The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-10 00:00:00

4.12,187, MINIVOLENT FUND.

The forty-eighth annivereaty Of the establiehiarot
d the Aetna' Renevolent Fund was Wanted on Saturday
evening by • diner, stirred he the esesilest manner whit
nus
rettmundbas!dristiBguished.th.Trbyhe. controlS
DoCherwsu.worleslitaFßEsselleu bYesirsrelina.md.A.: Ituesek di..Twen:theineitiLr.Dariandelleiritt.l:'"Fibrrie';l7l.
' Craws, A.R.A., P. P. Porter, A.R.A., 1. R. Foley, 11 —A
H. Week* W. P. Frith, Alfred Almon, J. T. Wtha,
dz. Upwards of 100 gentlemen eat dome to dinner.
The UNA lIIKAN, having disposed of the preliminary touts
with his weal felidq, proceeded to advocate the eines of
the institation in whose interest the ammo lad amembled.
in the *allowing terms :—lodise and Manna, there
is a absurd theatrical story whit* was once told to ms by
• deer and *heed friend, who in nom pined hen this id-
tinny mean, nel whisk sit dant he amid se veiled
ts=ia my proem peadenliel pukka. lea uremia
company was lemadel a mm, who on wartime of
amerpou7 was capthdeettaking soy part is thewholemend
of tha drama, colgaissido mea aired to use his icern
lawns. la pttrog the Inns. (A 1
_blegit.) It
hipped one night that ho iglainne
wee MIAs ill, and this veteran ot • hushed characters mu,
of amine, called up fee the mutt pen He megonded with
kis meal promptitude, although knowing sotilag whatever
of the °hemmer, but while they was gnaw him into
the deem, he wpm* • not unresoreelle with
to know to some ragas way what the part was about.
(LesagEter.) He was not pardcular as to details, but in
order that he Fogarty portray hie saihrings, he
thought he =have some alight Inkling me to what
al happened to him. (Oestiamed laughter) As, ter
man* nita mmden hi had canatted, whom lather he
was, of what ilidOrtll2llllll he was the victim—in sheet, he •
genie* we to know why he wee In that place at ell. (Re-
newed general-
They mid to him," Here you are, chained
* • dungeon. an unhappy father ; you have been here for
ariveniem years, during which time you have never seen
yosr dergiter ; you have lived upon bread sad
weer, ad, In oeseequesen are extremely weak, and
sear from ocossional lowness of spirits." (A continued
chores of laughter from the company rendered the
=tydown of the fwegang ponce • teth of nerd
.) "All right, maid the -actor of univerl cepa-
Midas, " flag up." (Cheers and laughter.) When he was
discovered to the audience be prenatal an extremely
ananble appearance, we. very favourably received, and
gave every sign of going on well until, through some metes!
cordesion as to his instructions, he opened the business of
the era by stating, in pathetic terms, that he had been em-
bed in that dungeon seventeen years, during which time he
had sot tweed a morsel of hod, to which dronoidancerhe
was bathed to attribute the Let of his being at that moment
vary much out of condition. (Renewed laughter.) The
audience thinking this statement exceedingly improbable,
declined to receive it, and the weight of that epoch
hung mend him until the end et his lierformance.
Now I, too, have received instructions few the part
I have the honour of performing berme yes, ad It behoves
both yea sad me to prodt by the t.esl6ls winning I. have
deselha, while I endeavour to in:stpa art I bane under-
taken am plain and intelligible es I bly as
As I am
gods( to propose to you an me aow been to cement
the bun= with the gloann it the evening, by drinking
Paysiwkr to the Arlin' Dienedent Fond, it beemass im-
potent that ens end knew what that fad in It is an
mendaha empeined by ale voluntary gift. of than who
eatietain a ordeal end aminuition of art, sad hen
for its Alice the pantie d mundlies to the widows and
children of deceased artini—of mans who had been.
unable in their lives to make any provision for
those dear object* of their love surviving theroselvea (Rear.)
Now, it* extremely_ langesient to observe that this Winter.
don of an Artiat Neosederit Fund, which I now Galon% al
to bee canneted with it and ham arisen on of i
amenlien, did does not ask you fie a health,
whisk noir 01111, tmaneser will ask you ter • health, which
isseareepprates id which is entirely manned
the Minn end inevidnice of its three bun-
. died artist menbees. Memel . That head, which is
add the nanny Fend, to, .o to meek, • joint
sad mutest ammenale sompany against inbmity, eisknees,
end age. hastier kends it affords every anmad flu members
Jam as &beano de* a right be it remembered produced by
web y thrift nodal,and not went* by wools to
Ilmeherityereempeeden deny human bang. On that fund
these ens, if I ethuneteer eight, some eeventeeth aunultants
dm en it the neap ashen hundred a year, the prom&
et their NS esiasiegyardeig Wanted*. Ice reeemmanding
to yen this benewient Imid, which is net self-eupporting,
they address yen be sin in them words "Ws ask you
to help them thete sod orphans, bemuse we show yen
we have first belled meresives. Them widows and orphans
may be oars or limy may not be ours, but in may case we
will prove too pros eartainty thin we are not so many
wancesers nen Jupiter to do our work, beteaw• we
do ow own —meth has his shoulder to the wheel, each,
from yew to year, hashed hisalimadarset tothephsel, and the
prayer we misM to Jupiter and all the gods
thelim tbia—
that this thet may be remembered when waggon bee
stopped kir ever, mad the sod were-oat waggoner lies
Shims by rhos rcied-aide." (Men) Ladles sod gentlemen, I
nest wish to honer on you the strength of this
I am a pointer, a seelpthr, or ma engraver, of aver-
se* success. I reedy sad work her. for no boob/nee return,
whilelifeand health, while head and eye are mine. I prudently
belong' to the Annuity Fund, which In sicknese,old age, and
falrmity, preserves roe from want. Ido my duty to those
who are depending on me while life remain' ; but when the
psis grows above my grave there is no provision for them
ITV=_(Henn, War.) This is the mas with the Artist
Foe, and in stating this I am only the mouth-
piece of lane lathed of the trade, who in truth stand
am indignant Win you ma if they was three hundred
Ginn all mond bl 7 the Gospel awarding to them-
selves. There are in eziiMlssa tine artiste' funds, which
ought sawn to be mentioned detest respect. I am an
lIMMW et en of them, and an peed from lthowhdp ;
but en this asession 1 address unit to a cm for which
there le in groans. I address you an behalf of those pro-
les/see dame der era era have tads provhdin daring
main eakailinfleg to yes their dam I eta only ad
grismighe wink_ I wed nee miways maintained. vouch:[
aid that tin binevoleat fund mare noup pretensions to gen-
ality, minim se Inems keeping appearances, that
it en el net the sang einven for the widow and the
should may be held for the widow and the mina, I
think I ban rebooted the cam, which I dens most strenu-
ously lommend to you. Perhaps you will allow me to
Illy teen Ist used. I will not mama tolerant to you the
err am a set of helpless babies, who are to be
Mlbsuipity Om chin; I present them as an amergatio sad
pereembig elm of MIN whose inmate nod ea their
own limodir end paced exertions, end I alto mks so bold
me to pretest lima me ma who fa their mann randorbec4
earn to as unmake lam Mosey dinned to
there am very far Moth la .3614 t°
public wane as • nag Inns (= I have
also a notion that ray of lmeallusd W ant legal
did that ever no abeepoil maid finsaded for one
really meritorious engraving. Ara annul
festival at which I have the benierto takes
doom behind two loannina eineilime that great
.ministers of state and ether mat etaleationne an •
Mane delight in rather witmladorooly thee tboy
bees so nominee weserver et ma,sga pediment/It
inemeseing an the ompany that they hen I
asslilies me mean& It straw me when I beer them
se If theme great men looked epos the as ma a met
of doalag dip, or Pusetes abow, to be turned to
for ainement when an hem no;itiag plea to do.
Now I always take the opportunity on theme ma-
nn
it eateamining ki.bb ',bk. that this
inomplas " boa ; asserting In noel( strong
bad got the new,owsoode of Trafalgar-equare, or
thafhlkdreet, rightly smieretood, are quite ea important to
the vane el the min as these of -most or
Weinimenhal. With ad an
gressits, lead by of
beensg- winY>ieser the
th. isrproms fend, Erg to
two Ise
i=er wheeler seee
wen :rtemageorlati.lic7:
end ooksowledped is a men/M,
The asheornitone were imaomasei Is be about 6001., mad
after one or two teriber tomb the party broke up. The
manal arringemalm, dab van -Eder the directios of
Yr. Lawler, sod Ithintled Mho Xylem, Mr. 8. Cole, and Yr.
Dowkl King, were ot • very superior character.

SOCIETY oo Aino.-02 Satordoy the tocioty of
Arts bolds esevreessitew at the Befelt issibeas Nassew,
whisk wee nth All the room ewe
throws ewes ea timileg=thisnel WwwwwilP filloolds et
armadas yid* Ass were homed ern am* i-
tem& Those wale swelel at agodel limo mosso
“m„,., of
rerg="l74l4 r arstlL. Toorallrugur amd
Olbeseleahise et Vetoes tee prepreted by Yr. U din he
tl red editilies, awl the pessete braised by tits
le her Dts4erty. awl +MA her Majesty
lee pied la Illisivii. TM Where heisisit he
ra„rrrliziTaibillmotionds ilkfraWaliwelaiftserk:dy
Owns,
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Ilay G. Meek. ar Simard
Elte = a the GemerSeelhaZ.P.R.B.,
Pealisa, Coked A. I.
2iirthreeth Wheirmiet gowned ; Air
NatAbow bilmsball, G. P.
WIZ Ira APPOI4 FAA, Joospit Glyn,
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