The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-13 00:00:00

CHILDREN'S FRIENDS' SOCIETY. The Anniversary Dinner of this Institution took place yesterday at the London Tavern ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge in the Chair. A numerous and highly respectable company sat - down; amongst whom were Sir C. Lemon, M.P., Mr. Wilbra ham, M.P., Lord Grosvenor, Lord Lyttleton, Lord Stavorsdale, Mr. Serjeant Adams, Major Mitchell, A. l3orradaile, Esq., H. Dyer, Esq., J. Conant, Esq., J. Hall, Esq., J. Simpson, Esq. The dinner was of the first description, served in ex cellent style, and the wines were worthy of the Lon don Tavern. We need say no more. The cloth having been removed, " Non nobis" was given in capital style by the professional vocalists present. His Royal Highness then gave " the Queen, Pro tcctress of the Institution," which was responded to with great cordiality, and with the usual honours. The Nationaf Anthem followed, by Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Xtkitis, and Mr. Hatton (who presided at the piano). Tne whole under the direction of Mr. Francis. The health of the Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal Family was also drank with the customary honour. Glee—"' Winds gently whisper." The next toast, "the Patronesses, their Royal High nesses the Duchess of Kent, and Duchess of Glouces ter," was most cordially received. Glee—" Are the white hours." Toast-4' The Ladies' Committee and Subscribers?' " Nymphs of the Forest." Mr. Sergeant ADAMS then rose and said—By the hind command of his Royal Highness, he rose, conscious of his utter inability, however, to do justice to the toast which he had the honour to propose—a toast which should be drank with as much of solemn feeling as was consistent with an assembly of the present description. lie need hardly say he alluded to the memory of the lamented and honoured Founder of the Inititution.— Xlieers.) Educated for a profession, to which, whether in war or in peace, the heart of every English man turned with enthusiasm, Captain Brenton, at a time when 25 years of peace had quieted for a season, the thunders of the British Navy—anly that they might be ready to burst fbrth with increased effect, if required in the future—Captain Brenton had struck out for him self a new line of philanthropic and patriotic exertion ; in restoring to respectability and comfort those unfor tunate children, who might otherwise become mi serable and mischievous members of society.— (Loud cheers.) Men called him an enthusiast—but eo men had ever achieved greatness who were not A firA derided as enthusiasts.—(Cheers.) The noble ,;pii it of his profission prompted him, when told of a '•oy u hose temper was turbulent and intractable, to :!y, " that bay requires education, and his spirit, when ri4iitly directed, is just the spirit to climb your masts— and fight your battic.;—and lead your enterprizes throughout the world."—(Loud cheers.) He taught us to regard that which lay at the foundation of national prosperity of the rising generation—he never was dis couraged by that vice and degeneracy which, alas, all who bad to do with the youth of this metro polis knew to prevail so lamentably—he found that among all this degradation there were often the seeds of the noblest character, choked, indeed, with weeds, but in a luxuriant soil, and requiring only the husbandinan's fostering hand to bring forth fruit, valtla ble and beneficial, instead of rank and noxious vegeta tion.—(Cheers.) Since 1832 this Society had been in operation ; calumny had lately rained its voice against it. ; but he (Sergeant Adams) would appeal to those pre sent if they could not testify to the beneficial practical effect cf the Society. The station which he had the ho nour to hold might perhaps justify him in saying that uo one but those who, like him, exercised such offices, connected with the administration of justice in this metropolis —none but those who daily had their hearts rent by the exhis bitions of those unhappy children, who received the sen tence of the law for crimes to which they had, in the first instance, most likely been led by their destitution and poverty.—(Hear.) He himself knew of a female child, twelve years of age, who had been sent to the Midiliesex House of Correction, for the offence of--begging ! Such was the horrible state of our law upon that subject.—( Hear, bear.) She had no relation alive—no friend in the world ; she had gained her livin g by begging —she got on an average 4d. per G ty, of which she paid 2d. for her night's lodging. She had been received by this Society. and saved from vice. —(Cheers.) Happy was the Institution in the patronage of her Majesty the Queen—(Cheers)—and in the support of other Members of that distinguished who had for 130 years swayed the sceptre of thee realms with such honour to themselves and benefit the country.—(Cheers.) Oh, that the brave seaman who died in the thought thi t the ship was sinking could see how well she had righted herself.—(Cheers.) He hid kit others behind him, however, to continue the great work which he had began, and those little creatures whom he had saved from ruin, were living monuments of his benevolence, more endearing than s,aiptured marble.—(Loud cheers.) 4. Che Memory of Captain Brenton" was then drunk to solemn silence. I.te children belonging to the Institution then en tered the room, and walked round, accompanied by tli,ic t,aehers. There were about fifty of each sex, we thuviti say. Their appearance' was clean, comfortable, lngiAtheerful, and excited the unqualified commendation persons present. Some of them were quite in fiats ; the eldest did -not -teem more than - twelve or thirteen years old. They came from the asylums at Hackney Wick and Chiswick. His ROYAL HIGHNESS hCre rose and said, after the cratifjing spectacle which had just been witnessed, of so many children who had been rescued from vice and rain by this Society-, he was convinced he need say rothing in support of the toast which he would now give, " Prosperity to the Institution."—(Cheers.) The toast was drank with three times three and great cheering, increased by the lusty huzzas of the 1 , little boys who had been suffered to remain in the room. 1 Earl GaosvENoß rose to propose the health of his his Royal Highness, who so kindly occupied the chair on the present occasion—a member of that Royal Fa mily, who had presented such a union of condescension and digniy—and availed themselves of every opportu nity to support the cause of charity and benevolence.— (Cheers.) His Royal Highness had on the present occasion, much to his inconvenience, stepped for ward, because he had felt it to he the duty of every person at this crisis so to do, who really valued the objects of the Society.---(Cheers.) Let all here as sembled then join in drinking his Royal Highness's health, with three times three.—(Cheers.) The toast wis accordingly drank in the usual manner, and with co.i.siderable applause. H.s ROYAL • IlmitNEss said he felt highly flattered by the way in which his health had been received. It was with great satisfaction he had presided on this occasion. nfortnuate stories had been recently propagated against the Society, and from every thing he had heard, though he confessed he did not know much of the de tails—he believed that injustice had been done to the Society. It did so happen that the scene of the alleged mismanagement was so far off that some time must elapse beforo an explanation could be received. Meanwhile, the stories circulated necessarily produced great effect. No human establishment was, or could be, entirely free from fault. —( Hear, hear.) If it were expected to find Societieswithoutabuses, Societies must altogether be given up.---(Hear.) In the present case every effort had been used to correct abuses. What more could be done?—(Hear, hear.) Every year improvements were attempted in the political world—whether beneficially or not lie would not then discuss.—( A laugh.) But he did believe that this was a very useful Society, and he should be glad to do anything in his power to support it.—(Cheers.) "I'Cie SECRETARY then read a list of donations the Duke of Cambridge, 2'sl.—(Cheers.) Earl Grosvenor, 20/.—(Cheers.) Lord Edon, 201. Duchess of Roxburgh, 101. Lord Luke, 101. J. Hall, Esq., 101. Rothschild and Co. 101., &c., Total amount, 101.—(Cheers.) Francis--" There's a sweet little rhtirttb."—(Much applauded.) His ROYAL Iliclisuss gave, " The health of Earl in;svenor, President."—(Drunk with all the honours, r great cheering.) Earl GROSVENOR in returning thanks ' said, he knew that his Grace the D u k e o f Richmond took a strong interest in the welfare of the Society, and had been un oirlably prevented from attending.—(Cheers.) His ;al Highness had said that a b uses mus t ex i st i n a ll human institutions. No doubt that was true ; but cer fainlv in this Institution he (Earl Grosvenor) had not been able to discover any. The Society had taken every possible means to prevent abuses,—had po ,itively anticipated objections, and provided for every difficulty that could be foreseen,—had sent out a Chap lain to the Cape—had prescribed the forms of the ap prenticeship indentures ; and had formed respecta ble Committees of Management in all the foreign stations.—( Hear, hear.) It had been said indeed that the Society had been taken in,--deceived. Now he (Earl Grosvenor) knew several gentlemen who had been in the foreign stations of the Society, and who had :riven the most gratifying testimony. That evil had not happened in any case would be absurd to suppose, while human nature remained what it was —(H ear, hear)— but the Society had taken every possible means to pre vent these evils. No doubt this Society, like all others, must pass through the severe ordeal of public opinion, It had lately incurred much censure. He hoped that facts would be made known.—( Hear, hear.) But be regretted that the press should have taken up the mat tzr so hastily and injuriously.—(lfear, hear.) He was astonished that so respectable a journal as the Times should have acted so—stating, for instance, that at the annual meeting, no persons were allowed to express Opposite opinions respecting the Society. He ap pealed. t o those present—he staked his own veracity ,h er ag o e w n e n v atthis assertion.—( Hear.) He was convinced , that the ultimate result of the unjust attacks would be that . the S oc i ety would rise with fresh vigour and suceess.—(Cheers.) The more the truth was ;nv , itigated the more would the balefitial effects of I the Society appear.—(Cheers.) Let all who had wA nessed the appearance of the children belonging to the Society reflect what those children had been, and what, but for the exertions of this Society, they might have continued to be.—(Cheers.) Still the prejudice excited by the attacks of the press had occa sioned difficulties in the operations of the •Society. One part of the press had gained this melancholy and dis honourable triumph ; they bad thrown a cold damp upon one of the brightest and best rays of benevolence. The candour of the public could not fail to ask, what possible object could the noblemen and gentlemen connected with this Society have in sending out chil dren ? Did they make a trade of kidnapping ? —(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The cheerful, happy faces of the children—not merely when in that room— but if they were visited at the Asylum, where could be seen the well ordered state in which they were kept, and the careful education they received, all proved how false were the charges against the Society. Two of the boys about whom such an outcry had been made were now receiving the just reward of their offences in this country—having been several times convicted— notoriously bad characters.—(Hear, hear.) Till the Society had been proved guilty it had a right to pro claim its innocence and to claim public sup port.—(Cheers.) The honoured founder of the Institution—" atter life's fitful fever he slept well."—(Cheers.) Often, doubtless, had he " slept well" after a hard day's labour in the cause of this Society. Sweetest of all was the rest of the bene volent man from the labours of his life—and if ever departed spirits were permitted to revisit this world,— surely it was on scenes like these his heart would love to dwell, and " bless the scenes he loved in life so well." Let his example be followed throughout the country— which had ever shown itself the protector of the unpro tected, and would by such works of benevolence and philanthropy win an imperishable renown, which would exist when thrones had crumbled into dust, and nations passed away.—( Loud cheering.) Toast—" The Duke of Richmond, and the Vice- Presidents."—(Drunk with all the honours, and great cheering.) G. WiLeitaxam, Esq., M.P., said that as one of the Vice-Presidents, he wished not to shrink from any odium which the Society might incur in the prosecu tion of its benevolent objects, believing, as he did, that those objects would tend not only to the improvement and salvation•of thousands of British children but to the diffusion throughout our colonies, of the British race, the British language, and the British manners.—( Cheers.) Sir J. STIRLING drew the attention of the assem blage to a letter in The Sun of yesterday, June 12, signed " Guardian of Infant Poor," and inquiring as to the fate of thirty children, shipped by the Society in 1833, to Australia. Sir James tated that he could give a satisfactory reply to this inquiry ; the children had been sedulously attended to during the voyage by himself and Lady Stirling— and, since their arrival in Australia, their conduct and their situation had been alike gratifying. And further, minute accounts of everything material respecting all the children had been forwarded to the Society.— (Cheers.) Toast—" The City of London, and the public bodies who have patronized the Society."—(Drunk with all the honours.) His ROYAL HIGHNESS then gave " The Committee of Management ;" which having been cordially received, Sir C. LEMON acknowledged the toast, and ex pressed great regret that the calumnies which had been circulated against the Society, whose object he so admired, should have materially crippled its operations. —(Hear, hear.) Shortly before this his Royal Highness left the chair, and was loudly cheered on getting into his carriage. NATIONAL EDUCATION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) DEFEAT OF THE TORIES AND METHODISTS AT WEST BRONINVICFI. It having been ascertained that two petitions against the Government plan of education had been secretly and si lently got up, one among the Church Tories, end the other among Wesleyan Tories of West Bromwich, the friends of the measure determined on a hold and honourable course to test the sentiments of the inhabitants generally o he sub ject at a public meeting. Consequently hand is were largely circulated containing a petition in favour of the Go vernment plan, and distributed far and wide, that the pub lic might know that no hole and corner work was meant. On - Monday evening, the 10th instant, the meeting was held according to the requisition, at the I3ull's Head Inn, High-street; and the committee being engaged in prepiring the resolutions, they awaited the ar rival of the Chairman, R. L. Chance, Esq., who arrived about five minutes after the announced time. The Tories and Wcsleyans who had mustered strongly for them were aisemb!erl in the adjoining room, in which (had the rain continued) it was intended to hold the meeting, and taking advantage of the non-arrival of the Chairman at seven o'clock exactly. proceeded to elect a Chairman, a poor local preacher, and to pass a resolution of a character to tally opposite to the purpose of the meeting. The Com mittee were aware of this, but took no notice whatever. Immediately on the arrival of Mr. Chance, he was elected Chairman and the meeting adjourned into the open yard, the rain having ceased, in whicn a platform had bee n pre pared, for the Chairman and speakers. This having been done, Mr. Stokes, one of the Committee went to the Tory room, and politely informed its contents, that the REAL MEETING was commenced in the open yard. Poor things !—they were thunder-struck at this announcement, and forthwith helter-skelter, peil-melt, Tories, Wesleyans, travelling Preachers, local Preachers, one motley group, came rushing to the door. Oh, they looked unutterable things when they saw the real meeting, Chairman, speakers, &c., in real possession of what they meant to make their own elysium. However, they could do nothing now ; they were fairl7 beat, the supporters of the measure outnumbering them as ten to one at least. The Chairman, R. L. Chance, Esq. then rose and in a neat, quiet speech explained the objects of the meeting. He then called on the Rev. W. Stokes, Baptist Minister, to move the first resolution, which was, " That this meeting considers that the petitions to Parliament lately sent from West Bromwich do not express the sentiments of the inhabitants generally on the subject of national edu cation, and that it is imperatively called on to express those sentiments in accordance with te truth of the case. ' The Rev. Gentleman enlarged on the deceptive means that had been resorted to in obtaining signatures to the petitions sent by the Wesleyan Methodists, and contended that they did not express the views of the inhabitants at large. He instanced one case as a specimen. The petition was taken to the house of a gentleman, a Wesleyan, but who was from home ; they then applied to his son, a lad under thir teen years of age, to sign his father's name. He did so'. but the father afterwards insisted on its erasure, as he did not agree with the petition by any means. Mr. S. went on to say that those parties had called no meeting, had never explained the Government plan, but had gone from house to house with a petition for "No Popery." He ri diculed the childish fear of Popery. contended strenuously for their civil rights, and assured the meeting that know ledge among the people would do more to explode the errors of Popery than all the civil disabilities that could be heaped upon them. The speaker on retiring was loudly cheered. A. KENRICK, Esq. briefly but warmly seconded the resolution. The Rev. G. MAkaLAND, Wesleyan travelling preacher, then rose to move an amendment to the effect, " That no sanction should be given to any plan of national education that did not recognise the authorised version of the Holy Scriptures, and no other, as its basis." He dwelt at length on the facilities which, he contended the Government plan of education would afford for the growth of Po'ery and infidelity. He denounced the scheme as concocted by Socinians and Deists, ani called on the meeting to support his amendment. So great, however, was the opposition to the amendment that the Rev. Gentleman withdrew it, and retired. At the request of the Chairman, The Rev. W. STOKES again rose, to read anu explain the Government plan of Education, which had been so greatly misrepresented by Mr. Marsland. Mr. Stokes then entered on an elaborate explanation of the objects of the plan, which he read at length. The reading and explanation elicited marks of great surprise and ad miration ; surprise, because the plan bad been so vilified, and so little understood, and admiration at the impartiality of its provisions. The speaker, in the course of his address, exposed the baseness of those who had so cruelly entrapped the ignorant into an opposition to a plan which they were careful not to explain. In this representation the speaker was sustained by the large assembly, who unequivocally indicated their detestation of such intentional misrepre sentation. A Mr. NAYLOR then mounted the table and began in a strain of low vulgarity to abuse the Government plan and its supporters. So absurd were come of his state ments that the meeting manifested the greatest impati ence and contempt. He concluded by moving an amend meat that could not be heard. The Rev. Mr. LEAKE, Wesleyan Minister, rose to so. cond the amendment. He began mildly and modestly to protest against being considered a politician, but he soon convinced the meeting that he was one of no common intensity. He opened a volley of vituperation on the Government plan and its supporters. He described it as the off-pring of Infidels and Socinians ; of Grote, Hume, Warburton, &c., and was proceeding in this ob jectionable strain until the demand for a show of hands on the amendment became so vociferous that he seconded the amendment and withdrew. The amendment was the same in substance as Mr. Maralat►d's. The amendment was then put from the chair, when about a dozen hands appeared in its support. The noes were then demanded, and a waving forest of hands from the large assembly negatived the amendment by an over whelming majority. The original motion was then put and carried triumphantly, amid cheering which lasted seve ral minutes. The motion, " that the petition which has been printed and circulated be now adopted, substituting postponed' for abandoned,' in reference to the Government plan," was put by Mr. Cooksey, surveyor, and seconded by Mr. Webb, a Wesleyan, of the Staffordshire Timber Company, in two sensible addresses, which were well received by the meeting. The motion was carried by an immense ma jority, amid long contined cheers. A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, and the assembly quietly dispersed. Thus ended a meeting which the Tories of West Brom wich will remember with sorrow to many a distant day. The beaten and discomfited Tories are making the best of it with a vengeance. The report that the meeting was Over when the one in the yard began ; that is, that they met, elected a Chairman,. moved and seccnd e d reso l ut i ons , spoke, commented, explamed, &c., in ten minutes. Even some of their ministers tell this goodly truth. No doubt that Holy Print, the Watchman, will preach this methodism to its sagacious readers ; and that worthy com peer of itself, of all falsehood, the Standard, will be equally honest! Oh Methodism I blush for your advocates. ROYAL TREE HOSPITAL, GRE VILLE-STREET, IiATTON.GARDEN. The eleventh anniversary of this Institution was celebrated last evening at the Freemason's Tavern. The Marquis of Normanby in the Chair. About 120 Gentlemen sat down to dinner. Among others, the Lord Kinnairci, the Rev. E. Rice, Head Master of Christchurch, Mr. Baring Wall, Mr. Charles Pearson, Mr. Easthope, the Rev. Mr. Dale, Mr. Marsden, the founder of the Institution, and a number of other humane individuals who take an interest in this excellent Institution. It may be interesting to the public to state its object, and what it has already done with small means. It was founded in 1828, and before that year there was no establishment in London where the destitute stranger, when overtaken by sick ness or disease, and at a distance from the parish where, by settlement, he had a claim to parochial as sistance, could find a place to receive him. It is a fact, not perhaps generally known, that the Houseless- Poor Asylum that admirable institution, which, throughout the winter, shelters nightly some hundreds of the destitute and houseless, and supplies them with fond enough to satisfy the dreadful cravings of hunger— of necessity closes its doors against the sick and diseased ; indeed, were not this the case, the greatest possible danger might be apprehended to the congregated masses who resort thither, pre-disposed as they arc to infection, for the want of those precautions which cannot be adopted except in places dedicated to the sick alone. Some time ago, when an attempt was made to retain the rick in that asylum, several officers of the Institu tion, asj well as great numbers of the miserable in mates, lost their lives from tiphus fever. It then became the imperative duty of the Committee of that most excellent charity, a duty which not on frequently causes them much pain in the execution of it, to refuse admittance to those houseless and des titute persons, who being sick or diseased, are by far in the greatest need of immediate assistance. The Royal Free Hospital is the only one in London which provides a remedy for sudden and urgent cases of this nature. Here alone it is, that such as are afflicted and weighed down by the extremes of want and sickness, can find a place of refuge always open to receive them. The pa tients at this hospital, are not generally of that class of persons who can gain admission into the other hospitals. They are for the most part become too abject and loathsome from disease and famine to be considered the proper objects for those Institutions. Besides, if it were not so, numbers of them would ab solutely die, ere they could go through the requi site farm or ceremony previous to their being admitted into them ; to such an extent have they, in many cases, already borne the weight of human suffering that they could not bear it a single step further. AN hilst that dreadful scourge, the cholera, was making its fright ful ravages throughout the City, upwards of seven hundred persons afflicted with it were received into this Hospital ; when by the rules of the larger establishments for the sick, they were, and are still, prohibited from admitting such cases, or any others of a very malignant character. It is another highly important feature of this institution, that it has rescued a great number of lost females from the paths of sin and suffering, and restored them to health and respect ability, in the lower grades of society. Many of these but for the Royal Free Hospital, would soon have terminated their sad career by an untimely and deplorable death. The great object of the establishment is to afford prompt, efficacious, and gratuitous relief' to the most wretched of all human beings—the totally destitute sick or diseased. On the cloth being removed, the Noble CHAIRMAN said—l rise to propose a toast for which lam sure your loyal feelings will require no introduction. I propose her most Gracious Majesty—the Patron of this Charity The toast was drank with three times three, amidst great enthusiasm, and was followed by " God save the Queen," in which many of the company joined. Lord NORMANBY said he was sure the next toast would be duly appreciated, because the Ro3 al Family were always the first to lead the way in charity, and the female members of that illustrious house generally took the preeedence. The toast was, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the rest of the Royal Family.—(Loud cheers.) The next toast was the Duke of Beecleuch, the Pre sident of the Society, who, the Noble Chairman said, though absent from necessity, was always a warm and powerful supporter of all charitable institutions. Mr. BARING WALL said he had been requested to give the Vice-Presidents, and it afforded him great pleasure to associate with them his Grace the Duke of Bedford, a name identified with tho arts and sciences, and all the liberal and charitable institutions of the country, and revered for the part which the family of Russell' had taken in some of the proudest events in the history of the British empire. If he were not prevented by the presence of a Rev. Gen tleman who had been of vast benefit to the Institution, he would make some remarks on another Vice-Presi dent. He would, hoWever,.sin:ply give the Itice=Presi; dents, and be , ?.: leave to associate with them the Rev. E Rice, Head Master of Christ. Church. _ Mr. Rac . o expressed his regret that some of the Vice-Presidents, much more qualified than himself to return thanks, were not present ; but, at the same time, he rejoiced in having that opportunity of stating the deep interest which he had taken, and which he would continue to take in the institution.—(Cheers.) He might state that he became acquainted with the Charity, from having occasion to deliver a sermon from the pulpit in its behalf, and on looking into the details, he felt that it was one the most purely founded on the principles of religion. 7 --(Hear, hear.) He did not re• collect any other institution which was founded in such strict accordance with the doctrines of the Gospel of our Saviour, whose great object was to relive the poor. —(Loud cheers.) This institution was founded chiefly for the poor—for those who had no other hope— for those who were stricken with disease and poverty, and who must lie down and die but for the charitable aid of those who founded and supported the Institution. For no other people was it so beneficial as for the na tives of Ireland ; and from the great benefit it had con ferred on the most helpless of our race he would con tinue to do everything in his power to farther the objects which its benevolent supporters had in view. —(Cheers.) Lord KINNAIRD said he was sorry to say he was a stranger in that Society, but at the same time he was confident that in proposing the name of the Noble Mar quis who had that evening honoured them with his company, be would meet with their unanimous approba tion. In proposing and accepting that toast, they ought to consider that the Noble Charman held a high and im portant situation in the country. That be was engaged in attending to the vast interests of a large portion of the empire, and that it was highly gratifying to find that he could spare a little time to meet them on this charitable occasion. No man hid laboured more than the Noble Chairman to do good, not only to one por tion of the inhabitants of the British Isles but also to the inhabitants of other countries, and it WAS gratifying to find him presiding at that meeting, and at tendinz, notwithstanding his arduous official duties, to one object, which he had greatly at heart—charity. The Marquis of Nortmaxelt then rose, and was re ceived with renewed and long-continued cheering. He assured them, with sincerity, that he knew not how to thank them for the manner in which they bad been kind enough to receive the toast which had been so ably and eloquently proposed by his Noble Friend. The manner in which his name had been introduced had had no small share in the cordial reception it had met with, for it had prediqposed the compauy to acquiesce in what he had to say. His (the Marquis of Normanby's) gratitude was not the less sincere because it was not more elaborately expressed. He would now say a few words as to the object of the institution they were met to support, before he called upon the Secretary to read the Report of the last year's proceedings. He could not appear before them for the first time in the capacity of their Chairman, without expressing his cordial and sin cere opinion of the peculianypractically benefitsof the in stitution. It was not usually necessary in advocating the cause of charity, generally, in that metropolis, to dwell upon the peculiar merits of this or that institution. It was better at once, he believed, to take it for granted that they were conducted on the best principles, and sustained by that system of management which was most likely to conduce to the objects they had in view. There was something, however, in the all-engrossing scope of the present institution, which seemed to speak to them in the very original essence of true charity. It knew of no distinction—it acknow ledged no exclusion—it owned no limit—except that which was placed in it by the extent of the funds which a benevolent public might place in its hands.—(Hear, hear) If the objects of the institution were so com prehensive, they must also be equally distinct. In the address which was now lying on their table, he saw an allusion to the Houseless Poor Asylum, and the many who derived advantages from its funds, but they must all be aware that the objects of the present institution were totally distinct, for the former necessarily ex cluded all those who were unsound in health. That was the only limit to its otherwise universal bene volence—the comfortless who resorted there for com fort were necessarily excluded if disease was ingrafted on destitution.—(Hear, hear.) On the contrary, the Royal Free Hospital opened its door to those who were excluded from all other charitable institutions, and it had, therefore, peculiar claims on the sympathy and support of the public. The wants of that class were more numerous, their weakness more apparant, and their misery more aggravated.—(Hear, hear.) Was it rot obvious, therefore, that the institution had threefold claims upon their attention and sympathy ? It should be recollected that all those who contributed to the support of the present institution, no matter how small their mite was, contributed in some degree to alleviate the vast mass of human misery with which that metro tropolis abounded, and which was so materially aggra vated by the spread of disease.—(Loud cheering.; He felt it unnecessary to allude any further to the pe- culiar characteristics or merits of the Institution—they must all feel that while it proclaimed aloud that all might come toit, it was acting under the inspiration of that spirit divine and high and holy, from which all true charity emanated.—(Cheers.) He would now call upon the Secretary, before he proposed the next toast, to read the report of the last year's proceeding?. The StotEmuy then read the report as follows : A year having elapsed since the last annual report of the affairs of this ins.titution was submitted to you, it is the duty of the Committee when resigning into your hands the trust you have reposed in them to lay before you an abstract of the proceedings of the year, and to give some account of the progress which under their management has been effected during that time. It affords the Committee infinite satisfaction to be able to assure you that the hospital has advanced in the last year, as rapidly towards that prosperous and solid condition in which it would be the happiness of its fiiends to witness it as in any preceding year since its foundation. The early part of the year was marked by a donation of 5001. bequeathed to the hospital by the late Miss Nlorti mer of Finchley, which legacy has been duly received, and placed by the Committee to the account of the charity. This noble bequest was followed by sundry liberal contributions from various noblemen and gentlemen charitably disposed towards the Institution, for all which the Committee acting on the behalf of the Governors have returned their grateful acknowledgments. By the means thus placed in their hands, the Commit tee have happily found themselves in a situation to invest a sum of money in the National Securities, an object which how desirable soever it might have appeared to be, has never befo. e been attained. It is peculiarly gratifying to the Committee to in form you of the exceeding readiness which has been evinced by several clergymen of the Established Church in furthering the good work we are engaged in, and which, with such encouragement, under God's blessing, can hardly fail of complete success. The admirable sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Rice, the Head Master of Christ's Hospital, in the ohurch of St. Martin's, Ludgate, wherein the cause of this charity was most powerfully advocated, the Committee have been induced to publish, being well assured that too much pains cannot be taken to make known an institution which has only to be known in order to be justly appreciated. The thanks of the Governors are most especially due to the Reverend Gentleman, for the great zeal he has constantly manifested for this hospital. The Committee have much pleasure in acquainting you also, that a sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Short, in the church of St. George the Martyr, in which the great purpose we arc aimin g at was set forth in so eloquent and convincing a manner, as to prove highly beneficial to the funds of the charity. That eminent Divine, the Rev. Mr. Dale, has promised likewise to preach for the Hospital, on which occasion the Rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, has kindly granted the use of his church. The thanks of the Governors are especially due to these Rev. Gentlemen. From the Medical Report it will be seen that 8,295 pa tients have derived assistance from this Charity during the last year, and since its commencement that a no less astonishing number than 54,542 have participated in the benefits it has been enabled to confer. When we reflect therefore what desolating consequences must inevitably have ensued, but for the part the Royal Free Hospital has taken in arresting them, we must rejoice greatly that our labours have been so well employed. Whilst adverting 1 to this subject, we must remark that too much praise can not be given to the medical officers of the establishment, for the persevering attention they have bestowed upon the very arduous duties *hey have had to discharge. le conclusion, the Committee can only express their most fervent desire that the day is not distant when the funds of this institution shall attain to that flourishing state which will enable the Governors to carry out the universal principle of doing good to the most wretched of human beings, the destitute sick, to the full extent they can desire. A capital for effocting this grand object is beginning to be realized__a bright example has been set by a pious in dividual now depa, ted, in contributing largely towards its fulfilment—a nucleus is formed, and there is every reason to hope that addition after addition will be made to it, until at length the wished-for time arrive, when from a small beginning a superstructure shall be raised in every respect worthy of the great cause in which it is enlisted. The Report was received with much cheering, and The Noble Marquis then proceeded. He believed nn men had disch irged their duty more zealously and efficiently than the medical officers of the charity, and, to use the words of the Report, in principle it was the best charity in the metropolis.—(Cheers.) All those who were bowed down with sickness and sorrow, and shame and poverty, found in it an asylum, and he gave them, with sincere good wishes for its prosperity, " The Royal Free Hospital."—(Great cheer t'e g.) Mr Nlattspere, the founder of the institution, re turned thanks, and entered at some length into a his tory of the est.blishment. We regret that the distance at which we were placed from Mr. Marsden prevented our hearing his observations distinctly. Mr. CHARLE3 Peartsost proposed the health of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London, and referred to the liberal donation of .5001., which had been granted by that body to relieve the institutioe from its embarrassments. There was one peculiar fea ture in the present charity which perhaps tended in some degree to limit the sphere of its exertions. The recipients of the bounty of the subscribers were never brought into contact with them. The only key to ad mission was destitution, and the only ticket required was disease.—(Hear, hear.) When he (Mr. Vearion) waa ,connected with the Corporation he. occasionally Mingled in its dehates, and he could sagely ~ say that although differences of opinion might exist upon almost every othcr,subject, charity was one upon which all parties was agrt , ed and united.—(Cheers.) It was quite refreshing, amid s t politi c al dis cuss i on an d pole mical disputes, for in that they imitated greater assem blies—(Much laughter)—it is quite refreshing to think that there was one subject in which they could all meet, without any fear of interference with political or party feeling.—(Cheers.) It was the peculiar pri vilege of that institution to extend its benefits" to , all those who were in affliction, and whose only claims were, that they were the children of mortality, and the 'heirs of those misfortunes to which the whole human race were subjected. He trusted the Corpo- . 1 ration of London would, out of its enormous revenues, display a generous and liberal spirit to institutions like the present. They were living in times where the old habits of the Corporations of that country would not secure for them the support and respect of the people—these could be best secured by devoting a portion of their ample revenues to the cause of charity and benevolence, and with these sentiments he would give them—" The Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London." —(Loud cheers.) The SECRETARY then read the Report of subscrip tions and donations received in the room, which in cluded the Marquis of Normanby 101., and 5/. an nually, Lord R. Grosvenor 10/., J. Easthope, Def., M.P., 10/., Sir R. Ferguson, M.P., 10/., Mr. B. Wall 2.0/.. Lord Liverpool 5/., &c. &c. The Noble CHAIRMAN then gave " Lord Kinnaird and the other Noblemen and Gentlemen who had ho noured them with their company." Lord KINNAIRD returned thanks. It was the first time he had appeared among them, but he hoped that he should in future repudiate the name of stranger.— ( Hear and cheers.) It was said that nothing could be done in England without a dinner, but he believed the custom was a good one. It brought men together in cordial union and good fellowship, and the recollection of a pleasant day would induce others to attend the next festive meeting of as institution the object of which was to promote the cause of true charity and benevolence.— (Cheers.) Mr. EasTuorE, M. P., proposed the . healths of the gentlemen composing the Committee of Management, and referred to the progressive extension of the benefits of the Institution. In 1829 it had extended relief to 926 individuals, and in 1839 it had conferred relief upon B,29B.—(Cheers.) He was not surprised at the elo quencet he withiet interests sh of their th e C N i t l s a la r l i e t y. Chairmanri ehail had advo cated been dis tinguished for his efforts to promote the welfare of the people of the sister country.—( Vehement cheers.) He was not surprised, therefore, that on his return to England, he should exert himself to promote the pro sperity of an Institution, from which there was no doubt that many destitute and unfortunate Irishmen .obtained relief and assistance.—(Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with loud cheers. Mr. NORTHHOUSE returned thanks. He was de puted by the other Members of the Committee to express their gratitude for the Noble response which this room presented to their exertions. He was also entrusted by the Lord Mayor with a communication and a checque in aid of the Society.—(Cheers.) His Lordship had been informed that some persons had stated, that he was personally adverse to the grant of five B red pound s , w hi c h t h e C or p ora tion had re andde,; now he, (Mr. N.) w as thathehad only paid the sum in h is o c e ffi n c t i l a ca pacity assure the C ompany t h at the L or d M ayor h a d the highest opinion o f t h e exce ll ence o f t hi s I ns titution—. that his Lord s hi p f requently sent cases to it which he terms, ins instructed u c andte to d to deny this ass er ti on i n the strongest found were always treated according to his wishes, and as a proof of his personal feeling towards fit, not only was his Lordship a Life-Governor, not only had lie been a e i n Steward at a form er di nner, b ut h e now sen t the second donation, which r he ) (Mr. Northouse) He would now correct into which the Hon. M em b er f or L e i ce ster had fallen, in thinking that th e C orporat i on o f t h e City of London held in hisan e rrorltand. —(Great cheering.) had confined their grant to their last donation of 5001. He was happy to say that they had a thousand claims upon the gratitude of the company.—(Cheers.) Their first donation was a hundred guineas, their second two hundred, their third two hundred, their last five hundred, and if he could judge of the feeling of other members of the Corporation, from that of the Lord Mayor, he %vas satisfied that if ever the So ciety again, required the aid of the civic body, that aid would not be refused.—(Cheers.) Having stated thus much uporx the authority of the Lord Mayor, he might now be permitted to state from his own knowledge, that whateyer might be the merits of former chief magis trates, whatever the reform of abuses, whatever the promotion of chariti es , w h atever the devotion to public good., that never h a d the civic chair bee n filled by one: who surpassed its present occupant, the protector of the poor, the 'founder of the Cannon street refuge - for the destitute, and the chivalrous champion' oE•free trade and low_p•rices in one of the . . . . ... . . . . . . - chief necessaries of human life.—(Great cheering.) As to this Charity, he (Mr. Northhouse) felt it to be, one of the best that ever existed. It sought not to compass its godlike ends by pandering to individual patronage and vanity ; the only qualification of its claimants was their misery —the only certificate their destitution.—(Cheers.) Amid the raging ocean of human life it was an ark where the gentle dove might find a resting place—amid the arid sands of political and polemical prejudices which blinded the eye to truth, humanity, and popular enlightenment, it was an oasis of the'desert, a neutral ground where men might repose from factious strife, and learn to love and respect each other. —(Cheers.) He would now, with very great humility, venture to dissent from some remarks which had fallen from the Noble Chairman as to the expediency of uniting this Institution with that of the Houseless Poor. They were in practice already so much united—the diseases produced .by hunger and cold, from the one being in variably sent to the other to be cured—that he thought one management would be more harmonious and effec tive than two; yet there was no necessity for mingling the healthy and the unhealthy destitute together. Mr. Duncan Campbell, who deserved to be called a second Howard, was the great practical supporter of the one, and a large and active contributor to the other; viith such men—with their Sovereign at their head, and with the illustrious patronage they possessed, why should they not form a royal temple of mercy ?—(Great cheering.) There was too, a third class, the circum stances and the sufferings of many of whom it deeply pained him to contemplate —a class only to be com pared to those in another life, whose punishment the Church teaches us, is irredeemable and eternal, who have from one false step been consigned to that abode, on the gates of which is written, " All hope abandon, ye who enter here,"—and it may be, some of them "more sinned against than sinning"—the victims of vio lated vows—mock marriages—hollow promises. The lives of all most wretched—lost to their friends—to the world—to their God—with " One sorrow that throws Its bleak shade Alike o'er their joys and their woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring ; For which joy bath no charm and affliction no sting." Can there be no means of salvation for those would-be penitent found ? Cannot this Institution essay to cure both body and soul? Oh, if their be "more joy among the angels of Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just men," will not a kindred feeling inspire their sisters on earth ?—(Great cheering.) The principle of this Society being adopted— no inquiry into harrowing and sickening tales of seduc tion and distress—no prurient and depraved taste gra tified by such details, no remains of shame that may be left, wounded and tortured—such a charity would in deed be -" twice hless'd, In blessing him that gives, and her that takes." —(Cheers.) To some yet redeemable sinners and suf ferers the Institution would give "beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ;" it would redeem " a soul under the ribs of death," and with a Queen upon whose gentle brow the charities shine with refulgent lustre—who, all graceful as she is in her " sceptred sway," has a feeling for mercy " Which becomes the throned Monarch better than her Crown." —(Great cheering)—how soon might such a royal temple of mercy be founded, and never could the propo sition be more propitiously brought forward than in the presence of a Noble Lord whose official life proves that he has read, duly appreciated, and constantly acted upon the sublime thought of the immortal bard of Avon, that E4rthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice." —(Great cheering.) The CHAIRMAN, after some explanatory remarks upon the talents of Mr. Lover, called upon that gen tleman for a song, to which Mr. Lover promptly and kindly responded. Ile was loudly cheered by his de lighted auditory. Mr. Plitt.t.roTTs, M.P., proposed the healths of Dr. Hume, NVeatherhead, and the other medical officers of the Institution. The following toasts were afterwards given : " The Rev. Mr. Packman, the Hon. Secretary." " The other Benevolent Institutions of the Metro polis," " The Ladies," &c. &c. The CHAIRMAN, after announcing that the subscrip tions of the evening amounted to 5751., then retired. The Chair was then taken, at the Noble Marquis's request, by Mr. Charles Pearson, and the festivities of the evening were prolonged until an advanced hour. ADDITIONAL POST-OFFICE CON VENTION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE KING OF THE FRENCH. (Signed at Paris, May 10, 1839.) Additional Convention to the Post-office Convention of the 30th March, 1836, between Great Britain and France, for the conveyance through France of the Cur- respondence of the Est Indies vith England, and vice versa. Her Majcsty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majestj , the King of the French, being desirous of making an arrangement for , conveying' through'-Fra.nce the correspondence between Great Britain and the East Indies, have resolved to secure this important result by means or an Additional Conven tion to the Post•ofice Convention concluded the 30th nirch, 1836, an 6 have for this purpose named as their Ple4otentiaries, that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Gran ville, Earl Granville, Kinght Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the B.th, a Peer of the Realm, a Privy Councillor, and Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassa dor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his .Vlajesty the King of the French ; And his Majesty the King of the French, the Sieur Napoleon Genne•s, Duke of Montebello, a Peer of France, Officer of his Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, His Minister and Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs. 'Who, after having communicated to each other their re spective Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles: — ART. 1. The Government of her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall confide to the Post-office of France, upon the conditions expressed in the fallowing articles, the conveyance, in mail-bags or closed boxes, of the correspondence coming from the East Ind:es, destined for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice versa, whenever the abovementioned correspondence shall pass through France. The British Government reserves to itself at all times the right of causing, whenever it shall think proper, the abovementioned correspondence coming from the East In dies to the United Kingdom, and vice versa, and passing through France, to be conveyed, either between Alexandria and Malta, or between Malta and Marseilles. or between Alexandria and Marseilles, by vessels freighted or employed for that purpose by its orders, or by the packets of the Royal Navy. Aar. 2. Whenever the packets of the Royal British Navy, charged with the correspondence from the East In dies for Great Britain, shall touch at Marseilles, or at any other French port in the Mediterranean, they shall be con sidered and received in those ports as vessels of war ; shall be exempt from all dues of navigation and port charges; and shall enjoy therein all the honours and privileges ac corded by the Convention of the 14th June, 1833, to the vessels of the two States employed in the conveyance of the correspondence between Dover and Calais. The same immunities. honours, and privileges are se cured to the packets of the Royal French Navy in the ports of the Mediterranean subject to the dominion of her Bri tannic Majesty. ART. 3. The French Government engages to effect the correspondence designated in the Ist Article of the present Additional Convention, in the manner following : 1. Between Alexandria and .11a:seilles, by steam packets of 160 horse power, belonging to the Government, which shall leave Alexandria on the 7th, 17th, and 27th, and Marseillei on the Ist, 11th, and 21st of each month. 2. BtAween 'Marseilles and Calais, by mail coaches start ing from both those towns every day. In the event of any alteration in the days or hours cf departure from those two ports, the French Post office shall give, six months before, notice thereof to the British Post- office. - ART. 4. The duration of the passage from Alexandria to Marseilles, including the time necessary fur the trans shipment and for the purification, if necessary, of the cor respondence at Malta, shall not, except under uncontroul able ckeumstances, exceed three hundred and forty-five hours, or fourteen days and nine hours. The duration of the passage from Marseilles to Alexan dria, including the time necessary for the transhipment of the correspondence at Malta, shall not, except under un controulable circumstances, exceed three hundred hours, or twelve days and twelve hours. Aar. 6. The distance between Marseilles and Calais shall be performed by the mail coaches of the French Post office in one hundred and two hours, or four days and six hours. A►cT. 6. The mail from the East Indies to Great Bri tain, or from Great Britain to the East Indies, shall pass through the French territory sealed with the seal of the Post-office cA the East India Company, or with that of the British Post-office. An impression of the seal used for sealing the mails coming from the East Indies, shall be furnished io, and deposited in the Health-office at Marseilles. With a view to exempt the correspondence coming from the East Indies from the operation of purification, to which it would otherwise be subjected by the sanitary regulations, the cases destined to contain such correspondence shall be made of plate-iron or tin, and shall be hermetically closed ; and they shall not have attached to them any substance considered, according to the sanitary regulations, as capa ble of communicating infection. ART. 7. Whenever cases containing the correspondence of the East Indies for Great Britain, or of Great Britain for the East Indies, shall be forwarded by the French Post Office, there shall be reserved, as well in the French Mediteranean packets, as in the mail coaches by which - such correspondence shall be conveyed, a place free of charge for a courier of her Britannic Ma jesty, who shall keep under his especial care the de spatches and mails of her said Majesty, and who shall have the right to be present at the purification of the correspondence, whenever it shall take place, and at all other operations to which the correspondence may be sub jected. A free passage shall be likewise allowed to the said courier in the French Post-office packets established in the channel, whenever he :hall think proper to proceed from Calais to Dover by those vessels. ART. 8. The Gvveinraent of her Britannic Majesty engaß es to deliver to the French Post-office all letters from the East Indies, and from the French possessions in India, destined for France, or for countries to which France serves as the channel of communication, and to convey with its own correspondence all such letters, destined for the East Indies, and for the French possessions in India, as shall be delivered to it by the French Post.office. The postage of all such letters shall be paid as far as Alexandria by the senders, whether in France or in the East Indies. It is understood, that no correspondence coming from the East Indies, and destined for the countries to which France serves as the channel of communication, shall be delivered to the French Post-oftce, unless the senders shall have expressed the intention of sending such correspon dence thi ouch France, by writing on the address the words, by French Post office, or, in, way of France. ART 9. The Post-office of Great Britain shall pay to the Post-office of France, in satisfaction of all charges of convey ance or transit of the correspondence mentioned in the first Article of the present Additional Convention, between Alexandria and Calais, as follows, that is to say : . . 1. For letters, six francs per ounce British, net weight. 2. For newspapers, printed prices current, and other publications which are allovkd to pass by post in Great Britain pt reduced prices, ten centimes per newspaper or printed sheet. The letters shall be weighed, and the newspapers, printed prices current, and above-mentioned publications shall be counted, by the Post-office of London, before the departure, or immediately on ei.e arrival of the East Indian mail ; and imx.ediately after this operation a statement shall be made out, containing the result of such counting and weighing, which shall be sent by the British Post-office to the Post-office of France. Whenever British packets shall be employed for con veying the correspondence coming from, or destined for the French office, the operations of weigh:ng and counting above prescribed shall be performed by the Post-office at Marseilles, and the result thereof shall be communicated by the French Post-office to the Post-office of the United Kingdom. ART. 10. The sums accruing to the Post-office of France, in virtue of the preceding Article, shall be placed to the credit of that Office in the general account of the transmission of the correspondence, which is to be made out every month, in conformity with the stipulations of the 14th Art, of the Convention of the 30th of March, 1836. _ _ Aar. 11. It is understood, that if the conveyance of the correspondence, mentioned in Art. I, of the present Additional Convention, shall be performed by means of the packets of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, or by vessels which shall be freighted or employed by order of the Government of her Britannic Ma jesty, either between Alexandria and Marseilles, or be tween Marseilles and Malta, or between Malta and Alex andria, the transit postage on such correspondence to be paid to the Post-office of France, in conformity with the provisions of Article 9 of the present Additional Con. rention. shall be fixed as follows: 1. When the said correspondence shall have been con veyed by British packets, or by vessels which shall be freighted or employed by order of the British Govcvnment, the whole passage from Alexandria to Marseilles, and vice versa, the sum of four francs per ounce British, net weight, for letters; and for newspapers, printed price current, and other publications ment►oned in Article 9 aforesaid, five centimes per newspaper, or per printed sheet. 2. When the correspondence shall have been conveyed by similar vessels only from Alexandria to Malta, or from Malta to Marseilles, and vice versa, five francs per ounce British, for letters, and ten centimes, as fixed by Article 9 aforesaid, for newspapers, printed prices current, and colter above-mentioned publications. _ _ _ A kT. 12. In like mariner, the packets of her Britannic Majesty which shall perform the pass ige between Mar seilles and Alexandria or Malta, shall convey, in closed bags, the correspondence coming from or destined for the East Indies and the French possessions in India. which shall be delivered to them by the French Post-office, or for tl-at nffic', under the conditions hereinafter mentioned, that is to say : 1. At the rate of two francs par ounce British, for let ters conveyed bet Ween Marseilles and Alexandria. 2. At the rate of one franc per ounce British, for letters conveyed between Alexandria and Malta, or Malta and Marseilles. 3. And for newspapers, printed prices current, and other publications mentioned in Article 12 of the present Addi tional Convention, at the rate of five centimes per news paper, per printed sheet. ART. 13. —The correspondence mentioned in the pre ceding Article may be accompanied by a courier or agent of the French Post-office, who shall, in such case, enjoy, on board the English packets or vessels which shall be freighted or employed by the English Government, the privileges allowed to the couriers of the British Post-office by Article 7 of the present Additional Convention. Aar. 14.—Tbe Couriers of the British Post-office who shall accompany, on board the French Mediterranean packets, the correspondence of the East Indies for Great Britain, and of Great Britain for the East Indies, may re ceive or deliver, either at Malta, or at any other station at which the said packets shall touch, mail bags from or for Great Britain, on the same cond:tions, and with the same privileges stipulated by the present Additional. Convention, relative to the conveyance of the East Indi.rn correspond ence, subject to the operation of the sanitary regulations. It is however understood, that whenever the abovemen tioned correspondence coming from Malta, or from th. 3 Levant, shall have been purified at the Lazaretto of Malta. it shall not be subjected to any purification on arriving at Marseilles. With regard to the rates to be paid to the French office, the stations on this side of Malta shalt be assimilated to Malta, and the stations beyond Malta to Alexandria. Article 18.—The present Convention, which shall be considered as additional to the Convention of the 30th of March, 1836, shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris within two months from this date, and it shall be put in operation at the latest two months after the exchange of the said ratifications. Nevertheless, the two Post offices of Great Britain and France may, by mutual consent, fix an earlier date for commencing to carry the said Convention into operation. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Additional Convention, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at Paris, the tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-nine. (L.S) GRANVILLE. (L.S.) DUG DE MONTEBELLO. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. GOODWOOD, 1839. Acceptances for the Goodwood Stakes. The Potentate, aged, 9g. 21b. ; Zohrab, aged, 9st. 21b. ; Heron, 6 yrs, 9st. 21b. ; St. Bennett, 5 yrs, 9st. ; Albemarle, 4 yrs, Bst. 101 b. ; Quo Minus, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b. ; Tallevrand, 4 yrs, Bst. 51b. ; St Martin, 4 yrs, Bst. 51b. ; Prizeflowcr (h.-b.), 5 yrs, Bst. 41b. ; Magpie, 5 yrs, Bg. 41b. ; Mervan, 5 yrs, Bst. 21b. ; Barnacles, 6 yrs, Bst. 11b. ; Chit Chat, 5 yrs, Bst. ; Ruby, 5 yrs, Bst. ; Adrian, 5 yrs, Bst. ; Leonidas, Bst. ; Chemist, 4 yrs, 7g. 101 b. ; St. Andrew, 4 yrs, 7st. 71b. ; kirktlale, 4 yrs, ist. 71b. ; Ashfield, 4 yrs, 7st. 21b. ; George, 4 yrs, 7st. 21b. ; Rachel, 5 yrs, 7st.; Clarion, 3 yrs, 7st. ; Miss Eliza, 5 yrs, 7st. ; Joannina, 4 yrs, Gst. 131 b. ; Nickleby, 3 yrs, 6st. 131 b. ; Hooghley, 4 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; I-am-not aware, 4 yrs, 6st. 121 b. ; 4 yr 3, 6st. 121 b. ; Cornborough, 5 yrs, 6st. 101 b. ; March First, 4 yrs, 6st. 101 b. ; Morella, 4 yrs, 6st. 101 b. ; Wee Willie, 4 yrs, 6st. 10ib. ; The Lord Mayor, 3 yrs, 6st. 101 b. ; The Friar, 4 yrs, 6st. 71b. ; Bristolian, 4 yrs, Est. 71b. ; Romania, 4 yrs, 6st. 41b. ; Bracelet, 4 yrs, 6st. 41b. ; Merganser,3 yrs,6st.4lb.; Taunton, 3 yrs, 6st. ; Brush, 4 yrs, 6st. ; Caroline Elvina, 4 yrs, 6st. ; f. by Merchant, out of Turquoise. 3 yrs, sst. 101 b. ; c. by Priam, out of Speculator's d., 3 yrs, sst. 101 b. ; and Confusionee, 3 yrs, sst. THE NEWMARKET RACES. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Cesarewitch having presented the Jockey Club with the sum of 300/., to be run for annually, the first race for it will take place on Wednesday in the Second October Meeting next, under the following con ditions:— The Cesarewitch Stakes, a free handicap sweepstakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft., with 300 added, the Lift of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Cesarewitch, to start at the start ing post of the T. and of the flat. The owner of the second horse to receive 501. out of the Stakes. Ten to ac cept, or no race. The horses intended to be handicapped must be put down by their owners at Newmarket, or in Oxendon.street, on or before the Monday after the Good wood Races, &c. The inhabit'nts of Newmarket having subscribed a consider able sum, and placed it at the disposal of the Club, it will be run for on Monday in the next Houghton Meeting, as an addi tion to the Cambridgeshire Stake‘ (handicap) of 25 sovs., 13 ft., and only 5, &c. Last mile and a distance of 13. C. There are already 33 subs. DISTRESS IN THE WEST OF IRELAND.—We regret to learn that much distress prevails in the west of Ireland, and that provisions have reached almost a famine price. Sir William Brabazin, one of the Members for Mayo, has addressed a letter to the landed proprietors of that county, calling their attention to these appalling facts, and suggesting the propriety of a public subscription to purchase a few cargoes of provisions, to be sold to the poor at reduced prices. The lion.. Baronet has signified his intention to subscribe 501. for this purpose, and we trust this liberality will be imitated by the other large lauded proprietors of the county. It is much to be feared that if prompt and energetic measures be not taken to avert it. there is every probability of a recurrence of the melancholy visitation of 1822. The Art of Photography, by which objects were made to paint their own likenesses by means of the light, would be cf vast importance as an engine of research in astronomical investigations. (Dr. Nicholl here gave a short account of the art, the process of which has now been read by everybody, we suppose, and exhibited some small drawings—one of a piece of lace, another of a leaf, the fibril organisation of which was most distinctly shown, another of fossil wood, &c., which were eagerly examined by the audience.) By putting a piece of this prepared paper, Dr. N. continued, into the focus of a telescope of sufficient size, the moon would draw her own features, and all the astronomer would then have to do would be to exa mine that drawing with a miscrope, to see those features more truly than ever he had done before. He once put down a lock of an infant's hair upon a piece of paper, and in a few minutes he had the satisfaction of seeing clearly on the drawing that the lock of hair consisted of tubes ! Considering that the art was only in its infancy, and the vast number of fertile minds , which would no doubt be hron7fit to hear upon it. he thought that it would he of the utmost importance in advancing our ki:owledge of astro nomy. He thought it was scarcely too muc h to say ,that we might, after the lapse of a necessary portion ofan tirriine, congratulate ourselves and each other on h a ving s vention put into our handy., which would be the their n ow n f making the heavens write down the whole of characters !—Dr. Nicholl's Lecture on A s tron o my. The usual range of expend iture iii Switzerland, for persons living in wh.it we should call e end asy . eircum. stances, is from 100/. to 3001. per a nnum ;it as . sorted that not a single individual in the whole of SWUM'. land spends 1,000/• per a nnum. ..• Mr. William Turner was shut out from the divi sion on the Jamaica Bill. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen will hold a Privy Council at two o'clock this afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty held an Investiture of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The nights Grand Crosses of the Order were robed by Mr. Hunter in their splendid mantles, and wearing the collars of the order. There were present his Royal High. ness the Duke of Sussex, Acting Great Master of the order. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. General Lord Hill, Lord Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Minto, and the Right Hon. Lieutenant-General S ir Hussey Vivian, Bart. 'I he Officers of the Order in attend ance were Mr. A. Grevillc, Baton King of Arms, and Mr. Albert William Woods, Deputy Registrar and Secre tary. Her Majesty, wearing tho mantle and collar of the Order, hr.vmg entered the Yellow Drawing Room, the Knights Grand Crosses and Offices of the Order were in. troduced, his Serene Highness the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg walking between two of the Knights Grand Crosses. Her Majesty having received the Sword of State from - Mr. Martins, Gentleman Usher in Waiting. was please d to confer the honour of Knighthood on the Duke Ferdi nand of Saxe Coburg (uncle to her Majesty), and then invested his Serene Highness with the Ensigns of a Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Prince Augustus. and Prince Leopold of Saxc Coburg , Count Alexander Mensdorf, and the First Lord , of the Treasury, were present a i the ceremony. The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Nor manby, Lady in Waitieg,. the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, Hon. Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal), Silver Stick in Waiting, Mr. Rich, Groom.ie Waiting. Colonel NVemyss, Equerry in Waiting, sad Master Cavendish, Page of Honour in Waiting. Her Majesty gave audiences to Viscount Melbourne , Viscount Palmerston, and Sir Hussey Vivian. Her Majesty took a drive yesterday afternoon, in an open landau and four, accompanied by Prince Leopold of Sale Coburg, and the Prince and Princess of Leinergen. The Hon. Miss Spring Rice, the Hon. Miss Paget, and the Baroness Lehzen, followed in another carriage and four. The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening, eluded Viscount Melbourne, Lord Morpeth, Lord Alfred Paget, tt, Right Hon. George Steven Byng, and Mr. George Edward Anson. . The Band of the Coldstream Guards attended at th! Palace during the evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Clinton, Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone, Hon. Miss Boyle, Earl Howe, and Lady Georgians Curzon, Sir Horace soil Miss Seymour, and the Rev. J. R. Wood, honoured Mr. Burfard's Panorama of the 't Grand Harbour of Malta,': in Leicester-square, yesterday, with her presence, and was pleased to express her approbation of the view. Her Majesty also visited the Panorama of Rome. The Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, an 4 the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, visited the Queeli Dowager yesterday, at Marborough House. n. Mr. John G. S. Lefevre, and Mr. Lewis ( Poor-last Commissioners) had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Home-office. His Excellency Mr. Stevenson, the American Minister, transacted business on Tuesday at the Foreign Office, sod' at the Treasury. Sir Martin Shee, Mr. George Ponsonbv, Sir George Grey, and Mr. Wallace. had interviews with Lord Jo" Russell, at the Home Office, yesterday. . Captain Pechell, M. P., and the Hon. J. E. Elliot, M. P , had interviews with Viscount Melbourne, yesterday , in Downing-street. The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Richmond, Lora Hill, and other members of the Naval and Military Com mission, attended a meeting yesterday, at the official resi dence of Viscount Melbourne. The Commissioners sot two hours. Dispatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, and Van Diemen's Land, were received yesterday et the Colonial Office. Mr. Forster and Mr. Dunn had an interview with Lor4 John Russell yesterday. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE . • ARRIVALS. • Lord and Lady Shrewsbury and suite, at Mivart's from Rome ; Lord Pollington, at Lord Mexborough% 6 ° - ver-street, from a tour ; Mr. Young, M. P., from HaillP" ton Court ; Captain and the lion. Mrs. Grantham , in liryanston-square, from their scat in Yorkshire.; 1 -A r " Fitzalan, in Hyde Park-place, from Worthing ; Lord Says and Sele, from Brighton ; Mr. Grey Hamilton, from a visit to Mr. and Lady Caroline Baillie Hamilton, at their seat in Oxfordshire , Dowager Lady Clittt,"el Marlborough House, from a visit to her , father, Poyntz, Evq., at Cowdray Park, Sussex ; C a P ta l n and Mrs. Price Blackwood, from Bookham Led g e. the" . .. villa in Surrey ; Colonel and Lady Laura Meyriek, in Berkeley•square, from Auberies, their scat in Suffolk ; lion. Col. Caradoc, in Hereford.street, from Paris. DEPARTURES. Dowager Lady Farqulvir, from King. street, St. J'a nes'st on a continents] tour; Mr and Lady Augusta 'Milbank , for Brussels ; Captain and Mrs. Inglefield and family, Pot Dover ; Lady Harriet Bagot and tatr.ily, for ditto ; Lord Devon, from Bryanstoo-square, for Powderham Castle, Devon; Hon. Mrs. and Miss Legge, for Stowell, House, Richmond ; Mr. Parker, M.P., for his scat in Devonshire; Lord Arundel, for Wardour Castle ; Lady Pembroke and the Ladies Herbert, from Hay Hill, for Leamington .pit; Charles Bunbury, Esq., from Batt's Hotel, for the seat of his father. Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bunbury, Barton Hall, Suffolk ' • Lord Dungannon, from Grafton-street,for Oxford ; Sir Edmund Stanley, Mr. B. "Stanlei„ and Mr, E. Stanley, of Cambridge University. file "their villa it Richmond. HIGH TEMPERATURE.—This morning at nine, the thermometer in the shade stood at 72, and a little be fore noon at 81. The barometer at 30, with a sultry cast wind. We are happy to announce the capture of a Rus sian slave ship by one of her Majesty's cruisers. The rize is now safely moored in Portsmouth Harbour. THE FRUIT QUESTION. — At a numerou s meeting of the committees of fruit growers of East and West Kent, London fruit salesmen, and Middlesex mar ket gardeners, held at Sittingbourne, on Friday, IL Francis, Esq., in the chair, it was reported to the meet ing- that since the formation of the committees in Octo ber last, several interviews and communications had been had with Lord Melbourne and Mr. Puulett Thomson , and that the result of them was a letter from Lord Vis count Melbourne to Sir E. Knatehbull, of which the fol lowing is a copy " Downing street, June 4, IS39—My dear Sir Edward —I feel that I have many apologies to make for not having before returned you an answer respecting the dutirs upon the importation of foreign fruit ; but there have been so many events, and so great a pressure of business, that WO have not before been able to consider the question, an d come to a final determination upon it. I Ino,e now to in form you, that we do not think a case has been made out which would justify us in altering the scale of duty fixed by the bill of last year. I remain, my dear Sir Ed word, your's faithfully, 4 ` MELBOURNP.." And the same having been read, a report was imme diately drawn up, and unanimously adopted :—" R.isolved unanimously—That the said report be submitted to a gene ral meeting of persons interested in the growth and sale of British fruit, to be very shortly held in London. Resolved unanimously—That his Grace the Duke of Richmond be solicited to name a day for the above meeting, and also to preside at the same. Resolved unanimously—That im mediately the day is fixed for the meeting, that adver tisements be inverted in many of the London and .country newspapers.": (Signed) "ROBERT FRANCIS, Chairman." —Kentish Gazette. SPECIMENS OF IRISH HUMOUR.—Not long ago we expressed our sympathy for an Irishwoman, old and very poor, who, in addition to her other misfortunes , had lately lost her teeth. " Time for me to lose 'em." she replied, " w lien I've nothing for 'cm to do." Imagine for a moment a rosy-checked Mun ster man, paving rather leisurely the highway in Cheapside, and quite unconscious of the English d'gnity of a shopkeeper, blocking up a tradesman's door with a heap of stories. " 'Fake those stones away," quoth the tradesman, in a fluster. "Is it the stones ?" asks the Irishman? " Is the stones? Why, thin, where would von have me to tike 'em to ?" " Take 'em to h—," replies the very angry citizen. " I'll take 'em to heaven, pe,ur honour, they'll be more out of your way there," was Paddy's reply. Nat long since we received a note of sympathy, that we should have chosen a very unfortunate period for visiting the Irish metropolis, "when there's nothing to see and nobody to show it." And, a short time afterwards, one of the riders of a steeple chase, finding his horse boggle at a ditch ( An glice, hedge) thus addressed his steed, " Leep it now, and I'll give you a pound note." Upon being subsequently ques.: tioned as to the effect of the promised bribe, he ad,de,l, " and she did leep it, and fell on her face and hands ' a kin to this is the story of an Irish gentleman, who, being in Paris, and not understanding French, drove t o the at which, having been there before, he kne w an ntEng lish waiter attended. Ha‘ing summoned the garcon, the following dialogue took place Waiter, bring me some gravy soup." " Monsieur?" some—gravyt—. soup. Will you bring me the gravy soup? Don't standt bowing and jabbering there, sure's that wha t I ' m wanting, ng : and not your civility." " M ons i eur , je ne corn— here last ")" can't ye send me the man I saw " Tunder and turf, man alive ; . I ,e utin don't r n "en 'l to illustrate the 't bae u sn itd ea e ti r i s t t i a:dme We will only give on more anecdote our did not forsake ready- wittedness of Paddy, whose. Neu) . 'eat . to. confession, hint, even in the presence of his priest, sha dow of the confessional. Darby were attached, mision, to which various sma Penalties an to the awful fact, that he bad and, having detailed his several sins of omission and corn w i t h a groan, , at last came, I sight of Father Tobin that his rererence stolen his neighbour Kitty Mahony - s tyg ; a crime so heinous in t could, by no manners of means, give him absolution for the s:ime. Darby begged, and prayed, and promised, but to no e ffect ; no penance could make atonement ; nu repentance could produce effect ; nothing, in short, would do hut restitution, that is to say, to give hack her own to Kitiy Mahonv. But a difficulty arose, inasmuch as Darby and Derby's " childre " had pig ; upon which the priest waxed w eaten roth,ali u and threatened b re t „t e ene d the rogue with evil here, and a hereafter. " A n d now , h e ar me, ye terrible destiny vagabond cheat," sa id h e, " when ye go up to stan d yer trial, and fi n d yerse l f among the goats ( f or s h eep ye are not) to ge t yer sentence, t h ere 'll b e two w i tnesse s against ye ; there'll b e Kitty Mahony, that ye robb'd, and the pig that ye ate; and what will you do then, ye vagabond ?" " Och, plate yer riverence, and is it true what ye say, that Kitty Mahony herself will be there ?" " She will." " And the pig Date ; will the pig be to the fore ?" " He will." " Oh, thin, plate your riverence, if Kitty Mahony will be there, and the pig will be there, what'll hinder me from saying, Kitty Mahony. bad luck to yer soul, there's yet pig ;' sure won't that be restitution ?" llresimi:zster Review. I- YEN ENG EDITION. THE SUN, LONDDN. TNURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1839. EVENING bMITION.