A letter from Sir Edward Ward, president of the Council
of the "Union Jack Club," which appears in Thursday's papers, announces that the King, accompanied by the Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales, will formally open the club on the afternoon of July 1st, A sum of £64,000 has already been subscribed ; but the King having expressed the wish that the club should start on its work unhampered by debt, Sir Edward Ward makes a vigorous appeal to the public to subscribe the £16,000 still needed to defray the cost of building and equipment. The club, which is situated opposite Waterloo Station—the best centre for the two hundred thousand soldiers and sailors who pass through London in the year—will include at the beginning over two hundred bedrooms, most of them endowed by individual donors, or by corps, regiments, batteries, warships, &c.; but one hundred and thirty more are required to complete the accommodation needed. T he appeal will, we trust, meet with a generous response. Dona- tions may be sent either to Sir Edward Ward or the secretary, Union Jack Club, 30 Great George Street, Westminster, S.W.
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