The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

LONDON, SATU t DAY EVENINO, J UNE 1:3, -

fl/ R. ALFRED- COXft(l.- a Furni•leti Man-
sion o
In a tine Park, near Gulldtord, Surrey, overlooking the
" Hogsback."—To he Let, for four or flee mon. hs, a Splendid Tudor
Mansion,
noble r,,ceptio , rooms, 20 beds, lsrge offices, stab'es, and
groudds ; 25 gifin as a-week.— apply to ,r.Alfreil Cox, Auctioneer
and Surveyor, Bond-street and Upper Laker-street. (Fo. 2,902.)

lig R. ALFRED COX offs r 4, in Upper I-11mq-
' ton-terra e, St. John's•wood, Unfurnished Semi-detached
Residence, containing nine bed rooms and two drts,inx ditto, library,
dining, draining, and breakfast r,otris; entrance hail and excellent
domestic 'offices; dry and elevated tituatton, garden.—For
further pa! tic,lArs apply to Mr Alfred rox; Eitate Agent, 61, New
Mond-street, and 2, Upper Baker-street. (.Fo. '2 776.)

NICE APARTMENTS, near Awime-road,
.itegenc.,-park, in Townsend-road, at' the pleasant Semi.
detached Residence of a quiet, el lerly Gentleman and Daaghtsr ;
saacions airy bed chamber and pleasant sltting',rootn, overlooking
large garden ; only ene guinea a-weak. Furniped, and inel /ding
attend/vice. —Agency ()dices, 61, New Bond-!fleet, W., 2, Upper
rake- street, N.W. (Fo 2,735.)
APARTMENTS near Avenue-Roal, Regent's-
in the !louse of a Lady umering in good gociety, and vale
can only tre-,t with a lady, or lady and gentleman. The rooms
recently v.catcd by a lady of tAtle,- who kept liar carriage: It is a
Detached House in a large g:.;rden, drawing room and bed room ; 2%
guineas a—veek.-11r. Aired COe, Estate Agent, New Boad.st,Tet,
W., or Upper linker-street, N.Fy. (Fo. 2,793.)

RAKER-STREET (n ar)—HOUSE and SHOP.
—To Milliners and Others.—The t ease and Fittings of Pre-
m's' s almost at a corner, in a good business street. !louse contains
I I rooms, good private entrance.. Terms 14 or 21 years (less
three.) - Particulars and orders to vitw obt iittab'e of Mr. Allred
Cox, 64, New Bond-street, W., and 2, Upper Baker-street, N.W.
(Fo. 2,771.)

/11 T., A NDFO RD-SQUARE.--Cheap Town
House. —1 Niel House of four hed and two pair of reception
rooms, ante-room and °file- s, to bo Let, Flainly Furnished,
fora i.w weeks or months, or till end of yeti% apprettorninal,teirms,,
the owner h!reing no' use for the ro idenete7-.-Anction and Estate
Aw.ney Oakes, il', New Band-street, 2, Upper Baker•street. (Fo.
',787.) ' -

r .ARGF, very. Chem HOIISE in DORCHES-
:LA TE.154.14.0!..'. 4 • t.; tWate---14.rirnLed; viz., 8 bed, 4
sitting', 2 kitateeirsPiel-41 Or Sttnrl'Llithse. • Alp An ad,
Join‘nz-Iltiuse,•of ditm • size, £7OO bath soundly lin.fltrVut in
good repair.— r. Alfred Cox; Auctioneer and SUrveyor, Boiid:street,
and Upper Baker-street. .(P0i?2,789;) is
I, • • • ,

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MIDDLESEX=PLACE, New-rood, near. the
Edgware-Road.—Most se,-..cof UNFURNISHED
APARTMENTS, in 'a house where no ot4rsgegera *re received,
comprising first and se,ond floors, attic and kiteireri ; PU of good size,
and in the best" Ctiler: Rent, €5O a-year. Apply to 'Mr. Alfred
Cox, Estate Agent, 2, Upper Baker-street, WM. ; 64, New Bond-
street, W. (2,770) • : ,
ATOTTING-HILL, Lansdowne-r4ad near St.
John's clifirch.=A FURNISHED RES! D'ES'CE for a few
Months .4 4 bed and:l dre.*slng-room, lavatm% dining and drawing-
rooms, good offices ; occupants have . privilege g(pitres into Orna-
m.-ntal Pleasure Grounds of-ome extent.---For arldieis apply.to.,Mr
Alfred Cox, New Bond-street, and Upper Baker- str`ce4.- (P04,781..)'
•
1-PAYSW HOUSEATER.—,FURNISHED OIISE
A('ART +IE NTS In I:ayswater, ilereford-road, North :West
bourn e-grove-CEleven-roona-d, pleasantly situated,'rvelt4,-)Faidll:'.:
Two to three-and-a- half gu•neas a-week, for twsior threeke r
yearly ;Lattenlance if requlr6l. Estate and 'Agency tottle
Bond-street; 2, Upper Baker-street. (2,736) t;st
31 R 2 ALFRED COX. offers APARTMENTS,
Hyde-park, well furnished, consisting of agind-iilz-d dining
room, and tWo capital Weeping-rooms, in Allslon-Areet ; accessible
to all partB f town, while one of the most ,fasbiortable
£2 a-week, for a year—Apply to Mr. Alfred Cox, AuctlOneer, Boud-
street, and Upper Baker-street. (Fo. 2,734.) •
. I
MR: ALFRED COX offers' APARTM TS
in Stoke Newington, overlooking Abney Park Ceti*
hind, and Nevrington-green, towards Upper Clapton, Infrrt.. • m. -

ing-ronm and twdiromr, in a nice terrace houve. IN. 255.

—Mr. Alfred '2ox, Estate Agent, 64, New Bond-street; 2,7
Baker-btreet. (2,798.)

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_ .
r 3 RI NCE A LBERT ROAD, NEW NATION 41,
• GALLERY.—In this delightful and-desirable neighbourtroW
Altr. TO BE LET or. SOLD several select and elegantly finish6d
Res,dences; their architectural display is of the highest order, and
the internal arrangements are everything that can .possibly be de-
sired; in size they are rusted for the occupancy of both the,Noble-
man and Gentleman, and the study of comfort-has been the chief
object of the ly.ilder: This now most fashi •nable part of London
renders the locality of these buildings undeniable, being contiguous to
Kensington-gardens, with its beautiful walks, And Hyde-park, with
its rides and drives :• added to which the salubrity of the air of Ken-
strgtort-gore is prover,,lal, and considered by the faculty the most
healthful in the vicinity of the metropolis. Apply at the Office, 1,
Prince Albert-Road, South Kensington.

A WIDOW LADY, . thoroughly.. acquainted
1-31. with the routine of Housekeeping', &c., is desirous of an en-
gagement as Domestic Companion to a t ady or Gentlemtm, or to
take charge of Two or Three Children, where one or more servants
are kept. A comfortable home the chief consideration. The Lady
is at-present in the country, but references in and near town will be
given.—Address Q.Z , 4, f•lse-lane, E.C.

PLAISTOW AND VICTORIA DOCK
MISSiON.—A. General Meeting, in furtherance of the ob-
jects of the abeve Mission, will be hell, (DX.) OR WEDNESDAY,
the 17th of-tune, at halt-past 2 o'clock, at Rokeby House, on the
south side of Stratford Church.
The l:0,1D BISHOP OF LONDON will preside.

Tickets to bb had on application to the Rev. A. J. Hann, Vicarage,
West Ham ; the Hev. R. W. B. Marsh, Plaistow; the Rev. A. W.
Masnn. Stratford Green; or Antof,io Brady, Esq., Maryland Point,
Stratford ; by either of whom Subscriptions and Donations to the
M 1 sion will be thankfully received.

PLAISTOW AND VICTORIA DOCK
MISSION.
The promoters of the above Mission will feel deeply grateful to
any CI, rgymeii who will kindly advocate the claims of the im-
portant cause they have undertaken, either In the pulpit or among
their friends.

...-..-,.
The sphere of the Mission Is in a filthy town lately built and ra-
pidly extending, in an undrained- swamp adjoining the Thames,
seven feet Selow high water mark. The poor inhabitants have con-
tributed most liberally of their penury, and it is earnestly desired to
enlist the sympathy of the rich West towards this attempt to raise
the spiritual, social, and physical condition of their brethren in this
poor and neglected district, in the extreme East of London. The
Bishop Is to select the Clergy.
Full particulars of the Mission will thankfully be given (on appli-
cation) by the Rev. 11. W. B. Marsh, Incumbent of Plaistow; the
Rev. Alfred W. Mason, Secretary, Stratford-green, E.; or by An-
tonio Brady, Esq., Treasurer, Maryland-point, Stratford, E.

From the London Gazette of Last Night

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 13.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
Levee at St. James's Palace, on Thursday the 18th of
June next, at two o'clock.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 13.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
Drawing-Room at St. James's Palace, on Tuesday, 23rd
June next, at two o'clock.
CRO WN-OFFICE, JUNE 11.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
gARLI AMENT.
County of Kerry —Henry Arthur Herbert, of Muckross,
in the county of Kerry, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JUNE 11.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a
despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Madrid, transmit-
ting a translation of a Royal Order, a copy of which is
subjoined, respecting errors in ships' manifests.
" If on • comparing the manifest with the certificate
given by the Consul, it should appear exact, it shall be so
expressed, the accountant affixing the date and putting
his signature. If a difference should appear, the collector
shall exact from the captain, or master, or in his
absence, from the ship's owner, or from the legally
recognised consignee, the amount of duty on the
goods contained in each bale, which being found
on board, is in excess of the manifest, and a surcharge
equal in amount to these duties to be distributed between
the Treasury and the officers who make the discovery ;
but if the difference should consist in a lesser amount
being found on board than are manifested, there shall
be exacted from the captain, or in his default from the
owner or consignees, the duties corresponding to the
goods expressed in the Consular certificate, and a surcharge
of double these duties, to be divided between the Treasury
and the officers making the discovery.
"This regulation shall be always applied when the goods
which the bales contain, or ought to contain, are of lawful
commerce, but with the exception of luggage when not
subject to duty, and of the goods belonging to the crew of
the vessel, the value of which does not exceed 1,000 reels
(10/.), for each individual.
" Whenever in cargoes of coal or any other merchan-
dise in bulk, the bill of lading, the declaration of the con-
signee, and tbo result of the search, should agree, but a
difference in excess or default should appear in the mani-
fest, a fine shall be exacted from the Captain equivalent
to the difference between the merchandize expressed in
the manifest., and those which would correspond to the
quantity declared in the Consular certificate.
"If the goods in which a difference results be prohi-
bited, the same penalties shall be enforced as are estab-
lished for errors between what is expressed in the manifest
and what results from the search."
WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 12.
" ROYAL ARTILLERY. _

Brevet-COlonel John Wray Mitchell to be Colonel, vice
Cater, retired on full pay.
Captain Richard Blackwood-Price to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, Vice Mitchell.
Second Captain Edward Eldon Robert Dyneley to be
Captain, vice Blackwood-Price.
Lieutenant Robert James Cairnes to be Second Captain,
vice Dyneley.

Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at,
Westminster, has appoiuted the following Perpetual Com-
missioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to bs
executed by married women, under the Act passed for the
abolition of fines and reCoveries, and for the substitution
of more simple modes of assurance :
John Miller, Bristol, fer the county of Somerset.
Willians Ormond, SWindon, for the-county ocf

• NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. i
• Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
• • Admiralty, Somerset-house, Juno 8, 0:57.
Notice is hereby given, to all parties interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the ilien led dis-
tribution of proceeds
'area to the merchant veserMary Pleasant, by her Ma-
arisinSg from the salvage services ren-
dered
ship Leopard, I.Ktwean the I.lth .and-17th •Noveunher.
18.7:5; and from the slave vessel,.narne unknown, cap,Ured
on the 19th October, 1?55, by her Majesty's slip Plumper.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, -unliquida.,ted, against the said proceeds, are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
gistraryf the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may he examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer,
and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said
Court.

Agents and all other persons holding powers of attor-
ney, prize orders, msigninents, pr other instruments, by
virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the
abate belonging to any captor, aro requested, with as little
delay ai possible, to transmit the MU" accgrapanied by
the usual documents, to the Prize Br inch oNhe Deput-
ruept of the "_Accountaut-General 9f the Nagy, Admi-
ralty, Somerset-house,"
Due notice will be given, by future advertisetnents in
t4ie London Gazette, of the date proposed for the eemtnenee-
ment of distribution; and at the same time, the amount
of an iudividual'e share ih the respective classes will be
announcAl.

.18 a 7.

TRIA L WORKS AT PA RI3 111, TILE APP LI CA•
TION OF TOWN MANURES TO AG_RICUL•
VIRAL PRODUCTION.

On 'Wednesday there was a special attendance of mem-
bers and visitors at the Royal Agricultural Society to hear
read by: 111 r. Edwin Chadwick, C. 8., a translation of a re.:
rerrt, made by commissioners in P:iris, on some trial
works, to determine the applicability of liqui:ied town
manure to•varins species of coinmercial and other p'a'cts ;
--Raymond 'Marker Esq., in the chair. Amongst those
present were the Earl of Essex ; the lion. •H. T. French,
vice-president and delegate of the United States Agricul-
tural Society ; M. ale Tr-honnais, Professor of Agriculture
in Prance ; the Msyor of Salisbnry; Mr. Fisher Hobbs ;
and otziaal_ eminent foreign as welt as English agricul-

tut i=ts.
Mr. CHADWICK-I.n accordance with my promise to the
Council, I now submit to the meeting the-translation of a
report, made by eminent comtnissiotters in' Paris, on tral
works to test the applicability of liquified town imoitire to
agricultural IToduction; and in doing so I need n )t enlarge
middle importance of the question involved, whether the
whole of the excreta of the metropolis and of millions of
our toils populations shall be retained to decompose, and
evaporate and wa-te within houses or beneath the sites of
towns, poll*iting the air at the expense of many thousands
of lives, ant, I tvid. add, at the expense also of millions of
money, the cost .of excessive and preventable sickness,
premature disability, lost labour, and excessive nv.rtality ;
or whether • tat mass a of fertilising matter n tw to be se-
moved trona beneath dwellings by means of improved
drainage wort*, shall be thrown into the Thames and
other rivers, there to be worse than wasted. I beg lessvW,
however, to preface-the reading of the report with some
explanatory per.soird statements as to its antecedsmts, in
order to justify myself against any impression of
an
runauthorised intrusion . and in justification of
representation. which I felt it due ho make at Pali&
Being one of the international jury at the great exposi-
tion there, charged with the class of subjects in relation to
Hygiene; and being also named as ono of a special commit-
tee of the Society of Arts to examine. and report on thenew
works recently constructed there, and to point out which
of them might be recommended as applicable to London,
without undervaluing the new architectural anddecorative
arts, I thought I should best be enabled to meet the ingni
ries of my colleagues of the section in Hygiene, and best
aid the society's mission, by examining the works beneath
the new surface structures, by looking at the condit.on of
the poorer districts, and at the new works professedly for
the sanitary relief of the population. With the Enginem in
Chef, with whom I was pnt'incommunicatiou, Ides,:en•ied
into and examined the latest an I the largest new sower,

the Sewer Sebastopol, and I saw there constructions such
as many of those recently executed in London, though not
quite so unskilfully—such as the great Victoria-street
sewer, works of certain enormous coat, aad probable good
profit to theconstructors, but, as I considered, of no equi-
valent benefit to the population of the houses by which they
passed—and this was a matter of actual experienoe--werks
even of probable injury from the increase of foul gaseous
evaporations, and of very certain grievous additions to the
local taxation. Within the metropolis generally the air of
the houses was foetid, the population being oppressed by
the presence, and the waste by decomposition and evapo-
ration of the materials of the richest production, the im•
mediate and constant removal, and direct application of
which would give to theadjacent land the aid and fertility
of which it is susceptible and in need ; and the extent of
the need of the agriculture there may be judged of by
the fact reported on examinations and verified by
agriculturists, that, with all the advantages of soil
and climate, the yield of wheat in the department of the
Seine; and indeed throughout France, does not average
more. than thirteen bushels an acre, that is to say,
about one-half of that old ordinary yield which my friend
Mr. Mecki, and others, are denouncing, and by crops of

fifteen bushels an acre and more, are prO;ing to be arriere,
and discreditable to our agriculture in England. Now, as
to the means of relieving the population from the oppres-

sion of the flexions evaporation from wasting manure per-
vading their habitations, which, in its effect, is far more
dire than any political oppression to which they can be
subjected. In my report of 1842, on the general sanitary
con !ition of the population of Great Britain, I held forth
that what— addressing agriculturists—l must call the ac-
cumulation and mote of manure within habitations might

b prevented,—that for the constructions which accumulate
it,—cesspools, house drains of deposit, and sewers of de-
posit, which are only extended cesspiol.,—solf-cleansing
soibpan apparatus and tubular drains might be substituted
at .a less annual rate of expense than farmers even could
fetch the manure, empty the cesspools, and at au expense
less than that of annually cleansing ehe cesspool and the
sowers of deposit, and of removing annually by any means
the residue of that' manure, —two-thirds of the fertilising

matter of which, according to chemic d evideeco, is no;
'Wasted by its retention during the year ami•ist habit ~tion'.
In large blocks of buildings, old as well as naw, that pro-
mise h .s been realised, and it is now in the course of reali-
sation in nearly one hundred of our provincial towns, at a
rate indicated by the manufacture of tabular branch
sewers and house drains, of which 50 miles a week are
made at Lambeth,—each mile serving, as far as I can esti-
mate, for between one and two thousan 1 of population.
On a view of the condition and construction at Paris, I en-

tertained an equally strong conviction that the enormous
waste of manure—s 'mit within the city— might be pre-
vented, and its complete and immediate removal and the
relief of tho population effected by the like self-acing con-
structions, at less than the annual charge of cleansing the
cesspools and removing the wasted residue which, I was told
upon official authority, was 4,000,000 francs per annum ; or
say about 4f. per head of the population. Undoubtedly, the
work of the immediate removal of the manure in the state
best fitted for its immediate application is generally accom-
plished by our new works for a loss expense than that.

It will bO in the recollection of those present on the oc-
casion of our deputation, that after the answer to our ad-
dress had been given, his Majesty did me the honour to
ask me my opinion of the new works in progress in Paris.
I (teemed it my duty to declare to him frtukly, but respect-
fully, the facts as I found them ;—that, whilst all was fair
above, all was foul beneath. I said this because, whilst
from 60 to 70 per cent. of the houses in London have with-
in them those poison pits, the cess-pool, in Paris the cess-
pool system is universal, and maintained within private
premises, and formed under aggravated conditions within
the precincts of new and fine outside architectural construc-
tions. I submitted, as worthy of his Majesty's notice,
what has been done in the model dwellings in London,
where epidemics have been almost entirely banished—as
they have, indeed, in many of the common lodging-houses
and dwelliugs of old coustruction,—and the death-rates
kept downlteadily at 13 in a thousand ; the average death-
rate in all London being about 23 in a thousand, whilst in
all Paris, with the advantages of a superior position and
climate, the death-rates are 23 and 30 in a thousand ; the
excess in Paris being due, as I consider, chiefly, to the
greater predominence of the cesspool and low Fan i t ary con-
ditions, offensively per:3eptible to the senses, even in the
houses of the highest class, and which at certain seasons of

the year make some quarters if Par is positively uninhabit-
able to those who can get away. On these fists I felt
warranted in observing, as I did most sincerely and respect-
fully, that it had been said that Augustus found Rome of
brick and left it of marble, but that his Majesty, the Empe-
ror of the French, would do far more for his people, if, find-
ing Paris stinking, he left it sweet. This I stated might be
accomplished with the less difficulty, from the narrow
area, on which the population was massed, the houses
being what I termed perpendicular streets. Paris, too,
is most favourably situated for the immediate application
of sower or liquified manure to agricultural production. I
submitted to his notice, as deserving of special attention,
the works in progress for the abolition of cess-pools in the
greater number of those of the English • towns which are
under the Public Health Act ; and one town in particu-
lar, where the question of the prevention of the pollution
of rivers, and the application of sewerage to agricultural
production, the sanitary question, and the inoffensive uti-
lisation of the manure, would, in disinterested, unpreju-
diced, and competent examination, be found to be practi-
cally resolved in a manner, peculiarly applicable to the
climate and much of the soil of France. His Majesty re-
ceived these and other repreientatious to the like purport
with that attention which he is so well known to give to all
measures of valuable promises for the improvement of the
great mass of the population. I disclaimed any credit for
my own partial recommendations of that system, of which
Dr. Lyon Playfair (who was intimately conversant with
its initiation), at the society's meeting, where the subject
was last discussed, declared me to be the author ;—ell I
asked was, for the impartial examination of the works al-
ready in operation, by his Majesty's own competent officers.
I, at the same time, submitted to his Majesty that thenew
mode of liquified manure culture was peculiarly suited to the
small farms of France, and stated for examination instances
of adorable and threefold production obtained on small farms
in England of only twenty-five acres or ton hectares in
extent. At a subsequent special audience, I Ire ented to
him Mr. G. IL Walker, the owner of the lauds irrigated
with the sewerage of Rugby, that his Majesty might
put his own questions on the important operations con-
ducted there, as he did most closely, when he appe fired to
be somewhat surprised by the assurance . f the new and
comparatively inoffensive condition in eshich he se.ver-
age was now discharged from the new tab filar sewers
an .I drains from the houses of that towr, waere all cess-
pools are abolished, and the entire ioutlensiveneas of
the application of the fertilising matter to the lands in
the immediate vicinity of dwellings. The Prefect of the
Seine was present at the audience, when he showed that
the examination of the new Englishl work., which I recom-
mended, had not been neglecte I; and it appeared that
although those works were only in partial operation at the
time the examinations were made, the reports were highly
favourable. I found, indeed, that the forms in operation
in England, under the system of liquified manure cultiva-
tion which I have promoted, had been examined by Mons.
Leonce de la Vergne, by Professor Moll, and by others,
and that the principle of culture, as well as the practice,
had their emphatic confirmation and recommendation for
adoption, as well as that of Count Gaeparin, the most
scientific agriculturist perhaps in Europe. Under these
I circumstances I recommended the adoption of trial works,
near Paris itself, that French agriculturists might form
their own opinions on visible experience, and this measure
was approved. The prefect, however, objected, owing to the
practical difficulty of obtaining land for any extent of trial
in the immediate vicinity of Paris. Having paced some of
the ramparts, the earthworks of which comprehend, as I
guessed, more than a thousand acres, I pointed them out
as being eligible for the purpose or as better than none;
and, such as they were, I ventured to promise that on the
principle of culture I proposed, the milk of at least one
teiditioeal cow per acre 'night be obtained for the use of
Park. On the motion of M. Dumas, the eminent chemist,
and member of the Institute, a sum of money for the trial
works was voted by the Municipal Council, and the direc-
tion of the trials was confided to Prof. Moll, the director of
Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, at Paris, himself a prac-
tical agriculturist, and the writer of an elementary treatise,
which is popular in Belgium as well as in France, and to M.
Mille, Engineer-in-Chief of the Pouts etChanseees. It is the
first report of these commissioners which, I now submit,
1 and I do
the
believing it to be of peculiar interest on ac-
count of the application of town manures to a wide range
of culture, including many plants, to which, so far as I am
aware, its application has not before been made or observed.
I must, however, premise farther, that the manure applied
in the field works at Paris, though comprising the matters
()hied), discharged in sewers, was not in the condition which
I have contemplated as sewer manure; it being old, and,
therefore, decomposed manure, taken from the cesspools
where it has been retained for weeks and months, and often
beyond a year, during which time it has undergone a