The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-10 00:00:00

YR. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR.

Mr. Leslie has issued his prospectus of the en-
mities woos. The seuon•will anent of a eerier of five sub-
scriptios concerts, the first of which will be given at the
e►ening of Wednesday, the Bth of January next. They
will take place at the Hanoveraquan Booms, which are
undergoing complete and elaborate redecoration. The
leading features of the programmes will be, as usual,
madrigals, part-songs, and other unaccompanied
choral compositions, with the occasional introduc-
tion of piece* with orchestral accompaniments.
During the semen, John Sebastian Bach's motett for a
double choir, •' I wrestle and pray," will be performed.
One of Haudel's celebrated Glenda anthems, "The Lord is
my light," will shortly be put in rehearsal, and, if pendia*,
preessted in the course of the season. This great work, it is
believed, has palms° performed entire lime Halides death.
Nradakrohe'sForty-thiril Psalm, already performed at these
ceererta, will be repeated ; and other eight-part works of
that gnat mister, composed expressly for the Berlin Dom-
Chor,will be introduced. And, lastly, a motett, by Samuel
Wesley, '•l° ezitu Israel," for an eight-part choir, will be
produced.

Vocal, AssucierioN.—The Earl of Dudley is
expected to preside at the annual general meeting of the
Vocal Amociation during the present month. His lordship,
who is always a liberal patron of the fine aria, has con-
tributed greatly to the SLICCW of this society time he has
em sated to become the President, by the establishment
of the annual tower:a:lone, which is certainly one of the
most brilliant and interesting of the season. The society
commences its reheareals for the season 1862, under the
direction of Mr. Benedict, immediately after the pascal
meeting is held.

TSB NATIONAL CHORAL SOeIETV.—Mr. Martin
hes requested us to announce that the following are the
erreagemente for admiariou to the grand performance of the
Illaresell to the military, by the members of the National
Choral Society, at Exeter Hall, on Thursday evening next:—
The non-commissioned officers and men of the' nd battalion
Soots Fusilier Guards to enter in Ezeteratreet ; the let
battalion, the Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (Blue),
the Grenadier Guards, and Coldstream, at the Strand
entrance ; the officers and holders of reeetvedseats to enter
by the grand staircase from Exeteretreet, not later than •
quarter-pat seven.

THE SAILOR BOY.

ST ALOUD TUITION. POST MULTI

[From*, " Victoria Regis," a Volume of Original Contri-
butions in Poetry sad Prase.]
He rose at dawn and flushed with hope
Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar,
And rushed the ship and caught the rope,
Aad whistled to the moron* star.
Aad while ea der* he whistled loud
He beard a lease mormairlon cry,
" Boy, Ults* thou art young and rood,
I see the phase whore thou wilt he.
The mods aid sass sod surges mix
la cares about the dreary bay;
And as thy ribs the limpet sticks,
Aad in thy heart the scrawl shall play !"
" Pool,' he aaswer'd, " Death is sore
To those that stay and those that roam ;
Bat I will never more endure
To sit with empty hands at home.
blicupother clings about my Deck,
sisters clamour ' stay for shame r
My other rases of death and wreck,
TUy are all to blame, they are all to blame.
God help me ! sure I take my part
Of (bulges on the swift am,
A devil rwes in way Wart,
Far warn than any death to me."

THE CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS. —At the
Royal English Opera, Covent-garden, a pantomime will be
produced, writtea by Maddision Morton, and in which Mr.
W. H. Payne will be the promieent feature. The thecae se-
lected is Swift's remarkable attire of Ontlieer's Travels, and
• pied transformation some, by Calcott, is already whis-
pered to be a stupendous feature. At Drury.lane, which has
well maintained its celebrity for this kind of amusemant,thent
will boa grotesque borlesquetomime, by Mr. E. L. Blau-
'bird, founded on those legendary storiesof the nursery, The
Noose Mat Jack Built, and Of Mother Hublerof and her
Wowlertel Dog, and which will be, as used, aresificestly
illustrated by Mr. William Bever! . 71e Haymarket pan-
tomime will be, as meal, fur by Mr. Bucketose
self, entitled. Little Min Medi and Little Boy Blve;
or, Harlequin and Old Daddy Long Legs. The Princem's
again advantageously employs the smart pen of Mr.
11. J. Byron, who has founded his pantomime opening
en the adventures of Whottanytini and his Cat. 11m
St. James's has • znythokgieal ez tnwspiass by Mr.
William Brough, on the subject of Termite and Andro-
meda, The Lyceum has enlisted the services of Mr.
Leicester Buckingham, who bas based his extravaganza on
the story of Little Red Riding Hood, Miss Lydia Thomp-
son being the heroine. The Olympic bin • fair extimagansa
mitten by Mr. Berland sod Mr. Palms's Simpson. The
Strand is sure tc be well furnished with another of Mr.
Byron's pun-crammed burlesques. The subject selected is
Puss in Boots. Sadler's Wells has an extrargeoza-cum-
pantomime, written by Mr. E. L. Blanchard, entitled
Cherry and Fair Star, or the Singing Apple, the Taking
Bird, and the Dentin!, Waters. The Storey pantomime
will be called Harlequin Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and
the Fiddle or, °TOWNS and Lentne, and the Twelve I
Daneian Prine-am, linking the nursery rhymes with an i
effective German fury tale. At all the other theatres met
Cone are being likewise made, and managers wForcrags forward to a season which, if only as prosperous ea
their several displays of liberality. tact, and energy seem
likely to ruder it, will be one of the most remunerative
known for many yawn. —Era.
YOEILYHIRC WINTER GAOL DELIVERY.—YORE,
Du. 9.—Mr. Justice Wightn,an opened the commissios fee
the bolding of a winter arise for Yorkshire and the city of
York es Saturday. The learned Judge this morning charged
the grand jury for the city of York, and congratulated them
and the inhabitants generally upon the fact that there were
no missies for trial. The City Sheriff (Edwin Wade, Esq.)
cousquently presented his lordship with a pair of white
kid gloves. At Doom his lordship proceeded to York Castle,
and charged the grand jury for she count!, and afterwards
proceeded with the trial of prisoners. So case, however,
up to the tine of the despatch of our parcel was of a nature
to mil for • report.
ROYAL FLU HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-LYE-ROAD.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital. during the
weak ernes Dee. 7, was 3,134, of which 781 were new
MIL

IthersoroirtAtt ho HORTITAL,
0117.—'rbe espagele number of patients relieved
icing tie week maim Doomlier 7 was • Medical,
1,39{; mead, 3:lo—total, 1,9 M, of which 601 were new

No circumstance brings more vividly to mind the
near approach of Christmas than the portraiture of
the agricultural divinity in all the waste places of
the metropolis. The comely proportions of the
Durham ox meet the eye at every turn, and through
the medium of this typical symbol it is that the
public is invited by the Smithfield Cattle Club to
the feast of good things made ready at Baker-street
for the last time. To the judicious operations of
this club, formed seventy years ago by the
Duke of Bedford and Mr. Coke, this country
is greatly. indebted. These annual shows, having
their beginning in small things, have gone on
increasing wonderfully, and although of spe-
cial interest to those moat concerned in breeding
and fattening the specimens exhibited, they have
gained a world-wide notoriety amongst the con-
sumers also, who look forward to the Christmas
show as one of the essential features of the
season. No man of benevolent disposition, no po-
litical economist, can fail to see the importance of
meetings which have so sensibly conduced to in-
creased production, whether it be of meat or of
grain. They have a large bearing upon the welfare
of the people, from the lowest to the highest. The
details of their operations are no longer confined to
simpleagricultural prints • • wider circulation is
Omeithiliss4lasm•— ThiZsglll4putimerrisoe
longer exclusivtdy wrist:Tad up in Ids stud. He
condescends now to refer as freely to the herd-book
as to the stud-book. In fact, many a votary of
the turf has removed his affections to the stall ;
and several who have not absolutely made this
change allow the stately short-born to share their
hearts with the aristocratic thoroughbred. Such is
the fashion—nor is it fashion merely in this latter
case—for the same skill which is evinced in the
breeding of horses is required in the breeding of
cattle. The same theories are to be carried out in
the bovine as in the equine rapes, and as intelli-
gence and good judgment win the cup in the
latter case, we do not wonder that the same men
seek distinction also in the former.

This year we have pot to record, as was the case last
year, the visits of royal personages. The lamented
indisposition of his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort has rendered it impossible for him to make
his usual round of the stock classes.

Taking a general view of the yard, it may be said
that the show is a great success. Numerically, the
abort-horn class is somewhat a-head, the Devon
and Hereford maintaining last year's position. In
quality, however, the Devons have wonderfully
improved. Never, in fact, have we seen them so
good. The Herefords scarcely ke their position,
and the Shorthorns, though good ,do not show that
special advance on past years which was desired.
The sheep and pigs, with some improvement to be
noticed iu certain classes, remain somewhat as of
yore. There are several new classes this year, which
will partly account for some of the improvements.
The Keutish and Romney Marsh breed, the Shrop-
shire breed, the mountain breed of Devonshire,
have never before been recognised at Baker-street
as having a special character worth preservation.
The ruddy Devon' excel. The pretty cow Ilex,
which won for his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort the firet pries at Birmingham in the same
class, here obtains may a high commendation, Mr.
Heath's, Mr. Buller's, and Mr. Pope's cows all
being placed before her. This animal was the
first Devon bred by his royal highness, and
took a first prize at the Royal Agricultural Society's
meeting at Leeds last summer. The steer class is
particularly good. We have rarely seen a Devon so
fine through the forequarter as Mr. Heath's. The Earl
of Leicester's displays beautiful quality and sym-
metry. The class of oxen is strong. The touch of
Earl Howe's is fine and springy, the flesh well laid
on, and the framewtek evenly covered. Mr. Heath's
shows very fine quality, but certainly looks small
beside the tine unprized animal belonging to Mr.
Gibbs. Mr. HanWo, Mr. Farthing, and Mr.
Ball, exhibit highly meritorious animals in the
heifer class. But we are certainly surprised to see
that all the Devon prizes go to small animals, in an
age when weight, and substance, and food foe the
million is so much insisted upon. It may be well
to make a merit lof quality, but as consumers we
require quantity also. The breeder may look is
one direction, and the butcher in another. And
while upon this matter of judgment it may be as
well to throw in a suggestion the value of which
'truck um more than once on comparing one
award with another. ltis usual, we believe, to employ
gentlemen to make thou awards who are either
breeders or graziers et stock or both, and who have
their own peculiar partialities, and are liable to be
biassed by them. The consumer has no representa-
tive, and failing a deputation from her Majesty's
Beefeaters, who, are specially adapted, one would
suppose, to give a weighty gastronomic opinion in
this matter, might it not he well to call in the counsel
of one or more of those tradesmen who have been
accustomed to slaughter in a large way fur the Lon-
don market,. and who should, by a wide intimacy
with the various qualities of meat, and the require-
ments of public taste, be able to render valuable
assistance both to the Club and their constituents
The Hereford dames, as before said acutely
maintain their reputation. His Royal krises 's
ox is a good animal, and is very evenly f ; Mr.
Heath's is also very good, with an undeniably fine
rump and chine. There are but two heifers : both
are meritorious animals. Mr. Taylor's was first at
Birmingham, and here preserves her place. The
cows also display some good level feeding : the
Earl of Shrewsbury's has a rib of surprising spring.
The Short-horns, as a whole, form a good clams,
and the lovers of this breed will be glad to know
that the two gold medals, usually divided be-
tween the Herefords and Short-horns, boththisyear
fall within one boundary. Mr. Taylor's steer,
girthing 8 feet 10 inches, is the most complete, well
fed, and beautiful specimen of the class we ever
saw. The back is faultless, the rib full springing,
and the chine well filled out. The bone is fine,
and the offal reduced to a minimum. The touch is
firm, the skin fresh. There are none of those un-
sightly lumps of fat which bespeak hasty feeding
and clue confinement; the animal looks thoroughly
healthy, and when killed will afford that beauti-
fully marbledmeat which bespeaks health and vigour
of oonstitution. This steer was first as Birmiug-
bun, and fur hie position as head of the male
dames had a strong contest, we hear, with
Mr. M'Combie's great steer, with a girth of 9 feet
5 inches, classed amongst the Polled Scots.
Mr. Wortley, the Earl of Radnor, and Mr. Shaw,
also exhibited animals full of merit. The oxen,
with Earl Spencer's as leader, show exceedingly
well. The Birmingham award was again con-
firmed. Mr. Swinnerton's ox is of exceedingly good
quality. The two pretty heifers of Mr. Shaw and
Mr. Took will gain much attention ; but we miss
in this class those members of the Townley
herd which created so much sensation a few
years back. The cows hardly stand so well as
usual, and though the gold medal ruts in this class,
we are somewhat disposed to cavil at the award,
upon the ground that the judgment seems to
have been made rather from the breeders' point of
view than from the consumers'. The predilection
in favour of the short-horu breed has somewhat dis-
appointed and discouraged the Scotch breeders, for
although Mr. Faulkner's cow possesses good
quality, a superior rump, and fair chine, the spim
before the shoulder is net well filled in, the flank
and thigh are not all that could be desired. Pass-
ing over to Mr. M. Combie's heifer, in which all
good points abound—the gold medal animal, in
fact, at Birmingham, and the winner of the inn-
keepers' plate—it is possible, we think, had
the consuming public been fairly represented
amongst the judges, that the Scottish dame might
have received such an ovation at Baker-street as she
received at Biogly-hall. In weight and size the latter
is superior to toe former and yet there is the dif-
ference of a year in their ages, and sorely if there

is any merit in early maturity, the Scot shows it,
since she has done more in 4 years and 10 months
than the Short horn in 5 years and 10 months.
The Sussex breed is improved. The specimens
exhibited very much resemble big Hewes, iu form
and quality.
There is a thin show, as usual, of Norfolk and
polled stock, as well as of the long-horned breed,
so tardy in their growth.
The Scotch horned and polled classes are spe-
cially fine. We miss the splendid types of the
mountain cattle which adorned the show last year,
but the specimens exhibited by the Duke of Beau-
fort, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Wallis display the fat-
tening capabilities of the breed in a remarkable
manner. Kr. leCombie's ox and heifer have
already been noticed.
Ireland has but one representative, and that •
cow, which is sent by Lord Berners, and receives
what it deserves, the prize in its class. There are a
few good Welsh steers and heifers—one, a mammoth
fellow, girthing 9 feet.
The Cross-breeds are not so well represented as
usual ; and we wonder, in a fat stock exhibition,
that animals with such evident propensities to feed
do not take a more prominent stand.
The sheep classes are well filled. The long-
woolled clauses seem to be much improved. The
introduction of the Shropshire breed within the
rano of she prise listob4ra very valuable feature
tolls sat Vie W Velma foe %wow
tain sheep affords a p ace for the hardy and beau-
tiful specimens of the Exmore breed which are ex-
ceedingly promising. Mr. Quertly and Mr. Hall
may well be proud of their success.
The pies are as numerous and good as formerly ;
his Royiu Highness the Prince Consort, Mr. Crisp,
Sir G. Throckmorton, and others, figure as usual
in the prize list.
Though our brief and hurried catalogue of living
wonders here closes, the interest of the exhibition
by no means comes to an end. There is a large
collection of farm implements, roots, and agricul-
tural seeds filling the galleries. And though
these are crowded together, by reason of the small
space accorded to them, there are amongst them
objects of as much interest, as the thronging crowd
implies, as the tenants of the floor below.
The roots thougliscarcely so good as usual, form
s splendid show. The mangolds and turnips, like the
cattle which eat them, seem to be growing bigger and
bigger year by year, the principle of selection
being as true in respect of the vegetable as it is of
the animal. What this root culture is accomplish-
ing may be seen by a visit to the stands of Messrs.
Sutton, Skirving, Lawson, George Gibbs, and Tho-
mas Gibbs and Co., seedsmen to the Royal Agri-
cultural Society. The great radical facts
there displayed, whicliare in some sorts the tap root
of our national prosperity, exist in wonderful
variety, suited to all soils and climates within the
boundaries of the United Kingdom. Some are
sent to represent the artificial manures of which
they are the result, while others show
forth the advantages of special systems of
culture. In this last respect the mammoth bulbs
from Mr. Smith's farm are specially worthy of at-
tention. They speak of a subsoil torn and broken
by the teeth of the steam-drawn cultivator ; of a
soil through which the rains of heaven descend,
leaving their fertilising stores behind as they pass
to the underdraius ; of • soil, in fact, placed under
the best known circumstances for production. But
progress. is not alone visible in the roots. The
various improved species of grass seeds in vast
variety, specially noted ou Messrs. Thomas
Gibbs 's stand, bespeak the care which has
been bestowed upon this branch of pro-
duction as fully as the turnips or man-
golds. Let our readers, too, not pass unheeded
the varieties of wheat. There is a good tenon to be
learnt from Ballet's pedigree wheat. This
eeedeman, from a remarkable ear 4 inches
in length, by careful selection, has been
able in four years to grow a crop upon a small
extent of land the ears of which average about 8
inches. This fact may have the more interest for
the reader when it is stated that wheat is the result
of the cultivation of a wild beuty grass, known
to the botanist as iffilops maga, growing in Sicily
and elsewhereon the shores of the Mediterranean.
Sir J. Banks, when Sir J. Sinclair was at the head
of the Board of Trade, sent some specimens of
this grass to him, and the same experiment was
then tried with it which is being tried at Cirencester
Agricultural College, and with the same success.
The kernel gradually appeared after successive
growings, and as gradually disappeared during
years of neglect. These facts of increased produc-
tion are essentially hopeful. If we can increase our
crops without extending our boundaries, the poli-
tical economist is lifted over many of those difficul-
ties which at present obstruct his view. Within the
last thirty years the produce of wheat is increased
from 6 to 8 bushels an acre, which is equal to the sup-
port of 4} millions more people at the rate of eight
bushels per head. It would be out of place to
dwell here on the methods by which this increase has
been obtained, we only point now to the results
upon the beautifully arranged stands of the exhi-
bitors already named, reminding the reader
that the advance is mainly attributable to careful
selection on the part of those who have given this
branch of agriculture their special attention, be-
cause it has been attained since the great en-
closure of laud ceased. Between the right and
wrong variety of wheat, there is a difference to the
great consuming public, as well as to the farmer, of
l 3 to 50 bushels an acre, or of 10 loaves of bread,
from a sack of flour of the same weight.
Nor must the implements pass without assort chro-
nicle. Although the fagged reporter finds it utterly
impossible to deal with all that demands a notice iu
the short two hours allotted to him, it would not be
fair to pass the great manufacturing firms without a
word, since they have contributed in so great a degree
to the progress of these meetings down stairs as
well as above. The one great fact of there being
about 30,000 acres of land broken up and com-
minuted during the past autumn, a part of which
is sown with wheat, and a part of which is left to
fertilise under the glacial influences of winter, to
become a fertile bed for the seed of spring, with-
I out the aid of horses, calls specially to mind the
names of Fowler and Smith, of Messrs. F. and J.
Howard. of Chandler and Oliver, and of Ransowe
and Sims, and the celebrated takers of steam-
engines, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth.
Besides these, there are the stands of Hornsby
and Co., of Garret and Sons, of Holmes
and Sons, of Smith and Ashby, of Burgess
and Key, and of Samuelson, with their use-
ful mowing and reaping machines ; of Croeekill':.
trustees, with the Leeds prize reaper ; and of
various other makers, all more or less now pledged
to the sale of that class of machine which is used
In breaking down root food and other aliment for
stock-feeding purposes.
For these there is but scant room. Next
year we hope matters may be improved.
The galleries of the spacious and well-ventilated
agricultural hall will afford ample room for the dis-
play of these useful wares. There will be space
also, we hear, for a poultry and a dog show such
as are joined to the Birmingham show. Let us,
then, hope that with a more commodious building
and oetter arrangements, we may also have the
honour of a five-shilling day, which will allow the
inhabits of Mayfair to give their presence to the
show without fear of the rude crush and cram
which now characterise our shilling days.

TN* ATTEMPTED MUDD= AND SUICIDE AT
Stumm:J. —As inquest wee held at She Meld, oe Saturday,
on the body of Thome Townsend, who estimated suiciae
after deliberately abooti hie elep.ckaghter, Eliza Faber. The main facts of this ease were related in our
impression of Saturday. The jury returned a verdict of
felo-dive, and the depot! comer made oat his warrant for
the interment of the deceased at midnight It was stated
that very fault hopes, if any, are entertained that Eliza
Fisher will recover from the fearful wound which she has
received.

-Mr. Casa BANBRIDGE then read a statement of accounts,
which showed the total receipts of the year to have been
8191. 7s. 7d., of which 7311. lls. had been appropriated in
pasts to St. Mary, Hornsey-rise, and the balance, with
la. lid. over, in the ordinary charges of management.
The Bight Bet. CRAIRMAII observed that the smallness of
the receipts was no measure of the extent of the work done
by the society's means, any more than in the case of the
Dimes& Church Building Society. The object of such
societies was to form a mitre for private ',recibir. During
the live yoke he had bees in the diocese ten new churches a
agar had bees Wk. gagiffeigups the average not leas than
111,(1031., and miliffillffilllllll,llllllbirllloll9lll,lllre spout
in China building, which it was needless to any was far
beyond what wee iodinated by the balance•sheets of the
various church•building societies. Since he first attended a
meeting of this society, five years ago, much of tba work
they then pro to themselves had been accomplished.
They p five years ago to erect ten churches in haling-
ton. They had erected four, and he understood that an
iron church had also been provided ; aced during the same
time the building in which they were had been
built, though from other sources than those coo-
necked with the society, and in that building large
congreptious of worshippers assembled every Sunday.
Thus is the five yam they had provided five or six large
churches, and be held that they bad reason, therefore, to
thank God for the success he had vouchsafed to them.
Many did not understand what they nteant when they talked
of church extension. By church extension they mesat pa-
rochial extension, the extension of the gospel of Christ, the
extension of Christian education, the extension of Christian
charity, and the extension of all those agencies which
clustered round the church, and were the very heart of every
parish in which a church wee built. (liter, bear.) But
mush as they had cause to thank God for what had been
accomplished. he reminded the meeting that hitherto, with
all their exertions, they had done no more than, if they had
done so much, as to meet the growing wants of an increasing
population. They had bees able to do to more than pay tea
lateral, the debt still remained. Yet the difficulties of the
preeeat day were nothing like those of our forefathers in
past spa la peat times they had ti labour, not &mow% a
nominally Christian popolatiou, but amongst heather, and
in a country where there was little or no facilities of com-
munication. Yet, before the Norman oonqoest Christianity
bad been established is thin lead, sad the country mapped
oat into parishes, and the parochial system established.
This had been done by much labour and much self-sacrifice,
sad if they would accomplish that which it was their duty
to eedeavour to accomplish, they must be content to
make self.acritices now. (Hear, hear.) Taking the
matter in a mere worldly point of view, nothing would so
surely reward a nation as the taking in hand the great work
of church extension. What was the peat misery which
afflicted the poor in London I It was that they were alto-
gether hut sight of by the dosses above them, and their
spiritual wants and moral superintendence uocared for.
What was wanted here was that which existed in many of
our rural perfiies—vie., that there should be at least one
person in the parish who would take care that no poor
man would he overlooked, and that every poor man
should know that there was at least one mm in the
parish who would oars for his waste, visit and console him
to sickness, see that his children were sent to school, and
ever be ready to welcome him when he came to the House
of God. (Hear, hear.) They were far from that standard
at present, but there was no 1111/00 why they should not reach
it. He felt confident from what he had himself seen in
some London parishes, that where the laity combined with
the clergy in their efforts to divide the parish
tub manageable district., and the clergy were
fitted for their work, such a system of effective
parochial superintendence might be attained eves in
our most tily populated districts. (Hear, bear.)
After referring to the claims of the poor, and urging that
while it was the duty of the church to provide for all classes,
the poor should be specially cared for, and churches provided
such as the poor would avail themselves of, he concluded
with an
is hand. west appeal to the meeting to aid in the work

The Rev. D. Wubou, triter of the pariah, moved, and
the Rev. J. Corfu, rector of Whiteehapel, seconded a reso-
lution approving the report ; and the Rey. E. Bayley, the
Rey. W. B. Maeheasie. abd other speaken, having addressed
the meeting, the proosediap terminated.

BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, CLAPHAM•RISL

The general court of this excellent charity wan
held yesteeday, at the London Tavern, nudge the presi-
dency of the Lord Mayor. The report, up to the 30th Novem-
ber, set forth that us February last scarlet fever appeared
in the school, and attacked seven boys and twenty girl.,
when three of the latter fell victims to the &ewe,
The directon felt bound, at considerable outlay, to
complete the proposed system of new drainage, and
at once adopted the advice of the medical o®-
can that the school should be dispersed, and that the
invalids should have the advantage of sea air. The pupils
who were not affected went home for • period of ten weeks,
when • liberal money payment was made to timer relatives
for their maintenance; and to meet the extraordinary ex-
penses, involving an amount of 8001., the directors now ap-
pealed to the public sympathyand benevolence. The lino-
rary physician, Dr. Bare, Lad urged the necessity for an
infirmary, which suggestion the directors would willingly
carry out, but they only bold the present building and
ground on a short lease, which the lessor (the rector of
the parish) is prevented by act of parliament from ex-
tending on favourable terms. The band, however,
hoped that as the lease would soon expire they
would be in a position' at no very distant period,period,to erect on • freehold and salubriou, site • substan-
tial commodious building as the future home—(hear, hear)—
and towards this object Mr. J. J. Tanner, of Upper Clap-
toe (one of the vice•presidente), had given 105!. (Applause.)
As regarded the education, the progress had been satisfac-
tory. During the pan year 28 children had been admitted
—AI by election, and eight by purchase ; aad now 10 more
orphans had to be selected from a list of 36 approved candi-
dates ' • but while six girls are to be elected, only four boys
could be admitted, because the present state of their wing
would realer& larger admimion imprudent. The directors,
however, trusted that the British Orphan Asylum— the
last of all the orphan charities to ask fez money fora new
building—would be provided with a house of ample size
land unpretending exterior with every sanitary and educe-
Waal convenience. The 'financial statement showed that
the total expenditure of the year was 5,2631. 4a. lid., and
the balance in the hands of the treasurer 4161. 14e. 4d.
The stock vested in trustees amouuted to 3,8411.6 s Yew
Three per Cents. ; 2,198 E. Its. Id., Console ; 1,0201. (a:. 3d.,
East India Stock ; and 1,04.101. Exchequer Bills. The re.
port having, on the motion of Captain Campbell, of tho
Indian Navy, seconded by Mr. Bryan, beau adopted, • vote
of thanks was paned to the directors.
The LORD MAYOR than distributed the rewards in money,
varying from V. ss. to 10s., to 14 of the former pupils of
asylum—youngthe men now filling situations, and who
Lad been recommended by their employers for their good
conduct.

The Rev. S. R. Ctirtrt then addressed the young men,
encouraging them to persevere in the conduct which had
contributed to the honourable position they now occupied.
They were then invited to visit the asylum on the 20th
insteot, when the prises are to be distributed to the pupils.
The proceedings terminated with the declaration of the
poll in the election of candidates.

DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT • STONE
QUARRY.—On Saturday, Mr. Blackburn held an inquiry
at the Leeds Town-hall into the circumstances of the
death of Edward fienoor, sled 58. The deceased lived at
Potternewton, and was in the employ of Mr. Ackroyd, at
the Lipton A ood Quarry, near Leeds. On Tuesday morn-
ing he was drilling a hole in the side of the rock in order to
blast it, and some other men about the same time were
craning up e stone weighing from a ton to a ton and a
quarter. Then was a signal given, but the deceased either
did not hear it or would not get out of the way (which two
men working with him did), and the chain becoming sud-
denly twisted the atone went round in a contrary direction
to that which it was expected to take. struck the deceased
and crashed him between the stone and the face of the
rock. Be was frightfully mutilated about the face, and
was at once conveyed to the infirmary. Mr. Jamop, the
hones surgeon of that institution, stated that the deceased's
heed was entirely smashed in, so as to be separated from
the upper portion of the head, and presenting the most
frightful spectacle he ever beheld. The brain was exposed
from above the nose, and the left eyeball was smashed to
pieces. The deceased became insensible on Tuesday, and
inflammation of the membrane of the brain supervening, he
died on Friday. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death." but a:preened an opinion that greater caution should
be used in drawing up atones, and that the persons so em-
ployed should see that their fellow workmen were not in a
position of danger.