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' PVC. ~ ' 1, ‘,.. , • - --- -- .4 0 4. .--" , I Ili - "p. 4.. ,), ,D l - ,A.t•-:- .-,' •'" ' • • •--t - • --4 •01 T sr- " 3tr ' - ---,... V.i.v • ' -' 1a.4 0 4 --''.\•,' ' 4 . ; --- - ' p 4 . .... _ MW:S -‘ ' . '.14,11', confirmed. They had always said that he was animated b3s an unscrupulous ambition, and that he sought to put down liberty all over the world. They had been called revolus tionists and disturbers of the public peace for stating so, and it had been asserted that the Emperor was the friend of order, the ally of England, and an enlightened and glorious prince, at the mention of whose name all good men should turn up their eyes with reverence ; but now he was universally denounced. England, France, and Turkey had entered into an alliance to repel his aggressions, and even the German Powers had gone the length of recording ' their condemnation of his conduct. These things were very encouraging, and he hoped would lead to results fa vourable to the independence of the nations of the world, and especially Poland. If Pole nd was restored, and had a flag and Government of its own, it would hardly b e a grea t er change than what had taken place in the prospects of the association since the last annual meeting. He did not ex pect that the war would be brought to a speedy conclusion. The Cabinets of Europe still regarded the re-establishment of Pol and as an event too great and dazzling to be looked to, but his conviction was that the course of the war would prove it to be necessary. Governments were already step after step compelled to take unexpected views of their situation. The formation of a Polish legion oid not at first meet with the approbation of the Allied Powers. It was the opinion of Lord Palmerston that it would be wise for Turkey to enrol a Polish legion, but he was not the head of the Go vernment. On his (Lord Dudley .'eturtit's) visit to the East he found the Turkish Ministry all willing and ready to employ the aid of the Poles, who were united with them in a common hatred of Russia ; but they were with held from doing so by the representations of the ambas sadors. It was not long, however, before the French Go vernment saw the error they were committing, and the French Ambassador gave the measure his support. So completely, also, had our own Government become favour able to it that official despatches had been addressed to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe directing him to give all his aid to the formation of a Polish legion. The Government of this country were now sensible of the advantage to Turkey of employing Poles iu the service, and had given directions for a large supply of arms, to be placed at the disposal of the commander of the British forces for the use of a Polish legion. That legion was likely, therefore, soon to be formed, and he had no doubt that, animated by patriotic sentiments, when it came in contact with the soldiers of the Czar, it would give a good account of them. He was anxious that all the Poles who were able to do so should place their swords at the disposal of the Sultan. Many of them might prefer to serve directly un der England or France, and he admitted that it would be preferable, but they would go on by degrees ; and by-and by the Government of this country might be induced to theta k o p m o e o s r . e i d n i r r e e c s t i s s t t i e n p gs Russia for n an y i t s v r e a l f y of theyth e w s e e r r e v p i c s e v s n o s f the way for tho restoration of their country. The noble lord having referred to a meeting with Cossacks on the line of the Danube, officered by Poles, during his recent visit to the seat of war, proce e d e d t o disclaim, on the part of the Polish nation, any parti c ip a ti on i n the visionaryn e pri cipl s of the Red Republic. H e did no t k now what govern ment might he established in Poland when the hated yoke of the foreign opt ressor was destroyed, but he should wish to sea any government established there which was a Polish Government, and which would meet with the approbation of the great mass of the people. It might not be so liberal as some thought desirable, but if once they obtained a national government, and broke the yoke of the foreign oppressor, they might improve it at their leisure. He was afraid that the English Cabinet flattered itself that it would bo able to get to the end of the present war at a small cost and without great sacrifices. The Chancellor of the Exchequer talked of pro vidingsaddling taxfor halfforthaeyneeacre,sasnitdie(sliosefotuhne thetwenaranbeyertuhbeliidnegaofincome. posterity with the expenses. That was all very well, if money could thus be provided to effect the desired object ; but he (Lord D. Stuart) did not consider the argument a sound one. In driving back Russia to her own territory and main taining the balance of power in Europe they were fighting for posterity, for the future liberty of nations, and the pro gressive civilisation of the world. The noble lord pro ceeded at some length to explain his views on the subject of the war, and concluded by thanking the association for re-electing him to the office of president. The vice-president and members of council for the year having been formally appointed, the proceedings of the meeting terminated. Lord BEAUMONT announced during the meeting, amid loud cheers, the news just received of the victory achieved by Omer Pasha over General Luders. R. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, Including the BERNESF. OBERLAND and the SIMPLON, THIS EVENING, and Every Evk.ning at Eight o'Clock, (except aturday) ; and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at Two. 33. (which can be taken at the box. office every day from 11 ul-1 4; area, 25.; gallery, ls.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. re numeronalf ,s year. Very Aerably active white wheat eday last, and lescriptions of 6d per barrel, in corn 2s per at week. NoTICE._ CONSTANTINOPLE. The Lecture accompanying the GRAND NIeVING DIORAMA !t CONSTANTINOVLE is now delivere.l on Wednesdays and Satur "rs by Mr. J. H. SroQuELER. when th,, progress aid locadizies of the War will be more particularly explained; and on the other d ' a rl, as usual, by Mr. CF ARi.ES KENNEY. A very clear and excellent Map has bitten added to the illustrationc—Daily at Half- Past Two and Eight.—Admission, Is. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. NO. 19,222. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1854. [PRICE SD. HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE. ROYAL LITERARY FUND, but to interfere, as far as it may, between the meritorious and those calamities against which no rank of merit can be always a security." Its purpose was to give assistance to genius, which, notwithstanding its efforts, might for a time remain obscure. The greatest eventual success might be preceded by trial and affliction, and it was not desirable that authors should always bo encouraged to look merely to temporary objects and to the popularity of the hour. It had also been said that such an institution was unneces sary, as the patronage at the disposal of the Crown was sufficient to meet the cases which it was intended to remedy. But it must be remembered that the patronage of the Crown had not always been bestowed with discrimination; for, in words of Pope— " The hero William, and the martyr Charles, " One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles." And Prince Albert, by presiding at the society, and lend ing it the sanction of his name, had acknowledged that the claims of suffering merit were so great as to require for their relief the assistance of an institution like this—(hear) —the committee of which were able to examine with jeal ous care all the cases that came before them. One of its many claims to public support was the absolute secrecy it preserved with regard to those whom it relieved. It was no slight advantage that a man of genius who, from tem porary pressure, had had recourse to this institution, should not be marked among his fellow-men as having received its assistance, and that the circumstance of relief having been administered to him could become known only by his own free will. He believed that the only case in which that cir cumstance had become known was that of Chateaubriand, who, while he resided in this country as the Ambassador of France, had had the magnanimity to say that, as a young man, he had received benefact ions from this society. That case had, therefore, become known to the world in a man ner which redounded highly to the honour of him who had made the avowal. He would suggest to the committee whether it would not be desirable that one of the persons who had experienced the benefit o f the societ y should be asked to occupy tho chair at a future anniversary who might be able to say—" I, who now preside over yon, re ceived your bounty during my early struggles." (Hear, hear.) On these grounds he hoped they would join him in paying a tribute of honour to this great institution, to which he thought he might apply those lines which Dr. Johnson had applied to an individual : " In misery's darkest caverns known, Its ready help is ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pours his groan, And lonely want retires to die." They might remember that Boswell said that the last line had been originally written by Dr. Johnson in a different manner. It stood thus : " And labour steals an hour to die." COSMORAMIC, DIORAMIC, and ..N1 PANORAMIC EXFIIBITION. at the PRINCE OF WALE S t..AZA.AR, 207 and 209, itegent - street. — lte - open ed wt h a Series of New and Splendid VIEWS, among which are the Runs of Pompeii Ind the Valley of Chatnouny, with ldoramic Effect, New York, the ; I _ l l)Podrome at Constantinople, &c.—Open from 10 till 6. Admsision 1, ••; children halt price. Now Ready, in 2 vols Bro., with Portrait, 28s. bound, MEMOIR AND CORREAPONCENCE OF G E NERAL SIR W. 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LAUB.ENT, Onslow-house, Fu.,aam•road) Zyhe above R o oms are now OPEN FOR THE SE ASON. r ,„' will continue open every evening, with LAURENT', .J. ...:EBRATE I) BAND. C ons tantinople Quadrille, Sultan Polka, : !'air Star Waltz, and Overland Mall Galop, by D'Albert; also, by R. Latrent, the following Waltzes La belle Franca:se, Leonora, VlM as and his Dinah, Admission, Is. Doors o p en at half-past 8. Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter ,irate at half-past 11. PER QII.AUTER. • • 48s to 50$ 47s to 480 00s to 00$ 00s to 00$ 1854. s 6d s 7d s Od s 6d s Od Now ready, at all the Libraries, with Portrait of the Author, and other Illustrations, MISS MITFORD'S NEW STORY. T H E R T 0 N. A From the Athenaeum: --`• Atherton is scheming tale, written in a cheerful, kindly, buoyant spirit, and refreshes the reader like a drive in the country. It abounds in those descriptions of English scenery in which Miss Mitford is always felicitous. The preface will excite the sympathy and respect of all who read it, and it there be any virtue in the earnest good wishes of all whom she made her friends, Mary Milford ought to feel their influence. She has enlisted the Tery selfi,hoess .1 human nature in her tavour, for there are !ew who would not wish her a speedy restoration to health, if only that she thi-ht writ another story as pleasant as Atherton "—Athenaeum. Hurst an' llackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13 Great Maribor ugh -street. ATTRACTIVE NOVELTIES. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—II.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. The SEAT of WAlt, showinc the principal places on the DANUBE, RALAFAT, WIDDI s.GIURGEVi), SEBASTOPOL, the entrance to the BLACK SEA, BAT FLE of SI NOVI:, and DE .TRUCTION of the TURKISII FLEET, and other scenes (kindly supplied by the proprietors of the ' Illustrated London News"), EXBIIIITED B. NEW SERIES of DISAOLVING VIEWS. L ECTURES by J. 11. 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Just Published, 60th Edition, price 2s. 6d.. or free by post for forty two stamps, SELF-PRESERV A TI ON a Popular Treatise on the Physiology and Functions of Mar riage, with its Diriqualitications and Impediments, tracing their origin to the effects of solitary habits, youthtul excess, tropical climates, or close study ; followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, .permatorrho3a, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Illustrated by 50 coloured Engrav ings, on the Anatomy of the Reproductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin• burgh. Honorary Member of the London Hospital idedical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Han, London, &c., &c. 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With ill ustra ti on' , w ititied" The Echo of Public Opi- chronic inflamin afion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, "IV. ti tni . zg run lists n OMR% Pm system of self-measure- U. , at the Establish 4ha "'" c'e., may he had on apolicatlon. or post-free. in society 5/ Packets, with advice, to he had , tion s . • . • , 0 Macre d Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, 4 amt A minute detail of the case is required : age, habits, and post e Almanac for the year fonding 1554 can be had, gratis, ment only, by which the fee, 11,, Is save . call ° , lei r • on Pavle Francais. Qui si parts Itallano, don, from Eleven till Ti r o, and Five to Eight; on Eiun day from are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Lon -"lcc siglCAt mail Deutsch. Aqua WS bade lispeno. Woven to One. Lieutenant H. James, by Sir C. Wood. Ensign A. A. James, on appointment, by Colonel Wilson. Lieutenant W. H. Jeffcock, by Colonel Wylde. Lieutenant H. R. Johnston, by Lieutenant-General Sir T. Hawker. 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Lieutenant-Colonel C. S. Reid, by Sir C. Wood. Ensign S. J. Remnant, by General Viscount Comber mere, _ _ The Queen held yesterday afternoon in St. James's Palace a levee, which was numerously attended. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived soon after two o'clock, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards. The Great Officers of State received her Majesty and his Royal Highness. Before the levee the Earl of Aberdeen had an audience of the Queen. The Earl of Warwick had an audience of her Majesty, and delivered the badge of the Order of the Thistle, worn by his father the late Earl of Warwick. Lieuteoant-General Lord Seaton had an audience of the Queen, and received from her Majesty his Gold Stick of office as Colonel of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards. Her Majesty's Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentle men-at-Arms was on duty in the State saloons, under the command of the Lieutenant. 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By the Spanish Charge d'Affaires,—Colonel L. Mur rieta, Aide-de-Camp of the Duke de la Victoria ; and Don Francisco Latorre, Lieutenant in the Spanish Navy. The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour of being presented to her Majesty : Ensign R. D. Adair, by Colonel Viscount Hinton. Hon. W. W. Addington, by Right Hon. W. W. Addington. Lieutenant Alexander, by Lieutenant-General the Earl of Beauchamp. Mr. A Allison, by Captain Story. Mr. H. P. Anderson, by the Earl of Clarendon. Hon. J. F. Arundel], by Viscount Campden. Mr. Ashwell, by Mr. Milnes Gaskell, M.P. Captain R. Assheton, by Colonel Clifton. Mr. Serjeant Atkinson, by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. G. Bailie, by the Earl of Haddington. Lieutenant W. J. Baillie, on return from Burmah, by Major-General Wetherell. Mr. Douglas Baird, by Viscount Drumlanrig. Mr. Smith Barry, by the Earl of Derart. Colonel Bazalgette, on arrival from Nova Scotia, by Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour. Ensit'n T. Beckley, by Lieutenant-General Roberts. 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Captain J. Field, by Sir C. Wood. Hon. Mr. Fiennes, by his father, Lord Saye and Sole. Mr. J. Findlay, by the Duke of Argyll. Mr. A. S. Finlay, by the Lord Advocate. Ensign C. H. Fisher, by Major C. J. Lewes. Lieutenant G. B. Fisher, on his return from India, b y Sir J. Rivitt Carnac. R ev , A. Fletcher, D.D., by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Wire. on his appointment to Scots Lieutenant H. Forbes, by Lieutenant-General Sir E. Bowater. eby. Captain H. Forester, on his appointment to South e Fusili ii e t:an a t i f is o , lo b u y el L F o o rd rd it yc o e k , Durham Militia, by the Duke of Cleveland. Mr. Chichester Fortescue, on appointment as a Lord of the Treasury, by the Earl of Aberdeen. Lieutenant H. Francis, by Sir C. Wood. Captain Frobisher, on appointment as a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant, county of Glocester, by the Marquis of Ormonde. Mr. R. S. Gard , by Sir J. Yozde Buller. Cornet Gifford, by Lieutenant-General Lord C. Manners. Mr. F. S. Gosling, by General Viscount Combermere. Mr. G. P. Green, by Sir T. Phillipps. Viscount Grey de Wilton, by the Earl of Wilton. Captain M. Griniston, by the Earl of Erne. Captain Gunning, by the Earl of Bradfoid. The Rev. Dr. Hale, on appointment as Chaplain to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, by the Earl of Clarendon. Mr. Hammond, on his appointment as Under Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, by the Earl of Cla rendon. Mr. Harford, by Colonel the Ron. C. B. ps Phip. The Hon. C. R. Hay, on appointment to Scots Fusilier Guards, by Colonel Lord Rokeby. Major-General Sir W. Herries, on appointment to the command of the 68th Regiment, by Viscount 'larding°. Mr. James Duke Hill, on appointment as Ensign, Royal London Militia, by Major-General Lord Hotham. Major Hockley, by Sir G. T. Staunton. Mr. C. P. Hodgson, by the Earl of Clarendon. Captain A. Hole, by Lord Clinton. Rear-Admiral C. Hope, on promotion, by Sir J. Graham. Mr. T. A. Howard, on appointment to a company in the Royal Berks Militia, by General Sir Willoughby Cotton. The Marquis of Huntley, on succeeding to the title, by- Earl Spencer. Lieutenant P. Jackson, on anpointinent to Royal Ar tillery, by Lieutenant-General Sir H. Ross. Mr. Edward James , on his appointment as one of her Majesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. E. Richards, by the Right Hon. W. Tighe. Brigadier-Ganeral A. Roberts, on his return from com manding the Peshawur division of the army in India, by Sir C. Wood. Captain H. Rivers, 8.E., by the chairman of the East India Company. Lieutenant-Colonel Rous, Grenadier Guards, on promo tion, by Colonel Stanhope. Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherfurd, Bengal Native In fantry, by Sir G. Pollock. Bishop of Salisbury (elect), by the Earl of Aberdeen. Ensign E. W. Saunders, on appointment to the 14th Regiment, by Sir J. Watson. Cornet W. Scott, on appointment to the Essex Yeo manry, by Major Palmer. The Earl of Seafield, by the Marquis of Breadalbane. Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, ou his return from foreign service and nomination as K.C.B, by Sir James Graham. Lieutenant W. Sheehy, by Sir J. Young. Lieutenant Shekleton, 8.H.A., by Viscount Jocelyn. Mr. E. Anderson Shuldham, by the Hon. Captain Denman. Lieutenant Silvester, of the Lancashire Militia, by Co lonel W. Patten, M.P. Assistant-Surgeon E. M. Sinclair, M.D., on joining the 97th, by Major-General Proctor. Lieutenant-colonel Sir T. G. Skipwith, of the Warwick Militia, by Lord Leigh. Lieutenant F. Sumwell, by Sir C Wood. Captain Sole, by the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Raglan Somerset, by the Earl of Harrowby. Rev. B. Howard Stafford, by the Master of the Temple. Lieutenant Stapleton, on return from the Cape of Good Hope, by Viscount Jocelyn. Hon. J. C. Stanley, on appointment to the Grenadier Guards, by Lord Stanley (of Alderley). Commander F. H. Stirling, R.N., by Sir W. Stirling. Lieutenant C. E. Stirling, R.A., by Sir W. Stirling. Mr. L. Strong, by Viscount Combermere. Hon. W. Stuart, on appointment as First Paid Attache to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, by the Earl of Clarendon. Mr. Rua,ell Sturgis, by Mr. Bates. Lieutenant-General Lord Seaton, on appointment to the command of the 2d Life Guards, by Viscount Hardinge. Colonel Pringle Taylor, K.H., on appointment as Colonel on the Staff at the Cape of Good Hope, by Viscount Hardinge. Mr. Stephen Temple, on having been appointed one of her Majesty's Counsel, by tho Lord Chancellor. Major-General Thorn, on appointment to the Colonelcy of the 20th Regiment, by Viscount Hardinge. First-Lieutenant C. Ruddell Todd, Royal Middlesex Rifles, by Viscount Enfield. Lieutenant H. Tombs, 8.H.A., on return. from India, by Sir H. Smith. Mr. G. Taddy Tomlin, by the Rev. G. W. Sicklemore• Mr. E. Toots!, by Mr. Heywood, M.P. Lieutenant J. C. Chetwood Townsend, Middlesex Militia, by the Earl of Bandon. Sir W. St. L. Clarke Travers, Bart., by Major-General Sir J. Prendergast. Rev. L. Tngwell, by Sir W. Mediycott, Bart. Captain Polhill Turner, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, on assuming the name of Turner, by the Earl De Grey. Captain Fortescue Turville, Oxford Militia , by Colonel Bowles. Sir H. Vavaseur, Bart., on his marriage, by the Hon. R. C. Neville. Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. F. Villiers, Middlesex Militia, by the Marquis of Salisbury. Captain Waddilove, R.A., by Major Graham. Mr. Frederick Walker, by Viscount Galway. Mr. Walsham, by the Marquis of Lansdowne. The Dean of Wells, by Lord John Russell. Captain G. G. Wellesley, R,N., on return from foreign service, by Sir J. Graham. Mr. T. Wentworth, by his father, Mr. V, Wentworth. Lieutenant C. Sidney Williams, R.M.A., on promotion, by Major-General Sir J. Owen. Ensign W. Edmund Williams, 8.N.1., by Sir F.Pollock. Mr. J. Pollard Willoughby, on appointment as a direc tor of the East India Company, by Sir C. Wood. Rev. W. Wilson, Canon of Manchester, by the Dean of Manchester. Colonel R. B. Wood, on appointment to be Assistant- Adjutant-General of the Forces, by Viscount Hardinge. Captain H. Woodhead, Middlesex Militia, by Viscount Chelsea. Lieutenant the Hon. C. Wrottesley, R.E., by the In . spector-General of Fortifications. Mr. C. Williams Wynn, on his marriage, by Viscount Newark. The Mayor of Norwich, Mr. Samuel Bignold, pre. sented to the Queen an address, pledging the loyal sup port of the corporation in the prosecution of the war. Mr. Bignold was presented by the Duke of Wellington, and received the honour of knighthood from her Majesty. The following noblemen and gentlemen attended the levee : ADMIRALS—EarI of Egmont, Sir Edward King, Sir John G. Sinclair, Bart., Sir Watkin Pell. RobertDaeonrmdoann: W. Wood, Ha C y A , P e T o A s l p N a S t r R e k O yßa Hamilton , Bedford, Richard Quin, Edward Cannon, the Hon. Keith Stewart, Sir Thomas Hastings, C.B. d, Thomas Na CAPTAINS (Trinity-house).--Shop COMMANDERS.—J. Paulson, F. Beauchamp Seymourna more Were. Qn j GENERALS.—Sir John Burgoyne, Sir Frederick Stovin, Latter, Chamberlayne, Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Sir David Leighton, K.C.8., Aitchison, Alexander Thomson, C. 8., Sir John Hanbury, Lluwellyn, C. 8., Thomas Shubrick, Sir John Grey, Clarlas, Rogers, Sir Bichard de la Sausaaye. COLONELS. —M`Douall, Angerstein, the Hon. Hugh Chol mondeley, Clifton, Danielk, Williams, Lord Rokeby, Wil son Patten, M.P., Bowles, J. Manson , Key , Gaw le r, Ches ney, C. Haldane, Myddleton Biddulph. MAJORS.—Palmer, Williams Wynn, Charles James Lewis ' Graham, Monro, Howard Vy se, Stevens, C. 8., Robert Bruce, T. A. Moore, Oliphant. CAPTAINS. Maunsell, Compton, Henry Greenway, Wemyss, Haliburton, Viscount Bury, Lord George Man ners, Edenborough, F. W. Lane, F. Vandeleur Brace, Charles Mills, Charles Henry Mills, T. D. Thisleton Dyer, S. J. Batten, Viscount Chewton, Barnardiston, Hamiton Beckett, E. Ottley, De Winton, Story, Bunco Curling. William Hinds, A. S. Lumley, the Hon. R. Lawley , Levett, Hum p hr y , E. C. LIEUTENANTS.—A. Turnbull, Grant, Frederic Brine, Drummond, Burrowes. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Desart, the Countess of Charlemont, and the Gentlemen-in-Waiting, returned to Buckingham 1 9 alace after the Levee, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards. The CHAIRMAN next proposed " the Church," with which he coupled the name of the Rev. Dr. Donaldson, who briefly returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then said, that he now came to what he considered as his chief duty, and, at the same time, his highest privilege as chairman in asking the gentlemen who were present to combine in a single toast the expression of their love for literature, and of their sympathy with those who had not been successful in their contributions to it. He was about to propose to them " Prosperity to the Lite rary Fund." (Cheers.) They would not expect from him what he was not qualified to give—a detail of the conduct and management of this great institution, as such a detail would shortly be laid before them by other and more com petent hands. For his part, he could only, as one of the public who contemplated the Literary Fund, desire to ex press his respect for its motives and his gratitude for its exertions. Among the subservient advantages of a meeting like the present might be numbered the friendly communion which it established between different classes of literary men. He might observe that a poet who should live only with poets, a novelist who should live only with novelists, an his torian who should live only with historians, would acquire but a very slight and imperfect knowledge of the great field of literature in which there were so many labourers. He thought that by a friendly communion of different classes of writers in a meeting like the present, they were each of them enabled to form a juster appreciation of the merits of the rest. But it was not merely the different classes of lite rary men that were brought together at a meeting like this. It had also the advantage of eliciting the sympathy of va rious nations. They saw among them to-night not Eng lishmen merely, but men who had come from the furthest regions of the earth, all ready like themselves to testify, by taking part in this meeting, their love and their respect for literature. He saw among them the natives, he could not say of a foreign country, for that description would not apply to India, but of a distant country, who had been willing by their presence to show that no distance of place, no difference of race, could dissever those who felt a love for literature. They also numbered among them many citizens of that great commonwealth beyond the Atlantic to which we were bound by so many ties of interest as well as of language, the strength of which must in the end always overpower any temporary estrangement that might occur between the two countries. (Cheers.) As regarded the United States, we might say, not merely that their literature and our own were kindred and allied, but that in many respects they were one and the same, for he believed he was not wrong in asserting that an accomplished Ameri can would take as much pride in the renown of Shakspere and of Milton, and would consider them as much a mark of his national greatness, as we did ourselves, and, even if we looked to those men of letters who had arisen on the other side of the Atlantic since the separation of the United States from this country, we should find that as much pleasure and delight had been derived from their productions upon this as upon the other side of the Atlan tic. In proof of this he need only refer to the warm re ception which only last year had been given with so much reason to the illustrious Thackeray ; and he need only ask, if a single Englishman who now heard liiin had not derived gratification from reading the admirable pictures of Eng• lisb life contained in the writings of Washington Irving? Although an American by birth and by family, he bad yet imbued himself with many European scenes, and he (the chairman) remembered him with much pleasure as his friend and fellow traveller in Spain. He thought it was a great advantage that these meetings should give an oppor tunity of union to those who were no strangers to each other in feeling, and who only desired to become better acquainted with each other in order to increase their mutual friendship and regard. (Hear, hear.) But he thought this meeting was also important from the encouragement which it must hold out to those younger men who had just entered upon the field of literature. He did not mean that that encou ragement was derived from any expectation that they might have of hereafter deriving benefit from this society. No, those were not the feelings of young and ardent minds ; no young men be g an their career expecting teat their hopes would not be fulfilled, but many who had commenced their career in buoyancy and hop might have occasion, before they closed it, to appeal, not in vain to this institution. The encouragement, however, to which he had cdverted was of a different kind. It must be an en couragement to them to see, as might continually be seen e t these annual meetings, men who had attained to great e minence in various professions and walks of life, come for ward and express the delight and gratification which, in the midst of their pursuits, they had derived from thq se sa?oihtfa° wouldhu ifl i t i a study of literature. It must bo an encouragement t 6 young men of letters to see some of the most eminent men of every profession in this country brought together by their lave for that study, for it was certainly a remark able and an animating fact that we might point to some of the most learned persons, to some of those who had attained the greatest eminence in this country, as men who, apart from their professional distinction, had achieved great renown in literature. (Hear, hear.) If we looked through the learned professions at this mo ment, we found that there were in the present wee no physicians more successful than Sir H. Milford' and. Sir H. Holland, the former of whom was so distin guished by a taste for composition in the Latin lan guage, while the latter excelled not in one, but in many branches of literary attainment. If we looked to the law, he need do no more than name such men as Lord Brougham and Lord Campbell; ho need do no more than appeal to the name of that eminent man, who only three years ago was presiding in this assembly, and whose loss we had now to mourn—need he supply what their thoughts were anticipating—need he mention the name of Tal fourd—(loud cheers)—apart from whose well-earned pro fessional renown, there never was a man who was more sincerely, mare devotedly, more completely attached to the cause of literature? (Cheers.) Then, if we looked to the church, it might be said that eminence in literature had not, any more than the study of theology, proved any bar to the well-earned professional distinction of the Dean of St . Paul's and of the Dean of Westmin ster - and if we looked to the higher ranks of the church, we should also find that in them literature was most worthily represented by such men as Bishop Thirlwall and Archbishop Whately. (Hear, hear.) He therefore thought we might be proud of a distinction in literature when it was shared by so many eminent men of the various learned professions; but if we now looked to politicians we should arrive at the same result. There were, indeed, in politics, some men who could read nothing but blue-books---(a laugh)—who looked down on literature with contempt ; some men such as had been so well described by Goldsmith in his play of the "Good-natured Man" under the character of Mr. Lofty, who, when some one made an allusion to one of the poets, only broke out into the exclamation, " Waller, Waller ! Is he in the house ?" (A laugh.) He certainly had known some Loftys, but where had he found them ? Not among the higher classes of politicians, but among those who occupied about the same rank in politics asthat which Colley Cibber and Pye occupied as poets laureate—men of the third and fourth class. But when he looked to those great statesmen whose voices had • been heard by listening Senates , and whose opinions had decided the fate of empires, e ob served both in the records of history and at the present time that, with but very few exceptions, those men had apart, from their great political contentions, studied and loved some efsa threadbarelearning,mihsi.eoappear .ivyelib. provisions bkbc n ke n o , h t tite,, , ,o:hhiititt with e political object, but solely from the intellectual pleasure it afforded them. If we looked back to former times, how pleasing was the recollection that Fox, retiring from the scenes of party strife in which he was engaged, would recur with never-wearied pleasure to the perusal of his Dryden or his Shakspere, or even indulge himself occa sionally in the composition of Italian canzonets. We found also his great rival Pitt, not estranged by his long official career from his early devotion to classical literature, recurring to the study of classical authors at every moment of leisure which his busy life afforded. Indeed, if he wished to produce an example of how the love of literature could be combined with emi nence in politics, he knew not that he could find a more appropriate instance than that which was supplied by their own president, the Marquis of Lansdowne. (Cheers.) It was, if he mistook not, not less than 48 years since Lord Lansdowne had first sat in a Cabinet, and he sat in a Cabinet now. He believed that such a long period of ser vice as a statesman was wholly withont a precedent in the annals of this country, and in the midst of political contention Lord Lansdowne had never ceased from pursu ing literary accomplishments, and from showing, as they could bear testimony, the most courteous and anxious at tention to every person and to every subject connected with the literary profession. (Hear, hear.) Of such men it might be said that the love of intellectual pursuits, inde pendent of their political avocations, was in their bosoms a pure and salient spring, which, like the fabled stream of Arethusa, could flow pure and undefiled through the bitter ocean of party politics. " Sic tibi cum fluctus subterlabere Sicanos Doris aware suam non intermisceat undam." But he had hitherto adverted to what were, no doubt, only the subsidiary advantages of this institution in the bond by which it afforded to literature, and in the by which it united literary men. The more immediate object he would observe, what their own reflection mu of the a t ts h ht e eo eaoffl d society orh‘ie was, aslri cthoo, ua r n t d o provision doubtless, irloe vbi bed do f on a f t c s l oi i o ff tk e hn r ee e so n s : , t k po i t nybdr board bring Itsys already arme sdntcybdt eminence have told them, that where great intellectual this institution stopped in and afforded present had the exigency of the case mightrequire. hat real merit could an objection to an institution like this t as mortaa epic for rut , ex isted than under the ordinary circumstances, ad and then a c bt h (ois nu m b ei o cte o r h:w e r t,eas rat a ras c swet u ccehtrio t dhei i rce l aadi acutely .. notof genius, fail t o t 1 :o b o e y p f e o r u c n e !Iv Miltone d , but 8 e o i n , i og lookingi Otway perishing for want of amorsels l o f se enc bread.tihot facilitating s i i meansi a at n na and dt l ine D o r • . of to at the dinner of was the case in former g a Jhisoh n publisherson , in o his u youth,account a say n a in o ny the the i ii m c ‘j ourage bad au tegexrnei s t att t e to dm i d ena e s v ut o hr u eo r soef a st ui p me l c a ee t ss t , Cproeuvlednwtinegdoaulhatrgtehaatmifouanntino_sti.t.u.ts _ e the profligate ; times, w th o o r r d s s h j. purpose o w p f l : o y tf t o h s t e h shu l e a u d tß l a d d i no r yietsatslnhooLefti tibteleircroncrFOot:mov olidnidtrotueeleeg He doubted whether the line, as it stood at first, did not more feelingly express the hardships endured in the pre sent age of pressing competition, which claimed almost the last hours of life for an effort of labour—intellectual labour being certainly no exception to the general remark. He was convinced, by their presence, of their sympathy with the objects of the institution, and he hoped that they would join with him in wishing " Prosperity to the Lite rary Fund." (Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with great applause. The Treasurer then announced that grants to the amount of 1,490/. had been distributed during the last year among 47 persons—of whom 31 were gentlemen, and 16 were ladies, and read a lowg list of donations, includ ing those of 100 guineas from her Majesty (17th year), 20 guineas from the Chairman (4th donation), and 10 guineas train the Duke of Somerset, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl of Ellesmere, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Hallam, &c. Lord STANLEY, in proposing the health of the chairman, said that his noble friend had now been before the public for more than a quarter of a century, and had passed a large portion of that time in the noblest school of politics which existed in the world—the House of Commons. In that assembly he had earned no small degree of credit and distinction; but, although he was qualified to have risen to the highest eminence as a politician, he had always pre ferred to consider literature as his profession. He fully concurred in all that his noble friend had said with regard literature to the relation between and politics; and he might have added, as a striking testimony of the honour in which literature was now held among politicians, that the leaders of the three great p o liti ca l p ar ti es o f th e day were not merely men of literary sympathies and tastes, but had themselves been authors. Lord John Russell was not only an author, but a historian. Mr. Gladstone was responsible for the expenditure of a good deal of the income of publishers, and the early triumphs and reputation of Mr. Disraeli had been gained in literature. (Cheers.) His noble friend's "History of England" had acquired a stand ard place in our literature, and had received the sanction of universal approbation, for not only, in the phrase of book sellers' advertisements, was it "a book which no library could be without," but, what was a surer test of literary merit, it was very often taken down from the shelves of libraries—(hear)—and, although it had not been published in a form which multiplied readers from thousands to hun dreds of thousands, yet it was one of those works which was the most thumbed by the hard hands of operatives in the public libraries of the great towns of England. It would al ways be a book of reference, and approached as near to political impartiality as he believed any history could do. His noble friend had published volumes of historical works ; he hail been an active literary reviewer, and for many years an active member of Parliament, and was therefore entitled to credit for more than a common share of industry, even in this industrious country. (Cheers.) He had laboured thus perseveringly in order to obtain that, honourable reputation which followed the successful exer cise of intellect. (Cheers.) He concluded by proposing " The health of the Chairman." The CHAIRMAN, who was loudly applauded, in returning thanks, announced that the Marquis of Normanby would take the chair at the next anniversary. (Cheers.) The remaining toasts were —" Tho Writers on Classical Literature, and Dr. W. Smith," by Mr. BOWEN ; " The Writers on Science and Mr. Lassen," by Sir E. PERRY ; "The Historians and Biographers and the Rev. A. Stanley," by the Rev. W. ELWIN ; " The Literature and Science of other countries, and the Rev. Dr. Waterbury," by the PROVOST of ETON ; " The Visitors and Mr. Whiteside," by the CHAIRMAN; and "The Ladies," by the CHAIRMAN. Several glees were sung in the course of the evening by Messrs. Genge and Lawler, assisted by som e o t her vocalists. A number of ladies were present in the galleries to witness the proceedings. Amongst the subscriptions announced were the follow ing :—The Queen, 105/. ; Lord Mahon, the chairman, 21/. ; Duke of Somerset, Earl of Ellenborou,gh, the Commander in-Chief, Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., Mrs. Alexander Kerr, Mr. John Murray, Alr. Joshua Bates, Sir C. M. Clarke, Bart., Sir James Bardsley, M.D., Mr. Jules Benedict, Mr. C. F. Bowen, Rev. Dr. Bruce, Mr. Peter Carthew, Dr. Dic kenson, Liverpool ; Professor Eastwiek, Haileybury ; Mr. John Fenwick, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. J. Lewis Fytche, Thorpe Hall ; Rev. Dr. Gilly, Durham ; Dr. Guest, LL.D., Mr. W. Knighton, Mr. W. Lassel, F.R.S., Liverpool ; Mr. R. APAndrew, F.R.S., Liverpool ; Mr. T. C. Savill, Dr. W. Smith, LL.D., Mr. T. Webster and Mr. J. H. Parker, 101. 103. each ; Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Sir John Swinburne, Bart., the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Dynevor, Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr. John Pepys, Mr. Henry Thomas Hope, and Baron do Goldsuiid, 101. each ; A Friend to Literature, 301. ; the Stationers' Company, 20/. ; Mr. John Dickinson, 15/. ; Messrs. Longman and Co., 51. ss. ; Hon. Mounstuart Elphinstone, 51. ss. ; Mr. R. S. Holford, 51. ss. ; Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P., 5/. ; Hon. Charles Hardinge, M.P., 51. ss. ; and his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, Belgian Minister, Si. LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF POLAND. The 22d annual meeting of this association was held yes terday at the rooms in Duke-street, St. James's—Lord Dudley Stuart, as usual, presiding. Among those present were, the Earls of Harrowby and Harrington, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Beaumont, Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir J. V. Shelley, Colonel Freestun, Mr. J. Abel Smith, Mr. Fox-Strangways, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Capt. Tonshend, Mr. Alderman Salomons, Mr. Silk Buckingham, the High Bailiff of Southwark, Lieut.-Colonel Szulczewski, and a number of Poles. Mr. BIRKBECK, the hon. secretary, road the report,which reviewed the principal events of the past year bearing upon thointerests and prospects of the refugees and of their cause. Referring to the Eastern question, it explained the steps which had been taken for the formation of a Polish legion commanded by Polish officers, and fighting under the na tional banner, in the service of the Sultan. For that purpose a correspondence had taken place between the Turkish Mi nisters and Prince Adam Czartorisky, and subsequently Lord Dudley Stuart had proceeded to the East to facili tate its accomplishment. The scheme had encountered, until recently, the opposition of Lord Stratford de Red cliffe, on the ground of his anxiety to conciliate Austria. ' i This opposition was now, however, withdrawn, and the report announced that within a few weeks the flag of Po land would be once more raised against Russia. At no pe riod had the prospects of restoring their nationalitytsaepe -1 peared more bright than at present. The Czar hadg and the signal for war, and proved hi mself the disturber,__ ,3sv eak. not the consolidator of the peace of Europe. Th ness of the German Powers in resisting hisambitious it was po licybe- had also been clearly demonstrated , he and restoration coming more strongly man ifested that The Poles desired to Poland was a political necessity.o better title than that hold their rightful possessions by n of guarding the civilisation of the West against the re newed incursions of Eastern b a rbarism. From the finan cial statement embodied in the report, the recent dinner in aid of the funds o f the association would appear to have red its objec t thoroughly, having realised 9001. , .Nl'vnhsewreewith to meet the expenses of the current year. Mr. FON-STRANGWATS moved, and the Earl of HAR RINGTON seconded the adoption of the report, which was unanimously agreed to. A deputation from the body of Polish emigrants, con sisting o f Major Geitgud, Chevalier Wiercinski, Mr. N. F. Zaba, Mr. Jackouski, and the Rev. Mr. Podoleki, presented an address to the association on the existing state of affairs and the prospects of Polish nationality. Mr. M. MILNES moved, and the Earl of HARROWBT seconded, the following resolution : ‘' That, in the present condition of Europe, nothing short of a full consideration of the just claim s o f P o l an d will afford adequate security for the maintenance of the balance of power therein, and for the establishment of a satisfactory and lasting peace." Lord BEAUMONT moved, and Mr. BEALE seconded, a vote of thanks to th e L or d M ayor, for presiding at the late dinner hold at the Loudon Tavern in aid of the funds of the association. Captain TOWNSEND moved, and Colonel CHESTERTON seconded, a vote of thanks to Mr. Carr and the other gentlemen who took part in the preparations for the dinner. On the motion of Mr. S. BUCKINGHAM, Lord Dudley Stuart was elected president of the association. Lord D. STUART, in returning thanks, said that in whatever capacity he was called upon to do so, he would always be ready to support tho association as long as its services were required for the cause of Poland. It had been in existence for 22 years, and had done all it could to assuage the sufferings of the exiles. He trusted that they would soon be rewarded by being recalled to a happy home and restored to peace and independence, for their own benefit and that of the civilised world. They had met wi th great sympathy not only from the men, but f rom the women of England, and they had not been discouraged, because they were in earnest. It was difficult to foresee what might take place during the next 12 months, but • during that which had just passed their representations as ; to the character of the Emperor of R uss ia had been fully Last evening a very fully attended meeting of the share holders of the Home Counties and Metropolitan Freehold Land Society, was held at Caldwell's Assembly Rooms, Dean-street, Soho, for the purpose of balloting for forty rights to choose land on the attractive estates of the society. Shortly after eight o'clock the chair was taken by J. George, Esq. This society owes its origin and success to th e f o ll ow i n g facts, in connection with freehold land, viz., the strong desire to possess laud manifested by all classes of people in this country. The increasing value of land, and the profits realised by it, and the unequalled security it affords. The political rights connected with the possession of freehold land of the value of 40s. per annum, and the difficulty of obtaining small plots unless a much higher price is paid than it can be obtained for in larger quantities ; also, the heavy legal expenses equal to the cost of the land—and the impossibility of providing against nuisances and dete rioration of the property—in any other way than by such machinery as these societies employ. Each member on en tering the society, takes one or more shares, upon each of which he pays au entrance fee of ls., and subscriptions at the rate of one shilling per share per week, or the shares can be completed in one payment of 301., in which case interest at the rate of 51. Bs. 4d. is allowed. The plan adopted by this society may be illustrated by the following example, supposing a small estate to have been purchased, the title to which is examined and found to be good. In the first place it is laid out, the ditches and hedges are re moved, and the road and drains made; when all this is done and the expenses ascertained, it is found that the land to be divided consists of 10 acres, and that the cost is 3,0001., or 3001. per acre. This is then divided into 100 plots of the value of 301. each, which would give to each plot a frontage of 30 feet, and a depth of about 150 feet. There are three ways by which a member can acquire one of these plot of land ; the first by completing his share, the second by a share drawn in the ballot, and the third by purchasing the ballet right of another member who does not wish to choose land. In the first case the member secures the right to choose on any of the estates after those who have previously acquired the right have had the opportunity to choose, and the land will at once bo conveyed to him and his heirs for ever. In the other case, the rights of choice are exercised in the order in which the shares are drawn. The land is mortgaged to the society, and the member pays the principal and interest by instalments of ss. per month. The usual routine business being transacted, A discussion arose upon the construction of the 40thrule of the society, respecting withdrawals, in which the Chair man, Mr. Gould, Mr. Kintrea, and the Secretary, Mr. Knight, took part. It was eventually arranged that the subject should be brought under the consideration of the executive committee. Tho CHAIRMAN then said, this society had, in holding their meeting in the present part of London, broken up new ground. They had hitherto confined themselves to the City or else they had crossed the water, and the success that had attended the experiment he felt would be greatly to fur -1 ther the interests and prosperity of the society. (Cheers.) A society, to stand well with the public, must be open as the day ; and the oftener public attention was called to such a society as the Home Counties and Metropolitan Freehold Land Society, the snore it would tend to its suc cess. Politics were totally disregarded by the directors of the Home Counties. (Cheers.) Other societies had started with a direct political tendency, and had experienced great success ; and if this society had not advanced so rapidly as those, it had advanced as well. (Cheers.) The man who made up his mind to save his shillings and six pences was the man they wanted. (Hear, hear.) He felt he need not dwell upon the principles of freehold land so cieties. They all knew perfectly well that land was pur chased wholesale and retailed at the wholesale price—theeatlyl otherPco includingo l f e e g l a tc l h eh sh a a r r g e es. T o h the e cost working of scan t conveyancethis cdi offered great inducements. Nothing was so ready o,c. en trance, nothing was so secure, there was no fines, no pen: area. (Cheers.) Yet how many, hew few, he should rather say, ,`mad it embraced the benefits held ou t to them. A man has b ,lt to make up his mind to save hi s mone y , and invest it in society similar to this, and he immediatel y attains a posi e tion equal to that of the Re wards, and with th em he could' say, "lam a freeholder." (Loud cheers. ) T he society's estate at Wimbledon Park would soon be allotted, and, when they took possession of their fine estate, immediately i n proximity to that of th e aristocrac y , what surprise would men who merely paid th e i r s hilli ng a wee k. He advised all who were so f or t una t e as to ( b L e a c u r g e a h t t e e d r ) b y H hold rights to wait four or five years, they would then get* rice double what they gave, and in ton years to double that. Thesociety at present held two beautiful estates, and the directors had determined to purchase nothing but first-raite b u ilding land--they would not purchase fields that may be swa mped, but land upon which substantial houses :truly be built. (Cheers). Mr. KINTREA said he did not know whether it was tended to go directly to the ballot, or to pass a resolutio.la a pproving of the objects of the society. He know that the f (C ee h l e g e r r e s a .) t p l l V e a i s t u h r e the in p m e r o m v i i s n s g i o a n r e e f s t o h l u e t c i h o n a i s ociety was perfe c tly h ones t , sound, and bona fide. he should o nla t n heeffect he had stated. The motion having been seconded, The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, which was to the effect that the mee ti ng hi g hl y approved,' and pledged itself to support the society, and declared it carried unani mously. Mr. DURHAM, a director, said it was not his intention to take up more than a few moments of the time of the meeting. It had escaped the chairman to announce that the society had come to the determination not to purchase land unless it was freely accessible by railway. (Cheers.) The chairman had said that members of freehold land societies were good looking people. (Laughter.) This he also happened to know, that they were equally well be haved. (L aug ht er an d cheers.) In Birmingham, where freehold land societies had first started, there had been a saving of 3,0001. in the police rate, and that they did with 102 policemen less than they formally did. (Loud cheers.) Many a drunkard who had been reclaimed through the in° strumeutality of societies like the present, had now attained a standing and position that he least expected. He be ', lieved that a man who determined to save his money , ant :. invest it in a freehold land society, became both a better and a wiser man. (Cheers.) the questions of would feel great pleasure in answering The CHAIRMAN then rose and said that the secretary_ any gentleman. gentlemenelude that the fairly satisfaction to all pre sent. (Loud cheers.) even ing With the chai rma n's permission, he would now proceed to the ba llot. the w n 2 d , r s a 2 w l n , 6 :- 99 7 , 3, 6 8 7 5 8 , , 1 7 94 95 ,. 19 T 3, h 2 e 5 f 9 0 , 11 2 0 2 w 1 i , n 3 g 63 7 3 m 4 b 2 e , numbers 1 66r 1 6 4 a 7 1,241, 1,327, 1,380, 1,492, 1,409, 1, 722, 890, 835, 974, 903, 1,07:2, 1,02 5 9 9 , 7, 1, 1 1 , 9 5 7 5 „ ., 1,199, 1,283, 1,757, 1,778, 1,899, 1,864, 1,995, 1,97 3. Mr. KNlGH T —Gentlemen, our proceedings being now b roug ht to a close, p e rmit me to move a cordi a l vo t e o f thanks to our worthy chairman—(cheers)—and I trust It will b o passed, as it deserves to be, unanimously. (Cheers.) Tho motion having been seconded it was put to the meeting and declared carried. (Loud applause.) The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, said ho felt ex• cee di ng ly proud at the manner in which the vote had been carried. He would not trouble them with another speech. but he advised all to at once become freeholders. (Cheers.) H a d he not done so he would have been precluded from filling many offices. The Chairman then humorously alluded to the many parochial offices a mart was incapable of holding unless he was a freeholder, and 1 esunled Ilia seat amidst loud applause. The proceedings then terminated,