The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-02 00:00:00

VATIUYAL JUILI ASSOCIATION-(THIS DAY.)
This afternoon a public ineets of the members
.4 this wifietv wee bald at Willies Rooms, St. James's.
I:n„ht Mon sm.rT AZlONOrprisida4 sod there were
resent land Kleho, the Earl "pester, Lord West, Sir Jobs
liability, Captain !di"limy, the Hon. F. Etyng, Kr.
Rumps 31. P.. U.. Fad of Ellesmere, Viscount ledding,
the Lan I:rieivenor, and many ether gestlernen.
4.11•1111111 AN in opening the Crtoldilqi laid he air
grette.l that he hail 11.4 been able ore to take any part
In the 4441114.1%1(0fte of the council of the Neti„mi liiSa
Awoiation, Rod he need not say that be should hare been
1. ,ppr to have done m but for the amount of business
winds hal presmeul upon him. Fur all that no
en- 114.1 taken a wanner interest in the movement, or had
w 1rb,.l its progress with greater satnfaction than
F.• haul, and be had seen with astonishment the
cuornmiti number' which had teem collected, some
dote.; far beyond what was asfiglmaily contemplated by
it. Ad sanguine promoters ; amid he was surprised
and twrieverance with which the drudger"
iletiulv of drill had been game threagit, and which had
li a pr.ictitul refatatiom to all those Walter pew-
',he ie. which met the original miseeemeatt sad whisk
..0.1 that it would be wady eldliFeeplaye awl that
the eon. would consist at esifame end ao
and th a the voleateen would-sraw be able to beet.e
prArtic.illy acquainted with the movemeate they were to
I,•
tete in the add. He did set know whether he might
Le allowed to allude to it, but he thought he might ',Part
1 **Another places that they had het Eight • veer lards-
faeb ry discussion upon the subset of volualsent Masao
haul been made and great attacks astalltaked, but they were
not made, and there had bees a nominees' Ise la the
Holum, of Comma* that the propene of this inimistioa
soul the eflkimiev the movement had acquired pet all at-
-I.llipts at attacking it out of the lineation. (Cheers.) The
ri.;ht hon. gentleman `.eve a description of the teetion of
the dating in conclusion that the total
i.—eipts of the year hail been 3,315tf., towards whisk a
Laren numlaa of voluuteet cone bad subeeribeal.
Lord fletio ed.l he did not agree with the right boa
gentlemaa tint the budget was satisfactory, except on the
II rin. Lyle of the lt,n. gentleman the ehateelkir of the
El; that thew wee every pn,lehility of a defeat ..at
%ear. The balance in hand wid 2,000/., which would be
swallowed up, if not wore, by the great meeting wide* it
to bold on Wimbledon Common in July Mat.
to nide to, sevisral iiiieWion• pot by Lord FRILDING,
1, n 1 KLCHO mi.l that the competition would be free to
e.indelattei from any nation, each .ands ate payiag
gu11...1. It scull lint be pemutted to any candittate to
shoot with a title weighing mine than 101 b., and there were
to he no hair. trigg.lit.
Mr. Mourn-L. wilted whether the meeting was not rather
fatly.

I,onl Ewan ',aid they were obliged to have it early, r
thy exprertl that her Majesty would attend. He might
,011 that Mr. Smith, the lessee of the Opera-house, had
promised the theatre for a benefit night.
After a variety of explanations,
Loot Frttntso moved a resolution affirming that the
association was worthy of national support.
Mr. Itourgtt, M.P., seconded the motion, which wee
carried,