The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-19 00:00:00

President—ll is Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G.

This Hospital, foundei in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of fi ee admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
Addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a con .iderable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae-
)erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Hansom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, -and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W dliarns, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Barned and
Co . LivPrpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
f3TANFOILD shliTti Secretary.

AACi. T 18655.
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Commissariat Office,lt
Aldershot, Apri

TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock
(noon, on Wednesday, 26th April, 1865, from persons who
may be willing- to enter into CONTRACTS for the supply of
FLOUR (Ration and Hospital), AND MEAT,
in such quantities as may be required, from Ist June to 30th
November, 1865, for the use of her Majesty a Forces s tat oned
at Aldershot Camp, and within the command.
These being three distinct Contracts, separate Tenders are
required for each description of Flour and for Meat.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at th s office, by letter addressed to the
Senior Commissariat Officer, or in person, between the hours
of ten and four o'clock.
The Tenders must be properly filled up, signed, and deli-
vered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
ou`side "Tender for Army Supplies"), by the hour appointed,
and no Tender will be noticed that shall not be hi compliance
with these conditions.

ARMY CONTRACTS.-
TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12
o'clock noon, on the 28th of April, from persons who may be
willing to enter into CONTRACTS to supply
BREAD AND MEAT

in such quantities as may be required. for the use of her
Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places,
from let June, to 30th November, 1665.
LONDON DISTRICT.

1. Brompton House, Knightsbridge and Magazine Barracks,
H y de-park ; and Kensington.
2. Regent's-Park, and St. John's-wood.
3. New Barracks, Chelsea; and Ordnance Survey Office,
Pimlico.
4. Wellington Barracks, Buckingham Palace and St.
George's Barracks.
5. The Tower.
6. Hounslow and ICneller Hall.
7. Hampton Court.
8. Windsor.
9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shoreham.
10. Sandhurst.
Separate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be made for
each of the above-mentioned Stations or Barracks, as sepa-
rately grouped and numbered.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this Office, by letter addressed to the
Senior Commissariat Officer, or in person, between the hours
of 19 and 4 o'clock.
Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up
and signed, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered
at the under-mentioned Office,under closed envelope (marked
on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies"), before
12 o'clock noon on the 28th April.
Deputy Commissary- 3eneral's Office,
5, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W.,
6th April, 1865.

HOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.,
for the Reoeption, from all parts of the Kingdom, of
Outcast and Destitute Boys, and those verging on crime,
under 10 years of age.
President—ROßEßT HANBITRY, Esq.,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Stephen Cave, Esq., M:P. I Sir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P.
Tlenry E. Gurney, Esq. 1 Abel Smith, Esq., 31,P.
Samuel Morley, Esq.

COMMITTEE,

Mr Alex. Anderson. I Rev. H. M'Sorley.
Mr. E. 11. Burrows. Mr. W. J. MaxwelL
Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short.
Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair,
Mr. George Moore. I Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. Mr. R. T. Turnbull
Treasurer—W. H. Willans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, Le, Suffolk-street,
PBll-Mall East, S.W
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-
...-. street. E.C.
The necessity for an Institution tor these little ones is evi-
dent from the police statissics' which show that in London
alone. in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of
age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom
Were convicted cad punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis-
charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too
young to punish, though not too young to learn the beginnings
of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but
for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must
otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli-
ance and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State.
The mode of admission to the House is twofold,
Ist. By election of rhe subscribers. Thys thus admitted
are received free, boarde,l, clothed, educated, and taught till
they are 11 years o, age.
With the view to 8-• cure the election of the most deserving
cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas-
sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers.
The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care-
ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa-
tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to
those most eligible for free admission.
2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance.
All children must be under 10 years of age at the time of
admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any
time as soon as approved by the Committee,
Elections of children to be ad.-aifted free will take place as
frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will
admit, till the Home is full; they will then be held periodi-
cally
Forms of application for the admission of children may be
had at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary,

"May it please your Lordships,—We, the undersigned,
whom her Majesty's Commission, bearing date the sth of
January, 1857, appointed to inquire into the best mode of
distributing the sewage of towns, and applying it to bene-
ficial and profitable uses,' have now again, according to our
instructions, the honour of reporting to your lordships on
further progress in the matter committed to us for inquiry.
"Since the date of our last report (August, 1861) we
have through a committee of our number, consisting of
Mr. Lawes and Professor Way, continued at Rugby the ex-
periments which were undertaken in 1861 on the applica-
tion of sewage to land. The report of that committee,
which we append, contains the result for the three years
1862-4.

" Your Lordships will observe that these experiments
have not been confined to the application of sewage in dif-
ferent quantities to land, but have extended to the con-
sumption by cattle of the produce so obtained, and to the
production of meat and milk, and have been accompanied
by a careful record of the quantities and market value of the
products, and by numerous analyses of the sewage before
and after irrigation, as also of the grass and of the milk.
"It appears to us that these experiments have solved
many of the difficulties which have hitherto attached to the
question of the agricultural application of sewage, and that
they leave no reasonabla doubt of the practicability and ad-
vantage of so employing the sewage of towns.
" We haVe also continued to give our best attention to all
kindred experiments and inquiries which have been going
on elsewhere.

"As the results of our labours, extending over eight
years, we have confidence in submitting to your lordships
the following conclusions:—

" 1. The right way to dispose of town sewage is to apply
it continuously to land, and it is only by such application
that the pollution of rivers can be avoided.
"2. The financial results of a continuous application of
sewage to land differ under different local circumstances ;
first, because in some places irrigation can be effected by
gravity, while in other places more or less pumping must be
employed ; secondly, because heavy soils (which in given
localities may alone be available for the purpose) are less fit
than light soils for continuous irrigation by sewage.

"3. Where local circumstances are favourable and undue
expenditure is avoided, towns may derive profit, more or
less considerable, from applying their sewage in agriculture.
Under opposite circumstances, there may not be a balance
of profit ; but even in such cases a rate in aid, required to
cover any loss, need not to be of large amount.
" Finally, on the basis of the above conclusions, we fur-
ther beg leave to express to your lordships that, in our
judgment, the following two principles are established for
legislative application :—First, that wherever rivers are
polluted by a discharge of town sewage into them the towns
may reasonably be required to desist from causing that pub-
lic nuisance. Second, that where town populations are in-
jured or endangered in health by a retention of cesspool
matter among them the towns may reasonably be required
to provide a system of sewers for its removal.
" And should the law as it stands be found insufficient to
enable towns to take land for sewage application, it would
in our opinion, be expedient that the Legislature should
give them powers for that purpose.

" ESSEX. " J. B. Lions.
" ROBERT RAWLENSON. " JOHN SIMON.
" J. THOMAS WAY:
" 8, Richmond-terrace, Whitehall, March, 1865."

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

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LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST.

A special meeting of this company was held yesterday
at the International Hotel, London-bridge, Mr. L. Schuster
in the chair.

The Secretary having read the notice convening the
meeting to consider four bills in compliance with the Stand-
ing Orders of Parliament,
The CHAIRMAN said the first he_ had to submit was a
bill to enable the company to make new railways from St.
Leonard's to their Ouse Valley and Tunbridge Wells and
Eastbourne lines, and deviations in those lines. The object
of the bill was to enable the company to complete the
scheme of last session, a part of which was rejected in con-
sequence of the opposition .of the landowners; but that
portion of the scheme having been modified to meet the
views of the landowners it was passed by the committee
this session without opposition. In reply to questions he
stated that the capital was £300,000, and the length of line
13 miles. The scheme referred to would form, in con-
tinuation of the intended Surrey and Sussex line, which
was to start from a point one mile south of Croydon and
terminate on the company's Tunbridge and Hastings lines,
a direct line from London to St. Leonards and Hastings.
Mr. C. CHILD said he expected good results from that
project, and if the Surrey and Sussex line was authorised by
Parliament it would become a portion of the Brighton
system, and give them nearly the shortest route from Lon-
don to Hastings.

A formalresolution approving the bill was earriodunani-
mously.

The CHAIRMAN said the next he had to submit was an
Additional Powers Bill, to enable the company to make
short junction railways to connect their existing and autho-
rised railways in the county of Surrey and to acquire ad-
ditional lands. It would enable them to improve their lino
at various places, particularly near New Cross, Croydon,
and Sydenham, and to bring those, important stations into
direct communication with their South London Railway.
The junction lines would be only a few hundred yards
each in length, and the whole of them would not be more
than half a mile in length. Ho concluded by moving a
formal resolution approving the bill.
Mr. J. SCOTT seconded the motion, and it was adopted. '
The CHAIRMAN said that No. 3 was not ready. The last
bill he had to submit on that occasion was a bill to em-
power the West Sussex Junction Railway Company to make
a deviation from the authorised line of their railway and
for other purposes. The only matter in the bill that affected
the interests of the Brighton Company was power to make
arrangements between them and the West Sussex Com-
pany for working the line when completed.
A formal resolution, approving the bill so far as the
Brighton Company is concerned, was carried unanimously,
and the meeting was adjourned to that day three weeks.

CARLISLE AND SILLOTII BAY.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Carlisle on Monday, Mr. P. J. Dixon in the chair.
The report stated that after payment of interest on the
preference stock in November last the balance to the debit
of revenue amounted to £7O. This had been covered by the
increased amount of contingent rent, and now, after pay-
ment of interest on loans and prefererco stock there would
remain a balance of £33. The report having been adopted,
Mr. W. JACKSON moved that a dividend be declared at
the rate of 5 per cent. on the preference stock.
Captain DIXON seconded the motion. lie thought that
by another half-year they might hope for a small dividend.
The shipping at the port of Silloth was increasing consi-
derably, and there had lately been there the largest vessel
ever seen in the Solway. No port except Silloth between
Liverpool and the Clyde could have taken her in. If the
North British Company should have 2i per cont. next
half-year, there would be a dividend of per cent. for the
original shareholders of the Silloth Company.
The motion was agreed to, and the proceedings termi-
nated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.