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!-RefereasAertoolatiou,..and that the- following gentlemen,
been given to his private eecreterv. Tne matter of with power to add to their number
tenuity." T. tart a reply Was brut rn the 26th Feb. I " That the aaeoeiation be called the Administrative
Mr. Roberts, " Your letter to Lord Parenure has
,' tie appointed thriehtn-'
mittee, to collect fnnds, to prepare an address to the con-
be out the objects of the association."
Government offer of Spanish guerilla troeps will stituents of the Uiriterl Kinglets), and generally to carry
be in red about." Oa the fish March a letter
Irma Mr. J. L. Manby, of Praire doted the 40, to Ili.
He believed Oa it was the defy of every man connected
with the movement t i go heart and hand with it.
brother, complaining ef the delay, and stating `` I wisl:
, (Hear, hear.) He believed the country. had been dia-
rist to clearly understand that this is not a matter of 1
businees, it originated with my friend Colonel Gaudard,
graced by the men at present in pewer, acid it was the
a most v.:silent officer, who, although a Progressista, awl
a great:s friend of Espertero, 0-n2murfed the troops against , duty of the present meeting to adopt the resolution in
order to effect seine alteretion. There was very little
the rabble durieg the late revolution, rescued the Queen
doubt that the present government were clever men but
Dowager, and 'certainly saved the town from illage..
the worst of it was they were all put in the wrong place.
This is the officer I alluded to as ready to command the
Het would reet- Mtich longer detain the-meeting, but be
which we offered." This letter was for-
fore he sat down he would mention an anecdote in coin;
warded to the War Department, and on the 6th
March the following answer was received front Mr. nection with the war. A body of scientific_ gentlemen
Roberts :—" If the offer of a Spanish guerilla .met some time ago in connection with the Royal Society
on subjects associated with the exposition of French
corps came to me as a private letter, it was no doubt
given to the Duke of Newcastle, and I have no means of I industry. He was at
with the state of things existing at the hospital at
that time greatly shocked
referring to it. If it had been a public letter it
would have been upon the records of the War-office, but Scutari, and the en !deer cif deaths which had occurred
upon reference to the register Ido not see it entered, there. Many medical gentlemen were, present, and he
M own recollection does not serve me with respect brought the subject forward in the course of -converea,
to it, indeed: with some hundreds of letters coming y p
in , tion, and inquired " bow is it at this thee of the year we
every day. I may well be pardoned for not carrying all are losing so many men from dysentery ?" One of the.
in my memory. You will readily perceive how, : gentlemen, then a medical marl • of. high authority,
in an office like this, only public letters cell
! informed him tbat the want pf ventilation in the hospi-
be dealt with setisfactorily." (Cheers.) The honour-
'tali was the cause of the excessive mortality, and until
able gentleman then adverted to the fact of their
some remedy for the evil was devised, dysentery would
prevail. The duct r further told him that he had invented
being this offer to the Government of 10,000 troops at a
a very slap's means of ventilation, which would not cast
thee when the Government said they had received but
a small number of applications on account of the lan-
101., and was, moreover, so simple that any ship's car-
guege that had been used in the house, which had dis-
pouter could make it ; but that he had not thought it
worth while to bring it under the notice of the Govern-
gusted the parties, and prevented them offering their
went. He (Mr. Tite) therefore wrote a letter to the
assistance. (Hear, hear—" turn them all out.") Ha
Duke of Newcastle on the subject. He waited
next adverted to the motion brought forward by Mr.
Roebuck, and its meeting with opposition from every it week for an answer, and then it arrived with
member of the Mieistry but one, and the melancholy pic-
pleety of routine and red tape—(laughter)--and was
tore pommittee.resented by
Every Englishman must have been
the evidence that had been taken before pretty much to the fallowing effect :—" I have received
the c
your letter, will you be good enough to state what is the
greatly mortified at reading the painful details he was nature of the invention of the learned doctor," without
compelled to wade the ugh. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) writing to the doctor to obtain the required information.
o
The suggestion it was needless 'ere say was not attended
In conclusion, he called attention to the mercantile
marine of this country in connection with the transport to, nor Lad been to this day. Before he sat down he
service, and showed how efficiently they conducted the must requert them not to forget the sinews of war.
business of the country, and the energy of Messrs. There must be subscriptions towards the association, and
Pete, in contrast to the Government, and the he trusted these who could afford it would come forward
with their subscripttons, and that all would put their
manlier in which they have constructed the railway at
Balakiava, and bad completed it within a month of the hands le their pockets and contribute their mite.
time, laid down in the contract. As an ineta, ce of how Mr. HUTCHINSON, Chairman of the Stock Exchange,
right men filled their right places he had only to refer to seconded the resolution, which he said he did most cur-
Sir William Molesworth who bad been removed
dully and heartily. The resolution was then passed
,
from the Coloniee' where he had been of such great as-
with acclamation.
eistarice, to the Woods and Forests, the business of which Mr. GEORGE BISHOP jun., next came forward, and
said he should most heartily lend his humble endeavours
deeartmeet was manifestly badly tua.naged. (Hear) In
to carry out the elejeets et. the association. (Cheers.)
the House of Commons, Mr. Osborne, the Secretary of the
Admiralty, had taken credit for that department as Mr OLIVEIRA, 1e1.P., then came on the platform and
said he had just come from the Guildhall, where he had
being perfect, whatever detects there might be in the
thetionour of presiding
as chai
The teeoman, which
uns ef this asseting
pened to know a • circumstance which showed
were taker' as the basis of the ineetine at the Guildhall,
a little remissrie-s in the Ar!mirelte department. The
English residents at Operto contributed a quantity of and were all passed unanimously, with the exception that
slue for the exigencies of the army in time to the first resolution a rider wee added to tee effect that
with there must be an enlargement of the constituency.
Crimea, and they eent it te London,
The resolution was then put fr en the chair, and the
instructions for it to be forwarded through the ,Ad The
said as they were in earnest he begeed the
miralty.- The Duke of Neecest.e thanked the donors
"need, would put down their names to contilbute to
for the very seasonable present, aed that, he had wri, ten
requesti, git to be forwarded. A few weeks atter the funds for t'te sMject: of the meeting.
The usual vote of thanks to the chairman concludel
teat his friend who hal charge of it in the decks asked
him what had better be done with it, as it would the proceedings, and the meeting separated with cheers
net impreve by being kept in the frost. He for the Queen, and the vat assemblage then dispersed.
A numerous list of contributors was then prepared in
eel visel burn to write to Mr. Osborne, which
he did, and it was only after that this perfect department the seljoiriing room.
attended to the orders sent some time bef .re by the Duke
of Newcastle. At a time like the present it was the
duty of every citizen to speak plainly and act firmly,
and it was from this feeling that he should second the
resolution

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(THIS DA• Y.)

R. AMWAY'S-

I
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rim:lnm. dont
this day.

The following speech was to he delivered by a gent'
man pre,ent " I feel honoured in being per-
mitted to seclnd the regolution so ably introduced to
your notice by the honourable gentleman who

The CHAIRMAN stated at this point of the meeting
that such wai the feeling upon this important subject
teat narties who could not obtain admission to the meet-
ing here had tormed one in the Guildhall, and that
meeting wam at the present moment presided over by.
Mr. Otivera.

has ju,t spoken ; and must express at the same
time a r<Tret, approachiog to deep sorrow, at the
existing causes which have originated this meeting.
Twelve months since I would not have devoted one
boor of time or ten pounds of money to the
object fair which this assemblage has met,

Mr. P. B. POWLES support:A the resolution, and in
doing so t ,ok occasion to complain most bitterly against
the coarse that had been pursued by Lord Palmerston
ever since h hat been Prime Minister. The present
movement was one of the most important that
had ever been taken by the middle classes, and one
which he felt assured would ultimately, notwithstanding
all the difficulties that beset it, effect its object. (Cheer,.)
Upon the C.airniati putting the question, toat the
resolution should be adopted,
A-. Alarm) WALKER, who was in one of the gale-
ries, requested permission to make ar_. rmendu.eut to
the resolution, as he aid not think that it went far
enough.

and which I am now here to advocate ;
but, sir, many and melancholy have been the changes
the public affairs of this country have under-
gone since then, and those feelings which now influence
me, are, I doubt not, shared by most of you here present
who like myself little contemplated' the establishment
of such an association as this. But, let me ask ttrise
pre-wit. who have perused the reports of the proceedi gs
of Mr. Roehuck's Committee, and who has not I Whe-
ther the lament tide disclo,ures ma le thereby do not
fully justify that thrilling declaration of the right hon.
menitper for the City of Loudon, when on the 26th
of January he states in his place in thel Rouse of Commons
"No one can deny the melancholy condition of our

After dine diieuision ani elnsiderable uproar,
Mr. WALKER wfo allowed to allress the meeting on
his anievdment, hut each wa4 the feeling against him,
that not one wort in ten was heard.
The CHAIRMAN stated that they had got an enemy in
their ca up, and appealed to the meeting whether Mr.
Walker e lould be heard or not.
The meeting decided unanimously that Mr. Walker
should not be heard, and eonequently he bowed to that
1 e ci

army before Sebastopol ; the aco.unts which arrive from
that quarter every week are not rn'y p i );u', bat horrible
awl heartrending." What has been done ri:ice to remedy
these evils. A beneficent Providence has improved the
character of the weather. The efforts of Miss Nightin-
gale, to whom be all honour, have been emkently
successful in the relief of the sick and wcunded.
couple this again a>ith the graphic but mournful Dar-
raeive of that indefatigable and praiseworthy clergyman,
S. G. 0 , and you have the origin of this meeting

Mr. W. S. LINDSAY, M.P., proposed the next reso-
lution :

clearly before you. A report has been freely circulated
t,► the effect that this is n,,thing le,s than a revolutionary

" That the true remedy for the .ystem of mal-adminis-
tration which has canied so la•nentable a sacrifice of labour,
money, mid human life is to be sought in the introduction
of enlarged experience and practical ability into the ser-
vice of the state."

Meeting. having for its object the humiliation of the
upper classes of society, and the subversion of all
law and order. (Rear.) You, sir, and gentlemen,
know better. Men occupied, as motet of us are,
l and have been for years in this great city, are not likely

He felt ashamed of the course that hatl been pursued by . to seek the-destruction of thost; social elements which
the Prime Minister, and the flippant manner in whieb are the protection of
;our property and labours, and' will
he hat answsral some of the most important questions , vet tare to say that there are few here but what will
that hart ever b en ptit t, a Minister of Eeoend. There I h artee4..iii wi h me in reiterating the sentime; t. o! tf.e
could he no doubt that the Government W 34 farmed of ; Prime 11toki-rir, that it Will be a sorry day for
clever men ; but sotnehaw or other, every ene of them I Ewdand %Vie n its kinbili•y are . not found in the
a:Tvared to be put in the wrong place. (Cheers.) As ; front ranks of the public service of the
a man of business and a inerchmkt of the City of Linden, 1 country. as civilians, naval and military men, there
lie asserted, without fear of contradiction, that the course 1 they ought t k be—and there distinguish themselves
the present meeting proposed to adopt was legal, and 1 in a manner worthy of the memory of those men.
one which was co lied for, ar.d Mll4 he adopted either i whose public services first gained these honours.
now or some tune hence. (Hear. hear.) He had but when they lack ability, or a laudable desire to la-
made an offer, Koine time ago, to Sir James Graham, hour for the public good, let them cheerfully yield '
when he was First Lerd of the Admiralty, to show the pint to those men who possess their
him a plan. and to carry it out, to reform the course attributes, men whose general merits and haloes
pursued in that depsstmeni ; but that offer was of business fit them for public stations. Such
treeted with contempt and disdain. There was no doubt I men have been f .nod, arid may be so still. H iv-
that the committee, on the question of the course that iig s: id thus mu.lt, I will trespass briefly en
had been pursued to the Crimea, would end in the sacri- your time by a u ling to owe or three eravt
fice of several bullocks ; and it would be their dirty to nue on,- in connections with public affai.s,
take care—and they might depend uoon it he would do aid then leave to better qualified men .ha
so—that those bullock+ were iot the learn and nefaltened ooportemity of aldreeeirig you in detail.
ones that hal fed upon charity, but those who had oh- i With respect to that disastrous but brilliant sacrifice—
tabled their portly shape under the auspices of the the L eht Cavalry charge at Balaklavai it has been re-
Government. marked, tins we shall never get at the cause of its occur-
Mr. SAMUEL BAKER seconded the resolution. Could nonce ; but, gentlemen, the eolutien is plain and patntully
any one say th t the country, with its liberality in carry- simple. Your adminietratton sent to battle two noble-
ing on the war, and finding the means of doing so, hat
utter of uequestioriable personal courage, rivals fir fame.
been met in a true spirit by the G ivernment ? (Cneers.)
agallant soldiers were Lot, as is well known to
nd devotedt s their countries cause; but these two
Tf
r(r)litl'icieira ic)nmnylit;nap he rtahsoeu,
ghhait tthh;tiyelviaetrlychreniarnp,e,frk
cuoyznitall 1
every member of the . social circle in whir h
sense would say that they had not. (Hear.) He they m
trove upon speaking tennis. How then, was it
felt proud to see the members of the press below him, possible for these two nnn cordially to co-operate,
because he felt assured that they would send to every or to effect any interchange of opinions, in regard
corner of the world the opinions that had been to the proper performance of the momentous
expressed up n this important movement by the meetinte duties—it was tot much to' expect—and the re-
Atter some further observations, Mr. BAKER concluded stilt of these finis-appointments vi as as we all
by proposing the resehition. know too well, mournfully disastrous. I have
Mr. FRANCIS DEVAN seconded the resolution. He fresh on my mind, a case hearing strong analogy to this
alluded to the unfitness of the subordinate appointments —it the total loss of an East Indiarnau in the China
of the present Ministry, particularly that of the Under- sea, owing to the officers in charge of the watch
Secretary for War, for he contended that Mr. Peel was being at enmity and not on speaking terms_
very unfit, (Hear, hear.) Capacity and small pay, in- the one in charge of the forecastle nailed the
capacity and large pay, seemed to be the rule in our quarter-deck. "Breakers ahead." "Yon may be ass
public service. Tiwee offices which ought to be cured you are moonblind," was the reply of a few morns
prizes
and rewards for services were now monopo- ilater—and the crew were in the open ocean, arid
used by a few. Who was the Master-Getter dof the noble ship a total wreck; And owing to
the Ordnance ?—Lord Raglan. (Groans.) Either Sir the prevalence of secular hostile feelings, do I attriOnte
H. Ross, who represented him here, was inadequately the wreck 'if our gallant ill-fated Light Cavalry
remunerated, or Lord Reglan ought to be deposed. Briea.
de• Wier.) there let me Ask, was the wisdom
(Gies of "No Raglan.") If great energy, knowledge, or foresight that courted rather shunned such fearful
and jedement could he purchased, depend upon it no probabilitiee. I now come t i the equally grave
place could be found for any but the aristocracy. He question of the many and valuable transports Fa
did riot say a word against the aristocracy as a class. crtficed on the 14th Nose nber, owing entirely to of.
All honour to the aristocracy as a class. (Hear, hear.) ficial mismanagement and want of that judicious fere-
Bet need lie refer to the gallant charge at i sight which should have regulated the proceedings
Baleklaea. 'What was the judgment that guided that of the Admiral , and his immediate subordi-
charge ? (Hear.) Why, at the B tttle of Inkerrnan, : nates. Why condemn to death, as was the case, the
which was called the "colliers' battle," if the officers i unfortunate master arid crew 'of the Resolute, who
had :lone their duty, the blood of the men would not inept' rinely soteeht to be permitted to adopt the only
have followed, as it did at that memorable engagement. ' course that would save his ship from destruction. 1
(Hear, hear.) Then look at the supply of hoots and am credibly informed that for several days prior to the
shoes for the soldiers —look to the management of the ' gale of the 14th, the baroniet r had given indication of
hospitals at Scutari. At first all was mismanage- i its approach ; and these indications no seamen can
meat ; but when the appointment of civilians 1 disregarrd without incurring a fearful penalty—
took place all was improved. The speaker pro- one of the standing orders of the Admiral
ceeded to comment at -mile length on the facts elicited I Gannet loth ar remarking upon the general apathy that
before the Sebastopol C•n-ryluittee. Wind was the re- steers to prevail in regard to all these ntomentous mat-
wetly for this state of thincs ? Why,_ it was only in such 'tees, whether looking to the Admitiist
ration or to the
an association as this. (Cheers.) What was the fact I , House of Commons. The first have
notoriously failed
Why, a great number of people who were unable to • ' gain in their duties, and cons+ quently possess not the
admittance here were at this moment assembled at the : confidence of the country ; but more strange still
Guildhall, aid had sent for the resolutions of ' that the latter appears to sanction or connive at all
this
themembers on
this meeting to support them. (Lond cheering.) I wrong—nay, by the general hilarity of
Why, this meeting was attended by Liberals, Cur.-1 certain trivial occasions, one would imaginethey
ap-
servativee, Radicals, and all shades of political 1 prove, or rejoice in the prevailing confusion.
O ur
'opinion, who had agreed to merge their differences in one venerable Premier—failing to realize his
age, or the
great effort, for which this meeting was assembled. i dimity of his office, takes the lead, lets off
(Cheers.) Mr. Layarl treated of this "system" in the i commandingen-chief should have been to some barren
proceed to sea
proper manner in the House of Commons ; but, though 1 on such indications being shown, and Captain Heath, in
he was hounded down by the petty most interested in ' his examination before the committee' states as a cer-
keeping up the present system, the people would back tainty, that these vessels were in the offi
n, with sea-
him out. (Hear. hear.) Notwithstanding the sneers of room, not one of them would have been lost—or words
the Prime Minister, and the cry of the pack of to that effect—arid their valuable freight—trebly valu-
hounds that followed him— (hear, hear, and cheers)circumstances able, under the circumstances then existing, would have
—the people would back Mr.Layard up, and he need not been saved ; hut to leave ships at anchor in from
remind the meeting that those members of the House of twenty• to h•rty feet in whter
Cammons who took such an active part against Mr. 1 within, a few
ships-length of a rocky ire,
Layard, had all of them, in all prAebility, gained their witticism—the cue is taker, tip by the bound coast,
position by the very principle which Mr. Layard de- the constellations-and cheers and minor sattelites of
flounced. (Cheers.) He should not occupy their time laughter prevail,
where mourning and sorrow ev
longer. (Cries of." Go on.") lie should leave it for could be more fitting,
others to follow with many other facts ; he should only II -----....--......,....
say that the voice raised by Mr. Layard was the voice !
of the country. (Cheers.) Their response proved
that it was, awl that Mr. Layard was at least one of the •
inert fit for the emergency. (Cheers.) There were many 1 (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
more such men, who, by their votes and voices, were ' MANCHESTER, May 4.--Spinners
ready to aid the great movement so auspiciously begun help the holders of cotton- thanrs have done more to
this day. (Loud cheers.) have dcne to aid its producers. In
the bu • yets of yarn
Mr. J. NEIL supported the tresolution. He felt of the latter attempted to a' vain have some
strongly the course that had been pursued by Lord per pound in the most likely articles,gain an advantage of d.i
Palmerston, and could not but lament what he had done. and warps ; for the home consumer such as 32's cops
He had disdained having any assistance front them in '
! in his own trade to give any a
iv could find no motive
the city, who could have given him the best advice ' The late India advices 'nave three, but the contrary.
upon some of the most momentous matters ' rather than of promoting offers effect of restraining
that had occurred. Perhaps blame in that respect was there is, therefore, nothing better of any kind ; and
more to be imputed to the system than Lord Palmerston What we have to say ofgoods • in this department.
himself. The hon gentleman concluded by supporting as the statement we have
is substantially the same
made respecting
he reselntion which wee cu rigid iiinnimouely. yarns—buy-
ers are•very cantiou-t ; the transactions
Mr. TITS Bien rose to move the last reeoluti 'n : yet !triers 'ere for the most, very limited ;
" That en association be now formed to promote, by all HOLIIFIRTH —The tradesteady,
constitutional means, the attainment of administrative re. • • • of this district, which con-
sists principally of plain and
form. . • fancy woollens, continues
in a very depreseed state.

STATE OF TRADE.

TITP_STYI4, LONDON, SATURDAY EVRWING; MAY S,