The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-11 00:00:00

THE S LTN, LONDON, WE DNESDA Y EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1.861-.

ANK OF ENGLAND,
A-0 Sept. 5, 1861.—The
COURT of DIRECTORS of the Governor and Corn-
pany of the Bank of England GIVE NOTICE, that a GENE-
RAI, COURT will be held at the Bank on THURSDAY
NEXT, the 12th inst., at Twelve o'clockprecisely, to consider
of a Dividend. This will also be one of the Quarterly Gene-
ral Courts appointed by the Charter.
E. WELSH, Assistant Secretary.

BANK OF DEPOSIT.
(Established A.D. 1844.)
No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON.
Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free
on application.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.

aREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CTIE AP EXCURSION to the SEA-SIDE.--On SA-
TURDAY, Sept. 14, an Excursion Train will leave PAD-
DINGTON at 2.15 p.m., and READING at 3.20 p.m. for
Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, and Frome (10s. and 05.,)
Bruton, Castle Carey, and Yeovil (11s. and 75.), Maiden New-
ton, Bridport, Dorchester, and Weymouth (12s. and Bs.), re-
turning at 4.15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sett. 17.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CHEAP EXCURSION.
On SUNDAY, September 15, an Excursion Train will
leave Paddington at 7.45 a.m., and Readinc; at 8.50 a.m., for
OXFORD (6s. 6d. and 45.), Banbury (Bs. and 55.), Leamington
and Warwick (10s. 6d. and 65.), Stratford-on-Avon and Bir-
mingham (12s. and 75.), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and
Bilston (12s. 6d. and 7s. 6d.), and Wolverhampton (13s. and
Bs.), returning the same day.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Hay-
maryet, IS NOW OPEN for the Season EVERY
EVENING, under the direction of Monsieur BOULCOURT
principal Cornet-a-piston and Conductor. The music will
be selected from Verdi, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Flotow, Balie,
and other eminent Composers. During the recess these well
known Room% have been entirely RE-DECORATED and
I 1,1 PRO VED by Messrs. H. T. SMITH and assistants. The
new Chandeliers by M. Benjamin. Admiss,on, One Shilling.
—All the new Music to be had at the Office, No. 7, Great
Windmill-street.

NATTONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High
Holborn. —This brilliant and favourite Ball Room
IS NOW OPENED FOR THE SEASON. During
the recess the entire building" has been re-decorated, and
many important additions and alterations effected conducive
to the comfort of the visitors. The celebrated Band, under
the able direction of Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform Over-
tures and Selections from the latest Operas, &c., with the
newest and choicest danre music. New Selections from the
Rose of Castille, Der Frieschutz, Robin Hood, Un Ballo in
Maschera, La Reine Topaz. La Circassienne (never per-
formed in England), La Sanpiniere, Redowa, New Champagne
Galop, &c.—Doors open at half-past S.—Admission, is.

THE BRITISH OCIA.TI ON FOR THE

ADVANCOIENT OF SCIENCE.

MANCHESTER, SEPT. 10.
SECTION F.--ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS.
This section met as before in the assembly room
of the Free Trade. htll, under the presidency of Mr.
W. Newmarch, F.RS.

where persons were convicted of intending to
cause death, but where death did not ensue, and
another class of cases of persons conspiring to mur-
der, but they never found they could enforce the
sentence. The public conscience aid not go with
the punishment. He thought it was a good rule
that where the public conscience did not go with
the punishment it was better to give it up. Dur-
ing the last session there had been enacted a code
of criminal law for England and Ireland together,
and in that code they had reduced the punishment
of death to eases where murder had been actually
committed and cases of treason.

GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY.
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whichOn thethe people
of
This section, which meets in the large hall a the
Mechanics' Institution, was exceedingly crowded.
M. DU
follow-
ing is an abstract :—He doubted whether there was
another district of the same size holding such a
number or so many varieties of tribes, each think-
ing itself a separate nation and possessing a distinct
name, though many speak the same language or
dialect. The villages of most of these tribes are
intermingled with each other, there being no special
landmarks. People squat or settle where they
please, this freedom of choice being owing to the
vast extent of unoccupied territory. The cannibals
are the tallest and handsomest of these tribes, many
are of athletic form, in fact magnificent savages.
Some, near the equator, at the headwaters of the
Gaboon river, are of less fine appearance and small
stature. They even eat the dead. Except these
cannibals the other tribes seem to be intermediate
in stature, between the tall and the slim Yslop
and other tribes of North Africa and the small
sized men of the Congo, and of the more
southern tribes of that continent, who are small
and ugly, except the Kaffirs, who are tall, hand-
some negroes. The countries he has visited do not
contain what we should call blacks except the Ashira
tribe. Apparently tbe negroes who inhabit a damp
and moist country, and especially if mountainous,
ate less black, though possessing all the negro fea-
tures, than those belonging to an open country with
a dry atmosphere. Amongst the cannibals, espe-
cially the Aginga, he found persons almost like
mulattoes. Albinos are rather common. The canni-
bals are among the best smiths of Africa ; working
iron beautifully, making knives, spears, axes, and
hammers. Many of their warlike instruments
are good and exceedingly well shaped. The tribes
he visited south of the equator possess a loom and
weave the fibres of a species of palm into cloth
of considerable fineness and tenacity. The negroes
have an imaginative- mind, are astute speakers,
sharp traders, great liars, have got great powers of
dissimulation, and are far from being in many re-
spects the stupid people they are believed to be.
Each tribe is divided into clans, the children belong-
ing mostly to the clan of the mother, and these are
not allowed to marry among themselves, however
removed in* degree their connexion may be. But
there is no objection to possessing a father's or a
brother's wife. The regulations seem to have a
healthful effect, from the scarcity of the deformed,
blind, or cripples. The habits, however, are other-
wise filthy, leading to scrofula, &c. Their religious
notions are of the vaguest and loosest. Superstition
seems to have run wild. Each clan and Lead of a
family possesses an idol, which it is believed will
ward off evil and foretell events, .