The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-14 00:00:00

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rose and said, that the patriotic toasts were given; and
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Lord Jonn Rosner, tia,!
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ob-
ject of this Institution was to ;,eats' those who were too
advanced in life to assist thernselveN,-(Hear, hear)--to
relieve, from the consequences of pld age, men who had
doetey.—(Hear.)—He was surd, that is meeting'
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took place within this metropolis, he heed he,t say
and
worthy any Institution of this sort was af.attentiort and t
it was ra-
spent the best of their days in laudable And persen.ringsiin;..
support.—(Hear.)—ln the beginning of sC‘OetY
flier the object of synipathy to relieve its sin.reling neigh-
bours ; but, as the great motion and whet-
-1 of 5°-
eiety went ong men were so far separated frot:l one
nnotheri it became necenary to bring them OP-
thee lt some mire bond that might remind eanh
man of the treetrathy that was due to his fello
ereattlrea--(Applauee)«and among all these, there was
nolit thote nitty,,2l to reciManaend—hone that went more
directly, or rd'.:'R.; s:llnry to the point—than that of bring-
ing those together wife/ 'let connected in the same opera-
tions, and labouring for the cfflc Abject. (Applause.) It
was, therefore, the object of this Slepartments of the
who were concerned in the various
e4:lt
Printing business, should endeavour to rna;:g °nine Iffevi-
ty, that those persons
who
for those, whose age and misfortunes entith,s(l then' to
such support. (Hear, hear.) But it had been sa.‘ls add
would for ever be said, that suck Institutions as these
mischievous in their nature, rather than .beneficial, 1n
only tended to encourage improvidence amongst the work-
ing classes at the time ben they might be able to make it
provision for themselves. -He mutt own that he thought
this printiple had been pressed too
But, whatever argil:tient might be maintained /thorng the
principle of the thing, he Was disposed to conclude that the
beast would always, in such a case as this, confute the con-
clusions of the head. (Applause.) lint why should he
say " the /mare' unlyi when the understanding told them
(as well as the experience et daily life) Low many then:
were who, without any fault 'of' their owls, either through
the revulsion of their own circumstances, or front thia .
failure of those of others, or perhaps limn some un-
foreseen visitation—such, for instance, as sadden illness
or disease—which might totally incapacitate any apt'from
rising into wealth and prosperity, even after setting out
with the fairest prespects.—(Applause.) How many Of
such accidents as these were there that checked the course
of the most flourishing among them, and destroyed those
hopes which, in all appearances, were just about to be
realised?—(Applause.) But even suppose that some of
those who came to be relieved had reached old age, after
having been improvident during the period that preceded
it, he would confess that he was Rot so severe a monitor us
wholly to close the doors upon them.—(Loud cheers.)---
He could not but reflect on the infirmity of human nature,
and he would not, therefore, demand from others a moral
perfection which did not exist in himself.—(Applause.)
Such then were the general reasons, cod he might also say
the general feelings, on which Societies of this kind svera
founded. The one, the annivereary of which they weft
now celebrating, recommended itself to hint the more par-
ticularly when he recalled to his thoughts these great
triumphs accomplished through an instrument of which
these men, who now looked to them for relief, were the
operators and setters in motion.—(Cheers.) Certainly, if
there was any one thing in which the moderns were en.;
perior to the ancients, it was in the Press--(llear, hear)
by which the greatest possible dissemination was se-
cured; so that, instead of a work being confined to thou-
sands he might say to hundreds only, it was spread
through millions, and was the means of raising the standard
of nature to a wonderful height.—(Applause.) It was
impossible that persons could be employed on works of
this kind without, in some measure, participating in the
intellectual nature of their employment and he need not
tell the meeting how much distress was augmented, when
men under such circumstances found them:sem:7l sinking
into poverty.—( Hear, hear. )—He had already said that
there was a circumstance to which he meant to allude, and
before he sat down he would do so. It was (as probably
every person who heard him was aware), that a very
powerful and well known journal had thought it its duty to
point out what it conceived to be the mischievous effects of
this Institution—(Hear)--as tending to produce a spirit it
combination, or rather, as it maintained, to strengtheu that
spirit which already existed. He would tell the meeting
fairly, that he was not prepared to give a full answer to
this imputation ; but he wished to say, had it been made
known curlier—had that journal conceived it right t's have
brought forward this accusation some weeks sooner, he
should then have thought it incumbent on hint to have
taken notice of what was said, and have called on the
friends and patrons of the institution, and if they had not
afforded a satisfactory answer, he should certainly have de-
clined the honour of attending that meeting.—(lleac, )
But as owing to the shortness of the time he had not been
able to go into the inquiry, he had thought it his duty not
to listen wholly to this accusation, but rather to confide in
the abilities, knowledge, and high honour of those con-
nected with this Institution, and to put himself into their
hands—(Much cheering)—with the full assurance that
they had examined well into the subject, and cause to a
just conclusion.—(Applause.)—The Noble Lord concluded
by proposing " Prosperity to the Printers' Pension So-
ciety," which was drunk with enthusiasm.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES lase for the purpose of pro-
posing to drink " the health of their Noble Chairman.
Were he to wish to pronounce an eulogy on the Noble
Lord, he would say that being of the house of Russell,
he
had done all that the world expected from a member of that
house.—(Cheers.) Nor could he forget the distinguished
part which the Noble Lord had taken in a measure lately
in agitation, and which now, he was happy to say, formed
a portion of the law of the land ; but it must also be ad-
mitted that the Public Press had been of great service in
that matter.
The toast having been drunk with cheers,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL returned thanks, and observed
that he could not think of the literature of the country
without rememberilg that two of the names connected
with it, Richardson and Franklin, had taken part in the
industrious businesi of a printer, and, at the same time,
had tended to raise the character of the literature of the
country.—(Cheers.)
On "the health of the Treasurer" being drunk, Mr.
Alderman VENABLES returned thanks.
Several other toasts were then drunk, after which the
Meeting separated. We were glad to learn, that in the
course of the evening, subscriptions to the amount of be-
tween 3001. and 4001. were made.

THE VULTURE'S POWER OF SIGHT.—
Professor LICHENSTEIN remarked, when travelling in
South Africa, that if an animal chanced to die in the very
midst of the most desert wilderness, in less than half an
hour there was seen, high in the zenith, a number of
minute objects descending in spiral wheels, and increasing
in visible magnitude at every revolution. These are soon
discovered to be a flight of vultures, which must
have observed from a height, viewless to the human eye,
the dropping of the animal immediately marked out for prey.
PAISLEY MANUFACTURES--The prices of
weaving at Paisley have, during the last three or four
weeks, undergone a very severe depression, particularly in
h
In this branch, for the foul
previous months, there had been an uncommon demand for
the India
trade ofimitationthe
Staple
place. line, which may be considered the
weavers, and a very considerable advance of wages ; but
during the last month most of the manufacturers have been
diminishing the number of their workers, and reducing
the wages of such as they chose to retain. Indeed, at this
moment, the price of Weaving these articles is nearly as low
as it was at periods of the greatest depressson. This stagna-
tion could not have occurred at a snore critical juncture for
the poor operatives; for although their wages had been aug-
mented,as has been just stated, the advance had in mosteasts
been absorbed in the re-modelling of the mountings re-
quisite to suite the varied taste of the season ; consequently
they were very ill prepared to meet their landlords at
Whitsunday. It may safely be said, that this has been by
far the most distressing term ever experienced by the work-
ing people here. The number of families that have been
" rouped out," as it is expressively termed, has been very
considerable ; but the number of roups affords no proper
criterion whereby to judge of the number of defaulters in
regard to rent, because the far greater number enter into
private arrangements, making over their most valuable
articles to satisfy their landlords in order to save their
children's beds, and a few necessaries. Many who are far
in arrear have been induced to consign over their move-
ables to their landlord, by which he is enabled to retain
moneyrb to relieve them, or a more favourable
them to a sale.—EdinbargA
Courant.
bringing them in custody without incurring law expences, till the
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