The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-30 00:00:00

THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.

An adjourned general meeting of the governors of this
charity was held yesterday in the Corporation Hall, Crane-
court, Fleet-street, for the purpose of receiving the report
of the committee appointed to ascertain the amount of the
late secretary's defalcations, and considering the steps ne-
cessary to be taken under present circumstances.

Lord ELcito having been voted to the chair, briefly ex-
plained the circumstances under which they were assem-
bled, and called upon Dr. Liddell to read the report of the
special committee on the late secretary's accounts.
Du. LIDDELL accordingly did so. It stated that, with
the assistance of a professional accountant, Mr. Thomas
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Kennedy, who had carefully investigated the whole of the
accounts from the year 1843, when Major Adair was ap•
pointed secretary, down to the End of 1861, when he resigned,
they had found that the total amount of stock belonging to
the corporation on 30th Nov. last was £41,250, while there
was cash in hand and in the Bank of England belonging to
the hospital £5Bl, and to the school fund £9l 13s. 3d. They
had also found, from a careful examination of the books,
certain deficiencies on the part of the secretary, commenc-

lof £2,004 2s. 7d. on the hospital
1848,tota and continuing down to last year,
fuailamogodu,innwthitnhigcehy,teowairath a deficiency of £47 Bs. 9d. on the school
fund, made the total deficiency £2,051 Ils. 4d., but from
which had to be deducted a sum of £205, refunded by the
secretary, which reduced the amount to £1,846 lls. 4d. In
consequence of the proceedings of the last meeting, on the
15th instant, the late secretary had been furnished with
the details of these deficiencies, and he was understood to
acknowledge them to be correct, but no proposition had
been made for their adjustment ; and it had been stated
to the committee, that in consequence of the course
adopted by cettain governors, in their private capacity,
against him, his family would come under no legal obli-
gations respecting them. The bond of security lodged by
Major Adair for the faithful discharge of his duties
was for a sum of £5OO. The committee had thus fulfilled
the pledges given by them as to making a thorough inves-
tigation
amount
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defalcations into the
Mr. Deputy FARRAR next read the report of the cora-
rnittee appoinotetdheto
iiiniqnuioiroeh iFntuonl:ll,ajwohriAclidasirta'steddefitchiaetnctihees
in respect to
to that fund was £47,860, and that the total
amount of stock in the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities
belonging
of the major's deficiencies in connection with it
was
x: 0 n
18s., which the committee considered arose in a
amountlgreat measure from powers of attorney being granted, en-
abling the secretary to sell out more stock than was re-
quired to defray the liabilities upon the fund. The total
amount of Major Adair's deficiencies on the hospital and
Kinloch funds was, therefore, £2,912 9s. 4d.
The reports having been unanimously received,
Mr. LOUR moved the appointment of a committee to
take into consideration the present position of the corpora-
tion, and to report as to what alterations they considered
necessary in its working or constitution.
The motion having been seconded,
Sir GEORGE CLERK deprecated any change in the con-
stitution of the corporation. Ile thought that if they
limited the labours of the committee to the consideration
of the bye-laws, and the framing of them so as to secure
them against such a system being adopted in future, ehey
wauld be doing a great benefit to tho institution.

After some further discussion, Mr. Locke altered his
motion to suit the views of Sir George Clcik and Dlr.
Donaldson, when it was unanimously adopted.
The following noblemen and gentlemen were then ap-
pointed as a committee :—The Duke of Buccleueh, the
Duke of Argyll, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Beattie, 11r.
Francis Bennoch, Dr. George Webster, Mr. Burrell, Mr.
Patrick Robertson, Mr. Donald Nicol, Dr. Liddell, Mr.
White, Mr. M'Millan, and Mr. Kerr, together with the
treasurer and the vice-presidents.
The proceedings then closed with a cordial vote of
thanks to Lord Elcho for his conduct in the chair.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—This company
ob-
has reduced the hours a labour of the pointsraen on the
railway, as it has long been felt that men intrusted with
responsible duties should not be overtasked. It is stated
that the new lines in Suffolk for which the company
tained Parliamentary powers last session are to be at on
proceeded with.