The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-01 00:00:00

Corporation of the Scottish Hospital,

Tho annual Court of the members of this c:rporation was
held yesterday in the hall of the corporation, Crane-court,
Flet t- street, for the purpose of receiving the annual report
.if ,the Commiqese 43,1?.14vege.ment, with the statement of
accounts for tfie'preceding year, and as to the general busi-
ness of the Corporation. His Grace the Duke of Montrose,
the President, occupied the chair.

On the minutes of the previous Court being read, a long
discussion ensued on the question for the confirmation of
them, exception being taken by Mr Strachan to that portion
of them which related to the resolution contained in them as
adopted by the previous Court, to increase the salary of the
secretary to the extent of £lOO, that gentleman arguing that
the annual income of the charity did not at present warrant
such an increase, and moving, as an amendment to the
motion for confirmation, that the minutes be confirmed with
the exception of the portion referred to.
Capt. SMITH seconded the amendment, contending that
the increase which had taken place in the income of the
charity since Mr Moir was appointed secretary did not war-
rant such an increase in his salary.
Dr HOGG, as a member of the committee who had by a
majority recommended the proposed increase in the secre-
tary's salary to the general court, considered that they were
justified in doing so, from the services Mr Moir had ren-
dered the charity, and from the increased funds he had
been the means of bringing to it. The last secretary's
salary was £250 with a residence, and Mr Moir's was £l5O
without a residence. And if they looked at the increase in
the income since the latter was appointed, they would see
that the committee was fully justified in recommending the
increase referred to. During the time the previous secretary
was in office, the highest amount of income was during the
years 184?, 1845, and 1819, when it was £1,706, £1,897.
and £1,724 respectively, while since Mr Moir came into
office, while in 1863 it was
,e 1,736, last year it had increased
to £2.100. The subscriptions and donations having there-
fore been raised 20 per cent., he considered they were justi-
fied in making this additio.
Mr Aldermin WILSON considered that after the state-
ment of Dr Hogg the committee wore fully warranted in
recommending such increase; and after some further dis-
cussion,amendment was put and rejected
byamajority
Storfalc7to'B 2,
and the original resolution for the
confirmation of the minutes agreed to.
The SECRETARY then read the report of the committee of
management, detailing the transactions in connexion with
the charity during the past year, and which stated that the
income for that period from all sources, including the ba-
lance carried forward from the preceding year, had amounted
to £9oand the expenditure to £3,914 lls 4d,
lertvin4gaoblaslB 4d,
balance in hand of £986 4s. The sum given to
Pensioners and casual applicants during the year, including
free passages to Scotland, had amounted to £2,319 is 3d,
The committee had also much pleasure in stating that dur-
ing the past year the income of the charity from donations
and subscriptions had exceeded that of the previous year by
£674 lls Gd, the totals of these sources of income being for
1863 £1,736 13s Bd, and for 1864 £2,411 5s 9d. Of that in •
crease £2OB consisted of new annual subscriptions, and £466
lls Gd of new life subscriptions and donations. While
therefore congratulating the Court on the most satisfactory
condition of the charity, the committee respectfully urged
upon the governors the necessity of continuing their indi-
vidual subscriptions, and exerting their influence to induce
their friends and fellow-countrymen to become aubecribere.
Though the fluctuating income of the institution had boon
largely increased, the fund at the disposal of the committee
was far from commensurate with the pressing claims upon
them; at the election in October last there being 93 candi-
dates for the twelve vacancies on the various pension lists.
With these facts before them the committee considered
themselves.justifled in recommending to the Court to take
into its serious consideration the propriety of increusing the
number of the pensions, especially the second and third
classes of £lO and £l5 per annum. The balance in hand
and the prospect of a considerable increase warranted that
proposal, and its adoption would, in the opinion of the
committee, be a most suitable memorial of the bicentenary
festival.
The report and the balance sheet accompanying it having
been adopted,
Mr WEESTER proposed that the Duke cf Montrose be
elected president of the corporation for the ensuing year.
due to his Grace for the great attenain he bestowed upon
The thanks of every one connected with the charity were
everything connected with it, and the interact he continued
to take in its behalf, and he was certain that among the
notability of Scotland they could not find a nobleman more
suited for occupying the office of the president.
Dr. LIDDEL having seconded the motion, it was cordially
adopted, and
The Duke of MONTROSE acknowledged the compliment
the Court had paid him. He hoped, however, that by next
year they would find some one better suited for the office,
It was said that new brooms swept clean, and by the infu-
sion of new blood into the institution they might advance
its interests.
The Duke of iiichraohd and Sir George Clark, Bart,

A brief outline of the history of an institution which
after two centuries of activity Ends.itsalLunithazjtaralYged
nor impaired by the lapse of time, may be worth considera-
tion in this age cf philanthropic schemes of all kinds, and
at the same time offer valuable and practical suggestions to
those who wish to pursue a similar course in endowing insti-
tutions, which in their practical operation are calculated
amidst all changes of time and circumstances really to effect
the object aimed at.
" The Scottish Hospital owes its origin to a society formed
a short time after the accession of King James I, for relieving
the less fortunate individuals of the Scottish nation. The
society continued to exercise its benevolent purposes under
the designation of the Scottish Box,until the reign of Charles
11,, when in the year 1665 a charter of incorporation, under
its present designation, was granted, empowering the society
to hold lands, and to erect an hospital for the reception of
the objects of the charity. A second charter of incorpora-
tion was granted by the same monarch in the year 1676,
containing more extended privileges. Within a fewyears
after the date of the first charter ru, hospital was built; but
experience soon proved that confinement to a charity work-
house was altogether uncongenial to the feelings and habits
of the Scottish poor. The maintenance of an hoepital or
receptacle for the objects of the charity was in conbequence
relinquished, and the plan of assisting and relieving them at
their own habitations substituted. That assistance was
confined to such natives of Scotland, resident in London, as
had become members by paying stated contributions to the

society, in virtue of which they were entitled to relief when
in want. To enable the corporation to extend its relief to
such objects, it became necessary to obtain a new charter,
which was granted by Geo. 111., in the year 1715,whereby
the Scottish hospital of the foundation of King Charles 11.
was re-incorporated. A sum is sot apart for the support of
five perms exceeding 65 years of age, who have occupied
a respectable social position in society, and who have a per-
manent income of not less than £l5 but not more than £3O
per annum ; for 10 poor infirm persons, exceeding 72 years
of ago, to whom a pension of £l5 per annum is allowed;
for 90 above 68, to whom £lO is allowed. The vacancies
which occur by deaths or other removal of the pensioners
are filled up at a general election, twice a year, on the last
Wednesdays of April and October. Pensions of £6
are granted to 50 persons selected from the casual list.
Monthly casual relief to upwards of 200 is awarded by the
committee, and free passages to Scotland to such as require
them. From the Kinloch Bequest pensions aro given to
about 600 disabled soldiers and sailors. The charity of the
hospital is applicable to the poor natives of Scotland and'
their children, resident in the metropolis and its immediate
neighbourhood, who not being in receipt of any parochial
relief at this country, would in age and poverty, in sickness
or distress, or when in want of employment, be exrosed to
the utmost wretchedness, or to discreditable beggary, but
for the fostering relief afforded them by this institution.
These poor natives of Scotland resident in London who may
desire to spend the remainder of their days in Scotland, have

free passages granted them by the corporation. From a view
of the nutnbets relieved it is evident that while this institu-
tion is a real blessing to the aged. the helpless, the discrised
and the unemployed poor of Scotland, resident in London,
Westminster, and the neighbourhood, extending to a circle
of ten miles radius from the hall of the corporation, it is ut
incalculable benefit to the community at large, who by
means of this charity are spared the pain of beholding so
great an addition, as otherwise there would be, of our des-
...

Witte Tellow-creatures seeking their wretched pittance in the
streets, liable to be taken up as vagrants and sent to the

House of Correction, and probably out to greater evils
and disgrace. From the accumulation of a subscription
which was raised in India 30 years ago, the corporation is
now enabled to allot £l2O a-year to the ministers and kirk
sessions of the several congregations of the Scottish
churches in London and Westminster, for the purpose of
affording education to the children of Scottish parents at
the schools attached to these churches. There are also
governors of the institution, gentlemen of ominenc.o in
the medical profession, who in all cases requiring their
aid and advice aro ready to give their time and pro-
fessional services to the poor gratuitously. The Scottish
Hospital is in a more prosperous condition at the present
moment than it has ever been daring the 200 years of its
existence. During the past year the total income from all
sources amounts to £4,900 15s 4d, being an increase of £674
Ils Gd over last yeses income, which was the most success-
ful year ever known during the existence of the charity.
The amount received in donations and subscriptions has
during the last two years been doubled, and the sums given
to deserving applicants proportionately increased. In conse-

quenco of the liberal subscriptions received, the directors
have fox med five new pensions of £25 each per annum, and to
give temporary relief in urgent cases often to a considerable
amount; the charity is thus the means of alleviating much
suffering and of preserving that independence of spirit and
position which it was designed to encourage and maintain."
Ample justice having been done to a banquet which re-
flected the highest credit upon Messrs Shrewsbury and Elk-
ington, the proprietors ot the Freemasou's Tavern, and espe-
cially to those time-honoured and highly-relished dishes,
minced collope, and the "great chieftain o' the pudding
race"—haggis,

The noble CILAIMIAN gave in succession the usual loyal
and patriotic toasts. Ho reminded the company that her
Majesty and the other members of the Royal family had
always been liberal contributors to the funds of the hospital,
and that, apart from all their other claims on the gra-
titude and loyalty of the community at large, that was a
fact which deserved special recognition from that company.
His Grace proposed the health of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales as " Albert Edward Prince of Wales, Duke
of Rothesay, Baron; Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Groat
Steward of Scotland," amidst loud cheers, explaining, as ho
did so, the ancient connection which the titular Prince and
heir apparent had to this special claim on their loyalty.
The toast:was enthusiastically honoured, and was followed
by that of " His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, and the
other members of the Royal Family," and the "Ai my and
Navy Volunteers," given by the Chairman; and as far as
the last toast was ,concerned, responded to by Mr B urton
and Dr. Hally.
His Grace, the CHAIRMAN then proposed the toast of the
evening, "The Scottish Hospital," and success to the com-
pany which had assembled there that day to promote the
objects of that institution. It stood, as it were, apart from
all other charitable institutions, not only in London, but in
England. In the first place, it was one of great antiquity,
as was evidenced by the fact that they ware celebrating its
bicentenary; and in the seoand place, because the mode in
which it administered relief and gave assistance was not in
the slightest degree opposed to the soundest principles of
political economy. Apart altogether from the pride which
belonged to Scetchmen of every class, and which prevented
them, even in the most desperate straits, from appealing for
charity either to individuals or institutions, there was some-
thing in the constitution of the Scottish Hospital which
peculiarly adapted itself to the national idiosyncracy. Help
could be obtained whet.) needful without publicity or
humiliation, and hence it was, in his opinion, that the hos-
pital, after having gone through many hard times of late
years, had tome out of the furnace like pure gold, and was
now better prepared than ever to carry out the grand objects

of its founders. At the same time his grace reminded the

company that to keep pace with the growing demands on
the charity increased liberality in the subscriptions was

requisite, and looking at the splendid meeting—remember-
ing the success which followed Scottish entorpriso and do-

termination everywhere all over the world—he had no doubt
of the future prosperity of the Royal Scottish Hospital.
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.

The J?ev. Dr CUMMING proposed the health of the noble

Chairman, to which his Grace briefly replied.
The hall was tastefully decorated with bannere, carrying

he arms of the old Scottish chiefs and clans. Over the

chair hung the arms of the hospital, as granted by "King
Jamie," and at intervals the armorial bearings of Cameron

of Lochiel, Maclean, Glengarry, M'Kenzie, Grant, M'Duff,
M'Donald, Lord of the Isles; Murray, Forbes, Gordon, The

Chisholm, Stewart, Eglintoun, and other well-known names

brought back the memory of a thousand years, and Evan's

Donald's fame rang in each clansman's ears."
The subscriptions and contributions announced in the

course of the evening amounted to over £2,000.

Mr Snowdon, Saint John's College, Cambridge,
(16th wrangler, and second-class classic, 1663), has been
elected Noden's Divinity Student, at St John's College,

ess than Bft. 6in. above the load water line. The
armour 'at the stem and stern will not be pared
down to a couple of inches in thickness, and there
will be scarcely any difference between the thick-
ness of the plates at stern and bow and those at
the broadside portion of the frigate. The armour
itself will be 5,5 inches in thickness from the lower
edge, carried down about 5 ft. below the water-line,
to 2 ft. above the water's surface, and all round the
gun battery, amidships, where th© usual 41 in, ar•
mour will be placed, an extra iron skin.plating of
1 in. thick is already being worked upon the frames
of the frigate behind the outer planking. The total
thickness of the vessel's side will thus be rather
more than 3 ft., of which 6; inches will be of iron,
through which both shot and shell will have to
penetrate before reaching the gunners in the battery.
In the trials made with the Lord Warden target at
Shoeburyness a short time since, to test the shot
and shell resisting powers of the Lord Warden,
although the target was ultimately knocked to
pieces by ordnanCe of exceptional weight, it was,
nevertheless, found capable of withstanding even
the 300. pounder gun firing solid spherical shot with
501 b. of powder, and the target at length only sue.
climbed under trials more than usually severe. As
there is no gun at all approaching in efficacy the
300-pounder yet in use in the French navy, and as
the largest description of Federal guns lately proved
ineffective against the inferior plating of the Con-
federate ram Tennessee, it cannot be doubted that
the Lord Warden is perfectly impregnable to the
existing ordnance of the French and American
navies, while, on the other hand, the frigate herself
will be capable of carrying guns of a larger and far
more powerful kind than any in use in any other
navy in the weed. Although the Lord Warden
will carry 1,400 tons of armour-plating bolted to her
sides her designer does not intend to effect this at
the sacrifice of speed. On the contrary, provision
has been made for her rate of steaming to surpass
that of any of the previously constructed wooden-
built frigates sent afloat, either with or without ar-
mour. To effect this engines of 1,000 horse power
(noninkaare now being prepared fir_l4rauLbs
means of great expansion, surface cogtensation,
super-heating, and other modern steam engine im-
provements, never before fitted to an armour-plated
frigate, an indicated horse power of :6,000 will be
obtained, sufficient to drive the mass through the
sea at an average rate of 14 knots an hour:

The Geyser, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Thrupp,
returned to Portsmouth from her cruise off Dunge-
ness in search of the wreck of the merchant ship
Robin Hood yesterday morning. Commander
Thrupp reports having found the Robin Hood lying
in five fathoms water, just inside the Stevenson
shoals, and about five miles west of Dungeness.
Her royal yards were across, and above water, but
the sails had been unbent by the crew of a Deal
logger. The day the wreck was found (Sunday
last) was fine, but there was a heavy " send'' of
the sea over the wreck, and it was found quite im-
possible to do anything of importance with the
Geyser's limited means. A diver was sent down to
the wreck, and a brief inspection made of her state,
which was embodied in a report forwarded by
Commander Thrupp to the Admiralty, who, in
reply, directed the Geyser to return for the present
to Portsmouth, where her services are required to•
day to convey seamen and marines paid off from her
Majesty's ships. Marlborough and Ariel to the De.
vonport. It is not improbable that the Admiralty
will leave the further measures to be taken for the
recovery of the Robin Hood and her cargo to pri-
vate persons who are accustomed to such opera-
tions, and have the proper appliances for carrying
on that description of work at their command.
Capt. Sherard Osborn, C. 8., yesterday went on
board his ship the Royal Sovereign, at Portsmouth'
for the last time as her commanding officer, Capt.
Osborn resigning his command of the ship this
morning on the completion of his captain's service
in sea time entitling him to flag rank on the active
list. The Royal Sovereign maintains a present
compliment of 104 officers and men, comprising one
senior lieutenant, one surgeon, one paymaster, one
chief engineer and three assistants, three warrant
officers, and 94 seamen, marines, and stokers. Her
books and accounts are kept on board and entirely
separate from those of the ship (Excellent) to which
she has been formally attached as a tender tempo,
rarily for experimental purposes—and, in fact, the
appointment of a captain and a certain number of
officers qnd men to fill up her complement would
render her competent to cross the Channel at a day's
notice on active service. Various and modified
orders have been issued from the Admiralty re.
specting the ship, but she new appears to be held
in hand for any possible unforeseen contingency as
readily as possible under the circumstances. The
alterations on board are in accordance with the sug•
gestions contained in Captain Osborn's final report
on the ship, which was drawn up by that officer
and forwarded to the Admiralty at the termination
of the ship's period of active commission.
The America target frigate has been brought
down Portsmouth harbour and placed alongside the
dockyard, where she is having an armour-plate 15ft
in length by 3ft gin in width, for the Royal Alfred,
affixed to her sides for testing under the superin-
tendence of Captain A. C. Key, C. 8., of her Ma.
jesty's ship Excellent. Messrs. John Brown and
Co., of the Atlas Works, Sheffield, are the makers
of the Royal Alfred's armour.

Her Mgjesty's screw corvette Niger, in basin et
Woolwich yesterday completed coaling and taking
in stores in preparation to be commissioned for

service.

The Venus, ono of the old frigates, lent
for some years as a training ship for the mer-
cantile service, and moored for thst purpose off
Charlton pier, where she was last year replaced by
the Warspite, was yesterday brought up to Messrs•
Castle and Beech's yard, adjoining the dockyard at
Woolwich, from Sheerness, in tow of the paddle-
wheel steam vessel Locust, Mr Harvey, master, to

SHIELDS, Tuesday Night.
Oa Sunday afternoon the bodies of Mr Shoed, the Taster,
and Alfred Page, the cabin-boy of the Friendship, of Col-
chester, were interred• This afternoon the bodies:ef tho
mate, Alfred William Clark, seaman, and William
Button, an orphan lad, tuo remainder of the crew of that
unfortunate ship, were reinuvid from the Temperancc-halt
to the new cemetery to bo interred, The h',llrtso was fol-
lowed by all the Colchester shipmasters and 'heir crews
who were in port. Upon entering the cemetery (Le cairns
were taken out of the hearse, the mate's was covered with
a union jack, and the other two young men's with ensigns,
and they were borne on the shoulders of searet n to tine
grave. Some hundreds of sailors and fiehernien wive
followed the funeral to the.grave.
An old man named Roberts arrived here to-day from thp
north of Scotland, and identified a body in the Temperance-
Hall, as that of his daughter Jessie Roberts. The bodies of
two middle-aged women remain unidentified in the Tem-
perance-hall. They are supposed to be those of Mrs Pratt
and Mrs Smith, and will be interred to-morrow. The
National Lifeboat Society have been Tery prompt in send.
ing down a note lifeboat to Tynereeuth to replere.
stance, disabled. The new lifeboat, the Robert WhiivilOrth„
bought by subscriptions raised at Menchester, was received
yesterday, and was immediately placed on the station. A.
volunteer corps is being organised in Tynemouth to co•
operate with the Coastguerdmen in saving life from ship-
wreck by means of Manly's rocket apparatus.
The coroner's inquest upon the bodies found and iden-
tified lost with the Stanley and the Friendship,was resumed
this afternoon, in the Town-halt North Shields, by the
deputy coroner for Northumberland.
James Gilbert, of Tynmouth, who acted as coxswain of
the Constance lifeboat on the night of Thursday last, said,
—We proceeded with the lifeboat towards the Stanley. We
got close under the Low of the Stanley when a sea came and
broke all the oars, except two on each side. The boat next
caught the fore rigging of the Friendship, and part of her
side was driven in. I stuck to the boat, and four of the crew
got on board the Friendship, We were not lashed to the life-
boat. The Friendship was on the rocks, and she fell over with
mast to the south. We had an opportunity of speaking to
the crew of the Friendship. They made no answer to us.
They seemed to be paralysed. We were able to get safe
ashore in our boat, and it the rest of the crew had remainect
in the boat they might have been saved, The boat was
nearly perpendicular in the water. Three of the men were►
thrown into the rigging. The fourth jumped on board and
was saved. It is northe practice to be lashed into the life.
boats. I was once 11 hours in the lifeboat, when we saved
several crews. I was not lashed in. No man would like to
be tied in. Every man had his cork jacket.
John Main, chief mate of the Stanley, said—We sailed
from Aberdeen on Wednesday last. I was acquanted with.
the channel of the Tyne from the entrance upwards. When.
we got off this coast the captain determined to bring the
Stanley into the Tyne. The captain asked me if I thought;
it would be practicable to go in. The tide was then about;

an hour from low water. 1 saw it advertised in the papert4
that there was as much as from 17 to IS feet on the bar at
low water. The water shallows up towards the lighthouse..
I don't know to what extent, but the ship would have
been safe. I think she would have got as far as the
lighthouse without taking the ground. Above that she

would have grounded; but she would have been in safety
opposite the lighthouse. He decided to come in, and I said
I would do my endeavours to bring her in. Neither lights
were lighted at the time. I said I thought there was plenty
of water, or something to that effect. I felt confident from
my previous knowledge that I could bring her safely up the,
channel. There are no guides; but I knew we ought to steer
W. hall N. The captain and I were both on the bridge. r
told tho captain how to steer and the captain gave the
orders. We took W. half N., and were guided by the surf ors
each side. A heavy sea struck the vessel on the starboard
quarter, and she run against her starboard helm. By that
means sho was driven to the north. The sea drove her
where she was. She is only 20 or 30 yards out of the channel
now. Before the sea struck her she was in her right channel-
The regulation as to the lights is, to put them out at quarter
ebb and re-light them at quartex flood. I went on the sup-

position that at any time there was water enough to ocioae
over the bar. Our ship drew 13R. of water. There
one seamen and the second mate at the wheel whoa the sea
struck her. We have never more than two men tit the)
wheel when taking the bar. After we struck sZie was kept
going at lull steam to try to get her off. She went ahead
a little, and then stuck fast. We th.o sang out for Assist-
ance. I (lid not give orders to get out the waist boat. The
clew did it themselves. I buperinterded it, and kept part
of the I,dics front getting in. When the boat was ready'i
four ladies, three seamen, and one fireman got into the boat.
1 gaVe orders for lowering the boot. Tim davit broke right
in two, close up to the neck. I cannot account fur it. I sang
out to cut the rope at the other end, but we could not get a
knife, and the end of the boat was immersed before we parted.
Three sailors got on board by means of ropes held out to
them. The four ladies and the fireman Gordon were drowned.
The captain then gave orders to get the other boat out.
The men would not go near hand. To the best of my
belief the men had lost control. Another sea came and
washed away the remainder of the boats. We then waited
until assistance came from the shore. The nearest lifebos-t•
to us was about 20 or 30 yards outside. At a later part or
the evening the ship parted in two. Before she parted some
passengers and the engineer, who were on the bridge, were
washed overboard. There were none at the stern when she
parted. Before that I advised the ladies to come off the bridge,
but they would not let go. the railing. I was on the crane.
The rocket apparatus was brought to us before the vesser
parted. When we got a communication with the shore, the
second mate and I took charge of it. We fastened it to the
bulkheads. That was about the level of the topgallant fore-
castle. I did not hear the captain make any remark that
was not tho proper place for it. I believe he did make that
remark, but I did not hear it. I thought the rocket had been
fired from the cliff; and it would have been very difficult to
get the women to the masthead. That was the reason why
1 did not fix the rope higher in the ship. A seaman was
the first and the second mate was the second to go ashore.
They got ashore safely. The next was a woman, accom-
panied by a seaman. They were unable to get across, and
in drawing them back they fell out of the cradle. A fire-
man went next, but the cradle got foul of the water, and ho
was obliged to leave the cradle and return. No further
attempts were mado that night. The hauling-lino fouled.
refcre the steamer parted the hawser broke. Nothing was
done after that till the morning, when the rocket was used,
and we were all taken off. On the second occasion we
fastened the rope to the masthead, We saw them on the
rocks then. It was a lower elevation. It was lower down
to the ship at any rate than when it was fired before. I
cannot say if we might have kept the ship out at sea with
safety. _

Two or three witnesses swore that the Coastguardsmau
behaved most heroically but that the lines 'could not be
brought after 8 o'clock at night on account of the sea.
The jury, after a carefully summing up by the coroner,
returned the following verdict :—" We are all agreed that
the loss of the Friendship was purely accidental; also the
Stanley, but we attach blame to the mate and master by
taking the bar too soon before the lights were lit; and as to
the harbour lights, we would recommend that they shall be
kept in continually without alteration in the light so long
as there is 17ft Rater upon the bar, and that when there is
not 171 t there must be an alteration."

Wednesday, Noon;
Tho weather has been mild and squally during the night,
the wind being at times S.W., S.S.E., and S. The wind
was about S.W. at daylight this morning, blowing strong,
and there was about 4ft sea. The salvors have succeeded in
saving a considerable amount of cargo from the wreck of
the Stanley during the night, mostly cloth and grain. They
have come upon a chest of silver plate and a large trunk of
wearing apparel, apparently belonging to an emigrant. No
bodies have been found ; it is feared that they are sand
warped or jammed between the rocks. Some, no doubt, are
buried up among the wreck of the steamer, The bark Amy
Itobsart still remains on the rocks.

PROPERTY IN TIIF CITY OF LONDOaN.6--peelirae::::
day, at the Sheriff's-court, Red Lion square, in the case of
" Robinson v. The Metropolitan Railway,"
awarded £5,000 for a freehold house in Charterhouse-
square, built 150 years ago, when the place was a
" fashionable locality."
BREAKFAST BEVERAGE,—Homoeopathic practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc-
trine of homeopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to be obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
Homceopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1819 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect tiituration it receives in the process it passes
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portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
in tin-lined jib., ilb., and llb. labelled packets, and sold by
a ll'groOtrF. mat ectiontra, and chemists.- [ADTT.]