The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-21 00:00:00

I CITY OF LONDON GENERAL

PENSIOLN SOCIETY.

Itheir usui:
l anniversary festival yesterday evening, aa,
Thy City of London Getout! Pension Society lad&
thy 1 , 100
.Tavern. About three hundred Gentlemen
sat down to al..-trier in the great TOM, the gallery or
which
was
crowe,,d with ladies, who repeatedly mini-.
erik:
felted daring the eve.ling the interest winch they t
in the proceedings.
Lord Stanley, and amongt be
on. 11. Liddell, M.P., .I. I.
,
The Chair was filled by
company we noticed the }:
Briscoe, Esq., &c.
Above the Chair was placed a handsome transparei at
portrait of her Majesty, the Patt.oness of the Society,
with this scroll underneath, " The vet," soul of bounty.."
This portrait had, we believe, been - lem. to the Society
L.-.
roo-n• which is one of ‘sP Committee of the Drury-lane Tbeacioal Fund.
• the finest in the in6tropolbyTheiA,
was suitably
s served up reflectd great credit cw .1
which the dinner iv:
he establishment. The arrange -
the Stewards and on ~:rsal satisfaCtion.
• menta seemed to give univpr7ared for the occasion ; and the s'tyle ix
t_oasier during the evening 9,-.
e
Mr, Tool, acted as Toe,:
The cloth having
3%ssi:q. Hobbs, Young, am I
very excellent style byl
Ransford, and Masters 3all and D...gstt.
, 'St toast, addressed
been rein,;vecllleneuqctug was sung' 11
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the It, .
the Compaq as follows:—Gentlemen, in . •
toed on me, I'
of the duties t4ticlr your kindness has den,.
e, die re-
have to propose to you, among other toasts, o. ' •' myself 1
the performance
ception of which I cannot for erne moment perms, ers )
to doubt, in an assembly of Englishmen. —(Ch. i,„*,
I have to propose to you the health of 1.
Majesty . the Queen, A lady who, in ascending the
throne of these realms at a very early period in life
has so comported herself in her high station, as to win
the affections, and Pocuat? the loyalty of all classes
of her subjects, whose name will be enthusiastically re-
ceived among every class in thiti country, but who has
this peettllar Oahu on the assembly iiiiieli I have now
the honour to addyt,,,—a claim of gratitude for her Ma-
jesty's kindness in havißgl in compliance with the ex-
ample set to her many years ago by her illustrious and
lamented father, the late Duke of Kent, under whose aus-
pices this Society was first instituted—(Cheers)--,in the
course of the present year graciously consented 44., per=
mit her name to -be entered as the Patroness of this so-
ciety, and accompanied that manifestation of her favortr
with a donation of 1001, to the funds of the Society.—
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg to give . " The health
of her Majesty thelQueen," and I have great pleasure in
adding, the Patroness of this institution.—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with three times three, and rap-
turous applause.
" God save the Queen," was then sung by the com-
pany standing.
The CHAIRMAN next addressed the company as- fol-
lows :—Gentlemen, you have just drank the health of
the Royal Lady who fills the throne of these realms with
a dignity peculiarly her own.—(Cheers.) I shall now
propose to you the name of another Lady, scarcely less
illustrious, and also a patroness of this Society—one
who has tilled a throne with dignity, and who has known
how to perform, with equal grace am d equal dignity, the'
task of descending from that throne into comparative
privacy—(Cheers)—but which in that comparative re-
tirement, still reigns in the hearts of those who were
once her subjects ; and whose character for pure
.ind Unassuming piety, for enlightened liberal-
ity, and for unbounded munificence, is known

o every corner of these realms, and who requires not in
this, or any other assembly, that I should identify her
uy name. I propose to give you the health of her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager.—(Loud cheers.)
The health of her Majesty was drunk amidst the
loudest applause,
Glee—" Oh, by rivers."
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, spoke as
follows :—Gentlemen, it is not often that those on whom
the cares and responsibilities of Royalty devolve, are for-
tunate enough to be able to exercise in mat:ers which
involve the private and domestic happiness the advan-
tage which their subjects possess of selecting, by their
,)wn choice, their partners for life ; and it must happen
yet more seldom that that choice is found to realise the
.x.pectations in which it was founded ; but it has been
her Majesty's peculiar happiness, not only to make that
sel ction in the exercise of her own judgment, and in
onfortnity to her own affections, but to find that she
has bestowed that judgment and those affections upon
use every way worthy of her choice.—((;beers.) Gen-
tlemen, it were much to say for a young Prince, recently
t stranger in this country, that he has so conducted
dins& in the difficult situation in which he was placed,
is to give no cause of offence to any one ; but it is with
smfidence I can say, in addition of his Royal Highness
..rince Albert, that, in every society of Englishmen '.
.which he has mixed—in those rare occasions—and ); a-
perly rare occasions—in whi.)ll he has mixed in pit:die
tffittrs—one of which occasions was one most interesting
.0 this City—on every occasion his Royal Highness has
•onducted himself with a grace, a courtesy, and an alfa-
,ility of demeanour, which have attracted the regard, ,
And merited the approbation, of all who have seen '
.aim. I also know that he has so conducted him-
self, as to v. in, day by day, more :and more the
.!steem and admiration of' those who have the happi-
!less to approach him more nearly. lam sure you will
.Irink with cordial satisfaction the health of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert. And in the course of this year
sn additional source of congratulation and thanksgiving
'ass been given by Providence to this country, in the
prospects held out to us that we may look forward to a
tong and unbroken line of male successors to the throne
of these realms; and in that confidence, and in that hope,
and in the hope that the young Prince who has been
given to the wishes of the nation may in his future life
verify the fond expectations formed of bins, I beg to join
nis 'name, as that of the hope of the nation, with that
of his Royal father and that of the Princess Royal. I
now, therefore, call upon you to drink in one toast the
nealths of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, anti of the Princess Royal.
—(Cheers.) The toast was most enthusiastically re-
ceived,
Song—" God bless the Queen of England."
The CHAIRMAN then said—Gentlemen, in proposing
to you the health of the remaining Members of the Royal
Family, lam sure it will not be thought invidious—l am
sure it will not be thought more than a due mark of re-
spect, if I peculiarly associate with the rest of the Royal
Family, en an occasion like the present, the name of his
Royal Ilighness the Duke of Sussex—(Loud and pro-
racted cheering)—a Prince, who has on all occasions
distinguished himself among his royal relations by the
free, liberal, and unrestrained manner iu which he has
mixed with all classes of the subjects of these realms, but
mire especially, while his health lasted, on every occasion
when by his presence he could promote the cause of be-
nevolence and charity.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen. I pro
pose to you the " Health of the Duke of Sussex, and of
the other Members of the Royal Family."—(Cheers.)
The toast was duly honoured.
Song—" And cloth not a meeting like this."
The CHAIRMAN then said—Gentlemen, although I
have the honour of presiding on this occasion, yet here
I am bound to fidlow the orders I receive from a higher
authority ; and therefore I beg leave to say I ans not
responsible for that which certainly appears to me a
want of gallantry, in drinking, in the first instance, the
healths of the male members of the Royal family, and
afterwards adding the name of a lady, a member of the
Royal family. But this I ans sure of, in this Society
there can be but one wish to pay every mark of respect
and gratitude to that Royal Lady, the mother of our
Sovereign, and long the widow of the lamented Prince
under whose auspices this society was first founded,
who has herself been a constant contributor to the funds
of this institution, and who has every claim on our
gratitude and support. Gentlemen, I beg to propose to you
the health of her Roy* Highness the Duchess of Kent ;
and, together with her name, I am desirous of coupling the
names of those ladies who have done us the honour of
subscribing to this Institution.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
if I may be permitted to raise my eyes from below the
tables which I am addressing, and look to another and
a higher quarter of the room—when I reflect how highly
we are honoured in having our objects encouraged, and our
exertions animated by the presence of a number of ladies,
I trust that I am not expressing a vain expectation when
I announce, or hope, that from this evening we may be
able to add to the number of our supporters, the ladies,
whose healths I am about to propose to you, as the sub-
scribers to this Institution.—(Cheers.)
The toast of " Her Royal Highness the Duchess ofKent
and the Ladies, subscribers to the Institution," was then
euthusiastieallrhonourcd.—" Glee—Who is Sylvia 7"
The CHAIRMAN next proposed the toast of "The
Army and Navy." He was sure that whenever the ser-
vices of these two gallant branches might be required,
they would be found to be animated by the same gal-
lantry, and guided by the same discipline which had dis-
tinguished them in former times.—(The toast was warmly -
received.)
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, addressed
the company as follows:—Gentlemen, or perhaps on this
occasion, I may take the liberty of saying Ladies and
Gentlemen, the time has now arrived when, in the per-
formance of my duties, and coming to that which is the
practical business for which we are met here to-day, I
am to call upon you to testify, in such a manner as may
be most gratifying to your own feelings, and most
calculated to carry out the objects for which we
have met here to-night—the time has arrived
which I have to propose to you to drink, as well as
to assist in promoting, "Prosperity to the Cityof London
General Pension Society."—(Cheers.) And, Gentlemen,
although I have been called upon on many occasions to
address audiences on subjects of a more exciting nature,
I never addressed an assembly upon a subject which
feel comes home more closely to the hearts, and
bosoms, and feelings of every man and of every
woman in a great commercial and Christian commu-
nity like this.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I call
upon you to come to the aid of unmerited distress—l call
upon you to come to the relief of industry, suffering
from unforeseen and undeserved privations—l call upon
you to rescue the work of your own hands, from that
decay with which it has been unhappily for some years
threatened. Gentlemen, it Was Only ill the year 1818,