Hall, completes the exercises of the afternoon, and a ball at the Bos tor theatre, in the evening, and for which tickets to admit 1000 gentlemen and 1500 ladies (the full number) have already been sold, fills out the day. On Friday the Prince visits Harvard College and afterwards departs for Portland, where the embarkation occurs on Saturday for England and home. The city is full of strangers, distinguished people, military guests, and a miscellaneous crowd of specta tors. THE PRINCE AT BOSTON.-After his arrival at the Revere House, Wednesday afternoon, the Prince was allowed to pass a quiet evening. Edward Everett and a few other distinguished men were introduced, and the Prince was once or twice called to the balcony by the crowds that packed Bowdoin square to see him, but otherwise the privacy of the royal party was not broken. Wednesday night and Thursday morning crowds of people, military, etc., were pouring into the city to witness or participate in the display of the afternoon, and Thursday morning the city had put on a truly festive appearance. The stars and stripes and the royal cross of St. George floated together everywhere; decorations, public and private, were being put up in the streets; the shipping showed all the bunting it had; the streets were swarmed and crowded; and long before the hour people by the tens of thousands were moving towards the common to witness the military review at 1 o'clock. Meanwhile the Prince kept his apartments, receiving distinguished visitors, and showing himself occasionally at the windows to the crowds in Bowdoin square. Among those presented to him was Ralph Farnum of Maine, the veteran and sole survivor of Bunker Hill, who is now stopping at the Adams House. This interview was very pleasant to both parties. A ride about the city, incognito, had been talked of for a part of the forenoon, but this was given up. At twelve o'clock the Prince and suite, dressed in uniform, the Prince as a colonel in the English army, were escorted to the State House by the National Lancers, an immense crowd following and lining the way. None but those who were so unfortunate as to be engulphed by the human tide can estimate the pressure about the State House at this time. Inside the governor, council, state officers, members of the two houses, etc., with many ladies, were in waiting. The arrangements within were admirable, and the few decorations were elegant and tasteful. The Prince was received in the council chamber by Gov. Banks, who said to him : It is with great pleasure that I welcome your highness to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and extend to you the most cordial greet ing of its people. They have regarded with profound gratification your visit to this continent, so auspicious in its opening, so fortunate in its progress, and now, I regret to say, so near its termination. Be assured, sir, you will bear with you the united wishes of the people of Massachusetts for your safe return to your friends and your country, to which we are attached by so many ties of language, law and liberty. In their name I bid you welcome. I welcome with unfeigned pleasure the distinguished and honorable gentlemen of your suite. Permit me to present to you my associates in the executive department of the government-his honor the lieutenant governor, gentlemen of the executive council, the secretary of state. The royal party was then introduced by the Prince, and afterwards they passed through the hall of Representatives, the Senate chamber, and the Doric hall to the southern entrance, where horses were in waiting. They here mounted for the review, the Prince riding a splendid black stallion with his own caparison at Gov. Banks' right. The military had been formed on Shawmut avenue at 11 and were now drawn up on the Common. There were forty companies in the line, composed of the first and second brigades with companies from Springfield, 'Haverhill, Worcester, New Bedford, Lawrence, Lowell, Plymouth, etc., attached to one or the other. The military counted 2089 bayonets, and with officers and music there were probably 2500 in the ranks. The first brigade, Gen. Bullock, occupied the Charles street mall from Boylston street entirely across to Beacon. The second brigade, Gen. Pierce, reached up the Beacon street mall. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery, counting 250 men, had the city government in escort and were formed in front of the first brigade. The Governor and party took up their position on Flagstaff hill, in front of which was a group consisting of field and staff officers on horseback, and among the distinguished guests Robert C. Winthrop, Edward Everett, Gov. Dennison of Ohio, Hannibal Hamlin, Commodore Hudson, the mayors of Lowell, Montreal and Gardiner, and Major-Generals Sutton and Morse and staffs. Amid the thunder of artillery and music by the bands the cavalcade then passed along the lines, and afterwards the troops themselves marched by in review. The military now formed in column, and with the royal cavalcade under escort of the Lancers the line of march through the city was begun. The route was down Boylston, Washington, State and Commerical, then back by way of Faneuil Hall, Dock Square and Washington street to Court, through Tremont to Beacon, and through Beacon to the State House, where the troops were dismissed. Everywhere along the route the sidewalks and windows were packed with people, and the display was brilliant beyond the power of a brief narrative to describe. Arrived again at the State House a collation was served, at which there were among the thirty or more invited guests Senators Wilson and Sumner, Gov. Dennison of Ohio, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, Edward Everett, ex-Chief Justice Shaw, President Felton of Harvard College, the judges of the supreme court, etc. Following the collation, and at about 5 o'clock, the party now assuming citizen's dress, took carriages at the State House to attend the musical festival of 1200 children at Music Hall. The hall was elaborately decorated, and the royal guests occupied a raised platform in front of the gallery. The exercises seemed to afford the visitors much satisfaction. The principal piece in the program were the following verses, composed by Holmes, though at first erroneously credited to Longfellow. We repeat them corrected from a former publication :— OUR FATHERS' LAND. God bless our fathers' land, Father, in loving care Guard Thou her kingdom's heir, Guide all his ways: Thine arm his shelter be From harm by land and sea; Lord, let war's tempest cease, Great King of Kings! The ball at the Boston Theater in the evening closed the festivities of the day. The extensive arrangements for it were carried out in the most thorough manner, and a spectacle was presented which far eclipsed any similar gathering of the kind ever witnessed in New England. Not less than three thousand people, representing the chivalry and beauty of Massachusetts, were present, and the dance went on merrily until a late hour in the night. The ball, like all other parts of the day's proceedings, was a gratifying success, honorable alike to the city and its distinguished visitor. The prince takes to-day for quiet visits to places of interest in and about Boston, including Harvard College. There will, however, be no further public display in his honor, and he will depart for Portland in a special train Saturday morning, there to embark immediately for home. NOTE (D). I propose, in this note, to add something to what has been said concerning useful and economic applications of odic processes. Some of the most valuable of these, it will have been seen, consist merely in removing or withdrawing native odics. Whencesoever derived, whether from the normal odic, which appears to be universally diffused, from the solar and stellar radiations, or from some other source, there is, it would seem, an unfailing supply of the odical elements; which are naturally elaborated into innumerable combinations; and which may be elaborated, in a similar manner, by artificial processes. I have made some progress, in a considerable number of odic processes, (whether of application or withdrawal,) which promise to be useful, but which circumstances have not permitted me, in most instances, to bring to that degree of perfection and certainty, of which they are apparently susceptible. A few of these, and some of which, even in their present state, promise to be useful, I will here mention. THE DIFFUSIBLE STIMULI.-It was supposed, from the nature of these substances, and the mode of their operation upon the human system, that they might probably be imitated, or in some sort reproduced, by concentrating their odical or spiritual elements, in some inert medium. If opium, morphine, hyosciamus, musk, and other articles of that general description, and those allied to them, as quinine; or good substitutes, perhaps better articles, could be produced at a moderate rate, and under circumstances that would well nigh insure their being of uniform quality and strength, it need not be said it would be a great acquisition to the healing art. I suppose that the failures of the most skillful practitioners are sometimes owing to the want of perfectly reliable medicines, the effect of which can be accurately calculated... I have not experimented much in this direction, partly it is probable, for the want of good subjects to experiment upon. I am myself, several years past the allotted term of human life, and frail; so that I am not much disposed to experiment upon myself, except with very considerable caution; and good subjects, those endowed with the faculty, or who have acquired the habit, of introspective observation, and who are gifted with the requisite degree of patience, are not, in this age of excitement, so readily found. That something like what has been described can be accomplished, is certain, but whether to the extent of realizing the idea, or any considerable approach to it, may be doubtful; at any rate if so, it is yet to be determined. success. I have recently, with the more powerful odic appliances, which I have had at command for about a year past, made some attempts to imitate or reproduce some of the articles referred to, but with doubtful One of these was the herb which, as is said, cheers but not inebriates; though a physician informed me that he once saw two young women, who, upon some wager or strife, had drank immense quantities of tea, sufficient to produce a singular kind of inebriation, which continued two or three days. By concentrating the odical elements of green tea in powdered rusk and in sugar, an artificial tea was produced, which in one of the subjects, caused, in every instance, several hours of wakefulness; in another it produced, once, unmistakably, those phantoms, with which the tea drinkers, (of this kind of tea,) are familiar. But neither of these subjects had had sufficient experience of the exhilerating effects of tea, to judge whether these were produced; and indeed, they partook of the infusion but in small quantities. THE MATERIALS OF TEXTILE FABRICKS, EMPLOYED FOR CLOTHING. The only materials of which these fabricks consist, that need be mentioned here, are the common ones of linen, cotton, silk and wool. These differ very much in their mechanical structure, but their different physiological effects, (in addition to warmth,) are probably owing, for the most part, to their more occult properties. Silk is supposed to |