A body of Delegates from the Radical Associations of London
met on Wednesday at the Wellington Music Hall, Holborn, to commence an agitation for a Republic. It was resolved that a Republican Association be formed, and that an address to the country be prepared. We shall be curious to see that address. In a country like this the establishment of a Republic ought to be, at all events, among the possible political programmes, but we do not like the eternal references to the sixpences the Monarchy costs. The only resolution passed at this meeting referred to the expense of the Throne, which is very little indeed, and so does a handbill just laid before us, and said to be circulating in thousands. The handbill tells fibs too. The Parliamentary figures are correctly given, but Prince Albert left £200,000, not £2,000,000, and Mr. Neale's legacy cannot have exceeded half-a-million
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