some of Christ's people in it but not of it. They would meet there thousands they never expected to see, and they would miss some who they thought would be there. Among those who would have a place, there would be Baxter and John Bunyan, who found that the dreams of a gaol at Bedford was a reality in the new heaven. Scott and Wesley, and Oberlin and Chalmers and all the good and great who had ever preceded the present followers of Christ, constituting one happy family - one heavenly heritage, no more to go out where there had been sin and sorrow.
At the close of the lecture, Lord Berners, in eulogistic terms proposed a vote of thanks to the talented lecturer, which being seconded by the Rev. D. Gibson, Dr. Camming briefly returned thanks. The money collected at the door was £13, so that about £30. 10s. would be handed over to the Society.
Mrs Balfour gave a lecture on "George Stephenson" in the Music Hall on the 10th of March, which was highly instructive and numerously attended.
Mark Lemon's second lecture "About London" was given in the Music Hall on Thanksgiving, March 6th, before a respectable audience, the parts travelled over, mentally and pictorially were those that lay west of Temple Bar in the olden time. The dioramic views were extremely good.
A Lecture on Comets was delivered at the Mechanic's Institution on the 16th of March by the Rev. F. Harding, Wesleyan minister. In the course of his remarks, he said comets were the comicabilities of the solar system; for, unlike the orderly planets, which pursued steady and traceable courses round the sun, comets pursued eccentric orbits, and traveled through the skies in elongated paths, sometimes sweeping across the paths of the planet and threatening their existence. What they were composed of was a mystery, except that of matter exceedingly attenuated, and that such bodies underwent many changes, the most remarkable being subjected at times to intense heat. The comet of 1690, according to Sir Isaac Newton's calculations endured a heat of 2,000 times greater than red hot iron, whilst that of 1843, as calculated by Sir John Hershel, bore a heat 47,000 times greater than that of the sun at the earth's surface. In describing the appearance of comets, the lecturer said the comet of 1680 threw off a tail fourteen millions of miles in length in two days. He concluded by describing the history, orbits, motions &c. of the comets of 1680,1744 (with six tails spread out like a fan), 1811, and others more recent. Some well-executed drawings were exhibited as illustrations, and the lecturer was frequently applauded.
A Lecture on "Pilgrim's Progress", illustrated with dissolving views, was given in St. Mary's schoolroom, on the 10th of April by Mr. Thwaites, of Whittington, Norfolk, but formerly of Hastings.
"Religion" was the subject of an excellent lecture delivered by -
