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GENERAL MANAGER.
William McKewan, Esq.
CHIEF INSPECTOR.
W. J. Norfolk. Esq,
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER.
William Howard, Esq.
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT.
James Gray. Esq.
INSPECTORS OF BRANCHES.
B. L. Lemon. Esq., and 3. Sherring, Esq.
SECRETARY.
F. Clappison, Esq.
Otth Head Office-21, Lombard-street.
,Iy, the 2d
Meeting of the Proprietors, held on Thnrs-
,KikZ 2d February, 1865, at the London Tavern, Bishops-
"4lt 13,,..`reet, the following Report for the year ending the
'xlaber, 186 f, was read 'by the Secretary.
WILLIAM NICOL, ESQ., ALP., in the chair.
olhe REPORT.
le 'rectors have the pleasure to submit to the Shire-
-111. ts the balance-sheet of the bank for the half-year end-
-Ist I) k comber last
41thZ nave satisfaAlon in reporting that, after payment of
'lll Tg.ei, interest to customers making provision for bad
the houbtful debts, and presenting, a gratuity to each officer,
lh Profits amount to 2126,431 175. 44., which, with
" 168. 2d., brought forward from last account, produces
Thrn of £148,158 I3s. 6d. for appropriation.
g bireetor 3 r mmend the payment of the usual dividend
e'ee:,cent. for the half-year. together with a bonus of 12
tMaking 18 per cent for the six months ; these pay-
' be" `YIII absorb £129,529 is. 3d , and leave £18,62912x. 3d.
h carried forward to Profit and Loss New Account.
lNe:Pirectors regret to announce the decease of their late
ate el collea2ue James Laming, Esq., and report that they
'Ereei-ieeted Nathaniel Alexander. Esq.. of Great Winchester-
Thc ' mast
—eoto rslrettiring by'
Merchant,rotation are
to fill the vacancy thus created.
John William Burmester, Esq.,
John Fleming, Esq., and
William Champion Jones, Esq.,
f„khe 1,-4,112' eligibl, offer themselves for re-election.
ke,,'",,,,vidend and Bonus (together a 12s. per share) free
br 7,„ejiax, will be payable at the Head Office, or at any of
4.."e5, on or after Monday, the 13th inst.
tA

CE-SHEET OF THE LONDON AND COUNTY
To N BANKING COMPANY, DEc. 31, 180.
I.ll)itai
grt of a £750,000 0 0
15% iinalinstalment due
Data April next, not yet

£710,675 0 0

210,675 0 0

~loi,"'oUnt due by the bank
4,3 I:customers' ba1ance5,9,779,754 0 0
'4lo3llities on acceptances 2,431,599 15 5
12,211,353 15 5
thbrt',,„'clt and loss balance
+a '"4n4,ht from last account 21,725 16 2
lorYeki."°B profit for the laalf
, alter IBM:Eno- provision
4.1 doubtful debts 352,051 12 2 _ _

3:3,781 8 4

/ C £13:66;185 3 9
Ynu,a.
ltobq °,l hand at Head Office
'yeaskanelies V,45,,172 4 0
1104 4 Placed at call and at
et ... 193,486 16 6
In -.£2,154,659 0 6
1 (ifl'eatrnents, viz. :
Ilteeile,rrirnent and guaran-
loth:,oeks
II 'l'B ocks and securities 106,204 6 1
(liken 931,407 2 10
It.' toN;lt,nted bills and advances to customers
ttte,.,.. and country
,s_410,"101d premises in Lombard-street and
114'48-lane, freehold and leasehold pro-
lON 4t the branches, with fixtures and
131078
18
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by i„teg. ...
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y t refit 95,051 16 11
Cilarie, paid to customers
,04
_ete and Inradneallllesotihnecriue7dcpnegnsienscoamt He
tax
ilyejnits and salaries
Y o,ies to officers 11,222 8 6
Le nf
-. Meet ng 4th August, 1564

Z 13,536385 3 9
TPROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT,
ttl Tae
te:t;
paid to customers .£95,0)1 16
Ptoktat:lBea as above 78,313 11 5
,01.0 t tex to officers. 11,•!22 8 6
o,:ebit'lrtneeting 4th August, 1861
To 11,11 t On bills not due, carried to new ac-
... 39,429 0
.4,l,olliiesnd of 6 per cent. for the halt-year
7 1
balsao°l 12 per cent.
e carried forward.. 18,629 12 3

tlt £373,781 8 4
84)1Ito
hkr„,.ce brought forward from last ace )unt £21,726 16 2
vtoVl' f th ear, after making
810
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for bad and doubtful debts

milYe th
0£373,781 8 4
het, Sae , 80, undersigned, have examined the foregoing balance
a
have found the same to be correct.
(Signed) WILLIAM NORMAN,}
It. H. SWAINS, Auditors.
ti:/ildoa JOHN WRIGHT.
~,,a - and County Bank, 26th January, 1865.
the to,.
klo°llLegaing.', Report having been read by the Secretary,
1.41e4,"'ag Resolutions were proposed, and unanimously
to, th„,-
i the --o': the Report be received and adopted, and printed
1z7;,116:a el the Shareholders.
gtreth.a dividend of 6 per cent., togethe ith a bonus of
lav4 N,' both free of income tax, be declared for the half-
Lttlie ,11,4 31st December. 1804, payable on and after Mon_-
,„,41 r4th instant, and that the balance of £18,629 12s. 3d.
ati 'lltaiT'anwird to Profit and I.oss New Account.
hsetti or jahn: William Burmester, Esqiz be re-elected a
C),littNiq this Company ; that John I. ming Esq. be
Lotel)lo4 a Director of this Company ,e.tbat, William
4, ,all 3, Jones, Esq., be re-else ed a director of this
14ti h ij,
s.‘",,,ht%tilliam Norman, Richard Hinds Swains, and John
"it i)i'llattl,4l.B.,. be elected Auditors for the current year.oar. _
4tieecto,,,e thanks of this meeting be given to the I
ond.
6.7„a tii" for the able manner in which they have c
kh„,4l4".%affairs of th e Company.
Yi?..tar.s"o74,thsnks Of this meeting b.e presented to the
0, ~
khat
the
Company for their services during the past
olteNt-',e thanks of thiing be presented to Whliamrs
414 tie 11 n'i,.'"el., and to tweet rincipal and other office
arga,-., tor the zeal and abe ity with which they have
'the cl their respective dutt s.
44 that. (Signed) W. NICOL,ThaiI man.
1.3, ,„rri,,,ollan having quitted the chair, it was resolved,
,71hi' hitahuaanimousiy—
LA them N-i,e cordial thanks of the meeting be presented to
ch-air, Esq., M.P„ for his able andcourteous conduct
(Signed) W. CHAMPION JONES,
Deputy-Chairman.
Extracted from the Minutes.
1.,,,:6,......._____vr (Signed) F. CLAPPISON,
Secretary.
4.,41)(\,.
14tvx,te'-'-‘4 AND COUNTY BANKING
Der ikt,fls REREBTAPVAENNY, that a DIVIDEND on
4)='etit. AL STOCK of the Company, at th rate
4of Si?r
144, SI (4 0,,r the If Wf-year ending 31st December, 186 , with
bZii, Lora, eitherlerwelve per Cent., will be t'AID to the t ro-
Of theat the Head Office, 21, Lombard-street, or at
1.., then°tr ianta's Branch Baks, on and atter MON-
-21 I By order of the Board,
' ".°olbri.rd-street W. McKEWA.N, General Manager.
, Feb. 2, 1E65.
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• "W. Farquhar, lieutenant; A.— G. C. Tait, ditto ;
Thomas Dobbin, master ; J. E. Fawcett, surgeon ; G. M.
Dooley, chief engineer; Richard Crabbe, assistant pay-
master ; W. H. Phillips, ; Edward Top-
ping, ditto; T. W. E. Tickle, ditto; Charles Porter, gun-
nee ; David Gingle. ditto ; James Keenan, second captain
foretop; Thomas Hart, gunner's mate; Joseph Casey,
leading seaman; Henry Clay, second captain forecastle ;
George Craddock, leading stoker ; S. Bourne, stoker ;
Joshua Evans, ditto ; William Wilkinson, ditto ; M. Boyd,
ditto ; Archibald Wilson, ditto ; David Forrest, leading
stoker ; James Evendon, ditto ; Edward Flood, carpenter's
crew ; G. M. Hearsay, ship's steward ; James Constable,
A.B. ; George Winters, A. 8.; A. T. Lay," carpenter's crew ;
G. H. Willard, A.B. ; Peter Webster, ship's cook ; F, S.
Richard, captain's coxswain ; James Mummery, quarter-
master; John Myers, sailmaker's crew; Thomas Whitelock,
chief carpenter's mate ; John F. Kirby, quartermaster ;
George Bailey, stoker ; Thomas Brozen, blacksmith ; Jas.
Veal, ordinary ; A. Moon (a Chinaman), ward-room cook;
William Cook, ordinary; Henry Whitis, stoker second
class ; W. B. Phipps, stoker; Wm. Lucas, stoker second
class ; Michael Keaton, stoker ; William Watts, ordinary
second class ; W. E. Thomas, ditto ; George Baxter,
ordinary ; John Moore, A. 8., ; George Buckley, A.B. ;
John Hayward, A.B. ; A. J. Tucker, leading seaman ;
Tom Coball (an Indian), captain's cook ; Antonio Soice
(an Indian), officer's servant ; Domingo Luis Coelho (an
Indian), ward-room steward ; Augustine Deos (an Indian),
engineers' servant ; Timothy Sullivan, A.B. ; Isaac
Jordan, chief boatswain's mate ; John Barry, ordinary ;
Thomas Smellie, ordinary second class ; Robert Burns,
ditto ; T. J. Malin, ditto ; Richard Farrell, A.B. ; W. W,
Jerred, ordinary, second class; Jesse Sharp, boy, first class;
Thos. Dixon, ditto; Richard Allen, ditto; William Vinton,
ditto ; Thomas Charlie]; ditto ; Alfred Rippon, boy, first
class ; W. J. Kingwell, ditto; Robt. Crump, ditto ; William
Jones, ditto ; A. Malikin, boy, second class ; Samuel Rey-
nolds, sergeant, Royal Marines ; W. Woodhead, corporal,
Royal Marine Artillery ; William Brown, gunner, Royal
Marine Artillery ; George Taylor, ditto ; Samuel Rowe,
ditto ; Richard Gibbon, ditto ; A. Forrester, private, Royal
Marines; Eli Carpenter, ditto; Stephen Brown, ditto; James
011ey, ditto ; .A. Burton, ditto ; Henry Miller, ditto ; George
Currey, ditto.
" List of Men drowned in her Majesty's ship Racehorse,
while on passage to join the Insolent at Chefoo.

"E. P. Roberts, second master ; W. Smith, leading
stoker; Thomas Simmonds, stoker; Thomas Toucher,
ditto ; Taff Thomas, ditto ; Brain, ditto ; Coombs,
ditto ; William Barnes, corporal, Royal Marines ; Mar-
shall, private, Royal Marines ; M‘Nellity, ditto ; Ro-
binson, ditto ; Daniel Kerney, boy, second class ; Robert

Herbert, ditto.
" This list was obtained from the surviving crew, who
state it is correct to the best of their knowledge. It is also
doubtful whether there was not another marine on board
for the Insolent, as all the survivors agree that there were
five marines, but his name. cannot be ascertained. They
were sent from the Adventure to the Racehorse on the 2d
of November, 1864.
" List of Officers and Men Saved from the Racehorse :
C. R. F. Boxer, commander; W. H. Thompson, paymaster;
W. Lowlett, boatswain ; John Hollis, boatswain's mate ;
Owen Roberts, A.B. ; William Eaton, ditto ; Wm. Nicholls,
stoker; Thomas Pugh, gunner, Royal Marine Artillery;
William Washington, private, Royal Marines.
"J. IV. Wxan, Commander."

Naval and liTilitaxy Intelligence.

The following General Order has been issued from

the Horse Guards to all the military stations in the
United Kingdom, accompanied by Major-General
Hay's annual report of musketry instruction during
the past year :

" Horse Guards, Jan. 2.

" His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-
in-Chief
has directed that the accompanying return, showing
the corps serving in the United Kingdom, the Channel
islands, North America, and Mauritius, that have completed
the annual musketry course for 1864-5, on the revised
system of practice, with the figure of merit,' the per ten-
tage of men in first and third classes in shooting, and in
the first class in judging distance practice, and of those
'not exercised,' be published in the General Orders of the
Army. This return records also the results of the rapid
file-firing, and of the skirmishing practice. The shooting
is bad in all cases in which the *figure of merit' is below
50, when the average points in file-firing are under 12, and
in skirmishing under 8, and when the time taken to expend
10 rounds in rapid file-firing exceeds seven minutes, it evi-
dences defective instruction in the platoon exercise.
"By command of his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief.
" 11. HoßsFoup, Deputy-Adjutant-General.
The iron frigate Valiant, master in charge, N. G.
Arguinbau, arrived at Spithead at noon yesterday
from Sheerness. She will be taken into Portsmouth

Harbour and docked before making her official trial
of speed over the measured mile in Stokes Bay, and
being reported ready for commission. .
The Himalaya, iron screw troopship, Capt. Lacy,
in the Warrior dock at Portsmouth, is having her
bottom recoated with the preservation and anti-
fouling compositions of Messrs. Peacock and Buchan.
When this process is completed the Himalaya will
be removed from the dock to make room for the
iron frigate Valiant.

The helicon, improved paddle despatch vessel,
launched at Portsmouth on the 31st ult. has been
placed alongside the Sheer jetty of that dockyard to
remove her launching ballast, and prepare for the
reception of her machinery.
The Salamis, paddle despatch vessel, Commander
Francis G. Suttie, is ordered to make a final official
trial of her speed at the measured mile in Stokes
Bay, near Portsmouth, in order to furnish the neces-
sary returns with which to comwe the results that
may be obtained in the forthcoming trials of the
improved despatch vessel Helicon, ordered, as soon
as ready, to make her trials at the same port, under
as nearly as may be possible similar conditions.

The Rinaldo, 17, screw corvette, Commander
ion. M. H. Nelson, recently arrived at Portsmouth

from service on the North America and West India
Station, is dismantling alongside the dockyard, and
will be paid out of commission on the 10th inst.
The Imperial Ottoman squadron now at Ports-
mouth, consisting of a screw liner and two screw
frigates, will commence their trials of speed over the
measured mile in Stokes Bay about the 10th inst.
Some 8-inch rifled Armstrong guns are daily ex-
pected to arrive at Portsmouth for the squadron.
A Mackay gun, 7-inch gun, and a Blakely gun,
of the same calibre, are about to be forwarded to
H.M.S. Excellency at Portsmouth for experimental
competitive practice with other guns now on board
the Excellent. The results are looked forward to
with the greatest interest.
The screw steam frigate Narcissus, 39, of 2,665

tons, and having engines of 400-horse power, was
placed yesterday (Thursday) in No. 2 dock at the
Devonport dockyard, for the purpose of being fitted
for the first division of the steam reserve, probably
to carry a flag.
The iron-cased screw steamship Caledonia, 35,
from the steam reserve at Devonport, was placed
yesterday in No. 1 dock at Keyham steam-yard for
the purpose of remedying some defect in her bottom.
The screw steam corvette Cadmus, 21, Captain
Alexander C. Gordon (which came into collision
with the bark Maynards), having had defects made
good at Devonport, left Hamoaze yesterday (Thurs-
day) morning, and proceeded into Plymouth Sound.
She began immediately to receive her powder, and
, will sail again forthwith. A portion of the cargo

This company has; lost another of its fleet of
steamers, and in the same storm which caused the
destruction of the Colombian off the French coast,
near Cherbourg, with so disastrous a loss of life.
This second ill-fated vessel was the Askalon, Capt.
Hoare, a fine iron screw steamship of nearly 1,000
tons burden, bound to Port-au-Prince, in the West
Indies, and some of the adjacent islands. Laden
with a general and valuable cargo of merchandise,
she left the Mersey about a week before the Colom-
bian, and seemed to have experienced bad weather
almost from the commencement of the voyage. On
the 14th ult. a fearful hurricane was encountered.
The sea broke over the ship, sweeping away the boats
and other movables on deck. She continued in this
condition for two days, the vessel rolling and straining
severely. The sea broke in the skylights, and the water
rushing down into the engine-room, put outthe fires.
The crew exerted themselves to the utmost, in the
hope of keeping the steamer afloat, but on the 15th it
was found that she had ten feet of water in the main

hold. Providentially, at this juncture the Dutch
barke Almonde, bound to Bremenhaven, hove in
sight, and seeing the critical condition of the Aska-
lon, she bore down to the sinking steamer, and after
extraordinary exertions, succeeded in taking off the
crew, 37 in number, and a passenger, and the
Askalon was accordingly abandoned, her position

then being lat. 46 50 N., long. 25 3 W. Sin-
gular to remark the barque had sprung a leak,
having encountered the full force of the gale, and
but for the presence of the crew of the Askalon she
must have gone down, as the pumps had to be kept
constantly going, and her own crew:were becoming
exhausted. The barque continued on her passage,
and, on arriving off Folkestone on Tuesday night
Capt. Hoare and the passenger were landed, the
crew remaining on board to assist in working her
to Bremenhaven. The Askalon was classed A 1
nine years, and, with her cargo, was heavily insured.

ANOTHER STEAMER LOST.—Another fine steamer
is reported to be lost on the Yorkshire coast, near
Scarborough. She is the Volunteer, iron screw steam
ship, classed A 1 for 12 years, 670 tons register,
and belonged to the same owners as the Cronstadt,
which was recently lost with all hands on a return
voyage from St. Petersburg. The Volunteer was on
a passage from Leith to Rotterdam, and the tele-
gram states that she was totally wrecked in Filey
Bay, a few miles to the northward of Flamborough
Head.

Terrible Hurricane on the Isle of Man

Coast.

LOSS OF A SCHOONER AND DESTRUCTION OF
THE DOUGLAS BREAKWATER.

One of the most terrific easterly storms that have
visited this island for some years broke over it on
Sunday noon, and has continued with scarcely any
abated violence until Monday night. Its ravages
have been dreadful, as will be seen by the follow-
ing. During Sunday there was blowing a strong
wind from the eastward, and about noon in-
creased into a violent hurricane, accompanied by
snow and sleet, causing the roads to be impeded to
some extent. Some time during the afternoon the
Jane and Agnes put into Douglas Harbour, hailing
from Ormshead, and bound for Chester, whither she
had been driven by the gale ; but, becoming unable
to steer against the wind, was driven in here. She
anchored behind the breakwater, but the storm in-
creasing, she began to drag her cable, and was finally
dashed with much force against the peer, then
rebounded upon the rocks beneath the. Imperial
Hotel, where she shortly became a total wreck.
The crew, conssting of three men and a boy, were
saved by means of ropes. Shortly after they had left
her she became a heap of broken timber and planks.
The most disastrous affair, however, is the almost
total destruction of the Douglas breakwater. This
structure was originally intended to go into the sea
to a distance of 1,100 feet, but this was deemed im-
practicable, owing to some of the timbers becoming
displaced, it being a wooden structure. About one
o'clock on Monday morning this piece of engineer-
ing skill began to give way, and huge piles of balks
were hurled with terrific violence from the stanchions
which supported and held them in their places, and
strewed the whole length of the shore, and in several
places through the narrow passages leading from the
shore into the middle of Strand-street and Duke-
street, impeding the pathway. In some cases these
passages were heaped up three or four feet in height
with these huge balks, and the irons which attached
them together were twisted and turned as with
a vice, into several grotesque shapes. The break-
water presents a most dreadful wreck, only 17 up-
right piles• standing out of 45 ; and these are so
much damaged that they are worth nothing. A
length of about 120 feet has been cleanly swept
away. The damage is estimated at about £20,000,
which amount it will take to make the structure
as complete as it was at the latter end of the
week. Besides this, the contractor estimates that he
has lost plant, &c., to the value of another £l,OOO.
Some of the houses, too, in Strand-street have been
flooded by the sea washing in, and chairs, tables,
and sofas floated promiscuously about. The damage
in this instance is not at present known. The portion
of the promenade which has only lately been erected,
and was not completed, has sustained severe damage,
the sea having washed the upper part of the wall
for some distance entirely away, and made a large
breach in the wall itself. So great is the mischief
caused by this storm that it will be some time ere
its full extent is known. The storm abated at mid-
night of Monday, but on Tuesday night at 12
o'clock, our correspondent informs us, it was again
blowing a fresh easterly gale, and it is momentarily
expected that the remaining portion of the break-
water will be washed away.

LADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Sound Lungs.—Unless the blood be purified from the foul
matters which enter it in its passage through the chest, the
strongest lungs will often be inconvenienced, and the deli-
cate chest will assume positive disease. Holloway's reme-
dies oxert the most wholesome power in cleansing the air-
tubes, dislodging accumulated mucus, and clearing the
blood. When there is any congestion of the lungs, stitch,
or heavy'pectoral pain, some of this ointment, well rubbed
on the seat of suffering, will speedily remove the evil, and
certainly prevent worse consequences. In common colds,
shortness of breath, wheezing, and chronic, or spasmodic
coughs, Holloway's ointment and pills will give present
comfort and avert future danger.

Yesterday afternoon the annual meeting of the governors
of this hospital was held in the board-room of the institu-
tion, Gray's-inn-road. Mr. R. Brown was called to the
chair, and the advertisement convening the meeting having
been read by the Secretary,
The Rev. J. B. OwEx, chairman of the weekly board, pro-
ceeded to read the 37th annual report, of which the fol-
lowing is an abstract. It announced the gratifying fact
that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had become a
vice-patron of the institution, and recorded an important
statement connected with the permanent interests of the
charity—namely, that the freehold had been purchased at a
cost M £5,265 10s. 7d., the funds for which were procured
mainly through the munificent contributions and personal
exertions of Mr. George Moore. The committee had also to
report the steady progress of the hospital in its number of
subscribers, on whose support every charity chiefly and
most safely depends. The sanitary condition of the hospital
and premises had been greatly improved, and it was hoped
secured, by the completion of a perfect system of drainage
the year before last, at a cost of £1,500. The committee had
observed year by year a marked improvement in the cha-
racter of the nurses in that and kindred institutions as con-
cerned their increased proficiency, higher tone of moral
character, and social status. The committee ascribed that
fact as a practical tribute to the personal example and ex-
perience of an honoured lady whose gallant oversight of
the sick and wounded troops at Scutari was one of the least
alloyed among the many painful memories of the Crimea.
In proof of the yearly extending usefulness of the charity,
the committee reported a large increase in the number
both of in and out patients during the past year, the total
aggregate relieved being no less than 78,000. '(Hear, hear.)
No remark on the part of the committee could add weight
to that significant statement, nor to the huge mass of
human suffering and misery alleviated by the medical
relief of which it was the exponent. Among the special
contributions noticed were those of Miss Cross, a tenth
donation of £300; a second donation of £2OO from the
trustees of the Small Debt Society ; a third donation of
£lOO from Mr. T. W. Erie ; a second from E. W. of £lOO ;
a third of 50 guineas from Messrs. Dent, Allcroft, and
Co.; a very gratifying grant of .£375 by the Lords Com-
missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, being part of a be-
quest to her Majesty for the benefit of the poor of London
by the late Madame de Lilly ; and the generous contribu-
tion of £5OO by the Hon. Rustomjee Jamsetjee Jejeeb-
hoy, allotted and paid through Mr. R. W. Crawford,
M.P. for the City of London. The committee could not
adequately express their sense of the services rendered
to the institution by the long-continued supervision of
its medical superintendent and founder, Dr. William
Marsden. To his intrepid reliance on the principle of a
free medical charity that hospital and every other which
subsequently followed owed their existence. The commit-
tee congratulated Dr. Marsden on the yearly accumulated
triumphs of his prescient philanthrophy, and they felt that
such great public service demanded commemoration in some
more public shape than the insertion in the comparatively
obscure columns of an annual report. The incidental dis-
closures in the police-courts indicated almost daily the ab-
solute necessity of the hospital in one of the most densely-
populated districts in the metropolis. The number of ac-
cidents alone admitted into the wards during the past year
was no less than 398. One thousand three hundred of the
governors and subscribers had died during the year, and
the committee earnestly trusted that their places would be •
supplied by other patrons. They reminded their sub-
scribers that the gates of the hospital were equally open to
native or foreigner, citizen or provincial. There was no
other restriction beyond the means placed at its disposal.
(Cheers.)
The balance-sheet of the treasurer for the past year
showed a total income, including the balance in hand at
the last January meeting, of £9,401 ss. The total expen-
diture had been £9,209 19s. 6d., leaving a balance in hand
of £l9lls. 7d ; out of the expenditure £2,759 7s. sd. was
for debts incurred in the year 1863, and which had now
been paid off.
General WATKINS, in moving that the report and
balance-sheet be adopted, approved, and entered on the
minutes, said that it scarcely needed any words on his part
to induce the governors to agree to that resolution. Every
one of them must be aware of the great benefit afforded
to the public by Dr. Marsden in founding the ROyal Free
Hospital. At the same time, he did not stand alone in his
claims upon their esteem and gratitude. Great credit was
due to the medical staff—(hear, hear)—who had relieved
the astounding number of 991,000 sufferers during the
comparatiely short period the hospital had been in exis-
tance. Their thanks were also due to the weekly board—
(hear, hear)—the members of which, while showing a con-
constant emulation to outdo each other in the discharge of

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their arduous duties, yet worked together in the most effi-
cient and harmonious spirit.
Mr. G. S. PHENE seconded the motion, which was una-
nimously agreed to.
Dr. O'CoNNon, in moving a vote of thanks to the com-
mittee, coupled with a request that they would continue
their services for another year, bore testimony, as a medical
officer of the hospital, to the zeal and energy with which
the managing committee discharged their onerous and try-

ing duties. But for their labours the large number of
78,000 new cases could not have been admitted during the
past year.
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Dr. ALEXANDER MARSDEIsI seconded the motion, which
was unanimously adopted.
On the motion of Mr. W. WARRE, seconded by Mr.
J. Bowyer, thanks were voted to the auditors, with a
request that they would continue their services for the
ensuing year. Votes of thanks were also passed to the
treasure; Mr. Edwin Marsden, to the medical officers,
to the weekly board, and Ito the chaplain; to Mr. Phone
for his assiduous attendance to the wards in order to alle-
viate the sufferings 'of the patients, and to carry out every
suggestion of the founder, chaplain, or weekly board for
their comfort ; and to the secretary Mr. Smith.
Mr. R. STEELE, in moving a vote of thanks to Dr. Mars-
den, the founder of the hospital, said he had had the pleasure
of knowing him for upwards of 30 years, and during that
long period had witnessed his, almost unremitting labours
on behalf of that institution. These labours had enabled
him to overcome almost unparalleled difficulties, and from
year to year extend the usefulness of the charity. That was,
he felt certain, a greater satisfaction to Dr. Marsden's own
mind than any vote of thanks they could offer him, but it
was their duty to recognise gratefully and record cordially
their sense of his great and valuable services. (Cheers.)
General WATKINs seconded the resolution, which was
carried amidst cheers.
Dr. MARSDEN, in reply, said that it was 38 years since the
hospital was established, and it was seldom that in the life
of one man he should be enabled to give his attention to an
institution during that long period. With a short interval,
however, caused by ill health, he had been enabled to do so,
and he was happy to say he was now so far recovered that
he hoped for a long time to come to give his best services
to the institution. He felt that the Royal Free Hospital had
done great good, not only in what it actually performed,
but in what it had made other hospitals do in the same
direction. It was the first to break down the barriers
Which lay between the sufferers and the means of relief,
by throwing open its gates and admitting patients on their
own application. (Hear, hear.) That
principle had now
been adopted by some of the oldest and greatest hospitals
in the metropolis, with, he would say, incalculable benefit
to the public at large. (Hear, hear.) He thanked the
meeting cordially for the good feeling they had expressed
towards him, and would continue to use his best efforts to
promote the interests of that noble institution.
The proceedings closed with wrote of thanks to the chair-

"Their conduct shows that the present population
of Canada has not degenerated from the manly vir-
tues which characterise the race from which it de-
rives its origin, and that it may be relied on under
all circumstances, to respond to the call of duty,
either for the maintenance of internal order, or to
repel foreign aggression.
" The commissioners appointed under the provi-
sions of the second chapter of the Consolidated
Statutes of Lower Canada to frame a civil code,
and also a code of civilprocedure in Lower Canada,
have completed the former part of their duty ; the
results of their labours shall be laid before you, and
I am informed that the code of civil procedure is iu
a very advanced state.
" The completion of the codification of the civil
law, in both French and English, cannot fail to be
of great benefit to the inhabitants of Lower Canada
by enabling the people of all origins to read, in
their own languages, the civil law under which they
live, and which hitherto has only been accessible in
a language which is not the mother tongue of a por-
tion of the people whose civil rights are regulated
by it.
" Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,—The
expenditure rendered necessary by calling out the
volunteers for active service, and which was unfore-
seen when the estimates for the current year were
agreed to, will necessitate a supplementary vote for
that service.

" I have desired that an estimate for this purpose
shall be laid before you.

" I am happy to be in a position to inform you
that the financial legislation of the last session has
been attended with beneficial results.

" The revenue has largely increased, and there
has been a contemporaneous extension of the trade
of the province,
" I have directed the estimates for the next finan-
cial year to be laid before you, and you will find
that they have been framed with a due attention to
economy combined with efficiency.
" Honourable Gentlemen and Gentlemen,—At
the close of the last session of Parliament I informed
you that it was my intention, in conjunction with
my ministers, to prepare and submit to you a mea-
sure for the solution of the constitutional problem
the discussion of which has for some years agitated
this province.
" A careful consideration of the general position
of British North America induced the conviction
that the circumstances of the times afforded the
opportunity not merely for the settlement of a ques-
tion of provincial politics, but also for the simul-
taneous creation of a new nationality.

" Preliminary negotiations were opened by me
with the Lieutenant-Governors of the other Pro-
vinces of British North America, and the result
was that a meeting was held at Quebec, in the
month of October last, composed of delegates from
those colonies, representing all shades of political
party in their several communities, nominated by the
lieutenant Governors of their respective Provinces,
who assembled here with the sanction of the Crown,
and at my invitation, to confer with the members of
the Canadian Ministry on the possibility of effecting
a union of all the Provinces of British North America-
" This conference, after lengthened deliberations,
arrived at the conclusion that a Federal union of
these Provinces was feasible and desirable, and the
result of its labours is a plan of constitution for the
proposed union embodied in a series of resolutions,
which, with other papers relating to the subject, I
hove directed to be laid before you.
" The general design of a union, and the particu-
lar plan by which it is proposed to carry that inten-
tion into effect, have both received the cordial ap-
probation of the Imperial Government.
"An Imperial Act of Parliament will be neces-
sary in order to give effect to the contemplated union
of the colonies, and I have been officially informed by
the Secretary pf State her Majesty's Ministers will
be prepared to introduce a bill for that purpose into
the Imperial Parliamenti go soon as they shall have
been notified that the proposal has received the
sanction of the Legislatures representing the several

provinces affected by it.
" In commending to your attention this
subject,
the importance of which to .yourselves and to your
descendants it is impossible to exaggerate, I would
claim for it your calm, earnest, and impartial con-

sideration.
" With the public men of British North America
it now rests to decide whether the vast tract of coun-
try which they inhabit shall be consolidated into a
State, combining within its area all the elements of
national greatness, providing for the security of its
component parts, and contributing to the strength
and stability of the empire, or whether the several
provinces of which it is constituted shall remain iiz
their present fragmentary and isolated condition,
comparatively Powerless for mutual aid, and inca-
pable of undertaking their proper share of imperial
responsibility.

" In the discussion of an issue of such moment I
fervently pray that your mind my be guided to con-
clusions which will redound to the honour of our
sovereign, to the welfare of her subjects, and to your
own reputation as patriots and statesmen."

CHRISTIAN'S MISTAKE. By the author of "John
Halifax, Gentleman."—" Miss Mulock is one of the few
writers who never disappoint their readers. She takes a
high place among those of our novelists who are the most
honoured and esteemed, whose ideal is finest, whose
standard is highest, and whose cultivated taste has found
expression in works which form an integral portion of our
literature. ' Christian's Mistake' is a beautiful story, in
every respect worthy of its author's well established and
deserved reputation. It is one of those stories which are
exceedingly affecting and effective by reason of their
purity, truth, pathos, and directness. It is executed in
the author's happiest and most graceful style."—Narning
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