The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

THE EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY

The annual meeting of th7trustees of the Eye and Ear
Infirmary, was held in the Clarendon Rooms, at two
o'clock yesterday. Mr. Edward Heath o2cupied the
chair. There was a very small attendance.
The Chairman in a few words introduced the business,
and called upon the secretary to read the report.
The Hon. Secretary, Mr. Campbell, read the following

REPORT.
Your committee have no particular feature to notice in the
working of this charity during the past year, except the con'
tinned and increasing advantages of its operation. The
following figures will show to the subscribers the very
beneficial results that their bounty has secured to so man/
poor people, who otherwise would havo to suffer, unaided by
medical advice.

The number of patients seeking relief this year for disease'
of the eye has been 4,169, and the attendances 15,497, being'
an average visit of 3.72 for each patient. The number for
diseases of the ear have been 1,270, and tilt
4,627, being an average of 3.63.
•
In addition to the above, 75 persons have been maintained to
in-patients, and 143 operations have been performed during
the year.

Your committee have great pleasure in bearing testimony
generally to the zeal and attention of the medical officers, as
well as to the success which has resulted from their skill.
There has been no alteration in the staff this year, the
same continuing to conduct the management of the institution
in an efficient and satisfactory manner.
The finances of the charity are in a fair position ; but, as a
large pzoportion of the revenue arises from the precarious
source of donations, the committee aro anxious to press the
claims of this valuable institution upon the attention of the

subscribing public

The committee gratefully acknowledge the receipt of 3
legncy of £5O, from the executors of the late J, Stringer, Esq.
From the report of the treasurer, Mr. Langton, ft
appeared that there was a balance in hands of 1451. Is. 8j:
' The Chairman said: Gentlemen: Before I put the first
resolution to you for passing the report wad accounts, L
would remark how gratifying it is to observe the steadi
• position which this most useful and excellent charity
still occupies. The increase during the last year in the
number of patients applying, has been very slight, but I
would observe that we should not altogether expect that
the increase should bear a proportion to the increas-
ing population, because you are aware, that
institutions of a similar character grow up in the out-
lying districts, and supply the wants of the new popula-
tion. Therefore, that we should retain an equal number
of patients applying and availing of the means here given,
for alleviating human disease of this character is, I sail
exceedingly encouraging; and when we consider the small
pecuniary amount which, when thus properly all'
systematically applied, is productive of such great benefit
to no less than between 4,000 and 5,000 sufferers from
diseases of the eye and ear, it becomes a very strong
inducement to us that we should not only contribute our selves, but that we should urge all within our sphere to
do likewise. Any individual among us who has ever
suffered from disease of the eye or ear must know hold
exquisitely sensitive these organs are, and what intense
pain is produced by their derangement ; and when ivt) know that by the application of so small a sum this pain
and misery have been removed, or at least,
mitigated, among such a large number of persong,
we must declare that this is one of the most useful
institutions in the town devoted to this par-
ticular class of relief—the relief of the 1115
which afflict the body. (hear, hear.) The chairman then,
proposed that the report and statement of accounts, jlOt
read, be adopted.
Mr. Livingston seconded the resolution, which Wail
carried unanimously.
The next resolution, which was also proposed by the
chairman, was a vote of thanks to the Corporation of Liver-
pool for their donation of £lOO, and to all who had presented
donations during the past year.
Mr. Hugh Neill, in seconding the resolution, stated that
he bad been requested to hand in a donation of £2O frore
Sir John Bent, and £lO from Mr. Welsh.
The motion was passed, the latter donors being included
in the vote of thanks.
A vote of thanks was passed to the president, vice' -
presidents, officers, and committee of the past year, who
were all re-elected, with the exception of the president, in
which instance the name of the present Mayor, Mr, Jobs
Stewart, was substituted for that of Mr. J. A. Tobin, Mayor
during the past year.
Thanks were passed to the medical officers, who were
also re-elected unanimously.
Mr. James Holmc proposed a vote of thanks to the chair-
man, and in doing so, took occasion to call the attention e'
the inhabitants of Liverpool to the fact, that although the
institution was at present in a pretty prosperous state, yew
the main support which they had was rapidly declining;
the annual subsctiptions. In 1852 they had £376 annual
subscriptions; while, with a very much increased I
popula-
tion, the subscriptions of 1855 had diminished to £314.`
it had not been for the handsome grant from the corpora' tion, their accounts that day would be very nearly at a
balance. He therefore expressed a hope that the inhabt tants would give larger assistance be the way of Finn"'
subscriptions. (Mar, hear.)
The motion was passed by acclamation.
The proceedings then terminated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.7—.YEsTERDAY EVENING

DERBY.
7to 1 agst Wentworth (taken)
9 ... 1 ... Fly-by-Night (taken)
13 ... 1 ... Yellow Jack (taken) 4.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
7to 2 agst Fly-by-Night (taken).
4 ... 1 ... Yellow Jack (taken)
5 ... 1 ..• Polmoodie (off.)
CHESTER CUP.
1000 to 50 agst Coroner (off.)
1000 .. 30 ... Fatalist (taken)
10020 ... 30 ... Yorkshire Grey off., take 40 to 15 ... 1 Courtenay (taken) )
40 ... 1 ... Quince (taken)
1000 ... 20 ... Redan (taken)
1000 ... 10 •.. Lord Derwentwater (taken)
1000 ... 10 ... Scythian (taken)
30 .. I ... Imogino (taken)
1000 ... 30 ... Epaminondas (taken)
1000 ... 20 ... Yellow Jack (taken)
1000 ... 20 ..• Hungerford (taken)
500 ... 25 ... Quince and Mishap coupled
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, Jestuaror 22.
WIND YESTERDAY—Fast.
HIGH WATER—Morn., II 44—Eveg, 12 o—Heighl, 15 ft 8 i ARRIVED.
Jan. 20.—Ada, Arica—J. G. Coster, Savanna—United, der
—N. S. del Carmen, Bilboa—Wm, Charles, Taranta—Oswell, p Santan
rince
Edward Island. Jan. 21.—Martha Anna, Pernambuco—M law (e,s./F
Leghorn.

Jan. 20.—Cognate Mimbelle,SAlLED Constantinople—Madre Millibar*
Malta. Jan. 21.—Ocean Pearl, and Independence, New Orleans"'
Margaret (s.), Havre—Marion, Antigua—Eliza, Genoa.
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OUTPORTS.
Queenstown, Jan. 21.—Arrived—Bidford. Syra—Robert Whitwaye
Valparaiso—Star, Callao—Duke of Bronte..aloulmein—Sabrina
Bristol.
Dublin, Jan. 21.—Arrived—Admiral Graff, Amsterdam—Invoice,
Marseilles—Vasco de Gama, Lisbon—Avon, St, Johns.—Sylph
London.
B.lfast, Jan. 19.—Arrived—Phoenix, Alexandria—Wild Rover,
Memel. Jan. 20.—Sailed—lteddin, Liverpool,
Greenock, Jan. 21.—ArrivedJan.19.—Arrines, Ca,cutta—Troni,a-
door, and Amelia Mary—both from Alexandria; Fleetwood, Callao.
Jan. 20.—Star of the East, Alexandria. Sailed Jan, 19.—Wolfe'5
Cave, Savanna—Maria. Jamai a. Jan. 20.—Agnes Sophia, Maps-
lan. 21.—James Russell, Bombay.
Mumbles.—Arrived—Beethoven, Copp, from Coquimbo,
London.—Pudsey Dawson, from Foo. shoo-Foo.
Portland, Jan. 18.—Arrived—Six Brothers, Liverpool.
MARITIME EXTRACTS.
Liverpool, Jan. 21.—The Bloomer, for Havanna, loaded aneirearti
for sea in the Wapping Basin, has 20 boilers on deck, which, in the
o inion of the surveyor, renders the vessel unsafe at this period of
the year.—The Chebucto, Wallace, from Halifax for this port, was
abandoned at sea, having previously cut away her masts in a hcavr
gale. Crew saved by the Jno. Cottle, armived here.
Falmouth, Jan. 20.—The Mary Green, of New York, from Ns-er.
pool to Philadelphia, was abandoned in a sinking state In lat. 31
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Tsiohliiilep3uHlab7noliWrdti'x':oaj'nrajg,naoSn'ta2,or6lree—rt,oTCtsahariled from Liverpool for New Orleans, Jan. 17.1' Sydney, Oct. S.—The remains of a tent, ship's stores, Sze., were
found on Rabbit Island, Sept. 10; among them was a bag marked
" Oberon," and a paper with an Inventory of stores of the schooner
Duke of Wellington, at Liverpool, 1853, and account books of sarne
vessel.

SPOKEN.
Surgeon, from Calcutta to Liverpool, in lat. 4 N., lon. 6 _9. May (brip!), hence to Buenos Ayres, in lat. 10 N., lon9 .21
Dec. I i.-1-lelen Ileilgers, hence to Calcutta, in lat. 5 N.. lon, 24
W., Dec. 16 —Advance, from Madras to Liverpool, in lat. 7 N., lon,
89 E., Oct. 17.—Prompt, from Calcutta to Liverpool, in lat. 28 8..
lon. 47 E.—Aden, trom Shanghae for Liverpool, in lat. 6 N., lon,
W., Dec. 6. IG

FOREIGN WORTS.
Prophete, Governor de Vriere, Eclipse, .1. Melanie, and Union--' all hence at Ostend.
Nancy, hence at Genoa.
Ennerdale, hence at st. Helena.
Aden, from Shanghae at St. Helena, and sailed, Dec. 3, for
Liverpool.
all i
Two Brothers, hence at Galveston.
North America, hence off Mobile,
Vulcan (s.l, hence at Marseilles, ~. ' ' ~Persian, hence at Salonica,
Friaannekefoartt
G(
i.bs.ra)
raßr
Egyptian (s.s.), hence 9.1 Saloniea, and left for Constantinople/
Dec. 27.
Delta (e, s.), Stone ; Factor, Ann, Lucy A. Morrison, and Templar
l hence at Havre,
l,.elize, Cluny; Orontes (s.), and Corinthian--
Widow, hence at Scilly.
Alphard, hence at Helvoet.

BIRTHS.
On the 19tb instant, at Formby, Mrs. Henry Carter, of a desghter'
On the `3oth instant, the wife of Donald Currie, }sq., of Davrer
of a daughter.

MARRIAGE.
On the 21st instant, at Bebington Church, E. W. Milne, Esq., V" Ellen Abbinett, eldest daughter of the late John Rawlinson sq' of Cartmel.

DEATH.
On the 20th instant, in Huskittson-street, of consumption, aged 25, Jane, relict of the late John Grant, Esq., late of St. Vincent,

Births, Marriages, and Deaths, are only Inserted when sent to
our Office duly authenticated.

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