The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

solicitors' room is which the president of each depart-
meet will deliver his address, has been also specially
fitted eat Jew the purpose a dais having been erected
at the end of the room, from which the speaker will address
the meeting. The several courts are most convenient, from
their proximity to each other, for the sectional meetings of
the association, which has been established to aid the
=de-
t of local science, " and to guide the public
to.. best practical means of promoting the amend-
ment of the law the advancement of education, the proven.
tion and repression of crime, the reformation of criminals,
' the adoption of sanitary regulations, and the diffusion of
sound principles on all questions of social economy. The
sasociation suns to bring together the various societies and
individuals who are engaged or interested in furthering
these objects ; and without trenching upon independent ex-
ertions seeks to elicit by discussion the real elements of
truth, to dear up doubts, to hannonizediscordant opinions,
and to afford a common ground for the interchange of trust-
worthy information on the great social problems of the day."
An association having such for its objects as likely to receive
a worthy remption from all classes in Dublin. Tfie recent
meetings of the British Aseoeiation in Trinity College were
eminently interesting and useful from the information they
afforded. but the questions to be discussed before the meet-
ings of the coming congress, being of • exlitnenoisetrbat
I domestic character, are likely to be much more interesting.
The association comes to Dublin with all the prestige at-
taching to the name of its illustrious president, Lord
Brougham, who will deliver the inaugural address on Wed-
nesday evening in the Mansion-house. Upon Friday even.
ing he will preside over a meeting at the Mansion-house, for
Literary and Young Men's Societies, which will be repre-
sented by their respective presidents. Upon. Thursday
morning the sectional meetings will commence in the Law
Courts, when the Hight Hon. Joseph Napier will deliver his
address to the Jurisprudence Department. Next morning
Sir John Shaw Lefevre will deliver his address to the Edo.
cation Department ; and upon Saturday the Right Hon. the
Atterney•General will deliver his address to the Reforma-
tories' Department. Lord Talbot de Malahide will deliver
his address to the Public Health Department. On Monday
Judge Longlield will deliver his address to the Social
Economy Department. On Tuesday and upon the following
day Mons. Michel Chevalier's address to the Department of
Trade and luternational Law will be delivered. Upon the
latter day (August 22nd) the concluding meeting of the
association will take dam. Upon Thursday, August 22nd,
the do fixed for the arrival of her Majesty in Dublin, ex-
cursions in connexion with the association have been an-
nounced—namely, to Lusk-oommon and Malahide, to see
the Irish convict system ; to Delgany, to see the Protestant
orphans reared on the family system, Powerecourt and
Bray ; to Glencree Roman Catholic Reformatory and Ennis.
kary, and to the vale of Avoca, and the mines, county
Wicklow. Upon Thursday evening next a conreraanota
will be held by the Royal Dublin Society ; sad upon TUIIW
day_ seeming, August 20, the Dublin Statistical Society will
hold a conrentazione at the Museum of Irish Industry.
Prosesuades will be held at the Zoological Gardens aid
Art Exhibition ; and upon Monday evening, August 19th,
the Lord-Lieutenant will receive members and associates,
ladies as well as gentlemen, at the Castle. There will be
a great influx of visitors to the city, as the proceedings of
the easociation are regarded with much interest. The hono-
rary local secretaries, Dr. Neilson Hancock, Dr. Waller,
and Mr. Lentaigee, D.L., have been indefatigable in their
exertions in making the seasemry arrangements for the
fitting reception of this aseselothei. Already a went am-
bet of tickets have boo Yoe* to members awl associates