The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-22 00:00:00

ROYAL RUMANI SOCIETY.

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Last night the 84th anniversary of this society
wee celebrated at the Freemeenuf Tavern ; the Duke of
AZOTLL in the chair. Me Mel wee supported by Count
Platen, the Swedish Mina= ; sad by Sir W. geirtuw, Sir
B. Hawes, Admiral Saumerm, Major Powys, and the Rev.
Canes Heron. About DX glatlemen were peasest.
After the customer, torts Nye, Fowls sad Admiral
(laminar returned thanks for the army and navy.
The noble CirAtiliaa proposed the health of the Swedish
Minister, remarking an the time baud of =ion which con-
meta the great Scandinavian rase with on' own. Count
Platen had moreover for three year aMually Nerved in the
Brithlt navy. (Clieere.)
err PLATiN, ia said he should have been
abashed at the Woof addg • meeting like the present,
had hs not felt that in the Humane eaelsty no our wee
.ago. (Cheer.) He hoped the inetitatien would or-
dain to as it had hitherto done. (Chem.)
The Dike of ARGYLL mid it now fell to his lot to ;repose
what yes Galled the toast of the erring; sad be, there-
fore, sell= upon the company to drink the heel= of the
President (the Duke of Wellington) and prosperity to the
Royal Humane Society. (Cheers.) He bed had mach
platoon in acceding to the ram= of the committee
ea :01e2;-
Bide the present occasion because he felt that the
both r regarded its objects end the means it em-
ployed ben the attainment of those objects, was inroad
the reach deny poesible objection, and must commend =eV
to the hearty sympathy and approval of mankind. (Cheers.)
The essiety wee founded upon a high estimate of the value of
individual life, even of the humblest—en estimate which
wen the noblest attribute of advancing and advanced civilise.
time. (Cheers.) The secoese of the means employed would
be best indicated by the statistics to which he abouhl shortly
mkt. One of the main fields of the society's open wore
the greet perks of London. He bad °blurred
need ilsalatigemhiinow eatusers ' ea-
penditure of public mosey upon those' but he had
never felt the slightest sympathy with remarks of that de-
scription. He considered that the public money was well
laid out is procuring for the working portion of the vest
metropolitan community those means of healthy recreation
which the perks afforded them. He might also observe that
the parks of London were en object of envy to many of the
ecatinental governments. The repent Emperor of the
French had attempted to emulate them ; but though the im-
vitimf he had effected did him great credit, the Bois de
Boaboth in respect to landscape gardening and
of wood, still fell Infinitely short of our
greet London parks. (Hear hear.) In the summer of
1867 no fewer than 360,000 persons were estimated to have
bathed in the Serpentine, and of those 13 had been rescued
by the society's men from drowning, besides whom 9 persona
had
her
prevented from committing suicide. In the course
the last winter 42,000 persons had skated in the parka,
and the total number who had been rescued in Resent's-
perk was 10, in Hyde-park 7, in Kensington-gardens 12,
end In St. James's-park 27—making In an (Hear, hear.)
If the weistye operations, therefore, had been confined to
the London perks atone, it would have earned a just title to
public support; but whenever persons had distinguished
themselves by saving human life, there the society wee reedy
to frogs= their generous self-devotion. (Cheers.) The
noble duke, after alluding to a kindred institution—namely
,
that founded by the Duke of Northumberland, and called
"The Life-boat Association," concluded by proposing the
toast, which was drunk with lout cheers.
The society's medallion was then presented to the follow-
]G.iHrry Bonner, for rescuing a boy from drowning at
Boston an the 24th of Nov., 1866, being the eleventh life he
had saved under similar cirmunstances.
Lieutenant Bullock, of her Majesty's ship Centurion, for
lavinga eau= who had fallen overboard in the Tagus on
the 9th of October, 1856.
Lieutenant De Lamy, of the 47th Art., for jumping into
the ses in order to rescue a man who had fallen overboard
from the steamer Adelaide, on its voyage from Malta to Gib-
raltar, on the 27th of May last. The vessel was going et the
=sof nine knots, end Lieutenant De Loner wee in thewater
Dearly en hour before he could be picked up.
The Rey. J. J. Beresford, 8.D., Precentor of Peterbo-
rough Cathedral, for recovering, under circumstances of
13th
gree
of t dialcul
teat. ty, a boy from drowning in the Nene, on the
July
M. Victor Derma, for mving, on the 26th of Amp= last,
the two a= of the Rev. Edward White, of St. Paul's
Chapel, Kentish Town, from drowning at Boulogne, in the
presence of their mother, who was rushing into the water
after than when M. Darren interfered.

Captain Hathorue, R.N. (formerlysaparintendent of the
packet department of the South Eastern Railway), for saving
a partner who had fallen into the am at Boulogne while
endeavouring to mount the side of the steamer Queen of the
Belgians on the 30th of August het.
Constable James Fahy for saving a boy who had fallen off
the quay at Cork on the 6th of September lest.
M. Achille %minuet for fetching off three children who
had been surrounded by the rising tide on the St. Bernard
yeah, Sr. Helier's, Jeremy, on the Ord of Oatabor lest.
The interesting ceremony of delivering the society's medals
to these gentlemen having been oompleted,
Sir W. Srintitio proposed the health of the noble chair-
man, who briefly responded, and proposed that of Sir B.
Hawes. Some other toasts having been drunk, subscription.
were announced amounting to upwsrds of 1,0001.

BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN LONDON.—The deaths in
London registered in the week ending Saturday, April 17th,
were 1,207, being nearly the same as those of the previous
week. In the ten years 1848-67 the ►verge number of
deaths in the weeks oorreeponding with last week was 1,102,
but as the deaths now returned occurred in an increasod po-
pulation, they should be compared with the averse, after
the latter is raised in proportion to the increase, a correction
which will make it 1,212. The number actually returned,
therefore, agrees almost exactly with that obtained by calcu-
lation. Whooping-cough and measles still maintain a high
mortality, the former having numbered 77 deaths in the
week, the latter 65. Two widows died at the age of 98 years,
one at Welbam-graven, another in Islington workhouse.
Last week the births of 1,009 boys and 968 girls, in all 1,985
children, were registered in London. In the ten corr.-
apondinit weeks of the year 1848.67 the average number
was 1,688. _ .

ROYAL COLLEGE OP SERGEONIL—The following
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma were admitted members of the College at the
meeting of the Court of Examiners an the 19th inst., els. :
Mown. James Eaton, Grantham, Linoolnskire; Henry
George Sadler, Wandsworth; George Henry Turber, Tor-
rhino Amens. Camden-road-villas; Georg* William Mould,
Sudbury ,• Paul Henryßtokoe, Peckham-rye; Henry
Howard 'Hayward, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-mune;
John Garner, Birmingham ; Jceiah Willey, Bristol ; Henry
Gram, Kingewood-h4 Bristol; John Cosham Vawdrey,
St. Agnes, Cornwall; John Bearden, Accrington, Lan-
cashire-, end Frederick Poynton Wearer, Cheater.

Cal&arr.—We had" the pleunre. of witnessing
yesterday at Kennington Oval Cricket Ground a new Cala-
puha, jwit patented by Messrs. F. Lillywhite and Winn,
and invested by C. Richardson, Req. of Roes. The work-
ing of it was explained by Mr. Frederick Lillywhite, who
and the instrument to the batting of WiadIIII and his brother,
John Lillywhite, also to many amateurs, well known a 8
skilful players. It propels the ball at the stumps et any
pane that is required, and unlike the old Isnionot ones
(always out of order), the pitch of the ball am be easOy
varied and done unknown to the bateenim, so that it will
gnawer the purpose of a prohodoml howler, whose talent
me but seldom he secured for a short porn& The inven-
tion is so simple that It could be worked by a lady as well u
by a gentleman, and the batsman would get the same
practice. Another trial is to take plus at Lords' on Tues-
day next, when several of the best gentlemen and proles-
ekes' players oldie day will bat against it.
FIRE IN CANNON-ETRZET, ClTT.—Last evening,
about eaves o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises occupied
conjointly by the Anglo-Australian and Universal Family
Aasaranoe Company and the United Kingdom Benevolent Life
Annuity Fund Society, situate at No. 6, Cannon-etreet-west.
The discovery was made by one of the inmates perceiving
a strong smdl of wood burning. Upon entering the board
roomof the latter society, it wee found to be on fire, which was
not got ender until everything in the room was oerionely
dasoespel and a quantity of books and papers destroyed,
which had been packed in the place under ea Iron eafe. None
of the principal books were destroyed. They were deposited
in an iron reliance safe, made by Mr. John Tann, of Wel-
brook ; and although the stage on which it mend was burnt
away so as to allow it to topple over and the iron non= en
with beat, every book was found to be perheily uninjured.
The origin of the fin is unknown. The prank= and con-
nate were insured.

TIMBER FOE THE ENGLISH
understand that there are now in this city awe& gewilemes.
who case hoe wrests for Ui. Britt& pennants br
of ecansotiao teethe faraimiting Sae Waft *IOW
TS 3= to he used far the annienelles K loner of we Mr
her bisiyety's Wavy. The bless is osiww•
cared along the line So Italiftwis mad Obis ea
• conference has ben bel biases the isowes Ow
of the company relative Is the iranaparAgtios w rife day fn
shipment —Bat:sown Ereitrage.
The following rebuke is vidAresedresli:7 the Siiele to
the (leiter: :—"We were undo,: in fin cs, that seligs
diacimaiono had been officially interdicted. Bog is It, am.
that the Univers melees flags to this most ',Twain mil
_fore ? Tht Cbastitestioestel had haeldsidelly
ffs •
lind t'ntnch Protestant refugee', whereupon the
uhtestootese luutual oases en ffof the relowilea of
the ante of Neaten It is an sot esniemed
ysetlei blystoviaa,, by all =OM by INS lib%
otkeitel to the Moles, roped *et=
of diressowe amid be staled irt thie natter. The
I IHNIIONSi of Oe thlivers would be Mlle* to moils he sn
tense ; they ere the more so when oreenorat by en Adel
article he. 01l direemelea ea sellotowe salbests."
Ws base all the reel deer in the grounds of
=Zra eskffitteve ben mak awl ere to be renewed Ibrtit-
Jlesentor.

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