The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-14 00:00:00

SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIANON.

EDINSITHOH, TugepaY NNW.
Tsday, Professor Christian wm seditsiently recessed to
reed his ppm "Os Public Health." Lead Bronghem was
Marla, aed =d is mach better spirits.
The Una t wee so crowded that an
adjournment to Um IrreeprerTheDwhy BA wee found
lobe amemery. Upwind, of 1,000 neembies weft prevent
daring the realms of Miss Emily reithfell's paper " Oa the
lladt Easplepassis is which Women are now Engpsed."
The venous papers reed in this department—needy en the
redaction et bales, and szeineively oa thenesenien of the
Employees* of Wanes "—were highly ieteresWg, and
the immense asliesee seemed deeply 'imbued with Ois
pee-Mace of the subjects brought mailer their antis&
The number of tickets take. for the dieser of the mem.
bers of the Cowen, which comes on to-night, is very
today the principal 'rakers I. the Moen! de=
mean were—Provost Lindsay, Professor (j
Bayley, Mr. Heelings, awl the Right Boa. v Jetta
I'Neill,
To-morrow (Wednesday) manilas the concluding address
will be read, sad the wreath animal gatheriag of the Social
ficisamOngeses be hmeght to a close.

The third and Let of the am ernierioner in COODOXiOO with
the °empress was given on Monday sight, in the National
Gallery sad the Exhibition rooms of the Royal Scettkla
Academy. Is. brilliancy of some, end numbs,e sad th-
yme of atteadaace, the numwrewiwie perhaps al
even the ljelvereity reoeptioo of Thuredey leet.Vesed -
tame wee vadat a temporary covered waydnpd with
whits end marina, from the end of the Nagged Geary
fiieg Prinesweittwit, and the asthlial and stage were
covered with mimosa cloth. The company began
to arrive la crowds before and about 8 p.m., sad
at half-put eiPt the drat rooms of the mite occupied by
the National Galan were completely blocked up 'by dd.
ton, waitingYateestly. but suudoodiy, for the arrival of
Prince Allred and of Lord Brougham—the laths et whom,
bower, did not appear. The rooms, of comes needed so
preparation or augmentation of their storm of intend to
wader. them Moat attractive ; and, indeed, thaw was quite
an caernas do ricAessa for those—and they were
perhaps the majority —not
modern
aerated with
the pine of masa and so pa
fusely displayed is the walla in the southernmost
canoe of each of the mites of roans a band •
of meek wee }Less—la the Nations' Ornery the band of
I the drd lthemon, end ie the Royal Anademy's rooms the
I bead of the 92ed Highlanders. Many uniformstroo bine and
sestist. balke both. others of the r4prrhon.
also lest grodly 4e they aped of the . About •
half-peel sloe o'clock Prises Alfred waked o imam
rswardieg the patieme of the hundreds who from eight or
shortly after bad blanked up the spans seam* the there •
ip the hoped leashing ► glimpse of hie new as=
Seedier and sensually Guard /gum ; • sad,
medial them, new sad thee taking the sandetakthly
hearty_ of a detheiglat " bask' hie royal heehaws
made his slow way through the aced up the gallery. The
Pekoe, atteaded by Major Cowell. Psalms:: Lye
fair, PUP-
fair, 0.3., an B. F. Prams and Mr. D. 0. SIR, the
ffrometawy at the Royal Scottish Academy, who did the
Immure of dm Radiation, went round he rooms, Wpm-
Nag at hiamatice the paintings of chief famed ea the •
lion ; wed efts painiag through both exhibi resolved
when with cordial demonetratione of his
Wither returned to his earrings a t
a qsarter-pest tea, being saluted at pada( with three
vverryy hearty deem When the armed which
teed in the north rooms, waiting for the
arrim=ledPrince, had dispersed, the promenade became
meet agreeable ; the double suite of exhibition rooms for-
mishiag ample space for easy circulation, and objects of
beauty and intend for inspection and admiration at every
dep. Tbe musk of the beads, mingling with and softeniag the
free aad lively conversation. gave a charm to the promenade
width was wanting in both the other witreriaziwwl of the
cospem la spite of their caber abundant attractions, sad
the annagemente at breaking up prevented see the
dig inconvenience being felt.
Ld the Royal College of Physicians entertained
at dieter LlBroughma and the distinguished members of
tiltemmraeco on which occasion the Royal Collerriza.
with the premium of Ma Royal Hiplines
Alfesd, attended by Major Cowell. The takedown ex.
seeded to about 100 peonies seventy of whom partook of
the lacepitaity of the Royal College. The Prince was
mend at the door of the bell by Dr. Wood, vies-
president of the sad by Dr. Bart, one of the
reseal, and conducted to the library. The :heir was occu-
pied by Dr. Crank, the president ; Dr. Wood, vico-preth
diet ; Dr. Hadansl eametery ; ma Dr. thmervilis Wow
maw, acting as croupiers.

Yesterday morals; the divesture of the Philosophical
Instigation satertaioed Lord Brougham, their passideist, to
breakfast is the Library Hell of the lestitatioa. There
were about sixty gentlemen present, the Lord Provost
preaidiag.

THE LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITION.

Dr. Livingstone, writing to Sir Roderick Nur-
chieee, amiotances the death of a distiorniehed young
geologist, Mr. Richard Thornton. Dr. Livingstone, in his
leiner, rye :
" Murchison Cataracts (so the Shire), April M.
"My dear Sir Roderick,—With sorrow I have to com-
municate the sail intelligence that Mr. Richard Thornton
died on the 21it correct. He performed a most fatiguing
journey from this to Tette and back agate, and that
to use upp all his strength ; for, thereafter._ he *saki mak*
no without painful exhaustion. abject was to
camera his bearings of the hills at Tette (on the Zambesi)
with the mountains here. I knew nothing of his resolutiaa
till after he bad left. He had resolved to go borne after be
bed ezienined Zomba and the Melanie nage, but ea the
11th he was troubled with diarrhea, which ran on to
dysentery and fever. We hoped to the last that his youth
and unimpaired capstan/ion would carry him through, as
be had antlered oxoparatively little from fever; but we
were disappointed. As insidious delirium prevented as
learning aught of his last wishes. All his papers, &a, were
at once seaW up, sad are sent home to his brother at Brad-
ford. He is buried about SOD yards from the foot of the
trot cataract, and oo the right book of she Shire."
After allotting to the depopulation of the valley, and the
probability of his being obliged to take to phase the
meamer, sod screw her together, with the view of a eels,
Dr. Livingstone thus concludes:
"Dr. Kirk and Mr. Chaees Livingstone now go home.
The scene of desolation around us reacts on my health badly.
Present my kind regards to Lady If:, and believe me ever
yours, "DAVID Livinuerosk."
Sir Roderick lays he earnestly hopes that the great South
African explorer may now come home to his motherless
children and numerous friends, and not expose his valuable
life to further rigs.

On Wednesday last the Rev. Perry Nursey, 8.A.,
was collated to the rectory of Crostwick, in Norfolk, in the
gift of the Lord Mee} of Norwich by virtue of his
bishopric.
The twentieth annual congress of the British
Archie°logicel Association commenced is Leeds ca Mondsy.
The inaugural address MY delivered is the afternoon by
Lord Houghtoe, sad in the evening the Mayor sod corpora.
tion entertained a numerous party of the leading inhabi-
tants and members of the amociatioe at a convey-ea:low is

the Town-ball. The sittiogs A the congress will continue
daring the week mid on Monday next, Yesterday the ex-
cervices commenced, the plaors to be visited being Adel
Church, Fernley Hall, sad Ilkley, the ancient °Botha of
the Romans.
Warr K,2rr RzoisrnAnos. The statement
which appeared is a contemporary yesterday to thia
effect that the coarieevatives have pined an addition of 80
votes upon the West Kest Registration, which terminated
oa Saturday at Blackheath, is incorrect, the liberals baying
much improved their positron, which is the more important;
as the present tory members. Lord Holmesdale and Sir B.
Filnier, were returned at the lest election by a very narrow
majority. Tlaa followiag is the result of the revision as
announced by the Liberal Registration Amencialke
Liberals struck off, 264 ; thrice struck off, 273 ; liberal
gain on objections, 9; liberal claims admitted, 426; tory
claims admitted, 311. Total liberal gale, 124.
TUE CREW OF TUE FIAMID.I.-1110 Correctional
Tribunal of Brest last week tried two sailors, named Woods
sad Hawthorne, belonging to the Confederate vessel
Florida, on a charge of assaulting hears. Vesta* sod
Prebble, officers of the Federal frigate Keating*, both of
which vessels have (as is already known) lately put into that
port for repaint. it was proved by the evidence that
as the complainants were on their way to the
theatre, in the evening of the 6th instant, they
were violently assaulted from behind sod knocked
down by four milers, oath of whom thre..tened them with a
poignard. The two primaries were soon afterwards arrested,
rs comequeste of information given by the landlady of a
public-house, who heard them Wasting of their feat. The
prisoners expressed their regret for having, when excited
by drink, given way to the irritation ceased by an attack on
rase of their comrades, who was lying is the hospital ie con-
sequence of wounds inflicted by Federal sailors. The tri-
banal, taking into 000sideratiou the repentance of the pri-
-00•11[1, metthoed them to only two days' imprisoament, and
to pay the expenses of the prueecatioo.
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—Mr. Mackenzie, of Fawley
Court, has transmitted to the directors of the British
Orpbsu Asylum, Slough, his cheque for 14,000/. in rederap-
tion of be promise to indemnify them to the extent of
what may is termed the "capital" expenditure upon that
institution. It was calculated that 12,0901. would be suffi-
cient, but the numerous alterations std repairs foetid to he
necessary, increased the sum to 14,0001.
ORTIITAL PALACE.— ORE SHILLING DAT...—.
TURSORT,OCT. 13.—Adisimione on pay moat, 1,438; diva
• by mum ticket., :a%) ; total, 1,998.