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THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.

EDINBURGH, Wednesday.
DINNER OF THE ASSOCIATION.

At 6 o'clock the annual dinner of the association was
held in the Music-hall, and was attended by from 400 to
500 ladies and gentlemen. The chair was occupied by the
Right Hon. Lord Brougham, at whose right hand sat the
Lord Provost, the Lord Advocate, the Right Hon. Joseph
Napier, Lord Ardmillan, Mr. J. A. Lawson, Solicitor-
General of Ireland ; Professor Christison, Admiral Ramsay,
Mr. C. Cowan, Mr. H. Fawcett, and Professor Archer. On
the left were the Hon. Judge Longfield, Lord Neaves, M.
Gamier Pages, Mr. Sergeant Sheet Professor Douglas
Maclagan, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. Henry Brougham.
The Rev. Dr. LEE said grace, and the Rev. Dr. ALEX-
ANDER returned thanks,

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPRA.RE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
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Glyn and Co., bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
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of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

Lord BROUGHAM, who, on rising to give the first toast,
was loudly cheered, said,—l have very great satisfaction in
proposing " The health of her Majesty the Queen ;" and
I shall only repeat what I have said over and over again at
our festive and other meetings, that there never was a
monarch who better deserved the thanks of the people as
ruling strictly according to the Constitution. In the dis-
charge of all the duties of her eminent position she is an
example to all her subjects ; and as a parent in bringing up
her family she is an example to all mothers. I have, there-
fore, great pleasure in proposing "Her Majesty the Queen."
(Loud cheers.)

Lord BROUGHAM, in giving the next toast, said—We have
drunk to the cause; I have now to ask you to drink to the
effect—l mean the effect of the good education and the
admirable training by her Majesty and the late lamented
:.
rime Consort, who have brought up their family in such
T believe no other family in their position were
a way as -
They say comparisons are invidious,
almost ever educelfc'cl'
• to find a contrast, go to former
and therefore I shall neiL'''er,
times in this country, nor loek 611 road to other countries for
the state and the position of princes; but I will give you at
once "The Prince and Princess of tholes and the rest of
the Royal Family." We have had a sample of the Royal
family here during the congress—a most excellent young
prince—(loud applause)—and all who have associated with
him have expressed their admiration for his talents as well
as for his modesty. (Cheers.)
Lord BROUGHAM again rose and said—l have to trouble
you once more to ask yon to offer your respect, your grati-
tude to our brave defenders by sea and land, the "Navy
and Army and Volunteers." (Applause.) Let no man sup.
pose that he who rejoices in this great addition to our
national forces, the Volunteers, does so from any apprehen-
sion that the peace will be broken. (Hear.) Thank God I
there is every reason to count on a lasting peace. (Cheers,)
But that is no ream why the precaution ought not to be
taken of insurance. (Hear.) When a man insures his
house he does not expect a fire. He does not do it because
he thinks a fire probable. He knows that a fire may hap-
pen from the negligence of the people in his own house, or
from the negligence of the neighbours, or by the accident of
lightning. In short, he means to take security against it
happening, or rather to be secure of not loosing if it should
happen. Now, the Volunteers, or whatever else we do to
improve our national defences, are an insurance; but they
are an insurance far superior to our insurance against fire ;
for when I insure my house against fire, I don't in the
slightest degree lessen the chances that a fire may happen,
I only make sure that if it does happen I shall not be a
loser. But improving our national defences not only secure
us against loss by invasion, if it should happen, but it makes
it very unlikely that that invasion should take place. (Loud
cheers.) The insurance is, therefore, of a double nature
and of a double value, because it not only prevents loss if
the mischief happens, but tends to prevent the mischief
from happening. (Loud Cheers.) I, therefore, gave you
" The Navy, Army, and Volunteers."
Admiral Ramsay, Sir J. Alexander, and Lieutenant-
Colonel M'Gregor successively replied to the toast.
The LORD-PROVOST then gave " The National Associa-
tion and its President. Ho said,—lt would be equally
beyond my ability and beyond the limits of one toast to
attempt that comprehensive allusion to all the varied and
lofty qualities which is due to the widely-honoured name of
Henry Brougham. If I did attempt it I should have to
speak of a career which for brilliant success, the application
of extraordinary powers of mind, for extended duration and
unabated vigour, has rarely, if it has at all been equalled in
the history of great public men. (Loud cheers.) Perhaps
not the least celebrated feature in the life of our noble Pre-
sident is that untiring determination to remain, while health
and strength permits, in full working harness ; and it as-
suredly forms a noble record that, after a professional career
which has yielded every honour due to distinguished emi-
nence, after and amid the turmoil of parliamentary life, Lord
Brougham has devoted his great energies of mind to the
philanthropic objects of this association. (Loud cheers.)
Lord BROUGHAM, in reply, after expressing gratification
at the presence of the ladies, said—lt gives me great delight
to preside over such a vast assemblage as this—all members
or the friends of members of our great national association.
(Cheers.) Now I hear it carped at in different ways. One
objection is to the name " Social Science." We have heard
that cavil at our former meetings, and it has been renewed
on the present occasion. Now, I can only say we did not in-
vent the name. Upwards of 40 years ago Mr, Mill, a cele-
brated literary man, and author of a History of Egypt, and
father of John Stuart Mill, used the term " social science"
in one of his valuable essays. But the fact is, there can be
no doubt whatever of the meaning of the expression, and
of the nature of our pursuits. (Hear.) Now, the delight
which I have in this institution and in its success is not
If anybody ask—as those who carp at
little. (Applause.)
the name ask—what does it do, I will not go into particu-
lars, but 1 take my stand on one name—the name of our
fellow-member Mr. Chadwick, and I say look to his great
and successful exertions in improving the sanitary condition
of our Indian army—luok at the improvements which
have arisen from his exertions at Liverpool, and after-
wards at Bradford. Look also at the great addition to
the education elf the country by the adoption of the short
time process; and T. say that these two instances, and all
effected by this association, are quite enough to show how
we have been, (Cheers.) I have seen
useful, practically,
very great exception taken to one or two things I stated in
my opening address, and among other things exception is
taken to my having praised and recommended the Sisters of
Charity. It is said, But you recommend Catholics; you
recommend the importation from France of Catholic Sisters
of Charity, who will immediately set themselves to prosely-
tise this country. My answer is this—that in the case of
Lady Georgina Fullerton and Miss Easton we did not im-
port Catholics from France or Ireland, for they are our fel-
low-countrywomen, who happen to be Catholics, and the
only person who came from France was the sister superior.
The rest aro all English Catholics, and I have seen here to-
day some most worthy persons, Sisters of Charity also, who
come from France, and they are Catholics, no doubt, but
they are Englishwomen and Scotchwomeu who have been
settled in France, and have come back to this country. But
it is not to be supposed that I only praised or recommended
the Catholic sisterhood. I expressly pointed out Miss
Brownlee Byron's Home Refuge for English Sisters of
Charity, and stated that they performed all the nursing at
the North London Hospital in connexion with University
College. (Applause,) I have also got a letter from a man
connected with America, who tells me there is great excep-
tion taken on the part of the American newspapers in this
country to my differing with the United States Government
on the subject of this horrible war. It is said that I under-
rate and undervalue the emancipation of the slaves. I under-
value the emancipation of the slaves I (Loud and pro-
longed cheers). Why, have all the advocates of slave
emancipation done half so much for the liberation of the
slave and the abolition of slavery as I myself have done ?
(Loud cheers.) At the very beginning of my Parliamentary
life it was signalized by the Act of 1811, the one which of
all the many Acts I have had a hand in passing gave me
the most real satisfaction, namely, the Act abolishing the
slave trade. Before the Act the slave trade was considered
a mere act of contraband, and was punished as contraband ;
and my act raised, or rather, sank it to its real denomina-
tion of a crime—and a bad crime—punishable by 14 years
transportation. (Cheers.) And that act effectually extin-
guished the slave trade be as far as British subjects
were engaged in it. Then, in 1830 or 1837 I shortened
the period of negro apprenticeship, and occasioned the
complete liberation of the slaves three or four years before
it otherwise would have taken place. Then, I may add.
though it is a trifle as compared with these exertions, I
may add a very great personal sacrifice. I gave up a very
considerable estate in Barbadoes and a large estate in the
a kind-hearted gentleman had
county of Durham, which
left me by a will which he afterwards revoked on my re-
to abstain from further proceedings for the libera-
-1 fusiee though be said in his letter in which he
tion of the slave., T ensure yon that your peasantry
called on me to abstain, •• than your peasantry
on yourßarbadoes estate are better oe
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in the county of Durham. I should not have valued the Bar-
badoes estate so much, but I declined taking the course he
desired, and sent him a copy of a report of my friend the
Duke of Richmond's committee of the House of Lords cn
slavery, after which I ceased to have any correspondence
with that excellent proprietor, and a few years afterwards
he died, and no doubt his will was cancelled. (A laugh,)
I only state these things to show that for anybody to sup •
pose that I am slow, or unwilling, or hesitating on the ques-
tions of the abolition of negro slavery is really a most mon-
strous delusion. (Loud cheers.) All my efforts were to-
wards emancipation without violence—emancipation by
change of law and change of system,—and never did I lend
the slightest countenance to acts of violence against the
slaveholder. Much as I detest.slavery,and much as I pitied
those who were its victims,--and I pitied among its victims
the masters as well as the slaves themselves—never did I
raise my finger or raise my voice for an instant in support
of any violent proceeding to effect their emancipation.
Consequently when I heard of North America issuing a
proclamation to emancipate the slaves, I knew very well
before they confessed it that it was not for the sake of
emancipating the slave—(hear, hear)—but for the sake of
beating the whites. It was a measure of hostility, not
an act of emancipation, ani a measure of hostility of the
most detestable kind, by raising an insurrection of the slaves
against their masters, which only the much-enduring nature
of the negro prevented from succeeding, so that the great
mischief that was intended against the whites did not take
place. (Hear, hear.) But I must beg your pardon for
having defended myself against so ridiculous a charge,
which could only have arisen from utter delusion. They
call out for the extermination of the whites, not in order to
liberate the blacks, but to restore the Union. (Cheers.) The
union, and not the negro, is the object of the emancipation
proclamation, and to that proclamation, therefore, I could
not give any kind of support. It is a most unhappy contest,
most miserable in all respects, but I hope we shall continue
on the principle on which we have hitherto proceeded—of
interfering with neither party. (Cheers.) The Federals
are angry with us because we don't join with them, and the
Confederates are angry with us because we do not acknow-
but if we were to acknowledge them we should
ledge them ;
only prolong this horrible and miserable contest. We have
nothing to do with either one party or the other. (Hear.)
We aro bound to maintain our own independence of them,
and leave them to fight it out among themselves, only
heartily-praying that their fight may be as short as possible.
(Loud cheers.) Lord Brougham again rose and propbsed
„The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, and pros-
perity to the city of Edinburgh." (Loud cheers.).

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Dec. 10, "The dockyard, and how to ace it," by
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line broke into open columns of divisions, right in
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alignment of the divisions being well preserved, and -
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inspectedthefr-G en. Lord
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Col. English, C. 8., on Southsea-common. Yester:
day his lordship was engaged in inspecting the
Military Hospital at Portsea.
The Ist division of the 55th Regiment stationed
at. Portsmouth, will embark -there far India on
board the Hougomont hired transport, on the 20th
inst. The headquarters, whose embarkation has
been delayed by the rejection of the ship Meteor,
tendered for their conveyance, will embark at
Portsmouth about the 25th inst.
The 17th inst. is the day at present
named for
the embarkation of the headquarters of the 76th
Regiment for India on board the Hornet transport
at Portsmouth. The remainder of the Regiment
will embark from the same port on board the Ata-
lanta.

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printed, without the namts of the writers, for the emus
meat of the readers of and Queries, First Series,
7. Au elderly man came to me to show me how the
verse was created.—There was one molecule, which by vi-
bration—Heaven knows how I—the sari. Further vibra-
tion produced Mercury; and so on. I suspect the nebular
hypothesis had got into the poor man's head by reading,
in some singular mixture with what it found there. Some
modifications of vibration gave heat, electricity, &c. I lis-
tened until my informant ceased to vibrate, which is always
the shortest way, and then said, " Our knowledge of elastic
fluids is imperfect." " Sir," said he, " I see you per-
ceive the truth of what I have said, and I will reward
your attention by telling you what I seldom disclose,
never except to those who can receive my theory ; the
little molecule whose vibrations have given rise to our
solar system is the Logos of St. John's Gospel." He went
away to Dr. Lardner, who would not go into the solar
system at all; the first molecule settled the question. So
hard upon poor discoverers ate men of science who are
antiquaries in their subject! On leaving, he said, " Sir,
Mr. De Morgan received me in a very different way; he
heard me attentively, and I left him perfectly satisfied of
the truth of my system." 1 have had much reason to think
that many discoverers, of all classes, believe they have con-
vinced everyone who is not peremptory to the verge of
incivility.
LAUNCH OP THE VALIANT.

Her Majesty's iron-clad frigate Valiant was launched
from the Admiralty yard, Mill wall, yesterday. The ship
is 4,144 tons builder's measurement, and 4,063 tons by the
Navy List. The dimensions are : length over all, 280 feet;
breadth, extreme, 56 feet 3 inches ; and depth from spar
deck, 39,feet. The draught of water will be 25 feet 2 inches.
The engines by Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, with
which the ship will now be fitted, aro 800-horse power,
The armament on each broadside will consist of twelve 68-
pounders and three HO-pounder Armstrongs, giving a
broadside weight of metal of 1,146 lbs., and 2,292 lbs. from
both broadsides. On the slip the Valiant looked short and
dumpy, and the appearance is not wholly lost in the water.
For deep sea water the ship forms a formidable addition to
the fleet, but for war with America, Russia, or even
France, ships of half the tonnage and draft of water would
render incalculably greater service. The Valiant will
always have to lie off the coast, and in heavy weather will
be unsafe unless in mid-ocean, while a handy, small craft
could be kept off a harbour's mouth, and seek shelter at any
time behind a breakwater. But the Minotaur, the Nor-
thumberland, the Agincourt, and the Achilles are each
2,000 tons larger than the Valiant.

The Valiant, so far, has been the most unfortunate of all
our iron clads, and unless changes are effected will LP.. all
likelihood remain the most unfortunate to the end. Quoting
from Admiral Robinson, "The Valiant shoull have been
delivered, according to the original coutract, in August,
1862. The contractors failed, and requested the Admiralty
to annul the contract. Anotbra contract was made with a
fresh party to deliver the ship in March, 1863. There is no
prospect of the work being finished for six months after
that date." If Admiral Robinson had said there was no
prospect of the ship being finished before March, 1864, he
would have been nearer right. Much remains to be done in
the inside of the ship, the armour plating is far from being
complete, and last of all, there are the fitting of the engines
and the spars and rigging. Messrs. Maudslay and Field
have been long waiting to perform their part, and the blame
rests between the Admiralty and the Thames Shipbuilding
Company. All that we can say is that between the two the
public have been badly served, and that the public ought to
know who the offender is.
The future danger of the Valiant consists in this, to quote
an American authority on iron clad construction,—" The
Valiant is armoured with the singular deficiency of a short
distance at the water line near the bow and stern." This is
a quotation from a book published recently in New York by
the Appletons, and the deficiency may be well characterised
as singular. It is a deficiency that positively renders the
ship unfit for action, because a shell penetrating the side of
the ship before or abaft the armour at the water line could
not fail to blow the deck above into the air. At the meeting
of the Institute of Naval Architects, over which Sir J. Pak-
ington last presided, this defect was insisted on in strong
terms by Mr. S. Russell, in the presence of Mr. E. J. Reed
and Admiral Robinson, but it remains, and most deservedly
provokes American ridicule. In the Achilles the forward and
aft plating has been reserved ,and is therefore unobjectionable.
Perhaps the knowledge of this e efect of the Valiant has some-
thing to do with the delay of the ship, because neither the
Admiralty nor the Thames Shipbuilding Company can ex-
pect any credit from the construction of what in action
would prove a mere slaughter-house for British seamen.
The weight of metal which it is proposed the Valiant
shall deliver will considerably exceed that of the Warrior.
The Warrior's broadside is no more than 8841 b from 13
GS-pounders. The Valiant's broadside will, however, be
less than that of the Royal Oak, the converted iron-clad,
which is 1,2561 b. from twelve 68-pounders, and four 110-
pounders. But the disparity is less real than nominal, be-
cause the 110-pounders aro, it is to be feared, not trust-
worthy. They are at least guns not used so freely nor con-
fidently as the old 63-pounders, because something or other
may blow out or give way. This is a reflection of a painful
character, particularly when it is considered that as long ago
as 1845 the Mersey Steel and Iron Works manufactured for
the Princeton, American frigate, a gun still in use, with a
bore of 12ft., by a diameter of 12in. This gun throws a
solid shot of 2191b5., and its weight is 7 tons 17 cwt. 1 qr.
Plain forging and boring would, however, not suit the Ad-
miralty and Ordnance authorities, and the consequence is
that we are behind France and America in guns, when we
might easily have outstripped them both.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

litysterious Death of a Girl at Yeovil.

The Warrior and Resistance, iron frigates,
steamed into Portsmouth Harbour yesterday, and
will be placed in dock.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—John West, engineer, to the
Asia, as supernumerary ; and William Murray, as-
sist.-engineer to the Columbine.

On Tuesday an adjourned inquest was held at the
Castle Inn, Yeovil, Somersetshire, on the body of
Elizabeth Fox, by Dr. Wybrants, and after an in-
quiry of several hours' duration a verdict of man-
slaughter was returned against Robert Slade Colmer,
a well-known herb doctor. At the opening of the
inquiry it was proved that the deceased was 20
years of age, and being a perfect stranger to Colmer
she went to his house, where she stayed a week, at
the end of which she had a miscarriage, and died
on Sunday morning, October 2, almost suddenly.
At the opening of the inquiry on Tuesday, the 6th
inst., the wife and daughter of Colmer were exa-
mined, and they stated that deceased had come to
the house complaining that she bad something the
matter with her liver, that she took no medicine
whilst there, and died on the night after the miscar-
riage. Colmer has been living in Yeovil for 20 years,
has been in the habit of atiending market towns, and,
was patronised by a large number of persons. his
son, Dr. Colmer, a licentiate of the Royal College
of Physicians at Edinburgh, lives with him, and al-
though he attended the young woman at her death,.
he stated at the inquest that he rarely inter-
fered with his father's patients, although he had
patients of his own in the town. Colmer, sen., is a
man about 50, is said to have known something of
astrology, and was consulted in matters touohing
recovery of stolen sheep, pigs, &c. ;but it is under-
stood he has refused to have anything to do with
such matters for the past twelve months. However,
some extraordinary revelations came out at the in-
quest, which, if Colmer's evidence is to be believed,
proves that he has not altogether divested himself
of a faith in the superstitious. He states that he
took the child with the after-birth, &c., and burned
them, in accordance with the superstitious idea that
such a proceeding would relieve the pains of the
young girl, and prevent inflammation setting in.
The deceased was a servant at the Rectory at
Rimpton, Somerset, her parents living in Darsat-
shire. She left the Rectory with the avowed in-
tention of going home, instead of which she went,
to Colmer's house.

Amanda Colorer, daughter of the accused, a rather
good-looking well-dressed girl, wearing a white
hat and black feather, said she was in the room on
the Saturday when the deceased was confined, and
put the child into a basin. The head of it wag
about the size of a small walnut, She did not know
what became of the child or the afterbirth. She
had never been at a confinement before, but it was
a trifling affair sho should imagine.
Dr. Calmer, son of the accused, said that his
father called him to see the deceased, saying that
she was dying. He prescribed for her, and applied
galvanism with great pressure over the lower part
of the bowels, as he considered her dying from in-
ternal hemorrhage. When he applied pressure the
swelling was at once reduced, and a qaantity of
blood passed from her, when she threw back her
head and died immediately. He was present at the
post-mortem, and was of opinion that death was
caused by the means used to prevent hemorrhage.
His sister Amanda said deceased had told her she
had procured medicine from Sherborne to procure
abortion.
Colmer, the accused, after being duly caatiored said that an hour after midnight on theb Saturday'
he was called to sea the deceased
,f dying he sent for his son; :f and She diedelievi ninagbsohuet
an hour afterwards. Shortly
gave her medicine and brandy,b ore She then told him
she had miscarried. The child was in a basin, and
was about three inches long. He could not say
whether it was a boy or a girl, as he did not
examine it. The head was
about the size of a
pigeon's egg. He took the child and afterbirth,
and burnt it. He had heard people say that it was
a common thing in the country, to burn the after-
birth. He took it and burnt it in the ashes shortly-
after he saw it.

THE ARMY.
There was a field-day at Wormwood Scrubs
to-day at 10 o'clock before his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding-in-
Chief. The Ist and 2d Life Guards and the mounted
troop of the Hon. Artillery Company took part in
the evolutions.
The inaugural lecture of the course to be delivered
to the officers and men of the Royal Engineers was
given in the lecture theatre at the headquarters of
the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on
Tuesday evening. The subject was—" On the Solu-
tion of Mechanical Problems by Geometrical Con-
struction," and the lecturer Lieut. T. Fraser, Royal
Engineers. The following is the order in which the
course of lectures will be delivered :—Oct. 15, " Iron ;
cast iron gun metal, as manufactured at Continental
establishments. Influences of structure and compo-
sition upon the durability of cast iron ordnance.
Various applications of cast iron for the production
by Professor Abel, F.R.S. Oct. 20,
of projectiles,"
g, Malleable iron, and considerations bearing upon
its conversion into ordnance and armour-plates; cast
steel, as produced by Krupp and other German
manufacturers, by Bessemer, &c. ; homogeneous
iron, and the employment of varieties of cast steel
as materials for cannon, projectiles, -c
Professar Abel. Oct. 22, " on the application" b
ofy
the principles of dynamics to practical engineer-
ing," by Professor Pole, F.R.S. Oct. 27, " Copper,
and the influence of foreign metals, &c., upon its
properties; objections to bronze as a material for
ordnance ; alloys of copper with aluminium, phos-
phorus, copper and zinc alloys ' • stereo-metal,'
alloys of copper and iron," by Professor Abel. Oct.
29, " Oa the connexion of heat with mechanical
Problems,' by Professor Pole. Nov. 3, "Meteoro-
logical Instruments," by Major Scott, Royal Engi-
neers. Nov. 5, " Oa steam and fuel,, by Professor
Pole. Nov. 10, " Lead, its impurities arid their
influence upon its susceptibility to corrosion;
small arm projectiles, their corrosion, and hew
guarded against ; corrosion of lead by waters,
and means proposed for avoiding the con-
tamination of water by lead ; their merits;
UV.
applications of alloys of lead to militarythP
poses ; white metal fuses, and objections to
em ;
pre-
compound projectiles, their :manufacture
"Mechanical 2,
~.h of
servation," by Prof. Abel. N0v...1u Theory
eory
prime movers," by Prof. Pole.
spectrum analysis and Nov. 77
principal results obLained by
it; detection of very minute proportions
of metals ;
discovery of the metals coosium and thal-
lium;drawn from spectrum analysis
im-
by Prof. Abel.
sources and properties of these metals;
portant inference
This lecture will be illustrated by
experimento arranged by Mr. Ladd. Nov. 11, "The
Prof. Pole. Nov. " Memo-
steam-engine," by 24,
randa relating to building stones; their variations
th and durability causes of
in strength the decay of

Dr. Garland stated that he made a post-mortem
examination of the deceased, in the presence of
Messrs. Tomkins, Alldridge, Colmer, Parsons, and
Coles. He found the organs of the body generally
healthy. The womb was enlarged, and in the left
and posterior part there was an extensive rupture.
which must have been produced by violence. Na
medicine could possibly have produced it, nor could
any woman do it herself. It must have been done
by one or more persons. The deceased must have
been pregnant five or six months. He was Pci_s_sd.
tive that it was rupture of the navel that canned
death, and that she must have died soon after the
rupture took place. The injury could have The
inflicted by instruments or manipulatioc de-
organs Were perfectly drained of blood. 1"
ceased was a fine and well-formed girl-sent at the
The other gentlemen who were Prceeption of Dr.
pose-mortein examination, with the.....exii
Colmer, son of the accused, gave s'_'"ofarthteesstuimr:incYal:
Dr. Colmer asked Mr. Coles,
witnesses, a question with resp%
terrupted him by
qnt°o his knowledg%
of medicine, when the Corontesrurgeons—Sir Astley
observing that many emielie, and others—wonlet
Cooper, Sir Benjamin Brodie, and
i the Hall.
not degrade themselves°
schoolmistress, at Marston, saia
Ruth Hodges, a schsafor the deceased to c, youn
she used to write letter
with whom she kept cum-
man named John Steele,
pany. in addressing the jury, expiaina
The Coroner,
ected every man, Whether doctor
that the lawsheilP
quacketent 'skill "w
with
tit
;
@uet:it' or not), or evencoam'p,
to bring
out any licencend If he had not the still h
any can© and displayed gross i 1 . a
gnorance causing
assume.,
he was guilty of manslaughter. If a mart
death' 4. d to procure abortion he
man procured abortion and
Was: guilty of
attempted . _
murder, and if a medical
guilty in the eyes of the
If t believedthat the
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Mr.
would have to re, turn a verdict of wil-
ful death, they
It, was a matter oaf ttie.eactoemonmsuccriteyncat
nfuoltmonulrydetro.
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Was
large, as two beings had lost their lives.
A l verdict
orfetilluranneskuga. ter against Robert Slade

DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday DL. liinkes-
ter received information from Mr. Murray, the sum-
moning officer of St. Pancras, that a middle-aged woman,
named Hedges, residing at No. 3, Exeter-place, Agar-town,
St. Pancras, had drowned herself there in a water-butt. It
appeared that about a fortnight ago she married, being then,
a widow, and having a large family. On Monday es-main&
one of the lodgers went to the water butt t 9 get some water,
when, on getting into the yard, she saw the lege of the rAr.-
fortunate woman projecting from the top. She called out
"Here's a woman in the water-butt." Her (decease Ts)
husband took her out and found her to be his Wif?. Lilo
was extinct,