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hands room, w Mr. ,o him. suffer- repre .tained lye no ,olloy. leads, '• Egg, impel 's, and is first e from shri ek emem • bat he le had of Mr. it was that he ess ap- ng the is rea doubt, ill with shortly exami- aat Was former w high. merolog ?inglish his day offered a very ely We lust be Ind 405 , 368 to 5 to 30e ,per qr. :—Red rley, 6t s 9d t• met a ley met Le were I down. I up. [ up. l down. iBs Od ; y ; the '3B wer e plentl . ;how of I. to 7 4 to bid 7 StOild ,pt. 18. pt. 12. ;pt. 3. ig . 29• pt. 1. ug. 27. 25. ;pt. 1 i g. 27. lg. 2 5 . pt. 4. pt.. 3 , lg 25 . ag . 2 7 . 19. pt. 2, ag. 2 8 „: pt. 1 1 /. lg. 27. lg. 280 ag. 28* total !, was ;. upon as fo1• tramps sive of ;onvlo t Sain t adley- bee, °f orfolkt gatill bott'Ot he late lon, t° 5q., of f 294 110V 114 S3° ikler mine' .01 3 f Lee, d 64. ,k3WS' ro. 1 12 ' LutY -- V REMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS' EVERY EVENING Tills WEEK alter Allred Ilellon's Promenade Concerts. SEA. —VAC iNCIES f or MIDSHIPMEN en d APPRENTICES in a first-class London shipping . fir,n. Premium moderate. Al.o apprentices without premium.— Apply to SIMNIONDS and Co., 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East- Cheap, E.C. Third officers and Stewards wanted. EDINBURGH (Reduced Fares), from Iron gate wharf, Tower.—Saloon, 20s ; fore cabin, 15s ; deck (soldiers an d sa il ors only), 78 Ad; return tickets (available for a month), 305 and 22s Fd. The cheanest and quickest sea route by the solendid new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON and ED I NBURC,II SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the Spread Eagle, Regent-circus ; or at Irongate-wharf. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumulated and Invested Funds £2,122,898 Annual Revenue.. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuran'es granted both at Ilome and m Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers on the participating principle. ' The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows : Policies. Amount Insured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished on application at the OTTICES : LONDON SS, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Butldinga. Lothbury. If West-end Office S. Waterloo-place, T HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. nEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance buildings, LiverpoeL Total Annual Revenue exceeds £sol,o'n. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. ExTracrs FROM THIS: REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now called upon to make their accustomed periodkal Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed .C 300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is again fully maintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preceding year, and in feet sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the commencement of thi• Office, the balance to the credit ou account of British and Foreign Insurances being £15,107 10s. 5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa. ratcly, £11,097 les. 10d. LIFE BRANCH . . The very gratifying duty now I ails upon the Directors to state the sum assured on new policies for fbe year 156.1 exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £701,427 on 1,408 ew olics issued. Until within the last few years it is bel n ieved p that such a sum aesured as that which has just been announced as the result of one year's business was all but unheard of. This portion of the Company's business has been carefully watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the future to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate stink proposed for assurance s mounts to £ 43,281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis sick in a single year from deterioration of some kind cr another. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more rauid than that of any other Company established either in Londm or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The i Dictrs conclude ther resent Reort wih the expression of o an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. N ORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of the Company exceeds 470,000,000. The duty paid to Government for the year 1562 was £85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock, £10,086,332. A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received Sums amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society now holds a large Res rrve applicable to a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those charged by the other principal offices making no returns to their insurers. For pro ipectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE Co RPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS IVIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARKER BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir Jonx HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Es Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Es Robert Barclay, q. Earl of Leven and Me q. lville. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Th e Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, E sq. Alexander Deuce, - Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Pobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., Win. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: 'William Wallace, Esq. M.P. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. s Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAratiEt. Soma - , Esq., F.R.S. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. In the Lite Department, assurances arc granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bails on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured. • F,quivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums Payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit t a k e place every Five years. Any sum Life. not exceeding; £15,000 may b e i nsured on one This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits —with exemption from the liabilities of p ar t nership. A rate of Bonus equal t o the average returns of Mutual Stock,So ieties—with the gu arantee of a liirge invested Capital The advantages of modern Practice,—with the security of an Office whom resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, fr ee of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STELE, Secretary. CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS. Royal Hospital, Chelsea 14th Aug., 1663. T HE RTGTIT HONOURABLE the LORDS and OTHERS, COMMISSIONERS of this HOS PITAL, do hereby give NOTICE, That they are ready to receive TENDERS from and to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for victualling the in -pensioners of the said Hospital, from the Ist October, 1863, to the 30th Septernbar, 1861, both days inclusive, w ith th e following* articles of provisions, &c., viz.:—Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice, Pepper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea. Sugar, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savory ;Ind Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole ration according to the established allowances of the house, as Specified In the form of Tender, which may be obtained at the Once of the Secretary any day between the hours of 10 and 3 O'clock, which Tender must be filled up and delivered, sealed, aarhe Board-room of the s a id H osp i tal by the party or ties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their bPlialt. on Tuesday, the Ist of September, at 12 o'clock. at 'which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the same into consideration. It is to be observed that the Contractors will be required _ lO find Security to the Crown for the due performan e of the ‘-nntract, and that no Tender will be received after the day a nd hour abo v e mentioned. lov v The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the est Tender. A. J. MOORHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). -O,'YATUONzss--Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. . -1":: "I'vr —Vice-Ad m i r al the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. i t ... I)Etet,,,--•,umAN—Thoa Baring, FM., 111• P" P.R.S., V.P. Esq., F.R.S., V.P. -- ` jiIAtI MAN-- 2 1'homas Chapman, T he Ca APPEAL. i ti i:ehm b e , eztutlia ra_rnittee of Ma 0- ent have to state that, since Instittitialls °V the year r t em th Royal National Lifeboat Then ^n 48 th :1 te riteua ed t £ 372,000 on e variousLif an eb d o l a r t e E la s n t d ab . - Bodo, Sher of 1 0 England, Scotland, • - A• and oth tves saved by the Life-boats of the for w tet t 8 t l o lti n ,Apu riasinam erv osh t eeu e : e ays tn e2 cans, foldel 61) 8 M;P e d e d a i I n i e t , e r 7 e l l:B r Te a Silver a s t . ien Ti Medals, i e e in l2 s a o n o d ; T The s Con x n n B e t t i r r l I : a l d e. e d elio e z re P ß re o ss t their grateful the generon % - " e ure ‘o, oat-houses. g, arld 0 0 on Life-boats, ' Life-boat British public durtnz thweninchastthieeiv, have received from the ' 8 DPort a n their flee t hin a in a L sense of has enabled them t o which or 123 Li feboats on e.s t ti e bt hr their P y r e e ars, a support i nt fleet rests Deeply at r ii e l ao s gr p anc o ni n n: lhi o iv efficient.ttl h ie a i r state, and its Crews practi boats, whili can only l a , ef it e e l „f in e hY a l e annual income, they earnestlyea countrymen to aid them in peal Kt and truly national a wor ekn k. to r " all ° 0 1 :: : : a u d i 1 I p c e e: r o a p i s i e s o e t :s permane nt a i ti:, o i n s o r_ The Committee g,rateflilly a tributions:— •campbell. the lion. M rs , G. ..... .•. annual 5 1 C O . d g ller Majesty the Queen ....: _ ~ H.A.-•fesrs ~•Bauk.era .. • • Clerk, Colonel, Coutts and Co., ann "l 1 1 0 • • antinat 10 Carrie, Wm., .F;t:q.. . • • " •. Ath rio 0 0 d Chict .:nstlce .. • • „. do 1 :1•10 0 0 ,_ anshavce, V i '`'‘ (,1"1 cost of a Lifeboat ixrid - T - rX.: 25 b 0 - _,,,r'rle, Lord - 1 0 1 1 0 Fenwiek, G. J. , . -L3- ''' el) ti por ti nf.; Carriafre • • • • d , )n, 7tli don 0 0 II arrey, Bev. G. G. and:qrs. ". • • -• 250 0 0 Martin, Sir Belay, Bart. •• •••• .. ~„ • 1 0 0 0 Aloore, Bev. G. B• • • •V I den, 1 5 15 0 B rnith, Mrs. George, Greentr .R. .... ... linl;nai 3 0 0 Stirlino-, Col. Sir Anthony, I • colleetedby . her 2 0 0 - , Ft qv 1 • Ilprnis, Lad y, Weston-super• Mare• ...,"ouiz'hbv d'Ere•by,l4 o r" •• .•• I — ,,,ona.tt '8 and Annual Sul - eret,„„Y the Bankers 0 T bard-street ; Messrs. Coutts and 13x ne'i 1 5.8 1 ,. 4 2 0 ; Messrs. Herr! . • and N at , ••.-eet, London; 7 j i 3 1 : e o c i - 1 11 C :1 : 7 , i : ; ; ; :l e °: Z e na : s t n e . iv( the o t E . h " . United 5 e 4 7 . 6 '.intAbist:ilea:eer:lB' institution , lr 41° .en(as and..l'l ali-rbbty°43 l :l i tnt.: : :: ti esalio. Institution, r' u lk Secretaryfosl j :os6ll I n :l6'li °gl timS l B:4l , : ~ tutelphi, L a o t ru t i l on e i t , ) , , , d Ad el : of_ . we N°. 22,205. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER, 1883. No. DLXXV. Price 2s. ed. CONTENTS. Caxtoniana.—Part XIX. No. 24.—0 n some Authors in whose Wiling.; Know lettge of the World is eminently displayed. The Spectre of Milaggio. Jean Paul Richter. Chronicles cf Carlingford: The Perpetual Curate.—Part IV. On Hearing Week. day Service at Westminster Abbey. The Pyramids—Who 'Built them?- and Wheu ? The Battle of Gettysburg and the Campaign in Pennsyl vania.—Extract from the D ary of an English Officer pre sent with the Confederate Army. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. 00LBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. N„) Edited by W. lIARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Contents for SEPTEMBER. No. DXIII. I. Central Australia. 11. Tee Shadow of Ashlydyat. By the Author of " East Lynne." Part X.XIV. 111. Homo Hominum Dxmon. By M. C. Houstoun. IV. John Lord Carteret (Earl Granville). By Sir Natha niel. V. Washin2ton living. A Third Volume. VL Strathmore ; or, Wrought by his Own Hand. By the Author of "Granville de Vigne." Part HI. VII. Twice Sacrificed. By Mrs. Bushby. I'art I. VI IL We Spake of Merry Days. By Fiederiek Booth. IX. Tiberius as Man and Emperor. X. A Parisian Tourist. XI. The Kingdom of Siam. Chapman and Hall, 193. Piccadilly. B ENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The SEPTEMBER NUMBER contains CARDINAL POLE. OR, THE DAYS OF PHILIP AND MARY. An Historical Romance. By WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. Book VI.—THE LEWES MARTYR. Chaps. I. to VI. H. Six Weeks at Hunsdon VII. Ghost Stories. Manor. Part 11. VIII. Captain Kettle and the 111. At the Tower Window Insurance Agent. By with SirWalterßalcigh. W. Brodie. By Francis Jacox IX. Sir John HavvkwoDd. IV. Gibson's discellanies. X. French Wet —Nurses. V. Count Wala, the First By I' , ederick Marehall. Prisoner of Chilton. XI. The Notary's Nose. VI. Atter the Battle. London : Chapman an [1:1 Hall, 193, Piccadilly. CCRITIQUE'S on the LEADERS of the NEW SPA PER PRESS—Reviews of all New Books — English and Foreign Scientifi Information—Extracts — Gossip, &c., & c ., in' the LITERARY TIMES, every week. Twopence. Bu, Fleet-street. T " 0 X F OR D, e, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Ilalevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell. Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Iluish, with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jong,hmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean. ctc. Comic, by ITNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACII on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO OIICUESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL h4t3 just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls andbalcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CNTERBURY HALL " GHOST." —I n or d er to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper nud Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording; a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that ~ e ntleman's latest im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, Rc. ; Uesworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand _ D i ver ti ss ement by Signora Bachele and Mariannin a and Signor GuisepPe Fran ce co, assisted by a corns of Twenty your), Ladies—The Conrads as the O r i g i nal French Clowns and on the Corde Elastique—Les Petits Monstres—Brian and Conly in an amusing and novel Burlesque —Mrs. Brian as Old Aunt Sally, &C., &c.—Wood and his Wonderful Son—Grand Operatic Selections : — Principals, Oils M'Gre.(Tor, Mr. Albert , Signor Georgini (the new Italian tenor), and Mr. Vernon _Rigby— Band and Chorus of Sixty Performers. M - IMENSE SUCCESS of the ALHAMBRA GHOST, a highly comical and amusing rFpresentation of the popular optical illusion.—EVE KY EVENING, at Eleven o'clock. ESTABLISHED 1831 11DEOWDEN'S dERATED GINGER BEER, in _E_JP glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, Potass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters. —Manufactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. TO ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, AND CONTRACTORS IN THE EASTERN, SOUTH-EASTERN, AND SOUTH-WESTERN COUNTIES. GREAVES' BLUE LIAS LIME, 14, SOUTH WHARF, PADDINGTON, W., L. M. TATHAM, Agent. ArranCements are now made by which this well-known BLUE LIAS LIME can be sent direct from the kilns in Warwickshire, in Greaves and Kirshaw's own trucks, to any stations on the above-named lines, as fresh as though burnt upon the spot, and at a lower price. ANY QUANTITY, of either lump or ground can he RlD plied at a few days' notice, and trucks forwarded daily from the kilns and mill. Contractors will find this worth their notice, as they can be supplied at any time, in quantities to suit their require ments, from SIX TONS and upwards. PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE MACITINEq, for hand, horse, or steam rower, are the most simple and eflicitnat extant.—Ful: particulars andprices obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co. Laurence Laurence Pountney place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C., where they may be seen in operation daily. TEA. --AMORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their NEM , Prospectus is no , v ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souelionz, reduced t o 3 s. O d . ; m i xe d A s sam, re duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the fi nes t A ssam, re d uce d f rom 4 8 . 4d. to 3s. 11d. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. DEAFNESS. -The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe c ases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptib'e, removes sinzinz noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinCtly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOZIONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. ii[ONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a Private Gentleman upon FURNITURE (without removal). Leasehold and Freehold Property, or Reversions, stre ttc., et, Cheap in sums sid from £2O to 4500.-111 r. tioward, 18, Queen e. GENTLE MAZ t ? rp w s i p I TO Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town w o it w h n on s t ee d u el r a it elicncan-btioe persons y. The utmost secrecy can be relied on.— or Country). Apply (it by letter enclose four stamps) to .v., st Mr. Robertson .. ., Accountant, 40, Tr; WI I iam-street, male A o r N t C e S a l o e f ) , C o A n their tI. London-bridge , E.C.—Money advanced on Dock Warrants. A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.— to all Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER. BILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient , from the recipe l o i f D nd r . Scott, of Bromley, Rent, will be found invaluable habitual w tu h a suffer from bilious and dyer complaints, indio., t i on, r spasms, giddiness, dizziness of th e eyes, 8,0 1,0 , 6 costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charino, , cross. genuine are a square London, and by most druggists, in bole ®, Is; lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. lie sure to ask for Dr. with " William Lambert," engraved on the green package, Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The stamp. ( - VELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY o f k)) 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 Creenway, 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 submittin,cf the subscrip tion list to the nation most earnestly appeal tothe 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 lime, the town he loved, and where he lived arid died. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Bail. way Terminus, at liimrs-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke et DUCCLEUCH, Trea.surer—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 torm—viz., that which is accom pr_nied by sickness a'ad disease, and is now of sufficient m.arimittide that, 'e it's ailegiiate suipori, it may be rendered capable of admitting, - intuits wards iit proportion of the casual sick of this ;great. inetrop. i i, ,q, res b ut th,, Hinds i n order to have 50(1 twda availalAe for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creaturos. Mei-eider, it gratuitously Aloe& medical advice and me di c i ne to Inure, °lith e average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an E ARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions arc received by the Treasurer, Edward , erman, Ksq. Co. also by Messrs. Colitis a Co-; Drummand Herries and Co.;Ransom and C-; Oll O. , . _ _ c Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Sm , iti . i, ( t i a e y r n: n . d , •n 6 d ur o u . e; ;, n , : , u . d „ and c o , ones Loyd and Co. ; Ihirclav and Co. ; Dertison Co.; 'llianis, Deacon, and Co. , v , and ttt Messrs. J. :Darned and Co., Liverpool STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. o Let us now cast a rapid glance over the pro gress of discovery in distant lands, and particularly where our countrymen have signalised themselves. In this wide field, wherein our knowledge has been extraordinarily increased within the last few years, I will limit my remarks to three or four regions; the more so as I have recently addressed the Royal Geographical Society at large on many collateral topics in a discourse which is now in circulation. Australia, scarcely known to the civilized world till after Cook's voyages (1770-75), has of late been so rapidly colonized by Britain, that before long she will be no mean rival to those vast regions of North America which were first occupied by subjects of the British Crown. At former meetings of this Association we have dwelt on the early discoveries of new lands in the interior of Australia, in which the names of Mitchell, Eyre, Stuart, Leichhardt, and others have been always mentioned with honour and respect. The later journeys of the brothers Augustus and Frank Gregory have earned for these good surveyors the highest honours of the Royal Geographical Society, for their extensive re searches and determinations of longitude and lati tude in northern, eastern, and western Australia. While more recently the bold expedition of Burke and Wills cost these noble fellows their lives, the latest researches of their successors stand out as in deed most singularly successful. M'Douall Stuart, after various previous triumphs, in one of which he reached the watershed of North Australia, has actually passed from Adelaide, in South Aus tralia, to Van Diemen Bay on the north coast, in latitude 15 deg. S. C ontemporaneous ly w ith this last expe di t i on, M'Kinlay, procee di ng also from Adelaide, reached the Gulf of Carpen taria, and thence travelled to the eastern shore ; and Landsborough, realising all the value of the dis coveries of Burke and Wills, and penetrating from the Gulf of Carpentaria, traversed the continent southward until heregained the noble colony of Victoria, in which the expedition was organised. As I have recently dwelt at some length on these bold adventurers in an anniversary address, refer ring also to some geographical determinations by Mr. Walker, of Queensland, I will now simply direct your attention to the huge map of Australia which hangs upon the wall, and on which all the routes of these explorers are laid down. The rapid rise of the different colonies in Australia is truly marvellous; and, while we have successfully occu pied all the available ports and lands along the eastern, southern, and western sides of this great continent, we are, I rejoice to say, now beginning to extend our settlements to the north coast, the occupation of which I have advocated for many a year, on political as well as on commercial and colo nial grounds. A few years only of practical re searches have dispelled our ignorance respecting the interior of this vast mass of land, in which, though there are wild desert tracts, there are also many rich and well-watered oases of fine pasture-grounds, through which the colonist may open out communi cations across the continent from the south and east to the northern shores. A short time only, I ven ture to predict, will elapse before towns arise at the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria, as well as at the mouth of the Victoria River of the north, whence, as well as from the new settlement of Cape York, Australians will have a direct communication with our great Indian empire. In speaking of the pro gress of these remarkable colonies , it may be con sidered invidious to seem to select any one for espe cial notice, where all of them have such high claims to our notice. I may, however, in passing men tion the lest-formed of these wonderful separate Governments—that of Queensland, possessing a surface six times greater than tha t of the United Kingdom, and the very gra zin g g roun d s of ' w hich (according to its accomplished Go vernor, Sir G. Bowers) are about twice as la r ge as the Briti s h i sles,—to say noth i ng o f large tracts peculiarly adapted to the growth of cotton. The progress w hi ch our enterprising Austr i an co lonists have made n o t only in wealth and m aterial pros perity, but in a ll t h at can dignify a peop l e , was strikingly ma n if ested at the last Great Interna ti o nal Exhibition. I n it we saw collocated not me rely the rich natural p ro d ucts of gold and copper , with admirable pictorial views which even enabled u$ tQ imagine that we had visited the mines of our anti podes, but we also had before us solid proofs, in the publication of excellent maps and the catalogues of the valuable libraries of Sydney and Melbourne, that there is scarcely any branch of knowledge or of industry which is not ell It ivattel in Australia with a zee.; eivalline that of the mother coentry. long on 1110 conveniations which it was my pri• vilege to hold with the distinguished men who re presented the several Australian colonies on that occasion, as well as with many personal friends who have long resided there, I feel assured that there is no part of the British dominions where the people tiro more attached to the t3overeigu and the British Ovnsti!ution than Australia. It has always, there fore, been a soutce of pain to me whefl Porne per sons have spoken or written of the coming of the a day when these great colonies tare to be 2epar,itea ;rota us. Seeing no cause for such separation, aril believing that our Government and Legislature are much too enlightened to commit the error into which our ancestors fell when Britain lost her North American settlements, we are, I rest satisfied, never likely to estrange oar Australian colonist by similar treatment. It has been well said by a late Governor of South Australia that the loyalty of Australia is an hom age to the enlightened rule of Engler d, of which her statesmen may be proud. On my own part, I am indeed persuaded that if judiciously and considerately treated, Australia, which affords by far the finest possible field for the emigration of our superabundant population, will long continue to be a source of wealth and strength to the mother country, and will, I trust, for ages hold out a proof that the people which lives under a constitutional monarchy enjoys much truer freedom in its best sense than those which have formed part of any democracy, ancient or modern. And now let me say a few words on the last grand geographical feat—the discovery of the sources of the Nile. The first act in this portentous operation was the discovery, by Captain Speke alone (when he left his leader, Captain Burton), of the large African lake which, in the year 1858, he named the Victoria Nyanza. In his late expedition, when ac companied by Capt. Grant, he has proved (as he said he would before he started) that this great bed of fresh water is the main source of the White Nile, and in this exploit we have one of the greatest geo graphical triumphs of all history. For age after age had rolled on—traveller after traveller, from the days of the Egyptian priests and of the Roman Emperors, down to modern periods, had endea voured to ascend the Nile to its sources, and ad had failed ! By reversing the line of research followed by all former travellers, and by proceeding from the east coast of Africa, near Zanzibar, to the central, lofty, and flat plateau-land forming in that meri dian the watershed between North and South Africa, these gallant Indian captains reached the true reservoir from whence the Nile flows. Thence they traced the mighty stream northwards into Egypt, and demonstrated that while the White Nile, which they followed, is the Great Nile, the so-called Blue River, joining the parent stream at Khartum on the frontiers of Egypt, is, like the Atbara and other waters, a mere tributary. As the outlines of the long walk of Speke and Grant across those vast interior and equitorial regions of Africa have been given to the public, first in my address to the Royal Geographical Society, and subse quently in various periodicals, it would be out of place to say more on the subject until their own full account, which they are preparing with many illustrative sketches, shall have been published. In the mean time it is gratifying to know that our gra cious Queen has shown by her own kind expressions how truly she is proud that two of her own gallant officers should have succeeded in performing what the people of many a European nation have failed to accomplish. We may therefore be sure that the British people will rejoice with all geographers, if the travellers should receive due honours and re wards for such glorious services. Among foreign Sovereigns the King of Italy has taken the lead in the desire to commemorate the great event, by or dering two gold medals to be struck on the occa sion. The first, which immediately after its com pletion was presented to the leader on the Royal Geographical Society's anniversary, had on its re verse the words, so well known to Englishmen as the motto of Nelson, " Honor a Nilo." The second, which the Italian Minister, the Marquis d'Azeglio, since put into my hands, and which has been de livered by me to Capt. Grant, has on it those preg nant words, "Al Capitano Grant, divise col Capitano Speke glade a pericoli," Thus do these medals re mind us that, through the enterprise of her sons, England has won glory through many a danger at the sources, as at the mouth of the Nile. Among the geographical communications which have been already sent in to be read at this meeting, and of which I have any acquaintance, I will now allude to four only. Referring still to Africa, we hope to bo favoured by ])r. Barth with a translation from the German of the ascent of the lofty snow-clad mountain of Kilimandjaro, in tropical Eastern Africa, as carried out by that energetic Hanoverian traveller, Baron C. von der Deck en. In relation to China, you will, I doubt not, be much gratified with the memoir of Mr. R. Swinhoe, a practised Chinese scholar, and formerly a British vice-consul, on the large, but little known, island of Formosa, and the numerous islets between it and the main land. While the publications of the last few years, including the "Narrative of the North China Cam paign of 1860," by Mr. Swinhoe himself, have ren dered us well acquainted with large portions of the interior of China—and whilst Capt. Blakiston has laid down on a beautiful chart the course of that mighty stream the Yang-tsze-Kiang to a distance of nearly 1,000 miles above the highest point previ ously reached by our countrymen—the great island of Formosa, off the eastern coast of the Chinese mainland, has remained comparatively unknown. Since the days when parts of its west coast were surveyed, the outline of those shores has, it appears, undergone a great change by the rapid increment of silt and sand washed down from the mountainous interior ; so that a new survey is imperiously called for, to render some of the ports accessible to com merce. Near the north end of the island, indeed, the port of Tani Sui is not liable to these dangers, and is indicated by Mr. Swinhoe as being best suited for commercial dealings ; and this part of the coast was so well surveyed by Captain (now Admiral) Collin son, that his charts thereof may be entirely depended on. In short, now that Lord Elgin's Treaty of Pekin has thrown open to British enterprise all the ports of China, it is to be hoped that by the comple tion of accurate surveys of the south-western coast of Foe mosa, its present unapproachable harbours will soon be frequented by British vessels. We learn from Mr. Swinhoe that these extensive lands are very rich in natural productions; and he willinterest you much by a description of his personal adventures, and of the habits, costumes, and peculiarities of the Chinese occupants. The aborigines—a Malayan race—still occupy all the mountainous districts, or eastern side of the island, and live among the great forests that yield so much camphor. The subject of Formosa is so novel that this communication will prove very attrac tive ; while you will, I doubt not, be struck by the coloured drawings which the author has made of the Chinese inhabitants of this great island, and after whom, particularly the women, the Portuguese may well be supposed to have named it "Formosa." If, as I have been led to believe, my accomplished friend Sir Harry Parkes should join our Section on this occasion, it is certain that he will give us a lively and accurate description of the Chinese people, as well as a solid and trustworthy account of our poll tieal and commercial relations both with China and Japan. Turning to Central America, you will have a very interesting memoir by Mr. Osbert Salvia on the physical geography of Guatemala, in which the author will particularly notice tbe geo graphical distribution of the 'various zoological pro ductions of that country. He will also give us accounts of its virgin forests, volcanoes, and lakes, as well as of the Indian remains and building' whic h ho hse traced in it, Another American subject to be brought before us will doubtless bring to our belle many perstnal interested in the . triumph of mec haniolkill prii:ttiC4 ll Y app lied to the overcoming ofgreat dillieulties'pres,"ltcd by PllYsico geo rAph ; eat tealeres. Mr. W en . right hasg, commenced the execatinli of a mee t important en vineerinte work, called the (keel Cor'tral Argentin Railroad, to which he fornicriy called the attention of the Rod al Geographical Socieirt. which is des tined to connect the great port of 13ueno; gyres, oa the Atlantic, with the city of Copirlpo and the Fort of Caidera, on the Pacific. Starting from the tow s ; of ltoearie, on the right bank of the great navig ablo of the Parana, about 2.J) miles above the city of Buenos Ayres, the first section traversed is to the important city of C , :nieva, tilAant t'.47 wh, and situated at, an elevation of 1,240 feet above the river; thence by a circuitous line through the pro vinces of Santiago, Tucuman, Catamarca, and Rioga. Passing up a fertile valley, and along the celebrated mountains of Famatina, it is to reach Fiambala, at the foot of the Cordilleras, at a height of 5,164 feet above the Pacific at Caldera. From that point the road will ascend the eastern side of the Andes with practicable gradients, until it reaches the culmina ting point, in a depression of those mountains,at an elevation of 16,023 ft. above the Pacific Ocean at Caldera, and in a distance of 136 miles, or at about 80ft, per mile. From this pass cf San Francisco it will descend the western side of the mountain through the valley of Paipote, and reach the city of Copiapo, 1,300 ft. above the ocean ; end thence continue to Caldera, one of the finest ports in the Pacific, after a descent of 246 miles from the cul minating point of the road in the Andes. Mr. Wheelwright does not apprehend any insuperable difficulty in traversing this immense elevation, which he thinks can be accomplished with locomotive power, excepting one in clined plane of five or six miles. Mr. Wheel wright has already had a railroad constructed from the valley of Copiapo to the mineral district of Charmacillo, on which the trains run 12 miles an hour, ascending 1,900 feet in 9 miles. At the last Manchester meeting, we interchanged questions and answers with the philosophers of St. Peters burg during an evening assembly—and since then great advances have been made in transmitting telegrams round the world. In this way a vast stride will be made in the ensuing winter by the extension of the telegraph from Constantinople through Asia Minor—and thence via the Persian Gulf to the country of Mekran, at the head of the Indian Ocean, and so to the British possessions in India. At the same time their efforts are in pro gress to carry a system of telegraphs from Russia through Siberia, and thence even across the Desert of Gobi to Pekin. The great desideratum, however, of connecting Europe with America, by a subma rine telegraph remains to be accomplished. With a view to that desirable end, the Council of the Royal Geographical Society warmly supported a proposal by Dr. Wallich to effect a complete survey of the sea bottom as a precursor to the actual lay ing down of a cable upon the vast unknown irregu larities of the submarine surface. We naturally supported an effort like this, whica was certain to throw much light on natural history and physical geography—and we rejoiced in the preliminary re searches which have been made towards the esta blishment of an electric line overland to British India ; because, they, for the first time, laid open to European knowledge countries which, though un known to the moderns, were seats of war when Alexander the Great and his lieutenants invaded India. The soundings which ascertain the nature of the bottom of the ocean, not only give us the outlines and characters of various sunken rocks, sands, and mud-banks, and of vast and deep cavi ties, but inform us where undercurrents prevail, and where at vast depths the surface is tranquil and unruffled in some places, while in others sub marine volcanoes disturb the sea•bottem. Nay, more, these submarine operations have taught us that animals can not only live, but flourish, pre serving even their colours at the enormous depth of one mile and a half. We thus see how the efforts of the nautical surveyors and the engineers to spread the electric telegraph are nor merely destined to be useful to mankind, but also to elicit great and important truths in natural history, the development of which is specially connected with the pursuits of the geographer and the ethnologist. In adverting to the consideration of the other science which this section embraces it gives me pleasure to be able to report that our sister society, the Ethnological, is in a prosperous and satisfactory state, having within the last three years greatly increased the number of its members, and improved its financial condition. This satisfactory result is in great measure duo to the vigorous exertions and numerous contributions of my eminent friend, its last president, Mr. John Craufurd, whom I am happy to she among us at this meeting. Under his auspices and in the past season the society held no fewer than 15 different meetings, at which 25 papers were read and amply discussed. They embraced such topics as the following :—The human remains found at Wroxeter, in the ruins of the Roman city of Uriconium ; the African cannibal tribe of the Fans ; language as a test of the races of man ; the aborigines of Australia ; on certain wild tribes in Southern India; on the commixture of the races of man in its influence on the progress of civilisation; on certain ancient relics from the coast of the S tate of Ecuador; the native tribes of the British Pro vi.nce of Burmah ; en the Jews of Aden ; on the psychological differences which exist between the different races of man ; on the history of the gipsies; on the ethnology of the Island of Formosa; on the wild tribes called Yadis in the district of Chingle put, Madras; on the brain and skull in the various families of man ; on the antiquity of man ; on the native inhabitants of Vancouver Island ; on the wild tribes in the interior of the Malay Peninsula; on the institution and origin of the Hindu castes; on the languages and races usually called Celtic; on the ethnology of the African nations and tribes visited by Captains Speke and Grant, from the island of Zanzibar to the source of the Nile ; and on the pre paration of figures of typical forms of human crania. Among the papers which are to be com muicated to the ethnological branch of our section, the following may be named :—" On the History and Migrations of the Tamil Nations of India," as communicated in person by that very accomplished Cingalese gentleman, Mutu Coomaroo Swamy, a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon, and now, I am happy to say, a barrister of Lincoln's inn. Mr. Joseph Craufurd will give us one memoir " On the Domesticated Animals, and their Influence on the Progress of Civilisation, and another " On the Origin and Antiquity of Man," both of which will attract many listeners. If time permits, the same indefatigable ethnologist will also give us his analysis of the so-called Celtic languages and ram, and a paper " On the Commixture of Races of Men in Central and Eastern Asia." A memoir" On the Tribes and Nations inhabiting the British Province of Burmah," Lieut.-Col. Phayre, her Majesty's Com missioner in that region, promises to be of great in ht e a r d e s t t . h eAgso good the f E o r t t h e n e o e l o t g o i c e a e l e Society e p t y l a 0 0 0 f v L a o e n a d t o e n d has hy the retirement of Mr. Craufurd filled up by the ap pointment of so skilful and philosophic a naturalist as Mr. John Lubbock and as Mr. Francis Galton, the president of this section at the last meeting of the Association, has kindly consented to act as the Ethnological Secretary, wo may reasonably calculate on receiving much sound support from men like these, whe can so well connect the sciences which we cultivate with many other branches of human knowledge." This evening, when the business papers of the day have all been got through, there is to be a great soiree and conversazione in the Exchange news rooms. Both for its size and its internal architec ture this fine meeting-place would do c redit to any part of the metropolis ; in truth, the metropolis has n ia o r t g, h e in a g eo o l f io t i lr ol kind like e,aodlit it ;foro Builtaboivne , t. N I v t e form i tli itB of a fine roof, supported on a series of handsome columns, i t is one of the largest, and certainly one of the finest, iinorisestobbeeen gfousntdbeinreacrtogbupitlir a d le itlgiii sol l\T t oeeefcalostt r l exhibition, model opecirnens of mining an a nt, , ,,r0 and work:, roost popular mayor, Mr. Bell, and chiefly at r'lun'''pro ::::eh are car rich mineral district it, is aleinstun olienei,eatiseseceln)tsiirmilialeoi:;,tu,t, eifs,a.c:elrtsyteuill)rfsioe,t,re'ri lotei n hta. i eli t eur l ain i e e ddi c ift:L o reil n utdi l mo f.; nr, a ot T oir l eo r:lisyo:nni(cia al eet the selected speci m e ns of ores ot n s t i i a r r e g l y e 1 i y n this ats. o t u o t s i s t n l , i. ,s, Ithingtou last ; r t i i i t ' e t] ‘ w o o n om rt a i i: 1 1 : i : to ; fii t in e si `hY of a place in any ua.. year. in b,._ necessary to say ba.. are Wonderfully fine • - • • , I` , 44' , 24. • 4 .14 ( i „ Q- 131 ' 4 4z. i.:;41% i „ ,/. e rr A 1 7 4 ?-7, q. 7411 \1 , raA3.mw: • ..*' 41/10.,.2 • , • Oft/ ,7; - • 4111116, ; 047 41 *".V.1, /6° ( • N DIE c r 6 '44 to , ;.• , r :'WY .)4 . PR1CE.....,...4d. STAMPED ....sd. d cwt. esil , , a c ri r i d n i g s w p o r r e t c h e s n a p , tional coll ec ti on . O ne s i ngle i ngot of s i lver i s shown rough as it came f rom the mould, which weighs 171- ingot was a l l recovered by the late Mr. Pattinson's of Spani s h lead as wards of £B,OOO. This splendid During the excursion taoi p rniN p pi l o i r c .r d tße d t e oa uinto e o n c tth o , s m i so m rc e o oa n utn p iter i : yd s . mines at Allenheads this simple ro ing the lead to its last grain wi p llb c e es s w visitors. Sir William sh ows a beautifuls o ioi. dseries the of sections of his percussion and time shells, with a section of one gigantic 600-pounder she:l, a number of which have recently been manufactured at Els wick for the approaching trials with the great 600- pounder at Shoeburyness. The Mayor shows some splendid specimens of works of art in aluminium, and these, with a variety of fine models of various apparatus used in the different mines and manufac tories of the district, make this portion of the exhi bition exceedingly int-resting to the many visitors now drawn from all parts to this town. There is one small wrought-iron model of what the pump ing beam to mines should be if coalowners wish to guard against a repetition of the tremendous Hart ley catastrophe. That terrible pit is now disused and drowned in water, but there are other single shafted pits in the neighbourhood over which the great cast-iron pumping beams still swing slowly ' and are ominously suggestive of other similar calamities if cast iron is used for this purpose. In addition to these objects, a collection of paintings, lent for the occasion, also adorns the walls of the Exchange-rooms. These works are by no means of a local character, but, on the contrary, include some of the masterpieces of Turner, Louis Gallait, Gainsborough, De Wint, Hunt, Millais, Faed, Etty, Patrick Nasmyth, Ward, Copley Fielding, Goodall, Sce., with a small but fine collection of water colours. All these, as we have said, are lent by the gentlemen of New castle, for in this town, as in Manchester and Bir mingham, art finds its most liberal patrons in the possessors of the great wealth which is here won as fitting, freely from collieri es and i r o n mi nes as f ro m mu l es and spindles. ' A great many s p ec i a l v i s it ors h ave a l rea dy in spected the foremo s t among th e s i g h ts o f N ewcast l e , the magnificent seri es o f wor k s h ops an d f ac t or i es , s ro rifling,n g ' s ordnance shell e c l e l works at Elswick. To speak of this s eries of facto rlhsi--chthceocmapstoisneg,SwireldWinmg, Am making departments—as the property of one pri vate individual seems almost ridiculous, for the magnitude and extent of these buildings, their im mense development, and perfect organisation make them rather resemble a great national arsenal than a mere commercial adventure of a few individuals. Some of the boring and rifling tools used here are the largest and most perfect specimens of their kind ever made—they may, in fact, be said to be almost automatic in the power and intelligence with which they perform their task when once they are set in motion. Everywhere throughout the long series of factories is on the same perfect and exten sive scale, and some idea of the extent of the concern may be gained from the fact that the new plant alone has cost upwards of £200,000, and that recently, when in full work in gan making, 3,700 skilled artisans were employed there. At present the shell shops are almost empty, and nine out of ten of the long rows of machines are standing. The Govern ment having completed their full complement of field guns from Sir William's factory, have for the Ipresent stopped the manufacture of the large breech loaders, such as the 70 and 100-pounders, until such THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1863. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. NEWCASTLE• uroN-TYNE, Aug. 27. It was natural that, in a district like this, de pending so greatly on the alliance of science and industry, and in which there must necessarily be so many, from the nature of their pursuits, familiar with one branch or other of scientific knowledge, the British Association should have been welcomed with more than usual enthusiasm. The success, however, of the opening meeting last night, and the prospects of the week have far exceeded the most sanguine expectations. The only damper is the rain, which has set in very persistently. The Coun cilred Aa m a i t r a I p F r e i s t e z n r ot o y's e e o s . p n e o r t a t a i p o o p s ; a a r t a o , t h h a o v u e g h e e p c h u s t o h p eo h r e y rs m en ay ga b g e ed ah in ov t e he at e m nf o o s r p c h e e m r e io nt ih o fi f f o a e v a, ou i r t it i e s t n h o e t m p s l e e l a y s e a e nt as f A or ss t o h o e ia 9 t o e o s ladies who uaen ie wh oe o oa h e a io v h e e t n o ro h l a le v d e to trip from section to section through the heavy black rain, ankle deep in the coaldust and other strata of which Newcastle mud is compounded. The great room of the new Town-hall, most taste fully decorated for the occasion, was filled last night to overflowing with a brilliant audience, gathered together from all points of the two great mining and manufacturing counties of Northumberland and Durham. The address of the President was loudly applauded, and its eminently practical character seemed to arouse a deeper and more general inte rest than is often observable on such occasions. It has been distributed in the form of a pamphlet, and the general verdict is that it was worthy of the occasion and the place. His remarks on the supply of coal have created already a small sensation, and no doubt will be fully discussed in the proper sec tion. If there be any ground for his forebodings, it is to be hoped that before the meeting is over some practical measures will be suggested for pre venting the waste and staving off the future defi ciency to which he points. After being opened in the constitutional manner by a speech from the chair, the Parliament of Science applied itself this morning to the dis charge of business in the various sections. As might be expected, the Chemical Science and the Geology Sections, in which there are papers to be read on the manufactures and mines of the district, were the most crowded. The rooms devoted to Geography and Economic Science were also well filed. In the Geographical Section an inaugural address was delivered by the President, Sir R. Murchison, in which he described in his usual com prehensive and interesting manner the progress of geographical science. After referring to the 'vast advances in the trade and commerce of Newcastle and the great improvements in its outward appear ance since the last visit of the Association in 1835, and expressing his regret at the delay in the com pletion of the maps of the Ordnance Survey, Sir Roderick said,— time as Mr. Whitworth will consent to submit his guns to the long-talked-of competitive trial against Sir William's—a competitive trial which is appa rently as far off now as when it was first determined on 12 months ago. In the meantime Elswick re mains idle and useless to the country, for whose benefit alone will Sir William let it work, for we believe there is not a single Government in Europe that has not applied either directly or indi rectly for guns to Sir William Armstrong, but always applied in vain. A number of the new guns which Sir William has j ust completed are now shown at Elswick, in which the difficulties of the breech piece are, it is believed, entirely overcome. This is a side-loader, in which the breach is composed of massive wedges, working in grooves, which prevent their getting out of place or order, and in which, from the solidity of the wedge-pieces themselves, no crack or yielding is likely to occur. An exceed ingly simple but most ingenious piece of mechanism connected with the touch-hole prevents the piece being fired till the breech is closed, and on the whole this side-loader seems to combine all the ad vantages and none of the failings of the old 100- pounder. Its trial on board the Excellent h as only rendered certain slight modificatio ns neces sary, and the general opinion of artillerists leans strongly in favour of this new gun, which will soon be used in exper:meats at Shoe bur y ness. As a mat ter of course all parts of t he factor y at Elswick abound in beautiful exa m p les of h y d raulic ma chinery, by means of wh ich all the he avy work of of a boy who starts o r s t o p s th e hydraulic cranes. , lifting a nd moving large masses about is performed through the ageuoy PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS, BEFORE ENTERING INTO ARTICLES OF CLERKSHIP TO Attorneys and Solicitors. Pursuant to the Judges' Orders, the Preliminary Exa minations in general knowledge will take place on the fol lowing days, viz., the 27th and 28th Oct., 1863, and the 9th and 10th Feb. 1864, and will comprise-- 1. Reading aloud a passage from some English author. 2. Writing from dictation. 3. English Grammar. 4. Writing a short English composition. 5. Arithmetic—A competent knowledge of the first four rules, simple and compound. C. Geograp hy of Europe and of the British Isles. 7. History—Questions of Englis History. 8. Latin —Elementary Knowledge of Latin. 9. 1. Latin. 2. Greek. Modern and Ancient. 3. French. 4. German. 5. Spanish. 6. Italian. The special examiners have selected the following books, i n which candidates will be examined in the subjects num bered 9 at the examinations in October 1363, and February 1361: OCTOBER EXAMINATION. In Latin—Cicero, De Mils, books i. and ii.; and Horace, Odes, book iii. In Greek—llomer, Iliad, book i. In Modern Orcek.-•*- 11 —cxxaptoV ?Terl 9 A B l xriptir ow Xni 11013/c7M, twrackarr ilevo v afro Triv ITaX tx i v l'Acwro-av 17-30 ; or, BEvrorris tlgropin (3ioXiov In French—Guillaume, Guizot, Alfred to Grand, ou l'Angleterre sous les Anglo-Saxons ; or Jean Racine, Phedre. In German—Schille.r .Juogfra . o von Orleans, or Gcs chichte des 30-Jahr:gen Krie g e, 1 volume. In Spanish—Cervantes Don Quixote, capit. xxx.—xlv.; or, Fernandez de Moratin, El Si de las Nenas. In Italian—Manzoni's Promessi Sposi, cap. xii--xxii.; or, Torquato ThSSO'S La Gerusalemme, 6, 7, 8, and 9 cantos. Xenophon, 'AStxqliciro3v In v FEBRUARY EXAMINA.TTON. Latin -I, J o u rri g xa it: aro a xo. : .xt: ; (o: V vrv irgil ,.2E neid, bookvi. '1 0 7 : 7 er if: r ;1 * I v cropla rqs• In Modern Greek,— In Greek— Memorabilia. In French—P. Corneille, Cinna ; Fenelon, Telemaque (Les aventures de). Liv. In German—Schiller, Don Carlos: Ist and 2nd Act. Tieck's William Lovel, books i.--iv. In Spanish—Cervantes' Don Quixote, capit. i.—xx.; or Dom Ilartzanbusch La Coja y el Encogido. In Italian—Alsozon's Promessi Sposi, cap. i.--x.; or, Torquata Tasso's La Gerusalemme, first 4 cantos. With reference to the subjects numbered 9, each candi date will be examined in one language only, according to his selection. Candidates who select Latin will be examined in both the works above specified. In Modern Greek, French, Gorman, Spanish, and Italian, candidates will have the cboire of either of the above-mentioned works. Candidates ore. rilitircil by the judges' orders to give one calendar month's notice to the Incorporated Law Society, as registrar of attorneys, of the lanc,mago iu which they propose to be examined, the place at which they wish to be examined, and also their age and place of educa tion. All notices and inquiries should be addressed to the Secretary of the. Incorpurated Law Society, Chancery lane, W.C. E. W. WILLIAMSON, Secretary. Law Society's Hall, Chancery-lane, Lender., August, IW':3. NEWS P.L.PE .11 ,•• 9 ki7, 7 4% i. ~..7 ,_ ~s: ; c '( sr7, .'4,IT OP THE PUBLIC ' -'. -' '—''''' -------- - — 1, tr.. Ot f, ' ;4c * 77l ' ' F"i TIMES.—A short paragraph of Cantdianep - 4; - ... / . ; 1 4 - ,', which we published yesterday ought not icefee f W,,, , ae- 1 1 k unnoticed in the present condition of AWeriezin s affairs. It is said that the Federal Government have erected a new fort at Rouse's Point, forty-five miles from Montreal, with magazines capable of containing supplies for 100,000 men and accommo dation for a permanent garrison of 5,000 men. This is a position of great strategic importance, which the late Lord Ashburton unfortunately sur rendered to the United States during his mission • in 1842. It would enable the Americans to collect a fleet and a force on Like, Chaplain, so that they might surprise Montreal. That the Federals should. be strengthening an important frontier stronghold need not of itself cause any alarm. Their new-found enthusiasm for war and all things connected with war would naturally lead them to pay more at tention than they ascii to the mere outsides and munitions of warfare. The Canadians have no reason to be alarmed by any such demonstratious at present. The two Governments have no imme diate cause of difference, and none is likely to arise except by the wilful aggression of the Federals ; but for the present they have far too much on their hands to embroil themselves with us. Still, theta is certainly an uneasy feeling between the two laations whi c h ma k es i t inevitable that the Cana ns should view with some jealousy acts which at any other time need have excited no apprehension. As this announcement, therefore, is likely to attract some attentio n and to excite some comment in Canada, we are anxious to point out t o th e Canadians th e true lessons which ought to tone of fee they ling draw from it. F rom the towards the Federal States whi c h ha© been Canada during the pro gress of the St .r u o tti v e i r n i g i r u (' l be i t a lion, we have no fear that i n t h e event of war the r Canadians would prove indifferent to our alliance Our Correspondent's letter from Niag ara , w hi ch we . published on Monday, deecribed the people ttfi p ee _ seseed by almost as incense a dislike to the Federal Government as actuates the Southern rebellion. They are just sufficiently near the Northern States to see exactly the character of the Washington Government. The Federal spies infest their hotels, the Federal refugees betake themselve s to their borders, and every element of disaffection to the Federal Government finds a welcome and spreads its discontent on their soil. They appreciate the difference between an equal, just, and steady rule, and the wild, disorderly, and confused domination which is ruining their neighbours. We are not afraid, therefore, that the Canadians will wil lingly leave our empire, or that they have any other wish than to resist any possible attempt on the part of the Federal Government to force them from us. All we are afraid of is lest they should take the wrong means, or only take the right means too late. The letter of Mr. M'Gee, for example, though prompted by the ominous move ments of the Washington Government, urges only the appointment of an English Prince to the Go vernment of C.IIIFAU. Otherwise, in the day of need, he fears that England will give only a nominal assistance. Now we wish to point out that any such suggestions as this are in a totally wrong direction. If the Canadians are really afraid. of the aggression of the Federals, and really anxious to avoid its consequences, they must prepare to de fend themselves. In former wars they always successfully repelled invasion. They are now stronger than ever. They have much more to de fend, and they know better than before what would be their fate if conquered. They might, as we have said, rely upon alt the assistance we could give them. Our fleet could blockade the American ports. Our own power would be sufficient to distract the attention of the Federal forces. Our trained and seasoned troops would form a steady nucleus for their militia or less disciplined regiments. They would have all the experience and skill of cur gene rals, and all the advantages which ready supplies of the best artillery and naunitiens of war could give them. still, t h e real work of defence remit be clone by themselves. They must be prepared with a milli cient army or trained militia to oppose any invad ing force of the Federate. The supply of men, the actual fighting on land, the real struggle of hand to-hand resistance t o th e invaders must be done by themselves. POST.—The address of each successive President of the British Association is looked forward to net merely by persons actively engagcri in scientific pursuits, but by others—and these the majority— who, having neither time nor opportunity for the perusal of widely-scattered documents and heavy tomes, still like to know, from year to year, what progress science has made. Sir William Arm strong's remarks on British coal prospects, how ever, refer to a future so little remote that even practical men interested only in what concerns the probable term of their own lives, may well pause and consider. It seems that at the end of 1861 the quantity of coal raised in the United Kingdom had reached the enormous total of eighty-six millions of tons, and that the average annual increase of the eight preceding years amounted to two and three-quarter millions. Start ing with these data, and assuming the same ratio of increase to be maintained, Sir William Armstrong addresses himself to the question, " How long will our coals last ?" Assuming four thousand feet as the greatest depth at which it will be ever possible to carry on mining operations, and rejecting all seams of less than two feet thick, about eighty thousand millions of tons of coal are available in these isles, a supply equivalent, at the present rate of increased consumption, to only a period of two hundred and twelve years. This, in the history of nations, is but a short span—four generations sufficing to span it. Even on the assumption that we should pass train a condition of coal abundance to coal famine, it would be time that we were up and thinking of the future. The actuality, however, is even less favourable than this. Long before the available stores of British coal are used up, the cost will be enhanced, inue much as, with the lapse of every year, coal will have been raised from a lower level. England will — a s Sir William Armstrong remarked, and as we believe Mr. Sopwith remarked before him—cease to be productive of coal for exportation long before the final period of exhaustion shall have. arrived. For many practical purposes of life—especially domestic purposes—it is not with the general ex haustion of British coal that one is so much inte rested, as with the special exhaustion of north country coal-fa:ids. So far as that district is con cerned, two hundred years will have seen the end of the principal seams, even at the present rate of consumption ; and, if the present rate of increase of consumption be maintained, the duration of yield by these seams will be comprised within the limits of a century. These are startling facts, although not new to geologists; they have now been presented for the first time under a popular form, and we shall be surprised if they do not set many practical minds thinking on the coal prospects of futurity. INCONGRUITIES OFWESTMINST ER ABBEY.—Lori Naughton himself would scarcely like to continue the intrusion of such productions as the statue of Wilber.. force in a church, nor would his calm reflection desire to retain the grouping of seas, ships, sailors, anchors, nude admirals, pancake•like clouds, genii, sepoys, savages, lions, bears, Cupids, victories, battles, columnce rostratce, coaches, gnus, flags, spears, galleys, urns, spades, skulls, skeletons, trumpets, drums, steelyards, and Heaven knows what, that new load the finest Gothic church in England. Pitt may find a better place to declaim from than the top of the western door of an edifice which, when it is used, holds an audience that turns its back to him. Poor Pitt I Vice-Ad miral Charles Watson may receive the obeisances of the Genius of Calcutta, and exhibit the humiliation of Chander nagors in chains, elsewhere than in the temple of mercy and of peace, or near the beautiful triforium, destroyed to give it room, of Westminster Abbey. "That amiable spy," Major Andre, might be commemorated in a better place than that which holds the monuments of New ton and a host 01 the truly glorious dead of England. In many cases the monuments would be visibly improved by a fiter and properly designed loca tion. The splendid statue of Watt that now fills . up the whole Chapel of St. Paul, cannot be seen as a masterpiece of its sculptor's genius, though it hides all about it, and presents the problem of how the egg got in the bottle—se much larger is it than Ihe space of entrance. Banks's monu ment to Sir Eyre Coote, Flaxman's to Chatham, that by Nollekens to the Captains of 1793, even the cumbrous slab that bears the monument to Wolfe, while it shuts off a whole chapel and hides the fine tomb of Sir Francis Vera —a great captain of his day, to whom England owes that Wolfe should not overshadow him, and a host of others, are of this class. These would find a fit place in a British Valhalla not far from Westminster Abbey. 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