The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-07 00:00:00

THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.

On Wednesday afternoon the usual quarterly court of
the governors and subscribers to this charity was held in
the board-room of the hospital, Crane-court, Fleet-
street, for the purpose of transacting the ordinary busi-
ness of the corporation. Mr. Masson presided.
Major ADAIR (the secretary) having read the minutes
of the last court, stated that there were relieved, in July,
204 persons, at a cost of 1571. 19s. 2d. ; in August, 199,
at a cost of 1541. 17s. 2d. ; and in September, 201, at a
cost of 1521. 16s. 6d. The balance-sheet showed the
total receipts (including a balance in hand on last St.
Andrew's Day of 1591. 4s. 5d.) to amount to 2,6001.
14s. ld. ; and after all the necessary expenses had been
defrayed, there was left a balance in hand of 2581. 2s. 9d.
The secretary then read a report from the committee
appointed at the last meeting, which stated that " after
due deliberation the committee had come to the unani-
mous resolution to recommend to the next court the
propriety of marking the meritorious services of Mai
Adair in advancing the interests of the corporation, by
transferring to him the right of a first-class pension."
Dr. DICKSON, the report having been received, moved
the following resolution :—" In order to mark the me-
ritorious services of Major Adair, their secretary, in
advancing the interest of this corporation, resolved that
an additional first-class pension, to be called the `Adair
Pension,' be created, and that the sum of 101. to be set
apart annually to answer such pension, over and above
the sum of 1,0001. already appropriated towards the
payment of pensions ; and resolved further to mark their
opinion of these services, the right to recommend a fit
and proper person to be the recipient of such pension be
conferred on Major Adair, and that it be an instruction
to the committee of relief to give effect to such recom-
mendation."

Mr. Rush recorded the resolution, and bore testimony
to Major Adair's good wishes towards the hospital.
Mr. Low moved and Mr. Reid seconded an amend-
ment, to the effect that the consideration of the motion
be postponed to the next meeting, and that it be pro-
perly advertised.

Mr. Morrison strongly supported the amendment,
and stated that he would rather, if they wished to thank
Major Adair, have a vote of thanks passed him, which
could be printed on vellum and exhibited in the hall.
The chairman then put the amendment, which was
lost, and the original motion was carried by a large
majority.

A. vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro-
ceedings.

THE NEW ROYAL: YACHT.

The more we reflect upon the proposition that wa
made to alter, extend, increase, improve, or whatever
the new programme might have been termed, the Vic-
toria and Albert, the more we feel that it was most in-
judicious and erratic in every point of view. As
we have before stated, the royal yacht was badly de-
signed, and worse built, and her career has been any-
thing but satisfactory or complimentary to British naval
architecture. She has indeed lived upon sufferance, and
her existence has been prolonged, we may say, by the
nautical ingenuity that has been exhausted on her to
make her commonly respectable. But, under all circum-
stances, she has finished her course as a royal yacht.
She has grown obsolete. She has been costly, without
elegance -altered, without any permanent improvement
—painted and refitted, without adding to her symmetry
—gilded and embellished, without curing her original
defects in construction and accommodation, and years
ago the Queen ought to have had a better floating
palace—a ship more adapted to her Majesty's taste—
more worthy of her Majesty's favourite pastime, the sur-
vey of the beautiful coasts of that island that acknow-
ledges her for its sovereign. The royal yacht has been
annually surpassed in elegances of fittings, comforts at
sea, and rate of speed, until at length a heavy two•decker
almost leaves her in the lurch—a vessel propelled by the
screw and without any unsightly paddle-boxes looking, in-
deed, a " thing of life." As we have said before, the Queen's
yacht must be a modern one. She is not intended to fight.
She must, therefore, be constructed of iron. She will
thus be more wholesome—with none of those noxious
amend hat haunted the old yacht and clung round her
sides—more smooth and clean in app9arance, more

buoyant, and, at the same time, with more stability.
She must also have the modern appliances of propulsion
—the screw, instead of the lugubrious paddle-wheels.
The Queen has never yet experienced the agreeable con-
trast of screw propulsion. The vessels her Majesty has
been accustomed to have been that venerable abortion
the Dwarf, now unsaleable, and the elegant tender-yacht
Fairy. From the small draught of water, and the great
steam-power of the latter a most disagreeable shaking
has been felt on board the Fairy hitherto ; but with a
draught of water exceeding 10 or 12 fee t there will be a less
vibration in a new screw yacht than on board the Vic-
toria and Albert paddle-wheel steamer, and there will be
the same absence of inconvenience as enjoyed on board
the splendid 1,800-ton ships of the General Screw Steam
Navigation Company. But in a screw-yacht the Queen
will have a type, a model of her future navy. Again,
she will have a real ship, either to be wafted across the
water by the fresh breezes of the wind, or with a power
sufficient to overcome the influence of wind and tide.
The Queen will then have real sailors, for she will have
a yacht rigged as a ship, and in a screw-yacht her Ma-
jesty will have more varied amusement and recreation
than in a common paddle-wheel ship.
We trust, then, that the country will give the Queen
pf England the best sea-boat, the swiftest steamer, the
fastest clipper, the most elegant and luxurious palace
that the gratitude of a loyal people and the ingenuity of
British science can produce. We must have no more
make-shifts, no more cutting and contriving, and adap-
tation of furniture from one yacht to fit another. The
Queen's yacht must excel everything that the Peninsular
and Oriental Company has turned out—everything that
they have in contemplation to fit out. The Queen must
have a " bran new vessel," replete with every quality ;
complete in all that may render her vessel the " pride
of the ocean," and if the means are wanting, sure we
aro that there is not a sailor afloat and ashore—officer
and man—who would not give a day, a week, or a
month's pay, or whatever may be necessary to make up
the. difference between the cost of alteration of the old
yacht and the construction of a new Victoria and Albert.
—Morning Herald.