The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-24 00:00:00

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No. 22,437.

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A STRAY.

The anniversary meeting of this society was held yester-
day at Burlington-house, Piccadilly,—Sir Roderick Mur-
chison, president of the institution, in the chair. Then
was a numerous attendance of members, with a large sprink-
ling of ladies. After some preliminary business,
Mr. Manxuaar, the secretary, read the re port of the
council, detailing the transactions of the society for the past
year, and describing its present state and prospects. Since
the last anniversary electing 233 new members had been
elected, and 61 vacancies had occurred, the total number Of
Fellows now being 1,907. The balance-sheet for the year
ending the 31st of December, 1863, showed that the esti-
mated receipts and expenditure laid before last year's meet-
ing had differed from the actuals, but in a way favourable to
the society—the receipts estimated having been stated at
£4,502 10s., exclusive of the cash in hand ; whereas the
actuals amounted to £5,253 9s. 3d., Exclusive of the cash
balance. The estimated expenditure also was put down at
£5,747 ss. 2d., or at £3,897 bs. 7d., excluding the money
proposed to bo invested ; but the outlay, exclusive of the
cash and amount invested, was only £3,655 4s. ld. The
difference between the actual receipts and actual outlay left
a surplus balance in hand of £1,601 ss. 2d„ and the council
had had available for investment in the funds a sum of
£1,837, for which there had been purchased £2,000 amount
of 1863 of £7,500, and at
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t h eo
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of £315, as the reserve fund of the society up to this date.
The 32d volume of the Journal of the society; which was
announced as ready at the last anniversary, had been
brought out during the past season ; and the council were
sanguine that the valuable papers it contained would greatly
add to the usefulness of the Royal Geographical Society.
The 33d volume of the Journal was now in the press, and
would have been published before this but for the death of
the assistant secretary. The report then proceeded to de-
scribe the accessions which had been made to the library
and the map room, together with the means used to enlarge
the map room collection, and also explained the steps taken
by the award of premiums to encourage the production of
improved scientific instruments for the use of travellers.
Since the last anniversary, with a view to make the instru-
ments more accessible to travellers, a room had been set
apart and the instruments properly arranged, upon the re-
commendation of the Vice-President, Admiral R. Collin-
son. Further arrangements were in contemplation for
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to all classes. On the subject of grants to travellers the re-
port stated that the sum of £5O was sent to M. Rohlfs
Gerard on the 10th February, 1864, to assist him in his
projected journey from Morocco towards 'Pirebucto ; and
the council had at present a proposal under the considera-
tion of Government for the exploration of the Nile from
Egypt, for which the sum of £l,OOO would be made avail-
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An interesting portion of the proceedings was the pre-
sentation of the patron's and founder's gold medals to dis-
tinguished explorers. The founder's medal falling due this
year to an eminent foreigner, its presentation took prece-
dence.

T E 0X P 0
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3IAS C HERA.

R D,

In performing this ceremony, the PRESIDENT said—
Baron C. von der Decken, this medal is awarded to you for
the two remarkable journeys which you have performed
from the East Coast of Africa to the great mountain of
Kilimandjaro, in each of which, with the assistance of Mr.
Richard Thornton in the first and of Dr. Karsten in the
second case, you made many astronomical observations, and
by the use of good instruments constructed a contoured
map of the region. You also determined numerous alti-
tudes by barcmetrical measurement, and estimated the
highest of the peaks of the mountains to be 20,065
English feet above the sea, and preyed it to be covered with
perpetual snow. In these expeditions you farther collected
rock specimens which have demonstrated that in a remote
period this snow- capped mountain was an active volcano,
The accuracy of the observations made in your last journey
was proved by a comparison of the chronometers you took
with you, which having been compared on your return to
Zanzibar were found to have varied only seven seconds in
upwards of 100 days. In adjudicating this medal we further
applaud your unabeted zeal and energy in exploring E astern
Africa, seeing that you have just fitted out at great expense
a new expedition, and have constructed an iron river
steamer, wherewith you hope to ascend one of the rivers
flowing from Mount Kenia, and thence to explore unknown
regions of inner Africa, if not to follow down one of the
main eastern ufflu:rats of the Nile. I therefore hand to you
this medal in the coLviction that, long as England was
eoyr , w
you
nut never
to
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England were, as it were, one country, may be a happy
next enterprise. (Cheers.)
u ted it
also less
to be useful to geographical sci
Baron
for
the DE n EdNone .m
ce which expressedh his warm acknow-
ledgmentsto his actual achievements than to his earnest endeavours
to be useful to geographica' scien
in some measure to the *
He at h
attributed ib ascribed
expectations formed of his proposed
new expedition to Eastern and Equatorial Africa. Whether
that expedition would be successful God knew, but he had
great hopes in connection with it, and if anything should
happen to himself in the course of its prosecution, its ob-
jects would be pursued by the other members of his party.
After a feeling allusion to his deceased fellow-explorer, Mr.
der
Decken
Thornton, Baron von concluded by thanking
the President for the valuable assistance ho had always ren-
dered to his enterprises.
The PRESIDENT next presented the patron's or Queen's
medal to Captain Grant in these
terms :—Captain Grant, 11
We
months have elapsed since received your leader Captain
Speke and yourself within these walls with the cordial ac-
knowledgment of the great servicesyou have performed in
opening out Eastern Equatorial Africa, and in showing how
the White Nile flowed out, of the
very lake previously dis-
covered by your distinguished companion.
having, on his arrival at Gondokoro, received the medal
most justly granted to him for the great discovery of Lake
Victoria Nyanza, we, in
conferringen this medal upon you,
wish it to be understood that we
mark our deep sense of the value of the medorerte emphatically
t explora-
tion
of those lands around it made by Captain Speke and
yourself. When you returned here our anniversary
was
passed over, and bath our medals had been adjudicated, or
otherwise you would before now have doubtless received the
highest honour which we have it in our power to bestow.
It was, however, a source of true gratification to us to see
that the King of Italy was in the meantime foremost in re-
cognising your merit as well as that of your skilful leader,
and affixed to each of his medals the appropriate motto of
"Honor a Nilo." On my own part, I can truly say that on
the many occasions on which it has been my lot to present
medals to explorers of distant regions, I never had greater
satisfaction than on the present occasion. For now that I
hand to you this medal, bearing the effigy of Q aeenVietoria,
I feel that we geographers are not merely recompensing the
noble and disinterested
companion of Speke, but, as a sol-
dier of the olden
time myself, I have a special pride in re-
cognising in yourself the gallasit young officer who in the
Indian mutiny, and despite a severe wound, was the means
of saving from serious disaster the rearguard of the illus•
trious Havelock as he advanced to the relief of Lucknow.
Accept, then, this our gracmus patron's medal, and consi-
der it as our Victoria Cross. (Cheers,)
Captain GRANT expressed his deep sense of gratitude for
the high reward bestowed on
him--a reward he said which
he little thought he had ever done anything to merit.
The PRESIDENT then proceeded to deliver his annual ad-
dress, recounting the progress of geographical science
throughout the world during the past year. His discourse
commenced with an obituary of the distinguished members
of the society who had passed away within the last year.
Among these were the names of Lord Ashburton: Lord
Elgin, Admiral Washington, Mr Thornton, and others. De-
scanting on the subject of the recent explorations in Africa,
Sir Roderick said—The discovery of that great water basin
the Victoria Nyanza in the heat of equatorial Africa, and
the proof that a great stream flowed out from its northern
extremity, which Speke and Grant followed and stated to
be the White Nile, was, as be stated last year, truly a great
feat of which all our countrymen had reason to be proud.
But in warmly praising and honouring the men who ac-
complished it, they were not yet satisfied as geographers
with that their single line of march and the valuable data
which they fixed regarding the upper waters of the Nile,
They looked naturally to other efforts which must be made
to dispel all scepticism, including that raised by the claim
of the Venetian traveller Miani as to his having continu-
ously ascended the river to 21 degrees to the S.S,W. of
Gondokoro, the rocky banks of which he had laid upon a
sketch map. The Council of the society had, therefore, conic
to the conclusion that the physicel geography of all that ie.
gion, together with the shores of the Victoria Nyanza (a
lake described by Speko as larger than all Scotland), should
be further explored and the nature and extent of the vari-
ous affluents of that vast body of water determined ; that
the regions between the waters of the lake Luta-Lzige and
the lake Tanganyika of Burton and Speke should be ex-
amined in order to determine if there were not there (as
some geographers thought probable) other sources of sup-
ply for the White Nile coming from that region to the west
of the Victoria Nyanza; and, finally, that, if possible, the
Upper White Nile of Speke and Grant should be traced
continuously from the lake to that point where, according
to their map, it was made to join the end of the lake Luta-
Lzigi, Having considered that point, the Council had

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adopted his (the President's) proposal to fit out an expedi-
tion to clear away all such obscurities by ascending the
White Nile, and not, as previously, by auy efforts from Zan-
zibar and the eastern coast of Africa. The difficulties en-
countered by Speke and Grant in passing through that tract
and the apparent impossibility of establishing any regular
traffic between the east eoast and the central kingdoms, had
induced the Council to pre!er to any otter line of research
an effort to render the great White Nile a channel of inter-
course and commerce between the prolific interior and the
traders of the Mediterranean Sea. For such an expedition
the Council were ready to advance £lOOO, hoping that meats
would be found to put a stop to the dermal alieing traffic in
slaves which, as our Consul-General in Cairo (Mr. Col.
quhoun) wrote to him, was accompanied by horrors of which
no one could form an idea. That they believed could best
be accomplished by the exertions of the Pasha of Egypt and
by the extension of his influence southwards from Khartum
to Goudokoro. The intermediate country was now a sort
of No-man's-land, in which numerous warring small tribes
were kept in an excited and barbarous state by the importa-
tion of firearms, now so largely brought into use. If the
miserable natives were rescued from the present disorders
legitimate commerce would soon arise between the equatorial
kings and the merchants of Cairo and the Mediterranean. A
great portion of the President's address was devoted to the
subject of the glaciers of the Himalayas and New Zealand,
as compared with those of Europe, and their influence in
modifying the surface of the earth. The address was lis-
tened to with great attention and frequently applauded.

At its conclusion Lord DONOLIGIIMORE moved that the
thanks of the meeting should be voted to the President for
delivering it, coupled with a request for its publication.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
The members of the Council of the Society were then
chosen by ballot, and on the motion of Sir H. Rawlinson,
seconded by Mr. J. Crawfurd, a rule of the institution was
suspended to enable Sir R. Murchison to be again re-elected
as its chairman. Sir Roderick was unanimously re-elected
accordingly, and briefly returned thanks for that renewed
mark of confidence.
The proceedings then terminated.

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rairalty have given instillations, at t cafilain
solicitation, to supply the materials necessary for
putting the ship in her fermer good condition, the
work to be performed by the carpenters of the ship.
Since clearing oat the cargo, it has been ascertained
that if the shot had entered 4ft. higher the lives of
f)ur of the crew would have been sacrificed, as on
cccount of the great he.:-.t the sleeping berths had
been shifted to the 'tween &Ors, where the men
Were lying at the moment when she wes fired into.
Capt. Thorwaldsen states that be has repeatedly
:riled in that direction, and was never before called
upon to exhibit his colours, nor had he any idea of
auch reguations being in force. The act was,

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done. The only apprehension which I think the most sen-
sitive of your friends can entertain is one connected with
the approaching exhaustion of that scene to which, for the
present at least, your labours are confined-1 mean the
limited surface of this globe itself. (Hear, and a laugh.)
Alexander in his day thought he might reach a point in his
career when he would desire to have new worlds to con-
quer. You, too, seem likely at some time or other to reach
that point, and 1 have no doubt that when you do reach it,
whether it be sooner or later, our excellent and distin-
guished friend Sir It. Murchison, whatever he may say to
the contrary, will be here in the chair, presiding over you
—(cheers and lau,2hter)—and endeavoutmg to consider
with you what new fields of enterprise you can explore in
some, et any rate, of the nearest planet: wh:ch yi u can
occupy yourselves until science, so rich in her appliances,
enables you to reach those that are more distant. (Re-
newed cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, I cordially hope
that the relations established between this society and the
Legislature, this society and all successive Governments,
and this society and the country at large, may be perma-
nent relations of credit and honour on the one side, of ad-
vantage and utility on the other--and that for many years
you may bo recognised, as you are recognised now, as hold-
ing a foremost place amongst those institutions which, per-
haps deriving some slight acknowledgment from the State,
but essentially resting on the broader and surer foundation
of private enterprise and private energy, form one of the
most marked distinctions which attract the eye and excite
the admiration of every foreigner who visits the shores of
England. (Loud cheers.)
The PRESIDENT then, in eulogistic terms, proposed the
health of the medallists of the year, Baron von der Decken
and Captain Grant.
The toast was drunk with much cordiality.
Baron VON DER DECKEN and Captain GRANT severally
returned thanks in a few modest words, the latter remark-
ing that he was so unused to address public assemblies that
he would almost rather traverse Africa over again than un-
dergo the ordeal of making a speech. (Laughter and cheers.)

The PRESIDENT then gave " The health of Sir C. East.
lake," Chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts; to which
Sir Charles briefly responded by a graceful allusion to the
many links which bound together the votaries of science
and art.

Sir H. RAWLINSON next proposed " The health of the
President of the Society," warmly eulogising his invaluable
services to science, and particularly to that institution over
whose whole career from its infancy to its maturity he had
exercised so sedulous and watchful a care. If, he said,
Scotchmen were formed by nature to overrun the world, Sir
Roderick Murchison was pre-eminently formed by nature as
well as by his attainments to fill the chair of the Geogra-
phichal Society. (Cheers.) After expressing the deep obli-
gations which the council owed to Sir Roderick for consent-
ing to act as their president for another year, Sir Henry
concluded by proposing the chairman's health.
The toast was received with enthusiasm.

of w.tio

The PRESIDENT, in responding, said he felt highly
flattered by the compliment just paid to him. It was also
very gratifying to him that he should have been so una-
nimously invited to continue one year more as their
president. Having been born in 1792, and having filled
that post for many years amidst his many other avocations
—for he was a geologist by profession and a geographer
by love—he had thought it was time for him to give
place to another man, and not imitate the Archbishop
of Toledo, who remained in his office until he might almost
be said to have preached his own funeral sermon. (Laugh-
ter.) If, however, they would kindly bear with his infirmi-
ties he would strive to discharge his duties for another year
to the best of his power. (Cheers.)
The next toast was " The Colonies and the Colonists of
Great Britain," which was given by Lord HOUGiITON, and
acknowledged by Sir STUART DONALDSON.
" The Scientific Societies of Europe, coupled with the
name of Dr. Hoffman," was next:drunk; and, after one or
two other minor toasts, the company separated.

he taTs, a b: eh of t: n..)
ThGrohill, transport, aho Ltd•in with s; orz,s f
Csrfu, has taken the place of the Tonarc, at
woolwieh pier, to dieh!.:rge. Tt whole of
the trarFports engr,ged for that putpi.-+e h;ivc,
now arriv.A, With th 2 exeewion of the Coreyrs,pnt
into Malta fir rcp-irs, and the Transit,

Naval and Military Intelligence.

C:)-rfa har't,our, to up whatever may b 9 found:
bclon ging to Covernmsnt atter the general
cierre-
ecce at the departure of the troops; ordered. to
evacuate on the 6th of June.
The Aurora, 35, screw steam frigate, 2,558 tons,
400 horse power, Capt. Sit-F. Leopold M'Ciintock,
is now at Sheerness receiving stores, recoaling, and
awaiting Admiralty orders.
Her Mejesty's screw steam corvette Clio, 22 guns,
1,472 tens, 400 horse power, which has for some
time past been in the hands of the dockyard arti-
ficers, is nrw completed, and is placed in the Ist
division of the Sheerness Steam Reserve, ready for
the pennant. She will be taken out of the fitting
basin in Sheerness dockyard on Wednesday next,
and tried at the measured mile on the following day.
The Icarus, 11, screw sth&msloop, 580 tons, 150
horse power, which has arrived at Sheerness from
the Mediterranean, in command of Acting Com-
mander H. T. Bager, has been inspected by Capt.
T. Falford, of the Formidable, bl?gship of Sir Chas.
Talbot, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness,
and will be paid out of commission this day.

THE NAVY.

MALTA, May 18,

The Frederick William, screw line of battle ship,
in the first class of the Steam Reserve at Ports-
mouth, and fitted for commission, was taken out of
harbour
.raterclay on her half-yearly trial of ma-
chinery, under the supervision of the officers of the
Steam Reserve and factory. The ship afterwards
again returned to the harbour.
Her Majesty's steam store-ship Dee, Master Com-
mander Raymond, yesterday sailed from Woolwich
laden with steam machinery for the ironship Agin-
court, building at Birkenhead. The Dee had a
couple of boilers and other gear weighing 100 tons
lashed fast on the open deck. She also took 43 lade
for the Imprrgnable at Devonport.
The Britain's Pride, transport, in the service of
the War Department, now at Woolwich pier, has
shipped the following cargo :-58 tons of iron
girders, for completing bombproof sheds, 30 tons of
shot, and 100 tons of Tower stores, and will fill in
her magazines with 185 tons of powder, fuzes, and
other combustib:e stores for Halifax. The Melina,
also for h alifax, has left Woolwich for the docks to
complete her cargo; and the Ida was yesterday
surveyed by Capt. Hall and the officers of the ship-
ping department, with a view of her being taken
up for the same destination.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Sab-Lieut. Gilbert V. Story, to
the Aurora; Fitzpatrick W. Revd and J. A. Fraser,
midshipmen, to the Enterprise; and Peter Samson,
' assisteengineer, to th, Assurance.

The Trident, steam sloop, arrived on the Bth from
Corfu, to which portthe Magicienne, steam frigate,
was despatched on the 10th, and returned cu the
14th, with the diligence for which this vessel, under
the command of Capt. Armytage, has been remark-
able. Ehe brought two b%tottries of artillery, con-.
siOing of Lieut.-Col- Maude, four other tirn‘r,, 246
non-commisi:oned officers and gu-drere, 21 ?S-emen,
40 children, four prisoners, and two hospital at-
tendants. The Liffey, Et,3ana frigate, left for Z trite
on the 11th, for the purpose of removing the troops
from that island, and relieved there the Cossack,
which reached Malta on the 13th. The Fomhound,
stenna gunboat, was despateled on the Bth to Sacs,
at the solicitation of some Maltese merchants. %Alio
• had received alarming intelligence of threats
against the Christian end the Jewish population on
ti,c part of the revolted Arabs. Oa the 14th and

15th a number of families reached Malta in four
smitill coasting craft, in ell some 250 persons, for the
safety of their lives, and others are looked for. The
Foxhound returned on the 15th, having run along
the coast as far as Tunis. She brings intelligence
from the British Consul-General, Vice-Consuls, and
Consular agents, from which it would appear that
the Arabs are close upon Tunis. They are said to
be 40,000 strong, under the command of a renegade
Frenchman, and they maintain a menacing atti-
tude against the Bey, though no positive act of
aggression had been committed against Chris-
tians. The Ottoman steam frigate Feizi Babri,
having on board his Excellency Haydar Effendi,
a special envoy from the Sultan to the Bey of
Tanis, left Malta for Tunis on the 10th of May,
accompanied by the Monbir Souror steam frigate
and the Peki Cherrif despatch boat. The French
Admiral is said to have questioned the right of the
Sultan to send a naval demonstration to Tunis
under the present disturbed state of affairs in that
Regency, to which the Envoy, Haydar Effendi, had
very properly paid no attention. The matter seem°,
however, to have been considered of sufficient im-
portance to call for the presence of an increased
naval British force. Accordingly, on the 16th, the
Resistance, ironclad steam frigate, was despatched
from Malta to Suss, and the Psyche, dispatch
steamer, to Tunis. The Foxhound left on the same
day for Melidia, and the Trident on the 18th for
Getba, in the regency of Tunis. The Meannee and
the Psyche returned to Malta from Tunis on the
18th, bringing dates thence to the 17th, announcing
the arrival of the Italian steam frigate Re d'ltalia
with 200 marines to be landed in case of need. The
insurrection had not yet been put down, but the
Bey had superseded the Governor of Suss for allow-
ing himself to be panic striken. A French line of
battle ship had been despatched to a point north-
west of Tunis, where the public peace had been
threatened. The Imperial Ottoman steam yaoht
Feizi Djehart, having on board his Excellency
Vice-Admiral Roussan Pasha, arrived at Malta from
Constantinople on the 12th of May to be docked
and cleaned. On the evening of Sunday, the 15th,
this magnificent vessel, as well as the Mahomed
Ali, Egyptian steam frigate, was most brilliantly

illuminated, and on the following day dressed out
with flags innumerable in honour of the feast of the

Bairam. The Sofia, a small Nile steamer, intended
as a yacht for the Pasha of Egypt, arrived at Malta
on the 15th of May from Newcastle, Falmouth, and
Lisbon, and left for Alexandria on the nth. TLe
Italian steam frigate Principe Humberto, having on
board upwards of 100 naval students on a voyage
of instruction, arrived from the Piraeus of Athens
on the 11th, lac for Syracuse on the 14th of May,
and returned to Malta on the 17th. Her Majesty's
screw steam ship the Marlborough, bearing the
fig of tha naval Commander-in-Chief, ac
wili eompa-
nied by the Magicienne, steam frigate, leave
Malta on the 21st of litay for Corfu, to be
present at the cession of the lonian IslandS to
Greece, and also to assist, if necessary, in removing
the British garrison, if tho steam tranaports do not
reach in time. The Dromedary, screw steam.
transport, arrived from Gibraltar on the 12th, and
left for Corfu to take in stores on the (19y
follow-
in. The Supply, storeship, also took her depar-
ture for Corfu on a like mission on the 14th of May.
The Tamar, screw steam-transport, arrived at
Malta on the 17th from Cape Coast Castle, the
Island of St. Vincent, Madeira, and Gibraltar, will
leave Corfu to take in troops on the 24th. Lieut.
Hanson, a Supernumerary Lieut. of this vessel, is
to be tried by Court-martial to-morrow, the 19th,
on a charge of having been found intoxicated and
asleep during his watch at sea.
The Norwegian transport Tanaro, damaged by a
Spanish gunshot from the Fort of Tarifa, as re-

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