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miedatered within the walls of the hospital, with
its limited means, you have not less than 17,823
persons receiving from this institution during the past
ear an alleviation of their sufferings.—(Loud cheers.)
There were not less than 450 cases in which poor mar-
ried women, unable, from their own earnings, to procure
relief during their confinement, had a mitigation of their
ufferings through the intervention of the officers of this
institution.—(Cheers.) Such is the extent of good
which has been done by the hospital in connexion with
King's College; and that is good against which no pos-
sibility of objection can be raised.—(Cheers.) There
are cases of benevolence and charity where, however
unquestionable your motives, it is possible You may be
relaxing exertion and engendering habits of dependence
on external assistance; but here there is no possibility
of objection on any such ground to the exercise of your
charity.— (Cheers.) Here are cases of actual suffering
in which human misery was mitigated, in which no
habits of self-dependence were relaxed, no motives to
continuous exertion interfered with.—(Cheers.) You
will, therefore, bear in mind that every contribution
which you may make towards the funds of this society
will not oaly lessen the sum of human misery, not only
mitigate the severe suffering of thousands of your fel-
low-creatures, but that to your charity for that purpose
no legitimate objection can be made.—(Cheers.) Such
is one of the objects, the immediate mitigation of suffer-
ing, fer which this institution is intended; but it has
another object, and an equally important one, in view.
It constitutes a school where knowledge of the human
frame can be acquired—where there can be a close
observation of the appearances and progress of disease.
You not only, therefore, by contributing towards
the funds of this society, are mitigating present suffer-
ing, but you are providing means by which, in this
densely crowded metropolis, the powers of future miti-
gation shall be applied.—(Cheers). You are training
up those who, to the coming generation, shall be enabled
to administer assistance and relief.—(Cheers). And, if
you want any other motive for contributing liberally,
you have it in this, that you are contributing towards
an institution which recognises the great truths of re-
vealed religion, and is intimately connected with the Es-
tablished Church.—(Loud cheers.) Within the walls of
this hospital those who receive relief are called upon
to offer their acknowledgments to the Auther of their
being.—(Cheers). Those who are entering into the
school, enter it under a deep sense of religious duty ;
and there is every opportunity afforded to them of being
impressed with the sanctions and obligations of religion.
While they are: contemplating the human frame they
are called upon to recognise, in the admitted fact that
we are " fearfully and wonderfully made," a new obliga-
tion to reverence the omniscience and benevolence of the
Deity ; but, above all, in the wonderful constitution of
bile human frame, and the marvellous connexion between
its material and spiritual part, to discover additional
evidence, not merely of Natural Religion, but of that re-
vealed truth which it is the object of our Church to teach
and propagate.—(Cheers.) I call upon you, then, not
merely as friends of humanity, but as friends of the Esta-
blished Church, as friends of religion, desirous of promot-
ing the connexion between medical science and that form
of religious faith we profess—by all these motives
I implore you to mark your sense of the im-
portance of this institution by a liberal contribution this
night.—(Cheers.) It is possible that before you entered
these walls you may have made up your minds to the
subscription of some particular sum. It is just possible
that the stewards may have already recorded particular
amounts in their subscription papers ; but let me make
to you the consolatory announcement that there is a
locus prenitentia.—(Loud cheers.) You are in no degree
bound or concluded by any communication you may
have made to those respectable gentlemen—(Cheers)—
and if you are deeply convinced, as I am, of the truth
I am about to state, that if he who made up his mind to
give 5/. will give 10/., and he who made up his mind to
give 20/. will give 50/., and he who purposed giving 50/.
will give 100 L, I venture to say you will not only pro-
portionately mitigate the sum of human suffering, but
my firm conviction is, you will thereby add to your own
enjoyment; you will reflect with pleasure that you had
made a convivial meeting anciliary to the purposes of
charity; you will never see or hear of the King's College
Hospital without reflecting with pride that you had by
your liberal contributions of this night rescued it from
the difficulties in which it is placed from deficient means,
contributed to its prosperity, and, through its pros-
perity, enabled it not only to diminish present suffering,
but to train up in the school of science, and not only of
science, but of religion and virtue, members of that
noble profession—for noble the medical profession is in
all its branches—having for its immediate object the
alleviation of those grievous sufferings which are the
lot of our common humanity.
I give "Prosperity to
the King's
e College
- (Loudcheers.)
The Duke of ST. ALnalis proposed " The health of
Sir Robert Peel, and thanks for his presidency on this
occasion."

The toast was drunk with the greatest enthusiasm.
Sir R. PEEL, in returning thanks, said—l wish very
briefly, but with the utmost sincerity, to return you my
warmest acknowledgments for the very flattering man
ner in which, on the proposal of the Noble Duke on my
right, you have had the goodness to receive my health. I
attended the first meeting which was held for the estab-
lishment of King's College—(Cheers)—and, although
the very important occupations in which for some years
past I have been engaged have prevented me from giving
♦ery close attention to the concerns of that institution,
yet I have always felt the deepest interest in its welfare,
and it is because I felt assured it was one effectual mode
of promoting its welfare to see it connected with one of
the best regulated medical schools of the metropolis that
I have been induced to appear before you this evening;
though I must say the gratification I have had in meet-
ing so very respectable a body of my fellow-subjects in
this ancient hall has been far more than a sufficient re-
muneration to me for any sacrifice I have made to be
present.—(Loud cheers.)
The Bight Hon. BARONET then proposed the Trea-
surer, Mr. Alderman Cupelazd's, health, wilich was
drunk amidst loud cheers.

Mr. Alderman COPELAND briefly acknowledged the
compliment, and read a list of subscriptions, which were
announced to amount to the large sum of nearly 1,700/.;
the chairman contributing 1001.
The following toasts were then drunk in rotation:—
"Mr. Green and the Council of King's College"
(acknowledged by Professor Green) ; " The Principal
and Professors of King's College " (acknowledged by
the Rev. Dr. Jelf); " The Master, Wardens, and Court
of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Stationers,
and thanks to them for the use of their Hall ;" " Sir W.
Riddell and the Committee of Management;" " The
Medical Officers of the Hospital;" " The Clergy who
have advocated the cause, and the Incumbents who have
lent their churches for collections in behalf of' the hos-
pital;" and " Mr. Twining and the Stewards."
The company did not separate till near midnight.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, took an airing
yesterday in an open carriage-and-four. The Equerries
in Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Bouverie,
attended on horseback.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their usual airings
yesterday in the royal pleasure-grounds.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Sutherland ; the
Lady in Waiting, the Viscountess Jocelyn ; the Lord in
Waiting, Lord Camoyi ; the Equerry in Waiting,Lord
Alfred Paget ; and the Equerry in Waiting to his
Royal Highness Colonel Bouverie ; left the Palace at a
quarter before eight o'clock last evening, for Marl-
borough House.
Yesterday her Majesty the Queen and his Royalerligh-
ness Prince Albert honoured tha Queen Dowager by
dining with her at Marlborough House. His Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, their Royal
Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and his Royal Highness the
Hereditary Prince of Lucca4were of the party with their f
respective suites.
In the evening the Royal family, and a few other per-
sons joined the circle, and Mdlle. Lind, Messrs. Lablache,
Staudigl, and Gardoni, had the honour of singing. Herr
Kuhe presided at the piano.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
inspected yesterday two specimens of papier mache
chairs, new designs, richly ornamented in gold and co-
lours, which were submitted by Messrs. Jennens and
Bettridge.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck and Mr.
Edmond Mildmay, visited the Botanical Gardens in the
Regent's Park yesterday.
_

A deputation, including the Earl of Rosebery, the
Duke of Montrose, Lord Kinnaird, Lord James Stuart,
Mr. Edward Ellice, jun., M.P., and Mr. Smollett, M.P.,
had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, .t
his official residence in Downing-street.
Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Adair had an interview with the Earl of Claren-
don yesterday.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
meeting yesterday.
_ Mr. Adam ha.d as interview with the Right lion.
Edward Strntt, yesterday, at the office of the Commis-
sioners of Railways Great George-street.
Mr. French,
" had an interview yesterday with
Lord John Russell.

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT CHESTER.—A sub-
sCription has been tne on foot to assist the family of the late
John Matthews, who met his death the falling of the rail-
way bridge over the Doe at Chester, byThe deceased was for-
merly driver of L'Hirondelle coach,
known
ran from Birken-
head to Cheltenham, and was wall
many gentle-
dren
men in this town. He hasle f t ai , wife
err ,oyniete:ig
ehyt young chil-
wholly unprovided lor--L
AMERICAN PATENT.—Among
. the notice; of recent
American John Allen, of Cincins-
American patents in J.N.etvion's London Journal of ei7.ltit,
for June, is the following:—
the fulness nati, Ohio, for a teethed of restoring
as or
roundness to the cheeks. The patentee claims, as his
invention, and desires to secure by letters patent, re-
storing hollow cheeks to their natural contour and rotun-
dity by means of metallic bulbs, formed, fitted to, and
secured in the mouth, by any suitable attachment be-
tween the jaw-bones and the cheek.
CATCHING WILD TCRKEYS.--The wild turkey is
caught by scattering some grain at the door of a large
cage ; the birds stoop to pick up the grain, and so enter
the cage ; but when they have done stooping to feed, it
never occurs to them that they must stoop also to get
)ut of the door ; and there the awkward creatures re•
main caged with their gawky heads upright and the door
wide open, wondering how it is that they cannot get out
3s they got in.
A lierrnan priest was walking in procession at the
Lead of his parishioners over cultivated fields, in order
to procure a blessipg upon the crops. When he came to
One of unpromising appearance he would pass on, saving,
• Here prayers anti singing will avail nQthipg ; ibis must
(hive manure." •