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Cartwright, Esq., 61, 3loorgate-street (Messrs. Leckie and Co., Bombay), late Chairman of Commercial Bank of India. Poratio Sydney Coulson, Esq. (Messrs. Bruce and Co.), Ab church-lane. George Lyall, Esq., Mincing. lane (Messrs. Lyall, Still, and Co , Hong Kong). Charles Edward alangles, Esq., Director of the Union Bank Thomas Australia. "bonus Stenhouse. Esq., Director of the Chartered Henan _ tile Bank of India. John Torrance, Esq., Director of the Alliance Bank. 4thnund Westby, Esq., Director of the Bank of Victoria. BANKEIM Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool, Lothbury , and Southwark, LondOn. Brown's-buildings, Liv,2rpool, and Birkenhead. FoIZCITORS. Messrs. Flux s,od Argles, 9, Mineing-lane. BROKERS. l'ffessrs. J. and J. Whitehe.d, P, Moorgate-street. SECRETARY (tyro tem.)—Robert Slater, junior, Esq. Temporary Oi r aces of the Corporation- 2 6, Change-alley, PROSPECTUS. ._The Discount Corporation is established to aid the moue (4'l7 arra.npements of the increasing commercial interests of Great P , rktain and its dependencies. In founding this undertaking the Directors have secured Fco-op era tion of an old and highly-resp ec t e d Di scount cow's in London, with whom arrangements have been made for the transfer of its lucrative business to this Corporation, actd. two of whose partners join the Direction. It w ill th us e manifest that the Discount Corporation starts with a Large and valuable connection, and acquires the experience cf Directors whose influence and intelligence are certain to command the confidence of th e public. is 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, le,d to the conviction that greater discounting facilities than at pre sent exist are required. An establishment, which from its ample means will be able to supply such requirements, will no doubt be favourably re ceived by the trading 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 temporary employment of their surplus funds. The known profitable operations of the old private Dis count Firms, and the new Discount Companies, givethe as surance that a purely Discount business, prudently managed, Will prove a complete success. The Dead Office of the Corporation will be in London. No promotion-money will be given for originating the u ndertaking, and the preliminary expenses will be strictly confined to such as are indispensable. Applications for Shares may be addressed in the annexed form to the 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 Z 1 per abare on the Dumber of shares applied for has been paid. FOR3I OF APPLICATION FOR SRARES. To be retained by the Bankers. No. To the Directors of the Discount Corporation (Limited). Gentlemen,—daring paid to your Bankers the sum of , being a deposit.of LI 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 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 Associatou when required ; an d I reques t th a t my name may be Paced on the Register of Members for the Shares so allotted. Name in full Residence Profession or Business Date THE DISCOUNT CORPORATION (Limited). —NOTICE IS Y , That o 1.1)1, ICATIONS for HE SHARE REB S in GIVEN this Corporation will further be received alter SATURDAY next, the 17th October inst. By order, ROBERT SLATER, Jun., Secretary, pro tem. "remP'arary Offices, 26, Chanze-alley, Cornhill, October 13, 1863. THE MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). 3a (Limited). £500,000, in 20,000 shares of £25 each, with power to increas e , a deposit of 10s. per share to be paid on application, and £1 los. on allotment. First issue £250,000, in 10,000 shares, of which only £l2 10s. per share is 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 t o exceed Z" 10s. per share, at intervals of not less than two mouths. DIRECTORS. Captain R. W. PELLY, Et.N , Elder Brother Trinity House ja(nDinuierlescuotnor,soßf 1 1 .y he c L om ou p don assurance. and late Director of the Company), Chairman. . n,Esq, (Messrs. Biokie, Borman, and Co., Mer ciixaannt act, r l2 c 7 , a L id ea er d , e x nl s t q all-street. Abel (late Director of the India General Navig,ation Company Calcutta), Putney. Chapman, Esq Director f the Mid-Wales Railway), 79, Old Broad-street,— ector o Ambrose Emerson, Esq. (Messrs. Newby, Carson, and Co.), ir,, G resham Hous e , D irector of t h e W es t African Company. '"nrY Fox, Esq,, Director of the London and Provincial Ma rine Insurance C om p a ny. " , Hall jun , Esq. (Messrs. J. Hall, jun., and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), New London-street, lenclturch street. Robert Hewett, Esq. (Ntessrs. Hewett Brothers, Merchants " tir all,,d, Shipowners), Trinity-square. " !ulam Anastasius Jones, Esq., late Local Director of the Surrey. Mint C om p an y , Wilt on L o d ge , C ro yd on , ' 3 urrey. unhn Rogerson, Esq. (Messrs. J. Rogerson and Co., Mer chants and Shipowners), Royal Exchange-buildings, and Ne wcastle-on-Tyne. J ohn Gustavus Russell, Esq. (Director of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company 61. Moorgate street. Captain Luke Thom. % lar n, 136, Leadenhall- street, and Nevill Lodge, T un b r idge ils. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Dawes and So ns , 0, Angel. court, Throgmorton- street. BANKERS. London and County Bask, 21, Lombard -street. The Agra and United Service,Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon street. AUITORS. Messrs. Edwards and James, IS, King-street, Cheapside. STOCKBROKERS. Messrs. Froom Br o th ers, 20, Change-alley, Cornhill. SURVEYORS. Timothy Harrington, Esq„ Consulting Engineer, 61, Grace. church-street. Captain Thomas tribe, The Jerusalem, Cornhill. SECRETARY-111r. Thomas Sharer, 27, Leadenhall-street, TEMPORARY OFFICES OF THE COMPANY. 18, King-street, Cheapside. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is established for the purpose of granting t emporary loans and advances on e li g ib le ships and other marine property, by way of mortgage or assignment, covered bby policies of insurance, and on such other security as may e found desirable. Money will also be received on deposit or stated periods, upon interest to be agreed. 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 t o depo- El tors. 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 withping has been so severe l y f e lt that ttle Directors enter confidenc e on the prosecution of a class of business h itherto transacted by private individuals with considerable profit. In addition to the profits on capital, which are estimated at from 10 to 15 p er cent., the Drzectors have facilities for per cent. borrowing at such rates as to yield a surplus profit of 5 to 6 The detailed prospectus and 4 orms of application for shares may be obtained of the Secret at the Offices of the Compan- ArY, Brokers, and Bankers, and Should the full numbedri.rep,foisharefi applied for be in excess of those at the Directors' , t t h n e e a s p u p rp lic l an us t w s p o l p lg o c n r , edited to the allotment, or retr4rned MARINE INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE.—Thid Directors will proce e d t o an ALLOT MENT o n n SAT URDAY, 17th instant. A pp li cations ior the Remainig Shares to be made not later than that date. By order of the Board, (Signed) THOMAS SIIAR ER, Secretary. 18, Ki n g- Cheapside, Oct. 9, 1863, O R NAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Lib rar y, and Dining-room, e o r isisting of a new and elegant assort ment of VAS ES, Figcrest Groups, Candlesticks, Ohelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, a in Italian, Alabas'er, Parian, Mfirble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c . Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her &lair:sty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, Iti)CKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINER A T.OGY, CON CHGLOGY. arid GEOLOGY, at 2, 5,10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. RA.LOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT. at 149. Strand, W.C. nOyAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Inoorporated by Royal Charter). PA TRONEss—Her Most Graeious Majesty the Queen. ItENT.DENT —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, CIIAIIt K.G., F.R.S. bEise Thos, Baring, Esq., M.P., L,,, F.R.5, V.Thos. Chapman, eg, F.R .S., V.P. Vle beginning APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since of the year 1861, the Royal National Lifeboat nstitution has expended £28,550 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the means, since its fo, is 130; 1x.f.7 which s ,,, rvices other rm 82 Gold Medals, 733 Silver Medals, , and ti o „' 2 ?? cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu- T r W n fas also expended £75,380 on Life-boats, Life-boat ,ru9oeting-carz 'ages, and Boat-houses. the;C. ommittee desire to express their grateful sense of /iriti:.,.nerous support which they have received from the blic during the past few years, a support which 144'0,1ed them to establish t o ther present magnificent fleet 13 eepl y '.lf u eb.oats on the shores f the United . gdom. res+ a mble, however, of the great responsibility that ctate, aW a iTtri to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient 'boats, whi4L.a.Crews practised in the management of their annual inc,„:.„Ttn Only be effected by a large and permanent great and trill° countryme n ui% they earnestly appeal to all classes of their al them in upholdino• and perpetuating so The Com xr d: national a work. tributions:— teegratefully acknowledge the following con- the on. ITer Majesty ;£ s. d *Campbell, the 140',,"`,t r n . . annual 50 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R. - A: . ' l, rB. G. ... .• •.. annual 5 0 0 Coutts and Co., m e ,, r . •. •• annual 1 1 0 Currie, Wm., Es q., 'B, Bankers -. :: annual 10 0 0 Erie, Lord Cief Justice • • ..• .. 4th don.lo 0 0 Vanshawe, Vice-Admit cu..*: • • .. don. 10 10 0 Fenwick, G. J.. Esei,, e ns i- 0 A•tR.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 sporting' Carriage . f a Lifeboat and Tran- Tlarvey, Rev. G. G. and . Ar r .. • • ~,, .. .. 250 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart, " At ,if • • •• • • Said._ . don. 30 0 Palmtor-Ge er, Si ner r ma, Roundel', . 7th don. 10 0 0 al .. .. • •' a Royal Yacht Squadron • • .. annual 22 0 . Steel, Michael, Esq. .. .. • . .. annua l 10 0 0 Thomas, Lady, 'Weston-super_m ar • • . don. 100 0 0 Ladyship • • • • • collectedby her Willoun - hby d'Eresby, Lord .. ' • • • .. 16 16 0 • • annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re reived by the Bankers of the Institn;ths Messrs. Willis, l'erci7al, and Co., 76, Lombard-street Co., 5 0, Strand; Slesers. Berries, Parouhar, s and C 67., tt i s 6, a V. J ames's -street, London ;by a'l the Collectors of Custo s and Bankers in the Unitedliingdom; and by the Seer tar m y Richard Lewis, Esq at the Office of the Institution% 14: ~ John-otrect, Adelnhi, London, W.C. RilerfußES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ExrunrrioNs OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective , nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI 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 Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much 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 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., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is. A Double Trus s , 315.6 d., 428., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. led. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all eases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, Am They are corona, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on ,We an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 108., to 168 . eadh. Postage 6d. last ' N°. 22,246. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., 0 D S 0 CIE T Y. G By Mrs. GREY, Author of " The Gambler's Wife," (to. ""Mrs. Grey writes well and with spirit."—Post s' There is no question that this will be a popular novel. The book carries the reader along with it irresistibly."— John Bull. Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. THE HEIRESS AN]) HER LOVERS, by GEORGI ANA, Lady CHATTERTON, is now ready at all the Lib rar i es, in 3 vols. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. PEOPLE'S EDITION OF ➢IACAULAY'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, LORD MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF 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 S vols., post Bvo., price £ 1 lis. 6 d. TARA: A MAHRATTA TALE. By Colonel MEADOWS TAYLOR, M.R.1.A., Author of " Confessions of a Thug," dm. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. 122, FLEET-STREET, LONDON. MESSRS. JOHN MAXWELL AND CO. beg to announce that th e undermentioned Works may be now had at every Circulattd,g 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. STRONGHAND. By G. AIMARD. 2 vols. 3. BREAKFAST IN BED. By GEORGE AUGUSTUS 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, 0, 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, Finish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, Arc. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any oiler man "), Eurrene, W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND. Also, a Peiformance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCIIESTAE, contain ing' a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL his just been newiy Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls andbalcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL " GEIOST."--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 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, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth (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—RAPHA.EL DE SOLLA. the Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler. :Every Evening. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR ICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ARGYLL ROOMS. Windmill-street. Piccadilly. These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They hare been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele hilly. The band is selected from the Crystal Palace, th Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. ' Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager—M. GRENET. LUXURIANT WHISKERS or MOUSTACHES.—My formula farces them to grow heavily in six wetks upon the smoothest face, without injury to the skin, and a sure remedy for bal Incas. 13 stamps.— Mr. FOX. Vfae.efinfield. Foe's celebrated Haincash Formula, for removing scurf and curling the hair, &even stamps, PECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, includinztiiscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary relief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer. 228. Piccadilly. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Oflice, Aldershot, Oct. 9,1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'elock noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 18A from persons who may be witting to enter into Contracts to supply FLOUR AND MEAT, in such quantities as may be required, from the Ist December, 1863, 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 sizned, 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. Commissariat-office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 1863 . TENDERSwiII be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock, noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November , 1663, from p ersons who may be willing to enter into Contract to supply _ - FLOUR FOR HOSPITAL BREAD, in such quantities as may be required, from the Ist Deem . ,_- ber,1863, to 31at Alder, for the use of Her Majesty 8 Forces stationed at shot 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 tor Army Supplies") and no tender will be noticed un'ess made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Oct, 9, 1863. TENDERS Comm issariat wi wi ll N b e received Office, Aldershot, at thi s OM 12 o'clock, noon, on THURSDAY, the sth cc, until 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter November into Con , tract to supply PAILLASSE STRAW AND STRAW FOR RO ENGINEER SERVICE, YAL in such quantities as may be required fram the Ist Dec e mbe r 1863, to 30th November, 1864, for the use of her Majesty , 4 Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the eo m _ 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 ont , ide "Tender for Supply of Straw)," and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from tins office, and delivered by the hour appointed. 110YAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road 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 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 pubho for continued suppoo, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Ee- Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. C' ward Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co.: ' ...putts and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Pav- dansom and and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Bare' ,ile, and Co. ; Giyn allliams, Deacon, aany' -.Lay and Co. ; Denison Co. Co.o .I;N°l;bet and Co. ; bh o. ; Overend, Gurney, and and. at the LlQOPita l . , .7. Barned and Co., Liverpool 141I FORD. S. SOUTH qearetarY. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1863. THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. Office, Ilorseferry-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, CU 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 mums, Secretary. WILLIE, D-R. YES ; Another Lot of PAPER DRAPERY, as the last, and some Patent Safety ENVELOPES, from tiRAINGER'S, 308, 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 :—WILLIAM JONES, Die Sinker, Press Maker, and Embosser, 3, Queen's-court, High Holborn (op posite Day and Martin's). CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, 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 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. RArrLEs, Police Magistrate. Liverpool, Oct. 10th, 1863. Wo concur in this report, Hy. HARRIS, Nautical Assessors. R. B. BAKER, THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. EDirmußear, 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. first Lord BROUGHAM, Wi10 2„ 9/111 ~sin ,40 jaft,- Was loticily have very great satisfaction 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 "1/er Majesty the Queen." (Loud cheers.) Lord BROTIGHA.M, in givingthe 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 h e r Majesty and the late lamented Prince Consort, who h a ve brough e t o u m p p t a h ri e s i o r n f s a a m r i e ly in i v a id s io u u c s h , a a l w m a e y st a e s ve l r b e e d l u ie e v e e ted n . o They other s f a a y mily in their po s iti on were 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 Buouaniot 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. (Ch eers .) 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 Hain ay, Sir J. Alexander, and Lieutenant- Colonel M'Gregor successively replied to the toast. The LORD-PROVOST then gave "the 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 Wind, 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 lull 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 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 wor th y 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 p o i nted out Miss Brownlee Byron' 8 H o me Refuge for En g li s h Si sters of Charity, and stated that t he y performed all the n urs i ng at the North London Hosp ital in connexion with Unive rs ity College. (Applause , ) I have also got a l e tt er from a man connected with America , who tells m e ther e i s great excep tion taken on the part of the American_ newspapers i n thi s country to my differing with the United States G overnmen t on the subject of this horrible war. It is said that I under rate and undervalue the emancipation of the siaz'. I Under value the emancipation of the slaves I (Loud and pro longed cheers). Why, have all the ad vocated of slave emancipation done half so much for the liberation of the slave and the abolition of slave r y a s I myself have done ? (Loud cheers.) At the very beginning of m y P arliamentary life it was signalized by the Act of 1811, the one which of passing gave me all the many Acts I have had a hand in the most real satisfaction, namely,the A c t a b olishing the slave trade. Before the Act the slave trade Was considered a mere act of contral?alld ; a nti was punished as contraband ; and my act .aiseo, or rather, sank it to it s rea l denomina of a cricae—and a bad crane — punishable by 14 years transportation. (Cheers) And that act eff ec t ua lly extin guished the slave tradein as far " British subjects * e re engaged in it. The n, in 1830 or 1837 I shortened occasioned thebefore complete liberation of the w the period of negro apprselneteles eshi three orail place. Then, I may add, d four years it otherwise would WO taken . though it is a trifle as corapareu th these exertions, I may add a very great perso nal sacrifice. I. gave up A very, considerable estate in Barb adoes and a lar g e estate in ta6 county of Durham, which a kind-hearted gentleman had 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 wake one's mouth water to hear of Having a good property 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 m proc l a mation to emancipat e th e s l aves , I k new v ery well before they confessed it that it was not for the sake of measure of emanc ipating the slave—(hear, h ear )—b u t f or th e s ake of beating eo h f ostilityof, hostility, not the an mos t detestable kind, by raising an insurrection o f the slaves aga i n st their masters, which only the much-enduring nature aot of the emancipation, whites. an a a measure 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 n o give tiny kind of support, It is a most unhappy contest, hope wWitalleontinne raos on the principle on which we have hitherto proceeded—of i , ter fering with neither party. (Cheers.) The Federals are OFT 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 pr olong this horrible and miserable contest. We have not hing to do with either one party or the other. (Hear.) W e 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 64 The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, and pros perity to the city of Edinburgh." (Loud cheers.). UNAPPRECIATED GENIUS. (Professor De Morgan in the ifthenceum.) Of the class of discovere rs who square the circle, upset e I suspect I k now m ore 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 times—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 except tho se t o w h om th e y naturally resort. T t l: t e ie e y er Bys. Theye are in inall ranks and occupat i ons , o f all ages and char aare very e arnes t peop l e , an d their purpose is Long fide the dissemination of their paradoxes. A great man y—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 pocket my for h an introduction, ; whether he picked it up in my 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 enough, generally speaking, but that there is an exception, if I could but see it. Ido not mean, by my confession of the manner 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 my repor t , a nd being discharged from further attendance on the subject. I will not, from henceforward, talk to any souarer o f the circle, trisector of the angle, duplicator of the c u be, cons t r uctor of perpetual mo ti on , su b ver ter of gravita tion, st , g nator of the earth, builder of the universe, &c. 1 receivewill any writings or books which require no answer, and re adthem 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 niutare puadrata rotundis —to turn dice g aming -house; verily th e y h ave th e i r ro winatradc.nlin—t a shalla 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, It. being Atterapt by help of the old phil osop h y, th e di scoverer no i n possession of modern k now l e d ge .—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 ?" By consideration of the four elements."—"What they?"—Of course, fire, air, earth, and water."—Did you are not know that air, earth, and water have long been known to be no elements at all, but compounds ?"—" What do 2 you The m sir ? Who ever heard of such a thing mean ntion that difficulties ar e en i gmas , t o be over come in a moment by a lucky thought.—A nobleman of very 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 t o a nswer, and, indeed, was—as h e sa id—certain, if only this bit were eq ual 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, for a decor a ti on f rom th e Crown, d that claims were of do u btf u l amoun t, an d wa s fount and t hi trying ry claims told by a friend that so and so, who had got the order, had the additional claim of scientific distinction. Now this offi cer, while abroad, had bethougnt 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, 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. tulle of a cylinder accurately, and—l think the process o 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 he possible that persons who did not know the circle better than he had found it could make the calculations, of Whic h I gave him a notion, so accurately. He was perfectly astonished, and took the titles of some books which b e said he would read. 5. Application for the reward from abroad. —rimy y ears ago, about 28, I think, a Jesuit came from South America, with a quadrature, and a cutting from a newspaper, an nouncing that a reward was ready for the discovery in Eng land. On this evidence he came over. After satisfying him that mythic.. had ever been offered here, I discussed his quadrature, which Wits of no use. I succeeded better when I told him of Richard White, also a Jesuit, and author of a quadrature published before 1648, under the namvin" " Chry. sarlspis," of which I can giv e no account, or who never seen it. This White (Al bius) is the only quadrat was ever convinced of his error. My Jesuit was struck by the instance, and promised to read more geometry—he was no Clavius before he published his book. He relapsed, however, for I saw his book advertised in a few days. may say, as sufficient proof of my being no collector, that I had not the curio sit y to buy this book ; 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 Lon dme, He left his papers with me, ono 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 is 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 darting their close." I also recived a letter from a friend of the quadrator, informing me that I knew his friend had suc ceeded, and bad been hoard to say so, These letters were PRICE..... ..4.d. STAMPED ....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 to me to show me how the uni verse was created.—There was one molecule, which by vi bration—Heaven knows how I—the sun. Further vibra tion produced Mercury; and so on. I suspect the nebular hypothesis had got into the poor man's head by reading, in sonic singular mixture with what it found there. Some modifications of vibration gave heat, electricity, &c. I hs 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 eolar 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 I On leaving, he said, ,6 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 OF 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 Nary 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 63- 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 clads, 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 theta 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. Mandalay 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 knowledgeof this c'efectof 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 auy 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 3841 b from 1:: 6S-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 63-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 2101b5., 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. 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 appointmentswere 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 2d Life Guards and the mounted troop of the Hon. Artillery Company took part in the evolutions. The inaugural lecture of the course to be delivered to the officers and men o f the Royal Engineers was given in the lecture theatre at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on Tuesday even in g . The subject was--" On the Solu tion of Medi ap ical Problems by Geometrical Con struction," an d 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 u pon the durability of cast iron ordnance. various applications of cast iron for the production o f 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, &c. ; homogeneous iron, and the employment of varieties of cast steel as materials for cannon, projectiles, Sc." 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, &c., upon its properties; objections 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, " Oa 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 the con tamination of water by lead ; their merits ; applications of alloys of lead to military ptlr• poses ; white metal fuses, and objections to them ; compound projectiles, their manufacture and pre snvation," by Prof. Abel. Nov, 12, " Mechanical prime movers," by Prof. Pole. N0v.17, " Theory of spectrum analysis and principal results obtained by it; detection of very minute proportions of metals ; discovery of the metals ccesium, rubidium, and thal lium ; sources and properties of these metals ; i m . p or tant inference dra wn from spectrum analysi s : , by Prof. Abel. This lecture w ill be illustrate d by exper i men ts arrbyanged by Mr. La dd. Nov. 11, "The Prof. Pole. Nov. 24, it Memo _ st„m_engiue , " randa relating to building stones; their variations and durability causes of in strengththe decay of i_ 11,'1,VS PAPE it building stones; various processes of preserying-7777,F\ stones from decay; important applications 4 .o l - - t kkf•ol-14 . 1 V) glass; artificial stones," by Prof. Abel. 1,1111**06 , N:4 4:k , " The steam-engine," by Prof. Pole. Dec.‘l l Pallti , 4*KVA . -..,-t'gii tegical operations illustrated by the canrpagti'Fori--70 9 / 4 ) , 3 4 : 1815," by Capt. H. W. Hitchins, Royal Engineers. i ) , 4c-* Dec. 3 and 8, " Telegraphy," by Mr. F. Jenkin. a S'' Dec. 10, "The dockyard, and how to see it," by Lieut. V. G. Clayton, Royal Engineers. Major-General Eyre, commanding the Forces is the Chatham district, yesterday completed the half yearly inspection of the troops under his command by the inspection of the first division ef the depot brigade, Royal Artillery. The division, which num bers about 800 men of all ranks, under the command of Lieut.-Col. It. 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 commiosioned 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 t he other garrison establish ments, the whole of which were found well regu lated and remarkably clean, notwithstanding that no preparation had been m ade for the Major-Gene ral's visit, which was altogether an unexpected one. Major-Gen. Lord W. Panlet, 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 the Military Hospital at Portsea. Tit _ o, ,;he 55th Regiment statien,d at 'Porten_ uth, will embark there for J - Idia 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 Regiment for India on board the Hornet transport at Portsmouth. The 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 611 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, he stated at the inquest that he zarely inter fered with his father's patients, although he had patients of his own in the town. Colmer, sen., ie a. man about 50, is said to have known something of astrology, and was consulted in matters touching recovery of stolen sheep, pigs, &c. ; but it is under stood ho 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 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 youn g 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 Coiner, 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 size of a snalll 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 acc used, said that his father called him to see the d eceased, saying that she was dying. He prescribe d for her, and ap p lied galvanism with great pressure over the lower part of the bowels, as he c onsidered her dying fromin ternalWrhenheapplied pressure the quantity of swellin h; w m a o s r haemorrhage. gonce reduced, and a 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 haemorrhage. 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 dec ease d, an d b e li ev i ng s h e was dying he sent for his son; She died in about an hour e.tterwards. 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 was a boy or a gi r l, as he did not ex amine 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-mortent 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 death, and that she must have died soon after the rupture took place. The injury could have been inflicted by instruments or manipulation. The organs were perfectly drained of blood. The ceased was a fine and well-formed girl. The other gentlemen who were present of Dr. Colmer, examination, with the tnio Colmer, son of the accused, gave simila rte e lziargical Dr. Colmer asked Mr. Coles, one of. the surgical witnesses, a question with respect to his ted him by of medicine, when the Coroner interrupted at the Sir Astley observing that many • eminent . s urgeo others—would Coopsr, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Ficl az the Hall. not degrade themselves by . pass s i s - Ruth Hodges, a schoolni - at Marston, s a id o a Young she kept copa -1 man named John Steele, with , she used to write letters whomfor.itslitreedeceased t pany. The Coroner, in addressing tho jury, explained that the law expect ed every man, whether doctor, surgeo n (qualified or not), or even a " qu ac k , " with out t zny licence at all, to bring competent s kill to any case he undertook. If he h a d not the skill ho procure abortion assumed. and displayed gross j am) p ter. If a man death, he was guilty of mansian'',..hranee, causing attempted io. procured abortion, end murder, and if a medical man no was guilty of would killed the mother, he was young woman was brought law of wilful murder. If t,guilty in the eyes of the they believed that the to that house for the purpose of procuring abortion, and that it resulted in death, they murder. It was have to return a verdict of wil fula matter of great consequence, not only to Mr, Colorer, but to the communit y at l a rge, as two beings had lost their l ives, A verdict of Colorerwe , manslaughter a gainst Robert Slade .s returned. DETERmiNED SincinE.--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 appeared that about a fortnight 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 woman in the water-butt." Her ( deceased's) 'h'unsber's a husband took her out aud found her to be his wife. Life Was extinct, 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 Punish 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 the early part of the year the Corporation had taken steps to bring the question prominently before the public so 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 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 it 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—Mao 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 loa future occasions. _ _ _ _Dr. PANKHUEST 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 motionn 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 FOR 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 th e l oss of the Norwegian on St. P a ul's Island, at the entrance of the Gulf o f S t. L awrence , in June last, The Norwegian was an i ron screw steamer , built at Dumbarton in 1861, of 2,449 gross and 1,888 reg i stere d ton nage with two engines of 450 hor se power, owne d b y M es srs 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, 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 a dense fog set in, when all sail was taken off the ship, but the vessel eentinued 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., immediately ordered the helm to be put hard a -p or t, an d the engine s 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 done to save life and property was at once carried out, and all the passengers, crew, and mails were saved. Great credit is due to Mr. Campbell, the president of the island, whose kindness and humanity to the r' shipwrecked passengers and crew was very conspicuous. In commenting upon the los s o f this !fine and valuable ves- 1 e sel I h ce av s e a the most disagwho , reeable duty t o perform. 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