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BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCERENT OF SCIENCE.

VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE
ALBERT TO IPSWICH.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert left town yester-
day morning at an early hour, for the purpose of honour-
ing the members of the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science with his presence at Ipswich, on
the occasion of the annual meeting of that learned body
in this ancient borough.
The most complete arrangements for the reception of
the Prince were made by the directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway at the station in Shore(litch, and be-
fore the period appointed (for his Royal Highness's ar-
rival: a special train, consisting of the state saloon car-
riage and two other first-class carriages, with a magni-
ficent locomotive gaily decorated with flags and ever-
greens, was brought up alongside the platform.
Mr. Waddington, M k., the chairman of the board,
with Lord Alfred Paget, M.P , Mr. Smythe, and Mr.
Broadbent, his co-directors, were early in ettendance for
the purpose of receiving his Royal Highness, who, true
to his appointment, arrived at the station at a quarter to
nine o'clock. Tha Prince was attended by the Marquis
of Abercorn, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel
Francis Seymour.
The station was Very tastefully fitted up, and the pas-
sage from the entrance to the platform was covered with
crimson cloth. Upon alighting the Prince was received
by Mr. Waddington and his brother directors, by whom
he was conducted to the Saloon carriage.
A copy of the " Illustrated Guide to the Eastern
Counties Railway," and several other publications of
local interest, were presented to his Royal Highness by
the Chairman; and rfter a few moments delay the train
was set in motion, and sped Tepidly on towards Strat-
ford. At this point the workmen in the employ of he
company were drawn out, and as the royal saloon passed
a thousand voices were simultaneously raised in a loyal
cheer, which was gracefully acknowledged by the Prince.
The run to Romford was accomplished in a very few
minutes, and here a hearty welcome wes accorded to the
royal traveller by a large number of spectators assembled
on the stetion. From Rousford to Brentwood the, jour-
ney e,ce,upied only a very short period, and in little mora
than 45 minutes Chelmsford was reached. A great
crowd of spectators, and a couple of arches formed of
evergreens thrown across the railway, indicated the
loyal feelings of the inhabitants of this interesting old
town, over which the train passed at a very
moderate speed, in order to allow the inhabitants a
glimpse of the Consort of the Sovereign. At the
lesser ettatiens of Mainiugtreo and Ingatestone the
same preparations upon a mailer scale were obser-
vable. Colchester was made precisely at a quarter-past
10, and here the Mayor, with the corporation of the
borough, were drawn out to meet the Prince. A greet
crowd of spectators had been admitted within this sta-
tion, which is overlooked by a magnificient building,
erected by Mr. Pete, M.P., for an hotel, but now con-
verted, through the liberality of that gentlemen, into an
asylum for idiots.
IJp t s this point the arrangements had been under the
management of the Eastern Counties direction, and it is
duo to this company to state, that everything that could
be accomplished for the convenience of the Prince was
most successfully carried out. The coal and luggage
trains had all been withdrawn from the line from an
early hour, and plate-layers, drafted from every portion
of the railway, were stationed at short intervals—each
furnished with signal flags, as a means of communication
if occasion required. The royal train was preceded
throughout the distance by a small pilot engine, driven
by Mr. Ashcroft, the superintendent of the works.
Among the officers of the company in attendance upon
the royal train were Mr. Roney, the secretary of the
railway (whose services on all occasions, where promp-
titude and decision of character have been required,
prove invaluable, and whose early retirement from the
active service of this company must be deplored by all
to whom his excellent qualities are known); Mr. Gooch,
the locomotive superintendent; and Mr. Richardson, tho
head of the coaching department.
At Colchester the Royal train was taken in charge by
Mr. John Chevalier Cobbold, M.P., the chairman of the
board, and other directors of this company, who accom-
panied the Prince to Ipswich, where the train arrived
punctually at a quarter to eleven o'clock.
The Mayor (P. B. Long, Esq.), in his robes of office,
and the corporation of the borough, were here disco-
vered drawn up on the platform to receive the Prince.
Sir William and Lady Middleton, Mr. Scott Russell,
Mr. C. Wentworth Dilke, and several of the leading in-
habitants of the district, were also present to welcome
his Royal Highness, and a guard of honour, composed
of a detachment of the Queen's Bays (2d Dragoon
Guards), with the band and colours of the regiment,
were drawn up on the platform.
Upon the Prince alighting, his Royal Highness was
received by the mayor and corporation, and conducted
to an elegant marquee, beneath which his Royal High-
ness had consented to receive a deputation. The Prince
having taken up his position, the Recorder (Mr. Powell),
robed in his wig and gown, advanced and read the fol-
lowing address:—
" TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.
" May it please your Royal Highness,
" We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, of the
borough of Ipswich, are anxious to express our sense of
the honour done to us by your visit to this ancient mu-
nicipal town, and at the same time to offer the tribute
of our heartfelt personal respect to yourself.
"It is our pride to welcome in your Royal Highness,
not only the consort of our beloved Qeeen, but the sup-
porter of every deserving institution throughout her
dominions; not only the chancellor of a great university,
but the active promoter of general education upon a
broad and national basis; not only the patron of all that
is high and noble in British art, but the originator of that
magnificent conception, by which the results of the
world's industry and genius have been assembled in our
land for the instruction of admiring nations. Who look
upon this great festival of art and science, consecrated as
it has been by religion, as the opening of a new era of
national intercourse, as a pledge of universal and en-
during peace, and it may be as the commencement of a
fresh age of intellectual activity and successful research.
We delight to receive amongst us th© master mind
which conceived the great idea, and directed the steps
by which, through every difficulty, it has been so trium-
phantly carried out; and we feel this not the less because
we receive your Royal Highness as a visitor to that
British Association, the objects of which are in some
degree akin to those likely to be promoted by the Great
Exhibition.
"In conclusion, we would wish to combine with our
tender of reverential welcome to your Royal Highness
the expression of our deep and loyal affection to our
Soverign Lady the Queen • may she, together with your
Royal Highness, continue long in the possession of every
earthly, and better than earthly blessings; may your
children's children, worthy of their parentage, sit upon
the throne of their fathers; and may the reign of Vic-
toria, with which the name of your Royal Highness
must ever be inseparably connected, afford the brightest
page for the future histories of the Anglo-Saxon race.
" In testimony whereof, we have caused our common
seal to be hereunto affixed this third day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-one."
When the address had been read, the Prince replied
as follows:—" Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen;—lt has given
me the greatest pleasure to have been enabled to visit
your ancient town on so interesting an occasion; and I
thank you most sincerely for your cordial and hearty
welcome, and for the very kind and flattering manner in
which you have conveyed it to me. I shall not fail to
communicate to the Queen the expression of your loyal
and affectionate attachment to her Majesty's person and
family, which I have heard with peculiar gratification,
and which I know her Majesty will receive with equal
satisfaction."
The Prince now entered one of the royal carriages
which was in attendance; and having invited the Mayor
to a seat by his side, the cortege passed through the
principal streets of the borough to the Town-hall, where
it was arranged his Royal Highness's introduction to the
members of the Association should take place. The
progress of his Royal Highness through the town was
greeted with the heartiest demonstrations of applause
from the many thousands of spectators by whom the
streets were thronged.
Prince Albert first visited the mathematical and phy-
sical section, of which Dr. Whewell is president. On
his entrance, every one stood up and remained standing
until his Royal Highness had exchanged courtesies with
the President and those members of the association on
the platform with whom he was acquainted. Ho then
took a seat on the right hand of Dr. Whewell, and
Colonel Reid was called on to read a paper on mooring
ships in revolving gales. A paper by Mr. Rankine, on
the velocity of wind, was in progress of reading when
his Royal Highness entered, but the consideration of it
was for the time suspended. When Colonel Reid's
paper was finished, Mr. Bond, of the United States, ex-
plained to the section the action of an ingeniously con-
trived apparatus for noting the times of astronomical
observations by a combination of clock-mechanism and
electro-magnetism, which Prince Albert afterwards mi-
nutely inspected. We feel compelled, however, to follow
at present the current feeling, not only of the people of
Ipswich, but of the members of the Association, and to
allow science to give place to loyalty, by suspending our
notice of these, and other interesting communications,
until the excitement of the Prince's presence has some-
what abated.
From the mathematical and physical, Prince Albert
went to the chemical section, presided over by Professor
Graham, where Dr. Lyon Playfair read a paper on a new
and ingenious process, invented by Mr. Mercer, for
contracting the fibres of calico. This called forth some
observations from Professor Grove, Dr. Faraday, and
M. Dumas, on the ingenuity and utility of the plan.
The Prince then repaired to the section on geography
and ethnology, where it was rather expected, from the
printed announcement, that his Royal Highness would
read a paper. This, however, appears to have beeeso.na
mistake, for the paper on " Ethnological Researh° hated
Santo Santo Domingo, by Sir R. Schomburgh, cornisiont'ly'
b Dr.
by his Royal Highness Prince Albert," was - be entered
Hodgskin before the Prince arrived.
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Pierre de Tchihatchef, the explorer
good English
mountains, was reading a paper,
Minor, a portion of
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pronunciation, on travels in Asiawto hr
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easa Wnitney,
which ho was requested to repeat f
Subsequently
apaper cal the best
his Royal Highness.
of New York, was requested toterrecurs
means of realizing a rapid between Eurot e
essin.stironglye characteristic of
and Asia. This paper
and premised by as-
peculiari
national feeling and
serting end intimating that the progress of civilization is
westward, and that, ultimately, all that is good, and ci-
viliz'd, and beautiful in creation, will be concentrated in
the United States of America. Ur. Whitney has nearly
obtaiued the sanction of the United States Legislature
to the grant of a tract of land, comprising seventy-eight
millions of acres, to 'enable him to construct a rail-
wayto California, and to dispose of the land
,
on each side of it to emigrants from Europe. Mr. Whit-
ney was so long in the exposition of his vast railway

scheme that he received a hint from the president, Sir
Roderick Murchison, to be more brief, and to give an
abstract of his plane, that time might be alio-
discussion of them. Captain Fitzroy was the.
upon to explain his views on the subject, afte
Prince Albert went to the geological section.
trovenial character of the geologists was we,
tined during the Prince's visit. The subject
crag formation of Norfolk, originating in a
Professor E. Forbes, and Professor Setigivick
Cuarlesworth had some sharp passages togeth'
the evidences of novelty in that formation. M:
kint, the president, was more than once compel
call the disputants to order, and Professor Sedgwick,,
from the 'vantage ground of the platform, and with the
president at his right hand, seemed to carry his point by
force. Sir Charles Lyell entered into the discussion,
without however joining in the contention.
It was now near three o'clock, when his Royal High-
nen retired, and was driven to Shrubland-park, the seat
of Sir VT. Middleton.
There has been a great accession of members since
yesterday, and among them a greater number of dis-
tinguished individuals than are usually assembled at the
same time at the meetings of the association.

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The first general meeting of the members of see
British Association was held last night in the Corn Ex-
change, which was taste fully adapted for the occasion.
A platform for the president and principal officers was
erected at one end of the building, the walls were
covered with pink and white muslin, and wreaths of
evergreens and artificial roses were entwined round the
iron pillars, and suspended from them in festoons.
It is usual on such occasions for the president of the
former meeting to make a short valedictory address
before resigning the chair to his successor, and Sir
David Brewster extended this customary farewell speech
somewhat beyond the usual length. His eoice could
scarcsly be heard in the large' uilding above the notes of
preparation that were being made outside for welcoming
the Prince. He noticed in a tone of complaint the
neglect shown by the Government to scientific pursuits,
and to scientific men, and be alluded particularly to the
refusal of the application of the Association, backed as
it was by the Royal Society, to have a powerful reflect-
ing telescope stationed for the examination of the nebulas
of the northern hemisphere. He consoled the
meeting, however, with the reflection that Governments
do not last for ever, that rays of light will pene-
trate through darkness, and that even the hide of the
rhinoceros is vulnerable in points. From these observe-
element Sir David launched forth in
Lions on the Gove
praise of Prince Albert, eho had so prominently come
fore ard as the p.stron of science and tee arts; anti he
spoke in an enthusiastic manner of the Crystal Palace
and its contents as the magnificent result of the Prince's
in promoting the success
patronage and wave exertions
of the Exhibition. Sir D. Brewster then resigned the
chair.
Professor Amy read his presidential address rapidly
but distinctly. He touched lightly on the progress of
science in all branches during the last year, more par-
ticulerly on those with which the British Association
is more closely connected, and pointed out what the
association has done for the furtherance of its great
objects. He spoke of the persevering efforts of Lord
Rossa to perfect the mechanical arrangements of his
great reflecting telescope, in which considerable im-
provements had been made; also of the labours of Mr.
Ross, in the improvement of chromatic instruments.
As a consequence of the progress of optical glass
manufacture. at the works of Mr. Chance, of Bir-
mingham, Mr. Ross has succeeded in making an object
glass, two feet in diameter, that of the large telescope at
the Exhibition being fineen inches. The admirable
specimens of engineering skill exhibited by Mr. Ran-
some, of Ipswich, in tee construction of stands for some
of the large instruments at the Royal Observatory
at Greenwich, were also dwelt upon by the President
with much satisfaction. From astronomical instruments,
he proceeded to notice the discoveries that have been
made by their means, the dispersion of the nebulae into
distinct systems of stars, the three new planets, and the
ascertainment of the distance of the nearest star to our
solar system. The approaching solar eclipse, and the
measures taken in various parts of the world for correctly
observing it, were then dwelt upon. Ho stated that the
Emperor of Bessie has ordered observations to be made
in various parts cf his extended empire, from the Sea of
Azof to the Black Sea. With regard to the recent ex-
citement regarding M. Foucault's experiments, render-
ing visible the rotation of the earth, the President stated
that there were special adjustments to be made for dif-
ferent latitudes, before any correct deductions could be
drawn from the vibrations of the pendulum independently
of the earth's rotation. In reference to investigations
respecting terrestrial magnetism, he alluded particularly
to Professor Faraday's discovery of the magnetic pro-
perty of oxygen and the important bearing it might have
in elucidating the mysterious phenomena of the magnet-
ism of the earth, though as yet it had not been subjected
to sufficient examination to have any practical value.
Before leaving the subject of astronomy the President
adverted to some experiments recently made in
America, from which it would appear that electri-
city is transmitted through iron wires with the velocity
of 15,000 miles per second, and to the applicability of
the rapid transmission of electricity to noting corre-
sponding celestial phenomena. The other branches of
science were noted very briefly, and in none of them
were there any remarkable advances to be recorded. In
the improved appliances of mechanics a new construe•
tion of diving bell, consisting of an elongated tube, was
mentioned, by means of which works at the bottom of
the sea could be conducted with greater facility. The
President observed that this country bad no academy
of sciences supported by the Government, and for his
part he thought it was better that scientific research
should be left to the individual exertions of those who
took interest in the subject, and could pursue their own
modes of investigation independently. Though the Go-
vernment, however, were reluctant to take the initia-
tive, he had tho satisfaction to state that they had
granted a sum of 1,0001. annually to assist in promoting
scientific researches. He concluded by alluding to the
patronage which Prince Albert had bestowed on science
and the arts, as exemplified by the magnificent collec-
tion of the world's industry, promoted and completed
by his sanction and active exertions; and by the visit
which his Royal Highness was, within a few hours,
about to pay to the meeting of the British Association
at Ipswich.
Tho Bishop of OXFORD moved the thanks of the
meeting to the President, for his admirable address.
Professor SEDGWICK, in his usual energetic manner,
seconded the motion, and dwelt much on the personal
merits of Professor Airy, whom he had known inti-
mately since he went to Cambridge as a freshman. As
an illustration of the persevering industry of the Astro-
nomer Royal, Professor Sedgwick stated that when ap-
pointed to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, there
were the observations of eighty years not reduced, and
the herculean task of reducing the mass of valuable ore
into practical form, so as to render it sterling metal, had
been assiduously accomplished by Professor Airy, with
assistants acting under his directions, and he had so far
brought up the arrears, that the observations made at
the Observatory up to Saturday last were reduced to
practical form.
The PRESIDENT, in returning thanks, expressed the
gratification he felt at having been thus honoured in a
place where he had spent most of his youthful days.
Professor Penult's, the assistant general secretary,
stated that the numbers who had passed the treasurer's
books during that day had been 470, of whom 111 were
ladies, and 16 distiuguisked foreigners. From this he
interred that the meeting at Ipswich would be a very
successful one.
After visiting section C, the Prince lunched with the
Mayor. The professors and personal friends of the
Prince met him.
At three o'clock the Prince took leave of the Mayor,
and left Ipswich for Shrubland-park, the beautiful seat
of Sir William and Lady Middleton, where his Royal
Highness will pass the night. Shrubland is about six
miles north-west of Ipswich, in the parishes of Claydon
and Coddenham. The mansion, rebuilt about fifty years
since, stands on the site of a former ancient building,
once the seat of Edward, a younger son of Sir Nicholas
Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the reign of
Elizabeth, who acquired the estate by marrying the
heiress of the Little family. One of his descendants,
Nicholas Bacon, erected a new mansion, which was
taken down by the late Sir William Middleton, who was
created a baronet in 1804, and built the present elegant
seat, to which ho removed from Crowfield Hall. Ili'
son, the present baronet, succeeded in 1829, and has
greatly enlarged and improved the mansion, which strin
ne
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on a delightful eminence, overlooking the vale of t
300 acr.e!,
Gipping, in a finely-wooded park of nearly
tosle6li'zts,l:,‘EaEx7:lfdoelvoYirifedal:dlirseidr Cast, Paget,
Lord
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well stocked with deer, and noted for the finest SP
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chesnut trees in the kingdom.
The following is a list of the company wh
the honour of meeting the Prince ConsearP.ned.:_esr:y.:dar.t
acihnh,,enebe
Brßrseekaloet-f,
Shrubland•park this evening
gian Minister and Madame Van deuke
lency the Prussian Minister, the D
Earl of En • •
Argyll, the Marquis of Abe c dniskele
len, the Countess of Morleyr,:trh:l;
Lord
Lord Monteagle, Lord Wro
Lord Rendlesham, the Bishopo
Francis Seymour,
the Hon. Sir Charles
r. Robert Cust, Mr. B
Boihittu, Sir Roderick Aluarcrbeyis,o6oali.r
Capt. G. N. Broke, Barr and
and
party will be joined
obbold,
by Mr. J. Chevallier .P., Mrs. Cobbold, and
the Misses Cobbold,
Col. Campbell. AfteMr dinner the
Dr.d Mrs. Western, and Mr.
and Ales. Berners, Wanhewell and Mrs. Whewell,
Capt. Warburton, R.N., and Dr.
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