The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-03 00:00:00

CLOSING GENERAL MEETING.

The final general meeting of the-Association Was held
in St. George's Hall, on Wednesday, at three o'clock.
The Earl of Harrowby occupied the chair, and there
was a large attendance of gentlemen, including the prin-
cipal members of the association,.as well as a considerable
sprinkling of the fair sex. Among the prominent persons
present were Sir R. I. Murchison; Sir W. Hamilton, Adml.
Grenfell, Professors Sedgwick,. Powell, Calvert, Morris,
Forbes, Stokes, and Phillips ; Colonel Chesney, Colonel
Sykes ; Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Mr. T. Thornely, M.P., Mr.
Dt-Seymour, M.P., &c.
At the request of the noble Chairman,
Professor PHILLIPS gave a history of the proceedings of
-^;ation during the week,.anddetailed the results of
scientific and financial point of view. He
•nentary terms- to the paper " On. the
ter: Pressure- Machinery," by Mr.. W..
Armstrong, and the " Description of the Liverpool
Anemometer," by Mr. F. Osier, F.R.S., which the com-
mittee had considered sufficiently. valuable to be printed
among the reports of the association. The attendance at
the various meetings had been particularly gratifying, as
"Iwing figures :—Old life members, 337;
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annual members, 120 ; associates, 761 ; ladies, 522;. a.
larger nnmber than there had ever been before; and
foreigners, 10. The total number of tickets disposed of
had been 1,891, and the total receipts therefrom £1,855.
(Cheers.)
The Earl of HA lIROWBY, in_ an address of considerable •
length, congratulated the association on the results of the
meeting, and expressed his deep sense of the valuable -
services rendered to the association by the authorities and:
the community of Liverpool,. for the magnificent and cor-
dial reception which they had given to them in this place,
where an amount of facilities-had been afforded, which, he
believed, no other town in the kingdom could furnish.
(Cheers.) He spoke in warm, terms of the liberality of the
authorities in throwing open their magnificent Town-hall,
in placing the whole of that noble building (St. George's
Hall) at their disposals. and for giving them an oppor-
tunity of enjoying the pleasures afforded by the fine arts,
through the aid of the munificent owner of a collection of
paintings (Mr. Naylor) of such a class as no other town,
he believed, could equal. (Cheers.) He expressed his
obligations, also, to the proprietors of the Philharmonic-
hall, and to the various learned societies in the town, for
the cordial manner with which they had placed their
rooms at the disposal of the association, and concluded by
moving a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Corporation,
and to the several bodies to whom he had referred.
(Applause.)
The proposition was carried by acclamation.
The Mavo'r, (J.. R. Lloyd, Esq.,) in responding, acknow-
ledged the benefit which the town would derive from the
meeting of the association, observing that commerce was
indebted in no small degree to science for-those aids which
tended to its development. He concluded by expressing
a hope that the facilities which the hall furnished to the
association would tempt them to honour the town with
another visit at an early period.
Several other complimentary votes having been passed,
the Earl of Harrowby adjourned the meeting to Glasgow.
On the proposition of the Mayor, seconded by Professor
Powell, a vote of thanks was accorded to the Earl of Har-
rowby, and the meeting separated.
SOIREE OF THE HISTORIC SOCIETY.

The. soirée given by the Historic. Society of Lancashire
and Cheshire to the British Association was held in the
Philharmonic-hall, on Wednesday evening. The'hall was
decorated with flags, bearing thenames and arms of all the
presidents of the British Association, while at the two
ends of the hall were displayed the royal arms, and at
each side of the platform were placed flags with the arms
and names of Alfred and Egbert. At one end of the
hall was exhibited the Emmett collection of Anglo-
Saxon antiquities, and a collection of portraits, articles
of jewellery and vertu formerly belonging to the Bona-
parte family. The majority of the company were seated,
though many promenaded the different compartments
of the hall. Refreshments were provided in the refresh-
ment rooms by Mr. Cook, the keeper of the hall.
On the platform, the chair was occupied by the Mayor,
in the absence of the Earl of Harrowby. Seated also on
the platform were Lord Talbot de Malahide, William
Brown, Esq., M.P., Sir R. I. Murchison, H. Denby Sey-
mour, Esq., M.P., R. M. Milnes, Esq., M.P., William
Sykes, Esq., Colonel Chesney, Colonel Sabine, Professors
Balfour, Forbes, Jukes, &c.
The Mayor, on taking the chair, read a letter of apology
from the Earl of Harrowby, after which Thomas Wright,
F.S.A., &c., read a paper on " Anglo-Saxon Antiquities,"
illustrated by the Faussett collection in the possession of
Mr. Joseph Mayer.
At the conclusion of the paper, an address from the
Society was presented to Mr. Mayer by the Mayor, which
compliment was gracefully acknowledged by the former
gentleman.
The Mayor then presented to Lord Talbot de Malahide,
for the Earl of Harrowby, a "Mazer bowl" (Saxon drink-
ing-cup), manufactured from the wood of the cottage which
Prince Rupert made his head-quarters during the siege of
Liverpool. The cup was suitably inscribed. The Mayor
poured some wine into the cup, and Lord Talbot de Male-
hide, quaffing the liquor, drank to the town of Liverpool
and its trade, warmly eulogising the Mayor and the
inhabitants for the hospitable manner in which they had
entertained the British Association.
The soiree closed with the performance of the National
Anthem.