But there was not time for much speech-making. The first banquet was to be succeeded by a public meeting at the large lecture-hall distant some five minutes' walk. Hitherto Mr Tallerman and many of his guests repaired, and j found a large assembly awaiting his arrival. The mayor again took the chair, and Mr Tallerman delivered a longer and more detailed address on the subject of the evening, illustrated with a variety of statistics on the food re quirements and consumption of this country, among the most interesting of which was his calculation that out of every sixpence expended on a pound of Australian meatfourpencehalfpenny was directly or indirectly received back by the people of this country, who supplied the tin to preserve it in, built the ships to transport it, and received the various charges for freightage and distribution, leaving only three halfpence for the grower of the meat in Australia, who, even at this low price, was rewarded for his labor. The meeting unanimously passed several resolutions proposed, after being addressed by Canon Bam ber and other speakers, and, enlivened by the amusing episode of an ap parently hot headed and shallow-pated Republican with a short stick in his hand, who attributed the high price of butchers' meat to the machinations of the aristocrats, and the quantity of waste land in the country, in happy ignorance of the fact that if every inch of these lands with all the parks, gar dens, and even roads of the kingdom were converted into pastures, the price of fresh meat would not be influenced to the extent of a fraction of a farthing per pound. M r Tallerman also gave the meeting a practical lesson in opening one of the tins, and turning out its contents on a dish ; and with a cooked leg of mutton before him, showed that the extraction of the bone, and the loss in cooking, made it actually cost the consumer at the rate of eighteen pece a pound for every mouthful he puts between his lips. The evening's programme was not, however, yet exhausted. A move was then made in a deluge of rain back to the Assembly rooms, where the ban queting-hall was found crowded with more than 200 men and women of the working classes, waiting for a still more practical illustration of the Australian meat. 