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omni matter. (Cheers.) This might be delicate ground %e touch al, but certainly upon all the testing ques- ions of the day—thore questions involving the greatest of the greatest number, which used to which really formed the oly legislation worth ment’s thougbt—the constituents of the city of Lond had never bestowed the earnest consideration they deserved. (Hear, Hear.) Adverting to another poiat, be must express his amuzercent indignation at the ppancy displayed at a grave emergency by the Prime Minister, Lord’ Palmeraton ‘might be, a0d-uo. doubt was, man of consimmate abilities—he vers manners that would grace any danc' Goase®), but it was past all endurance to find that deep injury whish Baglani had sustained ia this matter, bad been met with a universal joke. (Cheers. ) ‘Take any twenty speeches at random from the newspa- rs that the Premier had delivered since he became the Bead of the government, under circumstances that had broken the hearts of thousands and carried desolation imto every village of the land, and they would flad that mineteen of them had resulted in roars of “laughter”? Buch indecent levity was anything but befitting the cun- ‘ingencies of a solemn crisis, and he trusted that one vesult of that meeting would be to check it. (Hear, hesr,) In conclusion, let them not be diverted from the main object for which they had assembled—namely, the formation of an association which should act upon the constituencies of the country at large, and thereby create an influence that would tell with powerfal effect upon apy government that might be intrasted with the estinies of the empire. (Cheers.) Mr. J. I. Taavers (banker) rose to propose the first resolution :— ‘That the disasters to which the country has been subject- ¢d in the coudvet of the present war, are attributable to the mefiicient and practically irresponsi cle mavazement of tte ‘Various departments of the State, and urgently demand « herough change in the administrative system. He believed that the country, from one end of it to the ether, would endorse the moderate expression of opiaion embo ‘ied in this resolution, They did not reqatre to look for evicence of the inefficiency and irresponsioility of the government from without. There wae not a living states- man who hai not repeatedly in his speecies ackuow- Jedged the existence of these evils. Lord J. Russell had stated that he thought it a ct in our administrative system that the minister hai no time to attend to any great general measure; and the late Sir R Peel more once sai declined to aid to the raspousi- Dility of government, because the government did everything badly. and oftentimes that great man re- ferred to the torpid action of the government. Sir James Graham had expressed similar sentiments, aad Sir C. Trevelyan had also testified to the impossibiltty of earryicg on the public buriness in an honest and pro- *, 80 101 ‘House of Commons rema ned ‘as it was.’ (Hear.) 1t had been asterted that the pro- moters of that meeting were making an attempt Jation; but the person who seriously brough' merchants and traders, whose pro- scattered on the hill side, ani ae- safety on the msintenance of law and or- perfext madman. (Uheers ) gain, it was said their d 2 was to suovert the existing government. Their object, however, was too great and :mportant for them to condescend tw attack apy particular government or individual in the pursuit efit. They ci¢ not blame individuals tor the inherent vices oi the system, but, on the contrary, would admit that mspy of those on whom public odium had been cast most unmeasuredly had bad the best intentions, and had only failed from want of power or from the impossibility ef adapting the system to the exigencies of the mo- ment. Nothing mean ocr petty, theref mast mar the success of that moveme He should be ashamed to see any individual as: ‘din the city of Lendon as he was grieved to find that one honor- able gentleman had been set upon in the House ef Commons the other mgbt, for merely asserting his independent and fearless opinion, (Hvar, hear.) The real fault of the present system attached to the people themselves, who tolerated its continuance. Facts con- vinced the acvocates of that movement that in every eonstituency of the country there was a boty of voters op the register who always remained unpolled, and who had tt im their power, if they chose to exert themselves at the elections, to wake even the present representa- tion of the people available for immediate purposes, (hear, hear,) anc it was therefore the duty of the city of London, as the centre and metropolis of the coua- try’s activity and Satelligence, to endeavor to rouse the middie classes to a due sense of their responsibilities and their danger at the present crisis, Sucn was, then, tae aim of the promoters of thet movement, who had under- taken to put before the public a definite plan of reform, with the view of abating the evi! that was at our doors, For this purpore a committee would be formed, but their task could rot be accomplished unless they were backed by the moral support ot the raass of the people. It was fe bespesk that support that the present meeting had deen called, avd from ths symptoms already mantfested there coula be no doubt that they would meet witha general response to their appeal from ail parte of the country. (Cheers.) Mr. JP. Gaasior seconded the resolotion. Whatever might bave been the unbusiners like conduct of the d:f- ferent depertmenta of the public service, this one tact remained unaffected thet parliament had liberally placed at the disposal of her Majesty’s government almost ua- limited means for the efficient prosecution of the war, (Hear, hear). Up to the time of the prorogstion of Par: liament in August last, it might be assumed that affaire were going om progressivaly well; but after that time the memvers of the government did not consider it any dere- hetion of their duty all vo quit town, with the exceptica «fone or two, and this, too, at a most eventful crisis, when our ermy had lonced in the Crimea, and the bat- Jes of the Alma and of Inkermann were being fought. Hear). On the 12th of Mecember Parliament reassem- Jed, and the first movement cn the part of tas govern- ment was to introduce the Forsgn Ealistment bill. ‘that bisl was opposed by Lord Derby and his party, ani very unfairly so, he thought; for we were toen in a pros: trate positicn, and it was the duty of every man at that moment to support the existing government In re ference to the subject of thia bill be baa @ statement te make to the meetiog, which be should no} have presumed to bring forward bad he not been in pos- ression of the original documents referring to it {t would be recollected ry all that the Duke of Nescastle, im bis evwence before the Sebastopol Comm'ttee, was asked whether or not he hac haian offer made to hin ofa torce of Spanish gueritlas, in answer to which ques. Mion he stated that that was the first tims be had heard of sveh a thing. Now, he happsned to know that im the last week of [ecerwber an offer had been made by a gaa tleman well known in the scientific world, residing in Paris, a Mr. Mandy. to furnieh the governins! hn 10,- G00 Spanish guerillas—5,000 in three wreke, and 5,000 more in three weeks after—armed, accoutred ani off cored, of the best class of gueri/las, and well accustomed to their own peculiar wariare, for the email bounty of Ll perwan, [he letter conta’ning this offer was feat by Mr. Manby, throuzh his brother in London, to Mr Koterts, the Urver Secretary of State for the War De- partment, who thus acknowledged ita receipt: — My Drar Sin—I will if you wish it, place your letter in the hands of the private secretary of the duks; bat at pre: sent we are flooded with similar Letters, to let you know that the details here. “I beartily reeiprocate y faithfully yours, ©. Manny, Esq. Nothing more wan heard of the affair, until, at the end of Februsry, when Mr Manby, having business with the War Department, sain mentioned the guerills a(fair, and he received the following letter in reepect to it:— Frnrvary 2%, 1 My Dear Sir—Your letter to Lord Panmure lias been to bis private secretary, ‘The matter of your offer of Span- ith guerilla troops shall be inquired about. ‘Traly yours, CHARLES MANuy, Beg BENRY ROGERTS. Still no steps were taken in the matterJuntit Mr. Man- Dy (of Paris), getting impatient, wrote the following let- ter to his brother, who forwarded it to the War Offise:— 48 n18, Rue Basse pv Kexrarr, Panis, March 4, 1955. My Dean Cuances--Whatoan ve tho sause of all tuis delay im ontaining the neveptation or refusal of my offer to supply 5.000 or 10.00 slans) to the British good washes. Beli HENRY ROBE iven you informed me that the Duke of Newcastle would givo an early auswer I wivh you elearly to understand that this is nota matter of buriness, It orcinated with my friend Colonel Gandard » mos’ gal t officer, who, aithoush a Progresista, and ecmmanded the troops a 6 revolution. resened the Qu wertainly raved the town from pillage. whom I siluded as ready to command the tro} offered, in case bis services should be considers having been tor Very brave, secustomed t pe, living on such food ae no Englishm: at,and most of them good shots. In making this offer through you I thought I was xendering a tervice to my oona- try, and J cannot even obtain aa answer. Gandard, who has preat influence in the northern proviuoss of Spain, is tired of waiting here, and is thinking of going to have aTook at Sebastopel en amitewr He hus already writsen to bis Bai que friends that be fears thers is very little chance of anecess for their pro;ossl under the neglestt zl systom which revailsin England, and I resily regret that you should itten to mé that the Dake of Nowcastle would sab longues in counoil, as he may consider hap ourselves) as hambugs. He has he wishos to return ty Spain, if hy solution of this question’ f obtain & you or from ube War without farther delay. Yours, J. le MAN BY. ae, This elicited a reply gas follows from Mr. Roberts, which, as might well be conceived, closed the correi- pondenee: War Drranrwrn had been # public setter it would have be: record of our of ba do not soo itentered. My own reo llection does not serv wie with reepeot to 10; indeed, with rome hundreds of lotters eoming in overy dey, | may well be pardoned for not cerry Zon will readily perceive how, in an lotters oan be dealt with’ satis ours wi HENRY ROBERTS. Now, here was an offer of 10,000 Spanish troops acta ally made to the government, of winch they took not the slightest notice, thougd at the same time they were complaining that the lang bela in both houses of Parliament with regard to foreign troops during the de- ‘bates on the Foreign Entstment bill bad disgustet the that, consequently, they had not if th twhish the bese ‘Thin was 8 #) umen of t maoner in whi! a9 bi Tetgof the War Office was conducted. When Parlle. ment rearsembl the baginning of the year, it seemed once to fie roi Lord John Rassell’s mind that the people of England might wish for wome mquiry to be made into tne condition of the army ia che Crimes. It was nothing for the purposes of the meetivg whether or vot the motion { committee was sapperted by the Derby party from political motives; it ‘was quite safficient that, with the exception of Lord Jobn Russell, all the Ministers opposed It, (Hear) It was carried, however: and what a melancholy picture did the evidence given before it dag by day it! (Hear.) What mortification must all Englishmen feel at reading hore painful detoils! (Hear.) An army without proper food, without tents wituont clothing and without medi- eine: and this, too, though our mercantile matine was absorbed in the traneport service, aud great commercial operations were disorganized to find ships to convey there things to them. What a contrast did this state of hinge present to the doings of private speculatioa ia the game quarter! Ato few dayn’ notice a single mer esntile firm undertook the gigantic task of constructing a raurondein the Crimes. (Cheere.) Did they depend upon the mn reference to the register, [ rr ———————ee CSCS SSCSCO”CC™"# NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1855. on the t for their means? Not they; they | 1 ‘Deen received frem the chartered ther own. steamboat, vongRt. the. ova one Mia mot teaz agen tne potat at ne war. bo visioned their men, and out their own |, this was BO movement from mat ; within twenty-four hours after arrived that Mr. P and Bose were they commenced work, and they completed con- tract one month within the given time, (Loud cheers.) Could any comparison be more paiofal than that of the incompetency of government officials with the business like powers of a single firm—Messra, Peto & Co.? (Hear, hear.) On that comparison he took Lis stand, There were commercial undertakings in the city of Loudon which could vie im the magnitude of their operations and the extent of their resources with apy of tne Continental kingdoms, but they could not expect to meet with success if they conducted their afairs en the some principles as the government man- aged public service, For iastance, if at any time it was found néecesssry that new blood should be infueed into & commer: concern—for pew blood was necessary at tames to every undertakimg——the head of the firm hve yoo on weed a him for “heey man kopealgend petent to take charge particular department, an perhaps it might be one of his own clerts, who had come im a8 @ junior clerk, and who by his ability and perseverence bad ‘himself wortby of promotion. (Hear) Ip the formation of a governm-nt, however, it ‘was generally the same men over and over again, and even when it was found necessary to infuse new blood every man was put precisely to do that work of which he bad bo previoue Ceowtedee. (Sear, hear.) For ia- stance, there was Sir W. Molesworth, who was first taken into the governmeat when Lord Aber- deen’s ucrofnistration was formed. He was a gen- man of consideradle talent, of aristocratis faml- ¥, but of liveral opinions. ‘He hai devoted a loag Yife to the exsmination of colonial affaire, and was thorouglily up on the subject; but, of course it would rot have cone to put him in the colonial offics—that wae a subject he understood—(e langh)—ao he was ciapped into the Woods and Forests. (Hear, hear ) The consequence was that there was not a worre board at wbis moment than the Woods and Bernal Usborae He must have a place, too; #0 he was eretary of the Admiralty, a ‘place which knew nothing about; and the consequence was that Mr. Osborne had the hardihood to maiuteia in his place ia the House, that, whatever m ght be the defects of the Comm staziat, the War Office, or other departments, ths Acmuralty was perfect. (Hear, hear, and leughter, ) ‘The strong language of the chairman in refereace to Lord Palmerston hag evideutly found a response in the foelings of the meeting. (Cheera ) Was it not notorious that the noble lord’s time, evr since hia acceasion to office, had been spent in amusing, not in instracting the Legislature? (Hear, heur.) Un one occasion he went so far as to state that'while the wristocratis classes had done their daty, while they had evinced teleat, energy and bravery on ‘the field, ali the disasters had arisen from the unbusiness- like of the middle classes. (Laughter,) This waa received in the House of Commons with loud cheers, though a more ufoanded, wanton assertion was never made. (Hear, h tg there was ore profession more than another which w recruited from the wealthier miadle classes, it was the army, for it was there that they could puranase by their money thatrapk which many of them ao mach coveted. The ranke of the army were, in tact, filled with toe sons of our merchants, bankers, amd manufectarera Oa the otber band, if there was any branch of the pubiic service which had been prostituted for political purpoves, it was the civil servise. By whose influence were the Ordnance, the Victualling Board, the Trunsport Board, the Custos, and the Excise filled? It would be found that almost every official im those departments bad obtaiacd his post by parliamentary influence—whig influence at one time, tory influence at anotber—but in almost all cases it was the influence of a member of Parliament which had bza instrumental in procuring the berth. A mercantile man who transacted his basiness on that principle, would very soon find himself in Basypghall street; and this was just the reason why the nation was served by incompe- lent men, while the mercantile firme got the compsteat prople. (Hear ) He appealed to every one who had ever had anything to do witn our public beards, whether they had not found in the officials belonging to them an amount of impertinent celf-sufficiency, joined to incompe- teney, which would not be tcleratea ior a moment in a mercantile establishment, (Hear.) It was no woader, then, that, cisgusted with such incompetency and mis- Tule im the details of every departeaens of the public sor. vice, with the prospect of a long war before it, and knowing that millions of tae public treasure lives of our brave soldiers were entrusted to saz an these, the whole nation had roused itself, and de- manded with one voice an immediate administrative reform. (Loud and continued cheera ) Ha was now exprisaing the op'nion, he velt confident, of a ‘arge mass of tnink- ing wen, whose natural desire wae to keep in the cetire- ment of tbeir ebops and countiogaoares, but who felt themselves constrained 1 come forward at such a crisis as this, (Oheers.) With but ome excep reform of the customs way agitated—he hi fore sppeaied toa puvlic aseembly such as this proper place was in the countinghouse, and his pleesure wat there too; bat, in a ctisia Jixe the present, 1t was the dnty of every citizen to stand forward, to rpoak plainly, and act firmly, snd it waa because ho felt that the purt he wea pow taking was forced upon him by bis éuty to his country and to his feliow citizena, that he hao presented himeelf before taem to second this motion (Loud cheers.) Mr. J. D. Powses, merchant, said he had great eatia faction in supporting the resolution, He fully concurred in the remarks ef Mr. Gaseiot, that this was a timo when it behoved every Jover of his country to stand forward to do his best to give effect to the unnustakabie expression ot the national will, (Hesr, heer ) The country et the Present moment felt iteelf hum liated at home and de- }rectated abroad—not dscause its resourses were impair- ed, or that there was any want of thet patriowsam which }ad always been a distinguished element in the British cberacter, but becaues ita rescurces had been squander- ed and its affa rs grieviously mismanaged in every direc- tion. They must app'y ® remedy, constitutional and peaceadle, but eflective, to the present state of things. The spirit of the ration, whea cemonstrated, would be found irrea'stinle, because it was founded upon reesoa, and was nit actuated by ambitious or selfish motives. They att no bedy of men and no partisular govera- ment, butap imperfect, alroost a rotten system. (Hear, h <6 knew sometaing about the iness ought to by cond: ry pretend to be great di or to understand all parts of tte machinery of the Stale, they conld judge o’ such matters as the bire of treneports, the supply of etores, the regalarity with which contracts were performed, and they could ave that torre wis @ lameniatle want of forasighs ia quarters where it cught not to exist Woy was it the: every fo reigner now aged what they were adont in Kngiand with their boasied mstitutions / Was it for the intersst of bumanity, civilization and religious trust that this country rhouid cease to have that moral just influence among orher nations to which titled, while she never sought her own eggrandizemen- by improper means? (Cheers) Administrative reform won!d be a work of time, and it required consideration, butit most be carri ut. Soi if the evils to be re medied were cbvions, such for instance, ae the extra- ordinary vpftoess of certain men for particular offices, and the vvpecessary, unreasona>le restraints imposed upon the choice of mec. A highly reepectable baronet row filled the office of Jhapcellor of the K@cbequer, but if an uno severe winter had not prematarely, in all probability, terminated the existence of the right hor, gentlewan’s father, be would not have ba-i a seat im Perliament, agd the country covla not have had the beneht of his services He saw no reason why Minis- ters of the Crown sbould not sit ia Parliament cs oficio to transact businese Why ehould tney limit the circle from which the mem»era ot » government vers of Pariament? Lord Meloourne’s relection of Mr Sheil, a gentl-maa who kvew nothing about trade, to fil the office of Vice President of the Board of Trad, merely because he wad a member of Parliament, was an instance of the other evil to which he had referred, (Hear, bear). They had been tald to be careful how they rtirred up agitation, but he thought they oughe to jook the evils of which’ they complained im the face, (Hear, hear) If they preferzed stagoation to agitation — moderate men of the midele classes would aot do the wors that bad to be done, lot them take care that it wae not dope for them by others less competent than themselves, (Hear, hear). Their oaty object was that the country should be so governed that it snoald remain sm the sume high positioa it had hitherto occupted. (Hesr, heor.) The resolution was about to be pat, when Mr A. WALKEH aderessed the Chairman from the gal- Jery above the platform, and asked permission, as a livery man of Loncoa, to propose an amendment, as he thougut the terms of the resolution were not suiliciently stron, The Cuamstax said he ¢id not feel disposed to cnrb an expression of feeling upon the part of any gentleman present, but this was only a preliminary me+tiog, and if there were soytbing bee division among them taey bad better pever nace wet. (Cheers). Mr Watkkr then attempted to speak, but was ra- ceived with euch strong expressions of disapprobation that after unsuccessfully endeavoring for som; miautes to obtain a henricg, he tore up his amendment. ‘The CHAIRMAN Atated that Mr Walker had agreed not to press the amendment, oa the condition to which he (‘he chairman) heartily acceded, that he should be allowed to speak upon toe resolution (Cheera.) Mr Watknr then proceeded, amid continaed inter. ruption aod calls to order, to argue that the governmeat hed it in their power to bring the war to an issae a8 soon as they pleased, by appealing to Poisnd and the other distressed nationslities. Tne uproar, however, increased to such & degree tha! not a word he uttered could be beara; and at lest The Cramman observed that they were not met to Ciscuse the question of the war, Aud he would cal! upoa the meeting to deci¢e in the usual way whether Me, Walker sbould proceed with his addresr, A large majority of hands being held up againet the motion that dit, Walker should proceed, that geatleman resumed bis seat, and order was restored ‘The resolotion was then put and carried unanimously, amid much cheertog. Mr. 8. W. Livpsay, (great ship owner,) M.P., moved the following revolution : om of maladminictration acrifion of Ia sor, money ought in the introductisn of en- teed experience and practical ability into the serv ut the exclusion from offiee of thote who postase in eo the practical qualities neocssary for the direo- sin a gremt commercial country, is & reflection Mi dw betra al of ite intere: of exeluding the participation in the councile of the Crown, el it ovr duty to protest against the pretensions of any section of the vommunity to monogolise the functions of ad- ministration, 2 The bovorabie gentleman said he would have pre- ferred remaining a rilent looker 6a—a worker rather {ban a specker in the canse, if it had been possible, He bad already been a worker, for he had done a great deal, in conjunction with hia friends, Mr. Travers and Me, in obtaining their presence at that meetin, dhe dove so? Simply because he had felt the nr mity of rome movement in this matter; he had felt that necessity, not merely ann member of Parlisment, but aleo a8 8 merchant of the city of Londom. (Hear.) It wae in his loiter capacity that he now sidressed trem, for he had sat in the House of Commons as a member and bac been ashamed and amased as a mer. chant (bear, heer,) at the frivolous answers which the poble lord at the head of the goverament mre to ques- tions ail important to every persom in country, (Cheers) When ashed question with regard to war, the noble Jord replied with a sneer and @ laugh were chen, by saying that all ministers must be meas | ci me platform; it was @ movement ie wnick ives and liberals joined. (Hear, dear.) felt the mecersity of = ; they all felt Sage alaisnicee sora }, © send their ships to every herbiogers of peace, civiliza- ity, while they had made England (for to whom did Eogland owe her to govern them were not able age the affaire of the country. He would not ozcupy them with detaile, for if he did so they might be horrified, or perbaps think he was relating fables, but would mabe 8 few observations upou one subject which he thought be ought to understand, A short time ago he brought th ‘oject of the transport service befo: the House of Commons, contending thet the flret em- ployed, if properly arranged, could have done four times the work required, snd performed it better, too; and that out of the £8,000,000 that had been voted £2,000,000 had been entirely wasted. Weil, what answer did he eceive to these allegations? Sir J, Grabam and sir 0. Wood, though both ready enough to pounce upon hia, never made the slightest allusion to his charges—whicn he would now repeat—but merely said, “the honorable member is attaching a deaf and duab man,” simply be- cause he bad ventored to question the sense of their putting a deaf avd dumb man in e position in which bis duty was to both hear and spe (Laugh. ter.) He believed thut this afflicted person was an sole and excellent man; but who among the merchants of shat erty, it he wanted to employ a son, wCuld appeint him as his cashier, or place him at bis’ counter, where he would be called upon to listen to 2nd answer all iquiries that were od éressed to him? (Hear, hear. '" example illustrated tne whole system some most excellent men, mo doubt, in the ment offices, but, if they took them all from t! mehow or other they would find every man in the wrong piace. (Laughter) When of the House of Commons made complaints that matters were out of order, the Ministers appeared indeed to psy great attention to their remarks, out n thing satirfactory resulted, And th s reminded hin of incident that happened to him recently, while at Mar- seilles, om @ matter connected with the transport rer. vice of France. He had occesion to call on a very emi: nent mercantile firm at Marseilles, wisning to o! opinion of one of its partaers on the @ inte ad submit to the French governme: accordingly saw one of the heads of the establis —& man with a plesrant Johp Sull-lixe countenance, who he natarally supposed could speak English, batto inake sure he asked him in the usual way whether he could do so or not, The anawer that he made was “ Allricht,’’? and be (Mr, Lindeay) therefore concluded t! it really was ‘all right.’ He then sat down at one side of a desk and be- gan reading the details of his plan from @ paper to this gentleman, wbo sat opposite bi The gentleman seemed to pay great attention to hi dat the close of every successive sentence anade the iaconic comment of ‘Ail right.” The reading of the documeat occupied about a quarter of an hour, and when it was finished the gentleman again repeated the words ‘All right.’ When, however, be (Mr. Lindsay) was walking’away, he hap pened tO meet tbe junior partner, the neplivw of the gentiemen be had first seen, and who spoke Koglisa very weil, and, on hie telling him that he had been explaining his p ans to bis uncle, the young man remarked, ‘‘In- deed! and did he underatand you?’ “Well,” he (Mr. Lindsay) replied, ‘that be had certainly thought it ra- ther strange that his uncle eaid ‘al right’ to every- thing.”’ “Oh !?? rejoined the young ran, ‘my uncle has not been in England for a quorier of a century, nor rince the old coaching days, and what he rememb:rs of his visit is, that he beara the guard saying to the soach- man at starting, ‘All right.’”? (Load laughter.) Chis was theextert of the uncie’s vocabulary. Now, this sory might be Jaughable, but the present question was rerions ore; andif his hon, friend, Mr. Layard, who so bounced in the House of Commons the other Ps {Shame |”), oritizized the government's malad- roivistration of our foreign affaire, be might elicit ao an- wer at times, but it way given generally in tne stereo- 'yped phrase, ‘All right ? Again, if Mr Stafford, rising from the oppositioe benches, complained that our hospt- ta's were adoies of filth, which ia themselves were eog-n- derirg disease, somebody connected with tho particular Gepartment concerned gotnp ard taid—“I beg your par- Gop, Mr Stafford, buticis ‘Al right.’ ” If be himself toos them to task, as he did the other night, about their conduct of the transport service, and should have squandered and sacrifice public funds, the snswer he got wa: and you are all wrong about the dea (Alavgh) Now, he would éeclar cor, that he for ope had found it lad to fee tee country meery. (cheers.) It was constitutions), It w: opal; was those men who held office under the cfown, and anused their sacred trust py giving apporntmenta to perticular ivdividuals, simply because they were their own relations, who were really acting unconstitutional. Jy (Hesr, hear) The merchants and traders of tue city ot Loder bad ro desire or intention to asasil the conetitut on—they bad too much at stake for that. ‘They deeply rerpected the constitution, anc they arcent ly Joved their gracious sovereign, who waa the emboai- ent ot every grav, and the pattern of every virt: (cbeers;) bot they were determined to mike the Ministers adbere to the constitution aud wairtain the dignity and Lonor of these realms, (Hear, bear.) A circumstance ozcurred to him ix months ago, which he had never mentioned before, but he would do so now, besause be felt it to be acuty, He wonld bave had nothiog psreonally to yan by the transfer of bis services from Aastin frisre to Whitebail or Downing street, and nothing woald ever induce bim to eccept office but the feeling that he might be of service to bis country. Well six months ago he saw Sir J, Grahom, and obferved to Lim that those con- nected with our sea traneport appeared to have no boobs. no order, ard Fo system—tbey did not seem to hnow what they were about, and could not tell how they were loading goods, or where they were ca:rying them to. « "he continued, addressing toe right hos. daronet, “i don’t wish my nace to apvear at a'l in the matter; but will you just allow me to eave Austin friars and come to the Acmurality for a week; and if you lt me have the aid of some good men in that department, I will see whether I cannot give you a thorcugh set of books to atart with!’ (Cheers.) ‘Allow me,” he atill went on, “to go down to Deptford for you, and see what books you bave got there, and I shall there organize Forme kj etem, bec cerned, but unlers you bave a proper machiner. working order the war cannot be conducted plerk our men are fed, clothed, and cannot expect them to fight. Any eug I may mane, you, ir James, m ‘opt a8 your own in Parliawent, for I bave no d be known in cennection with them.’’ Well, in answer vo all this, Sir James Graham thenked h m very kindly for his cffer, and heartily sbook haods with him, but he (Mr. Linéssy) must say that be bad never heard any- thing more abont the subject from that day to this (Hear.) No doubt, after ha withdrew, the Right Hon. Reronet went and consulted the Right Hon Lord Ret- tape or the Hon, Mr. Peter Dick on the matter, and they ised bim tbat it would never do to take the opinion of amere city man on such aquestion. (Laughter and cheers,) Now, without any great Lincesy) had no hesitation mn saying that be would in a week have set on foot such s method and ayatem az would bave saved the country at least one out of the two millions that bad heen thrown away in sheer waste on the traneport service. (Hesr, hewr.) It had been said at the West Ené that that meeting wouli bs a mare flash in the pan, ending in nothing Now, ne would tell these good people—and it would go forth to then. very speed:ly—that it would be no such thing asa sim- ple flash in the pan—that such businees men as their ex- cellent chairman and Mr. Travers, and many otl of their claes then present, would not have left their for the pleasure of indulging in mere vain and idie talk. er would go about this matter lice men of bi ness, which they were, and not pauae or rest until they had carried out with success what they deemed to be necessary, (Hear, he At that meeting a committee would be formed, which woul! meet instonter, Ddusiness it would be to transmit toe resoluti be adopted to every borough in the kingdom returaing » member to Parliament. kach member of the committee had some correspondent or other—some man of sub- stance, with a stake in the coun! and having some- thing. consequently, to loxo—in every such borough, and these purtiee, if they approved tbe resolutions. would be invited to call public meetings in their respect: ive towrs to discuss them, snd then, at those i sub committees, acting in concert with the cen wal body, could be formed, so that the originators of this move- ment would speedily have their repreeentatiwes in every Parllomentary borough in tae kingdom. (Cheers) The! whenever they saw any such job—some said thet that was @ bard pbrase, bat the Times denounced it an ‘‘ebominable job’’—whenever any such 7 contemplated as the appointment of the Hon. Mr. Howard to the Woods and rests, in defiance of the recommendation of what was termed ‘‘Drommond’s Committee,’ and notwithstanding that Lord Peimerston hac had offered to him the services of the ablest agricultusi+t of the age for the office—then a motion concemning the proceedizg would be made in the Houre of Commoner, and the sub committees throughout the country would be applied to to send up petitions from their different boroughs, protesting a t the Perpetration of such ® scandal; and also would be re- quested to write to their own members, urgently calling on them to vote according to their consclencies, and in oppoeition to the mintaterial design. (Hear) When such a machinery as that was herrea A organized and ready for action throughout the country lt would be seen whether my Lord Palmerston would try his hand agaia j/at any more of there jobs. beet had mention- ed this instance as a simple illastratibn; bat there was another point on which it would he as well that the government should be warned in time. No doubt be- tore the committee now inquiring into the state of the army before Sebaetopol made their report, government would find it convenient or necessary to single out some special victims—ne doubt they would pick out two or three bollocks to be offered up aa a sacri- fice upon the altar of their own folly and Incompetence in order to sppeate the anger ot the people; but then t! bullocks so selected were likely to be gnprotected bi lochs—bullocks who had no friends at court. (Hear, hear) Let them, therefore, vigilantly watch the vernment’s proceedings, aud for bis part he should take the victims chosen for the racrifice sbould be ‘hich haa become fat—fat thromgh official in- od inefficiency. uit cheies word moze, had done. They were all at ed to their an- cient constitution, they were proud of that noble . stitutional tree under whose protecting shadow th fled monarchs of Kurupe bad found a h it, mer is all righs, dumb maa.” a quigg refoge. Its umbrageous loaves #1 but neath the folisge there lurked some rotten branebes. If those who had the power did not remo: thore diseased exer wither end die; or (which was an who venerated its kindly sha stake in ite preservation, dia mot themselves rank growth, some more rash and relentless hands seize the axe, and, by the inconsiderate violence fn time, the tree migh: equal evil,) if thor id bad something at lop off the might their DI cut into the stem and whelm both trunk and br im one common ruin. (Cheers.) It was these serious reasons that had induced him to leave his desi m the and take the course waich, in conjunction with his be had been pursuing im this mat. ter for the last six weeks. The country might be said to be now standing on the brink of a ce. We bad before us the Broapect, if the war continued, of corn rising to 1208 or 1. per quarter, and of there perhaps being hmited employment for our indastrial popolation; and, in such season of trial, the country would want men im office of sufficient nerve to guide the vessel of the State through the breskers which sur- rounded it. Therefore it was that the a were asked to support the present movement. ( ) Mr. 8. Baker, in second: the resolution, expressed his regret at the absence of the represeniatives of the eity that day. If the noble lord, who had filled so many capacities as well as that of their professed repre- sentative, had been there he would have seem enough to convince him that that assemblage would result in something mcre than a flash in the pan. The absence of political partisanship there presented, and the order which marked the proceedings of that demonstration, would prevent their enemies from laying any fist- tering unction to their souls on that score. (Hear, bear.) The pruning knife and not the axe was required for the tree which had been 50 eloquent- ly dercribed by the honorable gentleman who spoke last. (Hear.) Without reference to the right or the wrong of the present war, had not the comuer- cis] and manufacturing classes—the nation of #20p- keepers, if they pleased so to designate them—responied cheertully to the raising of supplies to the exteas of some £80,000,000 a year for the necessary expenses of the struggle’ They had therefore ‘a right, as men of businerr, 10 see that in the administration of those enormous votes the country received its tsrage worth for itepenny, (Hear) According to, the evidence of that honest ol jlor, Sir T. Hastings, two of the overpment officisis— one in the discharge of his duty, ut the other entirely stepping out of it—had gone into the market and bid against each other. (Laughter.) Now, if a mercantile man found that his shi \pping clerk bad been bidding in the market against his buying clerk, would he not eject him without ceremony—ia fact, summarily kick bim down stairs, as it were? ¢ If he did not he would run # very good chance Of coon getting into the wrong side of the Gazette, It was uceless, werer, to go into details of this kind without having first scoured some sort of organization wkich would render them serviceable for an attack on the system. (Hear, hear.) The proceedings of that cay would, by means of the press, be spread tyroughout the country; it would be bnown, too, by the rame means, tbrougbout’ Europe that here in the metropolis Eng- lend was represented by her sons, and all the ends of the world would lesru that her forces would never be diminiehed, and that now we were in the war, whether it were right or wrong, we wouid spend our Jact sbilliog and the | érop of our blood to intain it to a successful issue. (Loud and continued cheers.) He approved highly of that part of the resolution which sai While we disclaim every ae- rire of excluding the aristocratic classes from partictpa- tion in the councils of the Crown, we feel it our duty to protest against the pretensions of any section of the community ic monopolize the functions of adm tion.’? Ibat was one of the wisest parts of the r tion, because it went at once to coatradict the tl ¢alous imputation which had been thrown against Mr. Layard the other evening in the House of Commons. Mr Layard might certainly have committed himeelf to I = an inaccuracy, but the main facts of the system which he was attaching remained as he had described them; and even tbe inaccuracy of which be might have been guilty did not warrant that baiting in which the House of Commons indulged itself at his expense. ae Three cbeers for Mr. Layard ’? were here propored from the body of the meeting, and given with great enthusiasm. ) Certainly the scene was suchas jusidy to subject the Speaber to a fine of £5 for presiding at a badger bait. (Laughter.) But that was the least part of the nation- tloffence of that night. The Premier of England (groans acd hisses,) wita talents of debate almost unrivalied, with eloquence such as was rarely accorded to man, brovght all his power of eloquence and argumest to besr upon the supposition that the middle elasses of England were opposed to an aristocracy. Never was there made a more unwise or a more unjust inference, for, up to the present time, there was no country which had more respectable aristocracy, or an aristeracy to which more respect was paid. What the people quar relled with was, not that the arirtocracy filled bigh places, but that mapy of them filled places for whica they were not competent. (Cheers.) He should ve proud to ree mony more noble lords t: 8 on the woolsack and om the judicial aud episcops benches, because there were men sprung from the rarke of the commonalty who had gained turir positions by tivle forve of talent joined to persevering ia- oustry (Cheers.) ‘his was the reason why the middle clas:es, from the highest merchant to the working man, respected the aristocracy ot tais country so long as they preserved their own pysitions, which, thank God, they geaerally cid. The honorable gentle- man then concinced by seconding the resolution. Mr. F. Bexxocn, in supporting the resolution, said, it was one of the high privileges banded down to ue by our great forefathers, that we should meet in public to ex- press our ppians th regard to any great public grievance. ‘There wes scarcely anything too higt or too sacred for the light of public opinion to dve:l upon. It was an o'd adage, and a wise one—*‘ a place for every- thing, and everything in ite place;”” but in tuis country, at the present moment, it seemed ag though there was a place tor everytody who bad a friend in Parliament, dut rcarcely anybody was in hw proper piace (A lingb.) Sir W. Mclesworth Lad already been alluded + 28 xo 1n- stance of this. There was, too, another gentleman, woo in tmes gore by had made himself distinguisbed for hunting ovt abuses connected with the church; but just lately, whem it was thought desirable to otter tim office, ike post of Secretary for ireland was held to be most fit: ticg for bim. (Laughter) Them there wa! another gentienen who had been in ajmost every admialstration for sowe time back, and who not long ego was Toaa eellor of the Exchequer who had created uviversal dis- guet by bis contemptuous r-ception of the Liverpool merchants, (cries “of ‘ Wood,” and hisses,) bat even that gentleman's grasp was considered strovg enough to entitle him to wield the destinies of Engleni at the Ai mirality. Then there was Mr. F. Pea but the other day made Under Secretary of State for the War Deportment, when, as everybody knew, be was of all men the most vpfitior it. The claims of men who had speat their time in making themselves acquainted with certain jects wexe set aside in favor of men totally ignorant of them in the most manner’ for instance, in the appointment of ago, what consi: the self-evident claim of aman like Robert Whiston, who; in the city of Roches had fought the betide inst malversation single handed ? (Hear, hear) It was said by the Economist of that dy, toat it aid not folicw always tbat becanse men contucted theirorn affairs well that they were fit for the routine of public office. It was rot tor the routine of the office that they were wanted; but woulc the Evcnomist undertake t> say that it did follow that because men conld not manage their own affairs well they were therefore fit to have a share inthe government of the coumtzy' (‘‘Hear,’’ and jaughter.) Sometimee really it did ‘seem to be we Cs) ae , to ed ec of aa wh: were in office. Capacity and s pay, incapa- esty and large pay, eeemed to be the rule of the pub- lic’ service, (Cheers.) One of the great curses of the present syatem was the number of offices held by the tame wan, each one of which would be sufficient tor @ single maa if he did his business properly. (Hoar, bear.) If it were necessary that there should be sine- cure offices—a proposition whieh he denied—they ought to be kept ua rewarda for long and fa'thful service, aad not beaped on one man. What was the deparimect againet which public indignation most strongly di- recied at the present moment’ The Ordnance, of course. (Hear) And who was the Maater-General of the Orémance? lord Raglan. (Cries of ‘Shame.’?) ‘Was it reasonable—was i: proper that euch should be the case? and could a man restrain bie iadygnation while thinking over such things? Either Su Hew Ro who vow acted here in bis place, was capable for t! office bymeelf, snd ought io have the remuneration, or the remuneration which Sir Hew now received was eutil- cient for the office, and Lord Raglan ought to be depores. (Hear, hear.) The syotem cf promotion in the army was absurd and disgraceful. Who ever heard of a man being calied in ae s physician simply vecwase he had seed & diploma’? who ever heard tell of a lawyer 0g raises to the woolsack because of his ismily coo- Bectiors’ It scientific acquirements, if great = and judgment, and if extended knowledge on sil subjects. could be purchared by h, there would rot be an office of any hina left for apy man save an aristocrat. He had nothing to say against tb sristocracy, lass. Many of the most olstinguirhed among them had risen from the middie classes. Some of them were brave to ap excess, as they had proved in the glorious charge at Belhklava, when the blood of the noble and the common man was min- gled together for the bonor of England. (Cheers.) where was the judgment that led to that charge’ Som: thing more than mere brave: as wanted, for the com- mander who eacrificed one life sullied the trupcbeon which he wielded. The battie of Iokermana bao teen called ‘the people's battle,” but why was it pot ‘the officers’ battlet’’ If the officers had done their duty nota drop of the people’s blood need have been sbed on that maty mornis The evidence before the Bebattopol Committee showed neglect and incompetency everywhere. It had been stated just lately fore committee, that harners was sent out to the Crim: which was received into store in 1816; it bad got rotten, but a httle varnish msde it look ood as new, aad when it came to be used, as might be expecied, at the first pull it broke. Agaic, shoes were ordered in the au- tumn, to be ready by November; but they were, he believed, still in ‘the Tower.’ Stockings were ordered of @ larger size than usnal at a par ticular juncture, to be extra warm, and shoes were ordered of the usual size, and the consequence wes that, though the stocvings and shoes could be worn separately, they could not be worn together. (langh- ter) Then caine the inquiry who was responsible for these things? (A voice, “‘Nobody.’’) That was jast apewer. Sir T, Hastings, on being questioned on is point, said be thought—nay, he w: end stocking: did not belong to the ordaan if he bad time he thought he could prov to the rowmi-seriat {ake asother inst: vs. Skill. What cowld ke more cegrading to our posi- tion tion than the state of the hospital at Sou- tari? But con'rast with that the hospital at Smyrna. e Ee No sooner was there an establishment formed, with » civil superintendence, than oat of Take the small thing of cook- oldier vas only lei cook—who, with the skill to civil staff and under che os rose perfect order. jag: what in the hands of the commot & pasty paste, in the hands of the as had been well said, -‘wielded his & of magician’’—was ‘turned into» on fatisty the burning thirst of the sick and #0: men ad paturedy been greatly excited by the grievor lors which we had suffered in the storm off but to whet waa Captain Decres, im bin evidence betore the com- mittee, expressed his conscientious conviction that it wae the act of God: but, by pressing him bard on that question, #irJ. Fobiggtos memeeet to screw out of him an admission that if all the had been got under sy not « single one of them need hay« been Jost. He did not wish to atteck the small fry of aspiring young goosequills with stiff collars, who would berdly condescend to give an found at ali LF ey offices; bat one instance of Dusiness, A friend of his went meant all these evils wi notknow how many hotels and public zeus Se. the 4 wi been admission there, and there was also a fo thas a8 Janet Swe mestings were neighborbood were filled with unable to obtain meeting at Guildhall, takin upon 2 time of portin; which woule put an end to the abominat gracing the (Cheers.) Last night but @ small number, probably, of the House of Commons would have supported their views but by Monday he believed that number would have ingreased so much that no government could exist which declined to listen to them. He demied the trath of Lord Palmerstou’s asser- tion, that the statements made by Mr. Layard the other night were calumnious and unfounded. (Cheers.) Mr. ‘Layard had no wish to destroy the character of Lord Hardinge—he had attacked not individuals, but the yatem by which power was placed in the hands of inca- jable men, The illustration of Mr. Layard was unfor- vunate, but his principle was right; the great damning act remained—that public affairs were mismanaged, end favor, pot merit, was the rule of promotion (Cheers.) "Mr. Layard had spoken with the voice of the ountry, and the cheers of the meeting convinced him bat in their opinion that honorable gentleman was one «f the men fitted for the present emergensy. (Cheers) here were many other men in £ngland who hadshither fo refused to sit in the House of Commons, but who would row go with pleasure to gid by their votes sad voiceg those members already there who were deter- mined to do their duty. (Cheers. ) Mr. Jonxstoxk NEALE sup; d the resolution, but dheupits thas than ought to ey play to those ‘they were about to condemn, and that both sides of the vesticn ought to pe placed before the public (Cheera. le would therefore state what he knew to be Lord Va!- ‘ton’s wer to many of the charges brought thim. He had it from the lips of a noble ir whom they all reepected—(cries of ‘‘Name!’’)—that Lora Palmerston had said, in answer to those accusa- tions, that he offered office, while he was forming the pssst gcvernment, to merchants of the city of Lo but those merchants told him it would be imposal- ble for them to leave their business, and give up emolu ments of £5,000 or £7,000 a year, to join a government for a short time, at the risk of losing both business and sppointment, This statemont ought to go forth with teat of Mr. Lincsay, whicli showed how incorrectly the noble lord must bave been informed, if he was uncer the impression that the tical gentlemen to whom he bad applied had office from mere pecuniary motives, Lord Palmerston’s difficulty lay in the formition of the House of Commons. " (Hear. They bad already been told the slumber of members connected with the peerage now in the House of Commons, and he would add the information which he obtained from Dod, that there were twenty-three places which returned members uncer the influence of families. They were Chester, Chichester, Cirencester, , Dungarvan, Enniskilen, Helstove, Launceston, Malmesbury, Malton, Marlborough, Peterborough, Rei- gate, Richmond, Ripon. Rye, Shaftesbury, Sandwich, Ta- vistock, Thetford, Warwick, Wilton, ‘and Youghal. ‘There were three or four other places under similar in- fluence. He found also that the House of Commons contained 4 marquiges, 8 earls, 17 viscounts, 31 lords, 50 boverables, and 30 baronets. (Hear, hear.) He asked Mr. Linceay whether if he were made Prime Minister to- morrow, he could do otherwise than listen to the de- mands of men by whose votes alone he woald be able to retain office? (Hear, hear) This was the whole ques- tion end it must now be made plain to the aristocracy that the present system had gone to ita fuliest extent and must be altered. They must do this for the benefit of the asistocracy. (A laugh.) They loved the aristos- racy, (laughter,) but they muet not give them every- thiog that they demanded, Mr, Layard had been at tacked the otber night because it was the interest of all the connexions of the aristocracy in the House that he rhould be silenced. (Three cheers were here given for Mr. Layard ) He was sure that this movement would and that it would not infringe upon the prero- f the Crown or the privileges of the peers, but gatiy ‘would uphold the rights of the people, (Cheers.) The resolution was carted waauimously. ir. ‘Tire, (architect,) moved tne third and last re cciation be now formed to promote, by all con: tho attainment of sdministrative retorm. ‘That the aseoc! n be called the Administrative Reform Areocistion, and that the or Eth itlemen, with power to acd to theiz umber, be appointed the committee, to ool lect tunds, to prepare an address to the constituencies of the united hingdo! in to carry out the objects of the asrociation:—Mesers. ¥F, Bennoch, G. Bish : Crawford, J.B W. J. Bali, MGre- MeCullogh, 8. 0, JD. cr Latee Bat orley, wy, aie wom. JG. Frith, &, ‘Amory, W. laister, W. ite, D. Nioolt, J. Collett, 8. Baker, Bb Smith, op. Jr. re, . Moras Fowles, J, L. Travers, N. Wilkin and B. Oliveira. B ‘Mr. Tire said he Fad never before a3¢reased a political meeting in London, but he had attended on this occasion pecaure he felt, like so many others, that the country hac been cisgraced. A writer in the Economist—he hoped not Mr. Wileon—had said that a man might be able to menage hisown business and yet not be comoetent to govern. This reminded him of a story told of Machia- velli, That suvtle staterman having gone to Roms from Florence in sesreb of employment, wrote back to a friend that aitbough he wae not skilful in the weaving of sila or the spinning of woul, and was therefore unab.e to ob- tain a hving at Frorence, he found thet be had adundant talents for governiog, and by exercising them obtained great encowmentes, Whet confusion bad been intro!uced nto the question of creinuge by the absurd systsms wrich hac been v'evired by different authorities; while nothing would bave been easier than to set rignt the question of iutremural interments by en act of Parla neni, but ajobbisg act had been possed, the effect of which was to maue the government s mighty under- taker, ane it had, of course, broken down. Tuen bere was the water question. Instead of compel- Mpg the companies to provide waver from purer sources, the government bad gone, of all places ia the world to obtain water to Bagshot heath. Toe adwwpistration of the paticn’s social aflairs required men ‘of practical] experience, no Jens than did that of its mili tary end neva) Cepartments. Sir W. Molesworth, who was remarkable for bis knowlege of colonial affairs, had Relected for the woods and foreets; and what was the censequence? The Buildiag Act bad come to a dead lock, and the last new measure of the same kind was even mere d than all ite ors. it, Te. turning to the subject ofthe war, early lest winter a docy of tcientific gentlemen connected with the Royal Fociety held a meeting, at which be (Mr. Tite) was present, ond the shocking number of deaths occurring at ecuteri hospital, not alone from wounds, frostbite, cholera, snd the hke, which one could bave gee Ms | been remarked upon, one ol phers of the day observed that mortality arose from the lied ta Vande wrote to the Duke of Newcastle on the subject, furpisbinghim with the name and address of the inven: torot ths apperatus. This was about the time when the Rev Mr. Osborne was disclosing those horribie de- tails which eo afficted the public; and A whet did they thine was the answer he received from the War Mu to his letter? Why, instead of aprisioe, as be bad recommended him to do, directly to the irventor himeelf, the Duke of Newcastle asked him (Mr Tite) it he would de good en ugh to explain the na- ture of he invention of the learned doctor to whom his lever reterred. Now, if the friends of that movemen’ would only put their hands in their purses and liberally support it, in three years’ time, and, perhap: less, an x0 would be put to the present disgraceful system of red-tap'sm. (Hear, hear? kr. J Hutenixson, of the Stock Kxsbange, seconded the resclution, which was also very oriefly supported by Mr.@ Bruor, Jr. Mr. O11vemma, (merchant,) M. P., who had just re- turned from tae reconded meeting (over which he had resided) at the Guidhall. said that he bad not intended ake any part in their proceedings, having come there to hasten to the sentiments of inbabitante of that intelligent city, that be might shspe his condactasa mrmber of the House of Commons in aczordance with porrecth adopted he te ‘were the same cussing, With the exception that a rider was the first ope, to the effect that, in order to effect admin. ietretive it wae necessary to have aa enlarged constituency. (Hear, hear.) The movement just ori- rinated in that great and wealthy city would be speedily followed by the reat of country; and the members ot the House of Comment present would returm to ther daty rext week an increased sense of tneir sibility, (Hear.) * resolution wan then put, and carried nem. con. The CuamRmay spnounerd, as a proof of the earnest apd sincere character of the movement, that twenty- five genyemen im the room had already put down their ames for a subscription of 1001. each. ‘ibe spnouncement was received with loud cheering. My. HenpeRson and Mr N. WILKINSON sec- onded, & vote ot 1! # to the chairman, and the meet- ing then separated, after three cheers for the Queen, three for the Emperor of the French, and three for tne independent members of ’ Obituary. bes just died in the village of Reimdorff, in in his 75th year, @ veteran of the French army, M ® Kixin, who at the battle of Austerlitz, on the 20 Deeet struck Russian musket be), why hia left tem: juavavere es an, or a Oh gts ie by Lata og) a performed tre opera’ thai the ball remaine serrounded by part of the sku}. The ballom the side which touched the brain ered with a bard tkim, and op the otner side with askin similar to that om the outside of the bead, ‘The drain had Co ‘Deen at all para aa was there @: appearance any fracture in ¢ skull near the rpot where ‘the ball nad Jodged. Tbe medical men express their astonishment that a foreign substance coud have remained so near the brain without the intel. eot of the person beiog somewhat affected, The Liquor Law tin Massachusetts, ‘The Boston {yaveller of the 28th inet. saya:—It in inti- meted that the manufactorers of liquor will refuse to sell tothe State agent, and that he, the only legally con- whl find it difficult, if not impossible, to tupply requisite to meet the demande of his customers; perucularly ae the ee, forbids hay trave- Pertation of lqoor, which be might ) by raviroad, steamboat, or ‘olbct mode of oon: /nd in another case, whet in to be dome? tomer of vinegar purchases in New Y ork the raw whisk: from which it is made, How is Hey pater te lay supply bimeelf with the 1. Must the Jaw ae to his case, or must rel’ busi- nee other favorites. Broapway TaeaTee.—This evening is set apart for benefit of the Misses Gougenheim, tare for Calltoralas "The comedy of Ma the vaudeville of ‘Ladies, Beware, the “ Omnibus,”’ are the pieces selected. No doubt tl house will be full, as they are great favorites. gins beeen complimentary bgers of ar the frequenters of this theatre esteem him there can be little doubt but that there will he a crowd honse. The pieces are the ‘“ Poor Gentlemen,” “ Bloedhounds,}? and “ Who Owns the Hand?” —allk cast. Rurton’s THEaTRE.—The comedy of Paul Pry,’ i which Burton will appear, commeuces the amu of this evening—nesrly all of Burton's company appear] ip the reepective characters. The called the “Po of Honor,” with Jordan, Miss A. Lee and Mrs. Burton: the leading parts, ‘W4ttack’s Turatre,—Three fine pieces are announced for thia evening, pamely, the comedyfof ‘Laugh You Can.’”? This will be followed the ‘Fact Mi and theamusements will close with the farce of ‘+M: Sieter Kate.’’ All of Walluck s stars appear in ei Lararce’s MrrroporrrAN.—The grand pantomimic, operatic and melodramatic ballet, entitled ‘‘Massanielo,”’ 8 selected for this evening. Senorita Soto as Fenel the Dumb Girl of Portici, aided in the other characters’ by Hackett’) fine company of comed The farce o “Kill or Cure’? concludes the amuseme: AMERICAN MuskvM,—The drama of ‘ne Lonely Man the Ocean, or the Night Before the Bridal,” which h been pl here with great success, is announced for’ the amusement of the afternoon and evesing—Clarke, Hacewsy, Taylor, Monroe, and Miss Mestayer im leading parts, Wooo’s MinsTeets.—Negro delineations, banje solos, description of the *‘Baby Show,” the “Wandering Min- strel,’’ a concert a Ie Jullien for to night. BUCKLEY’s SERENADERS.—The opera performances of this company afford gi leasure to the visiters. “‘Nor- ma’ again to-nigbt, G. S. Buckley in a mew piece, “Crow Out, Shanghai,” to night. PERuAM’S MINSTRELS.—The burlesque ‘Baby Show’? af- fords great amusement to the audieuce. A bill of great variety fer this evening. Sioging and dancing. Mx. G. Houtayn, of the Old Olympic, tekes his beneft ou Satorday, when ® programme of gr interest will be presented. Burton’s will be crammed in every de- partment. Political Intelligence. An addres has been issued to the democratic voters of the First Congressional district of Alabama, ich, contains a hackneyed retrospect of democratic 3 Pelncipion and democratic victories, with a few words of warning to the faithful to beware of Americanism. It says this new ‘fusion’? exbihits deadly and malignent hi to- the South. ‘It has expelled the gellant Dodge from his seat, and bas driven Shields from the Senate. It has re- turned to occupy seats in the American Sepate—Wilson,; from Maseachueetts; Seward, from New York; Fessen- den, from Maine; Durkee, from Wisconsin—and proposes the renegade, buffoon and abolitionist, Hale, from New Hempehire ’? James A. Stallworth, of Mobile, is the cemocrutic candidate for Congress in the above district. A meeting of all ies, for the purpose of uniting the South against Norinerh aggression, was held in Columbus, on the 26th inst. The cali of the meet- ing says :—Whereas, the history of the past has con- vinced that we, whose interest and affection attach us to ibe South, nothing to hope but # to fenr at the hands of the political organizations of the vebolding States, from the sp rit of abolitionism which pervades and controls all of them; and whereas, the action of these S:ates upon the stion of slay conclusively shows that a large majority of the therecf are ted by one common sentiment ef nos- tility to the institutions of tbe South; and whereas, the gallant band of patriots wishin those States who are frienés to the South and faithfal to the constitution, avd whom we remember with gratitude, fe been routed, disbanded, and almost annihitated—we believe the exigency imperatively requires us to be one people and ene party. Arrsst oF aN Excuse Lirrkary Craracrer For VAGRANCY, IN ALBANY.—Viliters William Edwin Prerce, as he styles himself—an Englishman of about forty-five, and possessed of great volaovity of speech— ‘was complained of by James C. Kennedy, Esq , for va- grapcy and obtaining money under fal+« pretences. Pierce it appeare, has been in our city for several months, and has been ia the habit of addressing letiers togeveral of our Cistinguished citizens, importunt them to assist himin bis misfortunes. From many he has obtained #ma}l sums of money, though he claims that his letters. ‘were applications for situations. He bas made, so he tay, applications to Mr. Weed, of the Journal, and Mr. Lacy, of the Register, for a situation as reporter or odi- cor, being tupinentiy qualifies for toat position, having or s term of yeors 1 yatary reporter for one of the first journals in Es land, sud tor several years che responsible editor the Melbourne (Australia) Argus, as siso thet. of @ leading commercial paper in Monchester, Englend, Pierce, whois evidently strongly + dcieted to his cups, says that he wrote sn ¢laborate nd sound article on temperance fer E. U Delavan, Esq., e tiving for bis labor the niggardly pittance of two dol- ars He ppeaks energetically of several prominent and ‘w:ll known philanthropic citizens, and ooatts ia a most pTenciloquent strain cf the 10yal nlood that courses sbyovgh bis veins, and was bigbly indignant to think that an Englistman ef bis preteasions aud importance “at home’? should be arrested in this councry—this Dread land of liberty—for the crime of vagrancy, in merely soliciting assistance, which was tendered him in all cares “ia the kindest and most courteous manner.’” ‘As he prates continually of his blood, we subjoin a state- ment Of bis geanology, as given to Justice Persona. Fierce says he is descended trom William the Qon- queror—1s named after the Jersey samily—is related to it—is cousin oc tue present Earl of Jersey—is som of Capt. Thom: Pieree, who lived to eighty-one years of age, “God bless him’’—was a midshipman in the English JNavy—was on board the Shannon upon her capturing the Chesapeake— was in the Genoa at Navarino in 1827— was four years on the west const of Africt,in the sloop- of-war Beagle—was in upwards of twenty naval actions —lett the service in the latter part of the year 1828— then went to Jamaica—has been in this conntry four monthse—bas now his fourth wile, but his third lawful one— my present wife waa formerly my servant. Police officer Franklin Smith, om raturday afternoom ‘haa the warrent placed in his hands for his arrest, and went to his residence, 41 Union street, for that purpose. Pier ce wae at home, and upon Smith’s making his pusi- ness known, requested the privilege o: shaving himself; ‘Ubis the officer allowed him to do, but being @ Jong time pominghid rgndg- 2 into the ya tag [* ee one, but he was non est—had fiow: jam; Lory of the sescnd story low. "He was re-arrested yesterday morning and taken to the Second district sta- tion boure, wher egain macsged tocinde the vigi- lance of the officer who had him im charge, and out of the door, ram with desperation. He was i} and finaly cap'ured. Tierce 1 evidently a man who has seen better day, though be is, without doubt, s bad character. His statment, above made, contains inaccuracies that give the le to is, and there are stories told by those who knew bim in kngland going to show that he was twice im trouble, and paid the iorfeiture at the governmental penal colony, and that he fied his country for this to escape a more serious charge,—Albuny argus, May 28, Tux ‘“ Conripgnce” Man—Tae two confidence men, D, E Berrien (or Brien) and C, Barton, areat liberty again. Tbe $10 bul om the Greemwich Hank, New Y« which they offered ut the Eagle Hotel and the station, and which was supposed to de, counterfeit, was prerenied by cfficer Champberiin at the Greenwich Bank, and pronounced good fhe prisoners were There is no doubt, however, about 4 tne’ inepectlon 6 thar bageage, to say concuct and the ing 0, to say nothing of the roll of counter‘eit higd spree up im the caré. Berrien (or Brien, as he writes bis o yy ame, on us this forenoon sfter his releare from jail, sirea us to publish the fact that he had been fer want cf ground on which to detaia him. He also said that be wae ipnocent of apy design to psas coun- terleit money that no implements for jock picking were Jound upon bim, that he knew peat! Barton, and in this who!e business be was an injured mac. He io a «i would bave committed suicide yesterday if be could with a good deal of ‘other discoutee in the line of the patbetic. While he was in our offise hock wcod,of the United States Hotel, came in and present- eo to him @ bill of $10 623¢ for board, coatracted by him last September, and of wi he had adroitly succeeded jm avoiding the payment, Brien ignored ft but the services of an officer reatored his and the mouey. Brien and Barton went of in tae noon foe) to. day for New York, They met st the depot. and are evi- dently accomplices. Brien on the dwy vetore his arrest 81 co obteiD an inte jw witl oba wich Rotert F, Williams, were there in continemept for Picking pockets at a recent circus exhibititn. is vicently convected with a gang of professional bur- glare ond thieves, ene it is ely that’had not bis Tue character been discovered a regularly planned at- Gaal at bbe go youl Beye Mg: made 2 city. © have seen the ekel eye, nippers, sorew Grivers, &., wi wore found Pg two fellows. ‘They comprive the latest inventions in burglars’ 4m are rather ingeniously contrived, Brien is ® locking men, and of plausible conversation and the poteernor of 1 and unbiurbing effrontery. Prien just after bir att directed to‘ le Morrison, Keq . watchmaker ano jeweler, No, 262 Spring "New Yotk,” of whom the wrriter claims to bave bor- wt rowed $50, inclucing this $10 bill on the Green to siness an him jn Lip Oilemme, Brien also bad & wamber of tree vor as ‘‘aame- Fae Oe iD De Brien. been decnved. The Hr- 4 RALD folk! size to look at the gentieman.—. own 1008,