The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

WORKHOUSE VISITING SOCIETY.

• ermeereaziosse of the friends of this aneociatio•
wee held on lards? emming. at Willie's Room, miler the
premidemy of the Esti at SWTLIIBURT, and there were
also present, Lord Lytteltou, the Bishop of London, Mr.
Heabory, 31. P., she Rev. .J Kemp, Rev. W. Brittem,
Alderman Firma, Dr. illeedfellow, Dr. &evoking, Mr.
Cowie.
The proceediige were opined with prayer by the Rev.
Mr. Kemp, which was followed by the reading of the report
by the has. maretary, Mr. Hastings, though, as that gentle-
man remeelsei, the honour ought to have devolved upon
Mier Louisa Twi&g, who had performed almost all the
ideal duties. The report stated that the society had made
emelderable the pad year, and that 110
new namaterePUrelen= to it, Inducing a comiderable
11.7•11110 Of mane. Already there are 140 visitors in
the imetrepolina workhouses ; although among the
pardies• of the peer in some Witmer a prejudice aP
to exist spinet the society. The operations also hays
been highly aseametal in the pennies, emeetally Liverpool
and Bradford. If the funds HICTOWIN it I. handed topve
help to seem el the inmates on Leong the workhoces abao-
lately trleadime and Bees, sad in placing them in suit-
able elimakme or mslilmlfsns. The death. of Mrs. Jame-
am mad Mr. Jelliegwr Byname wen deplored, both of theme
...ellen panne limbs been Arm supporters and most
useful friends of the iimitintrim.

Lord %tarn/num then addressed the meeting, alluding
to the difficulty of pining admission to the workhouses
which had in some ewes been experienced by visitors, which
he supposed arcs from a fear that the minds of the inmates
would be unsettled. Their object, however, should be
not only to disarm suspicion, but to conciliate senikEs.•
Lord Lmxtvoir, in moving that the report be td
and circulated, expand a strong opinion that
should not be mad* attractive, and that the condition of the
paupers therein should not be aide more enviable then that
of the poor without. He had, however, peat pleasure in
"WeTtMotrofmclrstriow said he was anxious to take this
public opportunity at expretring lie sympathy with the ob-
jects of the society. Workhouses were a Christian institu-
tion, and it was a special duty of • Christian nation to make
Uprovision for the infirm, the sick, and the destitute.
we: the Reformation the monasteries relieved the poor
who surrounded their gates, and the workhouse systems was
found neceesary upon the abolition of the religions heaves.
Let us see that with our pester light we were not
behind the monks in the exercise of Christian
charity. The society was not only valuable for
the Christian kindness which it introduced into oar work-
house system. but it was probably efficient in reducing the
mrtes ; for by the exercise of a kindly and °tenting
the minds of the inmates of the workhouse had
hen incited to desire to reach a higher position in:the social
sale, were anxious to be able to leave the union, and
never desirous of returning. Hie lordship then pointed
out the various modes in which the society's opentions
adOt become highly serviceable' particularly the education
cif Ha ehildres, and the training of nurses for the sick and
Asldremes were afterwards delivered by Kr. Labs (Fellow
Darnel College), one of the commissionen on edneatioa ;
Mr. Potter, deputy chairman of the West London
Unions ; sad by the Rev. Mr. Brittain, chaplain of the
Birsatrghent district watchcase, all of whose spoke in
high terms of the society and of the good which it had
aocemplished.

ROYAL Q HOSPITAL, GIAT'6INN-10AD.—The
wrier e/ priors relieved at this hospital drift the
writ India. >ysy Uwr 2,559, of which 6611 were mowers.

The annual meeting of this society was held
yesterday at St. James's Hall, and was well attended. A
umber of children belonging to ragged schools oocu-
pied seat at the end of the hall; the object of their being
=litwas to implies on them the wickedness of treating
antmele with cruelty.
The Blimp of LICIPUILD presided; and arisontatte
time of the society preeent were, the Bishop of
Wm J. T. Tut, M.P., Mr. W. Mackinnon, M.P., Sir John
Tozeikalr. Beresicrff Hops, be.
...., ~. Rev. Curium brisk addressed the meeting,
and mid that the society bad been isialdisbed in acconliuice
with religious, moral, and social principles. The words of
holy writ strongly enforced hosesnity to the brute creation,
while in a moral point of view the society was deserving
et the support of the publii. The man that was kind to a
*rib animal was certain to be an amiable and benevolent
rut to his neighbours and his fellows. And as regarded the
Ulla point of new, was it not evident that the more brutal
were got rid of the more did civilisation
1 throughout the length sad breadth of the Land?
hear.) When at Eton he au went to see a bull-
match on the banks of the Thames. A dog
=gng to a butcher refused to go at the bull. The
elir thereupon took his knife from his pocket, cut the
Trost of the animal, and then cast the dog into the rivet.
This Used act harried him,ead be bad to thank God there
llasumorlizAsaorsibeato be wet with in this otiaLtry. and.
Tsai breach adeleiV' IrdrebPeen ' from
establiswhed in'tEusP.
bobird, mid and that in addition to othir
f . incbgetras reprt& air bail
is if °foray. A
" et tram all the Oe'riman societies had
belie findied to
-meet at Dresden on the 31st July
Wit, eel i pregatause of the subjects to which the
allitaiise of the oragtom would be directed had tore
ildwrasied to the watety, and their opinion solicited
there's. The proper treatment of animals was every yule
I meet** a large share al attention in all civilised coon
The jtiot of vivitiection as practised ill the '
schools of France had for • long time put engaged
deep and anxious attention of theuquiWit, mad *
tation from this society would attend the used
at Paris, which was to be held on the We Urfa, odd
was hoped that the effect of this deportee waif be OA
the practice of vivisection would be abolished hese French
veterinary school*. Sermons and lettere, had been de-
livered and publications issued in favour of the
society. Mr. Barry was complimented for his kind
' manner of treating and subduing horses ; and for having
given • gratuitous lecture to 3,000 cabmen in London on the
treatment of horses ,• and it was resolved to present that
gentlemen with a gold medal on that account. 533 convic-
tions for cruelty to animals were obtained during the last
year. The committee suggested that persons employing
cabs should select only those which ware drawn by hones
in • good condition. The death of Mr. Jellinger Symms!'
was mentioned with regret. The report then proceeded to
notice the receipt of subscriptions, among which were par.
ticularted MC from J. Lurie Esq., 1001. from Mrs
Chair*, the whole amounting altogether to 5001.
The nsnopaf BABOON, in moving the adoption of the
report, bore testimony to the useful chameterof the society,
and contended that upon religious and moral grounds it was
the duty of the public to assist the society in its efforts to
put down cruelty to animals.
Mr. IL&CELMON, M.P., in seconding the resolution, ex-
pressed the gratification which he felt at finding the society's
geld medal of the value of 20 guises had beep awarded to
Mr. Remy, the horse tamer, for his humanity to the noble
awimed, the horse.
The report was them adopted.
Sir J. Soon laws moved that the medal in question be
presented by the right rev. chairman to Mr. Rainy.
That gunmen then presented himself at the front of
the *Mew to receive the medal from the hands of the
right reverend chairman, who mid it was a source of great
veil/Welles to him to be made the medium by which such
an appropriate compliment had been mid to Mr. Barry for
his unparalleled skill in taming the horse without coercion
or cruelty. It anything could add to the pleasure of the
presentation it se se from the fact that the compliment was
paid to a native of America, the children of which country
could claim kindred with Britons. He (the right rev.
chairman) believed that every good man in this country de-
sired that the friendly relations which at present existed
between England and America should continue unbroken.
Mr. Baur, in a brief, modest address, expressed his
thanks for the high honour conferred upon himby the society,
and mid that it was his careful study of the horse that
enabled him to Sod out that kindlier rather than mural
was the true source of mates control over that animal.
Sir J. Bowaino moved, and the Bev. JACKSON
seconded a resolution regretting the existence of vivisection
in the schools in Paris, but trusting that the result of the
coming congress on the continent for the prevention of
cruelty to animist would be the abolition of this cruel
torture.
Mr. BZIZIWORD Hon moved, and Sir JANIS Bomar
EAST, M.P. seconded a motion for the appointment of •
committee for the ensuing year. The latter hon. radioman
took occasion to address the children of the ragged school
present, and calling on them to avoid cruelty to animals of
any sort or kind.
Thanks were then given to the right rev. chairman, and
the meeting separated.