The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

SECTION F.-STATISTICS.

Mr. TooKE presided. The first paper read was ',by.J. T.
Danson, Esq., upon "the cost and current prices of-wheat
in England in 1844, 54:" Mr. Danson, by a forcible array
of statistics, showed that the fluctuations in the priee of
corn which at present existed, to the great injury ef the
farmer, could never be obviated until a mode of estimating
the exact produce of the country were initiated, and until
the farmer himself was educated up that point of mercan-
tile intelligence which was the key to success in other pur-
suits.— Sir John Boileau, Mr. Newmarsh, and others
joined in the discussion which succeeded, and by all e.
comprehensive and accurate system of obtaining agricul-
tural statistics was insisted on .as essential to agricultural
-prosperity.
A long and exe eedingly elaborated paper was then read
by Theodore W. Rathbone, Esq.,'" On Decimal Coinage
.and Accounts." Mr. Rathbone, as oar readers may be aware,
objects to most of the theories of decimal coinage which
have been advanced, as cumbrous, and involving a large
amount of inconvenience; the chief featureinhis own theory
being the estabshment of the franc.—Mr.W. Brown,M.P.,
who read 'two papers, one by Mr. Miter (of the Bank of
England) and the other by Mr. James Franklin, contro-
verted Mr. Rathbone's views as to the difficulties which
would attend the plan recommended by the parliamentary
committee .(to divide the pound into a thousand parts),
and warmly advocated that plan, as one which would tend
greatly to shorten juvenile education, as weal as to facili-
tate all business transactions.—Mr. Newmarsh was the
chief opponent of the change to • a decimal system, and
though he was favourable to the • adoption of a decimal
system in weights and measures, he thought that the de-
preciation of the penny by four per cent. would be a cause
of great loss and inconvenience, particularly to the poor.—
The decimal system recommended by the parliamentary
committee and commission was mainly advocated by the
Dean of Ely, Mr. R. R. Moore, M. ;Gsasiot, and at four
o'clock the section closed, the discussion being adjourned
until this day.
SECTION ECHANICAL SCIENCE.

Mr. W. Fairbairn read a paper on the consumption of
fuel and the prevention of smoke, and Mr. Grantham fol-
lowed with a paper on the high-level railway for Liver-
pool. Mr. James Nasmyth read a paper on drifting and
boring holes in rock for tunnelling purposes, and Mr.
Richard Grantham on Mr. J. B. Lindsay's experiments
on a marine telegraph.
Mr. Bakewell read a paper on telegraphic communica-
tion between England and America, followed by one on
the electric telegraph, and time signals, &c., which was
read by Mr. Culley.

Dr. Reid concluiled the business of the section for the day
with a sketch of the ventilation of St. George's-hall, &c.

LECTURE ON TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM.

Last night, a lecture " On Terrestrial Magnetism" was
delivered by Colonel Sabine, in St. George's-hall. The
Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby occupied the chair, and
the hall was well filled by a fashionable audience. The
gallant and learned colonel began by giving an outline of
the origin and progress of magnetic science, giving a
luminous though rapid sketch of the various steps by
which magnetism had arrived at its present advanced
position. He next adverted to the fact, that although
much has been done, a vast deal more remains to be
effected in this interesting and important field of science.
The lecturer was listened to throughout with marked
attention and evident fia,ti§factiop. by the numerous and
intelligent audience.

Rev. D. Knight, 8.A., to the Curacy of Longbridge Deveril,
Wilts. _ _

Rev. R. D. Lagden, 8.A.1', Perpetual Curate of North Woot-
ton, Dorsetshire, to be Chaplain to the Sherborne Union.
Rev. J. M. Lewes, 8.A.. Curate of Stroud, Gloucestershire,
to be Chaplain to Her Majesty's Forces in Turkey.
Rev. W. H. Lyon, to the Perpetual Curacy of Castleton,
near. Sherborne.

Rev. P. B. Maddock, M.A., to the Curacy of Winktield,near
Trowbridge.
'Rev. D.A., to the a..uzacy orrentrich, near
Belper, Derbyshire.
Rev. D. Mountfield, 8.A., Curate of St. Chad's, Shrews-
bury, to the Incumbency of the new church at Oxon, near
Shrewsbury.
Rev. M. H. Neligan, M.A., to the Assistant Curacy of the
Mariner's Church, Kingstown.
Rev. J. O'Connor, M.A., to the Incumbency of Laxey, near
Douglas, in the Isle of Man.
Rev. P. Reynolds, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St. Stephen's,
Birmingham.
Rev. T. Rogers, 8.A., to the Curacy of Llangunllo, Cardi-
ganshire.
Rev. C. J. S. Russell, 8.A., to the Curacy of Holy Trinity,
Stepney—(not to St. Peter's, Stepney as stated last week.)
Rev. J. A. Scowcroft, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Matthew's,
Birmingham.
Rev. W. E. Sindon, 8.A., Curate of St. Paul's, Macclesfield,
to the Incumbency of St. Peter's, in that town.
Rev. G. E. Smith, 8.A., to the Curacy of Ostnaston, near
Ashbourne.
Rev. F. C. Spiller, M.A., to the Curacy of Douglas, diocese
of Cork.
Rev. J. Stone, 8.A., to the Curacy of Coseley, Staffordshire.
Rev. T. Tnomas, to the Incumbency of Tally, Carmarthen-
shire.
Rev. G. H. Woodcock, M.A., to the Vicarage of Sixbills,
near Market Rosen. _