The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-25 00:00:00

THE FRISND OF TER CLERGY CORPORATION.

The fifth annual general meeting of this institu-
tion was held on Tuesday, at the Landon T . The
Rev. J. Brown, M.A., provided ; and among those present ,
were the Revs. J. Lucy. R Whittington, E. Alfrete, J. T.
Deiflield, J. E. Con, W. Ilitebell,4. W RttePrva 8.q., &s.
The report, which was read by the secretary, and unani-
mously adopted, desoribed the pensioners who had been
placed on the list, and the site which had been distributed
to them, showing • yearly elpeachture in this respect of
in addition Co assistance given to mccemitaue
men, their widows and fernifire, amounting to 9231., and
temporary aid 454. The festival held in April last had
been hampered by the passidency of the Earl of Chichester,
and produced highly satiefaMory resole. Notwithstanding
the defalcation of the late merit try, Kr. Aldrich, there
were abandon% grounds of thaokfolnese tor the continual
excess of the charity. The crrami•tee, while re-
gretting tlie largo deficiency in the sensate of Mr.
Aldrich, were desirous to afford every expianstioe, and to
SAW* the subscribers that such arrangements had bees
made as to prevent the possibility of on h an •111111011111.0
being repeated. Ile (Kr. Aldrich) was the Mums, d the
institution, and from that circumstance., and his gammal
position in society, anto.naded confidence was reposed la
him, but tram circumstances which transpired at the set
mincemeat of the year a finance committee wee formed,
through which it was ascertained that there was an actual
deficteoey of upwards of 4,6001, that Mr. Aldrich bad left
England, aid that there was no channel whatever from
whence the esdety could be repaid the amount abstracted.
Two seuretories, in addition to a lay secretary,
had best and to prevent a recurrence of so la-
mentable • alisegh.iggpAgjipmutts will be revised by ea

Under the above eireamstances the committee, in op-
peeling for meletaace, assure the subscriber• of the strictest
regent to 'economy in their espenditere.
the °Sten having been elected, with thanks for their
pest services, the proceedinp terminated.

METROPOLITAN ASSOCIATION FOR IDPROV•
ISO THE DW ELLINOS OF THE INDUSTRIOUS
CLASSES.

On Friday the eleventh annual meeting of the IL..-
shareholden of this auocistion was held at their offices, 19,
Coleman street. There wen present Lord Rad/dock, Lord et
'Minnows, Sir Ralph Howard, Mr. Wilkinson, M.P., Mr. es.
Pocock, Dr. Southwood Smith, and several other advocate' 111-
of sanitary reform. Mr. J. W. Tonna occupied the chair. 111,
The report stated that dwellings for silty families had rt.
been completed in New-street, H.lden square, and were 14
then folly occupied. They consisted of Filters sets of two et.
rooms, and forty-four 'ins of three rooms, and had been Me
eagerly sought after. A great amount of improved aeoom-
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audition had thus been afforded in a neighbourhood where ~.
the visitations of cholera bad been virulent. Two sub-
stantially-built freehold houses, giving accommodation to
twent.foar families, had been purchased in Albion build- le
isms, Bartholomew-close, and dwellings for 108 families in 10 I,
Nelson-strut, Bermondsey, wise on we point of ample-
tioa. In the improved dgellisgs 01 the association, in the a.,
Old Paacras-road, sot a single cue of ebolera bad gai
matured, out of a population of 693 ; in Albert- j
street, Mile-and New-town (population 360) • mother PRI
and three children had died of cholera in • family of ten MI
Forums bat in the remaking 60 families not a gain eau IIL
had ocreirrod, and Dr. Glover had come to the canine es ja
that in the family adverted to there had bow •
super-indaeigg cause in, probably, Vs want If suifessss teli
food. In the lodging-house for single men, la the same II
street, only two cases of cholera had occurred out of an lay
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avenge population of 200. At the Sobo Chambers, out
of as average number sleeping there every Right of 88, u
there was not a single ease of cholera, and only seven to
eons of &mho' ; while in the immediate vicinity of et.
this building the inhabitants were dying daily in large IS
mashers, and the epidemic, while it lasted, was more
general and fatal than ia any equal area ot England during
any visitation of the epidemic. Is the twenty-three u
houses for families in Pelham-street and Picasant-row not as
a single ease of cholera occurred, and the total number of 50
deaths from all canes in the dwellings, out of an avenge it
Population of upwards of 2,200, was 20, of whom
to
13 were children. There had been an addition w
of more than 4001. to the nett profits for the
year, and the directors recommended that • din-
dead at the rate of 21 per nat. per annum on the
amount of the paid-up capital in the association should be
declared, and that the sum of about 1601 required hr this
purpose, la addition to the 1,7621.25. profits of the year,
abould be taken from the guarantee fund. During the
last year the directors had apportioned capital to the estent
of 66,0091. among the towns of Liverpool, Bristol, Wolver-
hampton, ar.d Sunderland, which with the branches pre-
viously twined at Brighton, Dudley, antigen, Torquay,
Southampton, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, absorbed • capital
of 103,6261., sad the formation of broaches at Manchester,
Birmioshass, sad in other towas, was under consideration.
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report.
Mr. Bailie said be was gratified to find the dividend for
the present par wee ono- half per cent. greater than that for
last year. He believed that en long they would obtain •
fair return for their capital.
Mr. R. /Dwain) thought the rent of the rooms was higher
than the labouring clause could afford.
Mr. WILILIO4SOII, M.P., and Lird BRRINovoN, M P., et.
ezpromsd an opposite opinion, maintaining that*, rooms et-1
were cheaper than could be obtained elsewhere. ti
The report was then adopted, and after the transaction of :1
'4 routine business the proceedings terminated.
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LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY.

Commander William Millais* is appointed
Ilepatiataadant et Pukes lonise at Dew.

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On Saturday the Society for Promoting the Amend- to
meat of the Law held their anniversary dinner at the Crown fin
and Sceptre, Greenwich, Lord BeocostAn presiding. The Bt'
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attendance, which was very scant, included Mr. Cave, 1
Mr. Amply, Yr. H'Qtreee, Yr. Power, Mr. Wm. Hawse, 14;
Mr. Edgar, Mr. Haetisge, Mr. GilLimon, &a. After the
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health' of the Queen, and the Army and Navy,
The Cluterux, in proposing " he Health and Pro,• et.
pertly of the neeisty," said that, after gpvissg the fountain pi
of the law and the defenders ot the law, it was only right .111
that he should propose the &menden of the law, and in iii:
doing so he would not say that their prospect' were et,
bright and brilliant, for that would be ezeggera•
le e
lion—but they were fair amid comfortable. (Laughter.)
During the se•sieie of parliament several bills had been in. la
troduced which more or lase embodied the principles which
the society bad bees meteeding forhe was plumed h
gp
to a
add that the Lord Chancellor, with that candour whic
characterised him, with that love of justice which was the
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chief ornament of • judge. and not the least in • legislator,
gave a reedy ear to sagrations for improvement in the law, fie
Do matter from what waren or party thy came. (Rear, st
sear.) If he were to led fault with his noble and learned um
friend at all, It was for not having more efficiently.exerciwid iii
hie just, his necessarily just and natural authority, in passing lo
the bill for the amalgamation of the English with
sor y the Sconotes. la!
tch I I
system in respect to bills of exchange sad promie
The committee of the Houma Commons had, he was sorry in,i
to MA, reported rather in favour ot lie. Kesting's bihalf 11,
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which was only a half measure, andure, being only a
measure, and therefore likely to postpone the fell measure, 11.
he was in doubt whether it would not be better to reject it Ice.
altogether. (Hear.) The Petty Larceny Bill would be a
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great improvement when poised into • law. There Were I,
two bills on this subject, the bill of the government and se
their bill; but as they were almost the same in principle, Ise
be bill of the government might be called their bill. At ll
present, in coos of petty leretny, the prisoners bad to so- 0
dergo an imprisonment et 70 days on the average before i
they were brought to trial, even though the amount
involved did not exceed 6d. or 6d. (Hear, hear.) lo I
1. the more favoured districts of Middlesex and.flarrey, Lk.
Imbue the prisoners were tried at the melons, the Duper- SL
moment did not exceed thirty days. This was a great t
hardship when the &ceased wasinnocent, but even in the ay
ease of the secured being found guilty, the previous a
I =strebeolLonrecet.rialhwoujundigoire. tthabenre;ionroeu. guhkti:geotratten.
eseseet, awarded merely a nominal punishment. There
meld be no doubt that such • system tended to bring the ed
ministration of justice into repute. (Hear.) If it should 10
be found necessary to increase the judicial staff in order to sli,.
meet the increase of datum thus thrown upon the judges,
be had an
to
increase
it would be good policy and fp.
wand ecosomy to increase it. His lordship then
inferred to the county courts, and condemned the Sc.
ileornaly of these courts extracting 300,0001. from the ~
miters by means of lees. Hellcat alluded to the eighteen '''
eeeolutioas which he moved during the pretest session, with go
a view of doing for the oriented jurisdiction what had 25
already been done for the civil procedure of the counnqutrire y. If 4
gar object was to have a commission appointed to iMI
IMO criminal procedure, which he had no doubt would be „,,
productive of as good results aa the inqeiries
as of t com- -,
milliioOO on lOU procedure. Of course, if,his noble
friend the Lord Chancellor suggested, some of these et.
improvements could be carried oat without the delay Iv
which the lashing of a commission would involve, he was ,LA
not the person to object to that more speedy legislation. '§
He only hoped that the consideration of some =prey,. be
=Meta would not too long postpone the attention which
Mbiee required. With regard to the law of partnership, toe
Mil was • most important subjict, but as the 12th of August 112
lielleell to be a kind of prliamentary bar. ier be feared that
=tittal resell would be arrived at duringe present "
. It was sot for him to say a word against the Re-
, fon Let. It was intended to modem a fabric that would ta
wear. (Laughter.) No doubt the Hones ot Commons did SS I
wear, but it was too often the patience of those who Were ..
cape. ing good cad useful mesaures from it. (Hear and ;11!
lauebter.)
Mr. Yowls proposed "The Health of the Chairman,"
who briefly theorised Masks. The company returned to town le
by special train at 11 o'clock. 11