The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-10 00:00:00

ASYLUM FOR SOLDIERS
WIDOWS.

Last evening the first triennial festival in aid of
the funds of We instauti, a wee held ore the London
T , Bishopeente.:treet ; his Grace the Duke of Wit,
its iTUX is the emir. Amongst the eur patty. mho DlM-
band about PO gentleas•n, were his Royal Diabase' the
Duke cf Cambridge, Ilaj I-Gerard Blausherd. Maine
Chanel Use Has. air B. Cut, 114 j r 0.-neral amass,
Colonel the Hen. Augustin Lidcelr, Colonel the Hem.
Jamie§ Lindsay, M.P., Colonel Meyrick, Colonel Rowland,
Colonel the Roe. O. F. lister, Liget-Colonel R. K.
D 11111312, Linn land J. &dory North, M.P., Major the
Hor. H. L Powys„ Cdonel Tyrwhat, el.j c-O.n*ral Ras-
sell, the Hon. Ceetsin Ninety, Sir Hasty Bentiark, Col.
Wood, Colonel Fvrter, Dr. Menden, the Rev. Joseph
Br we, the Rev. Charles Mackenzie, and many others who
have identided themselves with the institution from the
period of its formation.
The Noble CHAIIIMAS Fr wied as stout "Ills Lyal
li:shccrs Priam Albeit the Prises of Weloo, the Doke of
Cambridge, and the rest of th, Royal F•eally," paying •
marked compliment to the military gesi.tice of the royal
dose.
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The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in intoning thanks, ssid that
the rind opinion of the puolte wee en honour and a nwsrd
very far beyond the pr or terries he bed bed is his power
tc render. (Cheers.) llie noble trien t bad alluded to the
yr:on:inane* of his *untidier here on this ore mica to ne-
t him in the chair; and he (the Duke of Cambridge)
tat ao heeltstion in Paying ilv.t it was be. armioas
desire to be present, because he was most urgently re-
quested by many !oedemas be saw around him to
meet them at this festival, and Inc sore he wad desirous of
ehowieg en his own pert, and on that of the n ore imme-
diate members of his family, that tiny were deeply sereible
of the destined= best .wed on the honoured and reopeeted
nam• of his late father is fioodirg en Institution st.ch ea
the prerent ((hes ) He (odd truly say that, ►nowing,
as he did, the lesbian@ of the late Duke of Cambridge, be
was persuaded that it he could have knot's' that such a
tribute wool I be paid to his mem ry nothing could be mere
aerteabla ti his besot. (Cheers,) His nt Isle friend would,
t a 10 et period cf the evening, allude more ti rnbly than he
could do to the immediate 01 jests and rod i n of the Csm
bridge Asylum; bat be right venture to s■y that,
as the trading was situeted in a netilibmrho
with %high he was personally trisected, he bed
fen visited It, and he saw in Mat institution the
means of great ossfuleess to those unfortunate twits:deals
who, hom their peculiar efroupwances in life, wpte obliged
to have recourse to It. At no period was the asylum more
likely to dad tamales than at tin pressor, after a long and
arduous war, that must bring with it an amount of distress
and sate too which it was their duty, now that p ten wee, he
trusted, restored to Lotus, to Lo all in their co see to all -
slate. (Cheers.) There was no (location, however, rh.t
this asylum required mutterer is or...er that it nght mein-
tain its usefulness, and be was per wined that there were
amoopt the members of the military profession sufficient
high-mindedness and nobility of feeling to p such an
institution from languishiag for Vie want of support.
The CHAIRMAN then save "The Army and levy."
Major-General the Hon. Air EDWARD COST returned
thanks en behtlf of the army, and t►e Hon. Caitlin Hon.
RAT on that of t. e navy.
The CHAIRMAN neat gave ..PrOsperity to the Cambridge
Asylum," the pronoun of which, be ots: read, were under
greater obligations .co the t epeeist duke personally than they
eould possibly be I. any other of the weasel comp my,
whatever might be the amount of their saline p•iona. The
management of the charity had been so good that little wee
lett for the chairman to do; but be must be allswed to
state that duos the inaugural dinner which to'k oleos three
years ago, when the asylum could, in fact, ailed no euom•
sodation et all, great propsas had been made, and there
were now 22 solders' widows nceidag the benefits of tie
institution. In the cower of a very short time there would
be eight more; but they must nosiest that a:thoogh the
original plan of the building comprieed 180 rooms,
the committee, rather than "outrun tie constable," hid
only prepared $C rooms; gal Genera: Ti on, of the Buffs,
ban eduedtr build eight idditiosal rooms, aid to provide
an endowmeat for the notates. Its seeordesee, however,
with th- plan of the institution, it was impossible to build
so until a number at oace, sod it was therefore necessary
that the number to be added should be 28. Hence it was
wit► the view to build 20 rooms that they were des mgi of
obtaining fonds, and *Dental seas required was 3,30 W. His
grace concluded with an argent appeal to the sympathies of
Oche who appreciated the claims of thee deserving ties of
period far whoa herald wastspetially intmded. (Loud
she• re )
Toe Doke of CAMURIDOR them proposed the " Health
of e Doke cf Wediagtoo, who returned thanks in a few
words.

6. sera' other toasts followed, ini lading the Is alth of the
DSC re of the asylum, amongst whom wee esp cony men-
tioned lite Dena t f Mr. Leeks, the honorer/ mentiry, to
whose emetics's' the mimes of the fastitatirn was acknow-
ledged is be, in a great meuar•, attributable.
A k ng list of submriptions wee read, the total amount of
which wee nearly 1,400 f., iecludtag a donation of 501. from
its chairman.

airangianenta for the dinner war* of the nest gads-
frzoe , and the result of tilt entertoinseett ap-
to be highly gratlyisig to the (Lianas of the cheeky.