The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

of the Old Duke's Stand the weight told upon the latter
and he dropped back, Outlaw taking his place in attend-
ance upon the leaders to half way on the rails, when the
two leaders singled themselves out and finished the race
home, the favourite winning in a canter by three lengths,
twice that distance separating the second and third ;
Actman was a bad fourth, Echo fifth, and Farce skixth;
then came Magnum Bonum and Asteroid, Fantail, to b
Bay Celia filly, and Oscar last. On returning to scale
Herbert, the rider of Wandering Minstrel, made a com-
plaint against the rider of Guerilla on the ground of a
cross, when, after hearing evidence there by the stewards,
the objection was overruled.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.

DERBY.
6to 1 agst Scottish Chief
14 to 1 agst Cambuscan
14 to 1 agst Coast Guard
15 to 1 agst Paris
15 to 1 agst Birchbroom
22 to 1 agst Prince Arthur
1000 to 15 agat Sing John
1000 to 10 agst Privateer (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Planet (taken)
1000 to 6 agst Veterinarian

MIDNIGHT BETTING
THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES:
sto 2 agst Fillo de I'Air
Bto 1 agst Paris
20 to 1 agst Master Richard
25 to 1 agst Durham

DERBY.
100 to 15 agst Scottish Chief
14 to 1 agst Coastguard
16 to 1 agst Cambuscau
20 to 1 agst Forager
25 to 1 agst Paris

University College Hospital.

The anniversary festival of the North London or Uni
versity College Hospital, one of the most deserving and
useful of our great metropolitan institutions, was celebrated
last evening at Willis's Rooms; King-street, St. James's,
under the distinguished presidency of Mr Charles Dickens,
supported by Mr John Forster, Dr. Roget, Mr A. W.
Jaffrey, Mr R.N. Fowler,tMr W. Fowler, Mr Enfield, Mr
Bischoff, Mr Julian Goldsmid, Mr Jas. Heywood, Professor
Masson, Mr Shirley Brooks, Mr Henry Kingsley, Mr Tom
Hughes, Mr Macmillan, and about a hundred other guests.
In order to exhibit the high claims which Ihe University
College Hospital has upon the bounty of the benevolent,
we may briefly state that upwards of 1,200 patients are
annually admitted into the hospital, 6,000 every year re-
ceive medical and surgical treatment as out-patients, nearly
9,000 are attended to as casualties, relief is administered
in 1,600 ophthalmic cases, and 850 women in childbirth
are attended at the;r own habitations. The annual cost
of maintaining the hospital in its present state is £6,500.
The annual subscriptions do not amount to £l,lOO,
the students' fees for clinical instruction, relinquished
by the medical staff for the purposes of the charity,
average £1,200, and the interest of investments amount to
£320, making a total of £2,620, and leaving a yearly deficit
of nearly £4,000 to be provided for. The debt now amounts
to £6,741 (including a loan of £3,000), and there is no hope
of diminishing that debt unless the committee receive spe-
cial assistance. During the past year extraordinary efforts
were made to relieve the hospital from its floating debt.
Nearly £3,300 was collected at the dinner last June, when
Lord Brougham presided ; and the total amount of dona-
tions during the year was £5,600, among the contributors
being the Queen and Prince of Wales, who has accepted the
office of vice-patron. The hopes entertained by the commit-
tee when the nursery of the hospital was entrusted to the
Lady Superior and Sisters of All Saints' Home have been
completely realised. By their kind care and able treatment
the comfort of the patients is increased and their recovery
hastened.
The usual loyal toasts having been eloquently proposed
and heartily responded to, the chairman, in giving "The
Army, Navy, and Volunteers," coupled with it the name of
Lieut,-Col. Tom Hughes (of school-boy days' fame), who,
in responding, acknowledged the great assistance which had
been rendered by the University College to the regiment.
the 19th Middlesex, or Working Men's, which he had the
honour to command, _ _

The CHAIRMAN, next proceeded to give the toast of the
evening, " Success to the London University Hospital." He
observed that his first remembrance of a certain spot in
north-western London, and which he had reasons for re-
collecting, was of a very uninviting piece of wet ground,
and a miserable pool of water. It was encumbered with
rubbish, and looked like a barbarous place of execution,
with its poles and cross poles erected for beating carpets,
and the ground itself was covered with nettles and dock-
weeds. Associated with this place was a story, captivating
enough to his boyish imagination, concerning the
field of forty footsteps. so called, so far as he remembered,
and he remembered it very distinctly, because of a duel that
was traditionally supposed to have been fought upon a part
of this rank place. While they were retreating and advanc-
ing, each with intent to wound the other, the tradition was
that the grist; got trodden down with forty dreadful foot-
steps on which it never afterwards grew. He remembered
going there, accompanied by an equally adventurous young
Englishman about his own age, which was then something
like eleven years, with whom he had made arrangements to
seek their fortunes on the Spanish Main when they should
have accumulated a certain sum of money, somewhere, he
thought, about 405., and obtained a rifle each, which they
never did. (Laughter.) He proceeded, in the company of
this young pirate, to inspect this dismal piece of ground,
and he well remembered counting 40 places on which the
grass undoubtedly did not grow, though whether it grew
anywhere for a couple of feet without a bald patch he could
not, at this distance of time, undertake to say. This field of
the 40 footsteps was close to the site on which was afterwards
built University College, and which formed part of the open
space of ground allotted to the students of University Col-
lege Hospital. Looking over the papers of this association,
found, oddly enough, that this field of forty footsteps had
beee,:e the field of four hundred and forty odd thousand
footsteps, ,cor that number of brethren might be said to have
taken refuge in: this hospital since its first establishment 30
years ago, and the place in regard to which this unnatural
is still traditions.' was become a place for the restora-
tion-of all those, their brethren, to life, enjoyment, industry,
and civilisation. (Cheers.) The present company knew
far better than he did the claims which this hospital had
upon the public. He would go so fat' as to say that it had a
claim upon the generosity of all England. Its annual ex-
penditure was £6,500, and he regretted to say iJaat its income
was not nearly one half the money. Moreover, a full moiety
of that income was derived from the generosity of is. own
medical staff, who, with a liberality which was most praiO•
worthy to themselves, and gratifying to all who heard of it,
devoted the whole of the fees derived from the clinical in-
struction of pupils to the support of the hospital. (Cheers )
At the present moment, however, the institution required at
least £4,000 a year more to supply the deficiency created by
its large expenditure over income, and it was manifest that
unless great exertions were made it would be impossible to
continue the charity. The institution had these peculiar
claims upon the public for support. First, it had a claim
upon the richer inhabitants of the north-western district, in
which it was situate; being naturally the hospital to which
all persons in their employment would be sent in the ease
of accident or disease. next, it had a claim tit on the whole
country for the improved medical oducatioa which it diffused
thrt,pghout every part of the kingdom; and, thirdly, it re-
presented the largest and most liberal views in reference to
religious mat:ers, no persons being excluded on account of
their religion. a proof of this ho might mention that
wealthy Parsees had b
ient their sons to this hospital to com-
plete their medical educab2n, and had thus been the means
of alleviating the sufferings o: humanity by the spread of
retotest regions of the far
medical knowledge even in the
East. In conclusion he called upon th.q m all to support so
truly excellent and useful an institution. Hear, hear.)
The health of the Chairman was afterwards ;,roposed in
eloquent terms by Mr MA.I/SIIALL, and Mr SZIRLET
BROOKS proposed the health of the President and the other
officers of the institution.
In the course of the evening subscriptions and donations
to the amount of £1,500 were announced. The musical
arrangements, which were under the direction of Mr W.
Ganz, and included the efficient service of Mdlle. Enequist,
Miss Stabbach, Mr M, Smith, and Mr Adlington Wall-
worth, gave general satisfaction,

MURDER OF A FEMALE.-0a Sunday morning
last, a woman living at Westerham, a small town
in Kent, was found dead, and from the appearances which
the body presented there is no doubt that death was the re-
sult of violence. The deceased was Bridget Goodsall, be-
tween 40 and 50 years of age, who occupied a room in the
town, and who, since the death of her husband, about two
months ago, has led a rather dissipated life. It appears
that Aaron Langridgo was passing down Water-lane,
which is close to the town, and is a bye lane but little
frequented, when he saw the body of the deceased lying
in the road near to a Mr, Whitmore's house. He at once
obtained the assistance of Mr. Rathill, surgeon, but the un-
fortunate woman was quite dead and cold, and it was evi-
dent, from the slight examination that was made, that she
had been most brutally used. Information was sent to
the police, and James Bachelor, a bricknaaker, residing
near the Surrey breeches, and Richard Miles, labourer,
living on Limpefleld-common, both young men about 20
years of age, were apprehended. The evidence briefly against
the prisoners were that they had been drinking with the mur-
dered woman at the General Wolfe public'aouse on Satur-
day night, and left there at 12 o'clock, but they were all
three afterwards seen going towards the town in the direc-
tion of Water-lane. Shortly before 1 o'clock Ann Clout,
servant to Mr Whitmore, heard screams near the house
(close to which the body was found), and the words " I have
done nothing—l have done nothing," upon which she got
up and struck a light, but afterwards hearing footsteps of
some one running away, and there being no more noise she
retired. 'When the prisoners were apprehended they gave
contradictory statements as to where they had parted with
the unfortunate woman, one of them having stated that he
had left her near where the body was found, and admitted
the purpose for which ho had accompanied her,