returned the account for audit and publication, and it is now in the hands of the Audit Committee. As I had the authority to place the names of Hodgson Pratt, Julian Goldsmid, H. N. Hoare, and J. W. Probyn, Esquires, upon the List of Patrons, in the absence of any notification that either of those gentlemen wished to have their names removed, I may with justice consider them as belonging to the Institution. A note is appended to the effect that the Rev. James Moorhouse and Dr. Forbes Winslow never authorized the publication of their names as Patrons; this I beg to state is false, and that those gentlemen have taken very prominent parts in our meetings; from these facts I consider that we may very justly ignore the circular and its fallacious contents. The next subject for comment is the case of Oetzmann _versus_ The Marylebone Penny Readings, in which I was, as Hon. Conductor, sued for the balance of accounts. I think it necessary to state that the original amount of account was £3 17s. 1d.; of this £2 1s. was paid, leaving a balance of £1 16s. For this balance I was sued! A representative of the firm (collector I presume) called upon me at the latter-end of December for the amount. I told him we were not in a position to pay, but would guarantee its payment within three months; the collector expressed his approbation, and withdrew. On me 22nd January I received a copy of “The Marylebone Mercury;” upon perusal I found, to my great surprise, a report of the case in which I was sued for the balance of account at the suit of “Thomas Oetzmann, trading as Thomas Oetzmann and Company.” I did not receive any summons, nor was I aware that proceedings were taken until I saw the paper alluded to. In support of the case, letters were put in, in one of which it was stated I pleaded minority,—this I most emphatically deny! and in support of this assertion, beg to state that I called upon the said Thomas Oetzmann on the 16th of March to produce the said letter, which of course was not done. Comment is needless. The account is paid; but nevertheless, Thomas Oetzmann continues a system of unjustifiable persecution, at once unmanly and cowardly; he has been to our tradesmen and made gross misrepresentations; he has been to our Halls and disturbed our meetings, and guilty of such conduct as any honest man would be ashamed of.