The Sun. — London, England, 1851-02-27 00:00:00

___- i na ctive Cfr from sd ; ioderate C. .ry 4s 6d; per 81". market o: notice 5 436 d; dyed eg were a 6d; o s iow o si 4d 43.,' .v, ITO the rns ` v . "ice ? BO - I . Id ;Is j Bed tP..,s ",./ pet Pi to rtbMbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. • . . , Lord Stanley has given up the reins This has , - a b een an nounced at Brookes' and at Whites', by f uthority from Lord St an ley. Th us en d s th e fi g h t o r . , . Pretwition—so far. DRUR Y-LANE THEATRE.. -- FAREWELL OF MR. MACREADY. last appearan ce o f M r . M acrea d y on th e s t age t oo k .r h ac ThQ e last evening at this theatre, when he appeared in the s • j„,,r,actc r cf Macbeth, an d never ac t e d it b e tt er i n hi s lif e; had evidently braced himself up for the occasion, and plat the part with admirable self-control. The was listened to by the dense, and crowded, and excited l e i , ,,, l auce with breathless attention until the fall of the cur . -• Ag , a " i • After a lapse of about twenty minutes the curtain . 11 drew up, and Mr. Macready appeared attired 1, 4 Plain suit of black. The whole body of , • reopli salute who filled the house rose en masse .to e huz, and the waving of hats and handkerchiefs, deafening cheers and the salvos of laudits, lasted at least td an hour. Mr. Macready seemed to feel it deeply, ' •"U when silence was restored, he advanced to the footlights, , tuoi •in a voice tremulous with emotion, addressed the au ,ace as follows:—lon • aLY last th eatr i cal part is played, and, in accordance with • ifi •e stablished usage , I appear once more b e f ore you. E ven W „ er6 Without p rece d en t-f or t h e di sc h arge o f t hi s act o f 11, t 04 3, it is one which my own feelings would irresistibly urge Mme; for as I look back on my long professional career, J' it but one con ti nuous recor d o f i n d u l gence an d ort extended to me, cheering me in my onward progress, ,•jauPholding me in most trying emergencies. I have, litiefore,. been desirou s o f off er i ng y ou m y p ar ti ng ke t a l ,Kgticients for the partial kindness with which my Lf e 'e -efforts have uniformly been Theerecived, and for a smstismade happier by your favour. distance of five calAr''irty. years has not dimmed my recollection of the en , teek f e Ment which gave fresh impulse to the inexperienced galing atri l Y ° Cmy youth, and stimulated me to perseverance when hardly for equality of position with the genius I ,L '..i,;,ltalent of those artists whose superior excellence I un :lAier„,gillgiY admitted, admired, and honoured. That en eiii4rtnent helped to place me, in respect to privileges and , i . Wit,C al eut, on a footing with my distinguished competitors. • • 'an d, the growth of time your favour seemed to grow; )-eer undisturbed in my hold on your opinion, from th iet l? Year I found friends more closely and thickly ju st r„ug round me. All '1 can advance to testify how te ret Y, I have- appreciated - the patronage thus liberally en ". e d,, Me is • the devotion throughout those years nist li br „Best energies to your service. My ambition to 'of m. 48 . ,._ . a a theatre, in regard to decorum and taste worthy ntry, and to leave in it the plays of our divine 1 14 - -leta fitly illustrated, was frustrated by those whose el,? 3' it -as, in virtue of the trust committed to them, them ' ;• i lks es to have undertaken the task. But some goods eed tiej et been sown ; and in the zeal and creditable produc theta thecertain of our present managers we have assurance past corrupt editions and unseemly presentations of fix tet a3's will never be restored, but that the purity of our af e . ,Peets' text will henceforward be held on our English b l 4, e in the' reverence it 'ever should' command. I have little I tac e e L. t° aa'• By some the relation of an actor to his audi , :11 1 it considered slight and transient. I do not feel it so. e r e Peated manifestation, under circumstances personally 'lriltreg me of your favourakle sentiments towards me, will c„ 148 1 1t1:1, life, among my moil grateful memories; and be retie: wouldnot willingly abate one jot in your esteem, I li n . Witlx the belief of yet unfailing powers, rather than `lpiC t Un the scene, to set in contrast the feeble style of age `"e more vigorous exertions of my better years. Words at 14 8 bay th t such as I can command—are ineffectual to convey ' mk s . kor •• In offering them, you will believe I feel far • a t han • ter en give utterence to. With sentiments . of the , bintitz_gratitude I take my leave, bidding you, ladies and tesp eet ' f ". in my professional capacity, with regret and most • At olly, farewell ." ar ot ,„ - . l _, e conclusion he cast one last, long, lingering look amide tbe scene of hi s man y t r i um phs, a nd then re ti re d wily B the enthusia s ti c pl au dit s o f the au di e nce, who repeat tothl 9 ; 4 d for hi m, a ca ll w hi c h , h owever, h e did not o b ey. ait tita n ß could have. been more admirable than the arrange al-Ner, M ade - for admission to the, house, which but for these %w.b? .eui erits'rntist have presented a scene of the greatest . 14 11 ;7,, ma from the number of persons who would 'have at , ti oe t'Esd to crowd into it. -•The whole of the seats in .the ''. l. t erte al ?, (l Blips were numbered tend the "orchestra was con be stalls • admission to these seats could only bti i , "m 0111; "led by tickets previously purchased, as no o f th w att taken at the box-office doors. The whole ,I,46it.elct tickets were disposed of before the close of last il ktie w I t would have been exceedingly inconvenient, if not % eats itble, to have adopted the same plan with regard to the ,t.he Pit and gallery, but the precaution was taken of %."° a 4, ' n uitiag. the issue of - checks to the number that could :.,...„..qtfett,te---41..raodated, and thus the comfort of all was secured. • icti" L tio . n ue outside the doors was of the most exciting de : i.,..'"otied •As early as two o'clock a crowd had collected • - ;•"e pit and gallery doors, and within an hour Drury . aolvi4r?at Russell -street, and the Vinegar-yard, were tetttimi"te,Y occupied. There was a body of police in at . • kikb e e r e , *rho kept a lane through which the holders of cte e *t h 'tic4ets passed without annoyance or inconve ."4•rithiP to' the doors of the tbeatre. Thanks to these a * ` a a riangements, the most perfect order was pre ed. ••• SOHO THEATRE. Tie a AMATEUR THEATRICALS. int " 1 3;:", s ur company, whose admirable perforrnandes of .*4 1 14e 4rody at this theatre we noticed some hort oferig'Bl:leter(;e, Performed on Tuesday evening the com edy L ,Ps to Conquer, and the farce of My Wife 's 1 0 0 e tr, s i' *ektom•have weseen a better Young Marlow, or a tlesd a et4t, versatile, and graceful Miss Harocastle than on • t, v ersatile, The Mrs. Hardcastle was the very per ,: ' 14 4 11 -."rtissy old womanlsm, and the Tony Lumpkin, was Ile z t ~a,,nausing. The gentleman who performed s hould tiiggery is worthy of special commendation we 'thin see him act frank Oatland. The farce wa v s alioery pi ; the Mt. and Mrs. Ivyleaf we r e adrni . rable. The c hi li C° Were carefully put on the stage, and the cOsturnes, fur _",:P,l by Nathan, of Castle.street,' were handsome and ap ate,• ' .. . , -4 §PORTING INTELLIGENCE. f A; - ' ,' i t,., ' _LIVERPOOL SPRING NI EETING. s'' ' '' - LIVESPUOL, TUESDAY NIGHT. '' • • LATES•r BE TYI N G. ; SPRING. COI). ' ''' 4.4 n..) i ' agSt Unity' I6to 1 agst Little George F ' a ' 'I- Panope - i 8-to 1 Catlike 1• ; 1` ,. cto . STEEPLECHASE. '' • Ilwraglit Sii JOhn • 20 to 1 agst' Half and '''... ,4 '1' 0 ; ---- 'Vain hope - - Half t" . . ' I— 'Rattrap - - 20 to 1' Peter Simple 1 'to si '42 t --- Abd-el-Kade !: 4' : , k4 l ' : '--- Fugitive '.' Boy : si,.. ' I ' l •-' . ." -. ' . Matia DaY • ,25t0 1 -- Maurice Daly ' 4 4et h .4 LIVEVOOL, WEDNESDAY. • * 4 mPie ' n.Free Handicap Hurdle Itace of 5 soya. . .‘ - ;''i•- ac tit - , w ith 56 add e d. The second to receive 20 *vs. At 0 I o,,, — "lldstakei, and the-winner to pay 7 soya. towards t - ,Zkr. in -- c„ ,e l4 ' ' TwO miles. ' • .. , • ‘44 ,rit'i.. , ", "Ws Co is - 5 yrs; 9st 101 b • (Archer) 1 -. ..._• 4 lr. (x „,l a ufebr a Seign ' or of Holderness, 4 yrs, 9st 81b 2 , i ;Mr. b 'nbi nghanes , Little Queen, lOst 101 b. (Darling) 3 k.. kr‘zrethertote Valiant,lOst 1016 (fell).:.(Debean) 0 .L.l,ktlibicr- 8 ' " . of Ssia, gat 81b (fell) ~ Coi% ' Ili- s. fl'Pre". •Ru ' • 61b . (Lives ey) 0 •4,,, •-.:131,,,, e--B ,Paqick, S yrs, 9st ,5 Ito 2 'N a l Q o la g" --- 2 to 1 et Seignor of, Holderness, , '''' ft.. A bg l it, 414, - and 6 t a o g l agst..•Patrick. Won by half a • ' '444 6; r % length between - .the-sc s eend and third. • 2 i . 2 ., 4 1t,,, oill, it igtOup Hendielp of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, a nd_ s 5'1 41 0 5 14.'' ., B ce , with 100 added. The second to save his 1D.,_'14 ) , --e ': 41 4 thei Winner VI 'pay 'riots. towards the ex stl/4"-.441-4-:' 'Nile ' dythreb utiarterg: , t..„..:4., 2 , , ,an ... ,_ ~ _,,,, , ~4..,„ Dodd ) .1 t,i..gra!Tieltone 4 Unity, 3 )rs, sst 9lb k. l . 2 ^ 1 'lx. i Nti Il lr' , llolFOiibt, 5 yrs, gst'ilb - ' ( Marlow) il it it ;', A lly Baroness, 5. yrs,.7st 91b,.,.....0 - Oyl3 .4 .:" ktt i Lfkes Pauupe, 4 yrs. 7st.slb (Charlton) n. 4 t Le th.'",,,,,,, B WAGaurire, 5 , yrs, 7st 9,1 b .-.......(11iett) 0 L I "•r. sr„-'4411: alet•Little George, 4 yrs ,7st 91b(Dawson) ,0 ' ~: 11 . ,.'" i t h 1 1 a Conveyor, 4- yrs, 7st ' 91b (J. Osborne) . -0 . 11"64.1,7..!Y'i1d1e134; 6 pre4lat 51 W• . - (C. Sharp) 0 • *-1. 1 1 ': °o. .r.ii Afttit,.6 - yffi,,,7Bt l 7lb' r (Francis) O . '• ic.ti'n , Wili t io t .c4 yrOat ~ Ciy:ells) 0 k'' ', t i l) ,., lle laba'S el bil '1 ytd, u 4rit'l Ilh.;(1 s . Ppi_nql) 0 t i t— n....q 6 I ' • 4to 'Ca' at 'Callum, sto t.A it ? . 7 to 1 agst Unity, , 4 ,. .. I , ° tl 4 "Pe, , and 8 to 1 agst Doubt. ,Won by l two '''' 4 1, ‘" ) atVk between second and third; Pepope tZ t 4p. . L', far A .„.` • . , - ..... , , , . ~,,,4 4. ontional Steeplechase of 20 says._eacb, 10 ~ bin R - t• - ,_' ° blY-S Bsa. with 100 added; the second, to save . -4 4(e .4 1 ' • a 20 sous . towards the . ~ elh e _ . art,, the - winner to p y `,' . t ttses. , win. 1- , l efts ..,..era of a steeplechase afttewrothoerdeela . ..t. 'lOl l , of the weights, 61b extra; an d o f , . mo re, ‘-.! :. ' viti e.?"ll.'''',Abo.ot' tott.. r' wiles. ( 63 5.41 e., Ulm) , of . 14 - °4l Act p ub , .sued, &c.) 14TP'; , ( , ) : rne' a:A:bd • el-Kader, lOst 41b ...(T. Abbott) 1 '.' 4iPw . "'Zgins's Maria Day, ageph.lost 51b (Frisby)' 2 1' i tlae - f lt h e tford's Sir. John, aged, list 121b...(Ryttn)• 3 . 114 11. 4 0 - - .°4ls Wing also started, but were not placed by the '-'''''-• 4 ..14„ -, - i. ( —.••— '• ' ' • .''. r ` - "erg's b V• H list 81b ...(S. Darling) -. 0 ' t - -'l3 g' Vain Sir °Pe' •-- (Scott) 0 1.41•1r,eu a rhett'e br h Peter Laurie ~ _ 0 : atti4legharn no. b g Peter Simple llst 71b (Tubb) . 0 r's. t . °l eY's b g The Viotinc; aged, 'lost 131 b (Taylor) ' - 4 111/1".. afr or ka. , . ) 1 1J., T. p• ai l! chin Fugitive, aged, lOst 12lb (Badley) 0_ •,-. • - ir. 0 •-.: ;fluor:L i s eh h Rat-trap, 10. it 101 b (,Maso n ) 0 .14 . ~,,tea's % , a - g Half-and-Half , 10st 81b ( H. Sly, jun.)* 0 . 1 4.1 41 4 clk, hshinr one „ age d, lost. 71b ...(Gannan) 0 1 1 4 4. b elli tthl br - g Tipperary Boy, lOst 31b ...( Oliver) 'O O e tll,_ kt° s , nte's br g Mulligan, aged, lOst 21b (Archer) - ( '‘i • tit, ti".Sbisley's b g Fugleinati, aged,,lOst (Wynne) 0 , i I'S?Y-„,.'0 3 .g Currig; aged. '9st 121 b •(Debean). 0! • . -•41 Ir„„''%-etap's br g Hcpe, aged, 95t.1.2113, ( Green) 0 1.•.4q•e,_,4.a b g Volatile, aged, 9st 101 b (Fowler) 0 44,_r: da y oPe a bin by Grey . ..steel; 9st 10Ib ...(Thrift) 0 ' *4 t ! ~„,,11 ,4 b. g, ,Rein - Deer, aged, 9st 71b (Planner) 0 •-.. r. „Tat_ right ab g Maurice Daly, aged (C. Boyce) 6 't .'"the.r.asku's ro g Penrith, - aged, 9st 41b (M Clory) 0 ''• tl iit ta" ite. h our .at which • this - race came off(neatly • k -. 04, ,It,four) obliged us, in order to• save .the . express • : •.:!... I,44 t os "gr i ,2"Te the - course immediately - after *the . leading 417!` 81 *4 the chair.. We can,.: therefore , .only add Ipititi7qatftianl str le was. very close, Ahd-el-Kader. lialf.,,ltip,g2elY by l' a g ne ck, . Sir JObn • an indifferent third; 1 8„; t ic u 'llalf, - Araill e and. Rap-trap next. Abd ‘,....:!,,thre,:to4,Lltr;k,:hi.:rwhlsisnpathritsy.stitske last year, has netted a , , a t -.1"-.493:tal Selling Stsks of 5 Bova. each, with 30 4 -tte added. • One mile. •.. k t. b, ateltlue's Mist k -5 yrs ...... ... .. . (Longstaff) 1 '' M , ruzl'el'a Clar a a cl e' .• ' 2 ''' • 4 ii "98011), Maid Marian, 6 yrs . ... 3 a 3 (}olden' Lady , 4 yrs .. atz. -rton'e Master , • aged It , .w.aliter, D. , wnes, - 0 It, •& 1-B,itArriym'saili4e ) i. J r i I S ' d I , 4 * r 0 , . yrs . • - 0 Won 14 a length. ...... the....lieli-4tif ehark:.ivheels wake theircarriage-road in 4:ltx ,ace•—•Eltza Cook's Journal. ship City Cr 1:14.., kraIRAT EXuIBITION.--The s tea m.of Nik % " B, arrived from Boulogne, has brought 12 cases li ßaet t ntl6 2 Cases of manufactures of different kinds, con' ,Gr ,e , t, , 0 the agents here, and stated to be intended for the gootia rhibition in Hyde -park. Eightye packages of 13 a$t oti a .,,. been brought by the shin Rio Grande, fr9rn ekteci,ftJ_n_lsted States, WhiCh ate officialty_declired Industry in t All e4rt?'9l:4 Great Exhibition of the Works of THE SUN, MINISTERIAL CRISIS. SPIRIT of the PUI3LIC JOURNALS. TIDIES.—The labours of yesterday—the sixth day since the tommencement of the Ministerial crisis—commenced with increased activity in the Tory camp, and great was the curiosity to watch and ascertain the movements of the bold leader summoned to terminate this suspense of the State. Already a pregnant inference might be drawn as to Lord Stanley's opinion of his Protectionist supporters and of his ultimate chances of success, from the fact that the first per son he applied to was Viscount Canning, who was invited to join the Tory Government with the office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Lord Canning has official expe rience, good judgment, and high Parliamentary 'ability, which fit him for a high post in the State; but he is well known as a firm adherent to the free-trade policy of the last Government to which he belonged, and he consequently de clined to accept Lord Stanley's proposal. In his first step, therefore, the Protectionist leader dropped the cause of Pro tection, and held out the temptation of high office to one of Sir Robert Peel's lieutenants. At eleven o'clock in the fore noon Mr. Gladstone reached London, and an interview immediately took place between him and Lord Stanley. Al ready, at two o'clock, the result of this meeting had trans pired, and it was known that Mr. Gladstone also declined to join the projected Administration. From that moment the undertaking became more desperate, for it was not to the obscure aspirants -of the Protectionist benches that Lord' Stanley's sagacity had taught him to look for the substance (1 an administration of which he should be the head. We know not to what extent Major Beresford and Mr. Disraeli have shared in his deliberations, but it deserves to be ob served that this was the first serious attempt to reconstitute the Conservative party by a reconciliation between Lord Stanley and some, at least, of the followers of Sir Robert Peel; and that the attempt proved wholly unsuccessful. If, therefore; Lord Stanley has not already abandoned the undertaking altogether, he is at least compelled to fall back on coadjutors whose insignificance as politicians his own proceedings have sufficiently ad mitted. It chanced that the day on which the political vane was thus turning with the unsteady 'breezes to each successive point of the compass had been appointed by her Majesty for the first levee of the season. The apartments of St. James were crowded to excess with the leaders of every party—the victims of the late change, or the eager winners on another hazard, the veteran servants of the Crown, and the disbanded militia which rival Governments press into their service—fluctuating in all the vicissitudes of ambition or of fear, of patriotic hope or selfish calculation. The agitation which reigned without had collected a larger assemblage to the Court, but the extreme diversity of politi cal opinions resolved itself there into a . general feeling of re spect and. interest for her Majesty. It would be difficult to point out another moment in our Parliamentary history at which the chief offices of Government have been vacated with so little ap parent necessityfor a greatchange, yet with so much diffi,culty in supplying the wants of the public service. To the coun try at large, and even to the busy community of this metro polis, these events have come so suddenly and with so little preparation that their full importance is even now scarcely recognized. The good sense of the nation refuses to believe in the possibility of a Tory Government, bound to attempt the renewal of a Protectionist policy; and it is commonly suspected that the whole series of these transactions is des tined to end in nothing more than a new distribution of offi cial appointments amongst men connected with the last Ad ministration Very probably that is the termination to which the crisis will at last be brought. But, in the meantime, the uncertainty of these successive phases in the attempt to com pose or to reconstruct a Government is such as to induce the acutest observers to suspend their , judgment ; and, even in the presence of the Court, the elation of one party or the dejection of another—the reluctant efforts of this or that leader, and the invincible objections of the persons invited to take office—were quoted as authentic indications of the di rection about to be given to the Government of England. Yet, we must hope that these unavailing efforts and abdrtive combinations will, not prove altogether without profit to the future, and that a nearer acquaintance with the difficulties inherent in the present state of affairs may teach all parties a lesson of forbearance. It is a circumstance of extreme importance that Lord Stanly has been not only fully em powered, but. urgently pressed, by the necessity of the case, tc form a Government; and that it', as we are disposed to anticipate, he fa Is on this occasion, actual experience will have shown that the thing is not to be done, either with the present House of Commons or with the prospect of a dissolution— that, in truth, the materials of such a Cabinet do not exist. Thanwould be in our opinion the most forcible ar gument ever addressed to the nation against the possibility of restoring a system of protective duties ; and, if the leaders of the Tory party are able to turn that lesson to advantage, they will begin at last to 'comprehend that the consolidation of their body, with a view to the recovery of power, must be accomplished by means wholly different from those which they have employed since 184 d. Assuming the attempt of Lord Stanley to be unsuccessful, we shall probably be asked " What next ?" although at present no further steps can have been taken. Among 'the various combinations which have been attempted, that which approached most nearly to success, and which most nearly responded to the wishes of the country, was the fusion of the late Whig Administration, or rather of its survivors, with some of the chief members of the Peel party. Both in the late Cabinet and among the • followers of Sir Robert Peel there are men most qualified for effective service ; and we see no reason to doubt that. either by a short period of common opposition to an adverse Govern ment, or by wider personal concessions, someof these states men may restore a strong Administration to the country in conjunction with new allies. CHRONICLE:—Our anticipations have been justified by Mr. Gladstone's, refusal to take effice under the Protectionist leader. The high feeling and the attachment to principle which dictated his refusal have been shared by his former colleague, Lord Canning, whose presence in the Foreign office would-have relieved Lord Stanley from one of his prin cipal difficulties. dln' both cases, the unhesitating refection of high office from a Premier whose opinions were known to be unfavourable to a liberal commercial policy will ge nerally appreciated. as it deserves. Lord Stanley must now either relincioish his task, or proceed in the desperate at- . tempt to effect it without the aid of a single experienced statesman. His position is, both personally and politically, isolated. He will neither find a capable colleague, nor enjoy the countenance of any section of Parlia ment except that „ which, • in the. House of .Lords, has followed his lead, and which, in the Commons, has acted with Mr. Ditraeli. The difficulties of his situati on are aggravated by th e re f usa l o f . his adherents to give up the question of Protection. Lord Stanley would Willingly have waited, in the hopeng conciliatingeuppert by ineitlental mea sures of retrenchment, accompanied by popular financial pro posals ; but the obstinate determination of. the bulk .o f th e party has forced th e l ea d er to hoist his true colours. The Protectionists must - assume the government Of the country with the avowed purpose of checking the free-trade system, on they must finally renounce their pretensions. We still believe that the duration of the experiment will be-measured by hours rather than by weeks. Lord Stanley has hitherto displayed no eagerness for office; nor can his attempted negotiations with Mr: Gladstone hane been dictated by feelings of conscious' power and security. - Seeing the hopelessness, of permanently establishing his party in power, he will probably ,once gore eeconimendahem to Wait, and will leave it to experience to teach .themihat the present is their last opportunity. It may. be that the confession of failure will be veiled by some formal progress in the distri bution of offices,. in the expectation that circumstances or conflicting personal claims will furnish, at 'the last moment, some plausible excuse far abandoning an impracticable ex periment. Until the Ministry is formally in office it will be unsafe to sPecalate on its final establishment; and it is pro bable that the crisis will yet be terminated by some arrange ment by which the most eminent supporters of free trade may form a united. Cabinet. The seeond failure ot. Lord John. Russell removes obstacles from negotia tion, to which we have on former occasions adverted. Few other members of the late Cabinet are personally pledged to the obnoxious parts of its recent proposals; • and there can be no doubt that the majority of Abe body will re joice in the introduetioei of a more satisfactory financial scheme, and in the final discontinuance of sectarian agitation. Whenever the ,occasion occurs—and it cannot long be de-- layed—Lord John Russell may make a graceful and patriotic use of his personal influence with his party, by inducing them to renounce the exclusive position of the old Whig League, for the purpose of serving their country on larger and more liberal principles. Unwilling as we are to antici pate even the momentary success of Lord Stanley's untoward experiment, it is necessary to consider the results to which the immediate .triumphnef the retrograde party may lead. Ambition, and shame, and' half-desp era t e h ope may induce Lord Stanley to .accept the vacant helm e against his own bets' terjiidgrnent. If heshould ventnee to meet rarliamefit as Minis ter, his difficulties 'will,Commence with the first debate.. It wilt be necessaryto avotte the general policy which his party hat forced upornhim e'en& .although he maly probably abstain from specificeineasurefnagainstsfree trade, the preponderating majority of the, community will accept his defiance without waiting to receive his attack. Feopiethe first moment, his Government Willbein a minority a minority not to. be mean ' the temporary coalition which took cured by theiminbets of the opportunity of .Mr, -Disraeli's mot ion'to express ins' gene ral dissatisfaction with the Government. It will be well for Lord. Stanley that the determination of-the House of Com mons to reject hispolicy should be marked and decisive. - It' is only confidence in Parliament which can moderate the agitation which might poSsibly, under other circumstances, convulse the country. We have little doubt that, on all questiona affecting the duration of the Ministry, the Opposie lion would have a steady majority of not less than forty votes. 'lt in vain that the Protectionists repeat, for, their' own'`" nonsOlnithine the well-known fact that the late Whig tartieiiiinbnt also held office' in the face of a permanent Majority; n'Thedifference between - the cases is to be found in therwisheaufehelate; as contrasted with those of the future Opposition. .Up t o th e last moment, both sections Of the majority, which sat on the Speaker'', left wished to keep the' MinistrY in office. The free-traders would, alike, from duty and iftellinatioff; drive the Protectionist Govern ment from , poise'. before it had time to do permanent injury to abe country. From Mr. 'Cobden to the most Contervative of the friends ; of the; late, Sir rßobert.Peel, a common desire would preyeil to t eecure tile cause of commercial ftleedinn and at the same time fo precl u d e a d angerou s agitation In estiMatinktbeVitlanee`of parties, it must be remembered that the Irish Remati Catholic Members swelled - the late Protectionist ,majoritye exclusively on grounds of their own. The new leader of the House of Commons would be com pelled to explain his intentions with ; respect to the Anti - Papal proceedings in, faVour of which Lord Stanley has expressed himself so strongly. If he promises action, he loses the support of the ternon which so strongly resented Lord John Russell's attack on. the Irish hierarchy. A refusal to, proceed. with. Ne-Popery measures would alienate Lord, Ashley and. Sir Robert, Inglis, apd would be an avowed abandonment - Of prinelple. The late ,Ministry haft left a fatal inheritance tontiineettort 'who are compelled toAvennits cast off garments. In apenking of Lord Stanley's ParliaMentary embarrassments we have not forgotten the 'possible resort of a dissolution:; but it is fortunate that so desperate ail alters native cau scarcely, be adopted without : a coussidereinle delay. The publiC' business will compel the new Ministry tee face A hostile majority for sditie weeks, and to undergo the criti cism which will await its policy froni every states :man in either House of Parliament. With a da •maged reputation,. and amid associations of 'defeat, it must appeal to the country, if . at :all;. nor, will it offsr any question . for solution to the constituencies of the country, ' except that on which the balence of' the constitutional' forees has finally been proved and 'known. The counties have nearly done their best and their worst. They may still return, here or there, a Protectionist in place ona more liberal Member; but the numerical strength of parties. ill not be materially changed in England; and in Irelandnhe 'balance will be entirely opposed to a retro grade policy. Lord Stanley can no more shake off the No-Popery prejudices of a portion of his supporters than he can dispense with the Protectionist fallacies of thebull: o to f the party. The ,great t own a nd the manufacturing and commercial districts ma y not, perhaps, add greatly the present number of l i the free-trade representatives; but an election will give them an opportunity for agitation by which they will not' be slow to profit. The new majority of the House of Commons will represent the same doctrines which prevailed at the,elec e tion ot 1817, e !hilt bp the ()spoof very ,different feel lugs, and of passions far more deeply excited. Mr. Cobden, with a mission to perform and an opponent to overcome, will he a more formidable antagonist thanne may appear to those LONDON, . . ho onty judge him when he is seeking to divert the ennui of security by incidental political digressions. After agitat ing the cuuntry, and inflaming political animosity, Lord Stanley would only find that a :dissolution had left him more hopelessly overpowered than ever. It will be wiser to be content with Parliamentary defeats than to risk a final , and ruinous appeal to the country. Wisest of all will be the course of admitting in time that the -attempt 'to form an Ad ministration is hopeless. It is lilt improbable that Lord Stanley will establish this negative claim to the gratitude of the country. Ho has, thus far, kot been greedy of office ; and he may not be tenacious in keeping DAILY NEWS.—The rumours yesterday were few re specting the formation of a Government. Hopeful excite ment has subsided, and a dolorous gloom pervaded political 'circles, as if England was as incapable as France of finding men to govern it. Lord, Stanley,it was said, had required a prolongation of the time, and was allowed till Friday to soften and to weld his unpromising and unpliable materials. Yet his Lordship was considered to have few hopes of either inducing the country gentlemen to leave protection an " open question," er to get any or many of the Peelites to embark with him in so rough a sea, and for so little purpose. The . . speculatorin future Ministries was, therefore, compelled to look Dues iiore along the scattered ranks of the Free-traders,where in truth reigns aught but unanimity. With a great many the crisis seems narrowed to a mere question of persons. And the difficulty seems to be not what course to follow out, what principles and measures to insist on, but how to pack the crews.of two vessels into one. In order to begin fairly and calmly the first proposal is to fling,the old captain overboard, without, at the same time, acquainting us who is to be the new. Such is the cool proposition of the Times. According to this ready reservoir for any malignity, which a party on the rise may choose to void on a party falling, Lord John Russell is a great criminal : his " letter gave intensity and political importance to the anti-Papal agitation." Heaven knows that if any ,mouth or pen stirred and aggravated that agitation, it was the daily articles of the Times, which journal. in greedily welcoming and prominently publishing the famous Durham letter, accompanied it by the following terse and expressive article:— ," The letter of Lord John Russell 'to the Bishop of Dur ham, which we publish elsewhere, deserves the deepest at tention. It is a char and uncompromising statement of principles and opinions which are entertained ,with wonder ful unanimity by all the wise and moderate in this country. Sweeping aside with manly vigour the false and sophistical analogies in which the subject has been sought to be en tangled, Lord John Russell points at once to the real merits of the question—the assumption of authority over her Ma jesty's subjects and supremacy over her dominions. But treating these empty bravadoes of a petty foreign prince with comparative contempt, he proceeds to point' to the fountain and origin of the evil—the apostacy of a large number of the English clergy, who have prepared the way by secret treason for this open attack upon our Church and Crown. These sen timents, as terse and vigorous as they .are wise and true, would command respect from whatever quarter they came, but their importance is infinitely enhanced when we consider that they are the deliberate opinions of a statesman, the tried friend of toleration, who has now, alas! no equal in know ledge of our constitution and experience of its working, and whose mind is deeply irnbned with the spirit of that ancient limited monafehy which has descended to us alone of all the nations of Europe pure and unimpaired. Still more important is this letter as a solemn pledge given by the head of our Executive Government to the nation, that the two enormous grievances which it points out shall not remain unredressed. If the law be comprehensive enough to reach the offenders, it will be put in force; if not, Lord John Russell still expresses a persuasion, in which all will join, that we are strong enough to repel all outward attacks. Nor can we believe that Lord John Russell has thus'publicly and emphaticaly called at tention to the apostacy of many clergymen of our own Church, who are acting within her precincts the part of Roman Catholic propagandists, and of whose abandonment of their insidious courses he expresses no hope, merely for the purpose of holding up those persons to bloquy and disgrace, however well merited We trust to see in these expressions signs of a purpose, not yet, perhaps, fully matured, but rapidly growing towards completion—the pur pose of cleansing our Church from the discredit cast upon her quite as much by the treachery as by the schism of her members—the purpose of rendering our universities some thing better than schools of Popery an.l mysticism—the pur pose of restoring to us our Church such as the Reformation gave it to us, the child of light and reason, unclouded by superstition, undegraded by priestcrafc, clear and comprehen sive in her doctrines, built upon truth, and abhorring false hood. If Lord John Russell does really entertain such in tentions, we are unvinced be may count with confidence on the support 'of the English people, who are above all things lovers of truth; and who, though perfectly willing to tolerate any difference of opinion from their own, will not tolerate the domineering spirit which seeks for supremacy because it has been allowed equality, nor the sordid treachery which hides its insidious advances under the mask of a hollow con- foonity," Now, is it not disgraceful that an English journal of the first circulation and repute should feel itself so above every scruple of conscience, every feeling of honour, every respect for consistency, that it durst publish two such opinions, within the space of a few reeks of the same document and the same Minister? Throughout the entire rise of that reli gious agitation, the Times hounded on the clergy and the laity, and the Cabinet. And because, forsooth, this has had the effect of alienating a score of Irish supporters of the Go vernment, the Times turns round, recants its Protestant zeal, eats its own .Whig panegyrism, and actually comes at the head of a band 9f official rivals to demand the dismissal of that Minister whom, bit the bead of the public, it drove to commit that very act, and adopt that very policy, for which the sacrifice is demanded. If a public man did this, what should we call him ? Yet one man's fault scarcely implicates a country. Whereas a journal like the Times i; considered as oae representing the country in its consistency and mo rality, as well as in its opinion. And if so, - what is the character of the English public? We shall not follow the long and formal string of accusations which the Times brought yesterday against that patron in whom it saw no fault till the day that he fell. We were never suppartets of Lord John. We are as alive to his defects as to his merits. But when we recollect his long career, his early struggles, not for place, which was then hopeless, but for the achievement of those great measures of civil and re • ligious liberty which for ever must attach to and immor- talise his name, we must own that we regard those flatterers who licked this great Minister's plate, and who now,• curs that they ate, tarn to bay and bite at his heels, with a feel- ing of contempt indeed for theta, but of indignant sorrow for the country whose character they stain. We are not, how ever, prepared to maintain that Lord John Russell should have a life-tenure of power. If he have failed in the neces sary art and address of preserving the attachment of his party, let him retire. But to dismiss such a statesman with a kick, such ~as Harlequin might deal to Pantaloon, this, though it may suit the Times, jars with our ideas of justice and decorum. Let us, moreover, see, ere we condemn him, that we actually gain by the change. If Lord Stanley and the Protectionists have a Chance of success, it lies in the break up of the great Liberal party, and its not being efficiently led. The Times, with its wonted feelings of delicacy and justice, throws all the blame of Sir Charles Wood's Budget upon Lord John. And what it proposes is neither more nor less than to preserve and perpetuate in power the whole dynasty of the Greys, Woods, and all, dismissing Lord John, like a scape-goat, his back laden with their crimes. We will not imitate the Times in discussing the merits and adminis trative talents of Lord Grey, nor yet of Sir Charles Wood. He is defunct, unless the Tithes' intrigue should galvanise him. What we would say 'is, that the country have a right to have the best men of the Liberal party to form a Cabinet. In order to h ave them, we must not allow the chiefs of families to . expel other chiefs of families. 'We must,intist on , having the best meld, without their tails. We want Lord 'John without' the Russells and Elliotts— Lord Grey without his clientelle. If -Lord John is to be ex iled to,-Woburn we cannot do less than fling Sir Charles Wood into the Thames. Let us have a Cabinet of capable men, business men, trustworthy men; and let us not allow them to form cliques and family parties, each declaring that he cannot come in without his friends, italf a Ministerial 'council - was like'a feudal gathering in Which opinions' pre vailed according to the length of the chieftain's tail. Let us haie a broad Cabinet, no snug family party of Graham and Grey, -one pretending to be a Conservative, the other affecting to beLiberal, and neither being either the one or the, other but so far as it suits them, to gull the House and make political capital. Constitutional government, as, far as it is carried on by a Cabinet, has hitherto been a humbug. And what the' Times and other people are now striving at is just to substitute a complex hutnbugr a simple one. We -canCsee'plainlY the int r i gues 'letting 'up for' the purpose. Wheever will look into them will see nothing but baseness 'and selfishness at work.' And' if the public light be not let fissbeesene will goon to the end of time. POST.—The Ministerial crisis continues, and Rumour is as busy as usual upon such occasions. Every possible and impossible combination of men—every .conceivable and in ' conceivable 'amalgamation of measures—all that has ever been, and all that can ever be, ,of political action and politi seal passion s is, in its turn, asserted as the sure and certain' catastrophe of this strange 'and unpremeditated ,drama. The truth seems to retire from public, gaze,' within, the decent precincts of her native' modesty. That she doei exist there can be no doabt s but where she' is and what she is about, no vase seems to b e abl e t o t e ll.' In the absence of fact the rage for fiction is insatiable ? and 'consistency either in statement or in opinion is sadly out of fashion. ,Of error, fact, even in, ncensiderable matters, the Chronicle, the Times, and the Daily„ News of, yesterday give us curious aipeci mens, The Chronicle says that ; . Mr. „Gladstone gallattpy .feuglse, ,at the right siaaqil of Sir Robert 'Peel, 4 from , December, 1845,., to the , dissolution orthe . Government.' The truth is. that Mr. Gladstone lost his scat for Newark when he accepted the office vacated in December, 1845, by Lord Stanley, ised could'not get any other constituendyteelecf fre'remained out of Parlia ment altogether till the general election of 1847, when Ox-' ford, on ecclesiastical grounds only, returned hint to the House of Commons.' 'During the whole time, therefore, when the Chronicle says that the Right Hon. Gentleman was fighting " at the right hand" of his chief, he was not in the battle at all. .He was present in spirit, perhaps, and that .is as well, so no doubt was the writer in 'the Chronicle, The Time, fearful that a less apparent or a more important mis statement might evince a less ardent.attachrnent to error for her own sake, tells us, in the enth us i asm o f hi s d e li g h t in 'being wrong, that the Ministry just dead,' or ita 'the ease :may be, held office longer than any other s , except the Liverpool Administration. But the Melbourne Ministry existed from April, 1835, to September, •1841,. Lord John Russell's Government cam e i n t o o ffi ce i n July, 1846, and lasted until February ? 1851. So the Times declares' to the world that four years and seven months is considerably longer than six years and five months. This is a small matter, but extremely edifying withal. The Daily News gives as the newest news from Paris,' that Monsieur Lemoine has just published the latest sentiments of Louis Thillippe,"taken down from his own lips: Anybody may haVe read 31. Lemoines book in London many months ago. Such things as these. are natural, we suppose, in the time of a. ,Ministerial crisis. Still, they fail to attract atten tion, and so the Times resolves to exhibit a,,more won derful wonder than them all. He tells just the smallest possible. modicum of , the truth, and if this do not astonish. the world, what on earth will? Our contemporary yesterday g ravely announced the fact, that Lord j o h n Rus sell is out of office, or so nearly so, that 'the difference between the two, conditions is not worth mentioning. The Noble Lord is, he believes, to be no •longer Minister. And what has the 'Times to tell the world upon this matter ? Why, that the Times has changed his opinion of Lord John Russell. Had Lord John continued in office, the Times declares lustily, and truly no doubt, that he, would have supported him with all the `might of Printing House-square. He would have pronounced him the possessor of every virtue, and the very pattern of statesmanship; but as be is out, look ye, my masters —aye, and the only one who will certainly not come in again —the same Times avows and swears that he is the very ecurviest politician—the most blundering Minister that ever held office. Any of his late colleagues may do very well—for the Times is not sure but that with Lord Stanley or Sir James Graham —or Mr. Cobden or somebody, they may yet be in power. So. it faults, they have any let them be transferred to Lord ..101M,‘ What has a man, whomay4et be in office to do with faults? If anybody has sinned, let Lord John be punished, for he is no longer in power. That the Times would pursue such a course as this most men believed, but that it would avow it in the face of day we think no one was prepared to expect. Let T_ur'•4'.s:.l)Al — ' mania of the crisis, and that we Ate nOr3 imagi not our readers imagin'd,tiovieV'er;theib toe are bitten with the nation. 'lf they will t•a4 the Times of yesfefday iVey see the sober and sad avowal put' forth by our contempoearY himself, that he now condemns Lord John for incapacity, because he is out of office, whtn, in the same paragraph he declares he would have lauded had he continued in power. Among other extravaga'ncee of imaginatiotn we have had hints from Variotis quarters, that by seine means or other, into some combination or other of nascent administrations, ce cher Aberdeen might possibly find his way. The Noble Earl has indeed fluttered, like a.gnorne in ,a. pantomime, over every,, group of statesmen, of everythade of politics, who have met in consultation 'of State 'affairs 'within the last few days. Who bade him come ' or how 'he " gat" e on Lord there,'. nobody seems to know. But. ,the notion that the' Government of England, or. any • department of it, should be intrusted to his hands, neither the Nrible:Earl him self, nor any other man of-sober judgmet*, has anticip a t e d. Still, it does seem strange, and it affordslome colour to the dealers in speculations, to whom we -have alluded, that whe ther Lord John Russell, or Si r James Graham, ar rah fi n g m, or Stanley, or Mr. Gladstone, is the principal political ucene, he (the said principal figure) is sure to glide towards a shadowy appearance in some corner or pother, which, when carefully examined, turns eat to be no other than "ce cher Aberdeen." There is something in this mysteri ous and seemingly purposeless übiquity, calculated to excite general wonder it' not anxiety, and amongst the'revelations of Friday next wecannot help expecting, that the least marvel lous will not be that which shall let us into the secret of a phenomenon at present so unaccountable.. Whether the un bidden apparition in question forwards nefrustrates the pur poses of successive formers of Cabiuets, it is difficult to tell. But some wise people, who guess in Abe latter direction, begin to think, that the genius of Aberdeen is really benefi cent, and that his influence in forbiddinif the existence of a Ministry at all is useful to th , public. The country goes on very well they say without a Ministry. The railway runs its course—and so does the tax-gatherere-.and the pbliceman —and all the affairs of life--even when there is no Ministry to present the consummation of Stupidity, and no opposition to present the 'quintessence of perfection. We hope. Lord Aberdeen will look to this in time. • ADVERTISER.—" Wanted a hero—an uncommon want," is the commencement of one of Lord Byron's poems.. The , commodity most wanted just now is not a liero, but a Prime Minister. The office has gone a-begging. No One will ac cept it, or if some sanguine, adventurous . person, like Lord Stanley, is found to accept the situation, it is only to resign it the next hour, or at the farth es t th e n e xt day. only John Russell, Lord Aberdeen, Sir James Graliara, severally Shrink from the acceptance of the vacant Pretiership. It would really seem as it the Queen would, ere long, be reduCid to the humiliating necessity of advertising in-'the public 'journals for a Prime Minister —just as a nobleman advertises for a butler or a groom. The extreme difficulty of getting any man of position in the political world to accept the Premiership is one of the most significant signs of the times. It is not only that the difficulty of constructing a lasting Cabinet is great, if not insuperable—the diffi culty of getting any man of mark even to under take the task, is of the most formidable kind. This betokens a very perplexing and very unpromising state of things. It shows the perils by which we are surrounded. It gives us a clearer view of the complications of parties, and of the confusion which exists in the high places of political society, than almost, anything that could be ima gined. But still, notwithstanding all,the difficulties of what the French would call " the situation," we would have no uneasy apprehensions as to the ultimate result, were the people only true to themselves and to their principles. To our minds, by far the worst feature of the present position of parties and of metters, is the comparative indifference which the people apparently feel in the issue •of the existing con fusion. We use the word apparent, because the indifference is mote in appearance than reality. But whether it be actual or not, the result is substantially the same. An apparent in difference may be, at the present juncture, quite as disastrous to the popular cause, as an indifference which is real. Men judge of things by appearances. If the people at this moment-' ous crisis, demean themselves in such a way, as to convey the idea that they feel no particular interest in the issue of the present posture of affairs the necessary conclusion on the part of statesm en and politicians will be, that they are indifferent as to the ultimate results of the existing crisis. It is all the more deeply to be deplorefl, that the country is silent and inactive at such a juncture as the present, be cause there never was a period within the memory of man, .when the voice of the people could have been raised with so pose erful an effect, as it could be at this moment: The' destinies of the country are entirely in its own hands. Lord Stanley, or Lord anybody else, may form a Ministry to-day, but if the people please they can, by a single breath, destroy that Ministry to-morrow, The pese i er of public opinion never was so great as it ie'at this hour. , It is omnipotent. Its irresistible might is derived front the complication of political interests, and the confusion of lsarties, to which we have alluded. •If we could only aroase the country to sense of its duty in this great political,eanergency, we should care but comparatively little who is to be the head of the new Ministry, or who are to be its members. Be that ,Moister whom he may, be the Cabinet What it will, he and• it would fail if not based' on liberal principles. Their only chance of getting on even for one brief week, would.be by proposing a course of policy in accordance with popular opinion. The people can, it they only awaken out he of men may be in office, to act in accordance with popular p w el ith wha t t whfhicshieeptilean e d mer a a c e q n u c i; re t q h u em ire s d e , lves cobi principles, and keep soreast with POpular feeling. The' inactivity of the country is, we must- own, altogether unin telligible to us. A concurrence of curious circumstances- such as do not happen once in a century—has brought about a political crisis, in which all the great parties in the State seem equally helpless. They have the greatest difficulty in forming even the • semblance of a Government. All who . make the attempt to construct a new Cabinet, or who even entertain the idea, feel that without accoinmodating themselves to the views and wishes ff the people theriCould not be the most slender chance of success. And yet iti'this state of affairs— a state of affairs so singularly favourable to the popular cause - the country seetas: in a profound sleep. It is per mitting the most favourable opportunity which ever pre sented itself for inswing the permanent triumph of the popular cause— to pas away unimproyed. The people were roused to sensibility aid action, a fortnight ago, when Sir Charles Wood attempted to play off his financial jugglery at their expense. They `elt, and spoke, and acted, when he sought to impose upon them, by legellemain expedients, in connexion with the winiow and houseOuties. Nor did they look on in silence and with folded hands, when the Right Hon. Gentleman proclamed his intention of renewing the income-tax with all its enormities and i n iquities, foi another period of three years. Somuch the motennaccountable is the apathy of the nation; at atinae so pregnant with momentous results to the country. The silence and seeming insensibility of the people are to us wholly incoiriprehensible... But it is not yet too late to Meeks out of sleep. It is not yet past time to arouse tliemselvci from their apparent -lethargy. Let them even now but open their•-eyes, and work them selves up to vigorous action, and their own triumph, with the triumph of popular principles, wlityet be achieved.. The course which the country ought, in Ole present emergency, to adopt, is clear. Public'meetingi should immediately be held in all parte of the county, to pais resolutions, affirming in the most explicit and energetic lisukuage whith.it is rios sible to employ, that no Govirnmentowill be entitled to, and cannot possess, the confident of the nation, which is not based on the three great 'principles of a rigid e conomy in the public exlendittire an extension 'of the franchise, and an abiidgek - duration of Parlia ments. We made this suggestion on Monday : we repeat it now. The course - which. it indicates, is the only one which will meet the exigeicieit ecthe case. All that! is wanting, we are convinced, in order to ensure its universal' adoption, is, that a beginning should be' made. To' the me tropolis we naturally look for the initiative. The country will expect London to make a eownencement. The move ment ought to have been inaugurated before now. The City. should by this time have set the agitation agoing. Maryle bone would have followed. So arupld all the other metro politan boroughs. And all the populous towns in the, pro vinces would have forthwith inntaied the example set ,by London. It is not too late now. ;. Let the City move in the matter, without another day's delay; Shall we appeal to it in vain ? Then we tarn to MarYlibone —the greatest bo rough in the world. To the men ofMnrilebone, the cause of civil and ,religious liberty has, tet,innumerable occasions, been under the,, deepest obligation'. It will not desert us now. We know that our appeal toil will meet with a prompt and hearty 'response. EVENING, " Received from 65 now subscribers Ditto 427 old ditto ... PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSO CIATION. 1 #. The annual meeting of the benevolent department of the Provident Clerks' Association was held last evening, at the London Tavern ; John Abel Smith ; Esq., M.P., in the chair. Among those present we observed, besides the Chairman, Baron, L. de " Rothschild, " M.P. ; Messrs. R. 11. Jones, J. W. Welch, W. J. Jordan, S. Jepps, J. Dankaerts, W. S. Saw►ell, J. Lintott, A. Dawson, Wm. Maitland, Richard Price, John Clarke, Samuel Notley, H. B. Reynolds, Edward Coleman, A. Smee, &c. &c. The SECRETARY (Mr. Byrne) then read the report, Of which the following is an abstract : X s. d. .. 66 3 0 463 1 0 • t • 529 4 0 Life subscribers, three t..' ' +•• 31 10 0 560 14 0 Donations ... .., 132 6 6 F En It ET A R .271 .....-- '1851.' -••- • ness, he incurred liabilities which' the ainotint of his policy and other effects was barely sufficient to pay. She was obliged to dispose of the whole of her furni ture- , We allowed her Bs. a week for .26 weeks.— (Hear, hear.) The next is that of a husband who died, leaving his wife with two young children, one three years and the other nine months old, after a long illness of eight months. A gratuity of Si. Was given to!this deserving applicant.—(Rear, hear.) Another case is tha,t of a member who had the i•mis fortune to, be out of employment, r without any means of subsistence, and who came to us to have his name entered in the situation book ; we gave him a gra tuity of 51. To another member, who was reluc tantly compelled to allow his policy to lapse, owing to great distress, we awarded a similar sum of Si. For the assistance thus given we received the most grateful acknowledgments from all the parties. I `could go on relating a variety of cases in all of which relief was 'granted, but I will content myself with only mentioning; one more, because it shows a degree of most excellent feeling which cannot be too much op plaude,cl. A member who received Si. under such circumstances as those I have already stated happily obtained a situation, and after war d s returne d t h e 5 . 1. with many thanks to the society.—(Cheers.) I have alluded to all these cases in order to show how im portant and useful that assistance is which is given at the peculiar time when it is most needed, because it saves many a one from ruin ; and I could show by letters we have received from there how grateful they are, and how useful the timely assistance of the society has been.— (Hear.) I will not Cietain the meeting longer. Those points I thought it essential to notice, because they are points which the meeting should understand, and what I have said gives an op portunity to members to make any observationa upon them which may occur to their minds. In conclu sion, I shall be happy to answer any questions, or to entertain any recommendations which may come from individual members in the meeting.—(Cheers.) In answer to a Member, The CHAIRMAN said the question with reference to the proposed alteration of the rules, as to the'ap propriation of a portion of the profits in the assur ance department to the benevolent branch of the.in stitution, would be maturely and deliberately consi dered by the board. He had gone into the subject at some little trouble, and had consulted the trustees upon it ; and without expressing any opinion now, he would press upon the members that no change of the kind referred to should take place without the greatest possible care and deliberation.—(Hear.) He had, therefore, made up his mind to depre cate any discussion on the point to-night, and he would appeal to the gentlemen present to postpone what they had to say upon :it until the subj,.ct was properly and regularly brought before a general meeting, called especially for the purpose. 'The 331.Ezdunt expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the explanation of the chairman. Toe report was then adopted. Mr. WELCH, the deputy chairman of the board, having been called upon by the chairman, said-1 rise with peculiar satisfaction to propose a resolution which I am certain will give you as much pleasure as it has given the board i❑ coming to the con clusion that they would be enabled to carry out that which it directs us to do—viz., to grant annuities to two widows of members, and to one distressed member.—(Cheers.) When we know the unfortunate circumstances of tbose who become involved in difficulties and distress, this is always a pleasing task, and I am satisfied you will feel equally pleased in cordially agreeing to the resolution.— (Cheers.) I regret our funds are not in a more pros perous state, for it is just possible we may have a greater number of applicants than we can grant annuities to. That is one of the distressing circumstances of this association which we are anxious to remedy as soon as we possibly can ; and without making any allusion to the proposed altera tions, I hope and trust, by our united exertions and labours, aided: by the assistance of those who take such a warm and deep interest in the association —I mean our excellent chairman and trustees, who have not only promised, but given us their most active co-operation I hope and trust we shall place the funds of the association in such a position as will enable us to do much more than we have hitherto done.—(Hear, hear.) It is, I repeat, most gratifying to come before you on the present occasion, and make the proposition which I now hold in my hand, because it will be the means of alleviating the distress of those who have been placed in a better position, and who now urgently require the assistance of this excellent institution. Hear, bear.) I will not detain you by entering into any long statement, because Mr. Jones has already, and at length, alluded to the good the society does, not only in granting annuities to distressed clerks and widows of clerks, but also in enabling clerks who are unfortunately thrown out of situations to obtain others. But I will just mention a circumstance which came to my knowledge to-day. A gentleman who was in want of a situation applied to me;•and I recommended him to call on our secre tary. He happened just at the time tohearof a vacancy in a mercantile house. Mr. Byrne gave him a letter of introduction. He did not succeed in obtaining the situation, but obtained another, and he came to we a few days ago and made a proposition to inure his life with the association—(Cheers) — telling me that his reason for coining to the institu tion was, that he felt it had shown some sympathy to him when he was anxiously looking out for employment.--(Cheers.) This is one of the gratifying circumstances, added to many others, con nected with our society.—(Cheers.) Mr. Welch con cluded by moving the following resolution : " That on the 28th May next, or such other day as the board may appoint, of which due notice shall be given, a special general meeting be held for the purpose of electing three additional annuitants duly qualified ac cording to the rules, viz.,—one clerk, being a member, to an annuity of 2 51 ., ad two widows of members to annuities of 151. each; and in the event of no qualified member offering himself, then to elect three widows of members to annuities of 151. each." Mr. PnicE felt great pleasure in seconding the re solution, and in doing so he wished to call upon the clerks as a body to support the institution, and he felt himself perfectly justified in doing so when he looked at the large amount which was granted in annuities. If the clerks did not do so he feared the day would come when they would find that the hands of the institution Were tied. But he hoped that it never would be so, and that the institution would be able to meet all the demands which might be made upon it, and hoped to see it placed in that high position to which the exertions of their officers had been so indefatigably directed. The resolution was then put from the chair, and carried unanimously. Mr. REYNOLDS rose to move the next resolution, which was— " That this meeting tenders its warmest thanks to Thomas Baring, Esq., m.r., Thomson Hankey, jun., :Esq., , Ai'.. G. • Prescott, Esq., Baron. L. ,de Rotbacbild, 141.31., , trustees , of the association, and to John Abel Smitb,iEstp, M.P., treasurer of the benevolent fund, for their continued patronage and support." It gave him much . pleasure to propose this vote of thankeighere thanks were so greatly 4ltte.—(Hear, hear.) ' air only regret. was tbat they- oould!not re ward: tilek ill 'the manner 'which *Mid ''have - been most iiitifying. 'to the feelinga of . theie` 'gentlemen, rbr !sheaving: to them At more prosperous balance-sheet. 'There wisione word in the : resolution.'to , 'wbielf be eitiiilkl Moile'pertictilatlylo.itivertomd that was 'that qie ,Mie:ting,thaplied these gentleineii, for their . con tinued t patronage and support. , rioweier..grateful :they might feel to these gentlemen for their suppert in thefirst.linstance, : they 'were under still igreater 01,110 d b -hit fOr'contintiings it to them so' stedfastlyin :itifte'of:the IndifferefiCa and aptith t viith *illiclhAtis institution : been received by tho' clerks as ii V6d3r. It wati-an leasy matter for -an unpractised spealpir to 'get Up y elit 'after 'year. and • talk.on the same. subject, - Ind' kafislii ethink new on :each •'ociesioni and • Sle : 1 4iiinisi 111NiliyAl -diSletefore, to fbllovethiteig i anifli4. ; 3 gt„`i je old ,pligy.niv? .**liO' had. 10.,..Vight , stock of saermone . which hay sh'inied lraorei,P9EtPAo7 in preaching, tha n originality ire r varyilaw: and 0 0, • du:being' iefilonstrated , .with; ran " , 17.4 swered i ,ii O, t gentlemen, no new sermons ' tintit' , ."3-inr-liriiitiaiot e old ones bettei."; - fle',,.tileUglaV"Oovever„ ,t i tlt the institution had.no ground` for. deapondendy, tiarticu hay when be looked at the greit good which o.di.ds. 'The affording . of temporary' relief- , was one of, it s Meat lin ortitht objects, and lib believed that ho e nia . Coultll4 0 . iihit valtie the relief Wat--7ifi , 1 ,4f1. 11 1 :I'2 " ' ' '{ ' ' d . c1e 5 1 3 4F• -He titaucea.i 1T4.4 salvation rpm inin, an .. trusted *bat DO one present would . rela e x t r er .hltlf .mist andhe Addressed himself more partiive air guinea o v o t t o w ' g i s who were in a position - to . ,eff to such more' a year, toile benevOlent fu nd _ d t support the institu- ParticillarlY:that he - appeal proper persona by whpia it tion f for they were t r - With regard to poorer men nught , tot be? Fapp . o d t he would prefer neeing , them be tielal ni l vt A YsS 'N t he institution by effecting "i t tinall c 6 inl, i'euit' er ' s - s ubsc ri bing a g uinea. It a ' • surance than ,by ;: 1 4, 8 , remon ,tbat he addressed his observations i l a rf , p articularly o to them .--( Hear , hear.), : Mr. Fenian - seconded . the 'resolution, which was ca rried amid-loud cheering.: ~ , , , Baron ROTHISCU!LD, in rising to return thanks, said that hebeid in his hand letters from Mr} Baring and gr. Hahkey, in which they e*pipsecl . th6r `re g ret that sudden calls of business had presented' their being present on this occasion, more particu larly as it'was the first meeting from which either of them had ever been - absent. Ul i d er those eircum stanceV..it devolved upon him to return thanks for hitnielf and his colleagues for the resolution which had just been carried in so cor di al a manner. It gyve? them all great, pleasure, he could assure the meeting, to meet the supportengf the institution year by year, and particularly' on the. present ~oriumion,.•ns: they bad three opportunities of giving away money to persons who he was sure merited the donation. It would have given them still greater pleasure if, instead of THE MINISTkRiXi CRISIS. The excitement which has . pv i ailed duringw the past three, or. four days on the subje4,nl the Ministry wax; in. no degree diminished yesterday: The received- - by Lord Stanley to attend herllajesty at Ifnckinghanr- Palace at an early hour en th. kniPtaing. and the arriVal of tp:re: hroud M ecaserNy r ee . d l )amebdtl l ao,etrtd.wotseit!lorytgl. Buckingham e i ni, n entdul go L rhchn o ksea u m.dd d .t o coa n n l ie r a l 8 . P ny a o ee r L i s i 3w , rr iddt r ah a sy t t h t. ha e *l ,I r 1 ,3 t‘tendedafter. to increase the anxiety natinTilyielt as to the arrange ments in progress, and the Ealoons of the ~," Carlton" and-,tbe I,‘Eselprm" vvere.thronged diging the day - and ' up to a late hour las o t n e ,di ve e n w,a i l n i g .:a b b y 4 . r .g: i o n u g e li s ub ol je . c es t. ger iii.. • . qtruoimrerhse,aadl.l4aunixAuss to _ ohtain the "latest intelligence". The followfugideidents dated down chronogically will last 24 hours:— i . . Palace at an early hour . yea-- shr or ajesty'scombiands,. Queen. residence in St. James'ii tdheSt°arnleeyr ,°ifeeovbeendtisentier•toing'h.theem The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone arrived ,at his te sidence in Carlton -gardens shortly eta noon- yesterday arrival the Right at his Lords from s H h o i p n , . , P G r a e e r s a i i t e d i e e umcttenwnasi Immediately tt d . j n a p i a n ena:,Ltt:oaicithariStanleyse., -The interview between Lord Stanley and Mr.. Glad-1 .h mw o horf u Qr s nhtn e i , e.nt t gh o Ee . f : aßo a r y mii g. Gentleman n ohtfht v en. lb A i LD , i bne.urkdeeeno f.r Ne, wi ..received i had * long conference. stone was of very short.duration._ : „„.., f ee de d Aberdeen, t o y e A s ,Argyll house g rwa Y ia l t l yh - , l v e, iB V it iscount Can ,, o w n s . s Edward Mr. Gladstone subtsoeqtuheentltyarpirooo 'ghee. After the ping, end tbe by Sir James Gra ham, who remained ' claeted with his . Ltrdshipfdr more. than two hours. Canning paid a visit to ~. . rho Viscount Levee. . i ~ Lord. Stanley' attended the Levee . Lord John Russell received a dispatih from the Earl tNheobßleigbEtarlil of Aberdeen yesterday morning. The Earl of Ellenborough received a comMunicatidn from. Lord Stanley yester day. It is said that Mr. Disraeli has been soninsel y engaged' during the past three days at. his ruansii n i n p ark4ane that no other person than Lord. R -tansylas been ad., mitred to an interview,Wit h the H on. Member.. , . _. The heads of the Protectionist , party dined . wifli thq . Earl and Countess of Glangall last *Venli— g 4 their man . - MOD in GrosvEncr-street. Lord and 1 4dy s ta oe k, the EarLof Lansdale, Mr- and Mrs. Disrath . the.. Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, and Viscount'.(anterbury, were among the guests. We give,as inmours just now in eirciation that Mri. Gladstone has declined to join Lord hanley,. because the Noble Lord contemplates she . imPoition,nt a five.' shilling duty on corn; and that, in the eent nf- any dif ficulty occurring to prevent Lord Statile : onmpleting,lits Cabinet, her Majesty has determined t send for ;the_ Earl of Clarendon. . -- - COURI CIRCULIA . Lord Stanley had an audience of the tueen yesterday morning at Buckingham Palace. . ll ia i e s e l . toyal Highness: Prince Albert r ote out on n horse back yesterday, attended by Lieut.-Coltiel the Hon. A. Gordon. The Marquis of Westminster had the honour of dining with her Majesty last , evenirg at Buckingham pa llis Excellency the American Min.scvr, Mrs. LAW.. rence, and Colonel T. B. Lawrence, hat ) left town on a visit to his Grace the Duke of Rutiandatth o ir Castle. £693 0 6 being an increase over last year of 511. 18s. " 19 gratuities have been presented to 18 member, amounting to 1091. •' 108 members have received loans to the extent of 2,246/., being au excess of 1601. on the pi erious year. On the 29th of 2 , lay last, in accordance with the resolution ( f the last annual meeting, one clerk was elected to an annuity of 251., and two widows of clerks to annuities of 151. each, waking together four clerks and thirteen widows, at a charge of 2951. per annum. " One of the annuitants elected in May, 1846, under the initials S. W.,' has died during the past year, leaving the number at presint four clerks and twelve widows of clerks. • " The report further stated that the expenses charged to this department had been reduced from one-fifth to one-tenth part. " The Lalauce- sheet shows an increase in the funds of 4451. 15s. 10.1. during the past year. " The trustees met at the office of the association on -he 24th instant, and inspected and approved of the balance-sheet of both departments. " The board recommended that on the 24th of May next, cne clerk be elected to an annuity of 251., and two widows of clerks to unnuities of 1.51. each; and in the event of no clerk offering, thee three widows be elected. " The board have been occupied in reconsidering the rules of this department, with a view to their amend ment, and the alterations contemplated will be submitted to the members at a special meeting to be convened for that purpose. "The board express their regret that they do not re ceive that support from clerks which the benefits con ferred by this association would lead them to expect, but hope that the increased co-operation of the mem bers during the present year will place this department in a much higher state of prosperity. " The assurance branch of this association contiaues to preeress favourably. " 391 policies for 77,1501., and 11 annuities, were issued during the past year, and the stock increased to 10,0001., being double the amount invested during the year 1849. " The board of management, lastly, call upon all the members to assist them in carrying out measures which have for their object the goud of so large and so useful a body of the community." The SECRETARY also read a statement of the re ceipts and expenditure for the year ending 31st De cember, 1850, which showed that the receipts ex ceeded the expenditure, from the formation of the association to this date, 12,484 7 . 6s. 4d. The CHAIRMAN said, you have heard the report which has just been read with an account of the expenses for the past year, and I will only now re mark with respect to them, that though there is an improvement, and an increase as regards the efforts made by clerks to support the benevolent fund, yet the result is very far short of what we wished and de sired to see. I shall probably say something more with reference to the subject hereafter, therefore I shall now content myself with congratulating you on the general advancement, progress, and prosperity of both the benevolent and benefit department, and sub mitting to you the adoption of the report, beg ging you to pass as a resolution that the re port should be received, printed, and circulated at the discretion of the board of management. If any gentlemen present should have any observation to make either with regard to the management or any suggestions to offer for improvement in the associa tion, probably this will be the most convenient time to speak. In order to induce members to make those observations which may occur to them, I beg to call upon Mr. Jones, the chairman of the board, who is desirous of making a few observations on the subject of the report.—(Hear.) Mr. JONES on rising was - received with cheers. He said—l think this, Sir, is the best time to make a few observations with respect to the report, seeing that it will give members an opportunity subsequently of alluding to and; thing which may fall from me. It is, I assure you, extremely gratifying to the managers that though they have not much to boast of in the way of improvement, still there is some improve meet in this department—and I am sure all will concur with me, that sunill as it is, it is of im portance.—(Hear, hear.) There is a trifling im provement over former years, and we are always too hippy to be able to announce it. Still I hope, as I know there is plenty of room for further improve ment, that we shall have greater success during the present year. The report has alluded in general terms to the contemplated alteration of the rules. As this is a rneetinVat we cannot entertain any observations on that point, as the subject will be brought before you at a special meeting convened for the purpose, I will merely say that every attention will be given, as I promised this time last year, to that question which is so important yet so difficult to determine.---(Hear, hear.) I will not say more on the subject, I merely make these obser vations because they will, perhaps, prevent discussion; in fact, discussion cannot be raised on the subject, es to do so would be irregular. I will only add that a second meeting of our trustees and our excellent' treasurer has been held, and we still solicit their assistance to enable us to carry out what we find to be a very difficult undertaking. It is customary on these occasions just to allude to what has been done during the past year. On the present occasion I will do so briefly, because many of the gentlemen present are anxious to leave as soon as they conveniently can. As regards the loans, we have heard it announced that the in crease has been considerable 'during the past year—l think about 7001. Now, the money thus lent is on many occasions evidently a source of great comfort and advantage to the borrowers—(Hear)—but it in volves matters which are fraught with much trouble and labour to those in the office as well as to the ma. nagers. This we do not complain of, but lam sorry to say I cannot help remarking that during the past year the engagements entered into by the borrowers have not been so faithfully fulfilled as on former oc casions. I speak generally, of course, and no one knows to whom I allude. What. I say now, how ever, I hdpe will' go "forth in "the public press, to-those who'are abseiit, whom I 'should wish to know; it is of - essential- 'importance— inte rested as they all ,are—that they should be punc tual in the observance of ,their engagerneut.-7 (Hear, hear.) Whilo on gm same subject I would observe that we, as managers, aie to act fOr a whole hOdY, :and if in the exercise of f our' duty we offend, I ensure ,you it is ,With,lthal.greatest,,xegret; but every one present must allow that. we have a duby to perform, and:if in 'our anxiety to prbt,ent , the funds of the association, parties are put to any inconienience, or we are drivenstothenecessity'Oltaking.extreme Mea surea, tbe 4uleis theirs an4nnt ; inirs., )1,c 7 .0 . 49 nofpro teed hastily, bUt only afterxe petite& apPlications, which are ~ often totally disregirdedillear) , I think it very necessary o:Make theie observations on a point Of so. inneh,pnportenc'e.-- 7 (lear.) .V;ou have.heard thPt we intend o . kopose 2111440,48 e in,tho yuniber of annuitants. dtWe. feel thatiwel can: safely -do this, otherwise ,we. should , ;not.% 'lave% lhoukhrtf bringing such a proposition before you.—(Hear.) -- We feel . that 'White we' have ftindefabtl'-there'stre Parties in need we'ought not to withhold tbein: However, as iii4isbave lost one • wiclow dUring the Aar, there WikiiVeilitY beO:nly'art hiCreaseliftwO annuitants.. N4w, we think we mpy safe'ly zna'ke that increase, and.hope the proposi tion will receive the : general approbation ofthe meeting. As regards the situation bbOk,_ whist Is kept in the office, I would' abseil e that it bai net been alluded ito: in the , report, but on these scoa.siona alway,s think ,itk:mecessary to bring.the subject before•the meeting. During the past , ybar the managers , havePadopted new tbode of endeirrouring to make this' - more' Use by sending - a cirptiler to eer y One Who adver tises in the Tunes for a• clerk.' it is. the duty of'One in the office to search tbeadvertisingcolumns of the Times every morning, and when he finds any parties. who are in want of clerks,lo send, them. it . circular, togethq •with a Proapectus ; and thus, besides doing a service to indiyidusl memberi, we at thq same. time extend a itnoWledge of the benefits of the, society. —(Hear.) . During the last . year, fourteen %gentleinen applied to the office for clerks, and out of that number four obtained situaiiohs—two at SOL a year, one at 1201., atid',obe at 150/.—(flear,' bear.) Th erefore some gb6d has been done ; cud though ire cannot get situa tiOns for every one; Who •Puts his 'lame: on the books, still we do' all we can .to give him en opportunity of obtaining employinent—(Cheers.) Then as regards th,grainitiesi, We We6ild 'Here of. all that are granted will just •iead''iwo three of them, •.• omitting to. mention, tging§, i n accordance w ith our. custom, . 6hserving ,that , all the CEISES are much of the same character.. The first is that of a party who neglected to pay his premium in conse quence of misfortune in, business: Ho failed ; and beibg unemployed, was dependent op a ton for the 84poit of himself Imo family. The society awarded Mama gratuity of 101.—(Hear.) ,The next case is that of a widow,.whose-husbauel:diert in Ootober last, having her with six chilaren, the eldest of whom was 18 years of age. Owing to a long and expensive ill- ~, _` ' three, they had thirty—(Hear, hear)--but on whom did the fault rest that it was not so ? Whether it was the fault of the ,cle.ske themselves or l of the,public, was a question.which had .been so. 'often discussed, that he really wished -41 e had. something new to Lay on the snbject.—(Hear, hear.) It seemed as if it Was of no use asking the clerks to support the institution. He thought the clerks were more like their masters and preferred something in the way of busi ness, something which brought in money, and so it happened that the institution was not what it ought to be. In the adj o i n i ng room to which they were sitting there was now being held the festival of a large charity : (the German Hospital), which was chiefly supported by citizene of London, which was able to give away large sums of money and do :great good principally amongst foreigners, while this. in stitution was only able to elect two an nuitants. Some proposal be thought 'Night to be made td alter the ' establishment, to make it more of a charitable institution. If a dinner or a ball were to be given, or IoODAC means taken to collect sums of money to be given away, be thought f it would meet with support from the public:. He bad heard some one sayi ng as be entered the room, that t great exertions .ought to be made to increase the ttEoount of good which the institution was capable of . I doing. If the heads of firms were to come forward to make donations to this institution the sameas they did to other charities, he was sure it would meet with better success than it had done for the last few years. For his own part anything he could do to contribute to such a" heppy result would be done with the greatest alacrity and pleasure. In conclusion, he begged to thank them very heartily for the manner in which they had passed and proposed the resolution. • Mr. MAITLAND proposed the adoption of the fol lowing resolution : That the best thanks of the meeting are due, and are hereby presented, to the auditors, medical officers (both in toen and country), and to the honorary solicitors,for their valuable services during the past year." He thought they were much indebted to the three classes of gentlemen mentioned in the resolution. — (Hear, hear.) With regard to the auditors 'their kindness had been gr e at, b u t h e s i ncere l y hoped that the trouble which they had in examining the accounts would be increased by the increase of the accounts themselves. To the medical officers also they were greatly indebted, and though fortunately they had not much occasion to trouble the honorary solicitor, and he hoped they never would have, still whenever they had had occasion for legal assistance it had been afforded to them in the kindest manner.—(Hear.) Mr. DArKAERTS briefly seconded the resolution. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. COLEMAN said, that in moving a resolution of thanks to the geetlemen who constituted the board of management, and while thanking them for the benefit which had accrued to the association through thdr instrumentality, he trusted, he might say, that the point on which they were most indebted, and which was entitled to their warmest thanks, was the care which they had taken in promoting the Insurance and Annuitants' Fund.—(Cheers.) In making this motion, however, he would take care not to occupy too much of the time of the meeting. He quite agreed with the Chairman and with Mr. Jones, in the belief that while the other objects contemplated by the association had been greatly advanced, that bad not received sufficient consideration from the several members of the association—(Hear, hear)—and on that in the end, to a great extent at least, the success of the association would mainly depend.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that if the benefits of the society were sufficiently made known that the several clerks in rue country would gladly respond to the appeal and co n tribute to their funds, and thus promote the interetits of their association.—(Cheers.) He was quite awe that they might do more, not only in this way, but in a variety of ways. It was his belief that the clerks employed in mercantile and professional offices, not only in this city but in every other place in the country, were not to any adequate extent aware of the advantages ; which a union with their associa tion would confer. The members themselves, he be. lieved, were not aware of the benefits which they en joyed, for, if they were, they would give to their in stitution a more generous and hearty support. — (Cheers.) He was grateful, as they all had reason to be, for the kindness shown by the board of manage ment in the conduct of their affairs; but he was es pecially grateful for the attention to the matters to which he had particularly referred.--(Cheers.) He believed that the members were scarcely able to judge of the amount of assistance which had been rendered to those who, by accident or casualty, had been deprived of their uspal employments. If their association was depressed it was so from the want of this knowlEdge, and he trusted therefore that the in formation which its benefits afforded would now be more generally understood.—(Cheers.) He took this no tice of the assurance portion of their association on the part of the directors as an index for the future. They all knew what an index was, and he trusted that that index would point to a greater support of the institution.—(Hear, hear.) They all knew what an index was. It bad a face or pbaze with marks placed upon it, and a large hand pointing to those marks. Between the marks there were large spaces ; these spaces represented their fellow clerks in the country, and he trusted, therefore, that the hand • would lot be disregarded, but that their fellc.w clerks in the country would not hesitate to come for ward for the benefit of tue association.—(Cheers.) lie would conclude by putting the resolution, which be trusted would be carried unanimously. Inc resolu tion was— •' That the best thanks of this meeting be presented to the; board of management for their continued exertions on bei,alf of the association." Mr. HOWELL rose most willingly to second the motion. He responded cordially to the observations which had been thrown out from the chair, and by the worthy Baron, respecting the advantages to be derived from this department. He belieied that the members of the association were not lad acquainted with them, and that, at any rate, they ought to be more generally underoood. But the fault lay with themselves. The clerks must them selves do more, and if they did, it was his decided imprebsion that the principals of the , several thins would readily come forward and help them.—(lit.ar hear, and cheers.) He would most cordially secorid the resolution. The resolution was then passed with acclamation. Mr. R. H. JONES rose to return thanks. He could assure the gentlemen present that, while thanking them fur this compliment, the seat of a manager of their society was no sinecure. —(Hear, bear.) The board of management had always had a single eye to the benefit of the association. He respect fully, on behalf of himself and colleagues, tenotired his thanks to the meeting.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask whether the tions which had been announced respecting the rules, as stated by the Chairman, would both be considered at one meeting,—(Hear.) Mr. RICHARD H. dorm said that it was; one of the points of their constitution that no alteration could be made in the laws without..being submitted to a general meeting of the members of the association. The funds to which Mr. Reynolds alluded were under the management of different bodies, and must neces sarily come under their separate consideration.— (Hear, bear.) He would 'now coMe to the point for which he rose. Tt was hiti pleasing task to propose the - thanks of the meeting to theft honourable and highly-respected Chairman,—(Lppd cheers.) To all the questions which had come befe the board be had always given his best attenti on . lie was quite sure that their Chairman . would not wish bin] to say a word more than . was ebsolutely , necessary for the moving:, ~ a , uthis. , ' 'resolution, and 'therefore he shoUld - abstain .-from any ex ability or ,greater .shoinol(trjfelii:ter! Apciation than ;t heir preesions which be should ' Much liked toe have used a pn that occasion. 'This mucehvih::::•lgant and wit h' i t t h:t thi ne s one could have k c i h n ii d i n m ess an in h th a l conuct continually of That the grateful than ks this meeting are due, and are hereby tendered, piaelcliyallsye to John Alx-1 Smith, Esq., hi.p., for the increasing interest taken by hi m i n t h e simple remark, be would move—, seconded i d li e s d iC t i n pr e siding co the present occasion." o J f .s t r he r s a' :ri c e i4 fi tun b ' u n t ud co e rd s mo tion, hoping that his fellow provident clerks would eagerly respond to it. affairs The resolution was carried'b acclamation. The CHAIRMAN said thet . li ' Y e t hanked them with his whole heart for the kind* ' eption which they had given to the resoluti on, and : for that hearty expresion of their goodwill, and begged l to h assure them that he responded to it with heartiness . — (Cheers.) hile making this obser v a tion,ua eharowtienveessr.7 however, it must be .remembered that the business o the institution could not be carried on by • mere - compliment--(Bear) , - ,, anclite wished to draw-their attention to the ad vantages which were offered 'l y' itp from 'the , plan propOsed fur the insurance of their lives. , In severalcases of distress' this fund had been of in calculable benefit to . many individuals. The amount at their command was stns]], and ought to be „increased, but if it was increased it must be chiefly through the instrumentality of the'clerka ,thentOves. Lie-agreed with Baron Rothschild that the p4p c i pa l, of most of the firms in Loudon would readily vane forward to support their institution if they saw their clerks themselves active, and it must be remembered that if they vvished 'others to help them they must , help themselves.—(Hear, hear.) The.only cause of shame that he ever had or could have with respect to this association was that the members failed' in their duty in this respect.—(Hear, hear.) This was the tenth time he bad met them in that room, and he wished paiticularly now to impress upon them - what 'be had just said. If they attended to it he was quite sure that their associatien- would abortly be equal to any, perhaps sr_con,. to none, o: the t ,iibilar.ii,stituti ou , s in London. The Chairman sat down amid loud cheers, and the meeting broke up. ~~ .. - . el a CS' ',of 0 I,IPOO . 10 33 0 If ‘,, t i " ll' '6 04 A A r 001"