5 MARCH 1892, Page 3

The Lord Chancellor presided on Wednesday over a numerous meeting

in the Vestry Hall, St. Clement Danes, Strand, to erect a memorial to the late First Lord of the Treasury, Mr. W. H. Smith, which should be, as was pro- posed, a mission-room and club-house in Clare Market for the benefit of the working class. Lord Herschell wrote regretting that he could not attend the meeting, and no political tone was given to the speeches. It was stated that the total cost of the land and necessary buildings would be £4,500, of which £2,300 had been already raised. The pro• posed memorial struck every one as being singularly well suited to the character and aims of the generous and benevo- lent statesman by whose name it would be known.