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I ' e it . 4 7 611F lr ; • . ~.., ........ -,--- ii . Ix - • - , .._ , • .• _... , 7?„ , i -, • , , . , . , 4 . 1. - - • • ~ ~ ! - 4,4 4 - . . ..44 -„..„..;.; t -, 44., 0., .4.4.1. . . ' 'il ' oe7 #, /rno.wr , . t.-Y i -6 aidatiy // NUMBER 91 0.1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, ]B2l SrV.ENIrtNCtI OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Oct. 2G, 1821. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of His MA . JESTY 'S ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, that Proposals will be received at their Office, -in on or before Friday, the 9th of November next, from such Persons as may be willing to undertake the Supply of Two Hundred and Fifty Chaldrons of NEWCASTLE COALS for Ser . vice Of this Department at GIBRALTAR. Farther Particulars, •ditions together with the Terms and COll - Contract, may be knoWn at the Secretary's O .Fec,in'Pall-illall aforesaid, any day between the Hours of Ten and FoUr o'Clock, Where the Proposals must be delivered, Se aled up, and endorsed " Proposals for Coals," hut noPro posals ca n be, admitted after the 9th .!! November next, at Zselve o'Clock at Noon of the same. _Day; neither will any !Pen !ler be noticed, unless thc Party making it, or an 4,7eut 7 71 his behalf, shall attend. By Ordrr of the Board, s E. IL CREW, Sceretary, 1-/ tTILILL/NG-OPP/CE, Oct. 1821. T"E COMMISSIONERS Ai- VICTUAL ' LT:VG - His 31.1JESTY'S ITY do hereby give No hes, that on Tuesday, the 6th of November weal, Ike!, will he re nd' to reed to 7:enders in writing (sealed np), and treat for P.i.fty„Thousand Gallons of WEST INDIA RUM, of the strength of 5 per cent. under proof by Sikes's Hydro , rioter.. Fi've Thousand Ells of CANVAS for PUDDING BAGS, be answerabl e to Sample; to be produced with the Tenders. I s erty Tons of BUTTER. flied Twenty niis CIiF,ESE• be delivered into"hrs -Majesty's Victualling Stores at 2)eptford, in the space of One Month, and to be paid for by l'?lts, payable, without interest, sixty dans'after date. T r ie Co n di t i ons of the Contracts may be seen at the Seere garY's No regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price !kall no: he inserted in words at length, or that shall not be delivered to the Board - before One o'Clock on the said 76e " l aY, the 614 V November next ; nor unless the Person to m behalf; "takes t h e Tender, or some Person on his attends answer when called for. ?°r-VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, and NEW SOUTH WALES, - with leave to call Nt t he Cape of Good Hope, ~, F 3 - * THE fine coppered -A 1 SHIP Pi k lk, ,_ DEVERON, lying in the London .Docks. . 1 „.-44 . \ i t't Burt lien 300 tons, WILLIAM WILSON, '''' 4 . - Vje Commander. Has most excellent Accom. modation for Passengers, and carries a Sur- Prei g i lt or Rogue. apply to JOHN LYNEY, jun. Cowpres•court, Cornhill. INDIA. I'OONAMALEE MILITARY ASYLUM. o n v . (FROM THE MADRAS PAPERS.] v ednesday the 11th insta n t (M a y), His 14 . -enc Y Lieutenant General Si r Tuom As v. I , te 3L° P, Bart. an d C. C. B. Commander-in-Chief, t d for th e l as t t i me prev i ous t o hi s depar pure f° ' Pangland, the Asylum he established at ofoona rn alee in 1819, for the Children of the time t o servi ce expired M en o f His Maj e sty's Regi ents returning to Europe, and for the Orphans of hose ° se who die in India, in the service of their "untry. Excellen c) " cy was accompanied by the Ho nrahle Ai r . S tratton, Member of C ouncil, Co b. " el Onnkin, C. 8 ., an d Li eutenant -C o l one l theckens, other of hi s Majesty's 34th Regiment, anti members of the Committee of Manage- dent, the Staff Officers of the Station, with seve f.al Visitors from Madras ; a public examina on was held in the Chapel at Poonamalee, of cond ne prog ress and proficiency of the Institution, ucted by the Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Roy. The boy s an d girls of the two schools, in num ber about 150 (being selected from the total umber, viz. males and females at present sup- Ported by th e charity), having been previously arranged on each side of the chapel, presented a bo ys truly interesting. The first class of and girls were examined by the Chaplain, • i i n reading a portion of the Scriptures, in explain en What h a d b een read, in spelling, and the four i er nentary ru l es o f ar i thmetic; at the same time ;,,e writing b oo k s an d daily registers of the chi} we re l a id on t h e table for i nspection. T he il dren of the first classeq being dismissed, pro lie,e,.ciPtd) as teachers, to examine, in a similar man -132 tneir respective classes, according to Doctor ex - a "'s system. Afterwards all the children were cle nl ned by the Chaplain in the church cate tnrslx)' I explained in short questions with Scrip m--neraiLtProofs. The boys and girls of the highest were then presented by the grief'Commander s as P res ident of the Institution, with 13' i. Medal s ; an d ot h ers rece i ve d rewar d s of s i c :"'s• Those child ren a l so , who in the work at ° _,P B had excell e d as t a il ors , weavers , sp i nners , _ k nitters of stocki ngs , were presente d w ith medals for their industry and attention. c is Excell ency , w i t h t h e ot h er M em b ers of t h e naltnittee and visitors, then proceeded to in ;Pect the different buildings appropriated by Go 'rurnent to th e use o f t h e I nst i tut i on, the School sa w i ns, work- s h ops, hospitals, and nurseries ; and the children partake of a plain dinner, excel lent in its kind. T his public exam i nat i on of the ch i ldren of the institutionto was gratifying in the highest deg ree o ,. t he President an d M em b ers o f t h e C ommittee Cot ai anagement )an d t h e other vis i tors, and much emendati on was bestowed on the children for ar ! r Proficiency in reading, spelling, writing, and t° i thineti c . those ti Nor will th e sa ti s f ac ti on b e con fi ne d rtesting who witnessed this most affecting and in-' jest sight.—The officers and men of his Ma c, re giments,who, by mon thly subscriptions, ilv nt r ib n . Le to the support o f t hi s A sy l um, a id e d vviif rno nthly contrib u ti on f rom th e G overnmen t, .eel an honest exultation in knowing, that. Reny). by their means the children of their former com rades are brought up in religious habits and use ful knowledge, and they will unite in invoking a blessing on THE BENEVOLENT FOUNDER of the In stitution,who, before his departure from the coast, has witnessed the successful completion of his truly charitable exertions in favour of the soldier's orphan. Much commendation is due to the Reverend Mr. Malkin and Mr. Roy, who have gratuitously superintended their education, and brought them to their present state of acquirements ; while to Captain Millar, of his Majesty's 40th . regiment;. (who as paymaster of out-pensioners of Chelsea remaining in India is stationed at Poonamalee) the Committee of Management feel called: upon to express their utmost acknowledgements for . the voluntary and unrequited assiduity which he un ceasingly bestows towards the fulfilment of every object which can tend to promote the benefit of 'the charity. the object of the Institution is to give an bum ble education to the orphans, suited to the sta tion of life which they will necessarily fall into, and to make them useful to themselves and to society; with this view the children are taught to spin, .weave, knit, to cut out, and make their own clothing—all superficial acquirements that would tend to make them aspire to condi tions they can never arrive at, are carefully ex cluded from this Asylum. His Excellency and visitors afterwards dined with the Commandant and Staff of Poonamalee, by whom a handsome entertainment had been prepared, suitable to the quality of the guests, and to the known hospitality of Captain• E dwards, who presided, and the Staff of the Can tonment. B ENGALEE NEWSPAPER.-The following is a translation of an extract from the Bengalese Newspaper published at Serampore, and exhibits a picture of depravity, such as the degraded state of the Hindoos in this part of India renders too common :—" About twenty days ago a Brah min of the village of Poeelie, in Burd wan, having married the daughter of another Brahmin, of Go palpore, shortly after marriage went to his father in-law's horse. One day his brother-in-law and father-in-law, with the Talooknar of the district and several others, met to celebrate a certain drunken and most obscene festival peculiar to Bengal, and known by the name of Chuckur. This Brahmin being much importuned to join in the or gies, refused ; his brother-in-law, nevertheless, took some spirits and put them on his forehead the son-in-law, after some angry words, retired to perform ablutions, and purify himself from the pollution; his mother-in-law, on hearing this, be came angry, and abused her son-in-law. At night the Brahmin having eaten nothing, told his wire that he must return to his own house, and that he would send for her also in a few days. His wife complied : the mother-in-law overhearing this, became enraged, and spoke to her hug band and son in harsh language, saying that it was inexpedient to suffer this man to live. Her husband, son, and others, who had been cele brating the festival, then went to the house, and knocking at the door, asked for tobacco ! The Brahmin having opened the door in a hurry, they rushed in—gagged the mouth of his wife, and then proceeded to murder the husband, in a man ttee-foo brutal to be described. After this, the Chokeedar of the village having got information of the murder, came to the spot and saw the corpse. The Talooknar then gave him 10 rupees to conceal the matter. The Chokeedar took the body to a Pear's tomb, where a Fakeer staid, and hung it upon a tree. A little before day, the Fakeer on seeing the corpse gave 5 rupees to the same Chokedar, to remove it. s Another Cho= keedar of the neighbouring village afterwards buried the body near a tank. Next morning, the father-in-law wrote a letter and sent it to his son in-law's house. The father of the deceased, on read ing the letter, proceeded to the father-in-law's house, and on the way received an account of his son's death front his own brother. Numbers of people then proceeded with the two brothers to Gopalpore, to the father-in-law's house, where they were told that the son had hanged him self on the Fakeer's tree. The widow of the de ceased, however, bursting into tears, revealed the whole story. Her father and brothers then en deavoured to kill the father of the deceased, but the people who were with him made a noise, which brought the Chokeedar and the people of the village to his assistance, st Ito with the Daroga, came and bound the murderers, and apprehended the Fakeer who informed on the Chokeedar. The body was then taken up, and all the accom plices were sent to Burdwau jail. The Chuckur is a festival in honour of Kales, and one of the most obscene of all the saturnalia that disgrace the modern religion of the Hindoos of , Bengal; it is frequently held at Kalyghaut. Both sexes of all casts are admitted to the rites on a footing of perfect equality ; the lowest Soonder or Chundal, is treated with the same respect as the highest Brahmin ; and they vie with each other in all species of obscene revelry. Fatal vengeance is invariably inflicted o❑ those who refuse to join in the orgies, as in. this instance.—(lnd. Gaz.) EWEN. SIIOCKING ACCIDENT.—As Mr. S. Sortnr, of Dean-street, accompanied illy his friend Mr. 13ENTNGuoROUGH, were returning to London frcni Twickenham in a single horse chaise on Ttlesday evening, the chaise was driven against the wheel of a coal cart in the King's-road, when travelling at a quick rate, and upset with a crush, which shattered it in pieces. Mr. Sorre, who was driv ing, was taken up in a senseless and hopeless state, and Mr. Beningborough had his arm' and c ollar -bone broken. LITERARY NO'T'ICE. IRISH MELODIES; f)y THOMAS MoOn.E; Esq. It has been observed, that, notwithstanding this seems to be peculiarly the age of.Lit6- rature, its chief .Patrons.are to be found among Booksellers. The obserVatimr is well founded. Most of the works`whiai have excited the. admi ration of the country have been bought .by Pub lishers, who have paid sums for the copy-right, of almost incredible magnitude. This fact must be. highly, gratifying to the friends of Litera ture, because it spews that those •Patrons are en couraged by S4CCeSS to a perseverance ill their adVenturgs. liberality ; The auth or f the work before us, according to report., ha received 'large prices for all his , works, hut par treAtrly for his tzli k tNrokction, and the universal admiration which it excited has no doubt abundantly requited the ProprietOrs. Among those liberal Patrons of genius May justly be ranked the Publisher - of these AhLODTES, who, in addition to a considerable sum paid, to .the Author of the Poetry, must, at a very great ex pence, have brought forward the Music. Be sides these expellees, we learn that he has been involved in heavy and perplexing law-suits against those who have fraudulently usurped his right. It has long been wished that the poetry should be published separately from the music, in order to gratify those Readers who are not gifted with musical as well as poetical taste. This object is accomplished in the present ele gant little volume, which is adorned with appro priate and beautiful vignettes. It is impossible to read this work without wonder, as well as pleasure, at the skill, taste, and spirit with which the Author has adapted his Poetry to the.variouS measures of the original Melodies, whether lively, mournful, gallant, tender, or patriotic. The genuine spirit of Poetry breathes through the whole, and while the work is animated by a gay philosophy,. it abounds with sound reflections, and manifests feelings that do honour to the heart of the Author, a s we ll as t o hi s genius. CORONATION CLAIMS.--A serious difficulty has occurred in the removal of the fittings in West minster Hall and the Abbey ; in the former place every thing remains in stall' quo till the Court of Claims shall decide to whom they may belong. Lord GWYDER, as Lord Great 'Chamberlain,' claims the fittings in the Hall ; and Colonel STE VENSON, the Principal of the Board. of Works, has put in a claim on the part of the public, fQr whose benefit he contends the materials ought to be sold.—ln the Abbey the very Rev. the Dean took upon himself to direct the removal of the fittings from the choir. Colonel STEVENSON then requested they might not be removed fromjhe nave of the Abbey ; the Dean, however, con sidered them the property OfAtirnself. and the Chapter, and accordingly sold them ; but; in consequence of a notice from the Solicitor to the Board of Works, the purchase money has been paid into DaummoNns, there to await the de cision of the Court of Claims. Within these few days a new difficulty has been started, the keys of the principal entrance of the Hall are In the possession of the Lord Great Chamberlain, who is at present in France (and• has been written to on the subject ;) should he refuse to resign them till his claim is decided, the LORD MA voa, on the ensuing 9th of November, will have to make his way to the Hall by a circuitous and bye way. A Meeting of the Commissioners for making the river Iver navigable from Tempsford to the towns of Hitchin, Baldock, and Shefford, took place on Friday last, at Baldock, when, after its being stopped at Biggleswade for GO years and upwards, it was resolved, on the motion of Asm.r., Esq. to carry on the same to the Junction of the three Rivers at Langford,-by a majority of one, the number being 17 for, .and 16 against, the very purpose of their appoint ment, though it will be a great public advan tage when finished to any one town, and be the means of employing a great number. of men, now out of work, to the great relief of the farmers and others who have to pay the Poor Itates.— The good people of Biggleswade, however, are mightily alarmed that what has enriched them will ruin the next place it goes, through, and in the spirit of Christian charity, set themselves against the undertaking. At a fifth Anniversary of the 'Gloucestershire Auxiliary Society, which was held at Gloucester, Mr. CAMPBELL related the following anecdote:— " At a city which he reached beyond Lattakoo, the inhabitantS, on complaining that their harvest that year had been very defective,. urged Mr. C. to request his men to shoot a rhinoceros for them. His Hottentots according went in pursuit of one, and were directed to an animal which, in the Scriptures, is called the" unicorn. It was long thought that the rhinoceros NVS the animal there described, but the head of the one shot being brought to Mr. C., he immediately pereeived it to be the unicorn of the Scriptures. He had de posited the horn in a museum of the London Mi siOnary Society ; and in the opinion of, scien tific men; it - is Pronounced to he that of the uni, corn so long-sought after."—(lnverness Journal.) On Tuesday last, during‘Ta:heavy rain, Mr. RANDALL, of the Shipwright's Arms, Brompton, examining' an obstruction to' tare passage of the water from' the roof of. his house, fell backwards from the height of about seven feet, and his head striking against the sitikiof a doorway,he was. so zziucli injured as to survive the acCident, only 'a few hotirs.--7-(RochMtit' Gazette.) GUARDIAN SOCIETY. Yecterday the fifth Annual Meeting of the • GUAR lAN SOCIETY for the preservation of the Public Morals was held at the Egyptian Hall, Mansion-house ) the Right Hon. the Lotto MAYOR in the Chair. Mr. JAMES read the following, which was the fifth Report of the Meeting : The fteport stated that the Society was insti tuted in 1812, for two objects;: of which one was to discover the best means of diminishing the number of those wretched fem'ales who frequent the public streets of the metropolis, and the other to afford with promptitude refire and relief to such of them as were entirely destitute, and ap peared to need only a temporary asylum to pros mote their reformation. After stating the assist ance which the Society had received from the Lord Mayor, Magistracy,- and CorVoration of London, .and also the measures which it" had taken to give efficacy to that assistance, the R'ei port added, that the Society, finding itself un able to put down the evil which it sought to era dicate, applied to the Legislature for relief ; and that in consequence of such application, the Com mittee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the state of the Police, instituted an examination into the nature of the evil complained of. The result of that examination was to establish the following facts :—That the evil exists to a most distressing and alarming extent ; that houses of the worst possible description are established in various parts of the . metropolis, daring and de fying all attempts to put th em d own ; that their agents and instruments are incessantly at work, disguised in various ways, labouring with the ut most ingenuity of wickedness to ensnare the ig norant and unwary ; that the streets of the me tropolis are thronged day and night with females who are in intimate union with thieves of all sorts, and are associated with depraved characters of every description ; that of these unhappy creatures the average .age is from 18 to 22 ; and that the ,period during which their life of wretchedness and sin continues (owing to irregular hours, ex posure to the weather, and frequent. intoxication,) is generally not more, than from two to three years. Lastly, it was.established, that the law, as it at present stand, is wholly unequal to the punishment. of the guilty, or the protection of the innocent ; to remove the evil, or to check its growth. The report ; likewise affirmed that though all this haa been substantiated four yi.ars ago before a ComMittee of the House of Com mons, nothing bad since been either done . or at tempted to remedy the deficiencies of the existing laws, or to diminish the evil against which they pro fess to be directed; and then proceeded to point out the melancholy consequences which were likely to result from this inefficient state of the law, not only to the unfortunate females themselves, but also to Society at large, for which it referred to the proceedings of our criminal courts, and the mournful events that frequently follow them. It'then added, that where, from the strength of natural corruption, and the inadequacy of human law, little could be comparatively effected in the way of prevention, it was the duty of both. .sexes to do every thing in their power to heal . the wounds which sin had opened. To encourage the Members of the Association to continue iii the course,they had already begun to pursue, the report stated, what had , been the benefits derived from it during the last year. From this statement it' appeared .that there had been Under the care of the Society in that time 127 females ; of whom' 46 we.:e in the house when thelast Report was made: since which period eighty-one had been admitted to the Asylum : of these, twelve had been provided for in service ; 20 had .been stored to their friends; two had been sent to the parishes to which they belonged ; one had died ; 40 had been discharged or had withdrawn ; and 52 remained under: the care of the Society = making a total of females received into the asy lum, since the formation.of the Society, of 653. Of whom 165 had been placed in service ; 158 bad been restored to their friends ; 34 had been sent to' their respective parishes ; 8 had (lied ; 236 had been discharged or had withdrawn ; and 52 'were now under the care of the Society. The Report (heti acknowledged the .kind assistance of the Mercers' Company, in the donation of 501., and of the Clothworkers' Company, in a donation of 30/. ; and stated the income of the Society dor int,' the past year to have been 1,0531. 16s. 7d., and the 'disbursements 1,3601. Os. 1-1(.1.--The RePort concluded. with a paragraph to the fol lowing effect . " It is painful to be obliged thus tamake known, that there has been tmexcess in the Society's expenditure beyond its in come in the past year; and had it not been for the persevering kindness and liberality of their treasurer, the asylum could not have been continued on its presen-i scale. A debt of grati udi. they are willing to owe and to acknowledge : it is due from them and from the public : but they are exceedingly anxious thm.t an effint should be made to discharge another debt of a pecuniary nature. This, indeed, cannot wiih any propriety be allowed to continue; and yet without the increased support of the public, to whose kindness they already owe so much, the Committee have no means of extinguishing it, but by the ex clusion of those who seek a refuge in the as - yluM as their only way of escape from the path of. the destroyer." The Rev. D. ltotict. , rosesto move that the Re port be received and agreed to. He spoke in the highest tein-o:pf the excellence of this inslitur tion, and pointed out-the great moral advanta ges which must ficow from the diffusion. of its re formatory principtes. He alltided' to the various opportunities which his- , situation as Chaplain for the . County of Middlesevafforded hint of seeing the - numerous practical advantages which flowed from asylums for the unfortunate : without them, he asked, how was the discharged criminal to be prevented from relapsing into his former habits of vice and lidlenesS,? He had known a variety of instances in which those who had erred in the path of life, eagerly sought the benefit of re establishing their character , through the means afforded. by the timely protection of a humane and charitable asylum. The Rev. THOMAS MORTIMER seconded the motion for adopting the Report, and called upon the Meeting to contribute with their sympathy for the great objects•of the Society, the equally necessary-pecuniary means for giving their good. intentions effect. He regretted' that his . awn means limited his' aid at pre . s.ent to one guinea, which he laid on the table. The Rev. J. MonntsoN declared his cordial concurrence in the objects of this Society, which he deemed of the greatest utility, -and entitled. to the support of every Christian wto valued the divine precepts of • the Founder of their holy ' - The Rev. J. CAIWYDC.Lx. ,vas to b ea - r his best- testimony 'to the good- practical effect which attended the progress of the • labours of this Society. When he •was Some years ago exa mined before a Committee of the House of Commons upon education, : he Was particularly interrogated upon two. points:—one' Was, the supposed influence of education' upon the wretch.. ed poor in the vicinity of London, and' the other the effect which he had observed education to produce among savag e s. He was•not at the time of his examination as competent to speak upon the effect of education' among the savages as he now felt himself, owing to the eXperience which lie had acquired since that .period. He remem bered when in one of his journeys about 300 miles in the interior of Africa, he met the Chief of a tribe of savages 'who eagerly . sought from him the instruction which white men have ; that was the way in which he made his request. He Visited the town of this Chief on the following morning, and saw the wretched state of the place. Every thing lay exactly in the same state as when Noah's flood left it.—(A laugh, and cries of " hear.")--Not a spade appeared to have penetrated the ground since that remote time. The men and women had no covering but a few black rags like sheep skins. None of the males appeared ever to have been washed since the time they were born. They were all igno rant even of the name of God ; -and the oldest of them confessed he knew nothing more than the beast. He immediately sent 'an instructor among these poor people, and the most ample success attended his labours. In ascending the same country, after an absence of five years, how great was the change which .he had the happiness of contemplating' His ex pectations had, -it was true ; been raised high by communications respecting the improvement which had taken place by the labour and example of one man, but what he saw greatly surpassed all,that he had previously expected upon the oc casion. The people he met all knew him and recognised him : they called his attention to for mer occurrences, or else he could. not have be lieved them to be the same people whO were so lately immersed in savage life : .he found they had encompassed their town with a strong and substantial wall in imitation of brick; and abOut two miles nnd a half in circumference. 'They had erected two streets ; vegetatiOn of every kind had grown up about them ;- and both males and females were as neatly dressed in the Euro pean style; as the general class of sf.srvants in England. The diSplay of the advantages of industry in a practical manner, was, he thought, the only way of civilizing savages; to attempt to civilize barbarians by philosophy, was like fighting Goliath with a feather. It was because he thiAt;ht the Guardian Society went the proper way to work moral reformation among the idle and the dissolute, that he cordially ap proved of their principles, and had uniforstily devoted to them his support.—(Applause.) 'Mr. STRATTON, in coming forward to propose the next resolution, said, that he concurred in the different eulogies w hich h a d b e en pa sse d upon the objects of this Association by the speakers who had preceded him. He had heard the Re port which had been 'read to them with consi• derable pleasure ; but it appeared 'to him that it wanted one appendage which had been tacked to their last Report—he meant a collection of facts. Facts, which were upon all occasion's of importance, were of more importance 'on occa sions like the present than upon any others, ,be- Caitse they carried conviction along with them More certainly 'than the most eloquent Speeches or the most laboured arguments. The facts which were contained in the Report of last year proved beyond all doubt that this SOciety Was entitled to the support of every Christian. Charity was of two sOrts-4uinan end religious : the former principally. exerted itself in healing the diseases of the body ; the latter in healing those of the soul. The charity'exerted by this Society partook in its nature both of religious and human charity, and therefnre was partiCu larly.deserving of the adOptiOn" of every Member of the community who wished well to the inte rests of htiMinity. The Worthy Gentleman; after calling on the Meeting to subscribe liberally to the objects - of its proposed the thanks of the Meeting to the Duke of StiSse . k and the Duchess of Wellington, the Patron and Patronesi of the SocietY. - • The Rev. JABrz BUitTING seconded the reso lution, whichwas put from the Chair, and car ried unanimously.' Thanks were then given to the Lord Mayor, who 'replied to them in a short and eloquent speech. : a ft er w hi c h th e Meeting dispersed.