The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-07 00:00:00

LONDON;- THURSDAY EVPllitd, MAY 7, 1868.

• Vi;tamped, id. Additional.]

LONDON HOSPITAL

Loot evening the hundred and twenty-third
inniviesaiy festival in aid of this institution took plea at
the lambs Tavern, BishopmeMMireet, under the presi-
dium of the Earl of lisarranetisr, who stinshered aT
his supporters many influential gentlemen well knows
their general benevolence, and mare especially for the
Mheral meemser is which they prossolie the interame of this
amity. From the published Matistica of the 'hospital end
Its operations, it appnus that the leetitatiott »limes unti-
e* sperm& of 81,000 patient& Dories the year 1862, so
Iseithea 12,4865e00f widest were brought into the'
*604 which is the great receptacle for each
mess thronOont the Eastern portion of the metropolis.
The hospital dominion volintery coutributions to the ex-
tent a more than 5,0001. per MIMEO, ICI tied income being il
about 13,0001., while its ex peoditure unavoidably ex-
meds 18,0001. This state of things aotnethnes neceasiteind:
&Marl iVotone t:fettliblioose 44:. notulftuorcitiLera.bae than;
.P.thasunjessunpr?ce'deutel; "mi
mora tt 96,0001. Tie The7tateissA
number of in-patients admitted during the yeas 1862 weer
d and the total number of out was,
I The trial number of petiolate a rises tie
Jimodattea •hak heolatel Tlqs caste!te inclusive of all nieMpf Willies
ity th6timeser of 'Width nan neerfil •
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mTeilsigieTe witted twZwrig:erg Adis . Wed
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=Zegroliat,tteriTrbilgi—r finemeiit4ln Ptph°e;
-UM,* Tbl6 falls 4.66 hre:g7tt prominently faced I
hp, Mu
.ohairipas in, pronging the tout of the ,
homing Emily to the London Hoepital.l I
This Institut/0o; • %ebb* **reed,' wed & stand the
soot scretinieleg, he 'sight wren my competitive, tam:skull
tioo among other charities of a similar kind. The published
reports showed that the Ludes Hospital had received sr
yaw meridecatith share of awn*, end be therefore sugi
,Eted that they should forma their estimate of the future
from what had taken place to the past. If they adopted
• mums they would find that the institution Would not
besdalleient in psapoetion to the umesities el the time. A
pew phentom moently arisenwhich might for • time
dnfth or alarm the pseral flow of benevolenoeLa Phan
•in the shape et gurithomo-tax • upon bib charthes.
eaufeseml he Mu gain last in t when he 1
that a murkier, who wee known be no amiable and so •
as the pretest Cliencethie attb. Exchequer, had its
so unjust a anmenre lota. tho Mous of Oommons. And
could only amount for it by the fact that the right horn
gentleman wee en wedgiled to. „logic, so determined MI
be governed by rtnet rule, that whatever mit
be the guiding err differing circumstances need
fore him at the moment, be most, of necessity'
a* upon 66 inexorable law which amid that
an 2 invariably make 4. But he thought his own logi
was defective in this striking point. He must have evert
looked the fact that all those who have incomes unde4
1001. 'per annum are exempt from Mouse lax—that .
emption he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) voluntarily
leave, sad hoeing done so, it was for him to carry oat that
• to the fullest extent. It was, therefore, urea.'
e for the right bon. gentleman to impose a tax one
thou whose incomes, as recipient, of public dimity;
amounted to only a few shillings per week. Every farthing
diverbd from the purposes of charity and paid to the re-
venue in the shape of direct taxation, was so much sob-
/rooted from the power of these institutions to grant relief
to the needy and the suffering. The right bon. gentlemen
must. have been entirely ignorant of the manner in
which bliks'eliaritite eft supported, at he would not bane
to impose • tax which was calcelefedlo be ado
Urdu of the Mot Ultima . of such Meditations. They all
loser that such dimities were supported largely by manual
contributions; but these were not always to lie depended
upon. In the hey-diy of commune, when buainent wu
twist and flourishing, them autooriptforts were hope ; in
periods of etagnatitin and depression they fell off ; the nu*
nags's, therefore, in prosperous years, invested a portion at
the usual sulioriptiona to provide spaiest an evil day,
and it Our this, ineutmenta whack the Clianoslloe
of 'the Etchrephr *mild hive taxed ; but, happily, the
tame had goes to that bourne *tomes to traveller returns,
end 'he hoped it would there dad a pemeitil resting-place
without eqy prospect of a resuereseion. The noble lord
went on to expatiate upon the important benefits mono
iog to the community
,ftem this excellent institution, and
coecluded by mating an earnest appeal to the benevdlene.
of those who meld. • to the onerits of the Loudon
Hospital. The result of his lordship's appeal WAS that
dooations and subscriptions were announced amounting to
3,0001., of which sum above 1,0001. wee contributed by
usemben of the Jewish pareaseigsa.' • The musical arrange
mot, were. under the diteetiori ad Mr, Poulos, was
able assisted by Miss Paolo. Wm a Co* Mr. Cummins
and Mr. Minn. kr. • asiker thastnielmer.
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ROYAL TUE HOSPITAL. OHAMINNHOAD.!

There is no one of the numerous medical charities
which happily abound in the metropolis that more pettedly
halls the requitement+ of a pthlic hospital than, the ins*
tulles iq the Gray's•inn•rearL It ,is what de mono implies/.
" fres^ in every sense of the word. ft nientirely supported
by the' "free cilia and dmitributions of the charitable-
public ; no letters of recemkteellelten me 'required mi a
qualification ter admission, balsa far site seem will alba,
every applicant who games or is brought to its doers re.
quoin medical aid and too poor to obtain it in the ordinary•
way is admitted. The only embattle demanded en sick•
nem and destitution, mid dosing 68.36 Mars of its indig-
enes this hospital, plead no happily for its purpose in'osrof .
the most &Gael, populated and poorest districts of London,
and acting strictly ;witithisinnitlialisits of the " fees" pupas
c which it n. • atablisbed, hie conferred •
collate upon th of the pooreet elf the • ,
lasts. Of late masa the pronistity et the termini if tosear
the lariat railway cowponies in the kingdom, madmen zi-
oesdll the cosstractioe, in the bet Meioses, and now the
caking of the ifetrimolitaa a Underground Railway have
working
considerably to the deniesde spire the &oddest Mazda.
The hoepital now abide misdate to 43,11 e -in and- Mt- ,
percents ssagelly, but without any, additional-exposer/of
management; the present building might be so arranged es
to provide 200 additional beds, 17:8Siallprovidingtor largo
increase in the relief to cot-door tt Voir alicigtfbe
the hospital wore Widened wi • meetings of 5,0004.
which -by the exertions of energetic friends s note
paid off, and the committee are sexism to
lain funds to provide 100 additional beds in
ample epees they have unoocupied, and tie extend' E
Moats of the charity is its domensatory character.
Led arming the sulmerihers and friends If the institution
met together at the Frsemaioaa' Tavern to celebrate its
.25th anniversary. Mr. Ca*m.ra Dews presided ; and
there was a numerous atterodanes of the supporters of the
dotty. The talented &einem, to an eloquent and enc.
tem address, pointed out the seed, and urged the Tog
Maisie of such a hoskOtal upon the consideration
charitable public. hutocriptioss &moulding to nearly
6.0001. were announced. A Moil corps, comiating of fhb
Mime Memmint, gEyles, Oleos vanes Mein Merged,
ergot,
Edam, sad Saadi, added by their idiotic.performeases ;
to the enjoyment of the feettrall.

ROYAL borrrrt ft or Baran A actirtricri.—At
the aannal meeting ot the members held onlifeaday less,
Proles or Doualdeen was uarrimenaly elected shaman tp
the institute, as avoosesor to W, .where
term of office had expired.
Tim Poucs AitgrimmAribtir tirtfr:÷A pith!**
meeting of the ratepayere of Wester ter, or the pompom
of proteetise against the bill of Sir Georg* Gen ter the
Amalgamation of the Ott" with the Metropolitan rola*
was held last seining in the seetrtivoin of Bt. JINNI*
Piccadilly, Mr. Bidgood in the chair. Major Lyon moved
the tint resolution, which strongly coodeinued the
amalgamation; and chimed for the metropolitan gri:sht
municipal institutions, The resoluticio • was itecoodediby'
Mr. James Deal, and caned unanimously. Other resole-
tioos in favour of local aelf,government were proposed sad ,
rilmazi‘to by Means. Westerns, Mallen, and other gee.
and carried unaaimously.
Tam Psorosso RAILWAY BILIDOIC AT LIIDOATI-
XILL.—At the meeting of the Coesmisnemers of Seines hal-
m Tuesday at Guildhall, Mr. Charles Young in the chile,
a report was brought up from the improvemeut committer,
on the subject of the Ludgatiohill Juootion Railway Bal.
. now before poliameat. The report stated in detail the
worse. taken by the committee as regard* the promoters
of the bill. sod the meetoriel of the inhabitents of Lud-
gate-hill against the proposed viaduct. The committee,
after niferring to the position and engagements of the aim.
may promoting the bill, stated that they wandered it,
doubtful whether the men meld succeed in opposing
the bill this session. and doubted whether, under any cir-
cumstances, it would be wise to expend the rate:
payer: money is so doing. The arrangements as regards
Lateen-hill ware as follows : The company would env
sent to make the Midge sixty feet wide—sae Omer
width—although it • most be aedensteed that this ragreepst
width would necessitate the bridge being made higher, sad
more obstructive to the view. The company will &abash.'
the dentin to the engineer el the commission, sad the
bridge slacialel sot be erected without his appreveL. The
company also undertake to poll dews both sides of Leapt..
hill, from 29 and 11 ineherist to the mesa of' Bndge-
Artist end. Paningdonstrest, sod le offer the eamsniedes is
=nob ground se they may regales foe wideelug the .Mteeks
to • bresdra not eaciesdiag ad feet, the value el
to be deterniosi by the wErveloe el the amusiseiee sex
the surveyor d the orrapany. snlijest to arbitration la's
df disegrestmsll, The report issinded a eratereent as 1p
the uningainsta waieh hid bras made irith the mans
soar ms he • nomber of Other stristeL After loom Abu
WWI 014
rations from OWN two Si the mmitiessi the nepast ono

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THE POLISH INSUBRECTION.

CRACOW, MAY at.
According to news received hare from Lithuaela
4,000 Baskolnika (disseuters from the Greek faith),
armed by the Russian government, in the neigh-
bourhood of Dunaborg, are desolating Livonia with
fire and sword. Shocking details have been received
of their atrocities.
Yesterday a body of 600 Russians were repulsed
by Miniewski at Olkwa, in the government of
Radom.

BERLIN, Nal 6.

The Nord lOsuesolis Zeituog of this evening
announces that during the past week the Prussian
authorities hare seized very considerable lards of
.artim, intended to be secretly introduced into
..Poland i miens and distant paellas of the
kingdom.
The New P-reualische (Kreutz.) Zeiturkg of to-day
lays :—"Tha,terrorient new bsipg sassaisick by
viler orraystationery eounnittees at 'Warsaw and
Cracow upon the inhabitants of Posen may rend4;r
Lit at any moment neoessary for government to
proclaim a state of siege throughout the whole or
in some of the smaller distrietsathe provinoe.V

THE POLISH QUESTION.
ST. PETER3III7IIO, KAI- 6,,
The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day publishes
despatches from the Swedish , govempant of the
''7th April, from the Spanish government of the 2lpt
March, and from Alm Italian &Armament of the
23rd April, all relating to the Polish question, with
theteipective replies al the Russian government to
those communications.

The Swedish note relies. above all upon the prin-
ciples'of hintanity and generosity by which it is
persuaded the Emperor of Russia is !orsinpassol, , and
',expreeisei i chi:a:radon 'that the wads of clemency
and forgivineas, with the prospect, of a rnl' 'bf
.kageeiouiliberty„, will suffice for the complete ie-
aoration of t;aiiquillity and order. ' '
The reply to` the Swedish note refers to Ate
forwarded to the three Western PoWelrs
upon the question.
~The Sptuffih note deeply regrets the impatience
the 11.0014 who have been inahU to itisaft the
omtinsiltion Of, the system of commerical; alre4y
grantekt.....linving seen by eirperienos tlist Moder') -
tioe &liar popular agitation more uie4ully then
severity, the Queen asks that grace and indulgeir
may be shown towirds the vanqui.4o3.
The reply to this note thanks the Spanish govern-
' meet in friendly terms. .
The note of the Italian government is drawti
I • .
up
in a conciliatory spirit. . • ..
It hope( that the Russian court will see from
, spirit of the despatch • proof of the desire Of the
Italian government to remain upon the most
Iriendly footing, and that entire confidence may
continue to exist between titer,.
Replying to this note, upon the lit inst., the
Emperor Sp eutioai the pleasure with which be, bits
seeeived the friendly expressions it contains. 4.11
regards the welfare of Poland, the Italian goyim-
meut is not unaware that revolutionary effosts
impose a difficult task upon the ruling powers. The
.government will endeavour to arrange the question
upon a basis of lasting peace.