The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-26 00:00:00

THE CARLTON CLUB.

One of the largest meetings ever known at the Carl-
ton Club took place on Saturday—the Marquis of Salle'
bury in the chair. Alma 300 members were present.
The object which attracted so considerable a body of the
Conservative party was the resolutions moved by Lord
Ranelagh to the following effect ;
‘,l. That this club was established for political purposes.
"2. That the political principles on which this club was
established are entirely adverse to those advocated by the
present Government.
" 3. That the active presence in this club of gentlemen
who have altere their political views, and been members
of the present Government—to which Government the
• Conservative party have been in direct opposition—is in-
jurious to the interests of the Conservative party, and is at
variance with the principles upon, and for which, this
club was established."
• It appears that the gentlemen, to whom this motion,
if carried, would immediately apply, are the Duke of
Wellington, Master of the Horse ; the Earl of Harrowby,
Lord Privy Seal ; Sir R. Peel, Lord of the Admiralty
and Lords Sydney and E. BrucP, who had Court places.
Lord RANELAGH deprecated the use of all exciting law
gnage, and all feelings of personal hostility to those
noblemen and gentlemen, whose associate he declared
himself proud to be in any society but that of a political
club ' • but it was a gross anomaly, that, belonging as
they did to a Whig Government, they should continue
the Carlton Club. He expressed a hope that they would
hereafter return to their party, but till then abstain from'
entering the club.
Col. B. KNOB seconded the motion.
Mr. G. BENTINCK then moved an amendment, the put'
port of which was to include all members of the club who
had held office under Lord Aberdeen's Government. lie
argued that the coalition of these persons with Lord J•
Russell's followers in Dec., 1852, with the successful ob-
ject of ejecting Lord Derby, was a sufficient bar to their
being considered Conservative, in the sense in which the
Carlton was established, and that they ought to be
volved within Lord Ranelagh's resolutions. This cate-
gory would contain Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Sidney Herbert,-
and other minor Peelites.
The amendment was seconded by the Duke of
INGDA3f.
Sir ADOLF/WS DALRYMPLE then addressed the meet'
ing, and moved the previous question. Being ill re'
ceived, and expressing himself with difficulty, we could
only gather that ho considered it unwise to agitate a
question which might bring great disunion to the club.
Sir J. PAKINGTON seconded this motion in a very
manly and sensible speech. He could not blame Lord
Ranelagh or Mr. Bentinck for mooting this question ; but
he took a different view of it as regarded their object
and the manner of effecting it. Lord Ranelagh'.4 motion
would only include five persons of very inoffensive man'
ners and of small political consequence, and even Mr.
Bentinck's more sweeping measure would not catch the
busy class of gentlemen, who, it appears, made them'
selves most offensive to the club by their hostility to the
Conservative party. He felt sure that if, without going
to a division, the meeting would express strongly its re'
probation of the anomalous conduct of those members,
who, having abandoned and persecuted the principles of
this Conservative club, still frequented the Carlton, they
would have too much pride and good feeling not to ab'
stain from doing so any longer.
Lord EGLINTON followed in the same sense, speaking
strongly against gentlemen who could think it tolerable,
even to themselves, to associate in a party club with
those who met there solely for political views. There
was no precedent for such conduct ; still he rejected any
idea of expulsion, being convinced that the evident
opinion of .the club as displayed during the preceding
speeches would be sufficient to induce them to retire of
remain ,absent. The noble earl alluded especially to
those who during Lord Derby's Government had as
members of the Carlton not scrupled systematically. t° I
write in the newspapers against it. This observation
produced an explosion of cheers, which by their coo'
tinuation and violence made it evident that the meeting
applied the words to some particular person.
This seems to have been understood and accepted bi,
Mr. A. Hayward, who, in a state of the most painfe'
excitement, attempted to address the meeting. The re-
ception of this gentleman war, however, so uncourteoue
that nothing could be heard but the single sentence
assuring the club that "he had not written against the
party for a year and a half." This apology increased
the deinonstration of dislike to a perfect storm, and
Mr. Hayward retired from a position in which we
think he very unnecessarily placed himself by declaring
he was ready "to give satisfaction" to any member
who demanded it. After this episode the meeting re"
sumed its calm and temperate discussion of the reso-
lutions, and was addressed by Lords Mansfield an,
Dungannon in favour of the previous question. Both
noble lords and other members repeatedly stating that
after the unanimous feeling of the club that it was a
political society, and ought not to contain adherents to
a Whig policy, however estimable those individuals
might be, it was impossible to suppose that such gentle-
men would be so deficient in good taste and feeling as t°
continue to frequent it, to the annoyance of its more
consistent meinbers.

Upon this undoubted expression of opinion the resole'
tions were withdrawn, and this painful discussion 'Lev?'"
nated without a single word having been uttered which
could justify offence, or that was unworthy of the COra-
,
pany assembled.
On the subject of precedents respecting secessions from
political clubs, Lord Malmesbury stated by authority
that the Earl of Derby, who had been said by the news'
papers and by various persons to be still a member o,
Brookes's, had taken his name off that club after be left
the Whig Government in 1834, and previously to 110
joining the Conservative party under Sir Robert reel.

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to be suspended in the Sea of A zoff and along
the coasts
of the Crimea until the departuro of the Allied force
Ey intelligence from the East, dated early in APrii
we learn that the difference with Persia is as far frog:l
settlement as ever. The Hon. Charles Murray, our mini"
ster, was at Oroomiah, en, route to Bagdad. The
to
wt,
ter has been one of the most severe ever known, and
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