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London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

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Yesterday morning a copy was returned t
iiament of a correspondence between the B,
Trade and the Royal Society on the subject 1
teorological observations,;telegraphy, and forecasts .A:
The secretary of the Board of Trade wrote in
February last to the Royal Society concerning the
new features which the operations of the meteoro-
logical department had assumed, and expressing an
anxiety to know whether the science of meteorology
was now in such a state as to admit of a permanent
reliable system of storm signals and daily weaoLer
forecasts ; and whether the progress and useful ap-.

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the outlying districts. (Hear, hear.) It was not
the object of the guardians to find employment with
wages. The law did not enable them to do that.
All that boards of guardians were enabled to do was
to find the means of sustaining life, and to employ
tests to determine 'whether the applicants were
really indigent. Mr. Villiers's bill proposed a totally
different thing ; it proposed to find employment for
the able-bodied with wages, instead of alms or
parochial relief. No doubt the outlying districts
would be considered in committee. They ought to
ask for the renewal of the Union Relief Bill of last
year, with power to enable tte guardians to obtain
loans for relief of the poor.
After a discussion the resolution was passed by a
large majority.—The meeting had not concluded
when our report was despatched.

plication of meteorological science would be more.
efficiently promoted by devoting the money voted
by Parliament to the original objects contemplated
via,, the collection, tabulation, and discussion of me-
teorological phenomena, or by devoting it to the
system of telegraphy and weather forecasts. The
secretary of the Royal Society, after the lapse of
month, replied, on behalf of the President and the
council, to the effe2t that they were assured by
Admiral Fitzroy that the original objects for which
the naeteorological department was formed were

still kept in view. "In the fire-warnings of
storms," adds Dr. Sharpey, "much must as
yet undoubtedly be viewed as in a great mea-
sure tentative ; but there is one class of cases
on which such premonitory information is en-
titled to be regarded as resting on more assured
scientific relations. Admiral Fitzroy considers that
he has satisfactorily established the occasional oc-
currence of storms of a cyclonic character, of very
limited diameter, not much exceeding perhaps that
of the British islands themselves, and originating
in their vicinity. The practice of forewarning is
specially suited to such storms. They are charac-
terised by great violence, and by frequent and rapid
changes in the direction of the wind, _ The key to
their comprehension is supplied by the telegraphic
repute, which convey to the central office a know-
ledge of the various simultaneous directions of the
wind in different localities ; and, when once com-
prehended, they are particularly suited for fore-
warning, inasmuch, as, in its general course, the
advance of the cyclone is steady in direction and
moderate in rate. In connexion with this subject
the President and Council revert with satisfaction
to a reply by Sir John Herschel to the Royal Com-
mission on Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, that 'the
most important meteorological information which
could be telegraphed would be information first re-
ceived by telegraph of a cyclone actually in progress
at a great distance, and working its way towards
the locality. There is no doubt that the progress
of a cyclone may be telegraphed, and might secure
many a ship from danger by forewarning.' It is
obvious that this remark, which refers to the ap-
proach of a distant cyclone, is equally applicable to
cyclones originating in or near our islands, the
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Royal Oak has arrived at Spithead from
Portland with Admirals Sir Frederick Grey and
Eden on board. The Duke of Somerset has also
arrived at the same place. Their lordships visit the
Warrior and other ships at Portsmouth to•day.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Fox, master com-
mander Thomas Pullen, 1,131 tons, arrived yester-
day at West, and will probably reload from Wool-
wice and Deptford with mechinery.
The following appointments were made at the Admiralty
yesterday :
F. W. S. Ponsenby, Assistant-Paymaster, to the
Aboukir.

Edmund H. Key, Clerk, to the Racoon.
Naval Cadetship—Mr. Andrew Wm. Rogers.

THE ARMY.

Preparations are in progress at Woolwich for a
banquet to be given to the Duke of Cambridge and
some of her Majesty's Ministers, en Wednesday, the
24th inst., in the Royal Artillery Mess-room, after
the distribution of the prizes awarded to the Gen-
tlemen Cadets of the Royal Military Academy and
the half-yearly inspection of the garrison troops. It
was yesterday announced at Woolwich that the
Prince of Wales had abandoned his intention of
being present on the occasion, as was anticipated.
Notices were yesterday issued throughout the de-
partments at Woolwich, announcing that a close
holiday will be observed on Monday, the 2gth inst.,
the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation, so that
the establishments will be closed from Saturday
midday until Tuesday morning.

existence of which has been made known by the sys-
tem of telegraphy which Admiral Fitzroy has esta-
blished. With respect to the 'forecasts of the state
of the weather,' which are published in the news-
papers, the President and Council learn from Ad-
miral Fitzroy that they really occasion no cost to
questions Government,
submitted
ands
forearc
ely fall therefore within the
reply ; moreover, the Pre-
sident and Council have no data whereon to rest a
conclusion in regard to the degree of reliance to
which these last-named forecasts may be entitled."

Outrage upon Englishmen in South Russia.

A correspondent of the Levant Herald, writing
from Odessa on the sth, says An outrage has
just been committed on a couple of Englishmen in
South Russia, which I appeal at once to you to
bring to the notice of her Majesty's Government
and to that of the home press and public. The facts
—which it is impossible to report in precise detail,
though my information as to them is of the most cer-
tain kind—are shortly as follows. About ten days
ago a party of Cossacks proceeded to the estate of
Count Branitzki, of Biatocerkieff, to effect his arrest
on a charge of insurrectionary complicity. Though.
the Count quietly submitted to be arrested,
the party subjected him to brutal insult and
violence, and calf pillaged the chateau besides.
Amongst the servanta---nearly all of whom caw
in for a share of their master's ill-treatment—wero
two English gardeners, named Douglas and Cun-
liffe. These the ruffians seized, stripped, and nearly
flogged to death, and finally dragged off with them,
with their arms tied behind their backs. The poor
fellows have since been thrown into prison at, my
information states, Saratoff, where the count is also
incarcerated. It is not pretended that the victims
of this brutal outrage were in any way implicated
in the alleged offence of their master, but they were
unprotected Englishmen, and that was enough to
entail on them the savage violence I have men-
tioned. I know not if our local consul-general have

taken any steps in their behalf ; but whether or not,
the matter is one for the home papers, and for Mr.
Hennessy, or some other independent Parliamen-
tary friend of Poland, to make the use of it which
it justifies."

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