The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE.

The tenth annual meeting of the members of this
college was held yesterday at the college rooms, Soho-
square, under the presidency of Lord CHELMSFORD, sod
was numerously attended. Mr. Freeman, the secretary,
read the report, which was sae of some length. It con-
gratulated the members on the continua success attending
the institution in all its departments, with enlarged income
and diminished expenses. During the year 1862 no less a
sum then 6,1301. 8.. 6d. was received from bequest. to the
college, and the annual subscriptions were more than 2001.
in excess of the previous year, while the expense, had
been materially lemeoed, the liabilities reduced by
8001., and the amount of stock belonging to the endow-
ment fund bad increased from 3,7001. in 1861, to
10,2371. at the end of 1862. There bad also been a large
increase in the sum received from exhibitioners and day
scholars, the addition to the school buildings having per.
mated the admisaion of a large number of boarders. At
the present time 183 boys were sleeping within the walls,
and five more were about being admitted. There were ten
day scholars in attendance. The report then pressed. to
notice the great improvement& lately made in the schools,
and the satisfactory progress making by the pupils,
twenty-two of whom had lately passed as examination
before the College of Surgeons, and others gained high
honours at the universities. The number of pensioners
now in the college at Epsom is twenty, and five more will be
elected in on the 21st instant. At the same time five boys
will be elected on the foundation. The appeal lately made
by the council for funds to erect a new wing to the
college, to be dedicated to the late Prince Consort,
has been so liberally responded to, that they have
been enabled to eater into a contract for the building, the
first stone of which was laid on the 30th of October last.
The building will coat 1,9761., and will be ready for occupa-
tion by the elected pensioners early in the ensuing summer.
The total income for the peat year had been 16.4221. 4s. 4d.,
and the expenditure 15,7471. lla 9d., leaving a balance of
674/.125. Id. on the year. The total receipts on the building
food had been 12,0701. 17s. 84., and the balance sow in hand
was 1.8151. Us. 3d. The total of the liabilities amounted
to 9,6101. 13s. 10d. Mr. Churchill moved, and Mr. bust
*wooded the adoption of the report, which, after some
opposition from Dr. Taylor in reference to the dismissal of
a boy from the school, was agreed to. The retiring members
of the causal went than raeleoted, and the Rev. F. D.
Maurice, ILA., was elected to fill a Yummy.

ECLIPBI o► raw Sow.—The sun will be partially
eclipsed ea the afternoon of Sunday next, the 17th iset. As
viewed sear the metropolis, the moon will enter upon hie
disc at sh. 42m. 245. p.m., Greenwich time, at a point 881
degrees from OW vertex towards the west, or 'early at the
right hand extremity of the sun's horizontal diameter. The
eclipse will be at its maximum at 6h. 26m. 30a. p.m. when
very nearly as third of the solar diameter will be coveted
by the moon, and will end at 711. 12w. Os. p.m., about
half an hour before sunset, the Wt cootect occurring •
little to the left of the appereet upper Faust of the died.
Neither of the two solar eclipses of 1864 will be visible to
this country, and in the eclipses of October 19, 1866, and
October 8, 1866, the son will set in London a few minutes
before the greatest phase. The phenomenon of next Son•
day is the only one of the kind that will be wholly visible
hers until March 6, 1867.
The mileage paid to the Royal Mail Company at
the present tine is 13. 6d. According to the new contract
the mileage will be lls. 6d.