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SATURDAY.
' The meeting to promote the Bellot Testimonial will be held at two o'clock on Friday next, in Willis's Rooms ; and the arrangements are of each a kind as not only to secure a large success for the object, but to stamp it with a high and national character. The chair will be taken by Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Geographical Society,—doubly fitted, by his scientific position, and his freedom from party associations. The first resolution will be moved by the First Lord of the Admiralty, —and, while that simple fact will be appreciated by the coun- trymen of Benet, we all know how Sir James Graham can do justice to his subject Lord Aberdeen expressly associates himself with the labours of the Committee, and evinces a genuine warmth of feeling beyond the formal tribute to a public expectation. We have already mentioned Lord Lansdowne and Lord Ellesmere as having seized the earliest oppor- tunity of signifying their active cooperation. Indeed, it would most likely be difficult to find those who do not take an active interest in rendering this tribute to the memory of the noble-minded Frenchman, worthy of the interests involved—the interests of science in its highest paths, of International good feeling, and of humanity.
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