The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-04 00:00:00

THE ARTS AND SCIENCES.

DIEETINGB FOR NEXT WEEK.

MoNday.—Chemical, 8 p.m.—(Mr. Dugald Camp-
bell ou the Application of Sewage to Agriculture.) Ento-
mological, 8 p.m.
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Twday.—Linseen, 8 p.m.—(Dr. Knox on the Dietitian
of the Sohumid ke, and Dr. Baird on the Food of the Vendaoe
and Trout.) Pathological, 8 p.m. Ciel Engineers, 8 p.m.—
(On the Laying of the Permanent Way of the Hordes= cad
Bayonne Railway across the Grandee Landes. By Mr. F.
R. Calder, Assoc. last. C.R.) Horticultural, 3 p.m.—(Or.
chid', Arabes, Roses, Fruit, Vegstabhs, and other objects
of horticultural intend.)

Weimerkn.—Ambitobeta Amodation, 4t p.m.—
(Annual Omen! Meeting.) Antrenceniod, 8 p.m.—(The
Astronomer Boyd on the omens Mat will be Amenable for
Correcting the meatus of the Ban's Disbars for several
Tare to come, inolsing with ether things the Treadle of
yentas of 1874 end 1882.) Geological, 8 p.m.—(On the
Specks of Mastodon end Mecham fogad fora in Ragland.
By Dr. Moaner, F. 0.8.) Graphic, 8 p.m. Litanay
8 p.m.
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,11 p.m. Botnio, 4 pr.

Sir Roderick Marclabon's second esneereasions, se
Dinotar-Geoseal al ibe Geokigical &um, grit be bill at
his reddebee la Balgraniquare tide airing.

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Mr. Thackeray will repeat his license ret the
Four Grove, to the Male Hell, Barren Gerdes, ea Wie-
der mat sad thee kilewher evenings.
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Mr. T. S. Baynes, the well-known pupil of Sir
WrDlea flemilhaa, Nal Whew of "The New etaelpla al
Logical rime ; sad Mr. Aliesszekr Ha* mem at "The
Berm sal the laldleol," hare beat &pickled Eziadsan
la Leased Med era lalellealail Philosophy at the Ler
dea Umbailty, la tie pleat al the Rev. H. Alford (nemedy
appealed Dean of Csaterbary),ead Mr. Parchsso.

Three elections are about to take place at the Royal
Aosdamy. Mr. Flame's weaka latt as MlSOChiell
ether verse. Mr. Copies death haves an Acedesticisa's
Losers to owe el the abets= Assothates. The Acadteth-
elthe therefore have to abet sue R.A. aad two A.M.A.'s.

Artists have been busy the last two days in Ra-
dials from the eritiekma of hien& a foretaste of what is
in store for them next month. Prose what we (dthersenet)
hear, the progecte of the weson ere not very bright, Man-

cheeky proientleg adiraetions which ars drawing away some
of the snore conspicuous names. Sir Edwin Landaeer, for
suarayda, sands his large *buy to Manchester, and wilt be
!sprawled only by a small work of no imp Mauro. Mr.
Ward sends nothing. Kr. Frith, as far aa we hear, will Ds
absent from the walls.

We regret to see announced the death of L. K J.
Tomas, Faq., F.A.S., F.R.0.5., at tho United Service In-
stitution, of which ha was secretary.
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MOWN. Christie and Manson have work before
these: Alton Towers is to supply a thirty-one days sale.
The ejects include the celebrated gallery of pictures by old
masters, seven hundred in number, many of them of high
quality; fine modern Italian maser" china, carriage, and
works of manure art; the collection of armour and anus •
the genies of silver and silver-gilt plate; the whole of the
easiest Tudor furniture; and the sculpture and ornaments
is the garden.

The National Portrait Gallery Commiesion has
made smother purchase, sad we Illltiefrated London Nnos)
ham, a wise one---a poetreit of Handel, by Hudson. We
suppose the commissioners am aware that the finest portrait
of Hamad—am by Hudson—is the full-length at Hopis',
the seat in Leicestershire of Lord Howe. It hangs in the

room in which Handal composed the "Messiah." Lad
Howe has most liberally lent this picture to the Art-

7reaeures Exhibit on of tie United Kingdom.

The Exhibition of Horticultural Manufactures in
the garden of the Horticultural Society next June seems
likely to assume great importance, if we (Gordcweri CAroni-11
ck) can judge from the applications already made for apace.
Impknomt makers, machine makers, wire workers, net
makers, cutlers, tool makers, philosophical instrument
makers, glass makers, workers in terracotta and artificial
stone, potters, basket makers, constructers of boilers, heating
apparatua,and ventilators, pumpmakera, sad hothouse builder'
have at this early period, signified their intention of taking
part in the display. And those who exhibit will find their
account in doing so; for of all kinds of advertisement this
promises to be the beat, speaking as it will to the eye. of
crowds of visitors each interested in gardens. Nor to it to
be forgotten that whatever merit the different subjects may
possess will be displayed in a garden far better than in a shop
or warehouse.

In the annual report of the Astronomical Society
just Issued, the council urges it. members (rye the Literary
Gauen) to be on the look-out for stray comets; end photo-
graphere are Invited to direct their pertieular attention to the
fixed stare. "It would give the council much pleasure to
know that several of the unprofeedonal members of the
society made a practice of watching selected portions of the
heavens fur the passage of comet., and of learning readily
to distinguish between them and the nebulae. Our
German friends have hitherto—and all praise to
them for it—received moat of the King of Demnark's medals,
and this country ha. taken comparatively little past in thus
watching the skies. May we hope to MO the professional
observer occeeionally fed with a comet by our private
marchers P The pursuit is peculiarly one in which a tele-
seeps may be usefully taken up fur an hour or two and putby
again. Photometry again still offers very much for rceearch ;
but to par on to another subject, we may remind our lum-
bers that no one he. at present produced on our table a
P image of a fixed star. A good or even
ah=chicpbotographic image of a group such as the
Pleiades would be wmuthing we have not yet had
the pleasure of seeing; end a fair approach to get-
ting an instantaneous image of a group of faint points
might lead the way to rondo. of great importance. It may
be lung, or it may not bo lung, before we have to add a
column of actinic ruegnit odes to our catalogues, end replace
the human retina by a surface still more sensitive to huninous
imprecrione."
Oersted has just finioAnd the fourth and lent
volume of his " Iltstory of my Life and Time."
It is known that the late Prince Talley-rand left
memoirs of his eventful life, and it he. hitherto been sup-
posed that he bad left orders that they should not beptiblielual
until fifty yams after his death; but it is reported in Pans
that they will appear very shortly.
At one of the last meetings of the Academic des
&lances, ot Perla, M. Guerin-Maneville produced a number
of wheat-haulms of more than wren feet in height, each of
them bearing several vplendel ears. This fine species of
wheat derives its origin from live grains that were found in
an Egyptian tomb, and thus had for thousands of ycese
been preserved from all external influence. Sown
out en 1849, they grew up luxuriantly, and yielded
a twelve-hundred-fold produce—in consequence of which
M. Drouillard made various comparative experiments
in Southern and Central France, me well an in Brit-
tany. In 1840, these experiments were made on a large
ece- k, and reamed a more important eharectee. Since then
they have been regularly continued, and the results hare
been of rally °Disarmed. One-half of • field was sown with
the Egyptian, the other with our common what; the for-
mer gave sixty-fold, the ascend a fifteen-fold produce' while
commonly a seven or eight-fold produce is considereds fair
one. Sown out by single grains., the Egyptian wheat yielded
a five-handred-and-fifty-six-fold harvest. The experiment.
are now made in always inerearing extension, sad not lees
than 1,000 kilogrammes of "mummy -wheat " have been
sown this year in the arrondissement of Morlaix.