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- Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., in the chair ; Colonel Verner,
M.P.; J. Boyd, Esq., M.P. ; J. Rashleigh, Esq., • M.P. ; Sir
W. R. Farquhar, Bart. ; Sir G. 11. Rose, Bart.; Admiral
Hawker, Hon. Captain Mantle, Captain Vernon Harcourt,
Henry Pownall, Ecq. ; Henry Blanchard, Esq ; John Wilke,
Esq.; T. Farmer, Esq. ; A. Gillespie, Esq:; Rev. Dr. Dealtry,
rector of Clapham ; Rev. D. Wilsoo, vicar of Islington ;
Rev. Edw. Auriol, Rev. E. Bickeraieth, ler. E. Holland,
Rev. Dr. Holloway, Rev. Alex. Irvine, Rev. R. Monro, Rev.
H. Cale, Rev: P. Hall, Rev. R. Davies, Rev. R. IV. Dibedn,
Rev. D. Rueli, Rev. T. Redwar, .Rev. J, C. Miller, Rev. M.
Preston, Rev. A. Thelwall, Reve H. Beamish, leev. Jos.
Pratt, Rey R. Brandraen, Rev. J. P. Smithoee the Estab-
lished Church : Rev. J. Blackburn, Rev. R. Ainslie, Rev.
J. Sherman; Rev. J. Burnet Rev. J. Robinson, Rem. J. T.
Hunt; Rev. George Evans, Rev. J. Woodwark, Rev. Dr.
_Jenkyn, Independents : Rev. Dr. Bunting, Rev. C. Prest,
Rev. Jacob Staisley, Rev. J. Ciowther, Rev. W. M. Bunting,
Wesleyan Methodists : Rev. Dr. Cooke, Of:Belfast ; Rev. Dr.
Stewart, moderator of th% Geheral Assembly of Ulster.
The East of 'Mouiltcashel was to have taken the chair on
the occasion, bett'a few minutes after eleven o'clock,
Mr. WlLK.Sread letters from ford Ashleyeei.P.eSir R. 11.
Inglis, M.P.; the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manche,ster, the Rev.
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Mr. Burgess, of Chelsea, the ev. Mr. Cbampneys, of White-
chapel, and others, apologising for their unavoidable absence
from the meeting, but expressing their entire concurrence in
its objects.
_ The. Rev. Mr. BLACKBURN read the repert of the Conimitee
tee, detailing the origin of the Bill, the progress it lied thustt
far made, and the views of-the Committee as to the necessitY
of opposing its passing into a law. e ,
Mr. Fox pleura then proceeded toaddress the meeting.
He trusted that in discussing the important question upon
which they hadaeseinbled; it was unnecessary for him to ap-
peal to them to enter upon that discussion calmly, and in the
order of business.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that
the Bill had been brought before the public, to say the least,
of it, in a surreptitious manner; and he could not help admie
ring' while he at the same time deprecated, the shrewdness
and cleverness of its author, who, in so small a space as two
little pages and, three short sections, ha contrived to embody
so extensive a mischief—(Hear, he and cheers.) The
title of the Bill was, " An Act for the lation of Suits re-
ign
lating to Meeting-houses and other Property held for Religious
Purposes by persons dissenting from the 'United Church of
England and Ireland." Now, looking at that title, one
would suppose that it was a Bill in which the great ly of
Dissenters of the empire were deeply concerned. But when
he came to ask himself the question, what body of Dissentersasked for or petitioned for this Bill—whether the Wesleyan
thought it necessary for their well-being; whether the Inde-
pendents, Presbyterians, or Baptists, thought it requisite for the
well-being, or for the maintenance and security of their esta-
blishments, endowments, or foundations; he found that not
one individual of these bodies had ever. dreamt of petition-
ing for it ; but, on the contrary, the z4ment they had be-
come acquainted with its provisions, 'they one and all
simultaneously and loudly exclaimed against it.—(Cheers.)
Then he thought the Church of England miglet have thought
it in some way necessary-_—(A. laugh.) But when he looked
et the debate in the House of Lords, hesaw the Bishops of
Ectridon and Exeter leading the oppositive raised against it,
in 'ainanner which did.credit to their lcnown character and
abilities, and their zeal for the interests, of that. Church of
which they were such distinguished -embers.— (Cheers.)*
Then, lie asked, what body f Dissent ppiied for this Bill.
—(Hear, hear.) And he nd one s I section for whose
benefit alone the whole ecer.i. nitnity, T the might so say, of
the religious trusts!bf this' untry, were to be put in peril
and subverted.—(ller, li&ir,tand cheers.) He was very, glad
to find, out of the C6rnmi4i4 appointed to inquire into the
charitable trusts of. this - try (and there was great ne-
cessity for such a Commi •on), -that discoveries had been,
made of mal-appropriatio of the fun. - and endowments of
charitable trusts, and t the law `` eon enabled to set
these mal-appropriations.l te - He. w 4 1, .ok4e.d.to find. this,
min
because in all cases vlieeever the tettetror tettefiinde to
applied to particular purposes, whether secular or religious
(if in consonance with the principles of law and the consti-
tution), they ought to be strictly followed out.—(Cheers.) Now,
it had been found that certain individuals, for a long time,
had been in the enjoyment of property to which they
had no right or title, and a spirited person had
brought the matter to an issue by submitting the question to
the tests of the Courts of law, and subsequently to the
highest tribunal in the realm—he alluded to the case of Lady
Hewley's charity. Upon the decision of that question im-
portant results had depended ; for it was proved thereby that
those who held property illegally could, in the ordinary
course of law, be compelled to give it up.—(Hear, hear.)
What was the consequence of this decision ? One would
naturally expect in this country, and in every country in
which order existed, that to the equity of the law as well as
to the majesty of the law, all' were bound to submit.—(Hear,
hear.) Here, however, they had the Lord Chancellor of
England proposing the doctrine—not that the subject must
bend to the law, but that the law is bound to submit to the
subjecte--(Cheers.) Now he (Mr, „Fox Manic) must for
one, protest against such doctrine as this.—(Hear, hear.)
The other day, on a festive occasion, they might
have observed the Prithe Minister and the Lord
Chancellor coquetting together, as to which had been
the greater law reformer. But if this was a specimen of
their law reform, he would say, " May we be delivered
from such law reformers as the Lord Chancellor."—
(Cheers and laughter.) But it was said that the object of
the Bill was to prevent litigation. Now, his opinion was
that this would not be the effect, of the Bill, even if there
were no other objection ; so far from preventing litigation,
although it might solder up some inconvenient suits for the
time being, it would eventually unsettle every Dissenting
trust throughout the kingdom—(Cheers)--and in the course
of a very few years occasion more litigation than any mea-
sure which had ever come within his knowledge.—(Hear,
hear.) There was another point of objection to which he
wished to direct attention—viz., that the Bill went to apply
the principle of prescriptive tenure to property devised or left
in the hands of trustees for religious purposes. That was, as
he believed, a decided alteration of the existing law.—
(Cheers.) But although, on consideration; he did not see
why property devised for religious purposes might not have
the same description of tenure applied to it, by right of
prescription, as property devised for civil purposes, he could
not admit that any law, so interfering with religious pro-
perty, should be retrospective in its operation.—(Cheers.)
In Scotland there was a prescriptive, right for property
held for forty years, without dispute or question ; but it
would be most unjust if, in, the case of a party who had
until within a short period of the expiration of the forty
years' limit, chosen, or been compelled by circumstances,
to forego his right of questioning the title of the posses-
sor, should, when in a position to proceed to recover his
property, be told, " You cannot recover, for a Bill has
been passed, enacting that twenty-five years shall give
a prescriptive right, and the parties who have wrongfully
held the property during that time shall be confirmed in their
title for the future." Would such an act of injustice be tole-
rated? And yet that was no more than this Bill proposed
to do in respect to the property with which it would in-
terfere.—(Cheers.) The third clause of the measure foreclosed
the rights of the parties at present claiming, and was there-
fore retrospective; andalthough in the marginal note to the
clause it appeared that pending suits were to be exempted
in the clause itself, that exemption did not exist, it having
been expunged (as he understood) at the third reading of
the Bill in the House of Lords. If it were proposed to apply
the principle of this measure to common and every day cases
the people would generally condemn it.—(Cheers.) Take
the case of a piece of ground left in trust for the purposes of
public recreation and amusement, but that, in the course of
time, the trustees inclosed the land as their own private
property, and alienated it altogether from the objects for
which it was devised. Would the people tolerate for a mo-
ment a Bill giving to those trustees a legal title to the pro-
pejty they had thus become fraudulently possessed of?—
(Cheers.) Yet the cases were exactly parallel. He would call,
therefore, upon those who did not look upon the question in
a religious point of view, to look at in the moral point of
view, and they must necessarily join in opposing the pro-
position. Now, with regard to the retrospective operation of
the Bill. ' There were perhaps no cases in England or in
Scotland in which the retrospective operation would arise ;
then he must look to Ireland for instances of its effects ; and
in Ireland he found two cases, one of them a very special
case, and in reference to which more particularly he was
inclined to believe this third clause had been introduced.—
(Hear, hear.) That case, which involved property to the
amount of 24,0001. a-year, and was almost equal, therefore, in
importance to the celebrated Lady Hewley's charity case,
had been made the subject of litigation, had passed through
all its hearings, the Lord Chancellor's opinion had been
given upon it, and the property now only awaited the final
and formal judgment to be transferred to the possession of
the parties Ito whom it justly and rightfully belonged,
and appropriated once more to the purposes for which
it had been originally bequeathed, instead of to purposes
abhorrent to the feelings and intentions of the founders.
—(Hear, hear.) He could not but feel surprised and
alarmed at the unseemly haste with which the Bill had
been forced through the House of Lords, and he knew that
it was considered by the promoters of the measure that it
was necessary to legislate with haste on the question.—
(Hear, hear.) But there had been another decision which
one would have thought demanded at least equal haste—he
alluded to the decision in the case of the Queen against
Mellis, by which mixed Presbyterian marriages in Ireland,
a practice which had existed for 200 years, had been declared
illegal. Surely, if ever a case called for legislation, and re-
trospective legislation, that was one, yet nothing had been
done, so mach haste had been shown there.—(Hear, hear.)
He contended that it was absolutely unjust, at a time when
the Irish Presbyterians were labouring under this grievance,
that they should be attacked in this way upon the subject of
their trust charities, and that by this Bill the property should
be taken from their hands at the moment they are about to
regain possession of it, and enjoy its fruits. The Bill was
altogether founded in injustice, and they had a right to de-
mand that it' should not receive the concurrence of the Legis-
lature.—(Hear, hear.)
Resolutions were then proposed and carried condemnatory
of the Bill, and pledging the meeting to merge all minor dif-
ferences, and to unite in protesting before the Parliament and
the country against the passing of a measure so dishowor.

The chair on this occasion was to have been taken
by Lord Chesterfield, but that nobleman was unfor-
tunately prevented from being present by indisposi-
tion, which was notified to the company by Mr.
Benjamin Bond Cabbell, who took his place after an
apology for his insufficiency to fill the office originally
assigned to the Noble Lord.
The healths of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the
other members of the Royal Family, having been
drunk, and allowed by k God save the Queen" and
an appropriate glee by the vocalists present, -
The CHAIRMAN, in a short speech, explained the
object for which the co-npany were convened, and
pronounced a panegyric on Mr. Bunn's character as
the manager of the theatre.
Mr. B. B. CABBELL then presented the_ piece of
plate, which was placed before him, to Mr. Bunn, ob-
serving that it was but a slight testimony of the re-
spect which he felt, in common with many others,
for his talents and for his exertions in the cause of the
drama.
The health of Mr. Bunn was: then drank with the
honours, after which that gentleman returned thanks
in a very appropriate manner for- -the honour con-
ferred upon him,. and contrasted the success of the
-theatre under his management with the failiire and
Yeses sustained by those who assumed the title of
legitimatists. Mr. Bunn having concluded amidst long
and loud cheering, 'a glee, adapted to the occasion,
.was sung; after which- several other toasts were
given and drunk, the company keeping up the fes-
tivity till what is termed tvlate hour. The piece of
plate was manufactured by__Mesgs.. Catchpole and
Williams, of Regent-street, and weighs upwards of
500 ounces.

SCOTTISH HOSPITAL FESTIVAL.
The half-yearly festival of the •above incorporated chari-
table Society was held at the Freemasons'Hall on 'Wednesday.
At six o'clock a.sele,ct party sat down to a dinner furnished
in the handsome style matters of that kind are usually set
out by Mr. Bacon, the urbane proprietor of the establishment.
The Rightalon. the Earl Dalhousie took the chair, and he
was supported right and left by Lord Elibank (one of the
Lords of Session in Scotland), Sir J. C. Hobhottse, Sir W.
Burnett, K.C.8.. Colonel Sir R. Doherty, Liettenant• Go-
vernor of St. Vincent's ; Colonel Alves, Colonel Hughes,
Colonel M'Lean, Major Stack, Captain M'Kie, Captain Chrich-
ton, Captain Eastwick, P.M. Stewart,'Esq., &c. Grace
having been said by the Rev. Alexander M`Glashan, and the
dinner having been discussed, " Benedictus" was beautifully
sung by Messrs. Jolly, Young, and, Ransford, assisted by
Masters Force and Henderson. The usual loyal toasts hay-
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amongst the poorest classes of their countrymen had been
tested by a long-course of years • it had been in existence
upwards of two centuries, and had been incorporated for use-
ful purposes for nearly, the same period;' it had• long been
supported by many of the noblest narties in the history of
the country, and he was proud that 11.6 was the instrument
of adding another illustrious name tti. the list of its. bene-
factors. That morning he had received a communication
from his Royal Highness Prince Albert, desiring that his
name might be put down as a subscriber to the funds of th.i
Institution for 50. guineas.—(Loud cheers.) The Institution
had afforded pensions to 80 poor Scotchnien—had furnished
- 60,moremith tbe /neaps 'of returning tbtirtativv!mmtryt.
and had relieved in London near 4,000 inor6=(Cheers)—who
were in distressed circumstances. After jocularly remarking
upon the many places in which Scotchmen were to be found,
he said he hoped the proverbial nature of his countrymen, of
hanging together when abroad, would not desert them in Lon-
don,: but that all present would afford the Society the means
of benefiting those of their countrymen who were not so
blessed by fortune in what might be called a foreign laud.
The toast having been duly responded to,
Major Adair (the Secretary) read a list of the subscrip-
tions, amounting to 493/. Amongst the donators were, her
Majesty, 100/. ; the 'Queen Dowager, 50/. ; the Duke of
Sutherland, 50/. ; the Noble Chairman, 25/. ; Lord Elibank,
10/. 10s. ; Sir J. C. Hobhouse, 101. 10s.; the Lord Advocate,
10/. 10s., &c.
" The Health of the President (the Duke of Sutherland)
and the other Officers of the Society" having been given and
duly and enthusiastically responded to, the meeting broke up
soon after ten o'clock.
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During the evening the company were amused by several
which was beauti-
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Suther-
land, his brother, the piper of Captain Stewart, and an
amateur. Several national airs were also played by the band
of the Coldstream Guards, to the great amusement of a large
company of ladies, who witnessed the festivities from the
gallery. Altogether the company, which was more select
than numerous, seemed highly pleased with the evening's en-
tertainment.