The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-28 00:00:00

nessed disputes and eenfusion at the bottom of Oxford- SANITORIUM IN THE ISLAND
street, parriculai ly as regarded remelts, who were very OF MADEIRA.
liable to impo,.o ai or the sort. The public, were much A public meeting was held oil Monday at the Heno-
indebted to Mr. Shy pe for having taken the trouble, I eereeepaere Rooms, for toe purpose t,t tanning an insti-
which the conductors well kriew but few gentlena, n, tutiou for the reception (in the island of Madeira) of
co:nparatively, could conveniently take for the correc- persons labouring under pulmonary disorders. The
tion of such an evil. The Alderman then fined the cue- Right Honourable Lord Robert Grosvenor was in. the
doctor in the full penalty of 203, and costs. Chair. Not more than twenty persons were present.
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Mr. Shsrpe put the price of the summons, to which he The iestitution is intended fur those who, being unable
was entitltd, in the p ior box. to defray the whole expenses incident to a removal from
The public may form some idea of the extent to which Eriglend arld.a reeHeriee the requisite time in Madeira,
impositions ot all kinds ere earrit don by omnibus con- would yet gladly avail thAnselves of the advantages of
ductors, when Mr. tioecitnate tee chief clerk, owed that that health-gwing climate, alai p-ay the expense ot the
upwards ot 4 ()ea summonses had been issued against vu' age at a seduce d rate, were t'_-ey sure of finding en
them within the lest year.
their arrival leogiug, service, and medical attelidauce
Ci. la RKEN If ELL. tree of charge, tint comfortable board upon the most
Yesterday, Captain Henry Bonham Shepherd, a milia
moderate fix!..d teterm..tary officer in the Hest India Company's service, was
The NOBLE CTIAIRAIAN said the claims of the in-
brought up in the custody of John Hardy, 205 S, on a stitution, for the purpose of introducing which to the
! warrant, and placed before Mr. Comhe, charged on the notice and support of the public they had assembled
oath of Mrs. Helen Muir, wi!e of Captain John M. together, were very strong. We had hospitals far
Winter Muir,! a naval officer in the same company's almost every disease to which human flesh is heir,
service, for that, in censt pence of a letter written and and the tat eats of whirl received the be-t possible me-
signeddical assistat ce, but with lequct, to that class of diseases,
by the said Henry tionhain She to her said
huebenii, with intent te incite him to fight a duel with namely, pulmonary disorders so prevalent in a change-
' him ; arid further, CIA in coeseq!ir nee of a taunting in able cleaate Hee oura little or no prevision of a
'otnevolent character had been Si cured. He had not in
a street in Ilington between her husband ent the said
He nry Bonham Shepherd, at wheal she was present, and his peaa'seloir the precise s:ritisticel information relative
wherein the latter m ida relea!rece to the said letter, to Vie numeric if prevalence of such diseases, but all
which was previ usly kcp by her from the knock de o, present must be arrare that they formed a very
of her husband, arid aiso he then called her husband a large prepurtien of the disorders with which English-
blackguart and co Neal, .he
.was apprehensive that a men were unfortunately afflicted. The great changes
duel wouid take place between thew, and she gave the of our climate. tile over•toll of a large class of the
information to prevent such breach of the peace. community, and of our &Active sanitary measures,
The dispute which gave rise to this unpleasant affair, caused many persons to fall victims to the diseases
originated from a priv-te family matter, the particulars he had referred to, arid he felt satisfied that when the lin-
of which did riot transpire in court. gertng character ot this malady was taken into coiaside-
C4ptain Shepherd, it appears, is brother-in-law of ration, the meeting must be of his opinion, that an insti-
Captain Moir. lution havieg for its obj- et the means of alleviating, if
Mr. COMBE ordered that warrants for the immediate not of entirely removing tl.es distressing complaint, was
apprehension of the parties should be made out; and, emitiently deserving of public sympathy and supple-
being placed in the hands of-Hardy, the officer, early in but what aa.s the fact ? That until within a short time
the murcing he brought up Captain Moir from his resi! ;here was not a
—slngle hospital in existence for the

derice, No. 26, Rio mond row, lelin,gton, when he was
ordered to find bail, himself in 2001. and two sureties in
1001 etich, which he instantly procured, and was
liberated.
Captain Shepherd, however, was not at his residenc-,
No. 31, Shepp,rton-cottages, I.Lng,ton, but the officer
captured him in the course ot the day at the Jerusalem
I Cotfee-bou.e, City, and brought him to the Court, when
he was ordered to put in bail to the same amount. Ile
was detained until nearly the hour ot closing the Court,
when two ladies entered and became his bail, and he
was liberated.

relief of patients affitett-ci with that most prevalent cow-
phint, and no provision whatever had teen made for
affording the p %dents the. advantages of a
alore genial climate. Ho was, however, happy to
say that there had recently been established
en excellent institution tor the relief of pulmonary
disorders, and he was hippy to say that the objects
of the two institutions did not in the least militate
against each other. The hospital he had just spokes
of contemplated the relief of the poorer classes, while
the Madeira St,nitotium proposed to give relief to those
who were able partially to help themselves; and he, felt
assured that as there were but few families in the
country wh eh had eclped this direful affliction, so it
but required an appeal to the British public to render
this (he would net say c..arity, but) institution as dß'
dent as it WaS hunrin.; in design.
Mr. HEALEY, the secretary, read the report, which
stated that a committee had then formed in the town of
Funchal for the purpose of assisting the proposed in-
stitution.
Toe Dean of ELY, in a short but very effective speech,
proposed the following resolution:—"That this meeting
concurs in the opinions of that held at Madeira, es to
the desirableness of making the advantage s of the climate
of that island accessible to those for whose benefit this
establishment is proposed, and it pledges itself to endea-
vour to procure contributions to that effect."
Dr. Ross seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimou,ly.
Sir JAMES CLARKE then proposed the following reso-
lution :—" That in consequence of the proceedings in the
island of Madeira, which have been made known to this
meeting, it is expedient to form a permament English
committer', for the purpose of carrying into ale; the
objt ct in view."
Mr. OLIVEIRA seconded the motion, which was also
cart ied.
• A committee was then appointed, and a vote of thanks
having been given to the Chairman and duly acknow-
ledged, the meeting hr,•ke up.