The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-01 00:00:00

MEDICAL FUND BOOM Y.

The fli

lest salad ot the =eiders of this
Nasty was held yestador ag nommen' Tavern, Great
Quin-street. Tin ekshe was taken by J Foust, ,M D.
The secretary, Mr. IIAWTATIIR. read a report on be-
half of the annanittea of moseagasses. It stated that the
ereensaittes had sew bitowett onifieneo M the point at which
the weekey might foldr asnamoos Nan op satires In
assembtass with the au direter rained *lke publie meeting
held tit the 23rd of Mardi lost par. as somminse bad
drawn ape detailed palates of tut& of the in oration,
and had ciradated Is , sending a op,
to every aseethier 1,17 slit
'sip
.7= whoa. addreas
lonald he persenned. They had also prepared a
leouseitutioa mad a soda of laws. In this they
bed been raided portly by the oMelal tales imposed
on all tits class of kindly moieties of whisk tele was one ;
poly by the neomity molifyiag them to suit the poll-
oiler continuo of the members of the medical proAssiosi ;
but above all by the desks to establish eats regolatiose es
konend at pow work essay, sad :be pltifecily sore. The copy
le and,of laws now presented bore the Arial emotion
and timeastre of tne registrar, sad coesequently, brought the
society lausediamly under the reardissehip and peened=
of the statutes of the realm ; and the power of the meeting,
with teepee to it was limited to the simple act of acceptance
is rejection. At any period after accepting these laws any
asap in essordsaes with the act of parliament timid be
made at a public meeting ; and the direston were authorised
to all • meeting et any time on tits requisition of seven
sosabers. Alter neesptimg the code of laws, the meeting
mould have to elect a board of dirostors for the fatale
assartment of the society. The board are to monist of
' twelve members, all beloarieg to the medical profession,
three of whom would retire from the msasyment each year.
The committee of management were willing to undertake
the °Mee of directors. and, Sirs sheet time at least, to un-
dertake the duty of Warm, Into working order the institu-
tion whose foundation they bad laboured to lay securely. It
small dohs the duty of this meeting to elect three trust. re,
Mime auditors, and lin arbitrators. According to the funda-
ment,' principles of the society, not only each of its brushes,
but each indivadnal fund of the provident brawn, was bound
to defray its oat individual upturn, and all the tables
for the annuities, 'khans fund, and osuranee, were eat-
misted on that plan. As, h iwever, there writ be 2.50
subscribers to the reversioaary annuities, end 200 subscribers
to the sickness fund, before policies could be granted, pro
bably a coasidsrable time woad elapse before the branches
could afford to pay their urinate, and on this secant it wee
proposed to appropriate a portion of the fund derived
from the mutual subecriptions to meet a temporary de-
ficiracy. After defraying all expenses, there still remained
out of this sum transferred from Mr. Daniill's fund, •
balance of 1591. 18s. 7d. In addition to this balance, the
*misty had received, in th• form of our anbseririons,
from 116 members out of 158 gentlemen who bed already
enrolled themselves, the sun of 2201. Bs. 91, wallies a
total of gash now in hand of 280 i. 7s. 4d. The committee
touted that this state of their finances, considering that
only a few weeks h• 1 elapsed since they were in a polio'
ts:authorise him to call for positive memberships and actual
enhoriptione In money, would be regarded by the meeting
ea highly satisfactory; more *socially when the committee
could assure tbe members that the promises of support
mink they bad remised had been most M 11•01111115, 111.41 the
approval of the plan of the society by the profession had as
far as they were aware, been almost unanimous. In conch*
doe, the committee congratulated the members on the now
nearly completed state of an institution which they corel
dently believed would prove to be one of the most imp..r
taut ever projected by medical men, and fraught with ineal-
ctdable benefits to the members of the medical profession,
and to those nearest and don't to them for many genera
tions. (Cheers.)
Mr. LEWIS wished to be informed what was understood
by the phrase, " the medical profession."
The CHAIRMAN said that by rule 80 it was declared
that " ail members of the medical profession io the Uoited
Kiogdem who shall be duly qualified by law to practise
null be eligible to became members of the society." The
word "medical " comprehended Cray department.

04 the motion of Mr. Dome, eeconded by Dr. W.
MAN, the report wet adopted unanimously.

Dr ELLIOTT, in moving the adoption of its rules, said
he felt st►ooaly that tha establishment of this satiety would
prove an era in the history of mediates. He eonehaied by
movie( the adoption of the rules, and the printing of them
for the use of members.

Mr. SELF, in eircoading the resolution, said that wu the
first great opportunity which the medical profewion had had
o+ helping themselves, and he ►oped they wculd avail
themselves of it. (Rear, hear.)
Mr. LEWIS wished to know whether legally qualified
members of the profession practising in We colonise would
be eligible as lumbers t

The CHAIRMAN thought they would not.
Dr. WEBSTER differed from the chairman on that point.
Any peruse who was legally qualified would be eligible at
whatever pert of the United Kingdom be might prude,.
The resolution was agreed to, the?: being one dissentiect.
Dr. BURNET, of Alton, thought that until the society
bad got into working order its management could be
eetruced to aose so fitly as to those who, having mad* the
neeessary preparations, were the best aoquinted with sil
the subiects which would have to be o ,naidered. Ile would
therefore move that the following members of the commi..tes
of trasouremeet should constitute the board of directors
Babingtoe, Esq , F.R.5., J. R. Bennett,
M.D , John Forbes, Eq , M.D John Spurgie, Esq.,
M.D., (Mori@ Webster, Rm. M.D.. James Bird, Erg , T.
B. Carew Esq., F.R S., Edward Daniell, Esq., H. Han-
cock, Rig, John PruPuitr Esq., O. J. Esq.,
Edward Headland, Eiq _
Dr. W, MERRIMAN seconded the motion,which, after a
short diecuesion. was agreed to.
Dr. BEVELING proposed that the directors should be
requesbd to bring forward, as early se convenient, the ques-
tion of remeeeration the directors.
Dr. BUSHMAN having seconded the notion, a diseurien
took place, which terminated in its withdrawal ; the
directors having disclaimed any desire of remuneration
though they admitted that, as the society's operations
extended, it might become expedient, for the interest of the
members themselves, that the question should be taint.
Sir Claude Scott, J. Forbes, Esq. M D., and J. Propert.
&el , were elected as trustees ; J 'Beane% Bsq., S. Bird,
Esq., and J. Churchill, E.g. auditoes; B. ]Babingten,
ggpp, T. Bennett, Req., H. Bala, Esq., A. C. Forbes, Eq.,
and W. Delanaoy, E.q., as arbitrators.
Oa the motion of Dr. CLARKE, the sum of 60 guineas
was voted to G. Haertayne, Req., as an acknowledgment of
his services es peovisiesal secretary.
Thetas were else weed as the committee of management,
to Mr. Daniell, the kinder of the society, and to the chair-
man ; after whisk the muting separated.

CONSECRATION OP Sr. TllollAll CHURCH, WOOL-
wlca.—Thle church, built as prod givss gratuttouely by
Sir Thomas W. Waist's, Bart., of Cooslt's, to meet the
mast of church aeciontsodattea so much felt, to the

iacoWsinit poielation of Woolwich sad New.Cherlioc, was
consecrated yesterday by the Bishop of Salisbury, who
officiated in the absence of the Lord Bishop of Lsodan.
The Bev. Mr. De la Moro is to be incumbent. It is intended
to haws • steeple and spire, seve fist high, over the
vestry-room, but that tart of the baling has been deferred
for Me prosiest, until farther subseriptioas are obtsinted, the
grist saslety of the comainittoe of inenagetnent being to qua
the body of the church for sink* sa early as possible to
acceemodate the ialtsbitante of the neighbourhood.

ETON COLLEGE ELECTlON.—Eighteen boys have
been placed on the indentures for admission on the rounds-
two this year as vacancies occur. The names were an-
nounced yesterday (Wednesday) morning the following
order :—Backle, Stone, Middleton, Piachard, Browning,
Knapp, Honors, Hodge's, Nelson, Leigh, Mitford, Willis,
Nulled, Harper, /trifling, Prosper, hack., Borer& There
were about 60 esnoidates originally, of whom about one
third were rejected at en early stage. Last year 20 were
placed on the indentures, and then were 19 vacancies in the
cosine of the year, the only one sot admitted (Moreton)
being seventh this year. Paws.—The Rev. F. Witte, IN A.,
and the Bev. Thriag, WA fellows of King's College,
Cambridge.
FMB AT THI RIaIDWNCE or JOHN BLOTON,
Eon., or OULTON.—About Ulf-pest seven o'clock on Tues-
day night. • fire broke out in the mansion of John Bloyds,
Eq., of Outten, which is situate about four miles south of
Leeds. An express was at once despatched to Leads for the
fire-engines, four of whisk were at once forwarded, shag
with a bevy of police..., to keep order. The engine of
the Sun Fire-once was the fist to arrive, but the other thy e
were only • few minutes behind it, and having obtained
a supply of water from a pond In the park, they
all began to play upon the fire till about two
o'clock in the morning, when it was subdued. The wing
placed at the rear of the mutes. la the roof of which the
fire originated, was entirely gutted ; bat the remainder, and
best part of the manslea, was saved. the faroitere, books,
and *tures entaisted considerable damage by bolas her-
Nally removed from the how; but little of them have
bees damaged by the dn. It seems that some repairs had
boa riles es upset the roof, where ease pluaibers hid
duke*, day lighted • Ire, mad it is supposed that the
die had thus communkated with the dry eaten of the roof,
and sat the building an fire. The damage I. covered by is
lassrsase is the loads sad Yorkshire lassesses Company.