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London, England, 1852-10-22 00:00:00

ity, and gaseity, abstract nouns derived of course from
the familiar adjectives, " irrelative," " amorphous,"
" sinistral," and " gaseous"—it has, we conceive,
permanently enriched the language. Speaking him..
self of the difficulties standing in the way of a lucid
classification of ideas, Dr. Roget has directed atten-
tion to the circumstance of a neutral idea being some-
times admitted between two others of a completely
opposite character, and from which it is equi-distant,
as in the subjoined :
Identity. Difference. Contrariety.
Beginning-. Middle. End.
Past. Present. Future.
Still more curiously, be has pointed out examples
where the intermediate word is simply the negative
to each of two opposite positions. As—
Convexity. Flatness. Concavity.
Desire. Indifference. Aversion.
Again, he reminds us that elsewhere the intermediate
word is properly the standard with which each of the
extremes is compared. As—
Insufficiency. Sufficiency. Redundance.
From these illustrative facts, it is obvious that the
obstacles necessary to be vanquished, even in the
Tabular Synopsis of Categories, were by no means
trivial in extent or restricted in number. Yet the
vast majority have been successfully overcome by
the compiler, sometimes by conquest, and sometimes
by evasion. Having himself triumphed so remarkably
over difficulties that, to a less energetic and lets in-
structed philologist, must have appeared to be almost
wholly insurmountable, we deem it no marvel that he
talks hopefully towards the close of bis very masterly
"Introduction" of the possibility of mankind being
ultimately blessed with one Universal Language. It
was the day-dream of Leibnitz—it was the conviction
of Wilkins—and it is still the hope of Roget : nor
can we feel amazement that such should be the case
in the latter instance, when we scan the pages of the
really marvellous compilation before us, and reflect
upon the care, and the acuteness, and the vigilance,
and the perseverance, and the indomitable energy,
and the abounding knowledge, successfully concen-
trated in the fabrication of this wonderful " The-
saurus"—the classified and docketted store of all the
riches of the English language.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.-THIIRSDAY.

At the commencement of business Azael was in great
force at 11 to 2, and was first favourite, but subsequently
gave precedence to Babette, who, after several offers of
6to 1, left off at sto 1 (taken). Azael receded to 6to
1 on the advance of the mare, afterwards rose to 5 to 1,
taken to several hundred pounds, and finally closed at
11 to 2 (takers.) A good deal of money was laid out on
Ephesus at 10, 11, and 12 to 1, the last bet being 1,100
to 100. Convulsion, Hyacinth, Vireathergage, Hobble
Noble, and the Knight of the Shire were backed for
small sums; nothing else was in favour.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
5 to 1 agat Mr. R. E. Oliver us Babette (taken)
11 to 2 agat Sir W. Booth's Azael (taken)
11 to 1 agst Mr. Waller's Ephesus (taken)
14 to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Weathergage (taken sad
afterwards offered)
16 to 1 agst Major Martyn's Convulsion (taken)
20 to 1 agst Baron Rothschild's Hyacinth (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Hobbie Noble (taken)
20 to 1 agat Lord Bruce's Knight of the Shire (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Morris's Hungerford
25 to 1 agst Mr. Phillips's Le Juif
30 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Lady Evelyn
40 to 1 agst Mr. Waring's Manifold (taken)
1000 to 500 agst Babette and Azael (taken)