The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAYUEVENING, MAY 29, 1865.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The demand for wheat in the country markets held on
Saturday was very inactive, and prices had a downward
tendency. On the continent considerable business continues
to be done in wheat and spring corn for shipment to Great
Britain at very full prices. The trade at New York fvas
dull for flour and wheat at last advices. ,

As compared with the late highest point, the prices rea-
lised showed a reduction of 2s per quarter. At this decline
a fair clearance was effected.

CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE.

Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1803, per qr 378 to 41$
Ditto, 1861
Ditto, white, 1863 415 4i 8
Ditto, 1864
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864
Ditto, 1863
Talavera, 1864
Rye—
Barley—Grinding 23s 26s
Malting • —B —8
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 545 615
Brown
Kingstown and Ware s4s 618
Chevalier
Gate —Yorkshire and Liucoinsh., Feeding 195 238
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black lBs 235
Cork, white
Scotch, Feeding 175 228
Beans—Tick
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey .. 33s 368
Maple
White 368 388
Boilers
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 2BB 305
Stockton and Norfolk
American, per barrel 215 25s

in the private contract market, has commanded a fair sale,
at about stationary prices. The imports into London last
week were :
•
From Bales.
Sydney 7,295
Melbourne
Port Philip
Current prices of English wool per lb.
sd s d
Fleeces - South Down ho gets 1 8 1 94
Halt-bred do 1 8 181
Kent fleeces
Vouth Down ewes and wethersi 6 1 7
Leicester do 1 8 1 9
Sorts -Clothing 1 6 111
Combing.. 1 5 2 0

Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of
the Chest, Brompton.

Tho annual court of the governors of this excellent
charity was held on Thursday afternoon, in the board-room
of the hospital, the chair being taken by the President, the
Marquis of Westminster, K.G. Among the governors pre_
sent were Lord Ebury, Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. T. Ashburn-
ham, C. 8., Capt. the Hon. F. Maude, R.N., the Hon. A.
Kinnaird, M.P., Hon. E. B. Wrottesley, the Rev. Sir Henry
Foulis, Bart., Sir Peter Van Notten Pole, Bart., F. J.
Augarde, Esq., Captain J. Booth, H. A. Bosanquet, Esq.,
T. P. Beckwith, Esq., Rev. W. T. Kevill Davies, R. Dick-
son, Esq., M.D., C. Few, Esq., J. N. Foster, Esq., Mr.
Sergeant Gaseleo, C. D. Gordon, Esq., the Rev. E. Hollond,
T. Hughan, Esq., the Rev. W. Niven, 8.D., Colonel
F. Paget, G. H. Ryder, Esq., and S. Vardon, Esq. The
minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed,
the 24th annual report of the committee of management
was read by the secretary, in the unavoidable absence of
the hon. sec., Mr. P. Rose. In their report the committee
announced, with deep thankfulness, that the operations of
the charity had, during the past year, been more exten-
sively beneficial, both as regards the in and out patients,
tlian in any previous year of the hospital's existence. The
number of in patients who had experienced the benefits of
treatment had been 1,201, compared with 1,150 in 1863.
There were in the house on Dec. 31, 1863, 198 ; admitted
during 1864, 1,003: total, 1,201. Of whom there were dis-
charged many very greatly benefited, 839 ; died, 158 ; and
there remained in the hospital, Dec. 31, 18 64, 204: total,
1,201.

The attendances in the out-patients'department had been
very large, and the number of new cases brought under
treatment continued to increase, 'those for the past year
having been 7,387, compared with 6,908 in 1863. Whilst it
was gratifying to observe that the charity had thus afforded
relief to a greater amount of human suffering than in any
former year, it was also satisfactory to know that by means
of the recent improvements in the railway and omnibus
communications with Brompton, the hospital is rendered
more accessible to persons coming from the northern and
southern suburbs of London; so that patients can now
attend with less fatigue, expense, and loss of time, than
formerly. These facilities aro likely to be still further in-
creased. In several branches of income there was much
cause for encouragement.

The annual subscriptions received in 1864 were £5,075
3s. 6d. ; donations, £2,848 3s. ; church collections, deduct-
ing new subscriptions and donations, £978 10s. 6d.; lega-
cies (besides stock value £1,350), £3,054 9s. The gross
receipts, swelled by an unsual sum from legacies, were
£13,518 ss. 6d. The following legacies had been announced
during 1864, of which bequests amounting to £2,130 9s•
had been already received :—Miss Helen Smart, £lO ; Mrs.
Anne Rae-Wilson, £300; John Parnell, Esq., £l,OOO, duty
free ; Mrs. Balhetchet, £lOO, duty free ; Daniel M. Evans,
Esq., one-third of residue ; Mrs. Duroure, £lOO, duty free ;
Mrs. Louisa Scott, £lOO ; Capt. Montagu Montagu, R.N.,
£lOO, duty free ; Miss Mary D. Oldham, reversionary,
amount uncertain; Henry Richards, Esq., £5O, contingent
and reversionary ; Thos. Spong, Esq., £500; consols ; Mr.
W. A. Goldsmith, £lO 10s. ; Mrs. Charlotte Watts, £5O ;
Col. Onslow Baker, £lOO, duty free ; Miss Maria Harman
£l9 19s ; Thos. Halstead, Esq., 200, duty free, reversionary.
The importance, in a financial point of view, of legacies
was apparent from the fact that the charity is still largely
dependent upon this source of income for the means of car-
rying on its work of usefulness, the expenses being nearly
£lO,OOO a year, and the annual subscriptions being only
about half that sum. The demands upon the resources of the
charity continued to increase, and, unfortunately, the ad-
vancing prices of provisions enhanced the cost of keeping
up the large establishment. The committee acknowleged
with gratitude the aid afforded by the public, and especially
by the clergy, through whose instrumentality, by the means
of appeals from the pulpit, the funds of the institution had
been directly benefited to the extent of .£1,227 6s. 6d., a total
second only to that of 1863. The visit of her Majesty to the
hospital, on March 14th, was referred to in terms of deep
gratification. The committee referred to the importance
of extending the operations of the charity wherever the
opportunity was presented. This was effected to some ex-
tent by the Manor House Home, which accommodated 20
patients, and during the most trying portions of the year
extra beds had been again put up in the hospital, which
had thus been enabled to receive 211 in-patients ; and in
the warm weather it had been felt necessary to keep 207
beds occupied. There was now commenced an effort at
extension of a novel character, which it was believed
would be of great benefit to the patients, as well as
conducive to medical science. A proposal had been
made, through Dr. Stone, to establish —at first
experimentally a sanatorium in Madeira, in
direct connection :with this hospital, the residents in the
Island having liberally offered to provide for 20 male pa-
tients during the coming winter, on condition that their
expenses out and home be paid by the hospital. The
opportunity of affording to the poor man the advantage
of a beneficial change of climate, hitherto open only to
the rich, seemed to the committee too great a boon to
bo rejected. They had, therefore, after mature deli-
beration, resolved to accept the offer, feeling
assured that with the assistance of the governors and
the public the necessary funds would be forthcoming.
It was hoped that the experiment, if successful, might be
repeated with advantage, not only in Madeira, but in other
suitable climates, both at home and abroad.
Dr. J. Burdon kanderson had been appointed assistant
physician in the room of Dr. E. Smith, whose term of
office had expired.

The CHAPLAIN then read an interesting report, which
contained an eloquent appeal on behalf of the "Rose
Fund," the object of which was to afford relief in various
forms to the more destitute patients.
The reports were unanimously adopted, on the motion of
Lord Ebury, seconded by J. N. Foster, Esq.
A committee of management and auditors, for the en-
suing year, was appointed.
The Archbishop of Armagh, Earl Cadogan, and Lord
Josceline Percy were elected vice-presidents of the charity.
The thanks of the governors to the medical officers for
their valuable services during the past year having been
presented, the business concluded by a cordial vote of
thanks to the chairman.

SEVERE STORM AND WRECKS IN THE LEWIS.—On
the night of Thursday week, a storm of fearful
violence from the S.S.W. was experienced on the west
coast, which has resulted in considerable damage to vessels
and boats. At Holm, in the neighbourhood of Stornoway,
two schooners, the Brunette, of Ramsey, and the Aspern,
of Thurso, which had arrived from Wick with barrels
and salt, were riding at their anchors when the storm came
on. As the gale increased they began to drift from their
moorings, and were ultimately driven ashore upon the
beach. The Brunette has been since got off, and is sup-
posed to have received comparatively little injury, although
the full extent of it cannot be ascertained until she is put
upon the slip. The Aspern, however, was not so fortunate,
having sustained very considerable damage. In both cases
the crews were saved. At Knock, no fewer than eight
fishing boats were wrecked, three of them being hopelessly
destroyed, and the others so much damaged that it will be
some time before their unfortunate owners can have them
repaired, so as to be able to prosecute the fishing. All the
boats wrecked belonged to native crews. No lives were
lost. It is feared, however, that from the force of the gale
(which is said to have been the heaviest experienced in that
quarter for the last 20 years), intelligence of a more seri-
ous character may yet be received from some of the nume-
rous outlying and exposed stations where the fishing is now
being prosecuted. The gale had so far moderated by Fri-
day evening that some of the boats at Stornoway and its
immediate neighbourhood were able to proceed to the
fi'shin
and they returned on Saturday morning
with a ggr
-fairoufinsting._scotsman.

SINGULAR 1-10311 CIDE. —The Union Franc-Com-
toise gives the following account of a homicide com-
mitted at Mouthe (Doubs) :—Three mornings since, about
seven o'clock, two men entered a café kept by a man named
Catal, and, after knocking and calling repeatedly without
any one appearing, they looked into the kitchen and were
horror-stricken to see M. Guyon, a resident of the town, lying
dead on the floor with a gun-shot through the breast. They
immediately gave information to the gendarmerie, who,
on searching the house, found Catal, the proprietor, con-
cealed in a closet on the first floor. Catal at once admitted
that the fatal shot had been fired by himself. He said
that after he and his friend Guyon had been drinking
together till a late hour a discussion arose between
them as to some particular mode of using a
gun ; that he (Catal) then fetched his gun, and that,
after each of them had in succession gone through the
manoeuvres in question, Guyon exclaimed, " I am not
afraid of death; place your gun here (laying his hand
against his heart) and fire; you will see that I shall not
shrink." Catal obeyed this strange order, and killed his
friend dead on the spot. The general belief is that Catal's
story is true, and that ho and his friend had both drunk
till they knew not what they did. Catal has been com-
mitted to prison.
VANILLA GROWN IN EUROPE. —The Bordeaux
journals state that the first pods of the vanilla plant that
have ever ripened in France, or even in Europe, have just
been gathered iu the hot-houses of the public gardens of
St. Bruno in that city. In quality they are superior to the
vanilla of commerce, inasmuch as the latter, previously to
being brought into the market, is subjected to an operation
for extracting part of its odoriferous pulp for perfumery.
The vanilla plant grows so well in the above-named gar-
dens that there is good reason to suppose that a consider-
able quantity will be produced next year.

SPORTING NOTES•

THE DERBY AND OAKS.

The Bath Meeting, though a success, was most note-
worthy for the hostility displayed against Broomielaw,
who was driven to 40 to 1 for the Derby, and a slight de-
monstration being made in the much abused Chattanooga.
The following day the pen • was put through the The
Duke's name, to the no small mortification of those who
supported him throughout the winter. It would be well if
Mr. Naylor would follow the example of Mr. Merry and
the Marquis of Hastings, who, when they found their
horses had no chance, immediately struck them to prevent
the public being robbed. The Epsom Meeting commences
to-morrow. The Woodcote Stakes, for two-year-olds, is
the principal event of the first day, and Redan ought to
reverse positions with Vespasian, as the distance will suit
Lord St. Vincent's colt better than the half mile at Bath.
The Rous Stakes should be won by Soumise or Menace,
the Brighton Stakes by No Name, and the Heathcote Plate
by Hesper or Cranbury.