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London, England, 1853-10-28 00:00:00

not take on themselves to cause prosecutions to be
instituted for eertain pql)7i,:.atiorm, by
them to be dangerons, without the consent of the
Government.

M. Calderon Collantes had not accepted the place
offered to him in the Supreme Tribunal of Justice.
The Queen in Council had sanctioned different
projects ; amongst them is one for the organisa-
tion of the personnel of the Ministry of the In-
terior.

In the different Ministries, the budgets are being
drawn up, and other preparations are being made
for the approaching meeting of the Cortes. The
presentation of Mr. Soule, the, United States Mi-
nister to the Queen, was postponed.
The Three per Cents. were done at 41g ; the
New Three per Cents. at 22 ; the Debt of the First
Class, at 91 ; and that of the Second, at 5.

GREECE.
The following is from Athens, Oct. 21st :—The •
Ministers of War and Finance have resigned.
A decree provides for the free importation of
corn and grain.
The Government is desirous of contracting a loan
of 5,000,000 drachmas.
Cardinal Wiseman has just arrived at Marseilles
on his way to Greece.

THE "WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL."

A. meeting of the subscribers to this fund was called
yesterday, at Willis's Great Rooms, King-street, St.
James's, for the purpose of hearing a report and state-
ment of accounts read, and of determining what course
should hereafter be pursued. Very few, however, of
the subscribers attended, the greater number present
consisting of claimants in the shape of creditors on the
funds. Shortly after one o'clock the chair was taken
by the Right Honourable Lord Erskine.

Mr. ToMMEY, the secretary, having read the adver-
tisement mhich convened the meeting,
The Noble CHAIRMAN said that the s übscribers to
that charitable institution were called together for
the purpose of hearing statements made respecting
it. He would suggest to Mr. Tommey that
he should in the first instance read a report, which
bad been prepared, which, though not yet finished,
might give them much information. The accounts he
was happy to say were audited by a person named by
their secretary as one fully competent to do so, and he
was obliged to take that course in consequence of the
committee not attending to appoint an auditor. Another
point to which he wished to direct their attention was
one of considerable importance. It appeared that some
mistakes occurred in forwarding subscriptions to this
society, which were intended for another and for a dif-
ferent class of men, that being for officers, and their in
stitution for the benefit of the men. He had made in-
quiries on the subject, and he had found that the name
of this society was so like the other, that it was quite
possible for mistakes to have occurred. Had those who
thus sent their subscriptions intimated that they wished
to subscribe for an institution for common men only,
and not for the officers, the case would be different, but
if they only made the mistake by chance, and in conse-
quence of a similarity of names, it altered the case. For
Lis own part he thought their charity was quite as
likely to do good as the other, and probably more, be-
cause officers were in some respect taken care of by
the nation. The mistakes might have occurred by rea-
son of the title which the two societies bore, and because
they ran parallel, and did not draw a proper distinction.
However that may be, he, as a trustee, should feel very
backward in keeping the moneys of persons who sub-
scribed, merely because they made a mistake in the name
of, a society for which they intended it. What he
should wish would be, that the proper means should be
pointed out of reimbursing them, for neither justice nor
equity would sanction any other course. If a mistake
in that sense were only made, the money ought to be
paid back, and as the sums were not inconsiderable, the
question to be decided was, what terms had the parties
used in subscribing their money, or did they intend it
for officers or men. He (Lord Erskine) understood
they never alluded to men, but were misled by the name
of the institution.

Mr. TOMMY observed, that a card, with a descrip-
tion of the society, was sent to each subscriber.
Lord ERSKINE continued—Yes ; but that was dune
after what the French called apres coup. Many of
these gentlemen had written to him in very strong terms,
and had denounced the proceeding as something very
like a " dodge." In his opinion there was no question
whatever but the subscriptions given under such cir-
cumstances ouNt to be paid back, if they could discover
a proper form to do so.