While doubts agitate the outer political world, our English public
is represented in the Scientific Congress at Cheltenham, where Dr. Daubeny is facile princeps for the season, and makes his statement as Prime Minister of Science to the assembled representatives of all the scientific interests. The meeting bide fair to be tunumally interesting, not only because the progress of scientific investigation will have to be noted and promoted in each section, but because the position of the scientific class itself is in a transition state, and will be somewhat modified by the public proceedings of its representative men. There has as yet been no distinct explanation on the subject of the proposed College of Science on the Great Exposition estate .at Kensington Gore ; but the manner in which Burlington House has been alluded to, and the probability of constructing edifices for scientific societies in the immediate neighbourhood, would imply the possibility of some important change of view as to the site for the scientific quarter in London.
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