The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-17 00:00:00

SERVANTS' PROVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.

A Meting_ in behalf of this bodily was help ,
-1 been ma-
nly at the kilillOttt-IVIATO ROOllllll. It kt.. 1111
monad that Prince Albert would take the choir, sad that
Ike Areldnittop of Centerhary, Lewd John Harolt.
3•=ithe 13-skop of Lomas sad Oxford, sad. rad
alorlablincedyw""ledies,lB".'llll64lalid eemilatke peattkLooiremishoun944atta. a lags
the
epealme of do doors. 1 The iehieehl d rho _4(211 7.us .
1. Tenable ornate to emu* anesities for their ;Ott
their
old me as goverameas minim ; 2. Bannon
dillies at 14 ass 71 yeas, ef Ms; 3. A sum of
for
y at
death to wee the expense el burial ;4. • home for fouls
alesellel sat of pigs% ens medal lodgiag for male servants ;
& • embers her rorramik '
Hie Biqa ilhibeees PAN ALlezaT, who war received
with ma somas* egignian, look die chair at three
o'clock. Cia the platiou we starved Lord Efilitehm, the
Bishop of Bum, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bi.hop of
Salisbury. Lord Adam, the Archbishop of Canterlimy,
Areliduera Massing, the Bishop of Loudon, Sir T. lac.
load. etc
His ROYAL HIGHNESS said—The olden for which
we have met h. re this day is aot me of charity, bat one of
blindly essidani tad kindly advice to a very large and im-
portant class of OW fallOW-001111127111410 Ind 1110011111—the do-
mestic servants of this country. Who would not feel the
deeper intereet in the welfare of domestic servant, ? Whim
bear would fail to sympathise with thin who minis' ter to us
Mall the wants of life—who mod us daring sickness, who
motive as at car flat &pennon la this world, sad *Mead
their enviers even M our mortal renuiins—(kerar, hear)—
who live seder our roof, form oar hominid, sad are part
of oar badly ? (Year, hear.) Yet, os inquiry, we find
Mist is this metropolis ite greater part of the manes of the
weektionore are dogmata servants. (Hear, hear) I am
care that this startling effect is ao proof, either of
• wilt of kindness or liberality oa the put of the
liners tog sr& their servants, or of vice in these,
but the natural consequence of the position is whielt
the domestic neut. are —etime periods of life
la which they shin the luxury of en oinks( muter, sad
ether periods ia which they sire wholly saprovided with the
moan of surteasnes through the day. (Hear, hear.) It
is the consideration of then pen dia: vicissitades which
man it the duty both of the Batten sad of the s
ome
to
Pea b discover sad mute sad mutually set upon some
Pea be which dasestie sermats may he serried throfe,
ens alike ham the temptaticas ef the prosperous ought
the seferiage of the eel day. (Hew, kear.) It I. ea this
mecum that I &beaded the peon masedeg, aid that I have
soaseated, and spot willingly euessted, to take the chair
for the patinae of misting the °Watts of this society. Maw.)
I feel convinced that this society is been as a right prim.
*he, insomuch es it follows oat the di Oates of en somata
appreentios of human *stare, whisk requires every one, by
lb own exert isms, sad mordbmg to his en choice, to work
oat his own happiness, sad ern* forbids us to value, nay,
which eves makes us &meddled with, • pepoperity whisk
ethers hove made for as; it is been ea • right principle,
boons it manners to wage est a plea, sending to which,
by parent mit denial, by prudes's, sad by pc reeversace,
sot ealy innate are reign in physisel sad moral ecaditica,
but ma
also are Wgbt how to aid the servants is their
aorta to secure fa thsmrlve resources upon which to
mann& tbensives is the time of sicken. old age, er want
of minivan—(heu hear)—it is based oa a right pia-
eiple, begun, is its latiadal ansagessests, it does ant hold
oat to &nods sensate say rowan of exteavegant Maras
for their iseseemeate by the medium of gambling. specula-
does ; it does net seactios convivial gusting. invariably
lonise to mischievous outlay; it has no balloting, iavolv-
lag ell the subunit of ea election contest. The expe-
nses whisk the circumstances of late years had presented
of the nowise occasioned by the defelentiono of saying'
banks, of the atter nun which peculiarly the most deserting
of the menet ones have bees visited with ; of the desti-
tution is which they have been plunged by the loss of all
their inestesents in these beaks, has been really heart-
bessideig. (Hear.) As n the malts to be attained in • Masa-
da plaid view from the investment of money in the saner
alegaliefed by the society, let docustio servants beer is mind
thee m are emits!, that capital will oily rotors a certan
rate of interest, sad teat any advsa'sges beyond that certain
rate of interest me rely be attained by_risking, more or less,
the capital awe el whin it mists. (Hear, hear.) The ad-
unwell held est to demean sermon by this society are
been oa the medit of the emery at large, ea the faith of
the genersomat, mad are regulated yea set of puliamat,
ailed the Delved Aeasity Ast, the adentops of. red by
which to the &ambler eines are me great, that I us only
nepolosil to Sail that, although the est dam beck so far as
the led of Wis. IV., oily 700 puns have availed them-
selves of in perefeleme. Ima dinner no reason for this,
except that die Wanes of this met an its provisions are pot
'aurally keen. cud that sack as do kaow
ef it, my be mine= =ll'es esten:foctintsi—
(beer, hear)—hem setunereandleg ite tedeal-
'slides. I have beard. Mien, reirofther mom statediturbiek
I do met attach soma meat, that somas see Avid
that • knowledge of their pm ensieg the mega, of
an snaky est of their lungs wend be sivP7eVe
by the mum me es emus thrloweniag their wages.
a beta r minion of the dipenisei of employers. (Hear,
hear.) And lam ciesvimedi, ea the sonny, that aothiag
more encourages the muter 10 Menem the wages of his ser-
vants than the knowledge did this. wages are scaunieslly
sad wisely 'Ranged by tbs germ& (Hoer, losr.) To
make the set of perliamiat I ben spokes of more 'morally
known to die pails at brae is emis ed the many ann of
this society. Author ebIUA is to for. • median be which
servants may sense fee Uminenes the nominees Mmes by
this act. Amnon neon is the enablithmest efts bone for
female sermon wet el enploposat, tho nellabiege of which
object scare* ands a weed of eseemenedsa teem me.
Mathew shiest is to selablith a maid
be mea musts ebe we set Iselgedisift
house
their must. Mather 'West Is the *mad= eta
be sayersgemerally. Amy ano who b empolated eater
imeserreminges an anmesses nuaseen with the genet
mein of awn= fig servants will at ease preens hew
amen mid immeeleat it will be to baroness a spasm word-
leg le nisbom the en hid. sumats are penned from
the emis eolith the espies of en single empinyer with
allisthAndlope, as may lave lived bat • very brief Period,
may bides Ma itt. sad which, ea the ether, will
=iiregmbet the ansequemoss of • chancier wiiMittrn
.1 maisservieg servantney wring
from a
ea
meth asseme. (Hera beer.) It will he, farther so slight
boom te the mom% that the reseed thus curled Dim of
bog and morieniese nein ta edira hailles ZNIf
_eons to
rescue kin Ms tbe regales apnea • obigb Walt com-
mitted in ear portirder envies. By giving Mr Inatioll
aid to this song yea will be the mesas et defog mama
genic*, set algae to misty at large, bet kandistely to •
ellass which Sao bat emeemsinfonas me Is moo ammo reme them
gay ether dug oldie Width pentads& I sew gall_ ups
fore
tee Wilesting le read lo yes a rend whisk will lay be
ens In dna that wide Ilan go generally alluded to.
Hie Royal Higbeem mat dews amid loud appbotse.
Nir. CHESTER, the tesagerer, thou reed the general
report, which MMus, " That is the metropolis slue
there were estemeed as servants, at the genus in
1841, orate sommde 39,300 ; female, 123,401. To-
tal 1811,7111 : whisk we. nearly 1 in 11 of its
whole pentads& There were at the sane period M
Huhn -nd Wales, including the metropolis, 978,883.
The amber of old servants who ire penmen in oar work-
houses is 1111111111109. in the four workhouses of St. *aryls-
bone, St. Pancras. St George's, Hanover-square, sad St.
lames's, Westminster, there an net fewer than 1,860 adult
popes, who describe themselves as having been domestics.
It sous obvious that sensate es a clan cannot safely rely
for a abetment.. Ia old age epee any system of .
which is loaned am the ,ilstion that the subeerit?w; I
be namereas sad the candidates for pension@ few. To secure
pianos of WM. • year from • benevolent or charitable fun
to only 176 sensate would require a capital of 100,00 W
This society is established for eseounging and helping ser-
vests to parches, goveramest annuities as the only es& and
good listen of previdingfor old sp. The must pays
manually the real sand price of the annuity for which be
seatmets with the 'oversewn ; if he rakes the requisite
anther of yearly payments Its certainly receives We annuity,
an confine 60 Mare it es keg mho lives ; if bet dies
before it beams die, the whole of the looney that be has
piel bunged to his repentantly's ; sad if he does mot die
bet bile to nodose his p_ii, the whole that he has
is venni le li Re doss mot depend on
es es _ ._ It sob as his gust with the einemionsers of
the Natiemil Debt ; gulag him all tremble sad expose, sad
le the nearby of gememment and the public
gpate
puts into ao lottery, sad nms no risk—but,
the real pries of the genie for which be ber-
will entaialy nein Ids basun sr have
archesumeasy resumed be full. That the
lout sanulty system is well gaited to sermage VII%
nesild Of large Wage, thatprobably be adman lm all 1
bat it may
_be alleged the premium pegalen by
the edegismen for the ralutios of the sand Mt
0 the prise of them enmities, dough realty ley la peep,-
*a to** vales, are limber than erdthszy gammas an
pay. New ea sanity of 101. • par, giblets is Felber wee
UM Ile. 10d. a week, to immense at the aged 60, may be
sewed by the bilowies Tony pappoose, which very se.
earllag te the cgs of the servant. It he be 40 whim be
test gonnuts for the annuity, he mat pull. se. 3d. spun
if 30 yam of age, 11.16.. 9d. a per ; if 28 Yen% UT& Si
a year ; and if lb, only 17s. a year. And witbgwt Ole
into details, sr wobbly imputimg gammas. be sereens,
it may be asserted that while largusumbers of we nn gas
veil afford to make double or sable these payments le es-
tore gasuitige cof 201. or 301., there me any
by nuns laden who, with wan ...:E:
meld dad diseassime unable to pay the -
gin penems lee ea annuity of 101. - Ia calm
nun easy have the fill beaeflt d their ews bat
Ise ounities, eadowerente, ad boaramen (sea-
din the report), we iavite entribatismo to sae beam-
Int Lad. From that bad we, In die Int= pay ea
die miens of the badman, es that the s satire
payment may be curled to his errant with the egmatio
dean of the raked debt. In the mend plies, we ap-
ply say dimmable simples of ear Mewls had, every
year. Is the redastkerLar Iteartembess of these providest
magmbees who were =embers of doe gabby ia
the prunes year. The enema of this reduellem ema
sour aeon nee-half of the We are age pre-
pared to 7=111:4 we thin to be
males se • !edema's me mesUbeit well=
important the liberality of the sisal& midis
le, every Tow, to make sone
se as se aced eassewasetheatilmatterrisligillible th. 1
is
somata ; sad she that ye amid be saa I
ia awe et brag them a. au, dieseterr I
make WWI, or Ma 1101111: isge
116 sensate from emass? egalsombrammillei
tram inability to beim ponimme. Seetteals daub
be ebbed seta lisel mandles width septhe sawed

payment higher than they can hope to make without song-
datable help, in the way of reduenoe, from the Natty.
Whether, ee in the present year, the
wh
society has no surplus
hods wherewith to reduce premiums, or ether there le a
divisible earplu., the sensate have nodes given to them at
the 'Maiming of the year, I. order that they may know the
oxen amount which they will have to pay at the end of the
year. A glance at this table of preniuses will show that it is
highly advantageous to eater es early as partible, i s, as
mon as pweible after the tenant is 16, into • contract
far en annuity. It is sot onlmportant to mention that in
1541 then were 371,398 servants in England and Wales
under 20 yens of age, Any number of contents may be
entered into proviied that the whole annuity does not
exceed 301. a year; so that at 15, 20, and 26 (or
any other ages) a servant might eater into orstracts in propor-
tion to the amount of wages earned.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved the fiest resolution. He said
the object for which they were then met had already been
fully explained to the meeting. The importanceot that
object amid scarcely be over-estimated, when it was borne
in mind that the clan whose interests were more especially
contemplated numbered upwards of a million of persons.
It was gratifying to relit ct that the frugality and providence
which the society desired to awaken as the heals of
their operations were not utknown to the bod
to
y
in question. No employer could have failed
abeam within his own experience instances of the
anxiety displayed by servants to provide not only for their
own wants sickness, ego, or a period of non•onsployment,
but for the wants of their relative', by their savings while
in service. The noble lord mortised his warm @ppm-
Dation of the principles open which the society was bassi.
and earnestly -nerd the claims of domestic servants gen
the cmsAegdames, not as • matter of charity, not se •
sinter Of Wiervoimes, but m a matter et justice—as a mat-
ter of padded' he eminent services confined. (Hear.)
The seVe ked moved—
" That it is desirable to encourage provident habits
servaats end others of the poorer classes, by making
thar•Svantare affoeded under die Goverament Annuity
Act more generally known and available."
The Bishop of OXFORD, in acceding the isesistina, '
pointed oat that this was ant simply a queWas affefilms die
intensta of a particular clan, but • questims, eoffies, of a I
social nature, intimately connected with the esealbee. with I
the happinne—nay, with the security, of the mitsbe ens.
amity.
The ressiation was then unanimously adopted.
Lord ASHLEY, in moving the second resolution, said that
the weaned Mesa sorinies which bad hitherto been held
out to servants es slant the sole medium for securing a
essistmemse in time of abases or ebi age, or want of em-
ployment, had hese, for the far greater pert, mere snares hell
servants, Ist
hy desivaieg meow, who made their own
mitodil Orden the nth of their writhed dupes. Hs el-
pressed his high restaged= that • subject whist' had ler
some years past occupied muck of kis earnest WNW=
sow making ouch progress. The noble lord moved--
" That the Servants' Provident and Benevolent Society,
having for its objects to *sable servants to obtain he them-
selves annuities or government security In old age, endow-
ments for their children and same of money at death to cover
the expenses of bend, and caw to establish a
home for Mesh meant' out rp=la model lodging house
for male servants, and • reeletry for servants, is well cal-
culated to promote the best interests of the clus."
The resolution having been seconded by Mr. Archdeacon
Manning. was unanimously adopted.
The Bishop of LONDON moved ; and Sir T. ACLAXD
seconded the third resolution—
" That as the Servants' Provident and Benevolent Society
directly tends to improve the condition and habits of enema,
it is the duty and tautest of their employers and of the
charitable public generally to support the society by their
influence and contributions."
The resolution having been adopted,
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY moved—
" That the grateful and respectful thanks of this meeting
be humbly offered to her Majesty the Queen, to her Meiesty
the Queen Dowager, and to Field-Manhal the Prime
Albert, for their patronage of thy Servants' Benevolent So-
ciety ; and that this meeting do express its deep sense of the I
benefits confined this day cc the society by his Royal High-
nese Prime Albert condescending to take the chair."
The resolution having been sounded by the Marquis of
WISTMINIT2I, and the compliment arlatowledgall by
Prince Albert, the meeting separated- A inflections sup.
reedy a liberal one, was mode during the pro:iodine.

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY'S FETE.
Yestetday the first fete al the ewes of the Royal
Botanic Society took place at their yens& la the Regent's-
park. The weather in the morning wee very unpromising,
bat st 2 o'clock, when these pht is were opened to the general
, the son acme taid
__lhr the next few hours the
=were throned Isakkatchn meapany.
The garden hail very ffenehhig yeelerday, and now
that the belt of tomes aralasliwthe _ssistre &maim have at-
tained a fair growth the ideares hearse» hidden, and
ass the place has all the *sae of a ginewestrenal in the
mashy. Indeed thille,enelthevis neletedwi e view mese idols wily bounded hy the
Highphshiewmantlitherealimim
of tie swiss, mad *gin ity *paranoia, would suppose it
to be very mash IMO leamirs than it really is. Ali this
displays the skill with which the grounds have been
arranged; and the same good %sant wee yesterday GlST-
eised se a great moat la the of the pleats col-
lated he exhibition. Beni in one pert the mode of display
in the paint imam aided tree that at Chiswick. At
the garden et the lieellealtutral fleelag the Aniline were all
placed together; and the result was meg brilliant. The
number of the glean, their endless* of bloom, their
varied sad the_
tints, and their lunar once
a growth, maim up ma effect which could only
be genet by masmbthig all their charms for one
oostperail. At the Botanic Society the authorities appear
to prefer the male of nat. ering their riches through
the show Tether the keeping like to like. This appeared
to be the MN with other plants besides anises, and may
bsense chitin, hat will Namely meet the taste of many
isal friends, who would have, as far es the convenience
permits, the plate ef the same family arranged together,
that the praftriusa of one specimen may be soimpared with
those et imodier. Keay glister fault., however, would be
Saran in presage of such a display of charming
oblate as these aseembled yesterday. The anises were ,
stay awl dee ; the heaths were stiff mac ebesisat, sad
presented that adios variety of fora sell Ike he link the
tribe is celebrated. The yelseresisse wee he
vest Nile.
and offend inwarawabie ides essatisees. sway of them
quite sew. The see" tee. ardiefeed ink shin her
beauty and eweelmese. Those vies have esvised hr
the arias whilst said* the benadtal were by
the liatastie Tinkles a the intik es& by the =eloper
Weed turban-toped eskrehars. These 111101plaile• eh% I
with disk English ems end eresedaderdr le cheer Ihed ere
faesselles n sot these node sad
dawslai Mawengers ;Nmt nee geaoelal feres—• tribe of
plash erten arassfeleas deserves all the kraus they now
receive is saws orsawestal pseuds.
It say be added that are poetics of the roma' of the
Bassi. Beektyys to have bees &rob' to the ealtiva-
ties et Aneriees ta, where a staketlos of hydrangea are
obibloom, where it *pan there is to be a special
ion at the nun remarkable transude** flowers.

Despatches were sent off, last evening, from the
Cojornid-.a, for tho Governors of the -West India

solosiee.
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN aSELSNDL—The
Chancellor of the Eschews' has requested aa interview
with the &estate of the Midland Great Western Railway,
for the purpose of aseertaiaing span what terms they wou
ld
be willing to extend their lime of railroad to the town of
Galway. An intimation of the CtutaceSor of the Ex-
chequer's desire was conveyed to the directory, sad in cam-
Oman therewith a depstatioa was appointed to proceed to
Loudon.
ODE " WOODEN WALLS" IN DANOEIL—Oh Mon-
day evening there was • cossiderable concourse of persons on
Tyne-belay, and on the shores of the river, to witness a
race between an ordinary wooden skiff, or gig, and one made
of gotta penis by Mr. Taylor, of the Close, ea agent in
Newcastle kw the ogle of that material, and of ankles made
therefrom. The novelty of the exhibition—no boat or other
seigcsasael having bikes bean fritioned from gutty pasha
great excitement. The boatbailders, like the
dimwits', began to think their "craft in der." They
were as maziows that the newfangled craft should km, as Mr.
Taylor was eaxions that she sheald win ,• sad the latter had
rosioroa them mom &mai than etheetnee they might
Ism bees. by eas
isr the minims of Mr. Henry Clasper.
Chow end fie , Imeromo, lad to pow against no
masa rivals. the woolen boat being lammed by the crew of
italpm. The gotta per** skit II bet *ea 3 breed, was
lima Mr. Clasper's, theClason'alloal, in **Clem;
wed wham a Ueda " agonise" MA less Wigged is (if we
may me the term), tie esmpillses presesded to St. Law-
less*, thence to row thole mask to the bridge. When
AM aro *mild sight of tkumasvnling for the goal, " gotta
" Wry that woo the sow Watt is eallei, was several
Is mimeos; sad she holler "Mai guidon " to
the est—Elaiesiesit Okerwr.
Instnies,YMelmaDAY.—StrlClDE.—At the Elephant
sod Castle, Si. Pesererreei,:befeee Mr. H. X. Wekley,
os
Ite,siittiiiLla Fred. D. Werra, aged 63, late ee~a the
lei t test. It appeared that the ssid bad
lime the Nith 'nest month at a refsehesse, No. 77,
Wrfadessoad. esti la bees in a very sonar sad malted
del% seletheema these who knew somethingsomethingel his affairs
Is Ike Wee( W the failure of the NeiNhia Bak.
He Ish hie at 7 o'casek on Thursday maims laat,
@mist 1$ Aback was found in the Itepat'sOssel,
bilge.
_What lad to his anew" was the Tepee, el a pis.
Ist, boa et the *dissent leek Muss. TM leek-beeper then
weee 10 the halm sad es the Mistakes* wader it hand
two plaids. am dulls\ was boded. The assessed was soon
eat dlesemeed is the river quite &AA.
_wed as esembeties
1111 Ike hely dlediesed a wensthem she la bkrkkkoiglg
the bah, oWil tot _parlhassies of a MIMI ball. It wee
sepplisd that the diseased shot hiameN while steadies is
the beak of the emaL Tb sea smuts. Kr. Gould, his
lesilird, revoked the in letter, which had beta
gated the previews slight at Nalltehridge :—" lir. Gould,—
When yen meths tale I thall have eased to exist. A pistol
will have pat an soil to all my trembles, whisk have of late
l.sari MS sash ming mod wee:Modem ; indeed, to the
enlist that so *thee fogey was left me bat to commit a
geseital deed, whist I the Almighty will pardon, and
Ammo matey cm ray essL The tide, I have left at your
hems 141, I us yes he the aim
se tea weeks' beards:ll.42:TU're yes. Whomever
yes egats me hem —, toll her I felt my sash pained at
her set weldor s Nee is mower to my lest Wen • also IsU
bret my last thoughts mesh whims wetsfor her egg
hipp Now, ihseweßr dot.—The jiffy s
hosedie a s.
verdict "That the deesased shot limedi but
to
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