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,..att 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.
Grenfoll, Professors Sedgwick, Powell, Calvert, Morris,
Forbes, Stokes, and Phillips ; Colors3l Chesney, Colonel
Sykes; Mr. W. Brown, :ALP., Mr. T. Thornely, M.P., Mr.
D. Seymour, M.P., &c.
At the request of the noble Chairman,
Professor PunriPs gave a history of the proceedings of
the association during the week, and detailed the results of
the meeting in a scientific and finamial point of view. He
alluded in complimentary terms to the paper " On the
Application of .Water; Pressure Machinery," by Mr. W.
G. Armstrong, and the " Description of the Liverpool
Anemometer," by Mr. F. Osier, F.R.S., which the com-
mitteehad considered sufficiently valuable to be printed
among the reports of the association.• The attendance at
the various meetings had been particularly gratifying, as
shown.by the following figures :—Old life members, 337 ;
old annual members, 119 ; new life members, 21; new
annual members, 120 ; associates, 761 ; ladies, 622, 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 HARROWDY, in an address of considerable
length, congratulated the association on the results of the•
meeting, and expressed his deep, sense of the valuable
servites 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,
whereon amount of facilities hackbeen afforded, which, he
believed, no other town in theJdngdom 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 disposal, and fdr 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 placedltheic
rooms at the disposal of the association, and concluded by
moving a vote of thanks tothe Mayor and Corporation,
and to the several bodies, to whom he had referred.
(Applause.)
The proposition was carried by acclamation. •

The Maior, (J. B. 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, secondcd'hy Professor
Powell, a vote of thanks was accorded to the Earl of Har-
rowby, and the meeting separated.