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by their position under the present system, not only
to open shops as druggists, but, where this is not the case,

in every instance to makeup their own medicines in pre-
ference to furnishing a prescription to their patients. Let
the jealousy which at present exists between the practitioner
and the druggist be done away with, and both parties confine
themselves to their own department, and we confidently pre-
dict that few medical men will then be induced to keep their
own drugs, and a mutually beneficial connexion will be
formed between parties who are now in an antagonist po-
sition with each other.

FEMALE ORPHAN SOCIETY,

The annual meeting of the members and friends of the
Female Orphan Society was held yesterday, in the lecture-
room of the Royal Institution, Colquitt-street, for the pur-
pose of receiving the report of the committee for the past
year, the treasurer's statement of accounts, and the election
of officers. - The attendance, particularly of ladies, was large,
and among the gentlemen we noticed many of the clergy and
principle residents. A most interesting feature was the pre-
sence of all the female orphans, at present under the care of
the society. They excited much interest in all parts of the
meeting.
Sir JOHN SALUSBURY having been called to the chair,
said it was very gratifying to him to observe such a numerous
attendance upon this occasion • and he need only add his
firm conviction, that this truly interesting establishment
merely required to be more generally known in order to be
more universally appreciated. He therefore earnestly re-
quested those who had not hitherto visited. it, to take the
earliest opportunity of doing so, for there they would see
fatherless and motherless children not only rescued from
misery, vice, and want, but clean and healthy,—every pains
taken to make them useful members of society, and in-
structed in that information which was the best means of
training them up " in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord."
Mr. HARWOOD BANNER, treasurer and secretary, then
read the annual report of the committee.
Mr. BANNER next read the accounts. From the state-
ment it appeared that the annual subscriptions during the
year amounted to £537 4s. ; arrears and payment, of which
was undoubted, £2l ; interest allowed by Messrs. Moss's
bank, .£33 12s. 2d. ; total, £570 1.65. 2d. The disbursements
for furniture, clothing, salaries, rent, provisions, drugs, ad-
vertising, &c. amounted to £3BB is. 5d., leaving a balance,
in hand of £lB2 1-Is. 9d. In addition to this balance the
donations in the bank were stated to be £1255 ls. 6d.
Mr. SANDBACH, after briefly expressing his gratification
at the satisfactory nature of the report, and of the state of
the funds, moved the first resolution confirming the report,
and ordering it, together with a list of the donations and
subscriptions, to be printed.
Mr. JAMES ASPINALL seconded the resolution, and it was
unanimously carried.
The Rev. HUGH MREILE moved the following resolu-
tion—" The utility and value of theeinstitution being fully
proved in the interesting cases already admitted, and con-
tinual applications to be admitted being received, resolved,
that earnest solicitation be made to the benevolent for ad-
ditional donations and subscriptions, that the benefits of the
institution may be extended as much as possible." After
a few introductory remarks, in which he mentioned that,
owing to an engagement, he should not be then able to oc-
cupy much time, the rev. gentleman addressed the assembly
nearly as follows :—I perceive that the object now in view
is not to argue in favour of this institution, but to ask you•
and others who may read what is said in this room-for addi-
tional donations and subscriptions. The excellence of the
obligation being admitted, what more should be re aired by'
serious exertions to support'it 2s We must answe bee--
saying, " nothing more should be required, but something/
more generally is required." There is a degree of rig inertias
about men with regard to parting with their money, which,
even after their understandings are satisfied that the object
is good, requires some little momentum to be brought to
bear upon them to induce them to give of their sub-
stance. This is a matter of the deepest interest. I
am glad we are able to appeal to your eyes as well as
your ears. (Hear, hear, hear.) Every thing among crea-
tures is comparative, because there is a limit to the attain-
ments of creatures in every department, with reference to
which limit every subordinate grade in each line of things is
considered in man. That will be plainer if I observe in a
few words that with God nothing is comrarat;co, because
with him there is no limit. It is a matter of equal facility to
him to create an universe, as it is to surport an insect. "A
thousand years with him are as one day, and one day as a
thousand years." But with us it is not so; every thing with
us is comparative. Now I would peculiary call your atten-
tion to the comparative claims that certain objects of com-
passion have upon us. Around most of us it has pleased
God to spread a shield of providential second causes, such as
the circumstances sf our birth, of hereditary property, pro-
perty possessed by our parents and friends, so that we are
brought under what I have called a providential shield of -
second causes—free from exposure to want, and in the same
proportion free from the position of an appeal to the com-
passion of others. In proportion as one of our fellow-crea-
tures is exposed to poverty, and is deprived of this shield of
second causes for his support, he becomes the object of com-
passion to others ; and if all second causes be removed—
eveo bodily health without which he could avail himself of
no opportunity to labour—he then becomes an extreme ob-
ject of compassion. This compassion applies not merely to
property, but to other circumstances,,such as relationships
and friends. Most of us, again, are surrounded in this re-
spect with a providential shield of second causes, or with pa-
rents, kind friends, and relations. We are not exposed to the
rude blast of desolation in the world, and are, comparatively
speaking, not objects of compassion to others. But in pro-
portion as we are deprived of those second causes—in pro- •
portion as our home becomes desolate, the single inhabitant
of that desolate house becomes an object of compassion to
all right-minded persons in the neighbouring houses. You
see, then, how the matter comes to bear upon the orphan.
Everything, I said, is comparative. Look at our position.
Look at the position of our dear children, with the providen-
tial shield of second causes which I have mentioned both as
to property and connection around them, keeping them from
the position of an appeal to the compassion of their fellows ;
and then turn and look at these children (the- orphans).
That providential shield has been taken away, second causes
removed, and desolation spread over the home of the little
one, before it is able to seek a home for itself. God has
taken away its father ! God has taken away its mother!
You see the position of an orphan child rises to the very
climax of a living appeal to the compassion of every Chris-
tian heart. Yet there is one step more. Exposure is neces-
sary, on an appeal to compassion, whether in male or female ;
but unquestionably the appeal gathers force from the in-
creased exposure of the female sex. More helpless, more
liable to be practised upon by designing traitors, more likely
to become the victims and afterwards to become the tempt-
ers of men, they appeal with a louder cry to the compassion
of Christians! I have touched a chord which it will not do
to dwell upon; but it will do to say what ought to be said in
honest Christian fairness—that the fault lies with men in •
our own station of life, who become the tempters in the
first instance, and their victims become the tempters of
others in the second instance ; so that for all the misery, for
all the unspeakable pollution with which our great towns are
infested, we have our gentlemen to blame. Yes, sir, our
gentlemen are to blame. As a minister of the gospel, as a
minister of the church, I hesitate not—more in sorrow than
in anger, but in christian'fairness to say-so here. And why
here, where such gentlemen do not make their appearance ?
Because it is in the power of those who do not come here,
and who rule society in so many domestic circles--it is in
the power of the ladies to make such gentlemen feel that
they are not fit companions for their daughters and their
families. (Hear, hear.) But I have reached my climax of
compassion—first poverty, providential shields removed for
support; second orphanage, the providential shield of na-
rentage removed ; and third, the female sex. There is my
appeal! my living appeal is a poor female orphan I If any
man can love his money better than the luxury of relieving
such a case as this, I have no more to say to such a man.
I cannot move him. The arguments that *God has given will
not move him. He lacks the common proper feeling of the
species who will not be moved by the position of an orphan.
That is my case. The rev. gentleman concluded amidst
much applause, by moving the
resolution.
The Rev. T. M'GILL seconded the resolution in a speech
of considerable length, and it was unanimously carried.
The Rev. Mr. M`lven moved the thanks of the meetin to the committees of ladies and gentlemen, for their valuable services in framing the rules and regulations for the manage-
ment of the institution. He made an earnest appeal to the ladies, to exert themselves to procure increased subscriptions.
Mr. &SHELL seconded the motion, which, on being put,
was unanimously carried.
The Rev. Mr. HESKETH, seconded by Mr. HASSALL,
noved a vote of thanks to Mr. Ort, the surgeon, and to Mr.
Hat:mood Banner, the treasurer and secretary, for their ex-
Tilent services to the institution.

Mr. BANNER, in returning thanks, mentioned that the
Rev. T. Gregg and the Rev. Prior were present, baying
visited England as a deputation to promote the interests of
the Dublin Orphan Society, and probably they would address
the meeting. As for himself, the best requital the meeting
could make for his services, would be an increase of his la-
bours as treasurer.

v. T. GREGG then addressed the meeting in a
speech of considerable length, on the excellent nature of the
society's objects. In the course of his address, the rev. gen-
tleman narrated an affecting anecdote of an orphan girl at-
tending her mother's funeral in Dublin, whose admission
into the Dublin Charity he had the satisfaction of procuring.
On the motion of Mr. BANNER, seconded by Mr. SAND..
BACII, the ladies and gentlemen's committees were re-ap-
pointed for the ensuing year.
A vote of thanks was then presented to Sir John Sains-
bury, for his conduct in the chair, and for the active interest
he had taken in the establishment of the charity ; after which
the meeting separated.

At a chapter held on Friday at the Collegiate Church,
Manchester, the Rev. William Wilson, M.A., Curate of St.
Pancras, London, was elected Minor Canon, in the room of
the Rev. Henry Fielding, who has been appointed Rector of
Salmonby, Lincolnshire.

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LORD STANLEY'S IRISH REGISTRATION

ILL
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GREAT MEETING AT THE AMPHITHEATRE

(From our Second Edition of Friday.)

This morning, at half-past eleven o'clock, a meeting
took place of the inhabitants of Liverpool to petition
in favour of the Irish Registration Bill which has been
introduced by Lord Stanley in the House of Com=
mons, and in opposition to the bill introduced by go-
vernment. It must be fresh in the memory of all,
that at this period last year a meeting to a similar ef-
fect took place, which was most brilliantly attended.
Although the present meeting has not, perhaps, been
quite so numerous, yet it must be borne in mind that
the time of day at which the meeting was convened
was most inconvenient, not only to the mechanics.

shipwrights, and others, who, it is notorious, are en-
thusiastic supporters of all that appertains to the Con-
servative cause, but also to the gentlemen connected

luence of the oc-