The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-10 00:00:00

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SII N 7 _NOVEMBER 10, 1848. [PRICE SD.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
Early this morning the band of the 2d Regiment
of bite Guards assembled at the Castle, and performed
the following pieces under the windows of the royal
apartments, in honour of the birthday of his Royal
Highness the Prince of \Vales

LITERATURE.

Sinfonia Pastorale (Ist movement)
Quartett—" See rosy dawn" (Opperfest) Winter.
Selection from the " Maid of Honour" Balfe.
Glee—" Hail, Star of Brunswick" Calcott.
The Prince of Wales's March
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom-
panied by her Serene Highness the Princess Amelie
of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, arrived early from
Frogmore House, and joined the august circle at the
Cagle.

The Coldstream Guards, under the command of
Colonel Codrington, and the 2rl Regiment of Life
Guards, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
Williams, paraded in the Home Park, near the East-
' ern Terrace, between nine and ten o'clock, and fired a
feu de joie in honour of the auspicious event.
The Queen afterwards drove out in an open landau
and four, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess of Hohenlohe Lan-
genburg; Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting,
attending on horseback.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Amelie of
Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst returned to Frogmore
House.

Prince Albert hunted with the harriers. His Royal
Highness was attended by the Marquis of Abercorn,
Captain W. Baillie Hamilton, Lord Camoys, Sir Ed-
ward Bowater, and Colonel Bouverie.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
her Serene Highness the Princess Eliza of Hohenlohe
Langenburg, went from the Castle in the afternoon,
and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent at Frogmore House.
The Queen walked in the afternoon in the pleasure
grounds adjacent to the Castle.
Their Royat Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Alice, and the Princess Helena, and the Princess
Louisa, took their accustomed airings to• day in the
Slopes and rides in the Park.

Her Majesty's private band performed the following
pieces yesterday evening in the Castle :
Overture—"Fingals Hohle"
Finale, 2d Act—" Zauberflote"

Turkish March—" Ruins of Athens"... Beethoven.

The royal dinner this evening was served in the
Queen's dining-room, the magnificent " Prince of
Wales's Epergne" forming the centre ornament of the
plateau, which was decorated with the plume and other
insignia of the Prince of Wales.
The illustrious guests comprised her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, her Serene Highness the Princess of Hohen-
lohe Langenburg, her Serene Highness the Princess
Eliza of Hohenlohe Langenburg, her Serene High-
ness the Princess Amelie of Hohenlohe
Schillings-
furst, her Serene Highness the Princess Eliza of
Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, his Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Abercorn, the Lady in Waiting of
the Queen Dowager (Viscountess Barrington), Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, the Baroness de Speth, Vice-
Chamberlain of the Queen Dowager (the Hon. Wil-
liam Ashley), Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Captain
W. B. Hamilton, Sir George Couper, Commanding
Officer of the 2d Life Guards (Lieutenant-Colonel
Williams), the Commanding Officer of the Coldstream
Guards (Colonel Codrington), and Mr. Glover.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner.
The following had the honour of joining the august
circle at the Castle in the evening—The Dowager
Lady and the Hon. Miss Lyttel ton and Miss Pole
Carew, Lady and Miss Couper, Mr. Couper, and the
Hon. Miss 'Phipps.
The Queen's private band attended and performed
in the Castle. _ _ _

ledge has been filled up by the scholarly
and laborious hands of the author of these pretentious
r octavos—pretentious we mean in their simple charac-
ter, in spite of the graceful humility expressed as to
their ulterior destiny in the " Preface." Mr. Blakey
has not only done good service to the student in me-
taphysics, but has, in like manner, let us hope, taken
an appreciable step towards the revival in England of
that study which was placed in the van of all the
sciences by the venerable hand of Aristotle. By the
recent changes effected in the scholastic administra-
tion at Cambridge, natural philosophy has been ad-
mitted to a companionship with classic literature and
mathematics—let us hope that the first philosophy,
the philosophy treating of mental powers and facul-
ties, will no longer be excluded from the general
course of university education. By discontinuing
the cultivation of this spiritualising and elevating
study, England has tended to propagate in an alarm-
ing degree those barren and hideous doctrines of
Materialism which hare found advocates and pane-
gyrists in a long catalogue of godless philosophers,
dating from Volney down to Humboldt. In Eng-
land the exclusive cultivation of the physical
sciences has led to one extreme. In Ger-
many the exclusive cultivation of mental
philosophy has led to another. In the latter country
the system has produced visionaries ; in the former
Deists and Atheists, or—which is, if possible, even
worse—an enormous multitude of indifferentists and
latitudinarians. By a gradual infusion of more sober
inquiries into the philosophic schools and coteries of
Germany a beneficent alteration is being already
effected —" spiritualism is gradually becoming more
material, and materialism more spiritual." The
extremes of the credulous majority and the sceptical
minority are being knit up together, and on the
anvil of revolutions they will doubtless be soon
welded into one solid and homogeneous mass. In
England a modification of an equally surprising
character remains to be effected : and for the further-
ance of this great social improvement we do not
recollect a more distinctly initiative step than the
publication of Mr. Blakey's novel and ingenious
" History of the Philosophy of Mind." It is a work
abounding with treasures culled from the golden
reliquary of classic literature. It is of such mar-
vellous scope (extending as it does from Thales to
\Vhewell), and of such various character (embracing as
it does the gaudy hallucinations of Paracelsus and the
practicable schemes of Gioberti), that it brings irre-
sistibly to our remembrance the panegyric pronounced
by Byron on the masterpiece of the inimitable Bur-
ton. Any one, said Byron, after reading the " Ana-
tomy of Melancholy," might pass through life as a
good classical scholar, although wholly unacquainted
with any other work relating to the Greek and Latin
literature. Any one, say we, might pass through life
creditably, as a proficient in metaphysical philosophy,
after perusing this single work on its developement.
The symmetry, so to speak, which is imparted to the
knowledge of mental,philosophy by the mode in which
the different metaphysicians have been classified by
Mr. Blakey, is something surprising, after the chaos in
which the mind of the student has hitherto floundered
about without beacon or landmark, without either
compass or rudder. To afford some conception of the
manner in which this is accomplished, we may cur-
sorily advert to the construction of the materials con-
stituting the four volumes of the " History." Volume
One, consisting of thirty-eight chapters, describes the
origin and progress of metaphysics from the earliest
period of mental speculation to the commencement
of the scholastic philosophy—particularizing in the
mental philosophy of Greece, the lonic School
(Thales, Anaximander, Diogenes, Anaxagoras, &c.);
the Italian School (Pythagoras) ; the Eleatic School
(Zenophanus, Heraclitus, &c.) ; the Second Eleatic
School (Empedocles, Damocritus, &c.) ; the Greek
Sophists (Socrates, Protagoras) ; the Cyrenic and
Cynical Schools ; the Schools of Megara, Elis, and
Eretria (Euclid, Plato, Aristotle) ; the Sceptical
, School • the Stoical School ; the Alexandrian School,

Lady Harriet Hamilton was prevented from having
the honour of joining the royal party at the Castle on
Wednesday.

Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday from
Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. Several of the
Cabinet Ministers visited his Lordship at his residence
in Chesham- place.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a meeting yesterday, at their office, in Whitehall-
place.

CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTHDAY OF HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.
Yesterday being the seventh anniversary of the
birth of his Royal Highness Edward, Prince of
Wales, it was observed as a holiday in the offices of
the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster. The children
of the Welsh School, in Gray's Inn-lane, of which
his Royal Highness is patron, were regaled with a
feast and holiday.
At Windsor Castle her Majesty gave an entertain-
ment, and a grand review of the troops stationed at
Windsor took place in the Home Park, in the after-
noon, in honour of the event.

For the first time since the birth of his Royal
Highness, in the evening a general illumination took
place at the theatres and houses of the royal trades-
people in the metropolis. The following are some
of the principal emblematical devices :
The Royal Italian Opera in Covent-garden—A
brilliant Star of the Order of the Garter, the centre
being composed of the initials " H. R. H. P. W.," in
elegant scroll-work—a magnificent gas illumination.
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane—A Star of Brunswick,
with the initials, "I'. W." on either side—a brilliant
gas illumination.

Lyceum Theatre—A Star of Brunswick, brilliantly
ighted with gas.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

_
OXFORD, NOV. 9.—ln a congregation holden this
morning (being what is termed a bye day), the follow-
ing degrees were conferred, viz.:—

MASTER OF ARTS.—Rer. Arthur Fanshawe Stopford,
Fellow or All Souls' College.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.—William Benson Richardson,
John Scott Bankes, University College; Hon. Augustus
Byron, Merton College; George L. Beckwith, Clerk of
All Souls' College; Henry Septimus Pigot, Brasenose
College; Joseph Tice Gellibrand, Henry Mallory Ma-
pleton, Edward Thornton, Heydon Aldersey Taylor, St.
.John College; Daniel Thomas (scholar), Charles Tudor,
John Bowman, Jesus College; Richard Cattley, John
Estcreet, Walter Field, Worcester College; Henry
Swaby, scholar of Pembroke College; John Goss,
William Norman, St. Mary Hall; William Davis,
Robert Hughes, New Inn Hall.
The Margaret Professor of Divinity (Dr. Fausett),
will begin a course of lectures on Thursday, November
30, at twelve o'clock.
The lectures are intended for those who have passed
their examination for the degree of B.A. Gentlemen
desirous of attending are requested to call on the pro-
fessor on Wednesday, the 29th, between the hours of
twelve and two.

Candidates for honours, of which there are forty, are
required to attend at the writing school, on Saturday,
the 11th instant, at ten o'clock.

, and its numerous followers. Subsequently is men-
tioned the Roman School of Moral Philosophy, illus-
trated by the genius of Cicero and Lucretius. Neat

CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 8.-At a Congregation holden this
day, the following degrees were conferred:—
M.A. (by Royal Mandate)—H. Woodrow, Caius Col-
lege.

come the United Philosophers of India • the Gnostic
Metaphysicians ; the New Platonists, and the Ancient
Fathers of the Church, including Origen, Isidore,
Tertullian, St. Augustine, Cassiodorus, Cyprian, Eu-
sibius, Ambrose, Jerome, and Chrysostom. The
Arabian Metaphysicians, the Persian Sophists, the
Cabalistic Metaphysicians, the Philosophers of the
Jews, and the Metaphysicians of the Saxons,
such as Alcuin and the Venerable Bede, bring
the first volume to a conclusion. Volume
Two, numbering thirty chapters, carries the sciences
down to the period of Locke—recording the labours
of the Scholastic Metaphysicians (Lanfranc, St.
Thomas Aquinas, St. Bonaventure, Duns Scotus, arc.),
and on the appearance of Dante, Raymond Lully*
Erasmus, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Luther,
Calvin, Melancthon, Knox, Lord Bacon, Robb, es
Montaigne, Deschrtes, Pascal, Malebranche, Spinoza,
B ossuet, Huygens, Fenelon Fontenelle, Leibnitz,
and John Locke. Volume Three,'
containing twenty-
two
chapterst,proceeds as far as the first French Re-
volution at the close of the last century, particulariz..
ing such men as Wollaston, Butler, Stillingfleet,
Bayle, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Turgot,
D'Alembert, Horne Tooke, Diderot, Voltaire,
Priestly, Helyetius, Hartley, Darwin, Fergusson,
Emmanuel Kant, Volney, Condorcet, and Cabanis.
Volume Four, comprising nine chapters of consider-
able length, terminates only with the present time,
detailing the labours of Dugald Stewart, Thomas
Brown, Coleridge, Whewell, Macintosh, Schlegel,
Fichte, Royer Collar,l, Lamemnais, Buchez, Benjamin
Constant, Brissot, Victor Cousin, Claude Henri,
Count de St. Simon, Charles Fourier, Pierre Leroux,
Tommasseo, Gioberti, Mamiani, Van de Weyer, and
Emerson. From the mere enumeration of these more
prominent among the metaphysical writers of ancient
and modern times, some notion may be formed of the
effort required in the accumulation of facts for the
composition of an historical work such as the one
undertaken by Mr. Blakey. The abundance of ma-
terials almost defied compression intoOihe compass of
four volumes, but this compression has been effected
by our author with very considerable skill. Occa-
sionally, it is true, the necessity of reducing matters
to the briefest possible compass has induced Mr.
Blakey to abbreviate precisely where some slight
extension would be most agreeable. Take, for ex-
ample, the chapter upon Socrates. It occupies scarcely
three pages, including a note of reference. Of all

—B.D.—George Williams, King's College.
LL.B.—T. C. Williams, Catharine Hall.
M.A.—P. 11. Anderson, Corpus College; James Hut-
chinson, St. John's College ; J. H. Lang, Magdalen
College.
At the same Congregation the following graces passed
the Senate;—

" 1.- To appoint Mr. Rowland Williams, of King's
College, an Examiner of the Classical Tripos for the en-
suing year.
" 2. To authorize the removal of the University Mu-
niments from the room which they at present occupy in
the Pitt Press, and which is damp and ill ventilated, to
the great room in the same building recently occupied
by the Mesman Collection ; the Syndics not seeing any
probability of the latter room being wanted for the
purposes of the press, nor any objection to such ap-
propriation.
"3. On the 'recommendation of the Syndics of the
Press, to grant to the lonian University of Corfu copies
of all books which have been printed at the Pitt Press
on account of the University, and also of such editions of
the Bible and Prayer Book as may be selected by the
Syndics.
"4. To confirm the report of the Botanical Garden
Syndicate dated Oct. 28, 1848.
" 5. To allow Mr. Walker of Caius College to resume
his Regency."
TRINITY COLLEGE.—The following prize subjects have
been given out :
English.—The political and social condition of the
Italian Republics in the middle ages, compared with that
of the Republic of Ancient Greece.
Latin Alcaics.—O italic referent in mare to nevi
fluctus.
ANTIQIIARIAN SOCIETY.—Meetings have been appointed
for the following dates during 184$ 9, to be held in the
Philosophical Rooms :
Michaelmas Term, 1848.—Monday, Dec. 4.
Lent Term, 1849.—Monday, Feb. 19 ; Monday
March 5.
Easter Term, 1849.--e Monday, April 30 ; Friday (An-
niversary), May 14.

Among the public works to be undertaken during
the winter season will be the viaduct over which the
western railroad will cross the Chaussee du Maine at
the Barrier° du Maine, between the present and the new
station. This viaduct will be formed upon a single arch
of cast iron, upwards of 65 feet in span, springing from
abutments of solid masonry.—Galignani.

HISTORY of the PHILOSOPHY of MIND.
4 Vols. By Robert Blahey.
I Among all the departments of knowledge, that of
Mental Philosophy, or the Philosophy relating to the
faculties and powers of intellect, is the foremost. Since
the time of the Stagyrite, it has been emphatically
distinguished as the 7irst Philosophy—all the other
branches of thought, those referring to external
objects, and those, again, devoted to the consideration
of moral duties or obligations, being based, in the
first instance, upon the truths established in this
paramount field of investigation. Notwithstanding
this incontrovertible fact, notwithstanding the univer-
sally acknowledged pre-eminence of Metaphysics
over every other description of Philosophy, it is
marvellous to reflect that since the close of the
eighteenth century the cultivation of this profound
study has been almost entirely neglected in our own
country, and that until the appearance of the very
remarkable work before us, the science of Mental
Philosophy was altogether without an historian. For
two powerful reasons, therefore, we are disposed to
welcome the publication of these four volumes by Mr.
Blakey with a satisfaction in some measure commen-
surate with the dignity of the subject, the develop-
ment of which that gentleman has here narrated with
so much eloquence and erudition. Hitherto, we have
said, Metaphysics have been without an historian.
Political Philosophy has had its Brougham. Moral
Philosophy has had its Paley. Physical Philosophy,
or Natural Philosophy, as it is more frequently
termed, has, in each of its almost innumerable divi-
sions, had some illustrious exponent—in Chemistry a
Brande ; in Optics a Newton ; in Astronomy a
Copernicus ; in Anatomy, a Quain ; in Geology, a
I3uckland ; in Hydraulics, a Galileo ; in Ethnology, a
Prichard ; in Zoology, a Buffon ; in Botany, a Lin-
naeus ; in Philology, a Leibnitz ; in Mechanics, a
Fergusson; and so on uninterruptedly through acou-
stics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, navigation, entomology,
ornithology, meteorology, ichthyology, conchology,
helminthology, mineralogy, and the rest of these in-
exhaustible departments. But Metaphysical Philo-
sophy—the philosophy which above all others most
required a certainidegree of classification in order to
render its results available, and its progressive ad-
vancement comprehensible—remained without any
book of nomenclature. Until Mr. Blakey com-
pleted these four noble volumes there was no book
which attempted, even in the most elementary or
superficial manner, to depict the rise and the pro-
gressive development of the most purely intellectual
of all the sciences. Metaphysical Philosophy was
never until now deliberately mapped out, chronolo-
gically or otherwise, if we except the incidental con-
tributions towards a chart of metaphysics contained
in Mr. Hallam's " Literature of the Middle Ages,"
the preliminary treatises of Cudworth, Enfield, and
Stanley, together with the isolated Dissertation by
Dugald Stewart, prefixed to the latest edition of the
Encyclopwdia Britannica. At length this won-
derful hiatus in the records of human know-

the imagination of Paracelsus, the silvans (sylphs),
undines (nymphs), gnomes, and salamanders ; in his
observations on the dogmatism; of Malebranche with
his egotistical " Cogito, ergo situ f' in his delineation
of the radiant theories of Descartes, and of the frigid
speculations of Spinoza; in his analysis of the Essay
of Locke, as well as in his explanation of the idola
tribes, the idola specus, the idola fori, and the idola
theatri as propounded by Lord Bacon—the historian
of mental philosophy has been singularly felicitous.
As specimens of the ingenuity with which a theory
is " packed" by Mr. Blakey into the most portable
dimensions we here transcribe a " table" from his
chapter on Locke, and an example of aiPyllogism from
that on Aristotle. Here is—

"A TABULAR ANALYSIS OF FCFLECTION.
1-First step to knowledge--Em-
ployed about Ideas—Distin-
guished from passive percep-
tions—Common to all ani-
mated creatures—ls of three
kinds.
'l. Contemplation.
2. Memory.
3. Association.
1. Clear ideas.
2. Wit.
3. Judgment.
Ideas of relations.
Imperfect in brutes.
Ideas of numbers and simple
modes.
'Distinguishes,men from brutes
—Forms gen&al ideas, or prin-
ciples from particulars—Genus
and species—Essences—Lan-
guage.
7. VOLITION l. Powerl of acting.
2. Power of choosing."
ere is a sorites syllogism, which although patent to
every schoolboy, may yet be glanced at without dis-
dain by the general reader, forgetful of the smell of
slate pencil, and even of the whang I of the ferule :
" Man is an animal,
Every animal is a body,
Every body is a substance,
Therefore every man is a substance."
This, our more reminiscent readers will not have
forgotten is a form of syllogism of uncommon use,
different from the ordinary process, inasmuch as it
contains an additional proposition, and from the syl-
logisms called ethymeme, inasmuch as the ethymeme
consists of only two propositions with an intermediate
ellipsis. After having perused the laborious work
of Mr. Blakey it will be no loner possible to regard
the history of metaphysics as presenting " nothing
but a wild chaos of abstruse systems, of conflicting
opinions,
and unshapely chimeras." On the contrary,
it will resound upon their memory in a thousand
beautiful and ravishing harmonies—harmonies, like
those of Beethoven, rendered still more entrancing by
this sudden and occasional merging into dissonance.
For having carried this daring undertaking to a suc-
cessful issue Mr. Blakey is alike entitled to our en-
comium and our congratulations. He has inscribed
his name upon the history of metaphysics, and in so
doing must have assuredly Dealised his loftiest
ambition.

I. PERCEPTION..

2. RETENTION"...

3. DISCERNING..

4. COMPARING ....
5. COMPOUNDING
OR ENLARGING.

6. ABSTRACTION...

STAMPORD,- Nov. 10.--Yesterday's fair, for horned
ant polled cattle, was the lsrgest ever known. On
Tuesday and Wednesday there were arrivals at the vil-
lages and inns in the neiabbourbo,d from almost all the
northern parts of Ow kingdom; they etlkte by rail as
well as by road, and army of the lots were accompanied
by scotch and Irish drovers. On Wednesday 200 beasts
r ached Stamford direct from Glasgow, and yesterday
morning the trains brought trucks filled with live stock.
It is impossible to judge accurately r f the number of
beasts offered for sale, but they were supposed to amount
to between 12,000 arid 15,000, or three times the ave-
nge numher exhibited at Smithfield market on any day
during 1847. The open fields extending from the back
of the Rock-gardens to Einlyn's close were crowded,
and so thickly were the animals studded in the town that
St. Pet,-es-street and Scotgate to St. Paul's-street (in-
cluding the intermediate streets, the Slit,ep-market, and
Red Lion-square), were for a time nearly impassable
except to those engaged in buying and selling. A cal-
culation was made that there were 1,500 beasts in Broad-
street, 800 in Scotgate, 300 in High-street, 600 in Red
Lion square, All Saints'-place, and Barnhill, 100 in
Ironenoeger-street, 150 in the Sheep-market, &c. There
was an abundance of bu3ers, but they took advantage of
the extraordinary supply to manifest a shyness in offer-
ing; the sellers, however, generally refusing to give way,
sales at length became pretty brisk, and some thousands
changed hands at prices a trifle below those obtained at
recent fairs —Stamford Mercuey.
THE EDINBURGH CHARTIST TRIALS.-011 Tuesday
the trials of the Edinburgh Chartists commenced before
the High Court of ,Justiciary in Edinburgh. The Judßes
on the b lich were the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Med-
wyn, and Lord Mackenzie. The case having been
opened, an objection was raised, which has been deemed
of such importance as to be laid before the whole bench
of Judges, who were to assemble on Thursday to hear
the pleadings, and decide upon them. The general im-
port of the objection is, that while the major proposition
of the indictment charges the prisoner Cumming with
contravention of the Government Security Bill, sedi-
tion, and conspiracy, the facts set forth in the minor
proposition amount to the crime of high treason. The
libel, or indictment, having been read, the case was ad-
journed for the purpose of arguing the objection stated
above. -

- •
INQUEST ON TUB BODY or Ma. DIAN, THR
INVENTOR OF THE DIVING A PPA RAVllB.—Tilts inge-
nious mechanician was formerly a caulker, but devoted
his time exclusively of late years to the invention of the
diving app.tratus and other things, for which patents
were obtained. Intense application to his pursuit, it is
supposed, impaired his intellects, and he was accordingly
confined for some time in the lunatic asylum at Peck-
ham. He committed suicide on Tuesday morning last,
by cutting his throat with a razor. The jury, after a
careful inquiry, returned a verdict of " Temporary
insanity."

ROBBERIES ON LORD MAYOR'S DAL—Numerous
robberies were committed yesterday amongst the crowds
of persons assembled in the streets to witness the pro-
cession. Purses, pocket-books, and watches rapidly
changed owners. No less than thirty charges of pocket-
picking were entered at the station in Fleet-street in the
course of the day, and many other similar robberies
were no doubt committed, but, from the dexterity of the
thieves, the vigilance of the police was baffled.
ST. MARY'S NEWINGTON.—In consequence of the
apprehensions entertained of the spread of cholera in the
close and crowded streets of St. Mary's Newington, a
spcial meeting of the governors and guardians of the
poor was held at the workhouse on Tuesday evening.
with the view of determining the measure* to be adopted
to iusui e immediate and efficient medical sttendaace upon
any of the poorer classes when attacked by the epidemic.
After some discussion, it was determined to elect ten
medical officers in addition to those already appointed,
one for each particular locality, but each gehnstlas
being required to act in any part of the
it become necessary.
case. The following gentlemen w
The lee was fiexreedacatePEiss.n6gdiy. eaacph.
ap-
pointed
Marshall, 9, Marlborough-
' ted :—Mr. Boddy, 12, Saville-row,
Marlborough-place; _ wioWlana,lwll°,rth;hir.
Church-
row,
g-Walworth;
Newington; Mr. Hicks, 4, Hi h street; Mr. Mason,
High street; Mr. Howitt, 5, Apollo-buildings,
Char-
Mr. Darville, Dean's-row, Walworth ; Mr. Crisp, ar-
lotte-row ; Mr. Townsen, Newington-causeway
_; Mr.
Lewis, 4, Brighton-place, New Kent-road ; Mr. Bath-
bone, Webb's County-terrace ; and Mr. Hawkins, Great
Diver- street.

HORNCASTLB.—An awfully sudden death occurred
here on Friday last. About eight o'clock in the evening,
Mr=. Houlden, aged 68, widow of Mr. Houlden, of
Revesby, conversed as cheerfully as usual with one of
her neighbours, and on wishing her good night, repaired
into hee own house, fastening the outer door. As she
lived alone, and was not stirring so soon as usual the fol—
io king morning, one of the neighbours got assistance and
entered the house, where Mrs. Houlden was found quite
dead, sitting on a chair in her kitchen. It seems that
she was seized with death as soon as she entered her
house the preceding night, as no preparation had been
male for retiring to bed, which was usual with her about
nine o'clock.— Verdict of the coroner's inquest, ** Visi-
tation of God."—Stamford Mercury.
DUNEAR.—On Sunday last, in consequence of the
insufficiency of the railway fence, several fine sheep
escaped from that portion of it which runs through the
farm occupied by Mr. Archibald Lawson, West Barns,
and, although seen lying on the line by the engineer,
such was the vesiocity at which the train was going at
the time, that no efforts of his could avert their destruc-
tion, and seven of them were crushedto pieces. Luckily
no accident occurred to the train, which arrived in safety
at the Dunbar abstaon.—Culed.ontan Mercury.

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he sages to is in any +e:
spect corn of the stitraarf -4
Sophronk led the phrasal-A.,
_rt.t)9J reatroy, he who first introduced the in..;
ductive method of reasoning, he who first contrived,
an accurate mode of employing genera terms, virbd4
by his definition of the moral virtues rendered tbem
conformable to reason, and who, without the aid of re-
velation, approached by an instinctive wisdom to some
of the sublirnest dogmas established by Christianity,
surely deserved more than this meagre memento of
three octavo pages. Bearing in mind the one fact
that Socrates was the founder of Moral Philosophy,
the importance of his advent upon the intellectual
condition of the human race can scarcely be exagge-
rated by any epithet, however eulogistic. True, it is,
without question, that this great man, the chiefest
glory of the golden age of Pericles, demands, to .a
certain extent, a less particluar mention than some
of the less illustrious philosophers of Greece, for
inasmuch as he never wrote a syllable himself for the
public examination, while they composed volumes.
But even in regard to the art of composition and the
graces of rhetoric, Socrates requires an inferential
consideration, seeing that his spoken lessons inspired
so many of his disciples to pen books that can never
die, while he himself is said to have versified ..tEsop in
his dungeon, and to v e assisted his pupil Euripides
Ms
in the production of Ms matchless tragedies. If, how-
ever, Mr. Blakey has disappointed us in the undue
brevity of his chapter upon Socrates, he has ful-
filled all our expectations in his commentaries
upon most of the successors of that glorious phi-
losopher. In his exposition of the syllogisms
of Aristotle; in his account of the exquisite system
of Plato relating to images, notionF, and ideas as ap.-
pertaining to sensation, to the understanding, and to
reason ; in his definition of the conjectures of Demo-
critus ; in his reference to the ideal creatures born in

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