The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-11 00:00:00

THE \ rSUN,2. ILOSDON, FRI OAM EVENING, APRIL' U,

The house then divided on the motion for the second
reading—
Ayes
Noes

the second money from Fitz-Avon by two lengths, a like
distance separating the third and fourth ; Bosh and Ducat
finished together on the lower side, close up with the favour-
ite; then came Camerino, Suburban, Lord Stanley, and
Confectioner; the others passed the post at wide intervals,
the last three being Astarte, Phantom, and Tuberose.

Before the division-paper was handed to Mr. Brand it
became known that the numbers were equal, and there were
cries of " A tie, a tie !" and loud cheers from the opponents
of the bill.

The Two-yr-Old Stakes of 10 sous each, with N added ; for
colts Bst 101 b, and fillies Bst 71b. The second horse to save
his stake. Half a mile. 41 subs.
Lord St. Vincent's The Orphan (Hibberd) 1
Mr. Whittaker's King of 'Utopia (J. Goater) 2
Mr. Gratwicke' s Side saddle filly

The SPEAKER—The house having given leave that
this bill should be introduced—

The right hon. gentleman was here interrupted, for a
murmur ran through the house that the vote of the hon.
member had not been recorded ; at the same time there were
cries of "The tellers are agreed."
Mr. BRAND then came to the table and said,—l under-
stand, Sir, that the hon. member for Rochester, who would
have voted with " the Ayes," was not numbered. (Cries
of "Divide again," and " The tellers are agreed.")
Mr. W. MARTIN having come to the table,
The SPEAKER said—Did you hear the question put ?
Mr. W. MARTIN—I did; I was in the house, but did
not pass through the lobby.
The SPEAKER--If the hon. member heard the ques-
tion put and stopped in the lobby, he would be excluded
from voting. Did the hon. member intend to vote ?
Mr. W. MARTIN—I did.

The following also ran :—Golden Dust, Tramper, Bats-
man, The Royal Stag, Persigny, Gentilhomme, Wyon,
Lady Superior, and Oscar.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Royal Stag, 6to 1 agst The Orphan,
7 to 1 agst Gentilhomme, and 10 to 1 each agst Batsman,
Oscar, and King of Utopia.
The favourite was very fractious at the post, and got
badly off when the flag fell. Mr. Ten Broeck's two, The
Orphan, and King of Utopia were quickly in front, with
Wyon and the Side-saddle filly at their girths. Before they
had reached the distance, The Orphan took a clear lead,
and finally won in a canter by four lengths, the Side-saddle
filly being a bad third. Lady Superior, Gentilhomme, and
Wyon were the next thrse, and Tramper last of all.
The London-bridge Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 soya
added. Weights for age, with optional selling weights
Three-quarters of a mile. Nine subs.

The SPEAKER—Which way did the hon. member wish
:o vote?

Mr. W. MARTIN—With the " Ayes " (Loud cheers.)
The SPEAKER having then put the question that the
bill be now read a second time, the house again divided.
Ayes
Noes

Mr. Saxon's Douche, 2 yrs, (£3O), sst 71b (J. Grimshaw) 1
Lord Coventry's Event, 2 yrs (ao), sst 121 b (J. Plumb) 2
Capt. Coates's Tiney, 2 yrs (£3O), sst 7lb (car. sst 91b)
(Hunter) 3
The following also ran :—Ceres, Saline filly, Ruth, Ross-
more, Passion, and Rupert's dam colt.

Majority against the second reading 2
When the division-paper was handed to Mr. Selwyn
there were loud cheers from the Opposition, and some mo-
ments elapsed before silence was restored. When the num-
bers were at length announced the result was received with
renewed cheering.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Douche, 3to 1 agst Rossmore, and
6to 1 agst Event. Nofaing else was backed. Copia was
weighed for by Smith, and her number exhibited on the
telegraph, but she did not get to the post in time to start.
Ruth, Event, and Ceres ran in front until they crossed the
road, when the favourite closed with them, and soon after-
wards had her head befcre Event. She then came away,
and won very cleverly by a length, a similar distance sepa-
rating the third from the second. Ruth finished fourth,
close up. The winner was bought in for 165 guineas.
The Inkerman Plate of 50 soya (handicap), for all ages.

Half a mile. Winners extra.

Mr. G. Hod man's Shille:agh, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Challoner) 1
Captain Coat es's Hesper, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ....(Custanee) 2
Mr. Saxon's Paresseuse, 3 yrs, sst 101 b.. (J. Grimshaw) 3
The following also ran :—Miss Julia, Fravola, Woman
in Red, Antwerp, Miss Emma, Gaberdine, Santa Claus,
Francatelli, Tarragona, Castor Oil, Miss Newlands, Hope
filly, Tom Sayers, and Cairncastle.
Betting-4 to 1 agst Tom Sayers, 7to 1 each agst Shil

lelagh and Hesper, 8 to 1 each agst Miss Julia and Miss
Emma, 10 to 1 each agst Woman in Red and Paresseuse,
and 12 to 1 agst Fravola. _ _ _

After two or three breaks away the flag was lowered to a
scrambling start. The front rank was compossd of Miss
Julia, Shillelagh, Hesper, and Paresseuse ; the favourite
and one or two others getting badly off, were left some dis-
tance in their rear. In this way they ran to the half dis •
tance, where Miss Julia was in trouble, and the lead left
with Hesper who appeared to have the best of it, to the
Stand, where Challoner called upon his horse, and got up in
the last few strides, and won very cleverly by a length ; two
lengths separating the second and third; Miss Julia was
fourth; the others were beaten off.

THE BA77LE OF THE TARGETS AT
SHOEBURY NESS.

Tuesday was a grand field day at Shoeburyness.
The annihilation of two first-class wooden men-of-
war, of the United States navy, by an armour-
plated ship, has agitated society in this country,
from the lowest to the highest rank. We are sud-
denly awakened to the consciousness that we no
longer possess a navy, and royalty even is aroused.
A numerous and distinguished assemblage, includ-
ing H.R.H.,the Duke of Cambridge, the Dake of
Sutherland, the Duke of Somerset, and other Lords
of the Admiralty, a large number of naval and mili-
tary officers and high officials, Sir John Hay, M.P.,
and Mr. W. Fairbairn, with their colleagues of the
Iron Plate Committee, several eminent shipbuilders,
engineers, and gentlemen interested in the great
question of the day, including Sir William Arm-
strong, were on the ground as spectators of a trial
of strength between the Warrior and Fairbairn
targets, as well as of experiments with the new
Armstrong shunt gun. So intense Was the interest
excited by this remarkable contest that fancy might
picture the sensation as something akin to that
experienced by the crowds who gazed on the fight
between the Monitor and the Merrimac, on the
banks of the James river and Hampton Roads.
On a late occasion we recorded the damage suf-
fered by Mr. Fairbairn's target, from the screw
bolts with which the plates were fastened breaking
off at the nuts, inside the skin, from the effect of
vibration. To render the description which follows
clear we will remind our readers that this target
consists of armour plates in close contiguity with
the plates representing the skin of a ship, without
any backing, whilst the Warrior target, which
is a fac-simile section of the Warrior herself, is
provided with eighteen inches of teak between
the armour plates and the skin. Since, this last
trial, when the former target had to draw off like
the Merrimac for repairs, the broken bolts were re-
placed by others more securely fastened, some by
means of screws and nuts, others by riveting and
counter-sinking the bolts at both ends. The nuts
were screwed up against washers of iron and vari-
ous soft or elastic materials, as wood, india-rubber,
and spun yarn, and
.thin sheets of india-rubber or
felt were interposed between the armour plates and
the skin, the object of these arrangements being to
prevent the vibration which had been so disastrous
at the last trial. Not to disturb our narrative, it
may here be mentioned that the india-rubber and
felt packing between the iron surfaces answered
their purpose, as the screw and rivet bolts stood
admirably the most tremendous shocks, but the in-
sertion of yielding material between the nuts and
the skin turned out to be a mistake, the bolts which
broke being some of those so provided, but of the
other bolts and countersunk rivets not one was
broken.

The Fairbairn target, thus refitted, we may say
figuratively, came out of port, and challenged the
Warrior section, which may be supposed, looked on
contemptuously proud of her former victory—at all
events, her constructors did. The two targets stand
side by side, are of the same dimensions, 20 feet by
10 feet, and with the difference before mentioned,
similar in construction. As regards the backing to
the armour plates, it was a contest between iron
and wood. For five hours, like the American iron-
sides, these targets encountered a continuous bat-
tery of projectiles. The Warrior having in her trial
in October received a large amount of punishment,
was on this occasion fired at only by solid shot,
weight 1561b5, with the Armstrong successive charges
of 40 lbs and 50 lbs of gunpowder. The Fairbairn
was hammered at incessantly with rounds of shell,
and 68-pounder round shot from smooth bores, and
110 mad 140-pounder solid shot from Armstrongs,
the last from a shunt gun. We will not attempt
to give a detailed account of this remarkable feat
of arms, in which the antagonist forces suffered
heavy damage, and were both so much disabled as
to be rendered hors de combat. The technical de-
tails would occupy too much time, and not be so
interesting or instructive to the public as a descrip-
tion of the most noticeable features and general
results.

The Warrior was attacked by the Armstrong
guns, intended, when rifled, to fire 300-Ib. bolts,
but now, being a smooth bore, firing 150-lbs. round
shot, four of which formidable missiles were hurled
representative of the noble ship, two
withagainst
4 ho-tlbe.
two with 50-lb. charges, each shot sepa-
rately. No description can give an adequate con-
ception of the destructive power of these iron globes
propelled with such heavy charges of powder. At
a range of 200 yards, they rushed from the cannon's
mouth against four different points of the target,
and with wonderful precision, struck the points
aimed at, and sweeping destruction followed each
impact. The armour plates, 4 inches thick, were
pierced through and through. The shot
with s
the smaller charges (40 lb.) split and crushed
sthmeairhoend or
over a surface of three or four square feet,
and caused deep cracks IS inches to 3 feet in length,
the teak backing being splintered into match-wood.
The 50-lb. cherges carried the two projectiles un-
resistibly through the armour plate and 18 inches
of teak, and bursting through the ship's skin and
iron ribs, one which struck a bottom plate buried
itself in the thick balks of timber which form the
foundation of the target, and may be considered as
the gun-deck ; the other, which struck the upper
part of a top plate, made a monstrous ragged hole
through the thick iron and teak, and hurtled away
through the air out to sea as if rejoicing at the
havoc it had done. Evidently, if the Warrior
in action had been penetrated by these four
shots, unless she had inflicted equal damage on her

1862.

adverSary, must have struck her colours. She re' puny efforts of man, has yielded from one o. ale
ceived one wound between wind and water cf so quarries at Llangollen a single slab of slate which
lacerated and ugly a character—which a bystander completely throws into the shade the works of the
appropriately termed a compound fracture, smash- Butterley, the Elbw Vale, or other great workers.
ing skin and bone and muscle and sinew—that the This monster slab is 19ft. 6in. long, 10ft. wide, and
healing of that wound under fire would have been 3. in, thick—a monster slate for a national school. It
impossible. The others were so far fatal that they is the custom to classify slates as they are produced
opened windows in the armour plates through which from the quarry according to sizes, known as
those formidable explosive shells whilli made the Empresses, Queens, Duchesses, Countesses, and
decks of the Cumberland and CongreOs charnel Ladies. The list of female dignitaries having been
enemy.t
houses, could be poured into the ship by the. exhausted long before arriving at the present*.
So much for the boasted prowess of the Vi
' terrier. dimensions, the exhibitors have been compelled to
,011 resort to other regions for names, and have accord-
But do we from this catastrophe conclude that ie
armour cannot be made in' nlnetable ? Far'
frona j ingly called the present slab " a goddess." There
it. A reference to our report of the first trial
of ,' are also in this department some gigantic pieces of
1 this target will show that from the defecti hoaeatite iron, or kidney ore, some very large
ve con
• "f other descriptions of iron and copper ore,
struction of the armour plates its speedy destruction , lurOps 4.
and huge blocks of coal. The models for mining
might be anticipated. 'collieries are very interesting, and the
We are sorry to report that the rival mailed and workint:
mg vessels with coal at the harbour
structure, the child of the Iron Plate Committee, models of loan
-I the port of Sunderland have
fared no better or rather worse than the Warrior of Seaham ant
at considerable expense, and
section. At the close of the day, after suffering the been constructed
suet essfully the appliataces for save
assault of 10 distinct rounds, including 49 heavy illustrate very
projectiles of e7cry kind before mentioned, except ing labour in come ection with this braech of our
the terrible 1501 b Armstrong solid round shot, the industry and commerce. In the open space some
Fairbairn was left in so miserably maimed and very elegant conservateeries are being erected;' the
crippled a condition, that had she been a vessel en- largest and most highly decorated being one c,ln-
gaged in deadly strife with artillery she must have tributed by Mr. Ormson, of fjhelsea. Nearly oppo-
bsen in a sinking condition. But the Iron Com site to this is a basin, on a pedestal, formed out
mittee gallantly fought their ship to the last, deter- of a solid block of Aberdee,n granite. It is finely
mined to ascertain her defensive properties with polished,but has a very clumsy look in consequence
the view of determining the weak a well as the of the enormous size of its support. The extensive
strong points of the system of armour plat: g which collection of agricultural implements requires but
this specimen illustrates. little labour to complete its arrangement. Ail the
In an experimental noint of view too tatichpralße principal agricultural machinists and engineers are
cannot be given to the members of the special corn- exhibitors, and, reduced as their claims for space
mittee for the energy, perseverance, and intelli- , haere necessarily been, they still occupy a very large
gence they displayed in conducting the day's pro- area in this portion of the building.
cedings. In spite of wretched weather, and tramp- The western annexe is still a scene of active and
ling in mud and slush, they were engaged in their energetic labour. The heavy masses of machinery
useful labours from ten to past five o'clock. Mr. are by no means easily moved, and as fast as the
Fairbairn, who took the command, being the most waggons are :unloaded their contents serve only to
active and persevering up to the last moment, con- add to the increased confusion in the building. The
tinually urging the artillery to new trials of goods of near 100 exhibitors have yet to be re-
strength in this remarkable combat. ceived in this set,lion. A coremencem ent has been
'
The Lords of the Admiralty, as w ell as the Duke made with the putting together of the pal:' of marine
of Cambridge, evinced a laudable anxiety in watch- engines of Messrs. Penn and Son.
ing and examining the effects produced. At the Among the most Interesting of the recent arr.
ivals
sound of " cease firing," they took the lead iii the of goods are some admirably finished Armstro llg
throng which rushed from the cover of casemates, guns for field and sea service. It was stated 13,°
and observed attentively the effect of every shot. some of our contemporaries a few days shine that
Many of them were seen mounting by a ladder to the War-office had countermanded the order for
a giddy height on the timber which represented sending the articles previously intended for exhibi-
the upper deck of the Warrior, to scrutinise the tion. The guns and gun-carriages, and mortars,
extent of internal damage caused by that destroy- and old sixty-eights which are now in the building
ing missile which fled away seawards, leaving a are the best evidence of the intentions of her Ma-
round hole bigger than a man's head. We will not jestv's Government in this respect. At the Exhi-
vouch for the Royal Duke having gone aloft, but bition of 1851, Mr. Cobden, who was one of the
certainly the Duke of Somerset was at the post of commissioners, proposed that all weapons of war
danger. should be excluded, on the ground that the world
These experimental trials have been most in- was about to inaugurate the reign of peace. It was
structive, and in that sense successful. They were only when the late Sir R. Peel, supported by some
carried out in the way so strongly urged by the others of the Royal Commissioners, pointed out that
Mechanics' Magazine. The targets were attacked important branches of industry were connected with
a outrance, and the results were invaluable. Many the production of these " vile guns," and other im-
minor points are decisively settled. It would be an plements of warfare, that the point was conceded.
elaborate work not suited to a hebdomidal survey of The last ten years do not seem to have brought us
scientific and mechanical events, to enter into a any nearer to the millenium of the Peace Society,
minute analysis of the practical results of this really and the questions which at the present time oc-
effective artillery practice on iron armour-plated cupy, perhaps, the largest share of public atten-
structures, but we will briefly describe the facts tion are those connected with the preparations
which seem to be definitely determined. for defence. Since 1851 the volunteers have sprung
Ist. The little dependence to be placed on into existence, and the rifles of Turner, Whitworth,
through bolts, or any kind of fastening exposed at Henry, and others will be examined with as amount
the surface to the impact of projectiles; indeed, we of interest which ten years since it was never
may say, their self-destroying character was clearly dreamt would be shown in them by the thousancie
proved. Five or six of the bolts, of which the of Englishmen who have learnt to use them. The
heads were struck by shot, were instantaneously Birmingham and London makers will he well repre-
converted into powerful wedges, which taking up sented, and every stage in the process of manufac-
the momentum were driven through the 4/ inch tare of the Enfield rifle will also be illustrated. The
plate, and split the iron asunder. One bolt, after royal carriage works at Woolwich will send some
performing this destructive exploit most effectively, fine specimens of their workmanship. A device has
by literally dividing a massive plate into two parts, been cut in the hardest description of wood, called

f th,

escaped through the target, whizzing away to sea.
2. Bolt holes were positively proved to be a source
of weakness, for in a dozen places long and deep
cracks were caused in zig-zag lines from one hole to
another. It was, in fact, demonstrated that the
through bolts and their holes greatly aggravated
the damaging effects of the artillery fire, which un-
questionably would have been less destructive if
more secure modes of fastening had been adopted.

3. Wood as a backing is utterly condemned ;
whatever its advantage to prevent vibration and
protect the ship's skin, it undoubtedly facilitates
the demolition of the plates and the rupture of the
fastenings. This is the case of the Warrior, and
applies to the wooden ships intended to be armour-
plated. _ _

" the beam wood," used in the carriage manufactory
at Woolwich, for the purpose of testing the capa-
bilities of the band or endless saw. The device
which has been cut by the saw represents the rose,
shamrock, and thistle, surmounted by the crown,
and beneath it are the words " Royal Carriage De-
partment, Woolwich Arsenal."
Mr. O'Connor is preparing a great display of
stained glass. It will be exhibited in the gallery

opposite the entrance from the Cromwell-road, and
near the cross gallery leading to the range of picture
galleries. Above the space to be occupied by the
stained glass there is one of the inscriptions, with a
slight verbal alteration, which was selected by the
late Prince Consort for the shilling catalogue of the
last exhibition. It is—

4. The arrangement of armour-plates close to the
skin of an iron ship without an intermediate back-
ing is exemplified by the Fairbairn target to be
wrong in principle.
We will make no further commentary, leaving
facts to speak for themselves.
The performances of the day were brought to a
close by a little interlude, both interesting and in-
structive. A system of backing plates with plaited
iron wire and wood on the plan of an inventor
whose name we did not learn, was submitted to trial
by the Iron Plate Committee. Four small targets,
ingeniously constructed for comparative trials, were
fired upon with a 6-lb. conical ball from a small
piece with the same charge. Each target was of
the same dimensions, and contained the same weight
of materials. No. 1 was all iron ; No. 2 and 3,
iron and plaited wire of different thickness; and
No. 4, iron, wood, and wire in layers one over the
other, the iron in every case outside. No. 1 repelled
the shot, receiving only a slight indentation ; No.
2 and 3 were penetrated through the iron plate, and
nearly through the wire backing ; and No. 4 was
pierced through and through, showing conclusively

" The progress of the human race, resulting from
the common labour of all men, ought to be the final
object of the exertion of each individual. In pro-
moting this end we are carrying out the will of the
Great and Blessed God."
Considerable disappointment is felt at the refusal
of the commissioners to grant to the National Life.
boat Institution space for the exhibition of one of
their lifeboats. In 1851 the society's exhibition
was a most interesting one, and additional import-
ance was given to it by the very liberal prizes which
were offered by the Duke of Northumberland for
the best lifeboat which should be exhibited. It is
hard, indeed, that in a great exhibition of the world's
industry there should not be found room for a life-
boat. Last year 743 lives were saved through the
instrumentality of these boats and the heroic crews
who manned them. Among those who may visit
the Exhibition there will be hundreds of thousands
from inland towns, and even from the metropolis
itself, who have never seen a lifeboat, and who
will be unable from a small model to form anything
like a correct appreciation of this useful invention.

the total inefficiency of wood or any yielding sub
stance as a backing.

Another system of armour-plating, the invention
of Captain Inglis, of the Royal Engineers, was to
have been experimented upon ; but no time was left
for the trial of his plan, which consists of wrought-
iron planks crossing each other in alternate layers,
and secured by screw bolts. We understand this
trial 'will come off in a few days. We also observed
that active preparations are in progress on the
ground for the erection of Mr. Scott Russell's and
Mr. Samuda's targets, which are in a forward state,
and will be subjected to the searching test of artil-
lery as soon as possible.

THE INTERNATIONAL

PRINCE CONSOR2'S MEMORIAL FUND.

Yesterday afternoon a preliminary meeting was
held in the council room of the Society of Arts, with
a view to taking into consideration the steps neces-
sary to be adopted in order to afford opportunities
for the great mass of the people who are anxious to
contribute to send in their subscriptions to the me-
morial to the late Prince Consort. The meeting
was entirely of a private inaugural kind, and only
assembled to discuss the best course to be adopted
to receive small subscriptions throughout the coun-
try. As a matter of course it acts in entire accord-
ance with the chief committee, presided over by the
Lord Mayor. That committee, however, has from
the commencement received almost exclusively the
contributions of the upper classes. These have now
reached a very large sum, but it is evident, from the
mass of correspondence which has reached the com-
mittee from all parts of the country, that a very
much larger sum is ready to be subscribed, and only
waiting the establishment of local and district com-
mittees in the various counties to be sent in at once.
There are in all upwards of 13,000 parishes in the
United Kingdom, and it is not by any means a san-
guine estimate to suppose that, with a properly or-
ganised system of local committees to receive the
contributions ready to be forwarded, at least £3 or
£4 on the average would be given in each parish,
which in the aggregate would form aud amemploerisaul.m
for the completion of the most splendi. m
Among those who attended
were the Duchess of Norfolk,
tthheemmeeatriangoiya eosftesradlaisy.
bury, the Duke
m theah e
aCountess a
Lady
Derby, the Earl and
Countess
Manners, Viscount Torrington, Lord H. Lennox,
e f St.
M.P., the Hon. Frederick Byng, the Hon. Arthur
Kinnaird, the Rev. Canen Lonsdale, Mr. John Kelk,
Mr. Pownall, Count Strzelecki, the Chaplain-Gene-
ral of the Forces, &c.

The eastern annexe has made considerable pro-
gress during the last few days ; but all the exer-
tians of Mr. Robert Hunt, Mr. E. V. Liddon, Mr.
Quin, and Mr. Thomas will be required in order to
have the goods arranged. The goods shown in this
portion of the building are those which form the
basis of our trade and commerce, and the source of
nearly all the wealth of the country. These pro-
ducts of the soil, and of the forest, and of the mine,
the machines for tilling the land, for sowing the
seed, and gathering the harvest, for working the
mines, or the models for smelting the ores of iron
and copper and tin, may not be so attractive to the
eye as pictures that glow on the walls of the long
galleries, or the wares that glitter in the depart-
ment of the silversmiths and jewellers; but they
nevertheless possess undoubted interest, and must
prove highly instructive. There is, for instance,
a monster iron rail, rolled in one piece by the But-
terley Company. It is 117 feet in length, and is
rather more than one ton in weight, or very nearly
601 b. to the yard. But it was fashioned into its pre-
sent form by one enormous rolling mill. When first
taken in hand by the huge machine it was a rough
block of glowing metal, and it was pressed, and
compressed, and squeezed at the top and bottom
acid at the sides, by powerful rollers that compelled
it to piss through gradually decreasing openings
until the block of six feet in length was attenuated
into the bar of 117 feet, being the largest bar of
railway iron which the world has yet produced.
Near this monster bar is an iron plate not less won-
drous as a curiosity of metallurgic industry. It is
14ft. long, sft. wide, and 41-in. thick. This slab of
iron has been smoothed out into its present form by
a succession of massive rollers, just as linen is
smoothed in the press or mangle. In these gigantic
specimens we see manufacturing process applied in
the first stage to the produce of the mine. If the
visitor will turn aside he will see that nature her-
self, as though determined not to be outdone by,the

The Marquis of Salisbury having taken the
chair, letters were read from the Bishop of Oxford,
and also from the Primate expressing their
regret at not being able to attend the meeting. The
latter added "I shall be ready to concur so far
as lam able in whatever means may be thought
desirable for promoting the object which we all
have so much at heart, and which, I am sure, needs
only to be generally made known in order to elicit
the ready sympathy of every class in the country."
After some short discussion upon each, the fol-
lowing lowing Were put and carried unani-
mously :

It was moved by Lord H. LENNOX, and seconded
by the Hon. A. KINNAIRD,—
" That this meeting cordially agrees with the
report of the Council, and heartily concurs in the
proposal that arrangements be made to afford to
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