The BISHOP OF DURHAM, in the chair, PATRICK COLQUHOUN, Esq., THOMAS BERNARD, Esq., WILLIAM MANNING, Esq., JOHN SULLIVAN, Esq., The REV. DR. GLASSE, JOHN J. ANGERSTEIN, Esq., WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Esq., RICHARD JOSEPH SULIVAN, Esq., MATTHEW MARTIN, Esq., Secretary, the Committee appointed to confer with Count Rumford reported that they had had a conference with the Count, and that they were satisfied that the Institution proposed by him would be extremely beneficial and interesting to the community; that, in order to provide the pecuniary funds of the Society at its commencement, it was proposed that subscribers of fifty guineas each should be the perpetual proprietors of the Institution, and be entitled each to perpetual transferable tickets for the lectures and for admission to the apartments of the Institution; and that as soon as thirty such subscribers offered it was proposed to call a meeting of those thirty subscribers, in order to lay the plan before them and elect managers for the Institution. * * * * * ‘Resolved,--That the said report be approved of, and that it be referred to the gentlemen of the Select Committee to communicate the outlines of the plan to the members of the Committee of the Society, and to such other persons as they shall think fit, desiring that those who wish to have their names inserted among the original subscribers to the Institution would communicate their wish to the Special Committee. ‘Extracted from the Minutes. ‘M. MARTIN, Secretary.’ In consequence of this resolution a paper was printed by the gentlemen of the Select Committee containing the outlines of the plan, and sent round privately among their friends and others whom they thought likely to countenance the scheme, accompanied by a printed copy of the foregoing resolution, with a request that those who were willing to allow their names to be put down among the original subscribers and proprietors of the Institution would be so good as to communicate their intentions by a letter addressed to Thomas Bernard, Esq., at the Foundling Hospital.