The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-05 00:00:00

LONDON HOSPITAL.

The anniversary festival of this excellot charity was
celebrated at the London Tavern, the otlzer night, the
Duke of Cambridge presiding. There was a numerous
company on the occasion. After the usual loyal and
constitutional toasts, which were drank with enthu-
siasm, the Chairman proposed the toast of the
evening, " Prosperity to the London Hospital."
With regard to the advantages of the institution
he had to remind them that in the last year 28,290
patients were treated in the hospital, of whom 3,669
were in-patients, and 24,621 were out-patients.
The . London Hospital was situated in the midst of a
large working population, and therefore the number of
accident eases attended to in the hospital might be
expected to be very considerable. There were 12,000
such cases. Seeing that there were only 1,230 cues
recommended by governors, the • hospital might be
regarded as rt free hospital. The annual expenditure
hitherto amounted to ,617,500, of which £12,000 was
fixed income, so that £6,500 had to be made up by
voluntary contributions. The present year was a peen.
liarly bad one, as the charity lost £1,600 by thafalling
in of the long annuities. The deficiency, therefore,
to be made up on the present occasion amounted to
£7,000 per annum. The requirements of the hospital
had greatly increased in recent years, because the bene-
fits of the charity had been greatly extended. Re had
therefore to make a special appeal to them on the pre-
sent occasion, and he hoped ho would not appeal to
them in vain. The appeal of the chairman was responded
to by the largest contribution that was ever made on a
similar occasion in the City of London—£23,B49. The
announcement of this magnificent subscription was
received with loud applause. The band of the Fusilier
Guard played a selection of music during dinner, and
several excellent. songs, selected by Mr. Francis, were
sung on the occasion. Mr. Harker officiated as toast-
master.

CHINESE EMIGRATION TO THE BRITISH WEST TNMES

—The annexed extract from a person in Demerara
has been published :—" The Dora has arrived from
China with 385 immigrants, a large portion of whom
are women. There were four deaths and two births on
the voyage. The people are in excellent condition.
The batch per Whirlwind are working very well, hut
we only give them light work at first. The women are
not required to work ; but several of those by the
Whirlwind have turned out to work of their own accord."

IRISH AHRICHLTURtL PROSPECTA.—A glorious change
has taken place in the weather since Saturday night,
when the :long and dreary winter was brought to .a
sudden conclusion by a fall of soft and genial rain,
which continued with scarcely any intermission for
twenty hours. The harsh north wind which for weeks
blew with such steady virulence veered to an opposite
direction, and on Thursday the whole face of the coun-
try presented the appearance of an advanced spring
season.

Onr readers have only to send a penny stamp and they will
receive, free by post, the " Own Guide,”-or nattml
restorer without medicine or expense, of perfect digestion,
strong nerves, soand lungs, and refreshing sleep, to the most
enfeebled, effectually removing indigestion (dysrepsia), nausea
and sickness, even during pregnancy, debility, nervousness,
palpitation, cough, asthma, incipient consumption, dropsy,
constipation, flatulency, diarrhma, dysentery, biliousness,
fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears,
rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia,
irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn,
headache, despondency, oramp, spasms, sinking, fits, bron-
chitis; also children's complaints. Accompanied with numerous
successful cures, which had resisted all medical treatment and
4 been'abandoned as hopeless. D. T. parry, 77, Regent-street,
London.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM
SHIP WRECK.

A inectinz of the Royal „National Life-boat Institu-
tion was held on Thursday, at its hotice, John-street
Aclelphi, Thomas Chapman, I,:sf; F. R.S., in the chair.
Mr. Lewispthe secretary, having read the minutes of the
previous ineetio,
•
A rewaid of £ll was voted to the crew of the institu-
tion's life-h Oat statiouej st TeignmoUtli, fai putting off,
early on the night of Monday Week, when it was very
dark, and rescuing from the rigging the crew of two
men, who were found nearly benumbed with cold, from
the sloop 'Wonder, of that port, which during heavy
weather had stink in the course of the night. A few
months ago this same valuable life-boat way instrumental
in bringing into port a disabled barge, and her exhausted
crew. •

A reward of £(3 ins. waR likewise voted to the
Lytham life-boat, belonging to the National Institution,
for going off during a heavy gale of wind, and rescuing
the crew of eight men and a lad, from the brigantine
Nancy, of Teignmontb, which having struck on the

dangerous sand called the Horse Bank, immediately
afterwards sank. Her crew took to the rigging—from
which perilous position they were rescued by the' life-
boat. The poor boy was found quite exhausted and
unable to help himself, and two of the life-boat's crew
had, therefore, to jump on the wreck, to bring him down
from the mast heed. The life-boat was reported to
have behaved on this as on former occasions, remark-
ably well. Within the last few months this same excel-

lent life-boat had been the means of saving the crews,
consisting ot 13 men, from two wrecked vessels. The neigh-
bouring life-boat, stationed at Fleetwood, had also, under
the command of the intrepid Captain Wasey, R.N.,

inspecting commander of the Coast Guard, been instru-
mental, in the same brief period, in rescuing three ship-
wrecked crews. In acknowledgment of which gallant
services, the Admiralty have extended Captain Wasey's
appointment in the Coast Guard two years. He had
previously received the silver medal and second service
clasp of the National Life-boat Institution, for the same
service.

A reward of SA lOs. was also voted to the Lossie-
mouth Life-boat belonging to this institution, for putting
off with a view of rescuing the crew of a pilot-boat,
which had been swamped during a sudden squall in this
Bay. In less than twenty minutes after the accident
was observed, the life-boat was on the spot, but, unfor-
tuaately out of five of the pilot-boat's crew, two had
sunk to rise no more.

A reward of £5 was also presented to the crew of the
Kessiugland, Suffolk, life-boat, for putting off and
rescuing the crew of seven men of the brigantine Little
Tye, of North Shields, which, during a gale of wind,
was wrecked near that place, on the 19th ult.
The Ramsgate life-boat, belonging to the Royal Har-
bour Conitnissioners, was reported to have rendered, at
the imminent peril of the crew's lives, important ser-
vices, in conjunction with the commissioners' steam-tug,
in the night of Friday last, to a vessel on the Goodwin
Sands.

A reward was also voted to a boat's crew for putting
off and saving three men from a small boat, which had
been capsized by the unskilful conduct of one of the
crew in ascending her mast, which caused her to become
top heavy.
Several other rewards for saving life from different
wrecks were also voted.

During the past month the institution had forwarded
new life-boats and transporting carriages to Penzance
and Porthcawl, and another was about to be sett to
Silloth, on the Cumberland coast. The cost of the two
last-named boats had been presented to the institution
by Miss Burdett Coutts and another benevolent lady.
The society decided on taking into connection with it,
the Margate life-boat, which was presented by Miss
Coutts, to that town last year.
The society decided on presenting its thanks, inscribed
on vellum, to Miss Dix, an American lady, in acknow-
ledgment of her philanthrophic labours in establishing,
at her own expense, several life-boat stations on the
toasts of the United States. and British possessions in
America. It was also a lady, the sister of a sailor, who
first presented the cost of a, life-boat to the National
Life-boannstitution. Her humane example has since
been followed by many persons.

. .
Payments amounting £597 having been made on
various life-boat establishments, the proceedings closed.

A BOY THREATENING TO STAB HIS

MOTHER.

John Larkin, a youth of about 16 years of age, was
charged, at the Bow-street Police-office, with attempting
to stab his mother, a poorly-clad but decently-looking
woman.—The complainant, upon giving her evidence,
said that she was not desirous of pressing the charge
against him, if be would promise to keep away from
her. She would be sorry to send him to prison, but
she must have some protection from his violence, as
she went in terror of her life.—Mr. Henry (to the
prisoner) : You hear what your mother says. Will
you promise to keep away 3—The Prisoner (sulkily :
I'll keep away as much as I can; but I don't know
where else to go. Who's to keep me ?—Mr. Henry :
Surely a great boy like you ought to keep, yourself, and
not be a burden to your poor mother, who no doubt has
to work quite bard enough without. Why you ought
to be a help to her at your age.—The Prisoner : I can't
work this week, as I have
.injured my hand by the
knife slipping while I was cutting some bread and
butter.—The Mother observed that he had been at
work notwithstanding, and would be paid his wages
as usual. But, even when he was at work, she had
almost entirely to keep him.—Mr. Henry Well, as he
is so obstinate, we must go into the case. It is a very
serious charge, and if I have to send him to prison be
will think more seriously of it then. You must state
the facts.—The Mother : He was lying in bed about
seven o'clock this morning, when the other children
had. been up since six o'clock. I could not get
to the cupboard-doer till he was up, and I wanted
to give the second boy his breakfast, and send him
out to his work. I told him. that he must get up,
and he said he would not; that he would lie there
as long as he liked. I said I would make him get
up, and I was about to lay hold of him, when he seized
a carving-knife from the dresser, which was within his
reach, and brandished it at me so as to keep me off. So
I was obliged to let him lie. As he continued to
threaten me, saying, "I will rip you open," I became
alarmed, left the room, and fetched a policeman, who
took him into custody.—The Prisoner : I only took
up the knife and laid it down again.—Mr. Henry :
Don't you think it a very wicked thing to take a knife
to your mother ?—The Prisoner : It was done on the im-
pulse of a moment.—Mr. Hoary : That is an impulse we
must restrain. Well, have you anything to say ?—The
Prisoner : No, I don't know as I have.—Mr. Henry :
Not even that you are sorry for it. Well, you will
have time to reflect. oa it in prison, and I hope you will
come out in a better frame of mind.—The Prisoner
(whimpering) : Yes, sir, I am sorry. I was sorry for
it the moment I had done it.—Mr. Henry: I see the fear
of imprisonment is the only thing that has any effect
on you. This is the first indication of a proper feeling
you have given throughout the case. Now will
give you one more chance, as your mother does not
wish to scud you to prison, if she can help it. It iveuld
be a very great , disgrace to you to be sent to prison for
attempting to stab your mother, and you would
most probably lose your situation. Will you promise
to keep away ?—The -Prisoner : I will leave pn Satur-
day, when I get my wages.—The Mother : No; he
must go to-day. am afraid to trust 'inyself 'and
the' children' in the heutay *bother night.—

The Prisoner: iWill•you-lend, me the reoney,to pay fur
a lodging, ,till ,Saturday;,—The. Nuttier: tab,. certainly.
I'll And you a lodging, an'a pay the rent for you, if you
will only keep away and let me live in safety..—the
Prisoner : Well, then, I won't go near you again.—Mr.
Henry: Then I will let you go ; but mind, I will pun-
ish you severely if you assault her or annoy her again.
I shall not discharge yon now. I shall adjourn the case
for a week. and you must then appear before me again,
and'l shall hear how you have conducted yourself in the
meanwhile.—The prisoner was then remanded.

The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada's traffic for the
week ending April 14th, 1860, amounted to £14,360 Os.
10d., being an increase of £4,910 Os. 4d.
HER MAJESTY'S CONSULS ABROAD.—Papars on the
subject of the recommendation of the House of Commons
Consular Committee of 15.58, that, as a general rule,
consuls should be piohibited from trading, and that the
fees be appropriated to the Government, which on its
part should provide for the current expenses of the
consulates, have been Isid.on the table of the HOW of
Commons. In DecembeOn ofßeial committee, over
which Mr. M. Gibson presided, made is full report upon
the whole subject, and advised that the recommendation
to restrict consuls from trading be confined to those
who ,exercise important political or judieial functions,
especially in,the }last, and that in other place. of con-
siderable trade a discretion be left with the Secretary Of
State, and in places of minor importance the consul be
always a trading consul when economy will.be promoted
by such an arrangement; and they prepared lists of
these three clm4res, adding a fourth of "consulates which
may be abolished.", Lord J. Russell accepts those
recommendations, but states that, as the new system can
only be applied as vacancies oeenr, he considers that the
claims of many of the present consuls to a preper remu-
neration ought not to be overlooked, and he accordingly
proposes a re-adjustment of the salaries of several, but
making the fees received by them payable to govern.
ment, the increased charge to the public not exceedipg
£2,425 a-year, and that sum will be met by theabot-
lion and reduction of other consulates within the
last twelve months. The Treasury have agreed to
this proposal. Some of the consuls are represented ns
having been before this arrangement in lamentable
plight, with salaries quite insufficient to support them
respectably ;.the functionary at New York, for instance,
had to be content with an office "up three pair of
stairs
• us ought to demand.'
back street," which is beyond what even
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