The Horticultural Society seems to be in a bad way.
At a general meeting of the members, on Tuesday, it was stated that the debts of the society amounted to 19,0001; and that unless some effort should be made to relieve it of this burden, it must be broken up.
There was a meeting in Bishopgate Street, on Wednesday, of the subscribers and friends of the Seamen's Hospital, on board the Grampus, moored off Greenwich. The report stated that there was a considerable deficiency in the funds of the Society ; but ascribed it partly to the distress of the country, partly to the failure of certain remittances from India.
A large party of subscribers to and friends of the Unitarian Chapel in South Place, Moorfields, dined together on Wednesday, according to their annual custom, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street. The Rev. W. J. Fox was in the chair. After the Chairman had proposed the" King," "the cause of civil and religious liberty," and other toasts, Dr. Bowring, proposed the "London University." The Doctor complained of something like illiberality on the part of the Council. That body, he. said, with all their professions of impartiality in religious matters, were suspected of having gone out of their road to find objections to candidates for chairs, in the religious opinions which those individuals professed ; and certainly the Council had shown itself forgetful of the support which the Dissenters originally yielded to the institution. The Chairman afterwards defended the Unitarians from sundry aspersions in which the Bishop of London had indulged towards the body. The number of applicants for parish relief is unusually great.
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