The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-23 00:00:00

THB POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-ROUSE.
A reapeeMble-looking lad, named Min Richard Asgard,
was bro,qM before the Lord Mayor charged with stealing
prOWL.bdowni to his master, Mr. Robert Nelson Collins,
a le t in Oxford-court,Lhanon-street.
It appeereddretithe prisoner bad been in the prosecutor's
service for about twelve months, and in July last be gave
him a holiday for three days, and he did not return to his
employment. This led to inquiries being made, and in con-
sequence of information the prosecutor received, be went to
the residence of the prisoner, accompanied by an Aker, and
in his bedroom there were found several bottles of castor
oil, ml ad oil, drugs, hampers, and other articles which the
prosecutor identified as his property, and the total value of
which was about 30/. . . . .

The prisoner was committed for trial.
Yr. Slater, the Secretary to the City of London Hospital
for Diseases of the Chest, at Victoria Perk, an institution
which renders very great sasistanos to the poorer cisome of
the inhabitants of the City of London, and which is gene.
rally known as the Consumption Hospital, yesterday waited
upon his lordship for the purpose of stating some facts con.
netted with the present position of the establishment, and
to solicit his assistance.
Ir. Slater stated that the institution at present made up
72 beds for the reception of patients suffering from diseases
of the chest, and it also relieved nearly 1,000 out-door
patients. The annual expenditure of the charity was about
4,5001., and it was entirely supported by voluntary con-
tributions. Their reliable income was only about 1,5001.
per annum, and although the corporation of London had
very kindly recently granted a donation to the institution 1
of one hundred guinea., he was to state that the
position it was in at the present time rendered it absolutely
mammary to appeal to the public for further rapport, and
he took this opportunity of doing so through the instru-
mentality of his lordship. Mr. .Water thee peticeeded to
state that the hospital, from the pressure upon its
resources, bad been compelled to borrow 1,0001. from their
bankers, and they were under liabilities to the
extent of a further sum of 1,0001. He maid that having
made this statement, he felt convinced that it only
required to be made known for the public to come forward
to relieve the institution from its present position of

difficulty.
The Lord Mayor said be could bear testimony from his
won knowledge, from the number of applicatMos that were
mad* at this court by poor persons for orders of admission
to the hospital, of the great benefit it afforded, and lie
s►ould have great pleasure in giving his cheque fur 231. in
aid rd this toads of the hospital, and to get the institution
out of debt He added that he had very little doubt that
the public would readily come forward to assist in so good
an object, and he hoped that this might be the case.
Mr. Slater then thanked his lordship, and retired.

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