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THE sire, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11,. 1865.

MISCELLANEOUS—Continued.
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International Financial -ociety, lira.. 61-
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 131
Joint StoeeDiscount. lim.. 71:8 *
London. Financial Association, lim., 22
London General Omnibus Corapa.ny,l3*
M ,dras Irrigation and Canal,
Ditto (all), 201
Milwall Iron Works, 81
N ational Discount Company, lim. 151
Pen nsula and Oriental Steam, 83i 4
Ditto, new. 57
Scottish Australian Investment. lim.. 125
Societe Finar cicre d' Egypte. lim., 7i
Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim.,

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WINDSOn CASTLE, April 10

The Queen drove in the grounds this morning,
accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess
Helena.

Her Royal Highness Princess Louise rode in
the Home Park.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, attended by
Mr. Buff, also went in the grounds.
-His Royal Highness Prince Alfred went to Lon-
don this afternoon, attended by Lieut. Haig and Dr.
Bernhardt.

Lord and Lady Palmerston left the Castle to-day
for London.

Lieut.-General Sir. H. and Ladyßentinck had the
honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal
family yesterday.

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The Prussian Ambassador and the Countess
Bernstorff havo left tor St. Leonards-on-Sea.

The Duke of Grafton will return home from
Cannes the first week in the ensuing month. The duchess,
who is far from well, will delay her return to London till

late in the season.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury,
after visiting the Earl and Countess Spencer at Althorp,
have gone to their seat in Wiltshire.

The Marchioness of Kildare gave birth to a
daughter a few days since, at Kilkea Castle, Kildare.

The Earl of Dudley has arrived at Dudley House,
Park-lane, from Witley-court, Worcestershire.

The Earl and Countess of Bessborough have le
own for Bessborough House, Kilkenny.

The Earl of Wicklow will entertain a succession o:
friends at Shelton Abbey, Wicklow.

The Dowager Viscountess Combermere and the
llon. Mrs. Hunter have arrived at St. Leonards-on-Sea.
Lord Henry and Lady Ulrica Thynne have left
town for Maiden Bradley, Wilts.

Lord and Lady Huntingfield and the Hon. Misses
Vanneck have, left the St. George's Hotel.

Exhibition of Race Cups.

Mr. Hancock, the court jeweller and goldsmith,
of New Bond-street, having undertaken the decora-
tion of the banquet tables at the inauguration of
the New Tattersalls, has for the last few days
favoured the public with a view of the magnificent
collection of the race cups he has procured for the
occasion. To describe in words the extreme beauty
of the collection would be impossible, as each one
of the many splendid specimens of the goldsmith's
art would call for more space than we can but in-
conveniently devote to a cursory notice of the
whole. With few exceptions, the " cups," as they
are termed, have emanated from the workshop of
Mr. Hancock, who is now, par excellence, the race
cup manufacturer of England; and a more gorgeous
exhibition it is impossible to imagine. Towering
conspicuously in the centre stands the magnificent
piece of plate, given by the Emperor Nicholas, which
was won by the Earl of Clarendon's Alarm at Ascot.
Then we have the splendid York Cup of 1860,
illustrating the Battle of the Standards, and the two
beautiful tankards, ornamented, with subjects taken
from Le Brunn's Battles, forming the Goodwood
Cup of 1858. Baron Rothschild's Doncaster Cup
of 1853 also will be certain to attract immense at-
tention for its extreme beauty, whilst the Goodwood
Cup of 1863 will again find hosts of admirers, illus-
trating, as it does, a paragraph in the life of Mary
Queen of Scots. There is, however, one piece of
plate which, though not a racing " cup," is
of extraordinary beauty, the presentation
plate to the Master of the Bicester Hounds.
Nothing can exceed the exquisite finish or ex-
treme beauty of this work of art, and had it alone
proceeded from the atalier of Mr. Hancock, it would
have been sufficient to stamp his fame as one of the
most celebrated workers in the precious metals
either at home or abroad. Nearly all the race cups,
&c., that have been won at Doncaster, Goodwood,
Ascot, and other places for the last • ten years,
amounting to over 100, form the exhibition ; and,
therefore, from the cause stated above, we shall be
excused from pointing out all the beauties they each
present. The glittering collection will, doubtless,
form one of the most, if not the most attractive
features of the inaugurative banquet.

At the meeting of the proprietors of the Dis-
count Corporation, held to-day, a dividend at the
rate of 5f per cent. per annum on the paid-up
capital was recommended.
The report of the directors of the Standard Bank
of British South Africa, to be presented on the 21st
inst., recommends a dividend at the rate of 8 per

cent. per annum for the half-year ended the 31st of
December last, after appropriating £36,000 to re-
serve, and leaving to £2,009 to be carried forward.
The last day for applications for Extension Shares
in the Clarence Hotel Company, Dover, is Thurs-

day next, the 13th inst.
In the Foreign- and Colonial Produce Markets
during the last few days there has been a very

limited amount of business transacted. Tea has
been in moderate request, at steady- rates, while
sugars have maintained about former prices. Coffee,
however, has declined about is. per cwt., while
moderate transactions have been reportod in rice at
steady quotations. Tallow, however, has continued
dull, and prices have been depressed. •

THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.—The continental

journals are just now occupied in speculating on the
reason of the visit which the King of the Belgians is pay-
ing to the English Court; and apart from political objects,
which are of course considered to be one principal cause of
the visit, the future matrimonial alliances of the Princesses
Helena and Louise are thought to be engaging his Majesty's
attention. The Avenir National, a Parisian journal, states
that the Emperor of the French and the King of the Bel-
gians have for some time past kept up a constant corres-
pondence in reference to the affairs of Mexico, and, as well
as other French journals, is of opinion that the Belgian
ruler will visit Paris on his return from England, and will
have an interview with the Emperor, in order to confer as
to the future support to be rendered by France to the Em-
peror Maximilian.

THE MULLER REWARD.—The question as to the
rightful recipients of the reward offered for the dis-
covery of the murderer of Mr. Briggs is still in abeyance
In accordance with the instruction by the attorneys of Sir
Richard Mayne, the sum of £lOO has been handed over to
Mr. Beard by Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., the
bankers. In reply, however, to an application to the North
London Railway Company, the directors state that
Matthews himself has laid a claim to the money, and
taken steps to prevent its being paid over to the assignees
Under these circumstances, the reward originally offered
by the Railway Company will probably be withheld ; and
t was ascertained that the bankrupt had not withdrawn his
claim for the amount, so that the matter may yet have to
be determined by future legal proceedings on the part of
the assignees, with a view to substantiate the claim made
onbehalf of the creditors of Matthews.

REPRESENTATION OF LOUTH.—DUBLIN, Monday
Night.--The nomination of candidates for Louth
took place to-day at Dundalk. Colonel Fortescue proposed,
and Mr. William Ruxton seconded, Mr. M'Clintock ; Mr
Kennedy was nominated by Mr. Foster, and seconded by
Mr. Finlay. Colonel Foster and Mr. Andrew M'Kenna
were also proposed, but they retired. A show of hands
was taken, and declared to be in favour of Mr. Kennedy.
The polling was fixed for Thursday. A great crowd
assembled, but although party feeling ran high, there was
no disturbance.

INLAND PATTERN AND SAMPLE POST.-With
reference to the revised rules of the inland pattern and
sample post, which were published on the 27th ultimo, it
has now been, decided to modify the rule No. 6, and to
permit the transmission of samples of seeds, &c., intended
for delivery within the United Kingdom in bags entirely
closed, provided that such bags were transparent, So that the
officers of the department may be able to satisfy themselves
as to the nature of the contents. It is to be distinctly
understood that this modification relates only to the inland
pattern and sample post.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This day,

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
THE HON. CAPTAIN COLBORNE'S CASE.-LIBEL.

The Hon. Captain Colborne was indicted fora libel on
Mr. Phineas Davis, attorney, of Clifford-street, Bond-street.
Mr. Giffard, Q.C., with Mr. Poland, prosecuted ; Mr. Cole-
ridge, with Mr. Sleigh, defended. The defendant
pleaded not guilty, and a justification. •
Mr. Giffard said the libel complained of was contained in
a pamphlet purporting to give a description of certain
persons in London who obtained their living by victimising
young men of rank and fortune. It was not true that Mr.
Davis had anything to do with such transactions, but was
a solicitor of 30 years' standing.
Mr. W. Bush, an architect and surveyor, said that on the
4th of January last he purchased the pamphlet at 147,
Fleet-street. It was the pamphlet produced.
By Mr. Coleridge—lle went with the prosecutor's bro-
ther to buy the paniphlet.
Mr. Henry Johnson, of 9, West-street, Soho, said he
knew the defendant, and printed for him the pamphlet pro-
duced.

The pamphlet was put in.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., in addressing the jury for the de-
fence, passed a high eulogium upon the military and per-
sonal career of Lord Seaton, the father of the defendant, and
then proceeded to argue that no reflection could be cast on
the family of the defendant by the transaction with which
he was charged ; for although Captain Colborne had broken
the law, he had done nothing inconsistent with the character
of a gentleman. He (the learned counsel) did not intend to
read the passage in the libel complained of; for such a course
would only give pain to Mr. Davis, and he at once said that
they were passages for which Captain Colborne could not set
up a justification. The pamphlet was full of general abuse
of a system of base and unjust extortion which was practised
by money-lenders, and it might be that he had improperly
associated the name of Mr. Davis with such transactions.
No personal animosity to Mr. Davis had prompted Captain
Colborne in writing the pamphlet, and he now withdrew
what he had written, and regretted that he had done it.
He had broken the law, but not in a bad cause.

The Recorder briefly pointed out to the jury that the
pamphlet was a libel, and that it clearly pointed to Mr.
Davis.. •

The jury found Captain Colborne guilty, and strongly
recommended him to mercy. They added that they con-
sidered that the case' ought not to have been brought into
a criminal court.

Mr. Giffard said Mr. Davis did not take the case into a
civil court because it might have been thought that his wish
was to obtain damages. (The statement was received with
a shout of laughter.)

The Recorder, in passing sentence, said he collected from
the addresses of counsel that the defendant was not actuated
by any malignant feeling towards Mr. Davis in writing
the pamphlet, but that in attacking a system which he con-
sidered bad he had incautiously mixed his name up with it.
The defendant had pleaded a justification, which he had
failed to establish. He would therefore have to bear all
the expenses of the prosecution, which in itself would be
no slight penalty. Taking the whole of the circumstances
into consideration, and bearing in mind the strong recom-
mendation of the jury, he thought the justice of the case
would be met if he ordered the defendant to pay to the
Queen a fine of £2O, and be discharged.
The decision of the Recorder was received with cheers
in court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE CHARGE OF DEFRAUDING BY A "COUNT" AND lIIS
SERVANT.—CharIes Young was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, on remand, with conspiring with a person not in
custody, and styling himself a Russian Count—the Count
de Vidoff—to defraud Varlon Rosenoff, a courier, of the
sum of £45.

The prosecutor was introduced to the pretended Rus-
sian count and the prisoner, who succeeded in getting £45
from him under the pretence that he was to be engaged by
the count to go to Russia to obtain 12,000 roubles for the
count. It turned out, however, that the prisoner and the
pretended count were the constant associates of skittle
sharpers.
Mr. E. Dillon Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, for
the prosecution, said he was now prepared with further
evidence against the prisoner, and in addition was in-
structed to prefer a second charge against him for ob-
taining articled of food to the amount of £lO by means of
false pretences—that his master-was a nobleman, and kept
a banking account at Messrs. Spielmann's. Mr. Lewis then
cited the case of " The Queen v. Gardener," where a person
was indicted and convicted for obtaining divers articles of
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food by means of false pretences. This conviction was
subsequently quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal,
and Lord Chief-Justice Jervis in giving judgment said,
"We are of opinion that the conviction was not right, be-
cause we think that the obtaining of the articles supplied
under the contract, made by reason of the false pretence;
was too remote from the pretence in this particular case to
become the subject of an indictment for obtaining those
specified goods under false pretences." Here, however, he
(Mr. Lewis) would show that the articles of food alone
were obtained by fraud, and submitted that as the food was
supplied, not from the fact of his being a lodger, but on the
faith of the prisoner's subsequent representations, the pre-
sent case was not all fours with the case he had quoted.
Mrs. Hutchinson, of Brompton-square, was then called
by Mr. Lewis, and stated that the prisoner and a man,
calling himself the Count de Vidoff, engaged apartments
at her house, they being recommended to her. They lived
not as master and servant, but on equality. The prisoner
informed her that his master banked at Messrs. Spielman's,
and asked her to supply his master with food. Believing
the prisoner's statement, she supplied him with food to the
amount of £8 or £9. She was informed the prisoner's
statement was false.

Mr. Tyrwhitt, on the application of Mr. Lewis, remanded
the prisoner on both charges for a week.
THREATENING TO MURDER.—Charles Williams, a gun-
barrel maker, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on a
warrant by O'Shaughnessy, one of the warrant officers,
charged with using violent threats towards Mr. Thomas
Neville, bootmaker, Dean-street, Soho.
Mr. Neville said that on Saturday night last the prisoner,
who lodged in his house, made a great disturbance by
beating his wife,
then said he would do for him (Mr. Neville) before he left
the wife calling out murder. Tho prisoner
his house ; and as this was not the first time the prisoner
had threatened him, and he had been informed by persons
that the prisoner meant to injure him, he kept in his room
all Sunday, fearing to leave it owing to the prisoner's
dangerous character. On Sunday afternoon the prisoner
annoyed all the other lodgers, and threatened one of them
The prisOner's wife has several times had black eyes, and
a fork stuck through her cheek a fortnight after her con-
finement. He (Mr. Neville) merely mentioned the latter
circumstance to show the prisoner's conduct.
Emma Russell, lodging in the same place, proved hearing
the prisoner threaten " to do for Mr. Neville," and said the
prisoner was a most violent man, the more especially to his
wife.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was a dangereus fellow,
and had been taken just in time to prevent him doing
something serious. He would have to find two sureties in
£lO each to keep the peace towards the prosecutor for six
months.

THAMES.
• ALLEGED KIDNAPPING OF A POLISH JEW.—The Super-
intendent of an institution called the Wanderers' Home, in
Bethnal-green, came before Mr. Paget to complain of the
report of an application which appeared in several news-
papers that a Jew boy had been kidnapped into an asylum
for converting people of the Jewish persuasion to Christi-
anity, and had been detained there against the wishes of
his only brother, his natural guardian.
Mr. Paget said he well recollected the statement made
by a young man that his brother had been induced to re-
main in an asylum without his (the applicant's) sanction.
He had nothing to do with newspap3r reports. The appli-
cant had better address himself to the editor of the
journals in which the report appeared.
The Superintendent said he had no fault to find with the
report. He only wished to state that the lad was in a
very destitute condition, and voluntarily entered the
Wanderers' Home, where he was sheltered, fed, cleansed
from filth, with which he was covered, and provided with
a good home. The brother, whose name was Sigmond,
took/the lad away and kept him for three days. The lad
preferred the treatment in the Wanderers' Home to his
brother's treatment, and implored admission a second time.
The lad was again received, and Was very well satisfied.
The lad was present.

Mr. Paget-:-Then let him eland forward. I should like
to speak to him. . _

A tall youth, with an unmistakeable Jewish face, entered
the witness-box laughing, and said that he had not been
kidnapped, and had been well used in the Wanderers'
Home.

Mr. Paget—And you can leave when you please?
The Lad—Yes, sir, but I don't want to leave these kind

people.

The Superintendent—No coercion has been used. The
lad came to the place voluntarily, and can leave when he
pleases, but he don't want to go to America with his bro-
ther. There is no kidnapping whatever.

Mr. Paget was quite satisfied of that. The appearance
and condition of the lad was highly satisfactory. There
was no occasion to say another word.
The parties then retired.

BENEFIT SOCIETIES.—An Irishman, named Magrath,
somplained of the conduct of the officers of the St. Patrick's
Benefit Society, which is under the patronage of many of
the Roman Catholic bishops and priests, and has agents in
many of the principal cities and towns in England. The
applicant's mother was member of the society for many
years, and he was entitled to £l3 at her death. The col-
lector Buckley had certified in writing that his mother
"died in benefit," and he was of course entitled-to £l3 ;
but on applying to the treasurer for the money he refused
to pay him more than £7, and all his applications for the
remaining £6 had been unsuccessful. lie now applied for
a summons to compel the secretary to pay him £6 in ac-

cordance with the rules. He put in the collecting card and
the certificate of the collector.

Mr. Paget said he could not interfere. There was a rule
in the printed articles put before him that all disputes
should be settled by arbitration. The applicant must wait
on the secretary, demand arbitration and deposit 10s.,
which would be returned if the decision was in his favour.

Magrath was afraid he should lose his 10s., and his £6
too, if he acted on the magistrate s advice.

Mr. Paget said he could not help that. He could not
alter the constitution and rules of the society. There had
been many complaints against benefit societies, and every
working man, before he joined one, should examine for
himself the rules and regulations which were binding upon
him and could not be altered at the will or caprice of any
officer or member. The applicant was bound by the articles
in the book, and arbitration was his only remedy.

The T!'fetropolitan Elections.

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A special meeting of the National Association for
the Promotion of Social Science was held in Adam-
street, Adelphi, last evening, to hear Mr. Thomas
Hare read a paper " On such an organisation of the
metropolitan elections as would call into exercise
the greatest amount of the knowledge and judg-
ment of the constituencies, and as far as possible
discourage all corrupt and pernicious influences."
The chair was taken by Lord Stanley, M.P. The
company was limited, and comprised nearly as many
ladies as gentlemen. Mr. Hare, in the paper read
by him on this occasion, stated that even when the
metropolitan seats in Parliament are contested, little
more than half the constituencies can be induced to
vote. His object was to establish a mode of voting
which would make the exercise of the franchise a far
more interesting duty, as well as a more valuable
right, than it was now felt to be. London, West-
minster, Southwark, Marylebone, Finsbury, Lam-
beth, the Tower Hamlets, and Greenwich returned
18 members. With these he would include the
members for Middlesex and East Surrey, and so
make the number of " metropolitan" members 22.
To enable the ten metropolitan constituencies to
select representatives his first step would be to invite
all who believed themselves, or whose friends be-
lieved, that they possessed qualities which would
render their services useful in Parliament to become
candidates. This would be done by such a law as
the following :-Ist. A candidate for the metropo-
litan constituencies, or any of them, on paying a
sum of £5O to the Chamberlain of London (to be
applied in the payment of the expenses of the elec-
tion) should be liable to no further charge ; and a
list of the candidates being made, such payment
should be published day by day. This limit of the
necessary charge would not affect any expenses
which the candidates might severally think proper
to incur in making known their principles or claims
by meetings, addresses, or otherwise. Mr. Hare
thought it probable that for the 22 seats there might
be 50 or 100 candidates—including some of the most
eminent men of the time in science, in political life,
in public labours and literature, in naval and mili-
tary service, in manufacture and commerce, the ener-
getic promoters of home and foreign trade, and colo-
nial enterprise. Every vote should be given on paper
specifying the name or names of the candidate or can-
didates for whom it was given, such names being
numbered successively 1,2, 3, &c., and the vote
should be valid for one candidate only, according to
such order. The names of the more eminent or
popular candidates might be placed at the head of
many thousand voting papers, and a waste of votes
would follow if this consequence were not averted,
thus—Every candidate for whom the number of
votes given should be equal to 1.22 d part of the total
number of votes polled should be elected, and the
papers exceeding that number on which his name
occurred should be available for the next can-
didates named on them respectively, and when no
more candidates were found to have such 22d part,
the remainder of the 22 seats should be filled by the
candidates having the highest number of votes less
than such 22d part. The votes not distributed under
Rule 3 should be appropriated to the members re-
spectively whose names stood highest on the respec-
tive voting papers, and the entire number of votes
taken for every member respectively should be then
set apart as his special constituency, and the four
members having the greatest number in the city of
London should he returned for London; the two hav-
ing the greatest number in the city of Westminster
for Westminster, the two having the greatest num-
ber in the borough of Southwark for Southwark, and
the like as to the other constituencies respectively,
and those (if any) who should fail to be returned
under this rule should be returned in that election
as an additional member or additional members for
the constituencies in which they had polled the
greatest number of votes. The reading of the paper
was received with applause. When Mr. Hare had
concluded, Mr. Dunne suggested that the paper
should be referred to the committee for the purpose
of having the details of the plan considered, as he
thought there was some difficulty in understanding
how it was to be worked out. Mr. Torrens observed
that a somewhat similar system to that proposed by
Mr. Hare had been tried in Australia, where it was
given up as a failure. He doubted, too, whether the
object aimed at in the paper was desirable. From an
experience in countries in which universal suffrage
prevailed, he held that the greatest curse which could
fall on this country would be to have such members
of the House of Commons returned by mere num-
bers, without reference to education, intellectual ac-
quirements, and the possession of property. A
gentleman present remarked that some experience in
the working of voting for Parliamentary candidates
by papers would be desirable before it was gene

rally adopted. Lord Stanley was of opinion-that
by allowing the use of voting papers in the Uni-
versities the Legislature had not intended to try an
experiment or pave the way for their use by other

constituencies. The constituencies of the Univer

sities were very different from those of boroughs or
counties. It had always struck him very forcibly

that among ordinary constituencies voting papers
would facilitate the practice of intimidation and

bribery. Mr. Chadwick advocated the use of voting

papers. Mr. Hare said he proposed that a voting
paper should be taken to the poll by the elector
himself, guarded with all the precautions which now
surrounded him. As his plan would enable every
elector to act independently of those around him, it
would lessen the chances of bribery. Sir E. Wilmot
believed that we did not require a change of system,
but determined action on the part of the Legisla-
ture to put down bribery and intimidation. Mr.
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Stuart Mill thought that several of the objections to
Mr. Hare's plan arose from the gentleman who made
those objections not having studied it. The great
beauty and merit of Mr. Hare's system was that it
would not leave the election to mere political opi-
nion—to the three shades of opinion, Whig, Tory,
and Radical. The voters would have the choice of
the whole country—of all the eminent men in the

country. The clubs would no longer be able to send
a mere booby with £3,000 or £4,000 in his pocket
If they did not send down a man of merit, the elec-

tom would choose a man of merit for themselves.
At present the Liberals must vote for the Liberal

candidate, and the Tories for the Tory candidate,
though each of the two candidates might be nothing
more than a booby. It was enough to put one out
of temper to hear intelligent gentlemen say they
could not understand Mr. Hare's plan. It was not
anything like so difficult as the multiplication table.
Mr. F. Hill said the plan was not a new one. It
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had been put in operation in a literary society 30
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years ago by his late father, and had worked well.

Lord Stanley did not think it would be wise• of any
one to pronounce a final opinion on Mr. Hare's
plan at present. It was new to the public mind, and
required to be considered. With respect to the ex-

penses of elections, he believed as long as there were

wealthy men who desired a seat in Parliament, all
the means likely to promote success would be used

—all the means which the law allowed, and, he was
afraid, all the means which the law did not allow.

Simple and clear as the plan was to Mr. Mill, he

confessed that he did not think it was either simple
or clear to those who viewed it for the first time.

He was afraid it would enormously increase the
power of the great London political clubs, which
now, to a certain extent, worked the elections
throughout England. Mr. Hare having replied, the
thanks of the meeting were given to him for hiA

paper, which was ordered to be printed and circu-
lated among the members. A vote of thanks to

Lord Stanley closed the proceedings