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T HE DISCOUNT CORPORATION "(Limited). Established under the Companies Act, with Limited Liability. Cf tpital, Two Millions Sterling, in 20,000 Shares of £lOO each. First issue, 10,000 Shares. :Deposit, £1 per Share on application, and £1 10s. on allot ment. It is not contemplated to call up more than £2O per Share. Calls not to exceed £5, at intervals of not less than Three Months. DIRECTORS. .Ta mes Bruce, Esq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Abchurch-lsne. Charles Bye Colchester, Esq. (Messrs. Colchester and Wool 'net.), South Sea House. E, D. Cartwright, Esq., (11, Moorgate-street (Messrs. Leckie and Co., Bombay), late Chairman of Commercial Bank of India. IJ °ratio Sydney Coulson, Esq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Ab church -1 an e. George Lyall. Esq., Mincing. lane (Messrs. Lyall, Still, and Co., Hong Kong). Charles Edward Mangles, Esq., Director of the Union Bank of Australia. Thomas Sttnhouse, Esq., Director of the Chartered Mercan tile Bank of India. 4ohn Torrance, Esq., Director of the Alliance Ban k. Edmund Westby, Esq., Director of the Bank of Victoria. BANKERS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool, Lothbury, and Southwark, LondOn. Brown's-buildings, Liverpool, and Birkenhead. .ISomerron. 9 . Messrs. Flux and Arg - les, 9, Mincing-lane. BROKERS. Messrs. J. wad J. Whitehead, P, Moorgate-street. SECRETARY (prj,em.)—Robert Slater, junior, Esq. Temporary 'Jflices ofqhe Corporation-25, Change-alley, Cornhili, E.C. INo. 22,246. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., GO O D S OCIET Y. By Mrs. GREY, Author of " The Gambler's Wife," 4:c. "➢irs. 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."— John Bull. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. THE HEIRESS AND HER LOVERS, by GEORGIANA, Lady CHATTEIITON, is now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. PEOPLE'S EDITION OF MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. On Monday, Nov. 2, will be published, in crown Bvo , Part 1., to be completed in 14 monthly Parts, price Is. each, ir ORD MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF - - LA ENGLAND. People'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 brief Memoir by the Very Rev. the DEAN of ST. PAUL'S. London: Longman, Green, and Co., Paternoster-row. This day is published, in 3 vols., post B vo. , price £1 lls. ed. TARA: A MAHRATTA TALE. By Colonel MEADOWS TAYLOR, M.H.1.A., Author of "Confessions of a Thug," dzc. _ _ William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. 122, FLEET-STREET, LONDON. I Tif ESSRS. JOHN MAXWELL AND CO. beg to announce that the undermentioned Works may be now had at every Circulating . Library. Subscribers to those useful Institutions should not experience any delay in ob taining copies, as adequate editions have been printed, and the type is kept standing, to meet every demand as quickly as it arises :- 1. SACKVILLE CHASE. 3 vols. 2. 3. AUGI STRONGHAND. By G. AIMARD. 2 vols. BREAKFAST IN BED. By GEORGE ['BTUS SALA. 1 VOl. 4. THE REV. ALFRED HOBLUSH AND HIS CURACIES. 1 vol. 5. SECRETS OF MY OFFICE. 1 vol. 6. CROSS OF HONOUR. 1 vol. [This day. London : John Maxwell and Co.. 122. Fleet-street. T H 0 X F OR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W.. 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, &a., with lull band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonzhmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c. Comic, by lINSWORTH ("or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND. Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH 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, Is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. PROSPECTUS The Discount Corporation is established to aid the mone tary arransements 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- respec t e d Di scoun t Firm in London. with whom arrangements have been made for the transit 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 trade s o f the country, and the greatly extending commercial transactions with India and the Cc,lonies, lead to the conviction that greater discounting facilities than at pre sent exist are required. An establishment, which from its amply means will be able to supply such requirements, will no dole - t be favourably re ceived by the trading, community, and will at the same time afford a safe and crotitable return equally to those who seek the permanent investment of their money, and to those who merely desire the temporary employment of their surplus fund s. The known profitable operations of the old private Dis count Firms, and the new Discount Companies, give the as surance that a purely Discount business, prudently managed, Will prove a complQte success. The Head Office of the Corporation will be in London. No promotio , ,-money will be given for originating the undertaking, a:nd the preAminary expenses will be strictly Confined to srich as are indispensable. Applications for Shares may be addressed in the annexed form to th.e Directors, and copies of the prospectus may be obtained at the Temporary Offices of the Corporation, or at the Offices of the Brokers and Solicitors ; but no application will be considered unless a deposit of £1 per span.: on 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,—Havingr, paid to your Bankers the sum of , being a deposit of £1 per Share on Shares in the above Corporation, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and I agree to become a member of this 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 8u5ine55........... Date DISCOUNT CORPORATION (Limited). —NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That no further APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this Corporation will be received alter SATURDAY next, the 17th October inst. Ey order, ROBERT SLATER, Jun., Secretary, pro tern. Temporary Offices, 26, Chancre-alley, Cornhill, October 13, 1833. THE MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). a , tpital £500,100, in 20,000 shares of £25 each, with power to increase, a deposit of 1)8. per shalt , to be paid on application, and £1 10s. on allotment. First issue £250,009, in 10,000 shares, of which only £l 2 10 s. per share i s intended 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 £2 108. per share, at intervals of not less than two months. DIRECTORS. Ca Lain R. W. PELLY, R.N., Elder Brother Trinity House (iDirector of the London Assurance. and late Director of the Company), Chairman. 'l,llll eSßormanEsq. (Messrs. liickie, Borman, and Co., Mer chants), 127, Leadenhall-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.), Henr y resham House, Director of the West African Company. -g Fox, Esq., Director of the Loadon and Provincial Marine Insurance Company. John Hall, jun., Esq. (Messrs. J. Hall, jun., and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), New London-street, lenchurch street. Robert Hewett, Esq. (Messrs. Hewett Brothers, Merchants and Shipowners), Trinity- .quare. Wiliiam Anastasius Jones, Esq., late Local Director of the Anp.clo-Mexican Mint Company, Wilton Lodge, Croydon, Surrey. John Rogerson, Esq. (Messrs. J. Rogerson and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), Royal Exchange-buildings, aud Newcastle-on-Tyne. John Gustavus hussell, Esq. (Director of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company), 61, Moorgate street. Captain Litt , e Thomas, late of 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 S erv i ce B ank (Limited), 27, Cannon street. AUITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Jame D s, It, King-street, Cheapside, STOCKBROKERS. Messrs, Froom Brothers, 20, Change-alley, Cornhill. SURVEYORS. Timothy Harrington, Esq„ Consultirg Engineer, 61, Grace church -street. Captain Thomas rribP, The Jerusalem, Cornhill. SECRETARY—MP. 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 sgreed, and will be employed in like manner with the capital, the uncalled por tion of which, and the property held on mortgage by the Company, will at all times afford ample security to depo sitors. • - - 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 mil-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 confidence 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 20. t from 10 to 15 p e r cen t . , th e Di rec t ors h a ve facilities for borrowing_ at such rates as to yield a surplus profit of 5 to 6 ver cent. The detailed prospectus and forms of application for shares 10 ay be obtained of the Secretary, Brokers, and Bankers, and at the Offices of the Company. Should the full number of 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 IN VESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). N OTICE .—The Directors will proceed to an ALLOT zIENT on SATURAY 17th instant. Alica Remaining Shares to be m ade not later than that tions date. or the By order of the Board, 14 (Signed) THOMAS SHARER, Secretary. Iring-street, Cheapside, Oct. 9, 1863. O R NAMENTS enDini„ f Inuit oiVASES'rm. for the Drawing-room, Library, consisting of anew and elegant ass ort inyures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beanptiafurilan nitr es Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian, Imported Alabaster, , Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &a and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her —aiesty, 149, Stand, W.C., L onaon . - m Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly f ac ilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. and 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. ItOYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. P RESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., CITAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., P.R.S. , V. P. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning). of the year 1861, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £28,550 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of live s save d by th e Lif e -boats of the N3ciety, and other means since its formation, is 13,220; tor' which se rv i ces 82 Gold Medals, 733 Silver Medals, and £17,200 i n cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has al so expended £75, 3 80 on Li fe- b oats, Lif e -b oa t Trans porting -cart cages, and Boat-houses. t h - he Committee desire to express their grateful sense of liirit,R'enerous support which they have received from the ha s V , Public during the past few years, a support which of 14abled them to establish their present magnificent fleet be e T_ Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom resq;jo,Bf,nsible, however, of the great responsibility that stat e, t hem to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient boats, whi,. its Crews practised in the management of their annual can only be effected by a large and permanent countryi n ,: 3 e, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their great and trui° aid the m i n u pholding and perpetuating so The Con, „„7 national a wo rk. tributiona,:ntee gratefully acknowledge the following con- X s. d Her Majesty the .. Campbell, the ll g r i u- a ,% 11 Wm. Co., Bankers • .. .. Clerk, Colonel, R ° A ' --`B. G. • • • • • • , .. .. .. annual annual 50 5 C 0 0 0 Coutts and o 3 i ---• ... annual 1 1 0 annual 10 0 0 E r e Currie, Lord Wm., ,Tosti ' • • • .. .. 4th don.lo 0 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Ad„„ce 10 0 Fenwick, G. J., Eg r ' lra l Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 sportinz Carriag e . '" "t of a Lifeboat and Tran-250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and • • • • • • • • 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Ba r r . • .. .. don. Palmer, Sir Roundell, xf.p • • .. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 tor-General .. '' 1131 1. • 8 Solid •• .. Royal Yacht Squacron • • •.: annual 10 0 0 Steel, Michael, Esq. .. .. Thorns s, Lady, Weston-super -At .. don. 100 0 0 .. .. annual 2 2 0 .. .. ..are . ,.collectedb yher Ladyship 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. II '1 • • annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual S ubscriptions will be thankfully re ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Perci , ial, and 6, Lombard- s t ree t ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Co., Aessrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 0 the Colle c t ors of Customs and Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Inetitution, ii, John-street, A.delohi, London, W.V. 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 Contraot to supply - FLOUR FOR HOSPITAL BREAD, in such quantities as may be resiuired, from the Ist Decem ber, 1853, to 31 s t M ay, 1r64, for the use of Her Majesty's 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, 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 unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed, Y CO O N ffi T e ß e ,ACT Aldershot, Commissariat Aß 3‘i TENDERSwiII be received at Oct 9, 1863. this Office 12 o'clock, noon, on THURSDAY, the sth ce, until 1803, from persons who may be willing to enter NcEvember, tract to supply into Con PAILLASSE STRAW AND STRAW FOR noY AL E NGINEER SERVICE, in such quantities as may be required fram the Ist December. 1863, to 30th November. 1864, for the use of her Majestyq, Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the coin_ mend. 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 must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the out , ide "Tender for Supply of Straw)," and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn•road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rai/. way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCU, Treasurer—Edward Masterman, 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 accom panied 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 Mas Lerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries 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 Maras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the ReePital. STANFORD_S. SMITLL ecretary. CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order 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 Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the llall. 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, &c. ; Comedy by lJnsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The 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 onen at 7—commence at half-past 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA. PALACE. Great ➢fusical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR MCOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elPi. , ,ant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele brity. The band is selected from the Crystal Palace, tit Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager—M. GRENET. L " UR lAN T WHISKERS or MOUSTACHES.—My formula farcrs them to rry.,/ heavily in six we, ks upon the smoothest face, without injury to the skin, and a sure remedy for bat Incas. 13 stamps.— Mr. FOX, Macclesfield. Fox's celebrated llaii wash Formula, for removing scurf' and curling the hair, seven stamps, ‘IPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented k/ Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, including Viscount l'almerston. They afford extra ordinary re iief to weak, dim, and defective vision.—S. and B SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT FxPIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective ,nvention in the curative treatment of aERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is 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 much ease 'lnd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail 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., 218., 265. 6c1., and 31e. 6d. Postage, is. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6cl , 425. a nd and 525. 6d. Postage, la Bcl. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELAST IC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, dm, for Varicose Veils and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are oorous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on ll ean ordinary stocking. p r i ce 4 0 , gd„, 7s. &L, M., to 160 . each. Postage sd. JOHN WHITE, llannfacturar. 225. Piccadilly. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Once, 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 wiling to enter into Contracts to supply FLOUR AND MEAT, in such quantities as may be required, from the Ist December, 1b63, to 31st. May, 1864, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot 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 Tenders must be properly filled up and sizzled, 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. / / /S'_ -,-----•* 7- ' IT i,.......... ~._-„ ~ \: ' LIP ‘44., ‘• , * . beg ..,.: 44 ,, ...,_,....—,,,,,,-.- ,' : , ,03:11•4=4„ - .. ~--.,'; ~nhy,t , -J, . r, A g z .----;.p ti , r 0 4111 K Akl,_, ~ A — . 11 1 t., 1 T c ~,ii.,_ • , r ---- "' N \ ' . - 1 / 4 ........ yr= . .. ,-------7 . /Yv'•_.„ ---: . a ~ vg, .. :t. % 411(..T . i."/, .v. --4- 7 - \ -:"." • z - if-• k r -4- ''' ~ ~:;,,.,., . „. .. „7 , 4„,.7.01- ~ 1N ~,51,,,„ a l - 1 I „.6. 1 11. D I A V/ - . ... , A' -: . . _ . " , ilam* '''Ur',,for 0 o' , - ,,, '''' "DIZOIT. • e%•:-...-- iiii un+ _____ PRICE..... -..4d. STAMPED ....sd. printed, without the names of the writers, for the amuse ment of the readers of Notes a n d Queries, First Series, vii. 57. 7. An elderly man came to me to show me how the uni verse was created.—There was one molecule, which by vi bration—Heaven knows how l—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 truth of my system." 1 have had much reason to think that many discoverers, of all classes, believe they have con vinced everyone who is not peremptory to the verge of incivility. LAUNCH OP THE VALIANT. Her Majesty's iron-clad frigate Valiant was launched from the Admiralty yard, Millwall, yesterday. The ship is 4,144 tons builder's measurement, and 4,063 tons by the Navy List. The dimensions are : length over all, 280 feet ; breadth, extreme, 56 feet 3 inches ; and depth from spar deck, 39 feet. The draught of water will be 25 feet 2 inches. The engines by Messrs. Maudslay, 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 knowledge of this d efect 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 SS4lb from 13 68-pounders. The Valiant'a 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- poun ders. But the disparity is less re al than nominal, be cause the 110-pounders arc, 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 m ay blow ouor give way. This is a reflection of a painful character, pa rticularly 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 I 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 snit 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. t ri x o ',' i! - • 1 ,.,_ building stones; various processes of presp.)l,:infr-f; stones from decay; important applications' 1 .-: 42= ' ' Iii — ll._ glass ; artificial stones," by Prof. Abel. 6 1 i; . " The steam-engine," by Prof. Pole. Dec. 1, " Skit- , a 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 half 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 , hers about 800 men of all ranks, under the command of Lieut.-Col. R. Talbot, was paraded in marchivx 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 concludcd,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 evolution s and formations; bat talionispensed with. TL'e movements w er e d 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 altogether an unexpected one. Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., on Tuesday inspected the 53d Regiment under the command of Col. English, C. 8., on Southsea-common. Yester day his lordship was engaged in inspecting t h e 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 20th 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 I Regiment for India on board the Hornet transport 1 at Portsmouth. Tho remainder of the Regiment will embark from the same port on board the Ata . lents. 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— I.duration " quiry of severs hours' 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 th 3 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 bad 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 s he stated at the inquest that he rarely inter fered with his father's patients, although ho had. patients of his own in the town. Colmer, sen., is a man about 50, is said to have known something of astrology, and was consulted in matters touching recovery of stolen sheep, pigs, Sze.; 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 he has not altogether divested himself of a faith in the superstitious. He states that he 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 Colmer, daughter of the accused, a rather good-looking well-dressed girl, wearing a white hat and black feather, said she was in the room on the Saturday when the deceased was confined, and put the child into a basin. The head of it was about the sirs of a small walnut. She did not know what became of the child or the afterbirth. She 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 haemorrhage. 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 h2amorrhage. 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 ho 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 was 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 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 hay.° been pregnant five or six months. He was posi tive that it was rupture of the navel that caused death, and that she must have died soon after b theen e rupture took place. The injury could have inflicted by instruments or manipulation. T.he organs were perfectly drained of blood. I le "'- ceased was a fine and well-formed girl. tion_ of Dr. The other gentlemen who were presen.t at _ the post-mortem examination, with the excel ) Colmer, son of the accused, gave Dim Dr. Colmer asked Mr. Coles, one of the k surgical ilar testimony. witnesses, a question with respect to hisknow ledge of medicine, when the Coroner interrupted him b y surgeons — S i r Astley observing that many eminent would Cooper, Sir Benjamin Brodie, an d others— not degrade themselves bypassing th e .. Hall. Ruth Hodges, a scho olmistress, at Marston, said. kept com she used to write letters for the deceased to a young man a a n n y . n amed addressing t he ; J ury, explained. The Coroner, in that the law _ 5 expected man, whether doctor, every ' surgeon (qua lified or not), or even a , quack," with out any licen ce at all, to brier, competent skill to an y case he if undertook. .... he had not the skill he gross ignorance, caus i ng manslaughter. If a min a:stir he and displayed wa s guilty of mur der, and if a medical ma n p r ocured abortion , and. attem pted to procure abortion he was g uilt y of killed the mother, he was guilty in the eyes of the law of wilful murder. If they believed that the young woman was b roug ht to that house for the purpose of procuri ng a b or tion, and that it resulted. in death, they would have to retur n a v e rdict of wil ful murder. It was a matter of great consequence, not only to Mr. Colmer, hut to the community at large, as two beings had lost their lives, A verdict of manslaughter against Robert Slade Colmer wtts returned. I)ETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday Dr. Lankes 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 appea red that about a f or t n i g ht ago she married, being then a widow, and having a large family. On Monday evening one of the lodgers went to the water butt b get some water, when, on getting into the yard, she saw the legs of the un fortunate woman projecting from the top. She called out "Here's a woman in the water-butt." Her (deceased's) husband took her out and found her to be his wife, Life was extinct, Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Warrior and Resistance, iron frigates, steamed into Portsmouth Harbour yesterday, and will be placed in dock. The followin g appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—John 'Vest, engineer, to the W Asia, as supernumerary ; and William Murray, as sist.-engineer to the Columbine. THE ARMY. There was a field -day a to-day at 10 o'clock before bits Wormwood Royal Scrubs al Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding-in- Chief. The Ist and 2d Life Guards and the mounted A r tillery Company took part in troop of the 'la the evolutions. The inaugural lecture of the course to be delivered to the officers and men of the Royal Engineers was given in the lecture theatre at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on Tuesday evening. The subject was—" On the Solu tion of echanical Problems by Geometrical Con structi M on," and the lecturer Lieut. T. Fraser, Royal E n gineers. The following is the order in which the course of lectures will be delivered :—Oct.ls, " 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 steel, as produced by Krupp and other German manufacturers, by Bessemer, ; homogeneous iron, and the employment of varieties of cast steel as materials for cannon, projectiles, 8,:c." by Professar Abel. Oct. 22, "On the application of the principles of dynamics to practical engineer ing," by Professor Pole, F.R.S. Oct. 27, " Copper, and the influence of foreign metals, &0., upon its Properties; objections to bronze as a material for ordnance ; alloys of copper with aluminium, phos phorus, copper and zinc alloys ; ' istoreo-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, " Lead, its impurities and their influence upon its susceptibility to corrosion ; small arm projectiles, their corrosion, and how guarded against ; corrosion of lead by waters, and means proposed for avoiding t h e con tamination of water by lead ; their merits , applications of alloys of lead to militarypur-. poses ; white metal fuses , and object ion s to d th em , compound projectiles, their manufacture an p.hanical re servation," by Prof. Abel. No 12," Mec t prime movers," by Prof. Pole. Nov .17, " Theory of s p e ctrum analysis and prin ci p al results obtained by it; detection of very m inute proportions of metals h a l ! thal lium ; sources and discovery of the metals cesiu m, rubidium, an proper ties of these metals ; im portant inference drawn from spectrum analysis," by Prof. Abel. This lecture will be illustrated by experiments arranged by Mr. Ladd. N ov. 11, "The Prof. Pole. Nov. 24, Memo steam-engine," b y randa relating to building stones ; their variations ) in strength and durability ; causes of the decoy of THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1863. THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY• Office, Horseferry-road, Westminster, 14th Oct., 1863. NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a Half-yearly GENERAL COURT of the Proprietors of this Company will be held at this Office, en 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 ORWELL PHILLIPS, Secretary. WILLIE, D-R. YES ; Another Lot of PAPER DRAPERY. as the last, and some Patent Safety ENVELOPES, from GRAINGER'S, 303, Holborn. STAMP YOUR PAPER, 'ENVELOPES. 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, 9s. 6d. Note the Address : —AV ILL I AM JONES, Die Sinker, Press Maker, and Embosser, 3, Queen's -court, High Holborn (op posite Day and Martin's). CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY o f the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8.. is Chairman) 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 list 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. 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 subsequent 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 sec 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 \l•Master, for the period of 12 calendar months from the date of this report,—l have, &c., - - T. S. RArrLEs, Police Magistrate. Liverpool, Oct. 10th, 1863. IVe concur in this report, Hy. I-1 A.RRI q Nautical Assessors. It. B. BAK Eit ' , I 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 Silo, Professor Douglas Maclagan, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. Henry Brougham. The Rev. Dr. LEE said gram and the Rev. Dr. ALLi- ANDER returned thanks. Lord BROUGHAM, who, on rising to give the first toast, was loudly cheered, said,—l have very great satisfaction in 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 me e tings, 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 pleasur e i n p r oposing "Her Majesty th e Q ueen ." (Loud cheers.) Lord Bnou CUIAM, 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 ho 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 mi sc hi e f from happening. (Loud Cheers.) I, therefore, gave you " The Navy, Army, and Volunteers." Admiral Raunay, Sir J. Alexander, and Lieutenant- Colonel M‘Gregor successively replied to the toast. The LORD-Pnovosr then gave " The National Associa tion and its President. He said, —It 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 pu rsu i ts. (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 and successful exertions in improving the sanitary condition of our Indian arnay—luok 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, an d among other things exception is taken to my having praised and recommended the Sisters of Charity. It is said, B ut You recommend Catholics; you recommend the importation from France of Catholic Sisters of Charity, who will i mmediately 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 aro our fel low-countrywomen, who happen to be Catholics, and. the only person who came from F rance was the sister superior. The rest are all English Catholics, and I have seen here to day some most worthy p er sons, Sisters of Charity also, who come from France, and they are Catholics, no doubt, but they are Englishwomen and Seotchwomen 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 fRe - B ro wnlee Byron's Home 'lee for English Sisters of Charity, and state d that they performed all the nursing at the North London Hospital in connexion with University College. (Applau se.) Ihave also go t a l etter f rom a man connected with America, who tells me there is great excep tion taken on the part of the 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 te a slaves I (Loud and pro longed cheers). why, have ll the advocates 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 t rade in .as far as British subjects din it, Then, In 1830 or 1837 I shortened were engage rticeship, ad occasiond the the period of negrO App Ayes three orfour ye ars e before complete liberation of the 8.. b 04CC. Then l ma y add, it otherwise would have taista... :4 11 these ' exertions, I though it is a trifle as compared _ eve up a very may add a very great personal sacrifice. Ib_ 4e in the considerable estate in Barbadoea and a large este._ had county of Durham, which a kind - hearted gentleman e. left me by a will which he afterwards revoked on raY re- I fusing to abstain fro- further proceedings for the libera -1 tion of the e le -•wir- cs though he said in his letter in which h e called on u,. ' I assure you that y our peasantry on ws to abstain.,ar B ar badoes estat e a re better off than your peasantryu to te.." (A. laugh.) It was enough o n your D ur ham Proper -7 hear a having a good property make 0110'S traAth Water to in the county of Durham. I should not have valued the Bar 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 raise 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 a n act of emancipation, an 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. (Hear, hear.) But I must beg your pardon for having 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 the blacks, but to restore the Union. (Cheers.) The Union, and not the negro, is the object of the emancipation proclamation, and to that proclamation, therefore, I could not give any kind of support. It is a most unhappy contest, most miserable in all respects, but I hope we shall continue on the principle on which we have hitherto proceeded—of interfering with neither party. (Cheers.) The Federals are angry 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 only prolong this horrible and miserable contest. We have nothing to do with either one party or the other. (Hear.) We are bound to maintain our own independence of them, and leave them to fight it out among themselves, only heartilypraying that their fight may be as short as possible. (Loud cheers.) Lord Brougham again rose and proposed I, The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, and pros perity to the city of Edinburgh." (Loud cheers.). UNAPPRECIATED GENIUS, (Professor De Morgan in the Athenceum.) Of the class of discoverers who square the circle, upset Newton, &c., I suspect I know more than any man in Britain. I never kept any reckoning ; but I know that one year with another —and less of late years than in earlier t i m es—l 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 acters. They are very earnest people, and their purpose is bona fide the dissemination of their paradoxes. A great many—the mass indeed—are illiterate, and a great many waste their means, and are in or approaching penury. But I must say that never, in any one instance, has the quadra ture of the circle, or the like, been made a pretext for begging ; even to be asked to purchase a book is of rare oc currence. These discoverers despise one another; if there were the concerts among them which there is among foreign mendicants, a man who admitted one to a con ference would be plagued to death. I once gave some thing to a very genteel French applicant, who overtook me in the street, at my own door, saying he had picked up m y handkerchief ; wh e ther he picked it up in my pocket for an introduction, I know not. But that day week came another Frenchman to my house, and that day fortnight a French lady ; both failed, and I had no more trouble. The same thing happened with Poles. It is not so with circle-squarers, &c.; they know nothing of each other. Some will read this list, and will say lam right h, generally speaki ng , b u t th a t there is an exception; i e f n l o could but see it. Ido no t mean , by my confession of the manner ug in which I have sinned against the 21 hours, to hold myself out as accessible to personal explanation of new plans. Quite the contrary . I consider myself as having made m y report, and being discharged from further attendance on the subject. I will not, from henceforward, talk to any squarer of the circle, trisector of the angle, duplicator of the cube, constructor of perpetual motion, subverter of gravita tion, s t a gnator of the earth, builder of the universe, &c. 1 will receive any writings or books which require no answer; and 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 valuable, and prefer mutare quadrate rotundis—to turn dice into coin—at a gaming-house; verily they have their re. ward. I shall now select, to the mystic number seven, in stances of my personal knowledge of those who think they have discovered, in illustration of as many misconceptions, 1. Attempt by help of the old philosophy, the discoverer not being in possession of modern knowledge.—A poor schoolmaster in rags, introduced himself to a scientific friend with whom I was talking, and announced that he had found out the composition of the sun. " How was that done 2 —By consideration of the four elements."—"What are they?" — Of course, fire, air, earth, and water." — Did you not know that air, eart h , an d 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 P" 2. The notion that difficulties are enigmas, to be over come in a moment by a lucky thought.—A nobleman of vary high rank, now long dead, read an article by me on the quadrature, in an early number of the Penny Magazine. He had, I suppose, school recollections of geometry. He put pencil to paper, drew a circle, and constructed what seemed likely to answer, and, indeed, was—as he said—certain, if only this bit were equal 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, who had got the order, had the additicnal claim of scientific distinction. Now this offi cer, while abroad, h ad bethou gnt himself one day that there rea lly could be no difficulty in finding the c i rcum f erence o f 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, but that if some clever fellow would put the thing in a 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—l 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 co uld make the calculations, of which I gave him a notion , so accurat e l y . He was perfectly astonished, and took the titles of some books which he said he would read. 5. Application for th e rewar d from abroad.—lslany years ago, about 28, I think , a J e s uit came from South America, with a quadrature, and a cutting fr om a nesyspaper, an nouncing that a reward was ready for th e discovery in Eng land. On this evidence ho came over. After satisfying him that nothing had ever been off ered hero, discussed his quadrature, which was of no use. I succeeded better when I told him of Richard White, also a Jesuit, and author of a quadrature published before 1618, under the name of " Chry. szospis," of which I can give no account, having never seen it. This White (Albius) is the only quadrator who was ever convinced of his error. My Jesuit was struck by the instance, and promised to read more geometry—he was no Clavius before ho published his book. He relapsed, however, for I saw his book advertised in a few days. I may say, as sufficient proof of my being no collector, that I had not the cu riosit y to bu y this book ; and my friend the Jesuit did not send me a copy,which ho 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. He 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 £1,000,000, 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 - lone the thing should "change his business, and ap bad " his time and attention to a Sunday school, to learn propriate _ and keep the iitie children from darting what he coula • -a recived a letter from a friend of the their close." I a►e. ae that I knew his friend had sue ' quadrator, informing sa to, these letters were I ceeded, and Lad been 4%01,‘5y 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 Pu&sh ment—the Mayor (Abel Heywood, Esq.) in the chair. There were present Messrs. DI. J.Watts, Dr. Pankhurst, W. Stokes, A. Megson, 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 tke early part of the year the Corporation had taken steps to bring the question prominently before the public SG as to bring the matter before Sir George Grey. Ho 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 he 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 for 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 doter 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. PANKHURST 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 motions 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 HONOURAIILE THE LORDS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL FOR, TRADE. My Lordp,—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 50 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, whioh 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 a dense fog set in, when all sail was taken off the ship, but the vessel continued her course at full speed, going 12 to 13 knots an hour. At 6.45 a.m. breakers were reported a-head. The master, who had been on deck from 2 a.m., imm ediately ordered the helm to be put hard a-port, and the e ng i nes to be stopped and reversed, but before this order could be effectually carried out the ship ran upon the rocks, and ultimately became a total loss. Such are, briefly, the facts of this disaster. Everything that could possibly be dons to save life and property was at once earth(' out, and all the passengers, crew, and mails were saved. Great credit is duo to Mr. Campbell, the president of the island, whose kindness and humanity to the shipwrecked passengers and crew was very conspicuous. In commenting upon the loss of this 'fine and valuable ves sel I have a most disagreeable duty to perform. The long ser vices of the master, who, up to thi s fatal occurrence ap pears to have enjoyed and deserved t h e confidence of hie owne rs and the public for a long ser i es of years, dufing ahnisaccbiedheanlit. cannot Bvaitths ob the ee fre q uentrcioi conduct the u oc tf from the conclu sion,late have disasters occu rred i n this partic u l ar navigation, w s y h m i e p h a t h h e y 3 1 e o f v t e h r e m C e o t u w r t i t i h n however painful, clearly pointed , of h f a s t u i e t h is im anin p g er w at r i y ve a u s p t o h n is th n o o s t e tcolz ir rg i e uk d Out by the evidence. The course steered from noon ma the 13th towards the Gulph of St. Lawrence appears to have been judicious, but in opening the Gulph duo allowance does not seem to have been made for the influence of the strong currents known to prevail in this vicinity—a fact which, from his long ex perience, should have made the master extremely I cautious, and should undoubtedly have prevented him runnin g at f u ll I speed, or oven at half 'Teed, in the midst of mo dense , a tog, .7" - ~~~~~2 NEW.c' cA SPA PER 4.3.4C14>) ) ~.1 1 :15\ - 4. . e . `;...4. , 'IL vi 1 - i- 4 4.-- 4 4. .1 HOl. 1 5 ,,,, ,_. s )y ►il 3a to n ad co n- 31s 30a 233 Ils 39s y of 3Ss 330 24s —s NIMM, wall, Lark- Lane, wife Fife, Lary p, of r the vtont , thO Aida- Mrs. , W. naid sole, tar' iaria ...° _--, 112. ty pt I