The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

Eocial Science Congre s.

YORK, Monlay Afternoon.
The banquet at the DJ Grey Room on Saturday evening
passed off in most excellent style. The chair was occupied
by Lord Brougham, and amongst the company present were
the Lord Mayor of York, Sir George Strickland, Sir Bald-
win Leighton, M.P., Mr Westhead, M.P., G. W. Has-
tings, Esq,, Edwin Chadwick, C. 8., and the principal
notabilities of the association then in the city. After the
c-mventional toasts had been proposed end drank, Sir
John Pakington, M,P., rose for the purpose of
proposing the toast of the evening—" Prosperity and Suc-
cess to the Social Science Association, and the Health of
the noble President, Henry Lord Brougham." He paid a
very high compliment to the noble lord, trusting that, like
Lord Lyndhurst, his intellectual power and usefulness might
be retained to the cxtrcmest verge of human life. The toast
was drank with hearty cheers, in responding to which Lord
Brougham expressed the grati!ude ho felt for the assistance

which ho and the A-sociaticn had received from Sir John
Pakington and ethers. Ho detcnded the Association from
several of the objections which had been urged against it,
and declared its operations to be most useful and important.
He then proposed, " The House of Commons," which was
responded to in an effective speech by Sir B aldw in Leighton,
who thought the ventilation of Social Science sub-
jects greatly facilitated the labours of members of Parlia.
ment in the adoption or alteration of laws, Lord Teign-
mouth made a lengthy speech, in which he eulog'sed the
services of Lord Brougham, and commended the objects of
the Social Science Association. The presence of the noble
lord revived in his mind many old reminiscences respecting
the anti-slavery agitation, and he recalled the saying of
Wilberforce to the effect that, during that agitation, Lord
Brougham had never flinched from the °Eject in view, but
manfully fought for it from the very first. He then pro-
posed the health of Sir Charles Hastings and Major
Ackroyd, who both duly returned thanks, the former
stating that he did not think that in any of the depart-
ments there would be found questions of more vital
importance than those which were discussed in the de-
partment (of Health) over which ho had tho honour to
preside. Like the preceding speakers, he praised the ser-
vices cf Lord Brougham, who had helped to raise the Asso-
ciation to its present high position, and obtained for it the
promise of so bright a future. The noble chairman then
proposed the " Health of the Lord Mayor," who acknow-
ledged the compliment, and stated that the corporation
and the citizens cf York had done their best to make the
visit of the Association to the ancient city as pleasant as
possible, The names of the local secretaries and com-
mittee, the Lady Mayoress, and the Secretary of the
Association, Mr G. W. Hastings, were then drunk in
swift succession. Mr Hastings, is returning thanks,
alluded to the new section—that of Agricultural Science—
which had been established. In response to the toast of
" The Foreign Visitors," Judge Marvin, of New York
rasde a long and interesting speech, in the course of
which he alluded, at some length, to the questions of
maritime insurance and international law. Various other
toasts followed, and the company then dispersed,
Yesterday proved beautifully fine, and many of the
visitors amused themselves by strolling along the ramparts
of the ancient walls by which the city is surrounded. In
the minster a large congregation assembled, for the pur-
pose of hearing the sermon announced to be preached by
the Dean of York. Lord Brougham, the Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress, and many other leading personages were
present. There were also a considerable attendance in the
cathedral. Great numbers of people congregated in the
streets for the purpose of seeing Lord Brougham. The
various dissenting places of worship were also well filled.
To-day we have been favoured with a continuance of the
fine and brilliant weather hitherto enjoyed by us, and
the result has been a considerable accession to the number
of visitors. The streets wear a more lively and animated
aspect, especially in the vicinity of the buildings wherein
the meetings of the several departments are held. At half
pastlin a meeting was held in the Festival concert room,
for the purpose of hearing hi's grace the Archbishop of York
deliver his address as president of the Education Depart-
ment. The attendance was very large, more than 1,000
members and associates being present. Of these a consider-
able proportion were ladies; and on the platform we ob-
served a:dr S. Northcote, M P., the Dean of Yurk, Sir C.
Hastings, Dr Lankester, E. Chadwick, 0.13., and other
members. The chair was taken by Lord Brougham, who was
received with cheers. The Archbishop then commenced
reading his paper. Speaking with great rapidity, but with
remarkable precision and fluency, he entered into the whole
question of education, which he divided into three heads,
treating each with a degree of comprehensiveness and
liberality which repeatedly called forth the applause of all
present. He disapproved of university examinations for
females, wbo, he thought, had enough to do at home, He
also touched upon the question of the grammar and other
endowed schools, university reform, and popular education,
He was favourable to the widest possible spread of the
blessings of education, the advantages and benefits of which
ho extolled in terms which elicited loud and prolonged
cheering. At the conclusion Lord Brougham highly com-
mended the paper, which was certainly remarkable for its
broad and liberal views.

In the Jurisprudence Dep-,rtment a discussion arose ( n
the special question, " Whether any, and what, ameliora-
tions can be introduced into the institution and conduct of
Criminal Prosecutions ?" a paper on the subject being con-
tributed by It•bert Stuart, barrister-at-law. This depart-
ment was but thinly attended.
In the Reformatory Section, which was well patronised,
the subject of convicts was brought up. Sir Walter Crofton
presided, and the papers read were on " Convicts without
the Prison," by Mr G. P. Organ; "Discharged Prisoners,',
by James Marshall; and the " Supervision of Licensed
Convicts," by Mr James P. Measor.

The sitting of the Genera! Average Committee, presided
over by Sir James P. 'Wilde, was attended by man)
foreigners and members (.f the International General Ave-
rage Committee. The subjects, however, proved very un-
palatable to the generality of members.
The Education Department, presided over by the Arch-
bishop of York, was the most largely patronised. In fact,
as might have been expected in a cathedral city, it has en-
joyed a greater share of popularity than all the other de-
partments put together. This morning it held its sittings
in the Do Grey Rooms, when lapers were read on the
state of education in the rural districts.

The health department was somewaat thinly attended,
for the special question discusse though important, was
necessarily dry in nature. It related to the causes and
prevention of excessive infant mortality, papers on the
subject being read by W. D. Husband, F.R.C.P., Dr. Ikin,
and Dr. French.

The Economy and Trade Department held its sitting is
the small ante-chamber at the De Grey Rooms. The
accommodation was miserably deficient, and the paucity of
seats occasioned much inconvenience. Edwin Chadwick,
Esq., presided, Mr R. A. Arnold read a paper on " The
Cotton Districts and the Famine," in which he traced the
manufacturing prosperity of Lancashire to its immense
supplies of water power and coal, and stated that, in the
matter of drainage of population, it w:s to England what
America was to Europe. He also said that 23 per cent
of the population were not natives. Alluding to the
famine and its effects, he praised the demeanour of the
operatives, and spoke in favourable terms of the co-opera-
tive societies. Adverting to emigraticr as a remedy for
the distress which prevailed, he corrected several popular
errors on the subject. Ho also alluded to the effects of the
Public Weeks Act, and concluded by observing that the
results of the famine proved that the prosperity of England
was not dependent upon any tingle branch of manufac-
turing industry.

Mr G. 5. Holyoake thea read a paper on " Co operative
Progress during the Cotton Famine, and the " Growth of
the Halifax Store," in which he traced the remarkable
spread of ca-operative principles amongst the working
classes, and the rapid development of the societies thus
formed. He traced tae progress of the Halifax Co-opera-
tives, which was truly astonishing, rivalling even that of
the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers. The reading of this
paper gave rise to some discussion, in the course of which
Mr Edwin Chadwick, Mr John Holmes, and others spoke
favourably of the co operative movement.
Mr 5. HOLMES, of Leeds, then read a paper on " Houses
for the People, and How to Provide Them," in which he
delineated the defective condition of our house accommoda-
tion for the working classes, and described the history of an
association at Leeds, which turned over £150,000 annually
for the purpose of supplyieg its members with improved
cottages, drawings and plans of which were exhibited. It
was a most instructive paper, and received with consider-
able applause.

THE BISHOP OF NELSON.—The Bishop of Neleon
(New Z2aland) has announced that he is compelled
to resign the charge of the diocese in consequence of the
increasing failure of his health. However much some among
us may dissent from the views entertained by Bishop Hob-
house with reference to Church government, all will learn
with deep sympathy and regret that the resignation of his
episcopal charge has been rendered imperatively necessary
by illness, This we have good reason to fear has been aggra-
vated, if not actually caused, by events which are of too
recent occurrence to need further allusion to them, but
which must have been the source of poignant suffering and
sore disappointment to his lordship. We can ill spare from
among us the presence of men of intellect and single-hearted
purpose. Bishop Hobhouse's departure from the province
will also deprive us oft he wholesome example of a courteous
Christian gentleman, pious and self-devoted, who acted in
strict accordance with the rigid line of duty which seemed
to be prescribed by his priestly and episcopal vows in the
midst of social difficulties of no ordinary magnitude. The
bishop's missionary labours and journeyings, both by land
and sea, have been neither small nor unimportant; while
difficulties which the most hardy settler has feared to en-
counter in travelling in the interior have been disregarded
and bravely surmounted by his lordship at the call of duty.
As time exercises its mellowing it fluences upon the un-
happy differences which have in some degree embittered
those affectionate relations which should exist between the
chief pastor of a diocese and his flock, we may indulge the
hope that the memory of Bishop Hoblaeuse's presence among
us, and the example of his pure, self-denying, and useful
life, may operate not unprofitably as a witness against the
unspirituality and open mammoa-wor3Lip of our deys.—
Xds Qn

HER MAJESTY.

The Queen Queen and the members of the royal farnill
continue in excellent health at Balmoral.
His Imperial IPghncss Prince Elimar of °law
burg left Balmoral on Saturday for the south.

Prince Humbert of Italy.
Yesterday morning his 11,,,yal Highness Prince
Humbert of Italy, attended by Col. du Piat, Equerry
to her Majesty, and accompanied by the nobleele°
and gentlemen in the suite of his royal highness'
left the Italian Legation in Grosvenor-street, after
an early breakfast, in the Queen's cirrisges, for the
Waterloo Terminus of the South -WE st.ern RailscßY'
to pay a visit to the c.trnp at Aldershot. TLe Prime
and the officers of his retinue were in uniform. 'e
Count M,ffei and the Mirquislbi, members ,
the Italian Legation, also Lecompanied the royal

party.
According to orders issued on Saturday, th°
divisions formed for a fielthday in the Long Valley
at a quarter past nine, and shortly after that hoti
Prince Humber; and his attendants arrived, aee°l33,
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panied by the Lieutenant-General Commanding, ,
J. L. Pennefather, 1i.G.8., followed by a brilliant
staff. The troops then marched past the saluting
point in the usual order, the bands of several bll`
gedes in their order, massed, playing lively al
The cavalry and the horse artillery again passed 'd
a gallop, and the troops immediately after prepare
for the maeceuvres of a field-day. The plan of ectie°
appeared to be to attack an enemy advancing from
the south, and accordingly a strong line of skit`
mishers were thrown out on the right. These lvt'ir
in g successfully operated, Major-Gen. Taylor on t
he
right, and Mijor-General Russell on his lei"
pushed forward, the former officer skilfully
compelling the enemy to draw in his left, Ge°'
Russell vigorously attacking the centre. Thad
operations were gallantly supported by BOP
Horse Artillery, Cavalry, and Royal Artilltlic;
commanded by Colonel bir D. Wood, K.C.Be
Major-General Hodge respectively. The Infantry
Reserve was in command of MAjereGeneral Bate9'
and consisted of the Ist Battalion 14th Regime°.
The foe (imeginary) having been beaten back erl
the south, the troops took up a fresh formation en
the east, where General Bates brought his brigade
into play, and after a splendid advance for 00
distance, the movements concluded with a sharp
tire from the infantry, which had deployed into
line. The troops returned to quarters at a qieirteh
to twelve. Lie weather during the earlier part °lt
the movements was very foggy, and this somesvhs
spoiled the effct of the display. About eleven
o'clock, however, the atmosphere partially cleared;
Immediately on the conclusion of the sham fight
the Prince and suite proceeded on a tour of ins Pee;
tion around the camp. In the course of this b
visited the Commissariat, some of the libraries, the
gymnasium, and other places, and afterwards Par"
took of luncheon in tho mess of the Royal Dragocoth
Having subsequently inspected some of the barracl°
the Prince returned to London in the afterneey'
accompanied by Colonel Du Plat, arriving at half:
past six, and was entertained at dinner by bul
Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio.

liis Excellency the Prussian Ambassador Oa
the Countess Bernstozff arrived at St. Leopards-on-6'e6

yesterday from Gee many to join their family.
His Excellency the Belgian Minister OP
Madame Van de Weyer have been placed in great afilieti°ll
by the death of Mr Eates,father of Madame Van de Weyer'
This event, which we announced yesterday, took place t
Ntw Lodge, Windsor Forest, after a long illness.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salietury re.
turned to Hatfield House, Herts, on Saturday, from vi°it.
ing the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon at Highele/
Castle, near Newbury. Yesterday the noble marquis 1°
marchioness left Hatfield on a visit to the Right 11013'
Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs, Disraeli at Ltuglien.
den Manor, Backs.
The Earl snd Countess of De:by will entertain
a select party during the ensuing month at Knowsley part
Lear rieecott.