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THE NEWSPAPER. 



sentence will oppose the appointment of Dr. Symons. 

 For this purpose a circular has been issued, requesting 

 their attendance in Oxford on the 8th inst. 



Portsmouth. — A public meeting of the inhabitants of 

 Portsmouth was held on Thursday for the purpose of 

 adopting measures to give a suitable reception to the . 

 King of the French on his visit to this country. The! 

 Mayor presided, and stated that the inhabitants would 

 not allow so favourable an opportunity to pass of express- 



last two or three days. On Tuesday night every hotel 

 was crowded, and in many of them beds were obliged to 

 be made up on the floors. 



Windsor and Eton.— The water which supplies the 

 dog-kennel of the Castle has been analysed by Mr. 

 Phillips, and Dr. Ryan, in consequence of the frequent 

 deaths supposed to have been occasioned by the presence 

 of lead from the pipes. From the results of their ex- 

 periments it has been calculated that 1312 grains of 

 carbonate of lead were taken up by every imperial 



ing to His Majesty on his landing at their port the high _ _„ MJ/ tfJ B¥04J IIM|wruu 



estimation in which he was held by the people of England, j gallon of water (in its passage through the pipes) used 

 On the occasion of Her Majesty's visit to France last at the kennel. There are now in the Royal pack 12 



ajesty _ . _ _ _ __._ 



year, every hospital ty was shown by the French to all 

 who accompanied Her Majesty, whether in a civil or 

 military capacity, and he hoped that they would not be 

 •outdone even in courtesy and hospitality by their brave 

 neighbours, but would show the same attention to His 

 Majesty's suite and to the officers of his squadron. Se- 

 veral gentlemen addressed the meeting, and eulogised his 

 Majesty for his anxious desire to preserve the good un- 

 derstanding between France and England, and to encou- 

 rage and promote feelings of kindness and friendship be- 

 tween the two countries. It was resolved to invite the 

 officers of the French squadron to a public diuner during 

 their stay at Portsmouth, and a committee was formed 

 to make arrangements. The officers of Her Majesty's 

 ships at this port are also getting up an entertainment, 

 to which they purpose inviting the officers of the French 

 squadron. This is to be a ball and supper, and it pro- 

 mises to be a very brilliant affair. It is confined to naval 

 officers at present in commission, of which there are a 

 considerable number now in port, each of whom will be 

 allowed a given number of tickets for distribution. 

 During the time the French squadron remains here, 

 Portsmouth will be a continued sceue of gaiety. The 

 officers of the regiments doing garrison duty also intend 

 to invite the French officers, and other entertainments 

 are spoken of. — The experimental squadron will shortly 

 sail on their first cruise. Seven of them are at Spithead", 

 and the greatest interest has been excited in naval circles 

 to ascertain their respective qualities. 



Sunderland.— An inquiry was instituted before the 

 magistrates, at Belford, on Tuesday last, respecting the 

 burning of the property belonging to James Cockburn 

 Belaney, and the breaches of the peace committed at 

 North Sunderland, as stated in our last. Belaney, ac- 

 companied by his brother, the Rev. Mr. Belaney, and 

 his solicitor, were present during the inquiry, and it is un- 

 derstood that steps have been taken to sue the hundred for 

 the amount of damage. Trfe house destroyed is not the 

 romantic cottage on the edge of the ciiff, but a farm- 

 house where he had been residing, and which belonged 

 to the trustees of the late Lord Crewe, and it is said to 

 be insured. Belaney's new house is known by the name 

 of the Cave, and it has been built so close to the sea 

 that the spray will, in a storm, blow against the win- 

 dows. It is described by the Newcastle Journal as a 

 curious place. The soil has been cut away from the top 

 of the rock on which it is built, and so far had this to be 

 done, that the roof of the house is nearly level with the 

 ground of the land side. It is surrounded by a high 

 wall, so that no one can obtain entrance to it but by 

 descending a flight of about twenty-one steps, and then 

 the door, instead of swinging on hinges, is made, like a 

 portculhs, to draw up into the wall. The sea view is, of 

 course, extensive, and the situation would seem not a 

 disagreeable one in summer, but during winter it must 

 be exceedingly cold and dreary. What trifling furniture 

 was saved trom the fire wus on Monday conveyed in a 

 cart to Aytoun, about ten miles north of Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed, where Belaney's father resides. So universal 

 would seem to be the feeling excited again 3 t him, 

 that it is stated that his London solicitor, having 

 been recognised the other day at Doncaster races, 

 was attacked by the mob, and ducked in a pond.— 

 On Saturday afternoon an explosion, attended with a 

 dreadful loss of life, took place at Haswell colliery, about 

 ten miles distant from this place. It happened at a time 

 when there were about 100 men and boys in the pit, and 

 no less than 05 have lost their lives. Haswell colliery is 

 situtte in the centre of the great Durham coal-field 

 about seven miles from Durham, and nine from Sunder- 

 land. It is the property of Messrs. Clark, Taylor, 

 Flumer, and other wealthy coal-owners connected with 

 the district. It is 150 fathoms deep, and the workings 

 are in the well-known Hutton seam. The character of 

 the mine m respect to ventilation has always stood high. 

 Dunag the pitmen's strike a few of the off-hand men 

 were employed as hewers, and a few new men intro- 

 duced ; but since the termination of the strike, none 

 but experienced workmen have been employed under- 



™; to' °? er ? \^l effi P l0 ^ ed at barik ' lt * ™ne- 

 TdZ W ff C r mt ° J h ? hear ^nding details of indi- 



must be kftTrf h C - aUS6d by this Calam V The reader 

 WlV Via 8 ° Wn 1,M 8h«tion. Not a soul has 

 been left to tell the mournful tale how the accident oc- 

 curred, the whole of the men employed in tl wo king 

 having been swept into eternity without a moment* 

 warning. Four men who were at the bottom of the 

 shaft escaped, by the fire having knocked itself out before 

 it reached them. An inquest has been held and several 

 witnesses examined at great length, but after numerous 

 sittings, it was agreed to have the pit surveved, and to 

 adjourn the inquest until the surveyors have "made their 

 report. 



Southampton.— Upwards of 370 passengers embarked 

 from Southampton on Thursday, for the East and West 

 Indies and the Mediterranean ; these, and their friends 

 who accompanied them to take leave, may be computed 

 at 1000 persons who have visited that town within the 



couples of young hounds which have never tasted one 

 drop of the water which has passed through the old 

 leaden pipes, and they will be hunted duringtheapproach- 

 ing season.— A new regulation respecting the admission 

 of pupils to Eton College, and which has been long con- 

 templated, has now been determined upon, a notice 

 having just been issued by the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, the 

 Head Master, that after Easter next he will not admit 

 any boy to the school who shall have completed his 14th 

 year. During the past week the scholars have again 

 assembled. Since the vacation, when the pupils 

 amounted to 751, sixty additional boys have been entered 

 on the school list. There has been a gradual yearly in- 

 crease in the number of the school during the past ten 

 years. In 1835 the number was only 446. 



Yarmouth. — A melancholy shipwreck occurred on 

 Sunday afternoon off this port, about ten miles distant 

 from the coast. A large foreign schooner, with a white 

 ball painted on her bows, was suddenly seen to capsize 

 in a gale of wind, and disappear about a mile outside the 

 Cross-sands. She had signals of distress flying, and was 

 apparently running for the land when the catastrophe 

 happened, and it is feared that every soul on board was 

 drowned. There were several colliers passing through 



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T^ SS»^ 

 tionin ! 845 had been received ZT&l^Z 

 and Southampton, and it was resolved unanimoufly 

 that the invitation from Cambridge be accepted, ft 

 the last meeting of the General Committee, Professor 

 Philips, the Assistant-general Secretary, read a lilt of 

 awards, which had met the approbation of the Com- 

 mittee of Recommendations, and which were unanimouslv 

 agreed to by the meeting :-In Section A, mathematics 

 and physics, the total amount of grants was 906/. Us *>d - 

 in Section B, chemistry and mineralogy, 145/. ; in'sec' 

 turn C, geology and geography, 50/. ; in Section D 

 zoology and botany, 105/. ; in Section E, medical science! 

 20/. ; and in Section F, statistics, 40/. For Section G 

 mechanical science, no grants were requested. Mr j' 

 Taylor, the Treasurer, next read his accounts for the 

 present meeting. Altogether there had been 917 tickets 

 disposed of. The number of old life members attendinz 

 was 26G ; old annual members, 47, from whom 57/ had 

 been received ; new life members, 159, from whom G95/ 

 was received ; new annual subscribers, 196, the sum 

 received being 392/.; ladies' tickets, 257; sectional 

 tickets, 9. There had also been received from the sale 

 of books, 92/. 25. ; and additionally sold since the last 

 day, 56/. 2s. ; making the total receipts, 1558/. 4*. A 

 report was next read from the Committee of Recommen- 

 dations for reports not involving grants of money. 

 Amongst these it was recommended that the name of 

 Lieut. Stratford should be added to the Committee for 

 the Reduction of the Stars; that Sir D. Brewster should 

 continue his observations on the spectrum ; and that the 

 report delivered in by Colonel Sabine, of the meteoro- 

 logical observations made at Toronto should be 

 published entire in the proceedings of the Association. 

 A recommendation was made from the Natural History 



spot where the vessel was seen to founder, in the hope of 

 picking up some of the crew, but none were seen. 



York.— The meetings of the British Association during 

 the week have gone off with their usual spirit, and many 

 papers of great interest have been read. The Report of 

 the Council, which was read by Col. Sabine, one of the 

 general secretaries, was a summary of the proceedings 

 intrusted to the Council in London, showing the pro- 

 gress made in carrying out the views of the Association 

 since the meeting at Cork. A resolution had been there 

 passed that application should be made on the part of 

 the Association to the Master of the Ordnance, entreat- 

 ing his assistance in the proposed experiments of captive 

 balloons. The reply from the Master-General stated that 

 the commandant of the garrison at "Woolwich has been 

 directed to afford the facilities and assistance requested. 

 The object of the investigation is to obtain records of the 

 states of the atmosphere at different heights. Another 

 resolution passed by the General Committee at Cork, 

 was that application be made to Government for the in- 

 sertion of contour lines of elevation on the ordnance 

 maps of Ireland, such lines representing the various de- 

 grees of elevation of the surface of the country from 

 actual surveys, being of great value for engineering, 

 mining, geological, and mechanical purposes. These 

 lines, also, would be serviceable as guides for drainage 

 or irrigation, &c. The probable cost of the operations 

 by which the data for contouring the whole of the 

 maps will be supplied had been estimated at 10,000/. 

 No direct reply had been received to the application, 

 but the Council had learnt from other sources that 

 the contour lines are to be inserted in the ordnance 

 maps Another application to be made to Government 

 was for its aid to publish the researches of Professor 

 Forbes in the ^geari Sea. During this survey of the 

 submarine zoology of the .Egean, and in the examina- 

 tion of the coasts and interior country, Professor 

 Forbes observed upwards of 150 species of animals, 

 which he regards as altogether new to science, and a 

 much larger number which have been previously unknown 

 n these localities. He also observed that several dis- 

 tinct zones of depth are naturally defined in the ^gean 



ml 7 rt , S Ct i and PeCUliar gr0U l )S of P laDts and a^- 

 mals ; that the lower we pass downwards in this sea the 



Z«? tZ ? rg * n l C I™™ reSCmbIe s P ecies ***<& occur 

 near the surface of he ocean in arctic regions ; and that 



r e e an Pe nT S r ?S lMCa haVe bCen dred " ed alive in the 



knSwn in 1 7 *} ^ **"*?* ^ had h ^ P^OUsly 



tZJZ^T 11 ^ - and Were thou S ht t0 be extinct. 

 These and other conclusions derived by Professor Forbes 



nlvLo 1 ! T^, i - Ve an im P° rtant beari °S on the 

 #^7£^ h »*'* a * d °» the estabfishment 



the roads at the time, and the masters bore down to the section that scientific periodicals should be transmitted 



at a low rate of postage. It was also resolved that a 

 deputation, consisting of the President of the British 

 Association and the Presidents of the Royal and Geo- 

 logical Societies, should wait upon the President of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society to request their interference with 

 the Government for further investigations on the geology 

 of the Seivalik hills. It had been resolved that the 

 meteorological observations made at different stations at 

 the expense of the Association should be discontinued, 

 and that the instruments should be deposited in the 

 Observatory at Kew. The Council was requested to 

 invite the attendance of M. Humboldt and other philo- 

 phers at tl e great Magnetic Congress which it is intended 

 to hold next year at Cambridge. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the 

 past week : — Birmingham and Gloucester, 3005/. ; 

 Bristol and Gloucester, 1266/. ; Eastern Counties, 

 4431/.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2472/. ; Great Western, 

 17,814/.; Grand Junction, 8652/. ; Glasgow, Paisley, 

 and Ayr, 1518/.; Great North of England, 2017/.; 

 London and Birmingham, 18,546/. ; South Western, 

 7281/.; Blackwall, 1072/.; Greenwich, 674/.; Brighton, 

 5619/. ; Croydon, 506/. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 

 5553/. ; Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, associated, 8348/. ; 

 Midland, 12,410/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 3308/. ; 

 Newcastle and Carlisle, 1740/.; Newcastle and Dar- 

 lington, 1203/.; Preston and Wyre, 518/.; South- 

 Eastern and Dover, 6459/. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 

 874/. ; York and North Midland, with Leeds and 

 Selby, 2947/. ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 340/. — On 

 Monday the reduction of passenger conveyance by 

 third class trains to Id. per head per mile took place 

 between Birmingham and Liverpool and Birmingham 

 and London. Crowds of persons in the morning 

 thronged the gates of the terminus in Birmingham 

 to take places by the train for Liverpool ; and long 

 before half-past two in the afternoon, when it was an- 

 nounced the Id. per mile train was to start for London, 

 some hundreds of persons had assembled. Although the 

 rain fell heavily 10 carriages, laden with about 400 pas- 

 sengers, started from the Birmingham terminus for the 

 metropolis, and at Roade and Wolverton it was found 

 necessary to attach other carriages, the whole number 

 brought to the Euston-square end of the line amounting 

 to 12, exclusive of luggage vans. The other great north- 

 ern lines, including the Grand Junction, and iork and 

 North Midland, have also agreed to make a large reduc- 

 tion in their fares.— Friday was the 19th anniversary of 

 the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 

 which is the oldest of the existing railways, and the first 

 on which locomotive engines were employed for the con- 

 veyance of passengers and goods.— The provisional com- 

 ittee of the proposed " Direct Northern Railway have 



ued a prospectus complaining of certain " — ' 



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r,«rr« a „ B 7inn i * t.' • uu W1U co,ltai n about 300 



r^ZZi f P te A b l 1D§ P ublished at the expense of 

 Government, provided that copies of it should be sold at 



a price considerably less than that of their cost. The 



Zl"Z MOnof repor ^ ha t the general treasurer had 

 received 1000/ granted by Government for the publica- 

 tion of the catal, gue of stars in the « Histoire Celeste" 

 of Lalande, and of Lacai lie's catalogue of stars in the 

 southern hemisphere Also that the railway geological 

 sections &c which have been made at the expense of 

 the British Association, at a cost of 363/. 6*. 9d., have 

 been deposited la the Museum of (Economic Geology, 

 and that the sections are to be continued at the expense 

 of Government. The Council had requested the follow- 

 ing reports to be drawn up, which were submitted to the 

 meeting at York, viz., On the Performance of the Self- 

 Keg.stenng Meteorogical Apparatus, and of the Electrical 

 Apparatus of the Observatory at Kew belonging to the 



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Association ; also an Account of the Improvements which i three calendar months of its completion 



priate upwards of 70 miles from London of their published 

 line, besides their London terminus at King's-cross. 

 They say that they communicated their sense of these 

 encroachments to the York and London Company by 

 circular, addressed to each member of the committee, 

 on the 18th of May last, and that the map of the 

 London and York Railway, containing the encroach- 

 ments, was not published until the latter part of August. 

 The distance by the London and York line is stated.at 

 200 miles, and by the Direct Northern at 180 miles, but 

 these facts and the statements which acccompany them 

 are positively contradicted by the other Company.— The 

 Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Company have resolved 

 to give the Brighton Company, on condition of tak- 

 ing 3500 shares, the option of leasing the line within 

 fri^-P* ralpndar months of its completion at a rent ot *5 



