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THE MORNING CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY; DECEMBER 19. The EARL of DURHAM'S ANSWER to 'the W3utthappy-saBte. deposited at tlie proper offices, and the required notices ROYAL SOCIETY. ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 10 oe given Drenaraforv to nnnMm, of the.

mmman of the DEPUTATION WESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY. i fffoFTHE CHURCH. No. II. found out a cure for wllfn ther fuil fl0th a Non-Con's discontent, Te best way's fo-put him in jail." public aid and general co-operation in the accomplishment of objects which are too costly or too vast for individuals to undertake or to attempt.

The future development of many of the sciences is becoming daily more and more dependent upon co-operative labour. We are rapidly approaching great and comprehensive generalizations, which can only be completely established or disproved by very widely distributed, and, in many casSs, by absolutely At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society on the 30th of November, the following vote of thanks to their late President, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, K.G., was proposed by Mr. Davies Gilbert, and se- of whieh sonic well known and Uislinginsjic bodies of our own time have set so Wwwaji of giving an artificial value to theff.luMeorrs'b5he, extreme smallness of the number of copies wtyoj) they allow to be printed or circulated thus defeating thWery objects of that great invention whose triumphs were pre. tended to be the very groundwork of their association. Mr.

George Hibbert was one of the most distinguished of those princelyinerchants whose knowledgeofliteraturcpatronage of the arts, and extensive intercourse with the world have contributed so much, in a great commercial country like conded by Mr. Hatchctt, and warmly assented to by the simultaneous observations. Major Sabine has lately collected with great labour, and reduced and analysed with great ability, a vast mass of observations relating to the Welsh parson averr'd, numerous body of Fellows assembled on the occasion Resolved unanimouslyThat the thanks of this society be given to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, KZn Jolm James Into prison lie dung red tlie Church more when I heard Anil'" fi f.m tnnu-iin fall from his tongue. tenderness for the able and impartial manner in which he has con-ducted the scientific proceedings, and the other concerns of the society, during the nine years that he honoured it Such oft of C'hureh 'Ifa anerted, session of Parliament for an act to authorise the works which it is your petitioner's intention to follow up to completion, should your honourable court offer no objection thereto. That he has now the satisfaction of laying before you copies of thoso documents for the inspection and information of your honourable court, with the report thereon of Sir John Rennie, the consulting engineer employed on the occasion by all which it will be seen that your petitioner contemplates opening a safe, easy, and convenient line of access and communication between the north western part of the metropolis and the principal seat of business in the city, by means of a handsome new street, with a viaduct bridge across Farringdon-street in the room of the law and discreditable buildings which occupy the present site, so as to render it a work of great public utility, sue cessfully to obviate the evils before adverted to, and considerably to improve the nature of the property thereby affected it being intended that some elegant specimens of architecture shall be introduced, so as to form a splendid ornament to that at present obscure part of the city.

That ypur petitioner is fully assured that he will be enabled io raise sufficient funds by the formation of a joint stock company upon a novel and improved principle, which, while it will yield a sure and ample remunerative return to the shareholders, will not fail to be productive of all the anticipated advantages to the public, and produce a magnificent embellishment to the city, without i by holding the office of president for his candour re ncor 01 lie' MF i She'll ceiving and duly considering all propositions and sugges tions made to him by the different annual councils; and distribution of the earth's magnetism and the result has pointed out not merely the proper fields of our future researches, but likewise their great extent and the enormous amount of labour still required for their cultivation. A society on the continent, headed by the justly celebrated Gauss, to whom the Copley medal has been this year adjudged for his magnetical researches, my contemporary and fellow student at Gottingen, has instituted a system of simultaneous observations on the periodical and ir-regulnr movements of the magnetic needle at various stations in different parts of Europe, which suggest conclusions of the most surprising and interesting nature these can only be fully worked out and confirmed by the adoption of a similar system of observations in places extremely remote from each other on the surface of the globe. The researches on the tides, which have been so laboriously and so successfully prosecuted by Professor our own, to elevate the rank and character of the class to which they belong, and to give to the pursuits of wealth an enlarged and liberalising spirit. Mr. Hibbert.

possessed, during the most active period of his life, an uu-common influence amongst the great commercial bodies of the metropolis, and more particularly amongst those connected with the West India trade, from his integrity and high character, his great knowledge of busiscss, his excellent sense nnd judgment, and his clearness and readiness in public speaking. He was an excellent botanist, and the collection of plants which he had formed at his residence at Clapham was remarkable, not merely for its great extent, but likewise for the great, number of extremely lare plants which it contained. He was well known also as a very extensive and judicious collector of books, prints, drawings, and paintings, and ivn onrfnarorl in lnre circle of private friends, for the facility of access, and general kindness manifested by his Royal Highness towards every individual Fellow of call ut All Hflfows, some lny, A full meeting of the committee and members of the society was held yesterday, at their rooms in Cavondish-square, for the purpose of receiving a report of the progress and operations and funds of the institution, and also to hear the award of prizes, and some announcements respecting future proceedings. Earl Spencer, the president, took the chair. His lordship was suoported by the Duke of Richmond and Mr.

Childers, M. P. Amongst the influential gentlemen who crowded the rooms were Mr. Handly, M.P., Mr. Hodjes, M.P., Mr.

Cayley, M.P., Mr. Robert Spooner, Lord Challenor, Lord Morcton, Mr. Pym, M.P., the Rev. Mr. Smithies, and Mr.

Barclay. The Chaibman remarked that he might say that this was the first meeting that had taken place since the society had been properly formed, During that, short interval there had not been a great deal done, but the report would inform the meeting of the extent of their operations and intentions. He Mattered himself that they would find that the society was flourishing, and likely to go on well. The committee had agreed to publish a quarterly journal of their proceedings. The first number would be issued as speedily as possible, and would contain the prize essays and other important matters.

It would be consistent with the state of their funds to supply the journal gratis to subscribers to non-subscribers it would be sold at a moderate price. The noble earl then proceeded to read the report, it stated that, several additional rules hud been framed by the sub-committees and hud been adopted. The committee would soon sit again, for the purpose of rendering their means more effective and their communications more extensive. They were desirous to enlist all the talent they could for the discussion of subjects of deep interest to the practical farmer; therefore they had offered prizes for essays. Some of the prizes would be given that day; some at the meeting to be held at Oxford next July and some at a meeting to be held at York in the year IR40.

Those to be awarded at Oxford would, amongst, other subjects, be for the cultivation of soil for cattle and the breeding of II find, to lior very great merit, Ami you the Royal Society." The following is the farewctl address of his Royal Highness on that occasion Gentlemen I cannot quit the chair of the Reyal So She ciiu, now and then, deal in the spirit.) it of martvrs ridicule flay men, ciety, which I hare now occupied during a period of eight years, witnout availing mysen oi iie opportunity which tho customary proceedings of the anniversary afford me, Whewell and Mr. Lubbock, have led, and can lead to few general and certain conclusions without the aid of labours of this nature; and a memorable exemplification of their value, even when given in their rudest and least perfect form (from the logs of ships), is pre any expense whatever to the corporation that akhouodi of expressing to you the grateful sense I entertain of the great honour conferred upon mc, by being chosen to fill so distinguished an office, as likewise of the uniform kind, noss and support which I have always received from the members of the council and the fellows of the society a very considerable amount may reasonably be expected to be derived from the improved ground rents and sale of the acquired freehold property to replace the capital stock of the company, your petitioner regrets that, owing to the viaducts being of nn expensive and unproductive nature, it will be indispensably necessary that a small toll nhonlri sented in the discovery of the Law of Storms," which Colonel Reid has recently published, and which promises results importantto the interests of navigation and the cause of humanity. In the science of meteorology, which still remains destitute even of approximation to general laws, it is to a well-organized system of simultaneous observa Cleveland-row, Dec. 18, 1838. Sm-I have to thank you for your courtesy in com.

mumcating to me the princinlw nH cated by the Westminster oSy adV- ce and" in T- yU th''S 'e of I 0P'm0n dangerous PurPses owed by nTto Prominent a Pwt in meet- bv are funded on, or justified the pubhc and recorded declarations of that associa- mannti 0aB' re'0re' lmVe after thin ei- from you am informed and believe that that society was insti-tuted by honourable and conscientious men, honestly de-voted to the cau.e of reform, and of the true interests of the industrious classes. Let mc, then, take this opportunity ef imploring them, at the political crisis, to use their well-earned influence with their 'fellow-countrymen for the purpose of deprecating all violence and turbulent Let me beg that they will draw the line of distinetien, as oroadly as 1 wish to do for myself, between honest and sincere Reformers, and those who assume the character with other and pernicious designs; that they will inspire the people with a desire for practical benefits, and not for dan. gerous theories; and, above all, that they will boldly repudiate all fellowship and communion with those whose counsels and actions are not only fraught with danger to the peace of society, but to the well-being even of those whose exclusive interests they profess to maintain. Allow me, sir, to thank you personally for the very friendly terms in which you have alluded to my public conduct, as I find them recorded in the report of your speech, which you have transmitted to me. Trusting ever to deserve your confidence and good opinion, I have the honour to subscribe myself, Your most obedient servant, T.

Prout, Chairman, DURHAM. LETTER FROM TBEPRe's1DEN OF THE UNITED STATES TO LORD DURHAM. Washington, Oct. 26. My Lord Having been informed that it is your intention to pass through a portion of the United States on your return to England, 1 embrace the occasion to express to your lordship the great satisfaction I should experience if your arrangements allowed of your visit being extended to this city.

The friendly sentiments entertained by my fellow-citizens towards yourself, and also towards the people of your country, will, I doubt not, prompt a sincere desire on their part to render your sojourn among them agreeable to yourself, as 1 am sure it will be gratifying to them. For my own part, 1 will esteem myself happy, if by your presence here 1 shall be afforded the opportunity of 'manifesting to your lordship personally the sincerity with which 1 share in those senti- generally, in the discharge of its various and important duties. A review of my conduct during the period of my presidency recalls to my mind many occasions in which I am sensible that I have been more or less wanting in the very responsible trust, confided to me, of watching over the interests of a society most justly illustrious by the succession be imposed upon horses only passing over the intonded viaduct biidgc. That the proposed new street is intended to be called Victorifl-street, after her Majesty the Queen, who lias graciously condescended to honour the undertaking by signifying her royal approbation thereof," tions that we must look for the acquisition ot such a knowledge of the range and character of atmospheric influences and changes, us may become the basis of a well compacted and consistent theory, and rescue this science amongst the most cultivated classes of society in this country, by his refined yet simple manners, his happy temper, and his many social and domestic virtues. Sir Abraham Hume, who had attained at the time of his death the venerable ape of ninety years, was the father of the Royal Society he was a man of cultivated taste and very extensive acquirements, and throughout his life a liberal patron nnd encourager of the fine arts.

Lord Farnbo-rough was the son-in-law of Sir Abraham Hume, whom he greatly resembled in his tas.tes and accomplishments for more than thirty years of RH' life he held various public situations in the successive administrations of this country, but quitted his official employments on his elc-vation'to the peerage in 1820; from that period he devoted himself almost entirely to the improvement and decoration of his beautiful residence at Bromley-hill to the proposal and promotion of plans for tho architectural improvement of the metropolis; to the selection of pictures for the National Gallery, which he greatly enriched by his bequests and to the various duties imposed upon him by his official connection with the British Museum, nnd many other public institutions. The Earl of Eldon, hough possessing few relations with science or literature, presents too remarkable an example of the openinga afforded by the institutions of this country to men of great and commanding talent for the attainment of the highest rank and wealth to be passed over without notice in this obituary of our deceased fellows. Lord Eldon was ma-triculutcd as a member of the University College, Oxford, from the reproach under which it has so long and too of great men who have been connected with it, and by the great advances which nearly every department of science has received from those portions of their labours which are recorded in its transactions; for some of these justly laboured, of presenting little more than a confused siock. upon these interesting points lie trusted the owners and oceupiers of land in Oxfordshire would assist the society. The meeting must be aware that immense losses of 'stock had been suffered, chiefly on account of our ignorance of the diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs.

The committee had, therefore, turned their attention to mass ot almost entirely insulated results. unaertaKings, however, of this extensive and laborious nature are far beyond the reach of individual enterprise, and can only be accomplished by national aid and co-operation. We deficienccs I am unfortunately enabled to refer to the severe and long-continued visitations of disease and infirmity under which I have laboured, as a very sufficient And saints ue among us, both churchmen and laymen, Who've, tiod knows, been martyred enough. There's O'Sulllvan, Marsyas of mummers, There's Poynder, who'd die, branch and root, rights of the Protestant drummers "uf the eighth Native Regiment of Foot jiut I care not what antics men play Kv'n Dissenters their course might pursue, if Wre n't that, when souls go astray, Fees and perquisites go astray, too. And a bareain I'd Mh Which seems likely both parties to plcaie, let them hold what doctrines they like, II they'll only let us hold the fees.

Tliev had best, too, look sharp, as, perhaps, If they hector much more in this strain, 'e shall force them to put on square caps.K And read lie'1 an1 ll'e Dragon" again I i have fimd out ft gift for my fair, I imve found, ice. i The parish clergyman of Llanelly, who lately oauaed a jj.vintfr to he imprisoned for non-attendance at church. Anil 1 loved her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue." Tiifclelif or rectory-house of All-Hallows, lately licensed tuifll sin and other spirituous liquors, ts be drunk on the II See a late Letter of Mr. Poynder's, pleading In favour of liberty ol coincienee for certain Christian drunimere of the 8th or 13th native regiment, in India. one of the ureal objects of dissent sosn atter the Reformation.

When Bezn was asked why he would not afar square cap?" he answered, Because his head was not quare." Tliet'omnealion In 1061 prescribed the reading of Bell tr. ilia lift email hnria nFtka 1W inlntan have lately witnessed an example where the Storthing, or National Assembly of Norway a body composed partly of peasants, and representing one ofthe poorest countries in Europe, undertook the charge of a magnetical expeditionto Siberia, on the recommendation and under the direction of their distinguished countryman M. Hanstccn, at the same time that they refused a grant of money to aid in building a palace for their sovereign; and I feel confident apology and I feel less oppressed than I otherwise should have been, by my consciousness of many others, by my knowledge of the activity and zeal of the very able and efficient officers upon whom the temporary discharge of my duties devolved, and from the assurance which I felt, that the interests of their society, when intrusted to their care, would suffer no detriment by my absence. Though justly proud of the distinction of presiding over the Royal Society, and most anxious to promote, to the utmost'of my power, the great objects for which it was Mr. tiEPi'nt.

said mat all reasonable support should bo given to a person who proposed the removal of so desperate a nuisance as Holborn-hill. Mr. R. Taylor was of opinion that, the petition should be referred to the Farringdon-street committee, as it was impossible to carry on that street without knowing on what level it was to be extended. The petition was finally referred to the London-bridge committee.

THE POST-OFFICE. Mr. Baylis rose after the requisition relative to the refuted intention of government to open the Post-office on Sundays was road, and stated that he was inclined to withdraw his notice of motion in consequence of the correspondence which had taken place on the subject between the Lord Mayor and Colonel Maberly, and the memorialists in the city and Mr, Baring. The court, however, having manifested a strong feeling in favour of declaring its opinion against any future change in tlie Post-office arrangements, he moved the following resolution That any measure, having for its object the opening of the Post-office for business on Sundays, would be productive of serious inconvenience, hardship, and deprivation to many of the citizens and inhabitants of London, as well as to the officers of the establishment, and would be offensive to the religious and moral feelings, and adverse this lamentable deficiency. A veterinary college had long been established near London, and through the skill diffused by it thousands of horses had been saved.

The committee, considering that inestimable advantages would accrue if the college, instead of exclusively confining their uttention to horses, would direct then-labours, probably with the same success, to the diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs an application was made to the governors of the college, to the effect that the society was desirous to contribute funds for promoting the latter branch of study, but without any intention of interfering with the arrangements of that institution. A favourable answer was received. A meeting had consequently been appointed between the governors of the college and a delegation from tlie committee. From this negotiation the happiest results might be hoped for. A correspondence had also been commenced with other agricultural, horticultural, and scientific societies, especially the Highland Society of Scotland, and henceforward friendly communications would be exchanged with the agricultural societies of Paris, Lyons, Geneva, and other places on the Continent.

It was the that the united wishes ol men oi science in mis and otner countries, whose influence on public opinion is becoming daily more nnd more manifest, particularly when expressed in favour of purely scientific objects, which cannot be effected without the assistance and resources of the nation, will not be without their effect on the government of our own country, which has always taken tlie load in the promotion of geographical as well as scientific founded, I no sooner ascertained that circumstances would, probably, for a time, interfere with my residence in London during a considerable part of its annual session, and prevent my receiving its members in a manner com patible with my rank and position in this country, than I determined to retire from an office whose duties I could no longer flatter myself as likely to be able to discharge under the tuition of his brother, afterwards Lord Sstowcll, in 1 766 and an academical prize which he gained in the following year, for nn Essay on the Advantages of Foreign Travel," gave the first evidence of his possession of those great powers of minute analysis and careful research which made him afterwards so celebrated. His early marriage terminated somewhat prematurely his academical prospects, and forced him to adopt the profession of the law, after narrowly escaping other occupations of a much more humble character. He was compelled to struggle for several years of his life with poverty and discouragement, when a fortunate opportunity enabled him to give proof of his extraerdinary attainments, and rapidly conducted him to the command of wealth and professional eminence. After filling with great distinction the offices of Solicitor and Attorney-General, he became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and a peer in 1799, and finally Lord Chancellor of England in 1801, a situation which he-continued to hold, with a short interruption, for nearly a quarter of a century. Of his political character and conduct it becomes not me to speak but his profound in a manner answerable to their expectations, or accordance with my own feelings.

Having come to this conclusion, after the most anxious and painful consideration, I deemed it due to the members of the council, in the first instance, and next to the social comforts and order of a large portion of the metropolitan community, and therefore would not be consistent with a just, wise, or liberal policy." The intense excitement which, he said, had prevailed through intention of the committee to circulate papers of much practical use to the farmers early next year. The number of members in the societv now was (1GB, exhibiting an in to the fellows, to mcke it speedily and gene-rally known, witli the view of enabling them to look out for a proper person to fill a situation of such dig investigations and discoveries, and which possesses, beyond any other nation, advantages for their prosecution and accomplishment, not merely from its superior wealth, but from the range and distribution of its commerce and colonics in every region of the globe. There is one other event to which I wish to advert previously to concluding this portion of my address to you, and which I conceive I may do with the strictest pro-piicty, as it is closely connected with tlie general interests of the Royal Society. I allude to the return of Sir John Herschel to this country, after an absence of fcveral years, devoted, from a sense of filial duty, to the completion of that great task which he felt to have been transmitted to him as an inheritance from his venerable and illustrious father. I have so often had occasion to allude, from this chair, to the merits of that distinguished person, and to ments.

I am, with very distinguished consideration, Your lordship's most obedient servant, (Signed) M. VAN BUR EN. His Excellency the Earl of Durham, till. 1'iniw, iu iT miMiiicia. nity in the scientific world, and whose occupation could not fail to be an object of honourable ambition to men of crease of 224 since 27th June last.

The receipts, including sums from governorsand subscribers had been They had 2,000. in the he bankers in the hands of the secretary 70. There were 1,196. in the course of collection. The noble earl having concluded the reading of the report, added that" this satisfactory state of the finances would jastify them in sparing no expense in the TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. the most eminent social rank, as well as tne most oistin. guished scientific attainments. I will not attempt to disguise from you, gentlemen, tho feelings and poignant regret I experienced upon taking a step that would necessarily abridge the opportunities, which I had as much TIiuii that doest the same things." 3iw.pi.) ul lhi Prp.nrnnr Knowledge oi tne laws ot England, his unrivalled acutcness and sagacity, and his perfect impartiality and love of justice have received the con Society of St. 'Mury's Parish, on the of November, 1 (ull the following choice specimens ot your copious out the city and suburbs ot London, while it was highly creditable to the tone of public feeling, had this particular feature in it, that it was felt and expressed universally among those very persons who might be supposed to be benefited by the opening of the Post-office for the delivery of letters on Sundays hear fj.

solicitors and, traders of London had almost universally declared against any further public or material infringement of the rest of the Sabbath, and in the hosts of memorialists were to be found men of every variety of christian creed and diversity of political opinion hear, hear, That this movement, was not one of party spirit was evident from the fact that amongst those pro-minent in this expression of opinion were some of the most ardent friends, and some also of the most determined opponents, of the present administration. As a friend of the present government he took on himself, as far as he could ascertain the grounds of the general feeling, to deny in tlio strongest manner that it had any thing whatever to do with Dartv Durooscs rhear, hear Ho regretted that. express the respect winch telt tor nis great attainments, the pride with which I cherished his friendship, the deep interest which I took in his labours, and my admiration of the truly modest and philosophical spirit vOCilbllliUV: Wliv it was only this niornine we saw a letter from enjoyed as I had highly prized, of being brought officially into frequent and familiar contact with the most distinguished philosophers of my own or other countries, and of employing whatever influence my station in society enabled me to exert in advocating the just claims and men of science, in promoting the objects of their labours, in fostering and encouraging their mutual cooperation and intercourse, and in endeavouring to promotion of agricultural knowledge at the same time they should be as economical as they could where expense was not essential hear, The Chaibman next read the award of prizes for the present year. To Mr. John Dudgeon, of Kilo, near Kelso, 50.

or a piece of plate of that value, for the best account of the improvements which have taken place in the agriculture of Scotland since the formation of the Highland Society. To the Rev. W. Ram, of Wingfield, Berkshire, for the best account of the cheapest and simplest processes for analyzing soils, 20 sovereigns or a piece of plate. A gold medal had been offered for the best account of the origin and progress of.

the black caterpillar, and of the best mode of preserving the turnip from its depre in which they were conducted, that I should be guilty of a very superfluous repetition of what I have before addressed to you, if I ventured to enlarge upon them now but I should ill discharge my duty, whilst still entitled to address you as the official head of hut miserable, two-legged, fcatherless animal London-jerry loud laughter and cheers. Did any of you sec that 'letter? Why, no poor wretched featherlcss creature, fsrcj'l himself, could exhibit such a paltry production bfjr, hear 1 and cheers. Why, baboon taken out of the Zoological gardens would write a much better letter. a Ivil.nm-. Tiituc nhle nnimnl in pnmnnrisnn with Lull.

current acknowledgment and admiration of men of all parties. The Rev. Thomas Catton, Senior Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, was in early life a schoolfellow of Lord Nelson, of whose talents or character, however, he retained no very vivid impressions he became a member of the University in 1 777, and when he took his degree in 1781, he was fourth Wrangler and first Smith's Prizeman, a discrepancy in the result of two similar examinations, which is said to have led to the adoption of some regulations preventing their recurrence in future. In the year I8(K) he became one of the public tutors of hiseollege, in conjunction with its present venerable and distinguished master, and secured, in a very uncommon degree, the respect and love of his pupils, by his skill and knowledge as a teacher, and by his kind and vigilant attention to their interests he quitted the tuition in 1810, and for the remainder of his the scientific establishment of this country, it omitted soothe- the violence of personal or national jealousies, whenever they unfortunately existed, by bringing them together in social or other meetings, where the discussion of topics of irritation could be either suppressed or controlled, and where imaginary prejudices would disappear under the softening operation of reciprocal knowledge and experience.

But though deprived for a season, by my retirement, of some of the highest privileges I havo hitherto exercised and enjoyed, yet I do not abandon the hope of being still able to maintain and cultivate the very to avail myself of this or any ether opportunity of ex. pressing the gratification which I experienced in June last, when called upon to preside at that great convention of the most eminent men who adorn our country, who combined together with such singular unanimity and enthusiasm to pay their homage to science and knowledge, and those great interests with which their cultivation and progress are connected, by paying so signal a tribute of respect and honour to the most accomplished and the most devoted of our living philosophers. 1 feel assured, gentlemen, that the proceedings of that memorable day will produce marked and du life he devoted himself, almost exclusively, to the cultiva (liir.derry renewed laughter. Why, as a politician, the Mloiv is most ridiculous hear, hear I. Why, in that, letter the man actually refuses to join the Duke of Lein-sdr in procuring employment for the poor people I do not quote this passage from your speech to criticise the style.

Were it your cue to chastise the noble marquess like a gentleman, few possess the art of laying on she lush with a more silken sound. But, doubtless, you deemed the cudgel nn instrument better suited to the time and place. You know well what strain will best tictle i he ears you happen to be addressing and the frequent cheering and shouts of laughter with which this 1.. nl.n.n 4Un .11.1 nnf 'linnoirfAOC tlf valuable and delightful friendships which nave thus, fortunately for myself, been enabled to form during the tion ot practical and theoretical astronomy, having suc ceeded to Mr. Ludlam in tho management of the observatory, which is placed over one of the interior dations, and 20.

or a piece of plate of that valuo for the best essay on the present state of agricultural mechanics, and on the improvement of which the various implements now in use might be susceptible but the essays sent in had not. been deemed worthy of prizes. The" Chairman wished prize writers to understand that not even the judges nor any member of the committee knew the names of the unsuccessful competitors. The mode of sending in prizes was this Each competitor marked his essay with a motto, and also sent a sealed note, inscribed with the same motto, containing his name and address. When an essay was pronounced to be the best, the note was opened that the writer might be known.

Tha notes of the unsuccessful writers were never opened thus complete secrecy was established. The Chairman was then requested to read the prizes that were to be given at the meeting in Oxford. They after (he impression which had been naturally given by the evidence of some of the Post-office officials before the parliamentary committee in favour of the delivery of let-ters on Sundays, the report that the measure was immediately contemplated had not been denied by the authorities at an earlier period. But it would be well, at all events, tor the corporation to express a strong opinion on the subject, which might naturally assist in preventing any future proceeding of the kind that had been so generally apprehended hear, hear I. Mr.

Andf.iiton said that if the court were to give crodit to the correspondence on the subject, there could bo no ground for supposing that the chango was contemplated. He considered it, therefore, quite unnecessary to persevere with the motion, and moved the previous question. Deputy Corney said it was quite an error to suppose that al! idea of alteration was given up. The letter to the Lord Mayor promised that the subject should undergo gateways of tlie college. He possessed a most accurate knowledge ol the theory and use of astronomical in- period ol my connexion with you, by seizing every occasion, when presented to me, of appearing at the meetings of the Royal Society, and by co-operating with its members, to the utmost extent of my limited means, in furthering those objects that may be considered to be most important for the advancement of the interests of science.

I am afraid, however, gentlemen, that I have already trespassed unreasonably upon your time and attention in endeavouring to explain to you the motives of my conduct, and to express, though most inadequately, stuments, and was a most scrupulouj and skilful observer, and he was known to have left behind a very large mass of observations, particularly of occulations. most rable effects upon the scientific prospects ot our country by proving that pre-eminent merit will meet with sympathy, at least, if not with reward, and as offering sure and unequivocal indications both of the power and direction of public opinion amongst the most cultivated and enlightened classes of society and it was chiefly as an expression of the deference paid by the government of this country to the opinions and wishes of the scientific world, that I rejoiced in being authorised and requested by the Prime Minister of the Crown to offer to Sir John Herschel the rank of baronet, on the occasion of the coronation of her Majesty, though well convinced that such I I Ul I 13 I II 111 111 UVU 111 111' ull li IIUI II UIO limits of good taste and good manners without, effect. Bat lain desirous to cull your attention to the (round of your attack upon Lord Londonderry, and to implore you to consider what a weight of responsibility rests at their door who, with far greater power than that insignificant iioWcnmn can possess to obstruct the progress of im-prmeniriit, are found lubouiing in the same cause with iiini. l.oi'll I.nlldonilerre ri.fiwp imnn trnlv nVmird Mid Hit- carefully detailed and recorded. Mr.

Catton was a man of very courteous manners and most amiable character, and possessed of a very extensive acquaintance both with literature and science. He died in the month of January last, in the eightieth year of his age, deeply regretted by the members of the college in which he had passed the greatest part of his life. Mr. Henry Earie, one of the senior surgeons of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, was the son of one Yesterday a court was held for tlie dispatch of business.

THE NEW CITY POLICE FORCE. The Loan Mayoh, in answer to questions put, and observations made by sonic of tlie members relative to the usual appointment of constables on St. Thomas's Day, said it waB desirable that it should be publicly known, that although he had issued his precept for the election of the usual wardoflicers, it was not intended that the constables so elected should be sworn in. There could be no objection to the gentlemen (elected in turn) who might wish to serve by substitute presenting the names of those who they were desirous should represent them, in order that, the wardmotes might approve such aubsti-tutcs but. it was wished by the Court of Aldermen that a gentleman should not be called upon to pay ten pounds for a substitute when his services were not likely to be called for hear, hear I.

The new police not yet having come into operation, it was not thought right by the magistrates to abolish the old constitutional force until the efficiency of the new city police should be tested, and the propriety of uch resolution was already apparent, as there existed doubts whether the new force would be ready by the 25th, the day appointed for commencing under the new bill. Ht (the Lord Mayor) did not entertain any doubt af. nil upon the subject, and the citizens ought net to be alarmed for, provided the new police were found to be efficient, the old ward-officers would not be called out; but, supposing such a necessity to arise, it could only be by his (the Lord Mayor's) precept, and he should take care that the persons elected should havesuflicient notice tocnablo them tohave theirsub3tituteB sworn 'n. With regard to the observations, that in one of the wards it. was not intended to appoint any constable, he hoped that the authorities of that ward would be carefully advised on the subject.

He had issued to all the wards the usual precept, and any ward refusing to obey might be considered refractory, and would be answerable for any consequence that might result from such neglect or omission. It was also very desirable that there should be one uniform mode of proceeding through the whole of the wards. If the deputies would desire the ward clerks to obey the precept and proceed as usual, mistakes would be prevented. A question having been asked in relation to the circular sent to each ward from the police committee to consider the propriety of applying to the court of aldermen to reduce the ward constables to one, sueh circular could not have been legally considered at a ward meeting, the act requiring that it should undergo consideration af a wardmote. St.

Thomas's day would therefore supply a very fit and proper opportunity for entertaining the question. After which application might be made to the Court of Aldermen, according te the form prescribed by the act, when the subject, which was one of great importance, might be considered in all its bearings fhcar I. IRISHMEN ELIGIBLE AS CITY POLICEMEN. Mr. Galloway, after expressing his disgust at the illiberally ol refusing to employ Irishmen in the new City police force, said he had been informed that a respectable person from the sister kingdom hud been rejected, merely because he happened to be a native of hat country.

He had himself recommended the individual alluded to and lie wished to be informed publicly by members of the com-inittee whether there were grounds for the charge? Mr. Stevens declared that no such resolution had nn snnh notice had been made, and no such feel an accession of social rank was not required to give dignity would be ten sovereigns, or apiece of plate of that value, for the best account of the advantages of drawing turnips from tho land and conserving them In houses or yards. Ten sovereigns, or a piece of plate, for the best essay on the comparative advantages of wheel and spring ploughs the society's gold medal for the beat account of the formation and management of water meadows, founded on actual experience. Twenty sovereigns or a piece of plate for the best account of the must approved varieties nf wheat, hitherto introduced into England. Twenty so Wrul mounds, to end his countenance to a number of to one whose name is written in the imperishable records of the great system of the universe.

It would ill become mature deliberation, mat snowed tnat inc party entertained a strong fueling to carry the whole hog if they wero not checked as they advanced, although Mr. Mabeiley had said nothing to the particular point. The other communication, in his opinion, very plainly indicated the disposition to commence an inroad of which advantage might be afterwards taken in order to accomplish the entire object sought for he meant the transmission of letters through the Post-office on Sundays. No doubt that would be a considerable accommodation to the people of Scotland, who were, for their parts, extremely univillinsr to eive anv accommodation in return for al me, while gratefully acknowledging my sense of your past kindnesses towards myself, to venture to refer to the name of my presumed successor in the chair of my grateful sense of the kindness which I have invariably cxperieneedfrom you. I shall, therefore, now proceed to the more immediate subject of this address, which is to notice some of the most important proceedings of the society which have taken place during the last year.

The address voted to her Majesty by the president and council of the Royal Society, on the Queen's accession to tiro throne, embodying likewise a petition to her Majesty to become the patroness of the Society, and to continue to it tho grant of the medals which had been instituted by King George the Fourth and regranted by William the Fourth, as well as the gracious reply of the Sovereign, transmitted through the Secretary of State for the Home Department, have been already communicated to you at one of the weekly meetings of the society (June 21, 1838). On the 20th of June last, the president and council were summoned to attend at the Palace of St. James's, to witness her Majesty's signature in our charter-book, as patroness of our society. I availed myself of the occasion thuB presented to me ts vereigns or a piece of plate for the best account of the cheapest way of keeping farm harses, both in winter and Tl, nnlrl mnitnl mul 2.V. ftir 1 1)0 bfiSt summer.

1 he sncietv fl eoid account of rural economy abroad. 20. or a piece of plate though at Glasgow they would be very glad to receive the favour, a man could not procure there on Sunday nn nnnnrtunitv of travelling a few miles in a stage coach. He for the best account of stall-feeding cattle, wl. or a ninne of nlnt.i fnr the best account, founded on actual ex this society in any terms wmcli mignt do interpreted as an undue anticipation of the result of this day's proceedings, or as appearing to interfere with the free use of the franchise which every Fellow possesses, and is expected and required to exercise but I cannot be ignorant of the various accomplishments, the courteous and unassuming manners, tho warmth of heart and active benevolenee which distinguished the nobleman who has been nominated by the council and I rejoice most sincerely that the society posscses amongst its members, as a candidate for your suffrages, one so well qualified to preside at your meetings, and to watch over your interests.

Amongst the deceased members, I find twenty-seven on the home, and very eminent surgeon, Mr James Earlc, and the grandson of another, Mr. Percivai Pott. He was the author of many valuable articles in different medical journals, and likewise of two papers in our Transactions; one detailing (he result of a very novel and difficult surgical operation, and the other on the mechanism of the spine, which were published in 1822 and 1823. Mr. Earle was considered to be one of the most skilful and scientific surgeons of his age, and was justly esteemed by his professional and other friends not merely for his great acquirements, but for his kindness of heart and upright and honourable ciiaracter.

John Lloyd Williams, formerly British resident at Benares, was the author of three short papers in our Transactions in the year 1793; two of them upon the method of making ice at Benares, by means of extremely porous and shallow evaporating pans of unglazed earthenware, placed upon dry straw or sugar cane and the last furnishing additional descriptions of the great quadrants and gnomon in the observatory at Benares, which had been described in a paper in our Transactions in 1777 bv Sir Robert Barker. The foreign members whom the so-cicty has lost during the last year, arc Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch, of Boston, in America Messrs. Dulong and Frederick Cuvier, of Paris and Dr. Martin van Marum, of Haarlem.

Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch. of Boston, in thn had not the slightest doubt that if any the slightest infringement were allowed, the whole evil at first intended would be ultimately carried into effect. Thoso who were willing would be the only persons obliged with t.liplr letters on Sundav. but soon would thev be followed address the Queen in your name, and to assure her Ma- by those who objected to the change as a desecration of iestv that we felt bound by the obligations of our charter, the Sabbath, trom tne apprenension oi we uuusvqucuui-a nf lute information I hear, hear 11.

The stockbrokers would soon begin to operate on their Sunday letters, and tlio ilnv nf rest, would be altogether destroyed. as well as by the recollection of our foundation, to look up to the Sovereign of these realms as our patron and protector; that we most gratefully acknowledged the assurances which her Majesty had conveyed to us through her minister the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the continuance of the same support periment, of the comparative qualities of winter and summer made manure. 10. or a piece of plate for the best mode of compost-heaps. The noble earl desired it to be understood that perhaps some alteration might be made in this list.

The Rev. Mr. Smithies, of Worcestershire, recommended that a prize of twenty guineas should be offered for the best variety of wheat of the exhibitor's own propa. gating. He remarked that the farmers were no where so imposed on as in the advertisements of quack vegetables.

Here the rev. gentleman denounced with much warmth and amidst general laughter a certain species of cow cabbage which the newspapers had announced as infallible, but which he1 had seen when planted turn out a complete failure, and a humbug. The reverend gentleman then moved a resolution, embodying his suggestion respecting wheat. Mr. Milliard, of Northamptonshire, seconded the motion.

Mr. Baiiker supported the motion, which finally stood Mr. Pkwthf.hs said that, in his opinion, whatever the state of Massachusetts, in America, was born at Salem, in authorities might say, they certainly did intend to go further than they now contemplated hear, A gentleman whom he knew to be well informed on the subject of what was passing at the west end of the town, expressed to him a hearty wish that the subject should be discussed in the city, as he believed that the change was moant to he persevered in. In fact, it rested with the Postmaster-General to give the order m1 tlie thin? was done. He believed, from Mr.

Baring's and favour as had been always accorded to us by the sovereigns of the kingdom, and likewise the signification of her Majesty's intention of renewing the grant of the wo medals which had been instituted by one and confirmed by another of her Majesty's Royal uncles and predecessors, accompanied by her gracious permission to propose such modification and amendments in the statutes tne same state, in 1773; he was removed from school at the age often years to assist his father in his trade as a cooper, and was indebted for all his subsequent acquisitions, iiiuiuuuiu me iiuun unu some niuacrn languages, anu a profound knowledge of mathematics and astronomv. entirely four on the foreign list, including some very considerable names. I shall now proceed to notice such of their number as have been most distinguished for their scientific labours, for their public services, or for their encouragement and patronage of science and the arts. Thomas Andrew Knight, of Downton Castle, Herefordshire, the president of the Horticultural Society of London, to the establish, ment and success of which he so greatly contributed, was born in tho year 1758. He was educated at Ludlow school, and afterwards became amembcr of Baliol College, Oxford.

From his earliest years he appears to have shown a predominant taste for experimental researches in gardening and vegetable physiology, which the immediate and uncontrolled possession of an ample fortune gave him every opportunity of indulging: proposing to himself, in fact, as one of the great objects of his life to effect improvements in the productions of the vegetable kingdom, by new modes of culture, by the impregnation of different varieties of the same species, and various other expedients commensurate with those which had already been effected by agriculturists and others in the animal kingdom by a careful selection of parents, by judicious crossing, and by the avoidance of too close an alliance of breeds. In the year 1795 he contributed to our Transactions his first, and, perhaps, his most important paper, on the transmissions whieh had been provided for their distribution, as would ing had ever existed, as that the Irish should be excluded letter, that it was the intention to increase the labours of to his own exertions, unaided by any instruction whatever. tend most effectually to promote the advancement of no occame aitorwards a clerk to a stun chandler, where his taste lor astronomy first showed itself, and was sufficiently advanced to enable him to master the rules for from the city ponce fencers noiiiwg iniui-im absurd was for a moment contemplated, and he was con-vinced that there was not a man in the court who would not be ashamed of such a suspicion hear, hear I. Two other members ef the committee confirmed the statement of Mr. Stevens.

Mr Jai.loway said that such a statement had been palmitic individuals, who are anxious to promote a system of railway in Ireland, the immediate effect of which would to afford abundant employment to the indigent population, while it would undoubtedly conduce to the permanent advantage and prosperity of all classes. He will lime nothing to do with such a project, because he differs in political opinions with the Duke of Leinster and ioiiu other promoters of it because, being a hater of the ipoor-laiv, ho will not aid in lightening its burden by so much as a little finger; because the present government likely to liavo hand in it; and because where the people are unemployed they are turbulent and intractable to the laws. It is a melancholy subject of reflection that so crooked and perverse an intellect as this most noble personage possesses should form a part and parcel of the wisdom of the nation. But his refusal to cooperate in the plan submitted to him by the Duke of H-einstcr will do ho positive injury. With every disposition to be mischievous, he is really a very harmless person and the proposed works may go on without his help and in spite of his opposition, just as well as if he were among their most zealous supporters.

The obstacles, however, which you arc throwing in the wa of the improvement of your country is of a more character. You know that no great public undertaking, requiring the expenditure oflargesums of money, can be contemplated in Ireland, without the aid of the British capitalist and further, that the proposal of a general systcvi of railways is quite a visionary and hopeless project without the co-operation of the British nation. To talk, therciore, of securing that co-operation, or of inducing moneyed men to transfer their capital from England, and invest it i'o an undertaking of such a nature that it cannot be brought back again, but. must necessarily remain for ever in Ireland, while in the same breath you disseminate hostile feelings against the English name and nation-while you chuckle at having jockeyed the people of this country out of one million ulready, and talk ol repealing the union, not without significant allusions, borrowed from the case of Belgium, to the yams to be acquired by a separation. Why, sir! must be plain with you-thi's is just as if you should invite Master Jolm Bull to come over to Ireland to be robbed.

You are a much more effective, though possibly not a more willing, obstructor of the employment of the peor people" than Lord Londonderry himself. 1 will not go beyond the speech' from which 1 have taken the above extract for proofs of the mischievous tendency of your present agitation. There I find you apologising to the precursors for delaying for one moment to agitate for a repeal of the union," declaring that vou ought to Mush for looking for anything less that if you raited that shout the hurra for repeal it would In? responded to by every man in the country, from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear, from the Hill of Howth to Cunnemara;" and, finally, expressing your conviction that "after all your exertions, you will be forced to emi by looking for it." You know right well, sir, as i eonfi-dentlv as you pretend to (eel upon the subject, that trie hurrah or repeal is now a brutum fulmtn-aa absolute humbug; and that the shout which you talk of raising from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear, from Cunnemara to the Hill of Howth, will scarcely serve to swell the funeral howl of your Precursor Society, whenever being no longer wanted-it shall please )u ,0 lay 'n the grave aloiw with its numerous predecessors. il.nt in which It Will science, and would most certainly accomplish the liberal and patriotic views and intention of their royal founders. I further ventured to advert to tho close connection which oxists between the cultivation of science and the arts, and the progress and development of the great elements of the prosperity and happiness of nations, and to express tho calculation of a lunar eclipse and his subsequent mv earnest hope and prayer that the triumphs of the servants of the cstablisliment near, near uuu heard the subject very generally discussed, and he had not heard one person speck in favour fori'.

There was no doubt that a Sunday delivery would open new temptations to servants to rob their employers, and it. became a paramount, duty of that court, to oppose any changes at all in the established system. Sheriff' Wood very warmly contended against the apprehended change. England owed to the manner in which the Sabbath was kept her hi 'h moral superiority to other nations. Mr.

Anoeivton then withdrew his amendment; nnd after a few words from other members in favour of the motion of Mr. Baylis, it was carried. Adjourned. occupation as- supercargo in a merchant vessel sailing from Salem to the East Indies, led naturally to the further development of his early tastes, by the active and assiduous study of those departments of that great and comprehensive science which arc most immediately subservient to the purposes of navigation. It was owing to tho reputation which he had thus acquired for his great knowledge of nautical astronomy, that he was employed by the booksellers to revise several successive editions of mnde in a letter to the editor of a newspaper, and the impression had gone abrond very generally.

He hoped, however, that the positive contradiction whieh had been given to the charge would be published as an antidote to the mischief of the accusation. It may be proper to state that Mr. Whithair, the superintendent of the city police under the new bill, never contemplated anything so nonsensical. He, however, considers himself bound to reject applicants wherever they may have been born, if they happen to exceed the ne beyond which the bill declares that candidates shall iin.i no.i it i nid that the renort which SO over for the consideration of the committee. Mr.

Hodges, M.P., to ask what were the intentions of the committee as to prizes for encouraging the best qualities of wool. The Chairman replied that the committee in deciding upon the merits of sheep would include the wool as part of the merits hear, hear A Gentleman said the wool should be produced on i he sheep. The Chaibman said that it would be difficult to pro-duce wool on the sheep at the meeting in Oxford on the 17th of July next. Still it would be expected that the exhibitors, by having sheared their sheep a good while before hand, would allow the committee an oppoitunity of forming an opinion of the quality of the fleece from the state of the wool then growing on th sheep's back. As for fleeces not attached to sheep, but professing to belong to them laughter, he apprehended that it would be dangerous to decide on such evidence.

A Gentleman said it would do for the judges at Ox-ford to find one lack of wool on a sheep Lhoar, hear The Chairman had seen this done with sheep intonded to go abroad. He need not Buy the wool was left behind the shoulders laughter. A Gentleman said he thought a farmer ought to be believed if he produced wool and a sheep, and said, upon his honour, that the wool had been grown upon the sheep. The Chairman recommended the question to be left te the committee. In the course of a brief inquiry which followed it was oi tne diseases ol decay ano old cge ot tne parent tree to all its descendants propagated by grafting or layers, being the result of experiments which had already been long continued and very extensively varied, and whieh developed views of the greatest importance and novelty in the economy of practical gardening, and likewise of very great interest in vegetable physiology.

This paper was succeeded by more than twenty olhcis, chiefly written between the years 1799 and 1812, containing the details of its most ingenious and alarmed Mr. Galloway was made upon the authority of an Ir sh gent einan to wuom imsoujucuoii upin. "THP AlMCIRNT CITY WATCHMEN. Thk Christmas Gbkat Market. -The sup- ply of fat cattle and sheep this yenr, both at the show in Goswell-street and at, Sinithfield, exceeds the supplies of ninny years in number and quality.

Of late years the cattle show has been on the decline, but it has now redeemed its ancient character, and since Friday the show-yard has been crowded. Sir Charles Knightley, who it, if not the first grazier in England, certainly second to nobody, had sixteen most extraordinary animals at Smith-field (for he never sends any to the show), eight, oxen, weighing to the butcher about 200 stone each, and eight heifers, weighing on the average 100 stone each. Indeed, so many fine beasts were probably never bufore seen in original experimental researches on the ascent and descent' A net it ion was presented from some old watchmen of 1 I 1 11 nnt.rl nr. IDIll'll Tower ward, wno nan iniignuu ii; about to be cast oil', after having spent the best of their days in the service of their fellow citizens. The petition prayed that the coutt would consider that without the aid of the corporation they must become utterly destitute.

Mr. R. Taylor said there could be no doubt ef the claim of many of the individuals who had served as watchmen. In his ward he knew of three watchmen, each of whom had served for twenty ears, and stood no chance of a situation now that tlie new bill passed. Poverty, of course, stared them in the face.

It had been stated that the new police system would save the citizens many thousands. If that were the case, there could be ne.dis. inclination to spare to those old and faithful servants some support during the few remaining years they had to Hamilton Moore's Practical Navigator," which he afterwards replaced by an original work on the same subject, remarkable far the clearness and conciseness of its rules, for its numerous and comprehensive tables, the greatest part of which he had himself recalculated and refrained, and for its perfectly practical character as a manual of navigation this work, which has boen repub. lished in this country, has been for many years almost exclusively used in the United States of America. Dr.

Bowditch having been early elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and at Boston, commenced the publication of a series of communications in the memoirs of that society, which speedily established his reputation as one of the first astronomers and mathematicians of America, and attracted likewise the favour-able notice of men of science in Europe. During the last twenty years of his life, Dr. Bowditch was employed as the acting president of an insurance company at Salem, and latterly also as actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, at Boston the income which he derived from these employments, and from the savings of foimer years, enabled him to abandon all other and more absorbing engagements, and to devote his leisure hours entirely to scientific pursuits. In 1815 he began his great ivoik, the translation of the Mccanique Celeste," of Laplace, the fourth nnd last volume of which was not quite completed at the time of his death. The American Academy, over which lie presided for many years, at a very early period of the progress of this very extensive and cosily undertaking, very liberally offered to defray the expense of printing it hut he preferred to publish it'from his own very limited means, and to dedicate it as a splendid and durable monument of his own labours and of tlie state of science in his country.

He died in March last, in the 65th year of his age, after a life of singular usefulness, and most laborious exertions, in the full enjoyment of every honour which his grateful country in every part of America could pay to so distinguished a fellow-citizen. Dr. Uowditch's transition of the great work of Laplace is a production of much labour, and of no ordinary merit; every person who is acquainted with the original mwl be aware of the great number of steps in the demonstrations which arc left unsupplicd, in many cases comprehending tlie entire processes which connect tho enunciation ol the propositions with the concisions, and the constant reference which is made, both tacit ami expressed, to results and both understood that a prize would be given to the grazier exhibiting the ten best store oxen. Several additional members were announced. The Duke of Richmond proposed a vote of thanks to Earl Spencer, who had takeu a great deal of pains in the formation of the society, and had given them his valuable services since hear, hear Mr.

Cayley, M.P., seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. The Chairman returned thanks. He certainly was very anxious for the success of the society, and should endeavour, as much as ho could, to promote it hear, hear He believed they were all aware that nothing could give him greater pleasure than the knowledge that he stood well in the opinion of the English people generally, but more particularly in the good opinion of the farmers cheers The meeting then adjourned until next May. Muredly end, that is, nothing, is grievously retarding the t. nthpi nations advance ol vour country in me pum 1.

tin, mtnih of the Insll are emuioumy travelling. i l-. .1 indniin nr the Dursuit people lor me sodct iiiuugiiis of attainable realities; and it inspires the British public the arts of peace and commerce, which had so signally marked the beginning of her Majesty's reign, might be continued without intermission to its distant conclusion. The Queen having received the address in the most gracious manner, was pleased to sign her august and royal name in our chatter book as patroness of the Royal Society; after which the officers and different members of the conncil were presented by mo to her Majesty, and had the honour of kissing her Majesty's hand. The alterations in the laws for the distribution of the royal medals, which her Majesty was graciously pleased to authorise and permit, have been made by a committee of the council appointed for that purpose, und have since received the especial sanction und approbation of her Majesty.

They arc directed to be given hereafter to such papers, and to such papers only, as have been presented to the society, or inserted in itsTransactions.wilhin three years of the date of the award and they are to be awarded to departments of science whose order of succession is defined by a cycle of three years, comprising in the first astioiiomy and physiology, in the second physics and geology, and in the third mathematics and chemistry. And it is further added and commanded that no departure from this order of succession shall be allowed, unless it shall appear that no memoir of sufficient merit to be en-titled to such an honour shall have been presented to the society within the period aforenamed in which case, and in which case only, it shall be competent for the council, with the approbation of her Majesty, to award the medal to one of those branches of science which are comprehended in the cycle of the preceding year. 1 trust, gentlemen, that these laws for the distribution of the royal medals, if strictly adhered to and judiciously administered, will be und to stimulate the exertions of men of science, by securing to their labours, when inserted in our Transactions, that certain and peiiodical revision which they are naturally so anxious to obtain and by signalising any remarkable investigation or notable discovery by the marked and prompt approbation of those persons in this country who are most likely to be able to judge of its value. It was partly for the furtherance of the s'ame'great object, which was proposed in framing the statutes for the award of the royal medals, so as to secure to each branch of science in succession its due amount of notice and encouragement, that the council have determined to establish permanent committees of science. They are composed of a selection of those fellows of the society who are known to have devoted their attention, in a more especial manner, to those departments of science to which they are severally assigned, and to whom all questions connected with such branches are proposed to be referred, including the selection of the memoirs to which the royal medals shall be given.

The council have thought proper, likewise, in the formation of these committees, to enlarge the number of the sciences, which form the medallic cycle above referred to, from six to eight, by separating the science of meteorology from that of physics, and the science of bo-tany and the laws o'f vegetable organization and life, from that of zoology and animal physiology. 1 sincerely rejoice, gentlemen, in the adoption of this arrangement, as I think it admirably calculated to give a more marked and specific distinction to those sciences which the fellows of the Royal Society are bound more especially, by the obligations of the charter, to cultivate, and as tending, likewise, to bring those persons who are engaged in common pursuits into more frequent intercourse with each other, and thus to afford them increased opportunities of appreciating their mutual labours, of devising new and important trains of investigation, as well as of securing with distrust and suspicion ol hostus I -a ilnniini, hllAnO Of WUr Jinerpret your tnreats 01 repem uci.u..v. mid no wonder that, they should, when your own valued r. rvrVninoll the "Kinsman and Irieiul, ir. oiinm- Eanis dinner, on the 18th of last month, thus declare, youriifimurum in vour own favourite phraseology ine answer (of the British people to Mr.

O'Connell deniand of equal justice) should be in the negative, Mr. 0 Connell would then have no alternative but to return to his .1 ,1. uunnn of rer.eal Irom ot tlie sap trees; on the oihees and origin oi tne alburnam and bark on the phenomena of germination; on the functions of leaves on the influence of light and upon many other subjects, constituting a series of facts and of deductions from them, which have excrcisad the most marked influence upon the progress of our knowledge of this most important department of the laws of vegetable organization and life. Mr. Knight succeeded Sir Joseph Banks in the presidency of the Horticultural Society, and contribute no fewer than one hundred and fourteen papers to the different volumes of its transactions; these contii-butions embrace almost every variety of subject connected with horticulture; such as the production of new and improved varieties of fruits and vegetables the adoption of new modes of grafting, planting, and training fruit-trees; the construction of forcing frames and hot houses; the economy of bees, and many other questions of practical gardening, presenting the most important results of his very numerous and well devised experiments.

Mr. Knight was a person of very great activity of body and mind, and of singular perseverance and energy in the pursuit of his favourite science he was a very lucid and agreeable writer, und it would be difficult to name any other contemporary author in this or other countries who has made such important additions to our knowledge of horticulture and the economy of vegetation. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, the owner of the beautiful domain of Stourhead in Wiltshire, was the author of many valuable historical and topographical works, and more especially of the history of his native county, presenting so numerous and such sf-lcndid funereal and other monuments of the primitive inhabitants of Great Britain, which he investigated with a perseverance and success unrivalled by any other antiquary. The early possession of an ample fortune, nnd of all the luxuries of his noble residence, seem to have stimulated rather than checked the more ardent pursuit of thoso favourite studies which occupied his almost exclusive attention for more than filly jcars of his life and he was at all times, both by his co-operation and patronage, ready to aid other labourers in tlie same field which he had himself cultivated ith so much success and industry. Sir Richard Hoare was a icry voluminous original author, and on a great variety of subjects.

He-printed a catalogue of his unique collection of books relating to tho history and topography of Italy, the whole of which he presented to the British Museum, to which he was, on other occasions, a liberal benefactor. He likewise published editions of many of our ancient chronicles, and it is only to be lamented that one who has contributed under so many forms to our knowledge of antiquity, and who presents so many claims to the grateful commemoration of the friends of literature and the arts, should have been influenced so any one market. The value of the stock at bmiltiiicld may be calculated at from 190,000. to 200,000. fii enino paper.

Athens. Athens has become a heterogeneous anomaly the Greeks in their wild costume are jostled in the streets by Englishmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Dutchmen, Spaniards, Bavarians, Russians, Danes, and some-times Americans. European shops invite purchasers by the side Eastern bazaars, coffee-houses, and billiard rooms, nnd French and German restaurants are opened all over the city. Sir Pulteney Malcolm has erected a house to hire naar the site of Plato's Academy. Lady Franklin has bought land near the foot of Mount Hymet-tus, for a country seat.

Several English gentlemen have done the same. Mr. Richmond, an American clergyman, has purchased a farm in the neighbourhood and in a few years, if the march of improvement" continues, tho Temple of Theseus will be enclosed in the garden of the palace of King Otho the Temple of "the Winds will be concealed by a German opera-house, and the Lantern of Demosthenes by a row of three-story houses." Incidents of Travel. Feigning Illness in thk Streets. On Monday a fellow was sent to Bridewell for one month from Guildhall, for feigning fits in the street to excite charity.

Mr. Bradford, surgeon, of Fleet-street, discovered the trick, and detailed some of the practices of these impos-tors. He said he had given wine and money to one im-poslor, who dyed his hands and face with walnut liquor, or some other preparation, so as to give him a pitiable, jaundiced, debilitated appearance. This fellow could invert liis eyes and assume convulsive movements that might deceive anybody but he played this trick off in' various parts of the town, and was not known to be an impostor. He pleaded grcat'distress, and always wanted a little money, and to be sent home in a couch.

You should try bleeding with these people, said Sir Peter Laurie Mr. Bradford said that had not escaped him, but on "hearing of the lancet they always recovered. He one day found a woman who had imposed on him in the shon of another apothecary, with a mob at the door, and on proposing to cut all her hair off she instantly jumped up and knocked the scissors out of his hand. Australian Aristocracy, Serjeant M'Uer-mnit late aOth, a settler in Sydney, received an mvita-Uon io one Lady Gipps' balls, in that colony, but it having been ascertahiedThat Mr. M'Dermott had been a non-commissioned officer, he was put out of the assembly, Chtmiek.

uiieu counuy, and raise inc the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear, and from the Hill ol 11. I. "ui 10 i.unnemaia. 1 1 rut ln.1.0 vnu to av 111 live hear, hear Mr. Pewtbess said that the question was one of great importance and difficulty.

He agreed in the principle of granting assistance, but recommended very cautious pro-ceedings in investigating tlie claims of candidates. The ouestion was referred to a committee. PROJECTED CITY IMPROVEMENTS. Mr R. L.

Jones said he had a petition to present on the subject of improving a part of the city, which all admi ted wanted improvement greatly-Holborn-h. 11 rhear hear II. There was one thing in the petition which in a ve Particular manner recommended it-no money wJ Tasked hear, hear and a laugh It sought of the that they would not 'Pr liamcnt. It was true there was another plan before Kar-M which appeared to to be less ca cuh to injure the trade of the vicinity, but the pre en project appeared to him to be capable of being oorr ud no flwt much less cost. Parliament, however would deudt which was the more eligible; and, perhaps, would fa our the project he now introduced, as it did not imoue a qUTtiUoTywhichwas from George Ross Esq of Chatham-place, Blackfriurs, was then; reat 1.

The fo low. ing is an abstract That your petitioner ha for some time past devoted his unwearied attention tc the accom-ph hnient of a considerable improvement in this city one ndeed, the most useful and important perhaps of which is susceptible, namely, the construe ion of newand nnnriv level street, to commence directly opposite io Newgate-It ecrin the Old Bailey, and from thence pro-cocdins In a straight line to terminate at the top of Fet-ZlZ in Holborn, whereby the present acknow- ue war-whoop of repeal! qualification of that expression of your afleotionateJiMM-! I suppose, nothing lor In this same speech yours in Denmark-street you go Improvements in Westminster. Notices have been served upon the tradesmen and other persons occupying tenements between Westminster-abbey and Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, at the instance of the Westminster Improvement Company, who state in such notice that it is their intention to apply to Parliament in tho ensuing session for leave to bring in a bill for forming certain new squares, streets, and terraces, within the said district, and requiring the persons upon whom such notice is served to give his or hor assent or dissent to the proposed proceedings on or before the 1st day January, 1839. Education in Germany. The facility with which the highest education may be obtained in Germany naturally introduces into the arena of life an immense proportion of candidates for its higher prizes, too many of whom obtain disappointment, if not entire destitution while not a few bury their obscure heartburnings in the chance pittance afforded by foreign countries, already overstocked with aspirants of indigenous origin.

Thus, in the course of ten recent years, the number of Protestant clergymen has doubled in Prussia, and the Roman Catholic priesthood has the lawyers have increased, one-fourth, but the doctors in medicine only one-seventh. How many of those now employed must accordingly die or retreat, in order to make room for the forthcoming In the smaller states of Germany the prospect is still more disheartening. Hawhins's Germany. ivugui 01 adopting it yourself. At least fervent aspiration for a f.

trial at arms ople of England. This is really as f'diculous thing i the politics of Lord Londonderry. Speaking of the disparity in numbers between the representatives ol Great firitain and of Ireland, you proceed .1 1 notishman l- uiey none tins on the principle iual to five Irishmen, or tiiat one Englishman weult five 1 then would try is en teat .1 analytical und mechanical, which arc co-cxtensivc with the entire range of known mathematical science but in Dr. Bowdilch's very elaborate commentary every deficient step is supplied, every suppressed demon-st ration is introduced, every reference explained, and illustrated and a work which the labours of an ordinary life could hardly master, is rendered accessible to every reader who is acquainted with the principles of the differential nnd intern! calculus, and in possession of even an elementary knowledge of statistical and dynamical principles. When wc consider the circumstances of Dr.

Bowditch's early life, the obstacles which opposed his progress, the steady perseverance with which he overcame them, and the courage with which he ventured to expose the mysteriou treasures of that sealed book which had hitherto onl been approached by those whose way had been clear iniighter and cheersl -Now, sir, when rou hold forth in sucli a strain to we of the boysoi Cole's-lanc, nnd al the Mlkoso Bmorvm in that delectable locality where agitated nn ttm ftftih lnut Nnvemher. are you not B'wieu on ttie yttth of last rvovetnuer, uik innr.felt inconvenience of tne SLof SSBXZwZZZ will effectually i Tim our netiiioncr has at his own expense Persuaded in your own mind that you have laboured with more effect in that brief hour to drive British capital from oY a 1 tn ami to prevent the usetut employment poor pe0pic than all that the greatest fool in the House ui Lords could An i. 1,: if onnorhlfvines in the do hy his and speechlfylngs eou writings ol the longest life ever given to man Cato..