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

THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1842.

DRURY-LANE T HEATRE.

The new .five-act play, entitled Plighted Troth, which
was produced for the first time last night at this theatre,
is one of those unlucky productions in which effect is
constantly aimed at, and as constantly missed, • from the
author's want of truth and simplicity in the managemynt
of his deta;ls, and the development of his charatcrs. It is
in vain to deny him a certain sort of energy, as regards
' conception; but it is misdirected energy, at variance
with the propriety of 'nature, and put forth with far too
much parade and fuss. He overdoes almost everything
that he touches ; elaborates trifles, and in critical
places is perpetually hovering on the verge of the
ridiculous. His path was clear before him ; but in-
stead of maintaining a straightforward course, he
moves in a circuitous, zig zag direction ; halts when
he should be on the alert ; and keeps • his eye fixed
on everything but the goal. The consequence is, that
he excites an interest only by fits and starts, and this
chiefly by a convulsive, spasmodic display of power, that
is more startling than impressive—except; indeed, in the
scene of the clOsing catastrophe, where something like
a true dramatic spirit is manifested. But the radical
defect of the. author is the set, formal preparations,
that he makes for incidents, which, when fully de-
veloped, lose their effect from their having- been all
apprehended beforehand. The plot of his play—
which, by. the bye, is most loosely constructed—
.is something like the following :—Sir Gabriel Grim-
wood (Macready) is a wealthy, unscrupulous Cumber-
land Baronet, of headstrong passions, and of a most vin-
dictive character, who, by the agency of his artful stew-
ard, Wormall (Phelps), contrives to obtain possession of
his ward's, Raymond Willoughby's (Anderson), estates,
and to get him shipped off for a foreign country. Pre-
vious to his departure, Willoughby seek: an interview
with Maddeline (Miss Helen }aucit), a dependent
in Grimwood's household, who is warmly attached
to him, but for whom ha appears to enter-
tain no more than a mere passing penchant. With
this interview the first act terminates. The inci-
dents in the second are supposed to take place ten
years later. The steward, Wormall, has, in the interim,
managed to secure to himself his master's estates, who
has been implicated in the Jacobite risings in Ireland in
1688, and is supposed to be either dead or an exile. In the
midst of his prosperity, however, he learns that Grimwood
stilt lives, and is in London, pining in a state of indi-
gence, and half-frenzied with his reverses. Scarcely
has he got over the shock of this surprise, when he
hears that Willoughby is also in ilia metropolis, and
that consequently he must be compelled to refund all of
which lie has robbed him. Scarcely knowing how to
act under such a complication of annoyances,
he resolves at length on having au interview with
the desperate, half-crazed Baronet, in the hope
of prevailing on him, by the offer of returning
him a moiety of his estates, to make no attempt
to recover the remainder. He accordingly visits
him in his wretched retreat, but stung to desperation by
his bitter taunts, stabs him, and is soon afterwards ap-
prehended for the murder, with which incident the play
closes. These are the leading incidents, but there is a
sort of underplot, in which Raymond Willoughby, and
Maddeline, are chiefly concerned. The latter,. during the
former's absence from England, has been proved to be
the descendant of the Counts of St. Auriel, and, in con-
sequence, has succeeded to the title just before Wil-
loughby's return. As she still loves him, and he reci-
procates her affection, not dreaming that she is the
poor dependent whose attachm'ent he fortherly slighted,
she determines on making a trial of his sincerity, and
after a long and somewhat superfluous conversation,
confesses that she is the identical Maddeline whom he
had once rejected ; and moved by his penitence, accepts
him as her husband. The whole of this underplot is very
clumsily managed, and is attached to the other portions
of the play by the slightest possible. links. In tact, it is
little better than an excrescence, though it is from his
feagmentary episode that the &Luna derives its title.
There are two striking incidens in the play—..
one, where Grimwood is represented brooding over
his revenge, in spite of the efforts of a Catholic priest
in attendance to bring him into a better frame of mind ;
and the other, where he taunts Wormall into the com-
mission of murder, in presence of a concealed agent, in
the hope that he will in consequence be denounced, and
hanged. • On both these occasions Macready's acting
was uncommonly fine , his conception of the character
was bold without being overcharged ; girl he. exhibited,
strange to say, none of that mannerism which has been
so often objected to him. The fierce glimmerings of
sanity that kept incessantly struggling through his mad-
ness, vera pourtrayed with starting earnestness ; and he
appeared as though he were kept alive, and in a state
of imperfect intelligence, solely by the idea of
revenge, on which he gloated with all the remorseless
avidity of a fiend. Miss Helen Faucit played the part
of the Countess St. Auriel with infinite grace and spirit ;
but her acting was in a great degree lost on the au-
dience, from she very perplexing nature of the character
she represented. Phelps, as the Steward Wormall, was
somewhat too boisterous ; and Mr. Anderson, as Wil-
loughby, made a very sickly, sentimental lover. The
language of the play is often terse, animated, and nervous,
but oftener still turgid and inflated. Here and there it
betrays evidences of poetic power ; but, like angels'
visits, these tokens are " few, and far between." Por-
tions of the dialogue, indeed, were so ridiculous, though
meant to be tragic, that the audience could not refrain
from laughter. The scenery was excellent throughout ;
and the ball-room scene magnificent. The play, how-
ever, was coldly received, chiefly from its want of na-
ture, simplicity, and coherences ; and we cannot promise
it a run of more than a few nights.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TutsnAv.

2,000 Guineas Stakes-5 to 2 agst Meteor ; 3 to 1 agst
Petulance c (t); 6 to 1 agst Tirnolcon ; and 6A to 1 agst Lord
G. Bentinek's lot.

CHESTER Cur.-8 to 1 agst LanercoA (t freely) ;9to 1
agst Vulcan ; 10 to 1 agst ltory o.lllore (t) ; t 2 to 1 agst
Alice Hawthorn ; 12 to 1 agst Bellora ; 15 to 1 agst M. Soult ;
16 to 1 agst Satirist; 20 to 1 agst The Squire ; 20 to 1 agst
Cruiskeen; 25 to 1 agst Retriever, 30 to 1 agst Rho tanthe ;
30 to I agst Pagan; and 30 to 1 agst The Young-'Un.
DEE STAKES (CHESTER)..-5 to 2 agst William de Forti-
bus ; 5 to 2 apt Skipton ; and 7 to 2 agst Alarion.
DEat.v.—tii to 1 asst Frederica c (t); 8 to 1 agst Attila;
15 to I agst Auckland; i 7 to 1 agst Joanna c; 25 to 1 agst
Elena ; 30 to 1 agst Moss-trooper ; and 40 to 1 agst Meteor.
OAKS.-8 to I agat Adela f; 11 to 1 agst Sister to York-
shire Lass; 12 to 1 agst Passion ; 20 to 1 agst Black Beauty ;
and 20 tot agst Amima f.
BAI H RACES—(TUESDAY CONCLUDED).
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The County Members' Plate of 50/., added to a sweeps. of
5 sovs. each ; 3 yrs, fist 10ib ; 4 yrs, List 6.b ; 5 yrs, 9st ;
6 )rs and aged, 9,.,t 51b; mares,. &c., allowed 3 lbs ; winners
extra. Mile and half ht ats. 6 Subs.

Mr. Treen's Una, 4 yrs ... (S. Mann) 5 1 1
M. de Nlosher's Wiltonia, 3 yrs 1 4 2
Mr. Jones' Fervid, 4 yrs ... 3 3 3
Mr. J. Day's Tamburini, 6 yrs... 4 2 dr.
Mr. Foster's Combat, aged
Each heat won easily by a length.
THE JOCKEY CLUB MEETING.'

At a General Meeting of the Members of the Jockey Club
held at Willis's Rooms yesterday (Tuesday), Lord George
Bentinek having stated '• that anxious to conciliate the good
will of the Club, whilst he still adheres to all the principles
and maxims of turf law, laid• down in his protest of the 12th
of February, he is desirous to withdraw and express his regret
for so much of the language in which that protest has been
coached as has heen felt t ) be offensive to the feelings of the
Jockey Club," it was unanimously resolved that this state-
ment was satisfactory to the Club.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.

WEDNESDAY.

The Suffolk Stakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft, if declared by
noon on Monday next; the winner of the 2,000 guineas Stakes,
or the Somersershire Stakes at Bath, Sib extra; of the
1,000 guineas Stakes, or the R. M. Plate, 41b extra.
John o'Gaunt, 4 yrs, 9st 41b ; Potentia, 4 yrs, 9st 31b ; The
Currier. 4 yrs, Bst; Ralph, 4 yrs, Bst Imo ; The Corsair,
6 yrs, Bst bulb; Johnny, 5 yrs, Sst blb • Bob Peel, 5 yrs,
Bst 51b; Rory O'More, 6 yrs, Bst 31b; ielmyra, 5 yrs, Bst;
The Nub, 4 yrs, Bst ; The Genius, 5 yrs, ist lUlb ; Una, 4 yrs.
7st Sib; I-am-not-aware, aged, 7st bib; Mustapha, 4 yrs,
7st Sib ; Minaret, 4 yrs, let 51b ; Florence, 4 yrs, 7st 31b ; St.
Colomb, 4 yrs, 7st; Agreeable colt, 3 yrs, Est 121 b; Sister to
Glencoe, 4 yrs, Est 101 b; Fidhaun, 4 yrs, Est 71b • Miss
Fidget, 4 yrs, 6st 51b; Nuncio, 3 yrs, Est Sib; The-bevil-
among.the-Tailors, 3 yrs, Est bib ; Tripoli, 3 yrs, 6st bib ;
Haitoe, 3 yrs, sst 91b; Norma, 3 yrs, bst 91b ; Taurica, 4 yrs,
paid 5 soya. ft.
CRAVEN MEETING, 1843.—Morma tr.
_

Lord Kelburne's c by Velocipede, out. of Amulet, Bsl 41b.
against Col. Peel's c by lon, out of Malibran, Bst. T. Y. C.
99 h it.
ASCOT HEATH, 1842.—Txuasnay.
Nominations fur the Gold Cup.—Marshal Soult, 4 yrs ;
Beesuin,,g, aged; Bokhata, 5 yrs; St. Francs, aged ; Ralph,
4 yrs ; Jack, 3 yrs ; Lanercoa, 6 yrs; Eriugo, 4 yrs ; Little
Wonder, 5 yrs ; Ttie Nob, 4 yrs ; Potentia, 4 vrs.

EPSOM, 1g42.--TuEsnay.

Nominations for the Woodcote Stakes—Sir G. Heathcete's
bl c by Velocipede, out of Driad ; Mr. G. Ongley's bl f by
Camel, d by Octavius ; Col. Wyndham's Handmaiden ; Mr.
Forth's Venus ; and Mr. Greville's Portumnus. _ _

THE JOCKEY CLUB.—The following is an official report of
the Meeting on Tuesday last : —" Lord George Bentinck stated
that, anxious to conciliate the good will of the Club, whilst he
adheres to all the principles and maxims of Turf law, laid down
1.1 his protest of the 12th of February, he is desirous to with-
draw and express his regret for so much of the language in
which that protest has been couched as has been felt to be
offensive to the feelings of the Jockey Club." It was unani-
mously resolved that this statement was satisfactory to the Club.
Nat, who broke his collar-bone last week, at Newmarket,
and was much bruised by the fall, is going cn favourably, and
will shortly be able to resume his business.
The Goodwood Cup closed with 57 subscribers.

Mondiere, a foot soldier quartered at Paris, was
yesterday condemned to death by. the permanent Court-martial
for the offence of striking a sentinel on his post. It appeared'
in evidence that, in the evening of the Bth ult., Mondiere was
returning to his barracks when he met a woman with her son,
a boy about ten years old, in the avenue Lamothe-Piequet, near
the Hotel des lnvalides, and not only accosted her, but, not-
withstanding her remonstrances, persevered ia offensive over.
tures, and forced her to go out of her way home from fear of
giving rise, by being seen with him, to injurious suspicions in
the minds of her friends and neighbours. She walked on till
they came to a sentinel posted near the Ecole Militaire, whose
rroteetion she claimed. The sentinel recommended Alondiere
to retire to his quarters, and leave her to go home with her
child. He, however, took offence at the interference of the
sentinel, abused him, and at length struck lum a blow ou the
Mee, which produced blood, and induced him to seize his as-
sailant and call out the guard. Alondiere broke away from
him, hut left in his hands the epaulette of his capotte, which
came off in the struggle. By this Mondiere was discovered and
recognised. In answer to the depostions to the above effect,
Mondiere had nothing to say but that he was in liquor, knew
not what he did, and had no recollection of t tic circumstance.
As he had previously borne a good character, the President, in
passing sentence upon him, announced that lie would recom-
mend him to the Royal clemency. Upon this a petition to the
King for a commutation was immediately drawn up, and signed
by all the members of the Court.
The Corsican bandit Orsini was taken on the Ist
instant. He was met near Campile by a voltigeur, who seized
him. Orsini defended himself and made a desperate resistance,
but, seeing four men coming up, he relinquished the contest,
and fled. He was, however, so exhausted by the struggle, that
he was overtaken, and secured at the moment he was on the
point of plunging int" a ravine, where it would have almost
been hopeless to follow him.

CITY OF LONDON GENERAL-
PENSION SOCIETY.

The City of London General Pension Society held
thdr usual anniversary festival yesterday evening, at
the London Tavern. About three hundred Gentlemen
sit:: down to dinner in the great room, the gallery of
a hich was crowded with ladies, who repeatedly mani-
fsted during the evening the interest which they 'took{
in the procetding-s.
The Chair was filled by Lord Stanley, and among the
company we noticed the Hon. H. Liddell, M.P., J. I.
Briscoe, Esq., &c.
Above the Chair was placed a handsome transparent
portrait of her Majesty, the Patroness of the Society,
with this scroll underneath, " The very soul of bounty."
This portrait had, we believe, been, lent to the SoCiety
by the Committee of the Drury-lane Theatrical Fund.
The room, which is one of the finest in the metropolis,
was suitably prepared for the occasion ; and the style in
which the dinner was served up reflected great credit on
the Stewards and on the establishment. The arrange-
ments seemed to give universal satisfaction.
Mr. Toole acted as Toast-master during the evening.

The cloth having been removed Benedict;lv was sung in
very excellent style by Messrs. Hobbs, Young, and
Ransford, and Masters Ball and Dassett.

The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the first toast, addressed
the Company as fbllows:—Genttemen, in the performance
of the duties which your kindness has devolved on me, I
have to propose to you, among other toasts, one, the re-
ception of which I cannot for one Moment permit myself
to doubt, in an assembly of Englishmen. —(Cheers.)
I have to propose to you the health of her
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 secure the loyalty of all classes
of her subjects, whose name will be enthusiastically re-
ceived among every class in this country, but who has
this peculiar claim on the assembly which I have now
the honour to address—a claim of gratitude for her Ma-
jesty's kindness in having, in compliance with •the ex-
ample set to her ninny years ago by her illustrious and
lamented father, the late I)uke of Kent, under whose aus-
pices this Society was first instituted—(Cheers)—in the
course of the present year graciously consented to per-
mit her name to be entered as the Patroness of this so-
ciety; and accompanied that manifestation of her favour
with a donation of 1001. to the funds of the Society,-
( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg to give ‘‘ The health
r her Majesty the Queen," and I have great pleasure-in
adding, the Patroness of this institution.—(Cheers.)
The toast was'elrunk with three times three, and ralle
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 filled a throne with dignity, and who has known
how to perform, with equal grace and equal dignity, the
task of descending from that throne into comparative
peleacy—(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
and unassuming piety, for enlightened liberal-
ity, and fur unbounded munificence, is known
to every corner of these realms, and who requires not in
this, or any other assembly, that I should identify her
by 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
own choice, their partners for life ; and it must happen
yet more seldom that that choice is found to -realise the
expectations in which it was founded ; but it has been
her Majesty's peculiar happiness, not only to make that
set ction in the exercise of her own judgment, and in
conformity to her own affections, but to find that she
has bestowed that judgment and those affections upon
one every way worthy of her choice.—(Cheers.) Gen-
tlemen, it were much to say for a young Prince, recently
a stranger. in this country, that he has so conducted
himself in the difficult situation in which he was placed,
as to give no cause of offence to any one ; but it is with
confidence I can say, in addition of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, that, in every society of Englishme&.
which he has mixed—in those rare occasions—and 2: e-
perly rare occasions—in whi.-11 he has mixed in punlic
affairs—one of which occasions was one most interesting
to this City—on every occasion his Royal Highness has
conducted himself with a grace, a courtesy, and an affa-
bility of demeanour, which have attracted the regard,
and merited the approbation, of all who have seen
him. I also know that he has so conducted him-
self, as to t. in, day by day, more :and more the
esteem and admiration of those who • have the happi-
ness to approach him more nearly. lam sure you will
drink with cordial satisfaction the health of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert. And in the course of this year
an additional source of congratulation and thanksgiving
has been given by Providence to this country, in the
prospects held out to us that we may look forward to a
long 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 him, I beg to join
his name, as that of the hope of the nation, with that
et* his Royal father an 1 that of the Princess Royal. I
now, therefore, call upon you to drink in one toast the
healths of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, and 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, I am 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, on an occasion like the present, the name of his
Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex—(Loud and pro-
tracted cheering)—a Prince, who has on all occasions
distinguished himself among his royal relations by the
free, liberal, and unrestrained manner in 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 follow the orders I receive froth a higher
authority ; and therefixe I beg leave to say I am not
responsible fur 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
afwrwards adding the name of a lady, a member of the
Royal family. But this I am 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,
wlio has herself been a constant contributor to the funds
of this institution, and who has every claim on our
gratitude and support. Gentkmen, I beg to propose to you
the health of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ;
and, together with her name, lam desirous of coupling the
names of those ladies who have done us the honour of
subecribing to this Institution.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
it 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—si hen I reflect how highly
w 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 of Kent
and the Ladies, subscribers to the Institution," was then
enthusiastieally honoured—" Glee—Who is Sylvia ?"
.1 he 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 City of 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
I feel comes home more closely to the hearts, and
bosuns,
in
, anad
greatfeeli commercial every
and Christian commu-
nity man
h and of every
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 bsen unhappily for some years
threatened. Gentlemen, it was only in the year 1818,
under the patronage of the illustrious and lamented •
Duke of Kent, that a body of charitable individuals in
this City, many of whom still survive, and still watch
with parental care over the work of their own hands—
it was only in.the year 1818, that were seen the weak
and feeble, beginnings of this most important charity. In
that year you were enabled to place upon -your books
four male and two female pensioners. At the folloW
ing election there were only six males and three females.
yearsiligshotesntelTig,eneficen'ce
were the
practical
ars periodo the
u(t)iflintyin
aendenlightened
of this Institution, you were enabled, at a single election,
to appoint, instead of nine, no less than ninety pensioners
on your bounty, and to place upon yoUr books a number
of pensioners amounting altogether, 1 believe, to not less,
or little less, than 600. But, unhappily, a change came
over the prospects' of your Institution—a change to be
deprecated in any .case where the progress of a useful
and benevolent society is arrested by unexpected causes ;
but a change, most of all to be deprecated, when the
failure fell nut on the prospective, or contingent, or pos-

sible objects of yoir bounty, but, when I may almost
say, a breach of faith had been committed, and those to
whom you had, in some measure, pledged yourselves that
l. yoa should continue a monthly payment of 31s. were
limited to a still more humble pittance. It
I must - - .-have • been- most painful to the pro-
moters of this charity to have felt themselves
compelled, 'by . a cessation of subscriptions . not
oily to cease adding to the number of the objects of their
benevolence, but to take, as was the case, from men of
60, 70, or 80 years of age, a large portion of that pit
fiance which they had promised themselves would cheer
and relieve their declining years. In 1833, instead of 31s.
1 a month to male pensioners, you were enabled to give but
35., and instead of 225. you were enabled to give but
2s. to females. That effect was not to be attributed to a
decline of charitable feeling—God• forbid—but to the
increase of local pensiou societies, which withdrew large.
sums from your subscriptions. - But, since the year 1833,
the prospects of the institution have gradually improved,
and, I believe, you have since been enabled to give 15s.
a month to the older recipients of your bounty. An in-
stitution like this, open for the relief of the honest and
industrious artizan whoni misfortune has overtaken in
the decline of life, deserves every support and sympathy.
I hope that with your aid, its benefits may be perma-
nently increased ; and I now call upon you to drink to
7`The prosperity of the London General Pension Society."
The toast was drunk with enthusiastic applause.
The health of the Duke of Buccleuch, the President
of the Institution was next drank.

. The Secretary here read the list of subscriptions for
the day, which amounted to a sum of 1,2201. The list
was headed by a contribution from her Majesty of 100/.
Mr. LIDDELL, M. l'., in an eloquent address, proposed
the health of the Chairman, the Eight Honourable Lord
Stanley.
The toast was received with loud cheering, again and
again renewed. The ladies in the gallery joined in the
applause by the waving of handkerchiefs.
The CHAIRMAN having returned thanks, proposed the
health of J. I. Briscoe, Esq., to whom the Institution
was so much indebted, who- had so largely contributed
to its funds and supported it by his exertions in times of
versity.
Mr. BRISCOE returned thanks.

The toasts of " The Ladies who had- honoured the
compiny by their presence that evening," the "Trea-
surer," and " Mr. Richardson, the Secretary to the In-
stitution," were afterwards proposed and duly honoured.
Lord STANLEY retired shortly' after ten o'clock, and
the company soon broke up , after• having spent the
evening in the greatest harmony and conviviality.