The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

VISIT OF THE BRITISH- ASSGCIATION

TO CIIELTENIIA3I.

We briefly announced last week that the council of the 7•.._
British Association, now sitting at Glasgow, had an- , •
cepted an invitation to hold its next annual meeting is
Cheltenham. The fact was telegraphed to this town on
the Tuesday, the general committee having only come to
a decision as to the whereabouts of its next meeting on
the morning of that day. We find the following account
.;
of the committee's proceedings in a Brighton contempo-
rary
" The general committee of the association, now hold-
inc, its session at Glasgow, met on Tuesday in the
Mer-
chants' Hall ; the Duke of Argyll in the chair.
" Deputations appeared from Cheltenham and
Brighton, and documents were read from Manchester,
Dublin, and Leeds, soliciting the presence of the assn'
ciation at those places next year.
" A lengthened conversation ensued between the
members of the Cheltenham and Brighton deputations
on their relative claims to the presence of the associa-
tion. A division of the committee then took place,
which resulted in the selection of Cheltenham by a narrow
majority.
" We are informed that the grounds on which Chel-
tenham was selected in preference to Brighton, .were,
that Cheltenham bad made an application many years
since, which, during the past two years, had been vig°
been''
rously renewed, several public meetings having
held to express the strong feelings of the inhabitants
both at Cheltenham and Gloucester. It is,
however,
very probable that Brighton would have been selected,
so decided were the opinions of many of the members
in favour of that town, if previous arrangements had
not been made by those officially connected with the as-
sociation, with which a majority of the general meeting
considered that it would be practically inconvenient to
interfere.

" The Duke of Argyll, the president of the meeting,
expressed his earnest hope that the mayor and deputa-
tion and the inhabitants of Brighton would not consider
the association indifferent to their wishes if, amongst
many conflicting claims, another place was selected for
this year ; and he was strongly of opinion that Brighton
would be a most suitable position for a meeting at some
future period, of a somewhat different character from
those usually held in provincial towns."—Cheltenham
Examiner.

A LETTER FROM MISS NIGHTINGAa

We (Boston Guardian) have great pleasure in publish-
ing the following letter received by the widow of one of
our brave soldiers, who, in the execution of his duty, bag
been stricken down by that fatal scourge which has laid
so many thousands of his brother soldiers in an untimely
grave. The act of forwarding the books to the bereaved
widow which the husband had perused with pleasure
and profit, is an act of thoughtful kindness which speaks
volumes in her praise :
" Scutari, Barrack Hospital, Aug 18, 1.85- 1
" Dear Mrs. , I very much regret to be obliged
to inform you that your husband,
of the
Artillery, was brought in here sick of diarrbcea, with
symptoms of fever, on the 11th of Au from the Crimes-
He asked me for a religious book, and I gave him the
enclosed. He told me afterwards that he liked it very
much, and so I send it to you with another which he was ,
already reading, a New Testament, and a letter of yours
which was under his pillow, and his purse, containing
1/. ls. He was taken worse on the 13th, and be-
came delirious. He was moat carefully attended by two
doctors, by the chaplin, by myself, and by a kind and
skilful nurse. He was very grateful and good, but alas.
nothing could save him, and he died at eleven o'clock the
same night. How sorry I am to tell you this bad news
I cannot say. From the little I saw of your husband,
I should say that his was a heart turned to God and
accepted by Him. Let us hope that what is your lees
is his gain. He often spoke of you. Believe me yours,
with true sympathy,
"FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE."

CONSTERNATION AT BERLIN.

The following is from the Times' Paris corre-
spondent's letter, dated yesterday, 6 p.m. :
A prixate letter from Berlin, of the 27th, viva"
Rating from one of the Court, that is to say, anti- :;4,..':41
national and Russian party, speaks of the general
consternation produced by the fall of Seb3stopel•
•.4;;;01
No terms, however are sufficiently contemptuous ..044ke
when the writer alludes to Prince Gortschakoff and 0
the other Russian Generals who have hitherto con- ; '
ducted the military operations. The Czar himself is not •
spared. Neither is the person of the King of Prussia
treated with the respect that might be expected from •
a Prussian courtier. Indeed, they who make
most free with that unintelligible Sovereign have
hardly described him in terms more humiliating. •
The Queen expressed her condolence and her conso-
lation to her sister, the Archduchess Sophia, mother
of the Emperor f Austria, directly the sad intelli-
gence reached Berlin. Weeping and wailing, dipap-
pointment and rage, are the or ier of the day. How-
ever the Russian party may put a good face on the
matter, it is certain that, in secret their hopes of
Ru.sia, soon recovering from the stunning blow that
has been inflicted on her are not very mangula.- ll.r -
most ardent partisans, when they speak frankly among •
themselves, do not appear to believe that the Russians
can do much against the Allies in the Crimea ' • and I
can assure you that not a few are of opinion that the
sooner they evacuate it the better. With all this
they do not believe, no more than they wish, that the
Emperor Alexander will make propositions of peace.
The letter I allude to mentions that when the disaster
of Sebastopol was known, the populace of St. Patera-
burg became dreadfully excited, and meeting the carri-
age of the Empress in the streets, followed it on its way 00'
to the Palace with shouts of " Vengeance for Sebas-
topol Vengeance for Korniloff Vengeance for
Nachenoff?" If the Russian people knew how their
mutilated sons and brothers are left by their Imperial
"father " to be consumed by fire in the hospitals of Se-
bastopol, it is doubtful whether their reception of the
Imperial family would not assume another form.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Sept. 29.—Wind this day at noon, S.
light airs and dull cloudy weather.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 28.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived,"
Eleanor, from Moulmein; Faith (s. tpt. 131), Constants'
nople, and left for London; FIX S. Malacca, Lisbon.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 28.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—La:
narkshire, from Quebec ; Roxburgh Castle, London, I°'
Melbourne.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hermes,
from Akyab, for Copenhagen ; Maria Louisa, Hanava
Bradore, Labrador. Off the port—Tella Lamigua, from
Cape Coast Castle.
GLOUCESTER, Sept. 28.—Arrived—Science, from St.
John's, N.B.
BELFAST, Sept. 27.—Wind W.—Sailed—Sarah, for Sa-
vannah.
SHIELDS, Sept. 28.—Wind S.—Sailed—Young Eng.
land, for Sierra Leone.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.
Arrived—Courier (s.), from Jersey; Star, Guernsey;
Felicity, Portsmouth ; Jolly, Jersey ; Antje Johann*,
Harlingersiel ; Atalanta (s), Havre.
Sailed—Brunswick (s), for Plymouth ; Alliance (s),
vre ; Despatch (s.), Jersey ; Isabella, Sunderland.
LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning•

Wind S.E.
Arrived—Harrowby, from St. John's, N. 8.; King4ton,
Richibu •to • Adelina, Prince Edward's Island; Gs*
briel and dew° Serafina, Hamburg ; Delta, Santander.
Off.—lsabella, from Monte Video; Florist, Demessro•
DUBLIN, Sept. 28..„
Arrived, Norio, from Jersey; Anna Catharina and Es.
fina, Amsterdam.
Sailed—Donna Maria, for Balaklava.
QUXENSTOWN, Sept. 27.
- -

Wind S.S. W. ~
Arrived.—Fanny, from Pictou, N.S. ; La Norrregue°l*.
Bilboa.

(BY ST/MARINE AND BRITISH TRLEGRAPTI.)
fon
in 50 '
' GRAVESEND Saturday, ...
Wind S.W. ; tide, low water; weather very fi-0n..,,e'
theroe,
Arrived, Sept. 28.—Canada, from Jamaica ;-L A-
Tarsous ; Spartan, Jamaica.
Sailed—Gesina and Agatha, for ffemburg. 03 aim
DEAL, Sallird.l'
Passed, 28th.—Coral Queen, from
Wind S.W., fresh. aornelia,
LOStreRO, Qu be
Callao ; Mary Harrison, Calcutta •
Derago, Demerara •W ll • all for London.
a ace, Belize--
ondon, for Con-
Anchored.—Dallof e Roxburgh, from L. , . Sarah
stantinople ; Industry,London,for Balaiusva,
Ann, London, for iJaun
ceston.for
Passed, 29th.—Hersoom (s.s. tpt. 17). from London,,,a.
the Crimea ; Governor Nl`Lean Africa fr London Lrus
_.
goulmein; e 0 ;
therine Pemberton, Moulmein;for London; Derigo, X u
ritius, for London.

l o oT aHnEd3r3DenFinosouTla.:oTffihcee:iloneicy of this distinguished
corps (the Duke of Wellington's own) has become vacant
by the demise of Lieut. General D'Oyly, an old Water-
Notices were issued from the General Post-office yes-
terday, that her Majesty's ship Castor had sailed e
2 fro
th
m
Devonport, with a Cape of Good Hope mail, on th 6
inst. ; and that her Majesty's ship Siren had sail
for ed from
the same port on the same day, with mails Rio de
Janeiro.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise on Thur-
day, Sept. 27 :—Wm. M. ord, Brixton-hill; William
Joyce, Blackfordby, Leicestershire ; William Stanwell,
Gwaonnisfboro;_ocuagnah,brLidingco.lnshire ; James Ashburner James
Ashburner, Manchester. For an assistant—Wra. iienry
dermen
THE NEW SHERIFFS.—Yesterday morn
rviittie.cChlthocerk.
Kennedy and Rose, the newly-elected shinegreirffAtas li
of for the'
the ,
city of London and county of Middlesex,
Masters, Wardens, and Courts of Assista.eristeentoto
makers' and Spectaclemakers' Couipani , .
hail
previous to their proceeding to the _to be sworn
respectively belong, to a breakfast Guildthe Albion Tavern,
in and assume their office. At halfpast one o'clock the
Lord Mayor and the leading Aldermen, with the usual
civic functionaries, entered the hall and took his seat on
the hustings, when the usual oaths were administered by
the Town Clerk to the Sheriff's,
the new
Under-Sheriff,
and to Mr. Stone
court retired, senior,
Under-Sheriff, after which the
ke their seats in the Court of
Sheriffs being invited to to
Aldermen.
SWEARING IN OF TOE NEW ALDERMEN FOR FARRING.
DON-WITHIN.—At the Court of Aldermen held after tha
swearing-in of the new Sheriff,, Alderman Eagleton was
introduced by a deputation from the Ward of Farring-
don-within, and, having taken the customary oaths, took
his seat at the Court as Alderman of the Ward, in room
of the late Alderman Kelly,