The Express. — 1858-04-22 (London, England)

ROYAL RUMANI SOCIETY.  • Last night the 84th anniversary of this society wee celebrated at the Freemeenuf Tavern ; the Duke of AZOTLL in the chair. Me Mel wee supported by Count Platen, the Swedish Mina= ; sad by Sir W. geirtuw, Sir B. Hawes, Admiral Saumerm, Major Powys, and the Rev. Canes Heron. About DX glatlemen were peasest. After the customer, torts Nye, Fowls sad Admiral (laminar returned thanks for the army and navy. The noble CirAtiliaa proposed the health of the Swedish Minister, remarking an the time baud of =ion which conmeta the great Scandinavian rase with on' own. Count Platen had moreover for three year aMually Nerved in the Brithlt navy. (Clieere.) err PLATiN, ia said he should have been abashed at the Woof addg • meeting like the present, had hs not felt that in the Humane eaelsty no our wee .ago. (Cheer.) He hoped the inetitatien would ordain to as it had hitherto done. (Chem.) The Dike of ARGYLL mid it now fell to his lot to ;repose what yes Galled the toast of the erring; sad be, therefore, sell= upon the company to drink the heel= of the President (the Duke of Wellington) and prosperity to the Royal Humane Society. (Cheers.) He bed had mach platoon in acceding to the ram= of the committee ea :01e2;Bide the present occasion because he felt that the both r regarded its objects end the means it employed ben the attainment of those objects, was inroad the reach deny poesible objection, and must commend =eV to the hearty sympathy and approval of mankind. (Cheers.) The essiety wee founded upon a high estimate of the value of individual life, even of the humblest—en estimate which wen the noblest attribute of advancing and advanced civilise. time. (Cheers.) The secoese of the means employed would be best indicated by the statistics to which he abouhl shortly mkt. One of the main fields of the society's open wore the greet perks of London. He bad °blurred need ilsalatigemhiinow eatusers ' eapenditure of public mosey upon those' but he had never felt the slightest sympathy with remarks of that description. He considered that the public money was well laid out is procuring for the working portion of the vest metropolitan community those means of healthy recreation which the perks afforded them. He might also observe that the parks of London were en object of envy to many of the ecatinental governments. The repent Emperor of the French had attempted to emulate them ; but though the imvitimf he had effected did him great credit, the Bois de Boaboth in respect to landscape gardening and of wood, still fell Infinitely short of our greet London parks. (Hear hear.) In the summer of 1867 no fewer than 360,000 persons were estimated to have bathed in the Serpentine, and of those 13 had been rescued by the society's men from drowning, besides whom 9 persona had her prevented from committing suicide. In the course the last winter 42,000 persons had skated in the parka, and the total number who had been rescued in Resent'sperk was 10, in Hyde-park 7, in Kensington-gardens 12, end In St. James's-park 27—making In an (Hear, hear.) If the weistye operations, therefore, had been confined to the London perks atone, it would have earned a just title to public support; but whenever persons had distinguished themselves by saving human life, there the society wee reedy to frogs= their generous self-devotion. (Cheers.) The noble duke, after alluding to a kindred institution—namely , that founded by the Duke of Northumberland, and called "The Life-boat Association," concluded by proposing the toast, which was drunk with lout cheers. The society's medallion was then presented to the follow]G.iHrry Bonner, for rescuing a boy from drowning at Boston an the 24th of Nov., 1866, being the eleventh life he had saved under similar cirmunstances. Lieutenant Bullock, of her Majesty's ship Centurion, for lavinga eau= who had fallen overboard in the Tagus on the 9th of October, 1856. Lieutenant De Lamy, of the 47th Art., for jumping into the ses in order to rescue a man who had fallen overboard from the steamer Adelaide, on its voyage from Malta to Gibraltar, on the 27th of May last. The vessel was going et the =sof nine knots, end Lieutenant De Loner wee in thewater Dearly en hour before he could be picked up. The Rey. J. J. Beresford, 8.D., Precentor of Peterborough Cathedral, for recovering, under circumstances of 13th gree of t dialcul teat. ty, a boy from drowning in the Nene, on the July M. Victor Derma, for mving, on the 26th of Amp= last, the two a= of the Rev. Edward White, of St. Paul's Chapel, Kentish Town, from drowning at Boulogne, in the presence of their mother, who was rushing into the water after than when M. Darren interfered.  Captain Hathorue, R.N. (formerlysaparintendent of the packet department of the South Eastern Railway), for saving a partner who had fallen into the am at Boulogne while endeavouring to mount the side of the steamer Queen of the Belgians on the 30th of August het. Constable James Fahy for saving a boy who had fallen off the quay at Cork on the 6th of September lest. M. Achille %minuet for fetching off three children who had been surrounded by the rising tide on the St. Bernard yeah, Sr. Helier's, Jeremy, on the Ord of Oatabor lest. The interesting ceremony of delivering the society's medals to these gentlemen having been oompleted, Sir W. Srintitio proposed the health of the noble chairman, who briefly responded, and proposed that of Sir B. Hawes. Some other toasts having been drunk, subscription. were announced amounting to upwsrds of 1,0001.