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Programmes and Lectures gratis on application, Or by post free for six stamps. OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA, also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their LIVES with the COLONIAL LlFh ASSURANCE COMPANY on the USUAL TERMS, the Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE Tutu RATES at this time. Premiums can be paid to the Company's Agents at Calcutta, Ma 4ras, or Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East. The Lizectors also advance Loans on good security for temporary Periods. The Colonial have Agencies in every British Colony, where Pre- Wawa are received and claims settled. WILL. TllO. THO m SON, Actuary. SAMUEL R. FERGUSS' , N, Resident Secretary in London. L0ND0N..... ••••• • • • • •• • • 81, Lombard-street (E.C.) EDINBURGH (Head-office) .... 5, George-street. DUBLIN.. • • .. • • . Uppvr t4ackvllle-street. GLASGOW • • ....... • .. • • 58, St. Vincent-street. ESTABLISHED 1841. MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, Pall-Irian, London.. • Empowered by special Act of Parliament. Ity the Annual Report ot 1853, it appeared that the number of Policies then in force was 3,434, insuring 1,337,5001., and yielding an Income of 55,2071. At the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, held on the 26th November 12 57, it was shown Opt on the 30th Tune last The number of Policies in force was The amount insured was— ...... 2,917,598/. 13s. 10d. The annual Income was •••• • • • • .... 125,113/. 3s. Bd. Two Bonuses have been declared (in 1848 and 1853), adding nearly 1 Per cent. per annum on the average to sums assured, and by which 1 4 Policy 0(1,0001. issued in 1842 on a healthy life is now Increased to 1 ,2601. Profits divided every five years —next division in 1858. _ The Society, since its establishment, has paid claims on 781 Policies, assuring 312,8811. Assurances are effected at home or abroad on healthy lives, at as Moderate rates as the most recent data will allow. Indian Assurances at very moderate rates, and great facilities liven to assurers. Invalid lives assured on scientifically constructed tables. Policies Issued free of Stamp duty, and every charge but the Pre. khan. Active working Agents wanted for vacant places. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposa's, and every other inforraa' ion, kay be obtained of the Secretary at the Chief Office, or on applica- Rea to any of the Society's Agents in the country. C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary. A.D. 1720. 11 , OYA. L EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, (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 Wigram, Esq., Governor. George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIZECroas. leery Bainbridge, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. Hon. John T. Leslie Melville. John Garrett Cattley, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. elvrara Maxwell Daniel, En. Sir John Henr y P e ll y , Bart. William Davidson, Esq. Alexander P. Prevost, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Abraham George Robarts, Esq. Charles Farquharson, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Hobert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. MEDICAL RE/Pun—Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. Nomica.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pm mums falling due at Cbri•tmaa will ....-Pllweer9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor poration on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation 11 4 profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly Per cent, per annum on the sum assured, or 48 per cent. upon the leremiums paid. Equivalent redactions have been made in the Premiums payable my those persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The future division of Profit will take p lace every Five years. Any swim not exceeding 15,0001. may be insured on one life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal Participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Socie ties—with the guarantee of a large inv , sted Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice —with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a Century and a-half. Royal Exchange, London. JOHN A. HIGHAM, Actuary and Secretary. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSUR %NC E SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. t'mPowered by Act of Parliament. for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D.. Chairman. wrn. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elllotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONOING SECRETARY. Augustus Blonde', Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, FAS., and Professor J. Radford Yoßng. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R S., 37, Conduit-street. ♦CTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowelifre, Bedford-row. x rbe next Quinquennial Division o f Profits will be declared in 'Lk). 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : '----- Permanent • Bonus in Permanent Polley a dditi o n Bonn§ In Re cction 01 out in • . Assured. to ken Age Sum Cash. Annual Pre - Sun Assured. mium. ....„-- ---- ----- . --- -- £ £s. d. £s . d. Xs. d. 1838 55 3,000 4167 17 7 42. 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 • 32 0 4 1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 6 10 15 2 185 1 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 6 7 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter tational Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every rive years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in torce exce.•d six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair man, 142, Strand. 142, Strand, London, W.C. EDMOND S. BTMES, Chairman DII BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, for DELIC &TE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN VALIDS. Supersedes the expense and danlers of wet-nursing, is More easily digested, and imparts more healthful nourishment than Milk ; acidity, cramps, bowel complaints, flatulency, cough, restless ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it, and pet feet regulai:ty of the system and sound sleep insured. Many respectable families who have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred to, and a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding a stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Da }tarry aad Co., 17, Regent-street, London Prices:—ln Canisters. Is.; 25.; and 121 b. at 21. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on receipt of Pod Office Order. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New and hnproved Edition, enlarml to Stec pages, illustrated by 100 ravings on l, just published, price, Anatomical Coloured Engraving free by post, Is., THE SILENT FRIEND: A M ,, dical Work on the physical exhaus tion and decay of the frame, from the effects of solitary Indulgenc e, infection, an the injurious couse yith observations on the oblige fflences from the use of M.rciir.Y I • 11 Pons of marriage, and dir ctions for obviating certain disqns flea lions. By R. and L. PF RRY and CO., Pate Surgeons. Consultations as usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Alien, ,0. Warwick-11a4n6e, Leaden hall-street,' Sanger 160, Oxford-street; and Gordon, London. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is employed inhothsexes to renovate the impaired powers of life. Its f .ction iS fitifelYbal 4anlic; its power in reinvigorating the frame in all cases of nervous and sex ua l debility, obstinate gleets, impotency, barrenness, and debi lities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying success in thousands of cases. Price 11s. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335., which saves 1 Is. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphi - Iffic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the heal and face, enlargements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula ; threat• ned destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price Ils. and 335. per bottle, also - a saving Of lie. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec teal remedy in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d ,an 1 lls. per box. Sold by Daniel Church, 7S, Gracechurch-street, City ; Bartlett Hooper, 43, King William-street (four doors from London Bridge) ; G. F. Watts, 17, Strand; my, Sutton and Co., 10. Bow-churchyard; W. Edwards, 67, At. Panrs-ehurchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Hannay and Dietrichsen, 63, Oxford-street; Butler and Harding, 4, Chealnide ; Trout and Harsant, 229, strand ; and all Maltatnavendors throughout the United Kingdom. (N,, 20,440.) PUBLICATIONS. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX. " Now ready, in 1 vol. crown Bvo , 10s. 6d., bound. A WOMAN'S THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN. By the Author of " John Halifax, Gentleman." Hurst and Blackett, publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. INTERESTING CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Now ready, in 1 vol., 10s. 6d. bound, tV R. TUPPER'S NEW WORK. 9 " RIDES AND REVERIES OF &SOP SMITH." By MARTIN FARQUIIAR TUPPER. "Mr. Tupper's new work will do good service to his 1 terary repu tation. 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Edited by ALDER C FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the "Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. "'ln addition to other useful information, it will contain a complete Record of the Racing and steeplechase Season in England, Ireland, and Scotland trom the Ist of January up to the day of publication, Derby Lots for 1853, and Nominations for all the Principal Races for next year ; forming one of the most copious works of reference ever published. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood's Rents, liol born, London. rrHE RHINE AND GERMANY.—The Shortest and Cheapest Route, via Rotterdam, to the Rhine and Germany, is by THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY. Through Trains, in conjunction with those of the Cologne-Minden Company, start three times a day. Fifty pounds of Luggage allowed free for each passenger. Further particulars forwarded, post free, on application to the Company's London kgent, Mr. JOHN C. JArisos, 61, Gracechurch t reet. DRESS AND FROCK COATS of Superfine Black Cloth, 21. 15s Od. to Three Guineas. Black Dress Trowsers, 11. ss. Od. A choice Selection in Dress Walstcoatin,gs. Eacellenc•! with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, Fashionable railer, 57. Lombard-street. CONTRACT FOR SUET. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset House, 23d December, 1857. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain end Ireland do Hereby Give Notice. that on MONDAY the 4th January next, at belt-past One o'clock, they will he ready to treat with such persons as may he willing to contract for supplying and itenvering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned article, viz.:— SUET . 150,000 lbs. In Fifteen equal weekly deliveries, the first of ,uch deliveries to be made by the '6th January, 1858. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the' uet. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten ,tors are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part hereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting !bratty. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should at . end at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received from etteh person will be communic .ted to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Suet," and must also be delivered at Somerset-house. INVESTMENTS EQUAL TO CONSOLS. I. A PREELIOLD GROUND-RENT of 249/. Bs.. secured on an estate producing 1.4001. a-year. To be sold for 5,5001. 2. A GROUND•RENT of 58/. 55. for 90 years, equally well secured. Price 1,0001. 3. An Improve.t well-secured RENT of 751. for 86 years. Price 1,0501. _ . - COTTAGES FOR SALE. 4. A COTTAGE RESIDENCE, held for 300 years at Si. 3s. Price 2COI. 5. A Small RESIDENCE near Kew-gardens, held for 99 years at 51. Price 2001. ALMSTIOUSF.S FOR SALE. 6. A well-erected ESTATE near Kew•gardens, healthful and convenient for omnibus. rail, or beat. OFFICES AND RESIDENCES TO LET. 7. The OFFICES, 2%, Poultry, and 13, Gresham-street. The RESIDENCES (under 201. rent) at Daleton, Holloway, and Kew, replete with every convenience. Apply to Palmer and Co., 13, Gresham-street, Guildhall. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHARLES WATSON. M.D. (Physician to the Bedford Dis pensary), 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, London, continues to lasue, on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF - CU RE. Medical Correspondence condizeted. " The first man of the dcy is these complaints.". view, July. 1856. " The true Guide to those w 0 desire a speedy and private cure." X —University Magazine. " The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' showing the absurdity of the English mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means presented."—Evening Star. '—Medical Re- APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. IfEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE .4 SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, ird all Boast Meat Gravies, Fish. (lame, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food, The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce Is the best safe :card to health. gold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrino, 19, Fenchurch-street, Loudon, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. LB.—To guard against imitatioxs, see that the names of "LEA and FERRIES" are upon the labo and patent cap of the bottle. ARETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of life have nearly run out, discovered while in the East Indies a certain cure for Consumption, A sthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, and General Debility. The remedy was discovered by him when his only child, a daughter, was given up to die. Ile had heard much of the wonderful restorative and healing qualities of prepara tions mide from the East India Hemp, and the thought occurred to him that he might make a remedy for his child. He studied hard, and suc - ceded in realising his wishes. His child was cured, and is now alive and well He has since admin'stered the wonderful re medy to thousands of snfferers in all parts of the world, and he has never failed in making them completely healthy and happy. Wishing to do as much good as possible, ho will send to such of his afflicted follow beings as request it, this r ripe, with fell and explicit direc tions for makin it up and successful.y using it. He requires each applicant to enclose him six stamps—one to be returned as postage on the re ipe, and the remainder to be applied to the payment of this advertisement: Address to 11. James, M.D., 11, Cecil-street , Strand. ------- NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTFIER MEDICINE :11TRES (K Shout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Ily-sterias Neuralgia, Dyseary, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, Ileartbiu 1, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints are effected by I) II BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA AL ARICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, Inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as It never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy muscular energy to the most enfee bled. relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the fac ult y of digestion, and nervous and We extract a iew out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids:—Cure N 0.71, of dyspePslas the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit from the Right Hon. from Du Barry ' s nevalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to Stuart ty de o,ci De d e;e4 4. " p — m C Li u , yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. agony flatulency, r. nervousness, N 0.4 9132 . asthma, "Fifty years' indescribable spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have tesen removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham cough, constipation, I, ig, near Msg. Nortons,..—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner v )-tsness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Oateacre, near Liver • po a, : a cure of ten ye's"s dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No 18.216. Dr. Andrew lire of constipation, dyspep sia, ervons irritability. Cure No. 31,210. Pr. sherland of dropsy and Witty. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic eta. Cure No. 42.116 Major Ed!e of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings Cure yey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Bunts, Esq ., barrister, , . No. 26,4 18 . D r. Bar r paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 4 ,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Conntens of Castleatuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and iaidi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No, 180. " Twenty-five years' nervousness, con- Stir , Won. indigestion and debility, irons which T have sacred great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been eflectually cured bs Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. It. Reeves, 151, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis pepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be hapPY tk , answer any inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec tery, Norfolk." No. 32,836. " Three years' excessive nervousness, pith pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which ren dered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du BarrV'S health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Revs, Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and ventral debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent against the fearful dangers of spurious imita Revalcnta A rabica. Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." tattoo s: Sir Will Page Wood granted an injunc- The Vice-Chancello r Important Caution nta Arabica Food." lion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfted Hooper Neville, for Imitating " Du Barry's Rattle .. 21b 4s fid ; 51b 115 , 121 b 225. The 121 b car canisters, ilb 25 fsci ; :Sage free, on receipt of Post-office order. M Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, itegent-street, London; Fortnum, on, and Co., pur veyors to her Majesty, 142, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gracechurch street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapeide ; 149, 131shepsgate. street ; and 150 and 158 Oxford-street , 1 C - • - " 2 ~ ~~ ~E~ ic..~ J '~ Gt . . - . ... .... , i,„,%-c eit --.7--,-;‘:t7 , , ~ Pi- - 4 111111 . --, „ r _ /t- - - It'„,,;,' , , it-1 OXI - _.l 4 - _ . ' . .r... , 2: cr-lr,ll (1 in - .l,,';TrZ:l 't*,72, -; '" tH' ' #. ' , n ri ~,,............ ...k1,5.„,,,,*,.4.....",..„.„,,, , ~,„.„.,.....1...... ,), ..„... % 14, ~1,-* ..,., • , I . ' ... A L _ . i , , el." 1 /,'.... 1, : 4 11 4 ",:?t,--- .,.. '-' ,:::,. '"' ,.;_y4,„--.-.0":::: 1111— q -.----''.',t l ',: - ~.„A....- —.,' - . ,-/- . . , ''''''':-:-.".' ''''. ,3 . `-- -- z--....... • illiP P . . . . [PRIck 40. STAMPED 5g .] surd and of no value. The most eminent accoun tant i 9 the world would be laughed at if he asserted that two and two made five, yet Liebig's theory, though less ridiculous, is equally wrong. But thousands will believe it, without inquiry, on the mere strength of his reputation, though that can no more alter natural laws than the accountant's skill can change the powers of &urea. Some of our readers, however, may contend that though in this particular instance Liebig may be wrong, he is still eminent in science, and that, like many scientific men, his opinion is unfavourable to the availability of electro-magnetism as a motive power in mechanics. This is unfortunately true, though the same argument might have been urged with equal force against the introduction of steam of gas, and of almost all other great modern im , p ro vements. As we have said, scientific men are eminently conservative —they wish science to ad vance, but only in the path which they themselves have chosen. co much, however, for the reasons for and against the plan. We do net say that as yet an electro-motive power has really been made available, but much has been done towards attain ing that groat end, and we believe that the rest may be achieved. We do not pin our faith on one intention more than any other, and only dwell on Mr. Allan's as being furthest advancei in the path towards suc cess. By his application of electro-magnetism he has certainly made it a motive power valuable in mechanics. It only remains for him - ifo;SAtain his electricity cheaply, though to do this we believe he must resort to other means than those hitherto em :prOyed—to means which every_ man of science, in ' speaking or writing on the subject, haszone round and round about without ever happening on what WAS really wanted. ,With the French we are in clined to the belief that such a power is attainably, and will ere long, too, be attained. The new born science, though still but little known, is gain ing on us fist, and advancing with giant strides into the business of every-day life. It is but a few years since Sir Humphry Davy employed a thou sand pair of zinc and copper plates to do the work which would now be better done with 12 of the same agents in a modern battery. What, then, may we not hope and expect from a series of scien tific resear,:hes into the as yet undeveloped secrets of this marvellous element I—Times. THE EARTBQUAKES AT NAPLES. • EVISPAPER aims muner YoviD,Ver, LA:ti Vrej'Acjau . any antis L ad:, grav lfry have exi, enorthoug Ind the vii ascertained ; among them; hi brigade of gendarmerie. In Caggiano ruin and death have known extent. In Salerno ma. ing two Churches, the intenda barracks of the gendarmerie, are Near Salerno a church and' be!' ing two ladies, In Campagna numerous houses * cracked, including that of the superintendent Iu the Basilicata at Polenza the disasters have been extensive. Numerous buildings have been thrown down, burying unknown numbers beneath their ruins. A broken telegraphic despatch froth Bari and Campo Basso has excited great alarm, as it would appear to signify that all the inhabitants of one of these places have been destroyed. The following letter, dated Naples, December 19, says :—' ' Oa Wednesday evening I was sitting iu a saloon in our residence here on the Chiata moue, situate on the immediate shore of the Bay, when one of our servants rushed into the root" to ask what was the matter, supposing that we had knocked violently at the doer of the room. Imme diet- ly the windows and doo.s began to rattle in the strangest manner. Imagining that it might proceed from one of those sudden coups de vent so frequent iu this climate, I opened the windows and walked out on the balcony. The atmosphere was still, the mest profound calm prevailed, - not a cloud could be seen. It was a splendid s - arlight night. I returned into the saloon, and in a few seconds felt the floor alternately sinking an 1 rising and affected like that of the cabin of a vessel which rolls and pitches. In the next room, where two 3 ouug ladies had just gone to bed, I heard that they found it difficult to keep in the bed. The maid who attended them said the walls were f tiling. I looked at a laree bronze chandelier suspended from ihe centre of the ceilit g of the saloon, and, to my astonishment, saw it swinging exactly like a lamp suspended in the cabin of a vessel in a storm. The character of the phenomena was no longer doubt ful. I looked at my watch. The hour was a quarter-past ten exactly. As the most exact means of estimating the undulation, I observed the movement of the large chandelier. This is a large breeze lustre, weighing 4001 b or 5001 b. The dis• tance from is point ofsuspension to the lowest point of its axis is alemt 10 feet. Its motion at fist seemed to be thst of a pendulum, the arc of vibra tion of the lowest point being about two feet, but this immediately changed to the motion of a conical pendulum ; the lowest point of the axis described a circle, or rather an ellipse the major axis of which was about two feet. It appears, therefore, that the phenomenon began with a tremulous movement of the foundation of the house, manifested by the rattling of the doors and window, and that this, after a short interval, was succeeded by two undu lations, propagated, as it would seem, by the coni cit swing of the lustre, in two different directions. All that I have here taken so many lines to de scribe t,ok place within two, or at the most three minutes. Of course, the lustre once thrown into a state of oscillation continued to swing for a much mere considerable time. Such being what I witnessed personally, I ascer tained afterwards that similar phenomena were pre sented in other apartments of the hotel. The swing ing of the lustres was even greater, but this arose no doubt from the ciraumstance of their being smaller and their line of suspension shorter. The bells of the hotel were all set a-ringing. The pendu lum of a large house clock standing in the hall rat tled against the clock-case. A gentleman lying asleep upon a sofa on the ground-floor was flung off upon the floor. A man-servant of ours occupied a neighbouring apartment with his wife and two children. The bed of one of the children was overturned, and a lamp standing on the table was thrown on the floor. The population generally . soon after the shock went out into the squares, places, and other open spaces. The wealthier classes ordered out their carriages, in which they passed the chief part of the night in driving on the Chiaja roa i, which runs along the borders of the bay wide enough to keep clear of falling houses. The people who filled the squaresand other open spaces lighted fires and passed the night around them. Many families had chairs and benches brought from their apartments into the Piazza Reale, the Largo de Castello, the Santa Lucia, and other like places, where they set during the night awaiting a recur , ranee of the shocks. In some houses the thin partitions which divide room from room and the ceilings were cracked ; some damage lionise' said to hove been done to the British Hospital. On the night succeeding the phenomenon(Thurs day) the population, imagining that a repetition of the shocks might be expected about the same hour, crowded again into the squares and open spaces, where they peered part of the night. At the Royal Observatory on theoapo di Monte two astronomical clocks, the pendulums of which vibrate ire the plane of the prim* vertical (that is, east and west), were stopped. Other clocks in the Observatory, however, continued to go regularly. The employes of the Observatory estimated the con tinuance of the first shock tobe 5, and that of the second 25 seconds. They considered the direction of the undulations to be from south to north. They perceived two otherelight shocks at 3 and 5 o'clock in the morning of Thursday. Whether the state of the atmosphere has any con nexionwith or dependence upon this class of phe nomena is not certainly known. Herethe weather for six weeks back has been like that of June in Loudon. The rain has fallen, and the sunshine has been almost uninterrupted. The sirocco has alter nated with the yenta di terra, the ono correspond. ing to our warm south-west wind, and the other to our cold north-east. Vesuvius has been very active, throwing up constantly showers of incandescent matter which at night presents from time to time the appearance of what is called the " bouquet" in artificial fireworks. A slight eruption of lava took place last weik ; and it has been observed that the activity of the volcano was considerable abated for two days before the shock. It is unfortunate that here we are without the benefits of the agency of journalism in such cases, and. have mainly to depend on the information which is obtained by reports from mouth to mouth. There is an official journal, but that gives only such information as the Government chooses to disclose, and the fear of excitement among an ignorant, fanatical, and priest - ridden popu lat i on termines the Government as a general rule to supply as little intelligence of what takes place as possible. Such as it is, however, I wait the publi cation of the official journal, which I am told will make known to-day so much of what has passed in Calabria as the G iverninent will allow to be pub lished. Before I despatch this letter to the post I shall therefore be able to tell you more. P. S. As I expected, a few particulars of the disasters in Calabria are givenin the official journal. The visitation is undoubtedly far more grave than is admitted. It appears that the telegraphic wire has been broke between Eboli and Sala both in the line of country I havo indicated. News, however, has been received from the latter place, where the walls of the prison and barracks havebecm cracked ; threepersons were killed. At Atessa, a town near Sala, half the houses are reduced to ruins. In Padula, another town in that district, more than 100 houses have been th rown - down, with an unknown number of persons buried under them. In La Polls, another town of that neighbourhood, the disasters have been LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1857. A GANG OF SWINDLERS.-CAUTION TO MERCHANTS AND OTHERS. On Thursday Mr. Yardley was engaged for several hours, at the Thames Police-court, in the investigation of a charge of fraud. The person accused is Henry Devall, a burly-looking fellow, about 40 years of age, formerly a cabd r i ver , a ft e rwards a waiter, next a thief, and, lastly, a swindler on a very large scale. He was charged with conspiring with George Bristow, a prisoner for debt in Whitecross-street prison, and others, in ob. taining goods under false pretences from merchants and manufacturers in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Stourbridge, and other places. Mr. Metcalfe, barrister, instructed by Mr. J. Smith, solicitor, of Albion-square, Stepney, conduced the pro secution ; Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely.place, defended the prisoner. It may be necessary to state that on Wednesday an application was made to Mr. Selfe, one of the magistrates of this court, by Mr. Joseph Smith, for a warrant to apprehend Geo. Bristow, one of the gang of swindlers, now in custody of the Sheriff of Middlesex, on a charge of obtaining a see of new harness, value 121, from Mr. T. Orme, harness reaker, 7, King's-place, Commercial road. Tire harness was obtained by a false representa tion, and Mr. Ssife immediately granted the warrant, on which it is intended to found an application to a judge for a writ of habeas corpus. The application wilt be made this day. Bristow had petitioned the Insolvent Debtors' Court fur relief, and when he appeared before Mr. Com missioner Phillips that learned gentleman said the insol vent ought to be sent to Newgate, an that he should remand him to the prison from whence he came until he could produce Devall, by whom it was pretended the whole of the insolvent's goods and fixtures in the Crown Coffee-house, Duke-street, London-bridge, had been seized under a bill of sale. The capture of Devall, who was missing from his usual haunts for several weeks, was cleverly effected by Sheridan, a police-constable, in Little Albany-street, Regent's-park, where the prisoner had been cohabiting with the wife of a burglar under the assumed name of Jones. Devall was always con• sidered by the metropolitan police as the most clever but dangerous thief at the west end of London, where he practised his vocation, and several experienced officers are firmly convinced that he stole the Royal nursery plate and other property, on its way from Buckingham Palace to the Great Western Railway, but they could never trace the property, and although many detective officers were constantly on the prisoner's track, they could not bring the offence home to him. It appeared that a few months since Devall and Bris tow hired Union-wharf, Narrow-street, Ratcliff, for no other purpose than swindling on a large scale, and Bristow's son, who was in custody a few weeks since and discharged, was engaged as clerk. There was another clerk, called Joe, whose real name is not known, abut the age of 28 years, of great business talent, good and lively address, and an excellent letter-writer. He was always on the premises in Ratcliff, and was the means of communicating and corresponding between the swind lers and their victims. The gang had no sooner ob tained possession of Union-wharf than they gave large orders for goods to merchants and manufacturers. Devall was represented by Joe to be a respectable met.- chant and shipowner, and a large shipper of goods to Australia. The firm commenced by giving an order for 900/, worth of water-closets, which they represented were to be exported to Sydney, and this order wou d _ have been executed but for the activity of Sheridno, the constable employed in the case, who stopped the goods on their way to the wharf alter 501. worth of water closets had been delivered at .the wharf, and sold for much less than the cost price. Mr. Robert Moseley, of Fetter-lane, Fleet-street, agent. to Mr. W. Simpson, a Birmingham manufacturer, supplied Devall and Co. with fenders to the amount of 641, on a representation that they were to be shipped for Sydney in the prisoner's own ship. The clerk Joe referred Mr. Moseley to the house of Messrs. M`Kinnell and Co., late Alfred Gibson and Co., and how that' firm was imposed upon did not appear in the investigation. Mr. Small, of Lawrence Pountney-hill, agent to Messrs. Paul, Moore, and Co., of Birmingham, supplied wire to the prisoner's order, and it was forwarded to the wharf. Mr. Nurtben, of No. 14, Vauxball-walk, stone potter, and Mr. Michael Brown, of No. 1, Park-place, East-street, Walworth, were favoured with orders from the gang, the tormer for hard goods, and the latter for a horse worth 271. Brown is a poor man, and the manner in which he was swindled by the gang excited much sympathy. Joe always represen.ed that his principal (llevall) was on his eastern and north-eastern journey, when any of the gen tlemen defrauded called at the wharf, and a letter was once written in London and despatched to Sudbury, in Suffolk, where it was posted, to giv + colour to the re presentation that Devall was on his commercial travels. The letter was read, and handed to Mr. Yardley. It was to the following effect, and addressed to Messrs. Paul, Moore, and Co., Birmingham : "Sudbury, Oct. 23, 1857. "Gentlemen,—Your immediate attention to the annexed order will oblige. I have not Mr. Small's address with me, and, with a view to time, have forwarded order direct to you, of which I have by this post advised my clerk. 1 will remit your cheque, or pay Mr. Snail, if he will be good enough to call upon me on my return, for your little account to Michaelmas.—l am, gentlemen, yours respect fully, HENRY DEVALL, of Union wharf, Narrow-street, London." The above letter was written by Joe, and it had the desired effect—a second parcel of brass and iron ware was sent to the wharf and immediately sold at 2 j per cent, below the invoiced price. It happened that 200 tons of railway iron had been left on the wharf by a former occupier. The gang turned this to good account, and Joe always represented that the iron was to be shipped to Australia in Devall's own ship, which he was freighting. James Richard Taylor said be was in the employ of the prisoner for three weeks at Union-wharf, and gave an account of the modus operandi of the gang. Ho was hired by Devall and Bristow to sell goods for them. He remembered crates of fenders, water-closets, bricks, wire, and other goods coming to the wharf, and he sold some of tht m by the prisoner's orders for less than the price they were to give for them. Devall never went out of town upon an eastern or north-eastern journey ; but he was in the practice of coming to the wharf every morn ing looking about, consulting with Bristow, and then making a journey to the nearest public-house, where he spent the day. He bad often told the prisoner and Bristow that he could sell the goods with which they were supplied at a profit, but both Devaq and Bristow said the things must be sold at once for half price or any pric-, as they must get a capital. The*goDds were removed from the wharf as fast as they came in carts. Mr. Lewis, jun.—To be shipped Mr. Metcalfe—Perhaps Mr. Lewis will oblige me with the name of the ship. In cross-examination, Taylor said he had been tried and acquitted on a charge of embezzlement. His em ployer owed him some money, and he paid himself out of moneys he received from customers. Bristow kept a coffee-shep in Duke-street, London-bridge, and Devall acted as waiter there. Bristow paid for the carriage of bricks from Stourbridge. Mr. Yardley—Had the prisoner a ship of his ownl Witness—No, sir, be bad not. Mr. Metcalfe—He did not, sir. Joseph Grant, a police-constable, No. 1041\i, said -- I know Bristow as keeping the Crown Coffee-shep, near London-Fridge, on the Surrey side, and I have seen pevalt acting there as waiter, with a white apron. Dapter, 346 A, said—l have known the pri soner 7or 8 years. I knew him to be a cabdriver, and i n n‘msequence of strong suspicion that he had been concerned in two burglaries he lost his license. I was not able to catch him, or I should have arrested him for the burglaries. A policeman named Neale said—l always considered the prison-r to be the most dangerous thief in ',onion. I have seen him repeatedly in Oxford-street and Re. gent-street with thieves and rsturned convicts. He was detected in attempting to commit a burglary in War wick-street, Gold en , quare. • William Parsonage, police-constable, 73 C, said— The prisoner Devall has been the associate of the worst of thieves for four or five years. Devall—l will get an honest living, but you won't let me do it. Mr. Lewis, jun..—Will you hold your tongue '1 Witness—l took him into custody for attempting to commit a burglary, and he was nommitted from the Marlborough-street Police-court as a rogue and a vagabond for Pfx weeks, and kept to hard labour. I know bim up to 12 months ago to be a thief, and the associate of the worst of characters. Mr. Metcalfe--That is all the evidence I can offer to-day. I intend to introduce others of the gang be fore you another time. Mr. Yardley—There is quite enough to justify a remand. Mr. Lewig, jun --Will you take bail ? Mr. Yardley—Yes, I will take bail, the prisoner in 2001. and two sureties of 1001 each. I must have good bad. — Mr. Joseph Smith—And notice of btil to be given ? Mr. Yardley—Cor'a7oly. I hope the details of this caNe will wake manufacturers, agents, and merchants morn cauti,ato in future. The pri.!oner, who could not find bail, was sent away in the prison vae. CHATHAM, DEC. 25.—The large tidal basin at this drcliyird being nearly completed, the Lards of the Ad miralty have empleyed Messrs. Rigby, the cintractors, in lengthening No. 3 old dock, which is to be extended inwards nearly 100 feet. For several months past some hundreds of men have been employed in making the necessary excavations, which are carried to a depth of nearly 50 feet, in order to form the concrete bottom of the basin. During the progress of the works the water has frequenely broken in, to prevent which two powerful steam engines have been erected, which are kept pump ing day and night, discharging four tons of water per minute. The pumps were at work last night, when one of them became useles., and the consequence was that the works were soon flooded, the water rising at the rate of 6 tons per minute. During the whole o. to-day the workmen have been engaged in repairing the engine, and pumps, which, it is hoped, will be put into working order tonight. NAVAL AND MIL ETA RY INTELLIGENCE. The steamship Australasian, Capt. Sceales, sailed from Plymouth Sound yesterday morning, for Madras: She has in all 23 officers, 465 rank and of the 69th Regiment, 25 tons, was embarked at file, one woman, an d t h ree c hild ren . Th e b aggage Plymouth, under charge of Lieut. Gildea, with 30 men, of whom 12 returned to barracks, there not being sufficient accommodation for them on board. The 69,h went to India via Suez. The Australian is appointed to call at St. Vincent's and at the Cape of Good Hope. The season being unpropi tious, she will not t ouc h a t t h e Mauritius unless absolutely II( cessary. L;eut.-Col. Kirkland, who had been authorised to embody 1,000 men as the second battalion of the sth Foot, has succeeded in raising upwards of 800 recruits, and it is expected that the battalion will be complete in a short time, volunteers coming in briskly on account of the extra bounty paid on at testation. H. M. steamer Sharpshooter has gone out of har bour to Spithead, preparatory to sailing for the coast of Afric3. H.M.tamer Geyser sailed for Davonport, to be paid off into ordinary, on Thursday. At an early hour yesterday morning an accident occurred in Chatham Dockyard which is likely to cause some delay in the execution of the large works now being carried on at that establishment for the enlargement of the old docks and the con struction of the new tidal basins. During Thurs day night one of the pumps became useless, the consequence of which was that ,the - water began flowing into the works at the rate of six tunaper minty e, flooding the excavations and doing a great deal of mischief. Yesterday a number of men were busily engaged i epairing the temporary engines, and hopes were entertained of the pumps being set to work last night, in order that excavations might be cleat ed, so as to enable the men to resume work on Monday morning. The Racoon, 21, screw steamer, Captain J. A. Paynter, fitting for sea at Chatham, has taken a considerable quantity of her sea stores on board, and is being rigged in order to be made ready for sailing with all despatch. The Cuckoo, 3, steamer, which has been paid offont of commission at Chatham, is mcored alongside the Resolute, Arctic discovery ship, waiting to be taken into dock for the purpose of having the injuries caused by the late accident made good. further attempts have gradually been looked upon by scientific men almost as waste of time and ingenuity. In a paper read before the Society of Arts in 1850 the improbability of any result being obtained from electro-magnetism which could en able it to compete with steam as a motive power, was carried nem con. Very recently at a discussion at the lustitution of Civil Engineers it waseven more unequivocally condemned, and declared that the power exhibited by electro-magnetism, though very great extended through so small a space as to be practically useless, and that a powerful magnet might be compared to a steam engine with an enor mous piston, but with an exceedingly sherz, stroke —unquestionably a bad arrangement. Now, doubtless, -from the points of view at which the inventions were regarded, these decisions wore right. It is a certain fact that electro-magnetism never will supersede steam, and no electrician in his senses could really have entertained such an idea. Much as steam has done it has never yet been able to supersede the water-wheel, wherever water power is obtainable. But, although steam must and will always be .employed, electricity can find place as a motive power in many kinds of work where steam is now out of the question. The other objections have Leen, first, the cost of the power, and, second, the shortness of the space through which the power is exerted, or in other ' words, the want of adequate stroke or motion in the force. Thepower of electricity, when applied in the form of electro-magnet iswonder fully gr a . from come paratively small means, but its dynamic power de creases so rapidly through intervening space, being " inversely as some unascertained power of the &A tenets much greater than there," that the range of the maximum effect, or valuable portion of . the motive force with a consequent minimum of con sumption extends to so small a distance as to be of no real value in mechanics. The great problem to solve has been to contrive such an arrangement of parts as toconvert this mexielum of the motive force through a range, although unavailable in itself, into stroke, or to give it such an extent of motion as to make it of practical value as a motive power. Mr. Allan's electro-motive engine has achieved many of these desiderata. He has utilised all his power — has obtained length of stroke. By this invention the maximum portion only of dynamic force is ap plied, and by the mechanical arrangement of parts successively and continuously brought into action in a direct form, in accordance with the Jaws of electro-dy naraics. Thus applied Viet eis no loss of primary force, and any amount of power and any length of stroke can be obtained. In fact, both mechanical and electrical conditions aro very simply and beautifully complied with, and to this alone is the success of the invention due. The machine may be simply described as consisting of four galleries, each of which contains four groups of four electro magnets which are alternately opposite in their polarities, and which therefore by induc ion uatu rally react upon and augment their colle-ztive power. Through these magnets pass rods connected by con necting rods and cranks to the shaft of the engine. Each of these rods has a disc or keeper suspended on shoulders above each group of magnets. The keepers are made with a hole in the centre, se as to slide easily upon the rod, and not impede the mo tion of the latter when it is receiving an impulse from a magnet applied to any of the other keepers or discs. The same kind of action is produced on each rod, so that as one completes its portion of the stroke the next one is commencing in the follow ing manner :—At the commencement of the mo tion the upper - keeper is placed so near the first set of magnets that when a current of electricity is applied to them they draw violently the keeper to them, and thus move the rod longitudinally through the space which separated them. The next keeper is by this means brought within the same distance from its magnet, and the current of elec tricity is at the same instant cut off from the for mer and applied to these, which thereupon draw their keeper to them, and so drag the rod through an additional space or distance equal to the first. The other magnets and their keepers beneath re spectively act in a similar manner in regular sue ceesion, and thus complete the stroke of the rod, when the next row takes it up," and so on, until the four rods have worked in the same manner, and given the utmost both of power and length of stroke to the machine. Though the machines have as yet been only fixed vertically, yet it scan easily be seen that the arrangement of the parts allow it to be readily adapted to all ordinary purposes, whe ther vertical or horizontal. Thug, as far as the first conditions of power and length of stroke are concerned, the machine appears t o have achievel great ends. One has 1-itely been sub mitt d to the Emperor Napoleon and the directors of the Conservatoire as illustrating the first prin ciples of the machine which, it is hoped, is to carry off the French national prize of 2,0001 offered to any who can solve the question of the practical utility of electricity as a motive power. The suc cess of the competitor there is to be attested by the cheapness with which he can produce his power. According to the average price of coals in Paris one horse steam power per hour can be obtained for 8 centimes. The average price of zinc is 80 centimes per kilogramme, and. the French conditions for gaining the prize are that the machine shall work one horse-power on an expenditure of not more than half a kilogramme of zinc, or at 40 centimes the hour. This would make the cost of the electro motive power in Paris five times greater than that of steam, but the many advantages which in other respects it possesses over the latter would iucre than counterbalance this disadvantage. According to this rate Mr. Allan's machines in England, where coal is cheaper, would work at a cost ten times greater than the present average price of steam ; yet many of our first machinists and manufactu rers say that the invention of electro-motive en • gines at as much as 18 times the cost for steam power will pay largely. Mr. Allan professes himself perfectly confident that he cm produce a machine not only within the working price we have just mentioned, but even within the French conditions. He maintains that it is an error to consider the cost of electro-motive power as being relatively less "profitable" than steam, and that the error has arisen from the misapplication of the electromag netic force, not from the necessary consumption of the electric materials, which consumption is in versely as the dynamical ratios of the forte. He considers that the materials, on the other hand, from their chemical admixtu e in the battery, although of no practical avail for the further pro duction of the electric fluid, become when produced on a large scale of considerable market value, and when sold realise a large percentage of their original cost. But as the cost of the power is thus taken as the standard of success, the expenditure in fairness must be regarded from various points.of view. Thus, then, we must not forget that in Madrid and Lisbon the cost of coal for steam power is twice as dear as at Paris ; that in most parts of South America, in India, and China, and throughout the East . - gTnerally, the cost of coal is twice as much as that again, so that in those coun tries where an easily managed motive power is most wanted, electricity may yet compete with steam on an equal or even advantageous footing with regard to cost. But a great reduction in the cost of the power may be effected by not using zinc at all, since iron when used on a large scale as an element in batteries may be regarded as almost equally effi • cacious with zinc. But the cost of the power must be at present a subordinate question—at least other and more important questions must be decided ere the cost can be ascertained. For instance, Mr. Allan finds that there must be a certain relation between the electric current and the diameter and length of the magnet, though what these conditions are it is difficult to say at present. With only a slight m odification of the relation o f the wire to his magnet, he suddenly found that he lost four-fifths of his power. Now, here is a problem the solution of which must have a vital influence on the electro magnetic power, and, therefore, in its cost of pro duction. Yet, these disturbing influences, whatever they are, were not even known to exist until now ; and every day the general laws which govern the science of electroenagnetiem are becoming more and more fully developed. In a very able and a very impartial paper which was read by Mr. Hunt before the Institution of Civil Engineers many ob jec ions, all more or less sound, wet e urged against the availability of electricity as a motive force. We are certain, however, that that gentleman was ig norant of the principle upon which the machine of Mr. Allan is constructed, for a knowledge of it must have altered the conclusion to which he was then almost naturally led. Many who do not take the trouble to judge for themselves are content to base their disbelief in the adaptability of electricity as a motive force on the doctrine of Liebig, that zinc cannot give out more power than the coal required to smelt it. Of course, the reputation of Liebig is supposed to be sufficient to secure implicit credence for„this statement—that the scientific world, in fact, must hear and obey. But in science nothing can be taken for granted, and until Liebig can show that such relation exists between electricity and heat as to make the mecha nical power of one the measure of the mechanical power of the other his doctrine will continue to be regarded by those who think for themselves as ab- THE MILITIA. The West Norfolk Militia left Norwich on Wed nesday afternoon for the North of England. The regiment, which is upwards of 600 strong, is divi ded into three parties, Lieutenant-Colonel Cus tance proceeding with three companies to Chester; Major Bedingfeld, with three ether companies, to Liverpool ; and Capt. Narsham, with two com panies, to Stockport. The head - quarters will be at Chester, and the depot of the regiment will remain at Norwich. The Dutchman and Adonis steayterso which ar rived at Portsmouth on Thursday morning for the embarkation of the Ist Surrey Militia (who ar rived by rail from Richmond, (Surrey), will con vey that regiment to Waterford on Tuesday next. ELECTRO-MAGNETISM AS A MOTIVE POWER. In a recent article on the subject of Mr. Bagg's process for applying steam to quicken the move ments of the electric telegraph we alluded to the researches which weregoing forward into the value of electro-magnetism as a motive power. We have space now to refer to this important subject at a length more in accordance with its merits, and to notice the gradual steps making towards a disco very, the' immense value and utility of which, in spite of the progress already made by steam, will when attained equal in importance our first know- ledge of that great power. It is almost superfluous to enumerate the many important ad vantages which an electro-motive power has over seam. There is perfect safel from all danger from tire or explo sion. There is no expenditure of materials when the engine is not in action, and its power can be applied at a moment's notice. It is always ready for action without previous consumption of ma terials in getting up steam, and'in marine en gines there would be no waste in freightage al for carrying coal. These are the most important of the advantages it offers, but many others will occur t, any who reflect for a moment on the pecu liar nature of the two forces employed. With such high rewards in view plans to convert the power of electro-magnetism into a motive force have always been among the most cherished schemes of electri cians. The Russian and American Governments have spent large sums in endeavouring to solve this problem ; France still holds out a great reward to those who can produce an e l ectro -motive engine which shall only cons ume 19 ounce s of zinc per horse power per hour, an d i n th at empire the idea that these moderate conditi ons w ill b e fully attained is firmly believe]. I n thi s coun t r y no official en couragement his ever been offered to such attemp ts and 1 itterly the notion has been much frowned upon by scientific men, who on all such questions are ge nerally the most conservative and impractieahl.e portion of the public. Th e groun d s u pon which their opposition has lately be en b ase d are—first, the undoubted failure of th e var i o us attempts hitherto made ; seco n dl y, a comparison of cost between the working o f th e b es t kind of electro motive engine and a st eam ene i ne and, lastly, , a hasty, but most erroneous to 6 pinion of Liebi g s, which utterly condem ne d t h e id ea of an electro motive engine altogeth er , th oug h on gr ounds which men of equal eminen ce i n sc i ence , though less in fashion, have not hesit a t e d t o d ec l ar e as " perfectly . absurd." It is needle ss t o re f er t o the attempts of the scientific men who h ave soug ht to utilise the power obtainable fro m e l ectro-magne tism. All the principal electricians h ave d a bbl e d in it more or less from Oersted dow nwar d s, an d every fresh at tempt hasled to fresh imp rovemen t s! id discoveries. The first important inv ent i on o f th e kind was exhi bited by a Mr. Davenport, in America, in 1837, and was followed in 1838 b y another e leetro-megnettc engine, by a Capt. T a yl or. In the sa me year Jacobi produced a vessel upon th e N eva w orked by electro magnets. It was 28 f ee t l ong 7 broad, and, with 14 persons on board, was worked against the stream at the rate of four mil es an hour . In 1842 Mr. Davidson built an engine adapted for use on a rail way, and tried it on th e Edi u b u rgh and Glasgow line. This engine with magnets and bat t ery weighed five tons, but i n conseque nce of the very faulty arrangement of the ma gnets there was a great loss of power. Th e utmos t s peed attained by it was only four miles per hour, and the attempt was therefore condemned as a total and irredeem able failure, people quite forgetting in their eager ness to blame that the fir s t steam l o comotive tried in England on a level plain wa de only five miles an hour, and that ten years later Stephen-on had so little improved the m ac hi ner y that with eight carriages and 30 tons' we i g ht h e scarcely attained lour miles an hour on a dead level. This inven tion of Davidson'e, therefore, was given up, and attention was soon afterwards occupied by the engine of Professor Page, in America, which was one of the best of them all, and which was iu turn followed be the improvements of Hjorth and of the Messrs. Harrison. The latter gentlemen, indeed, claim to hear° fulfilled all conditions, and rather more than all which it was even hoped or expected electricity would be able to fulfil ; but, as they have not to our knowledge entered into details, it is impossible to say how far their assertions can be borne out. Nevertheless, with all these attemps, and with others by Dal Negro, M‘Gailley, and Wheatstone, not one of the electromagnetic engines could be regarded as a great success in the path of discovery towards the new power. In fact, all the plans when tried practically were found to be at variance either with the laws of electricity or of mechanics, and the two main points for solution in the employment of electricity—its application and its economy—werebothinoreor le.is overlooked. Nearly all these machines, then (except those of Page and Hjorth), were made either with osc ill a ti ng or rotary direct action engines ; in the former the electric current was always cut off long b e f ore the mag netic force had reachedits maximum, and in the latter the magnets successively brought into action were necessarily placed at such diff eren t distances that it was impossible to produce an equal motion by means of them. In the rotary engines, also, a given it was of course found that in a system of mag nets constructed to produce power, when set in revolution, an immense reduction of thei r original force immediately took place, so that their combined action in practice fell infinitely s h o rt of :heir estimated force. And not only did e ach magnet sustain an actual diminution of powe r, amou ntieg to at least one half, but the power thus lost was converted into a current of electricity , acting in opposition to the primary current by which the magnetism was induced. This loss of force was great, and appeared unavoidable unt il she i m p rov ements of Page and Hjorth ; bu tho machines of those gentlemen lost so much ' even power, and were worked at such a cost, that all TILE NEW PARK AT BATTERSEA. We are about to take our readers back into those remote periods of our history when sanguine men first proposed to beautify the Thames at Batterau 3 s —to cross it with a new bridge, and adorn its banks with a now park. Of these two schemes that for the formation of a park is, • beyond all doubt, the oldest,—in fact, its claims upon our not'ce press upon us with the force of ancient tradition. There is a proverb which gives p o i n t e d advice with reference to the mouth of a gift horse, and so with a gift park we presume it would be equally ungracious to inspect its dates, or in quire how long it has been coming . down to us: To say the truth, the investigation might involve an amount of antiquarian research which we should lack the skill to pursue, and certainly our readers the patience to follow. We will therefore go . direct to the point, and show how once upon a time, ou the Surrey side of the Thames ; facing Chelsea, there existed, under the name 0f,8454er 7 sea fields, a dreary waste of land and water. It waS _ ahove all other spots that crouched along the river's margin the most wretched and unfinished-looking, compared with which the very Isle of Dogs itself seemed populous and cheerful. It was one large expanse of dust-heap, ditches, cabbage-gardens, ponds, piles*" weeds, oyster-shells, and filthy re fuse, offensiOtte both sight and smell. Here and. there, in the centre of the ooze, existed crazy tene ments, where bargemen caroused or pigeon-matches were shot, and where the accomplished backers of some minor luminary of the ring always retired with their battered hero after his contest in the ad joining marshes. Day by day and year by year this natural and artificial dilapidation of the place progressed more and more steadily. The literature congenial to the spot was posted on the trunks of stunted trees in "Found Drowned" bills, or pla cards offering rewards for the discovery of robbe ries; its only inhabitants were lonesome slouching individuals, whose presence at once accounted for that of the last-named affichts. Gradually and by slow degrees, like fungi creeping over some un wholesonie spot, wretched dwellings as noisome and unwholesome as the fields themselVes began to overspread their surface. Cottages, it was found, paid better than ditches, and miserable sties were built and let to struggling families who could find no homes so cheap elsewhere. It became the sanc tuary and abiding-place for all occup .tious too foul and pesilential to be attempted nearer the metro polis. As the whole place lay below Trinity high water mark, drainage was out of the question, and the " fields" soon attained a'gloomy notoriety fur an amount of death and sickness out of all propor tion to its population. These facts, toge hOt with the degraded condition of the inhabitant., the Sun day evening fairs, which outraged every sense of decency, the poisonous trades carried on in all di rections, soon pointed out the fields as the future moral and physical plague spot of the me•ropolis. Under these unfavourable auspices it attracted the notice of several influential gentlemen, who, as the only mode of dealing with the rapidly-extending evils of the locality, proposed a plan for the con version of the entire fields into a south park. The plan was submitted to the Metropolitan Improve• went Commissioners, who forthwith warmly re:om mended it to the consideration and support of the Government. The Government accsrdiugly took the matter up, and this was the first great danger which the infant scheme had to struggle against. Considering that the park is only just finished, these events, as we have intimated, took place at a rather remote period of our history. When Govern ment adopted the plan the whole thing stuck fast for a long time.. First, the Government appre- hervied. difficulties, and could not spare the money ; next, they were in actual difficulties, and could not think of money ; and, lastly, the Government were getting out of difficulties and wanted the • money mote than ever. • At all events, for long, long years the money did not come. If the oaks an I of ms of the . park were only planted when the Government first supported the idea, what a shade they would now afford, and what a contrast they would now present t) the delicate vegetables. that are struggling for existence on the banks of new made earth at Chelse t ! The Government wanted to purchase in all 320 acres of land, u hick was spatt3red among a numerous proprietary in quanti ties varying from three or four acres to half aperch or even a few cubic yards. Impartial surveyors were called in, who valued th's 320 acres at 187,4331. But some of the broad principles of free trade hail evidently penetrated as far as the remo'e regions of Battersea, since the owners of the land • modestly claimed no less a sum for it than 532,6241. though after considerable haggling they consented to take 232,6871., or just 300,0001. less than they declared was its fair value. . Of the32oacres thus purchased2oo have been enclosed and planted for the park, 110 set out for houses, villas, and wharfs, and 26 acres in public roads. In 1854 the work of forming the park commenced; Perhaps, instead of forming, we might with more propriety have used the word building, for nearly three-fourths of the park is of made earth. More than 500,000 cartloads of earth were required to bring the average level of the park above that of high water mark. In some.places the made earth is more than 12 feet thick. Nearly 700,000 cubic yards of earth have been used in all, for 1 000 cubic yards were daily lauded at the works for 'Upwards of two years. The greater part of this earth was obtained from the new dock making at the London Thcks, the remainder from all corners of the me tropolis. The whole of this area of 200 acres has been laid out with fair taste and skill, and planted with a fine collection of trees, shrubs, and ever greens of all kinds. There is an unusually fine:selec tion of thorns, rhododendrons, azaleas, and ever green oaks, with a quantity of hardy American plants with very long names, but marvellously like all other trees notwithstanding. In 10 years hence the park should be a fine and umbrageous enclosure —and in 20 years it ought to bear comparison with any of the ornamental grounds round London. The total cost from first to last - has been 315,0001.—viz , 232,0001. in purchasing the land, 51,3001. in laying it out, making the roads, &c., and 33,0001. in contingencies. It has been calcu lated by the benevolent promoters of the scheme that during the summer months the park will be largely visited by persons who will avail themselves of the easy means of communication afforded by the river steamboats. This,. however, is not only more than problematical, but as faras can be judged Peoplewill not pay to visit and walk about a new park at present inferior in every respect to the parks which are almost at their doors in the metro polis. The originators of the idea mu,,t rest content with havinif, transformed a place which was fast be coming a hot-bed of vice and disease into a source of health and recreation. If not a dozen persons ever visited the park, this great result would still remain the same. It was supposed that the rents derived from the 110 acres of building land which surround the Park would provide for the repay ment of the money advanced for its purchase. This chance, however, has been diminished to an almost nominal amount by a toll being levied on passen gers over the new bridge, which is the only mule by which the park caa be approached from the Mid dlesex side of the river. Could anything be more shortsighted or injurious than such an arrangement, which is certain to render both bridge and park in solvent speculations to the country within a twelve month 1 NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL—The accounts of this festival will exhibit a surplus of 430/., but it is recom. mended that a portion of this surplus should be applied to the payment of debts on account of the meeting of 1854, when there was a deficiency of 103/. MUTINY IN THE MERSEY. — LIVEEPOOL,.Friday.--Last night a mutiny broke out amongst the seamen oti hoard the emigrant ship 3. J. Boyd, lying in th e r i ver, bound for New York. The alarm was given to the police-office by some of the passengers who escaped in a tug-boat, and on Inspector Horner arriving he found all the crew armed (27 in number), and r, fusing to put to sea. were all arrested, acco r di ng to the instruct i ons of f ef t ore master (Captain Thornao, and will be b They b r ought th e m a g i s t ra t es t o - morrow. The cause o f the mutiny is said to be bad provisions [ADVERTISEMENT ]—nolloway'd on consen o t f mankind at have been placed by the comm O° They save thousands Ointment and Pills the head of internal reme.dfice:i, annually from fallings si i i v o e r r ' tested by diarbcea, constipation , _ scorbutic affection from them. 111Cnitors of healthy action s ystemby . . thisl complaints, &c., a fact at to dyspepsia, dysentery, f witnesses. 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