The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

ras INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TOR THE

PBOORBBB OJ SOCIAL SCIBACB.

Great preparations are being made for the hold.
Gag of the second session al she International Associative
for the Progress of Social Science, at Ghent, the great menu.
lecturing town of Belgium. All the leading railway
companies throughout the Continent have so far coops.
rated with the promoters of this movement as to signify
their intention of reducing by one-half the prices of
their ordlasry fares to all such passengers as bold
cartes al membership, or who intend to waist at the
Ooegress ; this privilege to extend to their raturu to
their respective homes According to the regulations of
the committee of management the members of the woods,
tins, both Belgian and foreign, are invited to assemble at
she Hotel de Ville, Ghent, on the 14th, at 10 o'clock, a.m.
They will be there received by the communal administra.
tins of the city. After this ceremony is goes through,
they will be eciedscted is a body to the palace of the
university. On their arrival at this place the foreign
members will be grouped together according to their re-
; sportive countries, and each group will elect the vice-presi-
dente sad seeniteries of the different sections forming part
of the 001111011 of administratioe for the service of the year.

The solemn opening of the stances will take place at 12
o'clock of the 14th (immediately after the conclusion of the
preliminaries just stated), in the Rotondo of the Basis de
l'Unimmdtk. The bureau will at ones proceed to the Mstal-
halos of the sections. Each section will then name im-
mediately its bureau and committee. This having been
done, it will 6i the ceder of proceedings for the next day.
Each morning during the *feriae the sections will assemble
is their respective miles at 10 o'clock. The general closing
of the &faster will take plate at 4 o'clock on Saturday,
the 191 h. The whole pramedinp will be wound up by
a grand banquet 'adieu at 6 o'clock. A vast number of
interesting questions will be submitted for discassiou—
gradients connected with comparative legislation, education
sod instruction, art and literature, charity and public'
health, political economy, he. is addition to the programme
of the procesdinp of the association itself, the andtoritim
and leading societies of the important town of Ghent are
buss► organising a series of Mee, balls, sad festivities of
°Ts"
kind, in honour of the numerous strangers that here
already signified their intention of taking part in the pee-
lesedinp of the mooed session of the Isternational A Mob.
tion for the Progress of Social Seisms.

RAILWAY COLLISION AT DARLINGTON.

A serious collision took place at a few minutes
before 8 last night at the }unction of the Stockton and
Darlington Railway. The parliamentary train, which was
due at Darlington shortly after that hour, ran into a goods
Main, the result being that the tender and several of the
carriages of the grouser train were thrown off the line,
and were greatly damaged. One of the passengers was
seriotudy injured, and several were slightly bruin&

TEARFUL STORM IN THE CHANNEL.

ACCIDENT TO THE ISLE OF MAN STEAMER,
AND SUPPOSED lAMIS OF LIFE.

LIVERPOOL, NOIDAT.

The storm which has swept over this port for
the last twenty-eight hours has unfoetunately extended far
down the Channel. The captain of the Isle of Man steam.
ship Mona's gases, which arrived here this afternoon,
reports haviog experienced fearful weather on the voyage
from the Isle of Man. He says that be never law such
heavy sea outside in all his experience ; and as proof of this
we may state that the Mona's Queen has had her hal.
warts stove in, her binnacle knocked away, her skylights
smashed, her cabin, flooded, and other portions of
the vessel damaged. It appears that the Mana's
Queen left the island about nine o'clock this
morning, the weather at the time being vary
dirty ; at half.past two p.m., two immense seas were
observrd following is the wake of the vessel, and before
anything could be done to escape their force, they broke
over the vowel, carrying, it is believed, two of the cabin
passengers overboard, heckles doing the damage we bare
already stated.

FATAL COLLISION IN TEE CHANNEL.