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COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. -- On Thursday evening, the anniversary festival of this charitable institution, established in the year 1800, for the relief of the widows and families of the commercial men in London and the provincial towns, was celebrated at the London and the provincial towns, was celebrated at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presiding, supported by Sir Chapman MARSHALL, the president of the society; Sir John KEY, Bart., Sheriffs MUSGROVE and MOON, Alderman Thomas WOOD, Mr. T. CHAPMAN, Mr. E. TEWART, with other patrons and friends of the society, in all about 100. The report distributed amongst the members, showed the good which the society had been instrumental in accomplishing. By it it would be seen that the number of claimants who had received the society's bounty from its commencement in 1806, amounted in the total to 1,182, to whom the sum of £72,476 had been paid, and the number of claimants now remaining on the fund was 192. The annual allowance to sick and infirm members on the fund was £1,110. The total receipts for the past year had been £5,581, in which was to be included a donation of £250, from Thomas CHAPMAN, Esq.' and the funded capital now standing in the names of the trustees amounted to £23,025. A variety of toasts were proposed and spoken to during the evening's entertainment, the health of the right hon. the Lord Mayor and of the president, Sir Chapman MARSHALL, being enthusiastically responded to.
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