The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-23 00:00:00

ROYAL 4SYLUM OP ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.

Last evening the anniversary festival of this
society was celebrated at the City Terminus Hotel,
Cannon-street, under the presidency of Mr. Alderman
and Sheriff Stone. in the absence of the Lord Mayor,
whose contin red attendance in Ireland prevented his
being presen t'on the amnion, agreeably to his expensed
intention. The object of the society being to afford home,
clothing, maintenance, and education to orphan and ne-
cessitous children of parent, who have once moved in •
imperin station of life, tie claims have always been widely
asionowlsdged ; and it appears that without endowment,
it has raised from want and misery upwards of 3,000
children. At :the present moment nearly 300 children
are under its charge at the country asylum,
and 62 at the town school. The amount of subscriptions
announced by Mr. Evans, the secretary, after the chair-
man's address, was nearly I,oooi. The mwdeal
arrange
meats were under the direction of Mr. Donald Bing,r
was ably assisted by his daughters, and by Miss Julia
Elton, Mr. R. Baraby, Mr. Theodore Distin, tic. Mr.
Goodchild was the toastmaster.

THE CHURCH RATES QUESTIOY.

riPiTTATTON TO THK noes OF WARLBJEOLIOIL.

A deputation from the Church Institution
waited yesterday upon the Duke of Marlborough for the
purpose of protesting against Mr. Gladatone's Church-
rates Bill, the second reading of which stands for to-day
in the House of Leeds. His grace was aeoompanied by the
Duke of Buckingham. Mr. Cecil Itaikes introduced the
deputation (which included Mr. Schreiber, M.P., and Mr.
Corsi, and said that the bill was altogether un-
satisfactory in every way to churchmen. Even Mr. Hard-
castle's total abolition bill was in some respects
superior to that of the leader of the oppo-
sition. He thought that the beat course was that the
bill might be referred to a *elect committee. Arch-
deacon Hale also thought the bill should be referred to
• select committee. He argued that • pariah was a cor-
poration, and as such it should be allowed to make • rate
foe its own defence. Dissenters might be relieved, he
thought, by making the rate voluntary so far as regards
public worship, but at the same time power should be re-
served to the parish to make such rates as might be
necessary for its own protection. Mr. Chambers said total
abolition was better than this way of settling the question.
It gave nothing in the way of the voluntary system, as
what it provided was not wanted. Mr. Collins, late
member for Knaresbarough, for one, would rather see Mr.
Hardeastle's bill pained than the one proposed byMr. Glad.
stone. He therefore thought nothing of the threat that if
this bill was not passed • compulsory abolition would be
made. The Doke of Marlborough thanked the deputation on
behalf of the government. There was one difficulty, how-
ever, which presented Itself. The bill bad been unopposed
in the Commons, and the government could not therefore
in the Lords. They had had the matter before them,
oppose luid come to the conclusion that it was better that the
bill should be referred to a select committee. It was
almost impossible to think that the bill would pass in its
present state. It had been aptly said that the bill took
everything and gave nothing. The bill was, in his opinion,
most dangerous. That was his personal opinion, however.
The government had come to the conclusion that it should
he referred to • select committee. After the almond reading,
therefore, he should put • notice ou the notice paper is, the
effect that the bill should be referred. If that parsed, he
hoped amendments would be made that would make the
bill more satisfactory. Should the House of Commons
accept the alteration, well and good ; if not, the bill would
of course be lost. The Duke ot Bueldnghain entirely con.
marred with what the Duke of Marlborough had said, and
asked Mr. Chambers to give more fully his views on the
voluntary system. Mr. Chambers referred to the eighth
clause of the bill, which provided that no person should
vote on the matter of church rates who had not paid the
previous voluntary rate. He pointed out when the case
came before the vestry, in some parishes they would reject
the first rate, and so defeat the intention of the bill alto-
gether. The Date of Marlborough said that it seemed to
him that the result of the bill would be to form • church
clique and faction inmany parishes, and would thus lead to
unneeded %unpleasantness. Several gentlemen, by request
of the Duke of Buckingham, gave instances in which the
voluntary rate had been tried, and in every case it had
failed.

FARRINODON GENERAL DISPENSARY AND LYING-
IN Custurv.-The thirty-ninth annual festival of this
institution was held yesterday evening at Radley's Hotel,
New Bridge-street, under the presidency of the Right
Hon. G. J. Claschen, M.P. Among those present were
the Rev. H. Blunt, ex-Sheriffs Ootterell and FICtMr.
C. S. Pedler, Dr.. Munday Beigel, Dunn, an
J.
Mr. G. E. Phillips, Mr. Figgins, Jan., Mr 7 ir6re—es-1,
hon. secretary, &a. During its forty years' career the
institution has been instrumental in the extension of gra-
tuitous advice and medicines to nearly a quarter of a mil- THE SOCIETY OF ARTS ANDPFORKMEN AUTHORS.
lion patients, many of whom have been visited at their -The Society of Arts last year raised over 1,000/., and
own homes. It is almost entirely dependent upon volun. , sent some eighty foremettand representative working men
May contributions for its support. Through the kind et- ito Frence, to report upon the condition of the French
sistance of the treasurer, by an advance of money, 1 artisans and manufactures. The reports so made were
the committee has been enabled to purchase the insublished in book form, and have just run through the
whole of the drugs for ready money. This has ' edition of 2,500 copies ; and the French government
had the effect of greatly extending the benefits of the I has bean so struck with the ability and close observation
• displayed in some parts of the work, that it has applied
shanty ; but a debt has thus been Jammu& with the tree,
I for permission to translate it for airoulation among French
surer, and to liquidate this, and at the same time obtain
.
the necessary funds to carryon the institution eflicientt workmen To commemorate the moosesful issue of •
an spitted is made for public assistance. The chairman, somewhat novel undertehat, and at the same time to
proposing the toast of the evening, retorted in laudatory mark their sense of the honour conferred upon the work-
terma the small expense of the manogement in oa ing classes by the Society of Arts, the workmen anthers
ds= with the benefits muttered on the patients. With
have Invited Mr. Wm. Hawes, the chairman of the seen-
the 6001. expended 9 000 patients had, he remedied, been cil, and the executive agars of that body, to a public
sedated gratis ; ana that represented a vast amount of dinner, at the Freemasons' Tavern, to take place on
good. Every pound subscribed had, in fast, done moth' Saturday, May tad. At the last comieitteeemmting, held
end palpable good.mud
The amaam, mhimthed a cc,. at 21, Southampton-buildings, W.C., it was stated that
lia anniversary L 3361. The up% GI Earl Granville had consented to preside, and that several
nexion with s versary()lse
Union. Mr. H. Ashton, Mr. O. Olagett, Mr. . phiumss. other distinguished public men, who take an interest in
and Mn J. Bodkin assisted by Mr. J. F. Moen as pianist, the program of the education of the working classes, had
performed an excellent selection of music. Mr. Solemnest "Deemed their intention "be lament"
officiated as toastmaster. 1 XiONDON ORPHAN Affnu3t, CLAPPON.—The fifty-
SUSPICIOUS DEATH AT NORTH WOOLWICH. fifth anniversary of this valuable and interesting imititn-
Mr. E. Lewis, meaner, resumed yesterday, at the Railway tion was kept last night at the London Tavern. His Royal
Hotel, Silvertown, near North Woolwich, the invalids*. Highness the Duke of Cambridge bad promised to preside.
Roe into the cha'ammanoca attending the alleged maniac bat in his unavoidable &bassos Colonel Waimea
of a sailor named James Lourenneson, aged shout 26 years. hie Piece- There are now 460_ orPhene-In &ll=
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