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The Students Manual Of Geology. The /Stu...
LlnrT the treatises of other writers on the same subject , and digest the Howledle be will acquire from them . It is in effect a copious and mtelhge Mr jukes ° h ' as , as we have already said , considered and treated the science of Geology in its widest and most comprehensive sense , and not merely as an account of stratified rocks and their history . The subject is distributed into Geognosy and Palaeontology , including the history of the formation of the serie ? of stratified rocks . Under Geognosy , that is , the structure of rocks independently of their arrangements into a chronological series , Lithology and Petrology are separately treated , the first having special reference to the internal structure , the mineral composition , the texture , and other characters of rocks ; the second comprehending the larger
cnaracteristics of rocks , the study of rock masses , their plans of division , their forms , their positions and mutual relations , and other features that can only be studied in ' the field . ' Under the head of Palaeontology , Mr . Jukes touches upon a much more delicate question , and one to which , too otten , the rule of logic is not sufficiently applied . The laws which have governed the distribution of life both in space and time , must naturally involve a considerable amount of speculation , and no inferences should be drawn either by inversion or otherwise , than those which may fairly be deduced from the facts established . It has not frequently been the habit among scientific men in their palasontological investigations to argue that there must have been animals in such and such a condition , though no traces of them exist .
We may reason from facts , though to do more would be to carry surmise too far , and introduce a fatal laxity into the pursuit of positive knowledge . Mr . Jukes has , however , refrained from entering too minutely into this arena of speculation . He has confined himself to describing some of the chief characteristics in the structure of the known extinct races , and their relations to those now living . As a natural and appropriate conclusion to the work , a condensed abstract of the history of the formation of the crust of the globe , classified chronologically , is given , together with an account of some of the principal and typical groups of rocks known to have been produced , and a few of the fossils known to have lived at different parts of the earth during each of the known great periods of its existence .
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TSTo . 411 , February 6 , 1858 . 1 THE LEADE B . 141
Publications And Republtcations. Town Li...
PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLTCATIONS . Town Life , by the Author of 'Liverpool Life , ' published by Mr . Tweedie , is a somewhat partial and overdone picture of dissolute haunts and demoralizing manners . Its aim is good ; but the author works himself up to a perpetual groan , and it is evident that the ' town' referred to is not London . Here and Hereafter ; or , the Two Altars , is a Boston novel , by Anna Atnern , already known by her tale , 'Step by Step ; or , Delia Arlington . ' It is a re ligious story , professing to present 'pictures of life in some of its different phases at the present day . ' The authoress has had considerable success in America , and is much praised by the religious journals . Dr . Cornwell ' s Geography for Beginners , published by Messrs . Simpkin and Marshall , is an excellent shilling manual for the young . Dr . Cornwell is well known , and much respected , as a writer of educational handbooksespecially for children .
On a New Method of Fixing Artificial Teeth , published by Piper , Stephenson , and Co ., is , in fact , the manifesto of Mr . J . Maurice , Surgeon-Dentist , who promises a permanent benefit as the result of a painless operation .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AtfD DEATHS . BIRTHS . CURTIS . —On the 4 th inst ., at 68 , Eccleston-square , the wife of Charles W . Curtis . 'Esq .: a daughter . READ . —On the 3 rd inst ., at Lee , Kent , the wife of Edmund Read , Esq . ; twin da ^ lUer , ^^ PAPILLON—LOCHNER . —On the 3 d inst ., at Trinity Church , Paddington , the Rov . John Papillon , rector of Lexdon , Essex , to ILaura , daughter of the late Captain Lochner , H . E . I . C . S . STRETTON—ROBINSON . —On the 2 < I inst ., at St . Pancras Church , George Stretton , Esq ., of 13 , Grove-terrace , Highgate-riso . to Mary , the widow of the late John Robinson , Esq ., of Horton , near Slough , Bucks . DEATHS . BARTON . —On the 5 th inst ., aged six months , the infant Bon of Mr . Thomas Barton , of tho firm of Abbott , Barton , and Co . PIGOTT . —On tho 29 th of January , Henry T . O . Smyth Pigott , Esq ., late Captain of tho Second ( Royal North British ) Dragoons , aged 35 . ^^
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w London , Friday Evening , February 5 . The Bank of England has reduced its rate of discount onco more to three and a ljalf por cont ., and , if gold continues to pour in as anticipated , will go to a lower rate boforo Eastor . Thoro has boon a good domand at tho Bank for discount on good bills , although olsowhore tho bill discounters are doing first class six months bills at throo per cont . Tho purchases mado in Consols havo boon considerable , while the monthly settling shows that thoro has boon no groat amount of speculative buying . Monoy 1 b hardly to bo lent at any remunerative price , and this plethora must cause a rise in other securities besides tho funds . No doubt a groat deal of monoy is kept idle waiting for a favourable Indian loan ; but that onco ratified , tho preferential and guaranteed stocks will bo bought up , ana from thorn tho investors must turn their attention to good railway shares , and other securities inoro or loss hazardous . Consols sinoo tho account havo boon done at 00 ; Turkiali Six nor Cent . Stook at 004 i Peruvian and Buonos Ayrcan and Brazilian aro in domand ; Russslan Five por Cents , at 112 , Tho East Indians are woll supported , and aro all at high premiums ; Pornambuoo at 1 promium ; Bahia and San Francisco stand at 1 , 5 s . promlum . __ J . 'ho _ CanadaJinoa . liavo _ bhovvii . . inarkotLimprovoinont ,-aU , thoir preference shares bolug in domand , Eastorn Counties ato steady . Tho heavy shin-on , Loods , London and North-Woutorn , Midland , South-WoHtoru , and Qroat-Wostorn aro slightly improvod . Tho Groat-Woatorn dividend is declared to bo 2 por oont ., a magnifloont iutorest for tho finest lino in tho world I Caledonians aro at 00 , and bid fair to go to . par . Brlghtons and Borwlolcs , Groat Northern aud South-Eastorn aro without ohiingo . In Joint-stock bank shares thoro has boon considenililo business , and pricos rulo higher . Mining Hharott jhavo been in demand , Santiago and Marlqulta amongHb tho foreign . The Unitoil . South Tolgua , South and Norlh Francos , Valo of Towy , West Soton , Hingston Downs , Whoal Kitty and
Wheal Edward , have been bought . In miscellaneous shares , Eastern Steam , North British Australasian , Scottish Investment , and Australian Agricultural have been more active . The American railway market has also improved . Blackburn , 9 9 . J ; Caledonian . 94 i , 943 ; Chester ard Holy-Iiead , 37 , 39 ; ISastern Counties , 61 * . 62 * ; Great Northern . 105 * . 106 J ; Great Southern and Western ( Ireland ) , , 106 ; Great Western , 61 , 614 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire . 934 , 94 ; London and Blackwall , 6 J , 6 *; London , Brighton , and South Coast , 106 . 108 ; London and North-Western . 10 U , 102 ; London and South - Western , 98 * . 994 ; Midland , 964 , 97 ; North - Eastern ( Berwick ) , 97 , 98 ; South - Eastern , ( Dover ) , 744 , 76 * j Antwerp and Rotterdam , 6 j , 6 | ; Dutch Rhenish , 31 , 3 f disl ; Eastern of France ( Paris and Strasbourg ) . 28 , 28 i ; Great Central of France , ; Great Luxembourg , 8 , 84 ; Northern of Franco , 38 J , 38 J ; Paris and Lyons , 845 , 35 ; Royal Danish , 16 , 18 ; Royal Swedish 4 , f ; Sambre and Meuse , 8 , 84 .
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MR . WESTLAND MARSTON'S NEW PLAY AT THE LYCEUM . If Mr . Cha . ri . es Dillon has-no other mission , certainly it has been accorded to him utterly to overthrow the once prevalent notion that each London theatre has its speciality . Some years ago , and we knew as positively what entertainment would be provided for us at each house , as the schoolboy what particular joint he will have for dinner on each week-day . There was Skakspeare at the * patent theatres , ' comedy and farce at the Haymarket , melodrama and broad farce at the Adelphi , vaudeville and burlesque at the Lyceum and the Olympic . But now all is changed , the Merry Wives of Windsor has been played at the Adelphi , while at the Lyceum , under the present management , the changes have been rung upon every style of entertainment , from Skakspeare to rattling farce , from Othello to Tour Friend from Leatherhead , with , it is said , profitable result in a pecuniary point of view . Nor , though essentially the tactics of a provincial manager , do we think that these constant changes are in the least prejudicial to the well-being of the drama : there are persons who would as soon think of sitting out Mr . Spurgeon as Mr . Shab > speare , and many who would infinitely prefer the sight of a ' gaping pig' to a ' gorgeous transformation scene ; 'but all in their * turn are attracted by the special style of entertainment which they prefer , and thus are brought to see and judge of actors whose talent would otherwise be unknown to them .
The last production at the Ltcedm is from the pen of Mr . Westland Marston , a gentleman who has been hitherto regarded as the fortunate possessor of a certain amount of poetic feeling and a taste for writing dramas , having , be it observed , very little knowledge of dramatic requirements , and producing plays which were singularly unfitted to the purposes of the stage . His scenes were all what the late eminent Mr . Ducrow used to call' dialect *—there was no action , no situation , and , in consequence , the yawnings of the audience , by the conclusion of the first act , were ominous . Years , however , and unsuccessy have taught Mr . Marston better things ; and his new piece , A Hard Struggle , is a very pretty Jit tie story , well contrived , and told in simple , forcible , every-day language . The plot is slight enough , being simply explanatory of the hard struggle endured by a very honest , kind-hearted , rough , and
uncouth countryman , when he finds that his . betrothed , who has been outin the world , ' has found there a pleasanter person than himself , and duty tells him to yield her up . But there aTe many nice touches of nature and pathos in the dialogue , and the action is easy and life-like . Moreover , the piece is capitally acted : Mr . Dillon is by no means a great artist , but he has blood and spirit in him , and always plays as though he were in earnest—two or three quiet bits of despair , supervening upon the agony which the first shock of the discovery occasions him , were effectively given , Mr . J . G . Shore is , perhaps , the best Jeune premier now on our stage ; by this we mean simply a ' walking gentleman , ' not what is called a ' character' actor . Very probably he could not represent a fidgety man , or a used-up man , or a drunken man , but he can look , walk , and speak like a gentleman , and to have achieved so much is to have surpassed nine-tenths of the actors on the London stage . X .
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BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . __ __ J Olosing JPbioesO ; Sett . Mon . Tues . Wed . Thur . Frid . Bank Stook 2261 226 J 2254 227 2254 226 3 per Cent . Red 95 i 95 * 05 J 95 « 05 i 96 i 3 per Cent . Con . An . 9 Bi 95 f 95 | 95 . 1 95 J 964 Consols for Account 954 05 * 95 f 96 i 955 . 96 * Now 3 per Cent . An . 95 j 95 JS 05 J 05 J 903 00 * New 21 por Cents Long Ans . 1800 1 . 10 Iudfa Stook 210 2214 Ditto Bonds , £ 1000 15 p 21 p 24 p Ditto , under J 61 O 0 O 22 p Ex . Bills , £ 1000 22 p 22 p 25 p 23 p SO p 32 p Ditto , « 500 . 21 p 25 p 24 p 28 p Ditto , Small . 22 p _ . _ . r _ i . 26 p 27 p I 33 p FOREiGN FUNDS . Last Oihhoxal Quotation during the Wbbkbndino TnuRBDAY Evening . ) Brazilian Bonds 103 ? Portuguese 4 porOonts . ... Buenos Ayros 0 p . Cents 98 } Russian Bonds , 5 per Chilian 0 per Cents Cents „ ill * Chilian 3 per Oonts Russian 4 * por Cents .,.. 1001 Dutch 24 per Cents 05 * Spanish 42 | Dutch 4 porOonb . Oortf . 100 , Spanish Committee Oor-Equodor Bonds 14 of Coup , not fun S Mexican Acoount 201 Turkish 6 por Cents 08 Peruvian 44 porOonts .... 80 Turkish Now , 4 ditto .... 103 J Portuguese 3 por Oonts . 441 Venezuel a 4 * orp Cents
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OOBN MA RKET . ,,,.,. , Mqrk-lano .. Frlday ,. Ii ' obruaryr 5 . ~—Here tho dulness pervading tho trade for some weeks past has in no way abated , though tho supplies of all sorts of grain , oxooptlng Barley , continue to bo very moderate , but ) the farmers aro stocking tho country markets vory frooly—and , in eonuoquonco , country dealers do not como to town to buy : and thoro is a gonoral fooling prevailing that , ovon should Wheat duolino 6 a . per quarter , fcho sales would bo confined within vory narrow limits . Tho prices paid to-day aro , fair rod English Wheat . 42 s . to < Uh . per Imperial quarter ; ( lno Stralaund and Mocklonburg , 4 ( 5 h . to ' 1 ) 7 » . i Holstoin , ¦ Ms . i white French , 48 s . to 40 s . i Taganrog Ghlrka , 42 s . t Odessa Ghlrka . 43 s j St . Petersburg , 4 () s .. all por 400 lbs . Fronoh Malting liarloy , 3 Us . to 34 a . per
420 lba Odessa , 23 s . to 23 s- 6 d . ; Turkish , 21 s . to 21 s . 6 d . per 400 lbs . Fine Swedish Oats , 24 s . 3 d . ; Archangel , 22 s , ; Norfolk Flour , 31 s . ; Supers , 33 s . ; French 4 Marks , S 7 ; Good Trench Marks , 35 s . to 36 s .
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FllOM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , February 2 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . —Samuel Mendel , Ponchurcli-street . City , commission agent . BANKRUPTS . — John Watson Littlee , Lower Edmonton . Middlesex , apothecary—Thomas Elibha Deacon , Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire , tanner — Francis Stetens , Earls Barton , Northamptonshire , currior — Thomas Tomkiinson Rilby . Wolverhampton , Staffordshire , winoand spirit merchant—William Newb y , Wolverhampton , Staffordshire , grocer—John Burgess , Tipton , Staffordshire , licensed victualler—John Knibb , Dunchuroh , Warwickshire , baker — Benjamin Hill , Wolvorhampton , Staffordshire , licensed victualler — Michael Mioiia . el , Aberaman , Glamorganshire , grocer—John Browne , Flymouth , Devonshire , fringe maker — James Bbaddcmvy , Lindley , Yorkshire , grocer — John Sohofield , MorJoy , Yorkaliiro , mason—Lewib Dbansbield , Leeds , rope mater —William Wadswobth and John Harrison , Salford , Lancashire , cotton waste dealers—William Bowes , Kqswick , . Cumberland , spade and edge tool manufacturer—Henry Brown North Shields , Northumberland , shipowner . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . — J . Oaldeb , Birohln , Forfarshiro , draper—J . Monoriebp , Glasgow , commission agent—H . Gebdie . Kilmarnqck , 'skinner — R . Park 3 b , Partiek , near Glasgow , commission merchant — W . Maodonald . Glasgow , sowod muslin manufacturer—O . E . Chaddock , Glasgow , merchant—J . R . Barclay and D . E . Babclay , Glasgow , merchant- — J . Wyper and W , Wypjsk , Glasgow , wrights—W- Maosarlane and J . Maokay , Glasgow , tobacco pipe manufacturers—J . Bbyoe and J . Vr . nouson , Dunfermlino , manufacturers — J . Grey , Dundee , contractor . Friday . February 5 . BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLE D . —John Young , Pontonville-road , King ' s-cross , draper—Charles Isaac , Bristol , merchant , BANKRUPTS . — William Keynes and TnoMAS Keynib , Salisbury , merchants—William Wbllbr , Woolwich , stone mason—Henry Challenger . Bristol , vlotuallor — Frederick Thomas Hyder , Bayswator , ten dealor—John Bourne , Cardiff , Glamorganshire , builder—George Dban , Nottingham , cord manufacturer— Robbrt DowLlwa . Wostbury , Wiltshire , woollen drapor—Joseph Rjunnxbon , HuddorsUold , wine merchant—Thomas Pkok-SON . Scarborough . linon qrapor—WjhiamMinors , Sinotli--wiok , T-Staffordshiro ,-i drapur--7 ,-. JouN ~ AHOij ; iJ } ALU _ J ! j [ TZ n-,-patiu « k ,-Alrowos , Staffordshire , victualler — William Elbow , Elvotham , briokmnkor—Reginald G . H . Moorham , Upper East Smithllold , morohnnt- Lewis Swra Kujdtfir , Manohoator , hardwnromau — Geobgk John Broww , Hartlopool , ropo manufacturer—Edward UbwjAMirr JiitoniE , Argylo-stroot , King's-cross , coopor—Vincent Salmavico , IJatton-gardon , optician — Ronnsxix G « o » gb Wbbii , Liverpool , drapor—Oharleb Whauton , Sandbnch , OhoHtor , miller—Arthur Rioe Jen neb , Winohllold . buyor and lottor out to lilro of thrashing machines—Edwaiid Bell , Wappiup , ship chandler-John Bukd , RadallJI ' o , Lancashire , oiilloo priutor—Isdwakd Fknton , Batloy Carr , Dowsbury , Yorkshire , rag and shoddy dealer .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 6, 1858, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06021858/page/21/
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