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CHAKITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Patron, the Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow;
general committee, the Hon. the Lord Provost (chair-
man), Prof. Veitch, and Jas. Cleland Burns (deputy-
chairmen), Sir James Watson, Sir Peter Coats, L.
Leisler, Esq., P. Clouston, Esq., J. Wilkie, Esq., J.
Ure, Esq., J. Brown, Esq., J. C. Wakefield, Esq.,
H. Baird, Esq., Rev. David Brown, Rev. Andrew
Leiper, Alexander Crum, Esq., Thomas Hill, Esq.;
ladies' committee, Mrs. J. Napier, Misses Jeffrey,
Mrs. Coats, Mrs. Ramsay, Mrs. J. ilatheson, Mrs.
Dick, Miss Boyd, Mrs. G. Matheson, Mrs. Paton,
Mrs. Bums, Miss Parker, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Ly-
sons. Miss C. C. Clark; convener. Miss Jeffrey,
Meletia Lodge, Helenshnrgh; sub-convener, Mrs.
Lysons, Hope Villa, Lenzie ; acting committee, Pro-
fessor M'Kendrick, C. H. Alston, Esq., Rev. George
S. Burns, D.D., J. Alexander Campbell, Esq., M.P.,
J. C. Burns, Esq., J. Couper, Esq., James S. Hig-
ginbotham, Esq., T. D. Findlay, Esq., Sir William
Thomson, J. Dunlop, Esq., Lieut. -Coh Bannatyne,
J. M. Martin, Professor Veitch, John Y. King,
Col. Buchanan, Colin D. Donald, jun., Esq., Alex.
M'Grigor, Esq., Jas. Grahame, Esq.; secretary. Major
Lysons, 37 Bath Street ; treasurer, Lieut-Colonel D.
Matheson, C.B., 37 Bath Street ; chief inspector,
Frederick White, 37 Bath Street ; and five assistants.
Office of the society, 37 Bath Street. Hours,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CITY OF GLASGOW NATIVE BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.
Its object is to afford assistance to natives, and
widows and families of natives, of the city of Glas-
gow, who from reverses of fortune, or otherwise, have
been reduced to necessitous circumstances. A pay-
ment of £5 5s., either in one sum at entry or by five
successive yearly instalments of £1 Is., constitutes
membership. Presider^t, Geo. Lumsden, 30 Drums-
heugh Gardens, Edinburgh; treasurer, J. E. Watson,
149 Hope Street; secretary, James B. Kidston, 50
West Regent Street.
THE GLASGOW EASTWOOD CLUB.
■ President, Alex. Crum, Esq., of Thornliebank ;
vice-presidents, David Tod, of Eastwood Park, Arch.
Brownlie, of Monkcastle, and 18 directors ; treasurer,
James Dunlop, Clydesdale Bank, Pollokshaws; secre-
tary, J. W. Steuart, 204 W. George street, Glasgow.
This society was instituted in 1797 by several
gentlemen residing in or near Glasgow connected by
birth or otherwise with the parish of Eastwood, for
the purpose of holding a social meeting once a year,
and of collecting a sum of money for distribution
among the deserving poor of that parish. About
£130 is annually distributed at the end of December,
each recipient getting 12s. 6d. The annual meeting
is held on the second Wednesday of December, to
which all connected with the parish of Eastwood are
invited.
ASSOCIATION OF DEACONS OF
THE FOURTEEN INCORPORATED TRADES
OF GLASGOW.
Entry-money, £1 Is.; present capital, £1021 16s.
the interest of which is apportioned amongst decayed
members. Thomas Weir, clerk, 207 Ingram Street.
GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY DORCAS
SOCIETY.
President, Lady Campbell of Garscube ; secretary,
Mrs. Campbell Douglas, 266 St. Vincent Street;
honorary secretary, Robert Gourlay, Bank of Scot-
land; honoraiy treasurer, John E. Watson, C.A.,
149 Hope Street.
Object : to supply with warm and sufficient cloth-
ing indigent patients who are so far restored to
health as to be able to leave the hospital and return
to their own homes. In certain exceptional cases the
Society also provides or helps to supply artificial
limbs and other surgical appliances, the expense of
which places them beyond the reach of the very poor,
GLASGOW SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION)
OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.
President and patron, the Right Hon. the Earl of
Glasgow; chairman, James Grah'ame, Esq., 101 St.;
Vincent Street; executive committee, Wm. Mitchell,',
Esq., Sheriff Spens, James Brand, Esq., M. A. Algie,
jun., Esq., J. T. Strang, Esq.,.H. Watson, Esq., Prof.
Veitch, R. M. Murray, Esq., Col. D. Matheson, C.B.,
Dr. Macleod, D.D., C. D. Donald, jun., Esq. ; ladies
committee, Mrs. Lysons, Mrs. Watson, I\Irs. M'Neal,
Mrs. R. SI. Murray, Mrs. Slillar, Mrs. Gray, Miss
Sinclair, Mrs. Norman, Miss Stewart, Mrs. Kelt, Miss
Robinson, Mrs. Dun, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Nisbet;
secretary, Miss C. C. Clark, 9 Loudon Terrace, Hill-
head; law agent, C. D. Donald, jun., Esq., 172 St.
Vincent St.; consulting physician, Professor M'Cali
Anderson, 2 Woodside Ter. ; physician, Dr. W. G.
Dunn, 2 India Street ; hon. treasurer, Robt. Gourlay,
Esq., Bank of Scotland; hon. secretary. Major Ly-
sons, 169 Hill Street, Garnethill; superintendent,
Francis Valentine, 169 Hill St., Garnethill; matron,
Mrs. Valentine; oEBcers, Henry Morris and James
Young; collector, Martin S. Grady, 37 Berkeley Ter,
INCORPORATION OF HAMMERMEN.
Deacon, John Phillips, 17 Anderston Quay; col-
lector, Hugh Muir, 130 Elliot St.; late deacon, John
Broadfoot, 2 Sandyford Place ; late collector, James
Gilchrist, Stobcross Engine Works; master com-t. A,
M'Onie, D. Kinghorn, D. C. Glen, James C. Mac-
Ewan, Wm. Boyd, John Thomson (of John & Jas.
Thomson), Alex. Davie, Hazelton R. Robson, John
Thomson (of R. Laidlaw & Son), Thos. Potter, Arch.
Stewart, John F. Miller; clerk, A. Craig Paterson,
LL.B., 45 West George Street.
BLACK'S BEQUEST FOR DOMESTIC
SERVANTS.
Founded by Dr. James Black, sometime sm'geon in
Jamaica, afterwards residing in Glasgow, and who
died in 1834. The funds arc to be given to faithful
domestic servants settled in Glasgow or neighbour-
hood, who have been ten years or upwards in one
situation. Amount, £2 10s. per annum. There are
about 200 pensioners. Factors, Mitchells, Cowan, &
Johnston, 160 West George Street.
GLASGOW EAGLESHAM FRIENDLY AND
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
The object of the association is the clothing and
educating of the poorer children, and relief of the
deserving native poor of the parish of Eaglesham.
Secretary, R. Warnock, 17 Cumberland St., S.S.