The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-29 00:00:00

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. FLIDAY.

The annual " Fair of Science" has still to con.
tend against the most unfavolible weather, but although
with scarcely any intermission Win has fallen heavily since
the commencement of the motions, it does not appear to
damp the ardour of those who have come to Newcastle
resolved to take part in the proceedings, or to see and hear
for themselves the latest discoveries on theories of mince.
The places of meeting of the various sections sre not, as ha.
been the cue in some towns where the association has held
its meetiop, close together, and any person resolved to do
the whole of the motions has in consequence to travel over
a large portion of the town. ID order to facilitate the End.
tag of the various places of meeting, the council have with
their usual foresight provided a small map, which
is printed on the backs of the members' ticket.
At the comets of the street, in lending thoroughfares, and
in the leer f►voured locelitiee into which they have strayed,
there may be seen the seeker after truth, intently poring
over his little map, studying topography under by no manna
favourable or agreeable circumstances. The lady members
wander about from section to section, OA though consider.
fog it not lees a duty than a privilege to be present at each
in its turn, and thus bestowing their patronage equally
upon all. Geography ►nd ethnology seem, however, to re.
olive the largest share of the attention of the fair members,
Visitors will have no moon whatever to complain of eny.
thing like a want of cordial and hospitable reception. The
provident has a dinner party for Arnett every evening during
the continuance of the meeting ; to each nearly a hundred
poets are bidden ; the mayor of the town also imtertaini a
large number at dinner this evening; and on each of the
different excursions that are organised the members of the
association will be afforded ample opportunities of enjoy.
lag the abundant provision made for their creature com-
forts.

The Geographical and Ethnological sectiou remained
crowded until its clue to-day. Mr. Crawford's notes on
Sir Charles Lyell's work on the " Antiquity of Man" were
very warmly discussed. Sir Charles Lyell's theory vu
troverted with great ability by Profaner Wilma, of
Toronto, and the Rev. Mr. Brodie. The Chairman, saes
R. Murchison, defended Sir C. Lyell, and observed there
was scarcely a scientific man of any position in the country
who did not agree with Sir Charles as to the antiquity of the
human race. Sir George Dennis armour:l similar views.
Dr. James Hunt, who is president of the Anthropological
Society, read a long paper in the same section, on the mental
characters of the negro. He maintained that there we. ern
good a reason for classifying the negro as • distinct species
from the European, u there is for making the ass distiact
from the zebra ; that the negro is inferior utterly to the
European ; that the analogies are far more numerous be-
tween the negro and the ape than between the Europeassad
the ape. Mr. W. Craft, who was loudly applauded Astacus
forward, replied to Dr. Hunt. With regard to what that
gentleman bad said respecting the thick Anil and woolly
head of the negro being • mark of inferiority, be thought
if the Almighty bad not provided him with these
in the hot climate, he, the negro, would have
been se muddy-headed as certain persons who
called themselves philosophers were when dealing
with the origin of the human race. He adduced CUM is
proof of what bad been advanced by himself previously,
that under his treatment the mind of the !negro child ur
capable of • very high degree of culture ; eves clam
of the most degraded tribes, se illustrated by the
little girl who was brought by Captain Forbes from Ih•
homey, and who had been educated under the superinten.
deuce of our own Queen. He instanced Hayti in proof
that revolted slaves were capable of establishing a regular
government, and maintaining it before the whole world.
He said, four years ago several young Huta= were sec
•eroes to France, to be educated in the military profusion,
sod the quickness of their parts, and the progress they hid
made in their studies, had attracted the attention of the
Emperor, who had given • banquet in their honour.
Looking at the coloured people in America, and the
long generations of oppreerioo that had been exhibited
towards them by all classes of white men, the wonder
in his mind was not that so many of that race now occa•
pied so respectable a position, intellectually and morally,
but that the soul had not beer, crushed out of them alto-
gather. The Rev. H. B. Tristram, of Cheatham Hospital,
the eminent naturalist who had had • considerable expo.
rience amongst the Regress as a naval chaplain in the West
India Islands and as a traveller in the Great Saharan, where
amongst the Arabs, a negro suffers from no social hostility,
adduced some striking facts from his own experience,
that placing • black child in the same school es a white child,
the condition of the parents of the children being similar, a
coloured child, with the exception of arithmetic, will make
equal progress to the white child ; and that in North Africa
where the negro suffered from no local prejudices, he showed
that he took his position with the more favoured racer.
Rear-Admiral Belcher, whose knowledge of the negro
character extended over a period of more than half a century,
quoted. number of striking facts from his own experience
in proof of the capacity of the negro. In very eloquent
language, and with a warm sailor's feeling that took the
entire audience with him, he concluded by observing
that he bad been nursed as a child by blacks, he had
met with blacks under very varied circumstances
and under many climes, and he had found them
as clear•heald, as faithful, and as capable of education la
any &tropism. Professor Wilson also spoke on the same
side. Mr. Carter Blake and Dr. Hunt, who were the joint
authors of the paper, replied, deprecatiog the hisses with
welch they bad been assailed, by asserting th►t they had
discussed the matter from • scientific point of view ; and
Mr. Crawford, who had occupied the presideot's chair,
having summed up, disagreeing with Dr. Host upon luny
points, the section closed for the day.

During the current week Mr. Justice Halibut.
ton, M.P., Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., Mr. William Schots.
field, M.P., Mr. J. G. Greenwood (Principal of Owes;
College, Manchester), and Professor Sterodale Bennett Imes
joined the National Mak-spear* Committee. _ .

Messrs. Longman and Co. are preparing for pub-
lication " The New Testament, illustrated with Engravings
oa Wood from the Old Idaaters,"—that is, from pietora by
Andrea Orcagna, Fra Angelico, Leonardo da Vine, Pietro
Perugia°, Titian, Raphael, Fm Sebastian del Pioralo,
Andrea del Sarto, Paolo Veronese, Annibale Cermet, Guido
Rani, Nicholas Poumin, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Luca
Giordano, and others. The work Lae been produced under
the general superintendence of Mr. Henry Shaw. Two
other splendid works from the same firm will be, " A Char
nide of England, from a.c. 55 to A.D. 1845," written and
illustrated by James E. Doyle, the designs engraved
sod printed in colours by Edmund Erma, and " The
History of Windsor Great Park and Windsor Forest," by
William Menzies, Resident Deputy Surveyor, illustrated
with photographs by the Earl of Caithness sad by Yr.
Bainbridge, of Windsor.
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Preparations Lave for some time been going on
fora grand choral pthering at York Minster, oe the 13th
of October. It is expected that the performers, who are to
be .ent from the various choirs throughout Yorkshire, will
number about 2,000. On this occasion, the new organ, nue
being built in the nave of the cathedral, will be employed
for the first time et a public performance.

" Prince Napoleon," says the Journal du Han;
"is to be pm:o6ot at the review of the ironclad feet at
Cherbourg. The prince will leave Havre foe that port oa
Monday next on board hie yacht the Prince Jiroma."
Foreign papers announce that Madame
who, on Recount of her great age, eighty years or move, has
been prohibited by the police of Paris front there attempting
any more of her. xhibitiotts and exposures. has entered into
eat. engagement to produce them at Valenti..
JOBBER. DAY.—No doubt some ruined men are
more callous and shameless than others, but these are
generally of the younger sort. One day about four years
ewe. as Lord P— was going over a crowing in Ilegebt.
street, the sweeper, whom he bad at first diareordedt
ap strangely familiar as well u importunate,
and said, "Come, my lord, you'll give me • trill." fur
old acquaintance' sake." " Yon, indeed ! Why, where
can 1 ever hove seen you before !" " What ! don't V"
remember Jobber Illy, at Eton ?" Lord I'-- goo
bar old school-fellow a sovereign, and pawed on.
This Etooiau came down to sweep a cruising before he eta
thirty years of age. Day had been • very popular fellow of
Etou. and very rich io " leave books " when he left : though
his ideas were very similar to those of an old fellow-collegian
of oun,wbo said, the last morning he spent in t Wont, " Any
gentleman may have a pick at my books, for now 1 have
finished roy education I never can want to set eves on books
The reason we called him" Jobber" owe, th t some cue
beard Day'. father was a large cattle-breeder—so the fellow.,
never very complimentary, mid be was a pig-jobber ; aod
Jobber Day wee his sobriquet ever after. Poor Day, I pity
him, cud with hint many thousands like him who "go to
the dogs" from the same cause. Tine misfortunes of suck
men date from the day of their birth—bon with " a cell
more in the heart, and one less is the head." Day was like
a man bore (we used to say) with halt a bottle of chain'
pages in him, and who never got over the effervescence to
the hour ul hie death.—Corn/till Magazine far September.