The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-07 00:00:00

LONDON Hosplret ANNIVERSARY.

Laat night the one hundred and twenty-eiglith
anniversary of this charitable institution took place at the
City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, Mr. W. E. Gj AO.
crone, M.P., in the chair. About three hundred gentle-
men sat down to dinner, and amongst those who sup-
ported the chairman on this ocoaaion were—Sir Thomas
Fowell Buxton, Bart., M.P., Mr. Charles Buxton, bI.P.,
Mr. Ayrton, M P., Sir Mordaunt Wells, the Rev. T. J.
Rowed!, M.A., &c. One of the galleries was occupied
by a large number of ladies, amongst whom Mrs. Glad-
stone occupied a conspicuous seat.
From the brief report of the hospital, circulated by the
committee, it appears that the total number of in and
out p itienta received during 1667 bas been J 5,776, and that
since the opening of the Alexandra Ward, the unavoidable
expenditure has been upwards of 25,000 t. per annum,
while the annual income from fixed sources is only about
15,000!. The deficiency of 10,000!. per annum can be
only met by donations, subscriptions, and pecuniary
legacies, and these have lately failed in securing the de-
sired iesult. The governors, therefore, have been com-
pelled to sell out 10,13f00/. Reduced Three per Cent. Stock,
to enable them to repay to the hospital bankers a loan of
8,5001., and to meet the pressing current necessities of the
institution.

who is profoundly interested in the conduct and
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sidiary establishments than through soy direct share,
either on my own part, or on any with whom I ant con-
nected, with the management and conduct of the London
Hospital. Among the characteristics of this hospital has
been the fact that it has celled into existence several of
these subsidiary institutions, one of them being the
Samaritan Feud, and there are also the convale.eent
hospitals, which I think every intelligent man must
feel to be, under the circumstances of this great
metropolis, an essential portion of the appa,
rates of an enlightened and Christian philoethrephy.
In oonnection with one of them, the name of Sl:es (*.the-
rine Marsh is to be mentioned with honour, and she it was
who brought the affairs of this hospital within the sl ! ere
of lily special attention. It rarely happens to a is mon
abeorbed, like myself, in affairs widely ditferent to these,
to undertake the task of commending to your meine au
institution of this character. I assure you, however, it is
from want of power, from want of physical strength and
opportunities, and, not from want of will. (1:4.k m.)
Without desiring to be Invidious, I will at once soy that
think there are certain respects in which, amidst .11 its
sisters, the London Hospital can present to the notice of
the public a paramount and unrivalled claim. ft lu:m.4
The first of there respects I take to be one partieu"arly
connected with the law which seems to gee( rn the son-
struction, organisation, and increase of the masses, I nay
say, of this almost ifemmusurable city in emelt
we live. (Hear. hear.) It appears to have been tound,
or else to have been thought a law hitherto ilie.orahle
that as London grows it shall not grow equally, like to the
bodies which nature creates, but, on the corm:wry, a.... it
shall pow with that lack of proportion and setematise
which seem generally to mark the result of liumou enter-
prise. What one weed desire would be that the growth
of London should wean a regular and harmonious iapze.
sion of the city as a civilized and Christian comae:etc in
all orders and (legless of men—so disbursed a.: sa
fused that those less supplied with the good
should not have to rely upon their wants tear; Ade:Me-
tered by those who live nearest to them, but ti,.:e those
who are better supplied with the world's wealth the licit.
should extend the hand of aid and benevolence to those
who may stand in need. The law of London's
growth appears to be this—that its weals. and
grandeur more and morn go towards the west,
while the mass of its poverty sets for the dination
of the rising sun. The moral of this singular order of
things is rather remarkable, because there is thus conned
front the eyes of the wealthy, in a gra.t degree, tie spec-
tacle of human sorrow. (Hear, hear.) We move through
continuous miles of streets and squares in this nu:trepan,
inhabited by the upper classes, without having tef.re us
any visible sign that these exists such a thing as the
struggle of luau against the world—the never, itilire battle
of aubmist.nce. Those calamities which are incidental to
life in all its forms, although they fall upon the west as
well as the east, yet when they come upon one sole of
this city, they are mitigated by every is:source that wealth
and knowledge can afford—(bear, hear)—and when thq
come upon the other—when in fact they turn towards its
eastern extremities, they call for aid for the ni(et pad
from those whose business it is to supply the wants of the
day by the earnings of the day, and who generally have h 0 re-
serve but the smallest upon which they can fall back.(Heal()
This is a great subject, upon which it would be easy to
dwell, and which cannot too persistently or too forcibly
be brought home to the 'Muds of the inhabitants of this
great metropolis, and most of all to those who live at its
western end, for they are in danger of suffering from ens
of the greatesti calamities which can happen to a human
being, and that iv, to be in habitual ignorance and blind-
ness as to the just amount of those &aline which their
fellow-creatures have upon them, and in consequence of
that blindness to leave those claims unacknowledged and
unsatisfied. It is a great misfortune that tho objects and
victims of suffering should remain unrelieved, tut it is a
still greater misfortune that those who possess the means
whereby relief might be afforded are from various ca .see
prevented from availing themselves of the privilege and
advantage which they would assuredly draw from making
their needy brethren partakers of their wealth. (Cbeera)
There may come a time when this law to *Lich
I have referred will undergo a change ,• but in the mean-
time, as practical men, the best thing that can be done is
that we should in every way encourage the restitution of
that link of Christian and human charity which alone can
bind together the extremities of this metropolis. (Cheers.)
This country is daily visited by thousands from foreign
lands, and many objects there are which continually draw
, forth expressions of the must fervid and dispassion..., ad-
miration; but there is one feature of British society stick
foreigners neither admire nor understand, and that is its
tendency to run into a mass of opposite extremes, and to
present a violence of contrast between those innunitiable
persons who earn their subsistence by daily labour, and
many of whom earn it but scantily ; and, on the other
hand, those less numerous, but still very
.nuiucrous clam,
whose life seems to be, in London especially, little mom
than a life of leisure and enjoyment, devoted to the con-
suming—aye, even laborious consuming—from morn till
tuhigehltboatun an& f
oteot yheir feean..
i fellow-countrymen, s
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of
their ancestors, has attained. (Cheers.) I uder these
circumstances, a rich blessing attends the walk and path
rym n year's
, o end,
ntabe of
titrhuadte fce whisk
of those who, travelling continually from the luxurious
west of Loudon to its eartern quarters, bring with them
not merely material relief, but the richness of l'hiistian
sympathy, and attempt again to forge in its full
strength that link which ought to bind together,
whether in a city or a county, all members
of a well ordered society. (Cheers.) The Londuu Hospital
stands at a distance measured geographically of more than
a mile by the most direct lice from any hospital in the
metropolis, and if you consider what is meant by a radius
of a mile drawn around any point in London, especially in
the east, you will at once *es what an enormous mass of
human beings, and of pain and sorrow, there must be.
(Hear, bear.) Indeed the facts are such that it seems idle
and officious to press them upon you in detail. The last
cholera, visitation was sufficient to severely test the poem
of the hospital, and to prove its admirable worth and
fitness. (Hear, bear.) One of the peculiar features of
this establishment is that in substance, in everything but
the merest form, it approximates to the character of a free
hospital ; and the number of in and out patients re-
lieved last year shows how great are the daises
whieh
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hinoistipittalutionw.hiclh behliaesveibed
largest number of eases of accidents is necessarily, from
that fact, the hospital which has the means of giving the
largest amount of practical occupation to the students in
its medical schoeL If that be so, the London Hoapitalmr
doubtedly affords the greatest advantage to those who ue
in training for the medical profession. With a view
therefore of directing to this east of London a lair prefer
tion of the youth of the country contemplating the mm
dical and surgical profession, there has been Mai-
toted a fund for the establishment of schelaiships
which are to be called by, what you will agree
with me, is a very proper name, I mean the name
of Mr. Buxton—(cheers)—a name which for several gear
rations has been inseparably associated in this metropolis
and elsewhere with acts of Christian philanthropy.
(Cheers.) The object of these scholarships is to establish
a means of encouragement to those deserving young men
who may make the London Hospital the scene of their
labour, and I trust that they may answer their purpose.
(Hear. hear.) In conclusion, I will say to those who are
blest by Providence with means that I know of no nobler
or worthier institution upon which they could bestowtheft
benevolence than the London Hospital. (Loud cheers.)
The toast having been drank, Mr. T. FOWELL Be'

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rereirbitcesta followed, and the proceediup did mot ter•
minute until a late hour.

Yesterday morning the Bishop of Oxford took
part in the opening of a temporary church which his been
erected in the Lothian- , closely abutting upon the
perish of Camberwell. In this district, taken out of the
pariah of St. Mark's, • permanent church will be erected,
and will have for its first incumbent the Rev. D. I'. W.
Medals, N.A., of Brannon College, Oxford, who is now
the missionary curate.
The third meeting of the conference of the
Liberation Society look place yesterday_ morniog, ih*
hall of the City Terminus Thera was *al° 1
numerous attendance of delegates. Mr. E. Sat*, •••
Leeds, presided ; supported by Mr. P. A. Taylor ILEr
Cooeham, Kr. E. Mls 1.. Mr. W. Edward; dif•
Carvell Williams, ice. In the awning • soirée ens
in the Hanover-Iquart, Rooms, when there was • WS
attendance, Yr. T. B. TOMO, of Norwich, prmidial•

THIRD EDITION.

TAW INTELLIGENCE.-{THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before vice-Chancellor Gifford.)
IN RE THE 01PORD AND CANTERBURY HALL CONPANT
(LIMITED).
Ibis petition, which is presented by a creditor for the
compulsory winding up of the company, °eine on again to-
Mr. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. J. N. Higgins appeared for the
etitioner.
Mr. Ince, for several shareholders, asked for a meeting
under section 149, enabling • meeting of shareholders
to be held, in order to seo whether the general
l•ody of contributories were not in favour of a voluit-
tay winding up under supervision.
Mr. Swaaaton, Q.C., Mr. Prue, Q.C., and Mr. W. F.
Etibinson, for shareholders and some creditors, also asked
that the matter might stand over.
The Vice-Chanaillor held that where • proposal to wind
up a company voluntarily under supervision was opposed
by any creditor it was almost ex debito justithe that there
should be a compulsory order, and that u in thus case the
winding up under supervision was opposed, there must be
the common order.
Ordered accordingly.