The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-22 00:00:00

Three ran.
TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES.

Ardour
Castaside filly

Four ran.

2

Rio
Mimosa
Pactolus

LEICESTERSHIRE HANDICAP.

.. 2

Nine ran,

Arrived—Topsail, Lass of Richmond Hill, Argosy,
Chantress, Cripplegate, Katharine Log,ie, Ladywell, and
Big Esperanza.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

LEEDS, MONDAY AFTERNOON.

As has been already announced, the 28th annual
meeting of the British Association for the Advance-
ment of Science will be held in Leeds this week.
The first general meeting will be held on Wednes-
day evening, when the opening address will be de-
livered by Professor Owen. The sectional meetings
will commence on the following (Thursda3.-) morning.
The whole of the sectional meetings will be held
in different apartments of the Town-hall, the general
and aggregate meetings being held in the large hall
of that building. From the names of the distin-
guished parties who have promised to attend, and
the authors and subjects of the chief papers to be
read, there is every reason to believe that the anni-
versary will be a very successful one. The first list
of arrivals will not be published till Thursday morn-
ing ; but besides Professor Owen, the president
elect, the following have promised to attend :—Sir
David Brewster, Professor Faraday, Sir Roderick
Murchison, Dr. Whewell, Professor Wheatstone,
Professor Airy, Sir Wm. Hamilton, Sir B. Brodie,
Robert Stephenson, M.P., Gen. Chesney, Mr. Hop-
kins, Mr. Darwin, Gen. Sabine, Professor Phillips,
Sir Philip Egerton, Mr. W. Fairbairn, Mr. James
Nasmyth, Rev. W. V. Harcourt, Sir William Jar-
dine, Professor Baden Powell, Professor Volcker,
Dr. Alison, Rev. Dr. Booth, Dr. Lloyd, Earl Brown-
low, the Earl of Carlisle, Earl Enniskillen, Lord
Monteagle, Lord Goderich, Lord Wrottesley, Mr.
Edwin Chadwick, Mr. Robert Chambers; Dr. Lan-
kester, Mr. W. Lassell, Mr. Baines, M.P. Mr. R.
M. Milnes, M.P., Colonel Sykes, M.P., Mr. J. G.
Marshall, Mr. Sopwith, Mr. Newmarch, Professor
Cairnes, Dr. Hamel, member of the Imperial Aca-
demy of Science, St. Petersburg, Rev. Dr. Hook,
Mr. W. Beckett, Mr. 11. M. Ineram. Professor
Phillips, assistant-general secretary, and the Leeds
Local Committee, with a numerous staff, are now
busy in the Town-hall making the arrangements
for this great gathering of savato as complete as
possible.

The Leeds Mercury of yesterday says :--v
" The communications to the various sections, of
which a large number have already been announced,
embrace not only the most recent points of research
which are interesting to philosophers, but also sub-
jects of universal interest and of the greatest prac-
tical importance. We trust none will suppose that
only abstruse papers, unintelligible to the general
mind, are brought before the sections. No doubt a
large number of the communications presented will
deal with difficult problems in abstract science, but
a large proportion of the papers, especially in some
of the sections, will be such as cannot fail to be
deeply interesting to every intelligent man or
woman. It is right, too, that we should recognise
the value of the more abstruse researches, which,
though at first they may seem not to connect them-
selves with any practical result, so often lead to the
most important applications. Who would have
thought that when Oersted, by a very simple appa-
ratus, exhibited the true relation between elec-
tricity and magnetism, his little bit of copper wire
over a small compass box would one day be magni-
fied into the Transatlantic Telegraph ? Or, again,
who could have foreseen that the discovery of the
fact that muriate of silver is blackened by exposure
to light would lead to all the marvels of photo-
graphy and the stereoscope ? Among the commu-
nications already promised we may direct attention
to a paper by Sir David Brewster, entitled Addi
tional Contributions on the Structure and rune,
tions of the Eye,' as an example of curious re-
search. Of more general interest—indeed, of
interest to all—will be Professor B. Powell's ' Re-

port on Falling Stars and Meteors ;' and Mr.
'Whitehousc's Notes on the Atlantic Telegraph.'
" In the Chemical Section an account is expected
from the Rev. W. V. Harcourt of some new kinds
of glass for optical purposes ; and from Dr. Edward
Smith a communication on the quantity of carbonic
acid gas in the air ; while our townsman, Mr.
Huggon, will present a Report on the alkaline
waters Of Leeds.'

"In the Geological Department, Principal Daw-
son (of Canada) will bring forward some New
observations on vegetable structures found in coal
and Mr. Clifton Sorby (of Sheffield), some examples
of his ingenious researches into the minute structure
of rocks and minerals. Mr. Bailey will have a
paper On the Fossil Ferns of the Carboniferous
Series,' and there will be various communications
on the position of the ironstones in the Yorkshire
and other coal fields.

"In the Natural History Section, Sir John
Richardson will offer some observations On the
Fishes of the Lake District ;' Mr. Alder and the
Rev. Thomas Hincks, 8.A., will make contributions

to the history of the beautiful tribe of zoophytes ;
and several reports on the results of dredging for
the discovery of new animals, will be presented by
some of the zealous Irish naturalists. We may
also specify a paper by Tegelmeier On the For.
mation of the Cells of Bees.'
" The Physiological .sub-section will no doubt be
strongly supported by the medical profession, which
numbers so many eminent members in Leeds.
" In the section of Ethnology and Geography a
large amount of generally interesting
.matter may
be expected, and we ma's direct special attention
to the opening addreSs of its president, Sir Roderick
Murchison, which will probably be a popular in-
troduction to the business of the section.
" In the section of Statistics and Social Science
reports on some of the trades of Leeds will be
brought forward, and many important social ques-
tions will be discussed. The president, Mr. E.
Baines, will present a report ou the woollen trade
of this town.
_ _ _

" For the Mechanical Section—in which Leeds
may be supposed to be peculiarly interested—com-
munications have been promised by Mr. Crosskill,
On machinery for reaping corns ; by Mr. T. W.
Leather, On the flow of water in some of our
Yorkshire rivers and streams ;' and by Mr. Whit-
worth, 'On recent improvements in railway signals.'
Mr. J. Kitson, jun., will also report from statistics,
&c., of the iron trade.
" We give the foregoing as a sample, to show the
rich variety of interest which the sectional business
will offer.'

THIS DA I S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to-day were very
limited, but several of Monday's unsold samples were on
offer. Although the supply was very moderate, the demand
for all kinds ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in value.
In foreign wheat, the show of which was on the increase,
so little was doing that the quotations were almost nominal.
In floating cargoes of grain very little was passing.
Fine barley and malt sold steadily, other kinds slowly, at
late rates.
Owing to an immense influx of foreign oats, 72,390 qrs,
the oat trade was heavy, and pikes gave way 6d per quarter.
Beans and peas were a slow inquiry, but not cheaper.
The flour trade was dull, at barely Monday's currency.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat. Barley
850.1 410

English
Irish
Foreign

Malt. Oats. Flour
i 870 230 1 620
1,530 i
-- 72,390 I 140 taw.
I 6,090 blo.

WHITECHAPEL.
Our market is fairly supplied with each kind of meat,
which moves off slowly, as follows :
Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 6d ; lamb,
Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s Gd to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s Od to 48
6d per 81b.

BOROUGII HOP.
The supply of new hops is exten
100ssive, ana fair
Yearling average
business is doing at from 60s to pert wt.
and old hops rule nominal. Duty, £270,000.

News reaches Gibraltar now in. two days Trani
Enabind, by means of the electric telegraph through France
and Spain.
DOG SHOT BY A CHILD.—A few days since the
children of N. Morris, Esq., of Warrens Gill, Edenbridge,
and those of Dr. Morris, who is now staying at the resi-
dence of his relative, were walking in the grounds, accom-
panied by three servants, when they met one of the game-
keepers; named Dench. The keeper sat down, and laid his
gun behind him, when one of the children took it up, un-
perceived, and fired it off at a pointer dog, killing the
animal on the spot. The report greatly alarmed the whole
party, and it is very providential that none of them were
a, there VPI-0 nine or ten of them all grouper
ether.—KentishGa-zette. - •