Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-30 00:00:00

THE ARTS AND SCIENCES.

The Zoological Society have a meeting on Thursday
next, and the Asiatic Society a meeting on Saturday.

The next meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science will be held at Dublin, cs►mmenc-
ing on August 26, under the presidency of the Rev. H.
Lloyd, D-D., D.C.L., V.P.R.I.A.

The last exhibition this season of plants, flowers, and
fruit, at the Royal Botanic Society, will take place on
Wednesday next.
At the next meeting of the Horticultural Society in
Regent-street, on the 7th of July, the Chamaacyparis
thurifera, for which there are so many applicants, will be
drawn for. The chances will be about two blanks to one
prize.

The library of the late Earl of Shrewsbury, removed
from Alton Towers, was on sale during last week by
Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson.
The country meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society
of Englaid will be held at Salisbury in the week com-
mencing Monday, the 20th of July, the Thursday in that
week being the principal day of the show•
The annual congress of the Archaeological Association
will take place in August next at Norwich, assembling in
that city on the 24th. Excursions are in course of
arrangement for Caistor Castle, Burgh Castle, and Yar-
mouth; Lynn, Castle Rising Castle, Binham Priory, and
Walsingham ; Barshani Hall ; Thetford and Ely Cathedral,
&c. Norwich and Ely Cathedrals are to be lectured upon
by H. H. Burnall, Esq., and C. E. Davis, Esq. ; Mr.
Planche superintends the sculptures and monumental
effigies; Mr. W. H. Black the charters, deeds, and muni-
cipal documents; whilst the description of the Castle of
Norwich and the remains of ancient buildings will be
under the direction of W. C. Ewing, Esq., and R. Fitch,
Esq., of Norwich. Mr. Palmer conducts the Association
over the antiquities of Great Yarmouth. The Earl of
Albemarle presides over the whole

The sessional meetings of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, held this year at Manchester, were brought to
a close oa Thursday. In the afternoon the members and
their friends dined together in the large coffee-tent ad-
joining the Art Treasures building. The chair was taken
by Mr. William Fairbairrt, in the absence of Mr. Whit-
worth, the president. About 200 gentlemen sat down to
dinner. Among the company were Mr. Scott Russell,
Professor Rankin, Colonel Kennedy, Mr. M'Connell,
Mr. Craig, Mr. Bellhouse, Mr. Fay, Mr. Benjamin Fother-
gill, Mr. Ramsbottom, and a number of gentlemen win-
nected with mechanical science. In the course oc the
evening addresses were delivered with reference to the
growth and development of scientific knowledge, in con-
nexion with engineering, and a general opinion was ex-
pressed that it was absolutely necessary to pay greater
attention to the education of our workwn, if we were to
retain oar supremacy as the greatest engineering country
in the world. Mr. Fairbairn and Mr. M'Connell referred
to the rapid strides which engineering science was making
in France, Belgium, and Germany, and attributed it to the
superior education which the artisans of those countries
were enabled to 'receive before they entered the work-
shops,