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London, England, 1842-08-27 00:00:00

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PROFESSOR LIEBIG,
We learn from authority upon which' we ean4-ely,
that the celebrated chemist, Professor Liebig,. will ar7,
rive in London in the course of next week ;.-tiptiVij 'ANT
he will visit this town in the first week of next " -
Liebig may justly be considered the father of organic
chemistry. He entered into the study of this diffi-
cult science at a time when it- consisted of s.
mere assemblage of empirical facts. His first great.
endeavours were to improve the facilities for the
analysis of organic bodies, and to introduce into
it the precision which is necessary in all chemical
inquiries. With the aid of the admirable apparatus
invented by himself, he laboured for many years
in creating the new science, and it is well known how
productive has been the field of his labours. His fame
as an analyst became so extended, that inhabitants of
all nations flocked to his laboratory, and the most dis-
ting.juished professors of foreign countries did not think
it beneath them to he enrolled amongst his student;;.
Our informant mentioned to us, that on visiting hia
laboratory some years since, he found distinguished
professors from Austria, Russia, France, England,.
America, and Switzerland. He also saw natives of Alex -
i co, Spain, Hi ndostan, and various other countries. With
so many students ready to follow oat his suggestions,
he traversed with wondrous rapidity the field of dis-
covery, and has now raised organic chemistry to a
proud position in the rank of the exact sciences. A
few years only have elapsed since this great philoso-
pher conceived that he might leave, without injury to
the progress of science, the details to be worked out by
his followers ; and he himself set out to seek " pas-
tures new" in the practical applications of the prin-
Ciples which he had discovered. His first work, on
the Application of Chemistry to Agriculture, has
indeed been an era in the advancement of that
noble science, and has wrought and is still work-
ing a revolution in its practice. It is well known
to the English public, through the translation
of Dr. Playfimir. His second work, a co-
pious abstract of which we lately inserted
in this Journal, is equally wonderful; and will
no doubt, cause an equal improvement in physiology
and in medicine. . The Professor has
,opened a new
path of inquiry, alike important to the-Welfare of time
human race, and to the best interests of society.
Long may he live to pursue it, despite the sneers of
the ignorant, and the taunts of the invidious. When
we consider that these works were written at the
desire of the British Association, and have been pro-
ductive of so much benefit to English agriculture and
English Capital ; and when we consider further, that
almost all our rising chemists are pupils of the dis-
tinguished Liebig, we earnestly hope that our towns-
men, as well as the public generally, will hail his
arrival with the respect due to his great talents,
and render him every facility in the attainment of the
object of his- visit, which, we understand, is to ac-
quire information regarding the state of the agricul-
ture and manufaCtures of our country.—Mancheder -
Guardian.

DUBLIN POLICE.

Some of the usual results of " Donnybrook Fair"
disclosed themselves at College-street Police-office, no
less than eighty-eight prisoners having been brought
before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Hitchcock. The
following case, amongst a host of others, arising from
the like source, was brought forward :
Police-constable Kennedy, of the B division,
charged a man named Thomas Smith, with having
been drunk and disorderly at the fair on the night
previous.
The prisoner was a man of monstrous dimensions,
‘vhose gigantic person filled the whole dock.
Mr. Ilvrcitcocic. What have you to say for
yourself?
Prisoner (drawing a huge fist over his brow)—
Little, very little. . I have a confused recollection of
having been at some fair or other, of having kissed
some girl or other, of having drunk some liquor or
other, and of having been trailed through the mud to
the station-house by some', policeman or other.—
(Laughter.) There is all I know about it, and don't
care twopence if you fine me.
Mr. Hrrcncocx—lt must have taken a good deal
of liquor to have made you drunk.
Prisoner—Well, I don't doubt but it did- I have
a glimmering recollection of having drunk the better
part of a quarter cask of XX.—Fined 2s. 6d.
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ae master spinners and manufacturers, who reside
in the very lnidst of their men, employ generally several
handled, and sometimes more than a thousand hands
each. Any disputes upon the subject of a reduction of
wages between the employer and employed rouses the
feelings of this body of operatives, and lays them open to
the instant control of the Trades' Union Committees and
the political agitators. There is consequently nothing which
the factory owner dreads more intensely than a strike
upon the subject of wages. Nobody knows where
it will end, or what may be the consequences. In
1829, when the last great turn out took place at
Staleybridge and its neighbourhood, the contest
lasted twelve weeks, during which one of the mas-
ters, a member of a most respectable family, met
his death at the hands of an assassin. Now, sup-
posing that the story were as true as it is
notoriously false, that, under such circumstances
as these, mill. owners did risk all the eonsequences of
a strike to effect the repeal of the Corn-law, it would
furnish the strongest possible truth of their despe-
rate state, and of their earnest conviction of the
true remedy. But will anybody, not blinded by party
prejudice, for one moment believe that the mill-owners of
Staleybridge district would rush into all the dangers of
a strike (to say nothing of the loss of 191 every hour, ac-
cording to Mr. Horner, that the machinery of a large
mill stands idle) for the purpose of forwarding the Anti-
Corn-law agitation, without having made one provision
before or after the turn-out, to convert the agitation to
the desired account ? Are these " cunning Leaguers" of
Staleybridge suddenly struck with madness, that they
should provoke a conflict with an exasperated popula-
tion, 90 per cent. of whom are operatives surrounding
their own homes, for no other purpose than to be sworn
in as special constables to put down the disaffected
turn-outs ?—Anti-Bread-tax Circular.
THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—The arrangements be-
tween the Lords Commissioners of the Board of Admi-
ralty and the Right Hon. Lord Lowther, the Postmaster-
General, respecting the transmission of the West India
mails twice a month by sailing, packets, are now finally
concluded. Twelve 10-gun brigs are now fitting out
with all expedition at Plymouth, as packets for the pur-
pose of conveying the Madeira, Jamaica (and. all the
West India Islands), Panama, New Orleans, British
Guiana, Surinam, and Mexican mails, which will be made
up at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, on
the Ist and 15th of every month, and forwarded via Fal-
mouth. The average time of the voyage from and to
Falmouth and the West India Islands, Mexico, &c., is
computed at 57 days. The Madeira, Brazils, and
Buenos Ayres mails will be also conveyed by her Ma-
jesty's brigs Linnet, Penguin, Swift, Crane, Express,
Petrel, and Ranger, on the first Tuesday of every month.
The time from and to Falmouth is on an average 140
days. From August to January the packets will touch
at Pernambuco and Bahia on their outward passage to
Rio Janeiro, and the other six months on their home-
ward. This new arrangement of the Post-office .is in
consequence. of the continued complaints that have been
made to Government by the merchants ef London, Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Glasgow, of the delay they have
experienced in transmitting and receiving their intelli-
gence from our West India Islands, South America, and
the Brazils, by the steam-packets of the Royal West
India Mail Company. We regret this change, and con-
fidently hope the Post-office authorities are not about to
return to the old worn-out system. If these 10-gun
brigs are as bad as those formerly in use, the alteration
will be for the worse.
PRESENT TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALIIERT.
—A very beautiful Arabian mare (the only one N hich
has been permitted to leave the country for many years
past, and which arrived in England a few days since) has
just been presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
at Windsor, from the English Consul at Morocco. The
mare, which for symmetry may almost be said to be un-
equalled, is of a dark grey colour, standing fifteen hands
high, and nut more than two years old, and of the purest
Arab blood. It reached Windsor by the Great Western
Railway from town a day or two since, and immediately
upon its arrival it was taken to the Quadrangle, where
it was seen by the Queen and the Prince, and several of
the members of the Royal Household, by whom it was
greatly admired.
RECOVERY OF A SHIP AND HER CARGO.—Mr. W.
Fraser, of the Submarine and Salvage Establishment, is
London, has succeeded, after many difficulties, in saving
the whole of the valuable cargo and stores of the Amen-
can ship Baptist Merrick, sunk off Culansoog, on the coast
if l lolland, a month ago. Amorg the cargo was a quantity
of valuable machinery, which has been got up in as per-
fect a state as if it had just left the manufactory. The
ship lay sunk in a very exposed situation, imbedded in
the sand, and open to the whole North Sea. Mr. Fraser
vies engaged, with his divers, for several days under ,
water, stopping the principal leaks, and planking then,
over, and succeeded afterwards, by means of his appa-
ratus and iron alleles, in saving the cargo, which is
valued at upwards of 7,000/., and is now in possession of
the underwriters.
BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY.—Mr. Machin gave a grand
musical performance in the Town-hall here last night,
at which Grisi, Ernesta Grisi, Lablache, Mario, F. La-
blache, Hayward, and Machin, distinguished themseves,
Signor Costa, of the Italian Opera, was engaged to con-
duct the concert. It is thought there were nearly 3,000
persons present—a fact which speaks a great deal for
the peaceable state of the town and neighbourhood. It
being Madame Grisi's first appearance in England tNs
year, she was most heartily welcomed. We never heard
her in finer voice. All the performers acquitted them-
selves in the usual style of excellence, and were enthu-
siastically applauded by a most fashionable and crowded

assembly.
At the last meeting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway Company the Agnewites did not venture to press to
a division the question of stopping the Sunday trains! We
were sure that the good sense of the people of Sootland
would speedily disgust them with the puritanical schemes
of the agitators. The prospects of the railway are most
promising, and now that a better, because more concen-
trated, system of management has been introduced, the
proprietors may look forward to the speedy realisation of
their most sanguine hopes.—Railway Times.
By the Brisk we learn that the Madagascar and
Water Witch had recently attacked and destroyed a set-
tlement, or what is called a baracoon, at a place near
Cabencla, and tilArated_9oo slaves. —Asti- Slavery Re-
t par er.