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FEBRUARY 16, 1856. BAZAAR. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION and DISEASES of the CHEST. The Committee of Management beg to announce that,in order to promote the funds fur carrying on this national and now ex tensive charity—t usefulness of whioh has been increased by accommodation for 130 additional patients,and the opening of the Sanatorium at Bournemouth—a GRAND BAZAAR will be held on its behalf in June next, and by the kindness of the Committee of the TOXOPHOLITE SOCIETY, in their beautiful grounds in the REGENT'S PARK. The friends of the Hospital and the public in general are, therefore, earnestly and reniectfully solicited to prepare such articles of work as they may consider suitable for the occasion, including paintings, drawings, &c. ; donations also of musk, auto graphs, minerals, botanical specimens, and flowers will be grate fully received at the Hospital. Further particulars will be duly puklished. PHILIP ROSE, Hon. Secretary. OSBORN P. CROSS, Secretary. Brampton, February. PRACTICAL MILITARY INSTITUTION, for Gentlemen destined to the Military Profession. Under the Patronage of Gen. Sir J. F. Fitzgerald, Cul. J. H. Pringle K.C.8., M.P. Col. the Hun. J. Lindsay, M.P. Major-Gen. Horatio G. Broke Col. St. V. W. Ricketts Major-Gen. Sir M. Creagh, K. H. CoL Brook Taylor Major•Oen. C. Morton Eden Lieut-Col.J.Macnaughtonliogg Major Gen. R. Hawker lies. Dr. Wrench, D.C.L. Col. the lion. E. B. Wilbraham Rev. W. G. Hawtayue, MA. Col. A. W. Hope, R.A. &c. Director of Studies—Captain L 'NDY, late of the French Staff, Giaduate in Classics and in Mathematical Honours. &c, This Institution will definitively open on February at Sun bury, Middlesex. The extensive grounds and the situation of the establishment are well adapted to the operations which are to be carried out. The staff consists of four resident masters and twelve pro fessors. Terms of admission, prospectuses, &c., forwarded upon appli cation to Capt. 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