The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-21 00:00:00

MEETINGS FOR. NEXT WEEK.

Notaday.—Geographival.--(1. Journey in Penis, from
Shims to Darab and Kamm. By Mr. ConAul K. E. Abbot.
Communicated by the Earl of Clarendon. 2. Proposed
Search for Leichhardra Miming Party. By S. Sydney, Esq.
3. Return of the North Australian Expedition, under Mr.
Gregory, to the Part Coast. 4. Chronological Table of the
Earthquakes in the East Indw, &c. By Id. Andt6a Poet's
Director of the Meteorological Observatory at the Ravine.)
British Architects, 8 !mo.

Deeaday.—Royal institution, 3 p.m.—(Prof. Huxley cal
the Principles of Natural History.) Medical end Chino*
al, p.m.—Zoological, 9 pm.—(Mr. Wolkq co the Hi&
fication of the Wax-wing, the Lapland Owl, and Teems.
loua Owl ; with other papers.) Civil Engineers, 8 p.m.-.
(Renewed Discussion on High-Speed Stearn Navigation.
Ea; and, if time permits, a piper will be read on the Per-
manent-Way of the Bordeaux end Bayonne Railway, sate
the (Dundee Landes, by Mr. F. R. Condor, Amc. Into
C.E.). Meteorological, 71 p.m.—General and Connell.—(Oa
the Meteorology of Sinope, by Mr. Radcliffe. V. Posy,
Director of the Observatory at Havana, on the Effects et
Lightning in connexion with Photography; and Mr.
Olaisher on the recent Hailatonsa.)

ilidnisday.—Society of Arta, 8 p.m.—()lr. Christopher
Emma on a New System of Nature Printing.) Geological.
p.m.—(l. On some new specks of Cryhoisspis from the
Upper Silurian Beds. By Sir P. Egerton, Bart., MP.
F.G.S. 2. On some Mastodon Bones found near the 1.4
Tagitatagua, in Chili. By W. Bollaert, Esq. Communl.
aged by Professor Owen, F.G.S. 3. On some new Foss]
Crusts/mans from the Lies and the Bone-bed. By J. Gould.
Esq. Communicated by W. Salter, Esq., F.G.S.) Ar-
. . .

cheologicid, Si p.m.— (Mr. Sycr Coming on Ancient
Spindle.) _ _

Thoorriag.—Royal, 8) p.m. Royal Society Club, 6 pan.
Antiqtuirles, 8 p.m. Royal Academy, 8 p.m.—(S. A. Hut,
Esq., R.A., on fainting.) Royal Institution, 3 p.m.—(Prof.
Tyndall on Sound.) Museum of Geology, 2 p.m.—(Prof.
Owen on Paean Tertiary Mammals of Southedn Asia.)

Friefely.—Royal Institution, Hi p.m.—(E. Waringtoo.
Esq., on the Aquarium.) Museum of Geology, 2 p.m.—
Prifescor Owen on I'lioeene and Pleistocene Forwil Mn.o
mals of America.) _ _

Satmrday.—]toys) Institution, 3 p.m.—(Prof. Phillips au
the Limits of Variation in the State of the Cilobe—Geologi-
cal Force and Time.) Medical, 8 p.m.

The report of the standing committee on the
library of the Howe of Commons, published this morning,
states that the collection now amounts to upwards of
30,000 volumes; in 184,5 it only numbered 4,000. The
increase has principally taken place in Dictionaries, Books of
Reference, General History, English History, Diplomacy,
Topography, Law, Voyages and Travel., U. well so works
of authority connected with the East Indio. and Colonial
Poestailions.

The annual Congress of the Arckeological In-
stitute is liked to be held this year, about the middle of Jnly,
at Chester; and that of the Arclutological Aseociation in
some part of Norfolk.
We (.4thenmuni) understand that Mr. William
Chambers, of Edinburgh. has purchased the fine old 1..12.4011.
in Poeblos formerly belonging to the Earle of Tweeddide
and the last Duke of Quoeneberry, with the view of fitting
it up, with adjoining building's for a public reading-room,
library, lecture-hall, inuoeitm, and gallery of Art,—the
whole to be presented by Mr. Chambers, as a free gift, to hie
native town.

Mr. I /avid Urquhart lectures on the Turkish Bath
with a view to its introduction into this country, at the
Royal Polytechnic, on Monday evening next.
The list of candidatks for the Fellowship of the
Royal Society, which has just been closed fur this year, pre-
sents (says the Lihracy Pouffe) a motley group d
aspirants for the highest scientific honour which this country
has it in its power to bestow. Scarcely a third are qualified
according to the reformed standard of merit which has been
acted upon during the last few years, and the pretense=
of some are simply ridiculous. Fortunately the ectectien
of the council is limited to fifteen, and we trust
to be able to record, et the proper time that ft
has been exercised with independent judgment and
discretion. The names of the candidates are as
follows: —T. B. Burr, F.R.A.S. ; G. B. Haddon.
F.C.S.; Clept. E. M. Boxer, R.A. ; S. 11. Deckles; IL
' Brown, F. 6.8.; Dr. C. T. Beke ; Professor O. Boole ; R.
F. Baxter; Dr. T. J. Balfour ; Dr. R. Ball, 31.R.1.A.•P
Professor L. S. Beale; W. Coulson ; Dr. Chowne ; T. R.
Crompton, C.F.; R. Call ; T. Davidson, F.O.S. ; J.
Dixon; 8. W. Fulton; G. Grote; Dr. W. B. Iletepath;
R. 11111, F.R.A.S.; Rev. T. Kirluuan ; Dr. Letheby ; J.
Young, F.C.S.; B. Woodcroft; Dr. F. B. Winslow; J.
Whitworth; J. Welsh; H. C. Sorby, F.O.S. ; W. W.
Smyth, M.A.; Professor C. P. Smyth; Dr. R. A. Smith.
F.C.S.; Dr. A. Smith; Lieut. B. C. Pim; W. Peters.
ELIAS.; J. Penn, C.E. ; J. Marshall; Dr. W. March;
Dr. D. Macloughland , G. ; W. A. Lewis, F.U.S. ;
and Dr. T. Williams.

The designs sent in competition for the Memorial
Church at Constantinople projected building are arranged at

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King's College, in one of the corridors, 69 feet long, and 611
the walls to more than the vaunt height for exhibition, aa well
as both aides of a screen down the centre of the corridor.
These are about 370 drawings in the 46 eeta.
Mr. H. Bessemer has just filed specifications of
two patents for further improvements in Bon manufacture.
The talk of the Art world (slays the Illustrated
London News) relates entirely to the vacancy in the realm of
the Royal Academy of Aria. Richard Cook, R.A., is deed.
When, or by whom, the vacancy will Do filled up we have
not heard. By the original law of the Academy, a vacancy
causod on the let of December could not be filled up till the
following November; but this dilatory regulation ham, we bs
limn, been recently set alit. Many arc named for the
vacant membership. Rumour speaks favourably of Mr.
Sydney Cooper, Mr. Thorburn, Mr. E. W. Cooke, Mr. Egg,
and Mr. Frank Stone.
. . . .

The Builder says:—" The new library which in te
be erected for the Society of the Middle Temple, from the
deeign of Mr. If. It. Abraham, wil be Si feet long, 42 feet
wide, and 62 feet high, to the underside of the ridge. Beneath
will be clam-rooms and rooms for the bombers. The build-
ing ia gothic, of the perpendicular period in style. There
will be an oriel window at the end next Garden-court, and a
large traccriod pointed window at the end, which will be seen
hom New-court. There will bee louvre and epiret on the
roof. The now library will be connected with the old hall by
means of a new turret to be added to the letter, with a fight
of stairs which externelly will take the shape of a dying but-
trees. The library will have en open timber roof."

The Lancet proposes that the Serpentine should
be made* oat-water lake. The aquaria et the Zoological
Gardens have familiarised the public with the fact that IWO
small quantities of sea water may remain for many months
stagnant, without losing their purity, and the salt water in
the gloss cases at the Zoological Gardens is only changed
once in six weeks. In MG, at Amsterdam, the
water was so brackish few could drink it. Cast-
iron pipes were therefore placed along the railway, and
now conduct excellent water from the high lands round
Utrecht to Amsterdam. In like manner might sea-water
be conducted to the Serpentine from Brighton, Dover, at
perhaps a little below Gravesend. Besides the cut inn
pipes, a reservoir end steam engine would be required at the
point of suction. "This plan," says the Lanett, "would
doubtless be ezpensive ; it might coat as much as the build-
ing of • frigate. Cannot we afford to spend a few thousands
for the improvement of national health, when minions are
expended to protect our trade, and maintain the balance of
power ?'
In a note to the Atheneum, Dr. Livingston says:
"The principal object of my prolonged sojourn in this
country is to prepare a narrative of my travels and diooovw
rice for general information. Great has been my empire to
end a host of pirates start up,wbo, upon the strength of some
few entracte from certain letters of mine, collected without
my consent or knowledge, have published what they are
pleased to call a Narrative of my Travels—end by artful
wording of their advertisements laud the public to believe
that these works emanate from me. I appeal, therefore' to
you from the high position and influence you hold in the
world of literature to warn the public against such deception:.

EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC 'DRAWING%
PORTRAITS. &c., AT DICKINSON'S, 114, NEW
BOND-STREET.
This is the first exhibition which has shown the
great capabilities of photography as an assistant to art Os
eneral. If the Sun takes your picture be insists upon doing
it in his own way. He pays no regard to artistic requisitions.
Base nature proscribes to him the limits of his operations.
lie is the grandest copyist in the world, but he is so artist.
There have been several attempts made to overcome the didl-
- which the sun's want of artistic knowledge places in the
way of the artist. The Messrs. Dickinson have for roan]
years put adopted photography as the basis of artistic mat-

phase. sod Ilsve geodisoed molts which him been the
Moist d terwn*. k. midi themselves. The somber
eel eusb erreirl by Ws Arm is so kw, that
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s.
It Wu ceriassi thd thq Lem an exhibition of them-
selves. The swam ad dr hare kindly come for-
Ward to ail el.pildisse asmahri the work* they pee-
ing. mil els omit is. art Exhibition in Bond-street is
see of ids Iserdimble ssetildt•edbibitione of the day.
Mr OMNI= Is ssodosi exclosively to portraits. The
blend ogee le soh •dikift_eree! Widow &pond to a
Nog bassi sp. persssi idididids. Maim • portrait
arms lbsdins Moo strutely et power et beauty, it has
very maim oryt sham st mitists with moth sppteristion
Sam ihs rod 1111 sesisalsararm. But the run takee boo
0 as dry eres." rid his week is desivitied to no swankily
le the words of Byron, who lived before photography wee
ktrested—

."Tle ter yoking of shodea as they paee,
dad mid* them subetams."
The wabdorts way or may net be brittiful, Lut it will
have a dime lor those who re maerlated with the
nerehe ad madrei with the sitters
limadre tea bile ait ihroot ia the Means beyond that
I=Lie Aided hue dak Mode lesittles. Now the
Ditildres, Yshss in ivory instance • photo-
:2W, • beds et minims balm meted upon this an
dream whjeh mart MO le la appreciated. Their
ahreareo ten pherravero Moor from the life by artists
Ittniteldenet um rime reused to as in the ram,
are capable of aerie la ea meat
(„tinct from those which
they make with ‘. In all the pie-
Owes to be man Lit= Dickinson. rooms, the st-
atic erne etre week is ao ks. remarkubk than its worth
portralt. We weal pertieulariy direct attention,
of or wroth% tore minbefteta of the Hemmed Rev.
•11. Wens (4), Mho reimMes; to Col.Mitcdonald (14),
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