NINTH GENERAL (SPECIAL) MEETING, Held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, on Friday, Nov. 27, 1857. COLONEL ALDERMAN WILSON, Vice-President, in the Chair. The Council of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society are unwilling to give further publicity to the reasons which necessitated this Meeting, save so far as is due to themselves and to the Members of the Society at large. Its object and results may be gathered from the terms of the Circular addressed to the Members, and from the Resolutions submitted to them when assembled, and carried unanimously. The objects were, 1st. To declare the office of Honorary Secretary vacant, and to elect a person to the office; 2nd. To receive a financial statement of the affairs of the Society; and 3rd. To take such further steps in reference to the foregoing matters as to the Meeting shall seem proper. The Council deeply regretted the painful position in which they were placed. They felt, however, that they had no alternative consistent with their duty; and that, however painful, the truth must be told, and the Society rescued, if possible, from destruction. They had tried every means to prevent an exposé, but their attempts had been entirely fruitless. The Resolutions were as follow: 1st. That the Report of the Council be received, adopted, and entered on the Minutes. 2nd. That the Rev. Charles Boutell be dismissed from the office of Honorary Secretary to the Society. 3rd. That Mr. H. W. Sass be solicited to accept the office of Honorary Secretary, and is hereby appointed Honorary Secretary to the Society. 4th. That it be referred to the Council to take such proceedings as they may be advised to recover any moneys due to the Society by the Rev. C. Boutell [stated to amount, as then known, to £56 15s.] 5th. That the best thanks of the Meeting are due and are hereby tendered to Mr. Alderman Wilson for fulfilling the duties of Chairman on this occasion. 6th. That a copy of the Resolutions passed at this Special General Meeting of the Society be forwarded to the late Secretary, the Rev. C. Boutell; and that he be required to pay to the Treasurer the amount of any moneys due from him to the Society on or before the 10th day of December next. BY THE REV. THOMAS HUGO, M.A. F.S.A. M.R.S.L. ETC. [Read in the Suffolk Street Gallery, Feb. 10, 1858.] I HAVE no need to point out to metropolitan, or indeed to any other, readers, the interest which attaches to the subject of the following memoir, and the value of details which have for their object the illustration of an edifice so closely connected with our national history as the Tower of London. There can exist hardly an individual Englishman for whom the Tower has not a special and inalienable charm. The group of buildings which comprise it consists of a central |