The members of the British Association are to assemble at
Bristol on Monday. The Council of the Literary and Philosophical Institu- tution, in Park Street, have ordered their rooms to be repaired, and every preparation made for receiving the expected guests. A number of gentlemen, who possess suitable establishments, have also expressed their intention of throwing them open for the reception of the distin- guished individuals about to honour the city with a visit. The Mar- quis of Lansdowne, as President, will receive the visits of his friends at Mr. Moutrie's, in College Green, which has been fixed on as a con- venient temporary residence for his Lordship. Many noblemen and gentlemen, eminent for their literary and scientific attainments, totally regardless of party distinction, are expected ; amongst whom are the Marquis of Northampton, Lords Ellenborough, Ebrington, and .T. Russell, and, if his health will permit (which we most earnestly hope), Lord Brougham, with Mr. S. Rice, Mr. T. Moore, the Reverend Archdeacon Bowles, Dr. Southey, M. Von Ramer, &c. Sir R. Peel is expected to be chosen President of the next meeting, which will pro- bably: be held at Liverpool. Amongst other subjects of scientific research which will be brought before the Association, we see an- nounced an important discovery by Mr. Mullins, M. P. for Kerry, of the establishment of a new locomotive power, in the appropriation of galvanism instead of steam in the propelling of vessels and carriages. The Theatre Royal has been fitted up for the evening assemblies, at which ladies will attend ; where an abstract of the proceedings of the day, in the different sections, will be read, and some of the most at- tractive experiments repeated. The pit of the Theatre has been floored over for a promenade; and there will be a daily ordinary at the Horticultural Room, near Park Street, towards which Lord Bathurst has kindly offered to contribute one and Sir J. Smyth two fat bucks.-- Bristol Mercury. At a recent meeting of the Town-Council of Shrewsbury, an ad- dress to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, on his resigning the Head Mastership of the Royal Free Grammar Schcol in that town, and on his appointment to the See of Lichffeld and Coventry, was unanimously adopted, and subsequently presented to his Lordship, who
is at present staying at Shrewsbury. It was afterwards also unani- mously resolved to congratulate the Reverend Dr. Kennedy on his appointment to the Head Mastership of the Free Grammar School, as the successor of Dr. Butler; and the address was presented to Dr. Kennedy by the Mayor and a large body of Aldermen and Councillors on Saturday sennight. On the 2d instant, a splendid piece of plate, value 100/., was pre. sented to the Honourable and Reverend Edward Pellew, by his parishioners in Great Yarmouth, for gratuitously performing the even- ing service in the chancel of St. Peter's Church. A great many Dis- senters added their mite to the subscription.—Ipswich Journal. A fire broke out last Sunday afternoon in the shop of Mr. Goff, a broker, a few doors from the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, which speedily communicated to the adjoining house ; and in a short time, owing to the scanty supply of water, both dwellings, together with the greater portion of the stock and furniture, were entirely consumed. A sub- scription has been opened in Brighton for the relief of the sufferers. The six steamers trading from Bristol to Dublin, Cork, and Water. ford, have, during the last ten years, made six thousand two hundred and forty passages, or thereabouts, in the Bristol Channel, without meeting with a single accident. Williams, the convict chimney-sweep, who escaped from Newgate, is now lying in Winchester Gaol, to which he was committed on a charge of burglary.
A tire broke out on Tuesday night in the warehouse of Messrs. Sands, Hodgson, and Co. Launcelot's Hey, Liverpool. Cotton, worth about 15,000t, and an extensive pile of building, were consumed before the fire was extinguished.
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