The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-27 00:00:00

CITY HOSPICE AND 80UP KITCHEN.

Yesterdsy afternoon this establishment, which is
formed on the principle of the L icester square Soup I,
Kitchen, wu opened, under the auspices of the Lord Mayor
and a number of the City authorities.
The premises selected fur the purpose are situate at Vic-
tori► Bridge, Ilelborn, and the stated purpose which the
institution Ls proposed to answer is manly that of affording
relief to the destitute, and next, that of a registry for
servants out of employ, so u to enable them to obtain tutus-
ti ins without the payment of the fee reunited at the
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I Le lower part of the building has at the entrance a con-
venient lavatory, and from this again the visitor paws
into a large ball with a number of elevated ants in the
eentre,:sarroundid by round tables and bench's intended
for the wonsmodation of those who seek temporary relief.
Acme the upper end of the apartment is a strong railing,
behind which arc revere) very complete sets of gas cookiug
apparatus. The first of these is provided with moveable
gridirons, under which two or then jets of gas perform the
work ot • fire. la the centre is a baking or roasting appa-
ratus, capable of cooking wreral large joints of meat simul-
taneously; and also • place for heating owes. The
steam which is Produced by these processes in conducted
by pipes to large vessel• stani.ing upon a wooden frame,
and are then made to parr around the joints which they
contain, cooking them with greater expedition than the
ordinary method. &hied these again an several coppers
fur the manufacture of soup, and these are also heated by
gas. The soup apparatus is capable of making 100 gallons
per diem, and there is • commensurate provision ler the
cooking of solid food. The whole of the cooking is under
the care of M. Boyer.
Around the apartment is • large wooden gallery, which
may be called the instruction department. In one portion
of this is an ironing table, provided with the neceneary utensilsl
for the purpose of instructing the women and girls in that
necessary portion of domestic duty. Adjoining this instable
laid out as fur a family, and mar it a table preps ed for •
large pazty, every article likely to be required being properly
placed, and every pepsin being differently folded, so as to
enable the amNitious neophyte to suit the taste of all mis-
tresses. On a level with the gallery are placed women's
dormitories containing 14 beds, snd above these in • lofty,
apartment are the men's beds. There an at present only
but there are rooms for 40.
The Lord Mayor on taking the chair yesterday made •
suitable speech. After which the company sasembled in,
one of the upper rooms, where • very substantial repast was
pet pared.
Ihe usual loyal and local toasts were drunk and re-
sponded to, end the company separated after staying • short
time in the lower ball to contemplate the curious scene which
presented itself upon the opening of that department—the
soup kithen—and the rush of hundreds to partake of its
benefits.

DINNER TO TIIE HON. GRANTLET BERKELET.—On
Wednesday evening • poblie dinner was given at Maoris-
bury to the Hos. Grantley Fitahardinge Berkeley by the
electors of West Gloucestershire, in testimony of the esti-
mation in which his 20 years' parliamentary services are
held. Colonel Master presided, and, in th course of the
evening, a handsome candelabrum, manufactured by Hunt
and Haskell, was presented to Mr. Berkeley hy Mr.
from the agriculturists of the western division of
the county of Oloueester, as as acknowledgment of their
respect for him as their late representative, and also
as a test of their disapprobation of the system of aggres-
sion, intimidation, and co.reicis" praetised against him at
the last end previous elections, by which ho had been
obliged to resign a constituency which he had represented
fur 20 years. Mr. Berkeley, in acknowledging the compli-
ment thus paid to him, adilressed the meeting, which num-
bered about 1,200 persoes, fur nearly an hour, declaring hie
adherence to liberal principles, and his anxiety to extend
the benefits of free trade to all, without maintaining the
present limping system, by which the farmer alone was
excluded from its advantages.
DUTCH CATTLE.—The vessel William Penn, ar-
rived from ?Goa Diep, has brought upwards of 1,400 sheep,
besides 83 head of oxen and cows, and 24 calves, ocmprising
the entire cargo, the produce of Holland. Some large arri-
vale of sheep have lately taken place by this vessel from the
port mentioned, but this is the largest importation of the
kind from abroad which has ever taken place.
CROPS AND FAIRS IN SOUTH WALES The very
heavy rains which have &ilea have much retarded the in-
gathering of the harvest, but the settled and dry weather
which has prevailed for the last few days, has afforded an
opportunity (or carrying their trope, which the farmers and
growers have not been slaw to avail themselves of. Consi-
dering all the adverse circumstances, the grain has been m-
ewed so far in as good condition as could be antici-
pated, but sprouting bad taken place in many dis-
tricts, and the corn likewise very much laid; no
doubt, the favourable change in the weather will, to a great
cutest, repair this damage. The crops generally are considered
heavy, and the ears well Riled, though in some parts
the quality of the grain is complained of. Along the coast
the yield is generally good, and, taking the district through,
there is no doubt that is more than the average; but it will
be somewhat radiated by damaged and sprouted grain. The
potatoes have not escaped the blight, and in many places
the abscet total destruction of this invaluable esculent has
taken place. At the various fairs the prices of stock have
been kept up. Fat beasts have been in demand, and have
realised a shade higher prices,* also have horses and colts.
The pig fairs have been well supplied, end higher rates
have been obtained.

THE COLLISION ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORK-
SHIRT RAILMAY.—The following statement. with respect to
tbis accident, has been furnished to the Manchester Guardian
by a gentleman who wee a first.cleas passenger in the train
from Wigan. He says that the train ought to have left
Wigan at 8.17 p.m., but that it did not retch that station
from Liverpool till about 20 minutes aPer that time; that
it remained 10 minutes at the Wigan station, though the
number of passenger. leaving or entering the carriages was
by no means large; that it proceeded very slowly, stopped
more thin ten minutes at the Westhoughton station, and
altogether lost so much time both at stations and en roods
that our informant at length inquired into the cause, and wee
then told that the train was le heavy that the powerful
engine could not, with all its steam, draw it otherwise than
slowly. It reached the Bolton junction some 3.5 minutes
behind its due time, end from that point, all the way to-
wards Bolton, traversed the same rails as would be run over
by strain from Preston due at that poise only two minutes
afterwards. When the collision occurred, the train, he thinks,
was about a mile on the ether side of Bolton ; and he distinctly
saw that the goods train carried a red tail-light. lie Oinked
was about the fourth carriage from the tender which was
, *queried and smashed, being literally on its beam ends, with
' its roofgaping open. The place where the accident happened
is close by • high stone wall, he thinks about nine feet high,
the railway within this wall being very narrow, so as scarcely
to afford shuttling room for the pamengers between the train
and the wall. As he knew that the Preston train was
about due, he reseed a second collision by that train run-
ning into the rear of the Liverpool train, which sustained
the accident, and he accordingly warned the passenger of
their danger, increased as it was by the night being quite
dark, and many of the male passengers sealed this wall, in
order to be out of harm's way. Ile did so, and pushed on
acres the Sells to Bolton, where he communicated the
ioteilieenee of the eolision, and urged them to send sur-
geons to the spot, and he then came on in a ear to Man-
chester. lie adds, as another source of risk and danger,
that while standing upon the platform of the Wigan sta-
tion, waiting the arrival of the train from Liverpool, he
saw the identical goods train which was subsequently ran
into pale the Wigan station towards Bolton within flee
minutra of the time at which the train from Liverpool was
due there.
111611 CHARGE FOR BURT %L.—During the last
week Mr. Barker, the laid deree•dant of an ancient family,
residing a, Murton Hill, died, and the family vault being In
the church at Houghton Le Spring, application was marls
to the rector, the lion. end Rev. T. they, to inter his re-
mains there. The rector, however, requiring the sum of
20/.. for " snowing the vault to be opened," and that sum
being considered far too much, Mr. Barker was buried in
the ehteschysed of West itaintoe.—DiseAssis Chronicle.

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