The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-04 00:00:00

SHEFFIELD CUTLERS' FEAST. This banquet, given annually in honour of the inauguration of the newly•eleeted stoker cutler, took place at the ('utters' Hall on Monday lest. At 1.2 o'clock the cutlers' company walked in procession to the 'Numbs% where the racers for the _year wen serves in by Mr. James Wilma, the Lw clerk. The nimbus of the corporation returned to the Cutlers' Halt in preemies at a quarter hefore one o'clock to luncheon, sad afterwards attended divine service at the parish church, where a ser mon was preached by the Rev. E. S. Murphy, chaplain to the company. lb, guests began to anise at four o'clock, and at ba:f past live the signal for dinner was given by the band strik ing up the appropriate tune Roast Beef of Old England," and the company proceeded at once to the hanquetting rooni. fhe neuter ostler was supported by Lord Milton, Lord Edward !toward, Lord Fitzgibbon, Sir Thomas W. White, Bart., Sir Charks Wood, Bart., M.P., Mr. Edmund Denton. Mr. (Loge Hadfield, M.P., the Rev. T. Sale (vicar of Stu ae. The cloth was drawn at seven o'clock, and the usual preliminary toasts having been duly • ft..noureit, Mr. Me7lllrwis proposed His Grace the Duke of Nor folk, snit the House of oward." characteristics of the nob'e duke were so well known and so well appreciated, that he would content himself by simply proposing the toast. Lord E. Hon %tut returned thanks in a speech of consi &tilde length, and apologised for the absence of his laths' in consequence of delicate health. The Avila, of the Dukes of Devorshire and Newcastle, and of Earl Eitzwilliam were neat given, when Lard Milton haying roamed thanks for the last toast, Lord Whom cliffe's health was given. The health of fir Charles Wood followed. Pit Catania Woon, on rising to respond to the toast, was vies warmly cheered. Ile amil—Mr. Master Cutler, ma Lords snit Gentlemen, I should indeed he the must in sensible of men if I did not most deeply feel the kindness with which you base received the team so kindly proposed to rev friend Mr. Dunn. (Cheers.) I feel that I deserve bit little of the rompliment which he has been kind enough to pay me. And ceranly I feel under some little ddlieulty in referring to what he has mid without trenching neon that mot wise rule which our president has lai I down. (Ilea) I een ewly say that es Chancellor of the le uhequer it was my duty, as it is th it of all Chancellors of the Exchequer, to look to the well being of the great mass of the people of this coun try. (" lleer, hear," and cheers.) And if the person who fibs that responsible and not very agreeable post has no better reason for paying that attention, it is that his own interest a. ('haste' Ilor of the Exchequer depends upon the wi 11 being of the people of this country, because upon their well-being depends the amount of the revenue, and I need sot tell you ho* very deeply a flourishing revenue contri butes to the ease read comfort of the Chancellor of the Es chequer. 1 / 4 .t .plasee.) Now probably is the West Riding of korkshire II may, without exciting much difference of for to some of thous measures in which I have tit. n a pot, hut I think it fee wiser not even to say a ward ox thee subj. eta. All l shall say is this, that chat we had in view, and in all the changes of taxatio• which it was my duty to propose, the object was to relieve the pressure from thee who could least bear it. (Loud applause.) and not rev whether we succeeded ono. I will not my whether it was owing to our Mellinger', and to the measures et our prmiteesows, for they were all of one description and of a piece—l will not say whether it was owing to them or in spite of them—hut this at Lot I may say, that I believe we handed over the country to oar successors in such a state of sell beteg and prosperity, such as it has seldom been the fate of a goverment to leave the country. (Applause.) Mr. Penn has described that which exists in other parts of this n‘ling, as well as in other parts of the country. I myself have seen the universal comfort and happiness of the Is blazing population of this kingdom. (Hear, hear.) And I irlieve I may congratulate Sheffield on sharing to the hall %slaw general prosperity. (Hear, hear.) There have hese times, I am aware, whin circumstances to which I will not now allude have prevented Sheffield Irking its share in the prosperity of the riding, but from all I have heard and van learn, I believe that now she has taken her full share,and that she bids fair to rival the most enterprising and successful ot competing towns. (Cheers.) And that is a WSW of great joy and satisfaction to me, because not only does that prosperity tell of well doing, but it shows the core thality am: good keeling between masters and workmen, their metal happiness, se wed as their msteri a comiket (Cheers.) I think, gentlemen, I may congratulate you visa the pee- NI extension of your trade. In that, toe, pa nee lief your port. lam glad to refer also to what km Ise. alladed to before, namely, the benefit which I believe win seem to the country through the exhibition of the manufactures of ether countries. I entertain a strong belief that whatever the energies, industry and skill of man can do, the energy, industry, stud skill of our manufacturers and workmen an accomplish. (Loud cheers.) We have but to learn what our customers want, and in a short time I em convinced they will be served by us or on, neighbours on cheaper terms and in better articles than any other nation can serve thcat. (Loud cheers.) And Ido therefore look with Miss faction, grounded on the most selfish motives if from me other, to the increasing prosperity of other countries, and to the boundless development of our own colonial poises -0006.411 of which open fresh markets for the products arm industry. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I said I might rare to certain circumstances without creating much daemon of opinion—Leause in the West Riding of Yorkshire we have always bonds of mks and a community of interests with all claws throughout the vast bounds of our riding.— but I will not do so. Aad lam also happy to mo that I believe there 'Oats the Mee 0011Inniniti sad meamy of feeling moiled us; and strange indeed would it be if many of our gentry, who are mainly invishesil he Mir wealth to the manufacturing industry of their arealoy, did no' feel the mom lively intermit ha the welfare of our mann facturing town. (Cheers.) And glad am Ito he preset on this occasion if I may wratribate to thwt good feeling. (Cheers.) I Asely mom le tsW bee hese elated by Mr. Dunn. I hope yes see met the roma hr ear peessoss, or myself, without feeling myself mos, I sewer mix with an bodies of my fellow citizens of whalemer class without feeling myself a wiser and I hope a Ambler Me. Peers) Gentlemen, it is not for the want of most kiwi. utilise that I bay. not been most A pea on beam octoeions. But though I have not loon pram' ea tenni coasions at your (raise board it is beam I have but occupied in various ways, one of whit* Mr. Dam hal alluded to, and which was of a pretty showhieg character ; and it does so happen that for the let twisty yews this is the fret time I have hod the *....g a d being meant hon. That has net been hem smy IRMO fw mMg. the affairs of your town but meat or opportemity. I bave felt and always must feel the wannest intend In all that promotes the prosperity of ono of oar grist marts of industry upon which the welfare of the Willie meighbearbeed inch I assure you that there A be am visa el on my part to co-operate in an aslghbourt 011111111 erbill. now that I as a resident hops_ MNM part ia. I shall rejoice in this tootles oppeolsaityof .se yea, sad of av myself stymie bripilelit invited's elt any fa. one eesaie. ; sad Is any way la which I me thew $ neighbourlyt tes.li f med eelbsz was. degeal epee ma It I shall tat be Med 71te health of the Maim Cutler having been drunk with all the beast= led impended to, Mr. Ablesime barn gave the Members for the West Ridiag_sf Terbdire. Mr. Mimeos nee almost imesdistely easmsemb, and was received with WA sad Ilistempilsesd eggieess. He said.—Mr. Master Cutler, s. Mee ail 11=111.1.1.-1 simnel, thank you for the lieseur a y ee hap ser ourable colleague and if le sew I thank the konoweable geademaa who bee bees good enough to nuke some ebeemaisas with named to myself, and I hope I may be allowed M thank yea now for permitting my Mama& Assuan end myself owe mare to represent you. (dpplss.) The tom of Obedifeld is one of the Matureta madam of the West Riling family. (User, hoer. I e happy he del that It is perous, that ties nee are weil paid, Sat are cheap—(hegensi theaber mersheelle ent doing well, and doing soma list agape tuniz ile ativaleielliatithe improvement of their Weft. Ng se dierrlll aeisubh edgy improve the teas sad 111111111111101 peet WWI , ben the Ist of lanosey to the glee of Dass•ber, by their weekly wages. It is gees far the Wade of the town to improve ie Wiese = l bw wfdiaat the mid e - .edition of the people babe elm (Meer, ben .) What same of you have eallaf illi r m betr i n of NAM I sing junta,* to my of the other gram Owes of the West Nan of Yorkshire. It in e as a whey I WM.% mute peeresses than os any hear ssesths, saireeng went mew rapidly, sad sedate and teellary bripermumeste owe la mming ban equal retie. (Lead eirglnees.) lam de. 4.4htsd le ham what Mr. Deme sop iis Mate Ned am& hos of Wawa in elmildi—erneelh that lbws is a nester demand for been than Mum he ten But the moot isopermet Amenities he nude that MIA my ter wee this—dwit me limbed elleW a Wend 10 re- 11seis falsWimi ee — ge — fp,aa therefore I comisie—l mem% ilk pus whether the mursieskinors have lam gamma yett—Omer)—thar i all rrrnts, than is a imp Maini lo rove the 'tallowy retinae of I rsms. (leer, bees.) The intonate of Sb..M amp me embed wilt these of the whale Weer Rieke& &et it is say law that ma y be reacted MI ageing te a Te he m et (Hear, hear) And, then/ass. wilea r zt e s a. m. is semi myself dare to turgid our aloe is If we Oka it war Misty to opreAe e pre= hi Of el lui=lifersi we oust, sodas 7. bon gear Ammo ersll me that of any ether of Miele Immo. tease we bele the boon., to represent. (lar, law.) I a Krwiss hover that the West Riding of Teshalkere is ems et ehe not imp pnrtaid ',serious of ber . 11sjosses lelemlb eel that whim ti,e West !tiding with ise _ _ mere "maim et firmly, it will he a veep ttlimh raw Wes* he do aoite to h. marsh& (Mar i War.) Awl &pad ups It, adAougb I Am the berme Owing a. me ass% "Wes I. is, susellid he is the House of C...... thee the npolas of the sombers for the Was Biding ohm it is lingua it ewers, the mimeses *Am d the miewititssmey. (mildew* ) rh.• twalths of Reveal Mbar bed sad Macias hdisord, and the proondlep dud 11 Weisak. ---- - - MAILS ST TN* TSIDINT.--11111 POSWISISST.O4IIO - Sr rives settee that mils will be sole up Is ta. I, eirrafPoot.ollire tor Madeira, Brasil, Bowes Area sad feklaad Islands, to be despatched by 11.21.'s ship Trident. Lettere to be rest by this ship sense be specially addressed, by 11.11.'s ship Trident." Ths es • latents• Rift *el be le to Madsen', Is. 10d. No day his yet bees Shed to the lading of the Teklast. Newsmen to lie p theer rod to Madeira ter 2d. each. Tue MIME ENGLIOIIIII6N who haw to E.*, their coolie dews the Demobs to shed vieene. the Mb ult. The waves blMei the Cc's Jack oh tittering the Vines emwal. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN (IRELAND) RAILWAY. The fourteenth half-yearly general meeting of the reprieton of this company was held on Thursday, at their Boardroom, in Dublin, J. Emcia, Esq., chairman of the eampany, presiding. _ _ TM following sport of the directors wu reed by the Secretary : " The working of both the railway and canal continues to be satisfactory , and, although the first half of the year ie generally the leaf productive in porringer traffic, the accounts show • steady mid progressive improvement in the different branches of your revenue. The receipts from the railway between Dublin and Athlone, including these from the canal, during the half-year, have been 47,81191. 16s. 114., and the expenditure daring the same period, 18,0241. 14e., leaving a gross profit of 72,13851. 2e. lid„ which, after pay meet of the interest on the balance of the canal mortgage and debenture louts, Mc., leaves • net surplus of 21,6711. 6e. Id. From this sum the board propose to allocate an addition of 3,0001. to the rest; to make a dividend payable on the 16th instant, at the rata of 4 per cent. per annum oaths capital stock of the company, which will amount to 1.5,88 W. 10a. bd.; and to add the remainder to the surplus of the meioses half-year, which will leave a balance of 6,3681. be. ill. to be carried forward to the credit of the next half-year's mount. The accounts of the extension from Athlone to (Solway have been 'Remick( d by the auditor appointed by this Treasury , and certificates have been issued by hint for the amount payable by the beroniee. The hotel at Osiway has bees opened, and is felt to be a great public advantage; indeed the directors feel convinced that the very superior accommodation it affords, and which is so generally acknowledged by all who have visited it, must he productive of the must beneficial effects on the traffic el the railway, and even in this wsy pre. duce a satisfactory return for the capital expended upon It. The electric telegraph bas been completed between Galway sad Dublin, and is now in operation. Your board look forward to its connexien with the electric lines from Holy head as • matter that must very soon be effected, and thus bring the port of Galway into immediate electric commu nication with most of the principal places in England and on the continent of Europe. The commissioners ap pointed to inquire into the relative merits of Galway and the Shannon for postal and passenger commuuiestion with North America have not yet published their repot. Your director., however, cannot entertain any doubt as to the superior advantages existing at Galway, and therefore look forward with anabeted confidence to the ultimate result. 'I he directors have the pleasure to state that their application to parliament for an act to authorise the construction of the branch' to (7aesti has afforded them an opportunity of proving the paramount importance of opening a central line of railway cow monication with the North of Ireland; the necessary pewees have been granted fur this purpose, and the subject shall continue to receive the most must attention of your board. The arrangements entered into with the Grand Canal Company have produced satisfactory results during the put year, and the continuance of them, with some slight modifications, is now under the consideration of both companies. By reference to the engineer's re port, you will perceive that the works and rolling stock of the company are in a satisfactory state of efficiency. It will be a primary object with your board to continue to maintain them in this condition; they have, therefore, commenced the for mation of a fund specially dedicated to the purpose, and the come - already set apart for this object amount to 18,f70/. 18e. 2d 18,(70/. following directors go out of office by rotation, vie.: George Augustus Boyd, Esq.; Martin Joseph Blake, ; Joseph Boyce, Esq .; Joseph Cowper, Esq ; John Gaynor, Esq. ; but are eligible for re-elec tion.'' The CHatastax, is moving the Meg*es of this report and statmaeat of accounts, said, as sash as it had bra his good fortune to preside ea similar ninepins, be arm sp preached a subject such as this anise dertelearete 411144- iag to himself personally larger sourairs of somgenteledmi. He saw a concern—Se use the figurative langtew of a friend of kis out labs orauicia—which was ersiW is adversity sad was thou gaining la stremph, ad vancing to the strength el malted omd a per aid age. (Hear, bear.) It had bees welshed rev by Id* self—he would sot say by \W alt but by the gentlemen who had acted with sad assisted him—with Ninety; and be thought they might psis*. with satisfaction to them selves. Mho summits which they bad to lay before the share holing ea that day. (deer, liar.) They had the molt uniestiled right to bane that their prosperity wu not a I Milder 1111111441140 411114. EA that that plosperity on which dry wild woe landed en a bra which wu oat likely to dries this. If they looked at the figures., the account peesselod is than, they would hod that their railway eon ' psay paid as large • • dividend as any other railway in the mortry —with the exception of one railway in Ireland, and whisk win the Dublin and Kingstown line—no matter bow Wag the lies bad hest in existence. But the eamilmal der fee then was, that, miter paying what at the pronsß Yes Ark' be sensidred. seder every a aumeaable they timid bar • le e emir to grad egoist Move eemliegenelse. The o whisk he would ;set the ingipe—althweeh format/ it wee added to what they air disk Dor fund—wea snare at bast a seatinsense of the peanut dividmiL They had all heard that the mew? Ind semlneted what leer Kmagnlllsont Mediu Odway. They had Ike samillye lea le Om by the germ mast, M awn Iva sale of lesumet, eel it was semstismed by them; eel fhs .ever sent auditor bad restiesed their feeds. that they weld not have done better with the mane, then by plain in Galway that which it required, namely, a rain mod , where tourists and ethers right he aad thereby aid he n e wt Wto the smile ea that Ilea (Hear.) N. War them the hiles the woe net a single room unesompisd in that ; awl either* it nights ppear abouldes Ida to be sosw his irme thaeghts, or edge* of a bad at the =us of It aa k:e, rn he did se la east Oat the wield at hags Wilt be = es trough the medlar of the rem that dire was ofeessiersdatisa at Galway. sad that the sub lime asensey at Wm" and its neleldsperbeed right bear eerrelesa with that el any other_ prim of die advent. (Her s beer.) The roper also alluded is the Ave of am set of pedlar at brim hoes ebtabeell is ern* shale Mae Om le Ones* The had bees usual at as loot made& sat at the gold ame rid dm the si a tmdaties that hod he* Gaped pearl trody. earidered the., inespothe ollsgolher et the advanWu of habeas the swam in else 6 •1I•A their limo. lie peed slime druid be lialway, eels wren pair Manisa. (Appleera) Be lit OM It we aserrey is held eat sew lalesememll to the people of Mk* sad he else bellowel Ihr it , was wassitail le show the that the =y were poopared taw a gni _Goo that they would mho le Ile post ur e, wawa, is favour if a poise slides. (Hear, .) He was grim ime *we sham OM the empeay woe prepared to peolses thdr sera pol of lir moodrest, gad es bring the poser of th is ammemisilen with the wears* err, by the sal* speelleol mooda _Pear WO la *es, Ilreellme, eimilluol in dam mmi thaw 1101 rep Ile only introst nal ielotilla ef the le pereenle that pset se the rat t le thought =id have as peed yeas= to be selloNei es with the The feet Ind bra Fired hobo the us ilt sr a t t a =mmesseit was, * = tier yams of abus seam.:* O mura mai. ummem." Ba arm . India as the peke es enemy Mr of the mesa of • =1 miede by the ralrfaiel Sher wen Old INN up *day add down the art :r a t hal sift allolained, la Ide add aspasi as dmarneref *at asespersy. bra madder mg _poser as to what be right te de With the espied bilmila that sonqoany; bold he ware then dimwi t /Xi Moms. to a WM. be was of thet seer ikon= de le—he would Ile remithled per in that room, sad he would emoswee. os • penes d ie up gesd deal with Ihe palls brims dale eamelsy, le ly i= e as haw presspnity. amoldpaied am were dm geld ; red be was perlbedy esdell ailli t is tatd sash half= On mid in that reout—bs the gentian= who he who illeald campy the prides of shainsen—they would have sewed m s MS te asegratulase thersolves. wiThee. gramma at arid mess** or opk Alissea• DOTCR having esimmiertbe molars for the migakee of the directors' repeat sad the statement of se amemda, ass posed usaahmerady. The Cararerr lbws awed *et a dividasd of 4 per rutp per wren be new dodoes/ ogled net prat of the •••1• 0 7 sr •••h• lore hitt _Male 011 Thursday, the lab feet, e ell ~sem 64111144 fa mein the same. Pita now essoodsd Ihe maim whisk was earned umamimmeely. At the amosi-des of the presp, Mr. Ma'am said he thseght drat they should net without O rin* a vele at drake is the seentery the sespeay, . Barr abe, Ile voey Ado& wrimer la whidthe had kept the 41141111111 L The Ctutthais said ha bad phew* is being a/- hided aa oppectuai tr aw f mzem teetiamy to be t value of the earwig,' of Kt. wheal ha esolden be d to a Idghly inlayer*, GM 0111.0 _ The reatiolies Lai* beam pat. It woe or lumi nously, ad dos prigelsbes eepatated. LYONS TO AVIGNON RAILWAY. An estramiiery general meets d the share -Is, a lidowswiles, was hold , the Sims, 11.114 TeithestaL Demo, es•ldaidas Public Works, theTrldese, the emir. remt @Med that the edlludindo et the lias took =oa the bi Jesstsy kit, bet it woe mly m the 27th Ost the elststes of Se empsusikeirtes seal owed 11. TWO Takbet wee Med mosoleg dhesew, mg M. Tbido• woo appsisted mine M. Tikbets disolits, to rEvil• ea I, IMPIMe am; Km. Rehm the sljeAlmlat preelleml egoesmsto hog bass eared its kr the ossestios of as us the see bead. web MM. ri ff i end sal, es the elbow baM, with Memo li kte, , M Bessoey, Or Thew isestioo bed le be owl ea the Oho et Jess Sr sessrel wee SWIM, skped. It espies the essortto erilirwt of the =d i eh Selma toranskilm, with the empies of the statiomor sloth, the whims, teels, eel hoshoes. The am to be MS to the lostimi dtr the.. mei MINAIN., ilhey eedenekii tie ON eta to soma tres NAM , ors OM owl patlL At the sum sir Ibe ammo* he the wade' slosh, sod * io her a l oof owls* he the Ina. islislikdy nsubisi. this the rommpray oeaY me is me Meta* MK eon* would moot II& 3-4411.81115gk with the miersoso, 70.210,0902 om ll . l . Bl alb 13,860,09 K W MS, tessileriN • ; atetissesk 760,010telltbe II NOM of 91,390, es elute* of gutted exposees of every kind, and of the interest to be "sides the capital during the period of esealesollee. The whelp expense of all kinds would be street /II ed3liees, se millions less than the company had mg lastly supposed, tbe servernmen'. ng estimated the cost of the line at 120 millions, and the company at 109 millions. To meet the lest expenses, the board negotiated , • portion of the loan of 30 mallow, whieb Art. 6 of the mAier dew charges allowed to be issued with the guarantee of the state. A call of 76f. was also made on each share, making up 126 f. per share in all; so that 126 f. per share on 60,000 Agree, giving 8,210,000 f., and 8,000 debentures ne gotiated at 1,050 f. each, 8,400,090 f , there appeared a total of 14,850,000 f. immediately available. The taste pines a subvention of 49,000,000 f. to the company, which is to be paid at the rate of two-thirds for every one-third ex- Vuded in the works, so that if the section from Avignon to alence was to cost 39 millions, the state would pay 26 millions, and the company only 13. Conaequentiv the sum of 14,650,000 fr., mentioned above, was quite sufficient for the execution of the section from Avignon to Valence. When further funds were required, they would be found in a call of .50fr. per share on Oct. 15, 1852, another of 60fr. on April, 16, 1853, and a third of 25fr. on Oct. 16, 183. In addition, the board could, if necessary, negotiate the 22,000 debentures remaining, on which the state gave its guarantee. The report then proceeds to give an account of the circumstances which led to the amalgamation with the Lyons to Avignon tine of the several railways be Marseilles and Toulon on the east, and to Nirintes, Montpellier, and Cette on the west. As to the expense of all the works now, after the new arrangements, at the charms of the company, it presents itself thus:—Expenses of the flans and Avignon line, 93,250,0110 f.; new expenses, 27,700,000 f. ; g I expenses of all kinds, 6,050,000 f. ; total, 126,000,000 f. To meet that expense the comp.iny finds itself in possession of 121,000,01101. in securities of va rious kinds, including the 49 millions of subvention given by the state, and the one million allowed by the town of Aix. There will remain, therefore, only 6,000,000 f. to be rained by a loan, but one-half of that sum, it is calculated, will be made up by the sums of flif. paid at once by the Marseilles to Avignon shareholders on the debentures, in order to obtain an ammed'ate interest of 26f. The board proposes to have the number of direefors increased, in con sequence of the recent amalgamation, from 18 to 22. It states that, like the other railway companies, it has sub scribed 73,100 f. as its quota to the capital of the Railway Discount Back; and, Anslly, proposes to have 100,0001. a year allowed to the board of directors. IL-solutions approving of the several treaties of amalga mation entered tato, were then put fr m the chair, and carried unanimously. It wan also decided that the number of the directors should be raised to 72. and that a sum of 100,000 fr. per annum should be allowed them. The meet ing also gave its approbation to the subscription of 73,100 fr. to the Railway Discount Bank. A shareholder inquired on what conditions the holders of the Marseilles to Avignon shorn were to be allowed to subscribe to the new shares of the Lyons to Avignonr:ons- The Chairman repliet , that two Marseilles shares would be entitled to one of the amalgamated company. No other business bring then before the meeting, the proceedings terminated. THEINEXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1852. MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. BELFAST, WIDNIADAT, SIFT. 1. The twentreeegod annual meeting of the British Association was opened yesterday, at 1 o'clock, by a sitting of the general commits, In the Queen's College. Sir ItroDERICR Klintensisom, on taking the chair, le the absence of Profaner Alm said that ha had much to regret the absence of the Asteememer Revd (Dr. Aire), President of the Association, win wee unable to Weal the preeent meeting of this body, and be led requested hist, take the chair in his absence, mad at the to rs resign it to the g en tl eman w h o sa t o e trZ=lt's) right (Colonel ulnae). The letter from Prebeese Airy stated that owing to ill health whisk eseapeled him to remain on the Continent, he would be unable te Mari the Meeting in Belfast ; and it aloe mid that the keened gen tleman would have nothing of he wassualieste to the body et the "gsof 1 1. 11•111 M; end wee happy to learn that he was rspesseeted by a mem of the great ability of Colonel Sabine. The Ass: •CIINRIAL SMCRISAUT (John Phillips, Esq., 1.R.5.) then proceeded to read the minstes of the last meeting of the association, in 1861, at Ipswich, which having been confirmed, The Onsisnat fincarraar read a draft of a report of the proceedings of the council during the past year. The CHAIRMAN mov e d th e a d o pti on of the report, which having been seconded, was passed. Mr. Minnie, assistant-tressurer, in the absence of the treasurer, then read the following statement of tha accounts during the year:- The General Treuunr's Account from 2nd July, 1851, at Ipswich, to the lit September, 1852, at Belfast. Reentrzw.-To balance brought on from last account, 6931.5,. Ild. • life compositions at Ipswich and since, 901.; annual subs criptions, 2021. ; associates, 2441. ; tickets, 1411 ; book composition, 61.; dividends on stock, 18 months' dividends on 3.5001. three per cont. Consols, 1521. 18a. 341.; from tiro sale of publications, Tic sports, catalogues of stars, &c , 1621. 13s. 4d.-total, 1,6901.175. 6d. ' PASMENTS.-For sundry printing, advertising, expenses of Ipswich meeting, and petty disbursements made by general and local treasurers, 2061. 14s. 2d. ; printing report of 20th meeting, paid on account, 3001.; engraving, ite., for report of the 21st meeting, 171. th. 10d. • salaries : assis tant general secretary and accountant, 18 months, 6251. ; Doves Isothermal Lines, 1001. • maintaining the establish• meat at Hew Observatory, 2 331. 17,. Bd. '• on account of grant f q• experiments on the conduction of heat, 61.25. 9d. ; menace of solar radiations, 201.; for a geological map of Ireland, 161 ; researches on the British Annelids, 101. ; vitality of seeds, 101. 6s. 24. • strength of boilerplates, ; balance at the beaker's, 226 1. 17s. 3d.; do. in the hands of the general treasurer and local treasurers, 101. 12s. fid. total, 1,6901. 17e. ad Colonel BANINI then read the report of the parliamen tary committee. The committee held meetings on the 3d and lith of February, and 17th June. The committee had forwarded a communication to the Earl of Mairusbury on the subject of the high charge of postage in foreign countries on the transmission of scientific works, and transmitted to his lordship a list of the postal charges of other nations in companion to those levied in Great Britain, some of which went so high as 19s. for the trsasmission of works on which only the sum of Bd. was charged here. His lordship, in reply to that statement, referred the matter to the consider ation of the PostousterDenersl. The committee also reported that Lord Roam and Sir R. H. Inglis, ea the part of the Association, waited on Lord Derby for the purpose of laying before the government the smallness of the sum devoted to the services of scientific men from the fund devoted to like purposes in the bends of government. Lord Derby replied that it was the duty of the government to appropriate tha fond fairly among those claims for whose benefit it was intended ; and requested to bo informed the nut sum handed over to, the men of science. To that Lord Row showed that out of a fund of 16,8001. given to that porpoise, in fourteen years only 2,1601. had been devoted to scientific men ; and expressed a hope that a country which was so much in debted to the greater benefits conbrred by science, would' deal more liberally with its followen. In conclusion, the committee expressed a hope that their =pleonasm to go vernment oaths subject of the rates of postage of scientific works would meat the attention it deserves. Colonel BAxii moved that the report be accepted ; and, in doing so, moved that the thanks of the emaciation be given to Lord Row fur his elation on behalf of the body, which was carried unanimouly. Lord Rosin briefly returned thanks. The report of the committee of recommendations was then reed and adopted; after which, The CHAIRMAX adjourned the committee until the goss nl meeting of that evening, and stated that it woW be honoured by the presence of the Lord Lieutenant, whim had informed him (Sir Roderick Murchison) that's* had sense down to Belfast for the special purpose of paying his tribute of honour to science. The committee than separated. GiNZILAL lIIIITING.-ITZNING SITTING. The general meeting of the ueoeiation was held last night, in Mey•street church. The building was filled with a great amount of the rank and influence of the provisos; aadesosg the easspeny present were his Euiellenoy the Led the Prises of Canino, Lord Musereene, the led d the Earl of Hanlakillen Lord Dun rase, Lead Wilistbseky, Lord Nue, the Lord Chaseeilor, Sir Dodd lierweese fiir H. de la Babe, air H. lissideon, Arebbleep , 11th , , the Bev. Elseb. D.D. M. 'Nikita/ Thome. aid es lumen anunber of nonsben mime de et the sserke ereekden, tlesk awl aims*, =kettle whose snivel in k the prosoillip of the body has airEOiss . "7 . t; Motassos kris( been sewed to the chair, rose and said hie first duty wee to 'aphis why he sespied the chair. The distisselked Aare/seas PAZ who is the actual President el Ilte Dalift who seek, if it bed bets wile, to haw i e4= the tisk that evening to the skews individual who le to meek his restilist Moen* that owing to a family ellitellea whisk emeetewed his to be he a keg thee Sweat Ms the awally and while Ise weer ail, khaki may ot thine week with whisk be es sampled—that ekes bad meek his sot to M i ce es that °amnion • be deeply wetted it, and bed Ida (Sir Roderick) to expos W snow that be wee wee le be present on so isporteat ea eatedes. - 011altsi theme this roes, end delivered as address, ef tali the Mewing ere the principal portions : Onthists of the Baia Asessistisa sr (ten duty in ul tras the their ma he to ewer my gratehtl Meant the high Maar lave sollined apes we by g r as is se dhtitsaiMl a paths. The GM IN NOWA, NC as wins hoefibes of Woo oa ths Pala Amid= it mesh es to resin it paha Soweneedreed, adds as limas of es ad as vend lona ' eon a brief review of ths po rthole& in the saves demean* width ineathes oar Is the selection whisk I this hod swede =skis mass, I have b eei l in tes %t a d br e Ilatir w r b r o t "peso set awddlea Is as wand elleso.an., that the ma to the year should seas by prehoesa these sub let* wash he le meet doefier, in whisk the r • bay. hoe hies a port, or vide we Vl* to bo ditsawal at the maim Ows tibia he which are lifik to some ben% la= Varied Seer 1 1 = 1 “ it 84 70 1 1. 1 • Na Poole lisisMarso i r re • eneklmillos. lams the patio I whether the tine is mead What* oablialasa of as 'barman la s te m ihms hastsehese. ihemiebeil with Is .mofef NOM =WM Ms MO =MINNOW& eekula of mem bow% as& dewed a p: to that blare ef demi iiissaginy, amid be bronitt esie a r o the eassidelation ef b re=ty a ;: and Apples the rossee ssi :& of seal& se Medusa r si v i r e yslessol the tee . i rentia 0 with ,of patio as heels If es a this di. p. is sperta . t .g . rt .........,......... . 1 „ . . d ra.......... --- i - Ac. Br of Besse, al es : e s past pant : t i t Aradatha. not oaf . Maasu it contains sea a motets sod kraal enema o soy be meet stow asessely amsalted by thaw ate will sew be said epos IS Via pot ia the seesedlssetisa si the MOW, bat do been. it Is or to fare& ea admires na da help Is sod is wailer, he twomentalless de died to the hoosolooll memo or easeleg, is ow Med key the *ems weasesilimia vela the soled belly of etautie me of Ile Maga= way dere Me litio to the to bolas edsr the eseleostioa of the I= wee la as dime= wide look limo at a Amor a t e 8 • ‘ t s Vs oot t i b olo v oi l e il Il e i o l ifS P lin Is of 2:a wen frost a debt whether of tho ohydred owolbado maid be repolhit h oo tbq weld ilsreettly ate_ to be, as the hie eme, it h swienelea, been =Vac eilr . to gas\ as sale el the ~..e Fr.:. to whoa seisar l is se is r =fl e tz al ewe of bai stab le ebo espoisits Ise Os Ninon, is 1 ig the iadmilleas er So Mow who we holl email to V I No ens groat peolag amine las So Imam la INW bir ein inilley. is mew are fee is mi l ` mid to es moiety of pale same bt& des le adisaidno etednel national him" we sa- ved ve te le le so by the samisen eat nubile Ille ef la* osalood sae sew la adatillsw wah rpti l i to el by ealkehasil pens *ohs, we awdelis satirise the fall twavieliss that teens wide has their Wands apertase deserve to be grill will• Reeser or lehe, acids the dap Ines sna jespoilisse eve 1N101 8.1 1 4 11 V a llift imelmse—es fa lb - it MildOeb_ Wl* ede we en ban marred it la ide demb ore le j at they obeli isii be—behe thaw pees beim w *ssw as oem* ihe ow tie suileft li lie esoatry, s ad se mot sloseMiles M stlat to kg" cad ottiololea re sese be oil wootelly esesiden ainintned, bp their whoa= they Weans in s vested with as selberity sad weight whisk those bodies have it is der power to impart. but when after dee deliberative the j l i te l e been a_ ifed it is equally fit ting tat Soso bales *iota bo' ow to their own emblem field steely pewee In urging on all pouporearins, both peed, se privately, the MN. oWNS M=l Sep believe all ada *eh iirantry't honour as well is to ast sesseal advassenot of aloes by whisk ell aeries beset, freely and alike in por tion to their weave emulation. That as ots- oratory he es peplos e of m guile. ia a pest of the pro globs mime it as mho - pewee monies. wad whore we sewer facilities whisk We aeon do sot posse will WO lass - LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Lancaster, Mr. Haul' in the chair. Mr. Bolden, the secretary, read the report, an abstract of which appeared in the Ezpresi of yesterday. The CHAIRMAN commenced by referring to a circular circulated among the proprietors, which expressed dissatis faction at the conduct of the directors. The directors felt rather strongly upon this subject, as the limbed paid a bet ter dividend for some time put than say other railway in the kingdom, except it were a guaranteed line. It certainly was astonishing to the board that the proprietors should entertain a greater degree of dissatisfaction with their proceedings than be ob served, from readipg the r, porta of the various railway meetings throughout the kingdom, to have been the case even where the dividend had been extremely smell, and in some instances whero there had been no dividend whatever. (Hear.) There seemed to have been loss dissatisfaction even in such cases than was conveyed in that circular. He must say that the amount of the dividend (61 per cent.) was one of the strongest points any set of directors could offer to the proprietors on that score; that of itself was a sufficient justification of the proceed , lags albs directors, and should at all events screen them ties that sort of obloquy, wild& was sought to be cut upon thee& (Hear.) No set Mmes lied laboured more earnestly and men essateringly ter the Worsen of that company than Ine distosises. With to the first point in the Ur inals,. as to the inetassi amp for locomotive power, no doubt Ma ea lamest bad euersed. bat it we equally cer eals that Mere bad lama ea WNW, in the goods traffic likewise ; and k sated to reams that tf they had more goods to carry they sea have Mine to pay for carrying them. (Hear.) It was In* there hod sot been a corresponding increase in the peals of the a.a but that wee owing to the exesislui esatinaldes sew earatl ea. especially by sea, ai well as by bad, and the was that if they whied hop the balk aar, they Mot ' be esateat to de se at redweed a belie. He would give them, then, a reuses 111111Wilt a lir leismotive expenses and the gross receipts. Per the -year =alai January, 1851, the locomotive e onsuated to 12,3221., and the gems receipts to 44,3Y1tY Per the bellies: ending July 18.51, the locomotive were 12,4831. ; the gross re ceipta amounted to Her the half year ending Janu ary, 1852 locomotive isponem, 14 21.; locomotive 71 gross receipts, 49,0221. For the half-yesr } ding July, 1042, locomoti •opweass. 14,9651., and gross receipts 49,440/. So that they would perceive there was a progressive inmate is die swap* Are Reede r so well as a preareseive balms is lessatedve espressa WWI revel to the Isesossave cott ager, I sbini lzesred to bin to be the sables of ems of the M that bargain bed bees mode simply he tweet the bleed of this railway sad the directors of the Loudon sail Reath-Western Company. Ist that was not the muse panned ; it was agreed by bash companies that Kr. Leaks sheet& settle the teems Mile iiismotive arrange. abide. mosit. and by those teems mob mapeay was bound to Mr: Macro:As (af Loa ite).—How sissy ran ego was that? TM Camaara.—Aliest six years age, bebr• the open- Esrthe lam Is the regrew of time great ragesties of messed la ruddy sal se diminished the ashes of sennat. Wb., therehre, the ezpirades et this eti• wee mar as rd, it beam neeeswey to review L i e ll r a d the lend moo, se he MEI pis*, Into the Mob et the Landes sad deset-Weeless Osespiay, railed • ramiksi. *d,,m wiii die eridense et several skald en emies sad se sewpsiast elbserd aa engage mat ea andierably redesed te pada. ems. The di t 0... were that they seesld pay Is. wads apse peassemee to sad 141. ages peal teas end the redasties wee se se pas own hew b. Is ISL. and me le Boob hew 114 te ls. The eirdswes apiebed OM de bar& was *eil the MOM was to lese he live yew% es& ins te be ea slaw party mleig a year's sides, The direele ila te set gives that sedge. beams Min were sweats dressi ness« miming se the Caledintes Ilse *Nib sundreed it brodslitest thq dwell de se at thee seeseat. At thee Nee Awe WM rade berseintag with the ra mble sad nedemes at the Odsbales Oseeputy, sad but he the eidelease eta pewees! like the Loadee lad Nords-Walles, they nimbi bed Moir trade stepped altemelber awl se bit ewe the, they weld bib gybed lay ate; oilseeds In the Item at die untreet. list whoa the stem wbilb Ihnelused babe the Cab ala had sabided bey applied fir $ renedies of the to Thee Mastics was gams& It woo stated la the eleseire Met the mortis( enema ressated to 47 per ant. Oa thelZ i be bed swig ems se —'-"-u el whbh he wadi then tbe week The we he the an NM wisp IP pre enlkin s.. lei wie l:a l evonaspentilag pedal J et ad. M .per eist. The mom ahead/ see lbe weds bade wen seedy sint, wllea l lseidsat teggr des et will. lbe ref= 111614 es 11 1 1: esp . Tthey did net meanie& be the waking Ss= ared melt it thunders. It was he deb le It drew Igp thde peessal sashed, wend wad be the deb et thlemr. The deft woks' he wield z e tt a liae imbibe wall he MAW If OM was he the bsilisselt blend s` ass seat ea es nereemed wee ). vrhbh was bey brag lemembille sem. the weddemespwases would be pee Ma Ishmeembelly ef depresielea s ead the sew Iseresedar aneeemseesas milk the sad M 11/Mona Oensgaq bed bees lines gawking wean. weld bite Ines 'sly al pm end. Whim the gredieau of Ws Ws were medial wee believed Wt Asir ham working w e MGM bear teveseable sew with thew et lap ether Ike in this Idempiew. MeV the shweidiera wee waded with tha esplasedes be OM dna Kr. Gnaw eras dal Ile *sake wee iatesied se a semen hem Ibe Millheet se the sane dae be Wilted epos tie et en Imperned quer et saute, es twee as the aesswity et retasiag the worlds" sew of 'ther. _ _ _ The Bev. C. Lassiter red Mr. Doi:retest brit ably sap pored Mr. Giliew's views. Allisavesy ealwrisildherales, la whisk balk dlreetere rrt geeperiese took pert, the report woe anima* rti. rived art adopt* sad as dividend of di pn eget. 11111111811 d. The H... Corer Lowther. as the aosimeren of the Earl of Laws ale. vss waimouly re-elected a Cromer. Mr. Giu.ow proposed Mr. Elhotre, of Limped, ao a director, la eke pros of Mr. W. Marshall, M.P. A show of heads was eikaa, art declared fa (grew of Mr. Marskall bx 16 to 11. Mr. Omer this denuded a= B. t the voting like wise oeselteit Is the di hi et et The pieesedbp dna teenheeted. DUNDALK AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAT.—The ImMyearly meeting et Ike ramgemy wee hid en Tns M Dublin, the /Wet likm In Ilme risk. Timmer&:= i ng List the reseigle kr the balayert die /kb et Sue Mewed an hennas ever the period of NM et WM • redeMben in the bad eso base Whined. The Wham is dividend m elded the amain to ream a dlehked et fe. per Aare, leaving lOW. to be anis& to the rearm had. The sport was mettimesely *Med, and a dividend at sate et U. per *MS IPSO derkred. Oa the mar of Ik. O. latter It mat speed begekt a lift et the sham wit=asiztosaithe reikey. gbh their Warmer, and the at held by eadt. and to desdale it ebb limo gegen ewes ke ~ekes. The waft was ana made model r the buts et meink thane woe ernibmed, end the keestere mew entherfeed te robe main es inert pee er & en band maw the powers el their am of parliament. The preeredinge tenektern with a vote of thaake to the MOM be established, no one I believe entertains • doubt. The importance was admitted by the ministry, to whom the re- eouimendatioa was made, the only question with them ap- pearls; to be one of time. When, therefore, we view the intrins,c merit of the proposition itself, the general interest which it has excited at home and abroad, and its already, to i certain extent, favourable reeeleion by government we cannot doubt t h at we have but to persevere, and by a judi cious selection of times and opportunities the object will be secured. It will be for the members of the mathema tical and physical section to consider in the first in stance, and for the general committee, subsequently, to consider and decide whether any official step shall be taken by the British Association in the present year. Should such be your decision, it will be the duty of the officers and council of the association to confer with the president and council of the Royal Society, and in con junction with them to take such steps as may appear mast fitting to bring the subject again, and in the most im pressive manner, under the consideration of the authorities of the state. On the former occasion it was thought inset respectful to abstain from any suggestion in regard either to a suitable locality, or to the astronomer who might be advantageously selected to direct en establishment of this novel description. Such may still be deemed, per haps, the least exceptionable course ; but, at the same time, it may be desirable that it should be fully known, that we aro not unprepared on these and other points if it be the pleasure of her Majesty's government to desire our opinion. liitherto the researches of sidereal astronomy, oven in their widest extension, had manifested the exist ence of those forces only with which we 're familiar in our own solar system. The refinements of modern obser vation and the perfection of theoretical representation, had assured us that the orbits on which the double stars, im measurably distant from us, revolve around each other are governed by the same laws of molecular attra c ti on which determine the orbits of the planetary bodies of our own sonars stew . But the nebulm have revealed to us the probable existence in the yet more distant universe of forces with which we were previously wholly unacquainted. The highest authorities in this most advanced of all the sciences acknowledge themselves unable even to conjecture the nature of the forces which have produced and main tain the diverse, yet obviously systematic arrangement of the hosts of stars which constitute those few of the spiral nebula, which have been hitherto exa mined. Hence the importance of increasing our knowledge of the variety of forms in which the phenomena present themselves, by a similar examination of the so u th ern heavens to;hat which Lord Roam is accomolishing in the northern h , • hence abso, we may believe, in great measure, the devotion with which his lordship has directed the unp recedented instrumental power which he has created almost exclusively to the observation of nebula. But, whilst we cannot but admire the steadiness of purpose with which an object regarded as of paramount importance is undeviatingly pursued, we can scarcely forbear to covet at least an occasional glance at bodies which, from their greater proximity, have more intimate relations with our selves, and which, when viewed with so vast an increase of optical power, may afford instruction of the highest value in many branches of physical science. In our own satel lite, fur example, we hart the opportunity of studying the physical conformation and superficial phenomena of a body composed, as we believe mainly at least, of the same ma terials as those of our own globe, but possessing neither atmosphere nor sea. When we reflect how much of the surface of the earth consists of sedimentary deposits, and consequently how large a portion of the whole field of geo logical research is occupied with strata which owe their principal characteristics to the cites% in which they were deposited, we cannot but anticipate many instructive les sons which may be furnished by the points of eoatrut, as well as of resemblance, which the surface of the moon, viewed through Lord Rome's telescope, may present to the best judgment we are able to form of what the appearance of the earth would be, if similarly viewed, or with what may bo more difficult, perhaps, to imagine—what we may sup pose the earth would appear if it could be stripped of its sedimentary strata which conceal from us for the mat part the traces of that internal action which has played so urge a part in moulding the great outlines of the present configuration of its surface. It is• understood that Lord Ruse himself participates in the wish that such an exami nation of the surface of the moon should be made, and, should the desire of the association be expressed to that effect, is willing to undertake it in conjunction with one or two other gentlemen possessing the necessary physical aid geological knowledge. It will be for the members of the asso ciation to determine the form in which a report on the " Physical Features of the Moon compared with those of the Earth" may most appror s : i t be requested. The seatlematisal sad phrasal of light have aihrderientioste he many inter=amd profitable dama sks@ fa lestisa A, sad have, , bed one day in the sa speolally alleltal to them. Those nimmosions will derive • mere then umbel Isar." at this meetly, from the re resekable diem/very Moistly math by l'refswere Stokes, that, sailer certain circumstances, a amigo is tasted in the rentoogibility of light, and, hem the advestagis we wean to having smug* us, on thimessesion, the eminent Enthusiast= sad physight by whom this meet important esatributke te the meioses of physical spike Us been made. As the interest of this discovery is set menilmed to a single branch of science, the officers with the approbation of the local committee, have recreated Kr. noshes to favour the Association with an exposition of the subject at an evening meeting, when the members of the different sections may be able to attend without prejudice to their respective see tinsel duties. Among the subjects ineqquiry whisk may well deserve the attention of • combined.. eg peeler, few could more usefully essupy their Moan time the revides of the equivalent numbers of the els mentary bodies. This is • task whisk must nosessarily :rethe co-operation of isever:lual=ualified tibluals, if It lie moomplished like a resseem4o pe riod of tins. Most of ea nomalime now in sass upon imparlinents perfeemed Bosseliaa, at whim the methods at issasesit theslosewa were eves is mesh hawk to Minns* these emmileals with is essereey andisiest Ass the wants of name at this present day. Se mesh hen this bees felt to be the ease, that many of the mon amessodiehod chemists new living lave undertakonestmaims asell/slidews. though issineed resesmiess, upoa the ornabinlag gsamlitim deem oldie most importsat olemosts But ma k seems than has been already postersaid etill release nohow Bush • WOO it is Wined, might be highly proper he seaside. ratiss isu i s tteituniesl motiss, to whew Miss it would be by the amiss Ds Aselsews, who presides ever th at,sd than wham se one assid be amid m more sesepeleme to estimate the im rose et week a rethies. gr a tis ills more truly of that weald be hells execution. jirmteistr ialragene tesetisi of the Amosiaties, I was by es the slats the epsamel of meamittes, draw report end the NOW talrseeisd• the of the lis amsolatises to her s gerrommat, in lees. I that, Gem the ether very yore duties alias al= to, I have not beim able to this regent in time to prossot at this mot* thatt, as may atoms ham the remeest thus made me, the siblest eelethe. wi th the lidthh Loa farthe interest whisk it tithe se baggily tired, e; mature to naS spelt et this epgoitmnity, to make • very few ommein en semi of its inset important tees* miming mpse t he the most pert, to results M iined .... 4 2 poseens of our own . e s : i natry res s o Llltzgrzr u t eeaesgsseme Kim .11;osolialloo, Ineviog to a more Aging occasion • nom and and smoremsivo view. We recognise in asistsaise of • power present a r i bs dilla nerfacte of oar globe, and producing everywheso Oben Jodi/naive of • systematic action ; bat or lb.moisin.e, ibis power, the character Mite laws, and Its empancl io n orattlen, we have as yet scareely any kaow efferent complexity of the phases's& at their molest may ressosably secribed to our igneessos of *Kg /awe, whisk we shall doubtless lad, as vs advance in heeerkihreg i eree the Nth remittable filieneter of sells forth our agenlealign in the laws off attieslies. It has hoes seshed, and the matinipatioa is I bele a one, that a power whisk, so far as we the mesas of Lal`,...rea.,""b= d oar Weems sumible to us, la the mos of r in se& mesa math* by mad sestishhe Musses essenhis by war ithiethisals. end issibmisgthsir *,.,. Nove seseese by their poise and their swim As yet t a re wither steleseint ses het thinvelidate this ; bust , as sissisa, mesh le inset it with • of int liability. Be however, es it may, we in est own piss* as st pasessessa which near. asthma es the et the Indies of war messy on • male of snaleisat and otherwise seamiest for oar study. , the fat eldest which th e ISOM pm its • attenties wee Mathis • wir- Nth _knewiedepe et the direction sod amewit et the the , soli hose yam* over the whelp mime of the gigs esiesepesdies le a Minh* 'pea. It has bees essisssery • represent NNW of awes* observations by three pit Yaws, sewally eilled impale, health. and Vas_ Wass et equal isethrialei *mesa, of yarded dieseliss. sad et - mud hies] In the maps I these HMS gal*/ hin t lege spate et the earth's mew were either Meek on the lines I sang across them wove very imports* supported by ebsenelonm. In the stem frequented pith, where observations were mere ma ths et their dates impaired their • lf i the whisk sod sodium tion of the =lassie hen boss lima Is thaw a continued presses of systanthis sisme, with she mum of which we are se yet nawbolly uthesnaintea_ but which has obtained the name of secular slow le gletisisisk it from periodical variations of hews and Method duration. Amongst the most marked Meioses is them maps, were the greate bani r l E h of the extra-tropiml poi of the sentheva re, the British pemoseiso In North, America, end India ; these* miner of these were espies sessemesded, and the preetleability and advantage of __Milan the elierwations as beard ship, and of thus eeterAhe hen ever the surface of the ocean, were pointed oat. It is meet te read to recollection, and gratifying to this chair, the fa vourable manner is whisk resesameadations of the British Armistice were meshed by her Meissty's govern ment and by the BM Wks Osseppi sod low promptly and li m y be Camled . ook The blanks in the southern be have been WWI up by maritime expeditions ap mpeemly hr the purpose. Magnetic surveys have be ampliisd of British North America at the evens of sew own government, and of the iodise Arshipelemo thet et the Pciet India Company, and India lied( h sew whilst from the zeal of our lard Olsen etafrfbeYen have flowed in from almost every eseerible peel of the ocean. The co-ordination and mutual COMMASn of so large a mate of materials is aecessarily • work of time, but is progressing steadily towards completion, and when presented in one con nected view, will form the groundwork on which will securely rest a general theory of terrestrial magnetism corn spending to the present epoch. Until these comb; nations and calculations are performed, it would be oh. viouely premature to speak of numerical values by whieh the magnetic forces at one part of the globe may be cow pared with those of another, or with forces of other den scriptions ; and for the same reasnn it I. &tearable to abstain fur the present from notices of the peogrephicel positions which particular lines, or, as some may deem them, critical points in the magnetic resultants m occupy on the earth's surface at the present epoch. Such notices could only be as yet provisional and liable to the nmend menta which more exact and extended calculation must be expected to produce. But thus much may be safely stated in reference to the general character of the three systeins of lints which have been spoken of, that when derived afresh and exclusively from the observati,nie of the last few years, they do most fully confirm the gene ral conclusions derived from the observations of earlier I date, which were submitted to the British Aesoriation in the report on the " Variations of the Intensity of the Mag netic Force at different points of the earth's surface," which preceded the recommendations of MM. The magnetic phenomena, or as it is now cuetomery to cull them, the three magnetic elements, appear to be everywhere and in both hemispheres the resultants of a duplicate system of magnetic forces, of which one at least undeigoes a conti nuous and progressive translation in geographical space, the motion b iug from West to East in the Northern hew miephere, and Irons Eat to West in the Southern. It is to this motion that the secular change in all localities is chiefly if not entirely due, affecting systematically, and ac- cording to their relative positions on the globe, the confi gurations and geographical positions of the magnetic lines, and producing conformable changes in the dir.etion and amount of the magnetic elements in every part of the globe. The comparison of the earlier recorded observations with those of the present epoch gives reason to believe that, viewed in its generality, the motion of the system of forces which produces the secular change has been uniform, or nearly so, in the last two or three centuries. Under fa vourable conditions the regularity of this movement can be traced down to comparatively very minute fractions of time. By the results of careful observations continued for several years at the observatory of St. Helena—where, in common with the greater part of the dist. iet of the South Atlantic, the secular change of the declination exceeds eight minutes in the year, and from its magnitude, there fore, may be advantageously studied—every forteight of the year is found to have its precise aliquot portion of the annual amount of the secular change at the station. This phenomenon of secular change is uudeubtediy ou, of the most remarkable features of the magnetic system, and can not with propriety be overl oo k e d, as too frequently it has been, by those who would connect the phenomena of ter restrial magnetism generally, mediately or immediately with climatic circumstances, relations of land and sea, or other eau.es to which we are assuredly in no degree entitled to ascribe secular variation, and who reason therefore as if the magnetic phenomena of the earth were persistent instead of being, u they are, subject to a con. inual and progressive change. It may confidently be affirmed that the secular magnetic variation has no analogy with, or re semblance to, soy other physical phenomenon with which we are acquainted. We appear at present to be without any clue to guide us to its physical cause., but the way is preparing for a future secure derivation of its laws to be obtained by a repetition, after a sufficient interval, of the steps which we arc now taking to determine the , elements corresponding to a definite c poets. The perio disal variations in the terrestrial magnetic force, which I have before adverted to as distinguished from its secular change, see small in comparison with the force itself, but they are highly deserving of attention on account of the probability that, by suitable methods of investigation, they may be made to reveal the sources to which they owe their origin, and the agency by which they are produced. They formed accordingly the subject of a distinct recommenda tion from the British As .ociation, which met with an equally favourable reception. To investigate these variations by suitable instruments and methods, to separate each from the othere, and to seek its period, its epochs of maximum and minimum, the laws of its progression, and its mean numerical value or amount, constituted the chief purposes fur which magnetic observatories were established for limited periods at certain stations in her Maj. sty's do minions, selected in the view that by a combinetiun of the results obtained at them a general theory of each at least of the principal periodical variations might be derived, and tests be thus supplied whereby the truth of physical theories propounded fur their explanation might be examined. We are just beginning to profit by the collocation and study of the great body of facts which have been collected. Va riations corresponding in period to the earth's meantime around the sun, and to its rotation around its own axis, have been ascertained to exist, and their numerical values ap proximately determined in each of the three elements, the declination, inclination, and magnetic force. We unitise sitatingly refer these variations to the sun as their primary source, since we find that in whatever part of the globe the phenomena are observed, the solstices and equinoxes are the critical epochs of the variation whoa, period is a year, whilst the diurnal variation follows, in all I meridians, nearly the same law of local solar hours. To these unquestionable evidences of solar influence in the magneto affections of the earth, we have now to add the recently ascertained fact, that the magnetic storms or dis turbance' which, in the absence of more correct know ledge, were supposed to be wholly irregular in their in currence, are strictly periodical phenomena, conforming, with systematic regularity, to laws in which the influence of local attar hours is distinctly traced. But, whilst we recognise the sun as the primary cause of varietions whom periods attest the MUM from whence they derive their origin, the mode or modes in which the edicts are pro duced constitute a question which has been, and may still be, open to a variety of opinions —the direct action of the sun, as being itself a magnet—its calorific agency, ores sinning thermo-electric and galvanic currents, or m alter nately exalting and depreining the magnetic condition of substances neer the surface of the earth, or in one of the constituents of its atmosphere—have been severally ad duced as hypotheses affording plausible explanations. Of each and all such hypotheses the facts are the only true criterion ; but it is right that we should bear in mind that lathe present state of our knowledge, the evidence, which may give a decided countenance to one hypothesis in pre ference to others, does not preclude their possible C.heltili• !WC. The analysis of the collected materials, and the dis entanglement of the various effects which are comprehended is them, are far from being yet complete. The correspon dence of the critical epochs of the annual variation of the solstices and equinoxes rather than with the epochs of maximum and minimum temperature—which at the ear fuls of the earth, in the subsoil beneath the surface, or in the atmosphere above the surface, are separated by a wide interval from the solstitial epochs —appear, to favour the hypothesis of a direct action, as does also the re markable fact which has been established, that the mag netic force is greater, in both the northern and southern. hemispheres, in the months of December, January, and February, when the sue is usenet to the earth, than in those of May, June, and July, when he is moat distant from it ; whereas, if the effects were due to temperature, the two hemispheres should be oppositely instead of simi larly affected in each of the two periods referred to. Bell there are doubtless minor periodical irregular variations yet to be made out by suitable analytical processes, which, by their possible accordance with the epochs of maximum sad minimum temperature, may support in • more limited sense, not as a sole, but as a co-o rd inate, cause, the hype. thesis of calorific agency, so generally received, and so ably advocated of late in connexion with the discovery, by our great chemist and philosopher, of the magnetic properties of oxygen, and of the manner in which they are mo dified and affected by differences of temperature. It may, indeed, be difficult to suppose that the magnetic phenomena which we measure at the surface of the globe should not be in any degree influenced by the variations in the magnetic meditates of the oxygen of the atmo sphere, in different seasons, and at different hours of the day and night; but whether that influence be sensible or sok whether it be appreciable by our instruments or in appreciable by them, is a question which yet remains for solution, by the more minute sifting of the accumulated facts which are now undergoing examiaation in so many quarters. To justify the anticipation that conclusions of the most striking character, and wholly unforeseen, may yet be derivable from the materials in our possession, we need only to recal the experience of the last few menthe, which have brought to our knowledge the existence of what may f isoesibly prove the most instructive, MS it ter tahily, at rst sight, the least explicable of all the periodi cal magnetic variations with which we have become am guide:dad. I refer to the concurrent testimony which ob servations at ports of the globe the most distant from each other bear to the existence of a periodical variation or in equality, affecting slam the magnitude of the diurnal varia tions, and the magnitude and frequency of the disturb ances or storms. The cycle or period of this inequality appears to extend to about tan of our years ; the maximum and minimum of the magnitudes affected by it being ups rated by an interval of about five years, and the differences being much too great, sad resting on an induction far too extensive, to admit of uncertainty es to the facts them selves. The existence of a well marked magnetic period, which has certainly no counterpart in thermic conditions, appears to render still more doubtful the suppmed eon nexion between the magnetic and caloric influences el the sun. It is not a little remarkable that this periodical magnetic variation is found to be identical, in period sad in epochs of maxima and minima, with the periodical variation in the frequency and magnitude of the solar spots which Mr. Schwabe has established by twenty-six years of unremitting labour. From a comical connexion of this nature, supposing it to bo finally estehliehed, it would follow that the decennial period, which we measure by our magnetic instruments, is in fact a solar period, manifested to us also by the alternately increasing and decreasing frequency and magnitude of obecurations on the surface of the miler disc. May we not have in these phe nomena the indication of a cycle or period of secular change in the magnetism of the sun affecting visibly his gaseous at mosphere or photosphere, and sensibly modifying the mag netic iafluence which he exercises on the surface of our earth. Col. Sabine next detailed the various steps which have been made in advance towards an efficient method of de termining the figure and dimensions of the globe, and pro ceeded as fellows : The recent researches of -Cap tain Bcecbey, which have given a new and un expected view of the tidal movements of the ocean, show how much yet remains to be learnt respecting the tides even for the practical purposes of n•vL ption. The fasts derived a few years since from the be rometical observations at St. Hal.na, showing the existence of a lunar atmospheric tide, have been corroborated is the last year by • similes conclusion, drawn by Captain Elliot, of the Madras Engineers, from the barometieal observations at Singapore. The influence of the moon', at traction on the atmosphere produces, as might be expected, a somewhat greater elect on the barometer at Singapore, in lat. 1 deg. 19 secs., than at St. Helena, in lat. 15 det 51 secs. The barometer at the equator appears to KIM • gq t_