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Naval and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty was to have reviewed the British German
Legion at the camp at Browndown, Gosport, last evening,
and also the Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards. Every prepa-
ration was made beforehand by Major-General Breton, the
Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, Commander-in-Chief
of the south-west district ; but the weather was so wet
and unfavourable the whole day that her Majesty postponed
the ceremony, and the Ist Dragoon Guards will proceed
to Aldershot to-day.
The depot of the 3d battalion of the Rifle Brigade, con-
sisting of 340 rank and file, joined the gairison at Win-
chester on Wednesday last from Portsmouth.
On Wednesday a public dinner was given at Coventry to
the Scots Greys, or 2d Dragoons, which came into the
town on their way to Ireland. The officers and men of the
10th Hussars, quartered in the town, and the pensioners
of the district, were invited. After the accustomed loyal
toasts, the chairman (Mr. W. Lynes, mayor of Coventry)
proposed the healths of those brave men on whose behalf
the company had th7Lt day assembled—" Colonel Griffiths
and the Royal Scots Greys." Col. Griffiths, in returning
thanks, assured the company, on behalf of every officer,
non-commissioned officer, and man in the regiment, that
the reception they had met with in the city of Coventry
would be for ever remembered, for never had they received
so cordial a welcome as was shown by the immense gather-
ing of people. Of the deeds performed by the Greys at
Balaklava the company around him were sufficiently aware,
and their kindness and hospitality showed him that those
deeds were duly appreciated ; that they valued the men
who did their duty under whatever circumstances they
were called upon to act. He hoped he might be pardoned
if he said he was proud of the command with which her
Majesty had been pleased to entrust him, and of the hon-
ours borne on his breast, which the men of the regiment
under his command had won for him. Several other
toasts, appropriate to the occasion, were given and duly
honoured, The company at dinner numbered about 450,
of whom 300 were privates, 30 officers, and 120 civilians.
Her Majesty's ship Majestic, 81, Captain James Hope,
C. 8., left Spithead yesterday for the Mediterranean.
The steam yacht Black Eagle, Master•Comthander Pet

BRITISH ASSOCIATION PoipliE4D.
VANCEMENT OP SCIENCE.

CHELTENHAM, Arra. 8.
Last night there was a conversazione and musical pro.
menade at the Pittville Spa, a beautiful spot, with ex-
tensive gardens, walks, water, trees, &c. There wa ft
very large muster of ladies and gentlemen until lates ia
the evening. At dusk the electric light was exhibited t
the top of the Pump-room, and for the rest of the even-
ing illuminated not only the gardens but the town of
Cheltenham. There were to have been some fireworks
on the water, but their non-arrival from London caused
some disappointment.
To-day the sectional meetings were resumed at the
College. The following papers were read in the different
sections. Those on the Subject of strychnine created a
SECTION A.—Mathematical and Physical ScienceA.
Cayley—Provisional Report on th e progress ofeoretical
Dynamics. F. A. Oyler—Supplemental Report on Atmo-
spheric Currents. Dr. Ilincks—On the Eclipse o
mentioned in the first Book of Herodotus. Dr. f the Sun.
Booth—.
On the Geometrical Type of Logarithms, and the Tri.
gonometry of the Parabola. Rev. Professor Powell
On Fresnel's Formulm. Dr. Greene—On a Working
Model of a Machine for Polishing Specula and Lenses;
the Construction and Use of a New Polisher. A.
Claudet, F.R,S.—On various Phenomena of Refraction
through Semi-Lenses, producing Anomalies in the
Stereoscopic Imoge. E. Vivian—On Photographs, il-
lustrating. a New Process of introducing Clouds and
Artistic Effects.
SUTTON B.—Chemical Science—Professor Voelcker
—On the Composition of American Phosphate of Lime.
Professor Voelcker—On Basic Phosphates of Lime. Dr.
Gladstone, F.R.S.—On Dichromatic Phenomena exhi-
bited by loured Matters in Solution. Dr. Anderson
On the Constitution of Paraffine from different sources.
B. C. Brodie, P.R.S.—On a new Combination of Car.
bon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen, formed by the Oxidation
of Graphite ; and on the appearance of Carbon under
the Microscope. Dr. Stephenson Macadans—On the
Detection of Strychnine (Illustrated with Experiments).
T. Horsley—On several New Methods of detecting
Strychnia and Bruoia. A new Method of Extracting
the Alkaloids from Nux Vomica, for Toxicological and
Manufacturing Purposes. Experiments on Animals with
Strychnia, and probable reasons for the non-detection of
Strychnia in certain cases. A new Method of Institut-
ing post mortem Researches for Strychnia.
SECTION C.—Geology—Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S.
—On some Phenomenain the Malvern District. Pro-
fessor James Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S.—On the Oolite,
Rocks of the Cotteswold Hills. Professor Owen,
—On a New Species of Anoplotherioid Mammal (Dicho-
bune Ovinum Cuv.) from the Upper Eocene of Nerd.
well, Hantq, with remarks on the genera Dichobune,
Xiphodon, and Micretherium. Professor Owan—On
the Scelidotherium leptocephalum, a Megatherioid
quadruped from La Plata. Edward Hull, F.G.S.—
On the Geology of the Cotteswold Hills. T. Wright,
M.D., F.R.S.E.—On the Occurrence of Upper Lias
Ammonites in the (so called) Basement Bed of the In;
ferior Oolite. Charles Moore, F.G.S.—On the Middle
and Upper List of the West of England. Rev. P. B.
Brodie, M.A., F.G.S.—On some new species of Lies
Corals. Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S.--On a new
species of Pollicipes in the inferior Oolite. John E. Lee,
F.G.S.—On some fossil fishes from the strata of the
Moselle. John E. Lee, F.G.S.—On an Elephant's
grinder from the Cerinthium Limestone.
SECTION D.—Zoology and Botany, including Physio-
logy.—Rev. L. Jenyns—On the Variation of Species.
Professor Henslow—On Triticoidal forms of 2Egilops.
Professor Henslow—On the Specific Identity of Cen-
taurea , nigrescens and nigra. Albany Hancock—Re-
marks on the Anatomy of Brachiopoda. Professor
Goodsir, 111. D the I'Vforphological Relations of the
Nervous System in the Annulose and Vertebrate Types
of Organisation. Dr. Vogel—Description of the Ajuh,
a kind of whale found in the River Benne (Central
Africa), in Sept., 1853. Joshua Alder—On some new
British Zoophytes. Dr. Williams —On the Minute
Structure of the Brachim of the Echinidas, and in the
Cephalopodous Molluscs. Dr. Williams—On the Fluid
System of the Nernatoid Eutozoa. Andrew Murray_.
On a new species of Echeneis. T. C. Archer-L--Netice
of the Progress of Report of Natural Products imported
into Liverpool.
SECTION E.—Geography and Ethnology.—Duncan
M'Pherson, M. A., F. R. G.S.—Researches in the Crimean
Bosphorus, and on the site of the ancient Greek city of
Pantecapmum (Kertch).
F.R.G.S F. D. Hartland,.-F.S.A.
Vesuvi, Vesuvius and its Eruptions ; illustrated by
a splendid collection of drawings, by W. Baylisi. Capt.
Charles Sturt, F.R.G.S., &c.—On Recent Discoveries
in Australia. Captain Sprat, C.8.---The Route between
Kustenjeh and the Danube. James Anderson—Report
relating to the Search for Sir John Franklin. Arch-
deacon of Cardigan—Oa the Site of Ecbatana.
SECTION F.—Economic Science and Statistics.—Vin-
cent Scully, M.P.—On the population of Ireland, front
1603 to 1856, with notes suggestive of the causes for the
periodical increase or decrease. John Strang, LL.D.—
On the money rate of wages of labour in Glasgow and
the iwest of Scotland. William Newmarch—On the
Credit Mobilier and other recent credit institutions in
France. John T. Danson—On the Wirral Peninsula :
its conditison
..-;ohLiverpool
c.uu the Manciester district• W. Neilson Hancock,
LL.D.—The definition of income in economic science
compared with the existing taxes on income. W. M.
Tartt, M.S.A.—On some statistics bearing upon the
relations existing between poverty and crime.
SECTION G.—Mechanical Science.--A. Henderson,
M.S. A.A.C.E.—A report on the measurements of ships
for tonnage. H. Hennessey—On the inundation of
rivers. G. Rennie, F.R.S.—On the friction and resist.
ance of screw propellers when driven at high rates of
velocity, and when immersed at different depths below
the surface of the water.
The se:iss of four lectures delivered by Mr. Horsley
in section B, on the detection of strychnine, were pecu-
liarly interesting on account of their bearing upon late
trials.

Ley, left Portsmouth yesterday for the westward.
The Salamander, 6, steam sloop, 'Commander Mecham,
left Portsmouth yesterday afternoon for the westward.
The W. S. Lindsay left Portsmouth on Thursday night
for the eastward.
His Imperial French Majesty's corvettes Le Faune, Com-
modore Barbet ; Le Chasseur, Captain Mallet; and the
steam despatch boat Goeland, Captain Borguis Desbordes,
arrived at Spithoad yesterday morning, from Cherbourg;
the latter towed the two former. There are on board the
corvettes about 100 midshipmen from the Imperial French
Naval School, who have been sent to Portsmouth to in-
spect the naval establishment%
Yesterday the A field battery of 6 guns and 11 carriages,
with 6 officers, 184 men, and 122 horses, embarked at
Liverpool for Dublin, to be followed, on Tuesday, by the
C field battery, of equal strength.
The fitting of the screw of the Turkish frigate Gaywan
Bahri is being proceeded with by Mr. Laird at the Sandon
Graving-dock, Liverpool, under the direction of Mnstapha
Bey, on behalf of the Sultan, and Capt. Bavis, R.N., and
the Admiralty authorities at Liverpool. Another new
Turkish frigate is expected to arrive in the Mersey in a ,
few days, for the purpose of having similar fittings. ap-
plied.

This ev,ning„ at half•past eight o'clock, Colonel Sir
11. Rawlinson, F.R.S., delivers a discourse in the college
on " Recent discoveries in AsSyrria and Babylonia, with
the results of cuneiform research up to the present
time."

To-morrow there is an excursion up the famous Stroud
Valley to Brimscembe, and thence to Cirencester Col-
lege, and to inspect the Roman remains recently disco-
vered in that town.
The attendance of ladies as well as gentlemen WU
very large in all the sections of to-day.