The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

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Shunning topics of war to broach ;
But helping the show out
Both are to go out
Riding in state in the pretty Blue Coach.

0, happy indeed is the nation possessing
Such puppets to send on a mission to roam ;
And happier still in retaining the blessing
Of plenty of Minister-puppets at home.
Thus represented,
We'll be contented,
Bearing Europe's scoff and reproach;
Perhaps not our weakest,
No, nor our meekest,
Minister rides in that pretty Blue Coach.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION-SCIENCE.

[We are enabled from a private and unofficial source to publish a list of contributions to
the various sections of this Association, which, for some unexplained reason, have
not hitherto appeared in its reports.

L—d P—vd—RST—N.—A model illustrative of the new theory of
lunar motion, by which it is demonstrated that any body, during any
number of successive changes of place, may keep the same face always
fixed in the same direction, without any turning rolnd whatever.
(Mechanical Section). _ _ .

Sir G. C. L—wrs.—A paper on the effect of successively increasing
and diminishing by a constant quantity any given small sum ; with an
application to the proposed re-arrangement of the Civil Service Super-
annuation Deduction (Mathematical Section). Also, a complete solution
of the problem : To express the minimum of matter in the maximum
of words absolutely. (Same.)

Mr. MoNsELL.-A proposal for a new system of numeration, in
which all computations are to be carried on by sixes and sevens
(Same )
Sir R. communication on the recent discovery of a
Roman As in St. Petersburg.

Sir G--E G—Y.—A ;%-:orking model of an improved gallows,
capable of executing several dozen persons by one motion of the drop.
Also specimens of the dice, in accordance with the indications of which
commutations of sentence are decided on.

L—d J—HN Russ—L presented to the Association a copy of
" Moore's Biography," and a bust of himself: the Biography was first
entered as waste paper, and then, when the mistake was discovered,
placed in the hands of the President of the Mechanical Section, who,
never having heard of the work, and not having time to examine it, at
once consigned it to the class of Heavy Bodies. The bust was for
a long time supposed to be a hypothetical cast of the skull of some
extinct Saurian, of very much larger size than his Lordship.
Sir C. W—D.—On the remarkable discontinuous function express-
ing the velocity of an Admiralty steamer. (Mathematical Section.)
A paper on the substitution of " virtuous indignation" leaders,
for " marvellous gooseberry" paragraphs during the recess, was also
sent by a contributor of a leading journal,but rejected.
A contributor to the Le—der forwarded a short pamphlet, entitled
" The Theory of Everything, with an appendix on something else.
Addressed to the Hodmen by an Architect," said to have been con-
densed from a great work in nine vols., Svo., by M. Comte. It excited
much amusement.

THE "LEADER."

Who leads?
I, sir, the knave.
(AFTER BARRY CORNWALL.)
Lead ! lead ! lead! who leads?
Which is the journal that everyone heeds?
Say ! whose is this power divine ?
Quoth the Leader, "'Tis mine ! 'tis mine !"
Mighty fine—mighty tine !
Big, burly, and free,
Like Falstaff, he
Marches on with a very poor company.

Read ! read ! read ! who reads
The page that pronounces and nobody heeds ?
Say where's the misguided few
A dozen perchance or two
Wade weekly this Leader through ;
Except it may be
In the post-bag that he
Gets sometimes into good company.

Wink ! wink ! wink! who winks?
'ris the writer that neither blushes nor thinks,
When he nerds a pen, upon " flimsy " to frame
New Church, new State (all the same !)
Oh Jove, he cries, what a game !
A partner is he
You may plainly see
In the Anti Creation Company.
Dream ! dream ! dream! who dreams
That this - leader of men" is the thing it seems?
When its subs rail on about progress, they,
Don't care about half that they say,
But think it's the thing to pay,
And it don't—so We
Are attacked, you see,
In the bcst of successful company.