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London, England, 1867-07-24 00:00:00

rity which many would fain have denied them.
What effect the discussion will have on the action
of the committee on the bill remains to be seen. We
do not apprehend much will or even can be done,
and if, as is probable, the bill passes with little alte-
ration, we shall not be discouraged. For our own
part we neither share the alarms nor the fond hopes
the bill has excited. It will produce some imme-
diate effects and will do some permanent good in
abating the discontent excited by the exclusion of
large classes from the privilege of the franchise,
but its direct influence on the legislation of the
future has, we believe, been overrated both by its
friends and its foes.

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

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At the last sittidg a paper was received from M.
Tournal, of Narbonne, on a burning fountain just
discovered near Salles (Aude), in sinking an arte-
sian well. Carburetted hydrogen gas is evolved
from a bubbling spring of purgative water contain-
ing sulphate of magnesia (Epsom salts) ; the gas
burns with a reddish and sooty flame, but unaccom-
panied by any smell of bitumen or sulphuretted
hydrogen. The well has been sunk on the left bank
of the Aude, in the vast plain situated two metres
only above the level of the sea, and consisting of a
muddy alluvial deposit. The borer first sank through
six metres of mud ; it then found a blackish soil con-
taining fragments of half-carbonised wood, next came
succesively white lacustral lime-stone, marl, and
crystals of gypsum, and lastly, blue marl with sea
shells. The carburetted spring lay at a depth of
70 metres ; the water, charged with sulphate of
magnesia, at first rose to the very orifice of the
well, but seems now to have found its proper level
at the depth of a metre. M. Guerin, who last
year found some nuclei and obsidian implements
in the environs of Luneville, announced that
about a month ago he discovered near Aingeray a
small commune of the Meurthe, a few fragments of
pottery of a peculiar shape, which led him to sup-
pose there might have been tumuli on that spot.
A few steps off he picked up an arrow-head, which,
upon examination, was found to be made of obsi-
dian. The fragments of pottery, being joined to-
gether again, constituted part of a vase similar to
those found in the tumuli of Alsace, and pertaining to
the age of bronze.—M. Balbiani, the well-known
physiologist, sent in a paper 'n certain observations
of his on corpuscular silkworms, from which he con-
siders himself entitled to conclude that :-1, Every
moth having corpuscles under its wings has also
some in its interior organs ; and 2, That if there
be none under the wings, neither are there any
in the rest of the body. This, if true, would be a
most important discovery to silk-growers. M•
Chasles read a communication on certain writings
of Pascal, from which it appears that he was ac-
quainted with the laws of attraction, and had studied
them. These writings consist of two letters ad-
dressed to Boyle, and of three memorandums, all
which were inedited, and are now published in the
Comptes-Rendus of the Academy.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

BRISTOL-TUESDAY.

The supply of wheat was scarce, with a fair demand, and
the prices of last week were supported. Barley nominal.
In oats and beans no alteration.

LEEDS-TUESDAY.

The corn market to-day had a fair attendance, and prices
were rather better for wheat. Other articles unchanged.

MELTON MOWBRAY.-TUESDAY.

White wheat, GBs to 74s ; red, 59s to 68s per 36 stone.
Barley for malting, 40s to 52s per qr; feed, 32s to 38s per
30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 345; new, 26s to 32s per 21st.
Beans, old, 52s to 545.; new, 45s to 50s per qr.