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London, England, 1868-02-14 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1868.

IFIIE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
11._ —Shares may be taken out daily at the Norfolk-street
offices, or Investors at a distance can be enrolled as mem-
bers by correspondence. Present rate of interest, five per
cent. per annum, payable in half-yearly warrants, with partici-
pation of any profits declared annually above that rate. 11/40
partnership liability, and power,of withdrawal of subscriptions
on shares at twenty-eight days' notice. The taking of land is
entirely optional.

_
CHARLES LEWIS GRLTNETSEN,
Secretary,
Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.

OR SHAM, DORKING, and LEATHER-
-1 HEAD RAILWAY COMPANY.—s otiee is hereby
given, that the next Orllinary Half-Yearly General
Meeting of this Company s4ili be held at the Company's
Offices, on Saturday, the 29th inst., at Three o'clock,
p.m., precisely, for the re-election of Directors, and for
the transaction of the general business of the Company.
The transfer books of the Company will be closed on
Monday, the 24th inst., and will remain closed until after
the meeting.

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Dv Order.
GEORGE; W. BROWN, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 28, Great George-street,
Westminster, Feb. 14, 1868.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

treme to the other, undermine their constitutons•
There is no danger whatever in training for a boat"
race, and none in the race itself, except it be in a
liability to be upset and drowned. We trust the
international college boat-race will be brought
about; and we shall be vel y glad if it can be rowed
upon the U udson or the Charles River.

THE FISHMONGERS' COMPANY.

ROYAL INSIITUTION.

Pro fessor Tyndall is now delivering a course of
experi 'nental lectures, every Tuesday and Thursday
aftcrni )on, on "The Discoveries of Faraday." In
the b Mures already delivered he has rapidly and
cienr:y taken his hearers over the ground of the
many a scoveries of Faraday in the phenomena of
electric' . induction, electro-magnetistu, and magneto-
ele.ctricik up to the construction of the powerful coil
machines .of the present day. As to what electricity
and mag net. 3m may be,.and what takes place in a
wire wh. m electricity travels through it, the
lecturer : said nothing ; for little is known
about the e mysterious forces, and all philo-
sophers can. do at present to unvail these secrets of
nature is to find out fresh phenomena and to mul-
tiply the nt, nabni of ascertained facts.. In many of
the experinter:ts Professor Tyndall employed a re-
markably e.ensitive galvanometer, which gave a
deflection when a single loop only of copper wire
was passed over a by no means powerful bar
magnet. To enable the audience to see the
movements of the little needle, the lecturer con-
densed upon it the rays from an electric lamp ;
a large lens was then placed above the
.galvano-
meter, au. enlarged image of which was thereby
thrown upon the screen, the upward direction
of the rztys being changed by means of a
mirror placed at an angle of about 45 degrees.
He a'so exhibited at work what is probably the
most powerful induction coil in England; it is the
property o; Mr. Gassiot, F.R.S., was made in Ame-
rica, and gives a spark nearly a foot long.' One of
the most carious experiments exhibited consisted in
filling a small tube of copper with fusible metal,
and causing it to spin round with great velocity
between the poles of a powerful elec ro-magnet,
which poles it did not touch. Copper so placed
has its rotation strangely retarded, as if surrounded
by cheese or butter, and the motion, overcom-
ing this invisible frictional agent, generates so
much heat in the copper tube that the
fusible metal inside is melted. Yesterday
afternoon Professor Tyndall exhibited many of
Faraday's discoveries in the decomposition
of liquids by the voltaic current. Last Fri-
day Professor Huxley, F.R.S., lectured on the
" Animals most intermediate between birds and
reptiles." He explained that he believed in the
doctrine of " evolution"—that is to say, that the
long action of causes now at work has alone created
the great differences in animrls which we see at the
present day. He then, by exhibitions of skeletons
and drawings, showed in what particulars every
living bird differs from every living reptile. He
next went back to the first great geological period
—a period so remote, he said, that man can
scarcely form an idea of its antiquity when com-
puted by our ordinary methods of measuring
time, and acknowledged that in this geologi-
cal period the same wide distinctions as at
the present day separated birds and reptiles. But,
going farther back, through another vast cycle of
ages, he showed that the one solitary bird found
belonging to that epoch has many strong reptilian
characteristics, including claws in its forelegs or
wings. The reptiles, of which there are numerous
remains, had many of them bones like those which
are now found only in birds, and never in reptiles.
As, then, some widely different animals converge in
anatomical structure the farther they are traced in
geological history, so, he concluded, similar animals
may diverge into dissimilar animals under na-
tural causes acting during vast periods of time.
Another course of lectures is now being given on
Saturday afternoons, by Professor Roscoe, on
" Chemistry."

Last evening the Prime Warden and the rest of
the wardens of this ancient guild entertained a select
guests
companyuest s
were at
adinnerbout 8i no their
is
number,corporate
aud hall.c rr
among others, Sir William Denison, K.C.Bl.u,dSeiciler,
Robert Montgomery, K.C.8., Mr. Baron Martin,
Baron Kubeck, Sir Harvey Bruce, M.P., Sir Wm.
Ferguson, Sir John Musgrove, Sir William Rose,
M.P., Alderman Cotton,
Alderman Lawrence,
Alderman Gibbous, the Master of the Merchant
Taylors' Company, the Master of the Ironmongers'
Company, Mr. Cecil. Trevor, of the Board of
Trade, Mr. Charles Durant, Mr. E. Eborall, and
Mr. James Grant. The. Prime Warden, (Mr.
Frazer B. Renshaw) occupied the chair, and dis-
pensed the hospitalities on the occasion. Several
distinguished personages, among others Lord Jus-
tice Cairns and Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
had accepted invitations, but afterwards excused
themselves—some on the ground of the re-assem-
bling of Parliament, and the entertainment in
consequence lacked much of the interest it might
otherwise have possessed. The dinner was served
with all the sumptuous hospitality for which the
company has long been famous. Sir H. Bruce, in
responding to the toast of " The House of Com-
mons," took occasion to say, in allusion to the
Fenian conspiracy, that the best thing that ever
happened to Ireland was that the danger of the
situation had been brought home to the doors of
Englishmen, and that there had been something for
them to look to in the state of the sister kingdom.
He urged them to do what was right and honour- i
able in the emergency, to rule Ireland with firm-
ness, with dignity, and without fear ; above all,
to avoid quacks. Mr. Baron Martin, replying to
the toast of " The Judges," which had been given
from the chair, said it was a gratification to him
to be able to speak of Sir William Page Wood,
a distinguished member ,of the Fishmongers'
Company, as he believed he deserved, and to say
that, taking the whole judicial bench, no man stood
higher. The Recorder of London, another member
of the company, he said, was held in public estima-
tion as high as a man could well be. Speaking of
himself, he said that it happened that he was two
years the senior of Sir William Page Wood, and
five years the senior of the oldest of the common
law judges, and it afforded him greatsatisfaction to
be received as a member of the judicial bench in
the manner he had been. Sir Robert Montgomery,
speaking to the toast of his health, dwelt upon the
magnificence of our Indian empire, and testified to'
the great advances the native community were
making in manufactures and commerce. The health
of the Prime Warden was proposed by Mr. Baron
Martin iu complimentary terms, and some other
toasts appropriate to the occasion were drunk,
especially that of the Corporation of London, with
which the name of Sir IVilliam Anderson Rose, Go-
vernor of the Irish Society, was associated.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Feb. 13.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
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