The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRLISS, THURSDAY EVENING. JUNE 2, 1884.

..he nand, tweaseche was warned by the lambert of the
kirk of Seatlitod that it might also be fairly coasarned as a
measure equities theft adhesion so as arbitrary discipline
whiak.he thanbed Ged had Deter yet diegrased the thank
of Eagles& (Beer, hear.)
Mr.l9OUO VS= add the bill was not regarded with dis-
Weer bv Seetsiuman, ass wield it stele& then frost the
ectjoyekeet prigas at the University, as the hoc. mem-
ber for Werwielo 'apposed. The academical bodies at
St. Aadreer's sad the University of Glasgow bad both pal-
tined is Lamar at the bill, and' what he did deprecate was
the introduction of the amendment which had been sug-
gested by an bon. gentleman, and which would make the
governing body at Oxford aces exclusive than It was at
present. The ciliation was not between naeoonferniets
oe one side and the church of Englited ea the other. It
was rather • geiwtion of the liberty of lanais. (Heir.)
Mr. DODSON and it WWI not for those who bad Amp
of the 'af !to introduce amendments, but rather for bee.
gentlenisit opposite who wanted mail/nation. The boa.
member for Warwickshire :dlied attlear to the
church of &island from the bet far upwards of MO
Leariarde test of boos fide mem of the church of
bad sawed at Ounbridge University whiten
any such results as be imagiaed Bowing from it.
Such a test had been described as vague and as more ex-
clusive than that at Oxford ; but he thought that it was
more consistent with the has spirit of =Woe than re-
quiring a man to give hie assent to thirty-six metaphysical
and theologind propceitions. if, dialed that the otject of
the bill was to sever the connection between chunk and
state, nor did he believe it would have that ant. Of
this, however, he felt inured, that the 6:tactics from a
layman of an obnoxious tent created diessedes erne( the
members of the ebnich, and endlessly irritated thole who
were without its pale. (" Hear, hear," and cries of
" Divide."
The bone then divided, when the number were:
For going into oommittes 236
Against 226-10
The announcement of. the numbers wen reodved with
thane by the supporters of the bill.
The house then went into committee.
Mr. DODSON then moved that the chairman report pro-
ven, which was ivied to.

sozat AGAMI7LTIMAL BENIVOLINT
INSTITUrION.

The fourth anniversary festival of this institution
was celebrated Yet erring at the Loathe Tamers, Bleheir
gate-eked ; Lord Own" LE, Teeddiop The peels
numbered • large esienthiege of gentreeen, and amoopt
them were Kr. Chid, M.P., Mr. Athwart Meshi, and
raw ashen who are publialy known to be interested is
sgricultural affairs.
The Manaus, having gives the usual formal torte in
a =saver whir' excited the ecthusiastic a • of the
audience, reposed the toast of the arming, `' icy to
the Boy d Agricultural Sorriest lessiostica," aid said
it was as ineeitutho of very recent date. Nominally its
founder could go beak as far as 1880, but during the first
12 months they existed, Me certain foreign armies, more
upon piper than is any other shape. In short the active
operator of the society were limited to the last three
years ; sod then was one peat sdrantap derived from this
state of things, via., that they had mot many blunders to
correct. At the pretest time they had between 30 and
40 prodosiers on their list They bad • reserve fund of
8,0001., and this was increasing every year. He hoped it
would retinue to increase until it bed reached rich an
amount that the interest would give them something ape-
eiderable to fall back upon in the event of their experien-
cing any temporary failure. In reiernee to the =Des, in
which Institutions of this nature were supported, he
brought forward the fact that as people who made wills wan
prone to give away to the sick rather than to
the poor, so did It appear that legacies were
bequeathed to the well•to-do charitable institations rather
than to thee* who stood most in need of help, if. trusted
it would be understood that this institution come within
the latter category ; and he particularly desired to call
attention to the f set that all the business of the ameciatios
should be trammeled out of the minor stheariptioes, and
that • pacrowt hind should be raised from the donations
and other occasional cootributithe Their income now
amounted to 3,0001. a year, 75 per cent. of which was de-
rived from annual subscriptions, which moat be taken as to
sonic extent perms/mt. They sow numbered amongst
their supporters sixty peers and • large number of
the landed gantry ; but there the no doubt that
lought to have the co-operation of them-fourths of the
ing proposers and truant (arisen of every rusty
upon their list. This brought him to a coorderation of the
question of the expedieney of supporting institutions of
this kind ; and he was bare reminded that there was not M
this country • calling of any kith, the members of which
bad not made some provision for such of their fellow-
labourers as might stand in need of help through misfortuse
or in-health. The artists, literary mesa, sad newspaper
men bad done it, solicitors had drone it (and they knew well
bow to take care of themselves), painters, groan, railway
servants, tallow-chasdlers, and a doer or mare bodies
he never beard of, had contributed to 1106141 provision for the
future. These charities were amongst the reel wants of
the time, sad if well directed would prove of the utmost
value. Indeed they moat be awry that every year some
new institutioe of this kind was formed ; sad this he took
to be • proof that those which existed were roomful, and
that others were felt to be much Deeded. His lordship
rid • passing tribute to the manner in which this institu-
tion had been conducted during the brief period of its exist-
ence, and emicluded by saying that be trusted that those
who were interested in its welfare would not relax their
efforts, but that they would strive to Menem their pa-
tronage, and the sphere of their operations. The toast was
responded to with peat enthusiasm. and a list of subscrip-
tions and doestiona was rued amounting to about 3,400 f.
The musical simsagernsubs were under the direction of
Mr. George Penes, who bed the advantage of Mr. J. L.
Hattoo's valuable services as aecompaoyist.
Mr. Harker was the toastmaster.

A MI RZWIPAPER PRESS FUND.
••••••••

The committee of this amociation met at their
dem, Bensfee‘buildieso, &sued, ea Tuesday, Mr. W. V.
EMILIA is lie °hair. Amos( the atewhore meat IPIMO
Mr. F. Ledger, Mr. ewe, Mr. I. H. Doyle, Mr. Mould,
Mr. Bonow, Mr. flauseden, sad Ms. H. G. Warren, the
boa. secretory.
The minutes of the bet meeting bevies beet read sod
°operand,

The Ss;arrAzT regoded that the am et 1,1061. bed boss
lodged io tho Bask to the coedit of the t and.

Donation Irmo resolved and ordered to be eoksowledged
from the Boil of rimy', 101. 10s.; Mx. Lia' Lawson,
101. 10s. ; Mr. B. B. Cobbsll, 101. 10s. ; and from various
other gentlemen.
Communisations wire this read from journalists ow-
nods& with the editorial and reporting staffs of Dews-
gapers in &MI, Bath, Oxford sod Leeds, orpreming a
desire to join the association, and novena sow numbers
coosseted with the metropolitan and provincial prom were
*foetid.

The SlintimaY having called the attentiea of the com-
mittee to a leading article on the Newspaper Press Fund
which appeared is the Tina of Thursday last, the same wee
taken into coodderries, and it was resolved that the fol-
lowing statement be forwarded to the editors of the respec-
tive Loodea morning papers :
"The Committer of the Newspaper Prom Fund do
not consider it necessary to eater into any controversy
with the Time nispecang the propriety of establishing
the fund on its proper salaried bear The food is sow
a fact, and open its merits and the mode in which it is
administered it must staled or fall. Still liar do they
considee it their duty to comment upon or remonstere
"Oast the tone of the article eubmitted to their oon-
oderatica. Public opinion, as represented by the
metropolitans and retinae, press, hes already been
expressed on the 'abject, and wish the judgment so
pronounced the committee at all events have no reser
to be damnified. Moreover, as the statements ia the
article referred to affect not the committee alone, but
the body by whom they were elected, they feel that it Is
rather for the member of the society tkieseselres to
place upon record as expression of opinion should it be
deemed &dreads to do so. The question is thus narrowed
to two points ; first, whether the committee were chosen by
• proper mistituency ; and next, whether they are entitled
by their position, their character, end respectability to
speak in the tame et • person connected with the press.'
With the names of the committee the Time, professes
itself to be unacquainted, and therefore unable to judge of
their qualification to represent the general prem. The
names of the committee, with than of the other officer of
the society, are published with the rules and the report of
the association for 1864, and wan furnished to the Times
on the 4th May lint, accompanied by • list of 146
member and donors, and • letter, fern which
the following is an extract Newspaper Press Fund,
6, Besufort-buildinga, Strand, May 4, 11164. By
the accompanying list you will perceive that a
considerable number of the working members of the
daily and weakly preen have carolled themselves either
as life or annual subscribers. But the committee feel that
the Newspaper Press Fund deserves liberal consideration at
the bads of the proprietors of newspapers and other
journals, and they have desired me to request that you will
allow your name, as one of oar prominent newspaper pm-
praetors, to be placed among the distinguished lista of sub.
scribers and donors wbo have kindly extended to the fund
their countenance sod support. Should you desire any in-
formation on that contained in the enclosed brief state-
ment I ais i be most happy to communicate with you' ; or
should you probe it, two members of the committee will do
themselves the honour of waiting open you at any time you
may appoint.' And as a proof that they wrentitled tomer
in the name of ' person connected with the pram,' they
may state that they were unanimously elected at the most
numerous meeting of contributors to newspapers ever held
in Loodon— • meeting ocavesed by advertisement in the
Times and other metropolitan journals, and the proceedings
of which were fully reported at the time. With regard to
their qualification, the committee beg respectfully to etre
that is their opinion it is for that who elected them to
forma judgment upon that point, and that a fitting oppor-
tunity fit expressing that judgment will be found in the
general meeting of the members and subscribers
to the fund, which will shortly be called,
In order to enable them to present their report.
The committee would simply call the attention of the Time
to the fact that by the 14th rule of the association one-
third of their members retire by rotation every year, and
that by the 12th, the presider, vies-presidents, and how-
rary officers of the revelation are ex officio members of the
committee ; therefore it will always be in the power of the
general body to rears an efficient control over their ex-
ecutive. Au insinuatiou, not embodied in the artiste itself,
to which their attention has been called, but in the let-
ter signed ' M.P.' oa which the committee presume it
was founded, is made as to the respectability of the
members of the association. The committee feel that,
although it is no part of their immediate duty to ester
into any general vindication of their respectability, or
that of their coustitnenta, yet they Mt booed to state that
at the time the latter was published the association num-
bered among its mambos a very large proportion of the
gentlemen employed as editors and reporters on the London
pram and more than nine-tenths of the gentlemen engaged
in reporting the debates in parliament. The twelve gentle-
men forming the working committee of the association
are all tried members of the literary staff of five daily
and two weekly London papers ; there am among them
the editor and proprietor of an influential weekly
newspaper, the manager of the parliamentary staff
of one icily paper, and the sub-editor of another.
In conclusion, the committee have to state that so long
as the office devolved upon them, they will corder it a
sacred trust to administer the fond judiciously, sod in a
manner worthy of an institution established on the sound and
comprehensive bar of mutual help and public sympathy.
With ',lnd to the imputations of corrupt motives, and the
assumption of the Tutu that benoetorth the orator in
either house of parliament will be rendered femme or con-
signed to confirm at the will of the reporter, the committee
are content to observe that the character of the parlumen.
tary staffs of the several morning papers needs DO defence
at their hands. Already they have received numerous
applications from deserving permed, and they beg to sours
tM editor of the Tinathat during the short experience
they have bad, a body of evidence by bees received by
them which must convince ,the most incredulous of the
value and seceneity of the Fund."
The committee then adjourned.