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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 134, 9 June 1868, Page 2

Sir Roderick Murchison has been elected *by the Academy of Sciences in Paris foreign member in place of the late Professor Faraday. There are only eight such members, and the honor is regarded by men of science as the highest which a man of science can receive. As a matter of form the decision has to be submitted to the Emperor for his confirmation. That no man is wise or clever at all times is a fact most of us learned in early youth, and that the best of scribes do occasionally indite matter below the average is amply proved by some of the Poet Laureate's contributions to ' Good Words.' .His last effusion, beginning with ' I stood on a tower in the wet,' has been most merc"lessly pulled to pieces and parodied in fifty ways. There is little doubt that had the precious lucubration gone in without the author's namej its passage to the waste-basket would have been, by ' lightning express,' instead of its being allowed to figure to Mr Tennyson's credit for the pretty tune of £100.