The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-30
THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN ENGLAND.
MEETING OF TIE "SOLID MEN" OF LONDON.
Administrative Reform Demanded by
the People,
&c. DO, DO.

pose Of organizing association to promote tho
rough reform in the various departments OF the Stats
Inc sssemoiage was convened By circular issued by
body Of gentlemen connectsd with the trade and com
merce of the city protesting all shades Of political
opinion, and admission obtained to the hall BIZ
icket One o'clock the hour an poonted for com
msncing the proceedings but shortly after twelve the
large room-estimsted as capable OF contaiuinp ooa
Thousand FIVE hundred persons-was filled 70 oyeraov
ing; and great the anxiety manifesed pre-
sent that many hundred eager applicants for
accommodated In this state Of things the conductors
Of the movement with great promptitude and tact
elsewhere OF supplemental meeting the same sub.
ject; and the Of the Guidha having been readily
dium was supplied for the, expression Of .
large portion OF the popular feeling which
platform at the London Tavern Messrs J. l. Trs-
yeTs, !. D. Po~les, s; Morley, J. 2 Gsssios tits, w.
man NV %iiiinson F. Bonnoch' samuel Baker Georrs
Otway, MP; Col Reed, MP; Mr. F. French, p. Mr.
Duly Mp, Mr. Oiiveira, MP, sc.
Shortly before O'Clock, the motion of Mr J. I.
Travers Mr.. Samuel Morley, (msrchsnt) voted to
the chair. In introducing the business,
The CHAIRMAN said that perhaps he could hardly give
in reference to the great question which brought
them together that day than afforded by the
tact s that owing TO the Crowded ID state Of the room
ceedings five minutes before the time announced.
He regretted to find himself called upon to occupy
from any want of sympathy with the object about Tn
be pressed their attention but because kind Of
restraint might be expected to be exercised by chair
man in the expression of his opinions. He further
sretted that the circular summoning the meeting did
customed to take the lead in political matters in that
city The absence OF those names doubtless per-
them but the other hand, this departure from the
ordinary routine in city affairs might lead to good In the
future (Hear, heaI) No doubt among the names At.
unknown to the general public in political matters
but still they who were engaged diligently,
social and other duties in the conduct Of the various
branches of busness with which they connectsd
and they had been drawn from their private avo-
cations which in themselves sufficiently onerous,
was because they had been deeply moved at the hu
and they saw that the hssrs os was
sick at the state into which things had been brousht
and and they thsrsfGfs fore Wished TO 70 call upon
to declare that that stse of things should longer
be suffered to continue Cheers They had thus early
going about, the effect that that meeting
to end in nothing. Hear hesr) If that gathering
resolutions-tams enough, in all conscience-On his
hor or he would not have come there to take part In
feared Ss use ,oere dting into tsat sate which %
checked, must land repotu0n and because, in ali
seriousness. he had DO faith In order peace which
was not founded on contentment and he for one
rot disposed to say Peace Peace" when he felt that
there ought to te no peace. (cheera Among tine
mora sfoat relating 20 that movement charging
with being mere trading affair. This he was sorry
to say tie tone Of the last number of the Econoi
newspaper, strange to say that tself identified
with genteEsan who had raised him self the position
he now occupied by those very qualifications which
soysrnment That Journal, with an ofsn,ivs ana nm.
worthy said that the discharge of legislative and
governmental duties required different talents from
| those which commanded success in the counting
bouse and at the merchants desk-(a laugh)-and
that people were in the habit Of expecting too much
intelligence the industry the uninching perseverance,
and above all the high principle which for the most
that England owed her greatness; aud it because
they wished to the combination Of efficiency
partments the state that they met a. tradsmsn to
enter their protest against the existing system OF maad
on As ns had
the artocracy ought TO be safe in their and
1T was only far they deserved aud plundered tho
people attached to their and fond Of
institutions Of their country, but things for
ton could bfa 1t than the loss of even its aristocracy
hear hear) and he warned that favored class not
force the people examine and scrutnzs too curously
how in days past they had been pundsred and bamboo
zed. ("Hesr, hear" and augh.) There were those
who affected to believe that the arstocrscy had divine
right to govern who seemed to think that the com
people could not be sufficiently thankful to tho
men gloryirg in the names Of Cavendish, Rlliott,
Russell and stsnley-who, for few paltry thousands
per annum, undertook the heavy and response
btes incident to the administration of thsir public
affairs Q.aughter) Now, the aristocracy had as
class, but only in proport as they exhibited the tsr
ling qualities Of honesty aud efficiency. (Hear, hsar)
i themtelv06
to the gentlemen who had con-
veped them that day. and IL convinced of the purity o.
te not only unmistakabe but must be obeyed in high
quarters Cheers He was bound TO say that that
assemblage had direct connection with the war; into
the right wrong the probable results of which,
into the bona des o. those who carrying it in
BEHALF he not there 10 enter; although he must
at the time, honestly confess that he had his
misgivnas all those points It the hideous dis
closures Of the msmanagement connected with the
that seemed TO identity that movement with the present
" "
ever the all important question would recur, How
to be governed The weight of the public indignation
might fall upon the Christies, the Filders and the
Boxers but the truth that there Christies,
and Elders and Boxers in every department Of the State
partmsns they pleased and il they chsncsd to INSET tho
head Of without his intelligent underng at his elbow
gross ignorance Incompetence suPerciliousssss
about any given subject which actually eating into
very sna S IT,
He had received the deepest impression from reading
scu,ari and Of those miles Of agony Ito the express
sve aDgusge Of the Times correspondent where thou
sands Of our fellow countrymen-ths bravest Of the
brave-were left TO die though they were dogs The
Rev. sidney Godophin Osborne name tobe mentioned
with boner (cheers) for his sympathy with suffering
known to the world years before the war through their
appearing with his initials attached to them in the
umns of the Tmebad also nted out the utter inca
OF the officials who were charged with the Of
sick SnS Il ss 70
when possessed Of long experience and great abb
Hty. to Re the head OF his depart
ment Let them go over the list OF commissioners
OF customs, taxes, and the like, and they would
find that In nine cases out OF every ten these ap-
pontments bestowed because the recipients were
either sons, cousins neohews brothers in.law Of
members Of the eovernent Of having polti-
cal ipuerce at their command. Would 1t graft
flying 70 the public to see now and then Rowland Hill
made Postmaster General (cheers)-an Office ess,n-
TALLY requirng practical o~leige OF business
acquaintance with commercial matters bat which had
never In the memory OF the odest living man bed
by body but some peer who seldom OF
the necessary qualifications. The remsdy however, foe
this state OF things in the peoples own hands.
There not fty men in the House of Commons whs
thoroughly proof against the thousand terms OF
influence which surrounded the psth OF nempsr o.
Parliament. II said thai there were 10 sons OK
naera and ahonf loo nnre Of fhar law, grand