Lords,—ln pursuance of orders received from your lordships, I have, in conjunction with Captains Harris and Baker, as nautical assessors, held an inquiry into the cir cumstances attending the loss of the Norwegian on St. Paul's Island, at the entrance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in June last, The Norwegian was an iron screw steamer, built at Dumbarton in 1861, of 2,449 gross and 1,888 registered ton nage with two engines of 450 horse power, owned by Messrs Allan Brothers of Liverpool, Glasgow, and Montreal, and forming one of their line trading between this country and Canada. She was under the command of Mr. A. M‘Master, who held a certificate of competency, dated Feb. 23, 1854, and had a crew of 88 hands. The Norwegian, in all respects well found and equipped, left Liverpool on June 4 last with 60 cabin and 267 steerage passengers, and a general cargo. Nothing occurred to call for comment until the 10th, when they encountered fogs on the banks of Newfoundland,which continued occasionally for three days, during which time every precaution was taken by sounding, slowing, and stop ping the engines, Upon Saturday, the 13th, the fog cleared off, and the engines were put on full speed, and at noon a good observation was obtained, which placed the ship in lat. 45 54 N, long. 54 54 W. From this position a course was steered to make the Island of St. Pierre, which was passed about 6 p.m., at a distance of from 15 to 20 miles. This point was subsequently slightly altered for the pas sage between Cape Bay and the Island of St, Paul. About 2 a.m. on the 14th, land was supposed to have been seen by the master and mate, which they took for the land to the eastward of Cape Ray, and the ship's course was accord ingly kept a little more to the westward off the land. The weather up to 4 a.m. had been moderate and fine. At that hour b a dense fog set in, when all sail was taken off the ship, briefly, the engines otc u rd t le t r h c e ou v l e d ss b e ue l l e tei e ffm n ec tinued her course at full speed, going 12 e3akdnots an hour. At 6.45 a.m, breakers were reported n. • The master, who had been on deck from 2 a.m., gtihneesfacts of immediately ordered the helm to be put hard a-port, and to be s l to issa p by p ede e ci d aslmaifs a eet n e d reversed, but before ' this possibly be done ultimately otl elly carried out the ship ran upon the rocks, and and all the passengers, crew, an v ; s e e rs and kindnesser saved, Great out, mailsat, Such at a t t h e wo o a n u e r rc i e d e : credit is duo t o Mr. ara. n dtEverythingoCampbell,ll ospropertys the president of the island p , ass w e h n and humanity to the shipwrecked In commenting upon the loss of thiswWa very conspicuous. fine and valuable ves sel I have a most disagreeable duty to perform. The long services of the master, wh o , up to this fatal occurrence ap pears to have enjoyed and deserved the confidence owners and the public for a l ong series o of his of ears, during which he never met with an accid en t , cannot but enlist the sympathy of the-Court in his b e h a lf . But so frequent of late have disasters occurred in this particular navigation, that it is imperative upo n tho se c harged with the ooantionduot, of such an inquiry as t his not to shrink from the conclu sion,' however painful, clearly pointed out by the evidence. The course steered from noon on the 13th towards th e Gulph of St. Lawrence appears to have been judicious, but in opening the Gulph due allowance does not seem to have been made for the influence of the strong currents kno wn to prevail in this vicinity—a fact which, from his long ex perience, should have made the master extremely cautious, and should undoubtedly have prevented him running at full speed, or even at half speed, in, the midst of to dense tt fog, IN E SPA PI.: R f•Sa building stones; various processes o , !)4 stones from decay; important applicatioo 4 1 . 1i bj e c04/4.4,,T glass; artificial stones," by Prof. Abel\,,. •NoVA T.O ,' " The steam-engine," by Prof. Pole. Dec. 1, T+Ztrafi s tegical operations illustrated by the campaign of 1815," by Capt. H. W. Hitchins, Royal Engineers. Dec. 3 and 8, " Telegraphy," by Mr. F. Jenkin. Dec. 10, "The dockyard, and how to see it," by Lieut. V. G. Clayton, Royal Engineers. Major-General Eyre, commanding the Forces in the - Chatham district, yesterday completed the ha2l yearly inspection of the troops under his command by the inspection of the first division of the depot brigade, Royal Artillery. The division, which num bers about 800 men of all ranks, under the command, of Lieut.-Col. R. Talbot, was paraded in marching. order. Major-Gen. Eyre, who was accompanied by Brigade-Major Congreve, instituted a rigid exami nation of the arms and accoutrements of the non commissioned officers and men, during which he was accompanied by Col. Nedham, commanding Royal Artillery in the Chatham district. This concluded,the line broke into open columns of divisions, right in front, and marched past in slow and quick time, the alignment of the divisions being well preserved, and the wheeling distances accurately kept. The division was then formed into five batteries, and the com manding officers of each examined in their know ledge of company evolutions and formations; bat talion movements were dispensed with. The in spection terminated with a survey of the barrack rooms, hospital, and the other garrison establish ments, the whole of which were found well regu lated and remarkably clean, notwithstanding that no preparation had been made for the Major-Gene ral's visit, which was altog ether an une xpected one. Major-Gen. Lord W. Pau let, C. 8., o n Tuesday inspected the 53d Regiment under the command of Col. English, C. 8., on Southsea-common. Yester day his lordship was engaged in inspecting the Military Hospital at Portsea. The Ist division of the 55th Regiment stationed at Portsmouth, will embark there for India on board the Hougomont hired transport, on the 20ch inst. The headquarters, whose embarkation has been delayed by the rejection of the ship Meteor, tendered for their conveyance, will embark at Portsmouth about the 25th inst. ~/ The 17th inst. is the day at present named for the embarkation of the headquarters of the 76th Regiment for India on board the Hornet transport at Portsmouth. Tho remainder of the Regiment will embark from the same port on board the Ata lanta. Mysterious Death of a Girl at Yeovil. On Tuesday an adjourned inquest was held at the Castle Inn, Yeovil, Somersetshire, on the body of Elizabeth Fox, by Dr. Wybrants, and after an in quiry of several hours' duration a verdict of man slaughter was returned against Robert Slade Colmer, a well-known herb doctor. At the opening of the inquiry it was proved that the deceased was 20 years of age, and being a perfect stranger to Colmer she went to his house, where she stayed a week, at the end of which she had a miscarriage, and died on Sunday morning, October 2, almost suddenly. At the opening of the inquiry on Tuesday, the 6th inst., the wife and daughter of Colmer were exa mined, and they stated that deceased had come to the house complaining that she had something the matter with her liver, that she took no medicine whilst there, and died on the night after the miscar riage. Colmer has been living in Yeovil for 20 years, has been in the habit of atiending market towns, and was patronised by a large number of persons. His son, Dr. Colmer, a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, lives with him, and al though he attended the young woman at her death, ho stated at the inquest that he rarely inter fered with his father's patients, although he had patients of his own in the town. Colmer, sen., is a man about 50, is said to have known something of astrology, and waii consulted in matters touching recovery of stolen sheep, pigs, •, but it is under stood he has refused to have anything to do with such matters for the past twelve months. However, some extraordinary revelations came out at the in quest, which, if Colmer's evidence is to be believed, proves that ho has not altogether divested himself of a faith in the superstitious. He states that ho took the child with the after-birth, &c., and burned them, in accordance with the superstitious idea that such a proceeding would relieve the pains of the young girl, and prevent inflammation setting in. The deceased was a servant at the Rectory at Rimpton, Somerset, her parents living in Dorset shire. She left the Rectory with the avowed in tention of going home, instead of which she went to Colmer's house. Amanda Colracr, daughter of the accused, a rather good-looking wci!•dressed girl, wearing a white hat and black feather, said she was in the room on the Saturday when the deceased was coofined, and put the child into a basin. The head of it was about the size of a small walnut. She did not know what became of the child or the afterbirth. Sho had never been at a confinement before, but it was a trifling affair she should imagine. Dr. Colmer, son of the accused, said that his father called him to see the deceased, saying that she was dying. He prescribed for her, and applied galvanism with great pressure over the lower part of the bowels, as he considered her dying from in ternal hmmorrhage. When he applied pressure the swelling was at once reduced, and a quantity of blood passed from her, when she threw back her head and died immediately. He was present at the post-mortem, and was of opinion that death was caused by the means used to prevent hxmorrhage. His sister Amanda said deceased had told her she had procured medicine from Sherborne to procure abortion. Colmer, the accused, after being duly cautioned, said that an hour atter midnight on the Saturday he was called to see the deceased, and believing she was dying he sent for his son; She died in about an hour afterwards. Shortly before her death he gave her medicine and brandy. She then told him she had miscarried. The child was in a basin, and was about three inches long. He could not say whether it vas a boy or a girl, as he did not examine it. The head was about the size of a pigeon's egg. He took the child and afterbirth, and burnt it. He had heard people say that it was a common thing in the country, to burn the after- I birth. He took it and burnt it in the ashes shortly after he saw it. Dr. Garland stated that he made a post•mortem. examination of the deceased, in the presence of Messrs. Tomkins, Alldridge, Colmer, Parsons, and Coles. He found the organs of the body generally healthy. The womb was enlarged, and in the left and posterior part there was an extensive rupture, which must have been produced by violence. No medicine could possibly have produced it, nor could any woman do it herself. It must have been done by one or more persons. The deceased must have been pregnant five or six months. He was Posi tive that it was rupture of the navel that caused... have , I death, and that she must have died soon after the rupture took place. The injury could n. t he inflicted by instruments or manipulatio vie de organs were perfectly drained of blood. ceased was a fine and well-formed girl sent at t h e The other gentlemen who were P x r eep tion of Dr. post-mortem examination, with the .ra e ilar test i mony. Colmer, son of the accused, gave el hish surgical T i t % knowledge -,. terrupted him by m a er question asked A w l i r t . h C r o e l s e p s e , jrii witnesses, pre°l of medicine, when the Corontesu rgeona—Sir Astley ne o e, in. and others—w ou ld observing that many emi Cooper, Sir Benjamin I,P . a ns ,i ng the Hall. not deg rade themselv DS' h s eolurist res s, at Marston, sa i d she used to write letter s Ruth Hodges, a Be -- f or the deceased to a y oung Steele, man named John , l e w ith whom she k e p t com pany. - 0 addressing the jury, explained The Coroner, in every man, whether doctor, that the law .]! , linPea or not), or even a "quack," with surgeon (cl e e r a inn a t all, to bring competent skill to out any l i c e () un dertook. If he had not the skill he any ea" d displayed gross ignorance , causing ale was guilty of , death, he lf a man to procure abort' ton tempted .f he was guilty of at medical mur der, and i aman procured abortion, and billed the mother , he Was guilty in the eyes of the law of wilful murder. If they believed that the young woman was brought to that house for the p u rpose of proc ur i ng abortion, and that it resulted in death, they would have to return a verdict of wil ful murder. It was not onl a matter of grea t consequence , y to 'A , ir. Colmer, but to the community at large, as two beings had lost their lives. A verdict of manslaughter against Ithert Slade Colmer w as . returned. -DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday Dr. Llnkes ter received information from Mr. Murray, the sum moning officer of St. Pancras, that a middle-aged woman, named Hedges, residing at No. 3, Exeter-place, Agar-town, St . Pancras, had drowned herself there in a water-butt. It appeared that about a fortnight ago she married, being t.len a widow, and having a large family. On Monday evening. one of the lodgers went to the water butt 1;9 get sonf,tohic on fortunate when, on getting into the yard, she saw the le h g o s celled out fortunate woman projecting from the top. _S T (deceased ' s) "Here's a woman in the eater-butt." I husband took her out and found her to was extinct, 1;01 wife. Life . i :~: