The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

LICENSED VICTUA.

MS' ASYLUM.

The anniversary festival of this institution was
celebrated yesterday et the Crystal Palacio, under the pre-
sideacy Of Sir T. F. Biarox, Bart., supported by Sir Y.
Pets, Y.P., Mr. Ellemon. chairman of the asylum; Mr.
Hen Wry, M.P., Mr. Buxton, M.P., Mr. Janneway, go-
vernor of the incorporated society% Mr. Gehb, chairman of
the Liceosed Victuallers' Protection Society; tic.. he. The
dinner was laid in the concert room in the middle trait.
seat, and 'wee partaken of by nearly 1,700 persons
emanected with the trade sad supporters of the ketitu-
tion. The orchestra aid the !aliense were filled with
ladies. This, as is well known, is one of three
influential Institutions supported by the licensed
I victualler, for the protection of the trade and the .
relief and support of ate aged members. The 'Asylum. for
the augmentatico of whom fuods this peat gathering
took plum, bee been in existence thirty.five pars, sad its
objects to provide a home for decayed members, and the
Discos of subsistence. Already the minidrama, ef the trade
has ambled the managers to erect 100 Maim a the Old
Kentroad, containing 207 inmates. Provision is mad* for
married and single persona, the former receiving, fa additiss
to a house to live in, an annuity equal to KM per week ;
and single persons Is. per week each. Daring the thirty-
six years of the existence of the society, a sum of 112,0874
has been expended ; and, taking its present Sbersl support
into account a sum—which its friends fad can seedy ha
named from the licensed victuallers—of MOM. oeb was
needed to place the institution beyond the reeth &every
casualty. The usual loyal and patriotic tart having -
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'polio of the liberality of the members of the task in sub-
lambing to the support of the asylum, whist' he con-
sidered an index of the unoertainty and videtitimles at-
tending the trade, well known to those who yen ieliasstelv
cooneeted with it. For years prosperity appeared to attend
their efforts in business, but very ate., from airemasteecos
over which they had no oantrol, reveres endienly cams
otos them, and it was a consolation to them to blew that
provision was made through this asylum for their lees for-
tunate and declinieg years. Having gives a diblied ac-
count of the number of inmates who bad benefited by the
charity, and its income and expenditure, the Moat was
drunk with enthusiastic chem. Daring dimmer the bead
of the Royal Artillery Company wen, static/sad ire the we-
akest/a, and played various favourite and popular Mee. The
geoaal mutical AMID ate were *am Mee dissetion of
Allen, masted by Milne. Marie Late, Mine C. Ores-
varier, Miss Armytap, Miss Lime Barris, Mho Emma
Bodes, Mr. R., Edwards, Mr. Walter Selwyn, Mr. J. L.
Brady, Mr. George Allen, and Mr. Harry Sydow. Mr.
Harker officiated as toastmaster. Subscriptions smesating
to 2,7001. were announced by the chairmaii.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 14.

IT would be impossible, we are assured, to form
.an adequate idea of the indignant shame which
was felt throughout the provinces of the Prussian
monarchy when the insults which M. Von
BISMARCK addressed to the Chamber of Represen-
tatives were known, and were found to haveremained
unanswered. Loud and deep were the expressions
of anger against the Parliament and of contempt
against its PRESIDENT, who did not know how to
-vindicate the honour of the Assembly over which
he presides.
The Chamber, and every individual member of
it, have since been made to feel and to know the
sentiments of the constituent body. The press, in-
deed, could not speak out, but letters and remon-
strances have been showered on the luckless De-
puties, who were one and all made perfectly
ashamed of themselves. " Get yourselves broken
" or dissolved, rather than continue to sit to be
" insulted, and to remain a disgrace to the coun-
" try." Such was the universal tenor of the mis-
sues which the constituencies of the provincial dis-
tricts forwarded to their too patient representatives.
They were all smarting under the national Leah, and
eager to redeem their pusillanimity, when the
War Minister, Von Rows, the most contemned, if
not the most obnoxious, of the ministerial faction,
thought proper to imitate and repeat his colleague
M. Di BISMARCK'S insolence towards one of
the snot eminent as well as moderate members
of the Chamber, M. Von SYBEL. The PRESIDENT
this time did his duty, called the Minister to
order, and an altercation ensued—for it
is the cue of the Prussian Minister to insult the
national representatives, and attest the Pala:Darr
put on his hat, and suspended the sitting. This
firmness which should have beenexercised in theatre
of M. ns Mammies, has come better late than never.
Ministers declined to attend the sitting when it was
resumed. In truth, the House was too hot for
them. Parliament will no longer bear with them,
nor they with the Parliament. They must, there-
fore, definitively adjourn or angrily dissolve
without fixing any period of re-election : another
breach of the constitution. This is the very
thing the Prussian Liberals desire—a complete
and open breach between the Government and
the Parliament.

The Chamber claims to have done all that was
possible in a liberal sense. It bad lately protested
against the Russian alliance for the oppression of
Poland, and its Commission had condemned the
Cartel Convention for the giving up of fugitives
under the name of deserters. The last flagrant
defiance of its authority has only cat short a
sterile debate upon the four projects of mili-
tary reorganization ; for although Ministers
had the impudence to feel their way towards
a grant of funds under the pretext of deve-
loping the Prussian navy, they were not listened
to. They hoped that such an appeal to North
German antipathy towards Denmark would filch
some millions of florins from the Chamber. ID
vain. Denmark may be odious, but BIM/ACK is
more odious still. Better le.: the Danes have
their way than succumb to the Prussian POLIGNAC.

The real dispute is not, however, between the
Government and the Chamber. The whole country
sees that the difference is irreconcilable, and that
neither Crown nor Parliament can terminate it
unless the nation itself intervene. How that
intervention is to take place or to manifest itself
does not yet very clearly appear. But of the ne-
cessity every one is convinced.

The truth is, that it is no longer the KING that is
on his trial. His feeble obstinacy is known, and his
moral inability to understand the saving virtue of
concession. It is the constitutional party, and
the upper middle class composing it, that
are on their trial, now for the second time
in Prussia within the last Sfteen years.
They are accused by the democrats of having
spoilt and thrown away all the opportunities
opened to them by the revolution of 1848. They
then lost Germany. They are now in the same
way, it is alleged, losing Prussia. The Gcrnia
party undertook to unite Germany ; but in order
to unite Germany by rallying it round Prussy
they should have first kept Prussia constitutional.
They have failed ; and it is manifest that
Prussia's failure has flung the rest of
Germany away. The elections in Bavaria,
which have just taken place, display the
Great German party, that is, the party of union
with Austria, completely in the majority and the
ascendant. Wurtemberg is following the same
course. And even the Northern States show more
aversion than ever to a " Narrow Union " with
Prussia, and turn to France for political support
and commercial alliance. The Prussian constitution
has been shivered, Prussian ascendancy lost, and
the Prussian lead in the path of progress disowned.
So that King WLLIJAJI is only too consistent
when he avows that a close alliance with and
dependence upon Russia is the only thing left for
the dynasty, which he has almost denationalised.
Unfortunately, whilst the Moderates and Con-
stitutionalists blame the Monarch and his ill-
chosen advisers for the irretrievable retrogres-
sion of Prussia, not only in its internal progress,
but in its German influence, the more advanced
parties blame the Moderates and the Constitu-
tionalists for displaying a total want of both

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