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(24_0 0D SOCIETY.
k By Mrs. GREY, Author of " The Gambler's Wife," &c.
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not only to avoid the dangers of the land, but the possibi-
lity of collision with another vessel. Bearing in mind the
judicious conduct of the master during several days on this
voyage while crossing the Banks, I am utterly at a loss to
account for the subseqaent want of caution. But the safety
of the public demands that so grave a fault should be visited
by heavy censure, and should be followed by such a sen-
tence as shall mark the determination of the Court to pre-
vent, if possible, the recurrence of similar disasters. It is
my painful duty, therefore, with the full concurrence of my
assessors, to suspend the certificate of Mr. Andrew
M'Master, for the period of 12 calendar months from the
date of this report,—l have, &c.,
T. S. RAFFLES, Police Magistrate.
Liverpool, Oct. 10th, 1863.
We concur in this report,

HY. HARRIS'
Nautical Assessors.
h. B. BAKER,

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.

EDINBURGH, Wednesday.
DINNER OF THE ASSOCIATION.

At 6 o'clock the annual dinner of the association was
held in the Music-hall, and was attended by from 400 to
500 ladies and gentlemen. The chair was occupied by the
Right Hon. Lord Brougham, at whose right hand sat the
Lord Provost, the Lord Advocate, the Right Hon. Joseph
Napier, Lord Ardmillan, Mr. J. A. Lawson, Solicitor-
General of Ireland ; Professor Christison, Admiral Ramsay,
Mr. C. Cowan, Mr. H. Fawcett, and Professor Archer. On
the left were the Hon. Judge Longfield, Lord Neaves, M.
Gamier Pages, Mr. Sergeant Shee, Professor Douglas
Maclagan, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. Henry Brougham.
The Rev. Dr. LEE said grace, and the Rev. Dr. ALEX-
ANDER returned thanks.

Lord BROUGHAM, who, on rising to give the first toast,
was loudly cheered, sald,=-/4-liave very-great satisfactioiltt

proposing " The health of her Majesty the Queen ;" and
I shall only repeat what I have said over and over again at
our festive and other meetings, that there never was a
monarch who better deserved the thanks of the people as
ruling strictly according to the Constitution. In the dis-
charge of all the duties of her eminent position she is an
example to all her subjects; and as a parent in bringing up
her family she is an example to all mothers. I have, there-
fore, great pleasure in proposing "Her Majesty the Queen."
(Loud cheers.)
Lord BROUGHAM, in giving the next toast, said—We have
drunk to the cause; I have now to ask you to drink to the
effect—l mean the effect of the good education and the
admirable training by her Majesty and the late lamented
Prince Consort, who have brought up their family in such
a way as I believe no other family in their position were
almost ever educated. They say comparisons are invidious,
and therefore I shall neither, to find a contrast, go to former -
times in this country, nor look abroad to other countries for
the state and the position of princes ; but I will give you at
once " The Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of
the Royal Family." We have had a sample of the Royal
family here during the congress—a most excellent young
prince—(loud applause)—and all who have associated with
him have expressed their admiration for his talents as well
as for his modesty. (Cheers.)
Lord BROUGHAM again rose and said—l have to trouble
you once more to ask you to offer your respect, your grati-
tude to our brave defenders by sea and land, the "Navy
and Army and Volunteers." (Applause.) Let no man sup-
pose that he who rejoices in this great addition to our
national forces, the Volunteers, does so from any apprehen-
sion that the peace will be broken. (Hear.) Thank God I
there is every reason to count on a lasting peace. (Cheers,)
But that is no reason why the precaution ought not to be
taken of insurance. (Hear.) When a man insures his
house he does not expect a fire. He does not do it because
he thinks a fire probable. He knows that a fire may hap-
pen from the negligence of the people in his own house, or
from the negligence of the neighbours, or by the accident of
lightning. In short, he means to take security against it
happening, or rather to be secure of not loosing if it should
happen. Now, the Volunteers, or whatever else we do to
improve our national defences, are an insurance; but they
are an insurance far superior to our insurance against fire;
for when I insure my house against fire, I don't in the
slightest degree lessen the chances that a fire may happen,
I only make sure that if it does happen I shall not be a
loser. But improving our national defences not only secure
us against loss by invasion, if it should happen, but it makes
it very unlikely that that invasion should take place. (Loud
cheers.) The insurance is, therefore, of a double nature
and of a double value, because it not only prevents loss if
the mischief happens, but tends to prevent the mischief
from happening. (Loud Cheers.) I, therefore, gave you
" The Navy, Army, and Volunteers."
Admiral Ramsay, Sir J. Alexander, and Lieutenant-
Colonel M'Gregor successively replied to the toast.
The Lonn-Pnovosz then gave "'.l he National Associa-
tion and its President. He said,—lt would be equally
beyond my ability and beyond the limits of one toast to
attempt that comprehensive allusion to all the varied and
lofty qualities which is due to the widely-honoured name of
Henry Brougham. If I did attempt it I should have to
speak of a career which for brilliant success, the application
of extraordinary powers of mind, for extended duration and
unabated vigour, has rarely, if it has at all been equalled in
the history of great public men. (Loud cheers.) Perhaps
not the least celebrated feature in the life of our noble Pre-
sident is that untiring determination to remain, while health
and strength permits, in full working harness; and it as-
suredly forms a noble record that, after a professional career
which has yielded every honour due to distinguished emi-
nence, after and amid the turmoil of parliamentary life, Lord
Brougham has devoted his great energies of mind to the
philanthropic objects of this association. (Loud cheers.)
Lord BROUGHAM, in reply, after expressing gratification
at the presence of the ladies, said—lt gives me great delight
to preside over such a vast assemblage as this—all members
or the friends of members of our great national association.
(Cheers.) Now I hear it carped at in different ways. One
objection is to the name " Social Science." We have heard
that cavil at our former meetings, and it has been renewed
on the present occasion. Now, I can only say we did not in-
vent the name. Upwards of 40 years ago Mr. Mill, a cele-
brated literary man, and author of a History of Egypt, and
father of John Stuart Mill, used the term " social science"
in one of his valuable essays, But the fact is, there can be
no doubt whatever of the meaning of the expression, and
of the nature of our pursuits. (Hear.) Now, the delight
which I have in this institution and in its success is not
little. (Applause.) If anybody ask—as those who carp at
the name ask—what does it do, I will not go into particu-
lars, but 1 take my stand on one name—the name of our
fellow-member Mr. Chadwick, and I say look to his great
1 and successful exertions in improving the sanitary condition
of our Indian army—look at the improvements which
have arisen from his exertions at Liverpool, and after-
wards at Bradford. Look also at the great addition to
the education of the country by the adoption of the short
' time process; and I say that these two-instances, and all
effected by this association, are quite enough to show how
useful, practically, we have been, (Cheers.) I have seen
very great exception taken to one or two things I stated in
my opening address, and among other things exception is
taken to my having praised and recommended the Sisters of
Charity. It is said, But you recommend Catholics; you
recommend the importation from France of Catholic Sisters
of Charity, who will immediately set themselves to prosely-
tise this country. My answer is this--that in the case of
Lady Georgina Fullerton and Miss Easton we did not im-
port Catholics from France or Ireland, for they are our fel-
low-countrywomen, who happen to be Catholics, and the
only person who came from France was the sister superior.
The rest are all English Catholics, and I have seen here to-
day some most worthy persons, Sisters of Charity also, who
come from France, and they are Catholics, no doubt, but
they are Englishwomen and Scotchwomen who have been
settled in France, and have come back. to this country. But
it is not to be supposed that I only praised or recommended
the Catholic sisterhood. I expressly pointed out Miss
Brownlee Byron's Home Refuge for Eaglish Sisters of
Charity, and stated that they performed all the nursing at
the North London Hospital in connexion with University
College. (Applause.) I have also got a letter from a man
connected with America, who tells ale there is great excep-
tion taken on the part of the American newspapers in this
country to my differing with the United States Government
on the subject of this horrible war. It is said that I under-
rate and undervalue the emancipation of the slaves. I under-
value the emancipation of the slaves I (Loud and pro-
longed cheers). Why, have all the advocates of slave
emancipation done half so much for the liberation of the
slave and the abolition of slavery as I myself have done ?
(Loud cheers.) At the very beginning of my Parliamentary
life it was signalized by the Act of 1811, the one which of
all the many Acts I have had a hand in passing gave me
the most real satisfaction, namely, the Act abolishing the
slave trade. Before the Act the slave trade was considered
a mere act of contraband, and was punished as contraband ;
and my act raised, or rather, sank it to its real denomina-
tion of a crime—and a bad crime—punishable by 14 years
transportation. (Cheers.) And that act effectually extin-
guished the slave trade in as far as British subjects
were engaged in it. Then, in 1836 or 1837 I shortened
the period of negro apprenticeship, and occasioned the
complete liberation of the slaves three or four years before
it otherwise would have taken place. Then, I may add,
though it is a trifle as compared with these exertions, I
i may add a very great personal sacrifice. I gave up a very
considerable estate in Barbadoes and a large estate in the
a kind-hearted gentleman had
county of Durham, which
left me by a will which he afterwards revoked on my re-
fusing to abstain from further proceedings for the libera-
tion of the slaves, though he said in his letter in which he
called on me to abstain, " I assure you that your peasantry
on yourßarbadoes estate are better off than your peasantry
on your Durham property." (A laugh.) It was enough to
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in the county of Durham. I should not have valued the B ar-
badoes estate so much, but I declined taking the course he
desired, and sent him a copy of a report of my friend the
Duke of Richmond's committee of the House of Lords on
slavery, after which I ceased to have any correspondence
with that excellent proprietor, and a few years afterwards
he died, and no doubt his will was cancelled. (A laugh.)
I only state these things to show that for anybody to sup •
pose that I am slow, or unwilling, or hesitating on the ques-
tions of the abolition of negro slavery is really a most mon-
strous delusion. (Loud cheers.) All my efforts were to-
wards emancipation without violence—emancipation by
change of law and change of system,—and never did I lend
the slightest countenance to acts of violence against the
slaveholder. Much as I detest slavery,and much as I pitied
those who were its victims,--and I pitied among its victims
the masters as well as the slaves themselves—never did I
raise my finger or raise my voice for an instant in support
of any violent proceeding to effect their emancipation.
Consequently when I heard of North America issuing a
proclamation to emancipate the slaves, I knew very well
before they confessed it that it was not for the sake of
emancipating the slave—(hear, hear)--but for the sake of
beating the whites. It was a measure of hostility, not
an act of emancipation, ani a measure of hostility of the
most detestable kind, by raising an insurrection of the slaves
against their masters, which only the much-enduring nature
of the negro prevented from succeeding, so that the great
mischief that was intended against the whites did not take
place. (gear, hear.) But I must beg your pardon for
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having defended myself against so ridiculous a charge,
which could only have arisen from utter delusion. They
call out for the extermination of the whites, not in order to
liberate pie blacks, but to restore the Union. (Cheers.) The
-union, and not the negro, is the object of the emancipation
proclamation, and to that proclamation, therefore, I could
not give any kind of support. It is a most unhappy contest,
..niget miserable in all respeCts, but I hope we shall continue
en the principle on which we have hitherto proceeded—of
interfering with neither party. (Cheers.) The Federals
are angry with us because we don't join with them, and the
Confederates are angry with us because we do not acknow-
ledge them ; but if we were to acknowledge them we should
only prolong this horrible and miserable contest. We have
nothing to do with either one party or the other. (Hear.)
We are bound to maintain our own independence of them,
and leave them to fight it out among themselves, only
heartilypraying that their fight may be as short as possible.
(Loud cheers.) Lord Brougham again rose and proposed
4, The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, and pros-
perity to the city of Edinburgh." (Load cheers.).

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printed, without the names of the writers, for the amuse-
ment of the readers of Notes and Queries, First Series, xii. 57
7. An elderly man came to me to show me how the uni-
verse was created.—There was one molecule, which by vi-
bration—Heaven knows how I—the san. Further vibra-
tion produced Mercury; and so on. I suspect the nebular
hypothesis had got into the poor man's head by reading,
in some singular mixture with what it found there. Some
modifications of vibration gave heat, electricity, &c. I lis-
tened until my informant ceased to vibrate, which is always
the shortest way, and then said, "Our knowledge of elastic
fluids is imperfect." " Sir," said he, " I see you per-
ceive the truth of what I have said, and I will reward
your attention by telling you what I seldom disclose,
never except to those who can receive my theory ; the
little molecule whose vibrations have given rise to our
solar system is the Logos of St. John's Gospel." He went
away to Dr. Lardner, who would not go into the solar
system at all; the first molecule settled the question. So
hard upon poor discoverers ate men of science who are
antiquaries in their subject ! On leaving, he said, " Sir,
Mr. De Morgan received me in a very different way; he
heard me attentively, and I left him perfectly satisfied of
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