The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-20 00:00:00

a tribvite which ought to be borne, and which no
doubt will be long cherished gratefully in remem-

brume 3 by that ancient and loyal as well as learned
and p icturesque city. " The geologist," said the
PRINCI7, "will not find many novelties in yonder
mount& ins, because he will stand there on the bare
back-bone of the globe. But the primary rocks
which st and out in their nakedness exhibit the

grandeur and beauty of their peculiar form. And
in the splendid quarries of this neighbourhood are
seen to peculiar advantage the closeness and hard-
ness of their mass, and their inexhaustible supply
made available for the use of man by the applica-
tion of new m,,:ehanical powers. Oi this primitive
soil the botanist and zoologist will be attracted

only by a limited range of plants and animals, but
they are the very species which the extension
of agriculture and increase of population are
gradually driving out of many parts of the
country." Influenced here, doubtless, by a grate-
ful remembrance of the health and pastime annually
found by himself in the immediate neighbourhood,
his ROYAL HIGHNESS afforded his philosophic
hearers a pleasant glimpse of the out of-door life
familiar to a few among them, but unfamiliar to
the majority of the more sedentary occupants of
the library and the laboratory,—" On those blue
hills the red deer in vast herds hold undisturbed
dominion over the wild heathery forest, until the
sportsman, fatigued and unstrung by the busy
life of the bustling town, invades the moor to
regain health and vigour by measuring his
strength with that of the antlered monarch of the
hill. But notwithstanding all his efforts to over-
come an antagonist possessed of such superiority of
power, swiftness, caution, and keenness of all the
senses, the sportsman would find himself baffled
had not sektge
.supplied him with the telescope
and those terrible weapons which seem daily to
progress in the precision with which they carry
the deadly bullet, mocking distance, to the mark."
Not only Aberdeen, but the Aberdeenites the
Scotch no less than Scotland—came in for a share
of the PRINCE CONSORT'S admiration. " Man
also," he said, " the highest object of our study, is
[here] found in vigorous, healthy development,
presenting a happy mixture of the Celt, Goth,
Saxon, and Dane, acquiring his strength on
the hills and the sea. " Reference being
immediately afterwards made by the PRINCE
to the facilities afforded by the local collection of
antiquities—enabling the intelligent visitor to
enter more thoroughly into " the spirit of that
peculiar and interesting people, which has always
attracted the attention and touched the hearts of
men accessible to the influence of heroic poetry."
Reverting, however, to a consideration of the aim
and object of the Association over which he was
called to preside, upon that the twenty-ninth anni-
versary of its foundation, his Royal Highness spoke
more at length of the broad and bold character of
the design—a design in itself as reasonable in every
way as it is unquestionably elevating and
humanising. Perhaps one of the happiest passages
in the whole Address is the one in which the
Prince observed—" Science is not of yesterday—
we stand on the shoulders of past ages, and the
amount of observations made, and facts ascertained,
has been transmitted to us, and carefully preserved
in the various storehouses of science. Other crops
have been reaped, but still lie scattered on the field.
Many a rich harvest is ripe for cutting, but waits
for the reaper. Economy of labour is the essence of
good husbandry, and no less so in the field of
science. Our association has felt the importance of
this truth, and may well claim as one of its principal
merits the constant endeavour to secure that
economy." Adding by way of direct illustration
of this—" One of the latest undertakings of
the association has been the conjunction
of scientific memoirs, which, by combining under
one head the titles of all memoirs written on a cer-
tain subject will, when completed, enable the stu-
dent who wishes to gain information on that sub-
ject, to do so with the greatest ease. It gives him,
as it were, the plan of the house, and the key to
different apartments in which the measures rela-
ting to his subject are stored, saving him at once a
painful and laborious search, and affording him, at
the same time, an assurance of what is here
offered, contains the whole of the treasures yet
acquired, while this has been one of its
latest attempts." A conclusive evidence, that
one work alone, of the practical useful-
ness of the British Association —of the
benefits secured by its labours to science
and thneigh science to the country at large. As
to the really ennobling, tendency of those labours—
that was most admirably expressed in the closing
words of an oration as much redounding to the
honour of the speaker in his high social position
as the Consort of the QUEEN of ENGLAND, as it
was peculiarly befitting him in his temporary
character as President of the British Association.

The Prince and Princess Frederic William arrived
at Erdmannsdorf on the 4th inst.

The Prince and Princess Yousoupoff have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel from Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
The Prince lloria Pamphili, accompanied by his
son, the Prince Ciannetto, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel,
from Paris.

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The Duke of Newcastle left London yesterday
afternoon for his seat, Clumber Park. _ _

The Earl of Howth has left Claridge's Hotel for
Howth Castle, near Dublin.

Viscount Palmerston has returned to his seat,
Broadlands, Hants.

The anniversary of the coronation of the Emperor
of Russia was celebrated at St. Petersburg and Warsaw;
on the 7th inst., with great festivity. His Majesty has
arrived at Tsarsko-Selo from his journey to Moscow and
Twer.

A private telegram from China states that there
had been large sales of manufactured goods both at Hong
Kong and Shanghai. It may, therefore, be inferred that
political matters had not experienced any new complica-
tion. The settlements of silk had been 5,500 bales, and the
price was equal to nearly 21s. for No. 3 Tsatlee. Nothing
is stated with regard to tea or the quotations of Exchange.

In consequence of a telegram received by the
Anglo-Lazo-Brazilian Company on Saturday from Lisbon,
the sailing of the steamer from Milford Haven to Lisbon
and Brazil, is postponed until Saturday, the Ist of October.
THE COLLISION ON TIIE GREAT NORTIIERN
None of the injuries sustained by the sufferers by the late
severe collision on the Great Northern, at Hitchin, have
terminated fatally. Seven of the injured persons remain at
Hitehin. No step of a public character appear to have
been yet taken in the way of an inquiry into the causes of
the accident. _

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COLLISION ON THE RIVER.—On Saturday, as a
skiff with 11 men was putting off from Pickle llerring-
stairs, Bermondsey, to go on board a vessel lying in the
river, the Doris steamer, from Gravesend, ran into it and
cut it in half. The whole of the men were thrown into the
water, and two, whose bodies have not yet been recovered,
were drowned. The names of the men whose lives were
lost are John Collins and Ryan. No blame is said to
attach to those in charge of the steamer.

~VY
SUICIDE OF A MARRIED WOMAN.—Yesterday
very painful excitement was created in the neighbourhood
of Cirencester-place, Fitzroy-square, Marylebone, in con-
sequence of the wife of a bootcloser, Mrs. Elizabeth Allicz
(who was in the last stage of pregnancy), residing at No.
8, Cirencester-place, committing suicide by nearly severing
her head from the body, with a sharp knife used in her
husband's business. It appears that the shocking dis-
covery was made on the return of the husbarld from the
City, when he found the door locked inside. Thinking
she was out marketing, he went away for some time,
during which he saw some of his children playing in
the neighbourhood, but they could give no account of
their mother. On his returning home again he
looked through the keyhole, and finding the key inside
ho became alarmed and forced the door, when he
discovered his unfortunate wife on the floor in a pool of
blood, with her throat cut from ear to ear. She was quite
dead : the weapon of destruction, a sharp double-edged
knife, was found in a pail over which the wretched woman
had held her neck in the commission of the rash act. Mr.
Hatfield, surgeon, of Cleveland-street, was promptly in at-
tendance, but all human aid was useless in restoring the
mother, as all the principal vessels of the neck were severed.
Mr. Hatfield proceeded to an operation for the purpose of
preserving the infant, if possible,. and succeeded in bring-
ing it into the world alive, but did not long survive. Mr.
Wakley, the coroner, has appointed the inquest to be held
this day (Tuesday).