186 Friendly Societies, State Action, and the Poor-law. 
NATIONAL PKOVIDENCE LEAGUE. 
I'or Promoting National Compulsory Insurance against Destitution in 
Sickness, Lijirmity, and Old Age. 
President : The Eight Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbuet. 
Treasurer : Captain W. H. Moselet, Ashley Arnewood, Lymington. 
Secretary : J. L. Utterton, Esq. 
Offices : Lancaster House, The Savoy, Strand, London, W.C. 
London, March, 1880. 
The large amount of public attention which has been directed, both in this 
and other countries, to the subject of National Insurance (as a means of 
assuring individual independence, and thus diminishing Pauperism), as well 
as the wide acceptance among thinking men of the principle at least of the 
proposal, has led to the formation of the " National Providence League." Its 
objects are to disseminate information and create opinion in favour of some 
such measure of National Insurance as that set forth by the Rev. W. Lewery 
Blackley in bis writings on the subject. 
The Council ask assistance for the objects of the League in any or all of the 
following ways : — 
1. By joining or co-operating with the Central Council in London, and 
the various County Committees, and by aiding the cause by personal 
influence and by public or private advocacy. 
2. By contributing donations and annual subscriptions in aid of the 
expenditure of the League, which must be necessarily large, as, in 
order to bring prominently before the national mind the importance 
of the subject, much information must be published and distributed 
gratuitously. It is also intended to organise committees in each 
county, and to arrange for lectures and discussions on an extensive 
and systematic scale. 
NATIONAL PROVIDENT 
ALLIANCE OF REGISTERED FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. 
Established 1878. 
President : Rt Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., M.P, 
Vice-President : Wyndham S. Portal, Esq. 
Secretary : Mr. Fox, Winchester. 
Object. 
To facilitate and develope the work of Friendly Societies : 
a. By promoting Mutual Agency and Correspondence between Societies 
in Alliance. 
I. By offering to Managers and Members the means of conferring and 
advising together on subjects requiring mutual assistance or the 
attention of the Legislature. 
Societies join for all or some of the following purposes, viz. : — 
1. Supervision during Sickness of Members of one Society when residing 
in the District of another. 
2. Enquiries as to Parties claiming Benefits. 
3. Payment of Sick-pay, Burial Money, or other Benefits, 
4. Medical Attendance. 
