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F. XTRAMURAL SEPULTURE,
Synopsis of the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum,
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By the Honourable Sir RICHARD BROUN, Bart.
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beans 30s to 33s ; peas 00s to COs per quarter.
LOUTH, JULY 30.—Wheat 38s to 42s ; barley 24s to 275;
redoos
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oats
Od,ts 17sw htoite24olss;
oats 19s to 21s ; beans 27s to 33s per qr.
30,—Wheat,
NEWARK, JULY 30.—Wheat, white 46s to 50s, red 38s to 455;
barley, grinding 25s to 26s ; oats, 225 t., 24s to 255, 245 t.,
, 25s to 26s ; beans, 34s to 36s ; tares 00s to 00s ; malt, 54s to
56s per qr.
LYNN, JULY 21—Wheat 34s to 38s, fine 40s 42s to
445; barley OOs to 00s, fine OOs; oats 00s to OOs, fine 00s
beans Os to Cs, fine Os to Os per qr.
MELTON MOWBRAY, JULY 29.—Wheat, 42s Od to 45s ;
barley 25s to 27s ; oats 2ls to 275; beans ;53s to 35s per qr.
Butter 9d to 10d per lb ; eggs 20 for ls.
UPPINGHAM, JULY 30.--Wheat 383 to 445; barley 23s to
283 Od ; oats 22s to 283"; beans 32s to 35s per quarter. Butter
ad to 9d per lb ; eggs 20 for Is.
DERRY SMITHFIELD MARKET, JULY 29. The supply
of fat beasts to-day was not quite so large as last week. Sheep
and lambs about an average number; no alteration in price.
The supply of fat calves about the same as last week. Fat
pigs plentiful. Beef, 5d to 50 ; mutton, 5d to 50 ;
lamb, 6d to Od ; veal, 4d to 4d per lb ; pigs, 7s per score.
Rough fat, 3s 3d per stone of 141bs. Hides, 10 to lid per lb;
calf skins 2d to 4d per lb.
NOTTINGHAM, JULY 30.—There was a large market,
but of inferior quality. Anything very good soon cleared off.
Bost beef, from 6s ud to 6s 3d ; inferior, 5s to 5s 3d. Best
small mutton, 5d to 50; large, 5d ; inferior, 4d to 4d. Lamb,
6d to 6d. Calves, 4d to sd. Pigs, 4s 6d to ss. Hides 2s.
Rough fat, 3s 6d. Skins, 4d.
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, JULY 30._-For the
season we had rather a large supply of grain. We had some
very fine parcels of wheat in the market. Sales were quick, and
prices up. The top of wheat 6d down, and the average 3d
up. Barley on the top is 3d up. Oats on the top 4d up, and
the average 2d down. Beans on the top Is, and the average
8d down. Unsold-78 qrs wheat, 42 qrs barley, 128 qrs
oats, and 8 qrs beans.
Top of Wheat ... ... 63 lb. 48s 6d
„ Barley ... 56i1b. 35s Od
„ Oats ... 44ilb. 28s 4d
„ Beans 641 b. 388 Od
EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, JULY 30.—The number
of cattle was 420, or 87 less than last week. Top price 7s Od;
current, 6s to Cs 6d ; secondary and inferior, from 5s Od
to 5s 6d per Dutch stone. A clearance was not effected.
The number of sheep and lambs this morning was
4,085, being 1,481 less than last week. Top price of
this best mutton, 5d per lb ; current, 40; and down to 3d
per lb. Lambs, top, 205 Od ; current, 153 to 165, and down
to 9s Od a head. A clearance was not effected.
DUNBAR, JULY 29.—Wheat, weighing 63&lbs, was un-
sold ; 6241b5, brought 41s. Barley, weighing 541bs, brought
27s Od, and prices to 26s 6d. Oats, weighing 45ilbs, was
unsold; 49ilbs. brought 27s Od. Beans and peas, weighing
6611b5, brought 33s 6d, and prices to 00s Od.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

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which
tve Paris journals of yesterday.
The Constitationned publishes an article by Dr.
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journalans tat eise t hlBa4t 8 thine
articles which app
favour of the candidature of Louts NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE were all dictated by M. TRIERS. After
a fierce denunciation of M. TRIERS' Machiavelism,
Dr. VERON proceeds to expose, as follows, the in•
trigue in which M. THIERS is at present engaged ;
after stating that M. Tnreas has 'entered into a
coalition with the African Generals, Dr. VERoN
says :
" The African Generals and M. Thiers do not yet dream
of a dictatorship, but the following is the plan of cam-
paign concerted amongst them. Their reason for voting,
without explanations, against the re-eligibility of Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte is, that they have a new candidate
for the Presidency of the Republic. This cendidato is
the Prince de Joinville. If our information be correct,
votes are recruited for the Prince even at Claremont. it
is well known that this new candidate would not obtain
a decisive majority, but he would diminish the num-
ber of votes which M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
might obtain. They imagine that if they can be
fortunate enough to divide the moderate party in
the election of the President of the Replablic, the present
National Assembly, when called on to decide on the
votes more or less unconstitutional, might proclaim the
Prince de Joinville President of the Republic. If all
these plans cannot be accomplished, they will at least
have weakened the re-elected President of the Republic;
and they would hope thus to restrain the devotedness of
certain parties and shackle the Government of the-Re-
public. Every one will judge as to what patriotism
there is in such designs. M. Thiers, during the dura-
tion of the Ministry of the 29th October, sought to every
day weaken more and more King Louis Philippe, in order
to keep him under; he sought to shackle the progress
of the Government. M. Thiers was Prime Minister for
a few hours, and the revolution of February was effected.
In the space of loss than twenty years M. Thiers has
already caused two revolutions in France, in which two
monarchies have perished; and he endeavours now to
bring about a third, in which society and civilization will
certainly be destroyed. This false disciple of Machiavel
only knows how to cause division, in order to reign, and
he never reigns."
The discovery of this Orleanist intrigue has caused
a rapproachement between the Legitimatists and the
Bonapartists, in proof of which we find the following
in the Patrie :
" The members of the bureaux of the two Par-
liamentary clubs of the Rue de Pyramides and
the Rue de Rivoli have just come to an under-
standing to maintain the union of the majority in the
two ballots which aro to take place to-morrow. It was
first agreed to maintain in the bureau all the members
which there represent the different shades of the ma-
jority. The following list was afterwards decided on to
compose the Permanent Committee:—MM. de Bar,
Sauvaire-BarthCemy, Bernardi, Berryer, Bucher, Boin-
villiers, Ce ille, Changarnier, H. Didier, Druet-Des-
vaux, Dufougerais, Gouin, Grouchy, Hubert .Delisle, do
Kermarec, de La Tourette, de Montebello, de Montigny,
de Mortemart, de Mouchy, Poujoulat, d'Olivier, Passy,
Rullaieres, and Vitet. An engagement was come to on
both sides to scrupulously respect the choice agreed
upon between the representatives of the two clubs, and
who are, in fact, of a nature to secure the tranquillity of
the country, in giving satisfaction not only to the just
exigencies of the parties, but also to the susceptibilities
of the dissident fractions of the old majority."
In the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday the
Bill to continue the present legislation relative to
theatrical representations until December 31st,
1852, was adopted after a short and not very in-
teresting discussion, M. JOLT' speaking against the
Bill, and M. FREMY, the reporter, defending it. M.
PASCAL DUPRAT then proposed to the Assembly to
place the discussion of M. BAZE'S proposition con-
cerning the sale of journals in the streets on the
order of the day, but the motion was negatived by a
large majority. The rest of the day was taken up
with the consideration of various propositions to mo-
dify the part of the Sugar Duties Bill lately adopted
which relates to duties on spirits made from the
sugar-cane, or from beet-root.

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CORK, JULY 39.

Barrels.
Currency.
0 White wheat oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 stone
0 Red wheat oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 do
0 Barley lls Od to 00s Od 00s Od-16 do
5 Bere ......... oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od
53 Oath ....... —11 s to 12s 6d 00s Od-14 do
0 Pigs oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od per cwt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:—
0 barrels white wheat; 0 red; 0 barley ; 3 bere; 32 oats;
0 pigs.
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week:.
Wheat, 7. Barley, 0. Oats, 333. Pigs, 0.
PRICES OF BUTTER.

CANT. CURRENCY.
First quality
Second quality
Third quality ... 648 Third quality
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
Sixth quality
Return of Cattle sold for week ending July 26.
Pigs, 330. Sheep, 409. Cows, 77.
COWL—FIour—First 128 Od to 13s Od; extra 14s Od;
seconds, 1080 d to 111 6d; households 8s to 108 Od; thirds, 7s toes
per cwt. Oatmeal 113 6d to 00s; Indian meal 6a 6d to 7s 3d; wheat-
meal, As 6d to 108 per cwt. Indian corn 615 s to 710 s Od per
ton. Bran 758 to 7786 d per ton. Hay—Farmers 163 to 255; average
00s ; dealers 38s to 50s Od; average 00s per ton. Straw— Farmers
00s Od to OGs Od; average 00s; dealers 258,0 d to 30s Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to 6d ;
household loaf 4id to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
93 per lb. Eggs-38 10d to 4s Od per hundred. Coals—
Newport 14s Od ; Lydney 158 ' • Landore 00s ; Culm,
12s 6d per ton. Tallow 38s Od to 398 per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 55 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef sid to 7d; mutton 5d to lid; veal 4d to
5d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d per lb.
Hops 61 108 to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 3/ 5s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 81 Os ; Valonia 151 to 01; French
6/ Os ; Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece W 001143 to 158 per stone.
Hemp 291 to 32/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 198 to 00s ; red,
ditto, 26s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to 11/ per,
ton. Timber—Memel, 808 per ton ; red pine, 31 10s ; yellow
ditto, 21 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 15s per 100. Hides--
Market 218 to 30s; salted '228 to 30s per cwt ; calf skins
3d to 311 d per lb. Potatoes, white 8d to 12d; Minions,
00d to 004. Guano— Peruvian, ill 108 ; Ichaboe, Si to 9108
per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barreL ' • - -

The affair of M. LEMULIER against the Prefect of
Police, M. FORCADE, and M. VIRMAITRE, came on
again on Wednesday before the Civil Tribunal.
After the pleading of M. PLouQuE for M. VIRMAITRE,
the AN ocat•General addressed the Tribunal. He
called upon it to dismiss the complaint as regards M.
CARLIER, as the publication complained of was not
his own act, but the result of a breach of trust on the
part of M. FORCADE, and concluded by calling for
damages against M. FORCADE and M. VIRMAITRE.
After this requisitory the President adjourned the
affair to Friday for the judgment.
M. DUFAIIRE read yesterday to the Committee the
part of his report which related to the railway from
Lyons to Avignon. It proposes, as already stated, to
treat with the Talabot Company on the conditions of
the cahier des charges of the Minister of Public
Works, with two modifications accepted by the com-
pany, one requiring that a sum of three millions of
francs should have been deposited as caution-money,
and the other that the works should be completed in
four years in place of five years and a half, as stipu-
lated in the Bill.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
EASTZRN COUNTIES AND NORFOLK RAlLWAY.—Traffic
return for the week ending July 27 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ...£12,528 4 6
literchandise, cattle, and cartage 4,538 12 8

Total ... ... ... £17,066 17 2
Corresponding week of 1850 ... 15,913 5 1
BRISTOL AND EXETER itimwAr.—Traffic for the week
ending July 20 :
Passengers
Goods ...
Parcels ...
Mails

... £4,016 8 3
.. 1,008 10 5
... 133 0 4
223 4 2

Total ... £5,381 3 2
LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—Amount of revenue
:or the week ending July 27 :
Passengers
Goods

... £1,482 10 2
... 45 0 0

During a violent thunder-storm the day before yes-
terday, at Creteil, near Paris, the rain fell in such
torrents that the inhabitants were obliged to close up
their houses, in order to protect themselves from the
floods. After the storm had passed over a farmer,
named GUILLOT, went to a stable where he had two
horses shut up, when he found that one of them had
been killed by the lightning.
The Journal de la Nievre says :—" We were far
from having been aware of the full extent of the
disasters caused by the late hurricane, when we
spoke of it two days back. The prefect, who at
once visited the communes which were devastated,
is described as having been much shocked at what
he saw, and he immediately issued a proclamation
calling on the public to get up a subscription in aid
of those who have been left destitute. He himself,
the Bishop, the Receiver-General, and the Engineer-
in-Chief, subscribed 200 f. each. Amongst the
scenes described to U 3 are those which took place at
Asnan. A number of the inhabitants were there in
the fields getting in the harvest, when in an instant
a mass of clouds collected over them, and, almost
before they could run for shelter, they found them-
selves enveloped in a sort of whirlwind of large hail,
which prevented their seeing, and bruised their
bodies most severely. The wind then rose to a
perfect hurricane, and several persons were flung by
it to the ground with violence. Everyone endea-
voured to find shelter under a range of lofty chest-
nut-trees which grew near, but the impetuosity of
the wind became such that nothing could resist it,
and the largest trees were torn up by the roots. An
elderly man, who had seated himself in the hollow of
a gigantic tree, was suddenly dashed to the ground
under the immense trunk, and killed by its weight,
his wife and children standing near under another
tree, and unable to assist him. Not far off another
tree was torn up by the roots, and flung down on a
woman who was standing under it with her child
in her arms. By good fortune she fell in a hollow
of the ground, and so was saved. It, however, took
upwards of an hour's work to extricate her. The
child did not receive even a scratch. We have been
informed that the church of Montenoison has been
'completely destroyed, and that two children were
killed in that commune by the whirlwind. Just as
we are going to press, we learn that the Minister of
Commerce has sent, as a first assitance, a sum of
6,000 f., and the Minister of the Interior I,ooof.
The Bourse recovered in a great measure from the
previous depression. The Five per Cents. opened at
95f. 5c., and closed at 95f. 55c. for the account; the
Three per Cents. closed at 57f. 20c.; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 865 f.; Rouen, 637 f. 50c.; Havre, 245 f.; Great
Northern, 468 f. 750,; Avignon, 215 f.; Viorzon, 438 f.
75c.; Basle,ls3f. 75e.; Bordeaux, 395 E; Paris and Stras-
burg, 363 f. 75e.; Tours and Nantes, 273 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 31.
Dutch Rhenish, 3LG ex in.—Maria ,Antonia, B—Ditto,
New, 2—Northern of France, 145.(3—Pais and Strasbourg,
113/4—Sambre and Meuse, 314.

Total £1,527 10 2
Corresponding week last year ... 1,157 17 10
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
ceipts for the week ending July 27 :
Passengers ... ... £371 16 9
Caniages, horses, and parcels ... 9 16 6
Live stock ••• ••• ••• 7IS 4
Merchandise and minerals ... 173 14 7

Total £563 6 2
Corresponding period last year.. 705 13 5
MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK, AND MIDLANDS JUNC-
TION RAlLwAY.—Return of traffic for the week ending
July 27:

Passengers, &c. ...
Merchandise ...
...

.. £152 18 7
.. . 50 11 5

Total
••• £203 10 0
Corresponding week last year ... 280 10 2
Scornsa CENTRAL RAILWAY.—Traffic for the Week
ending July 27, 1851
Passengers ( 14,096 ), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... ..• ... £1,363 16 11
Goods, cattle, &c. 651 18 11

Total . 2,015 15 10
Corresponding week in last year... 1,660 3 7
Perth, July 30, 1851.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 31.
STOCK EXCHANGZ.—The share market to-day presented
no animation, and but little business was transacted. Midland
Stock closed at 4214.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been rather
better to-day in the quotations, but the amount of business
done has been limited. The transactions were as follow:
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 12 dis.—Ditto, 221.
Shares, 7% dis.—East Lancashire, 1444—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 50% c.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Stockport, PA
dis.—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 41/8 p.—
Manchester. Sheffield, and LincoLushire, % p.—Midland, 43%
—Ditto, Halves, 19' dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 227
—Dutch Rhenish, 4%8 dis.
MANCHESTER, JULY 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE,—The account was closed yesterday,
and to-day we had a resumption of business on a tolerably
extended scale, prices being firm. The account was gene-
rally satisfactory. The transactions were as follow :—Cale-
donian, Preference, 7YB—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 29
Kendal and Windermere, 7% ex div.—London and North-
Western, 124 Vl—Manchester, Sheffield,'and Lincolnshire, 28
—Midland 43 }4—South-Eastern and Dover, 22%.

COMMON LODGING HOUSES.—An Act of Parlia.
ment took effect from Thursday last, when it received the
Royal assent, for the well ordering of common lodging
houses. The preamble declares that it would tend greatly to
the comfort and welfare of many of her Majesty's subjects if
provision were made for the well ordering of common lodg-
ing houses. Within the metropolitan police district the
Commissioners will execute the Act, and local authorities in
other places. Notice is to be given within three months to
all common lodging-house keepers to register the places, and
a register is to be kept of the number of lodgers authorised
to be received therein. After one month of giving such no-
tice, lodgers are not to be received in any common lodging-
house until the same has been inspected and approved for
that purpose by some officer appointed on that behalf by the
local authority, and been registered. Regulations may be
made for such places. Keepers of common lodging-houses
are to give notice of fever, &c., and they are at all times to
be open to free inspection, and when required to have the
place cleansed. Penalties are to be recovered for offending
against the Act. The new law has operation throughout
the United Kingdom, with the exception of Scotland and the
city of London.

NEW EDITION OF THE LIYES OP THE QUEENS...-
We are requested to state that Messrs. Colbum and Co. have
this day published the Second Volume of " The Lives of
the Queeiis of England," by Agnes Strickland, a new
and revised edition, embellished with portraits of every
Queen, to be complete in eight volumes of six to seven hun-
dred pages (size of iltacaulay's "History"), price 12s. each.
The second volume contains the Lives and Portraits of the
following Queens :—lsabella of Valois, second Queen of
Richard 11. ; Johanna of Navarre, Queen of Henry IV. ;
Katharine of Valois, Queen of Henry V. ; Margaret of
Anjou, Queen of Henry VI.; Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of
Edward IV. ; Anne of Warwick, Queen of Richard 111. ;
Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry VII.; Katharine of Ar-
ragon, Queen of Henry VIII.: Anne Boleyn, second Queen
of Henry VIII.
VOTE BY BALLOT.—On Thursday Mr. H. Berke-
ley's Bill for the protection of the Parliamentary electors of
Great Britain and Ireland, by taking the votes by way of
ballot, was printed. It provides that the returning officers
are to procure ballot boxes, and to deliver them to the poll
clerks on the day of election. The boxes are to be of such
construction as shall be approved by the Secretary of State,
and to be paid for out of the Consolidated Fund.

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ness is confident that circumstances will be favour.
able to the State, and enable it to balance the expendi-
ture with the receipts; and while at the same time the
Holy Father has directed that the present system of
public administration shall be efficaciously reformed with.
the aid of the Consulta of State for the Financial De-
partment, it has nevertheless beenconsyideearre.d
However,advisable
to provide for urgency of the present
rather than alter the present system of taxation while
such reforms are contemplated, it has been judged expe-
dient to have recourse for this time to an extraordinary
tax on the dativa reale (duty to the Crown), and to a
proportionate tax on the communes. Hence having
taken the opinion of the Council of State, the Holiness
of our Lord has published the following in his sovereignname :—Art. 1. The dativa reek is increased by a two-
monthly quota for the present year 1851; and the
said increase is to be divided into four equal instal..
ments, corresponding with the two-monthly pay-
ments still to be effected in the course of the present
year, including that of the 30th of Juee last.—Art. 2.
But as the third and last portion of dativa, which was
paid beforehand, bv tax-payers in 1848, would have to
be returned this year, it has been decided that the said
amount shall be withheld, but shall be compensated by
a proportionate diminution in the amount of the first and
last instalments mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
—Art. 3. One million of scudi (6,000,000 fr.) is laid upon
the Communes of the State. This sum shall be paid by
them accordingito the compound ratio of their population
and taxation in three instalments during the present
year.—Art. 4. The Communes are authorised to raise
their quotas, either from the sums at their disposal ac-
cording to their budget, or by increasing the present
contributions' or else by l: vying new taxes according to
,he existing haws.—Flit. 5. The Pro-Minister of Finance
is entrusted with the execution of the* articles, the dis-
tribution of the taxes, and the publication of the regula-
tions en the subject."
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211-INOLA'S SOIREES :111VIEMONIQ 7.3E5.
On Wednesday evening M. Minola, of Turin, Pro-
cessor of Mnereotechny, or artificial memory, gave the
third soiree of his Series at Willis's Reotnia- St-
James's-iquare, where his experiments were witnessed
with deep interest by a large audience. In the ab-
sence of the complete demonstration which was
given by this gentleman of the astoundkng ief-
forts of which the memory is capable, when assisted
by a simple and philosophical aystem of arranging the
several matters committed to its keeping, there are few
who would imagine them capable of so prodigious a de-
velopment. In the first experiment M. Minola requested
the company to select 36 different numbers at random,
which were written down in succession by a gentleman
present. After a few moments' reflection, without any one
to insist him, he repeated all the thirty-six without
missing, in their proper succession, and afterwards in
the inverse order. Upon being asked for any particular
number in the list, he answered without hesitation, and
with perfect precision; evidently showing that he bad them
completely arranged in his mind according to some simple
method. M. Minola has acquired an exact knowledge of
60,000 dates, and so familiar is he with them, that he
invites the company to assign any particular century,
of which he will immediately proceed to give the syn-
chronism; that is, to state the principal contemporaneous
events that occurred in it. The invitation wat accepted on
Wednesday only for the era of the French revolution, all
the principal dates of which he stated,-from the first mo-
ment in 1789, to the final abdication of Bonaparte iA
1815, with minute correctness. But it is not in historical
dates alone that M. Minola manifests this wonderful
proficiency, but in every concern where a variety of
numbers occur. Associated with other matters, one very
astonishing exercise of memory was performed in the
following manner: —A sheet of paper, having the natural
numbers in the margin, from 1 to 48, was given by M.
Minola to one of the company, who wrote down against
them the names of kings, emperors, conquerors, poets,
inventions, events, battles, or, in short any par-
ticular circumstance having a date attached
to it which the company chose. The list
being at last complete, M. Minola repeated
the whole of it from end to end without missing, then
backwards, and then in either direction, commencing
with any event, the number in which in the list was given
him. Upon naming the event, the date was immediately
assigned to it by M. Minola, who, after a moment's
consideration, would also assign in many instances the
day of the week on which it must have occurred. This,
in particular, was regarded by the company as a tre-
mendous effort of memory, and querists at length
grew tired of ransacking ancient and modern history for
events and names, with the dates of which it was sought
to catch the mnemotechnist trifling. With the greatest
readiness and correctness they were answered in
succession, and the 60,000 mast evidently have Been
exhausted before the examination began to flag.
In these experiments the power of memory,
when cultivated on a philosophical system, was dis-
played under the most simple circumstances, and having
no extraneous aid to contribute to its wonderful effects.
Other experiments were performed, and the result was
a superior order of illusions, which excited the general
amazement of the company. M. Minola's experiments,
many of which are of his own contrivance, were regarded
with deep interest, and loudly cheered by the company;
and at the conclusion of the soiree the announcement of
their repetition every night this week was received with
great satisfaction.