The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-26 00:00:00

LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.

The sixth meeting of this Board was held yesterday at
the Guildhall, Lord Lawrence (the President) in the chair.
A report was read from the Officers' Committee, recom-
it ending the names of candidates for the following appoint-
ments:—Accountants: Mr. George Attenborough, jun, Mr.
Ambrose Ford, Mr. Robert Tyndale Harris, Mr. Alfred
Ogan, Mr. William Vaughan, Mr. George Wingfield.
Minuting Clerk : Mr. E. H. Bramley, Mr. T. Turquand
Tullan, Mr. William Richard Freethy, Mr. Bertram
Moore Morris, Mr. W. Risdon, Mr. J. B. Ward.
Junior Clerk : Mr. H. M. Atchley, Mr. Francis G.
Crutch, Mr. Edmund Davies, Mr. Charles Davis, Mr- W.
Hetherington, Mr. Newton, H. Nixon. The report was
receivedand the elections were appointed for the next meet-
ing. The chairman announced that he had appointed Mr.
F. J. S. Edgcumbe, M.A., as his private secretary, and
this was unanimously approved by the Board. The ap-
pointment of Mr. George Hector Crood, 8.A., to the
office of Clerk of the Board was confirmed.

AN APPEAL FOR THE GREAT NORTHERN
HOSPITAL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE RUN.
SIR,—I presume to ask your influence in aid of one pf
the best and most imporfant of the many charities that
succour the sick and wounded at home ; and notwith-
standing the large amounts expended to help the suffering
in foreign lands, I believe that your advocacy may obtain
what is griev.usly needed.
I appeal on behalf of the Great Northern Hospital, a
hospital which, though comparatively small, is situated in
a densely populated neighbourhood, where the poor ar
subjected to many privations ; where accidents are con-
tinually occuring ; where sickness terribly prevails ;
where, indeed, such a charity is wanted always, but more
especially at this season of the year.
Its directors are at this moment studying, fearing lest
they should have to devise, not how they can augment its
capabilities, but how they can diminish them. Their
funds have grown less and less, the inevitable result of so
many drains on the public purse ; its existence is in perils
unless some plan can be devised by which its resource,
may be recruited.
The Hospital is situated in the Caledonian-road, Isling-
ton. In that locality there is a large amount of respect-
able poverty, as well as low poverty, to deal with ; the
out-door department is very considerable ; but the in-
patient department is very limited. There is ample room
for 50 beds ; only 30 are made up ; these are always full.
Your readers will understand the immense benefit con.
ferred on the neighbourhood, and how much greater that
benefit would be if ithe means were adequate to the neces.
city ; the supply proportionate to the demand.
The Hospital is practically superintended in all its de.
pattments by five ladies (ladies by birth and iu position).
These good women do their work of love and mercy, with
very little aid from subordinates; each does her nursing
with her own hands ; and, also, as there is no medical
school, A great deal of what elsewhere falls to the
dressers. One of these ladies is on duty all night.
There is of course a medical staff, and that is of the
best order.
The small Hospital is conducted with a view to make
it as homelike as possible ; a rigid economy is com-
bined with needful liberality; its limited extent,
in some degree, introduces comforts rarely found in larger
establishments ; duties at the sick bed are discharged
with the care, zeal, and tenderness that might be looked
for from private and personal friends; while the hospital
may be accepted as a model of neatness, order, and all
the aids by which suffering can be lessened, health re-
stored, or the path to death made smooth by affectionate
and soothing sympathy, and rational, but true piety.
It would be easy to describe the relief afforded every
day by this admirable and most useful charity, to quote
facts that would far surpass ought that might be devised
by fancy ; to give such details of its past, and its dire
needs in the present, as would justify the hopes of the
benevolent directors, who devote themselves to the work
of mercy—that they will be sustained in their desire not
only to continue but to extend the influence of the bles-
sings this hospital confers upon "the many."
I pray you, sir, for your powerful help to accomplish
this high and holy purposYe.
our faithful servant,
ANNA M. HALL.
15, Ashley-place, W.

The next number of the Illustrated Review will
be published on the Ist of February by Messrs. Houston
and Sons, and edited by Mr. S. R. Townshend Mayer.
The subject of the portrait and memoir will be " John
Ruskin, M.A.," and on the staff are E. Walford, R. H.
Horne, Edmund Oilier, John Watson Dolby, Mrs. S. R
Townshend Mayer, Mrs. F. F. Broderip, and the Revs.
C. C. Southey, W. S. Lewis, and John Pickford. In
future the Illustrated Review will be published on the Ist
and 15th of the month, instead of fortnightly.
THE WAR.--It may be some consolation to those who
in this country have suffered ridicule by daring to wear the
.Noah's-ark Coat of blanket-like Irish Frieze, to know that the
National Committee for the Sick and Wounded have sent from
the City Warerooms of Messrs. Nicoll an immense quantity of
these Comforers. This one article is, in fact, nearly equal to a
complete suit of clothes, warmly covering the whole body from
neck to heels, and must have been indeed a comfort to those
who have been so fortunate as to get one. The same firm are
engaged under contract to deliver 25,000 garments weekly,
since the fall of Sedan, and neither of the belligerents can com-
plain, seeing that both have equally sought supplies from the
self-same source. Messrs. Nicoll have recently taken large
premises in St. Paul's Churchyard purposely for this branch of
their great manufacturing business, which must for a long time
be engaged in the production of Uniforms, even if the war were
now to cease, seeing that our own, as well as foreign Govern-
ments, are prepa.ing for defence, if not for war.