The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-07-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL_ PARLIAiviLNT.

In tl,e 11-ia -ef Lords on June 29, the debate oil the
Kitelei-died Church Irelatiti. Bill was resumed by the Duke
of Ai'4ye,wi,i eentenflel the main ohject of the measure
was to assure the Irish people that the question would
be dealt with without unnecesaary delay, and he rejoiced that
such an object hail been ace plished Not even all adverse
vote on the part of their lordships would prevent
Its ultimate success. Ile commented on the absence of
ally report from the commission who had well appoilited to
inquire into the subject, and said that there could be no
doubt that they weald at all events recommend a large
redieeion of the bishops and clergy of the Irish Chunk
list ii this bill were not passed the Ceown would have 110
mover to keep a bishopric. or a living vacant, but was
boned to till ell vainemes. The result would be, if
It was determined hereafter to reduce the staff of the
Irish Church, that a large sum id money might be use-
kssly spent hi keeping up litrings for 5011411 there was
no nereesity. The absence of the word " ilisenflow-
meta" from the resolution hail heen commented upon
The plain object of the bill was to prevent the waste of
funds, leaving the disposal of the revenue. of the Church to
the !mitre discretion of Parliament. Ile warmly defended
Mr ribidstone from the charges made against him of
inconsistency, and of bcing actuated by interested
aitives, contending on the coattail that the right
Imo gentleman and the Liberal party bad acted
on the convictis II that the Irish Church was unjust, and
that the present was a fitting time to remove tfie injustice.
lie strongly comtestmed the conduct of the Goverment 11l
brit proposing to establish a Catholic eniversity, and then
deny tog :ley such intentien. It was his intention to mile
port the 1,11, because lie believed that the (leach of
E, gifted would gale strength from being disaseociateil from
the Irish Church ; lint at the same time he would not
vote for the alternative of indiscriminate endowment.
Ile did not dispute the policy of the Act of lisTJ ; bet he
timed that it Wan solely a ouestion of policy and not of pro-
perty. If Grey hell the doctrine of property, then it would
he absolutely impossible for them to enter into any coin-
promise whatever. the concluded by warnily supporting the
second reading ia• the lull.
The Bishop of Oxford, in an effective speech, replied to the
reniarks of the Duke of Argyll, who, he considere I, ro-
gue. led the whole question from a Presbyterian 'whit of
view. lie disputed the statement of the solute duke that it
was not intended to diSellllow /l/I well auto disestablish, 51111
said it 0 as abundantly clear from the speeches in the House
of Commons that that was the ultimate object. The ques-
tion euelit to be treated upon the subject of the Case : and it
would be most inijirt and an net of spoliation to disendow
time ii lab Church, and tl ust. to the vitality of the Protestant
religion for its re-endowment. What erounil was there fur
tat' Mg away the property id the Church nmv, and conferring
it upon a foretell branch stall intruding c 11111 l nunion I Too
right rev, prelate then prneeeded to urge that a conceesion
ea the subject of the Church would out satisfy the Irish
people, or remove the disaffection and discontent which sow
prevailed.
The Fail of Shaftesbury pnnounced the bill itself a very
insienteant measure ; but added that it derived its import-
-1111l e froni the opposition which W3/3 offered to it.
The mlimlillls.,lll was coetinued by the Duke of Richmond,
Ike Earl of Landon. nail the Earl of Clancarty agaiii-t the
bill, and Lord Houghton and the had of Granard in support
of it.
Earl Russell expressed his aamiration of the ability with
which the debate hail been conducted on both sides. Plc re-
gretted, however, that it shiaild have been diverted by the
speech of Lent Derby from the real point at issue. the
object of the but was simply to provide that, prelimi-
nary to the decision of Parliament mem the question
of the ilisestablishinent of the Irish Church, vacan-
cies which might arise in the appointments COO-
e!e,l with that Cherch should hot be filled up.
The purpose for which the Church was estatiliaheil
in Ireland was to primed° " religion and morality," but ally
r cram visiting Ireland found the great umjority of the
peeple attending diapels where they worshipped under a
clereyman who differed from the doct eines of the K tablished
Church, so that the object vf promoting " religion and mo-
rality " altogether failed. In the course of the debate scars ely
auy notice bail been taken of the fact that the immense eropor-
lion of the Well peeple were Catholics, anal that only 700,0 0
e ere Pi...test:ads. The Catholics. therefore, considered them-
(Wive'', degraded by having this Church introduced amongst
them and set over their heads as a mara of conquest. the had
been asked why, if the leaders of the Liberal party enter-
tained such string views on the subject, they had not made
slay proposition with regard to it when in office in 1866. It
Is-as imite true they had not done so; but if they hail conie
forward with two tee:tomes, one for Parliamentary Reform
and the other for tile disestablishruent iif the Irish Church,
people would have concluile.l twit they were quite mad.
Rut he had not concealed at that time that he ti ght the
lri,li Church was an injustice, a real grievance, and afforded
good ground for complaint. It had been said that the
letetour of the Crown would be dimmed by a measure of
Oa, kind ; but be could not conceive how, if the affections
of the Irish people were won, there could be any loss to the
(Toe u.
The lord Chancellor remarked that the discussion had
proceeded with as Nines*, energy, Mid ability is hich were
worthy of the question. ana del honour to their loniship's
if. among so much that was excellent, he ventured
Ii cypress any regret. it wall that there should appear to be
any doubt as to the precise significance of the bill. 1 hat such a
doubt sh uld continue to exist was not attributable to their
lordships, Inn rather to the manner in which the hill had been
brought forward. In the House of Commons it was repre-
sented that the measure was a simple corollary to a resolu-
tion 0 !deli hivolved the two consequences of disestablish-
mei a :.: .1 . isendownient. Ile could not, therefore, under.
~ ammo eat of the Duke of Argyll, that it was noto
a
of disentiewment, although lie admitted that its
tilirdeitis lucre trilling compared whit t Le subject of the
r, Tile measure proposed the su :pension for otie
year of the appointment of bishops and inci m wilts in the Irish
Chili-ch. There were objections to this we ica lay on the very
Eurf..e. First, the Church was entitled to the services of its
ministers in perpetual succession, whereas the bill in-
terrupted that idea, and deprived the Church of those
services on the contingency that something might be dime
I.y Parlianient at some future period with regard to the
thurell. It also rendo eil voluntary action hopessible as a
sul ist it nte. Further, the bill would have a penal eclat effect
nis al the families of deceased bishops and incenibents he-
cauAe on accepting an appeititment the I iishop Or incumbent
paid a heavy charge to tile represeutatives of his preileces-
for. riled as building charge. After enumerating other
objections of minor force the Lord Chancellor adverted to
the Act of Union, and reminded the Opposition Peers who
were 13..1111,P1,1 of laird Palmerston's ad 11l ill istration in IFie
that t bey had then resisted a motion by Mr. Dillwyn for the
disestelaitatment of the Irish Church on the express gro 1111 l
that it would lie contrary to that act. Replyilig to the arcti•
molds of Lord Carnarvon, derived from the suspensory law
fir Jalllaka. the noble and learned lord dellicd that the
ease,, were parallel. The noble and learned lord, at great
lia,th contended that no one could fail to perceive
the iitiein and effect of the measure—ilDguise it as
tlicy taight—which was to favour the Romish Church, and
comanded a in st eloquent speech by a cutting denunciation
of the cencealment " inaehested in this matter by the 50-
.1161 Literal party and its leaders.
Lord Grata-ilk briefly replied, and their lordships divided
St an early hour this morning.
The um, hers acre: - For the second reading, 1.17 ; against
it. 152; majority against the second reading. 95.
The announcemeut of the numbers was received with loud
delooolost rations of aroplAlSe, and the !liaise was soon cleared
11l the immediate adjourenient of their lordships in the early
dawn.
lit the House of Commons, Mr. Disraeli intimated that on
Thursday next he eltould wove the vote of thanks to Sir
Robert Napier and the officers and troops under his com-
mand engaged in the Abyssinian expedition.
On the motion for going into conimittee of supply.
Sir C. Russell urged the desirability of employing
chereeil 114.11.1,0M11119811111ed officers and privates of enod
character hi Government sittlatiOTlS ; 3114 1110VI'd 3 resolution
to that effect, wheal 5105 supported lot Captain Vivian, on
the er 11111 l ol that the adoption of the proposal would he an
encoomagement to the moldier and all inducement to abetter
class of men to enlist in the army.
A short conversation follewed, niostiy in favour of the
Motion ; and in its conrse Mr. by, K Gladstone suggested
Cat the Goverment should take measures for carefully
review tag most, if not all, the lower branches of the civil

at-reice.
"itS Pikiligton acknowledged that the system of employ-
Itoliotarged soldiers in the civil service we'll.] encourage
conduct in the lower grades of the .irsoy, and be a fair
nil legitimate reward fir the men who left the force with
g,.0.1 characters.
The sliscus,icn was continued by Mr. 11. Heinle, and
Sir 17. Ru-sell having expreesed himself satisfied with the
pervading tone of the speeches, witrdrew his motion.
A long diseussion ensued on In tuition of Slr. Golslsmisl for
selest o nmittee to inquire into the recent appoint Meld of
architects or the new politic touldlngs in the metropolis ;
0111 of c..mse the Ci chitectural controversy sal the New Law
lot ts was fieely ventilated a* between Messrs. Barry,
Sr it, alloi Waterhouse. suffice it, however. to say that the
Denim was rejected on a division by 90 to 45 votes.
ill. Him, went Into committee mo foram, and
me,i lately reamed.
The second reading of the Metropolitan Police Funds Bill
was moved by Mr. Secretary Hardy, who explained that
it proposed to augment that port' of the police force to
Ideli the tithe referred by sole thous:rod men and one
and twenty officers, or in all 110.20. By this means
every o ati would Ire able to have one liny's rest in seven the
Pay of the tnen would he 'nemeses', and also the salaries of
the two assistant commisaioners.
r. Ayrton thought that the present measure was one
!omelet] on panic ; the mummer of the force bad ept steady
pace with the ii crease of population, and did out resoire
any in mental h ill at all. Ile concluded by moving that the
1111t-aRIIIe Inc read a second time that slay six months.
Mr. Harvey lewis seconded the amendment.
After a sliscussion, the House divided, and the 1411 was
read a scant time bv 192 to 22.
'Hie rmnaining orders of the slay were then disposes' of,
and the 1101150
In the Idolise of Lords. 441 June 30, the Snuth-Eantern and
the I,lltloll, Brighton, and South coast Railway I,onm:titles
801 was. idler undergoing emendations, read a third time
and lia.Cll.
'iii • isciitidt Reform Bill was passed through cs,mmittee.
the enit,e relating to the boundaries of Glasgow being re-
ser, .1 for future enesi,ien Minn.
the Irish Reform gill was read a see-nil time without slis-
sao-d0,,, and the committee fltetl lor JI lay next.
•line Lordsoqc, ,liortly afterwards adjourned.
In the house nil I. littooti4. Ile. Maguire moved a resolution
to I.e effect, that in consequence of the persistent refusal or
Linlet of the notion-hies having control over certain if the
isirough and county prisons of tireat Britain to put in
01,,,aiiin the p.Wer4 given to them by the Prisons Act, it
they should be conitivlled by law to make
provision for the religious instructiou and DivMe
orship sd the Roman Catholic prisoners.
i.,01 K How id seconded the motion.
Slr. Seeretary Gathortie Hardy, in reply, pointed ont that
cuellie act referred to had been passed rest progress had ,
bii.o made in stitudy of its requireMents. Doubtless Many
ttiiiuiljes existed w ith reference to Roman Catholic
Ile was not in favour of a motion of this kind,
'lle !louse having previously acted by permissive leg's-
they would surely now abstain from anything com-
,• v Be t tasted the motion would not lie presses' to a
r. Monsen also deprecated the proposal unless the
11. c -ere prepared to follow it up by on immediate el-
fhe dismission was continued by Mr. Newdeglite, Mr.
r,-:iester Foriesene, Mr. Synan. Sir G. 13owyer, Mi Kin-
I and Sir P. O'Brien, and ultimately the motion WAS

1.11110111 ITLoghlen drew attention to the practice—
' • Pl,' as he nitraaed it--of not allowing a member who
through inailvertenee, go into the wrong lobby, to
I.e os vote leeorded in the manner he might wish to give
t..• —toe, out moved. That if any member should, hy
t....i heo nut with the Ayes or the Noes as the case might
iving intended to vote on the other side, he should
,u,iuiil the other members in the same loudly should
. ~.,seed not, and, on presenting himself to the
.. should desire that he may not be
,• ~ ilia them, he living entered the lobhy
• ike . and the tellers shall thereupon come with such
„ I. the table, anit inform the Moose of the circutin.
and the bpeaker or Chalidan should thereupon ask
I Ii mende r oliether he was in the Mouse when the
~.. tnii was pot and, it he shoold answer in the affirmative,
t o Speaker or Chairman should then ask such member
, lie desired to vole Aye or No, and the vote of such
.1.. not I.e taken hy the tellers in the House, and
reported accordingly
lii .
Lona epected makirg the matter one of special
. ',on, aiol Was followed 15 tile 001116 strain by Mr.

ilk • In• di.... vas then withdrawn
1110 111 for .ojog jot° colornittee en the Revenue
• olicur, Uolibilitie, Removal Bill. which IdrufdY
LIINCI.S 01 piddle servains lilintna he enabled to vote
at olection,..—a I,rivlle4e which they were at present denied
--was Met with a tu Mon by the Chaocellor of the Er..
oh,..lner to postpone the further consideration of the
•Hject until that day three months. A long discus-
. coined In a Tory thin and innglllll atollonce.
v, aftor ail ineffectual attempts., ..waunt the ilorse,-
:tam for going into emomiStre was at reel to on 0
hy 79 to 47. The whit-h con Ist* of a siogle
-e .1.1 I schedule, was immediately disposed of without

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adjlllll d debate on the .rentid reading of the
1%1 t.:.11 at Elections ~Ireland Bill was resumed by slr. Bag-
w..d. out I,l4lktioued for a considerable time, when the measure
w., rejected by 98 to 55.
The Lauded Property Improvements (Ireland. Bill WAA
itleirawn. The sdeond reading of Mr. Mill's Nlunleipal
Curpvrations ',lletrupulie, Bill was negatived without debato

and withent—diviiion. The Ciiragh ot IttlEsre—Blll was reed—
s thir.l time and passed, as were also the Bank 1 Inanhay
Bill, the New Zcaland (Lew.ixlative Council, Bill, the colibid
Nlntrlages Bill, and the Bank holidays and Bills of Exchange
Bill: . . . .

The remaining business was rapidly dispcsed of, and the
Houle adjourned.

In the House of Commons, on July 1, Mr. G. Hardy gave
notice th it he should on Thursday MO.) that public business
sin odd be taken at a quarter-past four o'. lock instead of
ha'f-p
It, reply to Mr. Folds Lord H. Lennox said the
Board of A titiralty trionght the naval chaplains ought
to be placed on the aimnt footing a, their brethren
hi the army as to pay and position, and they regretted
that they hail not been able to make provisi. is for
that is the estimates for the present year. With regard to
the second part of the question. the Admiralty had not had
under their serious con,bleration the idea of giving the
Presbyterian and Roman Catholic naval chaplains commis-
they had only condilered the desirability if improving
the ptiy and position of the three Roman Catholic chaplains
at :dieernesi, Chatham, and Portsmouth, and of allowing
them a pelt. in or retiring allowance at the end of a length-
ened ueih al of sery ce. lie trusted that at no distant period
the Admiralty would be able to carry rut this act of justice.
thi the motion of Mr. J. k. smith, order for going into
committee on the Weights and Measures ,Metric System
hill was ilbehareed, and the bill withdrawn.
. . .

The adjourned delude on the second reading of the Oxford
and Cambridge Universities Bill was then resumed.
Mr. Powell opposed the mes-ure. After stating the
came, which led to the erection of the colleges, he contended
tl.at they had accomplished the purpose for which they were
intended, and expressed a hope that the house would not
consent to the introduction of a new system.
Ale. leant Half expressed his Irelief that the large majority
of the working and educated nternbers of the universities
were On the side ot the supports,rs of the bill.
Mr. B. Hope slid the object of the bill was to open the
seats in the t nivensity of Cambridge and the convocation of .
the University if oxford to Nonconformists, and he wished
them to c,arsi ler whether they were being led by their guides
whom they were blindly helping on.
After some remarks frorn Mr. C. Forteseue, Mr. G.
Beutinck, and Mr. Melly,
Mr. 0 Hardy said the present bill was of a much more ex-
tensive character th no any bill on the same subject which
had been before the House heretofore. It was said that this
was only a permissive loll: but If that were as 11 1011 far
short of the oloservations of the hon. mem her for Stroud upon
I it on a former oceadon, wit , n, speaking on behalf of the
. Nonconformist body, he said, "We hateseetartan education,"
, and therefore suns for a purely secular system, allowing all
religious denominations to go to the universities on an equal
and purely secular footing. The hill would Introduce all
element of C011(119i0r1 and discord into the universities, shit
tuu,t iweessaril3, result in the absolute exclusion ct rellaion
front the teaching of univertities' because when all arils nil-
nations were brought togetherill this way there wiw notiiillg
tetween a purely relgious and a purely secular systens ot
education. It should be remembered also that w !reliever riny
of the Nonconformist dr nominatioos foutulesi colleges or
their own. tho, colleges w ere alav s devoted to the special
denorninations which rounded them and for their owls special
purposes.
Mr. E. A. Leathern supported the bill. Either too much or
too little had been done for the dissenter, who was practically
recogni,eil as fit to hold the highest °nice& ill the State.
Another step must Ire taken, and the universities which
would train him for holding high offices must be opened to

Mr. Newdegate opposed the bill on the ground that it
was an attempt to narrow and degrade the education to be
given hereafter at the univert.il lea.
Mr Neate recommended the ni:option of the bill to put
all end to the controversy that had lasted so long upon the
subject.
Mr. Coleridge said the bill left the colleges and the govern-
ing bodies of the univeisities exactly as they were before,
and all it did was to enable the restrictions Unposed in the
reign of Charles H. to he done away with.
The Home then ills bled:— For the second reading, DS;
against, 140 nrijority fee the bill, SS.
The hill non then read a second time.
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On the motion of Sir I. O'loghlen. the order for going
lot o committee on the Libel Bill was discharged, and the bill

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The University Elections Voting Papers Bill was read a
third time and pas,ed.
Thin Medway Regulation Act Continuance Bill was read a
third tinie and preen!.
The Libel (Ireland Bill passed through committee.
The Turnpike Trusts Arrangements lull passed through the
committee.

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On the motion of the Lord Advocate, a bill to alter the
qualincations of elvetors in places in Scotland under the
General Police and linprovemmit scoiland Act, i 862, and to
sunend that act, a as introduced and read a first time.
The Rouse then adjourned.

THE CONSUMPTION HOSPITAL AT
BROMPTON, LONDON.
It will scarcely need an apolo,;y for introducing the
reader to a scene from which he possibly may be far
distant, since the subject is One calculated to excite
kindly feelings and benevolent purposes. And if to
many " the lines have fallen in pleasant places," and
in the enjoyment of that greatest of all blessings—
health—they can roam over "God's broad acre" en-
joying the loveliness and beauty everywhere abound-
ing, they will be none the less happy by a perusal of
the following well-intended article, from the pen of our
contemporary the Dad g 1 elegraph, to learn that
those on whoa: insidious Consumption has made its
mark have those kindly attentions so necessay to lessen
their sadness, and to crowd "the remnant of life" with
pleasant memories and grateful feelings :

Those who only know consumption from poems, novels,
and other non.ntedical publications, may well be excused for
believing that it is a somewhat elegant and painless method
of ending one's earthly existence. the consumptive patient
in fiction fades away gently and endures but little physical
pain ; the consumptive patient, in fact, ham a daily and Icurly
fight for tile which is almost as painful as death itself.
Nothing can be to..re graceful awl pathetic than some
poetical pictures of the disease ; but Jew things won it be
much mole grittily repulsive than a sternly realistic detail if
its oarillg phaisrP. It is had enongh even for those whose
position enables them hi seek relief in wanner and store
equable climates ;until a very ghastly hook might be written.
were it ever allowable to dwat exclusively on mere phys:cal
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;;ti;rint7t7e.."l.ll.7el7lll;ii tile iI;;; anti niAts even iethose
favoured patients who can afford to pass the winter at fly eres
or Cannes, at Nice, Mentone, or any other of the beautiful
stations alone the Riviera. Men who have seen a good 'I al
of human suffering and sorrow will tell you, nevertheless,
that there are few sadder sights than the pismienade at
Mentone along by th,, sea ; for the strange beauty of the
girls pm meet may mean Death, and often at night, in the
rytnet little painted houses, where the murmur of the wares
Upon the beach was lately the 011 e 111111ilae mom there is a
sudden call of alarm, a hurrying, to and fro, and a ru..11 of
parents or sisters to the room where their dear one see,tu
tearing her very life toot with the hard, hawking, horrible
coagh, or lies hack, fainting, after the bursting of a !decal-
vessel. Sad enough Si is even for those who can bask hi the
sunshine, or rest in the shade of orange groves and olive
gardens •, what is it to tie likely to be here, at home within
the smoke and the roar of a great city—what is it likely to
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be Itere,at home, with the poor?
They fare badly those who are hit to themselves. Cut off
from the free fresh air, stinted in nourishment. and
compelled to eau Mee. Co to speak, the hope of life for the
mere d fly means of living, they wage an unequal struggle,
with more or less courage, but with no real chance. if
victory. At the most they do le.l t the disease removed ;
they only g,t the angering prolonged. And yet, so proud
and stron, is still the feeling of independence amongst ninny
of our poor, that they still un ergo almost any extremity
rather than apply for aid—will crawl out of bed to sit, WWI
ttent imcks and crannied chests, at their work rather than
" give in," and, at the very last, will Jost SUIIIIIIOII up
sutlicient energy to cough an emphatic and final No" to
the suggestion that they should seek na‘istnnee from "the
union." Happily, however, 'the ulli ~ " is not the only
harbour o• refuge—ti harbour of refuge eKacting very heavy
dues, most grievous tolls and charges There are emnitable
institutions, one 111 which we sketch, where something
better than worktonse haat and something humaner than
workhouse care are given to the sufferers.
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Most Londoners know bi sight that large and rather hanit.
some brick building in the Fulham-row', Brompton, with
ii hich we are now concerned ; but comparatively Jew are ae•
quainted with more than iLs extol ion For ourselves, its
architectural merits or demerits are exactly the thin., in
which we take least interest, and with wide', we imst trust
tar do. The main lint in such a ',nudism is, not external
beauty, but perfection of internal arrangement. Suffice it,
then, limit in providing the patients wit.. autficieut light and
air when babiors, the building seems to answer its propose.
Some of the rather heavily-mullioned 'Window., perhaps.
might be altered eltir advantage ; lint that, after all, is a
matter of detail. Practically, the struc•ure is pleasant
to the eye, and—which clatters infinitely mnre—is,well suited
for its work. This knot the time to raise thequestion whether
a number of small “Ilornes" would not answer beti er than site
huge hospital, in which so many patients are asssmbled it is
enough toaay that, whatevermay be the "Ideal llospitat'of the
future, the Bror—pton estahlishinent seems an unexception-
able type of the practical hospital of the present It bus—
to begin with—space. like patients are not huddled up
together too closely ; they trace elbow-room and a fair
allowance 4.f air In those three acres they seem to be joist
a little out and away from the crowd of the streets and
courts. Again, there is ant too mush noise. Doubtless, to
I unaccustomed ears, that monotonous roar which w e may
term ''the voice of London," Just as mariners speak of " the
call of the sea," is always oppressive and painful ; lait the
traffic at Promptort, after all, is not like the traffic in the
heart of the t. ity, and, to men born within the sound of Dow
Bells. the neighbourhood of the 1,01,nm-road may very ,
posiibly appear Arcadian in its tranquillity.
Warmth in the winter, cosine's in the summer, and, in
both cases, as much pure air as possible, are essential to the
treatment of pulmonary disease : and every possible pro•
vision seenrs made to suture these advantages at Bromplon.
Thus In rune w jag, the building is heated by the warm air
apparatus originally invented by Dr. Au riot ; or another, by
hot-water pipes, awl. throughout, there appears to be ample
ventilation. The kitchen and the sculleries are built out-
side the hospital ; and they have a powerful steam Drudge
of-all-work, which heats the water for kitchen and baths,
which turns the spit for the roasts, which grinds the coffee-
berries, which senda tip the meals piping hot into tire upper
floors, anti which—not the least important part ..f its dirties
—raises a .• lift" after the fashi.nt of those iii the new hotels,
to convey feeble and exhausted patients from the gardens to
the galleries above. Everywhere, in the kitchen, as in the
dispensaries, there is a general mink of cleanliness, order,
anal business-like preparation ; and, the .• stores," so to
speak, be they succulent joints or bottles of cod-liver oil,
are all the best after their kin4l. Gmsl air, good food, and
medicine only to the degree that experienced physicians con-
sider necessary—these are the great requirements of con-
sumptive patients.
Turn we now to the patients themselves; and, as the pre-
face ba a stroll through the wards, let us frankly own that,
to people of e‘treinely sensitive nerves, such a promenade
cannot elan) a 110 teen 11111elitleil. Folks who are an err-
:ironed tip their feelings that they net unsteady in their
thoughts hail, perchance, better keep away. In one sense,
ba go the round of a hospital as a visitor must always be
painful. Nt Woad seeing any physical horrors of the kind
ith which surgeons are familiar, one still sees enough pain
and suffering to overelond, for a time, the hcalth and sun-
shine of one's riWri life—to cast a gloomy ahadow over the
rernainder of the day. More thoughtful persons, however,
will be comforted up the reflection that the suffering would
be infinitely worse were it not for the help that the hos-
pital g.ves. Within these walls science is Vianrollsly
liatttling agaimt rilserse. and is riot always worsted in the
combat. 'Within these wards, the p.m. createreS whiuirrigtit
OtherWiAa be pent rip in stilling, eltaking alleya, in the midst
of dirt and rut 110 i -e, of sqiialor and clamour, get peace,
rest cleanliness, the kindliest and most solicitous attention.
Herein then a is a warfare against pain and sickness, which
it is Malaita' to behold ; and the mood in which a Wow:Mint
person leaves such a plaee is one of cheerful and piom thank-
fulness to the Giver of all Good for that Ire has inspired
man to do 5,111111C11 for his fellows. It tattle mbierar of those
whom no one helps—the misery of thme who suffer ill
silence sot in the tillade—lllat is really afflicting. To day
we shall meet with no such sufferers. We shall, it is true,
sea the poor; bet we shall tail, thank God, see the forsaken.
Adue such philosophy, See repeat, is very needful when yon
walk scores of women, youog or old. in whom mud, of
lie hatut at the oftiluess if Wollialllloo4l has already bee me
extina. Even when their lips are sniffinut their voices have
110 longer the strength for laughter ; boaken, and tin, k, smut
'marse the ennui ilevlllB In e..111e In you 115 though Warned
roil horn far away ; or else it is 80 Martinet, yet in so low a
'ay, that it letting's you nuts whisper in a thcain. They say
Illal Death is the grand ilemoei rut: hardly less homer rails is
Disease. It is not only that sickness draws us all down to
nearly the aame level ; that neither birth, oor wealth, nor
mains ran keeps Mall from gasping when his breath fails
but the saying holds good in another sense. There I
ate two dermas:ides the one wirinnii levela down,
and thi one which raises rip. It is the latter which will
ebtegy in,preBa you here. For where. until now, have yoU
seen cheeks with sueh a fiery and hectic flush nt beauty—the
reality of toe autumn leaf that burns itaelf away into a
ready apleielenr rrntai. touched by the earliest chill breath
of winter, it fall to the grottnit, mid d e I—isle e, until now,
oave you seen eyes that sparkle anil glitter w th so weird
, and spiritual a lustre, as though the soul itself wet e straining
through them, out of them, beyond them, for one luat look
at the brave old earth we Inhabit Such sights you may
i have seen before, la the sunny little spots abroad, where rich
and high-bum Engliah girld aro taken for abut feeble chance