The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-08 00:00:00

JOB AND POST MASTERS' PRO-
" 77' VIDENT FUND.

The--seventh Lnnivers4ry of this laudable insti-
tution was culayMed at the London Tavern last

evening.
The chair way occupied by the president, his Grace
the Duke cf Richmond, who was supported, on his
right, by the founder, the Hon. P. S. Pierrepont, Mr
George Cooke, Air. Richard Lee, Mr. Brice Pearse,
&c. ; and, on his left, by his eldest son the Earl of
March, Count Ritthyany, and Mr. Percy Williams.
About 220 gentlemen sat down to dinner, and amongst
the company we noticed the Rev. John Sydeuham,
Mr. R. Tattersall, Mr. Edmund Tattersall, Mr.
Richard Tattersall, jun.. Mr. Thomas Gullan, Mr.
Sydenhana Nodes, Mr. John Bell, Mr. Horace Bell,
Mr. Henry Wimbush, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Collins,
Mr. East, &c. &c.
Upon the cloth being removed, " The health of her
Majesty and her royal consort Prince Albert" was
drunk with all the honours.
The CHAIRMAN said that the next toast he had to
propose was " The health of _his Royal Highness
Albert Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal
Family." He trusted that his Royal Highness
would receive such an education that, if it pleased
Providence to spare him to hereafter become the ruler
of this kingdom, he might be enabled fully to appre-
ciate the English character, and reign over a pros-
perous, united, and happy people.—(Cheers.) He
hoped that, ere long, his Royal Highness would be
enabled to make his appearance in the hunting field,
because, while ha considered it an amusement worthy
of any nobleman or gentleman, he had there an oppor-
tunity of becoming acquainted with other members of
English society, who, though perhaps not equal in
rank to those among whom he generally moved, were
at least equally worthy of being known to him.—
(Cheers.) He would not recommend that he should
become the proprietor of race-horses, as that might
be attended with some danger; but he would
be glad to see his Royal Highness taking part in all
manly national sports; and no harm could possibly
arise to him from being early taught to keep his
horse's head well up when the hounds were running
into deep cover.—(Cheers and laughter.)
The next toast drunk was " The Army and Navy,"
which not being acknowledged for a short time,
Mr. MALLALUE rose near the bottom of the room,
and said that he regretted that there was no officer of
the army present to return thanks for the honour be-
! stowed upon her Majesty's service. He regretted it
was not in his power to do justice to the toast, but
having had the honour to serve as a private in that
army of which the Dukes of Wellington and Rich-
mond had been such distinguished ornaments, in the
years 1809-10-11, and 12, he could not let he toast
pass without returning his humble thanks for the way
in which it bad been drunk.—(Cheers.) He had en-
tered the army, or rather the militia, when very
young, and had afterwards joined the 9th Dragoons,
and had the honour to serve at Barossa and other
places in the Peninsula, where the army covered itself
with glory under the command of that distinguished
individual the Duke of Wellington, whom he looked
upon as the greatest captain of this or any other age.
—(Loud cheers.) lie was proud of having been a
soldier, and begged again to return his sincere thanks
for the honour conferred upon that and the sister
service, to which this country owed so much.
The Duke of RICHMOND said, in proposing the
toast of the evening, he could not help expressing his
gratification sit seeing an old soldier rising to acknow-
ledge the last toast, the more especially as the medals
pendant at his breast evinced that he had done his
duty.— (Loud cheers.) He must object. however, to
that part of his address in which he said that he could
not make a good speech.—(Cheers.)—for he spoke in
that straightforward and honest manner which dis-
tinguished a true-bong Englishman, and would al-
ways come home to the hearts of those who heard
him.—(Cheers.) He would now proceed to address
himself to the more immediate business before there,
and in doing so he must be allowed to expess the
gratification which he always felt in attending meet-
ings of that kind, where all parties, without reerence
to their political opinions, could meet in the promo-
tion of works of charity on neutral ground.— (Loud
cheers.) He was glad to be enabled to congratulate
them upon the prosperous state of their society,
as, notwithstanding that was only their seventh
anniversary they had invested in the funds not less
than B,aoo/.—(Loud cheers.) On a former occasion
he had pointed out the peculiar advantages of so-
cieties of that description, and he might have been in-
duced to do so again had he not had placed in his
hand a small pamphlet which contained his former
speech, and which he would not therefore repeat. He
might be allowed to state, however, that institutions
of this description were particularly valuable, as no
one in the present state of society could tell who would
have money to. morrow and who would not. That so-
ciety hail been established for the purpose of providing
for the families of those subscribers who might fall
into poverty ; and it must be a source of great gratifi-
cation to the whole of its members to know that they,
by their own providence, made a provision for their
widows and children without the necessity of their
applying to the union workhouse.—(Cheers.) Those
societies were founded on the great principle of
doing unto others as they wished should be done unto
them, and the manner in which the one whose claims he
was then advocating had been supported he thought
highly creditable to its members.—(Cheers.) If
they only looked at the names of those who had the
management of their funds, they would have a full
assurance that they were carefully husbanded and
distributed with the most perfect justice and impar-
tiality—(Cheers)—and he believed the society only
required to be better known to the public to ensure
its being even better supported than it had hitherto
been.—(Cheers.) With regard to himself, he re -
gretted that he had not had the pleasure of presiding
last year in consequence of illness ; and when he
wrote to his friend their worthy treasurer (Mr.
Richard Tattersall), who he was sorry was unable to
attend that night in consequence of indisposition, to
inform him that he could not attend, he had stated
that he would be always happy to do everything in
his power to promote the prosperity of the institution,
and he now begged to repeat that assurance to them
—(Cheers)—and, though he might not be in the
chair, he would feel the greatest pleasure in being
allowed to take part in their proceedings.—(Cheers.)
The Noble Duke concluded by proposing prosperity
to the institution, amidst loud cheers.
The Hon. P. S. PIERREPONT rose to move the
next toast. He believed there were very few present
who were not in some way or another connected with
horses—(Cheers)—and no doubt many of them were
so with race-horses, and were aware that nothing was
more easy than to ride the winner.—(Cheers and
laughter) The toast he was about to propose was,
" Tne health of their worthy President, the Duke of
Richmond."—(Loud cheers.) He had no doubt they
all felt with him that the subject of his toast had not
only been a frequent winner, was of the highest blood,
and had run often in public, but that he could always
he depended upon for his mettle and steadiness.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He was glad to see that he
was supported by the masters of three fox-hounds,
and as probably no parties had greater objections to
long-winded speeches, though they admired clear-
winded horses, he would not further detain them, but
at once propose to them the health of his Grace the
Duke of Richmond.—(Cheers and laughter.)
The Noble CHAIRMAN begged to return his sincere
thanks to the gentlemen present for the way in which
they had drunk the toast, and to his Honourable
Friend in particular for the manner in which he had
proposed it. His Hon. Friend had said it was very
easy to ride the winning horse, but he could assure
them it was a most difficult task to find a horse to win
a lerge stake.—(Cheers and laughter.) He was now
speaking a few days after the running of the Derby,
when he had hoped to be a winner; and, though they
might observe how ill he now spoke,
would have spokenhebelievedthey,
could hardly imagine how well he
had he been a winner.—(Cheers and laughter.) He
believed that lie would have had a good chance
to be so had not his horse met with an accident,
though he was not prepared to say that had he
not met with that accident he could have beat
a horse which appeared to him to win so easy
as did Voltigeur.—(Cheers.) He always took a great
interest in horse racing—though betting was a
different thing, and might, perhaps, be carried a little
too far—and he was one of those who would never
countenance anything but the most straightforward
conduct among those who took part in that sport.—
(Cheers.) For the same reason that he approved of
the hunting field, that it brought men of different
classes together, he was always glad to see a race-
course, where the peer and tie peasant were jostling
together, and there was no distinction between the
rich and the poor, all being alike unitedly engaged in
the enjoyment of a great national amusement.—
(Cheers.) He was glad to see that the Derby-day
was made a kind of national holiday, as he was not
one who held that men ought to work six days in
every week, and he hoped next week to meet nearly
as many happy faces at Ascot as he had seen at
Eps(4n.—(Cheers.) There was no race in the
country, however it might be frequented by royalty
or nobility, at which he did not like to observe, inter-
mixed with the rest of the company, the independent l
the
yeoman, the persevering tradesman, and, above al
honest labourer smoking his pipe and giving his
opinion on the merits of the horses.—(Cheers.) In
conclusion, he begged to observe that heceonside,reedit
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