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11HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-. DECEMBER 25, 1862,

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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at Ring's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.

The Weekly Board feel it their Imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Mas rerman, Esq.' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn
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and at the Hospital.
STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum-
berland, K.G., F.R.S.
CumnmAx—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has incurred expenses amount ng to £27,260 on
various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of England,
Scotland, and Ireland.
During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution
have teen instrumental in rescuing tne Crews of the follow-
ing Vessels:—
Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U. 5......
Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon
Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby
Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis ..
Steam Dredge, at Newhaven
Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester
Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee ..
Schooner Rose, of Lynn
Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. • • • •
Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough
Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg ..
Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn • •
Brig Gloucester, of South Shields ..
Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham • • •
Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. •
Schooner Prospect, of Berwick .. .
Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose
Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone
Brig Pallas. of Shields ..
Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow • •
Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth ..
Schooner Catherine, of Newry
Barque Niagara, of Shields ..
A Barge of Teignmouth • • • •
Brig George and James, of London
Brig Zephyr, of Whitby • • ••
Coble Honour, of Cullercoats ••
Schooner Eliza, of North Shields ..
Barque Oberon, of Liverpool
Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth
Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth
Brig Scotia, of Sunderland ..
Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole
Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge ..
Brig Ann, of Blyth .. • • • • • •
Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves-
sel and one of the crew) .. • •
Sloop Hope, of Dublin
Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. ..
Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and
crew) .. • • • • •• • • .. 4
Brio. Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8
- 6 - -ed vessel and

.. 16
.. 2
.. 5
.. 3
.. 9
.. 5
3

.. 6
.. 7
.. 7

.. 1
.. 6
- 3

.. ,
.. 15
.. a
.. 2

.. 1
.. 3

Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saves
crew) .. . • •• •• •• •• •• 6
Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved Yes-
and crew) • • • • • • '' • • • •• 3
Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew 4
Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives
Fishing-boats of Whitburn •• •• •• 16
Brig Arethusa, of Blyth 8
Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoe .. 8
Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. •• • .. 2
Schooner William, of Morecambe • • • . 5
Smack Gipsy, of Newry .. .. 4
Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston • • .6 4
Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .. 8
Schooner William, of Liverpool .. .. 5
Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown •- •• •• 3
Brig Providence, of Shields .. • • • • • •
Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle • • • •
Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood ..
Barque Guyana, of Glasgow ..
Brig Roman Empress, of Shields ..
Brig San Spiridlone, of Galaxide
Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna ..
French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese ..
Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough ..
Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater ••
Ship Danube, of Belfast • • •• • •
Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover
Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven
Brig St. Michel, of Marans •• ••
Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam ..
Barque Druid, of Sunderland
Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay—
Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon 1
Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich
Brig Minerva, of Workington .. 4
Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6
Brig Sisters, of hitby .. 9
Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm . • 4
Brig Jane, of North Shields .. .. 10
Brig Trial, of Poole
Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. .. 3
Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and

.. 4
.. 19

.. 8
.. 6
.. 5
- 4

.. 5
.. 9

_ _
crew) • • • • • • • • '' ••7
Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. 1
Barge Peace, of London
Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft 11
Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. 10
Pilot citt ter Whim, of Lowestoft 7
Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen .. 11
Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish
coast .. • • • • • • • • • •
Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone ..
Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk ..
Schooner Rook, of Liverpool

.. 3

_ _
Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. 5
Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth 6
Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. 4
Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. 5
Brig Content, of Sunderland 5
Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan ..
Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda
Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool
Sloop William, of Liverpool ..
Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth
Portuguese Barque Cruz V. .. • • •
Ship Annie S. Hooper. of Baltimore, U. 5...
Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester

.. .
..134

.. 18
.. 4
Total .. 762
For these and other Life-boat services the Institution hau
voted £2,458 as rewards t o the crews of its Lifeboats. It has
also granted re .vards ? mounting to £572 for saving 5A2
shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak-
ing a total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during
the last two years and a half.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, .ind other means, since its formation, is 12,690;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 711 Silver Medals, and
£16,0(0 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cart iages, and Boat-houses.
The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts
now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship-
wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at
the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions
he Society has made within the past few years, it has now
One Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man-
ngement, !or the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough
efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely
needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con
tributions

X s. d
Her Majesty the Queen . • .. .. annual 50 0 0
A Lady at Leith, per W. G. Slater, Esq.. don. 100 0 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .• •annual 1 1 0
Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. .. don. 25 0 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers annual 10 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief Justice .. .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Harvey. Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0
Lambton, Messrs. W. H. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0
Lanesborough, the Earl of annual 5 0 0
Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of
Salford.. 100 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. „, .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. don. 15 15 0
Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. „, „, annual 50 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K. 0.8. „. annual 2 0 0
Trench, Lady Helena .. don. 30 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
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Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street • Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
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been obtained by fraud of Messrs. Bevington and
Morris, they belonged to them, and that the de-
fendant was therefore perfectly justified in retain-
ing possession of them after the complainant bad
voluntarily given them up to him.
After some considerable discussion, during which
the magistrate deprecated the practice of detective
officers entering private houses without a magis-
trate's warrant, the summons was dismissed, and
the property ordered to remain in the custody of
the police for the present.
Both parties appeared to be satisfied with this
coerce, so that neither thecomplainant nor Messrs.
Bevington will get the lute until the young ran is
captured.

CLERKEN WELL . COMMITTAL OF THE
LEADER GF A GAROTTE BAND.—A well-dressed
young fellow, who gave the name of Wm. Welsh,
but who is well known to the police by other aliases,
was charged before Mr. D'Eyn court with being con-
cerned, with others not in custody, in stealing a
valuable watch from the person of Mr. Thomas P.
Hugo, an oven-builder, of Gray's .inn-road.
The prosecutor stated that about a quarter to ten
at night he was passing through the Gray's-inn-
road with a friend, when they were both hustled by
the prisoner and some of his companions. In a
moment he felt a tug at his watch, and saw a man
running away with it. When he attempted to fol-
low, he was stopped by the prisoner, who, after a
struggle, also made his escape; The watch had not
been found.

Mr. D'Eyncourt fully committed the prisoner to
he Central Criminal Court for trial.

7HE ALLEGED BARBAROUS MURDER

ON BOARD SKIP.

Yesterday morning Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the
Deputy Coroner, resumed,at the Lord Hood Tavern,
Rich-street, Limehouse, the investigation into the
circumstances of the death of Wm. Curtis, aged 19,
the steward of the ship Martha Pope, who was
alleged to have died from extreme brutality.
The court was crowded.

Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared on behalf of
Capt. Randle Stone,

Mr. Lewis asked that Dr. Giles should be recalled
for cross-examination.

Dr. Giles said—Yesterday I attended a second
and most elaborate post mortem examination of the
body of the deceased. What I saw more than con-
firmed the views I have already given in evidence.
Dr. Edmunds, Dr. Bristow, and myself made that
examination. Deceased had a pleurisy of almost a
month's duration. I consider that it was produced
by exposure. A man might, however, live for years
with the pleurisy.

By Mr. Lewis—l could not say how many bodies

I have examined. I should say about a hundred.
The ship's rolling about when deceased was in his
berth could not have produced the bruises on the
arms or legs. He had no fever. Throwing himself
about in fever could not have produced them.
Bruises and wounds could not come on a person
without violence. Sores might come, and turn into
wounds perhaps. There were six or eight of the
3

,0 wounds on deceased produced probably by scurvy.
There may be marks as if from bruises produced na-
turally ; but not when on the anterior surface. The
emaciated state of the body would not tend to pro-
duce apparent bruises, but the reverse.
Louis Lau, a Prussian, said he was mate of the
Martha Pope. That vessel left Honduras at the
end of October. Deceased was employed by the
captain as ste ward, but he was useless in the cabin,
lazy, and dirty, and the captain sent him forward as
au ordinary seaman. The captain had been speak-
ing about inquests since the last day the Court sat.
Wi,tness did not remember what he said. They did
not speak about this inquest. The captain did not
offer witness money.
The Coroner said that the captain had pledged
himself in the most distinct and solemn manner not
to speak to auy of the crew about the inquest.
Witness said that he was not told what to say to

the jury. He was only with the captain during
one voyage. He saw deceased punished about three
weeks after leaving Honduras. _ _ _

The log-book was put in, and under the date
December 13 was an entry that " Shortly after
leaving land, W. Curtis had complained of feverish-
ness and pains in the chest. He was treated, and
recovered so wonderfully that he made bets with
the crew to eat large quantities of biscuits."
Witness said these was no entry about deceased's
being punished.
The Coroner remarked that the entry of the 13th
Dec. was on an otherwise blank age, and was be-
fore the entries of Dec. 9, the first of which was
that Curtis was only shamming illness.
Witness could not explain that. The entry was
made by the captain. The entries on the 11th and
13th were about Curtis being very ill. That of
the 13th (different from the entry of the 13th
previously mentioned) said—" Curtis very
fire lit in his cabin ; no medicine, as believed to be
cold from exposure."

(The entries of 14th, 15th, and 16th December
were that deceased was still very ill, and getting
worse. On the 17th of December he died coming'
up the river.)
Witness resumed, and said that deceased was

punished for not working at the pump. He was
struck with a whip thicker than a pen, perhaps as
thick as a lead-line. Could not say how many

stripes he had. Should say not ten. He was on
the main-deck. Witness did not see the captain
punish him in the cabin. He was punished after
that for not pumping. Witness did not see him
punished the third time. He had been without
clothes, but he was not stripped by the captain's
orders. Witness once saw deceased's clothes dry-
ing on the forecastle, and they were blown away.
The sailors gave him some others. He several times
said he was ill when it was time to turn out. He
was shamming. Witness saw he was ill a few days
before the ship arrived—perhaps four or five days.
Witness only saw the captain punish him twice.
Witness punished him with a rope's-end because he
would not come on deck. Witness struck him a
few days afterwards for coming on deck without
trousers. That was without the captain's orders ;
but the captain was on deck on the time. Witness
was not sure the captain saw it. Deceased had
wounds on him at that time. He had no scurvy
that witness knew. He was shamming illnes. The
ach crew
mawd
in witness's
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and that the captaitnvt
a character.

Witness said he never saw the entry opposite his
own name before. There was a " V.G." opposite
his name.

A Juror said that those letters had been written
in
Wsinintneetshsesawidords
that‘ "Decline n
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for deecree a
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dtevir end.were
for re
for deceased's good conduct and seamanship.
By Mr. Lewis—The captain was kind to deceased.
He placed deceased in his own cabin when ill. That
was four or five days before he died. The captain
personally attended on him, and took the blankets
off his own bed to make him warm. Deceased never
complained of any ill-usage by the captain. The
captain said he prepared nourishing food, and gave
it to the deceased in his cabin.
The Coroner said the examination was protracted
to such a length that he was compelled to adjourn,
as there were several other juries waiting.
The Jury said that already one of the crew had
gfrounset
rtaot
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t reanlmi ae,
ead
fnthteheereenwds of j
wereusntiec w
te oul be
examined
forthwith. Dr. Edmunds was also in attendance.
Mr. Lewis said he should be obliged to examine
the witnesses as to the voyage day by day.
After a discussion with reference to the advisi-
bility of giving the party, apparently implicated,
into custody,
John Hart) a seaman, was called, and said he saw

PRICE..... -..4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

deceased struck by the captain twice with a piece of
rattan, made of thong, no thicker than a pen.
(Laughter.) It was as thick as a log line. The mate
and the boatswain struck him. He used to come
on deck without his trousers. He was not struck so
as to be injured. No one told witness what to say.
Deceased was not really ill till four days before he
died. He used then to be fed like a baby. Witness
never struck deceased after he was ill. (Laughter.)
Ho struck him in Belize. They had a fight, and
Nvißtiyiestshgeotiuttriye—bels,theof
struc
k
others of the crew, The captain WiiS very kind to
ciat.pta(iAn la.)
witness and
the crew. "lie was kind, notwithstanding that he
struck'the crew about, for the crew were struck
when they deserved it. (A laugh.)
The Coroner then' adjourned the Court for the
reasons already stated.

Some confusion here ensued in a part of the room,
and Mr. Lewis addret,sed the Coroner, and said that
Captain -Stone would give large bail for his attend-
ance at the next sitting of the Court.

The Coroner:--You know well, Mr. Lewis, I have
no power to accept that.

It was stated that Captain Stone was given into
the custody of a police-sergeant present by the
brother of the deceased.

This, thought not expected, caused the greatest
•
excitement.

The captain was then removed in custody of
Sergeant beadot.—

THE MUNDI ORD P OACHIN G CASE.

(From the Bnry and Norwich Post.)

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before the Hon. Mr. Justice Wightman, his lord-
ship has issued his summons to the Hon. F. Baring,
and the Revs. A. Sutton and J. Allan Park, the
justices before whom the case came, to wait upon
him in chambers (Rolls-gardens, Chancery-lane)
on Tuesday, the 30th inst., to show cause why they
should not state and sign a case setting forth the
facts and grounds of their decision for the opinion
of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench. The in-
formant, James Newland, inspector of police, is also
summoned in connection with the case.

We say a large number of our readers will be
glad—not because they are friends of the poacher
or enemies of legitimate field sports, as a contem-
porary styles those who are opposed to the present
mode of dealing with infringers of the game laws,
but because they are friends to justice, and enemies
to the overstraining of the rigorous enactments for
the preservation of game. Parliament, even in its
eclectic state, refused to allow the guilty possession
of game to be a matter of inference, but a bench of
justices choose to disregard the decision of Parlia-
ment, and to convict in default of proof of inno-
cence. Lovers of justice and constitutional prin-
ciple will rejoice that that conviction is to come
under the revision of the higher judicial authorities ;
and we are greatly mistaken if the judgment of the
Queen's Bench do not set aside the judgment of the
Mundford Crown Bench, even though James Allan
Park was one of the justices. Nor will the matter
terminate here, for we shall be surprised if this and
a few other like judgments do not compel
the reconsideration of the enactment of last ses-
sion, and the placing of the whole game-
law on a more satisfactory footing. It is the
feeling of the harshness of these laws and
the notoriety of their infringement by game-pre-
servers themselves when it suits their convenience,
in the matter of live game and eggs, which creates
a public feeling of pity for the poacher, which in
truth he does not deserve. Thus Mr. Haward, from
one of whose letters we last week quoted, relates the
following story :
" A little tradesman in a country village was gain-
ing a livelihood for himself, and supporting his wife
and family by working at his business, and hiring
a meadow, on which he kept three cows, which his
wife milked and managed their produce. On an
evil day, the sth of February, he took a walk with
one of his children and a gun in his hand, and a
partridge rising before him, shot it. The partridge
ran into a fence, and he did not seek for it, but left
it there. The crime was witnessed by a man near
by, an information laid against him before the
magistrates, and he was fined £5 and costs, which
were paid. Immediately afterwards he was sur-
charged £Bls. Bd., being double the duty then pay-
able for a game certificate, which he also paid. He
was now summoned before the Commissioners of
Assessed Taxes for sporting without a game certi-
ficate, and fined by them £lO. He did not imme-
diately pay this last fine, and his three cows were
seized and taken away from him. He redeemed
them by paying the fine and costs, and altogether
the shooting this one partridge, which he did not
pick up, cost him £3O, and made an inveterate
poacher. He attributed these convictions to a cer-
tain great man who was a great game preserver, and
said he would have his money out of his game, and
he was for many years a sad marauder upon the
vast herds of game which the gentleman above al-
luded to was and is now in the habit of preserving."
" The simple question is" not, as our contempo-
rary affirms, " shall game exist ?" but the question
is, how can its preservation within moderate limits
be best reconciled with the claims of occupiers and
consumers, and with the moral welfare of the com-
munity.

LIFEBOAT IN STI7 Ul lONS DURING THE

PRESENT YEAR.

The following is an extract from the quarterly
report of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution :
" During the past year (1862) 316 lives have
been directly rescued by lifeboats of the National
Lifeboat Institution from a watery grave, ant 21
I.:e
but
ty
which to
iin
the
meantime distress
vessels have been safely brought into port through
the instrumentality of the lifeboats. The lifeboats
from
mt oaffhip4a3
int danger,
in e
ng
had either escaped it or had had their crews saved
by other means. The lifeboats' crews had also as-
sembled on nine occasions in sternly weather for
emergencies expected . ___ to arise.

" We feel assured that. no one can peruse these
accounts without expressing a satisfaction which
can better be felt than expressed. Let any one
think of the feelings of these 316 persons thus
snatched, during stormy weather, from an appa-
rently inevitable death by the lifeboats of the in-
stitution. Although such services can only be pro-
perly appreciated by the persons themselves on
whom such important benefit has been conferred in
their hour of distress, yet they are always keenly
and gratefully acknowledged by the wives and
children or parents of the men saved, who would
otherwise have become widows, orphans, or child-
less.
" The acknowledgments of the National Lifeboat
Institution are, of course,
mainly due to those who
have contributed to this amount of human happi-
ness,subscribing
by manning the left boats, or by subscribing
towards their establishment and support.
ioßewards amounting to £730 I.s. ld. have been
voted by the institution to the crews of the life-
boats for their laudable services during the past
year
" We also refer with great pleasure to the accounts
of the service rendered by shore boats, and other
means, in saving life from wrecks on our shores
during the preceding year.
" Some of these services have been of the noblest
character, for it should be borne in mind that men
'wind in this dangerous
ewnegrakg edundergoduring gales of
greater
risk in open boats than
is usually incurred in life boats, which are well
adapted for the important work which they have
to perform, and which ars fully equipped, includ-
ing excellent life-belts for their crews.
" Although fully acknowledging the valuable