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AND IN INDIA.
It is said that Lieutenant-Colonel Napier will proceed,
to India with his relative, the gallant Sir Charles, as mi-
litary secretary. Sir Charles, it is understood, will dim,
with the Court of Directors of the Honourable East
India Company on Saturday nest; ho has been com-
pelled to decline several most pressing invitations from
the London Uuited Service Clubs, and also from distin-
guished private quarters. As a matter of interest at the
present moment, we give the following list of officers
who have held the appointment of Commander-in-Chief
in India, with the date of each appointment:—
Lieutenant-General Sir John Clavering, K.B 1772
Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, K.B.
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Sloper, K.B 1784
General Earl Cornwallis, K.G.
Lieutenant-General Sir R. Abercrombie, K.B 1792
Lieutenant-General Sir A. Clarke, K.C.B 1797
Lieutenant-General Lord Lake

Lieutenant-Generul Sir G. Hewett, Bart.
Lieutenant-General Sir G. Nugent, Bart.
General the Marquis of I tastings, K.G., G.C.B lBl3
Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Ed. Paget, G.C.B 1822
General Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H 1825
Lieutenant-General the Earl of Dalhousie, G.C.H. 1829
Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Barnes, G.C.B. 1831
General Lord W. C. Bentinck, G.C.8., G.C.H 1833
General Sir Henry Fane, G.C.B.
General Sir Jasper Nicholls, K.C.B.
General Sir Hugh (now Lord) Gough, G.C.B. 1843
General Sir Charles Napier, G.C.B 1849
Lord Gough has held the office since March 15th in
the year mentioned, so that he has occupied it for a
period of six years exactly. It may be recollected that
at the period in question, some of the Indian papers
questioned in terms somewhat strong the fitness of the
man for such a post. It subsequently transpired that be
had been promised the office of Commander-in-Chief in
Madras, but that the Government, at the eleventh hour.
had determined upon uniting the offices of Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in the person of one man, Lieu-
tenant-General the Marquis of Tweeddale, K.T. By
way of compensation for this disappointment, the Go-
vernment conferred upon him the still more important
office of Commander-in-Chief of all India.
SIR C. J. NAPIER ♦ND THE INDIAN VAR.—It is now
definitively arranged that General Sir Charles James
Napier, the new Commander-in-Chief in India, will
leave town for Marseilles by the mail of the 24th instant,
not the 20th, as was stated last week by several of our
contemporaries. Sir Charles will be entertained by
the directors of the East India Company at a grand ban-
quet on Saturday next. The embarkation of the 75th
and 87th regiments for India will not take place until
after the arrival of the next mail from India. These re-
giments are, however, ordered to hold themselves in
readiness to then embark without delay. The nature of
the next information will also decide whether the East
India Company will apply or not for an additional
force of the Queen's troops. The rumours, therefore,
to the effect that several other regiments are to proceed
from this country to India are premature, and without
any foundation whatever.

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL
FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST.
The first anniversary of this excellent institution was
celebrated on Saturday last, by a dinner at the London
Tavern.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle presided, and
was supported on his right and left by Samuel Gurney,
Esq., Mr. Alderman Sydney, John Dillon, Esq., A. G.
Gurney, Esq., H. Ford Barclay, Esq., Dr. Babington,
Dr. Jefferson, Mr. Alderman Finnic, William Tite, Esq.,
J. Masterman, Jun., Esq., Joseph Tucker, Esq., and
other gentlemen. The dinner, which was a most sump-
tuous one, was well served up, and did great credit to
Messrs. Bathe and Breach, the caterers at this renowned
establishment. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts hav-
ing been warmly responded to,
The Earl of CARLISLE said, before ho asked his hearers
to drink to the prosperity and perpetuity of that insti-
tution, ho would be forgiven if he troubled
them with a few statistical details. They
were aware that this age, if anything, was
statistical trade was necessarily statistical, and
agriculture, which had lately been expressing itself
through most eloquent organs, had also become statis-
tical. The subject of the public health had now, to his
own cost, become extremely statistical—(Laughter)—
and he supposed that they must also adopt the fashion
of the times and become statistical in the return. He
found from inquiries that the total amount of hospital
accommodation in the metropolis only furnished about
3,450 beds—that of those fully one-half were engrossed
by surgical cases; and the remaining half were taken up
by those cases which were called acute,
_ and which ne-
cessarily presented the most urgent and conclusive calls
for assistance. Consequently, but a small proportion of
the whole could be allotted to those cases which were
called chronic. But what amount of sorrow and
anguish did that term " chronic " not imply 1 What
pain, what languor, what restlessness, what drying up
of the juices and the springs of life, till the
disease terminated in death, from which it was [but a
little removed! He had further learned, as it would ap-
pear to them, he was sure, that in consequence of that
state of things, it was thought most desirable to add to
their hospital accommodation, and it was considered that
that object would not be so well or so easily achieved by
founding a large hospital, which would include every sort
of case, and every class of disease, as by having a special
receptacle where persons might receive the most ap-
propriate treatment from physicians and medical attend-
ants whose attention had been specially directed to dis-
eases of the chest. It had been ascertained that one-
third of the whole mortality of the metropolis might be
traced to diseases of the heart and lungs, and
that they were diseases to which the labouring
and indigent class of our fellow-countrymen were
more especially exposed. They were very much
aggravated by those privations to which that class was,
unhappily, too liable—such as impure air, deficient
clothing, improper food, and protracted hours of labour.
The toiling weaver, and, in short, all those classes who
ministered most actively to our necessities, to our com-
forts, and to our luxuries, were those, who in the hour
of pain and and suffering, were claimants for the super-
fluities of their means.—(Cheers.) It would be found
that in their crowded workshops and squalid garrets they
too often engendered that consumption which hurried
thetas to a premature grave. He believed that it would
be generally found with respect to diseases of
the chest, that while the mischief was easily
arrested and duly treated, it was too liable,
if the symptoms wero neglected, to terminate in
the most serious and fatal forms. It was desirable that
a building should be specially constructed for the recep-
tion of patients, because the arrangements with respect
to air and ventilation, which might suit some diseases,
would be totally unfit and improper for the class of dis-
eases with which they had to deal. They did not come
forward to oppose the institution which had recently
been established at Brompton. There was, unhappily,
too great a demand in the metropolis for medical aid in
that class of cases, and Jar be it from them to grudge or
to envy the respectable appearance and comely gables
of that institution, or even the Nightingale who bad
sung so sweetly and so productively in its groves.-
-(Laughter.) They felt inclined to say as was once
addressed to the Americans, "you are very enterprising,
go-a.head people in the West, but do not forget that the
West is not the whole of the world—there is also a
venerable East, which you cannot blow off from the map."
—(Cheers.) They did not wish to run the race of rivals, but
the race of a glorious emulation with the west in the
great object of doing the will of their Maker and in alle-
viating the sufferings of his creatures.—(Cheers.) With
a view to supply the urgent demands which were made
for that species of relief to which he had alluded, it was
proposed to erect in a healthy situation in the suburbs
of the City an hospital,for the reception of in-patients,
and in connexion with it something in the form of a
sanatorium, where persons of moderate means, but still
not able to command at their own homes the requisite
appliances which the best medical skill could supply,
might by a moderate payment have secured to them all
the advantages of an hospital with a greater amount of
comfort. Besides the hospital, which was their primary
object, they intended to maintain and continue in a cen-
tral part of the City a publicdispensary, at which persons
suffering from disease of the chestmight receive gratuitous
assistance. This institution was opened on the 13th of
June, 1848, and its brief history from that date to the
3d of March was comprised in the following few figures:
No less than 3,176 patients had been admitted to the
benefit of the charity, of which number three had been
discharged for irregularity, 36 had died, 911 still re-
mained under treatment, and 2,210 had been cured or
relieved.—(Cheers.) lie remembered being struck with
the prophetic beauty of some lines which were written in
a traveller's book at one of the great glaciers of Swit-
zerland, and which made allusion to the case of a con-
sumptive patient who bad come there on his way to a
southern climate, where he hoped to obtainsome respite
of that death which seemed to threaten him. He was
described as coming to look at those beauties of nature
which would probably not long gladden his eyes—
" Here be steals a moment from the Italian sky,
And stops and wonders, on his way to die."
But those on whose behalf he now addressed them—the
sons and daughters of toil—whose labour wasted the
sinews and palled the rosy cheeks of health, and sapped
up all the elasticities of youthful life—could not have
recourse to the sunny shore of France, the sheltered
bays of Italy, or the orange groves of Madeira. But it
was in the heart of that great city, even under their
own dusky sky and murky atmosphere, that they were
asked to provide all those aids which the medical science
of this metropolis, now more than ever at the head of
modern civilization, could render to those martyrs of
labour and to those victims of disease.—(Cheers.) There
was a charm and a magic in kindness which, by a ten-
derness of touch and a sympathy of look, cheated pain
of its greatest pangs, and disarmed even death of halt
its terrors.—(Cheers.) No patient, even the meanest
and must ragged of those that prowled about
the streets of the metropolis, would they refuse to
succour in the hour of distress, and take care
that the winds of heaven visit his face not too roughly.
—(Cheers.) 'They were about to add another star
to that glorious constellation of charities which was the
boast of the metropolis. Ile begged to give—" Pros-
perity and perpetuity to the City of Loudon Institution
for Diseases of the Chest."
The toast was drunk with great applause.
The report was then read, which, after detailing the
progress of the society, stated that there remained, after
paying all expenses, a balance of 47/. 8s 4d. An annual
sum of 6001. would be required to carry on the out-
patients' branch, while the amount of annual subscrip-
tions was only 2001. At present an average of nearly
600 patients obtained relief from the charity every week.
The following toasts were afterwards drunk:—" The
Earl of Carlisle," " The Corporation of the City of
London," "The Bankers' and Merchants of the City,'
44 The vice-Presidents, &c.;" " The Medical Officers,
" The Ladies," and other toasts.
The subscriptions collected in the course of the even-
ing amounted to 1,7141. 18s.
The musival arrangements were undex the euperin•