The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864.

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British Association for the Advancement
of Science.

BATH, Tuesday.

From the number of arrivals yesterday and to-day it may
now be fairly anticipated that the meeting of the Anode-
ti.ua in this c;ty will be most successful. Up to 3 o'clock
this afternoon nearly 1,500 tickets had been sold—a consi-

derably larger number than has hitherto been issued on the
day before the proceedings commence. The demand for hotel
accommodation and private lodgings has been great, but
fortunately for strangers Bath, unlike many other places
visited by this association, has this recommendation, that it
has always a large number of spacious and elegant apart-
ments available for almost any number of visitors. Prices
have not therefore been excessive, and every possible faci-
lity has been afforded by the excellent system of registration
both for extent of accommodation and price established at
the Reception-room.
Great interest appears to be attached to the inaugural
address of Sir Charles Lyell, the new President. which will
be delivered to-morrow evening, and which it is expected
will make special reference to the thermal and mineral
waters of Bath. _

The sections will commence their proceedings on the fol-
lowing morning. Of these there are : —A. Mathematical and
Physical Sciences B. Chemical Science ; C. Geology; D.
Zoology and Botany, including Physiology; E. Geography
and Ethnology; F. Economic Science and Statistics ; and
G. Mechanical Science, Sections C., E., and F. are likely
to prove the most interesting. In C. an interesting paper
will be read by Mr Bristow on the Geological Survey. Sir
Wm. Logan, director of the Geological Survey of Canada,
has brought for inspection by the association a large box of
fossils of a much more ancient charac` or than. any that have
boon previously discovered, In Section E, presided over by
Sir It. Murchison, papers will be read by Captain Spoke,
Captain Burton, Sir H. Itawlinson, and M. Khaniktff, the
Russian geographer.
In Section F, Economic Science and Statislics, several
sanitary papers are to be read, among others, by Dr Wilson,
on Cheltenham; by Mr A. B. Middleton, on Salisbury; by
Dr Symonds, on Clifton ; by Mr Tite, M.P., on the" Health
Statistics of Paris in Connection with its Street Improve-
ments;" and by Mr Samuel Brown upon the " Mortality of
Europeans in India." Col. Torrens will read a paper upon
the " Conveyance of Title by Registration as applicable to
Ireland." Mr Westgarth will bring to the section
" Some Statistics of Crime in Australia." Professor Wilson,
it is expected, will furnish an account of the statistics of
agricultural implements, and Mr Robert Herbert has pro-
mised one upon the " Statistics of Live Stock." Mr Chet-
wynd has sent a paper upon " Postal Banks ;" and Mr F..
Purdy has one on " The Quantity and Value of Corn im-
ported into the United Kingdom since the Repeal of the

Corn Laws." Some interesting statistical works which

have been sent over for the use of the Section by foreign
Governments will be brought under the notice of the mem-
bersiby the President. Of these may be mentioned " The
Statistics of the Russian Empire," by M Troiniski, the
Minister in charge of the Statistical Bureau at St. Peters-
burg; "Statistics of the Kingdom of Italy," by Signor
Maestro's Department at Turin; the new sheets of the
census of France, transmitted by M. Le Goyt; and a su-
perbly printed folio of the recent "Census of Spain." On
Friday the report of the committee appointed at the New-
castle meeting to consider "the best means of providing for
a uniformity of weights and measures with reference to the
interests of science," will be read in this Section by Mr
James Heywood.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The quarterly examinations for September at the Royal
Naval College, Portsmouth, of candidates for naval cadet-
ships has been brought to a conclusion, and the following

list of successful candidates was promulgated at the College
yesterday, the candidates passing in order of mezit accord-

ing to the number against their name on the list.
QUALIFIED FOR• NAVAL CADETS, FIRST CLASS.
fl Vernon Archibald Tis- *24 Hon. Basil Napier
dall 25 Frederick E. Strickland
*2 Edwird Ponsonby 26 James A. Ward
3 Francis John Hamilton *27 Hon A. E. C. Coles
t I Frank Henry Rogers *2B Edward Knipe
5 William John•Norcock 29 Gerald R. Maltby
6 Henry Stanley Clarke 30 Michael P. o•CAllaghan
7 John W. Osborne 31 William 11. Webster
1-8 Thomas Hadley t 32 Thomas St John G.
*9 Charles H. Adair Clarke
10 Henry B. Warren,. 33 Cecil M. G. Cooper
tll John E. Bearcroft 34 Francis R. Pell)?
12 George K. Gordon *35 H. W. Phelps
13 Robert' 1..: Mayne 36 F. D. S. Scott
14 Gerald M. Richardson *37 J. P. P. Cook
15 Francis P. Carey 38 G. H, C. Stapleton
16 William C. Forrest *39 D. /A. R. Read
17 Robert M'A. Sparrow 43 James Brant
18 James B. Hay *4l E. V. Burridge
*l9 Charles WC. Leßlanc 42 G. A. Walmeley
*2O Stewart L. D. Ryser 43 G. H. Cherry
*2l Edwin A. Hobson 44 L. K. C. Boyle
*22 James I3urder 45 Charles S. Elton
23 William P. H. Heyland *4,6 Robert K. M'Alpine
Twenty-nine candidates in the first class wero turned
back by the examiners.
QUALIFIED FOR NAVAttADETS, SECOND CLASS,
1 Charles W. May f 8 W. B. Harris
t 2 E. W. Wild 9 H. B. Newton
3 V. D. Hughes 10 Henry Donegan
4 E. H. H. blossom 11 D. A. Richmond
5 A. J. Lake 12 W. H. H. Rowe
6 Arthur Havergall 13 G. A. Warleigb.
7 Herbert Swire

The French Imperial screw yacht Prince Jerome, with
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde and suite on
board, sailed from Spithead on Monday evening and arrived
at Havre yesterday morning. At the conclusion of the
visit of the Prince and Princess to Portsmouth dockyard on
Monday they honoured the French Vice Consul, the Che-
valier Van den Bergh, yith their presence at luncheon at

his residence, Holland House, Southsea. After luncheon
the Prince and Princess embarked in the Imperial twin
screw barge La Mouche, paid a short visit to the Excellent
gunnery ship and.witnessed some blank practice from her
12 ton guns, and afterwards returned to the Prince Jerome
in La Mouche.
No intimation had been given of the Prince's intended
visit to the authorities, official or otherwise, and the Prince
and Princess were therefore received on landing without any

of the ceremony or honours usually accorded to their rank.
The Ist Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards is expected to
leave the Sheet-street barracks, Windsor, for the Tower of
London to-morrow. It will be relieved at Windsor by the
2.1 Battalion Coldstream Guards. _ _ _

The Defence, ironclad steamer, Capt. Phillimore, which
has been on a trip to the Bristol Channel during the past
week, left yesterday, it was understood, for the Mediter-
ranean.

The following appointments have been made at the Ad .
miralty :—Capt. John Borlase, C.D., to the Trafalgar, vice
Capt. Schomberg, placed on the retired list—Lieut. E. B.
Wadlow and Sub-Lieut. J. W. Jones and Sub-Lieut. E. F.
Day to the Rattlesnake, additional, for disposal—Leonard
Lucas, assist. surg., additional, to the Royal Adelaide—
Edward P. Clapp, second master, supernumerary, to the
Royal Adelaide—E. F. Nicholson, assist. paymaster, addi-
tional, to the Euryalus—Augustus A. Lyme, assist, pay-
master, to the Rattlesnake—Walter B. Spence, clerk, to the
Trafalgar—William S. Watson, clerk, additional, to the
Euryalus—Jjenry J. Layland, chief engineer, to the Cum-
berland, for the Mars—Henry Williams, chief engineer, to
the Cumberland, for the Forte—Thomas H. Morgan, engi-
neer, to the Asia, as supernumerary—William P. Guyer,
acting engineer, to the Indus, for the Espoir—John Bar-
nett, of the Fisgard, W. H. Barker, of the Indus, and Hy.
J. Packer, of the Frederick William, confirmed as first-class
assist. engineers—W. Annan, assist. engineer, to the Indus
as supernumerary--and Peter Foulis, assist. engineer, to
the Pembroke for her tender.
The undermentioned gentlemen have been nominated to
nrivai cadetships :—Hon. Harry de V. Pcry, Mr C. Wind-
ham, Mr Guy Gisborne, Mr Henry Trafford, Mr C. W.
Roberts, Mr Frank Finals, and Mr W. C. Snell.
* Passed-44m Burney's Ipysk.Navat Gosport.
t Paesed from Eastman's Eastern Parade Academy,
Southsea,

Destructive Fire at Toronto.

On Sunday morning, August 23, there occurred a
Toronto ono of the most destructive fires with which that
city has been visited for a length of time. The fire originated
at the Grand Trunk Wharf and Elevator, which were com-
pletely destroyed, with some 50,000 bushels of grain and
400 barrels of flour. The Globe says—" The Grand Trunk
Wharf extended out from the Esplanade between Peter
and Brock streets. It was without exception the finest
and most substantial wharf in Toronto harbour, and was
erected two years ago at a cost of about 25,000 dols. The
capacious flour shed, capable of containing several thousand
barrels of flour, was put up only a few months ago at a oast
of between 5,000 and 6,000 dole. These losses, are, however,
but trifling, compared with that of the Elevator. This fine
building—one of the best of the kind in the province—
was constructed at the same time as the wharf, the whole
having been built by Mr Sheddon, who subsequently dis-
posed of the wharf to the Grand Trunk Railway Company.
The Elevator, though known as the Grand Trunk Elevator,
was the property of Mr Sheddon. Its actual cost at the
time of its erection was 50,000 dole, but it has been recently
considerably altered and improved at an additional outlay
of several thousand dollars. Fortunately for Mr Sheddon
the building will not be a total loss, as he had an insurance
of 35,000 dols on it in the following companies :-21,000 dols
in the Liverpool and London, 8,000 dols in the North
British, 'and 16,000 dols in the Liverpool and Lancashire.
The loss sustained by the Grand Trunk Company in the
wharf will be covered by the insurance fund of the com-
pany. In the Elevator at the time of its destruction there
were about 45,000 or 50,000 bushels of grain, divided as
follows :--Oats about 35,000, corn about 15,000, wheat about
6,000. This, so far as we could learn, was owned by various
shipping firms in this city and elsewhere, and was partially
covered by insurance, though to what extent we aro not
informed. The following are the names ofndth Ames, e principall
sufferers :—Erwin and Sloan, and Cheney
a
small
wego ; and W. D. Matthews and S. A. Oliver, Toronto.
Mr Oliver lost about 5,800 bushels of oats, on which he had,
we believe, an insurance of 1,208 dole. In the flour shed
there
barrels, whereas
Messrs Gooderham and Worsts lost 127 barrels, air W. F.
Howland 200, and Mr P. Payland 10. Moat of the flour,
thereare
sometimes as many thousands.
we were informed, was insured, though at very much less
than its value. The total loss, as nearly as can at present
be ascertained, will be as follows :—The Elevator, 50,000
dole, the wharf and flour sheds 30,000 dols, oats about 11,500
dole, corn about 10,500 dols, wheat about 6,001 dole, flour
about 2,400 dols—total, 109,400 dols. The total insurance, as
far as could be learnt, does not exceed 30,000 dole, so that
the actual loss in all will be in round numbers 70,000 dole.
Fortunately this heavy loss does not come on one person
alone, but is borne by several, though Mr Sheddon
bears by far the greater portion of it. The calamity could
hardly have happened at a worse time of the year, so far as
Mr Sheddon is concerned. 13e had but a few weeks ago
commenced making preparations for the reception and
storage of this year's grain, so that by the loss of the Eleva-
tor he will lose the whole trade of the coming fall and
winter, it being hardly possible to erect a new Elevator
before next spring.

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Phillips, the
materials found in the possession of licensed brewers have
been analysed, and of these 20 were foetid to be illicit ; the
prohibited ingredients, in 14 samplesl
grains of paradise,
one of these samples containing, in addition, tobacco ; in two
other cocculus indicus was present in large and dangerous
quantities; two samples contained capsicum; and the re-
maining two proto-sulphate of iron. Gendially the pro-
hibited materials employed in the adulteration of beer are not
injurious to health, the object of the fraudu'ent brewers or
retailers of beer being more to increase the bulk of their
goods than to render the beer stupefyin—
g by the addition
of noxious materials. Still, he sass, there can be little
doubt that the practice of adulterating beer with poisonous
matters, such as tobacco and cocculus indicus, is more
prevalent than might be inferred from the smaller number
of detections made, at the fraud is difficult to discover
unless the offender be caught in the act of committing
it. Considering, thar.:ore, this circumstance, and the
abominable character of the offence, Mr Phillips is of
opinion that it would be only just to the community to
make public tho names of those persons convicted of
adding cocculous indicus or other deleterious substances
to beer brewed for sale; and he fools no hesitation in stat-
ing that the two instances of the use of the dangerous
drug in question occurred in the neighbourhood of
Wirksworth, in Derbyshire, and that many of the detec-
tions of the use of grains of paradise were also made in
the same district. He states also that the experience of
many years has led him to the conclusion that the adul-
teration of beer with drugs, as distinguished from the mere
dilution or increasing of the bulk of the article, is more
prevalent in the Midland Counties and the West Riding of
Yorkshire than, in any other parts of the kingdom,

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

The deaths in London, which had ranged in August, above
3,400 weekly, declined to 1,352 in the week that ended last
Saturday. The deaths of persons under 20 years of age fell
from 800 and upwards to 752.

The average number of deaths in the 30th week of the 10
years, 1854-63, is, with the excluiion of death from epide-
mic cholera in 1851, and with a correction for increase of
population, 1,211. But the actual number returned for last
week exhibits an excess of 140 above the number thus esti-
mated.

Diarrhoea has now perceptibly decreased. It rose to its
maximum in the first week in August, when the deaths
from it were 286 ; in the last week of that month they were
180, and last week 132, The moan temperature of the air
in the first wsek of August was G 5 deg, last week it was Gl-1
deg.

Five deaths from scarlatina occurred in the sub-district
of St. John, Westminster; four in that of St. John, Mary-
lebone ; four in that of Tottenham-court-road ; four in
Islington West; four in Haggerstone Vest, Tho total
number from scarlatina was 73.
There were 53 fatal cases of measles, five of which were
in Limehonse, 11 in the district of Poplar, in which also
there were 10 of typhus; 17 deaths from typhus occurred
in Deptford, Greenwich, and Woolwich.
At 5, Storer-street, Mile-end, a sempstress, aged 24 years,
died from effusion on the chest, accelerated by overwork and
want of necessaries.

A painter, aged 54 years, died from fever and cerebral
disease, caused by exposure to the sun's heat when at his
work.

A woman died of rheumatic fever, caused by the damp
of a newly-built house,
A charwoman died at 111, Tyers-street, Lambeth, on the
Bth Sept., at the age of 101 years.
Last week the births of 954 boys and 985 girls, in all
1,939 children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor-
responding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average number

(corrected) was 1852.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.805 in. The reading
was 29.55 in. on Sunday, and rose to 29.92 in. on Monday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was 61.1 deg,
which is 3.2 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). The lowest night
temperature was 48.4 deg. on Tuesday. The highest day
temperature was 75.5 deg. on Thursday, The range of tem-
perature in the week was therefore 27.1 deg. The mean
daily range was 14.4 deg. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 7.7 deg,
The mean degree of humidity of the air was 76, complete
saturation being represented by 100. The humidity was
only 60 on Monday, when the wind was in the north-west.
It rose to 91 on the following day, when the wind was in
the south-west, from which point the wind continued to
blow during the remainder of the week. Rain fell to the
amount of 0.39 in. A quarter inch fell on Tuesday. The
mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the
Thames was 62 deg. 7 min.; that of the lowest was GO deg.
4 min.
The births (this return is supplied by the Registrar.,
General of Ireland) registered in Dublin during the meek
ending the 10th September was 152, and the deaths were
99, in a population of 254,8,8 (in 1861), spread over an area
of 3,803 statute acres.

The deaths in Vienna as returned by Dr Clatter were
273 in the week ending the 3d of September, when the
mean temperature was 58 deg. S min., that of Greenwich
having boon GO deg, 3 min.