The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-07 00:00:00

COPY Or OPINION.

" We are of opinion that a Court of Common Council
ill be dissolved if all the Aldermen present, or all
except one, withdraw themselves therefrom after the
Court is formed.

" Independent of the practice which has prevailed
in the City of London for nearly two centuries of
holding Courts of Common Council without a majo-
rity of the Aldermen, we might have felt ourselves
bound by the modern decisions, reported in 1 Barn
and Cross, 492-4 T. R., 810-6 T. R., 268, and 4
East, 294, to say that the presence of a majority of
the Aldermen is requisite to form a Common Council
as, however, such a practice has so long prevailed, we
cannot say that Courts may not continue to be held,
provided Aldermen be present ; and finding no ex-
press declaration of any precise number as requisite
to give authority to a Court, we are of opinion that
the smallest number beyond one may be sufficient.
"NEWMAN KNOWLYS.

" THOMAS DENMAN.
THU R BOLLAND.
" Lincoln's Inn, 3d" AR
Nov., 1824."
" We have perused the additional papers laid before
us, and we have reconsidered our opinion, but we see
ao reason to alter it.-20th Feb., 1825."
(Signed as above.)

While ,accounts of the state of the crops and of
vegetation generally have recently been so favourable,
we regret we have this week to record the effects of
lightning and hailstorms of unprecedented severity, ex- T'HE PARISH OF MANCHESTER,
perieneed by the inhabitants of Outwell, Upwell, Em- We are enabled to lay before our readers the result
neth, Watton, and Warple. On the afternoon of Friday
the 28th ult., between five and six o'clock, the state of of the negotiations which have been pending between
the kChanter and churchwardens, on the subject of the
the weather threatened a thunder-storm, which, about - -lstical arrangements of the parish of balf-pe ecclesu 'erst five o'clook, broke over the district of the
chaster.
was Man-
country
'embracing the above-named places: the stormest.
was ind eed of unusual violence, accompanied with To the origin of the agitation, which at one time
hail, or rather falling ice, which has proved most threatened seriously to impair the efficiency of the
desvatcti vs) to the crops in this district, and also to Church, it is not necessary to allude further, than to
othdr property. At Outwell the electric fluid did con- state that it involved the question, whether or not
sidemble damage to the house of Mr. Booth, the female the dignitaries of the collegiate church should be re-
servant receiving much injury. Glass in all directions
has been demolished, including a conservatory at Beaupr‘ sident in the parish of Manchester. This point has
been so far
Hall, the residence of the Rev. W. G. Townley. The conceded to the parishioners, that an
rrangement will be made, by which it shall be atcgara proceeding on to Emneth, raged over that village a
im-
with terrifi c violence, evidences of its destructive power perative on all canons hereafter to be elected, to hold,
extending- :for about a mile, much of the' wheat is cut together with their stalls, one of the livings in the
down, and the fruit trees are actually cut to pieces; in parish, within the gift of the Chapter, so that each
the south 'of the church the windows are entirely do- shall perform duty in a church, and reside in the
stroyed, die residences of Mr. Stimson and Mr. T. Bird parish-
having n( ft a single pane of glass left entire: the cot- The Chapter has also agreed that, as it is desirable
t-ages of the humbler residents in the village have also that any surplus which may hereafter accrue from the
suffered. Large pieces of ice were picked up, of un- property .of the collegiate chapter, under the provi-
usual weigLet and size. The storm passing onward to sions of the 3d and 4th Vic., cap. 113, should be es:-
Watton acre! Warple, left Wisbech, subject only to elusively devoted to the spiritual exigencies of the
heavy rain's, accompanied with much thunder and light- parish of Manchester, they will use their influence, in
Wig. A ship, which has subsequently come into port,
conjunction with the chure.hwardens, to secure the
encountered the .storm as it passed from the land, and
application of the surplus to such purpose. And
its severity may be imagined from the circumstance of
ha being impossible for the men to keep the deck with- further, the Chapter has voluntarily offered to devote
eat shelter from the cutting ice and hail which fell. one of its estates, the best suited for building
u pur-
troughont the district subjected to this awful visita- poses, and whose proceeds may reasonably be expected
,7?cfear much injury has been sustained. Goslings to be, in a few years, of large amount (reserving
and
live stock
,of that description have been killed in only the small inalienable interest), for the pur-
nurnoers, the trees present an appearauce as if they pose, first, of securing the ultimate exemption
had wantonl n destroyedhat, with musketry. We re- of other churches in the parish of Manchester from
Guyhina.—Cambridgaen was killed by the electric fluid at the payment of dues to the mother church; secondly,
c hronic/e.
----- of endowing the poorer livings in the gift of the
DEATH OF THE 1-10 N. c M
-----,
APTA AkUGITSTITS IT'D- Chapter. These are the main points of the arTange-
lizas.—The Earl and Countess,
sofh'
ttrisy received in- meat ; there will, necessarily, be much minor detail,
telligence yesterday from Rome
of their second son, the Hon. Captain AuguLthsevdilepise but to the safe conduct of the principles of the Chap-
ter consider themselves pledged.
at Rome, at the case
.of last month after a long ill Villiers,
The position of the dean and cm.
lons hereafter to
The deceased was in his thirty-eighth year, and senes'l, be elected may then be shortly stated thus :
for some years in the Royal Horse Guards Blue, and .
First, as to property—an annual in;; erne, not ex-
inirriar', 1831, the Hon. Miss Mercer ElPhinsLoton(s, i ceeding 2,0001., will be received by the dean ; and
youngest daughter of the late celebrated Admiral
1.4 a n annual income, not exceeding 1,0001., b.. 7 each of
Xeith.
theEeci four
. .canons ; the surplus, at the disposal! o. f the
The mackerel fishing has set in, in real earnest, at
lie . esiastical Commissioners, to be employed in re-i
chaster, an guar/cats on the west coast. Last week the take waLtts
iretnense, and myriads were sent to the various markets..
mitt' Second,
w iwith
gr.the spiritual necessities of the parish of Man-
The fish were large and fa°, and, upon the whole, to
tahsetoAerte
-finest that have been seen in 'the marl t for itdieanncde,4tthhe
vdicetaonriwa,ilcla,pi.n
Iclons,forre:
,de several years.
-Our fishmongers seem to have made extensive arrange-
side in the parish at least eight months in the year.
mehts for supplying
- our markets with this fine fish, if we '
ledge by thekquantity The four canons will in
diets7inw i
thet h t the
rAi
scht 3das
exposed for sale last week, espe-
i and 4th Victoria,.incaep,e.tslio,niftroyererai
dally on Satdrday, whe
th new
n they were sold at 3d. per lb..
the mackerel fishing has rather taken off during the last canons, and will,
statute,
rnontLs in the year,'
week. As this fish is the good, and as large as last t reside in the parish at least nine the-, •
anticipasted that that fishery isprecursor.ust otf
hthe herring, it is as rectors having the cure of souls in fosigned d. 1
that Mossrs. Gallocher and Kelly at
and.
We learn
fish market, have already made a ' n'emtacenktssnen of the : tricts. The two minor. canons willis-
parish as vicars having cure of souls in the Collegiate
ing to this market the fire fruits of thge herrui. for bring-
ing trade.-- e hutch district.
Groenock, Advertiser. It will be seen, from a notice in Another cola= of

LONDON, MONDAY

a meeting of the committee of the Association for
Promoting Ecclesiastical Reform, and from two let-
ters which we publish elsewhere, that the arrange-
ment proposed by the Chapter does not meet with
universal acceptance ; and we must plainly state, that
while we are willing to give to that body much
credit for the conciliatory spirit which they now
manifest, we do not think that there can be a satis-
factory settlement of the question at issue without
some modification of the terms proposed. We shall
make a few observations on the three propositions
seriatim.

1. The 3d and 4th Victoria, cap 66, provides that
such fixed annual sums shall be paid to the Ecclesias-
tical Commissioners by the Chapter of Manchester,
as shall be computed to leave a stipend of 2,0001.
a year for the dean, and of 1,0001. a year
for each of the canons ; and the sums which
thus accrue to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are
to be expended in making additional provision for the
cure of souls in parishes where assistance is most
required, in such manner as shall be deemed most
conducive to the interests of the Established Church.
It is most unfortunate that, when this Act was before
the Legislature, the churchmen of this town did not
bestir themselves to secure the appropriation of the
revenues of the collegiate church, which are strictly
parochial, to parochial purposes. This, however, was
neglected ; and they were consequently dealt with on
the same principle as the revenues of other cathedral
and collegiate churches which are not parochial. All
that can now be done is to apply to the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, or, if necessary, to the Legislature,
to make an arrangement which shall secure the ex-
penditure of the Church property of Manchester in
the parish.
2. It is proposed that each canon shall hold, to-
gether with his stall, one of the livings in the gift of
the Chapter. Now, it has been contended by the
churchwardens, and by those who agreed with them
in deprecating Mr. Parkinson's acceptance of St.
Bee's, that the charter contained provisions obviously
designed to compel the residence of the warden and
fellows in the parish, in order that their services
might be available when required for the perform-
ance of pious and charitable offices ; and we are not
at all sure that the Act of 3d and 4th Victoria, cap.
113, by requiring that for the future all deans and
canons shall reside at least a certain period, at
all over-rules the provisions of the charter which re-
quire a longer residence, under a penalty now unfor-
tunately insufficient to enforce observance of the in-
junction. The great object of the present movement
has been to compel residence, under the belief that
the dean and canons hare already, in the memorable
words of Mr. Canon Parkinson, a " religious respon-
sibility for the cure of souls in this parish ;" and those
who have promoted the movement cannot be satisfied
with an arrangement which asserts the principle that
the canons have not, as such, any parochial duty.
The Chapter have destroyed all the grace of con-
ceding the point by the condition which they have
annexed to it. The stipend of a thousand a year,
which the law assigns to each canon, will be deemed
by the public an ample provision for them; and the
proposal to attach a living to each stall will be con-
demned as an attempt to increase the income assigned
to them. One of the present canons was, at the time
of his appointment, incumbent of a district church.
This living he then very properly resigned ; and we
do not see how he can concur in an arrangement of
which he so practically expressed his disapprobation.
3 It is proposed to devote a portion of the income
of the chapter, first to the payment of fixed stipends to
the chaplains, with the object of abolishing the dues
now paid by the district churches ; and, secondly, of
endowing the poorer livings in the gift of the Chapter.
Now, we think that the proposed payments being
made out of parochial funds, would be most unjustly
and unwisely limited to livings in the gift of the
chapter, and more especially as this provision will, we
believe, exclude from the benefit of additional endow-
ments some of the churches where the duties are most
onerous and the stipends smallest.
Now, although compelled to take exceptions to por-
tions of the arrangement proposed, we are not insen-
sible to its importance as a step to a better system ;
and we rejoice that the Chapter have thought it
right to come forward to propose an accommodatioi
of the points in dispute. We trust that having gone
so far they will not now stop short, but will endea-
vour to secure a satisfactory settlement of the ques-
tions at issue. Much may be done by a plain state-
ment of the sums which will probably be at the
disposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the
Chapter must recollect that as the success of their
scheme will greatly depend on the efficient manage-
ment of the Church property, the public will expect
some security that it shall be better administered than
in the majority of cases such property proverbially is.
—Manchester Guardian.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES
HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(SATURDAY.)

VEN NG, J UiN E 1, 1847.

Average Amount.
Oxfordshire Witney Bat,k Witney—Williams,
Clinch, and Co 10,699
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and

,
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 47,012
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,855
?ererborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—Masn.s. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and Simpson 11,189
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven.

and Co
Reading Bank, Reading--slmonas and Co r 36,525
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson
Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot-
ner and Son
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son
Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
Co . ,
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Allaw ay
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron

NEERS.

3,8878
6,601

11,063

5,276

9,05

14,350
15,081
20,246

12,87

4,120

Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co
Scarborough Old Bank, f3carborough—Woodall
and Co
Shrewsbury and Market, Drayton Bank, Shrews-
bury—Adams, Adams, and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rorke, Eytons,
and Co
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Valiance and Son
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Son
Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co
St. Alban's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and
King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore
Stourbridge Ban tc, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-

37,917

18,055

23,910

8,44

37,892

3,250

1,6386
13,840
2,325
21,721

9,910

5,353
7,306

1,7035
11,947

30,242

1,6877

24,200

son and Stuart
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and

Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Dolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-

2,310
24,925

11,578

9,87

ford and Barne
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S

9,823

10,918

12,476

Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and

Co.
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co.
Warwick and Warwickshire Bauk, Warwick—
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,

10,083

15,040

23,621
10,846

28,272

3,058

43,817

13,869

2,0984

4,635

Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co. .
Wiveliscorcbe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W

Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,
and Co.
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley

1,5589

35,687

_
and Turner -
Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil-

. -
kins-on
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and

Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster—

57,337

7,344

9757

12,15

78,668

11,07

19,839

Everett and Co.
Wrexham Bank, Wrexham-J. and S. Kenrick
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten
York Bank, York-Swann. Clough. and Co
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield -,
Cumberland 'Union Banking Company, Work-
ington .., 34,759
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 15,431
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company:
Carlisle 25,239
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,143
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,816
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 150,027
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 17,047
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,169
Hull Banking Company, Hull ~ 28,490
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,321
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax 38,580
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,168
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 22,515
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 2,7006
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,097
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 57,465
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 52,163
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company,
Leeds
Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 291
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,415
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 29,598
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 79,855
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London 432,392
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham ..... 58,890
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton., 77,584
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverp001....... 58,062
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-
cester
54,545
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 3,253
Sheffield Bankiil7, Company, Sheffield.
34,635

21,373
2,033

11,643

4,8808

10,285
7,747
45,067

10,870

9290
46,421

Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford. 53,304
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Corn
pany, Stourbridge
Sheffield and Hallamsbiro Banking Company,
Sheffield
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking
Company, Sheffield
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
Richmond ........ 51,566
Stockton and Durham County Banking Com-
pany, Stockton
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company,
Shaftesbury ..
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ...
Suffolk Bankity.; Company, Ipswich
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhampton
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 13,321
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven
Warwick and LeunaiLgton Banking Company,
Leamington
West of England and. South Wales District
73,832
Bank.l3ristol

32,474

Average AT.Ollllt
rt,nl.l i,)rset. &inking Compan), Salisbury 72,513
West Riciin; eci,:L Banking Company, Find-
(l,•rstield
titchurcii awl Eilestnere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester. . .
York Union Banking Company, York 66,019
York City and County Banking Company, York 90,793
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, May 29, 1847.

5,848

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI-

The second conversazkne of the season, given by
the President, Sir John Rennie, to the members of
the Institution of Civil Engineers, his friends, and
the eminent in the scientific and literary world, took
place on Saturday evening, the sth instant, and we
never before remember to have seen one so brilliantly
attended, or at which there was so much to amuse
and instruct the visitors. The models and works of
art had been entirely re-arranged, and considerable
additions had been made to the collection.

Among the new works of art we noticed portraits
of Mr. Aaron Manby and the Hon. Mrs Boyle, by
Mr. Boxall—painted as he only can paint—full of
vigour and truth, and with a beauty of texture that
almost resembled a miniature. Some good oil
sketches, by J. Wood ; an admirable chalk sketch of
a dog's head, by Edwin Landseer ; water-colour and
chalk sketches by Scanlan, Oliver, Duncan, Digby
Wyatt, Johnson, Alfred Crowquill (Forrester),
Bauguiet, Robertson, and Phillips, in such abundance
as to make us regret the small opportunity afforded
for dwelling over them.
A curious clock, made by Tompion, in 1670, and
presented by Charles I. to the Duchess of Cleveland,
was exhibited by Mr. Vulliamy.
Monsieur Praget contributed some extraordinary
specimens of gold electro deposit for ornamental work
for clock cases, &c. It appeared, from the state-
ments, that this introduction would make a great
diminution in the price of this kind of work.

A collection of fossils from the Oxford clay at
Trowbridge, made by Mr. Mantell during the exca-
vations on the line of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway, appeared to excite much atten-
tion among the geologists, as did two casts of impres-
sions of the feet of some unknown species of animal,
found in the new red sandstone in the United States,
and recently transmitted to Dr. Mantell, whose
splendid microscope occupied as much attention as it
usually does, when the Doctor exhibits its power and
describes it so well.

Among the additions were several working models
by West, of the vibrating and the stationary steam-
engines.

Stern propellors, by Mr. Hays, much resembling
that of Woo lcroft, only furnished with means of pre-
venting the rush of water against the propeller when
not in use, and rendering the dead wood an uniform
surface when sailing.
A very ingenious revolving disc rendulum, by Mr
Froude, for rendering uniform the circular revolu-
tion, under.considerable variation of the maintaining
power.

Otis' American excavator, which was worked on the
Eastern Counties Railway, and that of Messrs. Bar-
ber, Brothers, invented by Colonel Hamilton, and now
in construction, for dredging the port of Toulon, were
appropriately placed with I'rideaux, excavator, men,
tioned at the last soiree.

The Electric Telegraph Company contributed a
new and complete assonnait of electric clocks and
telegraphs.
A capital model of. the Somerset-bridge, of 110 feet
span, by Mr. Brunel, on the line of the Bristol and
Exeter Railway, was an example of the strength and
simplicity that may be attained by well constructed
trussed timber bridges, even for large spans—when
Admiralty and other Governmunt agents do not in..
terpose difficulties to gratify whims, or from want of
knowledge of the subjects they are sent to report
upon, and for which the public, who pay the expense
in the first place, eventually suffer by the want of
solidity in the constructions executed according to
the rules prescribed by these controlling but irre-
sponsible agents.
Fuller and de Bergue's application of thick rings
of vulcanized India rubber alternating with metal
discs, formed an excellent buffer spring for railway
carriages.

Clarke and Varley's application of pneumatic pres-
sure to the pile driving machine.
Davison's system of cleansing casks, which is used
so effectively at Truman and Banbury's and other
breweries.

The crowded state of the rooms may have caused
us to overlook some objects of interest, but the cause
itself must be our excuse, for at one period of the
evening, spacious as was the suite of apartments all
progress through them was hopeless, until the pressure
was relieved by opening of that most agreeable safety
valve, the refreshment rooms which were on the
drawing-room floor of the adjoining house, and to
which access was given to the balcony. There the
President, Sir John Rennie, had done everything to
perfect the hospitable reception of his friends to which
he had entirely devoted himself and his household,
and in which he was ably secondedk the Secretary,
Mr. Manbv.

His Royal Highness the Conde de Montemolin,
attended by the Marquis de Montenegre, and others
of his suite, came up from the Royal Society's dinner
at Greenwich, and examined with great attention all
the objects of interest; Sir Robert Peel also paid a long
visit to the collection. Among the visitors we noticed
his Royal Highness the Conde de Montemolin, the
Marquises of Northampton, Douro, and Londonderry;
the Earls of Dundonald and Liverpool ; Count D'Or-
say, Viscount De Cressy, Lords Newry, Somers,
Koss, and Colchester ; Baron Goldsmid, Bishops of
Gloucester and Norwich ; Deans of Westminster and
Ely, their Excellencies the Ministers of Saxony, Bel-
gium, and the United States ; Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel, M.P., F. Baring, M.P., E. Strutt, M.P., Sirs
W. Jolly, J. Willson, W. Burnett, Howard Douglas,
J. Barrow, C. Ryan, W. Newton, J. Hamilton, Jll
Coulburne, H. Ellis, G. Clarke, R. J. Murchison, J.
South, J. Brackeubury, C. Pasley, C. Forbes, W.
Magnay; Admiral Dundas, General M‘Leod, Colo-
nels Griffith, Leake, Colquhoun, Douglas, Sabine,
Williams, Yorke, Evans, Stanhope, and Sykes • Cap-
tains Ford, Cocks, Barber, Swinny, Porter, Young-
husband, Barker, Wynn, York, Henderson, Herring-
ham, Probyr, A. Chapman, and Knox ; Majors Jef-
freys, Brandreth, R. E. S.Clerke; Captain Schwabe,
Lieut. Helberer, M. Diego Echapparre, Chevalier
Octave Delepierre, Assam Hayat, Doctors Phipps,
Mantell, Thomson, Grant, Mayo, Jelf, D.D., Bow-
ring, M.P., Reid, Paris, Roget ; Professor Wheat-
stone, Lieut. Leake, R.N., Messrs. W. Harding,
Cockerell, Lang, de Bergue, Landseer, Donthorne,
Smirke, Gautier, Engstrom, Samuda, F. Stone, C.
Enderby, Rev. S. J. Rigaud, Sherriff Kinnard, Bab-
bage, G. R. Ward, H. Twiss, Knight, Broughton, Ir-
win, Sanderson, Warrener, Rev. J. Barlow, Baldwin,
M'lan, R. Doyle, Klengunann, B. Webster, Dundas,
Errington, Peacock, Wooley, Aspinale, Thomas
Brochedon, Robert Stephenson, W. Cubitt, Wood-
croft. A. Smith, Fuller, S. Robinson, J. Walker,
Varley, Cousins, Gooch, Bidder, Scanlan, Brett, Al-
derman Moon, Wood, Lance, Hamilton, Barber,
Renagle, A. 3mee, Sop with, Cotton, Hyde, Clarke,
Peto, Baily Boddy, Little, Solly, Ditchbourne, Mar-
tin, S. Cooper, Hart, R.A,, Lonsdale, A. Morgan,
Bone, Piaget, Castle, Loury, Cheverton, Botfield,
M.P., Crampton, Henorett, Farey, D. Burton, Fronde,
Pole, De Wint, Cooke, Youens, Carey, Bain, Grissell,
Gustaffson, Etty, R.A., Oliver Amyot, G. Cruik-
shank, Hawkshaw, Ellscombe' Delane, Forrester,
Mulready, Gravatt, Herring, A.E. Chalon, Bougniet,
and Scott Russell.