The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-26 00:00:00

The National Freedmen's Aid Union.

On Wednesday evening a conversazione took place
at the Hanover-square Rooms, under the auspices
of the Duke of Argyll and Lord Lyttelton, patrons,
and Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., M.P., president
of the National Freedmen's Aid Union of Great
Britain and Ireland, for the purpose of afford-
ing the supporters of this institution an op-
portunity of meeting the Rev. Robert J. Parvin,
rector of St. Paul's, Cheltenham, Philadelphia,
hon. official representative of the American Freed-
men's Union Commission, previous to his return to the
United States. Amongst the company present were
Mr. Hughes, M.P., the Rev. J. C. Galloway, Mr. T. L.
Pulling, Mr. Elihu Burritt, the Rev. Mr. Parvin
(the guest of the evening), the Rev. Sella Martin,
the Rev. J. W. M'Cree, Mr. B. H. H, Cadbury, of
Birmingham, the Rev. Samuel Minton, Mr. James
Bell, Mr. Andrew Cosham, Mr. Henry Vincent, the
Rev. John Siebold, &c.

Mr. T. HUGHES, M.P., having been called upon to
preside, observed that they were assembled together
on this occasion to hear a few parting words from a
gentleman who was the appointed representative of
the American Freedmen's Union Commission, who
had been several months in this country exerting his
endeavours in furtherance of the cause which that
union was designed to advocate. The accounts
which had been received from America showed that
the worst part of the work sought to be carried out
had been already accomplished. The freed people
were working admirably in the Southern States, and
the new condition of affairs had been accepted in a
much more satisfactory degree than was expected a
few months since.

The Rev. SAMUEL MINT ON proposed, and the
Rev. JOHN SIEB OLD seconded, a resolution to the
effect that the meeting heartily sympathised withthe
multitude of philanthropists nobly engaged in vari-
ous freedmen's aid associations and otherwise in pro-
moting the welfare of four millions of emancipated
slaves in the United States of America ; it regrets
that the series of political and financial crises in this
Country—now historical—have limited the practical
results of the very valuable honorary services of the
Rev. Robert Parvin, who has visited Great Britain
at the invitation of the National Freedmen's Aid
Union as the representative of the American Freed-
men's Union Commission. That this meeting fur-
ther assure Mr. Parvin, and the great body he had
so wisely and faithfully represented, of their warm
sympathy and continued practical co-operation, and
rejoiced in the deep conviction that the Divine bless-
ing would be even more signally accorded to the
persevering efforts of the various freedmen's aid
associations throughout the world.
The resolution was carried by acclamation, and
Mr. PARVIN, in acknowledging it, expressed his
gratitude for the sympathy he had received in
this country, and committed the cause they
were advocating to the continued support
of those who formed a due estimate of the import-
ance which attached to the best means of aiding the
emancipated slaves in America.

A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the
proceedings.

BANK OF ENGLAND.--At a Court of Directors of
the governor and company of the Bank of England, held
yesterday, for the election of a director for the remainder
of the year in the room of the Right Hon. Stephen Cave,
who bad retired, the scrutineers, at four o'clock, declared
Charles Frederick Huth, Esq., elected thereto. No other
candidate appeared, Mr. Huth being recommended by the
Court of pirectors.