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THE ASPHALTUM COMPANY.
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One of Them . By Charles Lever . No . i 2 . Nov ., 1860 . London : Chapman and Hall . —This serial continues its career in its telhng and racy style . We have in the present number « The Doctor s Narrative , " and "A Happy Accident , " and wo are then taken to ^ Koine , and introduced at the " Palazzo Balbi , " and the part winds up with " The Old Story , " which , however , seems always to possess the attraction of novelty . ^ , . . ~ ¦ Recreative Science . Nov ., 1860 . London : Groombridge &Sons . — This month ' s number opens with a paper on " Reptile Vivaria . Ihe Measurement of Time by Ancient and Modern Calendars , is an for
interesting paper ; as is also one on " Goodchild ' s Trocheidoscope , an account and description of which new optical instrument we must refer to the publication itself . The growth of fungi , lunar halos , the path of the planet Neptune , Maori customs and traditions , the structure and movements of comets , the low temperature of mountains , the manufacture of coining dies * and a variety of other interesting subjects , are lucidly treated , not forgetting an article with the formidable heading of " Desmidiacece , or Desmidiea ? , " which , bo it explained , are a particular description of , to use the words of the article before us , " beautiful organised tiling , " microscopic in size and wondrous in , form . This publication is well illustrated throughout with appropriate
diagrams and cuts . ' T , _ Magnet Stories for Summer Days and Whiter Niglrfs . -So . / . " The Mice at Play , " by the author of the . " Heir of Redclvfl ' e . " London : Groombridge and Sons . —This is another little tale of this cheap and well , written series for children , but which might be read by children of a larger growth with perhaps more profit or less detriment , than much of the twaddle that is written for them . The English Cyclopaedia of Arts and Sciences , conducted by Charles Knight : London : Bradbury and Evans . — " Paper Manufacture and Trade" is concluded in this part , and is followed by articles on the important subjects of" Papyrus" ( the ancient paper of the Egyptians ) ; " Parallax , " " Parliament , " " Patent , " " Pclasgian Architecture , " " Perspective , " " Pestilence , " &c ^ concluding with a portion of an article on the tactics of the ancients , tinder the head of " Phalanx . "
The People ' s Dictionary of the Bible , Part II . Manchester : Ileywood . London : Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . Boston ( U . S . ) : Walker , Wise , and Co . —The second part of this work , now before us , confirms the favourable impression of the first for completeness of detail and copiousness of information . Its 32 clear and legible but full pages of matter commence with the conclusion of the article on " Agony , " end with the first part of an instructive essay on " Antiquity . " Boutledge ' s Illiistratecl Natural History . By the Reverend J . G . Wood , M . A- F . L . S . &c . Part 22 . London and Now York : Routledge , Warne , and Routledge . —The present part contains some very curious specimens of the fledged biped genus ^ such as those singular birds , Gould's neomorpha , Bullock ' s bee-eater , the rille-bird , the superb plume bird , the twelve-thread epimachus , the . hoopoe , the malachite sun bird , the Australian dioamm , the various sorts of humming birds , the sun gem , the shear-tail , the white booted rachettail , the thorn-bill , &c .
The Poetic Magazine . No . 1 . November , 1860 . London : Wilke , Farrah and Dunbar . —Tho introductory address prefixed to this littlo periodical informs us that the plan of it was suggested by a visit to the scene of Gray ' s Elegy . " We find in it various definitions of poetry that are somewhat new to us ; poetry , we find , is , among other tilings , " the embryo of the future , the stepping-stone from tho pust , the link of a continuous chain that lifts men from tho valley of death into tho regions bordering upon angel-land ; " for which reason , among others , the writer exhorts us" to raise for it a new and spacious temple , wherein its voice may bo ever hoard , in sorrow , in anger , and in love , shouting Excelsior , " &o , The Companion for Youth . No . 2 . Now Series . Nov ., 1860 . London : Dean and Son . —This is one of Messrs . Dean ' s useful publications for children . Tho presonfc nurubor contains a , song for throe voices—music and words .
Kingston ' s Magazine for Boys , No . 21 . Nov ., 1860 . London : Boaworth aid Harrison . —The prosont part contains chapter 12 of "My Travels , " which oonduots the reader to Naples , and gives him a good deal of amusing information about tho plaoe 5 and tho ' < Ad ventures of tho Thveq Midshipmen " are noarly brought to a oloso . CasaelVs Popular Natural History . Part 20 . London nnd Now York : CftSRoli and Co . —The part boforo us is principally occupied with a vorv interesting portion of tho pachyderm family . On the opening page ia an excellent engraving of Gainsborough ' s Donkey Rnoo , by way of illustration . In another illustration , tho variability of tho bovino speoioa is curiously exemplified in tho contrast botwoon tho Scotch and Hungarian cattle .
Oassell s Illustrated History of England 5 tho toxt by William Howitt . Part 10 , London and New York : Cnssell and Co , —This is a very interesting number , as it contains a very interesting period . Thoro are portraits of M . Mirabouu , and Louis 16 th , and engravings of ' Laiayetto preserving thel / fo of the Qucon , " tho " Huron of the Women to Versailles , " &o . CasselVs Family Paper , Part 35 . Now Serioa . Nov . 1800 . London and New York : Ousfloll and Co . —I'ho monthly instalment of this miscellany comes before us with its usual varied and attractive contonte . In tho present part there ia a portrait of JTranoio II ., King of Naples , whjoh sooms to betoken , though we know how wo should bo on guard agu , inst the ( suggestions of tho imagination , just such , a olu . « rooter as that dethroned potentate has proved himself to bo . The ZcwfcV Treasury . No . 40 . Nov . I 860 , London and Now York s Oosfloll iyad Oo .- ^ EIub periodical of M light litoraturo for todjes "
contains some representations of court costumes , masculine and feminine , of the time of Louis XIV ., which contrast strangel y with tho crinolines and peg-tops of the present age . 'JLu resle , the contents are as usual well assorted and well . written . , . CasselVs Illustrated Family Bible . Part 18 . London and New York : Cassell and Co . —The present part , in which there are some excellent illustrations , as " theDeath of Saul and his Armour-bearer , " " the Moabites presenting Gifts to David , " " David instructing Solomon as to the erection of the Temple of Jerusalem , " &c , comprises the first and second Books of Chronicles , from chapter 10 of the 'former to chapter 1-of the latter .
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A gexeeat , nieotinc : of the shareholders m this coinpany was hold at tho oflices , Great Winchester-street , on Tuesday , for tho purpose of confirming the proceedings of a meet ing hold on the 3 rd October ,-at which it was ° resolved to increase the capital 100 , 000 / ., and to convert the 10 Z . shares into shares of 1 / . each . The Chairmnn ( Mr . Clmplin ) said the object of the meeting was , as they had heard from the secretary , to confirm certain resolutions which had been passed by one meeting of shareholders , but which it vias necessary should be confirmed by another . Tn their original prospcclus , which was drawn up , but not published , they based their calculations of profit upon certain data , and the salient points were those—first , they put down the yield of oil from the asphnltum at eighty gallons a ton ; then they calculated the product at 5 , 750 gallons a week , and they put down the prieo at ; 2 s . Gd . a gallon . Instead , however , of tho price bein " only 2 s . 6 d . a gallon , they had sold none recently for less than and for had much
2 s . 8 rl ., and but little at that price , some they got as as 3 s . 6 d . Then as regarded the product , instead of being eighty gallons per ton , which they had calculated upon , he was happy to say it had yielded from ninety to ninety-fivo gallons , and therefore , as regarded the permanent commercial success of tho undertaking , their expectations had been more than realized . As regarded the raw material , which did not enter into their calculations , but which was snokon of as an element in looking to tho probable profits , he might state , as an instanco of the value of it , that they had an order for sonio of it last weok at 35 A per ton . They accepted the . offer ; and when he told them that at that rate it would realise to them a profit of some 000 or 700 per cent ,, ho thought they would say thnt , though their transactions in that way were not large , thoy would add to tho dividend . There was no difficulty in selling tho oil . Ho had at that moment an offin- of a contract for 700 , 000 gullons at 2 d . lOd . per gallon , and the weekly report of the manager , laid before tho board on Fi-idnv kst . stated that ho had orders on hand / for 25 , 2 jj 2 gallons , whu-U
ho had not boon able to execute , tho demand having boon so great , and tho prices wore from 2 s . 8 d . to 3 s . Gd . This referred only to tho burning oil , but they also made a quantity of heavy oil suitable for lubricating machinery and other purposes , and for which thoy could get as much as Gs , per gallon . At tho prosont momwt thoy hml in stock 38 , 013 gallons of burning oil , nnd ll » , 02 n gallons of heavy oil , without reckoning the crude oil , tho exact quantity of whicsh they had no moans of measuring , bceuuso it whs in largo tanks under ground . As regards tho minos , thoy hnd n letter from Mr . J . Crawford , tho vioo-oomul at Havana , in which ho recommended tho orooting of pumps at ProspinclncJ , and stating that ho was assured by tho mining captain that thpy ooulcl rniso twenty-live tons ot ohnpnloto' ( nsphaltnm ) por diom whon tho mino was dry , and that tlioro could bo no difllonKy in sending forward all tho supplies thnt wore ior uwonsuiR t
required for tho works in London . Ono reason "o capital of tho company was , that ( hoy hnd obtained , nt a oonsuloraljlo outlav , from tho Govornmont , a monopoly of tho manufacture 111 Ciibft and Porto Rioo . Thoy would judge ofUio valuo of this when ho uta ocl that at thoir works in Cuba they could produce oil at (> d . portfolio " which thoy could voadily soil at 3 s . to 4 » . Thoy hod paid . C 23 . 000 lo >' tho SnntaThoresaniino—an outlay which was not oontomplntod wJkmi thoy flxod tho capital , In addition to tlinfc tliby had found id convenient to purohuBO nn ostato , to < prevent damages being claimed lor injury to the surfaoo , but which they had lob at a ivnt giving thorn * fair interest for the amount cxpondod . Another point wna ,-t I ml ; I hoy had only learnt from practical experience that tho oil improved br kooping , and thoy woro obliged , thoreforo , to havo immonso tanks omi storos oonstr ' uotod , which involved not only a largo outlny lor those roooptaoloa , bufc U 10 kooping a lnrpo stook on hnnrt oi it . Bi 1 " required capital . They had been « t work only four months , nnd llio season only commenced about tho middle of September . IIo mo not like to rftluo oxpootations which might not bo fululled , but no
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Tub NatiteaI / History UEViisw . — -A new quarterly review , with this title , will appear on the 1 st of January next . We find the several departments , will be under the direction of the editors whoso names are attached to them as follows : —Physiology arid Histology , William B " . Carpenter , M . D ., F . R . S ., F . L . S . ; Robert McDonnell , M . D . ; E . Perceval Wright , A . M ., M . D ., F . L . S .: Systematic Zoology and Distribution , J . Ray Greene , A . B . ; P . L . Sclater , A . M ., Sec . Z . S ., F . L . S .: Anatomy , Human and Comparative , and Embrvologr , George Busk , F . R . S ., Sec . L . S . ; John Lubbock , F . R . S ., F . L . S . ; ' Thoj .. 1 J . Huxley , F . R . S ., F . L . S .: Phanerogamic Botany , Dnniel Oliver , F . L . S .: Cryptogamic Botany , Frederick Currey , F . R . S ., F . L . S . : Paleontology , Thos . H . Huxley , F . R . S ., F . L . S .: Wyville Thomson , F . R . S . E ., Tho contents of the review will consist of original articles and reports ; reviews ; and bibliographical . notices and miscellanea .
Etiixologicai . Socikty . —This Society met at 1 , St MartinVplace , Trafalgar-square , on Wednesday evening , when tho following papers ¦ were road : A Report of the Ethnological Papers read at the British Association at Oxford . By Dr . James Hunt , Hon . Sec—On the Relation of Domestic Animals to Civilisation ( Birds ) -. By John Crawfurd , Esq ., President . . ' A New Hosittai ,. —Under the title of [ the North London Hospital for consumption and diseases of tho chest , a new . hospital has been opened , forin-door ' patients as well us those requiring to be visited at their own homes , at ; Russell-place , Fitzroy-square .
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Historical Tales . No . 21 . " The Forsaken , or the Times oi St . Dunstan . " Lomloii : J . H . and J . Parker , 337 , Strwid . This is one of the series of historical tales issued by this firm , intended to illustrate by agreeable fiction the manner and customs of the age in which the scene is laid . It is followed by an appendix , containing curious and interesting information about trial by ordeal , the position of slaves , St . Dunstaiv and the coiners , the qualifications of a thane , the severity and character of St . Dunstan , the early use of bells , &c .
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g £ 2 The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Nov . 10 , I 860
The Asphaltum Company.
THE ASPHALTUM COMPANY .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1860, page 932, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2373/page/12/
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