The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

FRENCH ATTACK ON SALEE.

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Austmlian
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Lirazilian Intp. (is. M. ;1.)

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Copiapo ... . • •.• • • • •
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iiantirtgo de Cuba ......
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London Joint Stock ....1
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National Provincial Eng.,

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Oriental Bank Corporat.
rtvinei al of Ireland .• • •

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tluton of Australia.. ••

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Union of Madrid -• •

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38 39%
43 —46
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25 —• 26%
18% 17%
28)4 29%

18% - 1714
27 - 28%
44 - 45%
15% - 1614
35 -3614
3 - 314
14% - 151,.;

SCELLANEOI7S.
323( 48 4954
14 273( —2B x.d
all 70 —72
10 16% —17 q
60 793 W.% 8034
nth of December. Ticket days for !Vi-
nt 30th. Account days, 16th and 31st.
lisle for the errors of the Official Lista, and
interested correspondents.]

Ditto ditto
Royal Mail Steam .. • • .. I
Settling days in the moi

tered shares. 150 9]

Me cannot be answers
will not be influenced by

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 baler, of which 1,500 American and 500
Surat were taken on speculation. The market closed
heavily, American and Surat in favour of buyers. The
sales comprised 3,500 American, 200 Pernana and Maran-
ham at sil. to 6id., 150 Egyptian at sid. to Bd., and
2,500 Surat at 24d. to 31d. per lb.—Railway Shares were
firm.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 365. 9d. per
quarter.
The prospects of the Siskawit mine, on Isle Royal,
Lake Superior, have been very much brightened this
season, and it is fast assuming a rank among the best
mines in the country. This company are at work on
two veins, and obtain stamp work and barrel work from
each. In the south vein small masses are found, and a
ton of stamp copper is produced per week.
Isle Royal Company has proved a valuable location.
The Pittsburgh and Isle Royal Company also show a
profitable mine. They took out ono mass weighing
1,2001b5.
The New York and Michigan Mining Company find
the vein promising. They have taken out some fine
lumps of native work lately, and they mean to prosecute
their work vigorously during the winter.
At the Norwich Mines they have lately thrown
down a large mass of copper, and the vein constantly
improves. There is the most encouraging prospect
for this company, and the large force they are putting
on to it for the winter will have a fine lot of copper out
by spring.
The Ohio Trap Rock Company have the same vein
as the Norwich. and the same encouraging prospects
before them. The ancient diggings are quite extensive
on this location, and wherever they have cleared cut
these pits they find a wide and rich-looking vein, that
promises well for their success.
The town of Zara (Turkey) is represented in advises
received to-day to have been visited by a severe shock of
an earthquake. Several hundred persona were killed.
The accounts from the Stock Markets of the Continent
are extraordinary as respects the elasticity which has
arisen upon the French news. The rise at Frankfort is
6 or 7 per cent., and at Vienna and other places there is
a corresponding improvement.
C..n Adoring that this is settling-day, !dear a very heavy
Account, the English Stock Market has been much
quieter than could have been Expected, and the dif-
ferences will apparently be met with ease, al-
though many have been severe losers by the
sudden reaction, and being most anxious to close
while appearances were bad, lost the opportunity
of retrievement afforded by the subsequent rally. With
the glut of mosey, the continued influx of bullion, and
accruing interest upon Consols, two months being now
due upon them, it is not improbable that, as upon
so many previous occasions, they will stand
before the opening in January as high ex-
dividend as they now do with it, and the
fall affords buyers for investment an opportunity of
coming in, if so disposed. The payment of the differences
will be made to-morrow. Consols were in the
early part of the present Account at 98i i;
on the 19th ult. they reached 99i; on the sth
inst. they had fallen back to 96 a, and
to-day they have ranged from 971 to 971,- for Transfer,
and 971 to 98 for January Account. Bank Stock has
bcen firm at 215. The New Three-and-a Quarter per
Cent.. have been 97-1- to 98, and the Three per Cents.
96i to 97k. Exchequer-bills have been steady at 47s
to 505., and India Bonds at 583. to 615. premium.
The Foreign Market has been well supported for par-
ticular Securities, but the general business has been

limited. Spanish Three per Cents. have been in favour
at 40 to 40y, and tho Five per Cents. at 20 to I.
Mexican Bonds have been at 24/ to 3, and would pro-
bably go higher but for the largo mercantile
failures in Mexico. Peruvian Stock has been
marked 883- for the Active, and 44 for the
Deferred. Equador is rather firmer at 3. Sardinian
Bonds have realised 81. Russian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. 1031 to 104, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 58/ to 59.
There is less doing in Railway Shares than for some
days past, but prices are firm, and North-Western,
Great Western, Midland, South-Western, and most of
the others dealt in are higher.
The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up to
this day, are, in round figure, as under:—
der.
1850.
Great Western...
North-Western
South-Weitarn 8,009 ... 7,399
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
Caledonian 8,124 ... 7,453
Great Northern 10,414 ... 6,481
Lancashire and Yorkshire 17,223 ... 14,784
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick 14,024 ...
13,645
North Stafford 4,566 .. 4,410
For Gold mine Shares there is no very active inquiry,
but they are held for fuller prices. Nouveau Monde
premium.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols for Opening ... 97i 98
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock ..... - 215
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities...-. 96% 7%
3 par Cent. Consols Ann,. .. 973/4.
98 7:!,i %7i
98
, 54%
New 314 per Cent. Amts.
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 6 15-16 7
India Bonds under 1,000/
97% 98
Coniels for Account .....
Efalconer Bills. 14d.
50 p
1,000/. .. —
500/
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Equador Bonds 3
Maxim Bonds, 1846, ex Jan. Coupons 2414%
'Peruvian Bonds, i per Cent .....
Do. Deferred 4l
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4% per Cent. 103143A% 104
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. .. 40 LA% 40 14
Venezuela Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4'4 per Cent....... BB
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild

INCENDIARY FIRE AT PUTNEY.—Yesterday morn-
ing, soon after two o'clock, information was brought to the
Wandsworth police station by one of the policemen on duty
that a fire had just broken out in the farmyard of Mr. Mat-
thew Woodland, Putney-fields, adjoining the Richmond and
Windsor Railway, and that a large bay stack, containing
forty quarters, was then raging. Two mounted constables
of the V division were dispatched to London for fire-engines,
and in the mean time Mr. John Augustus Beaumont's pow-
erful engine was brought from that gentleman's residence,
West-hill, as also the Putney engine. Mr. Bicknell, the
superintendent of the V division, assisted by Inspector
Persse, Acting-inspector Burchell, and Sergeant &targuard,
with a large body of constables, were soon at the spot, and
rendered the most efficient assistance in checking the pro-
gress of the flames towards the farm buildings, which are I
somewhat extensive, and comprise a large barn, stables, caw
house, and extensive piggery, containing a considerable
number of fatted and store pigs; all these were rescued by
the police, and the fire confined to the rick and a few out-
buildings long before the London engines made their appear-
ance. A poor man, named Wood, who is allowed to sleep in
one of the out-houses by the proprietor, had a narrow escape
of his life, being asleep at the time the fire broke out, but he
was rescued just in time by one of the police. The property
destroyed is estimated at over 2CO/., but is covered by in-
surance in the County Fire-office. This is the third incen-
diary fire in this locality within six weeks—one at Mr.
Rex's, Upper Richmond-road, Putney, and a second at Mr.
Robert Hutton's, Putney-park-lane. In each instance they
were hay ricks. Mr. Hutton, who is a county magistrate,
and great coach-maker at Dublin, has offered a reward of 501.
for the apprehension and conviction of the party or parties
who fired his stack. •
ELECTRIC TELOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION. The
number of telegraphic stations now open, and in connexion
with the central station of the Electric Telegraph Company,
in Lothbury, amount to 226, embracing all the principal
towns in this kingdom, between which commercial and pri-
vate dispatches are transmitted and answers obtained in a
few minutes. Of the total 226 stations, nearly 70 are prin-
cipal commercial stations, at which the attendance is what is
called constant, that is to say, day and night ; the lengths of
the lines of communication extending over 2,500 miles, with
800 in progress of suspension.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED)

BLACK WOOD.

After a rather prp.y, bat, 0, 17i;e:4, very energetic,
srgutof!ot in behalf of the printirlT, of Protection,
pr,,,ented to the pahlie in the form of an address " To
the thol..liepers of Great Britain," the readers of
Maga ore treated to an in teresting paper, t-ntitled, " Th:s
Jew's Legacy," being a tale of the siege of Gibral-
tar. A descriptive work on " Forest Life and Forest
Trees," by Mr. Springer, a work which doubtless
would have proved deli,/ table to good old Mr. Evelyn,
the Diarist, has suggested the next article in the ma-
gazine in the form of an agreeable and lively delinea-
tion of " Life among the Loggers.," Then we come
to the serial which, for sixteen months, has been the
principle attraction in Bluclareod—"My Novel; or
Varieties is English Life," by Pisistratus
Caxton. In the instalment beiare us we
have much about those fine creations peo-
pling the rural scenery of liaziedean. Ricca-
hocca seems for the while to be getting involved in
the meshes of Randal's base and selfish intrigues.
He is persuaded to remove to the vicinity of London
with Violante, and the chapter in which his English
wife, Jemima, is restored to 'his confidence, is replete
with those eloquent touches of natural pathos for
which the writings of Sir Bulwer Lytton have been
so frequently remarkable. Squire 1-Lziedean, more
over, appears to be getting involved in the same
entangled webwork of misstatements. The embarass-
ing position in which Randal is placed by the Squire's
movement towards the farmyard is laughable
enough. We entertain a malicious regret for his
escapc, even though it be by such consummate
adroitness. There can be no doubt upon any reader's
mind as to the author of the little book which has
just appeared, to the delight of the literary
world, and the fame of which has penetrated even
to the drawing-rooms of Hazledean. We await the
re-appearance of Leonard Fairfield, as an author of
some celebrity. Egerton we expect to die suddenly
—as suddenly and unexpectedly as Lord George
Bentinek. Baron Levy is capitally sketched, and
sketched, too, manifestly from the life. An excellent
review of " Johnstone's Notes on North America "
follows the novel of Pisistratus, and this again is suc-
ceeded by an admirable criticism on the lion. Fre-
derick Walpole's " Ansayrii," in which we travel
again through that glorious east, which has
been so recently and wondrously opened up to our
view by Kinglake and Warburton. After this, as the
doting contribution for the year, comes a some-
what valuable argument in reference to the system of
railways.

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.
The followinee report relative to the attack upon
Salee hes beau addressed to toe Minister of l‘larine,
by Adinirat Dabourdieu!--
" On beaed the Henri IV. ship-of-the-line,
at Sea, Nsvembsr 27.
" Monsieur lo Ministre,—As I had the honour of an-
nouncing to ycu in my letter of the 23d of thie month, I
left the roadstead of Cadiz on the 24th, to proceed to
Salee. The weather was magnificent, and the Henri
IV., being towed by the Comer, went along at the rate
of upwards of six knots an hour. At the approach of
night, I sent forward the Caton with two summonses
addressed to the caids of Rebel and of Sake. A letter
was also written to the Consul of England at Rabat, to
offer him and his family, and the Christians who hap-
pened to be in the town, an asylum on board the Caton,
which was to be three hours in advance of 113.
"On the 25th, at eleven in the morning, the Caton
came to anchor near Rabat, and delivered our dispatches
to the reins of that port. Answers were promised in a
delay of three hours. At two in the afternoon my divi-
Sion arrived and placed itself at the entrance of the river
in the position which I had assigned the several vessels.
I caused the Henri IV. to be towed by the Gamer
within two cable lengths and a half of the laul, between
the north-west and south-west forts of Sake, in order to
be able to fire at both at the same time. The Gomer
and Sar4 steam frigates were ordered to keep their steam
up on the two sides of my lino of operation, but further
from the shore than the Henri IV., in order to support
our attack. The Caton and the Nerved were to place
themselves at the extreme limit of the range of the forts,
ready to aid the other vessels.
" By tin order of the day, in ide known at sea by sig-
nals, I had announced to my division that the French
Government was sending ue to Salee to claim satisrac-
ti. n for an act of piracy committed by the inhabitants
of that town. The crews received the intelligence with
the greatest enthusiasm.
" The forts of Rabat and of Sake, covered with
'ample' made no opposition to our taking up our posi-
tion. Notwithstanding the advanced hour of the day,
the delay of one hour which I hal accorded in my sum-
mons to the caid of Sake having expired, I determined
to commence the action, but the Freach Consul had not
yet returned from shore, and humanity imposed it as a
duty on me not to expose him and his family to the
cruelty of a population fanatically excited against Chris
tians. I consequently awaited the arrival of this family,
and at four o'clock M. Elton, the consul, issued from
the river, bringing us back the reply of the caids. The
caid of Rabat gave it to be understood, that in ease of
conflict ho would abstain from participating in a quarrel
originating in mutters to which he was completely a
stranger; but I placed little confidence in that promise,
because it appeared to me impossible that these two
towns, so intimately connected together, and placed
only a few metres from each other on the two sides of
the river, of which they commanded the entrance, could
remain without aiding each other against an attack from
unbelievers. As to the caid of Salee, he asked for six
days to ask the orders of the Emperor. This was evi-
dently a feint, as for the last eight months the orders of
Muley Abdorahmau ought to have been taken.
" These preliminaries being accomplished, there only
remained for me to carry into execution the will of the
French Government, that is to say, to make an example,
and to take ourselves the satisfaction which the pirates
of Salee had the impudence to refuse us. The day, how-
ever, was too far advanced to open an attack on the
place, it being near sunset. I, therefore, decided on
quitting the offensive position I had taken up, and an-
choring at a greater distance from the land, and defer-
ring until the next morning the employment of force.
"At daybreak on the 26th, the English steamer Janus
arrived from Gibraltar. I turned over to the captain of
this vessel the Englishmen to whom I had given an
asylum on board the Caton. I was prevented by a thick
fog from commencing my aggressive movement until
nine o'clock. At that hour, I formed a new line of at•
tack, modified according to the state of the sea. I placed
the Henri IV. at about five cables length across the
north-west fort of Sake in such manner that her fire
might be directed both against that battery and the in-
termediate forts. The Gomer towed us into our position
with great precision. The Sat, by my orders, placed
herself to my .right, at a good distance from the forts,
but close enough to use her guns with good effect. The
Gomer under steam kept herself ready to direct her fire
according to my orders. The small craft placed them-
selves out of the reach of the batteries.
"At ten o'clock all my arrangmeuts were made; the
forts were prepared for defence; the numerous embra •
sores were filled with cannon of heavy calibre, and all
directed towards us. After assuring myself that their
intention was not to give the moderate satisfaction de-
manded, it only remained for me to make my cannon
speak.
" I opened the fire on the two forts with a cry of Vive
la REpublique, which was repeated with enthusiasm by
our brave crews. The batteries on shore immediately
replied; those of Rabat, even the most distant, followed
the example of those of Saleo, but at long intervals. I
had ordered that no attention should be paid to the firing
from the forts of Rabat, as I wished to confine my
chastisement to its neighbour. This determination was
attended with a positive success. Rabat, finding that
we did not return its fire, fancied that we were beyond
its reach, and therefore fired but very seldom; the balls
however went past us, and some of them took effect.
After the first Lour the firing of the forts of Salce slack-
ened, but it again rallied, as I suppose the gunners,
finding themselves useless at Reba, came to assist the
Salee men. Their guns were aimed with remarkable
precision.
" The swell of the sea rendered our aim very diffieult,
but the skill of our gunners obtaiuod astonishing re-
sults; the north-west fort had all its embrasures demo-
lished, and its guns dismounted, when the firing from
that of the south-west became more animated. Is was
not until five in the evening, after an engagement of
seven hours, that the forts and batteries were completely
silenced.

"The results were obtained by the-combined efforts of
the Henri IV. and the two frigates Gomer and Sa, é
During the engagement I several times directrd the tire
of our largest mortars on the principal mosque and the
town of Sake, placed at the summit of a bill at some
distance. Six shells went through the minaret, and a
great number of houses were struck. A tiro brae out
on several points, and was seen burning during the night
atter our departure.
" I thought it right to maintain my position for some
time after nightfall. Tlri Henri IV. continued to die
charge shots and shells until a quarter to seven. It was
then only that I quitted the post of attack, and placed my
ships within the outer roadstead. A good number of
shot struck our ship, but chiefly in the masts and
rigging. Thu Henri IV., however, was struck in several
parts of the hull, and her main topmast was cut in two
by a ball. The Sane antlered more than the Gomer,
but sustained no serious injury. Our losses, happily,
are not considerable. The Henri IV. had one man
killed and nine wounded; the Sane three killed and nine
wounded. At ten, the intentions of the Government
having been executed, I quitted the coast, and sent my
ships to the destinwions prescribed by my instructions."
The report concludes with a notice of the zeal
displayed by the officers and cre a s of all the ships en-
gaged, and a special notice of acts of valour on the
part of some officers and seamen.

LOUIS NAPOLEON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Slll,—People are much puzzled to know who is
" the one base exception" alluded to by the virtuous
Times, as refraining from uniting in the vitupera-
tions indulged in by "the leading journal" (!) and
certain of its contemporaries, against the recent
vigorous measur..i adopted by the French President.
I perceive that this unblushing piece of impertinence
on the part of the new Orleans organ is handled
with a felicitous reprobation in the columns of the
Morning Post of to-day, but, strange to say, the
writer, whilst showing that the Herald, Chronicle,
Standard, Globe, and even Daily News may compete
for the honour of being complimented by the ribald
epithet of the limes, makes no mention whatsoever of
the two daily journals which have given Louis Napo-
leon an honest and independent support, with, I make
bold to say, a superior spirit, ability and straight-
forwardness to the rest. The Sun and the Morning
Advertiser may possibly be considered too ultra-
liberal for the refined susceptibilities of the Post—tco
"radical" to be mentioned in the pages of " the
record of fashion." The public will, however,
do justice to those tried and unswerving
champions of liberty. Their antecedents are
a sufficient guarantee that in countenancing the
temporary dictatorship of Louis Napoleon, essential
to prevent the frightful reign of anarchy, or the re-
storation of Brummagem Kingcraft in France, they
are actuated by no other motives than those of a de-
sire to see the consolidation of Republican liberty iu
that country, through the development of the great
principles on which the President appeals to his
brother Frenchmen—universal suffrage and secret
voting. Whatever difference of opinion may exist
on this side of the Channel on those matters, you may
depend upon it, that in journalism, as in everything
else, " Honesty is the best policy :" and that, by
pursuing in this, as in all other instances, your es-,
tablished system of treating subjects, whether of
domestic or foreign policy, according to your honest
convictions, and in a staunch and steady spirit of
liberalism, you will far more honourably and
profitably discharge your vocation, and effect more
utility within the sphere of your action, than by
dealing in servility and sophistry, misrepresentation
and calumny, presented, in however dexterous or
imposing language, even were you thereby to get
yourself, or some immediate friend, pitchforked into
an appointment at the Courts of Naples or Vienna.
I am, Sir, &c.,
Dec. 10. A SINCERE LIBERAL.

AN IMPUDENT CABMAN.—A cabman rebuts the
charge against his fraternity of extorting more than eight••
pence a mile, by the argument that eightpence is their
mean fare.— Punch.

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lig('3TITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.—
i)eceetilglt 9 1851.—.teir Cubitt, presi-
(l. Pnt; :u the chair. The peer reed etas "An Ac-
count of the Works on the Ee:teneion of
the .11riniegliam and Os:ford Junctio.-1 Railway," by
Mr. C. B. Lane, Assoz.% C.E.
Lee Act for this line, which was intended to firm
the connecting link between the Birmingham and
Oeford, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and
Dudley Railways, and E 0 complete the broad gauge
circuit with Bristol and the south-west of England,
was passed in the month of July, 1846. Subsequent
events, however, caused the
suspension of these works
in 1849, before their final completion. The line com-
menced near the Coventry-road
and was to have ter-
minated at Great Charles-street. From Adderley-
street to Park-street, both inclusive the town was
crossed by a viaduct; and from Moor,-street Mon-
mouth-street, the line passed under highest of
of a tunnel, which was to have been
covered way, that is, by opnii.g.
the
c„.roistruieted
,a,
eofbriictkasvo3r.ke,t ac!oiditiparteini, uunt., pu.ttin,„
tend the
ipna rtth
s
lligh•street, being about 142 yards in 1-n
executed in this manner. it was 27 foots ft' width as
at the level of the rails, and was built entirely
of Staffordshire brick set in mortar, with rtetii.
exception of the arch lengths through Carr's-lane:
which were set in cement. The average rate of
ore
reet
progress in the tunnel was 8.1 lineal yards per week.
fromo v er
means
to
The viaduct consisted of 57 opening:, composed of
nine segments, each 30 feet span and 6 feet rise; 15
semi-circles, also 30 feet spat' and 15 feet rise; 15
semi-ellipses, each 15 feet rise, and varying in span
from 37 feet to 48 feet; and six street bridges, mostly
skew, and varying in form, Epan, and rise. Its total
length was 930 yards, general width, from face to
face. 31 feet 71 inches, and between the parapets at
the level of the rails 29 feet. It was built entirely of
brick work set in mortar, with the exception of the
soffit of the bridge over Park- street, which was con-
structed of cast-iron girders, with a cross transomed
Memel flooring. The red brick of the district was
internal
used throughout the footings, the work of
the piers, and the spandril walls; the arcbe3 and
parapets were constructed of Staffordshire brick from
the " common stock"—the copings, mouldings, and
dentals being made of Sedfordshire brick clay; and
the whole of the work was faced with Staffordshire

" best blue." All the brick work was set in moist
mortar, so as to press to a thin joint, and in hot wea-
ther the bricks were kept constantly wet. The mor-
tar used in the work was composed of the red sand
of the locality, and Dudley, or Greaves' blue has
lime—the latter being used in all foundations, arches,
and face work—mixed in the proportions of one part
of slaked lime to two parts of sand, and worked by a
steam-mill, driven by a 4.horse power engine, made
by Mr. Nathan Gough, Assoc. Inst. C E., of Man-
chester. This mill was capable of supplying fifty
bricklayers p r day with a mortar of a perfectly even
texture, entirely free from lumps, and therefore less
likely to become vesicular, from the trans-filtration of
water, than that mixed by the common pug-mill.
Etch set of centres consisted of five ribs, each rib
being supported on two vertical and two sloping props,
the former under the heels of the ribs, and the latter
under the points where the struts of the ribs termi-
nated in an iron shoe. The leggings used were 3-inch
deals, carefully dressed by the adze to the proper
curves, and lined for the courses of the skew arches.
Corbels of heading bricks were carried out from the
backs of the arches in the range of the spandril walls,
of equal width with them, and connected by brick
beams from arch to arch, for stiffening and equalising
the pressure from end to end of the viaduct; and the
useful effect of this mode of construction was proved
by the comparatively small amount of the settlements
of the arches.

The author then proceeded to give a more particu-
lar description of the different works, for the draw-
ings illustrative of which the isometric projection had li
been chiefly adopted, and the sections taken so that
every dimension might be obtained; orthographic
sections of the details were added, in some cases, in
order to render the various parts more distinct. These
drawings were made by the author's pupils of the
first year, in the engineering class of Queen's
College, Cork. The various modes adopted, and
mechanical contrivances used, for raising the mate-
rials to a considerable height, were described ; and
deductions were drawn from a very numerous series
of experiments, to ascertain the values for the useful
effect produced by the "Labouring Force" (Whewell).
or "Travail Mecanique" (Poncelet), of a man under
different modes of its application, and also for
horse under alternating motion over a short space.
From these it appeared that the relative costs of rais-
ing the materials to a height of forty-six feet, by the
horse-lift, the swing-lift, and the box-lift, were 3.08,
5.90, and 4.13 pence per ton respectively, showing a
saving in favour of the horse-lift ag tinst the swing-
lift of nearly 31. per ton, and against the box•lift of
rather above ld. per ton.
The communication was accompanied by a mo,t
elaborate series of tables on the absorption of water
by bricks, by mortar, and by Shrewley sandstone—
of the settlements of the arches of the street bridges
—of the work performed by the various lifts, under
different circumstances, with the concurrent particu-
lars, and that by ordinary hodmen.
The following paper was announced to be read at
the meeting of Tuesday, December 16th:—" On the
Alluvial Formations, and the Local Changes, of the
South Eastern Coast of Eagland. First section—
River Thames to Portland," by Mr. J. B. Redman,
M. Inst. C. E.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The Royal Polytechnic Institution re-opened yes-
terday, after having been closed for a month fur the
purpose of enabling the proprietors to mike arrange-
ments for the exhibition of several articles which, on
the close of the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park,
were removed to the Royal Polytechnic Institution.
Among these articles the one that appeared to attract
most general attention was Mr. Dawson's autophon,
or improved organ, the mechanism of which was ad
mirably explained by the inventor, who played
several pieces on it much to the delight of the coin-
pany, several of whom subsequently played on it,
being, as they expressed it, the first time in their lives
they had ever played an organ. The autophon sounds
admirably in its new locality ; its fine rich tones
producing a magnificent effect. The lecture, which
was by Mr. J. H. Pepper, was on agricultural che-
mistry, and was chiefly devoted to a description of a
visit recently made by that gentleman to Mr. Mechi's
farm, at Tiptree Mall, of which a model is exhibited
and explained in the institution. He particularly il-
lustrated the process of drainage and ploughing ap-
plied to " the thirty-acre field' on that farm, which
had resulted in a vast improvement in the soil, and a
consequent abundance of crops. After adverting
eulogistically to the subsidiary purpose to which
Mr. Mechi turned the water drained from his land—
the formation of a pretty ornamental lake, and the
occasional irrigation of a kitchen garden—the lee
turer proceeded to describe the arrangements con-
nected with the various farm-buildings at Tiptree,
beginning with the steam engine on the high pressure
and locomotive principles, which, in addition to the
directly useful ends to which it was applied in the
farm-yard, had the merit of practically consuming its
own smoke. The cattle sheds strongly attracted his
attention, particularly the principle on which the
floors were constructed, the boards of which, being
placed two or three inches asunder, admitted of the
manure from the cattle being trodden through the
insterstices by the animals themselves, and received
into reservoirs beneath, whilst it had the equally im-
portant effect of maintaining the stalls in a constant
state of cleanliness. By darkening the sheds, too,
Mr. Mechi had been able to rid the animals of
the torture they otherwise suffered from flies in
summer, whilst the fattening process was in ope-
ration, for it bad been found that the common fly would
not bite in the clink. The lecturer concluded with
some interesting remarks on the nature and effects of
manures, and also explanatory of the system of the
rotation of crops among practical farmers, and which
was founded on a beautiful provision of nature itself,
that rendered the Boil partially exhausted by one crop
fit for the reception and growth of another. The lec-
ture was immediately followed by another from Dr.
Bachhoffner, on the Philosophy of Scientific Recrea-
tion, got up solely for the amusement of the juvenile
portion of the community during the approaching
Christmas. Long before the hour appointed for the
lecture the door was besieged by a clamorous host of
little men and women anxious to realise their expec-
tations of the treat which the professor had prepared
fur them inside, and, once admitted, their gratification
gave audible vent, at frequent intervals,
as the lec-
turer, by a series of beautiful experiments, explained
o-magnetism the principles of eleetr •
stin,culia citiesthe pressure of
the atmosphere, and some of the
science of optics.
ceedingly beautiful.
ne new dissolving views are e.a •
pe
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INTERESTING FACT.—The following singular end
authentic case of restoration of the human hair is worthy of
observation, more particularly as it relates to an article of
high and universal repute during the last half century. Mr.
A.. Herrmann, of Queen-street, toho, had been quite bald for
some time past, and had tried various preparations for the
recovery of his hair, but without any beneficial result. He
was then induced to try the effects of " Rowlands' Macassar
Oil," and after daily applying it for about two months, he,
much to his gratification, had his hair quite restored, and
now possesses a beautiful head of hair. This fact speaks too
strongly for itself require comment.—Bell's Weekly Mes-
senger.
OXFORD PROFMORSIIIP ur POLITICAL ECONOMY.
—Mr. Barry, of Queen's College, has withdrawn from com-
petition for the next vacancy in this office. The contest will
now lie between Mr. Charles Neate, Fellow of Oriel;
Robert Lowe, late Fellow of Magdalen ; and Mr. G. K.
Richards, late Michel Fellow of Queen's College, and for-
merly Scholar of Trinity. The candidates are all members
of the bar. The present Professor's term of office will expi, e
in March next. The appointment is in the members of the
Convocation.—.Chronicie,