The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-08 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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NEWMARKET SECOND SIRING MEE rING.
WEDNESDAY.
Sweepstßkes of 50 Boys. each fur four yrs old, colts,
Bst 10Ib; fillies, Sst 51b; winners extra. Last three

miles of B.C. (3 Subs )
Lord Exeter's Nutshell, 9st 21b (Norman) walked over.
Champion Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft; for colts, Bst 7lb;
fillies and geldings, Bst; winners extra. From the
R.M. starting post to the Duke's Stand. (G Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's Santiago, Bst ...(Pettit) walked over.
Jockey Club Plate of 501.; for four yrs old, 7st 21b; five,
Bst 31b; six and aged, Bst 91b. B.C.
Lord Exeter's Nutcracker, 4 yrs (J. Mann) walked over.
Handicap Plate of 50 soya, for three yrs old and up-
wards. New T.Y.C.

Col. Peel's fby Slane, 3 yrs, 6st 71b — (T. Smith) 1
Mr. Walker's Montpensier, aged, Bst 81b (Flarman) 2
Mr. Gurney's St. Fabian, 4 yrs, ist (J. Mann) 3
Mr. Foster's Mickleton, 4 yrs, Bst 41b...(J. Howlett) 0
Lord Clilden's Sagacity, aged, 7st Ilb (G. Mlnn) 0
Mr. Stephenson's Sardanaplus, 3 yrs, Est 81b(Toovey) 0
L rd Exeter's Visite, 4 yrs, 6it 71b ... (W. Harlock) 0
Mr. Roger's Harp, 3 yrs, Get 71b
Mr. Bankea's fby Charles XII., 6,t 116 (Atherton) 0
Mr. Sturgeon's fby Pantaloon, sst 81b (Kendall) 0
Betting-3 to 1 agat Sagacity, 4 to 1 agbt Palmyra
filly, 5 to 1 agst Sardanaplus, 6 to 1 agat Visite, and 6 to
1 agst Alontpensier. The Palmyra filly obtained the
lead after running about one hundred yards, and was
never caught, and won cleverly by a length; a length
and a half between the second and third, the Charles
XII. filly close up. Run in 1 min. 16 secs.
The Suffolk Stakes of 15 sovs. each ; 5 ft if declared,
&c., with 50 added ; winner extra, the second to save
his stake. Last mile and a halt' of RC. (36 Subs,
18 of whom pay 5 sovs. ft.)
Mr. Morrib's c by John o'Gaunt, dam by the Saddler,
3 yrs, 5A 41b (T. Smith) 1
Capt. Lowther's King Charming, sst 131b(Hammond) 2
Mr. Delamere's Fortuna, 3 yra, sst 51b ...(Atherton) 3
Lord Wilton's Herbert, 5 yrs, Bst lib (Flatman) 0
Mr. Drew's Swordplayer, 6 yra, 7st 71b ... (Pettit) 0
Sir J. Hawley's Gladiola, 4 yrs, 7st (J. Nurdin) 0
Mr. Nevill's Artisan, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Benstead) 0
Lord Exeter's Cane, 3 yrs, sst 71b (W. Harlock) 0
Mr. Harrison's cby Prince Caradoc, 3 yrs, sst 41b ... 0
Betting-4 to 1 agat Prince Caradoc colt, 9to 2 agst
Cane, 5 to I each agst King Charming and John
o'Gaunt colt, 7to 1 agst Gladiola, and 8 to 1 agst For-
tuna. King Charming took the lead at starting, and
having the Prince Caradoc colt, Fortuna, the John
o'Gaunt and Herbert in waiting, cut out the work to the
dip, where Herbert went up, and carried on the running
to the corner of the plantation. The John o'Gaunt colt,
King Charming, and Fortuna here singled themselves
out, and finished the race, the John o'Gaunt leading to
the end, and winning cleverly by a length, two lengths
between second and third, Gladiola fourth. Run in 2
rain. 39 secs.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs.:each; last half-mile of New

T.Y.C.
Mr.W. Etwall's Knight of the Thistle, Bst 51b (Rogers) 1
Col. Peel's Black Sea, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Chapple) 2
Lord Exeter's Visite, 4 yrs, Sit 71b (Norman) 3
Duke of B-dford's Santiago, 3 yrs, 7st 81b ...(Pettit) 4
Betting—Even on Black Sea, and 5 to 2 agst Knight
of the Thistle. The race from first to last was between
the two favourites, the Knight leading and winning by a
length. Run in 52 secs.
ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY.
Handicap Plate of 50 soya. A.F.
King of Oude, 4 yrs, Bat 71b—Abdallah, 4 yrs, Sat 71b
—Napauk, 3 yrs, Cat 101 b.
Sweepstakes of 10 tiffs. each. First half of Ab. M. The

winner to be sold for 80 soya.

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Turtle, 3 yrs—Julia, 3 yrs—b fby Buy Middleton, out
of Her Royal Highness, 2 yrs—Doßaud, 2 yrs—eb
by Slane, out of Pelerine, 2 yrs.

LATEST BETTING.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
TWO YEARS OLD STAKES.

7 to 2 agst Franc© I 5 to 1 aget ,Talibran colt
4to 1 agst Mountain Lass I 6to 1 agst Haitoe colt

THE GREAT MATCH.
5 to 4 on the Flying Dutchman.
SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES.
7 to 4 agst the Ban.

DERBY.
4to 1 agat Teddington 20 to 1 agst The Ban (taken
5 to 1 agst Prime Minister freely)
7 to 1 agst Hernand..z 25 to 1 apt Bonnie Dundee
20 to 1 agat Theseus (taken 28 to 1 agst Newminster
to 1001.) 80 to 1 agst Glenhawk
BATH AND SOMERSET, 1851.
THURSDAY.
Nominations for the Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each.
Mr. Gregory's f by Pantaloon out of Lady, 3 yrs (1001.)
Mr. T. Parr's Selina, 5 yrs (2000—Mr. Bloomfield's
Simplicity, 3 yrs (2000—Mr. Gain's Seignor of Holder-
ness, 4 yrs (1001.)—Mr. P. Hill's Robert de Vallibus, 3
yrs (2001)—Mr. B. Land's Detaulter, 6 yrs (2001.)
FRIDAY.
The Dyrham Park Handicap Plate of 1001.
yrs. st. lb. yrs. st. lb.
Clothworker
Elcho
Combatant ..... 5 6 5 Eva 5 7 6
Pitstord ....... 4 8 8 Miss Julia
Windhound
Carbuncle
Cheerful
Z idoc

Banton 4 6 3
Bushranger
Miss Larkaway
Tommy the Tin-
man 5 6 0
St. Ann
Cosachia
Heart of Oak 3 6 0

Fugitive. . a 6 9
Hazy
Shropshire Witch 6 7 4
Jester
S. Hilda 3 5 2
Mignon
Ella 3 5 0

The Aristocratic Handicap of 10 sous. each, &c.
yrs. st. lb. yrs. st. lb.
Defaulter
Agis
Shropshire Witch 6 11 4 New Forest Deer a 10 12
*Warwick 4ll 3 I Ferule

* The weights of these horses were incorrectly given
in the Calendar.

EPSOM, 1851—Farnair.
The Foreign Visitors' Handicap Plate of 501.
yrs. at. lb. yrs. at. lb.
The Moor
Windiscbgratz
Woodlark
The Old Fox 5 7 13iEpira
Elate

Sisyphus 4 6 6
Avis
Zegri
Tonle
Bajadoz
Prima Donna 3 5 7

True Love
oh f by Epirus, out

LONDON MESMERIC INFIRMARY.
Yesterday being the first anniversary of the eats-
bl.;shment of this institution, a general meeting of the
subscribers, patrons, and friends was held at the offices
in Bedford-street, Bedford-square.
The Rev. George Sandby presided, and he was sup-
ported by a number of the officers of the society. Nearly
half of the meeting consisted of ladies.
The CHAIRMAN said he regretted that at this, the first
anniversary meeting of' the institution, their Noble Presi-
dent, the Earl of Ducie, was not present to take the
chair. He was compelled, unfortunately, to be out of
town. otherwise he would have most cheerfully been
at his post.—(Applause.) He also regretted that
some other Noble Lords who had been applied to
were prevented attending. Under these circumstances,
therefore, he was compelled to claim the in-
dulgence of the meeting. In the first place, he could not
but coegratulate them all on the prosperous and success-
ful way in which the institution had progressed during
the year. They had had a variety of eases of patients
who had been treated very successfully, as would
found from the report. He had attended the institution
very often—as frequent as his visits to London would
permit—end ho always found the cemmittee most zealous
end attentive in curling out the rules and regula,tors,
and always saw the m-smeriz e's carefully and asseitiously
di,eherging their duties.—(Hear.) He was glad to inform
them that the funds were irnprovine ; several donations had
been received from some most distinguished parties, and
he was happy, among the rest, to mention the Archbishop
of Dublin, who always followed out truth faithfully and
fearlessly—that distinguished man hal given his adhesion
to the cause of mesmerism, and also a vary liberal con-
tribution for the institution.--(Cheers.) The Earl of
Stanhope, who was always benevolently disposed towards
the charities of the metropolis, had also given them his
support.—(Cheers.) They had also several other most
zealous and kind friends who rallied round the society,
and he might, therefore, say that they had been steadily,
yet progressively, forming what he had no doubt would
finally be a nucleus of mesmerism, the effect of which
would be felt throughout the kingdom. At the same
time, however, he must be permitted to express; his regret
and surprise that many friends of mesmerism—many
whose families had been benefited by that great science
—had not joined them; he missed them and lamented
their absence.—(Hear.) Tnere were several men dis-
tinguished in literature and science, men of high birth
and property, who he knew were well acquainted with
the truths of mesmerism, either themselves or their
families having derived great benefit from it, whose
names were yet wanting on their list of supporters. He
hoped they would join them ere long, yet he could not
help thinking, though it might seem he was uttering a
paradox, that the absence of the support proved the
strength rather than the weakness of the London Mes-
meric Infirmary. When he first joined the mesmeric
world, they were a very small body in numbers, but they
rallied round, and held by each other, confidently hoping
that they would increase and multiply. Like every great
truth, however, mesmerism as it advanced could afford
to have subdivisions among its desciples. They all knew
that there were differences of opinion among the adhe-
rents of mesmerism on several very important points,
some leaning to spiritual, some to material, and others to
physiological views; but, however divergent their opi-
nions might be, he hoped they would all agree in sup-
porting this institution, which had been established to
remedy and alleviate the ills of human existence.—
(Hear, hear.) He hoped, however they might disagree
on the religious, physiological, or material questions
which might arise, this, at least, would be neutral
ground, where they would all unite, heart and hand, in
support of this great discovery.—(Hear.) Mesmerism
was calculated to deal with sickness of every description,
to remedy every species of evil to which the human
frame was subject owing to disease. They endeavoured
to cure or alleviate all diseases; and so great and sacred
a cause ought to be held sacred by all well-disposed per-
sons. There was but one profession which held back
from supporting the society, but many most distin-
guished members of it had greatly, to their honour,
favoured them with their co-operation, some of whom
had considered it incumbent upon them to be present at
the anniversary meeting, to take a part in its proceed-
ins. He hoped the great body of the medical
profession would in two or three years hence embrace
the principles of mesmerism—that all ill-feeling would
die away, and that the hospitals of London would be
anxious to secure the assistance of those who were
skilled in the science, and that distinguished mesmerists
would be added to their body. There was one part of
the report to which he was particularly anxious to di-
rect the attention of the meeting. A proposition would
be made that the committee should have the power of
adding ladies to their number. That was rather a
novel proceeding, but he hoped it would be
received favourably, for there were reasons of
a peculiar nature, which it was unnecessary
to mention, why they considered it desirable
that ladies should attend the infirmary. The presence
of ladies would silence the observations which vile and
vulgar minds permitted themselves to utter, who, con-
scious of their own evil disposition, judged others by
what they did themselves.—(Cheers.) To the ladies
they were already greatly indebted, for through their
instrumentality mesmerism had been introduced to
families with the greatest success, after members of
what was called the orthodox profession had given up
cases as hopeless, and notwithstanding fathers, husbands,
brothers, and friends had been unwilling to suggest the
new mode of treatment, while it was vilified end con-
demned by the regular medical attendant.—(Hear.) He
knew instances in which the wife, mother, sister, and
female friend had nobly stopped forward, and said
they would no longer dally while a patient was suffer-
ing, hut would at once call to aid the treatment
recommended by mesmerists.—(Cheers.) During
his absence from home a lady introduced mesnaz-
rism into his own family, having previously ex-
pressed his objection to it, and he need hardly say he
had every reason to bless God that she had done so.—
(Hear, hear.) In supporting this institution persons
accomplished two great objects—extended a knowledge
of a great truth, and alleviated much human suffering.
He had great pleasure in calling upon the treasurer, Dr.
Elliotson, to read the report which gave an interesting
account of the society's operations during the year.
Dr. ELLIOTSON then read the report of which the fol-
lowing is an abstract:—
" It was at the house of the Earl of Ducie, on the 9th
of January, 1846, that the London Mesmeric Infirmary
was founded, and on the 25th of March, 1850, the com-
mittee sent a notice to every donor and subscriber that
this house was open for the mesmerising in it of patients.
At first the committee did not feel justified in engaging
more than one mesmerizer, the secretary himself pro-
mising to mesmerize at least two patients daily. But,
on the 10th of June, they engaged a second. During
the last month, a third, a married woman, was engaged,
and all three perform their duties satisfactorily, with
regularity, diligence, care, kindness, and propriety. The
committee have had, since the 17th of November, the
services of Mr. Capern as secretary, the former secre-
tary having resigned. Of Mr. Capern's mesmeric
strength to assuage suffering and cure disease, of his
devotion to the healing powers of mesmerism, of his
indefatigableness, his disinterestedness and benevolence,
they need not speak. He has fulfilled all the expecta-
tions which were formed of him from his previous his-
tory. He is present in the public rooms of the in-
stitution from ten till four o'clock, mesmerizing
many patients himself, and superintends the
process of the three mesmerizers, who attend daily,
except Sundays, from ten till four o'clock. The com-
mittee meet every Wednesday at two o'clock, and a
complete account of the work of every day is read to
them. The history of each patient during the preced-
ing week is detailed; his or her attendance, the length
of time that he or she was mesmerized, the named of
the mesmerizer, the mode of mesmerizing, and the
effects, together with the remedial results which were
observed at the end of the week. Fresh applicants are
seen by the committee, and examined by its medical
members, and those persons who cease to be patients
present and report themselves. 91 patients have
been mesmerized, 54 males and 37 females; 29
are at present on the books, 19 males and 10 females.-
The greater part of the diseases have been palsy, neu 1
relgia, rheumatism, epilepsy, St. Vitus's dance, and
in-
tense nervousness; and nearly all the cases had been of
long duration before they came under our care, and had
resisted various and frequently severe modes of treat-
ment under numerous well-informed medical gentlemen.
Their chronic character rendered it impossible fur mes-
merism to produce many rapid cures. This circum-
stance, and the engagements and difficulties of the poor,
together with the frequency of impatience, fickleness,
and childishness common among human beings of all
ranks, caused many to give up our services before a fair
trial was made; and, indeed, some after a few visits.
With the majority of those who received no benefit, or no
permanent benefit, this was the fact, and they amount to 28.
Twenty-four left before their cure was complete, but were
more or less benefited, and many very much benefited,
so that they were able and desirous to return to their
employments. Some very striking cases have occurred.
We may mention one of epilepsy in a child, who was
brought above a year ago. Not only has there been no
fit for above six monts, though previously the attacks
were frequent and severe, but the child's appearance and
general health have undergone a remarkable improve-
ment—a circumstance which mesmerizers are in the
habit of witnessing, whatever may be the disease. A
child with a leg shortened through disease of the hip
was received at the end of November, and on the
14th of April the father, who hadis previonsly pro-
cured the best treatment for
h had exceeded boy
in vain,
declared that the amelioration
ex-
pectations, and the improvement in the generaal hll aealt
was remarkable. The child is still under treatment.
On the 9th of last April, a man applied with an almost
total inability to open his mouth, and an inability to
swallow anything but fluids, and he swallowed those
with extreme difficulty, so that he feared being starved.
Ho had received public and private medical attendance
for several weeks, and been informed that his complaint
was palsy of the mouth and throat ; and so, indeed,
it
was, but from cold, not from internal disease. One
local mesnaerization, by Mr. Capern, enabled him in ten
minutes to swallow his saliva, and on returning home
he ate a rasher of bacon, and by repetitions
of
the treatment he has been enabled to work.
ll
solids at his meals, and to return to his
A very remarkable case is that of a dumb b
years of age, who had been palsied from hiy! fourteen
sbir th,and
totally unable to walk. He had been to many hospitals,
and under many private medical gentlemen; and been
refused admission into St. Bartholomew a Hospital from
the conviction of the medical officer that his case was
hopeless.
He was first mesmerised on the 2d of Fe-
bruary, and an improvement was discernible after the
first mesmerization. After the 6th he could positively
walk across the room without assistance; and on march
27, he walked from the infirmary into Tottenham-court-
road." The report, which contained a detailed
reference to several other oases which had been
successfully treated, concluded as follows:—Donors
have presented to the ioficuary 6994 lig, We

have 118 annual subscribers, who, with one lately de-
ceased, have contributed from the commencement St.52L
10s., and the 118 cuntribute annually 1971. 19s. 6d. We
receive 23/. Os. 2d. as the interest of five Exchequer bills.
We have 8841.45. 31:1. in hand. The world is becoming
every day better informed as to the reality, the curative
and assuaging power, and the innocence of mesmerism;
and the English medical profession is now emancipating
itself from the unfortunate feelings which overpowered
it!from the time, now above twelve years ago, when the
college and hospital, their council and medical proles.
sors, within a few yards on one side of the spot where
we are now assembled, scouted mesmerism with
contumely, not inquiring for a moment whether
it was useful or true, and forbade its presence within
their walls; and when Mr. Wakley, within a few )arde
on the other side of the spot where we are now assem-
bled, loudly declared to mankind that mesmerism was an
entire fraud, and that all those who promoted it were
cheats and impostors, unworthy to be asssociated with
by respectable medical men. We therefore trust that
our donors and subscribers will steadily increase, at d
our means prove sufficient for the holy cause in vrheh
we are engaged. As the truth and importance of mess
rnerisna are now so extensively acknowledged, no one
need longer to hesitate in advocatitrg the cause of mes-
meric charity briore :11l men, in season and out of sea-
son. Persons apply every week for admission into the
infirmary for whom we have no room, so much has the
fame of mesmeric remedial power spread, end so quickly
ie that gross ignorance vanishiag which connected
the simple and natural process of memorising with Satan.
The committee urn anxious to propsse to the meeting
what they believe will be a great improvement. A
lady, the wile of a distinguished mathematician and
philosopher, proposed to Dr. Elliotson that ladies should
ianmeasure
addition must
t o o
u b e r
having advan-
tageous
ladies oupowntihd do theecomcaittee, and off:red to join if other
same. lie at once highlyapprored
of the plan, and mentioned it to the committee, who
equally approve of
iu manyrespects, it.
Sl-laQsh,
female patients, we now employ a female mesmeriser.
Mr. Holm°, of Ilight,sate, has kindly placed the whole
of his phrenelogical collection in the hands of the in-
stitution, to be returned whenever we think fit, or his
son, now very young may,
batesttescreeeou tim mminesgmoefasge. desire to
have it. The strong allianceand phre-
nology caused the committee to regard the offer of a fine
phrenological collection as too valuable to be slighted ;
and they have permitted Mr. liolme to give occasional
gratuitous discourses upon it after the mesmeric business
of the day is over."
Mr. HOLLINGS, of Leicester, moved the adoption of
the report, and in doing so said he could not refrain from
adding his own expressions of deep and unfeigned satis-
faction at the present position of mesmerism in its cha-
racter as a curative agent as testified not only by that
assembly, but the growing convictions of the country
at large. .Fifteen years had now elapsed since public
experiments were first introduced into the country for
the purpose of testing the phenomena of animal magnet-
ism in regard to the various forms of suffering and dis-
ease. At that time they met with almost universal op.
position, but whether it was the result of sincere and
honest conviction, of unreflecting and uninquiring preju-
dice, or of professional rivalty or self-interest, it was to
be forgotten and forgiven ; the friends of mesmerism
had passed through the trying ordeal of public opinion
without having in any degree their personal character
injured, or their reputation impaired.—(Hear, hear.)
The great cause in which they were engaged was becom-
ing more generally embraced—men of considerable lite-
rary and scientific eminence, high professional vending,
well-known authors, members of the Church, the Senate,
and the Bar, were being daily added to the list of sup-
porters and advocates of the once neglected and much
vilified, but glorious science. If they looked to the
neighbouring continent there they
saw among its adhe-
rents some of the most philosophic minds of the age.
Indeed the extent to which this new agent might here-
after be applied, no man, at the present moment,
would venture to predict. It was gratifying to find that
in our eastern possessions a medical school had been
established under the auspices of the British Govern-
ment, which was second to none in this country, where
the treatment of diseases by mesmerism was made a
matter of daily occurrence. They had been told of the
most agonising and protracted sufferings alleviated, of
the removal of tumours equal, in some instances, to the
weight of the body, while the patient remained wholly
unconscious of the operation. In fact, some operations.
the physical endurance of which would, under the
ordinary mode of treatment, be certain death, were
successfully performed under the influence of mesmerism;
and these truths were being taught by the eminent pro-
fessors at Calcutta to crowds of students collected toge-
ther from every quarter of the gorgeous east. If such
has been the result of fifteen years' experience, what
might they not anticipate for an equal number of years
to come? But though mesmerism was an absolute and
certain specific for all forms and conditions of disease,
there might be temperaments on which it might be found
to have little or no influence. How far they were to be
limited or restrained in its application must be learned
as every other question in science was—by experiments
alone. After passing a very high eulogium on the
skill and perseverance of Dr. Elliotson, and adverting
to the unjust accusations and insinuations which had
been heaped upon him, he concluded by moving the
adoption of the report.

The Hon. Capt.SCABLETT briefly scconded the motion,
which was carried.

Mr. JANSON, of Exeter, moved that the Archbishop
of Dublin and Earl Stanhope should be requested to
become the Vice-Presidents of the institution.

Mr. T. B. BARKER, surgeon of Exeter, in seconding

the motion, showed the great progress which mesmerism
had made in that city, and mentioned several cases in
which he had succeeded in effecting most won-
derful cures. 1,200 persons out of a popula-
tion of 35,000 had altogether partaken of the
benefits which mesmeric treatment afforded : under its
influence Tit ople hod their teeth extracted without suffer-
ing the slightest degree of pain, and others hed the most
excruciating agonies entirely relieved. They had, in
fact, conquered their enemies by the undeniable success
of their operations. They had survived all bigotry, and
those iniquities which exceeded the proceedings of the
Inquisition, end more resembled the conduct of canni-
bals than hat of the inhabitants of a civilized nation.
He had himself been exposed to calumny so strong and
abominable that he dared not venture to express the
nature of it. He was, however, delighted to find that
Dr. Elliotson was now recognised to be the leader and
apostle of mesmerism, and he hoped the time was not far
distant when men from all parts of the globe would come
forward and support this truth. It could never be de-
feated—it put other doctrines into the shade—it was
the great electric light which was to conduct the human
race to the intellectual oasis that was before them.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
A motion was then agreed to, for the addition of
ladies to the committee.
Dr. Elliotson was then re-elected treasurer of the insti-
tution for the ensuing year, and on the motion of Dr. E.
Sy mes' seconded by Dr. Ashburner, an address expres-
sive of the great services which he bad rendered to mes-
merism, and to the Infirmary in particular, was agreed
to, and presented to him amidst marks of general appro-
bation.
The learned Doctor was so overpowed by emotion,
that he was only able to stammer out a few
_.brief words
of thanks for this mark of esteem and regard.
The meeting then separated.

SOCIETY OF for the reading of papers on
—Aars.This society having con-
cluded its ordinary session
scientific subjects, held the first of a series of conrarsazioni
last evening, at the
rooms of the association, in John-street,
Adelphi. The runion was vary numerously attended by
em m bers of the scientific world, and the ordinary attractions
of the society'sva
ry
iertooms were upon this occasion greaCy en,
harmed by a
-
of valuable pictures, prints, and drawings
~g the
kindly lent by artistic friends of the institution, Arno , '
gentlemen present we remarked M. D, upyi, President of the
French Commission to the lxreat Exhibition ; M. Sallan-
drouze, acting French Commissioner; M. C. BUSChell, Aus-
trian Commissioner; M. Kamensky, Rassian
Air. Henry Cole and Mr. C. entworth Dilke, members of
the Executive Committee; Rev. Mr. Cattley, Mr. J. C.
Murchison, &c. The evening was very delightfully passed
in the enjoyment of a most agiee:ible conversazione, the chief
subject of which was the Great Exhibition, and many con-
gratulations w re offered to Messrs. Cole and Dilke for the
admirable success which had attended their exertions. The
pleasures of the evening were much increased by the pre.
ser.ce of a large number of ladies, for whose especial gratifica-
tion the band of the Royal Artillery was in attendance.
CENSUS ENUMERATORS.—On Tuesday a Mostilig
of the enumerators of the census of ISSI took place at the
Bengal Arms, Birchin-lane, for the purpose of adopting
m
memorial to the Secretary of State for the Home
Depart-
ment, la
complaining of the insufficiency of the payments
je Go.
awarded to them for their services, and calling upon `
vernment to make them a more adequate r M
Arre.t.gehenna in
onerous and responsible duties of the office, Mr.
the injustice to
for the
the chair. The memorial, after setting forth the
on to state
emphatically
which the enumerators had been subjected,,yere
that the registrars in their instructions
d trustworthy directed to employ none but intelligent and sufficient guarantee
per-
sona, and men whose position in life w
that the duties of their office would be performed in a proper
and efficient manner. That theni
of anxious duties which
memorialists were not aware,
at the time of the appointment,saed
until they had signed
the enumerators' instruc-
they had engaged to perform,
to them
tions not having been handedeh v therefore considered the present
They inadequate to compensate them
the form of contract.
scale of remuneration.ttohey
trusted that such further pay
mint justice of the case re-
for their services, a,,ntead
tom
ment might be granted f thee memorial was moved by Mr.
quired. The ado: '
-ea that, after 'flaking deductions for the
Fletcher, who sta
cost of end the
schedules, and entering them in the
endorsing
ethat his pay was at the rate of 1/. Os. 6d, per
week. Mr. J
books, be fouones,
an enumerator, of St. James's parish, se-
conded„
motion, which was carried
Y.
ni" unanimously. the
oLoGICAL SOCIETY.---The usual monthly
ENT" this •
of society was held on Monday evening, J. u•
meeting
westwood -
I Esq., president, in the chair. The president an-
nounced a resolu:ion of the council, that during the Great
hibition, any foreign entomologist might see the society'ae
collection on any day of the week, if accompanied by
.1,
member or subscriber. Mr. Stevens exhibited a
asfiee&leseu°_
curculionidx, new to Britain, and a specimen
ut.h
recently
prella (the second known British specimen), bfot exhibited
captured on :Allows at Fenny Stratford.
'lie°
at a living specimen of callidium eanguineum,
caughtiihermaphrodite
Brom-
ley, 'Middlesex. Mr. She herd exhibited
Douglas exhibited a
Smerinthus populi, taken at large. Mr.
tom= variegatum,
specimen of the longeeorn beetle, cor aying _ at Bow-com-
Fab, a native of New Zealand, caught "
.
men, by Mr. Robertson, last August. Smith exhibited
Mr
by Mr. Wing, Dec.
a specimen of formica graminico.ls,
taken
9, 1850, and a specimen of formlaeets cunicularia, taken by Mr.
were females, and boat
Stevens, April 18, 1851. Both i.
Smith read descriptions of two
Mr'
were caught flying.
paper by John 37,
Australian bees; and a the effect of heat and cold, and
consisting of observati Ts on
also read.
life,
various gases on insect 1
wine water have arrived by
of Co cli
Two large casks
m the Continent, on account of the
a vesFel rid
Austrian comßmisselgiuione m
rfsrofor the Great Exhibition; the same
supply of a fountain of Cologne water,
intended for the
in the Austrian depart-
beim,
perpetually.
which is to be
hbit, and which, according to the arrange.
depart-
ment of the Ez 'iv gsp PP
to the fouttitiu sack cloky duria
t will be nell . P
men ,
the lino.