The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

THE SUN,

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1850.

hi, exertions deserved.— (Hear, hear.) He thought
he had ptrformol really gigantic work in succeed-
irig in putting a stop to the practice of intramural
interments, which was so revolting. thst it was a
matter of astonishment to every individual that the
system had been allowed to continue so long.
Mr. J. IVlLniams, M.P., moved that a committee
be appointed to take such steps as might be necessary
to give effect to the foregoing resolution. Afcer the
eloquent and business-like addres,es which bad been
delivered he would not trespass on their time by
entering into the merits of Mr. Walker. He was so
well known that the less he said in moving the next
resolution the better. Nothing should be wanting
on his part to convince Mr. Walker that he entirely
participated in his laudable exertions, and was ready
and willing to ssrve him in every possible manner.
Mr. GtESIN, in seconding the resolution, said he
thought they :.hould be able to raise a much better
memorial to Mr. Walker than any that could be
ri,iAed by the Gov, rnment—(llear, bear)—and in-
stead of talking about a purse of gold, he (Mr. Geesin)
for himself should like to see Mr. Walker placed in a
frt ehold house ith all the necessary appendages.
Toe resolution was tht.n put and carried unani-
mously.

111,: B. B. CABIIELI„ 111. P., moved that Mr. George
Thotnr,or, M.P., be requested to act as honorary
secretary until the committee appointed a paid secre-
tary, and that they should be empowered to do so.
With respect to the subscriptions, he would recom-
mend that they should be all paid into the bands of a
banker. —(II?ar, hear.) He would therefore move—
" That al account be otened at Coutts's bank under
the head of the Walker Testimonial, and that uo moneys
be withdrawn without the sanction of the managing com-
mittee and the signature of the treasurer."
Mr. GEESIN seconded the resolution, which was
carried.

Mr. B. B. CABBELL, M.P., moved that the Chair-
man, Lord Dudley Stuart, be requested to accept
the office of treasurer.

Mr. J. A. SMITH seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said, out of deference to the wishes
of the meeting, he would agree to accept the office of
treasurer.

Mr. C. LUSHINGTON then, in a complimentary
speech, proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
which was seconded by Mr. B. B. Csbbell.

Lord DUDLEY STUART acknowledged the compli-
ment, and expressed himself unaffectedly gratified at
having been called upon to preside at a meeting to
promote such an excellent and praiseworthy object.
The meetingthen separated
The following subscriptions were announced at the
close of the meeting :
Lord I). Stuart

B. B. Cdbbell, Esq.. M.P. •••
W. A. Mackinnon, EFq.,
C. Lushington, Esq., M.P. ...
Dr. E. Johnson
Dr. Parker ...
Dr. A. L. Fisher

••• ... LIO 10 0
•.• ... 10 10 0
... ... 10 10 0
... ... 5 5 0
•• . ..4 5 5 0

5 5 0
... ... •••
••• ••• ••• 5 5 0

Dr. Churchill Watson

Georgo Thompson, M.P.
IT. It. Abraham, Esq.
Mr. Parker ...

••• ... ••• 3 3 0
••• ... ... 3 3 0
••• ••• ... 2 2 0
•••
••• •• 2 2 0
••• ... .•• 2 2 0
•••
••• ••• 2 2 0
••• ••, .•• 2 2 0
••• ••• ... 1 1 0

Duckworth Nelson, Esq.
Dr. J. C. Atkinson

John Windu, Esq. „.

Sir C. Aldis

J. A. Smith, Eq., surgeon
R. Johnson, Esq.

••• 1 1 0
••• ... 1 1 0
••• ... 1 1 0

Dillon, E.,q.
Samuel Ward, Esq., F.R.C.S.
W. Geesio, Esq. ...

•.• ~. 1 1 0

1 1 0

ESTABLISHMENT FOR GENTLE-

WOMEN DURING ILLNESS.
A most respectable meeting of the subscribers to this
very intereiting association was yesterday held at the
Queen's College, Harley-street, for the purpose of hay-
jig submitted to it a report of the progress hitherto
made by the managers of the association. The Earl of
Carlisle presided on the occasion.
The Hon. W. SPRING RICE, the hon. secretary, read
the report of the managers, from which it appeared that
the liberal assistance which had been afforded to the un-
de: taking had bean such as to induce the committee to
take premises suitable, upon a stnall scale, for the purpose
cf the institution, for a period of three and a half years,
at No. 8, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square. The total
amount of subscriptions already received exceeded 2,000/,
the balance in the hands of the bankers amounting to
403/. The number of patients admitted since the opening
of the institution had been thirteen, of whom six were at
present inmates of the establishment, The services of a
most efficient medical staff bad been obtained, the physi-
cians being Dr. Watson, Dr. Ferguson, Dr. H. B. Jones,
and Dr. Weber; surgeons B. Travers, Esq, C. Hawkins,
Et,q., and W. Bowman, Esq.; Mr. Hawksley, of Mar-
garet-street, having been appointed the general practi-
tioner. The Rev. C. Baring, of All Saints, bad also
consented to act as honoraty chaplain to the institution.
The success of the institution had been fully equal to
the most sanguine expectations of its bunders, and the
committee stated that their further inquiries had confirme d
them in the belief that. the institution would be the means
of affording relief hitherto unattainable in many most
distressing cases, the helplessness and increasing number
of which was attributable not to the fault or improvi
dence, but rather to the circumstances and sex of the
sufferers; aid they most earnestly entreated tie gene-
rous sympathy and addition al co operation no leas from
the powerful and effluent thin from the middle classes
throughout the country. The report having been read,
The lgAle CHAIRMAN rose and said—l believe I take
the chair upon this occasion by riOit, inasmuch as I
have the high honour of being the president of this so
ciety; and I can assure you, with perfect truth, that I
look upon the post which your have been pleased to as-
sign me as one of great honour—and for this reason,
be wise I am willing to believe that the committee
which made that selection have been pleased to attri-
bute to me sentiments congenial with their own.—(hear,
hear.) There are no topics which appear more obvious,
I had almost said more common-place, than those con-
nected with the precarious and transitory nature of
human existence, and it seems to me that, in the circum-
stances which are immediately around us, there are events
which enforce those lessons and warnings in connexion
with those topics with peculiar force and solemnity. For
upon whom hare we not seen the sudden stroke descend?
Within the short space of a fortnight from this hour we
have seen it successively fall upon, that form of manli•
ness and comeliness—upon one in the brilliant enjoy-
ment of all that high station can impart to its possessor—
upon one full of high capabilities and patriotic aspira-
tions, so long conspicuous in the public arena, the object
of a nation's homage and a nation's sorrow; and even
now it has fallen upon that open-hearted and gentle
Prince who has so often appealed on behalf of charities
like this.—(hear.)
eol These reit. rated blows suggest to
us the thought, and even the very worth, of that truth-
breathing and immortal stanza—
"he
gloryr al
beauty.d
lryad
, l
thatwealth'
thebti
tp to
om
tph ego f power,aarve
gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour:
e."
I have touched for a moment upon these topics. I
yct
ihraoaenumrd
more
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hearth
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have done so to put it to those among you who may not
fa re still in the health,
ythior h °a
betterntny dimi
more
raloeyn
sprta,;
appropriately
and
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jtsayoohwnyooydusmhwohri
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bodily
recently have had to shudder at the call of death within
f
ut
the opulence and luxury of this great metropolis—who
tssvea:
enjoy,) ns te yoff:fieuedttihy: toon
uspbrue
ritait.entefiosy: ogialardnocw-ssn
minds,which ise,lowshteertherro:.nodu
andion
o f blessingsth o h a
n dw fhriocmh
.flaw, than by con-Icing and relieving your more ex-
posed and unfriended sisters in the dark arid untrod
pathsnthe ~
title,
our common life.—(fit ar, hear.) Now, what is
the institution with which we are now c ,acerned? It is
termed an " Establishment for Gentlewomen during ill-
ness"
to
n Easilyaybe
i tmhaognignhettht
that
atthetrhee
is
srst
somethinghearing
in
it which sounds a little like fastidiousness and finicking.
I do not, however, think that your benevolent t fforts

.tte open to any such assertion as that. I think you
have estimated mutt correctly that a previous ac-
cptaintance with brighter hopes and softer hours, with
sympathies and friends who have vanished and gone,
only tends to make privation more biter, pain more
irritating, isolation more depressing, and despondency
wore benumbing, than they would have been without
such antecedents. I remember that it is very truly and
touchingly said, hy perhaps the most pathetic of our
trigic writers, when he wishes to add the lust aggrava
tion to the despair of the character which he has pro-
duced upon the scene--
"'There's not a wretch that lives on common charity,
But's happier tar than I."
And he gives you the reason:—
For I have known the luscious sweets of plenty,
Every night have slept with soft content about my head,
And never woke but to a joyous morning."
That report, however, which has been read, with the
simple statement of the cases of distress that have been
alleviated, is, however, far more perita,ive anti concen-
trating than even the tun-ful moral of Gray or the
tender force of Otway. I doubt not but that many
of the gentle forms which I now see before me have
been in the habit of earryiug hope and comfort across
the threshhold e f the humblest cottage near their country
homes, or have even shed their fight and radiance in
many of the dim alleys of this hugh metropolis. Charity,
to use a common illustration of the time, does not
run upon the narrow but upon the broad gauge;
it is not monopolized by any one class of
recipients ; neither is it coneentratt d upon any
one mode of action. If charity does not shrink
from pouring balm into the wounds of the low-
liest sous and daughters of misery, those who are
furthe,t removed from our own scale in society, so
it ought not to neglect those who have been paced in
a position next t or even in your own, but who are now
in a condition to eict) sudden reverse of fortune may
reduce even yourselves.—(lleac) I aerie' forbear from
congratulating the society upon the composition both of
its committee and s.f its staff—that you have succeeded
in obtaining the services and experience of these medi-
cal officers for which the richest capital in the world is
contending without your wells, and of a clergyman who
I:.rings the resources of a highly-cultivated mind and re-
fined intellect to the discharge of his ministerial duties.
—(lean) With such officers and such assistance, I feel
a confident reliance that you will not suffer this society
to fail or to languish, but that under your continued and
increasing encouragement, it will be able to extend its
status and enlarge its borders.—(Rear.)
The Bishop of OXFORD moved the adoption of the
repwror.t.l3ow2w,T, surgeon in ordinary to the in-