The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

PLACES

meriea (by Brit. pkt.;N
tmerica (by U.S. pkt.)
America (by U.S. pkt.) 3i j
Alma (West coast).. N
dlexandria• • • ...... N
iielgiurn. .. .. • • N

3razi) .
Bueuos Ayres .. M
Callionths(viaCha.rret)
Cape 01 Good Hope N
::onstanttnople• N
t,lentral America St.
Channel Isles .. N

!April 23 'Liv „ , . pee' er t •
.April 20 ~ .. {Liverpool .
lAp,il 2S .. .. Sontharnpt
taw ot tiie month , Plymouth
il4th St 30th et me.' Dover ~
Daily .• .. ..; i)over .
.. ..

19th of the month Southampt
9th of the moat, ,:louthampt,
td 14:-. 17th of mutat:: ;iuuth,trnot.
:14th or month Plymouth.
,7th 17th 27th ot mo, Dover
12d it 17th of anon Southampt
%lon., Wed., Fri. utAxatpt.

Whoa
due.

!April 21

!May 3
Aprii 18
i pm" •

'May 1
',3lay 16
April 20
Wisp 3
April 20
!April 20
Ta. Tr,. sat
April 20
Twice.tally
April 20.
Tae.,. •ist.
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April 20
Twiceuall,

ChM M 117 in of the mo,:th Soathampt
(Prance &N • Twic-i, daily .. 'Dover .
i.lreeze* .. • • N 7th I 7th 27th of Lilo Dove'
ilamtnargh Nl‘aesday & Friday , London .
Aoilana •• M. Wednes. & Aatur. London ..
loaduras . 15 • 17th of the niont:i 6uuthatnat.
Ireland M & N' Twice daily Holyhead ..
India(via 9.otithamp.) M 20tb of the month Southwest.
India (via NI sraailles) N •itht. 24th of month Dover -.
itediterranean (via
gouthareaton) .. al 20th of the month Soutbamet.
A editen ..near (via
Marseilles) 1.1 'kith ofmontri Dover
Mexico M,2d of the month Southampt.
Madeira •• •• M 9th of the month Southampt.
rk7th,l7th.lhth,t7thl I Dove-
ii & 50th of month
Naples* .. -• N oth 15th 21qt, of ins Dover ~
Papal mates* N ;atli 15th 25th or ino Dover
•eninsular.. •• M,7tb 17th 27thwf mo Southarnpt
?ern •• • • .11'17th ut the month southarnot
Tuscany* N,sth I sth s 5 th of mu' Dover
peat Indies 51117th of the month 'Southampt.
Weit Indies (except
%miens Ir. Nassau) Mi2ci of the month tiouttunept. ;May 5
• the mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by
F:ench packet yi Marseilles.

ISlay' 1

Matta* .. ..

!May 1
!111 ay 5
!May 16
lApr:l 18
April 22
!April 22
!Apr 1 '.6
!April 21
A; ,rll 22
April 24

METIVTOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVON4FUIIIE•
SQUARE, BlStiorSGATE.—Yesterday evening a very full
meeting was hold in tile board room of the above institu-
tion, of which J ,hn Gurney Hoare, Esq., is treasurer. Tue
chairman stated in the most emphatic manner the claims of
the suffering poor upon this institution. In no part of
London was disease so prevalent as the eastern district.
o:her parts ha i their hospitals, but this—involving as it
did Soitaltields, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Whitechapel,
and St. Georges-in-the-East—had but one. and that was
the L',ndon Hospital (already over-crowded). The Metro-
politan Free Hospital had during the past few months re-
lieved 13,432 sick persons, and the average was at least
18,00) per year. The medical staff had indeed more thrust
upon them, by the pressure of calamity and disease, than
they could well alleviate, unless they were more warmly
supported by the subscribers to the institution. A vote of
thanks having been passed to the medical officers for their
valuable services, the meeting adjourned.

LAnGe
....TT--
FM ILIES.—To the instances of unusually
ne, who is said, by tradition, to have had
p P.
- Wren, of whom 27 were living at one time.
large numbersAof children by one mother may be added that
of a Lady Elhins
not less than 36 chi
seems to corroborate the tradition : it is
Elphinstone, which whi
d a new and somewhat bashful acquaint-
that they Mice asked
telling
There is a story told of this lady and her husband, Lord
mace to visit them, him that he should meet no one
Their
dinner,
d and being shown through the dining hall on his way
to the rawing-room, wa-
, much disconcerted at seeing a
but their family circle. guest arrived shortly before
strating with his host and hostess for having taken him in,
lung table laid out for about twenty people. On remnu-
as he thought, he was quietly informed that be had been told
whom this story -refers; and' by one. I believe that
assembled, only fell short of thirty.
no more than the truth, for that their family party, when all
the Earl of Lauderd .le, who lived in
the latter part of the
John, eighth Lord Elphinstone, and his lady, a daughter of
17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, are the pair to
stone family, though the Scotch peerages
make no mention of any such phenomenon in the Elphin-
of the authority from which I derive the tradition, to believe
yet I am strongly inclineJ, from the goodness
it to be true.- Notes and Queries.
e was unequal to.
' (3"1"1"(ins Cotsulicr OF A WomaN.--The fol-
lowing narrative embodies as touching a tale taken from
actual a-id humble life as ever fiction portrayed, as it fur-
nishes a beautiful •xample of the heroism of affection, show-
ing that a wornat,'s motherly sympathy dared that which
On Sanday se'nnight a child
rnabaonu'ts
Carmarthen, into the Towey, a strong tide running. at the
Yews of age fell over the Pothouse-quay,
fc.ouurraogr
ti v e
time. Two young men were f taudiug near, bat being un-
able to swim, made no affort to rescue the boy, merely crying out, ‘, He is drowning!" but aannah
a woman named Evans who wa4 in her house attending her sick daughter,
E the accident, and gallantly rushed into the water up to
her arm. it although totally ignorant of the art of swim-
ming, mid saved the child just as it Rag on the pint of
0444' tailkics../.slPWigo Mroft