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and close to an old tumulus , artificially raised of , sand and gravel , supposed to have been taken from the river . The whole of this tumulus , called Castle-hill , has been removed within the last thirty years , the mud having been sold for building purposes , aud the gravel for roads . The vases have short handles at the necks , aud are similar to tho representations of Roman remains discovered at Cirencester , as figured in Professor Buekman ' s " Remains of Roman Art in Cirencester , the ancient

Corimun . " At Cambridge the vice-chancellor has appointed Mr . John Phillips , M . A ., Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford , to the office . of Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer for the ensuing year . Professor Phillips will deliver a lecture in the Senate House on " the Succession of Life on the Earth" in the course of this term . The first person appointed to this lectureship after it was remodelled was the celebrated Professor

Owen , whose lecture gave great satisfaction . The university conferred upon him the honorary degree of M . A . The Acaddmie de Medicine in Paris has been busily occupied for some time past with the examination of a memoir sent from Geneva on the use of iodine . The Genevese doctor , M . Rilliet , who despatches the memoir , declares that the free use of the various preparations of iodine , so much employed of late years by the continental doctors , has brought

amongst the human race all kinds of new diseases , many of which are mortal , and that if persisted in , a gradual decimation of the populations of Europe must be the consequence . The general and unavoidable malady to which iodine gives birth he calls iodism . A committee was nominated by the Academie for the examination of the facts as stated by M . Rilliet ; but the partisans of iodine are too numerous amougst the medical profession for the admission of a moment ' s doubt concerning

the result . Professor Faraday ' s lecture at the Royal Institution on "Lighthouses and the use of the Electric Light , " was one of the most interesting he has yet delivered there . After tracing the history of previous lights , he

said that many compressed intense lights have been submitted to the Trinity House ; aud that corporation has shown its great desire to advance all such objects aud improve the lighting of the coast , by spending , upon various occasions , much money and much time for this end . It is manifest that the use of a lighthouse must be never failing , its service ever sure ; and that the latter cannot be interfered with by the introduction of any plan or proposition , or apparatus which has not been

developed to the fullest possible extent , as to the amount of light produced—the expense of such light—the wear and tear of the apparatus employed—the steadiness of the light for sixteen hours—its liability to extinction—the amount of necessary night care—the number of attendants—the nature of probable accidents—its fitness . for secluded placesand other contingent circumstances which can as well be ascertained out of a lighthouse as in it . The electric spark which has been laced in

p the South Foreland High Light , by Prof . Holmes , to do duty for the six winter months , had to go through all this preparatory education before it could be allowed this practical trial . It is not obtained from frietional electricity or voltaic electricity , but from magnetic action . The first spark ( and even magnetic electricity as a whole ) was obtained twenty-eight years ago . ( Faraday , Philosophical Transactions , 1 S 32 , p . 32 ) - If a « iron core be surrounded by wire and then moved in the

right direction near the poles of a magnet , a current of electricity passes , or tends to pass , through it . Many powerful magnets are therefore arranged on a wheel , that they may be associated very near to another wheel , on which are fixed many helices with their cores like that described . Again , a third wheel consists of magnets arranged like the first ; next to this is another ' wheel of the helices , and next to this again a fifth wheel , carrying magnets . All the magnet-wheels are fixed to one axle , and all the helixwheels

- are held immovable in their place . The wires of the helices are conjoined and connected with a commutator , which , as the magnet-wheels are moved round , gathers the various electric currents produced in the helices , and sends them up through two insulated wires in one common stream of electricity into the lighthouse lantern . So it will be seen that nothing more is required to produce the electricity than to revolve the magnet-wheels . There are two magneto-electric

machines at the South Foreland , each being put in motion by a twohorse power steam engine ; and , excepting wear and tear , the whole consumption of material to produce the light is the coke and water required to raise steam for the engines and carbon poiuts for the lamp in the lantern . The lamp is a delicate arrangement of machinery , holding the two carbons between which the electric light exists , and regulating their adjustment ; so that whilst they gradually consume away , the place of the light shall not be altered . The electric wires end in the two bar .

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of a small railway , and upon these the lamp stands . When the carbons of a lamp are nearly gone , that lamp is lifted off and another instantly pushed into its place . The machines and lamp have done their duty during the past six months in a real and practical manner . The light has never gone out through any deficiency or cause in the engine aud machine-house , and when it has become extinguished in the lantern , a single touch of the keeper ' s hand has set it shining as bright as ever . The

light shone up and down the Channel , and across into France , with a power far surpassing that of any other fixed light within sight or anywhere existent . The experiment has been a good one , and the Trinity House anticipate the full adoption , of tho process . The French papers announce the return from Brazil of M . Biard , the popular painter . He has penetrated into the interior of the country , attended by some natives ; and is said , besides having largely collected

birds , plants , insects , and other natural specimens , to have brought home a portfolio rich in strange sketches . Mr . A . Solomon has a " picture for the Royal Academy Exhibition of a dramatic and effective subject , illustrating , as it does , an episode suggested by Hood ' s " Bridge of Sighs , " and being styled , from " Hamlet , " "Drowned , drowned ! " The scene is the steps of Waterloo Bridge at early dawn . An old boatman sustains the body of an " unfortunate , "

whom he has pulled out of the water , —a policeman directs the light of his lantern on to her face , only to see that the rescue has come too late . A party of masqueraders are passing , one of whom recognizes the girl . A cab loaded with more such traverses the street .

Poetry.

Poetry .

THE VOICELESS . BY 01 . 1 VEIL WEN-JIKLL HOLMES . WF . count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber—¦ But o ' er their silent sister's breast The . wild flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string

, And noisy fame is proud to win them ! Alas ! for those who never sing , But die with all their music in them ! Kay , grieve not for the dead alone , Whose song has told their heart ' s sad story—Weep for the voiceless , who have known The cross without the crown of glory !

"Not where Leucadian breezes sweep O'er Sappho ' s memory-haunted billow ; But where the glistening night dews weep , O ' er nameless sorrow's churchyard pillow . 0 ! hearts that break , and give no sign Save whitening lips and fading tresses , Till Death pours out his cordial wine

, Slow dropped from Misery's crushing presses . Tf sighing breath or echoing chord To every hidden pang were given . What endless melodies were poured , As sad as earth , as sweet as heaven !

Daily Work.

DAILY WORK .

I 1 T CnAHLEK MACKAV . AVuo lags from dread of daily work . And his appointed task would shirk , Commits a folly and a crime ; A soulless slave—A paltry knave—A clog upon the wheels of time . With work to do and store of health

, The man ' s unworthy to be free , Who will not give , That he may live , His daily toil for daily fee . Ko ! let us work ! AVe only ask Reward proportioned to our task ; We have no quarrel with the great

Ko feud with rank—AVith mill or bank—Ko envy of a lord ' s estate . If we can earn sufficient store To satisfy our daily need , And can retain , For age and pain , A fraction , we are rich indeed .