On Monday evening a new Working Men's Club was opened
for St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, at St. Martin's Hall, Admiral the Honourable Sir Frederick Grey in the chair. Sir Frede- rick and Lady Grey, with other friends, have guaran- teed the rent of the club-house for a year, and found preli- minary funds on condition of the working men doing their part. This promise was received with great pleasure, and a committee of working men formed to carry it out. The Rev. F. D. Maurice explained in a letter to Tuesday's Times that he did not advocate keeping the Working Men's Club and Institute Union on short subscriptions, but only that he thought their comparative poverty during the first year of their existence had had a beneficial effect in obliging them to rely chiefly on the efforts of the working men themselves.
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