The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-10 00:00:00

6 cents.
Cattle
Coals : 100,000 tons, calculated at the tariff price of 15
795,000
cents. per kilom ----- - -

L 1,722,500
689,000
Or about 0 per cent.
-r of coals
In the above estimate of probable receipts, the transport
is calculated npon 100,000 tons minimum already secured to the
Company, but this quantity will soon be greatly exceeded.
tion of
The Government Engineers have stated that the prnduc
the Graissessac Collieries can reach 400,000 tons. The consumption
of the department where these coals can be brought to is valued at
530,000 tons, independent of the quantity wanted at the Ports for
sea service. f. 1,033,500
appointed
An official document, signed by M. Ducos, Ministre de la Marine,
declares that the Government Commissionrs
comparative trials of French coals, have found Graissessac coals
the
best adapted to steam-ships. A professional analysis of th. 2
seals, made in London by Mr. Harman 11. Lewis, and by
Maugham, has fully confirmed that rem tit. ho coal traffic
Their good :quality thus insuring a large sale, to make
cannot fail to bring before long a much higher revenue than above
stated.
London, September 4, 1852.

Deducting 40 per cent. for working expenses -

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1852.

Notwithstanding the jeers of many an ignorant
or injudicious caviller, the members of the British
Association still continue to hold their annual meet-
ings with honour to themselves, with advantage to
science, and with signal profit to the great cause of
humanity as involved in the problem of progressive
civilization. it has already been our gratifying duty
to comment frequently upon the development of those
noble inquiries into the various departments of
human knowledge which have signalised the energy,
the activity, and the self-devotion of the many emi-
nent men engaged in the researches adventured upon
by this intelligent and enterprising institution. We
have spoken the more earnestly in commendation of
those labours because of the peculiarly virulent, and
systematic, and infatuated nature of the hostility dis-
played towards their promoters by the enemies of the
British Association. Apart from this incentive to
eulogium, however, we cannot but acknowledge that
there are discoverable sufficient reasons for panegyric
in the importance and diversity of the benefits con-
ferred by the society upon the world at large—by the
consequent enhancement of those truths which, of all,
are the best calculated to improve the physical, and
intellectual, and, we believe we may correctly add, in
some measure also, the spiritual condition of man-
kind—we mean, of course, the sublime and awful
truths disclosed by the revelations of natural philo-
sophy. Happily it does not remain for us to an-
nounce the magnitude of the good thus secured to
the community by the elevated and ennobling toils
of the British Association. Their extent and variety
are by this time tolerably well, and pretty generally,
appreciated. If further illustration of this fact were
required it might be found, we conceive, in the mas-
terly and comprehensive Address delivered on the let
instant at Belfast, by Colonel SABINE, the newly-elected
President of the Association. In the course of that
remarkable document Colonel SABINE showed, beyond
the possibility of misapprehension that the achieve-
ments of the society have, in many particulars, been
really very extraordinary. They hare proved at
least that the members of the Association are no
mere dilettantes in theory, or pococurantes in experi-
ment. Abundant testimonies of this might be ad-
dueed from the inaugural Address here referred to,
but a selection from these will be adequate to confirm,
to the utmost desirable extent, the accuracy of our

foregoing assertions.
Colonel SABINE, at the outset of his remarks, con

fessed himself embarrassed by the astonishing profu-
sion of subjects demanding especial notice at his
hands upon the occasion of his opening the annual
proceedings of the British Association. Almost pain-
fully conscious, it would seem, of the difficulty of his
undertaking in this regard, the President wisely re-
solved to restrict his allusions to simply two or three
out of the seven departments constituting the Sections
of the Society. By this arrangement he was enabled

to yield a graceful preference either to the subjects
with which he himself is most familiar, or to those
which might in all likelihood be brought this year
more immediately under discussion. Pointing atten-
tion, in this manner, to Section A—or in other words
to the " Mathematical and Physical" department—
the learned orator recounted the progress made in the
attempt (originally suggested by the British Asso-
ciation) to establish an Observatory in the Southern
Hemisphere with the assistance, or at least under the
protection, of her MAJESTY'S Government. A memo-
rial recommending an enterprise of this description,
it will be remembered, was presented some time back
of the British
to the Cabinet, by the Earl of ROSSE on the part of
still believed—be
the Royal Society,
Association.a lt was conceived and is
and by Dr. RogiNeoN on the part
believed—assuredly with ample reason—that
in furtheralnpceectedf from such an establish-
mentmuch might
Astronomy.
decisivelyo what Colonel SASINE
advanced of all the
has grandly and
the divine and su-
preme The only rational ob-
jectionsince, it is gratifying
sciences," termed " the most
phhasanitolnygdissipated. Mirrors of
science of
de can now be readily polished
lor
ebt hdeeemnagtrni schemeiutmu
di on the spot" by means of the simple and ' •
tt
the
e know,
rneoq v
vut
for that purpose contrived byapparatus Earl Room
and successfully employed in the renovation of the
spectrum of his own gigantic telescope. Satisfied
upon this point,
Colonel SABINE proposes that mea-
sures should be forthwith taken with a view to bring
the matter once more under the consideration of our
Administrators. It is earnestly to be hoped that his
l
speediy adopted by the
advice may be very Royal
Society, as well as by the British Association, in re-
gard to a project which must, indeed, add not only
very coutiderably to " their coUntrYel honour" but,

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