The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-27 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

FALMOUTH, Thursday Morning.
The ship Scottish Chief, of St. John's, N. 8.,
1,053 tons, Captain Dennehy, arrived off this port
last evening from Melbourne. and proceeded for
London, after obtaining some fresh supplies.
Her date of sailing, the 23d December ; rounded
Cape Horn 29th January, and crossed the Equator
on the 13th March.

Her cargo consists of 3,940 bales of wool, and
she has on freight 4,695 ounces of gold dust, and
three cabin and 12 steerage passengers.
She experienced strong southerly winds until she
rounded New Zealand ; the prevailing winds were
then S.W. In lat. 56 S., long. 111 W. to 79 W.,
passed an immense number of icebergs, and for
three days the ship was surrounded by ice ; since
leaving 44 S. had light easterly winds, no S.E.
trades ; crossed the Equator with light winds from
the east ; moderate N.E. trades ; parted from them
in lat. 25, long. 45 N., since then light easterly
winds„ and a quantity of calms. The prevailing
winds since leaving the Tropics have been north,
south, and east due north.

Metropolitan Free Hospital, Devonshire

square, City,

Of all the valuable charities with which this metropolis
abounds, and of which Englishmen are so justly proud, it
has been observed that none are so little likely to be abused
than hospitals for the sick ; but whilst we contemplate,
with feelings of gratitude to their noble founders, the
stately edifices prepared in past years for the reception of
the sick and needy, we cannot but be impressed with a
sense of their total inadequacy to provide for a tithe of the
sufferings of the poorer class.

To meet in some measure the growing requirement for
increased hospital accommodation in the densely-populated
districts of Whitechapel, Bethnal-green, Shoreditch, and
Bishopsgate, the above institution was founded. It is, as
its name implies, a free hospital—that is, no letters of
recommendation are required, the only passports necessary
being poverty and sickness.

As may well be imagined, this peculiarity in its consti-
tution insures for it at all times an immense number of
patients. During the year 1864 they amounted to no less
85,747, upwards of 1,600 weekly.
The absence of anything like delay in obtaining admis-
sion enables the sufferer to procure advice and medicine
when first attacked, whereby the medical officers are
enabled to grapple with disease in its earliest stages, and
thus check the development of such fearful maladies as
as that which, of late, has been committing such fearful
ravages in the city of St. PetersbUrg.
To procure the means necessary to maintain the effi-
ciency of such an institution is no easy matter, especially
where, as in this case, it has no endowment whatever, but
is entirely dependent upon the voluntary contributions of
the benevolent. The Anniversary Festival is appointed
to take place at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 9th
of May, under the presidency of Mr. Alderman Copeland,
M.P., and it is earnestly hoped that the contribution list
announced thereat will be such as to materially aid so good
a cause.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens steady at an advance of ito
Sales probably 10,000 or 12,000 bales.

A meeting was held yesterday of the creditors of
Messrs. Buchanan, Hamilton, and Co., of Glasgow,
with whom are associated Jarvie, Thorburn, and
Co., of Shanghai, and Hamilton and Co., Singapore.
Mr. George May, of the firm of May, Mathewson,
and Co., of London, occupied the chair. Mr. Wil-
liam Anderson, accountant, of Glasgow, submitted
a statement, of which the following is an abstract :
Dr.—Unsecured creditors, viz.: On bills payable,
£667,714 Bs. 7d. ; on open account, £9,583 Bs. 7d.;
partially secured, £lB7los. ; for advances on produce,
£75,103; total, £752,58875. 2d. Cr.—Cash in hand,
£2,146105. 9d. ; bills receivable £47,979 ss. 9d. ;
goods in process of shipment, £4,343 13s. 10d. ;
sundries, £8,477 155. 9d. ; surplus from produce
per contra, £7,319 15s. ld. ; amount at debit at
Jarvie, Thorburn, and Co., net £281,229 13s.
4d. ; at debit of Hamilton, Gray, and Co.,
£263,571 10s. ; estimated surplus estates of part-
ners, £17,000 ; total, £632,068 4s. 6d. Mr. Mur-
ray, :of the firm of Murray, Son, and Hutchins,
London, and Mr. J. S. Fleming, of Glasgow, solici-
tors to the estate, explained in general terms the
position of affairs, after which the following resolu-
tion was unanimously adopted :—" That the
meeting be adjourned until Monday, the 3d of
July next, at two o'clock ; that in the meantime
the business be carried on under the inspec-
tion of Mr. George May, Mr. Michael Connal, of
Glasgow, and Mr. Anderson, the accountant ; and
that the banks and other creditors in the United
Kingdom do not send their bills abroad or take
proceedings pending the adjournment of the meet-
ing ; and that all payments be made with the ap-
proval of the inspectors." The object of the ad-
journment is to enable the inspectors to obtain a
more complete statement of the affairs of the firm
than now exists from Shanghae and Singapore. It
was indicated by several creditors that if the way
were seen by the 2nd July to make an offer, the
proposal would undoubtedly be favourably enter-
tained.
BRADFORD NON-ELECTORS AND PARLIAMENTARY
REFORM.—On Tuesday evening a large meeting of
the inhabitants of Bradford was held at St. George's Hall,
in that town, for the " purpose of calling on the Govern-
ment and Parliament to redeem the pledges so repeatedly
made by them, by introducing and carrying into effect such
a measure of reform as shall confer the franchise on the
honest and industrious working classes, protect them in its
exercise, and correct the glaring anomalies of our represen-
tative system." These were the terms of requisition signed
by 2, 000 non-electors, which had been presented to the mayor
who had convened the meeting. Mr. W. H. Arnold, a non-
elector, occupied the chair. There were about 1,500 or 1,800
persons present. The chairman, at the close of his opening
address, read the following:—" That in the opinion of this
meeting, the present opportunity should not pass by with-
out some adequate expression of the deep and sincere grief
and regret of this large assemblage of the working men
of Bradford at the irreparable loss they and the country
generally have • sustained in the death of that foremost
of England's Reformers, the great and good Richard
Cobden. We would also add to our high appreciation and
admiration of the man our heartfelt condolence and sym-
pathy for his bereaved family, hoping that they may be
sustained and comforted under the pressure of the heavy
cloud of grief and sorrow which has settled upon them,
and assuring them that the memory of him so dear to them
is embalmed in the sorrowing hearts of a grateful and lov-
ing people." He then asked the assembly to adopt by simply
standing up, which was done in silence. Mr. Jas. Wilkin-
son then moved the following resolution :—" That the pre-
sent Government is highly censurable for its conduct in re-
ference to the Reform Question, and that the language used
by those Ministers who charge the non-electors with apathy
and indifference is uncalled for, inasmuch as that when the
Liberal members appealed to the country, asserting that
they would endeavour to carry a question of reform, the
non-electors heartily responded to that appeal, and used
their best endeavours to return them to Parliament—it is
therefore the opinion of this meeting, that the Government
is in duty bound to redeem its promises to the unen-
franchised, and prior to the dissolution, to introduce
and endeavour to carry a fair measure of reform." The
resolution was seconded by Mr. George Demain, and sup-
ported by Professor Fawcett, who was received with loud
cheers. He said it was a fundamental principle of the con-
stitution that taxation and representation went together. If
a war occurred the working people would have to bear the
burden as much as any other class, therefore they ought to
have a voice in the matter as well as any other class. The
members of the present House of Commons had falsified
every pledge they had given on the question of reform.
Six years ago they gave pledges which had been broken,
but he hoped this would not be allowed at the next elec-
tion. He referred to the conduct of the Lancashire people
in the cotton famine, as forming a brilliant page in history.
Speaking of the American war, he said the Southern
party did not understand 'the working men of England.
They supposed the working men of Lancashire would
have risen in rebellion, but no part of England had
evinced a stronger sympathy with the cause of the North
than Lancashire. This supplied an unanswerable argu-
ment in favour of extending the suffrage to the working
classes, who, he contended, would not use the franchise
solely to promote class interests. ' The resolution was
adopted, as was also the following :-3. " That in the
opinion of this meeting, every male person, householder or
lodger, rated or liable to be rated for the relief of the poor,
has the right to the exercise of the franchise ; and to en-
sure its free and full exercise, the voting should be by
ballot. That there should be an equal distribution of
members, in proportion to population and property, and
that the duration of Parliament should be limited to three
years." A petition to Parliament, embodying this resolu-
tion, was agreed to, and the proceedings terminated

FATAL FALL.—Yesterday evening a little boy,
between three and four years old, named William Calir,
son of a tailor, residing at 52, Ingestre-buildings, Broad-
street, Golden-square, fell from a window on the upper
storey of the house—a very high building-4o the pave-
ment beneath, and his skull was so frightfully injured that
he expired while eu the way to the Middlesex livspital.