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are nearly always lost sight the assertion may be deem eless say that for ordinary urposes such a knowledge. ial dialect only as may be one year is suficient; and this colloquial knowledge, acquaintance with the or of characters known to native "boy," sufficient, assert that a knowledgś er is a sine qua non, and he official or missionary require an acquaintance I ta of many styles and

om this necessity & sort of on that the written cha ething to do with helping ire the colloquial. Ins this may be the case, but not so with the majority. eno necessity for learning sa help to colloquial the question is, "is the col elf a sufficiently useful be worth a year's steady ird work?" a hus reply yes." Take the inary servant, Is any repared to assert that if h Chincse as his boy terially help him? And ¡ cent and slang excepted, within the reach of every i , na we have before rel hinese scholarship even of an ordinary official ever remain a speciality we equally believe that ledge of colloquial will general amongst foreign- opean ladies in loding Bengali, but we seldom / nows even the alphabets Devanagari. In Chiba stantly assured that the indispensible study, but be we cannot say. We xpress our lisaeut from laid down, and if onr ace further enquiry in se who are interested in.

purpose will have been

a reliable source that a as taken place bètween e.interior of Hainau and a stationed in the South. Two Chinese military ted, and a considerablo iers wounded in the

but we should correct a ed last night. It was agraph that the Chief leave" of appeal to the Regina v. Saint. That asbuch (as will be seen gewhere), as the Crown

for leave, and antion to appeal direct Council, Mr Pollard Jefendunt "seemed to Let not the learned If up in a fool's para as willin" at the out and will meet him at hown ventures to go

OCAL

Oncurd, has favoured the Sydney. Herald of ontúus a telegram from eh we learn that Pritice ing a round of visite. TY MURDNE

AGAIN,

hat the authorities are the murderery of Mr De Supt. Jarman Chivaman named brothel in Hollywood n placed on the charge le with others did murder W. Hol- th January last. Fri astono-cutter, living It is believed that Pidence which can be and the police have wards others who are f complicity in this old usiness. ET A

DISAPPEARANOR. - istinent has been cant anishment of a gentle the Colony, who held ager of works to the

y. Mr A. D. Mitchell

ume) is said to have

h he and two oamphor- sported on Thursday

'clock, to ong

of hailed,

the

were shoved of Ho

a sampan was

for bis chair-coolies

xt morning at half-

aud in waiting the cordingly until wine erday moreing. Lu- onroyed to the Dock chair-coolies referred Walker comuni tuin of Police, being pression that there sident, or that the

ith foul play at the men. Further in- by results of a some ongh the play cannot, appears, be

called the

The disappearance of ptly was well-plautied.

Fried out, Efis dwel

wall weeded of its val

in arrears, and his

pets have gone with

ertain that he had

id the American shig

son), which vessel

n Francisco; and it

taco that the orders 北

to sea were

Benning (of the tag

t reference to the

so that the towage

before the movement

ock Office, sit

loubt, from the re

No 1816 APALL 3, 1860.]

gard to what his lordship had said in his Judgment as to the

prerogative right of appeal, in that part where he said "My decision on the purely legal ground is sub- jest to review by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council," and having regard to the importance attached in the judgment to the points raised, the prosecution thought respect of course, which was always intend- ed-and more couvenient to the defendant, the Court would send the record on, in

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE NORTH. (Courier.)

miraten.

lations, which are hourly being made, that Mitchell fled from monetary embarrass ments which were likely to enoirele him in & variety of ways. He was a man who, in s commercial point of view, had "many irons in the fire, and as some of these are spoken of as likely to become red-hot, the

It is a matter of congratulation to shareholdere of the Dock County that be bas done nothing, and has not had the opportunity of doing anything, prejudicial to the accounts of the Company; but the stead of having to wait for an answer to auchor, lest some of his people should land,ternal sirculation, which has been whether fungus or oak, worm or man; the. between the propertiss of the components same comfort cannot be given to many with no application. That would be, tao, a boon in which case he said, they would be badly forward by an eminent physiology and is resolved into its mineral and lifeless neither was thare in the caso of the water,

ferent routes; and, sometimes, trains of transmigration, unita in innumerable per- not assume that a something called grapules may be seen coursing swiftly in mutations, into the diversified forms of life "quosity" entered into and took pos- The Admiral and the deputation from sandth of an inch of one another; posed of ordinary wattor, and again resolv- it was formed, and then guided the opposite directions, within a twenty-thou we know? Or, is this matter of life com- session of the oxide of hydrogen as soon as the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce were while, occasionally, to leave Hankow in the Salamis on the come into direct collision, and after donet Modern science does not hesitate a facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets morning of the 25th. As soon as they over a longer or shorter struggle, one predo moment between these alternatives. Phy- of the hoar frost. In the case in any way opposite streams ed into ordinary matter when its work is aqueous particles to their places in the took the guu-boat, the Admiral was to re-

The possible complexity of siology writes over the portals of life- Rodney boing ordered home.

cbanged when carbonic acid, water, and Debemur morti nos nestr.aque,“ who endeavoured to persuade him not to such a protoplatan to a body with an in-

matter of life makes its appearance? Adiniral Keppel had paid u visit to Li, dawus upon one; and the comparison of

simple as the pretoplasm of

disappear, and in their place, protoplasm, an equivalent weight of the It is true that there is no sort of parity and the properties of the resultant, but

explanation of his fight beconies more cay it would be respectful to his Lordship turn in the Salamis on account of the many other organic forais, nettles with a profounder ineauing than the Roman/uder the influence of pre-existing living

whom the absentee has had personal trans actions. Many Worthy people tourn his absence, and we are afraid will not or cat not be comforted under a column of thousands of 7.178 But beaides this, there is fealing of re-

11

in

if

to defendant;

Mr Hayllar: Wo do not want any of your boon-not in the slightest degree.

His Lordship double-figure

this. You cannot have much to say

Do not let us go on with The Attorney General would leave the mation to common sense. If i sve: was not granted, another year might be lost in ask- might be refused.

lasga

post attached to that melancholy liue, Under whatever disguiso it takes refuge, living protoplasm not only ultimately dies

abou

be unable to protect them. The mandarins acts of all living things are fundamentally constituents, but is always dying, and, It is also true that what I have spoken of treated by the Chinese, and he (La) would much of its startling character. evinca a great dislike to the country being one, le penetrated by foreigners.

We understand that the Kita-hing which takes some officials of the Harbour Master's Department to Gutstaff, was to leave on the 30th Inst. She also was to take some gen-

they are to examino, some of the islands them as suitable for a Sanitarium.

The following ure the two highest scores made at the Rifle Olub mitch on the 27th Nov.

1.-W. Pearson, 16

200 yes, 400 yds. 600 yds. Total 25. Cameron, 14

=

18 .9 43. 25 ร 36. It is rumoured that the Chinese Govern

forma? Let us seek in easily-verified Facts strange as the paradox may sound, could

any such unity. predicable of their for a reply to this question. If a drop of not live unless it died. blood be drawn by pricking ono's finger, and All work implies waste, and the work viewed with proper pressutions and under of life results, directly or indirectly, in a sufficiently high microscopic power, there the waste of protoplasms. Every word

protoplan, and its activity differs in de the protoplasm of the nettle. A nucleated tails, rather than in principle, from that of

1088 of

certain physical value to me, which is, con For example, this present lecture, what

osivably, expressible by the number of ever its intellectual worth to you, has a

grains of protoplusin and other bodily sub casses during its delivary. By-and-by, I stance wasted in maintaining my vital pro

human body. As a mustter of fact, the pose of stretching it back to its original size, f protoplasia turns out to be what shall probably have recourse to the sub- may be termed the structural unit of the stance commonly called mution, for the pur- budy, in its earliest state, is a mere multiple Now this mutton was once the living prute of such units and, in its perfect condition, plasm, more or loss modised, of another it is a multiple of such units, variously animal-a sheep. As I shall eat it, it is modified.

the same patter altered, not only by death, essential structural character of the highost tions in the process of coghing. But these But does the formula which expresses the but by exposure to sundry artificial opera on its over and faculties covered that of rendered it incompetent to respins its old animal cover all the rest, as the statement changes, whatever be their extent, have not all atliers? Very nearly. Beast and fowl functions as matter of lifa. A singular in- reptile and fish, mollusk, worm, and ward laboratory, which polype, are all composed of structural units solve a certain

sundry very low animals, each of which, protoplasm nuclens. There are strnaturally, is a mere colourless blood corpuscle, leading an independent life. But, at the very bottom of the animal

manifested by a partials of protoplasm Reale, even this simplicity becomes simpli fied, and all the phenomena of life are

will dis-

as the influence of pre-existing living mat does anybody operoids of an electric spark, whi tor is something quite unintelligible; but

mixture of oxygen and hydrogen

comprehend the modus" which traversos What justification ia

What

is there, then, for the

further enforcing his view of the facts:

And now, says Mr Huxley, after still

conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rang of

I bid you beware that, in accepting these

people's estimation, is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of ladder which, in most

heaven. It may seem a small-thing to fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties admit that the dull vital notions of a

of the nature of the matter of which they of their protoplasm, and are the direct resulta are composed. But it, as I have under voured to prove to you, their proto readily

the admission that such is the case, and the converted into, that of any animal, I can discover no logical balting place between. further concession that all vital notion may, with equal propriety, be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the

tent, that the thoughts to which 1 am now protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must betrue, in the same sense and to the ex-

ing them, are the expression of molecular giving utterance, aud your thoughts regard chauges lu that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena.

talling the farea for day and night bire, af- he hail no power said that he thought security is undoubted, and a loan of doable of the same character, namely, masses of toplasm, the solution of the modified pro- essentially identical with, and mest

None but a

A MAE Handicap Foot-race to that run some time since, was arranged to have started this evening, weather permitting hint we halere it has been postponed on account of the rains. The distances allowed were slightly modified by the result of the lest race; and three prizes are available on ocusion, for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The starts given are as under :--

Sim

Scratched. Wallis

20 yards.

this

Wagner

Turner

· Wilson-.

HUXLEY ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE

(Pall Mall Budget.}

with

without a nucleus.

it is

we call

possess,

which it will then be subjected will convert so formed will pass into my veins and the subtle influences to the dead protoplasin, and transubstantiato sheep into man. Nor is this all. If diges tion were a thing to be trifled with, I might

wonderful metamorphosis into humanity. sup upon lobster, and the matter of life of the crustacean would undergo the same And were I

sea, and undergo shipwreck, the crustacea return to my own place by might, and probably would, return the compliment, and demonstrate our comdun origin by turning my ing lobster. Or, if nothing better

into liv.. better were to

gross

gret that one who hail made many friends the Colony, should have cut them

manner so sudden and so equivo ing the Privy Council for leave, and leave. tlemen as far as the Rugged Islands, where will be seen among the innummerstio mui- uttered by a speaker, costs him some phy assumption of the oxistence in the living cal Recent changes in the management of

Mr Hayllar: We say it will be refused. with the view of recomiending one ofde of little, circular discoidal bodies, or sical loss; and in the strictest sense, he matter of a something which has no repre- the Unich Dock Company are said to have confiderably influenced the gentleman's The Attorney General: That is childish.

corpuscles, which float in it and give it its departure, his opportuity-of engaging in We cannot enter on that argument here.

colour, a comparatively small uutuber of burns that others may have light-so sentative or correlative in the not living private epeentations/noder the Company's

colourless corpecies, of somewhat larger much eloquence, so much of his body watter which gave rise to it? What better His Lordship: I do not see the slightest

size and very irregular shape. If the drop resolved into carbonio acid, water, and philosophical status has vitality" than connection having been much lessened; reason for your entering on a discession of Bud this, together with difficulties which this matter. It seems to me that, coming loothed in the distance, is said to make to a decision as 1 must do, it is not a mat-

of blood be kept at the temperature of the ures. It is clear that this process of aquosity" And why should "vitality" body, those colourless corpuscles will be expenditure cannot go on for ever. But, hope for a better fats than the other "itys" up the motives for his hasty fight toter to be argued. I cannot grant this

seen to exhibit a marvellous activity, charg California.

leave. In point of fact the Attorney Goue-

happily, there is also a process of renewal. Scriblerus accounted for the operation of ing their forms with great rapidity, draw

which have disappeared since Martinus zal says he thinks I cannot grant the appeal

ing in and thrusting out prolongations of We observe to day with considerable plea because there are only certain rules whichsment, through the Inspector of Customs, is they were indepoudent organisms. The

lism of those who explained the turning the meat-jack by its inherent "meat roast- sure that the Acting Registrar General las do not apply to this case. It was a cour operating with one of the foreign Bankambstance which is thus active is a mass of

of the spit by a certain mechanian worked. their substance, and creeping about as if

ing quality," and scorned the "materia- complied with the remonstrance of Mr Good-teous thing to do to present this petition, for un Imperial load of a million taels. lake (from the Bench) and the suggestions because it was the only way in which the

The warmest admirer of Me. Hart, never

by the draught of the chimney? of the press, in bringing about a reform in Court could be informed. But if I cannot gave him credit for experience in finance the distinctive marks attached to the chair grant the leave to appeal, I do not see that he boldest apologist Chinese officials, coolies who parable and lounge about our 1 gan anticipate what the Privy Council has not been daring enough to assert that streets. This is the more gratifying he may do. They may grant leave, but it is the Tsung-le Tamén or Peking Board of cause the tendency of many departments not for me to anticipate that they will, and Revenue would undertake, openly, any of the service would seem to be to stu so prejudice the caso que way or the other thing which they could do secretly, and, diously avoid improvement in those parti by sending in papers. Each party may by therefore, we are unt eurprised that the loan onlars which may be the subject of journal consent soud papers to London. Both ars has not been offered to public competition, istic comment. The pink-colored blotohos equally well informed.

The various Insurance officca of China which formerly stood for the numbers of Attorney General remarked that the are at their wits end for means of invest the coolies are now replaced by distinct papers must be put officially before the and it is well known that at the open parts and easily-read badges of black with a Privy Council, and that his Lordship had

ment of their rapidly accumulating funds, white ground. Bosida are now affixed upon power to favour an application in a mattor there are numerous small the sedan chaira, on the front of which in of so much importance, as he had a minted whom the safe simplicity of Chinese stoets clearly painted the No. of the chair; while it to be in his judgment,

at 8 per cent would be a

The great boon. on the back of the board is

notice de His Lordelup In ter the custom of the cabbies at home. Was ultra vires; There was no subsisting ease, Probably to awaken the Chinese

to grant the appeal. It the amount named

could

be floated with sadly under the indu-appeal. The Court could only consider its Government to a new ammation the sweets person ence" need now, be at a loss in regard to powers, without reference to the coure of borrowing-will be the best way to pro- the amount ine for chair-hire; and we nience of parties. It was only a question mote long-talked of "opening up" of the would suggest

that a number of chairs be of three months time. He refused leave opantry. The silver crosses of Mr. Bur home incapable subjects, who are unable might be sent to the Privy Council, which of the silver dollars of the ontalde barbe engaged by the Polico especially to bring on this Friday. On Tuesday next papers lung ame will be erected, in consideration to read the succinct instructions which are would in all moral certainty be sitting rian. now suspended from every livenend chair when the application reached home. By the Colony. The Obair Brigade for the return mail the Court might be placed

And what has been said of the animal Incapables would be a good idea; and we intra ires. There would be nothing to

world is unless true of plants. Traced submit it to the Captain Superintendent of make leave here essential, nor would the

brok to its earliest state, the nettle grisea Police as a paying Government specula refusal of it operate against either party.

as the man does, in a particle of nucleated

Pust experienes leads use to be tolerably. tion Cat

In order to bring Mr Saint as a respondent

protoplasm. And in the lowest plants, as in the lowest animals, a single mass of such be bad, I might supply my wants with more just placed before you are accessible to certain that, when the propositions I have before the Privy Conseil he must be served with notice here, and the time it would In the new number of the Fortnightly protoplasm way constitate the whole plant, tread, and I should find the protoplasm of public comment and criticism, they will he take to serve Mr Saint with notice would Review there is an article for which we or the protoplasm may exist without a the wheat-plant to be convertible into man,

man, condamned by many zoalous persons, and le do to zond home the record. His Lordship may venture to prophecy many readers

nucleus.

with no more trouble than that of the sheep, perhaps by some few of the riso and said lie lui already expressed himself to and much disquisition is is an exposis asked, how is one mass of non-nucleated lobster. Hence it appears to be a matter and brutal materialism" were the mildest

Under these circumstances it may well be and with far less, I fanoy, than that of the thoughtful. I should not wonder if " the effect that the case might go before the tion of the physical basis or matter of protoplasm to be distinguished from anoth- of no great moment Judicial Committee, but he could not the life of the one kind of matter which is ? Why call one "plant" and the other plant, I lay under contribution for proto-sud most undoubtedly the terms of the animal, or what phrase applied to them in certain quarters. said it respectfully) presume to dietats to the common to all living things, binding "animal" The only reply is that, so far plasm, and the fact speaks volumes for the propositions are distinctly materialistic, Privy Council, nor would he bardon it with them together, in their endless diversi as form is concerned, plants and animals general identity of that substance in all Nevertheless two things are certain the papers.

ties, by a physical as well as an ideal are not separable, and that, in many other of assimilation with other animals, all of stantially true; the other, that I, indiri- The Attorney General: The observations

CRUCE, Ving beings. I share this catholicity one, that I hold the statements to be sub I have munde apply to our petition.

unity. In the following paragraphs we inero inatter of convention whether His Lordship: You in fuos, have said to show what this exposition is; but we plant. There is a living body called Etha- equally well on tho could thrive dually, amo no materialist, but, on the con-

a given organism an animal or s which, so-f

so far as we. mso that you have snbuitted your petition must warn our readers that what we lium septican, which appears upon decay their fellows, or of any plant; but here the philosophical error.

protoplasm of any of trary, believe materialism to involve grave in courtesy to the Court, and that you will offer them is only a rough and rude cong vegetable substance, and in one of its assimilative powers of the auinal world accept my refusal, for the rule goes for nedensation of Mr Huxley's paper omit forms is common upon the surfaces of tan-case.

"What," he says further on- thing But I am responsible for that rule. sing much that is important, and giving pits. In this condition, it is to all intents water, with an fufinitesimal proportion of option of life as the product of a certain

A solution of smelling-salts in

What is the difference between the con- Mr Hayllar wisheil to get a locus stondi, and no idea of the force, clearness, and always regarded as such; but the remark- elementary bodies which enter into the off notion of an archæus.

and purposes, a fungus, and formerly was some other saline matters, certains all the disposition of material molecules, and the if you really meant what your petition

tion breadth of the original, Haya yon meau, of course I should have wanted all the assistance I could have got.

Mr Huxley begins by admitting that, that, in another condition, the thalium hardly say, a hogahead of that fluid would body, except this-that here, as elsewhere,

able investigations of De Bary have show comp

composition of protoplasm bat, as I need directing blind matter within each

governing and But if it is a matter of conftesy medely, as when first apprehended, such a doctrine is an actively locomotive arcature, and you any, there is no lacus standi at all.

a hungry from Sonic conversation here ensued as to the union senso. What community of faculty parently, it feeds, thus exhibiting the most like fate. Au animal cannot make proto- grows out of past and presont, so will the

as his appears almost shocking to com- takes is solid mattere, upon which, ag would it save any animal whatever formatter and law have devoured

spontaneity! And as surely as overy future spirit and appellant being entitled to a copy of bis anthere be between the brightly-coloured characteristic feature of animality. Is this plus, but must take it ready made Lordship's notes, after which,

Mr Hayllar

physiology of the future gradually extend is it neither ?

animal's the putition on the ground that the defend mineral incrustation of the bare rack on

feat of constructive highest

oliete Fant was not within the jurisdiction of the which it growe, and the painter, to whom Mr Huxley declares at this point that mistry being to convert dead protoplasm extensive with knowledge, with feeling.

and with action.

The Court,

it is instinct with beauty, or the botanist, protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the into that living matter of life which is this

consaloneness great trail weighs like a His Lordship: Not as to costs?

whom it feeds with knowledge? If we formal basis of all life. It is the clay of appropriate to itself. Yes, my lord; but we are regard substance, or material composi- the potter: which, bake it and paint it protoplasm, we must aventually turn to the witat, they conceive to be the Mr Hayllar

nightmare, believe, upon many of the Therefore, in seeking for the origin of

best

minds of these days. They watch dragged here to-day becauser steps have tion, what hidden bond can confect the as he will, remains clay, separated by vegetable world. been taken which might have necessitated flower which a girl wours in her hait and artifice, and not by nature, from the carbonio acid, water, and ammonia, which ar

The Anil containing materialism, in such fear and powerless progress Of defendant's attenlanco befors the Privy the blood which courses through her commupnost brick or sun-dried clod. All offers such a Barmecide feast to the animal, adipes, the great shadow creeps over the

savage feels, when, during Council to argue this case; and I and garding the forfeiture or otherwise of the 1 here, almost as a volunteer, to prevent your youthful veins? or what is there in com-living powers are cognate, and all living plants; and, with a due 'supply of only matter threatens to drown their souls; the is a table rictly spread to multitudes of fee, of the sun. The advancing tide of nion between the deuse and resisting forms are fundamentally of oue character, each materials, many a plant will not only tightening grasp of law impedes their lordship from signing s petition, if I can, which your lordship has declared to be ille mass of the cak, or the strong fabric of The researches of the chemist have maintain itself in vigour, but grow and do gal: The learned counsel ugod that the the tortoise, and those brod disks of revealed a no less striking uniformity of multiply until it has increased a million-nature he debased by the increase of his 'free- doin they are alarmod lest man's Privy Couugil were chary of granting glassy jelly which may be seen pulsating material composition in living thatter. fold, or a million million-fold, the quantity wisdom. appeals in criminal cases, and cited autho

But, after all, what do In perfect strictness, it is true that of protoplasm which it originally possessed we know of this terrible mattor, respt rities, (While Mr Hayllar was doing so, the through the waters of a calm sou, but Attorney Goueral left the Court) The which drain away to mere films in the chemical investigation can tell us littlo or

in this way building up the matter of life, as a name for the unknown and hypotheti learned sounsel contended that the Privy hand which raises them out of their nothing, directly, of the composition of indstinite estout, from the common who was defendant in the limit still busi-Couueil alone could be applied to for element? Such objections as these must must needs die in the act of analysis--and

el cause of states of our own cuscious living matter, Jasamuel as such matter matter of the universe, ness, was to-day brought up on remand leave to appeal

atise in the mind of every one who upon this very obvious ground, objections, existence of certain compounds, namely, like that which was heard at the death

But it will be observed, that the existence as Aud what do we know of that

"spirit" over whose threatened His Lordship i

of the matter of life depends on the pre-by matter a great lamentation

extinction understand that the ponders, for the first time, upon the which I confess scum to me tu bo SUED petition has been withdrawn

arising Mr Pollard: Yes, niy Lord. When we conception of a single physical basis of what frivolouse, have been raised to the date old, water, and ammonia With Pan, except that it is also a name for an sont it in, we expected you would refuse life underlying all the diversities of vital drawing of any conclusione whatever re-

draw any one of these three from the world unknown and hypothetical cause, or condi- leave, but we did it to show that we had existence; but Mr Huxley proposes to specting the composition of actually living and all vital phenomena come to an end. tion, of states of conscious tour or condi-

every step of which we were capable,

demonstrate that. threefold unity, atter, from that of the dead matter of They are related to the protoplasm of the And as an intimation to the Court that the namely, a unity of power, or faculty, life, which alone. is accessible to us. But plant, at the protoplasm of the plant is to the imaginary suspirit are but-names for

objecture of this eines do not seera to reflect oxygen, and nitrogen are all lifeless bodies Attorney General intended to appeal.

auimal Carbon, hydrogen, ral phenomena. unity of form, and a unity of substantial that it is also, in strictness, true that we of these, carbon and hydrogen unite in

groupe natu- Uis Lordship Then the petation is composition dos pervade the whole know nothing about the composition of any certain proportions and under certati con- terms of spirit; or the phenamona of spirit, In itself it is of little moment whether withdrawn, with all consequences.

living world.

we express the phenomena of matter in Mr Hayliar asked for costs.

body whatever, as it is. The statement ditions, to give rise to carbonio acid in terms of matter; matter may be regard To illustrate his case, Mr Huxley goes that a crystal of calc-spar consists of car hydrogen and oxygen province water His Lordship said, No, Mr Hayllar had admitted that he had appeared as a sort of to the common nettle-

bonate of lime is quite true, if we only

ela a form of thought, thought may be It was hard oa defendant that Crown to show cause why the petition he should have at his own expense to settle nettle owes its stinging property to the in-time If you pass the same carbonie ac But when they are brought together, upder materialistic terunuolgy is very way

You are doubtless aware that the common be resolved into carbonic acid and quick bodies of which they are composod, are lifeless. with a view to the progress of science, the menu that, by appropriats procesion, it may nitrogen and hydrogen give rise to animonia. rogarded as a property of matter each These now compounds, like the alemuntary

statement has a certain relative truth. But the law of this Colony with regard to the numeratile stiff and needle-like, thong over the very quicklime thus obtained, you should not be discharged. The rule was hinde returnable for this morning, when power of the Attorney General, when the exquisitely delicate, hairs which cover its will obtain carbonate of lime again; but cortain conditions they give rise to the still the argument came on. The Attorney doubt, if any, might have been resolved by surface. Each stinging needle tapers from it will not be calc-spar, vor anything like more complex body, protoplasm, and

preferred. General appeared for the Crown, instructed the Legislative Council, and if this case was a broad base-ta a slender sveinit, which, it. Cun it, therefore, be raid that chemical protoplasmu exhibits the phenomena of the other phenomena of the universe, and by Mr Hazelaud, Crown Solicitor; his to go home it woull be « great, expense to though rounded at the eul, is of such analysis teaches nothing about the chemical moleculer complication, sud I am unable to thought, which are more or less access I see no break in this sories of ife auggests inquiry into the nature of those microscopic fineness that it readily penetra composition of cale-spar? Sueli a state-

steps in physical conditions, or concomitants of tes, and breaks off in, the skin. The whole ment would be absurd; but it is hardly understand why the language which is sible to us, and a knowledge of which may, hair consiste of a very delicate outer ease of more so than the talk one occasionally applicable to any one term of the series may in future, help us to exercise the same wood closely applied to the inner surface of hours about the uselessness of applying the fit to call different kinds of matter carbon, as we already, postess in respect of the not be used to any of the others. We think kind of control over the world of thought which is a layer of semi-fluid matter, full of innumerable granules of estrema minnturata of choical atalysis to the living

bodies which have yielded them..

oxygen, hydrogen, andinitrogen, and to speak material worli; whereas, the alternative, or of the various powers and activities of these which thas constitutes a kind of bag, fail of of such retinements, and this is, that all limpid liquid, and roughly corresponding the forms of protoplasus which have yet.

spiritualistic, terminology is utterly barren, of which they are composed. in farmi with the interior of the hair whioli been examined contain the four elements,

confusion of ideas. Whou hydrogen and oxygen are mixed it fills, When viewed with a suficiently carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, is a certain proportion, and an electric further scieuve advances the more extensive high magnifying power, the protoplasmic in very complex anion, and that they be spark is passed through them, they diely and consistently will all the phenomena layer of the actile bair is sten to be in a have similarly towards several re-agents, appear, and a quantity of water, equal in of mature be represented by materialistic condition of unceasing activity. Local con- To this complex combination, the nature waight to the sum of their weights, appears formules and symbols, tractions of the whole thickness of its sub- of which has sever boun determined within their place. There is not the slightest stance pass slowly and gradually from point

Bue the man of science, who, forgetting between the passive and active the limits of philosophical inquiry, slides

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TO-DAY'S POLICH. Mesars May and Russell on the Bonch. Chnu Aon, a street-coolie, was charged with having picked the pocket of a gentle man named Joseph Rosen (described as a laerchant living at Volkmann's boarding- bouse), of ane leather pouch and one tobac co-box. Both Magistrates being on the bench, and the offence having been charly proven, the prisoner was sentenced to eighteen months hard labor.

Mr May this morning gave decision re- property in custody of the police, in the Gase of illicit distilintimi, against Mr Louis Perrin. The still, oil, bottles, &e, ie, wore ordered to be restored to the defen1 The boy named Jose de Rozarin, who was charged with larceny of a bill for $40 odd, from M. Louis Perrin, the individual

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He was convicted and sentenced to six monthe' hard labor

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(Before Chief Justice Smale.) Friday, April 3.:

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The prosecution in Region v. Saint having fled a petition for leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the Chief Justice's judgment on the Crown demurrer" to defendant's pleas, defendant applied for and obtained a rule nisi calling on the volunteer.

Pollard also took his reat at, the table, but bot "in form,” being wigless and robeless. Mr Hayllar, instructed by Mr Francia, for the defendant

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Mr. Pollard expressed his surprise that defendant bad got to hear of the petition. It was not proper that he should have The Attorney General said he did known about it, not think the rule would occupy much. His Lordship observed that Mr. Francis of the Court's time, He would not seemed to have found it out and to bave ness. The semi-fluid tining 18 protoplasm, Osie fact, as aug rate, is out of reach subataucon as the properties of the matter and loads to. nothing but obscurity and go into the question of the irregularity acted accordingly,

Mr Pollard They seem to dread the for there was no locus stand in the matter, appeal. He would not, however, enter into that"

Mr Hayilar correoted that notion, and question; on account of other circun the proceelings closed, leave to petition stances in the case. No doubt, the regula- against the Judgment not being given, as tions framed for appeals to the Privy not being within the power of the Court. Council contemplated only actions of civil nature, where the dispute Involved s

THERE is nothing purer than honesty ; no- ! to point, and give rise to the appearance of BIRctness, the name of Protein has been a of the water and those of the from these formula and aymbols into what um of over 2500 jik but at the same time the Privy Council reserved the right of thing sweeter than charity nothing warraer progressive wares, just as the bonding of appliul. And if we use this term with powerV entertaining every Burt of appeal, and there than love nothing brighter than virtue Bucosesive stalks of corn by a breeze such caution as may properly arise out of oxygen and hydrogon which have given is commonly understood by materialism, criminal cases had been made to it from These united in one mind, form the purest, But, in addition to these movements, and that all protoplasmn is proteinaceous or, hydrogen are elustio gaseous bodies, whose g'a and y's, with which he works his prob records to show that appeals in and nothing more steadfast than faith. produces the apparent billows of a corn-field, our comparative ignorance of the things rise to it. At 32 Fahrenheit, and far toetus to me to place himself on a level with for which it stands, it may be truly said, below that temperature, oxygen and the mathematician, who should mistake the British foreign possessions Hitherto it the sweetest, the richest, the brightest, and Independently of them, the graules are as the winta, or albumen, of an egg is que particles tend to rush away from one an Imir, for real entities-and with this furstier had been the undoubted practice than at most steadfast happiness.

driven, in relatively rapid strema, through of the commonest examples of a nearly other with great force. Water, at the disadvantage, compared with the mathe appellant in a Colony could approach tha PARLIAMENTARY THOUGHT—One of the oksels in the protoplasm which sao! Privy Council through an sttorney General, Windsor election witnesses described some to have a consider ble amount of persis pure proteine walier, spa inay say that all same tourperature, is a strong though matician, that the blunders of the latter ate but

that where the Attorney General body as the very that was wanted as an tence Most commonly, the currents in i

living matter is more el

brittle tolid, whose particles tond to solere of no practical consequence, while the error lesa albuminoid himself appealed, the nsual course was to agent, because he looked exactly like a fool, adjacent parts of the protoplasm take simi- what the origin of the matter of life? Is tius build up frosty imitations of the energies and destroy the beauty of a life.

And now, what is the ultimate fata, and into definite geometrical shapes, and some of systematic materialien may paralyze the apply to the Privy Council for special but wasn't one." Curious, that many lar directions; and, thus, there is a general is, as some of the older naturalists supposest complex forms of vegetable foliage. leave

electors should employ precisely the opposite stream up ene side of the hair and down the ed, diffused throughout the universe in Nevertheless we call these, and many other ralo when selecting the very man wanted as other. But this does not prevent the ex- olevales, which are indestructible and strange phenomena, the properties of the

istence of partial currents which take dif- unchangeable in themselves but in endless component elements of the water. We do the battle field are legs.

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His Lordship. Of course,

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