The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-13 00:00:00

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

At the last meeting of this society, Mr. Hamilton,
president, in the chair, Dr. A. Halley was elected a
fellow. The following communications were read :-
1. On a modern submerged forest at Fort Lawrence,
Nova Scotia, illustrative of the conditions under which
some of the coal-bearing strata in the neighbouring coast
at the Jogging were formed in ancient times. By Mr.
J. W. Dawson, F.G.S.
_

2. On some additional new small reptilian remains,
from the Purbeck strata of Durdleston Bay, and on the
fossil remains of a largo cuttle fish, from Kimmeridge
clay, collected by Mr. W. B. Brodie. By Professor
Owen, F.G.S.
3. On the tertiary formations of the North of Ger-
many, with special reference to those of Hesse Cassel and
its neighbourhood. By Mr. W. Hamilton, Pres. G.S.
The author commenced his remarks by correcting an error
into which he had been led, in his former communication
on the Mayence basin, respecting the age of the tertiary
sands of Magdeburg and Westergeln. He bad there
stated, apparently on the authority of Dr. Sandberger,
that these last-mentioned belonged to a much newer
period than the " marine sands" of Weinheim in the
Mayence basin ; whereas, not only has Dr. Sandberger
described them as of the same age, but there is a pro-
bability of their being still older. The principal sections
near Hesse Cassel show a marine formation of no very
great thickness, sometimes consisting of the clay, and
at others of yellow sand overlying extensive beds of
brown coal. This again rests on blue clay, beneath
which are sometime found thin beds of sandstone
buntersandaso
with. pia.nt a
beds of el
near Magdeburg,
coa_l_• whereas, in three
of Weinheim constitute thY
tertiary series there
clays and brown coal. Theue
consider the relative age lowestbasinmembermarine
wholesandsbeingof
these
then proceeded to
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belong
alluding to what he considers the deP"lt" ; and, after
' Phillippi, who regarded the Hesse
of the same age as the SubappennineaBLerml
voured to show the probability that, aithtohu
to the
tergeln sands may be somewhat older,
to one general period, equivalent, or nearely all
middle Limbug beds of Belgium, and that thye
time when a communication must have eyxilark the
be-
tween the Northern Ocean of Germany 0.8:11
Mayence basin, and between the latter and the great
Southern Southern or Alpine Ocean, in which the flyschg and
earlier molasse were deposited. Mr. Hamil ton also alluded
to the extensive basaltic outbursts which occur so abun-
dantly throughout the whole country between Frankfort
and Hesse Cassel ; and he offered an explanation of the
phenomenon observed on several occasions where the
stratified beds of brown coal, clay, &c., are seen towards
and partly underneath the basaltic masses which form
the cappings of the plateaux. When the stratified beds
had been raised by subterranean pressure into undulating
masses, on a large scale, previously to the basaltic out-
bursts, the ingenious matter found an easier escape
1 the fissures of synclinal rather than of the throng 1
the fissures in the syncli-
nalsan-
ticlinal portions, inasmuch as
widened downwards, while those in the other per. . .
upper beds. The
tions were naturally wider in the
author concluded by showing that the brown coal beds
in this part of Germany belonged to at least three, if not
four, distinct periods.

* The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or-
leans and Botdeaux, and Tours and Nantes 'lnes.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.

STOCK EXOHANQE.—The market this morning has ruled
flat, and quotations reduced about A per cent. Thedealers
have been Chiefly occupied with preparations for the settle-
ment of the account on Monday next. Caledonian, 303 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 743 ; Lancaster and Carlisle,
new thirds, 7A prem.; London and North-Western, 3013 ;
'
ditto, A shares Ad. ; Midland, 681 ; Man., Shef., and
Lincoln, 244; North-Eastern, York capital stock, 26/ ;
North Staffordshire, 43 dis.; South-Eastern, 17/ ; Preston
and Wyre, 44.

tto, Pref.,
taTOOR EXCEIANGE.—The market has been quiet, and
rather vfeaker. East Lancashire, 18.; London and North
Western,
1014; ditto,
laud, 68a.' ; Devers, ; Leeds,
Eighths, indiis. ; ShefE7ellls.,
312 t
1231176CHESTER' JAN.
12.

IRMINGHAM, JAN. 12.
decidedly, firmer, and
STOCK EXCHBANGE.—The tone of the market has been
Price 3n advance. Great Westerns,
694 ; ditto, Birmingham Guaranteed, 72 ; London and
Prof. shares,
North Westelo:.rns, 101 i 1; Shrewsbury and Birmingham

LEEDS, JAN. 12.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There was a fiat business te-day,
and prices have further given way. Midlands, 69i; Leeds
Northerns, 13.

A Vienna letter says —" The pay of the French
General Ldtang has been included from the Ist inst., in
the expenses of the Austrian army; he receives the pay
and allowances of a Lieutenant Field-Marshal on active
service."