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each occasion there was a very numerous attendance of the members and their 

 friends, all of whom appeared delighted with the variety of beautiful, interest- 

 ing, and novel experiments introduced in illustration of each Lecture. At the 

 Monthly Meeting which took place on Tuesday, October 14, Mr. Comfield, 

 the Curator, delivered a Lecture on some of the peculiarities of that branch of 

 optics, which comprehend the formation and inversion of images, the most 

 striking and important phenomena of which he judiciously pointed out and 

 explained, with the assistance of a series of appropriate experiments. On the 

 succeeding Tuesday, Mr. R.J. Ball, B. A. commenced a Course of Eight Lectures 

 on Oratory and the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, which proved throughout 

 highly attractive, and were honoured with the hearty applause of numerous and 

 highly respectable audiences. Mr. Ball's abilities as a public lecturer on elocu- 

 tion are of a very superior order, and his correct discrimination of character in 

 his dramatic criticisms shows that he has diligently studied the subjects of the 

 poet's contemplations in the unerring school of Nature. The first Conversa- 

 zione of the session was held on Tuesday evening, Nov. 18, at which there was 

 A very numerous and fashionable attendance of the members and their friends. 

 The Imperial Room was appropriately fitted up for the occasion, and several 

 interesting objects in literature and art were placed on the tables for inspection. 

 Dr. Boisragon, the President of the Institution, having taken the chair, the Rev. 

 Jenkin Thomas delivered an address on the " Progress and Influence of General 

 Literature :** in the course of which he was repeatedly interrupted by the 

 applause of the company. We have not space sufficient to present our 

 readers this month with any lengthened abstract of the lecture, but we may 

 remark generally that it presented an able and luminous, though necessarily 

 very brief sketch, of the **rise and progress" of literature from the period of its 

 first faint dawn in Egypt, up to its meridian splendour in modern times. The 

 lecturer exhibited a variety of striking instances and allusions, to exemplify the 

 influence which a taste for literature imparts to the civilization and moral happi- 

 ness of mankind. Mr. Ball, (concerning whose Course of Lectures lately de- 

 livered, we have already spoken) varied the intellectual entertainments of the 

 evening by readings of Byron's Address to Greece and the Story of Le Fevre^ 

 both of which were given with great taste and pathos. After which Dr. Bois- 

 ragon and Mr. Ball read together the 3rd act of Othello. The second Conver- 

 sazione of the Institution is fixed to take place in January ; its subject to be 

 " The Fine Arts :" and a third, intended to be held in March, will be 

 devoted to Science. Thus Literature, Arts, and Science will each have its own 

 peculiar festival. At the ensuing Meeting, to be held in December, the Rev. G. 

 Bonner, one of the vice-presidents, will deliver an Address on "The present 

 State of the Fine Arts." A Course of Three Lectures on " The Physiology of 

 Digestion, The Circulation of the Blood, Secretion and Absorption" will be 

 delivered by Dr. Conolly, also a vice-president of the Institution, dui'ing the 

 ensuing month — namely, the first Lecture on Friday December 5th, the second 

 on Friday the 12th, and the third on Friday the 19th. 



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