The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.

A public dinner in aid of the funds of this most
nimbi' clarity was hold kit tight at Wins. rooms,
Mr. Caaaccs 'Moms is tbs

During the peat year a slight improvement has taken
lam in the position of the charity, there having hero as
inseam of subscription and an addition being made to the
investment. At the mar time there is • yearly deficit of
so less than 4,0001., whisk i a subject of very serious coo-
sideration. The value of the institatioe is attested by the
fact that upwards of 1,200 in.prieets re aramdly ad-
mitted, 6,000 out-patients are yearly attended to,
aed nearly 9,000 casualties relieved. The annual
coot of maintaining the hospital is about 6,5001.
a year, but the total berate from all sourer does not
amount to more than 2,6201. Her Majesty sad the Prince
°IOWA.' have both given their sepport to the charity,
which from the great benefit's it oosfen upon the public at
large is in every way deserving of support. Among the
gentlemen pressor in Mr. John Forster, Dr. Roget, Mr.
A. W. Jaffrey, Mr. R. N. Fowler, Mr. Wm. Fowler, Mr.
Enfield, Mr. Brehoff, Mr. Julia' Goldamid, Mr. Jan Hey-
wood, F.R.S., Professor Masson, Henry Kiegsley, Major
Tom Hughes. Mr. Macmillan, Mr. Shirley srooks, and
about 100 other guests.
In the course of the evening subieriptioes and donations
to the amount of 1.5001. odd were announced. The musical
arrangerueuts, which were under the direction of Mr.
Wilhelm Gana, were very effective.

Lord 8.. Cecil intends tomorrow to move an
address for copy of all oorreeposdosee relating to the dis-
missal of Mr. Morell from the office of her Majesty's Bowie
catholic impactor of schools.
Mr. Hubbard tomorrow will ask the Chancellor
of the Exchequer whether he proposes to reoeact the
imams tax as it stood at the "lose of 1863, or whether he
propose' soy, and, if any, whet, change I. its provisions.

In committee of Ways and Means, Sir Henry
Willoughby will call the attention of the committee to the
fact that stock in trade in practice is exempted from
burdens of taxation to which homes sad buildings an
exposed ; and will move a resolution that in any remission
of lire insurance duty the remission should be made on
hones and buildings.

Mr. Adderley, on the 10th o Msy, will move
"That this house, having considered the minute of conocil of
the 11th day of March. 1864, on endowed school■, is of
opinion th►t it does not meet the objecWom made to the
minute of the 19th day of May. 1863."

Mr. Peacocks intends, on the 19th, to move, as
an amendment to Mr. Osborne's motion on Deomark,
"That this house, without expressiog any (minim as to
bow it baa been carried out, approves the avowed policy of
bar Majesty's governmeot in maintaining the treaty of
Loudon of 1852, and in calling on the Danish government to
fulfil the promisee which it made to the two gnat German
pewees is 1851.2"

Lord Robert Montagu, on the Nth, will propose
a soled committee os the utilisable of the sewage of town.
Yesterday evening an elaborate lecture was
&dime& by his Emboss, Cordial Wiseman to a very
warms sadism' in the Architectural Ilsneum, Smith
Kensington Museum, os the following subject, "Judging
from the put and the present, what us the grespeole for
good architecture in London r