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 Hat' 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, Shoreditcb, 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 Const-
itution 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 to
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 15s. 9d. ; surplus from produce
per contra, £7,319 15s. Id. ; 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 anoliaalies 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 mien:
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
lodge; 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--to the pave-
ment beneath, and his skull was so frightfully injured that
he expired while on the way to the Middlesex Hospital.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, April 26.

Her Majesty and her Royal Highness Princess
Louise drove out yesterday, attended by Lady
Churchill.

Her Royal Highness Princess Helena also drove.
Lady Waterpark has succeeded Lady Churchill
as lady in waiting.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales are expected to leave Sandringham on TuesdaY
next for Marlborough House. Owing to the death of the
Czarewitch their royal highnesses are expected to seek
retirement for a few weeks.

ROYAL BIRTHDAY AT WlNDSOR.—Tuesday being
the 22d anniversary of the birth of her Royal Highness
Princess Alice Maud Mary, the event was duly celebrated
with royal honours at Windsor. The bells of the chapel
Royal of St. George and parish church rang out merry peals
in the morning, when a salute of 21 guns was fired in the
Long-walk and answered from Fort Belvedere and the
Royal Adelaide frigate at Virginia-water.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and Princess Mary propose to return to town next week
from Cambridge Cottage, Kew.

The Count and Countess d'Eu on Saturday left
Brussels for Antwerp, where they visited the monuments
of the city, and then took their departure for GermallY
by way of Liege. They will first visit the Hereditary
Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (sister to the Sing
of Portugal), and afterwards Gotha, Dresden, and Vienna.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and
family have arrived at their house in St. James's-square
from Blenheim Palace, Oxon.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
and Lady Theodora Grosvenor come to town next Week
from Motcombe Park, Dorset, for the season.

The Marchioness of Salisbury will give her first
assembly to-morrow evening at the family residence in
Arlington-street, Piccadilly.
The Earl Granville will return to town to-day'
from visiting Lord and Lady Rivers at Rushmore
Lodge.

The Earl of Lonsdale is expected to return to 1115
residence on Carlton-house-terrace early in the ensuing
week, from the Isle of Wight.

The Earl de Grey will leave town to-day to
spect the fortifications on the coasts of Hants and Devout
as Secretary of State for the War Department.
Loth Stanley, M.P., has arrived in town from.
Knowsley Park, Lancashire.

We are authorised to contradict a report which
has appeared in our columns, of a marriage about to take
place between the Dowager Lady Holland, of Holland
House, and Rear-Admiral Yelverton, C. 8., second in o'll-
- in the Mediterranean. We are informed that her
ladyship will spend the summer at Kensington.
HEALTH OF LORD PALMERSTON.—During the last
few days some extravagant rumours have been in circol9t
tion respecting the health of the noble Premier. We learn,
however, that the extent of his indisposition is a slight at"
tack of the gout in the right hand. ,

Richard Cobden, the Emperor of the French

and Prince Napoleon.

The following letter of sympathy has been re"
ceived by the family of the late Mr. Cobden :
Aux Tuileries, le 20 Avril, 1865.
M. Chas. Cobden. .

Monsieur,—J'ai pris une grande part au malheur qui 11
frappe votre famille ; car M. R. Cobden avait toujoio
montre pour la France une grande sympathie, et son ill:
fluence sur ses compatriotes ne pouvait quo contribuer
resserrer les liens qui unissent liAngleterre et la France•
Je vous prie d'être aupres de sa veuve l'interprete de Me.,
serieux regrets, et de recevoir l'assuranco de mes sentinlel°
de haute estime.

NAPOLEON.
The Tuileries, 20th April, 1865.
Mr. Charles Cobden. •
Sir,—l have deeply participated in the misfortune u•ch
has stricken your family ; for Mr. Richard Cobden
always evinced for France a great sympathy, and his in-
fluence over his countrymen could not but contribute t°
draw closer the ties which unite England and France.
I pray you to act towards his widow as the interpreter
of my serious regrets, and to receive the assurance of raJ
sentiments of high esteem.

NAPOLEOS•

BENJAMIN DISRAELI IN 1865. Among the
leading statesmen of this country there is no eve
who occupies so peculiar a position as Mr. Disraeli. It
would be very difficult, in the annals of Parliamentary his-
tory, to find a politician who has filled so large a space
the records of his own time, and yet has had so little rest
influence on the policy and legislation of the country. Tll:
leader of a numerous and well-organised party since 18'
and twice when in office the leader of the House of Co
mons, he sits at the head of the Opposition against tl°
secret wishes of a considerable section of his supportcA
with no personal following, with very slight weight with
the walls of the house, and with absolutely none out °
doors. The rank that he holds is due exclusively to th°
brilliant power of debating with which he took the lwils!
by storm some 20 years ago. Since that time his career
has been a conspicuous one; in some of his Parliamentary
conflicts he has parted at least on equal terms with voy.
formidable antagonists, yet he has failed to rear'
power and influence the legitimate fruits of so maul
years of unremitting labour. Unlike most politica
leaders, he stands no higher in public estimation than h°,
did a dozen years ago. His party seem to feel a want 0'
confidence in him, though he has worked for them so 101'
—and in spite of the effort that he has made from time t°
time, he has been unable to enlist in his favour the slur
pathies of the public.—From the First No. of the 14°1;
Magazine, Samuel Lucas's Shilling Magazine (for gliP
just published.

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BRINDLEY AND THE WEDGwooDs.--James
ley was a popular character in the Potteries. fill
uncommon ingenuity, great practical skill, persistent
dustry, and reliable honesty of purpose had led by degre.e,s
to a great range of business, which was as varied in 1.
character as scattered far and wide. He constructed 0a'l"
heads inYorkshire,built or improved silk-mills atCongletd_
and Macclesfield, sank wells in the agricultural district
applied to many of the old mills upon the watershed to tlie
north of Burslem machinery for the grinding of calciloci
flints and other potter's materials ; and as time went °0
,0
busied himself with the construction of steam enginesi*-3
a principle of his own. Wide as this range of duty Tr3S;:it
centred locally in Burslem ; and here, in 1750, or son 0
before, he had hired a millwright's shop belonging
Thomas and John Wedgwood, which, situated dowtßo
yard in the vicinity of the spot on which they were t-a
building the Big House, was onvironed with pot-workst°
gardens. Thus brought into connection with the We 4..
woods, and employed by them in various ways, an intinaaelci/
of a most friendly character sprunq up between themallot
the engineer. It was only limited by Brindley's frecine 0
and lengthened absences from Burslem. But when be c:to
there, either on business to his wheelwfight's shop, °Da
see his brother John Brindley, who had settled in "j,
village, the hospitable meal, the cup of sparkling Staff°,fio
shire ale, the glowing hearth, and the hearty hand-sIAo
were his under more than one. roof-tree of the well-to-1'

Wedgwoods.—Meteyard's Life of Wedgwood.
CIVIL SERVICE ATHLETIC SPORTS.—The
with
Civil gathering of gentlemen connected ii!tec4/
b,111:1°
Civil Service, and associated together in the friel3`'nti
rivalry of athletic sports, will take place to-morrow a-0
Saturday at Beaufort House, Walham-green—the Serts
commencing each day at 2 o'clock. The various 01)(30
and games are open to amateurs only, and, as was the c''°,l
last year, are to be under the management of a general
executive committee, composed of names well know° so
the official world, with Lord Bury heading the list. 11...118
sports have evidently taken firm root in the science, 'of
means of bringing out the muscular energies of a hodissi
gentlemen whose occupations are chiefly of a sedeii,",,ed
character, and to whom the systematic training itor°" f
in physical displays of the kind cannot fail to Pr(fif,,,:cl
the utmost advantage. Gentlemen who wield the es.tor
in other departments of her Majesty's service hafe rp..
oo
facilities for cultivating out-door sports, and we can 6;01
reason why the gentlemen who manipulate the Pen,heir
rack their brains in the bureau should not follow' "'o
example. The love of field sports is increasing intib
country, and gymnastics are now held in high esteoe';olo
portion of the physical education of youth. In Jul.) ;the
Turner Verein will be held at the Crystal Palace, an'coo.-
present gathering is of a kindred character, althougillost
fined to members of the Civil Service of the Growl'• coy'
our great annual boat race between the Oxford and oat
bridge Universities does in the way of bodily devel°Pisiog
and in keeping up the manly tone and vigour of our
'' do
men, these athletic sports to a still greater extent Iv
a',
,
+h
for the Civil Service. Nor can we help thinking w
nts 0
proportion as the young blood in the Civil Depart'neoer"
kept in a state of healthful activity, and the muscul'iroorte
gies of officials are developed by means of such roanlYWattor
and rivalries, shall we find people less prone to Shoe is
about 'routine' and circumlocution.' As the pllsin7a
maintained so will the mental capacities improve' of 0011
regard these innocent and sinew giving exercises aumit ag
as beneficial tc, the individuals who practise tbein,,e'rip,
really benefiting the State, and through the State, tilopular
lic. There is a growing tendency in favour of the Pod 154
holiday, and we consider the Athletic sports initia
as Otte
year, and to be continued with increased eclat this;
oicce"
of the most healthful signs of the great freSll4i
meat. •