The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-05-28 00:00:00

ASiLUM FOR FEMALE ORPHANS.

The Anniversary Amid of this laudable Institution was celebrated at
the City of LOFtIOn Tavern, Ilishopgete-street, on Wednesday
evening, when upwards of 150 of its friends and supporter' sat
down to a sumptuous dinner, W. Williams, Esq. M.P. in the
Chair.
I Among the company we noticed Florence Young, Esq. lig.'
' Sheriff far Surrey, Rev. Mr. Gurney, Samuel 51arryett, Esq.
H. Haskell, Esq., Wheeler, and sceeral Member'. of Parlia-
ment, Clergymen, and slegistrates, &r.
After dinner, " Non Nair Zetendine" was sung by several pro-
fessional gentlemen who attended, and the " King," with other
loyal sod pstsiceic toasts, were drank. In the course of the even-
ice the Secretary's Report was read. The Committee for con-
ducting the affairs of the Institution, it stated, had experienced
great anxiety during the preceding year, not in consequence of the
diminution of their annual income, but by the approach of a far
more serious call upon their honk than any with which the Charity
had vet had to contend. The premises occupsed by the Asylum were
held under a lease from the City Lonelun, at a rate of ill. 10s.
per annum for a long term, which within two years of expire.
tion. ft therefore became an o of anxious consideration,
whether it would be more benellAal to obtain a new lease, or endea-
vour to effect a purchase of the freehold ; and they therefore re-
wileed to make an alternative application to the Court of Common
Council.- The Bridge.honse Committee, to whom their petition was
referred, directed a valuation of the property to be made by Owe
surveyors, who jointly reported that the value of the tee-simple,
wito its present boildinge, wee 15,75f1. 4s. and that if the pre-
mises were granted on a repairing lease fur 21 yeas, the clear
annual value was COW. ; but not expecting to have a renewed term
without a considerable increase of rent, they did not anticipate a
demand of such magnitude, which involved the Institution in con-
siderable difficulty ; to remove which an appeal wait made to the
Car. representing the necessities and value of the charity, but
their application was refused, under circumstances which did not at
all impugn the motive of the City of lemdcaa. The Institution,
as it stood IA present, was in every way adapted to the advantage of
the Charity. and leaving it now, after having had the premises for
the last seventy years, must prove tuinous to the Charity, as having
to build ;tad furnish a fresh school, and leaving a commodious
cher], would occasion considerable expense. The Report concluded
by urging the support of the Charity.
The health of the Chairman was drunk with greet applause. '
The Cilia it Dia x rose, and delivered a speech of a very neat de.
seription. Upon the aid which the Institution required, depended
it. e mt nued prosperity, and he was convinced that every individual I
could not tail to sympathise in the existence of such an Institution
formed for the purpose of giving to infants, deprived of both father
end mother, a shelter and a home; of preserving and shielding
female purity; of afiierding that education, both moral and reli-
gious, which should guide then, in future life; and of instructing
them in those useful domestic duties which would render them va-
luakle servants aid good members of seciety. He was satisfied
that the 4 'hazity would meet with every support, without which the
Society would be cemapelled to pay a deaf ear to the applications of
, the helpless young females, who, front their not having any known
settkuient, would be ineligible in all other establishments. (Ap-
plause.)
Several other speeches were delivered, and, in the course of the
evening, a amble-Coda) was made by the company, who indulged
themselves with the utmost conviviality until a late hour.