New-York tribune., 1868-09-10

desk in the Economic Section. Sir Johns paper IN
Nmyed discussion incidentally OF We hoei iL'' Ld
Jail system Mir Prestwth yOussaid III AlleIlca hl't
tie COURAGE To sell or use the produce oi your Sc
labor which in this country we nave hot tic sJSS ~
do. Sir John related that our Ar s,loo li0 ir's t
made the polite suggestion that Jhe governors Oh
ias In Great Britain should meet IN periodic CONFER
encc and compare notes 1t WOuld Dc, an amusing
conference no doubt since tHey, cOulu Ioch i9 one
another up ii they disagreed. No doubt they would
Throw more light on prison philosophy than all the
Commissioners of Inquiry have yet done The gov
ernOr would meet. but Our stupid magistrates under
whose control they placed, will not permit them
Sir John gave an instance in which a motion was
made at a session of magistrates that the governor
of the iai in their district should be instructed TO
visit another jail with view to inquiry ana I'M
prUyement No one was found 10 second the MOTION
No one thought inquiry worth what it might cost.
The Bench would not speculate go progress; ley
had no faith in Improvement Sir John BoWIings
plea that our IaSCals ought 10 be made pfOuuCc
The Mathematical and Physical Section presided
over by Prof lyndall, had very carry the auNaHtaso
of a speech from Mr. Glaisher our new meteOIOlOgst'
Prof GlasheT. who, since he has had an aPPoinu
ment at GTeenWlCh-the one lett vacant ON oNcll
wrought Admiral FitZr0y-has grown 9ille lOSt IN slu
hearty. He used 30 look as though ms lIelucnt ~
loon ascensions had been detrimental 10 ms physiCa
development. He wore the tenulty ana nue. oi tlio
east wind. Now he Is not Only norlu, out eItIuoi
asic obout the moon. He pleaded for money 10 Set
mn a new and powerful telescope 10 examine thg
moon HeimpOred all persons who had uhemploIIGu
trescOpes TO turn them at once upon the moOh' re
declared that he had thirty gentlemen at WoIk,
moOn-watchng. He prayed telescopists every where
to take each square inch of the moon examine ~
we'll and report the result Such observers may 9ee
something no human eye has yet seen-lOr l1eT
Majesty the moon, IS caprclOus. as is the wont Oh
her SEX and is displaying rs many varieties ol 'oi
cauic fashion as ladies below do.
One of the singular things of the week OF science
in this old clerical city of Norwich was setting mp
Ferguson TO lecture on Buddhism and ednce lessons
of liberation TO Christians theIelr0m Inc hlhsIA
teacher of Buddhism and his great successor carved
edcts of liberation the rocks of India, c0unsChng
people to honor their own faith, but not 10 9l.le M
Others. Mr.. Ferguson SAID we had not learned llS
MIR. President Hooker introduced Mr. Fcrgqsson in
brief and telling words, citing the late SIR frahcis
palgrave's testimony to Mr. teTgusS0ns attAhlhou,s
and achievements Mr. Ferguson himself IS s0ild-
looking, bronzed gentleman about hity-hye years OF
age. who proceeded to talk to the audience lie
used no notes, he made no pauses ne was
never wordy, and never dull' Inc ohly
drawback was that il did not occur TO Mt FeIguSsoh
TO speak up. Why docs not Prof Iyndall VINO is IN
authority upon Sound ascertain the capacity OF lh
Associations Lecture Hall, and draw mp scale OF
tones and place it in the hands OF the respective
lecturers. There is reason why Suence AS'0Cla-
ton should not make some use OF science MT. fe,-
gusson holds new doctrine disturbing to Max Mul-
lerites Ii is that architecture IS more certain eX-
UOnent OF the progress of mankind than language
lie said that Tree and Serpent were the earliest
Gods of mankind The identity OF Christianity
with ancient mythOlOgc symbolism was never before
made so clear or explained so completely ana p0Pu-
larly. He said that some so years ago a Capt MA
zen2ie sent TO England cargo OF lnNaluabe Budd,
hist marbles They lay at Our docks hYe years ana
afterWaTd for 10 years II would appear, they Jay III
a coach-houso in Whitehall. Mr.. Ferguson, gong
to the Indian museum. selected three curl-
GUS marbles, all he could ind, 10 cast ior
the Paris Exhibition. An attendant, surprised TO see
any one care for those examples sad: q, Sir, IL
you like those things. we have plenty of them IN
stable" and on going there Mr.. Ferguson f9nnd
pile of stones buried beneath heap OF boxes.
(which are theyY asked Mr.. FcTgusson. 'Ihcms
thew replied the attendant III Official ldi0m point
ing 10 the slabs at the bottom of the heap ana there
Mr. Ferguson discovered proofs of that tree ana ser
pent worship which once pervaded the world hut
winch was incapable Of demonstration until that
hour. The secret lay hidden Ill the Whitehall sta
bles."
The Bishop of Norwich who sat before the lecturer,
looked at him with curious scrutiny rs he said that
"he believed that the curse Of the serpent recorded
i'm the early part of the Old Testament. was rem
nant of the old tree and serpent-worship which had
so long peTvaded i'm the world Serpent-worshlp' he
said existed formerly in all nati0ns-in America as
elsewhere and was the earliest and most prevalent
of supcrstitiOns.
Mr. ferguson is one of those rare teachers who
know their own minds. lie says at each step my
conviction is so and so. He did not dwell IN ny
pothesis or doubts, or keep back his own opinions
In has been determined that the next meeting ol
the Association shall take place at Exeter, lop4'
which has been brought about by SirJohn BoNThg
influence and everybody approves the decloioh'