The Court Journal announces that the Carlton Club intends speedily
to dissolve, for the purpose of reconstructing itself, to the exclusion of the member (supposed to be Mr. Disraeli) who reported a private meet- ing for the Times last week. The Times quotes the statement ; con- demns the pretended intention of the members ; and doubts its truth,— remarking, that if the proceedings of clubs be of such a secret character that their promulgation is to be thus punished, they might be proceeded against as conspiracies. [In this case there is a " previous question," which the Times has overlooked. The meeting reported in the ['ewe-, paper was not a meeting of the Club, but of Members of Parliament, who used the premises as a tavern, for other than Club objects. gum, is such a meeting entitled to the Club privilege of privacy ?]
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