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London, England, 1855-06-07 00:00:00

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by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Earl Granville,
„. Lord President ; the Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal ;
Viscount Palmerston, First Lord, of the Treasury ; Sir
George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
-mem. ment ; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs ; Lord Panmure, Secretary of State for
War ; Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty ;
the Right Hon. R.V ernon Smith, President of the Board
of Control ; the Earl of Harrowby, Cpancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster ; Viscount Canning, Postmaster-
General ; Earl Spencer, Lord Steward ; the Marquis of
Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; the Duke of Welling-
ton, Master of the Horse ; and the Marquis of Aber-
corn Groom of the Stole to the Prince.
Mr. ,C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Wait-

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-ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.

Last night a public meeting was held at the Rose Tavern,
Fulham-road, for the purpose of aiding and giving effect to
the views enunciated by the Administrative Reform Associa-
tion recently embodied in the City, and to take into consi-
deration the present condition of the country; Mr. F. Lloyd,
a magistrate, was called to the chair.
The CHAIRMAN opened the business by saying—We are met
to-day to discuss no party politics or particular measures, but
as an inquest upon tho departed character of the Govern-
ment,' to know how, with such ample means of vitality, it has
departed this life. To know how the resources for main-
taining strength and vigour have been misused, the money so
lavishly squandered, and the disgraceful sequel arrived at.
. Every Englishman of honour, and of sense of right and wrong
must discuss this and will. The people were told there was
no necessity for inquiry or interference into the causes of the
failures of the army we sent out so completely equipped ; but,
on gaining our point, every one admits misconduct of
the gravest nature. Did any inquiry ever take place
with so much lamentable amount cf disgrace at-
tached to the executive? There was abundant evidence
produced that there was something grievously wrong; and
it was the duty of Englishmen to see that wrong put to right
without loss of time. It has been the habit of people to con-
sider our institutions perfect, and beyond all praise; but,
when we put the great machine in motion, it falls to pieces
like a rope of sand. The army was full of inefficient men,
and our civil department filled with incompetent people. The
spirit of England is like Gulliver pegged to the earth by the
Liliputiaus. How is it that this country, with wonderful
talent and marvellous extent of administrative capacity in all
private affairs, is so inefficient in its public undertakings ? It
is the patent power of rank irrespective of ability that be-
numbs society. Until we break through the spell, until we say
there shall be no more shams of God's good law in the
country, and his glorious purpose in bestowing talents, we
shall be as we are. Mr. Carlyle lays this down clearly. He
says Governments have really, to a fatal and extraordi-
nary extent, neglected, in late ages, to supply themselves with
what intellect was going ; having, as was natural too in tho
den time, taken up a notion that intellect was not necessary
to them at all, but that a little of the vulpine sort, if attain-
able, supported by routine, red tape, traditions, and tolerable
Parliamentary eloquence on occasion, would very well suffice.
A most false and impious notion, leading to fatal lethargy ou
the part of Government. Intellect has to govern the world,
and will do it in the end, as sure as laws of nature are tougher
than red tape." Now, this is the doctrine upon which we
must proceed to organise a system to carry it practi-
cally out. The remedy lies with ourselves. When the
people speak out, and with an emphasis worthy
a great occasion, they will always be heard.
The vain discussions in Parliament on Monday, the various
conflicting amendments moved, all tending to mystify the
real position of affairs, suggest the exclamation of Puff, in
the play of The Critic, " There's a situation for you!" when
he has his characters in a dead lock. Don Whiskerandos, in
love with Tilburina, is attacked by the nieces of Sir Walter
Raleigh and Sir Christopher Hatton, all inflamed by jealousy ;
and while he with two daggers keeps them at bay, Sir Walter
and Sir Christopher rush into the fray. The stage directions
are analogous to the notice-book of orders of the day in the
House of Commons on Monday. They are—" The two nieces
draw their daggers to strike Whiskerandos ; and the two
uncles at the instant, with their two swords drawn, catch
their two nieces' arms, and turn the points of their swords
to Whiskerandos, who immediately draws two daggers, and
holds them at the two nieces' bosoms." Now Lord Palmerston
appears to me to have, like Mr. Puff, his characters at a dead
lock, and can exclaim with him, " What a situation l" " You
see the ladies cannot stab Whiskerandos; he must not strike
them for fear of their uncle ; their uncle must not kill him
beeause of their nieces. I have them all in a dead lock, every
one is afraid to let go first." When Mr. Sneer very properly
observes, " then they must remain at a standstill for ever,"
the author says, " Aye, but mark, I send to their relief a tall
Beef-Eater, who, entering halberd in hand, charges
them all in the Queen's name to drop their weapons."
Where's the Beef Eater-who will come on the stage
now and charge our mummers and mountebanks, in
the name.of the Queen, or in that of her people, to leave off
fooling and humbug, and address themselves to the real busi-
ness
of thrusting at the enemy, instead of splitting straws
amonst each other as to how they should carry on the con-
test in the way most agreeable to his feelings, Where is the
beef-eater who will knock such nonsense on the head, and com-
pel those who talk in the people's name to act in the people's
name, and as the people wish ? We are all at a standstill ;
every one is waiting until somebody else does something. In
Parliament, in the Cabinet and out of it,- all the same. Does
not this wretched state of legislation call our attention to
the way in which the legislators themselves are appointed I
They themselves hoist the banner of Electoral Reform. That
is a question that must soon be reopened. Not a year since wo
we expressed our opinion in our vestry hall in favour of the
Ministerial proposal to alter and amend the repres citation of
the country; and we unanimously pronounced a condemna-
tion of the system that prevents a district like this from being
directly represented in Parliament, whilst Tamworth, Totnes,
Barnstaple, and a score inconsiderable places, with not a tenth
of its population, return each two members I Henceforth this
is deprived of its party character. Every man in the country
is conscious of its necessity, whether ho admit it or not.
Where there is abuse, says Burke, there ought b 3 clamour,
because it is better that our slumbers should be broken by the
fire-bell than we should perish iu the flames. The Adminis-
trative Reform Association calls for our opinion. See what
public opinion effects. If it does not bring conviction, it in•
timidates and reforms. Lord Goderich goes to his Hudders-
field constituents us an administrative reformer l The electors
of Bath returned Mr. Tite on Monday last, simply because
they believed him earnest in effecting as far as in him lay ad-
ministrative reform. Men of talk will become men of action ;
those who speak for the people must act for the people. I
hail Mr. Tito's election as an earnest for the success of the
Administrative Reform Society. He is a good practical man
of business, has made his fortune by sheer hard work and
distinguished talent in the most useful of all professions in re-
lation to the development of the resources of awcal thy cultivated
people—architecture. It would be the object of the society
to encourage the pretensions of candidates such as he, Sir
Joseph Paxton, Robert Stephenson, Sir Morton Pete, Mr.
Bell, Mr. Jackson, Alexander Cubitt, Mr. Masterman, Mr.
Gui;ney, and Mr. Lindsay. AsMr. Muntz, the strong-headed,
plain-spoken member for Birmingham, said the other day,
the men who enter Parliament with university reputations
as double first-class-men turn out to be, in many cases,
double first ass-men. Tho awful calamities of the Crimea
have served as a touchstone by which the value of regulation
statesmanship has been tested. The official hierarchy has
been convicted of ignorance and mismanagement on points
which fall within the ordinary business of most private men.
The magistrates of every town are able to detect the blun-
ders of the Home-office; city men see through the flimsiness
of finance, and shopkeepers have plenty to amuse themselves
at the expense of " my lords" of the Board of Trade. The pa-
tentees of great offices may rest assured that. a few conces-
sions will not satisfy. Their patent has run out, expired.
It shall not be renewed if we are true to the cause in which
we have met. We must discard all mere word-catching as to
the origin of the war or the late negotiations at Vienna. Wes-
tern and Eastern Europe have placed themselves in a hostile
attitude towards each other, and the arbitrement of war is now
to decide the question that has been foreseen by every states-
man from the beginning of this century. We do not meet to-
day to analyse the morality of the war ; but being in it, so
bear ourselves that we may end it with credit. We determine
that the operative administration responsible for its conduct
shall be done by operatives, and that we shall be as careful
to let none but " skilled labour" undertake labour of skill.
The virtual repudiation by Russia of the third point in the
negotiations, and the gross and deliberate act of bad faith, of
which by that repudiation she stands convicted, seems fairly
to re-open the question, not only of its construction, but
of the expediency and obligation of all the four points.
Under these circumstances it becomes us to consider whether
we ought not to declare at once that we feel ourselves no
longer bound by these stipulations to an adversary so reckless
and grasping; and whether Parliament should not do wisely
to declare that, for the future, we will abstain from laying
down, during the war, the terms upon which we shall be
willing to conclude peace—terms which can only bind our-
selves, but which will be set at naught by our enemies when-
ever it shall suit their purpose. Thus, by the failure of the
Vienna Conference, the whole question of our war policy is
re-opened. The precipitate retreat of the Russians, both at
Kertch and on the Tchernaya, indicates that the soldiery aro
disheartened, and the resources of the Czar nearly exhausted,
and it would be false generosity to spare a government
which has for more than five hundred years been plundering
all its neighbours. The object of the war was to give security
to Turkey, and through Turkey to Europe. If its progress
opens up means more efficacious than were at first contem-
plated, it is the duty of the allies to adopt them. The Crimea
ought not to be restored to her. It is for the Poles and tho
inhabi▪ tants of Southern Russia to determine in what relation
they are henceforth to stand to the Muscovite Government.
1 Vhen any private individual disturbs his neighbour, by bring-
ing an action against him that has no foundation in justice,
the courts of law decree that ho shall pay the costs of both
parties. Wars are the litigation of nations. Russia has been
carrying on a scandalously unjust suit, and ought in every
princi▪
ple of justice to be amerced in costs. Russia ought to
pay every expense she has obliged the allies to bear, at the
least. For the loss of life, misery, anxiety, and financial
difficulty she has plunged millions of peaceable people into,
Russia ought to pay heavy damages ; the heaviest man
can calculate would be far short of the penalty that country
ought to be made to pay. We ought to depose the Czar of
Russia from the provinces his father, and grandfather, and
great grandfather fraudulently and by force obtained. from other
people ; we want a strong administration to do this. I believe
Lord Palmerston is the man to do it, properly supported by
worthy and determined colleagues, resolved not to make peace
until it can be secured upon a basis likely to last. A vulgar
clamour is raised against Lord Palmerston, but no one can
deny that since he has been Premier great impulse has been
given to every branch of the service. Ho will be glad to be
supported by public opinion, whichl is,ll b° happy to hear
as Lord Lansdowne
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the views of every gentleman on
says, omnipotent in this country.
Dr. TRUMAN moved a resolution pledging the meeting to
support the resolutions carried at the meeting of merchants,
bankers, &c., in the City.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. HOGG.
Mr. LENO, a Chartist, moved an amendment, which was
seconded by Mr. FiNite.N.
The original resolution was carried by a large majority.
Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR, the Recorder of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
next moved a resolution to the effect that the executive was
merely the delegated instrument of the people's will to origi-
nate and carry out such measures as would prove advantageous
to the country, and that the invariable selection from the
aristocracy, including both Whigs and Tories,
i tended to de-
prive the nation of the assistance of able men n the manage-
ment of its affairs.
The resolution was carried.
The Rev. Dr. Wilson, Dean of the College of Preceptors,
and other gentlemen, addressed tho meeting, which did not
conclude until a late hour.

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The Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, Viscount
Palmerston, and Ei.rl Granville had audience of the

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Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa
visited the Crystal Palace at Sydenliam.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princes: Hohenlohe
Lhngen burg and the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe
took a drive in an open landau at 4 in the afternoon.
Lord Alfred Paget and Major-G-eneral the Hon. C.
Grey attended on horseback. His Royal Highness the
Prince rode on horseback, attended by his Equerry in
Waiting.
Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening ; the
company included their Royal Highnesses the Duchess
of Kent, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, and the Duke of Cambridge, their Serene High-
nesses the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg and the
Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Marquis and Mar-
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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester took
a carriage airing yesterday, and paid visits to the
members of the Royal. Family at their respective re-
sidences.
The stage carriage deputation had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday at his offi-
cial residence in Downing-street. The deputation con-
sisted of, from town, Mr. J. Wilson (Messrs. J. and E.
Wilson, Holloway), Richard Hartley (Fulbam At-
sociation), Mr. John Barber (Hackney), Mr. Douglas
(Hammersmith), Mr. George Chancellor (Chelsea), Mr.
M‘Namara, mail coach proprietor, Mr. A. Lines (St.
John's-wood), Mr. Thomas Bird (Paddington), and Mr.
J. R. Elliott (King's-cross). From the country, Mr.
Baxter, from Messrs. Greenwood (Manchester), and Mr.
Mackie (City Omnibus Company, Manchester). The
deputation was accompanied by the following members
of the House of Commons :—Lord Robert Grosvenor,
General Wyndham, Sir Erskine Perry, Mr. W. Wil-
liams, Mr. Lockhart, Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Headlam, Mr.
Crook, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Alcock, and Mr. Townley
Parker, and also by Mr. J. E. Bradfield (secretary).
A deputation from Paddington on the subject of the
Metropolis Local Management Bill had an interview ou
Monday with the President of the General Board of
Health at his office, Whitehall. The deputation con-
sisted of Messrs. Kemshead, Burslem, Gutch, Martel/A,
and Aveling (vestry clerk).

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EEITCA-
TION OF THE POOR.—The annual general meeting of
this society was held yesterday in the Central School-
rooms, Westminster. The Archbishop of Canterbury
presided. The general attendance was small. From
the report it appeared that the number of schools united
to the society during the past year has been 234, making
the total number 10,436. 900 competent masters have
been sent out during the year from the Westminster
Training School, to take charge of schools. The receipts
in the depositary during the year 1854 amounted to
11,9701., being an increase of 3401, over those of the
preceding year.