The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-07 00:00:00

AMERICAN PRESS.

The New York Tribune says :—" Jem Mace and
Tom Allen have violated a law which is on the sta
tute book of every State in the Union, against
prize-fighting. But in giving and accepting a chal-
lenge to fight for the Championship of America,
near Orleans, they have presented an opportunity
to the police of that city, which we hope will not be
lost sight of at the time the fight is to come off. The
Irish Giant,' O'Baldwin, who was participant in
a prize-fight on the soil of Massachusetts last sum-
mer, is now serving out his term in the State Prison
for that offence. If the police and magistrates of
New Orleans will sec to it that Mace and Allen are
dealt with in the same manner, they will put the
decent people of the country under obligations to
them. Since they have published in advance their
purpose of violating the law, they ought to be
nabted as soon as they make their appearance in
New Orleans."

'Ti .e Yale Courant gives the interesting 'riper
read by Professor Verrill, at the December meet-
ing of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences, of
which the following is an extract :--" In 1867 an
expedition under Count Pourtales was fitted out by
the U. S. Coast Survey. Since then two other expe-
ditions have been sent. They dredged mainly in the
Gulf Stream region between Florida and Cuba. Col-
lections of interest were thus made,which are deposited
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cam-
bridge, and which have been as yet only partly de-
scribed. The corals (in part), the hydroids, hobo-
thurians, crinoids, bryozoa, and brachiopods have
been examined by Pourtales, the star fishes and sea
urchins by Alex. Agassiz, and the Odhiurians by
Theodore Lyman. The shells, worms, crustacea, and
other corals in large numbers remain to be de-
scribed. The most remarkable things obtained were
a cyathophyllum coral of an order supposed to
to have become extinct in the Carboniferous—a
living Paleozoic form ! Several species of large
Brachiopods, itself au early form, added to the
ancient look of this fauna. A Voluta junonia, large
arid brilliant in colour, came from a depth of 350
fathoms. . . . The bearing of these discoveries
upon the science of Geology is evident. Many of
its theories will have to be at once remodeled. We
may no longer regard colour in a fossil shell
as evidence of a shallow water deposit; nor may
we believe any longer that fossiliferotts rocks must
themselves have been formed in water not, over
300 fathoms in depth. So, too, the discovery of
Tertiary, Cretaceous, and even of Paleozoic forms of
animals still living, shows us, on the one hand, how
unsafe it is to pronounce on the identity of two widely
separated formations in age because of a few
species common to both ; and, on the other, it
impresses us with the remarkable permanence
of species in nature. Sir Wyville Thompson be-
lieves that the foramiuiferous deposit he examined,
and which is now forming, is a continuation of the
English Cretaceous ; and he expects thathe Eozoon,
the oldest form of animal life existing in the rocks,
but which is also reported to exist in theTertiary,will
ere long be dredged, still living. Lastly, in the region
north of Scotland, we see two depositions going on
side by side, the one forming a sandstone, the other
chalk ; and the sole condition which determines the
character of the rock as well as of its fossils is a
difference of temperature of 15 deg. to 20 deg., a
result entirely opposed to all geological hypotheses
heretofore accepted."
The Scientific Press of San Francisco, discussing
the Aerial Steam Navigation Company, states—" At
a meeting of stockholders of this company, Dec.
17, 1869, Messrs. Eugene Sullivan, Thomas N.
Cazneau, Henry F. Williams, and Simon L. Jones
were appointed a committee to receive subscriptions
for one thousand shares (one-tenth of the capital
stock of the company) at the rate of $lO per share
of the par value of $lOO, said shares to be unasses-
sable. The funds thus raised are to be devoted ex-
clusively to the construction of the first aerial steam
carriage, and to be deposited in the Bank of Bri-
tisk Columbia, to be disbursed upon requisition of
Mr. George K. Gluyas, Engineer of Construction.
The working, drawings, &c., can be seen at the
office of Gen. Thomas N. Cazneau, No. 321, Cali-
fornia-street, where subscriptions will be received.
No invention for navigating the air has before re-
ceived such positive indorsement from engineers of
reputation, or so liberal encouragement from pro-
minent capitalists as Marriott's Avitor, which now
sccrns sure of being thoroughly tested on a large
scale