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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY IXSTITUTIONS.
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M'ALPINE'S MORTIFICATION.
Founded in 1811, by Mrs. M'Alpine, who con-
veyed to Trustees her property for the maintenance
of poor men and women of the description given in
her will — the former receiving annually £10, and
the latter £5. The Trustees are, the Deacon Con-
vener, and the Ministers of eight of the Established
Churches.
Donald Cuthbertson, LL.B., Factor.
GLASGOW SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.
Hon. Lord Provost, President ; Bailie of the
River, Sir James Anderson, J. Wright, George
Smith, juii., Allan Gihnour, Wm. Campbell, George
Burns, Wm. Kidston, jun., Vice-Presidents ; Alex.
Anderson, 40 Buchanan Street, Treasurer ; Captain
Small and Robert Simmie, Secretaries; Rev. Ro-
bert Weir, 12 Douglas Street, Chaplain ; Wm. Fin-
lay, Teacher of School, 7 Brown Street ; Wm.
M'Lagan, Precentor and Keeper of Reading-Room
for Seamen, James Watt Street. Shipping Office,
Sailors' Home, Broomielaw. Irvin Dowall, Officer
and Collector, 34 Brown Street.
FIFE, KINROSS, AND CLACKMANNAN
CHARITABLE.— Instituted, 1837.
William Baird, Esq., of Elie, Patron; Professor
Arnott, President; G. L. Walker, Alexander B.
Seaton, and George Anderson, Vice-Presidents ;
Archibald Crombie, Treasurer ; Henry Smeaton,
Writer, 38 West George Street, Secretary ; Thomas
Blyth, George Jasper Lyon, Peter W. Dixon, John
Stewart, jun., George Heggie, William Balfour,
Patrick Playfair, Patrick Scotland, and John Mur-
ray, for Fife ; Dr. John Panton, Robert Whyte,
and Robert Reid, for Kinross ; George Aikman,
William Smith, and Robert M. Lindsay, for Clack-
mannan, Directors.
The principal object of this Society is to afford
pecuniar}' aid to indigent natives, or widows or
children of natives of these counties, resident in or
near, or passing through Glasgow. The subscription
of one guinea per annum for four years, constitutes
membership to parties eligible by connection with
any of these counties.
GLASGOW ANGUS AND MEARNS
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
The Right Hon. Lord Panmure, Patron ; James
A. Campbell, j'ounger of Stracathro, President ; J.
Wyllie Guild, Accountant, Glasgow, Vice-President :
John Rae, 4G Queen Street, Glasgow, Treasurer ;
John Paris, 2 Grafton Place, Glasgow, Secretary.
• GLASGOW ANNUITY SOCIETY.
Robert Lochore, tertius. President ; William
Thomson, Treasurer; David Smith, Dr. William
Weir, Samuel Easton, Robert Lochore, James
Brown, and Malcolm M'Caul, Directors ; Thomas
Brown, Secretarj'.
The annuities, immediate or deferred, commence
at 30 years and above, at the option of the mem-
ber, and they amount to any sum, from £10 up-
wards. Either sex, of any age, is admitted.
The mutual principal, economical management,
secure investment, and annual investigation, render
this institution one of the cheapest and safest in the
kingdom.
CLYDESDALE UPPER WARD SOCIETY.
Thomas Davidson, President, 107 Cathedral
Street ; John Arneil, Vice-President ; John Coulter,
Treasurer; George Stodart, Vice-Treasurer; Direc-
tors, William Steven, William Dunipace, James
Stodart, James Hamilton, Robert Ballantyne, John
Tannahill, James Dale, James Drysdale, George
Lean, David Wilson, John Ballantyne, and Wil-
liam Spence; Secretary, Alex. Allan, writer, 21
St. Vincent Place.
This Society was instituted in 1785, and now
possesses a capital of upwards of £1100. Its mem-
bers, who must be parties connected by birth, pa-
rentage, or marriage, with one of the Upper Ward
of Lanarkshire parishes, or have resided therein
for 10 years, are entitled to 8s. per week when con-
fined to bed ; 5s. per week when unable to attend
their employment ; and 3s. per week when super-
annuated. The entry-money is 10s. 6d., and tlie
quarterly payments range from 2s. Id. at 15, to 4s.
6d. at 60 years of age.
GLASGOW EMANCIPATION,
Instituted Dec. 12, 1833,
Having for its objects the universal abolition of
slavery and the slave trade ; the protection of the
rights of the aborigines in the British Colonies; and
the improvement of the condition of our fellow-
subjects, the natives of British India.
John Dennistoun, Thomas Grahame, Rev. Dr. W.
Anderson, Rev. Dr. Willis, Alex. Hastie, M.P.,
Rev. George Jeftrey, Vice-Presidents ; A. Paton,
Corresponding Secretary ; W. Smeal, Recording
Secretarj"- and Treasurer. W^ith a committee of
thirty-three gentlemen.
GLASGOW DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION OF
THE SCOTTISH (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH
SOCIETY.
This has for its objects — 1. A fund for aged or
infirm clergymen, or salaries for their curates ; and
general aid for congregations struggling with pecu-
niary difficulties. 2. To provide Episcopal school-
masters, schools, books and tracts for the poor.
3. Building and repairing of parsonages. 4. To
raise the salaries of incumbents to £100 a-year,
where congregations are weak and poor.
■Lay Delegates from Glasgow Congregations: —
St. Andrew's, T. C. Christie, of Bedlav ; St. Mary's,
Wm. Brand; St. John's, F. Ward, the Very Rev.
Dean Wilson, Ayr, Secretary ; Wm. Simpson, 114
Trongate, Diocesan Treasurer.
GLASGOW FEMALE ANTI-SLAVERY,
Instituted 1841,
Send contributions of Ladies' Work, &c., to the
American National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, held annu-
ally at Boston at Christmas. Articles require to be
sent to the Glasgow Committee by 1st November.
Mrs. J. P. Nichol, Observatory, Particle, Presi-
dent ; Mrs. Robert Smith, 15 Woodside Terrace,
and Mrs. Jn. Barr, 36 Commerce Street, Vice-Pre-
sidents ; Mrs. Jas. Couper, Viewfield, Campsio
Junction, and Mrs. Anderson, 16 Richmond Street,
Secretaries; Miss Paton, 16 Richmond Street, Trea-
surer. With a committee of eleven ladies.