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EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Royal Institution, 8th February, 1858. 



DR. INMAN, President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary- 

 Members : — 



Mr. William Keith. 

 „ Jabez Jones. 



Mr. Andrew communicated some personal observations 

 on the recent eruption of Vesuvius, in support of the 

 chymical theory of volcanic action. 



In consequence of a public meeting, held in the same 

 building, for the formation of the Liverpool Society of 

 Fine Arts, on the motion of Dr. Ihne, the Society 

 adjourned till the 15th inst. 



On that night a paper was read to the Society, ot 

 which the following is an abstract : — 



ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. 



By WILLIAM IHNE, Esq., Ph.D., V.P. 



The rapid development of the means of intercommunica- 

 tion has changed the relations of the nations of the world 

 to such an extent, that the old forms of diplomatic inter- 

 course between one people and another are no longer 

 sufficient. Europe is fast tending to become commercially, 

 economically, intellectually, and morally one uniform 

 community which requires a system of law and govern- 

 ment based upon generally acknowledged principles, and 

 administered by a generally acknowledged authority; 

 not to absorb or obliterate the individual notionalities, 

 but to regulate and facilitate their intercourse and to 



