The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-10 00:00:00

WHITTINGTON CLUB.

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A very crowded and respectable meeting of the pro-
moters of this association was held, on Tuesday evening
last, at the Southampton Coffee-house, Chancery-lane.
Mr. W. EYKELBOSCH, who was called on to take the
chair, commenced the proceedings by stating that the
object of the meeting was to obtain suggestions and com-
munications from promoters of the plan suggested and
developed in seven articles, contained innumbers one to
seven, of Douglas Jerrold's 'Weekly Newspaper ; that
all classes and denominations of men are alike eligible to
membership in the proposed club, employed or employer,
clerk, assistant, tradesman, or mechanic, makes no dif-
ference, so that the candidate possess character, pro-
priety of conduct, and be capable of appreciating the
value of co-operation upon a very extended scale, in pro-
curing for themselves and others the advantages of a
superior industrial education, and also a place of social
recreative resort, where dinners and other refreshments
required will be obtained at a cost amounting to about
one-half the ordinary charges. He repeated, the
Whittington Club would be open to every man who was
desirous of advancing himself on the social scale, or
aiding others to do so. The suggestion offered by him
as to the course of proceeding most prudent and prac-
tically useful for the well-founding the association was,
that each person present should cast about him, and
ascertain, in the first instance, who would be the most
able, active, and effective men, if placed on the commit-
tee, to be chosen at the public meeting to be held in the
beginning of the next month ; that the various institu-

tions amongst the middle classes in London have already
brought into notice many men whose support, when ob-
tained, would confer sanction, authority, and confidence
upon all their subsequent proceedings. After reference
to the proceedings of the former meeting,
"Mr. EDE, as one of adeputation from the Clerks' Club,
then informed the meeting, that in answer to the invita-
tion made to that body, the committee of the Clerks'
Club offered to merge their exertions and influence, with
above three hundred candidates for admission, into that
society, in promotion of the Whittington Club.
It was stated that the secretary is receiving from
thirty to fifty letters daily from parties desirous of being
entered as candidates for membership, and that all such
parties would receive due notice of the tinip of enrolment
of members, after the committee, to be named at the
next meeting, should get into operation.
After an active discussion of various practical ques-
tions and suggestions, by Messrs. Cudden, Cooke, Yapp,
Carse, White, Valentine, Farnell, Cull, and Steplings,
a provisional committee of thirty-two was appointed to
act until the next meeting, which is to be fixed for such
time within one month as the committee determine, the
same to be duly advertised one week previously.

A MINIATURE NEWSPAPER.—In Alyth, a village
in the north of Scotland, there is a regular weekly news-
paper published, price one halfpenny, and about half the
size of an ordinary street ballad. A file of this minia-
ture journal is in our hands. It is entitled the Alyth
Recorder, and as it takes a brief notice of what occurs in
the district, is chiefly intended " to be transmitted by
letter to friends at a distance." It 'records the fairs,
public meetings, accidents, weather, births, marriages,
and deaths, taking place iu Alyth ; together with occa-
sional anecdotes, scraps of verse, and riddles,—Glasgow
Citizen,