The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-15 00:00:00

BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM.

Yesterday. a Special General Meeting of the Di
rectors and Subscribers to this Institution was held in
the Board-room, Abchurch-lane, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of altering certain portions
of the rules affecting the admission of candidates,
W. P. Harrison, Esq., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been con-
vened to consider whether it might not be advisable,
for the interests of the Society, to so modify and alter
the rules as to allow that all votes given to a candi-
date in the election of children at one election should
be registered to its credit at a subsequent election,
and also that in all cases of an equality of votes, the
Chairman should have the casting vote. This sub-
ject had been under consideration at least three years
ago, and as at that time another institution having in
view almost kindred objects with the British Orphan
Asylum wag making a similar experiment, they
considered it better to delay the adoption of this
course until the result of the other experiment was
known. He was now happy to say that from all he
could learn the experiment had been successful, and
he thought in the present case it would do much
good.
On the motion of Mr. GREEN, seconded by Capt.
HALL, it was resolved—" That all votes given to any
candidate in any one election should be registered to
his credit at any subsequent election, and that the
Chairman should have the casting vote in all cases
where the votes were equal between rival candidates."
Mr. CUNLIFFE trusted that this resolution would
not be retrospective.
The CHAIRMAN replied in the negative.
After some further desultory conversation, a vote
of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meet-
ing separated.
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WE'RE A' NODDIN:—It is singular how seldom
the astute conductors of our diurnal journals commit
themselves by anything like an oversight of an impor-
tant fact. If one, in the multiplicity of cases,'and some
slight imperfections in its system, should perpetrate an
error, the others are prompt to correct it ; but it very
seldom happens that all are so oblivious of public pro-
ceedings as to repeat the blunder, even where a trifling
matter is concerned. We have, however, an instance of
this rare forgetfulness in the papers of the past week.
The Herald, of Tuesday, stated, on authority, that the
Government had it in contemplation to dispatch the
mails to India once a fortnight, instead of once a month.
The Chronicle and Post copied the article as a piece of
news ; the Times did the same, adding that " the story
had been repeated at intervals for the last two years.
Now, it appears to us passing strange that all these
journals should have overlooked the fact of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer having distinctly declared, on
Friday week last, that this increased communication
with India should take effect from January next. He
stated in his place in Parliament ; the different daily
papers reported his announcement in two places—the
debates and the summary in the leading column ; the
Atlas repeated it, and we dare say that other weekly
papers did the same. Yet, two days afterwards, it is
Igiven by all the diurnals as an original piece of news
Lyon the great Homer some times nods.