The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-03 00:00:00

BRITISH. A SSO CIA TI ON for the ADVANCE-
MENT of SCIEIVCE.
Irswlca, WeneeSDAY —The annual meeting of
this essocittion cernmenced here this morning. This
is the 21st anniversary, aed upon no occasion
since its birth in 1830 up to its ulaturity, or " be-
coming of age," in 1851, have any of its meetings
been attended with so much interest as the present.
The attendsnce of the illustrious Prince who is
earning for hinuelf an imperishable name as the pro-
moter and patron of the arts and seienoss, and to
whom the country is indebted for the present extra-
ordinary opportunity of witnessing their practical
development in the piece of wonders in Hyde-park,
the expectation that many of the numerous distin-
guished literary and scientific foreigners now in
England will be present at this meeting—there, toge.
tiler with the fact that there is a strong and in-
creasing feeling pervading all classes of the commu-
nity in unison with the objects of the association, will
account for the more than usual interest attending
this meeting.
The objects of the British Association are to give
a stronger impulse and more systematic direction to
scientific inquiry, to promote the intercourse of
those who cultivate science in different parts of the
British empire with one another and with foreign
philosophers, to obtain more general attention to ob-
jects of science, and the removal of any disadvantages
of a public kind which impede its progress. Every
necessary arrangement to promote the comfort and
convenience of the members of the association and
strangers visiting Ipswich has been adopted by the
local committee. The various institutions and other
establishments, and everything worthy the notice
of the curious, have been thrown open for gratuitous
inspection.
The following are some of the members and others
who hav©
signified their intention of being present,
moat of whom have already arrived :—The Duke of
Argyll, Lord Sheffield, Lord Monteagle, Lord En-
niskillen, Lord Ross® Lord Rendlesham, Lord A.
Paget, Lord Londesborough, Lord Stradbroke, the
Bishop of Oxford, Sir Charles Lemon, Lord Wrot-
tesley, Hon. Sir E. Cust, Sir W. Jardine, Sir
W. F. Middleton, Sir
Charles Lyell, Sir H. De
La Beche, Sir 3.- W. Hooker, Sir J. Boileau,
Lord Abercorn, Honourable Colonel Grey, Colonel
Seymour, Mr. W. Cubitt, Captain Smith,
Captain Brooke, Professor Faraday, Professor
Playfair, Professor Henslow, Dr. Bateman, Rev. W.
R. Holmes, Professor Phillips, Dr. Re Bell, Rev. Dr.
Whewell, Professor Airy, Sir R. Murchison, Dr.
Roger, Mr. W. B. Byng, F.R.A.S., Mr- R.. Hunter,
F.R.S., Mr. R. Roberts, Mr. L. Buchan, Mr. F. E
Cottam, F.R.A.S.,,Mr. G. W. Ormerod, MA., Rev.
J. C. hden, M.A. F.R.A.S., Colonel Sabine,
Mr. C. W. Dilke, 1\..1r. W. Re Grove, F.R.S., Mr.
Algernon Peckover, Mr. Joseph Hone, Dr. Lee,
Professor Owen, Mr. W. J. M. Rankine, F.R.S.E.,
Rev. W. Airy, Mr. W. D. Saull, F.G.S., C. Fox
Banbury, F.G.S., &c.
Among the foreign visitors are—His Excellency
Chevalier Bunsen, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer,
C. Boneparte, Prince de Canino, Dr. Carl Bischoff,
Signor Bartolomeo Cinci,lll. Dumas, 3.1. D'Abaddie,
Dr. Hamel, Colonel Mari, Professor Wartmann, Dr.
Nordenskiold, Professor Scharling, Signor Osculati,
Professor Elton, D.D., United States, Professor
Shaf heutb, Dr. Beckie, Dr. J. E. Vrig, Mr. Whit-
ney, Messrs. Pierre and Plat 6, Tchitchicheff, M. Van
Gallen, Professor Johnson, United States, &c.
The present officers of the association are—
President—Mr. George Biddle Airy, M.A.,F.R.5.,
Astronomer Royal.
Vice-Presidents—The Right Hon. Lord Rene
dleshem, M.P., the Lord Bishop of Norwich,
the Rev. Professor Sedg wick, M.A., F.R.S,
Rev. Professor Henslow, M A., F L S., Sir John
Boileau, Bart., F.R.S., Sir William F. F. Middleton,
Bart., Mr. John Chevalier Cobb-old, M.P., Mr.
Thomas Burch 'Western.
General Secretaries—Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine,
Vice-Pr'sideot and Treasurer, R S., Woolwich; J.
Forbes Royle, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Materia
Medica and Therapeutics in King's College, London.
Assistant General Secretary—Mr. John Phillips,
F.R.S., York.
General Treasurer—Mr. John Taylor, F.R.S., 6,
Queen-street-place, Upper Thames-street, London.
Secretaries—Mr. Charles May, F.R.S.; Mr. Dill-
wyn Sims, Mr. George Arthur Riddell, Mr. George
Ransouse, F.L.S., F.L.S.
Treasurer—Mr. John Biddle Alexander.
The Rev. S. J. Rigaud, M.A., was elected as an
additional secretary at the meeting of the general
committee this afternoon.
The business of the day commenced by the meeting
of the Council, at 10 o'clock, and of the general com-
mittee at 1 o'clock, ter the election of sectional
officers, the allocation of the various sections, and the
dispatch of business usually brought before these
bodies. The first general meeting is to be held at 8
o'clock this evening in the Corn Exchange, when the
ex-President, Sir David Brewster, K.H., will open
the business of the association, and resign the chair
to the President elect, Mr. George Riddell Airy,
M.A., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal, who will then
deliver an address on the objects and proceedings of
the association.
The sections are— Place of meeting.
A. Mathematics and
,physics Town-hall Council-chamber
B. Chemistry, &c Old Assembly-rooms
C. Geology
D. Natural history
E. Geography and ethnology Mechanics'lnstitute (Theatre)
F. Statistics
G. Mechanical science
The different sections will assemble for the read-
ing and discussion of reports and other communica-
tions to-morrow, July 3; Friday, July 4; Monday,
July 7 ; and Tuesday, July 8, at eleven sox.
each day. Saturday, July 5, being an excursion
day, the sections will meet or not on that day, ac-
cording to the decisions of their respective commit-
tees. To-morrow evening the Corn Exchange will
be thrown open for promenade and conversation. On
Friday evening Professor Owen will deliver a dis-
course on the distinction between plants and animals,
and their changes of form. On Monday evening the
President, Mr. G. B. Aire, will deliver a discourse on
the total solar eclipse of July 28, 1851.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert is expected to
arrive here about a quarter to eleven o'clock to-mor-
row morning by special train.

HER .aIAJJEST Y'S THEATRE.
Yesterday's rehearsal of the new opera, by M.
Thalberg, appeared to produce on all who were pre-
sent the impression which we ventured yesterday to
record as our own in regard to the musical character
cf the work to be brought out to-night. A musician
who has deservedly acquired the highest reputation,
not only with the world at large, but in circles be-
yond the influence of mere popular applause, was felt
to have thrown his full strength into his task—
" The first essay of arms untried before."
The artists engaged buckled to their duty with that
energy which is only called up when real music—
' as distinct a thing as possible from the result of
musical cleverness—is in question, and went through
the rehearsal with an earnestness and a precision
which foreshadow well the " event" of to-night.
We are disinclined to say more in anticipation of
what it will, we trust, be our pleasant duty to say
to-morrow ; but we may be allowed to make the
agreeable announcement that Muffle. Cruvelli (whose
honourable exertions to do justice to M. Thalberg
bad incapccitated her from appearing in Mon'
day's concert) has recovered her powers, and re-
hearsed the arduous part of Floriuda with all
her natural vigour. 'There are some admirable
"situatious" in the drams,
which M. Scribe has
furnisla-d, and we much mistake if Cruvelles acting,
as the outraged daughter of Count Julio, and the
victim of Roderic, the " Last of the Goths," will not
surpass her noble personations of Fidelio and of
Norma, upon which the habitues are so enthusiastic.
The young vocalist is now fairly fitted with an origi-
nal part, and we do not fear to prophesy that she
will make it her own.—Narging Paper.

FREN
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Adrienne Lou'" _Was agLin performed at the St.
James's last evening'
he character of Adrienne is
the most perfect of
.Mademoiselle Rachel's impersona-
moder.n heroine of a modern play, and
ploy itself is. the most perfect of its sort.
tthioens of the
exceedingly
Beautiful was her impersonation
character of her great predecessor,
sarcasms were withering, her intensely impas-
hlaesrt evenlog of the
sioned agony heartrending. Her delivery of the
recitations hem the classic tragedies was magnificent,
and her concluding scene was replete with exquisite
pathos. At the conclusion she sve,3 called on, and
greeted with the most enthusiastic applause. The
house was well and fashionably atonded.

DUNMOW GAMMON OF BACON.—After the lapse
of 100 years this gammon of bacon has been claimed by a
couple in good circumstances, as farmers, at Felsted, Essex,
named Ilurrell, but, failing to obtain it from the lord of the
manor. the inhabitants of Dunmow have procured one by
subscription, which will be presented to them, instead of the
lord's, on their taking the usual oaths, at Broomhills, near
Dunmow, on Wednesday, the 16th of July. The couple
will drive on to the ground (escorted by a band of music) in
their own carriage and horses. A large number of persons
are expected to congregate to witness the ceremony.
A Roman Catholic priest has been tried at New
York, and cast in 1,600 dolls. damages, for seduction.. The
affair caused great scandal among all religiousdenommations.
The Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, as
amended by the Committee, and on consideration of the
Bill as amended, has been printed by order of the House of
Commons.
The Rev. Hinton C. Smith, minister of Trinity
Church, Plymouth, has signified his intention to resign his
incumbency on account ol Ins health.
The Rev. W. Norval, late incumbent of St. James,
Bermondsey, has been presented to the rectory of Ickleford,
Herts, vacated by the Rev. R. . Dagen Brown. Patron,
Ralph Lindsay, Esq., F.S.A.