396 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



whose relief a subscription, originating in the best feelings of some 

 distinguished members of the Institution of which Mr. Telford is 

 the President, has been set on foot*, which has been seconded by 

 several scientific men and military officers, and contains one of the 

 numerous instances of benevolent liberality, characteristic of a North- 

 ern nobleman, which is, however, made public by solicited permission. 

 Besides the several architects, engineers, and others engaged in the 

 construction of buildings, who have more particularly profited by Mr. 

 Tredgold's works, and who are, consequently, the more indebted to 

 him, the appeal has been directed to the promoters of our manufac- 

 tures and commerce, — to those who are most interested in the im- 

 provement of our engines, our machinery, our means of internal com- 

 munication, — and to the eminent societies in which the talent of the 

 country is concentrated. 



The patrons of merit among the noble and the affluent, and all who 

 feel an interest in our intellectual progress as a nation, while they 

 look with admiration upon the wrecks and fragments of perfection in 

 art descending down to us with the fame of the master-minds which 

 produced them, from the great nations of antiquity, may feel some 

 gratification in the reflection, that, however we may suffer in the com- 

 parison of the Fine Arts, we stand unrivalled by any age, or by any 

 country, in the creation, the improvement and the application of an 

 astonishing power, resulting from the efforts of those followers of 

 Science of whom Great Britain is justly proud. 



Not among the least of these stood poor Tredgold, (if the departed 

 possessor of genius and worth may be called poor,) whose exertions 

 have so eminently contributed, in connexion with other honoured 

 names, to render science a living letter, by applying it to " the busi- 

 ness and affairs of men ;" and the reflecting portion of the British na- 

 tion is directed to this example of native talent, as possessing pow- 

 erful claims upon the exercise of its characteristic liberality, destitute 

 though it be in the associations so successfully eloquent for the suf- 

 ferers in literature, in art, or in the pursuits administeriug to our re- 

 fined amusements. 



In offering itself to the notice of the members of the Legislature, 

 the present appeal would suggest for future consideration, whether 

 those who have devoted their attention, and in many cases sacrificed 

 their lives for the public welfare, in works for its safety, its health, and 

 its convenience, are not deserving of public reward. 



M. CAUCHY ON THE UNOULATORY THEORY OF LIGHT. 

 The slowness with which continental researches find their way into 

 England has been in more than one instance singularly exemplified, 

 and especially with regard to optical researches. The profound inves- 

 tigations of M. Cauchy were, it is believed, for the first time announced 

 to the English scientific world in the Report on Optics, by Sir David 

 Brewster, read to the British Association at Oxford in 1832, two years 

 after the latest part of them had been completed. At the present time 



* In order to promote this benevolence, we .shall place the Liot of Sub- 

 criber* on the cover of a future Number. — Edit. 



