The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

Arcliceological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland,

WARWICK, Tuesday.

The annual meeting of this body was opened here
this afternoon under distinguished auspices. The
inaugural meeting was held at the Court-house,
where a large number of archreelogists and ladies of
Warwickshire attended. On the platform were the
Marquis Camden, Lord Leigh, the Bishop of Oxford,
Mr Greaves, M.P., Archdeacon Sandford, Dr Hooke
(Dean of Chichester), DrWhewell (Master of Trinity
College, Cambridge), Dr Guest (Master of Gonville
and Caine College, Cambridge), Mr Bracebridge, Mr
Beresford Hope, Sir John Boyleau, and Sir H.
Kirby, C.B.
The Marquis Camden having resigned the post of
president to Lord Leigh, and the Corporation of
Warwick having presented an address of con-
gratulation,
The PPESIDENT-ELECT, (Lord Leigh) delivered
a brief inaugural address. He considered it a high
honour to be called upon to preside over the deliber-
ations of a society that had saved so many objects
of interest in the country from destruction, and
trusted they should derive great pleasure from their
visit to Warwick and to the ancient castle of Kenil-
worth, which, in the " golden drys," had been visited
by good Queen Bess.
Dr WHEWELL and Mr. GREAVES, M.P., added a
few words in commendation of the object of their
meetings. _

Mr BEItESFORD HOPE acknowledged the kind=
news with which the society had been received.
corned the society to the diocese of War-
Archdeacon SANDFORD
cester, and spoke of , for the clergy, wel-
the valuable set vices
rendered by archmology in the restoration of
the sacred fabrics of the land, not only from ancient
barbarism, but from the Goths and Vandals of
modarn times, the mistaken zeal of churchwardens
and clergy, and from utilitarian seffishness.
(Applause.)
The Bishop of OXFORD rose to acknowledge the
welcome that had been given to the society by vari-
ous bodies, and particularly by the clergy of the
diocese. Coming there as aret wologists, they
looked back and thought of the long roll of worthies
connected with the county that they mighty refer
to. He might begin with the great name of Wul-
sten, than which there was no greater name among
Saxon worthies, and, going rapidly down the list,
they came to a mediaeval name, the great Dr. Parr,
who certainly would have astonished Wulstan if
he had seen him. Still farther down the list they
crowning all—they
Then the great reign-
ing Abbot of Leigh had received them with more
ifnougndolelotbherreteoftoCgheitchheers_terp—ar(ra,Bla:gb)—and, unit-
it, Chichester's
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mighta nwde ltbhee
p rgorueda to
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than abbatial hospitality. it was not only in the
gratification of those who came to these meetings
that they were serviceable, ')ut it Was also that they
might engraft on others their peculiar insanity, that
they might, as it were, bite them and make them as
mad as themselves. (Laughter.)
Everything, he
would say, that tended to make them live out of the
mere present, and to carry them back to the past,
had a tendency to carry them on to the future ;
therefore it was not as mere old mites living in some
remote cheese, but as men loving the past and look.,
ing on to the future, that they came among them
and heartily thanked them for the reception they

had given them.
Mr BRACEBRIDGE called the attention of the
visitors to a dungeon under the old gaol which had
been visited by the philanthropic Howard.
Mr BLOISOME gave a short history of the county,
and showed that it had been visited by many
crowned heads—Edward 1., 11., and IV., Richard

I. and 111., Henry VII•, Elizabeth, lames 1.,
Charles I. and IL, William 111., George IV., Wil•
Liam IV., and Queen Victcria. Amongst its poets

were Drayton, Shakspere, Somerville, and Walter
Savage Landor, still living. He was glad to con-
trast the language of public addresses of the pre-

sent time, such as that they had received from the
corporation of Warwick that day with the language
used in former times. In the reign of Queen Eliza-
beth they would remember that the people of Co-
ventry, being told that the Queen admired poetry,
hired a poet to apostrophise her Majesty, and an
address couched in the following terms was pre-
sented to the Queen
" We men of Coventry
Are very glad to see
Your gracious Majesty—
Good Lord, how fair ye be I"
To which Queen Elizabeth is said to have replied-
6, Our gracious Majesty
Is very glad to see
The men of Coventry—
Good lack, what fools ye be l"
(Laughter.)
This concluded the formal business of the morn-
ing, and Mr PETET then read a paper on the painted
glass in the Beauchamp Chapel, after which the
chapel was visited.
To-morrow Warwick and Kenilworth Castles
will be visited.

CITY SEWERS CONMISSIQN,

'elock,---t..—he Commissioners cf Sewers o.
assembled at Guildhall for the despatch
Yesterday, at 12 o
previous
A deputation waited upon the Commissioners to urge
the city of London
of business.
Wood-
street, so as to widen that thoroughfare
at the southern end of
the court on a
upon them the desirability
setting back certain
premises
o 1 effeeting ainn order improvement
to allo wby
the same time. The matter had
sbille,fiocwrleeass asked for the ground required to be laid into
us occasion, and was re-
ferredbttwoe :been
vehicles
t o the passinglmprovement
report. A sum of x 1,000, ommittee for consideration and
which was subsequently reduced
the public way, but the
improvement was not of suchimaissioners considered that the
nature as to justify them in
the rates, but they consented
expending that amount out of
to subscribe £3OO, if the inhabitants of the locality, who
would chiefly be benefited by
the improvement, would
Several
sub-
scribe
the remainder. firms in the neighbourhood
had since agreed to contribute £3OO, and it was now urged
that, as the improvement was one of a public nature, the
Commissioners ought to pay the
remainder.
The whole of the circumstances
were again laid before the
Commissioners, but the chairman
intimated an opinion that,
as they had adopted the report of
the Improvement Com-
mittee, and had decided not to s 0
:tribute a larger sum than
£3OO towards the improvement, Wee of motion must bo
given to rescind the decision then come to, before any fur-
ther proposition could be made, The matter consequently
was allowed to drop.
UNWHoz.Esoltin FIB
11.
Mr ToWSE, the clerk of the Fishmongers' Company, sub-
' *
rn
mitted to the court retuns of unwholesome ash seized by the
inspectors of the company during the
month of April, May,
and June last. Subjoined are the quantities, as reported :
April-194 cod, 1,000 dabs, 17 dorees, 1,600 gurnets, 313
haddocks, 31,500 herrings, 2,6.38 plaice,
Amelia, 1 turbot, 1,530 whitings, icw t 5 skate, 28,100
cod sounds, 1 kit of
pickled salmon, 89 gallons of shrimpe, and 20 gallons of
whitebait. May-175 bream, 4 brill,
22 cod, 171 crabs,
1,503 dabs, 1,200 gurnets, 971 haddocks, 12,200 herrings,
269 lobsters, 177 maids, 173 plaice, 4 skate, 3 soles, 107
thornbacks, 37 trout, 4 turbot, 9,660
Whitings, 501bs of cod
sounds, 743 gallons of shrimps, 38 bushels
and 30 quarts of
whelks. Juee-38 brill, 28
cod, 26,800 dabs, 21,000 gur-
nets, 120 haddock, 892 mackerel, 22 nnalets, 9,091 plaice, 8
salmon, 34 skate, 961 soles, 4,173 thornbacks, 25 turbot,
41,980 whitings, 471hs of eels, 3,400 gallons of shrimps, and
81 quarts of whitebait.
From the weekly report of Dr. Letheby on the sanatory
state of the City it appeared that 287 houses
had been in-
spected sines the last meeting, and a lint of 117
places was
submitted for sanatory improvement, lie also handed in a
list of places requiring further proceedings on account of
orders already issued, but not yet complied
The markets and slaughter-houses were duly inspected,
with.
and the officers had seized 6,4771bs 01 meat as unfit for
human food. It consisted of 25 sheep, 1
calf, 14 pigs, 33
quarters of beef, and numerous joints of meat.
The mortality returns for the week are a little above the
average for the season. Last week the number of deaths
was 56, the average for the corresponding week
of the last
8 years being 48. Twenty-twet or Lead
hail
5y half of all the
deaths, were among children of less t
14 among persons of 60 and upwards. Thyeeaorhaieof age, and
chief causes of
death were as follows ;—Phthisis 7, pneumonia 2, bronchitis
4, whooping-cough, fever, and diarrhea r, each 1; scarlet
fever 2, and measles 3.
GAS SUPPLY TO Tim CITY.
Dr. Letheby, in a supplemental report stated, that the
to
illuminating power of the gas supplied the City during
the past week has been in each case above the requirements
of the Act cf Parliament, but the average proportion of
sulphur in the case of the Great Central gas has been above
the amount sanctioned by Parliament.
The Commissioners shortly afterwards adjourned.

PANEGYRICan
O
IL I—Dsntu and Co.
have
eN DESztrrraolirdEinaryM M
work by M. J. M. C.ayla,
on tho subject of the Devi!, entitled " Le Diable, sa Gran-
deur et sa Decadence.".