The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-31 00:00:00

LONDON PROVISION MARKETS.

MONDAY, Avo. 30.
The arrivals last week from Ireland were 16,925 firkins
Batter, and 260 bales Bacon ; and from foreign porta
6,283 casks Butter, and 739 bales Bacon.
The Irish butter market ruled quiet during the past
week, the transactions were few and unimportant; prices
remain nominally unchanged, but in some cases Is. per
cwt. decline was submitted to. Foreign declined fir. per
cwt., principally owing to the bad condition.
In the Bacon market at the close of the week there was
rather more business transacted, at a reduction of about Is.
per cwt. We quote prices from his. to 625. landed, accord,-
Mg to quality, ac.
Stocks and deliveries for week ending August 28
St•rr co. &coo.
Stook. Delivery. I Stock. Dela tett,
.20,800 13,030 1,300 ASO
31,380 11,030 1,200 •
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35,330 9,330

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NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of each kind of meat on sale in these mae-
kcts continue sop as to quantity, but very deficient ia
qttality. Prime Beef, Mutton, Lamb, and Veal move or
steadily, at full priers. Otherwise, the wade is heavy.
Per elk. by the sumo.
" s. d. s. d. I s. 01. s. d.
0g11.4 ~. 1:1 4 1 =ell 1°81"
: : :1:
Map &MO 2 IO 3 0 Alike ants --- ..... $ $ 4 •
Meld WWI ditto
lesl ll 4 3 10 WWI Pork II o 5 •
lamb, 4s. Od. to to. Od.
PRICE& OF BUTTER, CITIBBBE, HAMS, &e
• ad S. S.
kirk[ehmd. pa seat
, eorlow .okl 71 70
Waterford o 74
Cot _ , „ 71
L.Waink ,, 49
Sligo „ 70
Freak Butter, par dolma 9 19
Moddreatsow,pseowt 36 0
Madder, do 26 CI

Doable Olourster, pa
eat
Matte do. 44 46
York brie -
Wreamerdeed do.
belt do.
Merretra do. .. -
Wilco/ore Bacon. veal. hi 54
Waterford Bacon ... 41 fdl
Ha
Arereare -

ENGLISH BUTTER MARKET.
We still report a dull sale, at lower prime.
Dorset. see wieldy eoe. to 640. per cwt.
Ditto, outdating Bs.. to 760. „
Demo tea to no.
Vona

CRICKET.

ELEVEN ONE:LEGGyp v. ELEVENONE-AKMED

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This amusing annual match was commenced at the Oval
yesterday, and, as usual, attracted a large assemblage of
spectators. It will be seen by the score thit the one-armed
beaded their opponents by 30 runs on the first inhingi
Ors AIM*.
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Conn* Wiltshire 9
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niftier, b Simeon 1
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Whitman, b Graves
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: UNDON. TUESDAr, AUGUST 31.

Femme no longer ask is Lord NIALIIIENIICRY going
out - only when is he going ? and ,eh. re is he going
to a 'there is this difference between the facilities fur
getting quietly rid of a proven failure in the Upper
House, and those which err available under similar
circumstances us regards a member of the Lower.
When an official breaks down, plays the fool, or be.
comes in any other way a nuisance to his party in
the Commons. the remedy is always at hand of toss-
ing him up to the tette. But when one of that
august assembly is found impenetrable or incorrigible
there is no expedient equally obvious or easy.
Where can a blunderer be placed that he can do so
little barn. ? 'there is no duller chamber to
whose benches he may be promoted, no emptier
rattle by whose sound his elevated ears may
be caught. It must be owned that this is rather a
defect in our matchless constitution, and one that
seeds a reuse sly. Banishment on the ground cf inv.-
'crate ignorance, or a softening of the political brain ,
no matter how palpable the tact may be, is not among
the prerogative' of the monarch or the ptivileges of
the minister. The only epeeies of ostracism permit-
ted amongst us is that agreeable one in which the
intended exile is pelted out of the country by his own
party with guides. shells.
to this dim:softie our present Seer.t.r thy of
S 'ATI for FOREIGN AFFAIRS Is said to be rapidly ap-
pose-Ling. 'the ridicule he has brought. not only
upon his particular friends, but upon the office
be has so pitiably failed to fill, can no longer
be disputed or denied. (*one ict ion of the miserable
truth MIS reached even the mind of the ruble pie-
tender himself, and it is said that Lord 111xest emit tale
now become anxious to escape from a position in which
he is conscious of cutting a figure at once so ludi-
ous and so lamentable. His vanity has paid dearly
for listening in an evil hour to the mocking voice of
the (tipsy King. Until he was actually tried, be
could never have been found utterly wanting in all
that constitutes diplomatic scholarship and political
°wanton sense. lie might have abused Lord PAL-
iit.R•tos's foreign policy in private, anti talked
platitudes in favour of a corn law in public, for
many a day with impunity. He might hare
railed at the Yankees ns dangerous democrats.
whom a true Mine!' minister would speedily
put down and occupied his intervals of pleasure in
serious felicitations of his distinguished ttiend and
confidant, the hero of the coral) d7tag—all this and
much heeide he might have done in the obscurity of
his station as an ertlinary " fool of quality." No-
dy tither at home or abroad would have clued
what particular sort of nonsense a not' peer of
limited fortune and labs influence might happen to
say. But she n such a man is placed in a situation
so conspicuous and important as that which within
our own time has been the object of ambitiou and of
pride to men of the greatest knowledge of affairs
and ability in conducting them, the absur-
dities and yatirh. rigs, the stupidities and the bung-
hinge, the altercate threats and trucklings to
foreign governments, of which an incompetent
minister may be guilty, are matters of rave consi-
deration and of the deep at moment to the nation at
Loge. Such displays of impudence and imbecility
tend unavoidably to lower the character of the
country in the estimation of our neighbours, and in
our own. What a spectacle, for instance, dues the
recent despicable wrangle with the Americans about
the fishery question present to the world. How can
our colonies Le expected hereafter to believe for ten
days together the most pompous and patronising
assui antra of metropolitan protection? Or how will
any foreign state be persuaded that we are in
earnest when we send a squadron to interpret the
terms of a disputed treaty, and ere the ships have
reached their destination announce that our rulers
have changed their minds about the point in dispute,
or rather that they have deemed it more prudent to
pretend that they never conceived there was any
point in dispute at all? Better far have no fleet
and nu Foreign-office than to send the one on fool's
errands, and maintain the other only to be snubbed,
bullied, and laughed at by the whole world. But
ss we have already said, we have erasion fur believing
that Lord Msusxsnuar himself i- now aware of the
ineffable folly he committed in allowing the reckless
Patnien and still more reckless CIIANCLLLg IR of the
Es. its eaten to stuff him into the Foreign-office, and
that he would now gladly be suffered to scramble
out of it as best he may.
'the question still recurs however, when dots Lord
MALNL6IirRY retire, and where is he likely to
retire to? A contemporary intimates with some
reason that there are obstacles in the way
of his obtaining the embassy to Paris, even were
it vacant. The QuxEst and people of this country
do not want a Bonapartist for their representative at
the court of H. BONAPARTE. Lord COwLET may be
distasteful to that aspiring personage, as we suspect
any one possessing a spark of feeling for constitu-
tional right would be. If the gravity of the circum-
stances that may possibly anse at Constantinople
seem greater than those which are discerned loongog
in the perspective of France, that may be a sufficient
reason few transferring. Lord Coweer to the shores
of the Bosphorus : it is no reason for sending a con-
victed failure to the banks of the Seine. The public
voice will leapt to exclaim, as the Duke of WELLING-
TON formerly did at some fresh foolery of another
Protectionist peer, "this is too bad." Lord Coweue,
or some one of equal energy and clearheadedness,
may 1 e needed at Constantinople ; but we are far
from thinking that Lord '48...A1.11E681MT or any one
of his intellectual or moral measure is fitted to un-
dertake the duties of British minister at Paris.

the objects for which they were founded, as the so-
ciety now again about to meet. it took its rim to
the general feeling of the scientific men of this
cower', that they needed a common point of union,
.
and that by cumbinatichi, discussion, and orgsmsa-
limy, they might aid each other in the progress
of mience, es well as diffuse around a knowledge
of its advantages. Existieg local societies, even
those in the metropolis, were incapable of effecting
this, and twenty-one years' experience has now
demonstrated not only the wisdom of the first
founders of this Asenciation, but has realised advan-
tages to science which they hardly anticipated.
Those who wish to know what the Association
ha. done for science will scarcely content them-
selves with the outline reports of its meetings which
the daily-liners can afford space for. It is in the
volumes of its transactions that they will find on
mistakeable evidence that the Association has called
a body of labourers into the fields of science who, but
for its direction and aid, would have bestowed their ex-
ertions on less important subjects, or in many instances
not been occupied in scientific reacaich at all. It is
more especially from the reports which have been
called for by t 6 annual meetings of the Association,
and which have resulted from the meeting of men of
science who, otherwise, would not have been brought
together, and the discussion of scientific subjects of
interest, that the importance of its labours may be
estimated, and an idea of its influence obtained. In
these reports we find not only a series of histories of
the progniss of many departments of science during
the last 20 years, but the results of patient and labo-
rious investigation establishing general laws of the
highest importance, not only in the more recondite
and specu:ative branches of science, but in those
which arc immediately available for the practical
arts of life. In the preparation of these reports,
by payment for the performance of experiments,
and manual scientific labour, the Association hes
spent upwards of twenty thousand pounds—a small
sum compared with those which are annually spent
by our government in idle experiments in our dock-
yards and other public places, but a large sum to be
contributed by the annual guineas of needy men
of science. Amongst these reports are to
be found those which have cleared up some of the
difficult problems of past ages, whilst others have
initiated new eras in the departments of science to
which they are devoted. It is here that we find that
series of reports by the Master of Trinity and others
on the subject of tides which have explained so many
of the anomalies of these curious phenomena. The
early volumes contain the result of a long-continued
labour in the reduction of the various catalogues of
stars. It was a request from the British Association
that called forth those reports on organic chemistry, as
applied to agriculture and physiology, which have
since made the name of Limo familiar to our
farmers, our medical students, and to the well-in-
formed general reader. The laws ef the distribution
of marine animal and vegetable life, discosered by
Emu ARO FoKBEB, were the result of researches made
by the dredge in the iligean Sea at the suggestion
and expense of the Association. The insight we'
have into the laws which regulate the phenomena
of earthquakes are due to the experiments made
tender the direction of Mr. MALuerr, whose report
aa this subject forms a conspicuous feature of the
lust volume of reports. It was the British Aseocia-
data that supplied Mr. Scorr Resssu. with the
1111111•11 or performing those experiments on the forms
of vessels which resulted in the discovery of that
shape for a ship which should sail fastest and
safest over the ocean, as the Americans have proved.
The reports of the Rev. BADEN POWELL on Meteor-
olites ; of Professor OWEN on British Fossils; of
Mr. G. It. PORTER on the Iron Manufactures of Great
Hritain ; of Sir hefts Ilsksestsi. aid Colonel SA-
BINE on Terrestrial Magnetism ; of Dr. R. C. Ixrnan
on Ethnographical Philology, may be noted as ex-
amples of the men who work for the Association, and
of the range of subjects upon which their labours
have thrown so much light.
Although the principal claim of the Association on
the world is the merit of its reports, it realises for
science numerous subsidiary advantages. Its peri-
patetic charaeter,—the quality which of all others, by
depriving it of a local habitation and a place in which to
accumulate scientific property, such as books and
instruments, which might be supposed to be a draw-
back on its usefulness, has been productive of very
beneficial results. By its visits to towns distant
from the metropolis, a spirit of scientific emulation is
excited, which sometimes results in great good. 'f he
geologist of the neighbourhood is stirred up to make
inquiries, and a whole country is eagerly investi-
gated for natural products, to exhibit to those who
are about to assemble, and not uufrequently a per-
manent stimulus has been given to a branch of
research, and sometimes of trade, by a visit of the
Association. In more than one instance, men work-
ing in obscurity, and unknown till the time for the
assembling of the philosophers, have been brought
out and are now occupying conspicuous positions in
the scientific world. The pursuit of the humble
naturalist, laughed at by his townsmen. ha+
been encouraged by the Association, and thowands
have learned by these annual gatherings to appre-
ciate the labours of the man of science. Nor is this
all. The Council of the British Association, represent-
ing as it does the various departments of science,
and containing members representing the three
kingdoms, has far more weight than any ore society
devoted to any particular branch of inquiry ; and it
has acquired an influence with the Government of
this country which no other body possesses. It has
obtained this influence by the caution with which it
has proceeded, and the care which it has always
taken that in all its applications for assistance, and
all its recommendations of scientific researches,
its information should be thorough and complete,
and the objects aimed at definite and satisfactory.
It is not without anxiety that those who take an
interest in the Association have followed it to some
new locality. Should eminent men of science cease
to take an interest in it, should it be received coolly,
away might go its advantages. But this anxiety
diminishes every year, and although in some places
the attendances are nut so numerous, or the recep-
tion so cordial, yet the annual volume appears, and
assures the philosopher that the machinei y set in
motion by the Association is in action, and that as
the origin of it was the love of science', so this nee er-
dying principle continues to nourish the body which
it has begotten.
To-morrow, Ireland receives, for the third time,
this assemblage, and certainly no happier spot could
be selected just now than the City of Belfast. The
prosperity of its inhabitants will give them spirit to
receive their distinguished visitors, and the new
buildings of the Queen's University will enable
them to make ample accommodation for all
the scientific demands of the Association. The
Irish meetings have been especially characterised
by the amount of native talent that has been contri-
buted to the interest of the various proceedings ;
and from all we know of Belfast, we feel convinced
that it will not be behind either Dublin or Cork in
the amount of its exertions for furthering the cause
of the Association. The city of Belfast and its
neighbourhood will of themselves form interesting
objects of investigation to Insley of the scientific men
who will assemble there. Its manufacturing indus-
try will afford an ample study for the statistician and
mechanical philosopher; the round towers and
castles of its vicinity will invite the research of the
antiquarian, whilst Lough Neagh, the newly-opened
pal, mine, the picturesque coast of Antrim. and the
Giant's-causeway, will afford abundant fields for con-
templation to the naturalist as well as to that large
class of persons who, needing relaxation at this
season of the year, could scarcely du better than, by
paying their guinea to the Association, enable them-
selves at once •oenjoy the beautiful se. nery of Ireland
and promote the science of Great Britain.
1 he time of the year is most favourable for the
meeting, and se are inclined to wonder that the
I Prom, it can think of any other months than August
or September. The fixing the meeting lad year at
Ipswich so early es the first week in July must have
been some hundreds out of the exchequer of the
I Association, besides producing a world of annoyance
I to those who, engaged in teaching at that time in
oeis anieersities and medical schools, could not
• possibly attend. If the truth must be told, these
I arrangements are made to meet the accommodation
, of some one or two individuals whose presence is
supposed to be important to the success or lilt' meet-
ing. Now, this is never the case. 'I here is no more
palely democratic body in the world than the
Ih leis!: Asaociation, and the great body denote: never
all',w their beat interests to be put off for the accom-
modation of individuals. We have no doubt that the
present meeting will be a successful one as far as
science is concerned. 11e only cloud that hangs

I! IP s encumstance not unworthy of note, that within
a few weeks atter Sir STRATIFORb CANNING left the
Porte, /Immo PASHA. the acknowledged head of
the amore liberal school of Turkish politicians, has
been overthrown. His personal superiority as a
man of information and talent availed as little
as his near connexion, b., family alliance, with
the SVLTAN. He had long been an object of
e.ietrust and aversion with the French and Russian
embassies, and was indebted on many occasions for
the maintenance of his power to the friendship and
adviceof the English ambassador. Lord STRATVOND,
as he must be henceforth called, exercised a wise and
salutary influence over the councils of the Divan.
It was by his courage and decision that the memo-
rable demand of Austria and Russia for the surrender
of the Hungarian refugees was resisted by the
Porte, and the Ottoman empire thus saved from
an irretrievable act of self-humiliation. No
sooner was the British plenipotentiary de-
parted than hostile intrigues', backed by
formidable menaces, began to work upon the mind of
the SULTAN. Unsustained by his fearless and up-
right adviser, RENCIIID PASHA was unable to coon-
tenet three influence.; and within the last few days!
we learn that during the deliberations of the Council
of State, the seals of office were demanded from the
untb mined Vizier. The weak and wavering mo-
narch is reported to have privately assured HANCIIID
of the unabated regard in which he still held him,
and, as if to mark how involuntary was the set of
summary dismissal, the fallen Minister was to con-
tinue in the receipt of his former pay. All this
shows too clearly whence the blow in reality
erns aimed, and how desirable it is that a
romp, tent representative of British interests should
to cent to the Levant. How far the qualities of in-
tunict and temper that made Sir b. CANNING an
excelit eat envoy at Constantinople, would render him
a sitar tofu) foreign secretary at home, is an im-
-I).M:int inquiry. But all men seem i greed that worse
!han Lord MALMESIII HY there cannot bc.

10 MORROW the t wen t) -second Session of the British
Awoeietion for the Advancement of Science will
eminnence in Belfast. The presidency will pus from
thu A.,TRONOMER ROTA! to Col. BARING, whose dis-
tinguished labours in the science of terrestrial mag-
net ;pm, and lone settlers as secretary of the Associ-
ation, fully entitle him to this distinction. Few
scientific institutions have in so short a time taken
so good • position, or have attained more effectually

'ME EXPRESS, TUESDIY EVWING, AUGUST 31, 1852

lover its prospects is the promised visit of the i.ORD
LIEUTENANT. Of course there can be no objection
to Lord EULINTON as an individual, but experience
has simian that sometimes the court paid to royalty,
or its representatives, has sadly interfered with the
business proceedings of the Association, and given
quite a different aspect to its meetings. Science
should never give place to sycophancy.

facture.* of bronze, cut iron, jewellery, sullrry, and,
indeed, all Paris goods are doing well. It has been
observed as a good sign of commercial confidence that
the bills lately brought to the Bank of France for
discount are drawn at longer dates than for some
time past. Since 15448 bills at 90 days' date have
never been brought to say quantity to the bank.-
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell
Sc., closing at 105 i. Sc.; the Timm per Cents. fell
10e. and closed at 76f. 40c. There was a heavy reac-
tion in the railways that have lately riven. &coma
fell 70; Monterean, 20; Bordeaux and Trieste, 20;
; Orleans, 7,50; Lyons and Avignon nee IL