OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3079, 30 December 1878, Page 3

OUR MINES.

HAPE CREEK. Owen and party have finished crushing for the yield of llozs 7dwts gold.

Pbofessob Huxley lectured on Nov. 2 at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on " Harvey and the discovery of the circulation of the blood." In concluding his address, Mr Huxley said that the period of one hundred years commencing with Harvey's birth—from 1578 to 1680—was one of the most remarkable epochs of the whole thousand years which we might roughly reckon as constituting the history of Britain. About the commencement of that period we might see, if not the setting, at any rate the declination of that system of personal rule which had existed under previous sovereigns, and which, after a brief and ipasmodio revival in the time of George 111., was now sunk, let them hope, into the limbo of forgotten things. The latter part of that one hundred years saw the dawn of that system of free government which had grown and flourished, and which if the men of the present day were worthy descendants of Eliot, of Pym, Hampdeh, and Milton, would goon growing as long as the empire lasted. Within m that time England had to show statesmen like Burleigb, like Stafford, and like Cromwell—men who were real statesmen, and not intriguers, seeking to make a reputation at the expense of the nation ; and in the same epoch the first foundations were laid of that Indian Empire-j which, it might be, future generations would not look upon as a very happy product of English enterprise and in§enuity. Ho was not one of those who elieved in the natural decay of nations ; the theory was invented by co wards to excuse knaves. His belief was that this old English stock had in it as much sap, vitality, and power now as ifchad two centuries ago, and that with due pruning of rotten branches and due hoeing up of weeds when needed, the like products would be yielded again. The weeds to which he referred were dishonesty, sentimentality, and luxury. A fashion item says " marigold is now a favourite shade of yellow." The ladies always were partial to marry-gold.

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