The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

DEATH OF PROFESSOR FARADAY.

The public will hear with sincere regret of the
death of Professor Faraday, which took place on Sunday,
near Hampton-court.
Micheal Faraday was born in 1791 in the parish of New-
ington, Surrey, and, like many others who have illustrated
the page of British history, was entirely a self-made man.
After being instructed in the mere rudiments of knowledge
he was apprenticed to a bookseller and bookbinder, and
continued to work at his trade till 1812. During this early
period of his life, however, be showed the bent of his genius,
for in the intervals of his employment he not only read
with avidity such works on science as fell in his way, but
applied himself to the construction of electric and other
machines. Having been present at some of the last lec-
tures delivered by Sir H. Davy, Faraday wrote to that dis-
tinguished chemist—asking him for encouragement,
and at the same time inclosing notes of the lectures
at which he had been present. Sir H. Davy
answered the request of the young aspirant
promptly and kindly, and in 1813 be was admitted in the
Royal Institution Its chemical assistant to Professor
Brande. Faraday soon became the favourite pupil and the
friend of his patron, whom he accompanied in the autumn
of the same year in a visit to France, Italy, Switzerland,
&c., returning to his place in the Royal Institution in
1815. He now pursued his investigations of Nature with
great ardour, and published the results in various scientific
journals. In 1820 he discovered the chlorides of carbon,
and, the year following, the mutual rotation
of • magnetic pole and an electric current ; in
1823 the discovery of the condensation of gases ; in
1831 and following years the development of the induc-
tion of electric currents and the evolution of electricity
from magnetism. The establishment of the principle of
definite electrolytic action, the discovery of diamagnetism
and the influence of magnetism upon light, obtained far
him, in 1846, the Rumford medal and that of the Royal
Society. In 1847 he announced to the world the magnetic
character of oxygen and the magnetic relations of fame
and gases. When Mr. Fuller founded the Chair
of Chemistry, in the Royal Institution, in 1833,
Mr. Faraday was appointed first professor. In
183.5 he received a pension of 3001. • year
from Lord Melbourne's government in recognition of
has important services to science. In the following year
he was appointed scientific adviser on lights to the Tri-
nity-house, and was subsequently nominated to a similar
post under the Board of Trade. He was chemical lecturer
from 1829 to 1842 to the cadets at the Royal Military Aca-
demy at Woolwich. In 1851 he was made a corresponding
member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris ; in 1825 he
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ; and in 1832
the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws was conferred
on him by the University of Oxford. He was a Knight
of the Prussian Order of Merit, of the Italian Order of St.
Maurice and Luerus, and one of the Eight Foreign As-
sociates of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Paris.
In 1855 he wan nominated an officer of the Legion of
Honour, and in 1863 he was made an associate of the
Paris Academy of Medicine.
Although the late Professor chiefly confined himself to
experimental researches, there are theoretical views thrown
out with regard to static induction, atmospheric electricity,
the lines of force, both representative and physical,',
which are well worthy of consideration. His papers on
the conservation of force, and on the division of gold and
other metals are amongst his latest productions. His
lectures adapted for young minds, delivered at the Royal
Institution during Christmas time, will not easily be for
gotten. The ease with which he descended from the
heights of science and conveyed in the minds of his youth.
ful listeners the scientific principles of " common
things " was not the least of the many gifts
possessed by Dr. Faraday. Bat it is in connexion with
electricity, and its relations with almost ell physical,
chemical, and physiological phenomena, that his fame will
principally depend. His investigations on this subject led
him to the presumption that electricity, magnetism, and
light are but one and the same force, varying in effect
according to circumstances, but obedient to law, which
will one day be discovered.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have
left the St. George's Hotel.

The Earl ana Countess of Roue and Lord Ox
raantown arrived on Saturday last at Birr Castle, Parsons.
town, King's county, for the season.

Lord and Lady Charles B. Percy returned to
Gay'. Cliff, Warwickshire, at the close of the past week,
from Alnwiek Castle, Northumberland.

Lord Courtenay, M.P., is among the arrivals at
Brighton.

Lady Emily Drummond and Min Drummond
returned to Tile House, Denham, Bucks, from Alnwick
Camels, lest week.

Lady Franklin, widow of the lamented arctic
explorer, has, according to the Cherbourg journal', arrived
in that town on board a United States frigate from New
York.

The removal of the remains of the late lamented
Lady P►nmure from Paris to their final resting-place in
Mr. Power's vault at Bensall,reen Cemetery, took place
on Saturday. On the ooffin was the following inscription
" Elizabeth, Lady Penman, born the 19th Jan., 1799,
died the 21th of June, 1867."

We (Post) hear that Colonel the Hon. Henry C.
Lowther, M.P., is suffering from indisposition, but not of
s serious nature.

Sir Henry and Lady Blake have arrived at
Ferranee's Hotel, from rialtfield Lodge, sear Barg St. Ed-
munds.

Colonel and Mrs. Rich have arrived at the
South Ketucingtou Hotel, Queer's-gate•ternace, South
Kensington.

Nabaraouy Bey hu left the Clarendon Hotel for
the Continent.

Miss Gabriel has left for Wrottealey Hall, the
mad Lord Wrotteeley.

Mr. Pickering, Q.C., Mr. Patterson, and Mr.
Shiel had an interview with the Hon. A. Liddell at the
Home-office yesterday, on the subject of the Trades'
Unions Inquiry
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches
were sent to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius,
Ceylon, Hong Knog, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, the
Australian colonies, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and
Gibraltar.

It is stated that the Irish Solicitor-Generalship
has been given to Mr. Harrison, Q.C. Mr. Harrison was
called to the bar in Trinity Term, 1849, and received the
dignity of a silk gown in February, 1863.
At a meeting of the finance committee of the
Dublin corporation on Saturday, a resolution was adopted
recommending an application to have seats set apart in the
Roman c►tholic cathedral, Marlborough-street, for the
Lord Mayor and members of the corporation.
A deputation from Brighton is to visit the Bri-
tish Association at Dundee, in order to Invite that body's
attendance there in 1869.

•
A supplement to the London Gazette, published
last evening, gives the "Consolidated Cattle Plague order
of August, 1667," which is a consolidation of the orders of
the Privy Council with reference to the cattle plague.
THE SULTAN'S FIRST RAILWAY JOURNEY IN
TERICRT.—Then is no doubt that the Sultan's first rail-
way journey in his own dominions was a great success.
The line from Rustchuk to Varna is about 120 miles in
length, and runs through some of the finest hill and wood
scenery of Bulgaria. His Majesty, after a stay of two
days at Rustcbuk, left that city on the morning of the 6th
ult. in a train consistir4 of nine carriages, painted white
and emblazoned with the star and crescent in white and
gold. The engine was also elaborately ornamented, and
was in charge of an English driver named Frank White.
The journey occupied seven hours as the Sultan received
deputations en route at Rasgrad;the Schurnla-road, and
Pravadi. The embarkation at Varna was made before
sunset, a stay of only three home being made at that port.
The imperial suite of 700 persons, with their baggage,
bones, kc., were conveyed to Varna in nine special trains,
and no hitch of any kind occurred during the journey.
The Sultan has signified his intention of conferring the
Order of the Osmanli on Mr. J. Trevor Barkley, who was
in immediate charge of the imperial train, and who has
been most actively engaged for many years in forwarding
railway enterprise in i s Europe.