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they fondly put instead of revelation. It was the very same fear 

 as that which had troubled the life and embittered the end of Co- 

 pernicus and Gallileo. Instead of yielding to it, let them, under the 

 wise restraints on theorizing laid down for them the other night 

 by Sir J. Herschell, pursue calmly, humbly and patiently, their re- 

 searches into nature : let them feel here that He who made liglit to 

 be, and fashioned the eye to receive it, did mean that it should re- 

 ceive it ; and that, in like manner. He who framed the mind of 

 man, with its capacity for observation, and its deep longing to 

 reduce all around him to some orderly arrangem'^nt and directing 

 laws, and who stored the earth beneath him and the heavens above 

 him with fit materials for observation and inquiry, did really intend 

 that man should search them out, and read in all these revelations, 

 and discover in these laws, the marks and evidence of His directing 

 hand, who planned, created, and sustains them. 



The British Parliament have made liberal appropriations, during 

 its last session, to various scientific enterprizes. Among the objects 

 provided for, are the following : £"50,020 for rooms to be added to 

 the British Museum ; £6217 for the purchase of certain collec- 

 tions ; £1500 for the National Gallery ; £8850 for the geological 

 survey of the present year ; £5839 for the expenses of magnetic 

 observatories at home and abroad ; and £1500 for the monuments to 

 Lord de Saumarez, Lord Exmouth, and Sir Sidney Smith, intended 

 for Greenwich Hospital. 



The Report by Mr. Watt on the Iron Trade in Scotland, read 

 before the British Association, contains the following particulars : 

 At the present moment (July 1845), there are extensive new iron 

 works erecting in Scotland, and important additions are being made 

 to the old furnaces now at work. The increase in the annual quantity 

 of pig iron smelted in that country, in April 1845, amounts to 37.4 

 per cent. 



The following remarks were made by Mr. Porter, in regard to 

 the iron trade, at the close of the Report : 



The iron made at the beginning of the present century, amounted 

 to 



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