The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-25 00:00:00

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.

MEETING IN SOUTHWARK.
Last night a public meeting of electors and inhabitants of
the borough of Southwark was held at the Bridge-house
Hotel, London-bridge with the view to assist the movement
now in progress for the promotion of reform in the adminis-
tration of the public departments ; Mr. Apsley Pellatt, M.P.,
occupied the chair. The large room in which the meeting
was convened was crowded.
The fallowing resolutions were agreed to :
" That this meeting believes th degraded condition to
which our country has been reduced to be attributed to the
corrupt and culpable appointment of incompetent persons to
official positions ; and that yet greater national degradation
can only be avoided by the exclusion of mediocrity from the
various departments of the Executive, and by the distribu-
tion of the duties and emoluments of office among men of
especial aptitude and high capacity.
" That this meeting, having full confidence in the patriot-
ism and judgment of the managing committee of the Administra-
tive Reform Association, and regarding a thorough adminis-
trative reform as the best and safest preliminary elec-
toral equality and residential suffrage, in order to the real
representation of the people in Parliament prays them to be
earnest and energetic, fearless and faithful in the prosecution
of their noble undertaking, that an end may be speedily and
finally put to the countless evils of Government by corruption
—appointments by favour—promotion by purchase, and the
distribution of honours and dignities in reward for servility,
sycophancy, and demerit.
" That the manly exposure of the monster grievance of the
day by Mr. Layard entitles that honourable member to the
confidence and gratitude of the people ; whilst the vain at-
tempts to bolster up the existing system by personal abuse
and gross misrepresentation of its courageous denunciations
have excited universal disgust."
A resolution was also passed authorising the formation
forthwith of an association in the borough of Southwark, in
connection with the Administrative Reform Association re-
cently established in the city of London.
The meeting separated after the usual compliment to the
chairman.

Mlle. Dejazet is announced for a series of last repre-
sentations at the Gaiete, where Frederic Lernaitre has
also been playing for some time.
THE JOINT CONSULATE OF LIBERIA.—Mr. Jolin
George Cop Lewis Newnham, her Britannic Majesty's
Consul at Monrovia, the capital of the Republic of Li-
beria, on the western coast of Africa, has received the dis-
tinguished and unusual honour of an appointment to the
office of Consul of France at the same place. His ap.
pointment in the latter capacity was notified to him in
a highly complimentary despatch of M. Drouyn de
l'Huys, the late Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Em-
peror of the French, and the British Government, has
Permitted him to accept it. The Government of the
Republic has recognised the appointment, and thus Mr.
Newnham is at once Consul for England and for France.
ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY.—The Lords Commissioners
of the Treasury have approved of the plans ofd its thesros-
will
so-
ciety's proposed7museum of natural history,
museum
erec-
tion is to be forthwith set about. The new and
occupy
wthitehsothuethhsoiudgeeobfythae fisoecmieit- circularys lawn, and be con-
nectedcolonnade on
pillars ; corresponding structure will be erected on the
opposite or north side. The building itself will be 230
feet long, and 40 feet wide, and, in addition to the great
space it will afford for displaying
ground floor and side walls,specimens on the
it will be furnished with
two tiers of galleries,