The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-31 00:00:00

HALL, CHELSEA.

Mr. Samuel Gurney, Mr. Foster Reynold‘, Mr. J.
Gurney Fry, Mr. John E. Cooper, the two Sheriffs, and
Mr. Thiniton Dyer, appeared at the bar with the
following petition, which was presented by Alderman
Thomas Wood.
To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Common Council, the humble petition of the un-
dersigned,
Shewctb,—That your petitioners are members of a
committee recently appointed to superintend the affairs
of a charitable institution, called " The Royal Asylum
for the Reception of Destitute Females."
That this institution was established in the year
1822; is conducted in all its domestic details under
the vigilant superintendance of a committee of ladies,
and has rendered great service to society by reclaiming
the criminal, sheltering the destitute, and annually re-
storing to pursuits of honest industry a number of fe-
males who would otherwise have been left, both by their
condlict and example, to swell the catalogue of crime,
with which the metropolis unfortuanately abounds.
'bat a large number of the persons admitted into the
asylum were prisoners discharged from Newgate, and
yct,pg women brought before the City Magistrates upon
harget for petty theft ; who having lost their character
and placts by dishonest conduct, would have infested
London as confirmed criminals ; whereas, by being edu-

caeed and disciplined in the asylum, they are, many of
them in rzespectable service, and filling other situations
with credit ; in fact, such is the character whieli this
Institintiop has acquired for correcting ignorant and
vicious 'habits, and training its inmates in industrious
pursuits, that the managers have more applications for
servants than they are able to supply.
That in consequence of the removal of this Institu-
tion to the spacious premises now occupied at Chelsea,
called Manor Hall, the ladies who then conducted the
Charity became involved in debt, from which they have
been greatly relieved by the proceeds of an appeal to
the public, and by a liberal contribution from her most
gracious Majesty the Queen. It appeared, however,
expedient to exonerate the ladies from the embarrass-
ments which pressed upon them, and with that view a
Committee of Gentlemen had undertaken to conduct in
future the financial arrangements of the Institution, and
to leave the ladies to the performance of the duties more
congenial with their habits and feelings, that of regu-
lating its domestic arrangements, and in superintending
the religious, moral, and industrial training of its in-
mates.

That the gentlemen who have taken upon themselves
this duty, have, by themselves and friends, raised a sum
newly equal to the discharge of the debt, and have
male arrangements by which they hope to make
the regular receipts equal to the ordinary expenditure
of the establishment. They find, however, that the ex-
hausted state of the funds of the Charity have rendered
an outfit necessary, which they will experience great
difficulty in providing.
Your petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable
Court to grant them some assistance to discharge exist-
ing claims, and to put the establishment in a state of
greater efficiency and more permanent usefulness, &c.
Alderman TIIOMAS Wool) supported the prayer of
the petition in an excellent speech, in which he spoke
of the high promise of the institution, patronised as it was
by individuals upon whose exertions the utmost reli-
ance could be placed. In the Institution every effort
would b 2 made to prevent contamination. It was
known that by means of what was called the Sheriffs'
Fund much good was accomplished in contributing to
the necessities of unfortunate persons discharged from
Ncwgate. The means supplied, although casual and
adventitious, prevented much evil by administering im-
mediate relief to those who but for that fund go out des-
titute upon the 'world. In the Manor Hall twenty
children would be annually received from Ncwgate, so
teat it might be considered under the legitimate influ-
ence of the Corporation.—(Hear, hear.) He then
inovetl that the petition be referred to the Coal, Corn,
and Finance Committee.

Mr. Hour. felt great gratification in seconding the
motian, from his intimate knowledge of the character of
the institution.
Mr. WELLS moved as an amendment that the pcti-
tiot shosAl be laid on the table.
Mr. ASDiEtaToN advocated the Asylum.
Mr. PRITCHARD considered the object completely
legitimate, and had the best expectations of the result.
Thos petition was referred to the Coal, Corn, and
Finance Committee.'

BLACKFRIARa BRIDGE.

Mr. GALLOWAY, in the absence of Mr. Prior, the
Chaikacan of the Blackfriars-bridge Committee, brought
tty it Rtfort relative to the applications of as com-
panies tb lay their pipes under the carriageway of the
bridge. It stated that the Committee considered it
itlepedient to allow generally gas-pipes to be so laid.
Mr. WELLS, who occasionally puts some very
trwkward questions in the Court, suspected from the
wording of the report that it was meant to give ah ex-
clusive right to some particular company.
After some discussion the Report was worded in such
a manner as to express the opinion of the Committee
that it would not be expedient to allow any pipes to be
laid down, but left the matter open for future discus-
sion, and it was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. limits (the Chairman of the Market Corn.
rnitte) said that a great many persons had asked him
whether tL repairs of Blackfriars-bridge were going
forward with sufficient despatch, and stated that they
had been informed that the contractors were not able
to perform their contract within the given time. He
wished to be able to satisfy the public on the subject.
Mr. BLOCICHILL said that he was quite surprised at
the rapidity with which the work was going toward.
The Committee were doing all they could, and were over-
coming all the ...I,,culties which were opposed to them.
The Loan .°R-I have been told by the Chair-
man this day, that in one month the whole will be
ready for the public.—(Hear, hear.)
The Court, after the discussion of some matters
of mevely local interest, then adjourned.

DISCOVERY OF LEAD ORE.--A short time
since, while the sexton of i%lothvey, Carmarthen, was digging
a grave about five feet from the sui face, he came to a very rich
vein of lead ore of the finest quality ; the vein is a very large
one.— Wilshman.