nished to this country at a much more reasonable price than hitherto.

Another remarkable instance is the discovery that Corundum, which has served many of the purposes of diamond and emery powder in India for a long period, might also be brought into use in this country; a mineral with which it is believed but a very small portion of the British public had hitherto been acquainted, and which it is suspected has in some instances been sold to our large firms under the name of Diamond powder.

Amongst the substances from the Colonies which have been brought into notice, may be also mentioned walrus skin, porpoise leather from the St. Lawrence, the resins and fatty substances and vegetable waxes from Australia, all of which appear likely to excite attention in the commercial world.

Notwithstanding that these and other substances have been brought into notice, Colonial Produce was on the whole but indifferently represented in the Exhibition, and the Council confidently hope that the means they have now adopted may lead to the formation, at some future period, of a permanent Exhibition of Colonial Produce, either separately, or what would perhaps be preferable, as part of The Collection arising out of the Great Exhibition, from the exertions of The Royal Commissioners.

(Signed)

GEORGE GROVE,
Secretary Society of Arts.

Government:—It is governed by a President, Vice-Presidents, two Treasurers, two Auditors, and from twelve to twenty-four other Members, who form a Council elected annually by ballot at a General Meeting of the Society. The Secretary and Collector are elected in a similar manner and are the only officers who receive any salary. The following are the Officers for the present year.

PRESIDENT.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.

VICE PRESIDENTS.

The Duke of Buccleuch; The Earl of Carlisle; The Earl of Ellesmere; The Earl Granville; The Lord Colborne; The Lord Overstone; Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart.; Rt. Hon. E. Strutt, M.P.; Rt. Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P.; H. T. Hope, M.P.; George Moffatt, M.P.; S. M. Peto, M.P.; Robert Stephenson, M.P.;

Beriah Botfield; Sir C. Barry, R.A.; I. K. Brunel, F.R.S.; Thomas Creswick, R. A.; W. F. Cooke; Charles Dickens; C. Wentworth Dilke; M. Faraday, F.R.S.; Owen Jones; J. M. Rendel, Pres. Inst. C. Engrs.; W. Tooke, F.R.S.

COUNCIL.

John Bell; Thomas Cubitt; Joseph Glynn, F.R.S.; Wyndham Harding, C.E.; Professor T. H. Henry, F.R.S.; Captain Henry C. Owen, R.E.; Dr. Lyon Playfair, C.B.; J. Scott Russell, F.R.S.; W. W. Saunders; Sydney Smirke, R.A.; Professor Edward Solly, F.R.S.; Thomas Twining, jun.

TREASURERS.

P. Le Neve Foster, M.A.; Henry Cole, C.B.

AUDITORS.

Thomas Winkworth; Samuel Redgrave.

SECRETARY.

George Grove.

Revenue:—The Society consists at present of 1200 Members, and its revenue is about £2000 a year,—mainly derived from their individual contributions.

Civil Secretary’s Office,
13th October, 1852.

INFORMATION is requested at this Office respecting the present place of residence of

ANTHONY STILL ILLYMAN,
who arrived at Adelaide, it is thought, in the barque John Rennwick, October, 1837, and was last heard of at that colony in the following year, when he stated he was about leaving for New Zealand.

Alfred Domett,
Civil Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th October, 1852

HIS EXCELLENCY the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN C. BOYS, ESQUIRE,
to be Government Surveyor for the Middle District of the Middle Island.

The appointment to date from this day.

By His Excellency’s command,

Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.