ELECTRICITY. 



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ART. 1C.. The Assembly will meet this ycur on tho 

 r tin- mo nt!. NoTinber 18th), and will 



nit until tin- i"tli of the month Toulm (January 17, 

 1867). lii tin- t'n|l..ii n-ever, the season 



will c-|,,-n . .-ember 28th), and 



arv 21st). 



ART. 17. I "ill asMmble, adjourn, pro- 



lily, :m<l uiil notil'y the 

 M of a new Assembly within a 

 liv.'il time. 



AKT. 18. Tin- im-mlnTS of the Assembly can in no 

 i 



.ing of tho first Council (which con- 

 . eral t'hristian delegates) was subse- 

 quently poMpom-d until November 27th. "Whoa 

 . , in his opening speech, reminded the 

 .ndi'athor had put an end 

 which prevailed in Egypt, re- 

 ! piihlic security, and founded institutions 

 which secured to the country a prosperous 

 future. "My father (he added) continued tho 

 work which had thus been begun, aiming at the 

 Tout ion of an order of things in harmony with 

 the state of modern society. Since my accession 

 the constant object of my thoughts has been the 

 development of public prosperity. I have often 

 thought of establishing a representative council 

 to consider important questions of an exclusively 

 internal character. Such an institution pos- 

 sesses great advantages, constituting a safe- 

 guard and a protection of all interests. I have 

 great satisfaction in now opening this council, 

 and thank Providence for having permitted me 

 to perform so solemn an act. I confide in your 

 wisdom and in your patriotic sentiments. May 

 God assist our efforts! In Him let us put our 



The address of the Egyptian delegates, in 

 reply to the speech of the Viceroy, praises his 

 administration, and expresses satisfaction that 

 the Sultan, under the guidance of Divine in- 

 spiration, had granted to the present dynasty 

 the right of direct hereditary succession to the 

 vice-regal throne a measure which tho dele- 

 gates consider to be the surest safeguard of. the 

 country's tranquillity, nnd the best guaranty 

 for its future welfare. The delegates also thank 

 the Viceroy for having established a. National 

 Assembly, and express their conviction that its 

 dellberationa being inspired by earnest devoted- 

 ness and enlightened patriotism, will conduce 

 to public concord and to the prosperity of tho 

 land. The address concludes l>y invoking tho 

 Me ing of the Almighty upon the Viceroy and 

 his soil. 



Tho convention between tho Viceroy of 

 Egypt nnd the Suez Canal Company, relating to 

 all the hitherto pending questions in connection 

 with the construction of the canal, was signed 

 on February 5th. The decision of the Emperor 

 Napoleon as arbitrator has been strictly adhered 

 to by the Viceroy. The Sultan telegraphed his 

 approval of the convention. 



ELKCTKICTLT. This is . the science from 

 which, above all others, mankind expect pvat 

 tiling To it belongs tho most important 

 scientific achievement of the year, the practical 



annihilation of time and ppncc between the Old 

 and New Worlds. (See Ti ; 

 .Snce it can do so much, v, ! 

 more? "Why not light our >' ,t our 



S drive our locomotives and sti-ain.-hips. 

 and heal our diseases? Really, there is no 

 saying what would bo visionary in our anticipa- 

 tions of tho future of this science, for it is still 

 in it- infancy. Now that the electric telegraph 

 has been brought to perfection, or, what is t!i. 

 same thing, made as good as the world require s, 

 the men who have addressed their bkill for 

 some years to the improvement of that one nse 

 ful application of electricity to tho wants of the 

 race, will naturally investigate more fully the 

 other, perhaps more wonderful, possibilities 

 of the mysterious power. To investigate in 

 science, is to discover. 



Paradoxical Phenomena in Electro-Magnetic 

 Induction, a New and Potcerful Apparatus. 

 At the April meeting of the British Royal 

 Society, H. Wilde, Esq., reported a discovery 

 which he had made of a means of producing 

 dynamic electricity in quantities unattainable 

 by any apparatus hitherto constructed. He has 

 found that an indefinitely small amonnt of 

 magnetism, or of dynamic electricity, is capable 

 of inducing an indefinitely largo amount of 

 magnetism ; and, again, that an indefinitely 

 small amount of dynamic electricity, or of mag- 

 netism, is capable of 'evolving an indefinitely 

 large amount of dynamic electricity. The ap- 

 paratus with which the experiments were con- 

 ducted consisted of a compound hollow cylin- 

 der of brass and iron, termed by the author a 

 magnet-cylinder, the internal diameter of which 

 was 1$ inch. On this cylinder could be placed 

 at pleasure one or more permanent horseshoe 

 magnets, each magnet weighing about 1 lb., and 

 sustaining a weight of 10 Ibs. An armature was 

 made to revolve rapidly in the interior of the 

 cylinder, in close proximity to its sides, but with- 

 out touching. Around this armature 168 feet 

 of insulated copper wire was coiled, 0.03 of an 

 inch in diameter. The direct current of elec- 

 tricity was then transmitted through the coils 

 of a tangent galvanometer; and as each ad- 

 ditional magnet was placed upon the magnet- 

 cylinder it was found that the quantity of elec- 

 tricity generated in the coils of the armature 

 was very nearly in direct proportion to the 

 number of magnets on the cylinder. When 

 four permanent magnets, capable of sustaining 

 collectively a weight of 40. Ibs., were placed 

 upon tho cylinder, and when the sub-magnet 

 was brought into metallic contact with the poles 

 of the electro-magnet, a weight of 178 Ibs. was 

 required to separate them. "\Vith a larger elec- 

 tro-magnet, a weight of not less than 1,080 Ibs. 

 was required to overcome the attractive force 

 of the electro-magnet, or 27 times the weight 

 which the four permanent magnets used in ex- 

 citing it were collectively able to sustain. It 

 \\ a> also found that this great difference between 

 the power of a permanent magnet and that of 

 an electro-magnet, excited through its agency 



