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London, England, 1862-04-21 00:00:00

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holders.

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RAIL wAy BILLS.

say, that the land was represented as lying further
north than it does in reality.
Sir James Outram has returned to Alexandria on
his way to Europe, via Corfu. His stay in Egypt
during the past winter has not been without bene-
ficial effect, but his health has not yet improved to
the extent which his countrymen in general, as well
as his friends, have so much reason to wish.

The General Committee of the House of Commons
have Made alterations in the committees appointed
to sit after'Easter, adding the Bradford, WtdrLficld,
and Leeds Further Provisions Bill to Committee
12; the Wrest Alidland (Merthyr Lease) to Com-
mitten D; . Anil the Kensington-station, South Lon-
don Rail,vay Bill, to Committee 12.
GREAT WESTERN.—This ootoPanY report to the
House of Lords that their intended new extensioa
lines at Tipton will displace 43 hous,"3 and 188 Pix-
sons, 30 at West Bromwich and 151 pttsons, 44 at
Handsworth and Smethwiek and 145 persons;
that
the houses arc principally small and in bac;
repair,
and that there are many cottages in the immAi3le
neighbourhood suitable for the residence of the
working-classes, heing unoccupied, and others ill
course of erection, se that no inconvenience is an "i•
cipated from the displacement of these persons.

EXPENDITURE OF 87: THOMAS'S

110,YPITAL

The e.spenditure keeps pace close upon the in-
come, so that the balance carried forward from last
year is £4,352 against £3,167 brought forward from
the previous year, to swell the present total of re-
ceipts. The whole cost of provisions is £5,942, and;
the items were as follow;:—Flour, £935; tea,
sugar, rice, and oatmeal, £585 ; malt and hops,
£504 ; mutton and beef, £2,090 ; potatoes, £166 ;
milk, £839 ; fish, eggs, &c., £362 ; butter, £457.
According to the adage, " that it is better to pay
for food than medicine—which is a foolish adage,
seeing the best thing we can pay for is the thing
want—thewvvaesmhionsgt,.c777; cost for drugs and chemicals
was only £2,634; wine and spirits cost altogether
£931; porter, £353 ; surgical instruments, £l6B ;
coals
of theg m
umpfirewood,n 98
tseB. But
this list is a specimen against
which we are so frequently compelled to protest.
It is an entry written thus :—" Tradesmen's bills,
£1,692." So large a sum would surely admit of
division into some few general heads, so as to con-
vey an idea of the proportions severally appro-
priated for bedding, furniture, paint, plaster, and
chloride of lime. It is a very large sum to set down
in a lump, under so vague a description ; and if
this were an institution "supported by voluntary
contributions," the contributors would certainly
desire a little information respecting it. Another
lump, almost as vague, is, " salaries to officers,
medical department, £2,800. In all such cases, if
particulars are given at all, the salaries of the
principal officers should be stated in detail. The
public never grudge good salaries to able men, but
they do like to know what their salaries are when
they are connected with the administration of great
public charities ; and it is most unwise to prepare
a balance-sheet in such a way as to invite the
smallest amount of adverse criticism. Salaries to
officers on the Board of House Surgeons amounted
to £356 ; to officers of the Civil Department, also
a vague entry, and an objectionable lump, £2,280 ;
salaries to servants, £1,836; wages to sisters and
nurses, £2,256. The whole total of salaries was
creditableli
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Rates and taxes cost £1,041, which is an entry nGt
are levied, especially while a few close corporations
al-
together. Hospital dinners and wine cost £l6l,
which none will grudge the governors who know
what it is to labour gratuitously in the management
of such a vast undertaking. The costs of survey-
ing, viewing estates, law, and miscellaneous inci-
dents, are all so trifling as to be not worth citing,
unless it were to show how, in these matters, gover-
nors evidently study economy, and keep themselves
aloof from jobs. Law cost only £196, but it will
make a large figure in next year's account, in con-
nection with the negotiations as to the sale of the
site, wherein the governors literally bit the ends off
their own fingers, and made them a present to the
railway company. The .sum £1,028 was ex-
pended in repairs and improvements of the hospital,
and £2,084 on the improvement of estates. The
charity cannot have added much to its resources of
raw material, however it may have improved the
value of its attached properties ; for there was ex-
pended, for the purchase of land, the merely nominal
sum of £6O, and for the redemption of land-tax
£97. Altogether though many of the entries are
as foggy as the shores of Newfoundland—this is a
gratifying picture of the financial status of one of
the oldest and most flomishing of the metropolitan
hospitals.—City Press.

TRIAL TRIP OF 2IIE NEW IRON
STE-4112-41:11P LEITH.. .

'which was launched from
M
rs on board. She left the
On Thursday the fine 'iron steamer the Leith, of
building-yard in
January last,made a trial trip down the Forth under
canvas
and steam to the entire satisfaction
nearly 1,400 1,4
G.
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and tons b
H.
rthmen Morton's
of the proplietors and a aunaber of
experienced
at
3
d in in the Roads, and
was laid along
the north end of the Victoria Jei:7, to embark the
thepea newsmall
nl
laovi s be
steamer
owners and their friends, at 10 o'clot.k. The Leith_
is the largest three-masted iron steams that has
!:: e Rt:by
been launched from the port whose name she bears.
Her capacity is nearly 2,300 tons of 4W-ciibit feet,
besides storage for coals, and she is registered at
Lloyd's as A 1 for 12 years. Her engines are double-
cylinder and high pressure, of 200 horse power,
made according to a patent of Mr. Marshall, of
Messrs. Morton and Co., which is giving so much
satisfaction in the Volunteer, of Leith. The tipper
deck is of timber, and her building, which took pl,aca
under special survey, occupied a period of 20 months,
She is supplied with three steam winches andd-four
steam cranes—the latter warranted to bear respec-
tively seven and four tons weight. She carries one
gun, fit either for signal or service. The length of
the Leith is 255 feet, breadth 32 feet, and she is
furnished with three ordinary and two life boats.
Heris registered as in a
good and sufficient state to cur)/ dry and perishable
cnttnanAdiezndria, where she goes
for grain firstand
cargoes to or from all parts of the'
destination
n ;is
;world. Cabins
for 20 passengers are fitted up in a very' handsome
and decorative style, in maple, crimson, atisd gold,
with every modern accommodation, includiog a
library of useful and entertaining works., At 20
minutes before noon on Thursday the anchor was
weighed by 30 jolly tars, all belonging to the port,
who sang at the windlass several sea songs, such
as" The plains of Mexico," "Paddy on the railway,"
and " The rolling river," during their work. The
wind blew a smart breeze from W.S.W., and there
floated from the rigging the whole signals of the
British mercantile code. She slipped off in gallant
style, and in passing the pierhead of Leith to round
Inchkeith, the Misses Macgregor and Dawson pro-
nounced the wish " Success to the Leith," which
was seconded by the hearty cheers of the crew.
The Rev. W. H. Gray, Lady Hester's, Edinburgh,
read and commented on the appropriate passage
from 107th Psalm, verses 23 to 31, commencing
" They that go down to the sea in ships ; that do
business in great waters," &c. The vessel was soon
under steam, and sailing at a speed of 10 knots per
hour, superintended by Capt. John Lindsay, and
piloted by portly Cooke down the coast of the
Lothians close in shore. Passing to the south of the
islands Feathery and Lamb, nearing Gullane
Sands and Nori.'J Berwick with its loft Law, she
, powdered with solan geese,
at length rounded Ba.sB
which nestled on every cliff of the rugged rock, and
sat unmoved despite the fir ng of the signal gun
and shouts of the crew. In rett:.rning, a heavy Lea
::
and strong gale was ahead, but on went the ship
with the steady speed which she had maintained
throughout with little diminution. Ono at2alirahle
feature, indicative of great strength, was the eCktire
absence of vibration—an object long desiderated izt
ship construction. Although there were several
freshwater sailors on board, not the slightest ten-
dency was felt to the marine malady so dreaded by
the delicate and inexperienced. There could not have
been better wind or water for a fair test of sea-
worthiness. Off the Island of Craigleith a Prussian
vessel was spoken, beating t':1?
disabled and dipping
deep, but not so much so as to induce her to accept
the proferred assistance of the Lein (no doubt
under the fear of salvage), which in a few seconds
showed by the production of her towing cables that
her ropes were as ready as her powder had been
rsai
stained
i Inaet colours,in.s
s
a
dry. The voyage was most successful, and the
Lhmeoiiuh l
the came
ave
cheers up
e noto
tf
mentioned,
her haven
is
crew
lighted
d with
nyd n
•g
lass
owners. At three p.m. the company sat down
to a sumptuous dinner in the cabin, which, we
d
windows, in one of which is full-length portrait
of Mr. Miller, M.P., one of the proprietors. Mr:
Donald Macgregor occupied the chair, and was sup-
ported right and left by the Rev. Mr. Gray and
Mr. Dansmure. Captain Lindsay officiated as
croupier, supported by Captains Galloway and
d
Cairns, and Captain Sinclair, who has made the un-
sa h aneo
b siof
a

RAILWAY INIELLIGENCE.

NORTH-EASTERN.

The Rosedale branch of this railway, in the
Cleveland iron district, was inspected by the direc-
tors last week, and accepted by them from the
contractor, Mr. R. Cail. This branch opens out an
important mineral field. The Rosedale Mining
Company now send by it from 10,000 to 16,000
tons of iron ore per month, or what will produce
60,000 to 80,000 tons of pig iron per annum.

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precedented number of 97 voyages through the

Baltic without having cost the underwriters on

farthing, and who, it was stated, never sough

shelter in port during a storm, always preferring
to keep to the open sea.—Scotsman.

ENGLISH PRIZES AT 2HE FRENCH CATTLE-
SHOW:

A considerable crowd assembled on Thursday, early in
the forenoon, at Poissy, to view the fine collection of ani-
mals now assembled there. At one o'clock M. Rouher,
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, arrived, accom-
panied by M. Monny de Morney, Director of Agricul
Prefect .
The whole jury, headed by M. Sainte-Marie, its
president,
of
were in attendance at the railway station. Thu
the Seine-et-Oise, and the authorities of Poissy oined
0
the persons in waiting, and all repaired to theaxhlsseoicbjtiitoiwon:
His Excellency visited in great detail the various
and afterwards proceeded to the hall, where the distribution
of prizes was to take place.
In an address whish was much applauded, the lion.
of his remarks dwelt
the present display; and in the course
t had rend
on the services which Prince A er
ered to the
Minister spoke with great satisfactirosneof the superiority of
cause of agriculture in Groat Britahind been awarded pine
Britain.
euP being gained by
Mr. MacCombie,for the Angus
bull,
w eTr
eh
thene names of th
called
on this occasion is that of Mr. Thomas Ball,
Among the other names which have been
stln No.gu 37.e
MondellihY House, Adare, co. Limerick, Ist prize, 3-yr-old
oonfetTg—illyPfri oun persons
rem,
Aberdeenshire, Albert's who a
heifer; Lady Emily Pigot, Branches Park, Cambridgeshire
Ist prize, 3-yr-old cow; Mr. Wm. Heath, Ludlam Hall,
dbiis hd
Norfolk, Ist prize, 3-yr-old bull ; Mr. Owen 'Wallis, Over-
Isteno Grange, Northamptonshire, Ist prize, 4-yr-old bull ;
Mr. T. West, Greenhill Perin, Bletchington, Oxfordshire,
Ist prize, 2-yr-old sheep ; Sir T. B. Leonard, Belhus Park,
Essex, Ist prize, Southdowns ; Mr. Ewd• Holland, M.P.,
Durobleton Hall, Gloucestershire, Ist prize, sheep, oue year,
mixed breed; Mr. John Baldwin, Luddington, Warwick-
shire, Ist prize, sheep, two years, mixed breed; Mr T. Crisp,
Dutley Abbey, Suffolk, Ist prize, pig, 4 months; Sir Geo.
1 hrogmorton, Buckland,l3erkshire, Ist prize, pig, S months;
and Mr. John Waters, Moscome, Essex, Ist prize, pig, 12
Months. The show of French stock was more numerous
than it had ever been before. There veere 285 oxen, of which
34 were above three years old, representing all the best
French breeds. The most remarkable were those descended
from the Durham breed, and 30 specimens of that and other
foreign breeds crossed with various native ones were most
honourably distinguished by the jury. The prize of honour
for oxen was awarded to M. Bolton. Leveque, Ponts-de-Ce
(Maine-et-Loire) ; for sheep, to Count Charles de Bouille,
Villars (Nievre) ; for pigs, to M. de Lavalette, Villiers-.
Charlemagne (Mayenne).
Among the fortunate exhibitors may also be mentioned--
Count de Falloux, M. Salvat, M. Henry Michel, the Mar-
quis de Torcy, MM. Bollard, Louis Masse, Benoist d'A.7.3.,
L. de Sourdeval, Pavy, Count R. de Pourtales, and the
Duke de Fitz-James.