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the Bill alluded to was passed in 1844, and the applica-
tion was made to him in 1845. - -
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY explained that it was in evi-
dence that the Commissioners fur reducing the National
Debt were cognisant of the fact for years of the insol-
vency of the particular savingb' banks referred to in Dub-
lin, and under these circumstances he did think it
monstrous that any one having the confidence of the
Government at the time, should have brought in a Bill
to relieve the trustees from liability.—(Hear.)
Mr. LABOUCHERE thought they were losing sight
of the question before the House, which was whether
the list proposed by the Hon. and Learned Member for
Dublin or the list proposed by his Right Hon. Friend
the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be adopted by
the House.
Mr. HERBERT said he was not at all surprised at
the course which had been pursued, as her Majesty's
Government had shown every desire to quash the pro-
posed inquiry altogether.—(Hear, hear.) Unless some
objection could be shown to the list proposed by the
Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, he hoped the
House would accept of it, instead of the one proposed by
the Right. Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.
Lord BARRINGTON suggested that the Government
should appoint the present Committee in the same way
as Select Committees were appointed.
Colonel RAWDON proposed, in the hope that some
arrangement might be come to, that the debate should
be adjourned.—(Oh, oh.)
Mr. HORSMAN approved of the proposal for an ad-
journment of the debate.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought
that the House had better come to a decision at once ;
but if the House wished particularly to adjourn the ques-
tion, he had no objection that it should be adjourned
sine die.
Mr. MONSELL thought that it would be extremely
undesirable to adjourn the question.
Mr. REYNOLDS believed that the wisest course
would be to adjourn.—(Loud cries of " Divide, divide.")
He begged to say that Mr. Grogan was the representa-
tive of those who most suffered in this business, and to
put him, an Irish Member, off the Committee, and force
Sir George Clerk, an English Member, on that Com-
mittee in his stead, was, he considered, to say the least
of it, most unfair.
The House then divided on the question whether Mr.
Grogan's name stand part of the question.
The amendment was that that of Sir George Clerk be
substituted.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For Mr. Grogan ... ... 81
For Sir George Clerk
Majority in favour of Sir G. Clerk's name -42
The question was tben put that Mr. G. A. Hamilton's
name be retained on the Committee.
The amendment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
was, that that of Mr. Berries be substituted.
The House divided, when there appeared—
For Mr. Hamilton ... b.. ••• 61
For Mr. Heiries 120
Majority in favour of Mr.Herries' name —59
Mr. HERBERT said he would not press the division

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION
-AND-DISEASES--OF THE CHEST.- -

ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL AT THE
AL3ION TAVERN.
The seventh anniversary of the institution of that
noble and magnificent charity, the Hospital for Con-
sumption and Diseases of the Chest, located at Brompton—
and which is certainly destined ere long to take the lead
of all the great benevolent and charitable institutions
with which this vast metropolis of England, to its
eternal honour, abounds, magnificently supported and en-
dowed as these institutions are—was commemorated by
a brilliant festival, which was holden at the Albion
Tavern, in Aldersgate-street, on Wednesday evening; an
occasion which, we are sure, for the spirit-stirring elo-
quence which it evoked from that distinguished man,
Benjamin Disraeli, Esq., M.P., who presided over the
banquet, and from that distinguished historian, Monsieur
Guizot, will long live in the memory of the 300 persons
whose high privilege it was to be numbered among the
guests.
The dinner hour was fixed for six o'clock, and shortly
after that hour Mr. Disraeli entered the room, and took
his seat at the head of the principal table, amid the
enthusiastic plaudits of the assembly. Immediately on
his right hand sat Lord Faversham, and on his left
Monsieur Guizot. Amongst the guests who occupied
seats in the immediate vicinity of the chair we noticed
Sir John Pakington, M.P., R. A. Christopher, Esq.,
M.P., the Hon. Mr. Melville, the Hon. Mr. Monson, Sir
F. Shuckburgh, Sir John Hare, the Rev. Robert Mont.
;;ornery, Philip Rose, Esq. (the honorary secretary), Dr.
Forbes, Dr. Cursham, Dr. Bowie, Dr. Theophilue
Thompson,
Baxter, Esq., R. Clarke, Esq., Rev. Charles Clarke,
Henry
cren Dr.eri ,
Williams,
MuWrdiolliaYm Lambert,
Ebesrqt.,, Esq., R.
Edward
Speer, Esq., Marmaduke Horrudge Esq., &C. 84C•
A large temporary gallery had been erected by the
spirited proprietors of the tavern for the accommodation
of ladies, across the foot of the room, immediately
fronting the chair ; and many were the lovely eyes that
rained a witching influence on the admiring multitude
below.
Dinner being over, on the removal of the cloth,
Non Nobis Domine was beautifully sung by Mr. Grattan
Cooke, assisted by Mr. Sporle, Mr. Young, and Mr.
Leiner.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentle-
men, I am about to propose a toast which,
in an assembly of Englishmen, it is usually un-
necessary to accompany with any comment ; but
on the present occasion I cannot but remem-
ber that her Gracious Majesty was among the
earliest and most munificent supporters of the instate
tion, whose fortunes we are met here to-day to aid. I
therefore take the liberty to remind you of that cir-
cumstance, however unnecessary on my part to do so,
when I propose to you " the health of our Sovereign
Lady the Queen."—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with the accustomed honours ;
and the National Anthem was sung by the whole com-
pany standing.
The CHAIRMAN then said—Gentlemen, it is one of
the characteristics of this institution that we are in-
terested in even the routine toasts, which, though some-
times passed over with great celerity, -cannot on this
occasion be left to you unnoticed, for when I propose to
you the health of the various members of the
Royal Family, it is my duty to remind you, if that were
necessary, that the Queen Dowager was one of our ear-
liest, and one of our most liberal supporters—(Cheers)
—that it was the hand of his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort that laid the first stone of that building
which is your pride—(Cheers)—and that his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales is now one of our
principal contributors.—(Loud cheers.) And I need not
recall to your recollection that the Duke of Cambridge,
whose true liberality of feeling and native generosity
of heart have endeared him to all Englishmen—(Cheers)
—once occupied the chair which I now unworthily
fill. Therefore lam sure it will be with no ordinary
feeling-that you " thehealth of the--Queen Dow-
ager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Albert Prince
ofDrunk with honours. Glee—" Sleep gentle lady, the
:fl W
o wearsleas,reanedlotshinegr.r of the Royal Family. '—(Cheers.)
The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I am about to propose
that we should: drink to the Church. You are all lam
sure welt aware that the hospital affords peculiar occa-
sions for the efficacious ministration of the offices of the
Church .—(Hear, hear.) Perhaps there are few scenes in
life in which spiritual efficacy could produce effects of such
from its
importance, and I am therefore not surprised that this
institution in which we are all interested has, fro
earliest period been. favoured with the sympathies of the
Church of England.—(Applause.) I have observed with
great interest that his .Grace the Archbishop of Canter-
bury has very recently preached a ;sermon in favour of the
objects which this institution wishes to prosecute.—
(Applause.) But lam gratified that I have an oppor-
tunity
' occasion of referring to the labours of an
individual not so elevated in station as his Grace, but
on this occ
greatly distinguished, and who has peculiar claims on the
best feelings of all those who are present. In looking
over more, cursorily than I could have wished the records
of this institution, I was struok by the various occasions
upon which the pulpit had been filled with great power
by a gentleman who is present to-day, and known not
only to you but to fame—the Rev. .Robert Montgomery
—(Applause)—was so struck by the indefatigable fre-
quency of his appeals, and the great results which have
accrued from them that I could not help, somewhat ra-
pidly, but I believe very accurately, forming an estimate
of the labours of an individual. lam myself a believer
in the power of the individual; I think we trust too much
to the spirit of societies, and too little to the energy of
the solitary being.—(Great cheering.) But when I tell
you that in counting the occasions which appear on the
authentic records, I find that one man in the brief space
which has occurred since the origin of this institution to
(thffeeaprr,ehseeanrt)—timaded,
rhesassedonhisfivfee andllow -coan
places, and by the sole energy of his oval abilities and
twentyfellow—ed
the inspiration of a great cause—(Hear, hear)— among
strangers in distant districts, raised himself a sum little
short of l,oool.—(Cheers)—so I feel it not only my duty
but my high gratification to have this opportunity of
mentioning these circumstances, and though the gen-
tleman in question has other claims on your sympathies,
to which I will not at this moment refer, I am happy to
think that in proposing the toast which I now place in
your hands, that it will be responded to by a member of
the Church, not only so distinguished for every quality,
but so peculiarly entitled to your good feelings.
The Rev. ROBERT MONTGOMERY, in responding to the
toast, said, in the absence of others more calculated by
their position in the Church and by their talents than he
was to answer to the spirit of the toast which had been
given by their distinguished chairman, he would endea-
vour to offer a suitable response to it. He need not tell
them that he felt almost oppressed by the unmerited eulogy
that their distinguished chairman had passed upon him;
he had ratheidescribed what he (Mr. Montgomery) ought
to be, than what he was. He was sure that there was
not one amongst his reverend brethren who did not par-
ticipate in the feelings of attachment which he bore to
the Hospital for Consumption. There was a pride which
aped humility, and a humility which aped pride. On
that occasion they would believe in his sincerity when
he said that he felt it no merit whatever on public occa-
sions to have made exertions on behalf of suffering
humanity. He felt it one of the highest privileges of
the Church, as the mediatrix between heaven and earth
—(Hear)—not only to advocate provision for the spiri-
tual necessities of the people, but also for their temporal
wants; and should the day ever come when the Catholic
Church lent a reluctant ear to the calls of suffering
humanity, he was sure she would forfeit her high privi-
leges, and her days would be numbered.—(Applause.)
He had simply to state, in connexion with the toast,
that many of his reverend brethren were quite willing
to follow the humble example that he had set them; he
was quite sure that on no one occasion would theyfbe
wanting in.their zeal, or deficient in their e
hi sympa
self
lhoard
the great interests of this charity.
H
stood round its cradle, he had watched its gr
would stand
wTh and he
predicted that the Hospital for Consumptions u o
foremost in the history of English Charm(' . (Cheers.)
"Si monumentum sequiris, circ u
number " o
f his
—(Applause,) When be saw so large a
fellow-countrymen on every side on that occasion, he
congratulated them on their presence, and he hoped
their gathering together that day was not simply for the
excitement of the present hour, but would result in a
more enduring sympathy with the charity.—(Hear.) The
connexion of the toasts of the Queen and the Church,
and of the Army and Navy, on occasion like that, pre-
sented to a thoughtful mind emotions which were worthy
a passing remark. Perhaps no country in the world
presented the principles of unity and diversity like
England; there was diversity in politics, diversity in
literature, diversity in matters of taste, diversity in
educational systems, and diversity in social philosophy;
but they bad a unity of which every Englishmen
might be proud. They were Christians—(Applause)--
and therefore the altar and the throne, and the army and
navy, were all great standing sentiments, :which came
out prominently on that occasion, drawing them off from
their diversities, and making them meet round one com-
mon centre of unity.—(Cheers.) He rejoiced that a
most distinguished foreigner should witness that gather-
ing.—(Applause.) He was proud, and rejoiced in the
presence of that distinguished individual. Amidst the
many aspects of English
life that
must have presented
themselves to him, he (Mr. Montgomery) trusted that the
aspect of national philanthropy, for which we were re-
markable as a nation, might not be the least eloquent or
persuasive to him.—(Applause.) In conclusion, for he
held a long speech after dinner to be a nuisance—(A
iaugh)—he had simply to add that he doubted not that
one feature in the Hospital for Consumption would ad-
vance in their sympathies, and feel the progress of their
liberality. He could, as a minister of religion, bear his
testimony to the great amount of temporal relief and
s)mpathy and consolation which this charity had be-
stowed on the recipients of its benefits. He wished that
assembly could see the grateful hearts, beaming through
the moistened eyes of those poor creatures, who from
time to time left its portals cured of the fearful malady
under which they had suffered. It was often said that
consumption was incurable. They would allow him to reply
to that that the Hospital for Consumption had given no
formal utterance on that question at all ; the office of
the hospital was to arrest the malady, and relieve the
patient ; what else might be done depended on God—
(Hear, hear)—on the progress of science, and on the
nature of the disease. The real character of the charity
was to relieve suffering humanity, so far as science and
Christian watchfulness could do; the rest they left to the
Lord. It was to him (Mr. Mongomery) an occasion for
unmitigated delight to have to eke presence of their dis-
tinguielied chairman among them that night.—(Cheers.)
He trusted he would not think him offensive in
his adulation if, as a literary man of twenty
years, however humbly connected with the literature of
this country, he begged to tender to him public homage
to those distinguished talents with Iwhich he had en-
riched the literature of his country.—(Cheers.) Whet-

further.
Mr. REYNOLDS said,' in the early part of the dis-
cussion he promised the House " sixteen divisions" on
the names proposed, and the House had but two ; so he
was " fourteen" in arrear.--•(Laughter.) In conformity,
however, to Mr. Herbert's suggestion, he would not
press the divisions further. He, however, hoped the
House would keep a strong pressure on the Committee,
for it was the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Committee,
and not his.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER assured
the House that he would not throw any obstacles in the
wav of a full and fair inquiry into the whole subject.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at twenty minutes past One
o'clock.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Royal
Academy in Trafalgar-square with a visit yesterday.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness arrived at three
o'clock, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice and attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady
Caroline Somers Cocks, Hon. Matilda Paget, the Earl
of Fortescue, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Duke of
Norfolk, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Earl of Morley,
Captain the Hon. J. Denman, Captain Francis Seymour,
General Wemyss, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon.
Alexander Gordon.

The officers of the Royal Academy received the
Queen and Prince Albert, and conducted her Majesty
and his Royal Highness through the different schools.
The Queen and the Prince remained until a quarter
before five o'clock in the Exhibition, and then returned
to Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Helena, and the Princess Louisa took airings yesterday
in the garden of the Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Marchioness of Douro. Hon. Flora Macdonald,. the Earl
of Morley, General Wemyss, and Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. Alexander Gordon, honoured her Majesty's
Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Augusta Bruce, also honoured the performance with
her presence.
The Hon. Miss Murray and the Hon. Miss Macdonald
have succeeded Lady Caroline Somers Cocks and the
Hon. Matilda Paget as the Maids of Honour in waiting
on the Queen.
All the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Marquis of
Lansdowne on Wednesday evening, at Lansdowne House,
Berkeley. square.
A deputation, consisting of the Marquis of Westmin-
ster, Sir Philip de Grey Egerton, Mr. T. Tatton Egerton,
Mr. Tollemache, and Mr. Cornwall Legh, had an inter-
view with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-
office, to present a memorial from the magistrates of the
county of Chester, on the subject of common lodging-
houses.

Mr. H. G. Ward had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street, and took, leave of his Lordship, on his departure
for the lonian Islands. Mr. Ward had an interview with
Earl Grey, at the Colonial-office, on Wednesday.
A deputation on the subject of arterial drainage (Ire-
land) had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street. The deputation consisted of the Marquis of Kit.
dare, Sir Percy Nugent, Mr. Burke, Kildare, Mr. Palmer,
and Mr. J. O'Farrell.
A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Manchester,
Sir Elkanah Armitage, and the Town Clerk of Man-
chester, with the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., Mr.
Bright, M.P., and Mr. E. Cardwell, M.P. (at the request
of the authorities of Liverpool), had an interview with
Sir G. Grey yesterday, at the Bowe-office.
The School of Design bad a meeting on Wednesday,
at the office of the Board of Trade.
Lord Belhaven had an interview yesterday with Sir
G. Grey.

CASE OF ALLEGED POISONING AT BATH. —The
greatest excitement prevailed in Bath during the last
week, in consequence of a rumour that a man named
Marchant had been poisoned by his wife, who, imme-
diately after his death, had married a person named
Harris. The inquest was held on the body of Marchant
last week, which was adjourned until yesterday, in order
to afford an opportunity to Mr. Herapath, the celebrated
analytical chemist, to test the contents of the stomach of
the deceased. The wife of the deceased and her present
husband were arrested, and also a man named Shalor
and his wife. The wife of Shalor accompanied the wife
of the deceased man, Marchant, to Mr. Bright's shop,
near the Old-bridge, where she purchased some arsenic
a short time previous to her husband being fatally at-
tacked; Mrs. Harris, or, as she was then, Mrs. Marchant,
first of all went to Mr. Bright's shop for the arsenic by
herself ; he refused to supply her with it ; she subse-
quently returned with the female prisoner Shalor, and
unfortunately succeeded in getting it. Mrs. Harris and
Mrs. Shalor have been very intimate for a long time. It
is said that a quantity of arsenic has been found in the
house of the man Harris, which has been placed in the
custody of the chief officer of police. The inquest was
resumed on Monday, when Mr. Herapath deposed that
he had chemically examined the viscera of the deceased,
and found white arsenic in the contents of the stomach,
in the solid matter of the stomach, in the contents of the
intestines, the intestines themselves, and in the liver.
Several jars of powder have been found in the houses of
Harris and Shalor. Mr. Herapath undertook to analyse
their contents, and the inquiry was adjourned.
BRITISII AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETT.—On Wed-
nesday the anniversary of this institution was held at
Exeter-hall, the Marquis of Cholmondeley presiding.
The chairman, in opening the proceedings, congratulated
the meeting on the fact that recent events had removed
many barriers to the circulation of the Scriptures on the
continent, and observed that the: exemption of this
country from the troubles which afflicted other nations
appeared to have been erdained of God with a view to
the ultimate evangelisation of the world. The Rev. A.
Brandram read the report, from which it appeared that
the entire receipts of the year ending March 31, 1849,
amounted to 95,9331. Gs. Id. The amount applicable to
the general purposes of the society was 52,5741. 14s. 3d.,
including 7,6361. 16s. 3d. special contributions in aid of
the extended circulation of the Scriptures on the Con-
tinent, and 31,9931. 15s. sd. free contributions from
auxiliary societies showed an increase in that item of
6951. I Is. Id. The receipts for Bibles and Testaments
amounted to 43,3581. I Is. The issues of the society for
the year amounted to 1,107,518, viz., from the depot at
home, 802,133; from the depots abroad, 305,385. The
total issues of the society now amounted to 21,973,355.
67, under engagements
Bishop
e fNorwich to the
The expenditure during the past year had been 88,831/.
extent of and
thGees4L ocieotsy was .
moved the adoption of the report, and expressed his
hwhcoastehoclihciiet3f,.—homldrs. uppiounraphtrise, amffe.crti.o,
nsewcoansdietds
continued confidence in the management of the society,
tohneerooufg
the resolution, which was carried nem. dis.—The second
resolution, expressing satisfaction at the proceedings of
the past year, was moved by the Rev. H. Stowell, and
seconded by the Rev. R. Kennedy.—Other resolutions
in accordance with the object were proposed and carried
without opposition.
A HOPELESS CASE. —An old woman, troubled
with dyspepsia, or some of the other " thousand ills that
flesh is heir to," was advised by a physician to adopt a
strict regimen as to diet, &c. Having called one day
and found his patient rather worse than usual, in conse-
quence, as he supposed, of his advice not being strictly
acted on, Medicus told her that her chance of safety
was in following the regimen. "Following the regi-
ment, Doctor ! Gae wa, Sir, youre surely joking' wi'
me now. Follow the regiment (one was about to leave
the town) ! Na, na, it's pasti my time o: day, Doctor ;
that cure might suit
young gt pies, but it 'ill no do for
yen.
If there's nae chance fop
r
after se
an auld
wife o' si
he boger s, I maun ' k' een ma yap
Inc but tramping
ft.
' kira•yard, Doctor."
I my mind' to the Grey riars

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ever might be their political feelings, he was quite sure
there _was not, an individual present. shat night who would
not agree with him in giving to that distinguished man
the foremost plal:e among the orators of his country.—
(Great cheering.) Long might he be spared to advo-
cate what in his conscience he (Mr. Montgomery) be-
lieved tended to maintain the honour, the greatness, and
the glory of this country ; and often might they have
the opportunity and the privilege of seeing him among
them on occasions like that on which they were as-
sembled.—(Great cheering.)
Glee—" Hark t the curfew's solemn sound."
The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I was thinking this
morning how much society was indebted in this country,
in all charitable institutions, to the efforts of individuals;
but the toast I am now going to propose, which is the
health of the two services—the army and navy—re-
minds me in this respect, that the state has not been de-
ficient. It is the boast of this country, that the defenders
of England and the vindicators of its glory, when they
are exhausted in the service of the land, find a refuge
in what may literally be described as the palaces of our
Sov ereigns.—(Cheers.) With this feeling I will propose
the toast of the " Army and Navy."—(Cheers.)
Drunk with honours.
Duet—" Give me the tented field."
PEILLIP ROSE, Esq., the Honorary Secretary to the
hospital, then read the annual report, which was as
follows:

" In reviewing the period which has elapsed since the
last annual report, your committee feel that the events of
the year have been such as to call forth feelings of deep
gratitude and satisfaction.
" They have been able during the year to open two
additional wards, containing 12 beds. The total number
of in-patients now admitted in the present building be-
ing thus increased to 81.
" Since the opening of the new building in November,
1846-
676 Patients have been admitted,
Of whom were relieved ... ... ... 466
Died ... ... ... ... .. 129
Remaining in the house ... ... 81
"The admissions during the past year have been 282;
of whom 52 have died. From the Ist of January last,
the number admitted has been 95; of whom 11, or rather
more than one-9th have died.
" The number of out-patients treated during the year,
has been 2,805; and since the opening of the new build-
ing in 1846, 11,137; but inasmuch as a large proportion
ot the out-patients attend for a considerable period, often
extending over several months, your committee consider
that the number prescribed for daily, will convey to the
friends of the charity and the public generally, the most
correct idea of the amount of benefit conferred by this
department. That number varies from 80 to 150; and
averages about 115 daily, being at the rate of 36,000 in
the year.
" Your committee have also the satisfaction of report-
ing, that the mortality in the new building has been
much diminished, when compared with that which took
place in the old establishment. In the old hospital at
Chelsea, out of 297 in-patients, 72 died, being nearly one
death in every four patients; while the deaths in the
new hospital have been only 127, in 686 cases, or nearly
one death in every five patients.
" With regard to the financial position of the hospital,
it was hardly to be expected that during a year so
fraught with anxiety and alarm, and marked by so
much commercial depression, this charity should have
been entirely unaffected. Your committee have accord-
ingly to report a trifling decrease in the amount of
smaller donations during the past year, when compared
with the amount so received in former years.
" It is, however, gratifying to be able to state, that
the annual subscriptions (upon which the permanent
prosperity of the hospital must depend), have continued
steadily to increase; and the committee feel sanguine
that the diminution in their income from donations
will be only temporary, and that returning prosperity
will more than reMatate the charity in its former
condition.
" But whatever deficiency may have been experienced
in the receipt of small donations, it has been more than
counterbalanced by several large and most acceptable
contributions. Among these the committee have first to
notice the proceeds of the concert given by Miss Lind,
on the 31st of July last, in aid of the extension of the
building. The sum realised by this means, after paying
all expenses, amounted to 1,6061. 168.—(Cheers)--the
whole of which has been set apart for the express pur-
pose of the extension fund; and it is invested in Govern-
ment Securities in the names of the trustees, awaiting
the period (which it is confidently believed is not far
distant) when your committee will feel justified in en-
tering into a contract for completing the unfinished por-
tion of the building.
" Your committee have also to report the following
specific legacies during the past year: 100/. from Mrs.
Mary Tucker, of Bamptord Speke, Devon; 200/. from
Mr. Thomas Keane; 2501. from Charles Felice, Esq., of
Park-crescent; and by the will of the late Mr. W. Sawyek,
of York, in addition to a pecuniary legacy of 2001. which
was made immediately payable to the hospital, the whole
residue of his property was bequeathed to the charity,
I after the death of his brother, Mr. John Sawyer. It
unfortunately happened that part of Mr. Sawyer's pro-
perty consisted of leaseholds at Peutonville, and turnpike
bonds, which being in the nature of real estate, the hos-
pital, under the provisions of the statutes of mortmain, is
at present incapable ot holding. The bequest to that
extent was therefore void; but the residue of the per-
-1 sonal estate, amounting to the sum of 2,2871. ii s. 7d. Con-
, se's, has been invested in the names of trustees, one of
them being Mr. John Labouchere, the treasurer of the
hospital, upon trust, to allow Mr. John Sawyer to enjoy
the dividends during his life, and at his death to transfer
the capital to the hospital.
" Your committee have also to report a most generous
offer made by a military officer, to convey to the charity
his reversionary interest in certain freehold and lease-
hold property, which offer, however, for the reasons be-
fore stated, is at present incapable of being carried into
effect.
" In consequence of the loss sustained by the charity,
in the case of Mr. Sawyer's estate, and the inability to
avail themselves of the last mentioned offer, your com-
mittee determined no longer to delay carrying out the
instructions of a former court, for obtaining powers of
incorporation, and sethorising the charity to hold lands
and take them by devise. A Bill for this and other ob-
jects has accordingly been introduced into Parliament,
where it is now pending, and your committee trust that
no impediment will arise to its receiving the Royal As-
sent during the present session.
" Your committee have the satisfaction of stating that
no expense will be incurred by the charity in obtaining
this Act beyond the outlay for disbursements actually
incurred.
" But your committee have to reeord a still further
evidence of the estimation in which the charity is held,
and ot the deep interest awakened in its favour. The
Reverend Sir Henry Foulis, Bart., seeing in the last an-
nual report an allusion to the urgent want of a chapel in
connexion with the hospital, in which the patients and
inmates might assemble for Divine worship, and by
which the ward at present used as a chapel, might be
rendered available for patients, has proposed to the com-
mittee to take upon himself this greatly needed work,
and to erect at his own cost, a proper ecclesiastical edi-
fice. Two conditions only were attached to the proposal
—the one that the chapel should be consecrated, and the
other that the plans of the building should receive his
approval. Your committee are happy to state, that a
satisfactory communication has taken place with the
Bishop of London, upon the subject of the consecration,
and plans and estimates of the chapel are now in prepae
ration by Mr. E. B. Lamb, of Charlotte-street, Portland-
place, who has been appointed the architect to carry out
the design. The building will be carried on under the
direction of the committee, Sir Henry Foulis having
kindly undertaken to supply the funds as they are re-
quired. The cost of erection is limited to 1,5001. In
making this interesting announcement, your committee
are assured that their own feelings of gratitude at this
liberal and unexpected provision for the spiritual wants
of the patients, will find a cordial response in the breast
of every Governor, and that they will feel anxious to
testify their respectful appreciation of this act of bene-
volence, by electing Sir Henry Foulis a Vice-President
of the charity.
"The committee also recommend, that in pursuance
of the wishes of Sir Henry Foulis, the following friends
of that gentleman, via.:—
"P. D. Pauncefort Duncombe, Esq., of Greatßrickhill
Manor, Fenny Stratford;
" Miss Pauncefort Duncombe, of the same place;
" Col. George Whichcote, of Meriden, Coventry, and
Miss Laura Jewry;
be elected honorary life governors of the charity, with
the privileges attached to that title.
"Your committee will now briefly allude to the works
which yet remain to be accomplished, and which call for
the continued exertions of every supporter of the charity.
" The consecration of the chapel involves the purchase
of the freehold of the site upon which it will stand. A
negotiation has been opened with the ground landlords,
and they are willing, in order to meet the convenience of
the committee, separately to convey the small portion of
ground that will be required for this object. The funds
for the purchase have still to be raised.
" The purchase of the remainder of the land upon
which the hospital has been built has also to be effected.
1
1 Every friend of the charity will sympathise with the
1 committee in their anxiety that the site should be of
I freehold tenure.
"The funds for purchasing the land adjoining the
hospital on the west—the refusal of which is offered to
the committee by the present owner—have also to be
provided. Your committee view the attainment of this
additional land as an object of the deepest importance
to the well-being of the charity, whether it be consi-
dered merely as adding to the present recreation ground
for patients, or for the more important purpose of pre-
venting the close proximity of other buildings; or for
the still more lasting objects, allowing of a future exten-
sion of the building in that direction.
" Lastly, there is the completion of the building to
allow of the admission of 120 more patients—a measure
of immediate and pressing necessity—imperatively
called for by the number of applicants who are now de-
nied admission for want of room.
" At the present moment no less than 184 patients,
who have been reported by the medical officers as fit
cases for admission, are waiting to come in; their dis-
orders aggravated by the disappoinment and vexation
arisiYon from hope deferred.
" g co ur mmittee, while they earnestly appeal to the,
public on behalf of each and all of these objects, wold
.
especially urge the necessity of losing noo
hope
pleting the building;that the
will not
and they ventin-n
example of Miss Lind, a stranger and foreigner,thP
be lost upon the wealthy and liberal supporters of
After what has been
charity in our land.—(Cheers:)
stated of the number of applicants now necessarily re-
fused,relief from the, want of accommodation, it is to be
hoped that the means
ssell not long be wanting for the
completion of the building. It is surely not too much
to expect that the noble example of Sir Henry Foulis
may soon find an imitator, willing to dedicate some por-
tion of his wealth to the service of suffering humanity,
and to found a lasting monument of his generous spa..

" By order of the committee,
" PHILIP ROSE, Hon. Sec.
" Hospital, Brompton, April 26, 1849."
The receipts of the general fund were, for the year
ending March last, 4,7481. 155.; the expenditure
amounted to 4,456 L 9s. 4d.; leaving a balance at the
backers of 2921. ss. Bd.
APPENDIX TO ANNUAL REPORT.
" The physicians of the Hospital for Consumption and
Diseases of the Chest, in presenting, at the request of
the committee, an abstract of the medical and statistical
report which they have prepared, and which is shortly
to appear, necessarily confine themselves to a few points
of interest, and pass in silence many particulars regarding
liability as respects sex and age, hereditary predisposi
tion, duration of the disease, and other questions to which
that report has particular reference.
" The number of patients affected with pulmonary
consumption treated at this institution, since its esta-
blishment to the close of last year, is 4,358 ; a number,
as respects this disease, perhaps never before analysed
for statistical purposes. This number, however, by no
means represents the amount of service rendered to the
community; the applicants for relief having been more
than double that number—namely, 10,051 out-patients,
and 888 in-patients.
" Many were suffering from bronchitis in various de-
grees of aggravation, and other diseases of the organs
of the chest.; not a few from cough, symptomatic of
disorders of distant organs; or from painful affections of
the chest, not connected with pulmonary disease.
" The prevalence of influenza, at one period, very
much swelled the list of applicants.
"A great number have applied, suffering from varieties
of indigestion, which in consequence of incidental debi-
lity, and other symptoms, induced the apprehension of
phthisis, and it has been a source of great satisfaction to
the medical officers, to be able, after careful examination,
to discharge a considerable number of such individuals,
with the assurance, moat consolatory to themselves and
their families, that there were no evidences whatever of
the disease they dreaded.
" The tendency of particular employments to induce a
liability to certain diseases is a subject of great interest,
and with a view to illustration, a comparison has been
instituted between the list of phthisical patients, attend-
ing your institution, and non-phthisical patients of a
general hospital. By way of illustration, it may be men-
tioned that the liability of tailors to consumption, as
contrasted with their liability to all other diseases, ap-
pears from this comparison to be in the proportion
of ... ... 19 to 15
Of bakers ... ... as 45 to 28
Of in-door servants ... as 24 to 12
, Of printers and compositors as 100 to 27
Of clerks and shopmen ... as 314 to 78
Among 1,294 female patients attending a general hos-
pital, 169 were milliners and dressmakers; but the
number of females so occupied out of 1,679 consumptive
patients attending the Hospital for Consumption was
312; the proportion of 'excess being as 312 to 220.
" The medical officers, in applying themselves to the
treatment of established phthisis, felt that they had to
contend with a disease, the ravages of which too often
prove uncontrollable by any effort of medical art, but
the results which they are able to present, offer a degree
of encouragement surpassing their expectations. Very
many patients who have been relieved have not reported
the results, but of those whoie history has been recorded,
as far as the analysis is yet completed, in more than 8
per cent. the disease has been arrested, and, but for the
knowledge of its liability to recur, might be considered
as cured; whilst in about 23 per cent. material improve-
ment has been effected.
" The physicians have availed themselves of various
suggestions offered by modern science, for the more exact
investigation of pulmonary disease ; and have not ne-
glected the less satisfactory, though scarcely less impe-
rative duty, of testing remedies, alleged with some
confidence to have curative powers, in some cases it is
to be feared on insufficent foundation.
" It is not intended in this place to expatiate on the
various measures which have been employed. The ar-
rangements of the institution give great facilities for the
trial of the most appropriate means, general, medical,
and dietetical; but if any one medicine should be specified
as peculiarly adapted to the treatment of tubercular
disease of the lungs, even when considerably advanced,
it is that popularly known as cod liver oil. 'The virtues
of this remedy were tried in this" institution at a
very early period, and the evidences there obtained of its
efficacy may be fairly assumed to have contributed ma-
terially to its extensive and successful introduction into
medical practice throughout the country, in the treat-
mentof phthisis. The degree of amelioration and amend-
ment often following the appropriate use of this remedy
is highly encouraging, but sufficient time has not yet
passed to determine the degree of liability to relapse, or
to estimate the relative probabilities of permanent im-
provement. In the investigation of this and other im-
portant questions, the medical officers hope to prove
assiduous, vigilant, and cautious, whilst (encouraged by
the impulse to improvement given by the enlightened
confidence of the governors), they cherish the inspirit-
ing ambition to extend the limit of medical resources,
and to render those resources a still greater boon to the
objects of this noble charity.
" Signed by the Physicians,
" HAMILTON ROE, M.D.
" THEOPHILUS THOMPSON, M.D.
" GEORGE CURSHAM, M.D.
" RICHARD PAYNE COTTON, M.D.
" RICHARD QUAIN, M.D.
" JOHN J. BOWIE, M.D.
" April 30th, 1849.
" Hospital for Consumption
" And Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.'
Mr. DISRAELI then rose to propose the toast o
the evening, which was the the signal for an en
thusiastic burst of cheering. Silence having been
restored, the Honourable Gentleman spoke as follows:-
-Gentlemen, before I venture to propose the toast
which I am going to do, I shall presume to make
a few observations on the various and varying
circumstances that have achieved that result which has
just been communicated to you by the secretary in read-
ing his most able and satisfactory report. It is impos-
sible to make a triter remark than to say that England
has always been justly celeorated for its public charitiesa
—(Hear, hear)—but, like all very
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are monuments which need never fear competition with
the institutions of any country in the world.—(Cheers.)
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country; and it is very remarkable, hut it is a fact which
none can dispute, that independently of those great en-
dowments, magnificent in their schemes and municifent
in their foundations, there are, besides, crowds of minor
institutions %Odell are devoted, in detail, to the
cure and observation and study of disease, which
thorn greater institutions are prepared to deal with

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pathy, by taking upon himself to build the whole or part in a more comprehensive spirit. Indeed, you. may say
of the remaieing_wilag•—e(Latighlnr_a_____ that fromahe eye:to the heel there is scarcely a disorder
" Your committee believe that, availing themselves" of that can visl our flesh which has not had—and fora con-
the experience gained in the present building, and siderable period—in this country, some institution de-
adopting an improved mode of proceeding, in carrying voted to its: study, its cure, or its alleviation. —(Cheers.)
out the works, the new wing may be erected with the It is a very remarkable circumstance that until recently
addition of 6,0001. to the amount already subscribed for —I may say most recently—there was only one disease
this purpose. in this country which no one attempted to study, which
The Rose Charity Fund' continues to prove a most no one aspired to cure, and which no one came forward
valuable auxiliary to the general funds of the hospital, to alleviate.—(Cheers.) I need not remind you that it
by affording opportunities of relief in deserving and was a disease most prevalent in this country, if not pe-
destitute cases. culiar to it, and most general, of all other coun •
" Your committee have been making great efforts to tries, in its influence—(Cries of "Hear, hear ")
effect a reduction in the expenditure ot the hospital, and —one, too, not only general in its influence
to bring about every economy, consistent with the com- but most heartrending in its results—(Hear, hear.)
forts of the patients. They have been able to make some —one which I may say of all diseases most resembles
reductions in the permanent establishment, and have put death, for it knows no distinction of class or condition,
into operation a new and improved table of diets. but knocks at the turreted palaces of kings equally with
"Your committee have (as on former occasions) to ac- the cellars and garrets of the poor.—(Cheers.) But it
knowledge the support which the institution continues to is a curious question which, if one had time, one might
receive from the powerful advocacy of the clergy. Among enter into, how it happened that in a country so alive to
those who have given their services to the charity during the calamities of its creatures, where every lever in every
the past year, the committee would particularly mention form and every type has been made not only the sub-
his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, who preached ject of study but the foundation of institutions for its
in aid of the funds, at St. George's, Hanover-square, on cure,—one might be induced to stop to inquire how it
Sunday, the 9th of July, 1848. was that a malady which, from the returns of our mor-
" They cannot, as an act of justice, omit to notice the tality, unfortunately figures as the greatest contributor
unceasing exertions of the Rev. Robert Montgomery, to that dark record, should in a land so distinguished for
one of the most steady supporters of the charity from its its sympathy with suffering, for its scientific acquipitions,
earliest commencement, and who, during the past year, for the facility—the generous facility—with which
both in the pulpit and by his pen, largely contributed wealth is devoted to the cure of the calamities ot life,
to its prosperity. should, as it were in despair, be considered as the only
"Your committee have been engaged in preparing visitation of Providence with which we were not called
and collating the new rules and bye-laws, which five upon to contend, and to whose inevitable influence we
years' experience of the working of the hospital have were to bow without a struggle.—(Cheers.) One would
shown to be necessary; and these rules and bye-laws, as have naturally supposed that as private experience
settled by your committee, will be laid before a special taught us that it was possible occasionally to arrest the
Court of Governors for approval, as soon as the neces- course of consumption, frequently to shorten, fre-
sary notices can be given; and under the provisions of quently to alleviate the sufferings which it oc-
the existing rules, they will be open to the inspection of casioned, and that under any circumstances it
the Governors three weeks previously, was wise, by some machinery, to aggregate its pheno-
" A report of the facts connected with the medical mena, from which alone men of science can deduce reme-
treatment in the hospital, from its opening to the present dial results—that that spirit of association which has
time, is in course of preparation by the eminent physi- always pervaded English society, as well as that chari-
cians who form the hospital staff. An abstract of this table impulse which has always been its characteristic,
report will be read to the Court, and full particulars will would have long ago brought about some result similar
be presented to every Governor as soon as the committee to that happy effect which we are now met to-night to
receive it. celebrate and to aid.—(Cheers.) One would have ima-
" From the accompanying statement of receipts and gined, when we remember that there is no class of so-
expenditure, it will be seen the outstanding liabilities of cietv that is not perpetually reminded of the existence
the hospital have been much reduced; but the committee and influence of this dire complaint, which rocks, as it
have still to regret that the charity is not free from debt, were, at the same time the cradle of the infant
the discharge of its still existing liabilities is an object and precipitates even age to the tomb, which touches
second to none of those which have been alluded to in all classes of society, which every one present in the
this report. course ot his life has had to deplore as a fatal agency
" The number of important points requiring to be that has dusked the bloom of his existence, and darkened
noticed, has extended this report to a greater length the retrospect of his life—(Cheers)—one would have
than your committee could have wished. They would supposed the active impulses of Englishmen would long
once more renew their appeal to the governors and the ago have induced them to see whether they could not
public for continued support; and they can assure them grapple with this cause of great calamity.—(Cheers.)
in return, that no effort shall be wanting on their part But that is not the case. Although this country is dis-
to promote, the well being and efficiency of this noble in- tinguished for its public charities, although, as I have
stitution. They can only express their earnest hope said, the hospital, the infirmary, and the retuge cluster
that the blessing of Almighty God, which has hitherto in every part of this island, it was scarcely known but
so signally marked the progress of the charity, will still a few years back—it is not known now to
continue to prosper their labours, and that the record of the majority of our fellow-subjects, that the consump-
each anniversary may testify of increased and increasing tive patient, the member of a class that suffers most,
usefulness. that suffers longest, and suffers in the greatest numbers,
was exactly that patient to which the doors of every
charity were shut.—(Cheers.) It is not for me—it is
not the wish of any one here—to question the properiety
of the regulations. They were made by men influenced
by feelings as high and as good as any of those present.
—(Hear, hear.) It was necessity that urged these regu-
lations and dictated these rules—(Cheers)—but as far
as public charity is concerned they were strict
and inflexible, they were the laws of the Medes
and the Persians to those whose hectic
cheek and faltering energies were refused achisittance
into their munificent endowments.—(Cheers.) Because
this disease was always lingering, because it was"usually
fatal—these were the reasons that for years were al-
leged why the victim of consumption should be received
only with closed doors.—(Hear, hear.) Now, appealing
to your sympathies—after all the freshest and most pe-
rennial source of those actions which remedy the evils
of life—these are circumstances which must from the
first have arrested the feelings of man; but viewing it
1 not merely in the light of sympatby—viewing it in the
severer but not less loftier aspect of science, such a re-
' suit ought to be greatly deprecated. It has been consi-
, sidered that consumption is an incurable disease. It is
not for me, it would be the height of arrogance in me,
and in most of us present, to express an opinion upon
such a subject; but there is an opinion to me, as there
is an opinion to all of you—the philosophy of human na-
ture—which is our common portion. All of you must
feel that the secrets of nature cannot be atoned; and in
an age distinguished as the present for the application
of science to social life—living as we do amid marvels
so vast, daily produced by an agency so recent, he is in-
deed a bold man who can say that he is to fold his arms
in despair and sit down, and when he is to encounter
a calamity„can believe that the beneficent Providence
which surrounds us has not supplied man with some re-
medial resource.—(Loud cheers.) Not only, then,
because the natural sympathies of our kind would
make us advance to arrest the disease that
was always lingering, and often fatal, but because we
must have felt that in the establishment of an institu-
tution that would necessarily aggregate the phenomena
from which scientific results must accrue, it was the duty
and interest of us all to establish some institution of that
kind which would produce such results, I am surprised
that earlier than it occurred, so felicitous a conception
should not have been, afforded by society as that which
established the hospital for consumption and pulmonary
complaints.—(Cheers.) And yet it is easy for me at
this moment, in our hour of success and prosperity, to ex-
press this feeling; but remember a period of time less
than eight years ago and such a principle was
not recognised, such an idea had not foumd
favour with society, and such an institution did not
exist.—(Cheers.) It is only eight years ago—less tan
eight years ago—that a public meeting, not very nume-
rously attended, was held at the Hanover-square Rooms,
and that those opinions which I have feebly expressed
were first developed to public notice. It is less than
eight years ago; but what an encouragement is it to a
man, animated by the consciousness of being the advo-
cate of a principle, what an inducement is it to public
exertion to those who are inspired by the consciousness
that they are performing a public duty, and working for
the advancement of universal man, when we contrast that
then almost unnoticed meeting with the consequences
that have accrued from it, and even with this assemblage
this day.—(Cheers.)' Then the sufferer could not find a
refuge ; then it was held as an axiom that the sufferer
could not even be relieved ; but what, proudly speaking,
during this brief period of time—a time hardly exceeding
the term of the shortest lease of a house that any man in
this room would grant to-morrow—what have been the
consequences of a grand idea launched into public life and
intrusted to public spirit?—(Cheers.) Among those
who came forward on that occasion, and to a certain
degree were favoured by the public sympathy of those
gathered around them on that occasion, I think my
Noble Friend on my right has the proud satisfaction
of reflecting that he was present at that meeting.—
(Cheers.) They were then emboldened to hire a tem-
porary apartment in a suburb, for the prudential prose-
cution of their plan ; twenty sufferers were admitted at
great cost and at a considerable venture ; but though
eight years have now elapsed, I can tell you that the
old lodgings in the suburb have been superseded by a
splendid and magnificent structure.—((:heers.) That
during that term nearly 1,000 patients have received
within those walls every remedy which skill and solici-
tude combined could desire, that more than two-thirds
of them have left those walls greatly, and in many
instances completely, relieved.—(Cheers.) That
though 200 have indeed quitted us for ever,
they have quitted us under circumstances the most
alleviating to them, to us the most encouraging,
with the consciousness that they have received every aid
that the finest skill could devise, with the reflection that
they have received every consolation which spiritual
ministrations could afford—(Hear, hear)—with the con-
viction that their families, instead of sacrificing their all
to obtain for them some casual and comparative luxury,
have not been ruined by what must ever be to them a
great calamity—the loss of those they love—(Cheers)—
and with this great social consideration, that, the
study of their cases they may have left a great scientific
legacy that may spare to their posterity the evils
from which they have suffered.—(Great and
prolonged cheering.) But I could not but listen
with great interest to the conclusion of the
report which we have just heard read, namely, an ab-
stract of the medical report, where I find, in a document
signed by a number of gentlemen of the highest character
in their professions, that from what they observe to a
degree amounting, to eight per cent. we have a right
to believe there have been positive cures through the
agency of this institution—(Cheers)—and though they
have not been able to trace the result of all these in-
stances to the end, from having lost sight of the patients
atter they quitted the hospital, yet, allowing even for2s
the possibility of a relapse, we may rely thaftuallitilfa, s
per cent. of the patients have a chance
f
most mysterious, baneful, and omnipotent destroyer.
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have been
But it it is not all that a thousand sufferers term of their lives without being cut short
Lbygthia
eeived within your walls, have been in a great degree
it
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relieved
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theirto ec
disease,i ty ; i
' in the worst circumstances been recorded in the annals of
science for the advantage of those who follow us ; this is
not all, but upwards of 11,000 patients have been minis-
tered to by your energies, and by the devotion of your
means upwards of 11,000 persons have been relieved
within the walls of your institution.—(Cheers.) It ap-
pears by the report of the medical attendants, that
they do not consider that they have themselves
examined or scientifically analyztd under those
circumstances much more than 4,000 who suffered under
pulmonary consumption. Many who came to them were
received simply because they thought they were affected
with this disease. Bronchitis, morbid digestion, severe
influenza, diseases as remarkable for their depressing
effects upon the mind as from their physical qualities,
drove them for a remedy to this society ; but when to
more than 5,000 of our fellow-creatures we could teach
that they were not the victims of that fatal disease, be-
fore which they thought they were about to fall, can
you for an instant deny that you were at that moment
accomplishing as great a benefit to human nature almost
as if you had cured them of the disorder of which they
thought they were the victims? They went home
from Brompton, where, under the auspices of your in-
stitution, their wants and necessities had been adminis-
tered to,—they went home that day with hearts relieved
and spirits elevated ; and when science whispered to
them that they were not—that they could not be—ad-
mittednthatthn
into your institution,
because they were not qua-
lified first by a, disease almost uniformly fatal, do not
you suppose that you made many
hearthsyou renovated
e
day—(Cheers)—don't yousuppose
energies of many subjects of the Queen, and that by
happynvated
that agency alone—which is apparently but a secondary
consideration on the subject before us—you were ad-