The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-26 00:00:00

TIIK 800711811 HOSPITAL.

The objects of this charity are threefold. it affords
assistance to natives of Scotland to:kb:tit in the me-
tropolis, or its wlate vicinity, wino nut being in
nss ipt of parochial relief, woulil without its aid be
exposed in age or poverty, io sickness or distress, to
want or beggary ; tt tarnishes passages to their own
country to such natives of &edamd rs thittlin4 the
expectations with which they
tame to London dissip•
pointed, wish, but are unallie, to return thither; and
it educates a limited number of children of Scotch
parents.
The Scottish Hospital is au establishment of a
pretty respectable antiquity, and has it history not
unworthy the attention oacical antiquaries.
The institution derives its origin from a kind of
benefit society, the existence of which van ix' hared
bark to 1613, only ten years later than the aect,sion
of James 1. to the English throne. we that event
there was no Scotch innuirontion into London of any
moment. In the eleven t h v ear of Queen Elizabeth, then
were only s Scotsmen to be found in the %%hulk me-
Iropolis. But the number of bluesbonneted Whit-
tington" who followed their king to the southern
land id' promise was pretentious. It was not even-
one of them who valuta, like Ceorge Ileriut. enough
to endow au ha:pitch in -Auld Weide." With true
national foresight, and let us in ju,tiec add, with a
praiseworthy spirit of independency, a few Scotch
Journeymen associated themselves, to aid each other
and ptevent their becoming aburdon upon straw'yis.
and they gave to their association the name of the
Seoteli liox." The earliest records preserved are of
the year 1620, but reference is made in them to the
transactions of 1613.

The association continued purely voluntary till
alter the restoration of Charles 11. Small !ous
were lent on bond to the poorer menibers, without
interest ; aid was aihuded is sickness; and funeral
expenses paid. From entries in the minutes we
learn, that in It3', the amtpany numbered only 2U
flambe's; and that it allowed 204. for funerals of
those dying of the plague, and 30s. far others.
In was the money in the box was minted in pre-
sence of the members, and amounted only to
GIL 3s. od. In 1661 the quarterly disburszaients
were :V. 4s. The contributors to Ale box appear to
have been staunch loyalists: tor in 100-7 they met
at " the King's Head (or, a (sir) garden."
A charter of incorporation was obtained in 1064
from Charles 11, and a second conveyin.; extended
privileges in 1676 from the sum monarch. The cor-
poration continued to act upon the,. charters till
1773. Assistance was confined originally to such
natives of Scotland, resident in Loudon. as paid stated
contributions. I fr. Gilbert Burnet, afterwards Bishop

ot• Sali,bury, Walt, the tirst eh:unable or patrouisini
ISUbSCHIN.T, and his first subseiietion ! U. half-yearly
was pail iu 1682. The neees,ity ut e .ntrihuting. Io
order to obtain a title to relief, WAS IRA diSpelltled
With till after 1775. _ _

The year of the great plague severely tested the
resources of the new corporation. but it strug.th.sl
successfully through that terrible petiod. The art ut
ingeniously raising the wind for charitable purposes
appears to have made considerable progress even ut
that comparatively earleriod. In 1087 the cor-
poration petitioned to "have the sale of three knight;
patents;” and in 1088 we find it " ordered that th-
knight baronet's patent for England granted by hi-.
majesty be offend at :AO guinenn, and the two Soots
patents at 300 guineas each." Two appear to have
been sold. The royal burgh-, of Scotland contributed
20W. in 1688; the regiments of Scots Guards contri-
buted in 1095; and in 169; the corporation obtained
" a tally un births and meninges for 41111/."
The great influx of Scotsmen after the Union ap-
pears to have brought a load upon the hospital under
which it- resources broke down. As early as 1712
we find a committee reporting that they " had con-
sidered all the books of the corporation, and found
them so intricat and iierpleat, that they judged es-
treiunly
hard if at all possible to be ander%tond.-
Matters Frew worse and ey.•rne till the new chat :cc
was obtained in 1775, nor did they mend imme.li-
ately after that event. The rms. i ition of the
tharitv was mainly due to the indefati_ tble (tietc .);
the third Duke of Illontr3ss . who was pre-ident :a
17a2 to 1811.
The list of active belief:a:Rs and promoters of the
charity includes many rouarkable bcotsmen. Lan-
rdafe. the grim persecutor of the covenanters. rank-
ls-ide the garrulous tutu good-natured Whig Bi,lop
Burnet Drummond, the founder of the banking-
bow which still retains the name, and Campbell,
the founder of Coats's, are among the number.

Our main reason for thus inviting attention to the
character and nature of the ScottiA hospital at pm-
sent is to have an opportunity of disa':using the
Scotch residents of the metropolis of an erroneous
belief that it is a wealthy institution awl indepen-
dent of assistance. The kinlueh fund of 76,-105/. in
the Three per Cents., is limited in its application to
poor and disabled Scotehmen in distre-s. wounded
in the service of their country," and a Willi raised by-
subscription in India 30 years ago, which enables
the corporation to expend 1001. per annum fur edu-
' eatioual purpses, arc all its pennammt property.
The do:a:mous and annual subscriptions are eau-
ally inadequate to meet the growing claims on the
charity. If our Scotch readers in the metropolis
will give themselves the trouble to inquire they will
find that the institution has three :aeong e:aims upon
them:- -la the first place it is managed with judg-
ment, impartiality, and intvglity. In talc second,
by contributing to it thej will obtain the =OAS of
saliating really distre countrymen, by a mode-
rate annual expenditme' safe from the deceit of the
professional "begging-letter writ,r." Listly, the
haidtal is an ancient and historical institution—
a claim weaker, indeed, than the two former, but to
which few men, and, we are sure, nu Scotsmen, have
ever been insensible.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

THE FIRST SHILLING DAY.

nuirniug, in pursuance of the original regula-
intioas of the ltoyal Cotnmissiou, tho wanders of the
Crystal l'alace were opennl to the pull'ie at a chilling ad-
mini to fee. Great preporations had been mule in the way
of aALlNottil police, barriers, de.; but, as it turaed out,
they we re entirely unnecessary. Unload of tto tremen-
dous o rowl that had been ex:Nted, the /1010114.1.1 who this
day peratulsulated the buildinA were less by half than the
a....stanldates of Saturday, the last.,,. day. No OW was more
sustri,:d at this than the police, who had prepared theta-
selses for Herculean labour.s iu presershur th.., circulation,
but found that there was plenty of room Or the most eccen-
tric toms of inspection on the part of the public. We also
reastrloll that, b.. hlt s being much less stutte,rons than had
been c speeted, the tenpins,' was evidcattiy not, in the
ni.Joidy of instances, composed of the working classes.
They were all, o: nearly all, scell-dressed gentlemen sod
ladies, with n sprinkle es% n of aristocraey, a.aanTst whom
we recognized the Du'.e of Argyle. It is t siucted that
Whitsms week wihbring out "the mores— iu full strength.
A. correspondent writes as follows:—" A: ten
o'clock the east, bring the nearest t ntrattre. woo beset with
a crowd large ennets to till any other hui'ding, but which
was soon dissipated in the Lux, ~;mew on C.er opening of the
doors. Ihe other entrances, not 111:i07 sc, are.ssilde to the
metropolitan sitelt 0/%01., were tilt so crowded. One reason
per the Indus was a belief which was spceall tied it was
isecscsary to t,ct its enrh, as all the late routers would be
Wash. to Its• excluded, an as count of the building bAss
The ountitne...., made a harvest, and it was ditticult tin women
stud e'aildt .11 to get ilvd.le scat, corn CA tar c..st a, Char-
ine-c,oss. To rassetty this end, some of the WM:Ho AS pro-
pra tors propose to run short trip,"

The Duke of 1%-eillingten Lacing IK.it fro 11 the
first • i,f foe nio-t auadt.o.as visitors of the Crystal
lia. bethought himself how the r, giments anch-r
his roinsuand uiay enjoy tho some satiohetion. For this
nuroo k • leave of c.b..ence has tutu given by the Commando •
n-c !tier to all a-ailments at home, from the Ist of June to
he ;lush, time held ofli,•er, half the captains, and half
th, •uhultervin to lie Whined the hails:genre each fortnight
in tic, mouth. In the same roirit, the Admiralty have
gi%eic leave to the officials of th•.: royal dockyards to absent
themselves under curtain r ; and tho orders in
which this mrni•sion is cones yed iit the suer time :la-
wns:we that ;tlt.: offlcers Niatting the Groat Exhibi-
tion arc expected to r:rort to 111-ir r .siwetive superin-
t. ink ab, any new ins' .ration is biathi.: ry, or improve-
' uu,a, in i-tides iu veamil tee::, &e., that may
attract their int( titian, or any.bing that may

them us useful or adrautafteou. to ti.e pultlie.sen tee.
The order isnot-dun Friday ta tLe workm. of Portsmouth
Dockyard, Or, notice that the in:rest of leave to be
emoted to then' fur the purpow of the Exhibition,
is to he extendel to aft days--Vie lint i :If of the work-
savu to prom d to Londmi on her ty's birthday, re-
turning um the Itittay followier, awl II: "rood half to
prix:.:ed on tie anturetsary of her .liejesty'a coronation.
The admiral has Latimeated to the men that in ease the fare,
of the railway are not red.evcd to what may be considert.xl a
low ;,,are, he will place a %es.' at thew I..posal nor the
raw.. eof conveying theta to the IncI2WEUH).

Mote persons attended the Crystal l'alate on
Saturday than in any day since the opening. Tine doors, as
usual ou Saturday, were opened at twelve o'clock, and by
au hour hi fore that time an immense and continually
iu-
ereadng crowd besieged the various entrant. 4. For an hour
after the opening of tt • six-and-twenty ...,ors by which
visitors are admitt.il the pullic flocked hi, and by two
o'clock the interior of the building wa. ou, moving Inas+.
.%t the elm of the d:t 3,07'3. hail been received at the
d• or, whit le, at Zit. ach person, gives I visitors, be-
,4.lr thou, who purchased ~aton ticltts or already held
tl.em. The day was 1,...,7 hut. and altogether Math a one am
moot realise or condemn tin- fears whit it have ken
to loudly expr,seil for the comfort of locomotion
under a glass roof on a summer's day. But not-
wit!.Ntandin4 the great heat out of doors, the
tm,acature in the building never rte..: ahove id deg. F.
to order to give as morn as pOII.iLL: for the purpose
of locomotion the seats and benches, which on Fnday
in triy tilled the tran:ept, hate been tleareil away and
i plated in the central nfresluuent court nud the large open
tuloon behind it During the day the litissian goods. lately
::ailed from the Nep.nue, were received into time building.
T:,• compartment- of that country aro temporarily placed
r canvas until the it arrangemen: sitall be comideted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

MARLBOIWUOII-STREET.

Pr(s6l,,en.tiTh assaulting
Police-coustahle SAll, who ilepesetl that ou Saturday he was
on duty in the eirriage-road in liyde-pirk, near the south
of the Exhibit:ou, when lie saw the ilAendant, who wa:
ilrivinF, a horse and Brotwitaxi, comber swum the road at
a tunous rate. Too cm-tables tried to stop
but did not succeed, and whin the iklendiust manic near
witucs he dogged his horse to make it go (utter.
N;ltutss called out to him to stop, and then ran forward and
seized the him, and told him he moat not go any further,
as he we= out of the rank. The prisoner then with his
whip struck w inicss, 11.14 the thong twisted round his hat
and came in coutoct his face. Witness at length suc-
ceeded in stopping hint, and took Lim into custody.
The accused, In defence, said he was directed by his
master, Mr. Jones. who was an invalid, to tako him up at
the west lentrawe. Dying ratio r behind his time, he put
his horse on, but did not exceed a trot. If he struck the
constable it was done acciacutolly, awl not on purpose.
Mr. Singh nu Aid the prisolloe4 duty to the police was
paramount to ids duty to his r un an occasion like
pr,sent. The eaccrs must be protected, awl as the
blows given were but slight, he shot& commit hi,n for seven
dry. only, instead of ten.

Dr..trtt of :li.tton-IRSEttal. PITT, K.ll.—The
WA, of Saturday statist that Mai q-fienerid Pitt, who had
commanded the troops in New Zealand since 1817, died in
January last. The Lite 6,mral l'itt entered the service in
1.403 a in 1807 he served in th r W,it Indies, and wai pre-
nt at the capture of Coe Danish islands in that Tear. He
siraeal at the capture of Slartinique in 1609. trom 1811
to Ist 1 he served in th: l'eninsular war, and was present at
.►lhaihcrs. in the actieu. at Usarge anal Alnairez, the siege '
of B tdajor. the battles of Vittoria. Bampeluna, anal the
l'vra Dees, for which he bad receliTil the war medal anal four
clasps. In 1336 he was nominatcd A Ktlil lit of Hanover,
and in 18 was 21 tech on the hat of uhstris receiving re-
wards tor distinguished
C %LEY REGlMENls.—Circular kttera hare been
stint to Akira conunanaing cavalry regintents, directing the
suspension of the purchase of remounts, and requiring to
know the mamba of 11,3M'. wants- 1 to complete the vita-
-1 blished num'icr. he horses of tlic 11Cai I....aceri, the real-
111,11t ordered to the Cape, aro to be distributed amongst
these cavalry regionals.

MINES.
(rim the Daily Nees.)
SATURDAY Evart
The business in mining shares during the week
has been of an unsuallylimitcd character, but not-
withsiairling the depressing influence exercised by
the emnparative absence of inquiry, prices on the
whole have been fairly supported, the instances
of decline being few and unimportant. This
is a Wry satisfactory feature wider the circum-
stances, and is mainly ascribable to the favourable
accounts which continue to be received from most of
' the chief mining undertakings of the country. The
meetings at this time awl during the month of June,
arc always very numerous and important, and in-
vestins naturally hold back for the purpose of ob-
taining reliable information relative to the present
position of the various adventures. Business is thus
tireurnscribed, hut it is satisfactory to note that the
asks adverted to in our lust weekly review, have not
been prosecuted upon the same scale, all the other
markets, save the railway shine market, in which
exceptiaaat influencies have been in operation have
shown a similar want of animation, this week having
been. in many respects, a holiday one for business
purpos.:*.
The following are the quotations of the week :
Bedtiod United, 7I; Botallack,2o7; Ding Hong, 7 8;
East P 001,1471 ; EastTantar,l4s. ;East folgus, 12 ;
East Lei atre.ls l; Great Work, '...000 ;I.evant, 150 ; South
Canulon, 125, I'!7!; West 'rowan, 13; Chiverton,
1, It ; Wheal Harriett, ; ; Wheal Speedwell, 1,1,, ;
West Providence, 81

In foreign aliares—Asetrillan, 1 to It St. John
del Rey. 17l ; Imperial Brazilian, 21 3 ; Cobre,
3i4, 9 ; Gpiapo, f 3, 7; 8,7, Come, 11,
21; United Mexican, 3:!,

MIDLAND RAILWAY.

TO TU T.DITOU Or TOE vcruts!..

Sin,-1 was surprised to sec in your leading article
of yesterday our remarks on the good management of the
Miihand Railway. I don't know what it may be thought
of in some parts of England, but in this county the Mid-
land Railway Company kis become quite a by-word -.Mid-
land Reilway time being synonymous with no time at all. I
have no hesitation in say in that the Midland Railway is
one of the worst-managed lines in England, let the other
be whits it will ; and the tally wonder is, that accidents are
not more frequent on it tn.at they are. No one seems to
have any management or control over the trains—they in-
variably arrive too late. Take. as un instance, the brunch
line running from this to Nottingham, sonic sevent, en
miles in length. It is nut one time iu to n that the trains ar-
rive at the proper time, even on this short 'ranch, fre-
quently being half and sometimes one hour beyond time.
Passengers ride just where they please, and iu fact du al-
most as they like, often takilec no tickets, and getting sway
with, tut paying- gi ulna into ard-iclam carriages and pitying
fur setiitiel, &e. It is a perwet miracle that no accidents
have happened to passenger* on this branch. The gradients
are very steep, and the last fray miles of the line into
Mansliedd is out. continued scries of sharp curves, on a
descent of übeut one in ninety, and pissing over a valley in
one pl.:en by an old tram way bridge of live arches, which
Rd% haul C comidt red unsafe even for horse. and coal wag-
vas to pass over, and so narrow that the carriages are within
a Mw inches of the low puraiiet wall., and frequently with
two enormous engines on it at the same time. The usual
egpc,e..;.in is on getting pat it, " Thank OWL we are user
the Midge." If you hear of a erred' here don't be aura:is:lh
Do be good enough to Ore thou an article as to keeping
poster ti uc. I am, toc., A SU u.scuruk:
I'.S.—The Coolnor-perk line, on which the last ueeidi vet
branches of from this line four miles from this
I'.
Mansfield, May 23, hail.