The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

ROYAL HIGHL AND SCHOOL

SOCIETY.
The seventy-fourth anniversary festival of this society
was held on Saturday night, in the Freemason's Hall,
Great Queen-street. His Royal highness the Duke of
Cambridge, l'resident of the Institution, in the chair.
Amongst the company present, in addition to his
Royal Highness the Chairman, we recognised Sir James
Duke, Alderman, M.P., Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq.,
M.P., W. Ewart, Esq., M.P., and a number of gentle-
men connected with Scotland and interested in the pro-

greys of the society.
Dinner was served up at six o'clock precisely, and
comprised every delicacy of the season. On the removal

of the cloth,
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE gave in succession from the
chair, "'lhe Queen," "The Queen Dowager," "The
Duchess of Kent," " Prince Albert, the patron of the
Society and Chief of the Highlands," " The Prince of
%Vales Duke of Rothesay, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of
the Isles, &c.," " The Duchess of Gloucester and Edin-
burgh, the Lady Patroness of the society, " " The
Array and Navy," &c. &c.; all of which were received
with the usual honours.

The Duke of CAMBRIDGE than proceeded to give the ,
toast of the evening--" Prosperity to the Highland
School Society." This important society (said his Royal
Highness), it was well known, was instituted in order to
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brother George the Fourth, as a society well entitled to
public confidence ar.d support. The object of the so-
ciety was the education and improvement of the children
of Highlanders, and it was now very desirous that the
directors should increase its funds, in order to extend its
usefulness still more. At the present time 20,000
children were receiving education, for which purpose
120 schoolmasters were engaged. The inhabitants of
the Highlands were in all about 450,000, and it was
very desirable to extend tho number of schools
among them. This present assembly, therefore, was
called together to see what could be done towards col-
lecting a sum of money to facilitate the extension of
these schools. The whole sum raised by the London
board, last year, was about 6001., and it was hoped the
amount this year would be considerably increased. He
hoped, therefore, the appeal of the directors would be
attended with success ; and he would now conclude by
proposing " Prosperity to the Royal Highland School
Society.
The toast was received with loud applause, and drunk
with all the honours.
The SECRETARY (Mr. Mackie) then read the report for
the past year.
The list of subscriptions by the company was then
read. The Queen. 501., in additien to 4501. before; the
Queen Dowager, 10 guineas, in addition to 210 guineas
previously; Prince Albert, 12 guineas, in addition to a
previous subscription of 100/.; his Royal Highness the
Chairman, 201., in addition to 1001. before; the Duke of
Buckingham, 101., in addition to 601 before; Lord Haddo,
one of the stewards, 10 guineas, in addition to 211. be-
fore; Sir James Duke, M.P. (a steward) 5 gui-
neas, in addition to 10 guineas previously; tha
Duke of Buccleucb, 501., in addition to 6201. before ; B.
B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., 20/., in addition to 126/. before ;
the Countess of Dunmore, one guinea ; Lord Saltoun,
5 guineas, Mr. Ewart, Esq., M.P., 5 guineas, &c. These,
in addition to several smaller sums, made upwards of 300/.
Mr. B. B CAnsum. then, in a highly eulogistic speech,
proposed the health of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, in the course of which he pointed out the
benefits which had been conferred on the Society by
several members of the royal family, but more espe.
cially by the Dukes of Kent, Sussex, and their present
Chairman.

The toast was received with great cheering.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE returned thanks. He could
only sincerely thank them for the honour done him in '
drinking his health ; and as for the present Society, it
had not only his good wishes, but he was determined
to support it by every means in his power.—(Cheers.)
His Royal Highness then retired, and the chair was
taken by Mr. B. B. Cabbell, the Treasurer of the
society.
The following toasts were then given The Chis-
holm and the Highlands of Scotland," " The health of
the Treasurer," " Dr. Stebbing and the Church of Eng-
land," " The Press," " The Rev. J. U. Fisher and the
Church of Scotland," " The Caledonian Society," " The
Land o' Cakes," " Mr. Prior and the Stewards," &c. ;
all of which were responded to in eloquent and appro-
priate speeches.
During the evening several pupils of the Society,
dressed in full Highland costume, paraded the room, at
intervals discoursing most excellent music on the High-
landers' national instrument, the bagpipe. One little
urchin of a piper especially performed his part so ad-
mirably as to elicit the repeated applause of the assembly.
The vocal department was represented by Messrs.
Rule and Moody, and Miss Townsend, (Mr. Wilson
being absent, it was stated, through illness), but though
several Scotch airs were sung in the course of the night,
we cannot award much praise to the execution.

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SEEING IS BELIEVING.—Do - you see that gent,
what a fright he looks ? He has got a thirty-shilling wig on,
you might swear to it a mile off. If you want a real head of
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case to exhibit their Perukes, containing thirty different
styles of wearing the hair, thus enabling every one to choose
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either in Paris or London. Address Ross and Sons, 119 and
120, Bishopsgate-street.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.