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HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
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President—the Right Hon. the Earl of STRAFFORD, F.R.S.
This Hospital has relieved upwards of 24,000 patients since its
foundation, and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy
current expenses. EDMUND WYLD, Secretary.

WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith,
W.—FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee
earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on
heir useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).—
Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE-
MOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green-
wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will
be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in-
troduction or reconunendation. The Society's offices are re-
moved from the City to the same building.
KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary.

CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES
of tht CHEST, Victoria Park.
Special APPEAL for the NEW WING.
Amount still required, 24,000.
Number of beds now occupied, 120.
Number of beds available with proposed addition, 164.
The Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support.
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neutrality towards all other States. The 25-th
Article adds, "The courts of Great Britain, Austria,
France, Prussia, and Russia, guarantee to his Majesty
the King of the Belgians the execution of all the
preceding articles." There can be no mistake as to
the meaning of the language employed, and the
infraction of the treaty by any of the Powers men-
tioned, would be a moral crime. Since Belgium was
erected into an independent kingdom, a new dynasty
has been raised in France, and although it has been
stated in some quarters that the Emperor is not
bound by the agreement entered into by Louis
Philippe, on several occasions his word has been
passed that he would respect the settlement. It may
not be remembered that before the acceptance of
the Belgian crown by Prince Leopold of Saxe-
Coburg,i it was offered to, and ref used by, the Duke
of Nemours, the second son of the King of the
French. Lord Palmerston, for England, 'Prince
Esterhazy and Baron Wissenberg, for Austria, the
Duc de Talleyrand, for France, Baron von Biilow, for
Prussia, Prince Lieven and Count Matuszeurlc, for
Rnssia, and Baron Van de Weyer, for Belgium, were
the plenipotentiaries who signed the treaty.

ledge of American institutions and modes of
thought.

.THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.

The substance of the more recent negociations be-
ween England and the United States on the subject of
the Alabama clalips, has been submitted to the Ameri-
can Senate by the President. In December last Mr.
Motley had a long interview with Lord Clarendon,
for the purpose of reading a despatch from Mr. Fish,
but the English Minister declined to make any com-
ments upon it on the ground that "it was difficult
to look for hopeful negociations when so strong an
indictment was presented against the British Go` ern-
ment." At this interview Mr. Motley stated that
t he demands made by Mr. Fish commanded the cor-
dial approbation of a large majority of the American
people. On another occasion the United States Min-
ister expressed the opinion that the first step towards
the re-establishment of friendly and honourable re-
lations between the two nations was for the English
Government to look at the case from the same point
of view as the Americans. After a good deal of
negotiations Lord Clarendon, finding it impossible to
meet the demands of Mr. Fish, informed Mr. Motley
that it was neither useful nor expedient to continue
a controversial correspondence, in which there was
so little hope of one Government being able to con-
vince the other. The matter, therefore, remains
in exactly the same position as at the beginning of
the dispute, and it only rests with the good sense of
the two countries to keep in abeyance the bickerings
that might lead to further complications.

OVERLADEN SHIPS.

So many maritime disasters have occurred from
the overloading of merchant ships that great interest
attaches to the investigation of any misfortune sup-
posed to arise from that cause. The Court of Inquiry
held at Newcastle-on-Tyne into the loss of the
steamer Sea Queen, by direction of the Board of
Trade, arrived at the conclusion that the vessel,
though deep, was not overladen to such an extent as

;o be dangerous. The great length of the Sea Queen,

which was not less than nine times her beam,
and the absence of bulwarks, would account in the
opinion of the court for her overladen appearance
when afloat. The evidence was, however, extremely
conflicting, and consequently unsatisfactory. There

is no means of verifying it, for, so far as is known,
every soul on board the Sea Queen perished on the
Scroby Sand off the Norfolk coast. Her cargo con-
sisted of 1,117 tons of coals, about one-third more
than her gross tonnage, but her depth in the water
was very variously estimated. The court take advan-

tage of the opportunity to point out to the
Government the strong feeling which has been ex-
pressed on the subject of overloading, and the neces-
sity for instituting some inspection to prevent a sys-
tem which has become notorious in vessels leaving
the Tyne. The TVreek, Register has often contained
warnings on this point, and we may therefore hope
that this emphatic recommendation will draw atten-
tion to a much-needed reform. The ingniry into
this Sea Queen affair was concluded some time ago,
hut the whole report of the case is now issued as a
Parliamentary paper.