Miscellaneous Intelligence

ficial area is eight hundred and ninety-si feet, and the cube contets sixteen thousand feet; as altered, it will be fifty feet long, byL tWent-eight feet wide, and twenty feet high, the superfcial area one thouand four hundred feet, and the cube contents thirty thousand feet. They are of opinion that the present council room might be advantageously appropriated as a room in which those fellows who wish to read and write, free from interruption, might be accommodated. The substantial and ornamental re ls necessary for the rest of the premises are estimated to cost £600. These alterations the Council beg to recommend to the Society for adoption, and that they should empower the trustees of the Society to sell as much stock as will produce such a sum (not exceeding £2,000) as may be required for defraying the expenses of these alteiations, and for the payment (already authorised by the Society) of £300 to Mr. Scott for his interest in the lease of the premises." The Society, after an animated debate, refused to sanction the proposed expensive alterations, and decided that the house should simply be put in a state of efficient repair.