The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-27 00:00:00

HOSPITAL PO3 CORSOMPTION, BIIOMPTON.

Yesterday- the 18th annual general court of thel
gensasre of this valuable dimity was held in the bead-
le= d the hoepitet, the Right Hoe. Rad Maavers pe-
ddler. The Honorary Secretary (Mr. P. Rose) read the
posed and Ileasetal report., a aiso t hat of the rev. chap
vine wen ussainossly adopted. from which it apy:Lt
Met the seimmittee were thanklal that in comequenco of
artamd reesumies they had been able to re-open the building
te the kV emaplemeat of is-patiesta. Ihe number of in.
=iseho had been leader treatment dories the yaw yew
4 masekileg in Me hiesetal in Demem. 1867: 111
wee IC, of whew 400 led bees &mewed greatly liseeited,
118 ad, rad 169 MI Jail en the 31.1 December lest. The
appiketioss for whalesion INT* now more sumeroas thin
ewe, the number cm the books welting for &demean bet
Deanne Min se len than 129. Of 3,971 new out-
patleatn, who bd been attended by the pbysici.us, many
W ben is 611 baWl of cretin from colaiderable distances
the merialey. Although at the fret manual meetiag it wee
sweemeei that from the preesere of debt one wing of
' the beadles would be closed, and admires to at teem 80
beds sespiellad, it was satiatactory to elate that, owing to
the receipt of additional funds, all the word. were fully
need le November last, sad had still cootinited apes.
It was gestleylag to Mate that white the donation, is 1847
MI hem 1,4724 they had la 111611 tattooed to 6,0891. Ilk.

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL: At a neont
swain of tbs iiimpitslcomnittes Mr. Thome Field Dobson
anamomod that his relative, Mr. Damp FiliPer, of Trigon-
hill, Worsham, Dorset, had mot him 1,0001. as a docati-n
foe the boopital, sad had expressed a wish that the amount
should be invistod, and the meows applied la some matinee
to connect with the hospitel the nano of his on, Dr.
Wdliant Finder, lately deceased at as early age. Dr.
Finite, was formerly a d'atieguished &indent of thefaculty
of medicine, and bad rec,lved his pr ell sdnostiaa la
the junior school aid faculty of arts of the . At the
same nesting the committee, basin resolved as a former
measles not to have recourse this yam. Os a pubic dinner,
determined to sot on loot a more priest* appeal for nil
towards the year's expenses of the cheeky. Subscriptions
towards that object of 2001. from Mr. J. M. Jerry sad Mr.
A. W. Jeffrey, father and moo, oontributom of serval like
gifts on former occasions and one of 261. from MIL Finnegan,
an addition to •octal former sininlar pats lee unseat,
were ordered to be i aborted in the li.t of donations. Mr. A.
W. Jaffrey was formerly a pupil of the school sad college,
sad is now is member of ttis

INFANT ORPHAN AsTLUM.—The annual meeting
of shag tnetttutios was held, st the Loudon TONIAI3, yester-
day. The chair was base by the Right Bow. the Earl of
Shaftesbury. The report was read, which silted that the

numbly offchltdraudn'tles establielararnt, et the last animal
meeting, was 509. Since that period 66 bad been Owed,
and one bed twea.admitted by purchase. No less than 665
children bad thus arioyed the protection of the arylum
during the per. fused,* children had left; one
had died. The •amber of orphans mow on the
foandsteonwas, therefore, 550. which number now amountid,
with the 25 candidates elected peterday, to 615. The
report elm stated that scarcely one case of errante illners
had o:rurted. The rely drath recorded took piece at
the house of the child's friend; ito that there had trd
been Das fetal case within the asylum darts' the whole
year. The flasacial c .ndittua of the charity was alas la a
pruepri.us odultrios. The recwiptip from all sourms went
16,0971. 30. 3d , while tbsexpadittire bad only beta 11.917/.
7e. 10.1., leering a bawl in favour of the charity of 3,0671,
10s Od. The report 'mein beta adopted, the meeting pro.
Deeded to the threeke el emadklates, on. hundred in number,
aratof which tersattlise went elected... .

OzoLootcel. -8130277.—At the meeting to he
hied es the Ist of Jams are the &Aar's!' gaper. yin be
read: 1. Oaths sinking for coalC at tin Bbireoskecollievy, by
Mr. J. Lemeratrr; communicated by Mr. C. Wrigbt, P. 0.8.
2. Nate, of the geology of Xtuttisrs Australia, by Mr. A. Bel.
wy• ; a letter to Sir K. I. Murchison. 3. Notes on
Sp'bibrries. by Mr. James Lancet, E. 0.111.; communi,alad
by Sir C. 11211, V.P.O.S.
Ms. W' IMAM, M.P.—The hoe. member for
Bradford is aiewly recovering from the alters of his late
assident. He I. oft conno.d to tie ted, but is vies on
lavom ir, ahly. Be will a, however, be able to be present at
1 the arising of wham. ut, but hopes to take his mat eoce
ram.

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Apstrut TIICATRE.—We need only record the
prodnerke lest night .t thie theatre of a Arch called the
hiking Red, which neither deserved nor moo with public
mitobeties. It le simply another version of a irttce celled
Ildited jaw • Ifsraireel, produced some time lance at the
Olympia, rail le wady unworthy of the repaterion of it.
satire _ _

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7 RS WAR AND THE COAL TRADE.—At a meeting
of the Newcastle, Shields, and Liatesheel Chamber of Coma
nenrce, ea Wednesday, after coemderable diecueeice, the
follow* tesolutke was paseed nnoultoosely That this
having saesidertd the re cent proclamation of nen-
treltsitityy hit Majesty, and the recent reply of Lord Moines-
bey to the apple:ado, of Messrs. John Nichol and Ce. en
the subject of the gaped of oil, and the exorcised option of
hie lordship that cod in many mete may be rightly held to
be ciontratet.d of wee, felt it to be dee defy to protest la the ,
strongest pomade meaner against the *akin as expensed
by therteelera Smeary, cod Wag le the spirits debts ,
meding am seeds wYoh, wedge no elmemstemege eel pc-
Issose, ems powebly b• remodel as amembewe of war wad
that • wee Mak globs the name hr the *Odom eater-
Wee/ by Ws medles he peemeed le the Bowe of Trade,
praying that • eseheales may he made by the protagonist
of chi. country, as the imeeted navel power in the wooed,
that coal I. not, sod will met be ander any circus-
sou, o, to be ceitenlemed of wee."—Netemials CAroniete.
SEREEettD Modred AT LEEDS. —A man named
Thome. Smith, a weattemaan employed by the Midland Rail-
way Company at the Whitehall Junction, Lod., le in
custody at that town, cherpd with the wilful murder of we
Wag image child, of which he lath- father, a wit nit old.
Be was lr.teght Were the magierstee to remand yes erdey
(Tliteesdai).kighs.dpeindgel witness against Min was a re-
soddier rung maned Helen Mo ve, who
,aid that die wilt Km. Wend, la lappleyard•ociiet,
Seadhetbwtreet, Beheed-cloto, Leeds; that the pri-
mmer bee emoted kw soot., time, and that she hod
a child by _him; that on Friday 'venter last be visited her
at bee leh*p, and sheet eleven o'clek they west out
*meths; she sartyles to. child. The peewee told her that
be bed made mrangementa with a perms named Williamson,
at lestetan, a village about two miles GC to norm the
Add he de. pee week, and he was to convey it there
that night. The mother, believing this stry, did not
object to the child's removal, end aceompaaied Smith on the
road to Beeetoo. Oe their snivel at Stocks-hill. however,
he tittered het to return borne. and to provide him some
tee brine the public-bores doted. He pressed her
two or three time to nem, and she at length consented
to do to ; but blare she had gone many yard*, the
prisoner's conduit excited some misgiving., and she
ocasejuenly turned end followed him. He swirled the
poem', however, by peeing through Calverley-oust,
beyond which she was unable to trace him. Mogen then
proseled home, where, in about half an beer, the pr loner
eased her. in severer t t her inquiries. he stated that he
hat delivered the child to Mr. and idea Walters*, at their
residence. She (Maxon) still derided hie Amy, and the
t ext day thewent to Reece in search of her choil. After
mains every inquiry, the only person named Wollitusecia
whom she could discover was one residing at Millshay,
but who had no knowledge whatever either of Smith or Dee
mitring child. Saberqueney she gave information to the ma-
gistrates, and the prisoner ere appethended. On Wedoee'av,
Mr. Engllab, the chief oonaishle of Leeds. sec imp oiled the
trimmer in • gig. fa order that he meta point out the teal-
dews of tte but he failed to do so. On
arriving, however, at liolbeek M. or Clues Bar, en the
Beeeton reel, he stated that that was the spot where, by
atrasermes% he met the Williamson., and delivered to them
the chill, adding that he had only seen thew once before,
which we on the previous Tuesday, and he could not tell
when they lived. Though the police hays mere diligent
search Sir the child, up to yesterday (Tbureday) offenses
they hied found an tree of it, but • policeman has examined
the point-b occupied by the primeer st the Whitehall
Jaw ion, and there f -nod s 'bawl owl hasakeichief, the
former nl villa has limn 'detailed by Mears ea shot in
which the infant was wrapped when she left raw It, end the
bendlowehief metaled some flennele, Ike., for ft. The pri-
sow, who said that he lose the child was alive, was wain
remsnded. It appeared that the prisoner invited the mother
of the child to mew him let Tutaday bight, end tried to
ride her to walk with him on the side of the Leeds sod
Canal and the River Awe, but she refuted to do
tex It ilels
general impresses that he bed some evil %ten-
tless towrds her, and that, in fact, he hail contereptatid
murdering her y gmenthar. The police are • ill nuking
march for the body el the ebb& met a doubt twine felt that
the prieenees any abed the child befog alive I. false.