17 AUGUST 1956, Page 20

TOr 6prttator

AUGUST 20, 1831

WE have received a pamphlet by Captain WOODLEY, in answer to some observations on `his (Captain Woodley's) System of the Uni- verse.' We are unlucky in never having before heard of the said system. We perceive, from the pages before us, that it confutes the Newtonian one, and demonstrates the stationariness of the sun.

The theorem, page 12. in which Captain WOODLEY proves that gravitation cannot be the cause of forcing heavy things to fall to the ground, fully satisfies us as to the nature of Captain WODDLEY'S pretensions as a scientific reasoner. •