... the useful, the practical, and mechanical. Papers have been read on the ventils- tion of emigrsut ships, on the loss of the Tayleur, on naval arehitecture, end on the new Government department for the eolleetion of facts at sea, all subjects in which Liverpool ...

... the loss of the ysical science an im- aud the change in the action of the compasses in the facts connected with the wreck Tayleur, which, will be remembered, was an iron ship, the that her compasses (three adapted for guidance) were all “ ious to sailing ...