The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-22 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Fairy Royal steam-yacht, Master-Commander
Welch, steamed from Osborne yesterday afternoon, with
the Duchess of Kent and the juvenile Royal family on
board, round Spithead and Portsmouth Harbour. The
Colossus and Hornet at Spithead, the flag-ships Victory
and St. Vincent, and all the other vessels in harbour hoisted
masthead flags as their Royal Highnesses steamed past,
and the Victory manned yards.
Yesterday the High Marshal of the Admiralty gave no-
tice on the Royal Exchange that within 20 days the Court
of Admiralty would proceed to condemn the Dutch vessel
Minima, of which W. von Poelman was late the master, a
lawful prize to her Majesty's ship Archer, Captain Heath_
cote, and she, with her cargo, will be sold for the benefit
of the captors. The Minima was taken trying to break the
blockade of Riga.
The gun carriage which was torn to pieces by the burst-
ing of the 56-pounder gun of 93 owt. at Shoeburyness has
to Woolwich, and is now at the Royal
A number of men sent home on claiming their discharge,
Ab eresne
nal. brought up
and also invalids, arrived at Gravesend, in the Hampshire
on Saturday last, with the right wing of the 94th Regi-
ment. Several of the men discharged from regiments
serving in the Bengal presidency would have volunteered
for active service if they had been allowed to do so.

The Parlanterto of Turin, of the 17th, states thrt
Chevalier Bonelli has started the idea of having a ITti-
versa! Exhibition at Turin in 1857, and that it meets
with great favour them,

section D.—Zoology and Botany, including Physiology.
—President : Prof. Balfour. Vice-Presidents : Wm. Car-
penter, M.D., F.R.S. ' • Charles Burlington, Esq., F.R.S. ;
Prof. T. Huiley,F.R.S. ; Sir W. Pardine, Bart. Secre-
taries : Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S. ; Isaac Byerley,
Esq.
Section E.—Geography and Ethnology.—President : Sir
R. I. Murchison, M.A., G.C.St.S., F.R.S. Vice-Presi-
dents: Colonel Chesney, F.R.S. ; Captain Fitzroy, R.N.;
Robert Latham ; Sir R. Inglis, Bart. .

Geography.—Secretaries Norton Shaw, M.D., Sec. Roy.
Geog. Sec. Ethnology Richard Cull, Sec. Eth. Society ;
Dr. Ihno, Liverpool.
Section F.—Statistics.—President Thomas Tooke,
F.R.S. Vice-Presidents : Colonel Sykes, F.A.S. ; William
Brown, Esq., M.P. ; Richard M. Manes, Esq., ALE,
Secretaries : William Newmarch, Esq. ; Edward ieshire,
Esq. ; Dr. Duncan, Liverpool; J. T. Danson.
Section G.—Mechanical Science.—President : John
Scott Russell, M.A., F.R.S. Vice Presidents : William
Fairbairn, F.R.S.; James Nasmyth,
F.R.S.;
Thomas
Webster, F.R.S. Secretaries : James Oldham, Esq.,
C.E. ; John Grantham, Esq., C.E., Liverpool.
The Inaugural Address was delivered by the President,
the Earl of Harrowby, in the Philharmonic Hall, on Wed-
nesday evening, before a large assemblage of members of
the association. Shortly after the appointed hour (8
p.m.), Lord Harrowby came upon the platform, accom-
panied by the Earl of Derby, Lord Wrottesley, Sir Robert
Harry Inglis, Hon. Mr. Liddell, M.P., the Dean of Ely,
the Mayor of Liverpool (J. B. Lloyd, Esq.), the High
Sheriff, and other gentlemen.
Colonel SABINE then came forward, and said—Ladies
and gentlemen, we will now commence, if you please, the
twenty-fourth annual meeting of the British Association.
The president of the last year, Mr. Hopkins, is in the chair,
and he will be sacceeded by Lord Harrowby as the presi-
dent of the next. (Applause).
Mr. FIOPKINS then came forward, and in brief terms
expressed his sense of the honour which had been conferred
on him in his holding the presidency of the association
during the past year, and concluded by congratulating the
association in having for their president during the ensuing
year a nobleman so distinguished and so respected as the
Earl of Harrowby. (Applause.)
Lord HARROWBY then arose, and was received with loud
and prolonged applause. His lordship said—l cannot pro-
ceed to the main portion of my address without expressing
in a very few words my deep sense of the kind manner in
which my name has been introduced to your notice by my
distinguished predecessor. He has used expressions in
regard to me which I feel myself to be disentitled to, at
the same time that I am quite aware there are many old
associations within the walls of Liverpool which may well
incline you to listen indulgently to what he has said.
(Loud and renewed applause.) It has not been my habit
much to enter on those fields of discussion. It has not
been my habit much to prepare considerately what I should
address to my audience, still less to write out at full length
what I have to say ; at the same time, considering the
nature of the subject and the habit of this association, I
have thought it fitting to pursue a course which is, per-
haps, not very congenial to my habits. I hope, therefore,
ladies and gentlemen, that you will deign some indulgence
to one who appears before you for the Ergt time ae an
author. (Laughter and applause.) His lordship then pro-
ceeded to read the following