The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-16 00:00:00

ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE,

On Saturday evening the anniversary festival of
the Royal Yelled Benevolent College was cebbrated at
Willies Booms, Lag-street, fit. Junim's ; Sir CHARM
Loom& in the chair, supported by Mr. Du Pre, Y.P. ;
Aneentebe, ILP. ; Arcomi Itchiness, Negate of the
Temple ; Bev. Dr. Mortimer ; John Properk Esq., the
originator of the institution, and • large company, the
great majority of whom were mambas of the medical pro-
'onion. It may well be rated that the college is
earnestly and almost abysmally upheld sad sided
by the medical peofesidou, the members of which
take the greater' interest in its snocem. The cool-'
loge is an bathetic° beaded by the profession as an
asylum for those of their brethren who from ill health,
want of profusion' snobs° or other adverse hilloreass
have sank Into poverty, sad for the widows of melba sea
In reduced rircanisteaoss. With it is combined a school
devoted in part to the gratuitous educatioo of orphans of
medical men. The porpoise of the institution are to
'Dabble an asylum in which 100 pensioners, who most be
duly qualified medical men or their widows not tinder fifty
yews of cgs—posesedng incomes of at least 151., and not
mon than 601. a yea—shall be provided with three fur.
sided rooms each, sad with such sdditioual assistance
and accommodation as the funds may pennitt:e'ditceslirovide
• school in which • liberal education will be wen to
230 boys the sob of duly cralified men,
forty of whom—foundatioe scholars—will be Wonted,
boarded, clothed, and maintained entirely at the expellee of
the institution, while the remainder will be charged at the
lowest rate which I found to be practicable ; and to provide
aneuities or ociesaboal pea:Ware sasistaaos to duly qualified
medical main distressed ciresiostenese or to their fami-
lies, when they can be greeted without detriment to the
as lam or school, which an always to be regarded as the
°pal objects of the emixistian. The Medical B•11111.0*
Ofp was webbed in 1861. In she latter part of
1852, subscriptices to a large amount hay* been ob-
timed, a site was obtained at Epsom, in 1853, the fast
stow of the bobbies' was laid, sad it was belly
cussed in Jose, 1855., sad deadly afterwards occupied
by the psasiosere sod seeders who had bees elected. Is
1862 the school &pennies% was perfected by the addition
el • /ergs sew school-room. additional claa6rooms, an
stielier, sad a swinunieg bath; sad at the preerat time • caw
block of peneboers' essideoces is on the past of comple-
tion. There arena,' 'widest in the college twenty pen-
being aged mediael men rtheir widows, each at
whom is provided with three comfortably furnished rooms,
an allowance of three ands half taw of coals, sad a pen-
nies of 211. a year. Four mime pareoubs, with dewier
allowances, will be added oa the completion of the new
block of resideeoss. There an also resident upwards of 180
boys, the soas of medical mos, of wheat 40—b t
d,&bon echolare—sre educated, boarded,and
mainteased estizely at S. of the isetntiou,
while the remainder are 401. sack foe an educe.
ten of the highest clam, washing, be of books, tr.e.
There are also some day scholars, who need not necessarily
be the seas of medical men. The slationit of the wombs
of the inetitutioa elsoirsthat, although it has some
it. prayete is this respect are fair sad 'soca:aging, while
as to the beneficial character of its immediate opeestioas
there can be no doubt.

The objesti .1 the institution wen ably and satiously
advocated by the Chairman, by Mr. Pro the trireme,
and several other speakers, and the result was, besides tbe
thcouragesseat derived hum the weal inflame of a ge-
neral gathering of tie friends aid meters, passim.?
oddities to its f cads of upwards el 1,