The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-07 00:00:00

ROYAL FREE _HOSPITAL.

The thirty-fourth annual general Court of the
governors of the Royal Free Hospital, which is
situate in Gray's Inn-road, was held in the board
room of the institution yesterday afternoon.
General WATKIN occupied the chair, and among
the gentlemen present were—Dr. Marsden, Dr.
Hassall, Dr. O'Connor, Rev. J. B. Owen, Mr. Grant,
Mr. Warre, Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Septimus Goldsmid,
Mr. Boodle, Mr. A. Marsden, Mr. B. Head, Mr.

Snow, &e.
The Rev. J. B, OWEN read the report, and Mr.
S. S. SMITH the financial statement and medical

report, from which it appeared that the past year
had been a very successful one, inasmuch as the
receipts of the charity amounted to £8,602,
which enabled the committee to clear off the
balance of a mortgage which had weighed heavily
on the resources of the charity. It also appeared
that the hospital was rapidly emerging from debt,
and that the committee confidently depended upon
making a large addition to the accommodation for
in-patients during the present year. From the
medical report it appeared that nearly 100 beds had
during the year been kept constantly occupied,
which had enabled the medical officers to admit
into the wards 1,015 poor diseased persons, besides
175 cases of severe accident, making a total of
1,190 in-patients; in addition to which, 50,496
of the destitute sick poor had been admitted as
out-patients, besides the number remaining
on the books at the close of the previous year.
The number of attendances by poor persons
requiring advice and medicine during the year had
been no less than 149,015. The report gratefully
acknowledged the eminent services of Dr. Marsden,
the founder, and suggested that some more perma-
nent memorial Of his services should be instituted.
The annual expenditure was given at £8,998 Os.2d,
The report of the committee concluded by warmly
eulogising the great services which had been ren-
dered to the hospital by the physicians, Dr.
O'Connor, Dr. Hassall, and Dr. Cockle, and also by M.D., Thomas H.
the surgeons, W. Marsden, Esq.,
Waklev, Esq., Weedon Cooke, Esq., Victor de
Meric, Esq., Alexander Marsden, Esq., and Fre-
derick J. Gant, Esq.
Mr. SNOW moved that the report and balance-
sheet be adopted, printed, and circulated.
Mr. GANT seconded the motion, and it was car-
ried unanimously.
On the motion of Dr. MARSDEN seconded by Mr.
BOWYER, the following gentlemen were unani-
mously elected to form the committee of manage-
ment for the current year :—W. W. Bramston
Beach, Esq., M.P., T. Beale Browne, Esq., James
Bowyer, Esq., J. P. Bull, Esq., Charles Candy,
Esq., Alexander Dobie, Esq., General Dutton, Sep-
timus Goldsmid, Esq., Edmund Halswell, Esq.,
Benjamin Head, DA., j?li Hooper, Esq.,
James Hopgood, Esq., William Lawrence, Esq.,
Alderman A. L. Mocatta, Esq., Sir Francis
G. Moon, Bart. ; Alderman George Moore,
Esq., T. M. Nelson, Esq., Rev. J. B. Owen,
J. S. Phene, Esq., W. T. Pritchard, Esq„ B. C.
Robinson, Esq., Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman;
George Simpson, Esq., Wm. Stevens, Esq., William
Tegg, Esq., Thomas Wakley, Esq., W. E.
Wal-
misley, Esq., Wm. H. Warre, Esq., Gen, Watkin,
W. C. Watson, Esq.
On the motion of the Rev: Mr. OWEN, seconded
by Mr. BOODLE, the following gentlemen were
elected as auditors : Thomas Cotterell, Esq., E. W.
Davis, Esq., and John Goldsmid, Esq.
Mr. J. S. PHENE proposed that a vote of thanks
be given to the members of the comrrittee of ma-
nagement for the past year, in acknowledgment of
their unremitting and unwearied exertions in pro-
moting the interests of the hospital.
Mr. S. GOLDSMID seconded the motion, and it
was unanimously agreed to.
Votes of thanks were then tendered to the trea-
surer, Mr. E. Masterman ; to the auditors ; and to
Dr. Marsden, the founder of the hospital.
Dr. MARSDEN, in returning thanks, said it had
been a great gratification for him to co-operate with
the committee. They had worked together in a
spirit of the greatest harmony, and hoped that good
feeling would never be interrupted. The institu-
tion had flourished for a number of years, and he
attributed that result to the good management of
the weekly board and the general committee.
A cordial vote of thanks were next given to the
honorary medical officers of the charity for their
services, a continuance of which was desired.
Dr. MARSDEN proposed a vote of thanks to Mr.
Smith, their able and zealous secretary, who had,
he stated, been for nearly thirty years connected
with the hospital. He had been secretary for five
years, and he had invariably devoted his energies
to the promotion of the interests of the charity.
Dr. O'CONNOR said he had great pleasure in
seconding the resolution. As one of the medical
staff of the hospital, he could bear testimony to the
truth of all that had been said in praise of the ser-
vices which Mr. Smith rendered. No man could dis-
charge the duties devolving on him more faithfully
than Mr. Smith, and no one could be more atten-
tive to what was necessary in the wards of the
hospital than he was. He was ever ready to fur-
ther the interests of the charity by every means in
his po.ver. The gentlemen who had more oppor-
tunities of seeing Mr. Smith at the weekly board
than he (the speaker) had were well able to vouch
for his 'efficiency in that department; but having,
as one of the medical staff, many opportunities of
witnessing the zeal and judgment which he dis-
played, lie would cordially second the motion.
The motion was cordially agreed to.
Dr. O'CONNOR then, in a few appropriate re-
marks, proposed a vote of thanks to the Press for
the support it had uniformly given to the institu-
tion.

Dr. MARSDEN seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the
proceedings.

The statue of Dr. Jenner, of small-pox-vaccina-
tion celebrity, has been removed to Kensington-gardens.
It is placed on a new pedestal in the vicinity of the stone
bridge spanning the Serpentine, on the Bayswater side.
This statue, it will be remembered, was sonic time ago pro-
moted to a distinguished place near the Nelson Column in
Trafalgar square.

THE SUMTER AT GIBRALTAR.—Ad vices recently
received in Liverpool from Gibraltar state thst the Sumter
was inert at tne above-named port, being detained through
the difficulty of obtaining coal. A meeting of the agents
and others connected with the coaling business there had
been held, at which it was agreed not to supply coals to the
Sumter except for cash, the paper which was offered by her
captain in payment, although on good houses, not being
deemed eligible. The advises referred to also represent the
crew and officers of the Sumter as fine fellows, but nautical
men in Gibraltar say the ship has no fight in her.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STRAND
THEATRE.—Last evening a melancholy case of Budd( n
death occurred in the gallery of the above theatre. Mr. P.
Bowman, of 71, Long-acre, a master tailor, accompanied
his sister and a grandchild to witness the performances.
After seeing the first piece, " Old Phil's Birthday," at
which he betrayed great emotion, he retired and partook of
refreshments. On his return he resumed his seat, but had
scarcely done so when ho fell back insensible. He was
conveyed to King's College Hospital, but on arriving there
was pronounced to be dead. The deceased was 64 years of
age, and has, it is said, latterly been much depressed in
spirits, arising from pecuniary embarrassments brought on
by slackness of trade.
THE ROAD ACROSS HYDE PARK.--The St.
Pancras Vestry, on the motion of Mr. Lawford, unani-
mously resolved to oppose any attempt to make the new
road across the park at the expense of the Metropolis, and
called upon the members of the Aletroplitan Board to
oppose it in that body. Mr. Farrer said the Exhibition
r ommissioners last time realised a profit of £150,000, and
as this road was for their benefit, let them pay for it.
EXPORT OF COAL FROM GREAT GRIMSBY.—The
following is a return of the coal exported from the port of
Great Grimsby during the month of Jannary :—To France,
3,601 tons ; to Prussia, 318 tons ; to Norway, 66 tons ; to
Denmark, 265 tons; to the Hanseatic towns, 1,056 tons; to
Italy, 312 tons; to Spain, 194 tons. Total foreign, 5,8.12
tons; total coastwise, 1,188 tons. Total, 7,000 tons.
THE ROYAL PORCELAIN WORKS AT WORCES-
TER have long and deservedly been (after the Cathedral)
the chief attraction of the town. In its galleries are to be
seen the successful attainments of the high, st aim of the
most graceful and the most useful of arts; and so great is
the fascination of the ever-changing variety of form, deco-
ration, and colour, and so exquisite the drawing, grouping,
and finish of many of the more imoortant works, that we
have generally found that our visits have been prolonged to
hours when a short stay was merely intended. This, there-
fore, will be a favuurable opportunity for collectors and
families supplying themselves with the famous Worcester
porcelain—an immense variety of which is, we learn, to be
disposed of by private sale—a course incumbent upon a
change in the firm. It is gratifying, however, to know
that the works are to be continued in all their force and in-
tegrity.