The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-02 00:00:00

Mr. OSWALD asked if any call had been paid since
2.2(1.Ju1y ?

CHAIRMAN—No.

Mr. OSWALD said he thought it would be well not
to abolish the Company, but to reduce the expense to
a cipher, keeping up the Company still. By this
means they would be able to continue as long as Lord
Morpeth was a Minister.—(A laugh.) Otherwise 11,
would soon drive them from the field. The Govern-
ment wished to discourage all private enterprise, and
make Ireland the field for their own jobbing to promote
the interests of their political supporters.
Mr. BRYSON suggested, as one of those unfortunate
persons who were to have their quietus in two months,
that they should only be called upon to pay 1,0001. for
the current expenses of the next twelve months. He
thought it neither just nor politic to forfeit their shares.
The CHAIRMAN did not conceive that any benefit
would accrue to the Hon. Gentleman, even if his sug
gestion were carried into effect. Besides, it would be
very unjust to those who had paid the call.—(Hear,
hear.)
Mr. SMITH thought the best way would be for thes(
parties to contribute the money and bring it with then:
on the day on which the Directors would have to cal
on the proprietors to affirm the resolution of the Board
that their shares were forfeited. They could then sa)
—" Here is 1,0001., don't pass that resolution." That
would, probably, have some weight with the Directors
and the Proprietary.

The CHAIRMAN thought that was a very good sug-
gestion, but h wished it to be understood that he dit,
not offer any opposition to the proposal that had beet
made by Mr. Bryson. As there appeared to be n(
chance of having a meeting he thought it was useless tc
wait longer.

The CHAIRMAN then quitted the chair, and the Pro-
prietors present left the house.

ACCIDENT TO LADY CHARLOTTE FITZWIL-
LIAM.-0a Wednesday evening, whilst Laiy Charloth,
Fitzwilliam, accompanied by the Ladies Dorothy anc
Albreda Fitzwilliam, were taking an airing in Wentworth
Park, in a carriage drawn by two ponies, they took frigh,
and ran away in the direction of the stables. In passing
through the gateway the carriage came in contact with r
gate-stone, which overturned the vehicle, and so injure(
Lady Charlotte as to render her for some time insensible.
A messenger was instantly despatched to Dr. Heathcote.
of Rotherham ; but we are glad to learn that her ladyshil
has not sustained any serious injury. Her Ladyship's sisters
escaped uninjured.—Doncaster Gazette.

At the half yearly meeting of the proprietors of
the Northern and Central Bank of England held at Man
chester on Thursday. it was agreed that the firm should b•
dissolved. The outlines of a new bank, to be called the
Alliance Bank, were submitted to the meeting.
It is understood that Mr C. Wood has resigner
the office of Under Secretary to the Admiralty, in conse
quencee of the retirement of his relative, Lord Howick
frum the Administration.

A frightful account of the sufferings of a French
corps, on a recent march in Africa, is given by the Sen
tinelle de I'Armee. It states that, according to a repor
made to General Gucheneuc by the officer who was chid
in command of a detachment sent from Oran to Mostaga-
nem, the corps commenced its movement at four in tht
morning of July 16, for the fountain of Gaudiel, a dis
tance of six leagues, each man carrying on his shout
ders the usual weight of 501bs. On the way not a droi
of water was to be had, nor was there a leaf to shelter tht
men from the sun, the heat of the atmosphere at nint
in the morning rising to 45 degrees of Re,uneur, of
133 of Fahrenheit. Several of the men fell suddenly, as i'
struck by apoplexy; some were saved by immediate bleed.
ing, but others were obliged to be abandoned. At 11
one hour before the time of reaching Gaudiel, 200 mei:
sank at once, overcome by fatigue. However, die!
halting for some, 140 recovered sufficiently to drag them
selves to the place of bivouac. The remaining 60 woe
afterwards carried in by the horse soldiers, who took then.
en croupe. Three men died on the ground ; a sergeant
of grenadiers became mad, seized one of his officers by tht
arm with his teeth, and held so fast that it was necessar
to break them before he would loose his hold. Afterwards.
on seeing a pool of water, the poor fellow plunged into i
and was drowned. Most of the mules which carried th.
officer's baggage, and of the dogs which followed th
troops, died from exhaustion.

Two nights since, as a person named Lebaillet,
a cook at a restaurant, was returning home through th,
Rue du Poncenu, he was suddenly attacked by an indivi
dual, who, without saving a word, struck him violently re
the head. Lebaillet defended himself vigorously, and a,
the same time that he struck his assailant bit him in th
hand. lie nad succeeded in throwing down his adversary
when he was stabbed repeatedly by a second ruffian in th,
back, on the bead, and in the eye. The two wretches the,
made their escape. Oue of them named Hurand, a youn;.
man, but who has already been in the hands of justice, wa,
arrested with the mark of the bite, which be had receive,
upon his hand, and was recognised by his victim. The ,the:
off_•nder, who is only 18 years of age, has also been taken
and acknowledged his crime. Lebaillet, notwithstanding
the prompt aid which was afforded him, is not expected t
survive.—Paris Paper.
FISHING IN THE THAMES.-tit the Man•
siun-house on Friday morning a deputation of the Therm,
fi,herrnen attended before the Lord Mayor to complain o
certain watcrinen who let out their boats to gentlemen tc.
fish on Sundays, which the fishermen were prevented fron
doing. His Lordship said it wa, a hard case on the fisher.
men, and he should see proceedings were taken ugaias
the offenders.

TRAVELLING IN NEW GItANADA.—We en
tcred to. day a second lake smaller than the last. Th(
entrance was through a long narrow passage, along wbicl
the boat was forced with the greatest difficulty over a spe-
cies of water-lily, whose close-twisted and enduring root
formed such a dense resistance; that at one time we ha,'
come fears of not being able to eff2et a passage; and i
was only by stimulating the Bogas with whisky to fresl
exertions, that they persevered and worked their vvati
through. rho toil was most excessive, and could onl)
have been endured by such a race of mortals as these. 0,
the shores el this lake arc large beautiful trees, actually
alive with red monkeys and iguanas, a most disgusting
lo )king animal of the lizard tribe. These red monkey,
make a dreadful marine-, especially at daybreak ;
multitude of them together' send forth sounds bear-
ing so strong a resemblance to the roar of a lion, the'
we took them for such until better informed. At nigh,
we anchored some distance from shore, amid were perfeetl,
free from mosehetos. At daylight we entered just suci
another tangled passage as that we passed yesterday. Thi:
fully merits the appellation which it bears, namely, that of
" the Infernal Paaage." The " patron" or skipper of the
boat, however, did very wrong to atterniA going through
at this hour of the day. Had be but waited until the sun's
power had been sufficiently felt, this prudence would have
saved us from an hour and a half as severe purgatory as
may well be conceived. For at that very moment the
prow of the boat struck the thick bed of the lilies, the ail
was perfectly filled with a species of small gnat, whose
sting was instantaneous and excessively painful. There
was ro way of keeping them at hay. Tney attacked
our very eyelids, lips, nostrils, and the interior of the ears,
All the flapping of hands and handkerchiefs was entirel‘
without avail against the countless legions of such blood-
thirsty and tormenting animals. AS a last resource, we
were obliged to roll ourselves completely up in sheets; yet
within these folds, friendly as they were, we well nigh en-
dured all the horrors of suffocation, not daring to leave
even space sufficient for respiration ; for the very moment •
the smallest aperture was made in our wrapper, in poured a
stream of these malignant little wretches. Never should I
speak disparagingly of moschetoes again after this ac-
quaintance with the gnats that infest the Cienagas o'
Santa Marta. Off at half-past five A et. Had bad poling
to-day, owing to obstructions in the river, caused by
trees, logs, and bushes. Over some of these large
bodies of wood the water runs like a mill-sluice, and
the boat being necessarily kept out from shore in order
to get around them,
_ the water becomes too deep for the
poles to reach the bottom ; and then their only plan is to
propel the boat by applying the poles to the obstructions
themselves, while the bowman keeps it close in by means
of a wooden hook. The exertions made to pass these
places are often terrible to witness; not unfrequently the
wood-hook breaks, the poles slip from off the smooth surface
of the wood, and away goes the boat, like a bolt from th
bow, a mile or so down the current, until she is swept into
shore again by the boat-sweeps, which are nothing more
than flat pieces of board, about two feet long and six or
eight inches wife, lashed to long round sticks. Occur.
rences like these try all one's patience, causing as they do
the loss of ground, which, step by step, had been gained by
so much toil and expense of time. A crew of Bogas at their
daily meal presents a scene worth describing. An immense
red earthen pot is brought reeking hot into the midst of the
savage group, as they are all seated, orrather squatted down
on their hams on the fore-deck, each man having a calabash
shell and wooden spoon, with which he scoops up the
messes of thick boiled rice, plantains, and birs of black
jerked beef, all mixed together : they ate enormous quan-
„titles and very fast, washing it all down with the water of
the river, fresh and muddy as it runs past the boat. The
patron eats of the same food ; but his mess is handed him
aft, and I generally added something from my own table,
with a glass of claret. The dinner hour of the Bogas re•
gulated our own, as it would have been very foolish to stop
the boat again. Yet their behaviour on such occasions
subjected u% to witness the most revolting scenes of filth,
and conduct much below that of the brute creation.—.
Steuart'; Bogota.
_ _

On Monday morning, about four o'clock, a
number of Mr. Wilson's men went down the shank at
Da'marnock Coal Work, as usual, to their employment.
Two of the men, who had arrived a little later than the
rest, but who were to work at the farthest off wall, after
having got about 700 fathoms from the bottom of the
shaft, arid about 35 from the place they were to work
at, their lights coming in contact with some fire damp
which had accumulkted in the pit, it exploded, and b th
the men were killed upon the spot. One of the men was
considerably burned, but the opinion was generally enter-
tained by their fellow workmen, that they had met their
death from the falling of the roof, occasioned by the
explosion. Every exertion was mede by their neighbours
to bring the men to the surface, and not more than fifteen
minutes elapsed before the first was brought up. It was,
however double that time before the same exertions could
be successful in the CAW of the other. The men, Ix e are
informed, were brothers—their names James and Pinkerton
Sudden. The one had been an artilleryman fur twenty-
four years, and was only goine to commence work at Dal-
marnock for the first time on Monday—he was unmarried ;
the other, we are sorry to say, has left a wife and family
to lament his loss. A boy, who was a short way behind
the brothers, escaped with only his hair singed. Several
others also saw the fire from a distance and escaped.—
Glasgow Argus.
It is understood that the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer will continue in town for some time, for the pur-
pose of melting, the necessary preliminary arrangements for
carrying • ff L :,..t,4l.4.4hinen. of the
uniform penny postage.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY EVENING.

The public ordinary was lidd yesterday evening at
the Town Hall, which was well provided for the oeca-
;ion, with accommodation for upwards of 800 members,
the galleries also being filled with ladies. The chair
was taken soon after iitc by the Marquis of Northamp-
ton, who was supported on his right by Mr. Stevenson,
the American Minister ; and on his left by the Earl of
Dartmouth. _ . _

After the toast of the " Queen," the CHAIRMAN gave
the Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal
Family." In this be complimented the active and
never-failing exertions of the Duke of Sussex towards
science, and the honour which he had conferred upon
himself in his Presidency of the Royal Society.
The next toast was " the British Association." The
CHAIRMAN congratulated the meeting on having as their
President the individual for whose exertions the Associa-
tion was mainly indebted for its prosperity. They
were on the eve of the most important at-
empt at science and discovery that had perhaps ever
been made in the new Antarctic expedition. He regretted
on the present occasion the absence of many who threw
a lustre upon the Association, amongst whom was Sir
D. Brewster, to whose high conception of its great utility
the Association was mainly indebted for its existence ;
as also the absence of Sir John Herschell, who had,
however, contributed too much to its interest not to
show the appreciation which he still held it in. He
mentioned these names because rumours had gone
abroad of their secession ; but although it, was undoubt-
edly true that they were not here, he could assert that
none of these distinguished names had quitted its ranks.
Another individual whose absence he regretted was
Professor Phillips, whose attendance was prevented by
the illness of an esteemed friend and relation, Dr.
Smith. This individual was one of the sis upon whom
the University of Oxford conferred an honorary degree
during the visit of the Association within its ancient
walls. He might indeed be esteemed the father of mo-
dern geology from the tnrn which his investigation took,
' squally valuable to the zoologist, from the variety of
new forms which had been brought to light. He had
now to mention the formation of an establishment for
mining records—a point of great importance to
the mining world, as individuals would not
now be likely to throw away their money
in attempts that were useless. The Association
afforded in its meetings an opportunity for philosophers
and men of science to meet from all parts of the
country. The British Association appeared, as it
were, to ann.hilate distance, and bring time together,
and it bad the advantage of promoting intercourse
amongst men of science, not only of this country, but
from the Continent and from America.
The next toast was the health of the President of the
Association, with thanks for the zeal he had shown on
the present occasion. The Noble Chairman said that
it was well known he was the son of the Archbishop of
York, and whilst he was the worthy son of so revered a
sire was a proof against all gainsayers of the connec -
Lion between religion and science. It was impossible
not to notice the attack which had been made against
science on the charge of irreligion. It had been so
said against Galileo and Copernicus, but as we may
be mistaken in the interpretation of the book of nature,
may we not be equally so in the word of God ?. It is
aot consistent to impute unto others opinions which
they do not entertain, and he was well satisfied that the
opinions of the most celebrated geologists, against whom
these imputations were directed, were sincere in their
belief in the Christian religion. Those who were afraid
that science would go against Scripture showed that
want of the thorough confidenCe he had in it. The il-
lustration of revealed religion was under obligation to
geology, and particularly with respect to the opinions
which had been entertained of the origin of man. Some
had supposed that man had existed ad infinitunz ; others
conjectured that he was progressive in his formation ;
but geology confirms the views given in Scripture, by
illustrating that man was of comparative modern date in
the works of the Creator. _ _

Professor WHEWELL next proposed the Scientific
Societies of Great Britain, and the Vice-President the
Marquis of Northampton. One great utility which
the Association possessed was that of bringing into the
provinces in one great body, those s4ho were distributed
in the scientific societies of the metropolis, and concluded
by proposing the Universities of Great Britain.
Mr. BUCKLAND returned thanks, and stated that
felt, that a
strong n
it the last meeting at Newcastle, the connection of
ein u e
mo ande m ct
wasagriculturemaclive to asseastsabbsh
troogla agricultural
y
section, in which such matter could be properly con.
cs
adered ; but this ground had bean ably occupied by
he exertions of that society. Tire attention of Go-
vernment had latterly been drawn to the subject of
economic geology, principally through the exertions of
Mr. De la Beche. It was surprising that whilst al
nest every nation had paid attention to the subject,
England should, until now, have been the only exception.
Our transatlantic brethren were sensible of the import-
ance of the subj,:ct, for each State hai a collection
which might be esteemed a geological reporter. Here
nothing had been done but by the exertions of private
i9dividualg, and one in particular, whose dangerous ill-
ness had been named, who had laid the foundation of
that which had become so high a fabric. He also al-
luded to another commission of great practical and na-
tional importance, as showing the
philosophical principl
on which structures should be founded ; he eluded to
the inquiry into the quality of the stone to be used in
building the new Houses of Parliament. The mining
records which had been deposited in the public office,
for the purpose, showed the advantage which would re-
sult from the accumulation of such resources.
The Marquis of NORTHAMPTON next gave—" The
Trade and Manufactures of Birmingham," in which
the cause of science was most directly concerned.
The MAYOR returned thanks.

The Marquis of NORTHAMPTON said that in propo-
sing Mr. Stevenson, the American Minister, he did so
with greater satisfaction, because his countrymen wer,
associated with ours both in blood and feelings. Al-
though they were not the countrymen of Herschell,
they were of Newton, and he rejoiced to see one of their
most distinguished men at the shrine of British science.
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. STEVENSON thanked the meeting for his country
and for himself. It was scarcely necessary for him,
after his three years' residence, to give that meeting the
solemn assurance that America sincerely desired a con-
tinual peace with Great Britain.—(Cheers ) It was
the interest of his country to continue so ; for what
interest could be stronger than that between mother
and daughter ? It was their desire to do so because
they were bound together in strong and glorious
ties. They were allied to us in blood, religion, ha-
bits, and associations, and they worshipped the same
God in the same manner. These were interests strong
enough to maintain that union between the two
countries which some might in vain attempt to dis-
sever. We live in an enlightened age, which may 'justly
be called the age of improvement, and of' those arts par-
ticularly which give happiness to man, and improve hu-
man nature. Can we look about with apathy when we
see the workings of mechanical arts, or those wondrous
developements in geology, chemistry, astronomy, and
everything which tends to improve and adorn mankind.
We see the mighty power of steam proudly walking over
the waters like a giant refreshed in its strength, and
overcoming the winds and waves ; and what, he would
ask, could induce more to the extension of civilization ?
It increased the prosperity of nations, and made neigh-
bours of people who had never seen each other before ;
and who can assign a limit to this great power which,
on its applications, is probably yet in its infancy ? In
the Association they had nothing to do with the strit.
of political opinion ; they were brought together by one
congenial feeling and in spirit of peace and union, every.
thing was calm around them. He concluded a very
eloquent speech by giving his ardent wishes for con-
tinued prosperity.--(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the distinguished
foreigners present.
The Compte DE PAmßoun returned thanks in French.
_ _

The Marquis of NORTHAMPTON next proposed the
Noblemen and Gentlemen present, or who had given
their countenance by throwing open their houses for the
reception of the members. He was happy to see near
him the Noble Vice-President, Lord Dartmouth, and
also Lord Bradford ; and it gave him great plea.•ure to
state that Sir Robert Peel had also given his counte-
nance, and had accommodated many members of
Drayton.
Lord DARTMOUTH returned thanks by expressing his
warm interest in the prosperity of the Association, and
his opinion that the effects of its visit would be felt with
advantage in the town and neighbourhood.
The next toasts were—" The Philosophical Institu-
tions of Birmingham," which was responded to by Mr.
HODSON, who feelingly alluded to the recent loss of
Mr. Corrie ; and " The Governors and Masters of the
Free School," acknowledged by the Rev. Mr. LEES.
The latter stated that they had just adapted to their
classical school, one for the arts and sciences; the connec-
tion of which could not but be advantageous.
Earl DARTMOUTH having taken the chair, the thanks
of the meeting were voted to the Marquis of Northamp-
ton, who efficiently discharged his duties.

LOUIS PHILIPPE AND A SHAM NAVAL
Fleur.—The King, with the Queen and Princesses, ac-
companied by the Ministers of Finance and Justice, Gene.
rals Delaborde and Romigny' the Countesses of Rumigny
and Angelet, the Commandant of the Military Division,
and the Prefect of Rouen, went on Monday to Treport,
where their Majesties and Princesses embarked in the long
boat of the Royal yacht Reine Amolie for the Veloce. As
Soon as the Royal party were in the boat, they werA saluted
by the Veloce, Pollux, and Tonnerre steamers, the Reine
Amclie, the Itideur, and the Levrier, then in the road-
stead. When the King and Royal Family were on board
all
for nearly an hour and a half. At four their Majestiesthe Veloce, the ships manoeuvred as if in a naval action
landed and returned to the Chateau. In the meantime
the Minister of War had arrived at the Palace. All the
por,,nages who acer:mp
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ti! Rov'll narty in
Lad ;e
honour of dining with their. Majesties.