The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-04 00:00:00

LONDON,

sent—this is the moment when we must prevent them
from returning to their native land, and saying that
200 gentlemen among the most powerful and most
influential, and most affluent, and most respectable in the
most influential, and most affluent, and most respectable
country in the world—(Laughter)---had not been able to
produce a sum for a charity, the claims of which all ac-
knowledge, and the form in which it is presented com-
mands all our admiration, which a foreign bird of pas-
sage, a singing bird, as it were, by her presence in her
' cloudy heaven, and by her inspiration, commands.—
(Laughter and cheers.) Pray come forward; the second
list of subscription is about to be read.—(Rene wed
laughter and cheers.) I have no doubt that it
will be a distinguished one. But think of the
position of your chairman: I have always been told that
the sweeper of a crossing occupies an enviable position,
that he sees a great deal of society—(Laughter)—re-
ceives considerable contributions; but what is the sweeper
of a crossing to the chairman at a public meeting?—
(Roars of laughter.) If you will not now respond to
my prayer I shall feel that I have very inefficiently ful-
filled my mission to-day; I shall feel disgraced; I shall
feel ashamed; but what shall I say of you ?—(Laughter.)
When a year has elapsed, and my excellent
friend the secretary reads the report of the
year 1849 of a meeting so distinguished for the
number of the guests, and by the presence of some of
them, what must I feel if it is told them that the rental
has fallen, that the revenue is deficient? I can conceive
no powers of rhetoric that can excuse such a catastrophe;
and I appeal to you as men and brothers—(Laughter)—
that you will save me from the prospects of such an em-
barrassment. Suppose you ruin yourselves—(Laughter)
—its a great opportunity l—(Renewed laughter.) Come
forward, and you may be quite sure that to-night what-
ever you do it will last, because you are supporting
an institution but if you support yourselves
only you are mere individuals—(Great laughter)—
on the other hand, if you aid this institution by your
subscriptions, you will contribute to a great historical
result, and your posterity, whom you may be sure will
survive you—(Laughter)—wken they look upon that
building, which lam resolved shall be completed, will
say,
My father was one of those who raised this
admirable structure." I thank you very much for
my health—it is a very great reward—it rests
heart ; but I shall be doubly grateful. and it
drinkingwupioli
nmengycourage me in any effort I can make in
future, if to-night you prove that you are
resolved to maintain the high tone of English feeling
which originated this society and called us together this
day.—(Loud cheers.)
The CUAIRMAN then proposed the healths of the
Committee of Management, to which
Mr. EDWARD SPEER briefly responded.
The healths:of the Medical Officers was also giren from
the chair, and responded to by Dr. Cursham and Dr.
Theophilus Thompson.
The CIAIRDAN then, in a highly humorous and com-
plimentary speech, gave " The Ladies," which was drank
with honours; and the company separated at a few
minutes to twelve.
The entertainment, which was of the most sumptuous
and recherche character, amply sustained the high repu-
tation of the Messrs. Staples, the spirited proprietors of
the tavern.

we have rarely seen equalled. The whole company, to
a man, simultaneously rose to greet the distinguished
foreigner, the ladies in the gallery joining in the wet=
come by waving their handkerchiefs in token of their
delight. He spoke in our native language, and that with
a fluency and an appropriateness of emphasis which
might put some of our own countrymen to the blush.
When silence had been restored, he addressed the assem-
bly in the following words:—
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I am really ashamed,
after having heard that beautiful speech which has been
just now delivered before you by your most honourable
and distinguished Chairman—(Hear, hear,)—l am really
ashamed to come forward with my bad English—
(Cries of " No, no,")—and my still worse pronun-
ciation.—(No, no.) This you will forgive ; and
I hope you will sympathise with my feelings if
not with my words.—(Hear, hear.) I am fulfilling a
sort of debt of gratitude when rising now and addressing
you in the present circumstances. In the same parish,
near the same spot where lies your Hospital for Con-
sumption, I enjoyed, since more than one year, the
kindest English hospitality.—(Cheers.) I am a daily
witness to all the good which is done there by your care
and in your name. I cannot walk around my home with-
out seeing those poor sick persons whom you relieve
walking in the bright fields and gardens which you have
prepared for them.—(Hear, hear.) Everything that
happens in that house, within and without, strikes my
ear and moves my heart— (Cheers)— and, what is still
more striking and still more moving, I cannot lift up
my eyes without reading upon the walls of that
house, as upon the walls of almost every such
institution in London and in England—" Supported by
voluntary contributiene."—(Great cheering.) Gentle-
men, this is not the general practice upon the continent
—(Hear, hear)—and,•if I am not mistaken, it was not
the practice of ancient times in your own country.—_
(Cheers.) Your forefathers did feel, as you feel your-
selves, a deep sympathy for all the sugerings and mise-
ries of mankind; and they did wish, and they did under-
take, as you do wish and do undertake, to relieve them.
But they tried to provide at once, and in the first day,
tor all the future life of such institutions. They did
endow them, in the first day, with settled and permanent
revenues.—(Hear, hear.) They did believe that those
revenues would be sufficient. They did confide in the
stability of all things around them—(Elear, hear)—and
in the efficiency, the perpetual efficiency of their
own good will.-4 Hear, hear.) That was a noble, that
was a benevolent feeling; but allow me to say it was a
too proud and not well-enlightened feeling.—(Cheers.)
Experience, a dearly-bought experience, has taught us
all this truth now. The voluntary principle has replaced
almost everywhere in your public charity the permanent
perpetual revenue. You confide in the good will of
men, as your forefathers did confide in the stability of
things—(Cheers)—and now every generation, and I
ought almost to say every man, becomes anew every year
the founder of new public institutions of sympathy and
charity in Englands—(Hear.) That sympathy never
fails.—(Cheers.) The life of those institutions has
never been shortened, and never been really
endangered by so precarious a condition. This is
the wonderful result of a charity as enlightened as it is
fervent ; that is one of the most striking and admirable
i features of moral and public character in your country.
—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, especially in our day, amid
those dreadful storms by whiob the whole civilised world
is now shaken, and which tend everywhere to irritate and
to rouse the poor against the rich—the suffering part
against the prospering part of mankind—it is more tkan
ever important to adhere firmly to so excellent a prac-
tice.—(Hear, hear.) I trust the voluntary principle--
that is, liberty in charity—(Cheers)—will continue to
display its immense power for doing good, under the se-
curity given.to it by the support of a solid and well-
settled government, in an inexhaustible sympathy for
the alleviation of all the miseries and for the
relief of all the moral and material wants
of mankind—(Hear, hear)—and in an insuperable firm-
ness against all the bad passions and all the follies of i
mankind. These are the two conditions by which you
will ensure the permanent triumph of civilisation over T. ~
destruction, and of social life over social death. May '—' 1
God, of his Almighty lamer, without whose help we
cannot accomplish anything great or good, may God
give you constant protection in that awful struggle. It sins, X
is a great happiness for me on such a day to propose to h aide
you a toast for the most noble patron and supporter of Meadl
that excellent institution, for your president the Duke 'harks.
of Richmond—(Cheers)—and for all your vice-presi- ons tor
f the IL
dents; and I beg now to add the very Is. se. e.
Honourable Baronet who has distinguished himself by
his munificent gift for the erection of a chapel to A. M
the hospital, Sir Henry toulia.—(The distinguished gen- "CU PLL
tlemen resumed his seat amid the enthusiastic plaudits of TR
the company.) -tu come.
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Glee—" Spring's delights are now returning." it C
TOo col
Lord Femme* said it fell to his lot to rise to ten- s PEE A
der to them the expression of his grateful acknowledg- 701 rains,
ments for the honour which they had conferred upon the announce
present Viee-Presidents of this most noble institution. ,nt enterta
He assured them he wished most sincerely that the Noble I
I:
•. .•
President, the Duke of Richmond, had been present Plt to respond to - the toast, or that among the • - -
Vice-Presidents who had been able to favour them
.with their company that day, one had - been
found eloquent enough to have offered them the ex-
pression of their thanks for the very kind manner in
which they had been pleased to receive the last toast.
He could assure them that he rose not with any desire
to engage their attention after the most able and elo-
quent speeches they had heard that night, but having
been requested to respond to the tout, he believed he
should be guilty of dereliction of duty if he did not
tender to them the expression of his gratitude. He
had been requested by Sir Henry Foulie to say that
nothing would have given him greater satisfaction than
to have been present at the festival that day, had not a
severe domestic afllliction presented him. Sir H. Foulis
had done him the honour to call on him that morning to
request that he would mention that circumstance to the
meeting to account for his absence; and nothing could
be more liberal or more modest than the manner in
which he alluded to the liberal donation which he had
presented. He stated that he had made that donation
because he felt it was a most important object that
the patients confined within the walls of the hospital
should not only have the benefit of spiritual instruction
furnished to them, but should also have the
opportunity of attending on the offices of
the Church. Having said so much, the pleasing
duty then devolved on him (Lord Feversham) of propos-
ing to them the health of their worthy and excellent
Chairman.—(Loud cheers.„) He was certain that every
gentleman whom he had then the honour to address
would appreciate the great advantage which the society
had obtained by having the services and benefit of the
talents of his Hon. Friend 'who was then in 'the chair.
That he who held an important station among the repre-
sentatives of the people of this country, and who took
so active a part in public life, whose duties were so nu-
merous, should have found time to devote a few of his
leisure hours there that evening to the cause of humanity,
of charity, and of philanthropy, was he (Lord Feversham)
was sure to them all a matter of the greatest gratifica-
tion. He had so ably expatiated on the advantages
of this society, and so eloquently dilated on its circum-
stances, and what he (Lord Faversham) would hope
would be its results, that he might be spared from enter-
that he sympathised with his eloquent .
ing on that branch of the questionfurtfhreierndthiaen
allto sthay
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eloquent
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shteh
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eardees t t ot
htahne mt h
etihradt night,ety ta sup-
and
port that valuable institution. The rich and the poor,
the strong and the weak, the old and the young, were
all of them in their turn liable to the attacks of
that most distressing and fatal disorder which
as bis Hon. Friend had eloquently stated, knocked
alike at the door of the palace and the cottage, and that
of all the intermediate ranks, as was but too clearly
shown by the records of mortality.—(Hear, hear.) It
was unnecessary for him to trespass further on their
time. He congratulated them most sincerely on meeting
there that evening, and the chairman on the numerous
attendance, and he felt that the appeal which the chair-
man had made to them would sot be made in vain, but
that the result of that meeting would be a considerable
augmentation of the funds of the institution. The Noble
Lord concluded by proposing " the health of the chairman,
Benjamin Disraeli, Esq."—(Cheers.)
Drunk with honours.
Song, by Mr. Leffler.
The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen,. I believe there is a
homely adage, that you may have too much of a good
thing. It has always appeared to me that too much of
a bad thing is really intolerable—(Laughter)—and I
should have ventured only to havn expressed nay sense
of that gratification which all men must feel in my posi-
tion after what has occurred, had it not been that my
health has been proposed by my Noble Friend near me.
' d it, and, you will pardon me for saying it,
have receive Mr. STUARTIWORTLET'S Bill for the removal o)
in which it waspro-
I am deeply gratified for the kindness with which you
the absurd and impolitic prohibitions against mar-
posed.
nage with a deceased wife's sister or niece was last
first enteredParliament, sitting
.
less illustrious assem- night discussed at some length in the House of
I remember many years
with ago, when I •
Friend who was then in a .
still more by the manner
bly than that in. which. he now occupies a seat, and many Commons. On the question that the Bill be read a
second time the debate was adjourned until this
by
h I believe no cloud ever
although I can assure you chat evening, when it is to be hoped that the principle of
fromg that time to the present
side side, which we fought; but
our mutual feeliega have always been those of unruffled the measure will be affirmed by a clear and decisive
cordiality, there was no evening that we ever sat to- majority. It is difficult to understand upon what
than the present.—(Cheers.) But grounds the resistance to this just and equitable
rwoesreebtelitewceaemn campaigns, side
• that
h it may be a right
allow me toenactment can be resisted, and most certainly its
it is not even for the honour you
enough toast,
• although I do not undervalue opponents did not strengthen their position by any
that although
arg.urnents adduced in the course of the discussion.
have
se
vt. he e rd more
one gratifyingm cell
you
it, on the contrary WI
have
It is admitted on every side that there is no Divine
in my
always considered lite that the approbation of my
that I law forbidding such marriages, that the utmost that
thebest reward for anything
fellow-citizens was
• king my health, pro- could be alleged is, that it is a mere matter of church
timate it more than mlostammen't,°°becaaputse
discipline, and therefore only binding
d as it is by one entitled. upon the tnem-
pose
did—(Cheers)—it ers)—
satisfactory to me as
Friend, that is half so .
bers of the church or churches in which it is
is my Noble .
.sodrminuch to your regard as
those who do not recognise that
sb, nuoityt
What if it come tothe ears . objectionable. There can therefore be no
—(Laughter) -
pocosnssiibdleerreedasonwhy
ioounrs that is going to be made.
the second list ofitsui
authority, who in many respects honestly and con. that we, the ci
a her own isolated genius
do less than she di— by
always rest upon you will never scientiously object to its doctrines, should be coerced
to obey its dictates, and forbidden to form connexions
smtiogi
ms eal 1 et
that
Jenny
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ei nnds , orthe.people.
°f
someh hfoerreeignshloaunt
• here, should
The
of' London assem
be irradicable ; yo u I
canwlil
spot on your •
of your years, with a
which they seriously believe to be lawful and
life, through the rest
hardly conceive that hu-
through
pro-
destiny.—(Laughter.) alwsys pass
man nature,. that society,
and that English society, can p
I even I—should appeal to two a relic of the intolerance of past ages, which should
hundred men to get me out of such a scrape.—(Loud forthwith b
be so degenerated that
e erased from our statute-book. As
net for my
laughter.) Pray come forward,reputation, 11 •ht
like all earthly things, we Mg the Church by law established arrogate
take its chance .
—for that must than it has, will to itself the right of enforcing a strict and
and even if it succeeds truth more
have
that •
vanish like a thousand other thingsliteral assent to all its canons, and insist upon
you, for your own the
also been forgotten, but most stringent penalties being inflicted upon all
the sake of
sake, for the public's sake, for
of human nature— who refused to conform to its views. Religious
the English people, for the sake
This is a mo- fhas
been achieved after a long and arduous
pray subscribe!—(Roars of laughter.)
istill
went that foreigners, and distinguished • foreigners—and struggle, and no paltry remnant of the penal code
we all know that very distinguished foreigners are pre-
should be retained for the purpose of gratifying the

The music was under the able direction of Mr. Grat.
tan Cooke, assisted by Mr. Sporle, Mr. Young, and Mr,
Lefler.

Mr. Toole, with his usual address, officiated as wax
master.

The subscriptions during the °riming amounted to
nearly 11,000/.

TH4 LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each.
Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share,
Pre, -setusegi and fill information may be obtained at the Tempo-
isry Offices of the Company, 13A, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap-
plication to

G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sea., pro tern.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
~~e• JENNY LIND.
The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respect
folly informed that

TO-MORROW EVENING
Will bo produced the admired Opera,
LA SONNAMBULA.
Amine, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Elyiao, Signor Enrico Calsolarl.
To conclude with a DIVERTISSEMENT,
in which Mdlle. Carlotta (Ire, Mdlle. M. Taglioni, Mdlle. Petit
Stephan, Mesas& Marra,
and Thomassini, 31. Paul Taglionl, 31.
Dor, M. Charles, &c., will appear.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
B"-°1111ce of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as
usual, price 10s. 6d. each.
ST.

JAMES'S THEATRE.
Season 1849.
TREXCH PLAYS and 'OPERA COMIQUE.
THIS EVENING,
The Performance" will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with
IJ CODE DES FEMMES.
To conclude with
LE PRE ATJX CLEItCS.
Mergy, M. Octave; Comrninge, M. Cszdsrc ; Isabelle, Mdlle.

Chart On.
Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding heirreseed expenses of the present entertainment, the prices ofsion arb determined as follows:
Boxes .• 68 Od.
Pit .. • 3s• Sd•
Amphitheatre .. • • „ 28. Od.
Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ;
Mr. Andrew?, New. Bond-street ; and at the .Box-ol2lce of the
Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till Ave.

THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Broinpton.

THIS EVENIN t.

Will be performed an entirely new Comedy, entitled RUNAWAY
ZUSBANDS. Characters by Metiers. Howe, Wallack, Yandenhoff,
and Buckatone: Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Fzwilllam.
After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE SPHINX.
To be followed by TLIE ROUGH DIAMOND.
To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.

THEAT'RIC ROYAL. ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
TRlfil EVENING,
Win be peribrmed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters
by Messrs. Lambert, Royce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mun-
yard, O. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar,
Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, Scc.
After which, WHO LIVES AT No. 9 ? Characters by Messrs.
Wright and Worrell, and Miss Chaplin.
To conclude with a Farce. called GOING TO THE DERBY THE
DERBY DAT. Mr. Jeremiah Twiddle, Mr. Wright ; Mr. John
.Tames Chucks, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Captain Nobble, Mr. Worrell ;
Mrs. Chucks, Mrs. Matthews; Mrs. Twiddle, Miss•Woidgar.

110TAL LYCEUM THEATKE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestria.
sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new comic Drama, called THE HUSBAND
OF MT WIFE. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Harley, F.
Matthews, Selby, and Parklle I Miss H. Gilbert, and Miss Connor.
To be followed by a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha-
racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gil-
bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame vestric
Te conclude with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN-
DOM.
Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No
tall-price to any part of the house.
The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington.street, is open to the
public .very day, from Ten till. Six.

PRINCESS'S THEATitg.
• Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new Opera, entitled THE HEART OF MID
LOTHIAN. Characters by Herr Mengis, Messrs. C. Brahma, Horn-
Will be performed the Opera of LA VIVANDIERE.
After which, Mdllea. W. and A. ITeruda aad tkeir brother Victor
will perform on the Violin. Violoncello, and Pianoforte.
To conclude with a new grand Extravaganza, entitled NOURED-
DIN AND THE FAIR PERSIAN.

ASTLBY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty. the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
The new grand Easter Spectacle unprecedentedly successful.
THIS EVENING,
The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec-
tacle, by Fitaball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR-
NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean.
To be rollowed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
CIRCLE, in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will.appear.
To conclude with THE LONDON CARRIER.
Box-oftice open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

WEATILEIL—Bux OfllcE, MAY 4.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 46; Highest, 67; Noon, 7

BAROMZTER, 29.9.

WIND E.—fresh breeze, and fine, sunshiny weather.

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