either immediately on entering the service, or is rumoured that some of the proprietors are very after a lapse of four years, when each attaché is far from thus putting money into their purses. eligible for promotion. The second examination Mr. F. Stewart, M.A. of the University of is, as may be supposed, of a more advanced cha- Aberdeen, has been selected by the Bishop of racter than the first. Victoria, from the candidates nominated from In consequence of the great increase of students the Universities of Edinburgh, London, and who attend King's College, it has been found Aberdeen, for appointment to the Head Masternecessary to enlarge that portion of the building ship of the Training College, and Inspectorship that abuts on Strand-lane, and workmen are en- of Schools at Hong Kong. gaged in altering the upper lecture-hall by increasing its height.

The Moniteur publishes a report to the Minister of State, of a curious epigraphic discovery in Asia The new educational minutes are giving rise to Minor, made by M. Perrot, formerly a pupil of a vast deal of controversy. The opinion of the the French School at Athens, who has been great majority of National schoolmasters is most charged with a scientific mission by the French decidedly antagonistic to the proposed innovation; government. An inscription has been discovered and Government is loudly charged with breaking at Angora, the ancient Ancyra, of all the first faith with both masters and pupils. part of the Greek translation of the Testament of Augustus, of which Hamilton copied the end. The inscription makes known several new facts respecting the life of Augustus, the honours he received, &c. &c. It speaks of the absolute power ayтecovσlav apx' which he refused, the prefecture' which he exercised, 'the consulate for life' which he would not accept, the ' 'prefecture of morals,' and his title of Prince of the Senate,' all of which are wanting in the Latin inscription published by Hamilton.

We learn that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is expected to return to Cambridge in the October term, for the purpose of prosecuting his university education. After attending the great Prussian military manœuvres, and visiting his sister, the Crown Princess of Prussia, the Prince will pass a few days at Balmoral before coming on to Cambridge, or rather to Madingley Hall, his former residence near that town.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge has given notice of the election of an incumbent to the living of St. Mary's, Bungay, MONTHLY RECORD OF SCIENCE AND ART. on the 22nd of October. The patron of the living is the young Duke of Norfolk; but he being a THE event of the month in connexion with Roman Catholic, the patronage lapses to the Uni-Science has been the meeting of the British Assoversity. The electors are the members of the ciation at Manchester. We do not mean to attempt Senate of the University. to grasp at even an abstract of the voluminous proceedings of the various Sections of the Associa tion, as the mere titles of the papers read would fill more space than we can devote to the subject. A general resumé of the results of the meeting in some of the leading departments so far as they have contributed to our general stock of knowledge, is all we can attempt here to give. We avail ourselves, for the purpose, of the careful and appreciative report of the Meeting in the Literary Gazette.

in arts.

Two scholarships of Durham university, of the annual value of 307, and tenable for three years, are open to candidates for admission as students The examination will begin October 16th. These scholarships, if we may judge from the present condition of this university, will not be very eagerly competed for.

observed by the aid of modern instruments and physical character of life was advanced with a force who before their nomination must undergo modern skill, gave to the world much valuable which has not before been exemplified, in different an examination in an establishment specially knowledge respecting the sun himself. In this ways and from varying points of view. One speaker formed for their training and instruction. The series of observations, Bailey's "beads" were pro- dwelt on the physical argument from the facts of attendance at these primary schools is comved to be a myth, and astronomers henceforth organization and the chemico-physical nature of the pulsory on all children between nine and foursaved the trouble of counting them. The red acts of nutrition; and treated the idea of an inde

philologist equally.

flames projecting at points around the moon pendent vital force or entity as unproven, and teen years of age, at which latter period they were discovered almost to a certainty to have urged that the idea existed in the mind' only generally receive the rite of ecclesiastical no connection with the moon, but to be offshoots through ignorance of such a fundamental organic confirmation. The instruction which they from the sun; and an idea was thrown out, and law as that regarding diffusion in water, lately receive includes reading, arithmetic, and writstrongly supported, of the extension of an atmos- made known by Graham. There was another who, ing, besides religious training, and lessons on pheric sea from this earth to the moon. starting from the more practical point-the treat- the elements of geography, on the history of Leaving the sciences dealt with in the Physical ment of persons who are apparently dead-demon- their native country, and occasionally also on and Mathematical Section, and turning to the strated, by experiment upon experiment, that matters connected with natural history. It is Chemical Section proper, we find a new discovery death, after all, is an idea; that it is difficult to a very rare circumstance to find any one, even in the application of "liquid diffusion" to analysis, determine when it has really taken place; and among the poorest, who cannot read and write, on the plan recently suggested by Dr. Graham, the that by putting an animal body, in which life for and among the army recruits there is scarcely exposition of which, simple as it is, conveys the some hours shall have ceased, in a condition for one who is not possessed at least of these results of profound research. According to this restoration, the manifestation of certain phenomena accomplishments. In the primary schools of view, of which a brief account was given in our eminently and absolutely vital according to our last number, the process of diffusing mixed organic acceptation of the term, (acts of movement, for Copenhagen a somewhat more extended proor inorganic substances through water leads to the example,) will distinctly and for a considerable gramme of study has been recognized, though natural division or analysis of such substances into period of time be presented. A third speaker, with in the gratis schools there the usual branches two great families-the one represented by such a the many new facts regarding the forces of heat only are taught; but in those schools where body as gelatine, uncrystallizable, and, from the and light at his command, revived with considerable the parents pay a certain portion of the exfact of gelatine being its type, called the "colloid" ingenuity the theory of sensation as dependent on pense, mathematics, drawing, &c. are also family; the other crystallizable, and called, there-motion from without the organism, propagated by included, and it should be remarked that the fore, the "crystalloid" family. It was almost a vibration through the sensational organs to the attendance at these schools is very large, sufficient triumph for the chemists of Section B to sensorium. because even poor parents look upon it as an stand between their science and the educated The geologists, represented in Section C, made affair of honour to contribute something, be it community to expound this one great law; but a fair front, though without presenting any special ever so little, towards the payment that is therewith they blended much that was strictly feature marking an unusual advance in their useful, and with this newly discovered truth in the science; and in general terms the same may be required for the instruction of their children. foreground, exhibited an advance which can hardly, said of the geographers (Section E). It should be In this way the numbers who attend the public for some long period, occur again. noticed however, that in this last-named section the schools of Copenhagen amount to nearly 7100 In the Sections of Zoology and Botany, and in the question of the antiquity of man from the evidence scholars of both sexes, which is a very large Sub-section Physiology, several new advances, or, of language brought forward by Dr. Craufurd sug-proportion when the extent of the population at all events, new opinions, most important ingested a new field of research for the geologist and is considered. Some years ago an idea struck their way, came under review, leading to debates one of the teachers, that it might be possible to and considerations which could not fail to make The economists in Section F contributed in their procure for the children attending these schools deep impression on the public mind. The discussion a more than ordinary amount of useful an opportunity by which they might have the gorilla controversy of necessity formed a leading and common-sense_matter. The paper of Mr. benefit of physical recreation during the holitopic; and as M. Du Chaillu was there, his friendly Bazeley on Cotton Production; of Mr. Watts on days, by having them transferred from the Hercules, Owen, by his side, club and all, fight or Strikes; that of Mr. Ashworth on capital Punish-less healthy atmosphere of a large city to the show of fight was inevitable, ending however, in ments as a Preventive of Crime; and of Mr. the opinion of the most competent judges, in a Heywood on Educational Charities and Endow. purer air of the country, while they would at drawn battle. But if the gorilla controversy, as a ments, were full of practical interest. the same time be withdrawn from those temppersonal controversy, ended so doubtfully, it sug- It remains for us now only to notice the last tations which idleness in a town often presents. gested another topic of equal interest-the origin of the Sections, Section G, for Mechanical Science. In concert with some of his colleagues, he of species and the origin of man. To this point The question of patent rights, brought forward by made application in this spirit to various perattention was a second time drawn by Mr. Fawcett, Sir W. Armstrong, has assumed a form which sons in the country, and his appeal to their and we may go so far as to say that, taking it all cannot be considered novel, and as presenting facts hospitality was most successful. The clergy, in all, the Darwinian theory made a distinctly which must ultimately create an entire change in landed proprietors, farmers, and even peasants, progressive step in the onward direction. Owen, the public feeling as to the value of government pro- hastened to intimate that they would be most who is suspected not to have been favourable to tection in the matter of inventions. Amidst all dif- happy to receive such children; those who Darwin, was content "to confess his entire igno- ferences of opinion, it seemed to be pretty nearly the had the management of the railways and of rance of the mode in which it had pleased the general conviction that the present system of patent steamboats likewise gave their aid to the proCreator to establish our species, as it was said, out right is utterly inefficient, and nearly worthless, of the dust of the earth;" but, nevertheless, he and that it was, therefore, the duty of the Legisla-ject by offering gratuitous conveyance to these The King also had the admitted the fact, that man is no exceptional ture either to improve the patent laws with the view young passengers. speciality in animal structure, but, as it were, the of making them more definite and stringent, or to kindness to put a great many carriages at the sum and crown of the series of developments that abolish them altogether. Next in interest and disposal of those who took an interest in these were to be traced from ourselves down to the importance in this Section, was the question of children, and even the Post-office department lowest of the vertebrated series. His arguments, "Cannon versus Armour," in which cannon ap- offered its assistance. Since that time there therefore, left the Darwinians free, even if they peared, on the whole, to have the preference. has been a regular emigration of gratuitous gave no support. In the end, if Darwin's theory young travellers during the accustomed holiwas not accepted, it was admitted to be based on a days, who are in this way spread over the method of inquiry which was at once fair, philowhole country, even to its most distant bounsophical, and logical; if by some it was considered daries, and who return at the end of some 'dangerous,' by more it was confessed that in it weeks fresh and rosy, filled with many happy the idea of the majesty of the creative power underrecollections, and enchanted with the delights went no limitation, but that in truth the conception of their rustic sojourn. Not less than 1300 of the formation of species by development, while it children, belonging to the poorer classes of was equally sublime, was even more consistent with our reverence than the supposition of a distinctive act Copenhagen, have this year enjoyed the advanof the creative will for every new order of life tages of this rural hospitality from one end of instituted on the earth. the country to the other; and it is only doing justice to all parties concerned to put it on record that the instances in which their good hosts have had to make complaints against their visitors have been exceedingly rare, and that special requests have often been made that the same children that had been with

In conclusion, we may add that, as a scientific gathering, the late Manchester Meeting may be considered to rank first of the thirty-one which have now been held. There were, we believe, more members present, more papers presented, more lively interest elicited, more money collected, more sights exhibited, than on any previous occasion.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NOTES.

EDUCATION IN DENMARK.
THE Altona correspondent of the Morning
Post gives an interesting account of the state
of education in Denmark. He says:-

Passing from Darwin and his theory, there were other topics connected with the labours of the zoologists and physiologists perhaps even in their meaning more profound and wonderful than the In every parish there are at least two, and origin of species itself. The question of life, of its sometimes three or more, primary schools, relationship to organization, of the meaning of death, of the possibility of restoring animation, which are under the charge of teachers who, and of the connections between that part of life according to the proposal of the municipal or them one year might be sent to them the next, which is called sensation and mere motion, were communal council, as the case may be, in the when the happiness of again meeting has all considered in the light and by the aid of a town or country, are appointed either by the always been mutually felt by both parties. progressing knowledge. The hypothesis of the Bishops or by the Minister of Instruction, but There is something in the whole arrangemen

which, though primitive, is exceedingly interesting; and it might be productive of much good, if the example which has thus been set by the kind and good-hearted Danes, could be generally followed in quarters where the benefits to be conferred may be still more needed.

AMERICA-UNITED STATES.

Baltimore.. We learn from the Thirtysecond Annual Report of Mr. J. N. McJilton, Treasurer of the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools in Baltimore, that the Board has control of eighty-six schools. Of these there are three High Schools, one Floating School, one Normal School, thirteen male and fifteen female Grammar Schools, twenty male and twenty-eight female Primary Schools, and six Evening Schools. Number of pupils in male High School, 193; female, 564; Floating School, 60; Normal School, 106; male Grammar Schools, 2309; female, 2348; Primary Schools, 7732; Evening Schools, 467. Total, 13,779. Whole number of different pupils that have been in the schools during the year, 21,506.

Put OPI, ▲ DOA 8, 4 POD
=
Φ
=
angle which the plane of the coin makes with the
Also a and
plane AOBC, and OB = z = cos w.
a the values of z and w, when O is at the middle
point between two of the wires.

Every necessary position of the coin will be
comprehended between the limits, and each

T

There are 300 teachers employed in the schools-54 male and 246 female. The salary of Principal of male High School, 1500 dollars; Assistants, 1100 dols.; female High from 0 to and from 0 to a; and since an Schools, Principal, (male) 1200 dols.; First Assistant, 600 dols.; the other Assistants 400 element at P is cos dedo, the whole number of dols. each. The Principals in the male Gram-positions is expressed by mar Schools receive 900 dols. each, and the Assistants from 200 dols. to 500 dols. Principals in female Grammar Schools, (female) 500 dols.; Assistants from 150 dols. to 300 dols. The Principals (females) in the Primary Schools receive 300 dols., and the Assistants from 150 dols. to 200 dols. Total amount paid to teachers during the year, 96,113.34 dols.; total expenditure for school purposes, 165,034 54 dols.-Massachusetts Teacher.

Liberia.-A Correspondent in the Colonization Herald of Liberia, the Principal of the High School at Cape Palmas, writes, that Education is making rapid progress in the colony. Both standard English and American authors are found in the houses of the inhabitants. At every mission station there is a school, in some places two or three. These schools are attended by native children, who have in some cases been brought from the interior by their fathers to receive instruction, and in this way the English language is destined to extend all along the coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to the Bight of Benin. There is a High School at Cape Palmas, and a College is in course of erection in Monrovia.

CANADA.

The Report of the Superintendent of Education for Lower Canada has been published, and shows the steady progress Education is making in this rising and important colony. The following Table exhibits the advance since 1853:

Year. Institutions.

a 2 2

sss

0

cos pizdedo καπ

=

(1). The whole number of positions is 2b × z = 2ble, I being the length of the string; hence the required chance is

Now the projection of the coin upon the plane
AOBC is an ellipse whose principal semi-axes
= cos p and 1, hence the condition that
are OD
BC shall not cut this ellipse is easily found to be
sin > sin a cosec e, and...> w; consequently
the required chance is

w cosec ) sin wdwde

h

π

.-w+ sin w

10%e

2

2a, 1
+

π

π

2

ап

{s

tan

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sin wdw

sin a-1+ (a sin a-a) log, tan a

a

...

paraboloid.

Let p

w=

W'-W"

parameter of the generating parabola, weight of the thin surface, and s = gravity of the fluid. The volume of the paraboloid is ap, and therefore the weight of fluid displaced is a spπ.

Now, when the base is downwards there can be no atmospheric pressure,

. . . .. .. (1). (2). When the base is upwards the atmosphere wil press upon the whole of this base, whose area is is par; and hence the atmospheric pressure haspr,

Hence putting for coses w its value in terms of w, and integrating, we get a series, which, substituted in (2), will give the required chance; but the calculation will be somewhat laborious.

·W+w....(?).

When the distance between the wires is equal to the diameter of the coin, a = I and a = 0; hence When the weight of the surface is disregarded,

in this case

P=1-1

+ Totivo (5)°+ &c.} = r nearly.

Subtracting, and substituting for xy and halving, ellipse is midway between two parallels, that is, when x has its greatest value (ô), we shall have

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS.

the little Crystal Palace branch of the London, Chatham, and Dover were allowed) might have his choice of 10 termini-Paddington, Victoriastreet, Westminster; Charing-cross, Waterloobridge, Euston-square, King's-cross, Camden-town, Farringdon-street, Fenchurch-street, and Londonbridge-thus collecting and distributing again the thousands of visitors, each group near their own homes. What thus could be done for pleasureseekers bound for Norwood heights could of course be equally done on the more important occasion of sending troops by thousands from or through London to any part of England-and that is a national consideration that might well be made to override any minor jealousies of rival directors.— Globe.

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.

He was followed

It has yet another arrow in its quiver; it has taken a share in the Victoria Station, Westminster, and THE railway communications completed or in thus, by opening a west-end terminus, makes some progress in and around London give at length atonement for its choking up of Fleet-street. some promise of promoting the two great de- Strangely enough, after swallowing all these camels siderata-ready access to, and convenient egress of concession to this bold young company, the from, the great metropolis. When the plans al-Commons' committee refused to allow it a little ready legalized and actually being worked out are branch to the Crystal Palace. It actually runs finished, a great deal will be done in this direction. over part of the West-end and Crystal Palace line, These plans embrace the advance of the South- but it may not stop at the Palace. It would, if Eastern Railway to Charing-cross; the completion allowed, give us a new road to Sydenham, and of the London, Chatham, and Dover line to its would, what is better, land us at the right side of terminus in Farringdon-street; the completion of the Palace-the north side-enabling us to avoid the Pimlico Railway to its terminus in Victoria- that Mont Blanc of stairs and steps to be scaled street, Westminster; the opening (so to speak of before the ground floor of the Palace is reached. an underground railway) of the Metropolitan Rail- The Metropolitan Railway is the underground line way from Paddington to Farringdon-street; the to connect Paddington and the City. Those whom connexion of the Great Northern Railway with business has taken from Paddington to the Bank, that underground line; the connexion of the Great or whom pleasure has taken from the City to Western with the same line, and also, in the nearly Tyburnia, in passing the New-road may have obopposite direction, by the West London Extension served several yawning gulfs, with gas oozing out Saturday, Sept. 21st, being the festival of St. Matline, with the Pimlico Railway at Victoria-street. too palpably, and may have wistfully inquired thew, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, City Chamberlain, A few words will enable our readers to understand whether one of the members for Marylebone was and other members of the civic corporation, attended the bearings of these schemes. First in interest not about, Curtis like, to make away with himself in state at Christ's Hospital, for the purpose of hearing and importance is the advance of the South- for the good of his country. Those gulfs are the the annual orations. Service was performed in Christ's Eastern Railway, with all its Parisian and Conti- openings where the railway is being excavated. Church, Newgate-street, where a sermon was preached nental traffic, to Charing-cross. Old Dr. Johnson- It is to pass under the New-road, and in that di- before the corporation by the Rev. George Charles a man not generally associated with railway ideas-rection from Paddington to the City, to Farringdon- Bell, M.A., an alumnus of Christ's Hospital, who was quoted the other day by the chairman of the street (and finally, perhaps, to Finsbury-circus). selected for his text the 12th chapter of Romans, line for his well-known saying, "The full tide of It will be tunnelled for the main portion, and will 5th verse: "We being many are one body in Christ, existence, Sir, is at Charing-cross." If just when certainly be a novelty in City locomotion. One and every one members one of another." The Johnson spoke, how much more justified now! principal station will be at King's-cross, and at the visitors then proceeded to the hall, and from a dais To enter a station at Charing-cross and roll with- terminus the line will connect itself with the Great erected in the centre the orations were delivered. out interruption to Dover, seems almost too good Western. That great line, after marrying this The first was by Mr. Hyde Edwards Walker, third to be true to those who know the horrors of the young earthly bride, seeks a west-end and more Grecian, who is proceeding to Pembroke College, slow passage through the City at 4 or 5 o'clock, dainty alliance, committing the bigamy by means of Cambridge. It was a prologue in Latin iambics, in when bound in a hurry for London-bridge. The its mixed gauge. By means of the West London imitation of Terence. He explained that the reason Foreign-office, with its frequent late work and Extension it reaches a hand to the Victoria Station why a prologue was resorted to was because five hurried copying of despatches for the night express, and the Pimlico Railway. The Pimlico line runs Grecians were now proceeding to college, and there will, as Mr. Hammond testified before the com- through aristocratic Cubitt-opolis itself, but deli- were at disposal but four languages in which they mittee, appreciate the boon of despatching mes- cately and with appropriate respect. The railway could offer their thanks and bid their last farewell sengers half a mile instead of three miles through for half a mile through Pimlico is to be covered to the benefactors of the school. a crowded town. For the despatch of troops to in with glass, and (reminding one of Lear" shoeing in a Greek oration, remarkable for its classical Dover, or the south-eastern counties, the new sta- a troop of horse with felt") the rails are to be laid precision, by Mr. Arthur Thornhill Vaugh, fifth tion will also be a great convenience; and French- on vulcanized india-rubber cushions resting on the Grecian (classical medallist 1861), who is proceedmen reaching London will find it pleasant to be sleepers, thereby to diminish the rattle of the training to Trinity College, Cambridge. set down so much nearer Leicester-square, and in the ears of the Belgravians. The Pimlico Stafford Carlos, the first Grecian (classical medallist with less margin for the terrible extortion of our Railway being in connexion with the Crystal Palace 1860, mathematical medallist 1861, Richard's medalLondon cabmen. (We met a French gentleman and, as we have said, with the London, Chatham, list 1860 and 1861, and Montefiore prizeman 1861), the other day who had with his wife taken a cab and Dover line, the circuit of London is complete. who is proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, from London-bridge to Bedford-place, Bloomsbury, When the lines are completed, it will be possible delivered the English oration, which was highly ap and was charged 8s.) While Parliament, in grant- for an engine to start from the Victoria Station, plauded. The Latin oration was delivered by Mr. ing this extension to Charing-cross, did it avowedly pass smoothly over the Pimlico line, go round the Robert George Glenn, the fourth Grecian, scholar to relieve the City thoroughfares of some part of Crystal Palace, turn back to town, over Ludgate- of Magdalen College, Cambridge. the enormous traffic through the City to London- hill to Farringdon-street, there dip into the under- Collier Francis Morson, second Grecian, scholar of bridge (an apoplexy of traffic killing off and burying ground railroad, go through that tunnel to Pad- Jesus College, Oxford, delivered the French oration, at funeral pace all punctuality inCity-wards appoint- dington, and thence by the West London Extension and the following were then recited :—Greek iamments), a new Parliamentary committee soon sanc-reach the Victoria Station again, making the circuit bics, translation from "Henry VIII.," by Mr. tioned another scheme, again gorging the City of the busiest part of London. This completion of Henry Hughes, sixth Grecian, mathematical medalwith the traffic leaving London for Dover and the the circuit of rail round London has many im- list, 1860; Latin alcaics, translation of "The south-eastern counties. The London, Chatham, portant consequences; for instance, troops from Mountain Stream," by Mr. George Atkinson and Dover Company-a rival to the South-Eastern the North can be sent to the south-east coast Crossle, 8th Grecian; Greek sapphics, translation --has obtained leave to bring its line by a bridge without stop or stay in London, and, if we read from "Gertrude of Wyoming," by Mr. Edward over Ludgate-hill to Farringdon-street, again our Bradshaw aright (always a potential "if"), a Colbourne Baber, 7th Grecian; Latin hexameters, drawing to narrow Fleet-street and steep Holborn regiment stationed at Edinburgh might be at Dover "Italia Rediviva," Richards prize composition, by the traffic which the Charing-cross station hoped in about 16 hours after starting from "the gray Mr. Edward Stafford Carlos, 1st Grecian; Greek to divert from those choked-up streets. Thus metropolis of the North." In all matters connected hexameters, translation of "The Entry into Jeru wonderful are the ways of committees, and no man with military communications this power of passing salem," by Mr. Clifton Bokenham, 10th Grecian; knoweth their wisdom-but Parliamentary Go- through London without using London streets will Latin elegiacs, translation from The Giaour," by vernment has peculiar eccentricities not to be en- be a great advantage. The relief to the streets Mr. Frederick Clarence Baber, 9th Grecian; Eng tirely understood. The London, Chatham, and from the cessation of the traffic not immediately lish poem, "The Prince of Wales at the Tomb Dover, independently of these sins against Fleet- local will, of course, be very great. There are Washington," by Mr. J. C. F. Morson, second street and the Strand (and it certainly has had some things wanting in this hoped-for rounding off Grecian. The orations and translations were well great luck in fighting its way into the City against of London communication. Why should not the received, and enthusiastically applauded, and the intense opposition), has some claims apart from its South Western Railway join hands round London proceedings terminated with the National Anthem, success. In a military point of view it gives a with the other lines soon to be allied, thus connecting and hearty cheers for the Lord Mayor and Corpo second line for the ready despatch of troops from the North and West with the South-West? It ration. London to Dover and the coast; as a suburban might be hard to ask the South-Eastern to give up H. E. Walker: The following is the prologue spoken by Mr. consideration it will bring Dulwich, and Cam- its exceptionally fine position at Charing-cross to berwell, and that neighbourhood, into railway com- any rivals, but in a general union of the metropomunication with Farringdon-street, and finally with litan railways it might find its account. The Cur has acturus partes sim novas ego, Finsbury-circus, within 300 yards of the Bank. London and North-Western, the Eastern Counties Id primum; deinde quæ petuntur eloquar. Its conquests do not stop here; it is to connect and the circuitous lines ending in Fenchurch-street, Postquam negatum est quinque nostrum, de viris itself with the Metropolitan Railway at Farringdon- could easly join the iron family, and thus all London Qui sic libenter nobis fecerint bene, street, and through that line with the Great North- and the country round would be placed en rapport. Laudes referre; (quippe sunt hæc quattuor ern and the Great Western-thus connecting the As an illustration familiar to all readers, we may Linguæ, queis uti possumus ;) nec est modus north of England, and the west of England, by iron point out that were this union completed, the Lon-Illas ex æquo nobis qui dispertiat; rails through London, with the south-eastern coast. don visitor starting for the Crystal Palace (provided Hôc expedire modum convenit modo:

PROLOGUS.

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Mr. Edward

Mr. James