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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1865.

TT J. ani D. NICOLL, Tailors to the
Lii• Queen, Royal Family, and Courts of Europe.
For GENTLEMEN the FASHIONS for the SEASONS,
for the promenade or demi-dress--Superflne frock coats,
with rich silk breast facings, or morning coats of superfine
Melton cloths, the charge for the former being 3i to 41-
guineas ; for the latter 2} to 31 guineas. For neglige
purposes, morning coats with pocket flaps at the waist,
also the negligd jackets ; these are of Mellon, fancy coat-
ings, Angola and Cheviots, the prices from 255. to 4
guineas. The Angolas and Cheviots are also made in
suits, at prices from 2 to 4 guineas; evening dress, black
cloth of the finest quality. For Overcoats—Melton,
Beaver, and Witney cloths, from 2 to 8 guineas. For
young gentlemen from eight years of age—The morning
coat and neglige jacket ; also suits of Angola and Cheviot,
the prices according to size, commencing at 31s. 6d. the
suit. For boys from four years of age—The Knicker-
bocker and Highland costume of black velvet, or fine
cloth for dress, and of Angolas and Cheviots for morning,
the price of the first size Knickerbocker, 1 guinea the suit.
For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from
Ito 2 guineas each. Foreigners and visitors to London,
Manchester, and Liverpool will find at Messrs. Nicholl's
garments ready for immediate use, or made at a few hours'
notice.—H. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent-
street; 22, Cornhill, London; 10, Mosley-street; Man-
chester; and 50, Bold-street, Liverpool.

QTODARE.-275TH REPRESENTATION.-
THEA FRE OF MYSTERY. EGYPTIAN HALL

MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM, as per-
formed by command before her Majesty the Que n and the
Royal Family at Windsor Castle, Tuesday Evening. Nov. 21,
18.:5. Great sensation created by the mysterious illusion of
the SPHINX, the BIRTH of FLOW ER TREES, and
STODARE'S cnlebrated INDIAN BASKET FEAT, as only
performed by him.
•

Also, an Extra Day Performance on BOXING-DAY,
Tuesday, Dec. 26, at 3 o'clock.

Every evening at 8 ; Wednesday and Saturday at 3. Stalls
at Mitchell's. Old Bond-street, and Box-office, Egyptian
Ball. ,Admission, Is., 25.; and stalls, 3s.

"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18, 18C5.

CI RISTY MINSTRELS, SL James's Hai
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CHRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Wednesdays and
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pany. Fauteuils, 55.; stalls, 35 ; unreserved seats, 28. ; gal-
lery, Is. Tickets at Austin's, 28, Piccadilly.—Manager, Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

H P 0 X F ORD.
6, OXFORD tSTRERT, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). _

THE MARKET GIRLS byJ.
Offenbach, and a New CANTATA, by Meyerbeer, will be
performed by Misses Russell, Barrie, Waimealey, Tyrell,
Ellen Reid, Madame Maria, and Miss Fitz Henry; Messrs.
A. St. Albyn, Husk, Evans, W. Williams, and Senors Tivoli
and Spagnoli, with full Land and Chorus, THIS EVENING.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmane.

The HUNGARIANS —The Brothers and Sister KIRA.LFI
will have the honour of introducing their National Daum
in costume this evening.

NOTICE.—The LIGHT DRAGOONS, by IiTAILLART,
will be shortly produced.
Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, ls.; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
RI-FUM I TI-FUJSI!
The Music composed and arranged by Willem Vandervell,
will be produced on BOXING-NIGHT kTuestiar, December
the 26th, 1865.

Mr. E. MARSHALL will make his first appearance these
two years in
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Mr. and Mrs. W. RANDALL will make their Re-appear-

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Signor TESCANO, the Cousin and liiyal of the late
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The MYSTERIES OF MABILE in
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Les TABLEAUX D'A MOUR, illuminated by the Magnesium
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The Beautiful BA LLERINES in
RI-F UM TI-FUM!
LE GALOP INFERNAL in
RI-FUM TI-FUM!
The Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted-by Mr. W.
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Upwards of ONE HUNDRED PERSONS will appear in

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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
ILL Baker-street.
NEW ADDITION.—A full-length Portrait Model, taken
from life, of CHARLOTTE WINSOR.
Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ;
Extra Rooms, Sixp, ace.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piceadilly.--OIiAND CASINO and ILUSICAL Plto-
- is NoW OPEN for the Season.

Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTI.
Manger, Mons. GRENET.
The Band plays nightly Seleztions from the most eminent
Composers.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12
o'clock. _ _

Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET.
Set DINNERS served, at five minutes' notice. from Four to
Nine p.m., at 2s. Bd., 3s 6d., 46. 6d., and 7s. each.
ELEGANT SALOON DINING ROOMS,
for Ladies and Families.
Prices on the "Carte" moderate.
Private Rooms for Large or Small Parties.
Reading, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms.
BREAKFASTS and LUNCHEONS.
D. CAMERON.
Entrances-160, Piccadilly, and 49, St. James's-street.

WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks; having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOISRAGON, announces that he has transferred. his Estab-
lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable residence,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, meadow, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

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protection for the person and property of debtors, in town or
country, together with entire relief from all debts and lia-
bilities, under a recent Act of Parliament, in all cases with-
out imprisonment. Charges moderate, payable by instal-
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searched for and office copies obtained. Claims made out and
money and property recovered.—Offices, 1, Brunswick-street,
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and confidential. N.B —County Courts attended.

JOHN HARVEY and SON, Ludgate-hill,
send PATTERNS of all GOODS.
Ladies waited upon at home by competent assistants.
Their STOCK is now well assorted in all branches.
SILKS, MANTLES, DRESSES, LINENS.

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enamel from decay. and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
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same name.

CONVICTION FOR SHOOTING A SISTER.---At the
Stafford assizes on Monday, before Mr. Justice
Keating, George Tavernor, a young man about 21 years
old, was indicted for shooting his sister, Ellen Tavernor, at
Baswich, on the 15th of September last, with intent to
murder her. On the afternoon of the day named the pri-
soner came home in a state of intoxication, quarrelled with
his mother, and when she left the house in terror, followed
her with a loaded double-barrelled gun. The prisoner's
sister, Ellen, was walking out with a gentleman named
Leybourne, and the prisoner on being spoken to by them
threatened to shoot both. Miss Tavernor turned to go
away, when the prisoner fired off both barrels in rapid suc-
cession, and the young lady fell to the ground, so severely
wounded in her back and legs that she had to be carried
home, where she remained a considerable time under medi-
cal treatment. The prisoner, when appreheneded, expressed
his sorrow for what he had done, and wished it had been
his mother instead of his sister. The jury returned a ver-
dict of guilty of unlawfully wounding. The prisoner was
sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.

The Cattle Plague.

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GLOUCESTER.

A meeting of the magistrates of Gloucestershire,
convened by the Lord-Lieutenant (Earl Ducie),
was held yesterday afternoon in the Shire-hall, to
consider the powers vested in the local authorities by
the Orders in Council, and to decide what further
steps should be taken to prevent the spread of the
cattle plague. Earl Ducie presided, and there were
also present the Earl of Ellenborough, Sir G. Jen-
kinson, Sir J. Campbell, Sir W. Guise, Rev. Sir L.
Darell, Col. Kingscote, C. 8., M.P., Mr. E. Holland,
M.P., Mr. York, M.P., Mr. C. Hayward, the
county chairman, and a large number of other ma-
gistrates. Earl Ducie sketched the history of the
cattle, plague, and pointed out the prohibitive ar-
rangements which were carried out when the cattle
plague visited this country in 1746, showing that
only by strict isolation and the stoppage of all cattle
transit could the disease be eradicated, and he urged
the necessity of combined action with that view at
the present time. He recommended the continued
prohibition of the holding of the markets and fairs
until March 1, 1866. Mr. C. Hayward proposed a
resolution embodying the provisions of the 16th
clause of the Order in Council of November prohi-
biting the removal of cattle. This was seconded by
Col. Kingscote, and adopted. A longdiscussionthen
took place as to how the 17th and 18th clauses of
the Order should be put in force. It was proposed
that there should be the signature of two magistrates
-or of---two--Aatiedbereiatithe County Cattle Plague
Association, or two persons nominated by the ma-
gistrates residing in the district, to the certifi-
cate of removal of fat cattle. This was nega-
tived by a majority of one vote. Mr. Holland
then proposed a resolution, urging the
Government to take upon itself more stringent mea-
sures for the suppression of the cattle plague. He
remarked that the agriculturists and the public were
prepared to make any sacrifice to stop the plague,
provided the prohibitive measures were made uni-
form. Sir G. Jenkinson seconded this, and it was
agreed to. Lord Dude was requested to forward
the resolutions to the Home Secretary.

der C. T. Jago, between Houy's-bay and Cape
Infanta, where she was engaged taking sound-
ings. At Ascension, November 26, there were
the storeship Meander, 10, and the screw steam
corvette Archer, 13, Capt. F. Marten. The corvette
was under quarantine in consequence of yellow fever.
The screw steam corvette Rattlesnake, 21, Capt. A.
P. E. Wilmot, C.B. (commodore), left the island on
the 16th for the West Coast of Africa. The United
States war steamship Wachusetts, 10, Capt. Town-
send, from China, was in Table-bay ; and the ex-
Confederate war vessel Tuscaloose was in Simon's
Bay. The Frenchship of war Tancrede,- Capt. Pallu,
49 days from Batavia, and 10 from Table Bay,
touched at St. Helena, Nov. 12, en route for France.
A naval court-martial assembled yesterday on
board H.M.S. Victory at Portsmouth, for the trial
of Mr. Thomas Crowther, assist.-engineer of the
first class, attached to H.M.S. Asia at Portsmouth,
on a charge of being absent without leave on 6th
December. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and threw
himself on the mercy of the Court. He was adjudged
to be placed at the bottom of the list of his class, to
forfeit eight days' pay, and to be dismissed from the
Asia.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander J. Liddell to the
Aurora ; Commander J. C. Purves to the Royal
Adelaide, for service in the Topaze ; Lieut. H. F.
Nicholson to the Cumberland, for service in the
Bellerophon ; and F. L. Partridge, midshipman, to
the Malacca.

Railway and other Companies.

NORTHERN OF BUENOS AYRES (LIMITED).
The directors of this company state in their re-
port that they have received advices from the resi-
dent agent of the company in Buenos Ayres of the
desire of the Government to liquidate the guarantee
for the year 1865 on Ist January next, and for that
purpose they have furnished the accounts of the
company up to Oct. 1 for examination. The latest
decree of the Government, passed on 14th July last,
recognised for the effect of the guarantee the sum of
£150,000, being the full amount allowed by the law
of concession, with an allowance in the accounts of
£7OO a year as interest in respect of the prolonga-
tion of the line to the port of the Tigre. The com-
pany had also the privilege of conveying merchan-
dise in bond, and the Customs officials had instruc-
tions not to detain the baggage of passengers for
examination,but to forward it in charge of the com-
pany to the Custom-house in the city when neces-
sary to save the first train after the arrival of the
steamers from the interior. An agreement had been
made during the stay of the secretary of the com-
pany in Buenos Ayres with the Boca Railway Com-
pany for the joint occupation of a central station,
should it be found practicable to establish a connec-
tion between that railway and the company's line.
The traffic receipts during the first nine months of
this year, on 19 miles open, amounted to £19,798,
against £15,260 on 17i miles for the corresponding
period of 1864, showing an increase of £4,538. The
traffic receipts averaged £26 14s. 4d. per mile per
week, against £22 7s. 6d. per mile per week for the
corresponding nine months of 1864. This satisfac-
tory result had not been obtained without an expen-
aiture not originally provided for—namely, on the
Tigre Extension and on extra rolling stock. The
liabilities amounted to £31,452, and the estimated
assets to £6,914, leaving a balance of £24,538. The
directors thought it would be advisable to raise for
the above liabilities £31,500 on debentures, making
with that already issued £57,500. Several of the
principal shareholders had already expressed their
willingness to take up an amount of debentures pro-
portionate to their holding of shares, and to recom-
mend others to do the same, in order to place the
company on a safe financial basis. The directors
proposed immediately after the 31st of December
next issuing debentures to the guaranteed prefer-
ence shareholders for the 1 years' interest that
would be then due. An estimate of the result of
the working fnr the_l2 months ending the 31st of
March next had been preps-redaymn—

ing a balance of profit between £4,000 and £5,000.
On receipt of the 7 per cent. guaranteed by the
Government, and after providing for interest on
£57,000 debentures, it was believed that about 4i
per cent. would be left for guaranteed preference
shareholders.

looked into the matter. They found that there was
in Bombay abundance of business, and that the
appointment of persons to conduct it had turned
out badly, but the adoption of improved manage-
ment since had showl there was a large business in
Bombay quite sufficient to warrant its continuance
by the company. In reply to another question he
stated that there was no balance outstanding in re-
spect of the purchase of the Madras business ; it
had all been paid off. Every bad debt had been
written off, and they had also written off £5OO or
£l,OOO loss by fire, but they expected the Madras
Railway Company would provide the remainder or
a considerable portion of it, as their people were to
blame. The Bombay loss had been all paid off.
They had been perfectly satisfied with Mr. Bates,
who had done good service to the company and was
an able officer.

PRICE 4(1.
STAMPED 51A

The motion was then unanimously adopted.
The retiring directors, Sir M. Stephenson, Mr.
Hartridge, and Mr. G. Norton were re-elected,
and also Mr. J. E. Coleman and Mr. G. Engstrom,
the retiring directors, with an allowance of 10
guineas each for the ensuing year.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman and directors.

Anti-Malt Tax Demonstration in Suffolk.

- 11.--

A demonstration was yesterday made at Ipswich
in opposition to the malt tax, a public meeting being
held in the Lecture-hall, under the auspices of the
Central Anti-Malt Tax Association. Mr. M. Bid-
dell, a tenant farmer, was called to the chair ; and
upon the platform were Sir F. Kelly, M.P., Mr. G.
Tomline, M.P., Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., Lord A.
Hervey, M.P., Mr. J. C. Cobbold, M.P., Major
Parker, M.P., Sir G. N. Veroke-Middleton, Bart., &c.
Sir F. KELLY, M.P., moved the first resolution,
and said the meeting was called to consider the best
means of promoting the ultimate total repeal of the
malt tax. Success appeared altogether to depend
upon the determination, perseverance, and united
action of the agriculturists of the kingdom and of
all true friends of the labouring and poorer class of
the community, for while the question was of great
and paramount importance to the owners and culti-
vators of the land, it far more largely affected and
deeply involved the interests, comforts, morals, and
well-being in life of the labouring class. Although
he had taken some part in the discussions which had
arisen both in and out of Parliament upon the ques-
tion, he owned that he felt himself quite at a loss to
conceive a single argument upon which any hon-
ourable or intelligent man could meet the claims
which the advocates for the repeal of the tax
made upon Government and Parliament. Having
traced the history of the tax, he said if the question
were fairly taken up and energetically dealt with,
the whole community would be indebted to the
farmers for having agitated it. Whatever might
be his opinions and wishes upon the subject, he
thought it would hardly be prudent, and perhaps it
would not be becoming, to attempt in the present
state of the finances the immediate and total repeal
of the tax. The advocates of its repeal had not yet
even ventured to put it in competition with the
income tax, or with any other branch of direct taxa-
tion ; but they did say that if, as they believed
would be the case, owing to the great increase of
the population, commerce, and wealth of the coun-
try, there should be annually a surplus at the dis-
posal of the Government, that surplus ought to be
applied to the reduction, and ultimately to the
repeal, of the malt tax in preference to any other
species of indirect taxation imposed upon the people.
lie asked in the name of the agriculturists and
labouring classes of the country, and also upon the
grounds upon which our policy had proceeded for
tho'last twenty years—a policy which had, upon the
whole, brought this country to an unprecedented
state of wealth and prosperity—he asked for the re-
peal of the malt tax, in fact, upon the principle of
free trade—(hear, hear)—the farmers had suffered
enough from free trade, and it was time that they
i should now begin to derive some benefit from it.
2171:7"2, :77—rateartiiirtwr---

ratirrnsiatcyl not naoroly in thal
repeal of protective duties, but it was the right to
buy, to grow, to manufacture, to import, to export,
to use, to exchange, to sell, unrestrained by any
fiscal or arbitrary law ; and all that he asked on
behalf of those who suffered from the burdens of
the malt tax was that these clear, true, and just
principles of free trade should be applied to the tax
upon malt. If it had been a principle of our financial
policy to take off taxes even upon foreign produce,
and upon every article of general consumption in the
country, upon what conceivable ground could the
Government now refuse to take off a burthensome op-
pressive, and unjust tax upon an article notoriously
of general and universal consumption, but of home
produce ? He might call attention to one or two
effects and consequences of the tax in relation to the
question of free trade. It might be asked why,
while taxes had been taken off foreign corn, while
the trade in wheat and flour was absolutely and
entirely free, the same principle had not been applied
to the drink of the community as well as to the food
of the community. While the great questions of
free trade and financial reform were under discus-
sion, every statesman, to whatever party he be-
longed, expressly declared that with the repeal of
the corn laws the malt tax must come to an end.
(Cheers.) He remembered that Sir R. Peel, in
1839, when a motion by Mr. Villiers, the persever-
ing advocate for the repeal of the corn laws was
under discussion, answered Mr. Villiers by saying,
"If you have free trade in corn, has not the farmer
a right to say, Give me free trade in barley and
malt ?' " What was the answer of Mr. Villiers, who
was a member of the present Government ? Why,
he said, " If you will consent to the repeal of the
corn laws we will agree to the repeal of the malt
tax. Let them fall together." This was not the
language of a mere advocate at the moment, but the
same doctrine was held out every time the repeal of
the corn laws was under agitation, and was about to
be carried with the support of Sir R. Peel, and many
of what was now called the Conservative party. It
was also said by Lord John Russell, in 1849, that
the first tax which ought to be repealed, whenever
the duty upon corn should have entirely ceased, was
undoubtedly the malt tax. (Hear.) The same lan-
guage was held over and over again by Sir James
Gra-ham, and by Mr. M. Gibson, now also a cabinet
minister. Such was also the language of the late
lamented Mr. Cobden, down even to the latest hour
of his life ; such was the principle for which he
contended, for, although long against the farmers,
Mr Cobden was at last in their favour
upon this question of the malt tax. The
same principle was put forward by the present
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Gladstone, that
once introduce freedom of trade, especially as re-
gards the corn laws, and it would be impossible
to deny freedom of trade in relation to the
malt tax. (Hear, hear.) Such was the incredible
injustice of the malt tax that the Government was
obliged to establish a system of protective duties in
relation to foreign malt; and this was one of the
consequences of making the malt tax an exception
to the otherwise universal application of free trade
principles. Having enforced these and other argu-
ments at considerable length, Sir Fitzroy concluded
by proposing his resolution as follows : —" That this
meeting is of opinion that the continuance of the
excise duty upon malt is a great injustice to the
grower of barley, and is wholly at variance with the
free trade policy of the country." (Cheers.)
Mr. E. DICK seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
Major PARKER, M.P., moved, "That the existing
tax on malt is a great hardszhipto the poor consumers
of our national home grown beverage."
*The Rev. W. PorrEß seconded the resolution, and
Lord A. HERVEY, M.P., supported it.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. ToMLINE, M.P., moved, " That a requisition
asking for a repeal of the malt tax be sent from this

NE WSPA PE
meeting to the Chancellor of

also a petition to Parliament to thL
Mr. C. S. READ, M.P., seconded the proposition,
which Mr. N. GARRE'rr, a.large malster, supported.
(Carried.)
Mr. CoBRANCE proposed, " That this meeting de-
sires to express its thanks to those gentlemen who
have advocated the cause in Parliament, and respect-
fully urges a continuance of their efforts in the
coming session."
Mr. W. GRIMWADE secondedithe motion, which
was carried with acclamation.

Mr. J. C. COBBOLD, M.P., proposed, That this
meeting urges upon all friends of repeal the import-
ance of continuing perseveringly and energetically
the use of all lawful means for the attaiment of their
object."

Mr. KINTREA, of the Central Association, seconded
the resolution . Carried.

A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the meet-
ing, which lasted nearly four hours.

Anthropological Society,

Yesterday evening the usual fortnightly meeting
of this society was held in their rooms in St.Martin's-
place—the president, Dr. J. Hutt, in the chair.
The Rev. DuNBAR HEATH read the first paper,
"On the anthropoid origin of the European races
versus the theory of migration from the East." Mr.
Heath contended that the diversities of language
among the present European nations are perfectly
inexplicable, except on the hypothesis that the
aboriginal inhabitants were either apes or mutes.
According to his hypothesis the occupants of the
parts of Europe where the " kitchen middens " are
found were mutes at the time of their conquest by
small bands of speaking men, commonly called
Aryans coming from the East, and from whom the
inhabitants acquired very imperfectly the language
spoken by their conquer Ors. The names of the
commonest objects—as, father, mother, wasp, fish,
and the numerals one, two, three, &c.—would be
taught by the Aryans to their mute slaves, with-
out caring for the manner in which they: pro-
nounced them ; and the confusion and difference
of sound thus occasioned would, in Mr. Heath's
opinion, give rise to such a diversity of speech as
might explain Grimm's law of language, and no other
satisfactory attempt to explain the law has yet been
made. He adverted to the opinion expressed on the
subject by Mr. Max Muller, who maintains that
speech is the distinctive faculty of man, and he en-
tered into a philological investigation for the pur-
pose of opposing that view and of supporting his
own theory.

Dr. BEIGO objected to the author of the paper
having limited the organs of speech to the palate, the
tongue, the teeth, and the lips, and he mentioned
cases in which men could speak intelligibly who had
no palate, or no teeth, and even without a tongue.
The principal organ of speech, he said, is the larynx,
and the ear is as important to speech as the or-
gans of the voice. He contended that the reason
why brutes cannot speak is that they have not ge-
neral ideas, and cannot distinguish tones sufficiently
to articulate.

Mr. MAX MULLER observed that the explanation
given by Mr. Heath of the diversity of language is
Europe did not appear sufficient. There was no ne-
cessity to assume the existence of races of mutes to
account for one sound being mistaken for another.
He looked on the language of a people as a collec-
tion of a variety of dialects, and that out of them
arose different kinds of speech, probably in a short
time. In a much later age that accidental change
called writing was introduced, by which the fluc-
tuating distinct languages became more fixed.
Mr. Pike, Mr. Reddie, Dr. Seeman, and Dr.
Charnock joined in the discussion, which became
almost entirely philological ; and Dr. Dunbar Heath
replied in support of the opinions expressed in his
paper.

A paper was then read, contributed by Mr. 11. G.
ATKINSON, giving an account of an idiotic family of
five persons at Downham, in Norfolk.
Dr. BALL RD, who said he had paid much atten-
tion to the subject of idiotcy, attributed nearly all
such cases to severe illness in infancy, and the re-
sults of his experience told him that most such cases
originate from the habit which some children acquire
of sucking all kinds of objects. By that action they
swallow the secretions of the glands, which, not
being accompanied with food, disorder, and in some
eases destroy, the stomach.

Dr. Ginn confirmed that opinion, and stated that
e aWilt-RW-6f ine t al nictillatrotinto boon drawn
to the injury done by the habit of sucking.
A third paper, on the recent discovery of a new
alphabet in America, was read by Mr. Bollaert ;
and, after a few remarks from Mr. Dunbar Heath,
the meeting adjourned.

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NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE
DOING WELL. Messrs. Fella Rogers, P. Bedford, &a.
After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 93d
appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington,
P. Bedford, It Phillips, Yelix Rogtrs, Ashley, liburne, C. J.
Smith; Mrs. Biliingtor, &c.
To conclude with A PAS DE FASCINATION. Miss
Furtado and Mr. Felix Rogers.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and 21anager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS.
After whi,h, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO
LATE TO MEND. characters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel-
ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, b. Calhaem, F. Vibiers, J. G.
Shore, G. Murray, B. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. Cathcart; Miss
L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers.

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Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. t wanborough.
THIS EVENING, at Seven. NOTIIING VENTURE
NuTIIING WIN.
Alter which will be produced a new Opera Burlesque,
L'AFRIOAINE ; or, The Queen of the Canuibtl Islan is.
Messrs. Stoyle, James. 'Thorne; Mesdames Swanborough,
Raynham, Johnstone, &a.
To conclude with MRS. GREEN'S SNUG BUSINESS

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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To-Monnow.-Morning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4h. 18m.

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