The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

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CITY
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• was held at the
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acquainted the MrNorth, on behalf of these cretary,
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expenditure that, in consideration the pred-
the society as regarded its income an
e and in deference to the wishes of some of
the members of the board of direction, the secretary re-
spectfully submitted that, in the event of his being re-
elected secretary of the charity, his salary
r. for the future
should be reduced by 251. per annum. M Mence (the
secretary) then read the report, which stated that the
society. had been honoured with the patronage of the
endeavours
and wealthiest in the land, and that hitherto the
tlikle,_ of the directors to maintain the charity in its
integrity had been crowned with success; and they had
anow to appeal for continued support to enable them to
Carry out the objects of the charity, by the granting o
had forof
monthly pensions to the aged and decayed wh-
merlymoved in a respectable sphere of society-. Since
establishment of the society, thirty-three years
the
since, 882 persons had been elected pensioners, and
re
supported by an expenditu oeenf 55,e1ect994/. During th
list
°E. 35 candidates, and seven pensioners had died, of
whom two were 86 years of age, one 84, one 79, one 73,
one 72, and one 60. There were now 55 pensioners on
the funds of the society, several of whom had been so
for more than a quarter of a century.. Mr. Benjamin
Bond Cabhell having taken the chair at a festival in sup-
port of the funds of the charity, a sufficient amount was
subscribed to enable tho directors to meet the annual
but owing
expenditure, and keep up the amount of pensions, with-
out reduction, out of the receipts of the year ;
to the reduction in the annual income of the society,
through tho deaths of subscribers and other circum-
stances, the directors were fearful that in the coming
Year th'ey would have to entrench upon the funded pro-
Perty of the society to meet their expenditure, unless
means were found of adding to their regular income,
which the directors would use every effort to effect. The
balance-sheet Showed the total receipts for the pest year
to have been 1,115/. 17s. 4d.; the amount expended i
123 n
pensions, 7791. 18s.; the other expenditure, 274/. .
10d.; and the balance in the hands of tho bankers, 61/.
6s. 6d. The funded property of the society amounts to
7,155/. 16s. 6d. The report was adopted--the Duke of
Bedford re-elected president—and theother officers for
the ensuing year having been appoinoted , the meeting
separated.

ST. ALBAN'S BRIDELLY Commission. it is now I
definitively settled that the Commissioners appointed in the
last session of Parliament to " inquire into the manner in
which the elections for the borough of St. Albans have been
conducted, with a view to arrive at the extent to which
bribery and other orrupt practices have prevailed,"
hold their court in the month of November, for which pur-
pose the requisite proceedings are now being taken. It ap-
pears, however, that the court is not to be an open one, al-
though it was originally intended by the Commissioners that
it should be. The grounds alleged for bearing the evidence
with closed doolie are, that within the last few days facts
have come to the knowledge of the Commissioners
that have induced them to believe that the publication of
the evidence would not only defeat the object the louse of
Commons had in view when the Commission was proposed,
but that it would be the means of inducing some of the per-
sons implicated to abscond. A very large number of witnesses
are to be examined, amongst whom will be Sir R. W. Carden,
Bart., one of the candidates at the last election ; Mr. Blagg,
the gentleman whose name has so frequently appeared
before the public in connexion with the election proceedings
in St. Albans; Messrs. Edwards, Birchmore, Wagg
o ett, and
lhers of equal notoriety. The Commission will sit in the
_ Town-hall, St. Albans, and is expected to last for a con-
id
hold
number of days. The precise day on which it will
its first sitting has not yet been fixed, nor, indeed, will
It be publicly known until the day preyiously.