The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Monitore Romano of the 29th, states that Ge-
neral GARIBALDI, after having reconnoitred the
Neapolitan frontier as far as the Rocca d'Arce, and
obtained the certainty that the enemy was not to be
met with, has entered the Roman States again.
Commissary STABiNI, in a proclamation to the inha-
bitants of the Province of Campagna, announces that
a sufficient force shall remain in the province to
protect it.

The POPE, it is said, will leave Gaeta, and accom-
pany the Grand Duke of TUSCANY to Florence from
whence he will proceed to Bologna, where he will
establish himself under the protection of Austria.
IZ Risorgimento, of Turin, of the 4'h, says, news
was received at Florance on the Ist, that after two
days' hard fighting Ancona had surrendered to the
Austrians. The 112i1an Gazette of the 3d, however,
though alluding to Ancona, makes no mention of its
having surrendered.

The Concordia of Turin, of the 4th inst., calls on
the Piedmontese Government immediately to summon
the Parliament. Piedmont (it says) is in danger.
Great events are about to occur in Europe. A
struggle between opposing principles is imminent.
France is on the side of liberty—Austria on that of
despotism. Sardinia must attach herself to one or
the other. Let Parliament, then, be immediately
convoked.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs at Turin has
officially contradicted the news given by the Opinione,
that Austria had demanded that certain fortresses on
the French territory, and even those of Genoa, should
be delivered up to her.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were from
8,000 to 10,000 bales, 3,000 to 4,000 being taken on
speculation. The market was quieter, but holders were
firm. The Share Market was firm, but without alteration
in prices.
The payment of duties and other imposts into the ac-
count of the National Exchequer at the Bank of Eng
land, still occasions not only an increase of public
deposits, but a decrease of private balances. It acts
likewise upon the note circulation, which finds no com-
pensation from an extension of loans on other securities,
A comparison between the return of the Bank of England
liabilities and assets for the week to the 2d inst. and the
previous statement gives the following results:—
Notes Issued ... ••• ... 27,553,565
Increase ... „, 53,430
••• ••• .3,103,586
••• ••• 48,016
... 5,640,619
• 269,764
... 9,707,778
47,222
1,075,985
•• 34.347
No alteration
9,824,829
12,487
Notes ... ... 9,192 220
Increase ... 161.285
Bullion ... 14,441,977
Increase ... • 44,811
Active Circulation ... 18,361,345
Decrease ... • 107.855
The negotiation of bills of exchange on the principal
Continental cities was effected yesterday afternoon on
rather higher terms for paper on Antwerp, Paris, and
Trieste, but Hamburgh was lower.
The exports of the precious metals from London,
during the week ending Thursday last, were as fol-
lows:—Silver coin—Rotterdam, 45,000 ounces ; Bel-
gium, 22,800 ounces. Silve bars—Rotterdam, 11 580
ounces ; Belgium, 53,000 ounces ; Copenhagen, 63,000
Ounces. Gold coin—Mauritius, 305 ounces; and specie
to Mauritius, 4751.
From the Continent there is no particular change ad
vised in the state of the money markets, but generally
they were rather fiat.
The English Funds have been much flatter again to-
day, owing to the bombardment of Rome. Consuls
have ranged from 911 to 911, being now quoted about
911 Exchequer-bills are 455. to 48s. premium. Bank
Stock is 1931.
Foreign stocks are neglected. Spanish Three per
Cents. 33 to 331, and Mexican 261 to
Railway Shares scarcely support the advanced rates
of yesterday.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC&.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 193%
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Anns
New 314 per Cent. Anus ......... , 90 DOVA
Long Annuities, Esp. Jan. sth, 1860 8 9-16
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 10001 67 p
Ditto under 1.0001
Consols fur Account
Exchequer Bills. IlAd• 2d.
March. June.
1,000/.
RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bongs, 1846, 5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Coupons
Ditto Account .....
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o
Ditto Account ...........
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 33%, 33
Dividends on the above payable in London.
DONt. IN RAILWAY 811AltEi; AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Put
titistol and Exeter
Do., Thirds
.2aledonian
Eastern Counties
Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10
Great Northern
Do. IA A Deferred ... 121
Great North of England 100 ...... ...... to
Ditto, New 151.............• 14 ...... 32%. ... to
'lreat Western 100
Ditto, Fifths
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50
London & North Western.....100
Do. Fifths -
Alanchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100
Ditto, Grimsby & Sheffield 50
Slidland . IOO
Ditto, 50/.'Shares ...... 25
North British ..... .. 25 ...... to
Ditto Pall 5hare5........... 12% 53/4..... to
North Staffordshire... .. ...... 17%
Smith Eastern
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed
Do. do. do.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do, and Newcastle Exten. 20
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8
York and North Midland .. 50
Ditto, Preference
FOREIGN RAILWAYS
Boulogne and Amiens 2O ..... 6%. to
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster

Rest
Decrease
Public Deposits ...
Increase ...
Other Deposits ... ,
Decrease ...
Seven Day and other Bills
Decrease . .
Government Securities
Other Securities ...

Decrease ... ... „.

COURSE OF
Imsterlarn•,.•.,•..• l2 *4
Digs, at sight 12 034
Rotterdam 12 2)i,
A.ntwerp• ••.•••• •• • • •• 25 85
Harnburgh .... • . M.B. 13 12
A1t0na...... „ „ . • ...
Paris, 3 days'sight • • 25 62%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 80
flarseilles 25 80
Bourdeaux ..... . 25 80
Frankfort on Maine.... 122
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 35%
Vienna, effec. fio •••• •• 13 0
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 13 0
Madrid •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 49%
Cadiz ................so•
Bilbao.. •• • • .. ••
Barcelona .• . • • • • • .• • •

EXCHANGE.

Gibraltar.. •• .•
Leghorn •.•• •• •• •• • • 31 20
Genoa •••••••••••••••• 26 80
Milan .. •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Venice •• •• •• •• .• ••
Maples •• ••••.•• • • •• 40 fi
r'alerrno,peroz........ 11634
Messina •• •• •••• •• •• •D 120
Lisbon •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 5314
')p0rt0................ 53%
Lilo Janeiro
fluenos Ayres • • .. •• --
New York, 21 days'sight
Philadelphia .... • • ....

PLICYS OF Bowdon, FEZ OF
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .• .. .• 0 4 10
Silver in bars ...... • • 0 0 0

Seville.••••••.•• •••••.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 9.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.E.,
model ate breeze and fine clear weather.
YARMOUTH, JUNE 7.—The Graham (barque), of
London, got on the Cress Sand yesterday, but came off
without assistance, and proceeded. Bth. The Dove, of
Brix ham, Cardiff to Newcastle, got aground this morn-
ing on the Scroby Sand, but was assisted offand brought
into the roads without damage.
SHIELDS, JUNE B.—Wind N.E.—Sld. 7th, Kong
Sverre, New York.
SUNDERLAND, JUNE 7.—Wind, N.W.—Sid. Jordibon,
Newhaven, United States.
BELFAST, JUNE 6.—Sid. Napoleon, New York.
SLIGO, JUNE s.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. British Oak,
New York.
CORK, JUNE 6.—Arrd. Ilede, NOrris, Baltimore.
WEXFORD, JUNE 6.—Arrd. Menapia, Rossiter, Sa-
vannah.
SWANSEA, JUNE B.—Wind N.E.—Sid. Pascoe Gren-
fell, Cuba ; Alderman Pixie, Jamaica.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Sld. Courier, Port Philip.
DEAL, JUNE B.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. from the
River and aid. Helene Cattatina, Lassen. St. Croix;
Oceans, Jont-s, Cardiff and Callao; Demen', Brikett,
Demerara; Lotus, Watson, Quebec.
OFF FOLKESTONE, JUNE s.—Elvira, Harbeek, Dixey,
Charleston, for Antwerp.
COWES, JUNE 7.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Bth Joshua
Bragden, Arty, Trinidad de Cuba.
POOLE, JUNE B.—Wind E.—Sid. Mountaineer, New-
founcilat.d.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE B.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Gol-
den Fie, ce, Palethorpe, Pernambuco; Reliance, Lames,
Mobile. Sid. 6th C,nstellation, New York; 7th, Alfred,
Gaspe; Bth, Jane, Ai ica; William Pixie, New Orleans;
Liverpool, New Yolk; Charlotte, ditto; Nathaniel
Tht tnpson, Boston; British American, ditto; Osprey,
Halifax; Resolution, Richibucto. Off port Guatamela,
Callao; Pet, Maranham; Vulcan, St. Domingo; Hiisdoo,
New Orleans; Mina, Belvedere, New York; Elizabeth;
Saucy Jack.
MAUGATE, JUNE B.—The Simon, Taylor, On the

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.£ X
June 2 Aberdeen ..•..•-.•• • - " - - " ." - 700 -.
• ........ • • .. 1,090
3 Amiens and Boulogne . 1,142
2 Belfast and Ballymena .• •••••• • • • • •.5 8 389
3 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,175 785
3 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. 673 -
May 27 Ca1ed0nian........., ... ....... 5,489 3,996
June 2 'Chester and H ..
olyhead ... .. • • 1,910 764
- Cockermouth and Workington-. - ... - -
May 31 Dublin and Drogheda...-. ......... 926 806
June 5 Dublin and Kingstown • ..... •... • . • • 1,377 1,424
2 Dundee, Perth, and Abe,rdeen •••• • • • • 1,148 901
3 East Anglian-- - - ................ 721
2 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• . • ...• •• • • 4,142 3,430
2 Edinburgh and Northern •••..• . • • • .• 2,300 1,485
3 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 16,463 14,718
3 East Lancashire .• ..
2 Eastern Union-. ... •••••••• •••• • • • •
• 1,510 1,225
2 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .....• 3,126 2,249
2 Glasgow and Greenock ....... -•• • . 1,086 1,113
8 Great Northern and E. L.•• •••• .. • • 2,153 -
2 Great Southern and Western • • .... • • 3,538 2,193
5 Great Western, &c - - ...... .. .. .• . • 23,003 20,551
- Kendal and Windermere• •..-- - •• " - -
3 Lancashire and Yorkshire ..... ... •. • • 17,558 9,263
May 27 Laucaster and Carlis1e... •
June 3 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport 221 -
2 Londonderry and Enhiskillen 146 139
3 London and North Western, &cc- ... • 45,226 42,034
3 London and 81ackwa11.........• •• • • 1,069 1,202
2 London and Brighton. • •
3 London and South Western ....... • • 12,34 l 8,780
2 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,998 2,522
3 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. .• 23,815 19,172
3 Midland Great Western (Irish) .• .... 1,104 1,068
_
- Newcastle and Carlisle.. ...... .. - _
3 North British .• .. •• .. •• •• .•••• • • • • • 3,074 2,165
2 Paris and Rouen .•••••••••• • • • • • • •• 5,391 3639
2 Rouen and Havre .... .. --.••• •• .• 2.134 ,
1,475
3 Scottish Central ............ •• ••.. • 1,337 641
3 Shrewsbury and Chester - .... -•• • • 1,195 606
2 South Eastern and Branches .• -•• • • 10,829 8,33 g
3 South Dev0n........ . .... •. -••• • •• 1,776 1,411
2 Tan' Vale •• • • .... ••-•.•••• • • • • • • • • 2,404 :555
day 26 Waterford and 1Aiderick............. 757 308 740
-
27 Whitehaven Junction ..... .... .. 243 167
June 3 York and Newcastle . .............. 12,034 12,034
2 York and North Midland ....• ••• • •• 7,543 8,181

May 26
27
June 3

ROYAL ASYLUM OF THE ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.--
Yesterday the annual congregation of the boys educated
in the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society, for the
maintenance, clothing, and education of the children of
those " once in prosperity, orphans or not, of all nations,"
was held in the b,13 school-rocm of the institution, at
Streatham, the Bishop of Norwich in the chair. Up-
wards of two hundred visitors, chiefly ladies, attended.
Lord Robert Grosvenor, and other influential indivi-
duals, were also present. The Right Rev. Chairman, at
considerable length, addressed the meeting upon the
excellence of the institution, and the blessings of educa-
tion, which he was most happy to see so universally
extending, and which he hoped would be still more sup-
ported by the Government and the country at large,
without reference to sectarian limitation, or any religious
prejudice whatever. His Lordship then proceeded to
dispense the several prizes awarded to those youths who
had been educated in the school, and who, up to the pre-
sent time, had maintained their characters for industry,
honesty, and perseverance in their several callings.
Forty-four of these parties received prizes, each of whom
were most paternally addressed by
Prelate. she Right Rev.

IRISH HUMANITT.—We have heard of several in-
stances during the week of the most cruel and hard-
hearted conduct on the part of the Irish in this town
towards their own people and relations—instances we
could not credit were we not assured of them by persons
of undoubted veracity. In a house in Mary Ann-street,
a lodging-house keeper turned out to his back yard a
niec of his, with whom she lodged, and allowed her to
perish in the place. He very coolly went to the relieving
officer to 'get the body buried. Another old woman, in
Yacht.ll's court, was put into a coal. hole, where she suf-
fered the ag.nies of cholera without help, until the
surgeon accidentally rescued her. A female, complaie.
ing that her husband was ill of cholera, asked relief of a
surgeon in Crockherbtown. She was given some mede-
cine and 3d. to purchase mustard to poultice her hus-
band's feet. The relieving offi.2er called in a couple of
hours afterwards, and found that the wretch had not
given the medicine to her husband, and had spent the
money before she reached home. Another wife drank
3s. worth of brandy, which had been ordered for the
useof her husband, after he had died.—The Principality.

LITERATURE.
MACPHAIES _EDINBURGH JOURNAL.
The current number of Macphail's Journal ia
unquestionably the best that has yet come under our
observation. The careful analysis of Macaulay.s
Hi-tory is brought to a conclusion ; and the contri-
butions open with an admirable paper on the " Ca-
lamities of Genius." From this article we quote the
following most truthful and excellent remarks about
the absurd fable respecting Galileo's imprisonment
in the dougeons of the Inquisition. The scorn with
which this lying fiction is confuted by the Journal
is not the less entitled to consideration seeing that
the organ is Protestant:—

" The popular history of the fortunes of Galileo is one
great muss of falsehood, but it serves a purpose, and
will, to the tnd of time, keep its ground. Whenever
any quack comes forward to bespeak public sympathy
with the monstrosities of phrenology or mesmerism, he
begins his discourse with the fabulous tale of Galileo's
dungeon, in order to warn the world against the crime
of persecuting new doctrines. The dungeon has no
place in authentic history, and all the annoyance that
Galileo received he appears to have owed to his own
temper, which delighted in the excitement of a little
perst cation. The restraint placed upon him by his
friends and admirers was confinement to palaces and
gardens of his own choosing, with wines of his own se-
lection, and the company and honour of the great. The
doctrine of the motion of the earth was, before his day,
taught by the mild and amiable Copernicus, with the ar
probation of many of the clergy. But Galileo did not
seek to disarm, but studiously courted hostility. Some
accounts bear, that Galileo in his old age was poor, but,
this p.verty is undoubtedly spoken of comparatively
with the general splendour in which he had lived, as it
is certain that he left property behind him. Most men
of genius would be glad to pass through the world with
as little real ground of complaint against it as Galileo
had; it was his own blame that he had any complaint.
In this nineteenth century, should any philosopher pro-
pose a doctrine equally startling to the present as the
doctrine which Galileo proclaimed was to his age, we
would advise him, if he wish to avoid rather more serious
persecution than Galileo endured, to cultivate the
Christian temper and prudence of Copernicus rather
than indulge in the proud combativeness of Galileo."
The lecture upon "Shakspere," by Mr. George
Gilfillan, is like the rest of his compositions, an elo-
quent eccentricity—filled with many absurd and
t•eautiful ideas. He says of the mighty poet, very:
finely, that he is among us " like an unseen ghost;
exercising an extraordinary power over our thoughts,
language, imaginations, tempers, tastes, and manners.
He calls him in a sudden burst of homage 6, the
eighth wonder of the world." lie exclaims from
the fullness of his admiration—" That Shakspere is
the greatest genius the world ever saw is ac-
knowledged now by all sane men,"—and "that
Shakspere is out of all sight and measure the finest
artist that ever constructed a poem or drama, is a
less general and yet a growing belief." Speak-
ing of the dramatic productions of Shaks-
pere, the lecturer says, " Their very faults are
needed to prove them human, otherwise their excel-
lences would have classed them with the divine." Of
other comic writers he says with a ridiculous em-
phasis of derision—" How long they used to sit
hatching some chosen conceit; and what a cackling
they made when it had ehipt the shell." " Why
Bardolph's nose," he exclaims, "eclipses all the dra-
matic characters that have succeeded !" In several
parts there are some very felicitous expressions, as
where Gulliver is called " the Day Book of a Fiend"
and Timon "the magnificent outbreak of an injured
angel ;" or as where it is said that Shakspere spoke
intermittently of himself in "the escapes of his Sonnets
and the masquerade of his Plays ;" or as, where talking
of the Elizabethan age, Spenser, Raleigh, Bacon, and
Shakspere are termed "its rich residuum of genius;
again, as where Macbeth is called " not a tragedy but A
collection of tragedies," where the Tempest is said " to
rise before us as the New World to the eye of Colura'
bus," or where in fine Hamlet is grandly called ,‘ the
Apocalypse of the writings of Shakspere." But the
noblest panegyric—one of the noblest panegyrics we
ever remember to have heard pronounced on Shaks-
pore, and we remember well, we cherish the remem•
brance of all that has been said in his praise by
Schlegel, and Johnson, and Emerson, and Hazlitt,
and Mrs. Jameson,—is the remark with which Mr.
Gilfillan closes his lecture—a remark in which he con-
jectures that this earth " may be known in other parts
of the universe as SHAKSPEEE'S WORLD 1" Cordially,
that is to say from the core of our hearts, we com-
mend the following advice to those who cavil at
Shakspere as an immoral writer ; and let them re-
member that the advice comes from a clergyman?
" Let those," says the Rev. George Gilfillan, let,
those who prate of Shakspere's impurity, first of all
read him candidly ; secondly, read, if they can, Mas:,
singer, or Beaumont and Fletcher ; and thirdly, if
they have Bowdler's contemptible Family Shakspere.
fling it into the fire, and take back the unmutilated
copy to their bookshelves and their bosoms." The
advice is worth taking. Besides the contributions
already mentioned there is an entertaining review Of
Mr. Layard's Discoveries in Nineveh.

THE BRITISH POLITICAL, COMMER-
CIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND _HIS-
TORICAL GAZETTEER, Travelling Road-
book, and County Atlas.

We are happy to see the steady progression of tbis
comprehensive work; we have before us the 6th part
fully sustaining the excellence of its predecessors. It
contains a well designed and beautifully executed
map of North Wales, its number of county and
borough representatives in the Imperial Parliament,
the population and amount of assessed taxes in each
shire. This number is further embellished with an
exquisite engraving, the joint production of Messrs•
Burrell and Ashley, of the Han well Viaduct (Great
Western Railway). The proprietors appear deter-
mined that neither labour, industry, nor expense
should be spared in carrying out their useful and ex'
tensive undertaking, and we trust they will receive
public support commensurate with their great exer-
tions. As a specimen of the minute and accurate
information it contains, we present our readers with
a short extract from the account of the ancient and
interesting city of

BANGOR.
Carnarvon—a city and parish in the hundred of Uwch-
gorfoi, Union of Bangor and Beaumaris, North Wales,
2474 miles from London (coach road 245), nine from
Carnarvon, North-Western Railway through Chester to
station, from Derby to station 1194 miles. Money or-
ders issued here; London letters delivered seven A. 14./
post closes seven P.M. The city stands at the foot of
steep rock, in a narrow and fertile vale, near the mouth
of the river Ogwen, at the upcer entrance of the Menai
Straits. It is called Bangor the Great. Its name trans;
lated means either ' white choir,' or high choir,
to distinguish the city from " Bangor-is-y-coed," or
Bangor.below-the-wood.' It was formerly defended
by a strong castle, built by Hugh Earl of Chester, in the
time of William Rufus. The cathedral was founded es
early as A.D. 525, by St. Daniel. It was destroyed and
rebuilt several times during the intestine commotions of
the Anglo-Saxon dynasty. The members of the Chapter
are the bishop, dean, archdeacon, treasurer, and two pre-
bendaries, who have endowments: there are a preceptor,
chancellor, and three canons unendowed, two vicars-
choral, organist, lay clerks with the chorister',
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vinistic Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Independents,
and the Roman Catholics, all have chapels here. Some
five-and-thirty years ago it consisted of but 90 or 100
houses, it now contains 1.171 houses; population in
11141, 7,232; probable population in 1849, 8,317; as'
sessed property, 3,270/ ; poor-rates in 1837, 1,6011. 10
the neighbourhood is Penrhyn Castle, a superb struc-
ture lt is now the seat of the Hon. H. G.
D. Pennant, a descendant of Tudor Trevor, Lord of
Hereford and Whittington, and who was about half a
century before the advent of William the Conqueror the
founder of the tribes of the Marches.
" The principal trade of Bangor is the exportation of
large slates from the quarries of Llandegai to port Pen-
rhyn en a tramway. There is also considerable steam-
communication with Liverpool during nine months of the
year. There is a good fishery in the Straits. Market'
day, Friday. Fairs—April 5, June 25, September 16,
and October 28. Bankers—Williams and Co., draw 011
Rcbarts, Curtis, and Co.; National Provincial Bank,
draw on Joint-Stock Bank. Inns are—Penrhyn Arms,
Castle Hotel, Liverpool Arms, and Royal Oak."
Our limited space has not allowed us to do justice
to this graphic sketch by giving it in extenso, but We
trust sufficient has been given to convey some notion
of the immense labour and expense attending the col-
lection of information so extensive and varied in rela-
tion to each particular hamlet, town, and city in the
kingdom.

THE COLLEGE ATLAS'.
A handsome volume has recently been published
by Mr. Collins, of Paternoster-row—containing B°t
only twenty-nine beautiful engraved maps of different
countries, and continents, and archipelagoes, but com-
prising also an alphabetical index of the latitudes and
longitudes of no less than 25,000 places. We have
never seen any work more justly entitled to the nan)
of an Atlas for Schools, Colleges, and Families. It
gives, moreover, among other masses of information,
the heights of the mountains, the length of the rivers,
and the extent of the waterfalls ; besides which, in
each of the maps, " all the railways in operation and
in progress are inserted." The whole is produced ill
a form compact, solid, and durable.

THE STRAND UNtort.—Yesterday morning an
extraordinary meeting of the guardians of the Strand
Union was held to take into consideration the propriety
of purchasing Mr. Drouett's establishment, known as the
pest• house at Tooting. The chairmbn, Mr. Mostly, all
taking the chair, explained the reason of the meeting
being called at such a time. Mr. Hewes then pro-
posed. " That the report of a committee that had been
appointed be adopted, and that 3,500/. be offered Mr.
Drouett for his establishment;" which was seconded by
Mr. Wood. A lengthy and animated discussion ensued,
and the board ded—for the motion, 14; against if!
8; the 8 being the guardians returned by the parish 01
St.'Anne's, Soho.