Science begins reaping its annual harvest before the farmers have
done. The British Association met at Newcastle on Wednesday, and owing to the popularity of Sir William Armstrong, who is the President of the year, 2,000 new members were enrolled in the association, and 2,000 annual subscriptions annexed. Besides the sectional papers and dis- cussions there are, of course, to be much more 'important amusements. To-day there will be a trip to Sunderland, where adventurers may descend the Monkwearmouth Colliery, 1,800 ieet deep. On Monday Mr. Coxwell and Mr. Glaisher are to make a scientific ascent, and we trust, also unlike the unfortunate man at Nottingham, a scientific descent, and Mr. Glaisher is to lecture on his own achievement on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday next Sir William Armstrong will shoot off 12-pounder breech-loading and shunt guns for the amusement of the Association, and to illustrate the highly destructive powers of his time and percussion segment shell. Balls, concerts, and entertainments of every description are to be crowned with a regatta, in which Green, the Australian Champion, Kelly, the Champion of the Tyne, and Chambers, the Champion of the Thames, are to measure their skill. So the science will be well sugared, and the sugar may prore, perhaps, as nutritious as the science.
