The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES,
with New Costumes and v irlous Novelties, Tocal and Ch 1.
racteristic, every evening (except ,aturday) at Eight ANI OR ST-
ING PER FOR 1,1 ANC E every SA. r URD AY. at Three. Private Boxes
and Stalls may be secured, without extra charge, at the Box-office,
P v Iranhic-h K inz William-street, Charing-cross. The hall has
been entirely redecorated.

PRINCESS'S CONCERT and BALL-ROOMS,
Castle-street, Oxford-street under then anagement of Mr.
FRA MPTON, late of the York-road, Lambeth. Mr. F. intends giving
a series of Rails every T HMISDAY Evening, commencing on Thurs-
day next, Jan. Bth. Lady's Ticker, 2s. 6d ; Gentleman's, 3s 6d.
Dancing to commence at 10 o'clock. A new Cafe will be opened for
refreshments.

RGYLI, ROOMS.-LA (TRENT'S CASINO,
Great Windmill-street, St. James's.—The above elegan
looms are now open every evening for the winter season, with
aurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M.
oulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that Ors
fashion Able place ot resort ha. been entirely redecorated during the
recess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. • Admis-
•on • ine

aAR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM,
4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen
nIY) from 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models
.nd preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in
ealth and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12,
', 4, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. SEXTON, F.R.G.S. ; and a new end
oghly-interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery
y Dr. KAntr, at a quarter past 8 p.m. nrecisely. Admission. One
Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan
(gratis).

GORDON CUMMING, the LION HUNTER,
will be AT HOME in his Encampment, surrounded by the
spoils and trophies of his achievements, and give his popular ENTER-
TAINMENT, describing his ADVENTURES in the Interior of
SOUTH AFRICA, every evening throughout the week, at R o'clock.
A SPECIAL AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE cn SATURDAY, at
Three o'clock. Several important ad itions and embellishments have
been made to the Hunter's Museum, and three new views—illustra-
tive of 0-trich Hunting in the Karoo, the Death of the Giraffe. and
Vultures on their Prey in the Desert—painted by Samuel Hodson,
added to the series of Dioramic Scenes. The Lion Hunter's native
Bushmen will appear incidental to the Entertaiinment. Piano by
Mr. Harries Wilson. Admission, Is. ; area, 25.; stalls (which may
be taken daily between eleven and four), 35.-232,

INVESTMENTS in BRITISH MINES.—FuII
particulars of the most important Dividend and Progressive
Mines will be found in the Fourth Edition of BRITISH MINES
CONSIDERED AS AN INVESTMENT, recently published by J.
11. MURCHISON, Esq., F.G.S., F.S.S., price 3s. 6d.; by post 4s.
Mr. MURCHISON also publishes a QUARTERLY REVIEW of
BRITISH MINING, giving the position and prospects of the Mines
at the end of each quarter, the dividends paid, &c.
The Review for the quarter ending 30th Sept. last contains a Map
of the Bassett district, price Is.
"The book will be found extremely valuable."—Observer.
" A valuable little book."—Globe.
" A valuable guide to investors."—Herapath.
"A useful little volume."—Morning Herald.
" Of great value to capitalists."—Sunderland Times.
" Parties requiring information on mining investments will find no
better and safer instructor than Mr Murchison."—Leeds Times.
" One of the most valuable mining publications which has come
under our notice, and contains more information than any other on
the subject of which it treats."— Derby Telegraph.
" To those who wish to invest capital in British Mines, this work
is of the first importance."—Welshman.
" This work enables the capitalist to invest on sound principles ; it
is, in truth, an excellent guide "—Plymouth Journal.
Copies of the above publications can be obtained at Mr. Murchison's
offices, 117, Rishopsgate-street Within, London ; and reliabb- infor-
mation and advice will be given at any time to those who may re-
quire it.

CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West
Brompton.—Secretary's, Office, 167. Piccadilly.—This Institu-
,ion has been eqablished excluiively for the treatment of the poor
smicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167,
Piccadilly, on Twsdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted
at the Brompton Estalishment, for one month. and for a longer
period if recommended by the edical officers. The number of per-
,ons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for
the last three years about 400 cases each ear. Since the inundation
of this Hospital in 1651, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every
,orm of this dr,adful malady, have received the benefits of this
Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa-
tion connected with the InstituVon may be obtained on application
to the Secretary. Contributions to ena;ile the Committee to continue
this reat work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be
paid to William Loxham Farrar, E,q., the Treasurer. 66, Lincoln's-
inn-fields; Messrs. Cou'as and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's
Offices, 167, Piccadilly.

By order.

W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary.

1? OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
gl.; Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828.
The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re-
commendation is required.
During. the past month the following number received the benefits
of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal
,pplication:—

Week ending 7th November 2.154
Ditto 14th November.. •• • • 2,043
Ditto 21st November.... • • 1,972
Ditto 28th November.. .•
29th and 30th November. 269

in N .... • • 8,
of wh:ch 2,775 were new cases,ov theember remainder (5ti11747 under treat-
ment) having been admitted previously.
The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the
patients.

ifeavy expenses are inevitably incurred in affording such exten-
sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of
.he public.

The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors,
yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual
General Meeting in January, A Board is held every Thursday, at
o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business,
when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at
all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation.
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun-
tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the freastu er,
John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts
and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ;„ Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ;
Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ;
Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Ber-
ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital.
Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received.
By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman.

THE INCOME TAX AGITATION.

On Saturday a meeting of the vestry of St. Marvle-
bone was held at the Court-house ; J. A. Nichelab
Esq., churchwarden, in the chair.
Mr. TAVERNER, in a short speech, moved the following
resolution :—" That the vestry petition parliament, and
adopt such other measures as they may consider neces-
ary for the repeal of the acts of parliament which
increased the property and income tax from 7d. to Is. 4.i.
i❑ the pound, and for obtaining a more equitable assess•
ment of the tax upon tradesmen and professions, or a
total repeal of the same, and to appoint a committee to
co-operate with other metropolitan parishes, for the
purpose of obtaining the object in view."
Mr. SIMCOCS seconded the resolution.

Mr. BRIDGMAN objected to the vestry being made an
arena for the discussion of political subjects, as they
had been elected to carry out mere parochial and local
matters.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., said he did not so much
object to the property tax, but he considered the
tax on income a most shameful proceeding. Whilst
be was in favour of the vestry aiding the movement for
getting rid of the income tax, he would at the sams
time urge them, as he had recently done a large public
meeting of his own constituents, not to be content with
the mere repeal of the-e taxes, but also to keep a watch-
ful eye over the Government expenditure, and insist on
the same economy being now renewer! which had begun
to exist shortly before the late war broke out. (Hear,
hear.) If this were done, in a short time they might
expect a reduction of taxation.
Mr. JACOB BELL said that the income tax was of that
most unjust and oppressive character that it was utterly
impossible that it could find any defenders. 116 noped
that the people of Mtryleboite-wOuld be fully alive to
the subject, and that when the public meeting was held
the demonstration would be an unmistakeable one.

The resolution, on being put, was carried unanimously.
Mr. TAVERNER then moved that the following gentle.
men be appointed as the committee to co-operate with
other metropolitan parishes, and to draw up a petition
to Parliament, and present the same for approval at the
next vestry, viz., Mr. Jacob Bell, Mr. Taverner, Mr.
Soden, Dr. Russell, Mr. D'lffanger, jun., Mr Gliddon,
Mr. Freeth, Mr. Head, Mr. Suncock, and Mr. Wing-
field.
The resoulution was carried.

A meeting was held on Friday at the Corn Exchange,
Stowinarket, Suffolk, to protest against the present
income tax. The Rev. C. Hill presided, and stated that
Mr. H. S. Waddington, M.P. fur West Suffolk, who
was unable to be present, had offered to present any
petition which the meeting might adopt. Resolutions
aitainst the tax were agreed to, and also a petition to
Parliament. Capt. Bennett. the other M.P. for %Vest
Suffolk, expressed his read,nes4 to support the petition,
and stated tint, from what had fallen from Admiral
Berkeley, at Gloucester, he did not believe the Go.
vernment intended to continue the present tax.

At,a public meeting of the inhabitants of Abingdon,
held in the Shire Hall, which was attended by the
Mayor (in the chair) and a large number of direct tax-
payers, the following resolution relative to the income
tax was carried unanimously. The resolution, which
was proposed by Mr. Stacey and seconded by Mr.
Dickey, is as follows : " That the present enormous
charge of sixteenpence in the pound on incomes and pro-
perty is, from the mode of assessntent, most oppressive
and unjust, and as the understanding at the time of pass-
ing the acts of Parliament by which the tax was increased
was, that they were to continue one year after the ter-
mination of the war, and no longer, the meeting is of
opinion that those acts of Parliament ougbt to be repealed
from and after the sth day of April next." Mr. J. Kent
proposed, "That the meeting adopt a petition against
the tax to the House of Commons, and that Major Reed
be requested to present and support the same." This
resolution was carried.

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.

The angry spirit in which the election contest has been
carried on here is beginning to display itself in acts of
personal violence. On Saturday the magistrates were
engaged in adjudicating a case between two officials of
the corporation, one of them of high rank. Both had
quarrelled so violently in the public street about the elec-
tion that one sought to bind the other to keep the peace.
The justice room was crowded with political partisans,
who made the place an election arerth. Mr. Falvey, tie
stamp distributor, is still suspended from exercising his
functions. The Beard of Inland Revenue are acting
under an Act of Parliament, which prohibits its officers
from persuading any one to give, or dissuading any one
from giving, his vote at an election in word, message, or
writing. The penalty for so doing is 1001. and disquali-
fication from serving her Majesty. In 1852 and in 1853
Mr. Falvey was solicited by Sir Alexander Cockburn to
speak in his behalf just previous to the elections in three
years, and he was solicited also a short time since by
Mr. Edwin, James, the barrister, to speak in his
favour. But those eminent lawyers were of opinion
that a person in the civil service could speak at
such times, because the constitution recognised
no election going on until a writ was issued,
nor were there any candidates or voters known in law
before tilt re was a vacancy in Parliament. As soon as
a writ was issued and a nomination took place, then
employes in the civil service were muzzled, and soldiers
were confined to their barracks. The men who professed
to be candidates before an election were regarded simply
as persons bidding for popular applause. Mr. Falvey,
as a per- onal friend of Mr. Andrews, has been chiefly
engaged in defending the personal honour and consist-
ency of that gentleman, which have been assailed by his
former political friends in the warfare consequent on the
disruption of the Liberal party. Mr. Weguelin, who
throughout the contest has acted in the most kind and
courteous manner to all parties, is much mortified that
Mr. Falvey bas incurred the displeasure of the board
whose servant he was.

Mr. Andrews professes to be not at all dismayed at
the unfavourable opinion of his Parliamentary qualifica-
tion entertained by Lord Palmerston. He says
that, when he ceased to be a journeyman, a similar
opinion of his capabilities for a master coachbuilder
was expressed by his brother tradesmen ; and he
says also that he is rather glad than otherwise that
his lordship has sided with Mr. Weguelin, because
he shall now have the honour of beating the Pre-
mier and the Governor of the Bank of England. He is
throwing his whole energy into the contest, canvassing
by day and addressing the electors at night. He has
scarcely an organised committee, and has no recognised
legal adviser. The workmen canvass one another for I
him at meal times and after they leave work. The
state of the constituency is such that it is impossible to
say who is likely to ge: in at present. The writ, it is
expected, will be issued the 4th of next month. On
Monday next there is to be a meeting of the friends of
Mr. Andrews, when the name of the person who in-
formed against Mr. Falvey to the Board of Inland Re-
venue is to be proclaimed. The whole town is on the
tiptoe for this revelation. Twenty years ago a South-
ampton Custom-house official voted for a member of
Parliament, and was dismissed, but he and his family
were provided for by the political party whose cause he
served. All persons will rejoice when the election is
over. The injury it has caused is incalculable. Friend-
ships have been destroyed, and business has been
neglected. The contest, when concluded, will have
lasted upwards of three months. Mr. James was driven

[row the town solely from theimpossibilityof devoting

the time to canvassing, and Mr. \Veguehn is put to the
grtatet,t inconvenience from having to be so much in
BJutharnpton.

CORN MEASURES-IMPORTANT MEET.
ING AT GLOUCtSTER.

GLOUCESTER, SATURDAY.

One of the largest meetings of farmers, millers, land-
lords, and corn merchants, that has been held here for a
long time, took place, at the Beli Hotel, this day, the
object being to establish an uniform system of buying
and selling corn, the want of which is a great inconveni-
ence to the corn trade throughout the country. The
chair was taken by J. C. Hayward, Esq., chairman of
the County Quarter Sessions, and a practical agricul-
turists.

Mr. HAYWARD, in opening the proceedings, stated
that much inconvenience bad been experienced by the
want of au uniform system of sale of corn by weight ;
and it was thought that AS the new Gloucester Corn Ex-
change was opened that day, it was a fit opportunity to
come to some resolution on the subject. A body of
millers bad previously met, and came to the resolution
to buy by weight 62Ihs. per bushel. This was the rate
at which corn was sold in Birmingham, Liverpool, Here-
ford, and numerous other market 3, but the weight varied
all over the country ; and in Gloucester English wheat
was sold generally by the 601b5., and foreign per 62Ibs.
He thought on inquiry that the weight of the Glouces-
tershire•grown wheat generally averaged 601bs. per
bushel, and that would be well to adopt that as the
standard weight in the Gloucester market.
A discuston followed, several of the corn merchants
and millers opposing a motion for establishing 60Ibs. as
the weight, and advocating 62 be. as far more convenient
to them as sellers and importers, while it was contended
that it would not affect the farmers, as, from a letter
read to the meeting by Mr. Long from Mr. Millick, it
appeared that when wheat was soul at 62lbs„ or 70lbs.
to the bushel, it was reduced to bushels at 601b5., for
the purpose of the averages.
Mr. SHARP stated the variations in the custom at dif-
ferent market towns throughout the country, and ha had
ibbsi.aswionuf urldayboemoof eitstchoenrymenilileenr or
ttofahritmne.r, bHuet that the
no
oat all parties were unanimous in preferring weight to
measure.
reTresolution adopting 601bs. as the standard weight
was ultimately agreed to.

We are informed that a company is in the course of
formation for the employment of 40 fore and aft schooners
for the Atlantic whale fishery. Two-thirde of the capital
is already promised.

THE DEPARTED YEAR.

(Prom the Examiner.)

Expired, precisely at midnight, on the night of last
Wednesday, at the advanced and extraordinary age of
366 days, the proligate old year 1856. We want the
pen that wrote the epitaph on Colonel Mathes to do
justice to the memory of one of the most unprincipled
years the •'isequies of which we ever assisted in cele-
brating. He was an annul mirabilis of commercial

immorality, and, for confounding right and wrong and
?muns and tuunt, had as good a claim to the title of the
" Year of Confusion" as his ancestor 46 8.C., whose
irregularities were rather Cmiar'd than his o sn, and were
atoned for by the reform they introduced into the talon•
dar.

If 1856 bad any religion, it was the religion of the
dirtiest of divinities, who never before counted such a
host of enthusiastic rogues in his service. Tne year was
"littered under Mercury," like Autolycus ; but the
Autolyci who distinguished themselves were ambitious
knaves, far above " the snapping up of unconsidered
trifles." They snapped up fortunes as common pick-
poch ets snap up handkerchiefs, planned their robberies
over champagne, and executed them in curricles and
tandems. Such was the astonishing Badleir ; such the
dashing Robson and refined Redpath ; such was Sir
Dean Paul, whose house of business was both " house
of prayer and den of thieves ;" such was the Gordons
and Cummings ; such the worshipful company of the
Royal British Bank--giants of fraud, titanic swindlers,
men with maws for widows' houses, and who devoured
the portions of orphans like ogres in pantomimes.
It is difficUlt to find a week among the last 152 not
infamously- distinguished by -sane
_bugs commercial -de-
falcation, some. Aaring embezzlement, some bankruptcy,
some atrocious breach of trust, some huge shape or
or another of avarice and rapacity—senators, bankers,
doctors, clerks, servants, alternately figuring in the
drama of crime, occasionally diversfled with an appall.
ing suicide on Mampstead-heath, or a frightful deed of
blood like that still mocking justice in Dublin.
As a politician the past yesr resembled the noble lord
at the head of the Government, in being more framed for
its foreign than its domestic politics. The year 1856 was
too busy abroad to find time for doing much that was
useful or creditable at home. The deceased, in truth, was
an old hypocrite, and made his warlike operations and
d,ploinatic manoeuvres a pretext for not doing what he
wanted the honest disposition to do. The war and peace
served his turn equally well. Sword in hand how could
he take up the business of legislation ? And when he
dropped the sword for the olive-branch he found an ex-
cuse-in the latter also for doing nothing—the dothestic
employment that he loved. In short, as a Parliamentary
character, he bore a striking likeness to wore members
of the hon. house than we care to name—he was a
mighty talker and a small doer.
This character was by none supported better than by
the Metropolitan Board of Works, which entered into
it with spirit. To talk being the special gift of the board,
the Government judiciously left them nothing else to do,
appointing a commission to drain the metropolis, while
the board will continue to discuss the question.
Turning to another department, the Horse Guards,
we have only to censure it for being out of the fashion
of the day. The Duke of Caiubridge did something,
and did it energetically and well. His Royal Highness
put down practical joking in the only practical way, and
introduced improvements into the system of staff ap-
pointments, most valuable in themselves, and to be
received as pledges of further reforms in our long-
neg lected and misruled army.
The military humbug of the year was the Chelsea
Commission ; its history belongs to the chapter of the
year's bubbles, including the board we have just men-
tioned, the ticket-of-leave system, the Russian Rail way
Company, Sir Charles Napier's fame as an admiral, and
Mr. Disraeli's character as a. Otatesman.

Abroad the year wag not idle; but it achieved nothing
very dazzling. We finished an ill-managed war in a
hurry, and we patched up an unintelligible peace with
the greatest deliberation ; the year involved us in a
variety of diplomatic embarrassments from which it did
not live to extricate us ; the present Conferences are the
old bungler's bequest to 1857, and whether they may
not prove a damnosa h,ereditas it will take a new year
to disclose. Then he made us a little ridiculous, it can-
not be denied, in Italy, withdrawing our ambassador
from Naples, for what reason it is impossible to say,
unless it was because the Americans dismissed our
Charge d'Affaires from Washington. The old ytar was
very much what the Romans called an ardelio, or mis-
chievous busybody ; and if he claimed the merit of de-
livering us from a great war he left us a pair of ugly
little ones in its place, one in Persia about a lady (the
eldest cause of rupture between Europe and Asia), and
the other in China for a point of etiquette, our admiral
insisting on paying Governor Yeh a visit, and blowing
down the walls of Canton to force a passage to his Excel-
lency's drawing-room. It was one of the eccentricttiee of
the subject of this obituary record that he was much more
polite to his enemies than his friends; he was all cour-
tesy and tenderness to Russia, but he buffeted the
Chinese con amore, doing his celestial allies more
daraitge with his artillery in a single, day them Sir Charles
Napier, "with his magnificent Baltic fleet, did to the Czar
in a whole campaign. _

in O4thhepciaocnetsinween,teiihoer
thepro proceedings of
part
tf
ntohempoarset
tlo2bmonths
in high places weie for the most part no more to be corn-
Powers
behaved
e our domestic
ry
badly;
between their Royal misdemeanours and those of vulgar
there was even some the
ehleikeness
and ignoble criminals. The designs of Prussia against
Switzerland bore a strong resemblance to the offence of
robbery with violence. Her conduct with respect to Neu-
chatel was just as if a highwayman were to commence
operations by picking a quarrel with a traveller, to have
a pretext for knocking him down, and effecting his
other purposes. France seemed for a moment inclined to
aid and abet Prussia, but France did nothing so ill during
the last 12 months as the attack she made on the English
press, which was like a case of garotting, to strangle
freedom of discussion here as it has long since been
strangled in Paris. We must say, however, of the French
Emperor personally that he was the only mart in Europe
who, in 1856, behaved too well, having incurred a public
rem onstrat, ce or scolding from one of his own Ministers for
carrying his princely virtues to a vicious excess. The mis-
deeds of Russia have been more in the line of swindling.
or something between that crime and the less dignified
one of petty larceny. However, the hue and cry was
raised in time ; and, though she has not been sent to
her own Siberia, as she well tit served, she has at least
been compelled to drop her booty. We sincerely pity
the Turks with such dishonest next-door neighbours.
The normal state of Turkey his been that of Notting-
hill, and her friends in the Congress of Paris proved
themselves about as vigilant anti effective as the police
of London. As to Austria, her conduct has been
rather shabby than wicked. What could he shabbier
than to force herself on the hospitality of the Venetians,
who never invited her, and woo wade no secret of pre-
ferring her room to her company? The man who
sponges for a dinner ought at least to be an agreeable
fellow, not personally offensive to his reluctant host on
other grounds as well as the social intrusion.
We have by no means exhausted our accusations,
but let us be just before we commit our old a:quaint-
ance to the tomb of history and "dark backward and
abysm of time." He was not without his good points.
He was not the monster " nulla virtute redemptum,"
—he left us richer than he found us, notwithstanding
the enormous expenses of the war ; he re-estab-
lished our relations of friendship and fraternity
with the United States ; he deserves the praise of
having commenced the laying down of the electric wire
to connect the old world with the new in the bonds
of a magical intimacy ; he did a great deal, to his
immortal., honour, to smooth down the chief difficul-
ties which have hitbi rto intercepted the blessings of
education from the bulk of the People ; and he took a
highly popular course towards the close of his days in
lifting up his voice against the income tax, which was
in him a most disinterested proceeding, as it was not
in the nature of things that he could live to benefit by
the reduction.

It is, however, devoutly to be wished that flu) pre-
sent may be a year of better manners and conditions,
profiting by his predewssor'a errors, and departing
from his evil ways. Let 1857 put his own house in
order,
he
ewe rigidlyillhaveerough to do ; let aim keep
hisfrom picking anti stealing,
andor
bands
abstain a little from forging checks a• id coupons, from
prussic acid and strychnine, from bludgeoning, garott-
ing, and housebreaking—in short, from Sadleir and
Robson, from Palmer and Marley, and all their works.
Moreover, while distingekbing more nicely between
aneunt and tunes in private dealings, let 1857 discrimi-
nate better also in public transactions between friend
and foe. Parcere superbis et debellare subjectos is a bad
reading of a noble text, and a policy utterly unworthy
of England. We trust the maxim has not been so re-
versed in China.

OCCULTATION OF JUPITER.--The occultation of the
planet Jupiter on Friday evening was observed at the
Liverpool Observatory. At the immersion the four satel-
lites and the planet were all seen to disappear behind
the moon. Clouds came over immediately after immer-
sion of the fourth or preceding satellite, but they
speedily passed away, and the immersion of the remain
irig three satellites and Jupiter was &so observed. At
their immersion the satellites became fainter for three or
four second-, and then suddenly disappeared. The time
of entire obscuration was 50 minutes 58 seconds. The
most remarkable fact was that nu distortion of the
image of Jupiter was noticed, contrary to almost all
past experience.
FREEDOM OF HAMILTON TO DR. LIVINGSTON.— On
Friday afternoon the freedom of the burgh of Hamilton
was presented to the Rev. Dr. Livingston, the African
miles of Hamilton. The ceremony took place in the
County
otm traveller,ty whose
Hall,
Hamilton, b hpl c (at Llantyre) is within two
in
presence of the Provost, Ma-
gistrates, and Town Council of Hamilton, and a select
party of gentlemen from the town and neighbourhood ;
Robert Henderson, Esq., Provost of the burgh, in the
chair. The Provost, with a very few complimentary
sentences, presented the burgess ticket, enveloped in an
elegant morocco case. Dr. Livingston, in reply, after
returning thanks, gave an interesting account of some of
) his adventures in Africa. In the evening a soiree was
held in the large upper room of the County Buildings ;
Thomas Anderson, Esq., banker, occupied the chair.—
ScoCanan.