The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-02 00:00:00

ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.

The thirty-second anniversary festival of this excellent
institution was celebrated at the London Tavern on
Saturday evening, when about 100 gentlemen, friends
and patrons of the charity, sat down to a sumptuous
dinner. His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh was to have
taken the chair, but was prevented by indisposition.
Charles Yates, Ezq., one of the treasurers of the insti-
tution, in Highland costume, officia.ed as chairman in the
Duke's absence, and very efficiently and gracefully dis-
charged the duties of the chair. The chairman, on his
entrance into the room, was preceded by Mr. Angus
M'li4y, her Majesty's piper, the piper of the Highland
Society of London, and the pipers of the juvenile band
of the asylum, accompanied by the vice-presidents and
stewards. During dinner, and at intervals afterwards,
the juvenile band of the asylum, under Mr. Byford,
and the juvenile pipers, under her Majesty's piper,
played several spirit-stirring martial airs. Miss Stewart,
Miss Thornton, and Messrs. Kenny, Charles Cooper, and
Farquharson Smith, sang several glees and songs at
intervals during the evening, accompanied by Mr. G. F.
Taylor on the grand piano. The Scottish airs sung by
Miss Thornton were generally and especially admired,
and loudly encored.
On the removal of the cbth the usual loyal and con-
stitutional toasts were given from the chair, and duly
responded to.

The children maintained and educated at the asylum
were then introduced into the room, preceded by the
pipers, and their tine healthy appearance, and their
joyous and intelligent faces, elicited the unqualified ad-
miration of the whole company.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the evening,
said, that was the first occasion that he had had the
honour of taking the chair at an anniversary dinner of
this institution, in which he had felt always a deep and,
ho hoped, a lasting interest.--(Applause.) Perhaps it
might be expected that he should enter at some length
rat., the ‘4,o....tane.ea of. the Royal Caledonian Asylum;
but he thought the readiest und best appeal to the as-
sembly would be to look, around to those children.
(Great applause.) In the toast which he had to give
there was a special allusion to the girls' school. The
girls' school, as most of them were aware, was a part of
the institution that was established mainly by the kind-
ness of a gentleman whom he hoped to have seen pre-
sent that evening, but who had been prevent
from attending—he meant Mr. Matheson.—(Cheers.)
His (M r. Matheson's) handsome donation had
enabled them to carry out what was one of the
most essential parts of the institution, v:z., the girls'
school. The girls were that portion of their rising race
whose nurture required the most especial care and ten-
derness.—(Applause.) Those little girls were present
that evening to the number of 50, and he hoped shortly
to seo their number doubled. lie hoped also that every
one of them would become a good member of the cern-
munity. It was by the munificent donation of Mr.
Matheson that those little girls were being educated ;
and he (the Chairman) trusted 'that the result of that
day's meeting would show that their hearts were ready
to respond to the appeals made to them on behalf of those
children they saw before them.—(Cheers.) '[he toast
he had to propose was, " The Caledonian Asylum, and
may the offspring t f the brave never want a protector."
Mr. GEORGE LINDSAY, one of the auditors, then en-

tered into some particulars respecting the institution. lie
said there had been, last year, 74 boys and 48 girls main-
tained in the institution. The expenditure during the
year had [ken 3,740/, and he grieved to say that the
whole receipts last year had scarcely been 1,000/. They
had now reduced their capital stock, so that
it the annual subscriptions and donations did not came in
more rapidly and largely than hitherto in the course of
seven years this asylnin must have an end alt,gether;
and those 122 children would he cast upon the wide
world, and God knows what would become of thorn.
Several other appcopriate toasts were given and re-
sponded to in the course of the evening, and the com-
pany separated about 11 o'clock.
The donations made in the course of the everiiiig
amounted to nearly 6001., including 100 guineas from tilt,
Duke of Eucc!euch, and 20 guineas from the Duchess of
Buceleuch, 211 from the Ilako of Roxburgh, and 151.
from fie:: :Straws.
The gallery across the foot of the room was filled
with ladies, whose presence lent not the least of the
m.tny interesting teatures which characterised this
pleasant evening.
Mr. Harker officiated as toastmaster.

THE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRACY.—The Marquis o
litbury, as Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Middle
sex, gave his annual entertainment to the officers of the
East and West Middlesex militia and the Westminster
militia, and to the magistrates of the county, on Satur-
day last, at his la,rdship's town residence in Arlington-
street. The following noblemen and gentlemen attended
the reunion, and partook of the Noble Marquis's hospi-
tality :—The Earl of Glengall, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
M.P., Visconnt Chelsea, the Right Honourable Henry
Pierrepont, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Alder-
man Sir George Carroll, Alderman Selomons, Alder-
man Musgrove, Mr. Sheriff Fianis, Mr. Sheriff Good•
hart, Sir Henry Meux, Bart., M P., Sir J. Macadam,
Sir John Hensler, Sir James Hamilton, Sir Walter
Stirling, Sir John Kirkland, Sir E. Ryan, Sir Peter
Laurie, Baron de Goldsmid, the Common Sergeant, Mr.
Sergeant Adams, the Ilonourable Mr. Norton, the lion.
Mr. Maude, Mr. 11. Beaumont Cole, M.P. Mr. J.
Walter, .ALP., Mr. J. W. Dud, M.l'., Mr. W. 11. Plow-
den, M.P., Mr. A. Raphael, M.P., Colonel Wood, Colonel
Thomas Wood, Colonel North, Colonel Bagot, Major
Moore, Major Alcock, Captain Corperffera_a
Cap-
tain Page, Captain Benge, Captain Parsons.
nall,Ptain
Mr
Hensler, Mr. llubrt de Burgh. Mr- II-
Laurie, Mr. Wm. Russell, Mr. nawkin
Mr. Stratriehl, Mr. Bingham, Mr. itardwick
Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Pileher, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Butler, Mr. J.
Hudson, Mr. Tower, Mr. Tudor, Mr. Dixon, Mr.
Broughton, Mr. Penton,,, Mr. E. Bagot, Mr. Barlow, Mr.
Alexander Wilson, Mr. Planet, Mr. Evans, Mr
Mr. Parker, Mr. Coe, Mr. Twining, Mr. Thomas Chat-
mur, Mr. Noel Howe, Air. H. Stock, Mr. Baldrich, Mr.
Burrell, Mr. Hill, Mr. Maude, Mr. Patterson, Mr.
Nicholson, Mr. Cancellor, Mr. Armstreng, Mr. Hans-
well, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Bluch, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Bent-
ley, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Marriott, Mr. Carr,
Mr. Wilson, Mr. Howe, Mr. Davies, Mr. Whiskin, Mr.
C. Cooper, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. V. Knight, Mr. Gra-
ham, Mr. France, Mr. Gould, Mr. Antrobus, Mr.
Witham, Mr. Tubbs, Mr. Townshend, Mr. William
Paynter, Mr. Mussett, Mr. James Haggard, Mr. Prater,
Mr. Turner, Mr. Platt, Mr. Harding, Mr. Ballantine,
Mr. Kirby, Mr. Williams, Mr. Glossop, Mr. Bigg. Mr.
Phillips, Mr. George Robinson, Mr. Craig, Mr. Flood,
Mr. Warner, Mr. Herring, &c. The company separated
shortly before midnight.
SoNTaca—The celebrated Sontag (the Countess
Rossi) arrived in London on Saturday, and attended the
performance at her Majesty's Theatre, accompanied by
her husband. The gifted cantatrice will make her first
appearance pest Saturday, in Lindi da Chamouni.