The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-21 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL FESTIVAL.

After a silence of three years, passed in the most
strenuous efforts to keep the institution at its full pitch of effl-
Mency, the governors of University College Hospital once
more appealed to the benevolence of the public, at a festival
dinner, held at the London Tavern yesterday evening. The
chair was taken by the Right. Hon. Lord Joint Raiment.,
who was loudly cheered on entering the room. About 100
gentlemen sat down to a superior dinner and the proceedings
of the evening were much enlivened by the excellent part
singing of the Orpheus Glee Union, under the direction of
Mr. T. E. Williams.

lila CHAIRMAN gave in mocesaion the usual loyal toasts,
with a graceful allusion to the rapidity with which the
Princess floral had gained the affections of all classes of the
pe*e in hei new home.
The next toast in the usual course would have been " The
Army and Navy," and the company were evidently prepared
ler a belligerent demonstration, but for some reams or other
it wee passed over, and the chairman proceeded to advocate
the dolma of the charity.
His Loki:mum mid he would, in giving the toast of the
, Out remind them thit institutions like that of
which was about to speak, were those upon which charity
was most safely bestowed, and respecting which benevolence
was least likely to be misdirected. He believed that a vast
deal of good feeling and money wee thrown away in Lon-
don as well as other great towns, in relieving objects who
were in reality more worthy of punishment than of relief.
They had seen instances of men who "wanted • few shillings
to take them home," who "knew every one in your neigh-
bourhood," who could describe the peculiarities of Hr.
Andrews, the publican, and the habits of Mr. Johnson the
butcher,and who thus contrived to get a few shillings from you,
leaving you afterward, to find out that you had been cheated
of both your sympathy and your money. Or they had
known shipwrecked sellout who had lost Or,
chests,
and been left penniless, but who afterward. were
discovered to have travelled nowhere but on
land—(" cheers," and langliter)—and Instances of that
kind occurred from day to day ; but when they came to the
case of an hospital the sternest economists acknowledged that
charity was well bestowed and the benevolence well directed.
In such places the suffering was real, as the skill of the phy-
mid= would soon discover the tricks of the impostor. (Idear,
hear.) Another recommendation was that hospitals for
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the schools for the young physician, whose office was so
valuable to humanity ; and with respect to the particular in-
stitution under consideration be found that in 23 years it had
spent about 1340001. in the work of benevelence—that was
to say, in relieving atout 16,000 persons. (Cheers.) They were
now about 4,0001. in debt, and would have been much mom
so but for the unparalleled generosity of the professors of the
medical school. These gentlemen were entitled to the fees
paid by the students, and since the establishment of the hos-
pital they had relinquished them all, thus oontributing no
lees • sum than 53,0001. to ita support. The noble lord con-
cluded with an eloquent appeal founded an the claims he bad
thus enumerated.

fheTniie-t;Eit then read the list of subscriptions,
and a collection was made, amounting in the whole to
1,5381. 19s 6d.
Mr. R. MARTINEAV proposed "The Health of the Chair-
men," with a warm enloginm ; to which
His LOILIMIYI re replied in a sentence, and subsequently
the health of Lord Brougham, a man who, be said,
r:dPZirays been the steady and consistent friend of civil and
religious liberty. In early life the noble and learned lord
gave indications of that talent which afterwards raised him to
the highest eminence. Having alluded to Lord Brougham's
early resistance to the celebrated " Orders in Council," his
subsequent political career, and his final elevation to the
woolsack, the chairman concluded by crating that the noble
and learned lord was still in the full vigour of his faculties,
and as much alive to the question of civil and religions liberty
as in his palmiest days.
One or two further toasts were then disposed of, and hie
lordship and the company retired.

METROPOLITAN INDUSTRIAL REFORMATORY.

A " farewell meeting" wan held last night at this
institution, Brixton-hill, in order to take leave of ten young
men, who, after having undergone a °Duras of training in
industrial pursuits, were about to be sent out to Canada as
free emigrants. The meeting, which- was very fully attended,
was presided over by the Bishop of London, who was accom-
panied by Mrs. Tate. Previous to the enramenoement of
the proceedings his lordship and the visitors promenaded
the extensive grounds attached to the asylum, where horti-
cultural operations are extensively carried on, and inspected
the various workshops, wherein several useful trades are
taught to the inmates. On assembling in the school room
the ten intended emigrants were introduced and took up places
In front of hie lordahip.when a hymn ma song and prayer was
offered, after which his lordship addressed the young men
In a very kind and feeling manner, reminding them that in
the training they bed tor twelve months undergone they had
been taught trades which would fit them for a rueful life in
the distant land to which they were bound. He hoped that
atar ynn they would have cause to look back with
Neattidoaes towards those kind Mende by whose bounty
they were now enabled to enter upon a emuse of industry in
another lend, and advised them to resolve that night on
some distinct line of conduct, and that when they arrived in
Canada they would above all things seek good companions,
end determine to pursue a course of steady industry, whereby
they would in all probability, by God's blessing. become
thriving and happy men. hey should also keep steadily In
view the sarrAity of the Sabbath-day, and as they had ac-
quired the ability to read kooks, they should by all mesa'
shun bad books, and rll2lBsll themselves by the study of
such works as would be useful to them in life. At the con-
clusion of his lordship's discourse several other addresses
were delivered by maims pram; and the proceedings
dosed with a Tots of thanks to his lordship for presiding.

The Portuguese war steamer Mendelho arrived at
Southampton yesterday, oa her way to Amsterdam.
The steam transport Lady Jocelyn arrived off
C°lresam-lay morning, as her way to London, with
freight snd paneensars from Celestes.
A line of steamers is about to run between Mobile
and other ports in the Gulf of Mexico and San:uan do
Nicirsifue. for the purpose of owning pa singers OO3l.
grants to Nicaragua.

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