The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-01 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

was also the Earl of lladdington, in the room of Lord
• cranstoun.
The lion. William Fraser, of Saltovin, was re-elected
Treasurer.
',like Rev. Dr.,Brown was elected one of the Chaplains,
in the room of the Rev. Dr. J. Crombie.
The Physicians, Surgeons, and other officers of the
Corporation were then elected.
A vote of thanks was unanimously carried to the Duke
of ;Sutherland, the President, and the Duke of Rich-
mond, and the other Vice-Presidents.
With respect to the Earl of Saltoun, the brother of the
Chairman, who was one of the Vice-Presidents, it was
unanimously resolved that a letter should be written to
him by the Secretary, congratulating him upon the ap-
pointment he had received in China, and hoping that the
God of Battles would crown his efforts with success, and
preserve and restore him to his country and friends.
A vote of thanks was unanimously agreed to, to the
Chairman, Governors, and the other officers of the Cor-
poration for the past year.
The accounts of :he last year were then read and
passed. From these accounts it appeared that the re-
ceipts for the last year amounted to 3,3611. 17s. 10d., and
the payments to 3,177/. 12s. 9d., leaving a balance in
hand of 1841. ss. ld., in addition to 43,1891. which the
Corporation have invested in the funds.
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
On the motion of Dr. BROWN, a Committee was or-
' dered to be appointed to draw up an Address of Congra-
tulation from the Corporation to her Majesty and Prince
Albert, upon the auspicious event of the birth of a Prince.
The other /outine business of the Corporation having
been disposed of, the Court adjourned.

Yesterday being St. Andrew's day, the anniversary of
this excellent Charity was celebrated by a public dinner
at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, who, as a Scotch-
man, has always evinced the deepest interest in the pros.
perity of this national Institution, and subscribed so
largely to the promotion of its charitable objects, pre-
sided on the occasion. Nearly 300 sat down to dinner.
After the cloth was removed,
The Loan MAYOR rose and proposed—" The health
of our most gracious and beloved Sovereign the Queen,"
which was drank upstanding with three times three, and
followed by the National Anthem, of which Miss Steele,
a lady in the gallery, sang, as a relief to the professionals,
the last verse, with the most exquisite taste and effect.
The following toasts were afterwards given, and drank
with enthusiasm—" The Prince of Wales," " The Queen
Dowager," " Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal
Family," " The Army. and Navy."
The Loan MAYOR, in proposiig the next toast, "Suc-
cess to the Institution whose interests they were assem-
bled to promote," spoke as follows :—The Scottish Hos-
' pital extends its charity to mechanics, artisans, and
labourers, natives of Scotland, whom adverse circum-
stances have reduced to destitution in the metropolis or
its neighbourhood. The wives and families of these un-
fortunate individuals participate in its benefits. To some
pecuniary assistance is afforded to mitigate the pressure
of immediate want; to others a gratuitous passage home.
The monthly average of casual applicants does not, I be-
lieve, fall short of 250/. ; and besides so extensive an
appropriation of its funds, a sum of WI. is annually set
* apart for distribution amongst 80 poor persons exceeding
7U years of age. The Society, gentlemen, is so an-
cient as the reign of King James I. ; and from
Charles 11., in the year 1665, it received its first
charter of incorporation. Its operations during the
great plague were on the most enlarged scale, and
signally conduced to alleviate the general distress.
ttie more than a century later it obtained its second
charter from his Majesty King George 111., since which
time it has not ceased to Maintain a very eminent posi-
tion alion,gst (he host of our London charities. In 1830
a baanch Society, for the purpose of forwarding to their
respective homes the poor whom we furnish with pas-
,- sazes to Leith, was founded at Edinburgh under the
auspices of that most esteemed and illustrious personage
his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, than whom I may
safely say few indeed (if any) among the aristocracy of
our country more justly merit the elegant encomium :
" Those godlike men, to wanting virtue kind,
Bounty well-plac'd preferred, and well-designed
• To all their titles."
—(Cheers.) To commend to your protection, Gentle-
men, an institution combining so great advantages,
and productive of such an amount of public use-
fulness, . would, I am sure, be considered a need-
less occupation of your time. I must, however, em-
brace this opportunity to state that such has been the
- outlay of its funds during the past year, such the ex-
tent of the relief which it has afforded, and such the pro-
gressive increase of monthly applicants, that the gentle-
men who have kindly undertaken the direction of its af-
fairs will most reluctantly be obliged to curtail its opera-
- - Lions amid the severity and multiplied distresses of the
approaching winter, unless, as I doubt not will be the
case, the generous and patriotic hearts of my more Sue-
cesful countrymen respond with bountiful alacrity to the
call for increased contributions. In the course of the last
12 months the Corporation have, at a cost of more than
2,6001., relieved no fewer than 2,690 cases over and above
the 80 aged pensioners to whom I have before alluded ;
- while the regular income, which they have re-
ceived to meet this expenditure, amounts only to
1,30(71., leaving a deficiency of upwards of 1,3001. to
be raised by the exertions of the liberal and ha-

mane. Bearing these circumstances in mind, and having
--- regard too to this most important fact, that, but for the
• timely succours thus procured, thousands of honest and
industrious individuals would have been left to the
wretchedness of beggary in a country remote from home,
unprotected hy parochial laws, I cannot but feel conti-
doct that the kind and benevolent qualities which so
peculiarly distinguish our English friends will be power-
faMy developed in our favour. To them, Gentlemen, we
already owe much ; and I am persuaded that frOm them
we may certainly expect those further obligations which
the exigency of our case demands. It is unnecessary,
gentlemen, that I should any longer detain you ; and,
therefore. I beg to give you, with all the honours, " The
Scottish Hospital, prosperity attend it.."—(Three times
three, and one cheer more, followed by a merry chant
on- the bagpipes by Mr. Mackay, piper to his Royal
• Highness the Duke of SusseX.)
The LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of the
Noble President of the Institution—" His Grace the
Duke of Sutherland."
The Lord Mayor, who, we regret to understand, la-
boured under considerable indisposition, now vacated the
. Chair, and retired amidst loud cheers.
Mr.-Sheriff ROGERS was then called to the Chair, who,
having pronounced a high eulogium on the public and
private character of the Lord Mayor, his talents, his in-
tegrity, and his munificent charity, proposed his health,
and long life and happiness.—(Three times three, and
one cheer more.)
This toast was followed by a Highland reel, performed
in the most spirit-stirring manner by Mr. Mackay, the
piper.
A grea:t -number of 'other toasts were given in the
course of the evening.
Before the company separated nearly 7001. was re-
ceived in the shape of • donations, besides annual contri-
butions, an amount, we believe, never equalled at any
anterior anniversary, We had hoped to have given the
list, but the dilatoriness of the clerk, Mr. Cutler, pre-
vented it.

ANNIVERSARY OP THE POLISH
, - REVOLUTION, Nov. 29.
A number of the Polish reftwees, resident in London.
:5
- amongst. whom were several officers of rank, attended
i . ,
erne Service this morning, at the German Catholic
DI, which was performed by the Rev. M. Bizezinski,
a la
Polish clergyman, who is also a refugee in this coun-
try. The
service commenced by the obsequies for those
--Poles who died
oforrlB,,o
their country on the field of battle
during the wai .
The absence of atinos-t3a11.1 public men from the metro-
polis at this season of themeyear precluded the possibility
of holding a public meeting in the afternoon, as was
- usual on former similar occasions. A meeting took place
in consequence amongst the Poles themselves at the
rooms of the-Literary Association of the Friends of Po-
land, in Duke-street, St. James's, which was numerously
attended. All the speeches which were made showed
that years of exile and suffering neither cooled' in the
least in the breasts of the Poles attachment to their
'Country, nor weakened the certainty • of their cause being
finally destined to triumph over whilst,•on
'•-• the other hand, it was most satis'fat:c.teonreymtioesre;mark that
the hest
regard to any
,tendency towards unity of action,
abstruse social systems, which is
Lest guarantee of
the success of every cause. The
meeting,
s
presided over by Mr. Markowski, a member of the Polish
which was
luteio'cillo brokeck in
Committee in London, commenced at e
the afternoon, the hour at which the revolution
out at Warsaw in 1830, and the proceedings
terminated
at nine o'clock.
• A similar meeting was also held in John-street
ford-street, at three o'clock in the afternoon, f ' 43x--
or the
• convenience of those Refugees who could not attend in the
evening at Sussex Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's,
Union and perseverance were the leading topics of all
the speakers.
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COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday a Court was held for the transaction of
public business.
Alderman GIBBS moved that the sum of 200 guineas
be granted to The poor widows of freemen, instead of the
usual annual allowance of 100 guineas.—(Hear.)
'Sir G. CARROLL seconded the motion with all his
heart. He thought that the birth of the Heir•apparent
to the Crown could not be more brilliantly distinguished
than by the cotemporaneousness of acts of beneficence.
THE DISTRESS OF THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS.
The Lord Mayor received the following contribution
from Miss Burdett Coutts yesterday, for the Spite'fields
weavers :

" Messrs. Coutts and Co. present. their compliments to
the Lord Mayor, and by desire of Miss Burdett Coutts,
they have the pleasure to inclose fifty pounds as her
subscription to the Spitathelds weavers.
";strand, 30th .NoNcEnber, 1841."

RUSSIAN LADY CHORUS SINGERS,These
lathes were worse to teach than charity-girls. Some of
them deenactl the rehearsals utterly superfluous, others
left. their parts behind them, and others were so invete-
rately in good humour,that it was difficult to scold them
for being so much out. of tune. One, pretty creature,
with more animation in her face than music in-her soul,
whose. voice in the Creation wandered to forbidden paths,
a Russian hurnourist observed, " Elle chante des choses
qui n'ontjamais existe, meme dans' la creation !"—Let-
. ter from the Baltic.
In the nankrulitcy Court yesterday, on the final
examination of George Dorringtou, a printer, in Perci-
val-street, Goswell-rod, application was made for the
refunding of the whole ur a, prat of the premium paid to
the bankrupt lir
the parents of a youth who had been
apprenticed to him a. abort time back, when the Commis-
sioner
ordered three-fourths of the
premium to be paid
out of the first moneys realised from the estate.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.'

UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 1,

Will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled COURT AND
ClTY.—Captain Dangerfield, Mr. W. Lacy ; Sir Paladin
Scruple, Mr. W. Farrell; 4it Harry Whiffle, Mr. C. Ma-
thews • Sir Hector Ilumbuslo,_ Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Winning-
ton, dr. Cooper; Humphrey Rumbush, Mr. Harley; Lady
Whiffle, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Charmington, Mrs. Nisbett;
Lady Dangerfield, Mrs. W. West; Barbara Bearbinder, Mrs.
W. Lacy.
The Comedy will conclude with a Dance by the Characters.
After which (First Time), A Ballet Divertissement, entitled
the WOODEN LEG. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert
and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and
T. Ridgway, Miss Jacksen, &c.
To conclude with the Farce of THE OMNIBUS.

Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxer, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second Circles, Os. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets may be had of on application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167. New Bond-street.

To-morrow, Norma, and The Wrong Man.