The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-17 00:00:00

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(stamped, Id. Additiond.) [TWOPENCE.

address on " Proofs of the Antiquity of the Human
Ram" Arm alluding be dee Maar attaching to the
subject, he maid that for the lest quarter of a the
oceedunel occurrence in yarrow parts of Europe the boew
of man or the works of hie Matta, Id err or rears rd
stalactites, associated with the regale el the eztlaet
hymea, beer, elephant, or Aromas, bad girt rim to a
inaoMoa that the date of man must be envied foram back
then we bed before imagined. On the Mbar bawd, eatmene
radars we adored, lilt as fist part of rend& rat-
, sores to admit the validity of ear wider', seeing that
se ray eaves had been inhablhod by et eremite' of Unsafe,
end bad hoes adectsd by man se • picei set only of domicile
but of eepolture, while they bad ales weed not noire-
gorily as the ehrtale through which fles waters of flooded
bed Bowed, so that the Terre of heir beings
which bed peopled the dletrice at pon than one era
try have subsequently ben mingled in such caverns,
sal matoemded together fa or and the arms deposit. The
foots, lowenr, meaty toweghe to light daring the spur.
tare Invest/gear, em reported ea by Pelaeser, of the
Brigham Cove must have premed them to admit that arepti-
' dr in itepird to the cre-evidleme Is fare of ihemadquity
ed isea had been pushed to an aztreme. Is the comae the
lest 16 years another elms of proofs had beta edema in
Pram la confirmation of ma's satiquity, into two of which
la bad peromally examined in the arm of the reser
'eraser. After alluding to the dim:reties of If. Aired in
1914, in the volcanic district of central hear of pertioas
of two burn skeletons, Bit Chemise gam the tel-
lqwiltg ea the result of a ilea be had roads to La Pay
Wig yeet with Pd,. Scope :-119 we Wird to reeve that
the berm bald ware neap halmbied by aired area to
err pealed radii bit der his opinion rep adored
no elanortretion of man baying whammed the hat
vokeale eruptions of antral Perm The rile de sot
seem to depart from the modern Burs or Camara
type' and the human bones were in a fresher state
than those of the quadrupeds found in any broods of
Denbo width con be referred to the pedal even of the trot
mimic ereptior. Sir Charles then gave an
deeniptias air flint implements asmocted in
rabi.g.the north of Franco with the homes al sapient' at
andAalais. Redisplayed semnof tgrathstplements
Which be had obtained on hie recent itch. Thriven Maud
la briar epaer-htede, aid wedges, and Orr greet mar
ber ar eddy wcaderfalmore ilea a threarlof them
h 44 dark Ism met with m the Let ten years in the va11.5
the Wires, In an area after lair in length. He inferred
that a tribe of savage', to whom the use of boa was
selmernm, made a bong sojeara in that region, and
he was reminded of a large Indian mound which
he saw he fit. Simon's Island, in Georgie, ten
ewe arm sad bawl Mk average height of
five het, dila, compered cesteoray oyster shell%
threeghout which arrow-heads, stone axes, and Indian
peter, ware dispersed. Ile believed the astiqulty of the
Abbeville and Amiens flint instruments to be ;rut indeed if
compared to the times of history or tradition. It must have
required ap period for the wearing down of the chalk
which sup that broken Bums, for the formatkee of gravel
at various eights, sometimes 100 Get above the present
level of the Somme, and for the carrion of sediment, M-
elodies satin shells, both tineetrial mad aquatic. Sir
Charliedoseinded his paper with some smirks on the origin
!oust reed a paper ea " The Web of the
Sartre sailed Conein Ore." He said that this trader
coedited of a serious antemliege of imperfect cora, Melo,-
ing other cones which all have their spree fa the samedireatioe,
direotioe, and ;trolly roue in beads parallel to the stymie-
mien of the rook in width they an Lund. By ramining
their transparent slices with polarised light, the author had
come to the conchWou that this structure was dee to the
growth of minute prismatic crystals of more or lees Impure
carbonate of lime which, starting from peculiar pond*,
grew upwards or downward' in ouch a manse" that the peat.
llar and curienue compound marl mane mare formed by
the interfriance of the mambo with each other, and with the
uncrydallisable impurities of the rook.
Mr. A. OVILIE,F.G.B., read a piper as "The Chronology
of the Trip Rocha of Sootlead."
Rev. H. MITCIIIILL mad apa ea." New Fteaile from
Lower Old Red Sandstone of
Mr. TROX•11 Y. JANIE/10M Mil a paper " On the June-
doe of Granite with Stratified Rocha."

It reply to Mr. TITZ, Y.P.
Dr. sracco rid that it census there wee eh at.
tempt made to calculate the amber of yentas attending
ohm* on a certain day, but the figures scald cot be re-
lied ca.
Is ally to Mr. Pouric-lIRIUMMT, M.P.,
Dr. Masco aid he mild hot state whether the hareses
of church acooremodahes wee adequate to the increased
spiritual wants of the people of Olaistow ; but he thought It
was. _ _

On the motion of the CIATIOLLN, a vote of thanks was
peened to Dr. Strang for Me admirable piper.
=per was read an the Statistke of Smallpox and Vac.
in the United Hisidem," by Dr. Moore, of Dahlia.
During the pint year 100, &aka eceurred in the Vatted
Kingdom which were preventible. or zencoreable. Of children
atop, between 30,000 sad 100,000 die annually from Berme
infections and respiratoop lissome altar. Accordiag to the
Hapistrot-Generars report for the year ending December,
1868, the rogietrars received 876,798 vaininadon oortilleatee,
although thiy regiitered the birth. Of 856,897 elifldrea.
He est down the deaths in England end Wales for small-
pox manually sit 4,000 ; 3,990 oases could be saved by
ansinatlon. Spill-ppooxx constituted no lies than 30 per
mat. of the moerLty of Dundee. The mos of Ireland
was alluded to es sindering necessary a system of regis-
tration.
The PRWITDINT referred to the pretest paper es piper
Siding the value of statistics, end 118 trusted the melba-,
elasiy fat& mentioned would be attended to by the public,
lactating the public of Aberdeen, as ft appeared that in
Jab, 1866, W per cent. of the deaths mote from smeli-per..
The Right lion. J. Nortek spoke of the desirablesem of
htmessed vaccinotion befog introduced late 'reload.
Dr. Ornowee sail b wee a way senisokelite 411111. ttrsb•
Misagh there was no sot in Scotland the owes of smallpox
were decreasing rapidly in Glasgow. In 1867 360 children
and 55 adults died of smallpox in Glasgow, and In 1868 only
89 children and 66 adults died of that 4Yaau, out ola pops- •
hadn't of 395,000, the total &atheist the city being 11,400.
Mr. TITI sold he was in pullameta when title matter was
Manned, and the opinion there wee that ft wee a matter
white ought to be left to the swim al the moralists. His .
own &din wee that they muse not expect much from puffs-
meet fs this parttentar.
A andlid vote of thanks wasawardsd to Dr. More for hie
valuable pape.
la the evening there was a converessiore held in till
Mule Hall, at which there me a large party present.