The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

OCTOBEIR. 30, lB4

ROYAL SEA-BATHING INFIRMARY. The fifty-
first anniversary dinner of this charity was held at the
London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, yesterday evening.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, being sup-
ported by Mr. Alderman Challis and Mr. R. W. Ken-
nard, Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, and other
active friends of the institution. The entertainment
itself was highly creditable to the Messrs. Lovegrove.
After the cloth had been drawn, and the usual loyal and
national toasts had received due honour, the Lord Mayor
proposed the leading toast of the evening, viz., "Pros-
perity to the Royal Sea-bathing Infirmary ;" and, in
order to show the increased prosperity and usefulness
of the institution, stated that the number of patients
admitted, which was, in the first year (1796), only
16, had increased in each succeeding year, until,
during the past season, 716 persons had been received
either as in-door or as out-door patients; a statement
which elicited loud applause. It was further remarked,
that although the bulk of the subscriptions had
hitherto come from the metropolis, there was the
greatest desire, on the part of the managing body, to
derive support from the provinces, as well as to extend
the benefits of the institution to persons living in distant
parts of the country. Amongst the toasts was that of
"Mr. B. B. Cabbell and the Vice-Presidents of the
Institution." In acknowledging the compliment, Mr.
Cabbell observed, that one great impediment to the
beneficial operation of the institution was the charge
now thrown upon the patients of defraying the expenses
of their board. Mr. Alderman Gibbs, the treasurer,
expressed his desire to see this burden removed from
the recipients of the benefits of the charity, remarking,
at the same time, that, in order to effect this object, it
would be necessary that about 30,0001. should be invested
in the Three per Cents. The toasts of the eveningin-
cluded " The Chairman," " Mr. Coulson and the Medical
Board," " Mr. Alderman Gibbs, the treasurer," " The
Sheriffs," &c. Mr. J. Paul, the secretary, announced
several subscriptions, the aggregate amount of which was
595/. 16s

SALARIES OF THE JUDGES OF THE COURTS OF
EQUITY AND LAW.—The Learned Judges of the several
courts of equity and law will resume their labours on
Monday next, on the commencement of Michaelmas
term. There are twenty-two judges of the superior
Courts in England, whose salaries amount to 123,5771.
a year. The five judges of the Court of Chancery are
paid 33,0001. Tho Lord Chancellor has 10,0001 ;
Master of the Rolls, 7,0001.; Vice-Chancellor of Bog.
land, 6,0001. ; and the two Vice-Chancellors, Knight
Bruce and Wigram, 5,0001. The six judges of the Court
of Queen's Bench are paid 32,0001. The Lord Chief
Justice has 8,000/.; and the Puisne Judges 5,0001. each.
The six judges of the Court of Common Pleas have
similar sums, as also the six judges of the Court of Ex-
chequer, with the exception of the Chief Baron, who has
a salarj' of 7,0001. The judge of the Court of Admi-
ralty has 4,000/., and the average emoluments of the
judge of the Prerogative Court amount to 3,577/, mak-
ing the number 22, and the united salaries 123,577/.

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EFFECTS OF HIGH FARES.—The branch of the
South-Eastern Railway from Margate to Ramsgate was
not opened, as expected, last week. " Under other cir-
cumstances," says the Kentish Observer, " this would
have caused much disappointment and inquiry as to the
cause; but so unpopular has this railway company be-
come, that few cared to ask if it were open or not, or as
to the cause of its not being opened. There is no ques-
tion that the three towns of Margate, Ramsgate, and
Broadstairs would have done much better at the latter
part of the season had the fares not been raised ; and
also that the South-Eastern Company, from their false
sterehave been sufferers in a pecuniary point of view.
Few will travel from the Isle of Thanet by rail this win-
ter, unless the prices be lowered, the second-class car.
riages made more comfortable, and the third-class
covered in. The voyage to London by steam-vessel is
cheaper, performed in about the same time as running
round by Ashford, and is preferable, in many respects,
to riding in the present second and third-class carriages.
Passengers meet with civility and liberality from the
captains and crews of the steam-boats." The !Arne can-
not be beid of sho railway.

Scripture, " The earth is the Lord's and the fulness
thereof," and " The poor shall eat and be satisfied "
(Loud cheers.)—he held that he had sinned eqully against
God and his fellow-creatures who wasted one single
farthing on luxuries or needless things, or wasted a
single acre of that land whose produce was called for by
starving brethren, and who had a right to ask that the
land should be cultivated to the utmost possible extent.
Now it was distinctly proved in that report that the la-
bourer could, with perfect faithfulness to his master,
cultivate in his leisure hours his land to such an extent
as to produce sufficient to support him, if he were quite
without wages for thirteen weeks in the year. People
were in the habit of coming to him—and God knew he
felt for them when they did—and complaining that they
were turned off in the winter. What was the farmer's
story? lam obliged to provide my capital, and to have
it ready to apply at the very moment when it is neces-
sary, and if I am bound to provide for all these men at
all seasons, how am I to bring my capital to bear at the
moment when it is required? He was not going to dis-
cuss that, for this was not the proper time for dis
cussing it, but here was an answer—that in a certain
part of the year when a labourer could not be profitably
employed by the farmer, here was a system by which
provision could be made beforehand for the hour of
necessity. There was one fact which came under his own
notice bearing upon the question. There was con-
noted with the gaol of that county a fund called the
" charity fund," from which certain sums were given
to persons who had been in the gaol, and on their libera-
tion worked continuously for the same master for three,
six, or twelve months. At the end of the period they
received rewards and clothes in proportion to the length
of their servitude, it being provided that it should be
shown that during that period they attended Divine
service. That fund had been established 20 years.
During the first 10 years there were only 10 applicants,
but during the last 10 years 103 had received gifts from
the fund, and of those 103 three only had been re-com-
mitted to gaol. It might be asked, what had that to do
with the subject before them ? He thought it had much
to do with it. It showed that get such a man into
honest employment, and there was some security, under
God's blessing, of his not reverting again to the path of
crime, but ground for reasonable hope of his becoming
an honest, trustworthy member of society.
The Hon. and Rev. W. SCOTT, Rector of Maiden
Newton, 'seconded the resolution, and regretted that the
person through whom he had had access to documents
bearing upon the case was not present. He regretted
it, because he was quite sure that the community had
mistaken his views, and that the objections which they
had taken to his views were most unworthy. He was
sure that such restraints kept them closer to their duties
than if their faults were passed over in silence. [Mr.
Scott was supposed to allude to Mr. Osborne.] He
thought they must admit that they were not on an equal
footing with many parts of the country, for in the sister
country there were no labourers receiving under 155.,
and during harvest they often received 205., and in
Northumberland he was invariably hired by the year ;
that he had his cottage rent free; that he had his thousand
yards of potato ground provided by the farmer, and in
addition to that he had the whole of his pay in goods,
which in times of scarcity was a most valuable accom-
modation. The Northumberland "hind," as he was
called, had invariably a cow kept for him, his four and
a half quarters of oats, his three quarters of barley, his
quarter and a half of peas, and his three bushels of
wheat. In the parish of Nocton, in Lincolnshire, the
wages were the same as those he had mentioned. That
was not the case there; but let him tell them what would
be the case, if they did not follow the example. The
labourers were already leaving this country for the wilds
of Australia and the great plains of America, and when
they learned these things, as they must soon from the
ready communication that took place between one part
and another, he thought they would not remain there
when they learned that they could obtain a better remu•
neration elsewhere.—(Cheers.) He was not desirous of
laying the whole blame of this upon the farmer, for if
he raised a body of labourers only one shilling a week,
his outlay might be increased 501. a year, and that was
more than they expected others to give in charity, for
charity it was, though it was a charity that would re-
dound to their own welfare. He knew it was said with
a certain degree of fairness that the landlord must bear
his part in that increase of wages ; but he told them it
must begin with the farmers, the landlord had it not in
his power to raise the rate of wages ; but he did not
mean to say whether the land of that country was not
held at too high a rent—if so, let the tenant not offer
too high.—(Laughter.) A heavy and deep responsi-
bility certainly rested upon the landowner with regard
to the condition of the dwellings, but that would be the
subject of another resolution. When he entered on the
living of Maiden Newton he was ironically congratu-
lated on his having got the worst parish in the county
to deal with, and he himself was no less than six times
in that very court as a prosecutor. In the last three
years, during which allotments had been in operation in
his parish, he did not think he had been seen there.—
(Applause.) In the first year of the allotments two con-
victions took place, and there were consequently two
forfeitures ; but from that time not one out of 80 hol-
ders had committed any offence to call them up before a
magistrate. There was one result which, as a clergy-
man, he took especial pleasure in contemplating, viz.,
that when cultivating the soil the labourer might be in-
duced to think of the cultivation of his soul ; and that
when he found that by due attendance to his garden he
was reaping a reward, he might be led to consider that
by attending to the cultivation of his soul he might reap
the rewards thereof in the heavenly kingdom.
The Rev. H. URQUHART proposed the next resolution,
which expressed the desirableness of obtaining the co-
operation of owners and occupiers of landed property, to
promote an improvement in ventilation, draining, and
internal accommodation.
Mr. JOHN CHAMEN, farmer, of Charminster, seconded
the proposition.
The Rev. SANDERSON ROBINS, without preliminary
observation, moved the formation of the society, which
Mr. J. F. HODGES seconded;
The Rev. C. W. BINGHAM, in proposing that the Earl
of Orford, the Lord Bishop of the diocese, and Lord
Rivers, be' patrons of the society, and that a committee
he formed, said, in what was his parish (Syding) he en
deavoured to establish the system, but for the first six
years he tried in vain. He found that the landowner
would not assist him; that the farmers were always I
against him; and it was only about two years ago that
he was enabled to purchase land and carry out his inten-
tions. With respect to what had been said about the
state of the dwellings of the poor, he would only re-
mark that he had been carried to Fordington, where he
saw what he was sure would surprise those who knew
Dorchester best. He saw there places where the people
were crowded together in a manner that he had thought
was confined to the manufacturing districtc.
Mr. JOHN HAYNE seconded the resolution; and after
a vote of thanks had been given to the Lord Bishop
and the High Sheriff, and acknowledged, the meeting
separated.