The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-20 00:00:00

ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL.

Lost evening the anniversary festival of the
friends sod supporters of this hospital wee celebrated at the
Freemasons' Tavern Great gems-street. Limmis'e.inn.
fields, under the presidency of the Roelof 4diexths, who,
in proposing the toast of the eveatag—" yto the
Orthopedic Hospital "—said that the buret tree of as
unusual and 'jointer oharecter ; sod, being still in its
infancy, required all Urethra sod support which the public
could accord to it. The thatistice of the charity showed
that it bad not yet recovered from the difficulty which it
experienced in the outset, and he trusted that the 4,0001.
still due might ere losg be paid. It was this preemie
upon the charity that the committee were anxious
to remove, sad there wee no institution is Lon-
don which more folly deserved the amistasce it required.
It was • source of gratificatioa to know that during the
pest year the Prince of Wales had coathated to become the
of the institution. As regarded the finances of the
retrpTital, the committee bad great pleasure in weather%
that a further important step is advance bad bees made is
the completion of another list of 40 contributors at 25
guineas each, making the mooed iastalmeet of 1,000 guineas
sa reduction of them ortgage debt. This sewed list was
completed before Christ:nee last, and sum of I,ooof. with
interest to the date of payment was handed to the mania-
gors in January of the reset year, reducing the mortgage
debt to 4,000. The receipts from other sources exceeded the
total expenses of the year by 831. 9s. Id., and the committee
' were therefor* enabled to offset • correepooding reduction
io the outstanding tradeemea's bills, which still amounted
to 2,3771. 4s. 7d. The number of patients tdmitted diaries
the year was 2,332, being as hareem of 463 over the sum-
; bre admitted Let year, and reeking • total of 32,519 loos
the opening of the hospital. A large proportion of tithes
patients were very yeueg children, sot, as was formerly the
case, suffered to grow up deformed, but promptly subjected
to operation and treatment. Nearly one-half of the above
2,332 cases were children of three years old and nader. Of
the remainder, about 200 were adults, many of them
parents with young children to maintain, and about core-
eighth were 50 years old and upwards. One
patient, 29 years of ago, now in the wards, who
was admitted with his lap swinging belplemly between two
crutches from contractioe of the hips, knees, and feet, which
had deprived him of the use of them for 26 years, sow had
his limbs nearly straight and was beginning to use them.
Another, 27 years old, who had sot stood or walked fog 23
years, • few weeks ago left the alkia aad is now
atteadieg seas outeatienk The rotationlist still thataimid
the names of 145 severe oases requiring edmiseioa as imi-
tation* sad all urgently needing early treatment, but
owing to the want of foods they must wait their tura as
s' raceme' occur in the wards. It should also be borne is
mind that the increased drain upon the funds consequent
upon the large addition to tke number of patients admitted.
had not ceased with that year. The greater part of those
ppaatients were still under treatment, while the same rate of
continued. There would, therefore, be • heavy
augmentation of the demands upon the obesity during the
earnest year, calling for increased exertion no the part of
' the public to promote the interacts of the iastitetioa.
After hie lordship's appeal oa behalf of the charity, Buh-
-1 seriptione were aanouneed amounting be upwards of 1,8001.
'

lime .S 1 Coe peculiarity memorial wilts this eate;taia-
carat, viz., that the usual adjunct of music was dlpssssd
with. 11Ir. Harker was the toeetrowiter.

SINGULAR APPLICATION TO A BOARD OP GUARDIANS.
—Ate meeting of the Gresewich Board of Goa/dims ►eld
yesterday thereon, Mr. B. Outer chairman, an applies.
tins warn made by a man named Garner, who completes his
100th year in October salt, for his discharge from the
=km, of which be ►ad been an inmate three pan. The
old man, who appeared hale and hearty, ahe asked for a
pant of 5e., ft being his intention to proceed to Durham to
kis wife, who, he said, is four yam his senior. The guar-
dians endeavoured topersusde the applicaot to reseals in the
hoses, bat he refused to doso; and the chairman, in pantie(
his discharge, on behalf of the board expressed a hope that
the press would notice the Get that it was the old man s
roinatary set.

owor Koo2rmor crouNea.

A Special Oeart d Common Council WM held
yesterday. The LOW MATO' presided.
GARIBALDL
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Ninety Wks istrafrod of tie Town Clerk what slaps had
been takes lo estatioa no the trawl:Moo of the Chamber.
lain'. dims is Qom& Garibaldi into the Italian know,
and its cation to him.
The Town OtAait (Mr. Woodtharpe) said that in accord-
ance with the resolution of the court, be had communicated
with Signor Pistmoci, the professor of Italian at Sisg's Col-
lege, and had asked him to undetake the duty of translating
the address, but his engagemeate promoted Lim from pee-
forming the task as quickly as was aired, by rem= of
the General's sudden departure fromLod. He bad,
however, at hie instanoe, communicated with Signor Tivoli,
the professor of Italian of University College, and he and
his sot sat tip the whole sight and carefully Mandated the
address. The tramiatios was seat co the following morn-
ing to Sutherland Boma, bat the General bad left, but his
eon blenotti took charge of it, and conveyed it to hie father,
who returned his earnest thanks for the compliment that
had been paid him by the corporation. (Hear, hear.)
A short dismados then took place as to the beet means
of acknowledging the services of Signor Tiede, some of the
members of the court azpreesiag an opinion that it might
not be agreeable to the feeliop of this gentleman to make •
pecuniary acknowledgmeot. Eventually it was agreed that
the thanks ot the court and a run of ten gunnies should be
presented to Signor Tivoli.

DITROVEKENTS IN TB' CITY.
DettiFltr, the chairman of the Improvement Commit-
tee, ht up a report from that committee relative to
the expen lure incurred by the Commissioners of Sewers in
effecting certain street improvements in the City during the
years 1862 aed 1863, and recommending that it would not be
desirable for the corporation to contribute toward. the eost of
the raid improvements. The groand upon which the committee
made the recommendation appeared to be that the unprove-
meets had been paid ler, sod that the amounts were all
settled, and therefore it was not desirable to re-open the
matter.

SAMDKRIS proposed an amendment, to the effect that
the improvements in question were of great public import-
awe, and that the corporation ought to o tribute towards
the oust of them, in order to relieve the ratepayers from a
portion of the burden, and that the subject should be re-
ferred back to the improvement Committee for reconsidera-
tion. He referred to the various important improvements
that had been made in the City, end said that although
much had, undoubtedly, been dons, the public convenience
and comfort required a great deal more, and it was impossi-
ble that this could be effected if the corporation mat the
whole burden upon the ratepayers of the City, and refused
to contribute towards such improvements. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Moans, P., resided the amendment.
A lengthened acclaim took place upon the motion and
the amendment, daring which Mr. LAWLET expressed his
opinion that the real question at Mine was whether the our.
portion should conduct its own business, or whether it
should be overridden by the Commissiosers of Sewers ?
(Crier, of " Oh, oh.") He said that the matter had been
fully musideted b the committee, sod they ought sot to
be asked to their decision.

114;;Med hie opinion that the com-
mittee bad not fully considered the question that w sub-
mitted to them, and that is their report they had mainly
given it the go by. (Hear, hear.) All they were called
upon to consider ems whether the improvements that had
bees elected were of importance to the public, and
whether the oorporatioa ought to coo tribute towards the
cost of these improvements. Re was reedy to admit that the
court had • right to control all the expeaditur• of the oar-
pcsatioe, sad that it wee the master. (Laughter.) He
always bowed to the decision of the court, although some-
times he did so very uswilliugly, but be bad no hesitation
in expressing his opinion that the oorpontion had sot
done anything like what it ought to have done in refereoce
to the public improvements is the City, sad that it had
neglected its duty ta that respect. Behaving that the sub-
ject bad not been properly considered by the committee be
should support the arneudment of Mr. Saunders, that the
report be referred back for further consideration.
Mr. Ruing said he was not opposed to the principle of
the City's cash contributing towards the public improve.
mints in the City, but as the prenent occamo he thought
the Improvement Committee were justified in refusing to
contribute towards improvements that were made in 1862
and 1863, which were already paid for. In his opinion,
however, the proper course was not to leave the satire me-
trol in the hands of the Commissiceers of Sewers, but that
this body should put itself in communication with the Im-
provemeat Committee or some other committee upon the
subject of any improvements that were proposed to be car-
ried oat, and that the two bodies should act jointly is the
matter.

Deputy Ds Jessie, the chairman of the Commissioners of
Sewer; Warmed the court at some length in support of
the amendment, and to expressed his opinion that the con-
clusion arrived at by the oommittee wee not founded upon
the merits of the 9nesition, but upon the foil* and preju-
dice that existed re the bresats of some of the member,.
(Cries of "Oh, oh.") He regretted to Sod that upon such
an important question feelings of tide descriptioe should
exist, and he could not help saying that in hie opinion the
improvement of the street*, nod providing for the accom-
modation of the public, was a muc.icipal duty, and the cor-
poratioa ought to perform that duty, and not allow the
:stamen to be meddled with the satire cost.

Tie'court then divided, when the amendment wee car.
rid by a majority of 27.
Deputy Dit Jnaei then proposed two motions having
reference to certain proposed improvements in the City,
doe of which is the making a thoroughfare out of Newgate.
street, through King Edward.atreet into Smithfield, both of
which were agreed to.
Mr. RODILIN then proposed that the Improvement Com-
mittee be empowered to °order with the Commissioners of
Sewers with a view to facilitate the widening and impro-
vise the streets and thoroughfares of this City, reporting to
the court from tiros to time whether any and what
amounts should be contributed out of the City', cash to-
wards such objects.
The motion was mooed to, and the wart the. adjourned.

igRIOUS 0431 01P ALLEGED IMBEZZLIMENT.

At the Mansion-house Polioe-court yesterday
Captain Robert Boyle Miller Lanes Hotel, St. Altos a-
piece, Haymarket, was puma before Sir R. W. Cordes,
charged with embersling within the last three months) the
sum of 4,0001. and upwards, received by him as servant to
Richard Ryland and others, shipowner; Circorsaor-bad.
Inge, Tithebarn-street, Liverpool
Mr. Maynard, for the prosecution, said the prisoner
wee formerly is the employ of Masers. Ryland sad Sai-
da, of Liverpool, shipoween, and was captain of the
ship Richard Ryland, which sailed in the mouth of July
last horn Liverpool to Wad* with a oorgo of cork.
It would be his duty to sell the freight, receive the
mosey, disburse the expenses of the ship, and then transmit
the proceeds of the Toyer to the owner at Liverpool. The
cargo was sold, and the proems reoeived the money at the
Mauritius, but the owners have never received any portion
of the 4,0001. received by the prisoner, neither had they sines
beard anything of the ship emossanded by the primmer, be-
longing to Mous. Hyletel, which was of the value( 25,000/.
He should merely submit saough 'videlicet, to enable the ma-
gate to send the prisoner to Liverpool to meet the charge.
Mr. Maynard then celled
Sergeant Spittal, who said—ln cousequence of inemno.
Moos received from the Liverpool police, I, in compacy with
Packman, took the prisoner into custody, and charged him
with embezzling the sum of 4,0001., the property of his
employers, Meant Ryland, Siddon, and Co., the owners
of the ship Richard Ryland. Re mid the charge was falaie.
We took him to the Bow-law Statioo, where he was searched
by Sergeant Packmao. I told him where he had received
the money, but he maid it was untrue. The prisoner this
morning said be yes surprised the firm should suppose
that be was guilty of anything wrong—that the bill he COS
is the Mauritius for the money deposited is the bask be
had obtained and changed for safety for hie employers. If
be had intended anything woos he had a great deal IMO
mosey in Calcutta ; that he ixtesded to go down to Liver-
pool and settle with his employers next Saturday.
Alderman Oa:dm—Any question, Miller, to ask witness?
Prisoner—Oh no, sir, what be says is perfectly cermet.
Sergeant Packroan—l was is company with Spittal when
we apprehended the prisoner yesterday at Laiee's Hotel.
Whim at the station I searched the prisoner. Om his person
I found 6/. 10a Td., sad in his room I found 4W. in cub,
two 501. Bank of Foglaad notes, a deposit note on the
Stockton Beak for 1,1001., dated May 12, is the same of
Robert Miller. I also found • bank book, showing a credit
for vooot., in the same of Robert Miller.

Alderman Carden—Did be say whose mosey it was? ,1
Witirese—He mid it was his own. Oe his way to the
Mansion-hones he said, " louniot think how they think I
intend to do ramie, became If I bad wished to do so I could
have done so when I was in the East Ladies, and had plenty
of money. I intended to ge to Liverpool on Saturday, but
Pre been fool enough to stop in London • few days." He
said nothing about where be received the money.
Mr. Walter Partridge, of the firm of Fletcher, Pan, and
Leadeahallotreet, maid they were agents to Hyland and
of Liverpool. They own a ship milled the Richard
ttlda. The duty of the prisoner would be to disburse
the debts incurred by the skip, aed transmit the balance to
Liverpool. The owners ought to have received intelligence
from Calcutta relative to the money three mouths ago. The
ship sailed in July last. We charge the prisoner with having
embroiled the 4,000 i.
Alderman Carden—You ought to have written to your
owners long before this.
Prisoner—l wrote them four or five lettere.
Wit:ism—Nothing has ever been received.
Hearse Peacock—l went with the prisoner to a bill
looker. I saw a bill for 4,0001. Produced far(*stain
Miller's endoremoent. The bill was endorsed. Captaie
Miller told me the mosey wee te be headed over in bard
cash for shipment to Bombay.
Alderman Caron said be did not think it very possible
that the prisoner could nquire bullion for the purpose of
taking it to the owners. He should order the prisoner to
be Wow to Liverpool to be dealt with there. He thought
the City police deserved great eredit for getting hold of the
prisoner Wore he scold Las London.

MORN THAN NT= AND DNITIkt THAW 'TM—This
tko Isfkool ood MN stock of owI:4AM maim
puma over subuolttod for public sortd•hassd
Hs. Hoorn at Mood Webb Klies."&""LortglaMoes only solo.
'II+L Th. imak4Ansg. Absever49son• NOtokkokod NHL

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MAY 20.

TER POLICE COURTS.

TRAMS&
Margaret Do:radio, a most wretehsd koki&coman, 52
years of age, who sppeared to be 80, was with
ettiling a waistacat,losseraperperty id Hoary of 55,
lak era-hoe, W
The proposer soured the prosesetor's boom, the haat.
door of which wee open, sad weal sate the behind. •
waistcoat which had been recently w
a lies to dry. The prisoner removed it, anir wahrCiZgl
the house with it, when the prosecutor's wife sad another
woman saw her and gave her into custody.
Roth., the gaoler of the court, said the primer had been
a great many times in custody, and he was afraid to say
bow many times abs had been convicted. She had far many
years been iu the practice of seaskiwg iota the houses of
poor persons and Sea* anything she eoisld lay her heads
oe. She was no Room, out of prima than she was in
custody. He believed nothing would ever stop her from
picking and stealing when abs was out of prison
An officer said the priemer bad he.. found in angular
positioas in the hews of the poer. ono time site was
diacorerod at daybreak by a poor woman, seated on the top
of a copper in the wash-house, and nothing could induce
her to move until else wee taken doom and removed by the
Pam inaghento said the pointer was a dangerous old
woman, and committed des to the House of °outshoot for
three maths, and to be kept to had labour.

LONDON AND NORM WESTERN RAILWAY.

Yesterday a special meeting of this company took
' ph= at the Roskierstaties, in aosardaare with the etaadiag
orders of the Rome of Lards, to Is= into ocaniderateria
=Main bills, 26 in number, having for their object various
aztensiona, alterations, and weenies= the majority of
which were of • permissive character, and had already re-
ceived the approval of the sharehoiden. Kr. Rimini
Moon in the chair. Of the 28 bWa enly 11 were is •
sulkies tly =num= state to te present= on this oxesios,
and the considerate= el the others ins therefore pest-
ErThe bills Dow brought forward were to the
win purposes 4-- For affording inereaand facili-
ties forts Irsamahmes af traffic between the railways of
the London and North Western Railway Company. Te
author= agreements between the Oeweetry and Newtown,
the Shrewsbury and Welsbpool, the Llanidloes and New-
town, the Oswestry, Ellouners, and Whiteburch, the New-
town and Macbynlleth, the Hereford, Hay, and Bream, the
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil, the London and North Wes-
tern, end the Ore= Western Railway Compsaie• Te
authorise the Shrewsbury sad Welslipeol Railway Company
to transfer or lease their undertaking to the London sue
North Western Railway Company, s to the Land= sad
North Weems and Ore= Weston Railway Contpealee.
T authorise arraupments between the Bedford sad Qua-
bridge and Leaden sod North Wasters Railway Oar
peaks. Te authorise the esnetruetion of • railway frem
Osman= is Llatheris, ia the coma* of Camaro= For
the etostraction ef an embaMmeet, desks, sad ether
works, and the recismatha sad Meth= if lands mar
Fiestweed, in the county palatial of To authorise
the construction cif • railway in the aunties of Northamp-
ton and Leicester, to be ash= "The Market Harborough sad
East Norton Railway." Te enable the Peripatrieli Railway
Company to alter certain cif their Imam, to Lowe the&
capital, to make working ansagentests with ortais com-
prise to use porticos of other aadertakihm. To
=able the Portpetrieli Railway Compaq te meettlish en=
munication by steam vessels betimes Portptrlok sad Strea-
mer in Scotland sad llseagliades, amid other pores oa the
aorthcast co= ef Instead. For making a railway from the
lithrthyr,Tredegar, asildherpmeny Railway toCrirkbe well.
For autherisiug the London sad South Western Railway
Company be make and maintain a Rae of railway from
licasiagtee to Richmond, sod Section lime eciusnianiciating
with the Hammersmith and City Railway, sod the North
and Swath Western Junction Railway respostively, and to
raise further moosys, and for eutharising ansagemeete with
divers railway Gore paid=
Resolutions ecialreeing the approval of these TOMOUTIII
were proposed and agreed to, and the meeting was ed.
journed till the 2nd Jane.