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London, England, 1866-05-22 00:00:00

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rate, the experiment is worth tryi4r, and the pee- members of which have been addressed by Mr. T. Kneen,
sent is a good season for putting it to the test, as M p,, profess to supply the link between co-aeration
the disease is now reduced within manageable and private management, by allowing the workpeople,
limits who are not shareholders, like the rest, a bonus of fixed
If the plan answer, we trust there will be no amount for every 21 per cent. profit after a dividend of
and above the ordinary rate of wages.
more half measnres,but that the new Cattle Plague
ISao rarr *ex° riment has succeeded, and it is one which
Department will be empowered to set on foots
certainly deserves a fair trial. Where the mechanic
complete system of statistical inquiry which shall invests his labour as well as his capital he possesses one
keep us informed year by year of the actual num- advantage, of some importance, over other subscribers—
ber of stock in the kingdom, and of the deaths by that he has himself a practical insight into the working
disease of all kinds in each year. When this is of the concern.
accomplished, we shall have done our beat to re- The Pollt discourses
looseness of attire, says, urses on fashion and follies.ystn
ression
Fastner
move the stigma which we have borne long enough, of
xi) last
of those women who think that their day is passing
of being far behind our continental neighbours in away ; and when the young and confident assume them,
organized information concerning the food supply they really are classing themselves among the desolate.
and resources of the country in which we live. Lady Julia and Lady Flo are not one whit nearer
matrimony for having put themselves up to be
bid, by the lavish exhibition of their personal charms ;
and they would not think so themselves if the conver-
sation at the evening cigar were in their hearing.
One of the greatest charms of Anonyma's society is that it
is not permanent. To secure its prolongation is the object
she has in view ; but those who in such women seek for
their temporary pleasure, do so because they know it is
temporary. They have no idea of making perpetual con-
nexions with this class of person. When women of social
standing adopt her blandishments as their own, and
resort to the methods of Circe, they are taking their stand-
ing ground on a platform to which they are utter strangers,
and putting themselves in competition with persons
whose unscrupulous ideas will lead them to venture fart
beyond what their foolish rivals will follow.
The Times characterises Mr. Gladstone's bill for the abo-
lition of compulsory church rates as an adaptation to the
existing state of things which deserves the general ac-
ceptance it has received. Nevertheless, it cannot imagine
that some pat of it will work. For instance, if a portion
of the parishioners decline to pay rates for as long a time
as three years because the clergyman is conducting
the service in a way which. contrary to their
taste, they lose all voice by this bill in the
affairs of their parish church ; unless, indeed, they
repent of their non-paying, and humbly present them-
selves to the clergyman's churchwarden with three
years' rates in their hands. It is true the purishionere
can retain their voices in the vestry by paying their rates.
But, as we have put it, they are thereby encouraging what
they believe to be wrong. This does not, therefore, meet
the difficulty, which we wish to see quite removed.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

THZ CONGSZBB AND THZ CONTZNDING POWERS.

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The Times draws the conclusion from its Berlin
correspondence, and from authorities like the Cologne Ga-
zette, that the Prussian people and the Prussian militia are
showing in a variety of decisive ways their disgust of the
warlike policy of the government. It is not wonderful
that under inch circumstances Prussia should declare
her vollingneas to enter a congress, but to the
Tines this appears a very unpromising proceed-
ing, and the most unlikely way in the world
to solve any serious and envenomed difficulty.
A stronger evidence than anything which has yet come to
hand is required before we believe that Austria, for
instance, will submit her right to Venetia to a European
Congress, or that Italy, after having given Garibaldi a
command and called on the revolutionary party to aid her,
can undo all these things and wait patiently for the
tardy decision of a conclave of diplomatists. An intima-
tion from the Emperor of the French that he is in earnest
opposed to war, and will take a definite and intelligible
course immediately against the first aggressor on its
breaking out, would have more effect than the delibera-
tions of any European Congress. We have no doubt that
he possessed the power, had he chosen to use it, to pre-
vent the storm. It may be a question whether it has not
now acquired dimensions which even his skill is unable
to subdue.

The Daily News accuses the Times of going through a
form in the present Italian crisis which it observed in the
Italian war of 1859, in the American civil war, and in
every other war of the present generation. The stages of
this process are—first, the reckless and indiscriminate
censure of all the parties to the quarrel ; then a violent
attack upon that one of them which seems likely to get
the worst in the conflict, this being generally a longer
stage than the preceding ; and, lastly, a glorification of
the victor, even though it be that power which has been
most persistently condemned. The article which our
contemporary published yesterday upon Italy is the
exact counterpart of those which it published
seven years ago. It blamed Italy, then about to attempt
the liberation of Lombardy, in almost the same terms as
it now employs to deprecate the attempt to deliver Venice.
Passages are cited from the Tina's, in which Sardinia
was bitterly rebuked before the war, and loudly praised
at its conclusion. If there is a moral element in such
transactions as the journalist is now called to discuss, there
is in them a right and a wrong, independent of results ; at
all events, when public writers have no opinions of their
own, but select those of others for current use, it is strange
that they do not, as a matter of taste, choose—we do not
say the best, but those which can be presented with some-
thing like decency. What are the Italians, or for that
matter, any other people, likely to think of us when they
read the doctrine put forward by the 77111,s yesterday, that
the one political fact, which is worth all other political facts
put together, is the weight of taxation ; that the Prussians
bear with the loss of their liberties and tolerate insult from
Count Bismarck in the persons of their representa-
tives, because, after all, theirs is a cheap government; and
that the Italians would do well to imitate their example ?
It is easy for us to exhort the Italian people to disarm,
but we do not live under the continual sense of inveterate
antagonism to a mighty neighbour, separated only by a
stream. Austrian statesmen will not thank the advocate
who asserts that Austria has as good a right to Venice as
to any other part of her dominions. The subjection of
Venetia to Austria has no origin but force, and the world
still declines to admit the decision in this case of the
sword. The issue of the conflict we may fear, but cannot
foresee ; but that is no reason why Englishmen, who are
not going to fight, should run forward to offer their con-
victions as a sacrifice to those whom they suppose likely to
gain the battle. If this war should end in the liberation
of Venice, it will not have been fought in vain; but if
otherwise, we shall simply see a new chapter of revolutions
opened.
The Post conceives the Prussian government to have
been seriously startled by finding how much it is at issue
with the people in respect to the real constituents of
national greatness. The minor powers have, so far as they
dared, pronounced iu favour of Austria. The dilemma is
certainly embarrassing. It is not pleasant to abandon a
policy which needs but one stroke to be crowned :th com-
plete success ; and neither is it agreeable to court possible
ruin. It remains to be seen whether audacity or prudence
will gain the upper hand.
The Herald says that if the disposition of the Elbe
Duchies were settled by the conference to the satisfac-
tion of all parties, federal reform would be out of the
range of their competence to decide ; and. the Venetian
question is a subject which no conference has any business
to entertain, except especially invited to do so by the
Austrian government. England, Fiance, and Russia, in
proposing to treat of it, make themselves the accomplices
of the Italian government in the most shameless and most
unscrupulous attempt at rubbery which Europe has ever
witnessed.
TheSto r—maintaining that negotiations may possibly lead
to peace—is quite of Canning's view when he declared that
if we must have war sooner or later he was for having it
later. The longer it is postponed the better the chance of
its being altogether averted. The continental powers
have, it appears, at all events consented to look before
they leap. Perhaps when they have looked they may
think the leap unadvisable.

Writ (Erfurt.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Mar 21.
The Queen drove out this morning, attended by
the Dowager Duchess of Athole.
Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice
drove out also.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterday fore-
noon.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by
Prince Alfred, drove out in the afternoon.

The Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of
Mecldenburg-Strelitz, and the Princess Mary of Cambridge
honoured General Sir Willi►m and Lady Gomm with their
presence at dinner yesterday at the gallant general's resi-
dence in New-street, Spring-gardens.

The Duke of Northumberland and Lady Louisa
Percy are expected to arrive at the noble duke's house in
Portman-square, at the end of the week from Torquay.
The Duke of Leinater and other members of the
family, who intended to spend the holidays with the Earl
and Countess of Harrington at Elvaston Park, Derbyshire,
have been disappointed by the lamentable accident to the
earl and countesa's fifth son, the Hon. Gerald Stanhope.
Miss Burdett Coutts will have a concert on the
13th proximo, at her residence in Stratton-street, Picca-
dilly.

OPENINO OF THE INTERNATIONAL HORTI-
CULTURAL EXHIBITION.-(THIS DAY.)

The International Horticultural Exhibition, South
Kensington, was opened this afternoon at 1 o'clock.
Within a short time of the public being admitted
the arrangements of the interior were still progressing,
but at the hour appointed for opening all was complete,
and on the entrance of the visitors, they were met by
one of the most magnificent sights, in a horticultural
sena e, ever witnessed. The weather vas exceedingly favour-
able. At the time of opening, streams of fashionably
dressed ladies and gentlemen lined the Cromwell-road ;
and as the company began to fill the arena, the profusion
of colours displayed in the attire of the former tended
greatly to enhance the charm produced by the rare flowers,
&c., exhibited. The magnificent azaleas shown by Charles
Turner, Royal Nurseries, Slough ; Charles Lee,
of Hammersmith ; and J. Dobson and Son,
Isleworth, elicited universal admiration ; whilst the
roses exhibited by Paul and Son, Old Cheshunt Nursery ;
James Mitchell, and Francis and Co., Hertford, were
much in favour. Sonic beautiful specimens of tulips were
shown by Charles Turner and James Veitch and Son,
Royal Exotic Nurseries. Mr. Bull's " new radish"
attracted much attention, and gained a first-class certifi-
cate. The jurors, over a hundred and thirty in number,
had not completed their task at 1 o'clock. The pro-
gramme for to-day is to commence at 2, when the band of
the Royal Artillery will perform a selection of music, con-
ducted by Mr. J. Smyth. At 3 o'clock the bands of the Ist
Life Guards, Scots Fusiliers, and Royal Artillery, are
to play selections alternately —the musical portion of the
entertainment comprising 18 pieces and closing with
"God save the Queen." Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Helena, and
Prince Teck, were expected at half-past 3. On
the arrival of the royal party they are to be received
by Sir C. Wentworth Dilke (the chairman), Mr. J.
Jackson Blandy (deputy chairman) ; and the mem-
bers of the committee and other officials. The royal vi-
sitorswill then be at once escorted through the exhibition.
The first meeting of the congress will be held to-morrow
in the Raphael Cartoon-room, by permission of
the Lords of the Committee of Council on Educe.
tion. The second has been fixed for Thursday.
The list of papers promised amounts altogether
to 49, and from the various subjects proposed for discus.
sion, much useful information is anticipated. The banquet
in connexion with the exhibition, which takes place this
evening, at the Guildhall, promises to be numerously
attended. The proceedings will be enlivened by an admirable
selection of music executed by the band of the Grenadier
Guards. Several distinguished visitors are expected, and
the Lord Mayor presides on the occasion.

LEGAL CHANCES.—To-day Trinity Term com-
mences, and probably at its close or before the next term
several legal changes will be made. There are various
rumours in circulation. It is said that the Right Hon. Dr.
Lushington will shortly resign ; that the Probate business
will he joined with the Admiralty, and Sir James Wilde,
the present judge of the Divorce Court, take the business
of the two courts—Probate and Admiralty. The Divorce
Court, is, it is said, to be given to one of the Common Law
hudges, and Mr. Justice Ryles has been named as likely to
old the appointment. In Chancery there are rumours. It
is announced that Lord Justice Knight Bruce will shortly
resign, and probably Lord Hominy will be the new Lord
Justice, and Sir Roundell rainier, the Attorney-General,
succeed to the Mastership of the Rolls and hold a seat in
the House of Commons—the only judge in law and equity
I entitled to the privilege.—Times.
Miss Isa Craig has been presented with a testi-
monial, on resigning her post as assistant-secretary of the
Social Science Association, on the occasion of her marriage.
She has received a silver tea service and salver, the latter
bearing the inscription, " To Isa Craig, from her grateful
and attached friends of the National Social Science Ana-
-1 elation, 17th May, 1866."

WHITSUNTIDE IN LIVERPOOL. Though the
weather was beautifully fine yesterday, the visitors to
Liverpool were not so numerous as they have been in past
years. This is attributed to the dread of the cholera
which naturally prevails in many quarters. In conse-
quence of this feeling thousands of excursionists took
trains from the manufacturing districts to Blackpool,
Fleetwood, Southport, and other points of the coast. The
river Mersey and the Cheshire ferries were, as usual, a fa-
vourite resort for the holiday visitors who came to Liver-
pool yesterday, and the system of excursions organised by
the Mersey River Stearn-boat Company (which included in
one trip the whole of the ferries) contributed greatly to
their enjoyment.

LATEST INOLLIGENCE.
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Zss EUROISAN CRISIS.
The Neue PraislAssie of Vienna, in an sieSielit
commenting on the address of General Benedek,
says :
The mere existence of this address proves that the ex-
pectation of maintaining peace, awl of arriving at a*
honourable solution of the pending difficulties without an
appeal to arms is reduced to an imperceptible quantity.
If the government had any wen-founded belief in a pacific
termination of the question, the order of the day
of the 12th would not have been published so
soon. The government must have been aware
for the lest eight days of Prussia's determination to push
matters to extremes, and furthermore, that nothing can
some out of the proposed congress. A congress, having
for its avowed mission to take Venetia from Austria, to
give the Duchies to Prussia, and to regulate the question
of Federal reform by a European decree, cannot be
accepted under present circumstances. If Austria meant
to negotiate on such basis, she need not have made the
enormous sacrifices which her armaments have forced
upon her. Everything, therefore, seems to prove that
the conflict cannot be decided except by arms.

The Wanderer says :
The Venetian question is one that purely conoerns
Austria. The legality of her title is incontestable. If the
lot of Venice, therefore, is not a general question, it can-
not be a European question. The irrevocable right of
Austria would be abandoned by the fact of her accepting a
Congress, and this has been the point of view adopted
by all the statesmen of the Empire.

(Rinrait's TELEGRAMS.)
THE PROPOSED CONGRESS.

PARIS, DaY W.

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ININILLMENCE.
crEdi Def.)

• EVITII 0017 RT.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
This Whig the first day of Trinity Term the court sat at
Lineoln's-inn at 11 o'clock.
11121LIN0 0. PAKET.
This was an appeal from Vioe-Chancellor Stuart. The
plaintiff was the tenant for life, with remainder to his son
in fee simple, of certain property in Cardiganshire and
Montgomeryshire, and some years ago, between 1839 and
1859, he having raised 3,0001. by mortgages on the
estates, the several mortgages came into the possession
of the Lancashire branch of the Bank of Manchester.
The Bank being desirous of realising the securities, an
arrangement was come to by which the plaintiff was to
redeem the mortgages for a payment of 2,000 f. This sum
the plaintiff sought to raise ; and the defendants, who
were solicitors, obtained the necessary funds, and the
mortgages were transferred to them. On the plaintiff
seeking to redeem for 2,0001., the defendants denied his
right to do so for a less sum than 3,0001., the pro-
perty, as alleged, being worth 6,000/. Upon this a
bill was filed by the plaintiff to compel a redemption. The
court below decided in favour of the plaintiff, and the
present appeal was brought.
Mr. Maims and Mr. Waller were for the plaintiff, in
support of the defence ; the Attorney-General, Mr. Cole
and Mr. Surrage, for the defendants, were for the appeal:
The arguments were proceeding when our report was
despatched.

The Conetitutionnel of this morning announces
that France and England have agreed upon the
terms of the communication to be addressed to the
governments concerned in the existing differences.
It says, also :—" The reply of Russia is expected,
and there is every reason to hope that within a
few days the three cabinets will be in a position
to acccomplish the proposed task."
" It is impossible," continues the Curtstitutionnel,
"toentertain anyillusion upon the serious nature of
the differences between Prussia, Austria, and Italy,
but when France, England, and Russia, after a
maturely considered agreement, undertake such a
mission, it would be puerile to suppose that they
are not serious. From what has transpired, the
three courts seek conditions of agreement in terri-
torial compensations which would offer indemnities
and satisfaction to the claims of Prussia, Austria,
and Italy. The difficulty, in the present state of
affairs, consists in finding the territorial compensa-
tions suitable to each case."

ITALY.

FLORENCE, MAT 22.

Last week 26,000 men were enrolled in the Gari-
baldian volunteers. It is believed that the number
of battalions will be raised from twenty to forty.
Notwithstanding all rumours to the contrary,
the coupons of Italian Rente for the first half-year
will be paid in France in specie without any deduc-
tion.

The Florence journals of to-day declare it to be
inadmissablo that a European guarantee should be
given for the maintenance of the temporal power of
the Pope. They also deny that any such project is
on foot.

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The emigration front Venetia continues to be

THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, M. 22.

The twenty-nine deputies from Schleswig-Holstein
who were present at the meeting held here on Sun-
day last of delegates from the different German
Diets have polllislied a declaration to-day, stating
that they disagree with the views of the com-
mittee on the Schleswig-Holstein question.

MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN TURKEY.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice and
Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Shea.)
This was the first day of Trinity term, and, as it is un-
usual for the Lord Chancellor to hold a levee of the
learned judges and leading members of the bar on this
occasion, the court .at at half-past 10 o'clock this morning.
The Lord Chief Justice, who appears to have recovered in
some measure from his Lite indisposition, took his place on
the bench at the sitting of the court. Strange to say, no
motions were made by any member of the bar.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAI' 21.
3,000 men of the Reserve have been called out.
Troops continue to be sent to the line of the

001ili V. WALPOLL
This was an action for trespass and false imprisonment,
brought by the plaintiff against the Right Hon. Mr. Wal-
pole, M.P., for an official act performed by the defendant
during the time he was Secretary of State for the Home
Department. It was tried before the Lord Chief
Justice at the sittings after last Hilary term,
when the jury, under his lordship's direction,
found • verdict for the defendant on his lordship's ruling
that there was no cause of action ; but damages were
assessed at one farthing to prevent a second trial should
the court be of opinion that his lordship had misdirected
the jury.
The plaintiff, it will be recollected, was an inmate of
the Queen's Prison before its abolition, and being oonai-
dered of unsound mind he was removed under a warrant
of Sir George Grey, the then Secretary of State, to Beth-
lehem. On his recovery the plaintiff, under Mr. Secretary
Walpole's certificate (and on his application to be released
from Bethlehem), was remitted back to the Queen's prison.
And this was the alleged trespass and false imprisonment.
Mr. Gore, who conduoted his case in person when the
trial took place, appeared to-day to move the court for a
new trial, leave having been given to him to move this term,
instead of last term, in consequence of the unavoidable
absence of the Lord Chief Justice from illness. The plain-
tiff moved to set aside the verdict and finding of the jury
on the grounds of misdirection,that the verdict was against
evidence ; insufficiency of damages, &c. The plaintiff
contended that notwithstanding his being illegally sent to
Bethlehem by Sir G. Grey, Mr. Secretary Walpole had done
wrong in remitting him to the Queen's prison, and that he
should have been discharged and at full liberty to go
where he liked.
The Lord Chief Justice—Then do you say that, however
' wrongfully you got into Bethlehem, you never could be
rightfully got out of it ?
Mr. Gore said he could have been rightly released from
Bethlehem, but the defendant had no right to send him back
to the Queen's Prison, where he bad been lodged for debt.
The defendant's act was in effect an escape, and he ought
to have been discharged. As on the trial and in the
Common Pleas, where the plaintiff brought an action
against Sir George Grey, he read from a voluminous
compiled statement extending over two or three quires of
letter paper. It contained much that was irrelevant, and
more that contained sweeping charges against gentlemen
of high reputation, and which were not justified by what
occurred at the trial. The court appeared to be powerless
in checking him, although they strongly expressed their
opinion that much that had been stated was unjustifiable.
The Lord Chief Justice said he still remained of the
same opinion as on the trial, that this was the most vexa-
tious action he had ever heard of.
Mr. Gore said his lordship had taken a one-sided view of
the came.
The Lori.' Chief Justice said Mr. Walpole had done a
kind act, and any other man would have felt it a blessing
to he removed from a lunatic asylum. It was to Mr.
Walpole's act that the plaintiff owed his liberty. No man
ever admitted that he was at any time of unsound mind.
Mr. Justice Blackburn said the plaintiff ought to be
thankful for his release from the Lunatic Asylum, but
instead of that he wanted to be discharged from debt. The
defendant had no more power to do that than any other
person.
Mr. Gore said he was in prison for colts in a case w here
in fact the other party owed him 600/.
At the conclusion of the plaintiff's statement,
Mr. Justice Blackburn (the Lord Chief Justice's voice
not having sufficiently recovered) delivered the unanimous
judgment of the court, which was that the rule for a new
trial must be refused.
Rule refused.

Danube.
The Turkish navy is being equipped.

THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES.
SUEZ, MAT 21.

Dr. and Mrs. Beke have arrived here. The
captives released by the Emperor Theodore are
expected to arrive in Egypt shortly.
They had gone to Soudkin by the route through
the Interior, having been unable to embark at Mas-
sowalt, as the country was occupied by rebels.
Dr. Beke is awaiting here the Emperor's reply
to the petition of their relatives.

AUSTRALIA.
(By Overland Telegraph from Galle.)
MELBOURNE, APRIL 25.
Sir Charles Darling's recall has created great ex-
citement in the colony. _ _

The question of the Tariff Bill has been settled
by the government consenting to the separation of
the tariff from the Appropriation Bills.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

Tt:LqDAT, MAY 22, 8 A. M.

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Leith
Ardrossan
Greencastle 80.43531 E. 2 4 P.B.E. eh 1 1
Valentin 30.10,551 E.S.E. 4 5 B.E. bI- 1
"ape Clear 1 1 - - - -
Liverpool 30.42 54 E. 3 4 E.O.E. bi 1
Holyhead
Penzance.
Brest .. 29.9657! S.E. 5 7 E. c 8
Loricnt
Rochefort 29.88 54. N.B. 4 4 E. b 2
Plymouth
Weymouth 30.^.156 E. 61 8 E.S.E. b 5
Portsmouth 30.2754 E.N.E. 5' 7 E.S.E. c 4
' London
Yarmouth
Scarborough. 30.4952: E. 1, 2 E.S.E. b 2
Shields 30.53 81' S.E. 2' 2 B.E. 8 —l2
Helder

PROBABLE
ON NORTHERN TIAVFLSDAT.
COASTS. E. to A., strong to mo-
derate, tine.

Southerly and easterly,
varying. moderate to
fresh. tine.
E. and S.E.. strong, WESTERN. E.S.K to S.S.W., strong
fine generally. to fresh.
Easterly, strong, SOUTRILIN. Easterly and south-
squally, gale iu easterly, strong,
Channel. squally.
Between N.E. and S E., EASTERN. As next above, fine
strong, fine. generally.
Northern—Scotland. Western—lreland, Wales, and adja-
cencies. Southern—English Channel and Ete,y of Biscay.
Eastern—Esatward England and North Sea.

The gouramie, the famous fish of Mauritius, is
now to be seen alive in the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide,
is South Australia, and is likely to be acclimatised. It is
now about the size of a small prawn, which it somewhat
resembles, but it grows to the weight of 121bs.
PEABODY Tgwribioxim,.—A movement is now on
foot in the City to commemorate in some conspicuous and
lasting form the unparalleled act of munificence of Mr.
George Peabody for the relief of the poor of London. A
requisition signed by upwards of 80 of the principal citi-
zens has been presented with that view to the Lord Mayor,
who has been pleased in consequence to convene a public
meeting in the Eforptian-hall of the Mansion-house on
Thursday, at 2 o'clock, to take the matter into considera-
tion. The requisition is headed by the names of three of
the members of parliammt for the City—Mr. R. W. Craw-
ford, Mr. Goechen, and Alderman Lawrence—and it in-
cludes the names of Baring Brothers and Co., nine of the
members of the Court of Aldermen, some of the common
councilmen, and many bankers and merchants. At pre-
sent it is proposed to erect a statue to Mr. Peabody on
some conspicuous spot in the City of London, and that is
the form of testimonial which will be submitted to the
meeting on Thursday as the most appropriate for perpetu-
ating the memory of his noble act, and embodying the
gratitude and admiration of the citizens.