The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-23 00:00:00

GEORGE HUTT, Secretary.

Ace(
MIIODATION FOR RECRUITS IN

LONDON.
liTtyri,,,,.. War Tice, Pall-mall, S.W., Aug. 11, 1836.
that, i ,IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Secretary of
~QATIAr.mWar is prepared to receive TENDERS on or before
vrefsis -"kY, the Bth September, 1866, for the provision pf
Ne tr," for the ACCOMMODATION of RECRUITS in
hsPrilitihdem District.
&I,aivatticulars of what is required, and forms for tender-
IL oifbe obtained on application at the War Office, Pall-
t, 0,10111 the Superintendent of the Recruiting Dep
' ttep.".e-street, Westminster, or from the Barrack Master
' Pet;-nt's-P ark Barracks. '
the insons ten
_ dering will be required to give every facility foras
kit, b,,Pii,aisa of the premises tendered by such Officer
The's Dpointed by the Secretary of State for War.
4t'ePt the of State for kVar does not bind himself to
me lowest or any of the tenders.
',....,............_ THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.

U°NTRACT FOR TOOLS.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
111161)e°1111 t
~ ME O House 18th August, 1864. :ISSTONERS fr xecuting the OFFICE of
oti in ta ADR AL of thee U nited Kingdo m of Great
Tup-g
41 Ireland, DO HFREBY GIVE NOTICE: that
/ WiliTeA-Y, the llth Sep'tember next, at Two o clock,
wtoco,,ready to treat with such persons as may be weirlal:
NckilYar,l2 tRACT for SUPPLYING her Majesty'
Vtain :`;vvith TOOLS, under a contract for Twelve Months
"arnit.' afterwards until the expiration of Three Months'
tq;.
11,11._rat'etioriln8fni the articles may be seen, the average annual con-
...a nr the last three years may be ascertained, and a
tin at tena
bt'ans -der, includino• a schedule of the articles and con-
-I,ll3artaie'nent. ntract, maybe obtained on application at this
Itesot 'reader will be received after Two o'clock on:the day of
4a,a ?iifor Will A s
_ny ~enotieed unless the party attends, or
A'rery I,°r ,ra duly authorised in writing.
~,nniral, ender muit be addressed to the Secretary words
`4'114;3'40r ' and bear in the left-hand corner the
Too's," and must also be delivered at the De-
pp,ase "Storeke per-veneral, Admiralty, Somerset
004 —",alPaniecl by aelette; signed by two responsible
lbagdng to become bound with the person ten-
"'rac sum of Xl,OOO. for the due performance of the

By order,
ReANTONIO BRADY,
,:ristrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

the bee/11 11‘ISLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
II
recently opened and fitted with requisites for
lat 81; A and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor,t_ Dr.
e:milen-av IN, announces that he has transferred his Es ab-
rorn n•
km itev, Birmingham the above desirable residence,
fro
8 anu distant from London about an hour
:Uteß Nl,' the Louctri ant: North-Western hne, and fifty
pronely soij Oxiiird. t ttached to the mansion, situated on
Rro,lpecf, aPd commanding an extensive and pleasing
garde,, me dow, plantation, and recreation
_ ()Drietor.lur terms and forms of admission address the

i:aßsi DAY (for many years principal
ll.or_str,Lant to Mr. Eskell. surgeon-dentist,Gros-
k w.,
I mAy h • consulted on all cases of Dental de-
r' Xhiteii-;•encY. Ile has made arrangements tor the use of
8 Patents, by which means exquisitely enamelled
th
ARTIFICIAL TEETH
boree4sllLMN°_st durability are constructed (in a few hours when
tieiN';-altd are worn upon tender gums or roots of teeth
teg,sa,„°ll4 Persons ore any length of Hate. without pain,
er "''Pes,, or di,comfort. The Liventlon applied to
„r:lrainary or biferior coLtrsucti.m.
TIcETIT Olt DISE ISED STUMPS
EXTRACTED Nri ['BOUT PAIN.
the No chloroform! and perfectly safe.
st exac OSTEO-PLASTIC ENAMEL,
' colour of the teeth used in casco of
4°C .t
Iv
all Iscoloured teethnatural restored,, loose teeth fastened,
°Aerations on the most approved principles.
2ii'lerins strictly moderate. Consultations free.
'GENT-STREET (3 doors from the Polytechnic).

Isitk To ER, I, PHOTOGRAPIIIST.—TNVEN-
Io°v-PAerit,°L, lie CARTE de VISITE, Patent the 27th of
rog 70, 7?, Brook-street, Hanover-square, and
Pa as,Portraits at Hereford Lodve, Men-ester-
-`1 Brompton-road, and 8, Boulevard des Italiens,
of ,i•
vt,l the ~, RI has on SALE 65,000 CARTES de VISITE,
,-;LL EBRi rIE.4 u'' the Day, and PANORAMIC
-,1 To, Xstablishments ;s1 ONDOS, PARIS, MADRID,
uLNlor enlarg.meu s up to life size.

1,111? PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST to
,cti„, aint, aJestY the Emperor Napolepn 111, and the 1m-
.11,03,;t1t, also Lto_11:.I. Majesty the Emperor of All the
the
Kin!
of Spain and the
ifiegr4llY rtjoi;il-raj"ty 1, a, Kit„
of Majesty the of Italy ;to 11. Ma-
qe I,4T° thelra noibind ; to H Nr.h-siy the King of For-
, ,iee oi penal Musk; : Photographer of
Lite Universal Exhibition of 1855, &c.

/IS/311.1) PHOTO PAINTING. —ln oil on

canvas.
b--...x -
-81).ERI, PHOTOGRAPHIE on SILK.—His

own new process.
IIjSbERI) PHOTOGRAPHIE EMAIL—New

process,

4141SI)ERII NATURAL PHOTOGRAPHY,
Reproductions and Enlarge-
-144 ts NoVittehvOeuryt
krientrehing•

11411 The Excellent Situation of Mr.
qbLEssli
the WEATHE S Studios enables him to OPERATE RE-
-0 R.

6))StIP,It. r
Ist --.--NOTICE.—By a new process of,
tol'pij,. DISDERI'S the "PORTRAITS CARTs.S 1)E
151ittic, are ENLARGED on CANVA i• to any size. Th
ell 'lleanBe,:r thus obtain a PHOTOGRAPHIC DRAWING,ane
th: -o„.e in,
_.lyhmh skilful artists attached to the hou!4eC ,
41z.1,,, ancililteion., suc 1 as the colour of the complexion,
hair, obtain a splendid and truthful 011
thltt DllsiG*
--:-ERI'S new process is valuable in this respect,
lltli,-ethluids the tediousn,-ss of long sittings, and also adds
"„thful„arnts of oil painting* the great advantages of the
„ i"ess and aPcuracy of Photography.
i'l'er.,, "uNS and STUDIOS, 70, 71, 72, Brook-street, Han-
.k.of -guar
ge rn-e; and for Equestrian Portraits at Hereford
.'''-----ueester-road, Old Brompton-road.

D,,
MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE.
',, 15, ARRY's delicious health-restorin Invalids'
Yielelg Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARABICA,
ni !la t
ri no
sgt
oarne do strengthe.ning
perfect dig.es-
(gdnyespervepsias:und lungs, healthy liver, refreshing
4:11:°e;:h72: 8 thtrilrarc tiee au
tt il
sal thes a sb
en is
ta meats aa
ma
tlei:l', functional regularity and energy to the most diopr-
di_ ee trovenfeebled—removing speedily and effectually in-
-11 11a1 constipation d.coubgh, asthma, consumption, ha-
43lhorrhoid l. , lan ceti all gastric derangements,
40,... , .8, iver complaint, flatu ency, n!wvous-
,lt-tz, ouionsness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria,
kdrrellB, colds, influenza, noises in the head
11R4.....ar5, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions,.
Pal7lN neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity,
hipo4l:itation sickness,,ility; dropsy, cramps,
ins, nausea and even in pregnancy or at se
kik" fits, bronchitis. scrofula, tightness of the chest,
It la ho
the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders..
1114," lalo3l, edgestible or all foods and suitable for in
W 'fld infants in all complaints.
of t 1,6 quote a few out of 62,000 Cures:—Cure No. o. 58,216
plaint Marchioness de Erehan, of seven years' iyer com-
a
;nitlti:ixttae:;:::refaeopatidiens:gsneasws,ay, debility, nervousness, irritability,
aot a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, con-
t 4 eon.
h Ri ht Hon.
and the most
fintolerable nervous
opa Cure No. 71 o' dyspelosial
of vi,..z., Stuart de Dec'es, Lord Lieutenant of thge county
—1 have derived much benefit from your
Znut,en,t food _1
de Decies, Dromana,
..'‘ 0,•',.. "faterford. Cure No. 54 816 from the Rev.h James
'ollt,-.Pbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Falcen m Nor-
hea'when
tii 111 all cases or indigestion, and particularly 'd iit the
te4 v,,t2l* '`; More than usually affected, 1 consi e
flow s:' all remedies. It regulates the bile, and ma.ukeasit
13}1alilll cases whic'i would not admit o mercury i
c'tirlie„:, In slier', r healthy flow o' the 'Pe is one of the
1a,,,,,- an best symptoms You can make what us_ y
es
iv. 1;°- tbis communication .—I am, gentlemen, Jain _
15Y,LPPbol. Cure No. 52,422.—8 ridge House, Frim
"Pittib-urreN' • - Thirty-three years' diseased lungs,
ths e-tt-IF o'tlo.od, liver derangement, deafness, singing in
to "b, constipation debility, shortness ID, breth, and
!a4B,'l,__ave been removed by y. •it Revalenta Ambles. My
'llR'perrr, stomach, head, and ears are all right, my hear-
Of T, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acquaint-
(4 AO' allies Roberts, Tiiiib?r M,rchant. Cure No. 49,832.
aeBs,
riflears' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nurvc:ut
I,l,Nii. ~,,.,nia, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick
Ae.ii' vomiting -Mal ia Jolv, of Lynn, Norfolk. Curo
indi '1,2:1-- Miss Eli zabet h Ji,c(ibs, of extreme nervousnss,
iirei&"l3n, gatherings, low 'spirits, and nervous fancies.
(11441 0. 56,814.—Mr. Saml.Laston,Leicester, of two years'
is, 6,1 tek The food is sold in canisters, 11b. 2s 9d ; 21b.,
6s. , 5t,.;,;, 121 b., 215.; 241 b 40s. Super-refined quality, 11b.,
241C1 2
3 1-8- i 51b., 225.". 101 b., 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and
b? ean;stors, carriage free' on receipt of Post-office Order,
It Be lairlirrnYin Barry and Co., 77. Regent-street, London ;
`rlse at ''2Ps, Tea Dealers, 8, King William-street.; like-
l'itte,,, unl Oacechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishops-
telrracseco i'rol3tliVeres,r-
-I)trat4r."t Within ; 63, 150 and 298, Oxford-street ; 330,
road Dr. 54 Upper Baler-street ; 163, Tottenham-conrt-
st6rse,ethiisglhington N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ;
trocorai St. a's-Nvood -sLtoreuedto;na;ndauSdtuabllbs;esQ4oetuenh'sle-
- 444 Chenlistse-Boware of spurious imitations..

NOTHING REPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMARBLL A.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull Wharf, 93,
Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect-
fully offer to the publics this truly marvellous fluid, :which
gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
Per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea'per
Dottie, or in half bottles. 108. 61. Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re-
speetability, may
be seen on application. Messrs. John
Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

T"E RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irora
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
111 r. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen .street. Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—ll is Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE S, K.G

President-Ins Graze the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G.

-
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is whollyde-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and i ,4aetes
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several nundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas.
:crman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Harries tV‘ d Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W dliatas, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co.: Nisbet and Co.. Berners-street ; I. Barred and
C 9., Liverpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
BTANIFORD_ beactary.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
£5,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to PPY for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. !ind 214, Eligh Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, fall-Malt East; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

IROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row. Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given In this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. Tho poor
from all parts aro admitted, the only condition being that
they aro homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
te:,eives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, chilaren, and orphans
aro, for want accommodation, refusodadmittanco, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, 1'2,000 has boon raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will lie required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. OILBERT D.D
killgtuT-cirous, 8.0.

Via Shrewsbury, Wrexham, Chester, and Holyhead.
Single Tickets to Kingstown are available for the day
of issue and the following day, and the Return Tickets (to
Kingstown) for ONE Mown', entitling the holder to break
the journey at Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Chester Con-
way, Bangor, Holyhead, and Dublin. The Tickets to
Dublin entitle the holders to break the journey at Chester
or Holyhead. Passengers are also booked through be-
tween— LONDON,
BIRMINGHAM,
and the following Stations on the Midland Great Western
Railway of Ireland, via Kingston or Dublin (North Wall)—
Athenry, Athlone,
Balyhannis, Ba
Ballymote, Boyle,
Carrick-on-Shannon, Castlebar,
Castlerea, Cavan,
Claremorris, Galway,
Longford, Mullingar,
Roscommon, Sligo,
T uam, Westport,
And the following Stations on the Great Southern and
Western, and Waterford and Limerick Railways :
KILLARNEY,
Athy,
Clonmel,
CORK,

Athlone,
Carlow,

Fermoy, Kilkenn y,
Limerick Junction, Limerick,
Mallow, Maryborough,
Nonagh, Parsonstown,
Portarlington, Roscroa,
Templemore, T hurles,
Tipperary, Tralee,
T uliamore, *Waterford.
Passengers travelling to Kingstown, or Stations in the
interior of Ireland via Kingstown, are convoyed by the
MAIL PACKETS between Holyhead and Kingstown—
the sea passage is performed in about 31 hours.
The Single Tickets via KINGSTOWN are available for
FITE DAYS, and the Return Tickets for ONE MONTH, en-
titling the holders to break the journey at Birmingham,
Shrewsbury, Chester, Bangor, Conway, Holyhead, and
Dublin.
The Single Tickets via Dublin (North Wall) are avail-
able for Five Days, and the Return Tickets for One Month,
and permit the holders to break the journey at Chester,
Holyhead, or Dublin.
For Service of Trains, Fares, and other information, see
the Company's published Timo Bills.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington Station, August, 1866.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—
THROUGH COMMUNICATION with IRE-
LAND via MILFORD HAVEN and WATERFORD.
Passengers are booked through between—
LONDON,
BRISTOL,
Carmarthen, Cardiff,
Gloucester, Cheltenham,
Merthyr, Llanelly,
Neath, Newport,
Oxford, Reading,
SWANSEA,
And the undermentioned Stations on the Waterford and
Limerickirincl Waterford and Kilkenny Railways, viz.—
Cahir, Clonmel,
Kilkenny, Limerick Junction,
Limerick, Tipperary.
The Single Journey Tickets aro available for FIVE
DAYS with the privilege of breaking the journey at either
Gloucester or New Milford, and Waterford or Clonmel, as
also at Cahir and Tipperary.
The Return Tickets aro available for ONE MONTH, and
entitle the holders to break the journey at many places of
interest on the route both going and returning. •
For Service of Trains, Fares, and other information, seo
the Company's publiJhed Time Bills.
. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington Station, August, 1866.

j( REAT ESTERN RAILWAY.
THROUGH COMMUNICATION with IRELAND
via noLviILAJJ nnn wlNcitirroWN or MILFORD
HAVEN and WATERFORD.
TOURIST TICKETS.
FOR TILE
LAKES OF KILLARNEY,
AVAILABLE FOlt ONE MONTII.
Aro now issued at

London, Oxford,
Birmingham, Gloucester,
Hereford, Worcester,
Bath, Bristol,
And other principal Stations on the Great Western
Railway.

The Tickets ria Holyhead and Kingstown aro available
by the Irish Mail Trains between Chester and Holyhead,
and by the Mail Packets between Holyhead and Kings-
town, and entitle the holders to remain as long as conve-
nient to themselves at Chester, Bangor, Holyhead, Dublin,
Limerick Junction, Mallow, Cork and Killarney, provided
they return to the Station in England at which they took
their Tickets not later than One Calendar Month from the
date of their departure therefrom. The Tickets via Mil-
ford entitle the holders to break the journey at various
places of attraction on the Great 'Western Railway, as also
at Waterford, Tipperary, Limerick Junction, or Mallow,
either going or returning; but the Waterford and Killar-
ney portion of the route must be performed within. Thirteen
Days from the date of departure from Waterford.
Tourist Tickets are also issued to Dublin (North Wall)
from all the principal Stations on the Great 'Western Rail-
way, entitling the holders to break the journey at any Sta-
tion between Shrewsbury and Chester inclusive, and also
at any Station on the Chester and Holyhead Line, both
going and returning.
®Tourist Tickets for the Connemara Tours aro issued at
London and Birmingham.
For Fares and other particulars see Tourist Programme,
to be obtained at any of the Company's Stations or Offices.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
August; 180.

m. REILLY AND Co.,
• GUN AND RIFLE MANUFACTURERS,
502, New Oxford-street, London,
Have always an Extensive Assortment of MUZZLE and
BREECH-LOADING GUNS, on the most approved sys-
tems, from £lO 108. upwards. Improved " CENTRAL
FIRE" BREECII-LOADERs, in cases -complete, from 25
guineas. Cartridge Cases from SOS. per 1,000. Several first-
class Second-hard Muzzle and Breeoh-loadimi Guns at mo-
derate prices. Revolvers, Air Canes, &e. Double Rifles for
Africa, India, dm., from 12 guineas.

m governorun ietit
i 0 onf
fromtl eSuffolkhe
I[m
County ny Gaol,
Secretary,THE SUFFOLK CHILD MURDER.-Mr. Alloway,
hgrantingreceived
a reprieve
-
to Hannah Colthorpo, the young woman under sentence of
death for the murder of her illegitimate child at Sprough-
ton in October, 1865. The convict will not thus undergo
tl,
the last penalty of the law, but she is to be kept in penal
servitude during the term of her natural life.
SWIMMING MATCH BETWEEN HENRY GURII AND
DAVID PAMPLIN.—These renowned young swimmers swam
a most exciting match at a late hour on Tuesday night!
attracting so many metropolitan swimmers to witness their
extraordinary skill in swimming that the long Wenlock
Bath, in which the race took place, seemed almost lined on
each side by a thick living wall of s pectators. The backers
of each claimed a victory for their favourito,but the referee
declared the result to be as exact a dead-heat as ever hap-
pened. The time at the various distances, as taken by Mr.
H. Woodstock, the official time-keeper, was 47 sec. at GO
yards, 1 min. 39 sec. at 120, 2 min.
36 sec. at 180, 3 min. 35
see. at 240, 4 min. 32 sec. at 300, 5 min. 34 sec. at 360, 6
min. 37 sec. at 420, 7 Min. 31 sec- at 840, 8 min. 37 sec. at
510, 9 min. 43 sec. at 600, 10 min, 45 sec. at G6O, and 11
min. 51 sec. at 720. The consequence of the dead-heat is
a challenge for another match. Professor Woodbridge,
whom the young champion assists in teaching swimming
offers to back Gurr against Patoplia for £25 or £5O a-side
—The Sporting Life.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Dyspepsia (Indigestion), constipa-
tion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach
and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and
accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur-
able by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica
Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been con-
sidered hopeless, such as—cough, asthma, also diarrheas,
hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness,
biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds,
influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, im-
purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irrit Ability, sleepless
ness, acidity, palpitation. heartburn, headache, debility,
dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness„even in preg-
nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of
the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the
shoulders, dm. We quote a few :—Cure No. 96,276. Mr James
Roberts, timber merchant, of Prlmley, Surrey, of 30 years'
diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and par-
tial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ex-
treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings; low spirits, and
nervous fancies. —Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, lord
lieut. of Waterford, of many Years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832.
Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency,
spasms, sickness, and
vomiting—Maria July.—Cure No. 54,816. The Rtv, James
T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpid-
ity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment.—
In tins, 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 40 6d ; 511), Ils ; 121 b, 22s ; 241 b,
;Os.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No, 77, Regent-street, London;
also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise
at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 19, Bishopsgate-
street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 830, Strand;
51, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court-road; 96,
Upper-street, Islington, N.;
Harvey, Notting-hill; Close
Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St.
John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and elle*
bl44B.—DeWare vi opurious katatim,

that the establishment at Kew should be developed
so as to become a meteorological centre of observa-
tion, in place of perpetuating thepresent system. The
Parliamentary Committee in their report expressed
regret that another session had been allowed to pass
without any step being taken by the Legislature to
promote the study of science in our great public
schools. They referred, however, to the Act passed
to amend the Acts relating to the Imperial standards
of weight, measure, and capacity, as one which
would effect very useful reforms in the constitution
of the office having the custody of the Imperial
standards, whereby the organisation of the Depart-
ment would be placed on a more scientific basis.
Regarding the Meteorological Department of the
Board of Trade, the report said, " Your committee
will not fail to advocate such measures as may be
necessary for placing this Department on a satisfac-
tory footing. They will neither be unmindful of the
part which they took in its original establishment,
nor of the benefits which it has already conferred,
and which, if succmsfully reorganised, it will con-
tinue to confer on meterological science." The
concluding recommendation that Sir Henry Raw-
linson be elected a member of the committee was
of course complied with. To the list of correspond-
ing members the names of the following foreign
men of science who attended the Birmingham meet-
ing were added :—Captain Belavenetz, Geheimrath
von Dechen, M. Gaudry, Professor Grube, Profes-
sor Kiepert, Professor F. Romer, Chevalier C.
Negri, and Professor Steenstrup. Those of Mr. J.
Hind, F.R.S., and Mr. T. Close were added to the
list of vice-presidents and to fill the place vacated by
the resignation last year of Mr. Hopkins, as joint
general secretary. Mr. Thos. Archer Hirst, Ph. D.,
F.R.S., Professor of Mathematical Physics, Uni-
versity College, London, was unanimously chosen.
Incidentally it was mentioned that invitations for
future meetings of the Association had been re-
ceived from Dundee, Norwich, Plymouth, and
Exeter. The sectional committees having been duly
appointed at once adjourned to their several com-
mittee-rooms, and proceeded to frame the lists of
the following day's business.
At 8 o'clock the general body of members and
associates assembled in the theatre to receive the
farewell observations of Professor Phillips, to wit-
ness the installation of the president elect, Mr.
Grove, Q.C., and to listen to the inaugural address.
Of the latter we give a condensed report :
Mr. GROVE said that if their rude predecessors
who at one time inhabited the caverns by which
Nottingham was surrounded could rise from their
graves and see the town in its present state, it might
be doubtful whether they would have sufficient
knowledge to be surprised at what they witnessed.
The machinery, almost resembling organic beings
in delicacy of structure, by which were fabricated
products of world-wide reputation ; the powers of
matter, applied to given motion to that machinery,
were so far removed from what must have been the
conceptions of the semi-barbarians to whom he al-
luded, that they could not look on those things with
intelligent wonder. Yet that immense progress had
all been effected step by step ; nor was it in those
branches of natural knowledge only which tended
to improvements in economical arts and manufac-
tures that science had greatly advanced. In the
study of our own planet and the organic beings with
which it was crowded, and in so much of the uni-
verse as vision aided by the telescope had brought
within the scope of observation, the present century
had surpassed any antecedent period of equal dura-
tion. Though by no means the only one, yet an
important cause of the rapid progress of science was
the growth of associations for the promotion of
physical knowledge generally, or of special branches
of it. Since the foundation of the Royal Society,
now more than two centuries ago, a vast number of
kindred societies had sprung up in this country
and in Europe. The advantages conferred by
such societies were manifold. They enabled those
who were devoted to scientific research to combine,
compare, and check their observations ; they fur-
nished the means of submitting to a competent
tribunal notices and memoirs, and of obtaining
for their authors and others, through the medium of the
discussions which ensued, information given by those who
were best informed on the particular subject, on which a
sound judgment could be based as to whether it would be
worth while to prosecute the researches into that subject
still further. Those advantages and others which could be
named pertained to the association, the 36th meeting of
which they were that evening assembled to inaugurate, and
which from its intermit:cnt and peripatetic character en-
joyed opportunities of furthering its objects which belonged
to none of those societies which were fixed as to their locality.
Every votary of physical science must be anxious to see it
recognized by those institutions of the country which could
in the greatest degree promote its cultivation and reap from
it the greatest benefit. The principal educational establish-
ments on the one hand and on the other the Government,
in many of its departments, were, in his opinion, the insti-
tutions which might best fulfil those conditions. The earlier
the mind was trained to a pursuit of any kind the deeper
and the more permanent were the impressions which it re-
ceived.
‘, Quo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem
" Testa din."
Little could be achieved in scientific research without an
acquaintance with it in youth, and while upon that point
he might observe that he did not wish to make any com-
plaint of the tardiness with which science had been re-
ceived at our public schools, and, with some exceptions, at
our Universities. Those great establishments had their
roots in historical periods, and much time and patient en-
deavour were requisite to graft a new branch of thought
with success on a stem to which it was exotic. Nor
should he desire to see the study of languages, of his-
tory, of all those refined associations which the past had
transmitted to us, ever neglected. There was, however,
room for the two things. It was sad to think of the
number of so-called educated men, who, travelling by
railway, voyaging by steamboat, consulting the almanac for
the time of sunrise or full moon, had not the most elemen-
tary knowledge of a steam engine, a barometer, or a quad-
rant, while they wore in a state of crass ignorance as to the
cause of the trade winds or the form of a comet's path.
Might he hope that the slight infiltration of scientific studies
now happily begun would extend till it occupied its fair
space in the education of the young, and that those who
might be able learnedly to discourse on the digamma
would not be ashamed of knowing the principles of an air-
pump or a telescope, and would not, as Bacon had com-
plained in the case of his contemporaries, despise such
knowledge as something mean and mechanical. To assert
that the great Departments of Government should encou-
rage physical science might appear a truism, and yet it
was but of late that it had seriously been done. Now
the habit of consulting men of science on impor-
tant questions of national interest was becoming a re-
cognised practice, and a more definite sphere of usefulness
for those duly qualified men who might be content to give
up the•niore tempting study of abstract science for that of
its practical application, would, ho had no doubt, in time be
provided. In that respect the Report of the Kew Committee
for the present year afforded a subject of congratulation.
The Kew Observatory, the petted child of the BritishlAsso-
ciation, might posaibly become an important natiodna
low its
blishment, and if so, while it would not, he tru
character of a home for untrammelled
teorological Depart-
it would have superseded the Me
of skilful and ex-
ment of the Board of Trade with a staff physi.csalte research,
periencod observers. That was ono d otfhethloabroesuurlstsowf which
the general growth of science, and
British Association in particular,
rhea
ulp.raotdeuctehde;
sbsutoihale
ob-
did
not, on that occasion, intend to 13

bers of the Association, among others of Lord Rosse, Lord
Wrottesley, and Sir John Herschel, the two latter of whom
had devoted special attention to the orbits of double stars,
the first mentioned to those probably more recent systems
called nebula). There was, however, another class of ob-
servations, quite new in its importance, which had formed
a special subject of contribution to the reports of the As-
sociation--he alluded to those on meteorites at which their
lamented member, Professor Baden Powell, assiduously
laboured. It would occupy too much of their time to de-
tail the efforts of Bessel, Schwinke, the late Sir J. Lubbock,
and others, as applied to the formation of star charts, for
aiding the observations which Mr. Alexander Herschel,
Mr. Brayley, Mr. Sorby, and others were now engaged in
studying. As it was, there was evidence almost amounting
to proof that those meteors were comical bodies moving
in the interplanetary space by gravitation round the sun,
pear not to have the extent of empty space formerly nanewd someelem wouldenpterehfaepesntrionunuady.plaTniettes.uniTvherastevie
attri-
buted to it, but to be studded between the larger and more
view
g atvheu su as pa-
visible masses with smaller planets, if that term were por-

witted to be applied to meteorites. Observations were now
being made at the periods at which meteorsappeared in the
greatest numbers—at Greenwich by Mr. Glaisher, atCam-
bridge by Professor Adams, and at Hawkhurst by Mr. A.

Herschel. If, he might add, the same scrutiny were ap-
plied to other parts of the heavens as to the zone between
Mars and Jupiter, it would be no far-fetched speculation to
suppose that between the asteroids or bodies of a smaller
size than what were known as the ancientplanots, of which
instead of seven we now counted 88, and the meteorites,
bodies of intermediate size existed until the space occupied
by our solar system became filled up with planetary bodies
varying in size from that of Jupiter-1,240 times larger in
volume than the earth—to that of a cannon ball or even a
pistol bullet. Another half century would not improbably
enable us to ascertain that the now seemingly vacantinter-
planetary spaces were occupied by smaller bodies still which
had hitherto escaped notice, just as the asteroids had done
until the time of Olhers and Piazzi. But the evidence of
continuity as pervading the universe did not stop at tele-
scopic observation ; chemistry and physical optics furnished
us with now proofs of its existence. These meteoric bodies
which had from time to time come so far within the reach
of the earth's attraction as to fall upon its surface gave on
analysis metals and oxides similar to those which belonged
to the structure of the earth. M. Daubtee, too, as appeared
from a series of papers which he had recently communi-
cated to the French Academy, had succeeded in forming
from terrestrial rocks substances very much resembling
meteorites, so that a closer relationship, although by no
means identity, had been established between the earth and
those wanderers from remote regions. But while chemistry,
analytic and synthetic, thus assisted us in ascertaining the
relationship of our planet tometeorites, its relation in com-
position to other planets, to the sun, and to more distant
suns and systems, was demonstrated by another science—
optics. Chemical analysis by the spectrum, as well as
gravitation and physical constitution, pointed out to us
that matter had similar characteristics in other worlds
than our own ; but when we passed to the consideration
of those other attributes of matter which were now recog-
nised as forces or modes of motion, we found the evidence
of continuity still stronger. What were magnetism and
electricity ? forces so universal, so apparently connected
with matter as to be regarded as two of its invariable attri-
butes. So with light, heat, and chemical affinity ; it seemed
to him—though as he had taken an active part for a quar-
ter of a century in promoting that view, ho might not be
looked upon as an impartial judge—that it was nowproved
that all those forces were so connected inter se and with
motion that they must be regarded as modifications of each
other, and as resolving themselves objectively into motions
and subjectively into something which produced or resisted
motion, and which wo called force. He might perhaps be
permitted to recal to the notice of the meeting a forgotten
experiment 'which many years ago he had made et the Lon-
don Institution, and which appeared to him to be important
from the consequences to be deduced from it. A train of
multiplying wheels ended with a small metallic wheel,
which, when the train was put in motion, revolved with
extreme rapidity against the periphery of the next wheel,
a wooden one. In the metallic wheel was placed a small
piece of phosphorus, and as long as the wheels revolved
the phosphorus remained unchanged, but the moment the
last wheel was stopped, by moving a small lever attached
to it, the phosphorus burst into a flame. His object was
to show that while motion of the mass was con-
tinued heat was not generated, but that when arrested,
the force continuing to operate, the motion of
the mass became heat in the particles. The ex-
periment differed from that of Romford's cannon-
boring and Davy's friction of ice, in showing that there was
no heat while the motion was unresisted, but that the heat
was in some way dependent on the motion being impeded.
We had now become so accustomed to that view that when-
ever wo found motion resisted wo looked upon heat, elec-
tricity, or some other force as the necessary result. If
magnetism, as it was proved to be, was connected with the
other forces or affections of matter, it must be cosmical, and
not merely terrestrial. One of the most startling sugges-
tions, he might add, as to the consequence resulting from
the dynamical theory of heat was that of Mayer, to the
effect that by the loss of vis viva occasioned by friction of
the tidal waves, as well as by their forming, as it wore, a
drag upon the earth's rotatory movement, the velocity of
the earth's rotation must be gradually diminished, and
that thus, unless some undiscovered compensatory action
existed that rotation must ultimately cease, and changes
hardly calculable take place in the solar system. But our
sun, our earth, and planets were constantly radiating heat
into space ; so in all probability were the other suns, the
stars, and their attendant planets. What became of that
heat thus radiated into space ? If the universe had no
limit, and it was difficult to conceive one, there was an in-
cessant evolution of heat and light, and yet more was given
off than was received by each cosmical body, for otherwise
night would be as bright and warm as day. What became
of the enormous force thus apparently non-recurrent in the
same form? Did it move or contribute to move suns and
planets ? We were not in a position at present to solve the
question ; but he know of no problem in celestial dynamics
more deeply interesting, and wo might be no further re-
moved from its solution than the predecessors of Newton
were from the simple dynamical relation of matter to matter
which that potent intellect had .detected and demonstrated.
Passing from extra-terrestrial theories to the narrower field
of molecular physics, wo found the doctrine of correlation
of forces steadily making its way. In a practical point of
view, the power of converting one mode of force into
another was of the highest importance. At a moment
when the prospective exhaustion of our coalfields
somewhat prematurely, perhaps, occupied men's minds'
there was much encouragement to be derived from the know-
ledge that we could at will produce heat by tho expendi-
ture of other forces. Somecxperiments in electricity which
had been made by Mr. 'Wilde and Mr. Holz tended clearly
to show that by a mere formal disposition of matter one
force could be converted into another, and as we might at
no very distant day need for the daily uses of mankind
heat, light, and mechanical force, and find our present re-
sources exhausted, the greater the extent to which we
could invent new modes of conversion of forces the better
the prospect we should have of supplying that want. It
was:but a month from that time that the greatest triumph
of force conversion had been attained. The chemical action
generated by a little salt water on a few pieces of zinc now
enabled us to converse with inhabitants of the opposite
hemisphere of this planet, and "put a girdle round about
the earth in forty minutes." In physiology, again, very
considerable strides were being made by studying the
nto.
rela-
tion of organised bodies to external forces. The az
lhaobuorusr
mightw hichbea
tion of the chemical changes had h
approximatelym au
h ad
undergone
arrived
at the.
b_ey a ncrO:eeexea imuttofinb2ata'-1
ex-
ercise of dynamical force. In body, changed forms in matter indicatingdealing
question of the food
however, we must not confubsioitthe y
he
• of muscular force with
which gave permanent ca d
wt taken
athnetersiuobrj eet
The carnivore were, no doubt, r erqau requisites
ef for temporaryost powerfully
c activity.oi
chalois and gazelle had great
that which supplied its
stituted
temporary capcit?bfotr muscular exertion though their food
was
vegetable. That and many similar. classes of research
advantager
e m e
ntsof thattho
showed that in chemical inquiries,. as in other branches of
we were gradually reliev.ng ourselves of hypothe-
t
uit
while, on
tsiceawlne°emxiisgtho existences, which certainly t as
the
ed
requirements
they
theorist. The facts, also, which were made known to us
the ono hand, they
by geologica.l. inquiries,
afforded striking evidence of continuity, might, on the
other, owing to the breaks in the record, be used as argu-
ments against it. The physical breaks in the stratification
sometimes, no doubt, rendered it next to impossible to fairly
trace the order of succession of organisms by the evidence
afforded by their fossil remains. Thus, there were nine
great breaks in the Palreozoic series, four in the secondary,
aul 040 41 the tertiary, besides those between Paha-

E nihilo si crescere possent,
(Tum) fierent juvenes subito ex infantibus parvis,
E terraque exorta repente arbusta salirent ;
Quorum nihil fieri manifestum est, omnia quando
Paulatim crescunt, ut par est, semine certo,
Crescentesque genus servant."
—which might bo thus freely paraphrased, "You have
abandoned the belief in one primteval creation at one point
of time, you cannot assert that an elephant existed when
the first saurians roamed over earth and water. Without,
then, in any way limiting Almighty power, if an elephant
were created without progenitors, the first elephant must,
in some way or other, have physically arrived on this earth.
Whence did ho come ? did he fall from the sky (i.e., from
the interplanetary space)? did ho rise moulded out of a mass
of amorphous earth or rock ? did he appear out of the cleft
of a tree ? If he had no antecedent progenitors, some such
beginning must be assigned to him." He knew of no scien-
tific writer who had since the discoveries of geology had
become familiar, ventured to present in intelligible terms
any definite notion of how such an event could have oc-
curred ; those who did not adopt some view of continuity
were content to say God willed it; but would it not be
more reverent and more philosophical to inquire by obser-
vation and experiment, and to reason from induction and
analogy as to the probabilities of such frequent miraculous
interventions? lie knew he was touching on delicate
ground, and that a long time might elapsebefore that calm
inquiry after truth which it was the object of associations
like that to promote could be fully attained; but he
trusted that the members of the British Association were
sufficiently free from prejudice, whatever their opinions
might be, to admit an inquiry into the general ques-
tion whether what wo termed species were and had
been rigidly limited, and had at numerous periods
been created comple to and unchangeable, or whether, in some
mode or other, they have not grhually and indefinitely
varied, and whether the changes due to the influence of sur-
rounding circumstances, to efforts to accommodate them-
selves to surrounding changes, to what was called natural
selection, or to the necessity of yielding to superior force in
the struggle for existence, as maintained by our illustrious
countryman Darwin, had not so modified organisms as to
enable them to exist under changed conditions. The ques-
tion whether among the smallest and apparently the most
elementary forms of organic life the phenomenon of spon-
taneous generation obtained had recently formed the sub-
ject of careful experiment and animated discussion in France,
and the general opinion which was arrived at was that,
when such precautions were taken as to exclude from the
substance submitted to experiment all possibility of germs
from the atmosphere being introduced, no formation of
organisms took place. The balance of experiment might,
therefore, be fairly said to be against spontaneous genera-
tion. The progressive and more highly developed forms
were, at all events, so far as the most enlarged experience
wont to show, generated by reproduction. Nov, to suppose
a zoophyte the progenitor of a mammal would at first sight
appear to In au extravagant hypothesis, but the more the
gaps between species were filled up by the discovery of inter-
mediate varieties, the stronger became the argument for
transmutation, and the weaker that for successive creations
became. The former view, then, became more and more
consistent with experience, the latter more discordant from
it. Certain it was that the more wo observe the more we in-
creased the subdivision of species, and, consequently, the
number of those supposed creations to which he referred ; so
that the new creations became innumerable, and yet of those
we had no well authenticated instance, and in no other ob-
served operation of nature had we seen such a want of con-

tinuity as would be evidenced by those frequent per saltioa
deviations from uniformity, each of which was a miracle.
The doctrine of Cuv:er—every day more and more borne out
by observation —that each organ bora a definite relation to
the whole of the individual, seemed to support the view of
indefinite variation. If an animal sought its food or safety
by climbing trees, its claws would become more prehensile,
the muscles which acted on those claws must bacomo more
developed, and each portion of the frame would mould it-
self to its wants. Another series of facts which presented
an argument in favour of gradual succession were the
phases of resemblance to inferior orders which the embryo
passed through in its development, and the relations shown
in what was termed the metamorphosis of plants ; facts
difficult to be accounted for on the theory of frequent se-
parate creations, but almost inevitable on that of gradual
succession. There was, however, a difficulty in to way
of tracing a given organism to its parent form, which, from
our conventional mode of following up genealogies, was
never regar led in its proper light. Where were we to
look for the remote ancestor of a given form ? Each ono
among them, supposing none of their progenitors to have
intermarried with relatives, would have, at about the
period of the Norman Conquest, upwards of a hundred
million direct ancestors of that generation, and if the inter-
mediate ancestors were added, double that number. Let
any ono assume that one of his ancestors at the time of
the Conquest was a Moor, another a Colt, and a third a
Laplander, and that those three were preserved while all
the others were lost, he would never recognise either of
them as his ancestor ; he would only have the one hun-
drodth-millionth of the blood of each of them, and, as far
as they were concerned, there would be no perceptible
sign of identity of race. The recent discoveries in pale-
ontology showed that man existed on this planet at an
epoch far anterior to that commonly assigned to him.
The instruments connected with human remains, and
indisputably the work of human hands, proved that to
these remote periods the term civilisation could hardly bo
applied. A little step-by-step reasoning would convinco
the unprejudiced that what we called civ:lisation mast
have been a gradual process. If even now habit, and
prejudice resulting therefrom, vested interests, &c., re-
t'lrded for some time the general application of a new in-
vention, what must have been the degree of retardation
dhaardz,
uomf
ec
no
tusr s
oe,nbethenisambloesttoiinntdericeastetinognslyuba
ifert
among the comparatively uneducated beings which then ex-
isted
et
the e? briloao
for detailed results the works of Darwin, Hooker, Huxley,
Carpenter, Lyell, and others must be examined. If he ap-
peared to lean to the view that the successive changes in
organic beings did not take place by sudden leaps, it was,
he believed, from no want of impartial feeling. Perhaps the
most convincing argument in favour of continuity whichdiffi
could be presented to a doubting mind would be
tiht
at
culty it would feel representing to itself any per beholding an
e
of nature. Who would not bo astonished
saune act
oak tree spring up in a day, and not from seed or shoot ?
a law of nature,
If we were satisfied that continu
to explain why matter
might humbly confess our inabilitywasiPtyover then, though wo
to structural for-
mation,the true expression of Almighty
to look for special interventions of
we should
• "'ranges which were difficult to under-
stand,creative power in
c removed from us in time, their con-
comitants because, being
awe
lhe
.e npwhielofsooupnhdy a
oughtgap notto htarvye
should endeavour from
was impressed with this gradual tendency
were lost ; we their relics
liyond ethv ao
itsoepanins sense
nuolt
bullet
yhi eatllilienng beautiful was con-
to bridge
r dislikes, truth was her only aim; but if a glow of
necessary s
tsha re y
ground• ion Were permitted to a physical inquirer, to his
admiration wistiothrya, anntidr
inter-
relation and inter-action of each element of the cosmos,
to evoke
.tthoevirerh
changes the dynamical conditions of the universe, than
could be conveyed by
avvinneoi
mind
ledibdkysebstyf
hao
trehr
nceooonrrvedi
exquisiteec
mysteries, by convulsions, or by
cataclysms. But the doctrine of continuity was not solely
applicable to physical inquiries. The same modes of
thought which led us to sco continuity in the field of the
microscope as in the • in • '
universe, infinitydownwards as in
infinity upwards, would lead us to see it in the history of
our own race. By patient investigation how much had we
learnt which the most civilised of ancient human races ig-
nored ! But how much more might wo not expect to know ?
T hey assembled, ephemera as they were, had learnt by trans-
mitted labour to weigh as in a balance other worlds larger
and heavier than their own, to know the length of their
days and years, to measure their enormous distance from
the earth and from each other, to detect and accurately as-
certain the influence they had on the movements of our
world and on each other, and to discover the substance of
which they were composed ; might they not hope that simi-
lar methods of research to those which had taught them so
much might give our race further information until pro-
blems relating not only to remote worlds, but possibly to
organic and sentient beings which may inhabit them, pro-
blems which it might now seem wildly visionary to enun-
ciate, might be solved by progressive improvements in the
modes of applying observation and experiment, induction
and deduction ?