5 JULY 1851, Page 11

Prince Albert returned from Ipswich yesterday evening. He had re-

ceived more addresses, including one from the members of the Museum, of which he is President; had laid the foundation-stone of a new Grammar School; and had been present at some of the sectional proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Among the papers read there, one by IL Dumas, the great French chemist, has raised much philosophic excitement. It is described as "on certain relations between atomic weight and space of chemical bodies, and the probability of not only transmuting metals but of originally creating them,"—the philosopher's stone again, with improvements according to the require- ments of the age ! Professor Faraday is said to have been "delighted with the logic and revelations," and to have pledged himself to fol- low up the investigation.

Mr. W. N. Watson, Q.C., the former Liberal Member of Parliament for Kinsale, has offered himself as a candidate for the borough of Knares- borough, vacant by the death of Mr. Sebright Lascelles.

Lord Dungannon has been thrown from his horse, in his park in Den- bighshire, and has fractured his leg.