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The importance of art to human happiness, I mean of course as a 

 secondary source, I am fully convinced of; and I lately met with a striking 

 passage incidentally occurring in a well-known periodical, the " Builder," 

 in wliich the writer earnestly and most truly dwelt upon the difference of 

 feeling experienced by men living in a confined, ill-built, and irregular 

 town, and those who, each day as they traversed the streets in pursuit of 

 their avocations, should perceive themselves surrounded with the produc- 

 tions of minds regulated by the study of system and order, and practised 

 to convey to their fellow-men, through the aspect of even humble edifices, 

 impressions of that beauty which they have themselves learned to delight 

 in. I wish I could have quoted the passage, but I failed to re-discover 

 it, and I can only adopt its sentiment, which I know to be real and true ; 

 and in the hope that its truth, and the entire possibility of what it 

 pictures, may by degrees be appreciated, and in a measure realized. 



In bringing this brief sketch to a somewhat abrupt conclusion, I 

 cannot but confess that I am conscious of having most imperfectly 

 fulfilled the promise of my title, but the subject is so copious, and its 

 condensation so diflficult, that T must rely on your sense of those facts 

 for indulgence towards the mere outline of its features which I have 

 been able to present. 



THIRD MEETING. 



RoYAT. Institution. — November 17, 1851. 



J. B. YATES, Esq., F.S.A., &c.. President, in the chair. 



Mr. Edward Banner, Mr. Robert Worrall Anderson, Mr. 

 Joseph Carter Redish, Mr. George Hunt, and Mr. William Bean, 

 were elected Ordinary Members. 



The President read the following communication from Mr. William 

 Lassell, F.R.S., &c., upon his discovery of 



TWO NEW SATELLITES OF URANUS. 



I first saw the new satellites on the 24th of last month, and had then 

 a strong impression that they would prove to be attendants of the 

 planet. I obtained further observations of them on the 28th and 80th 



