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 stops no-
cessary to be taken under present circumstances.

Lord ELCHO 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.
LIDDYAL accordingly did so. It stated that, with
the assistance of a professional accountant, Mr. Thomas
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 £91135. 3d. They
had also found, from a careful examination of the books,
certain deficiencies on the part of the secretary, commenc-
ing in the year 1848, and continuing down to last year,
amounting to a total of £2,004 2s. 7d. on the hospital
fund, which, with a deficiency of £47 Bs. 9d. on the school
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secretary had been furnished with
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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 certain 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. Tho committee had thus fulfilled
the pledges given by them as to making a thorough inves-
tigation into the state of matters, and they regretted to find
the defalcations amount to so large a sum.
Mr. Deputy FARRAR next mad the rcport of the com-
mittee appointed
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Kiniqnuioirche intorun Md,sjwohriAch stated that the
dair's deficiencies
in
nmoruesift ofee stock in the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities
belonging to that fund was £47,860, and that the total
amount of the major's deficiencies in connection with it v, as
£1,071 18s., which the committee considered arose in a
great 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. LOMB 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. He 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
would be doing a great benefit to the institution.
After some further discussion, Mr. Locke altered his
motion to suit the views of Sir George Clerk and 10r.
Donaldson, when it was unanimously adopted.
The following noblemen and gentlemen were then ap-
pointed as a committee :—The Duke of Buccleuch, the
Duke of Argyll, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Beattie,
Mr.
Francis Bennoch, Dr, George Webster, Mr. Burrell,,
Patrick Robertson, Mr. Donald Nicol, Dr. Liddell,. DI •
cordial vote of
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EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—iins company
has reduced the hours of labour of the poin tsmen 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 ob-
tained parliamentary powers last session AN to be at once
proceeded with.