The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

Merchants' Bills, 60 days, f per cent. premium.

NOTTINGHAM GENERAL IMFIRMARY.
The sixty-ninth anniversary of this most excellent
charity was held on Thursday, Oct. 30, in the Grand
Jury-room at the Shire-hall. Among the governors
present were his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, the
Earl Manvers, the Hon. H. Coke, the Hon. and Her. J.
V. Vernon, the Venerable Archdeacon Wilkins, the
Venerable Archdeacon Browne, J. M. Sutton, Esq.,
M.P., W. LI. Barrow, Esq., M.P., the Revs. T. C. Cane,
J. D. Becher, G. F. Holcombe, R. W. Almond, A. 0.
Fitzgerald, C. F. Willoughby, R. Burnside, B. Wright,
F. G. Wintour, R. Miles, J. Twells, J. Bateman, H. A.
Coles (Marnham), and T. Proctor ; Colonel Hill,
Colonel Rolloston, W. Felkin, Eiq. (Mayor of Notting.
ham), T. Nixon, Esq., H. P. Sherbrooke, Esq., R. K.
Kelham, Esq., E. P. Burnell, Esq., R. Holden, Esq., W.
F. N. Norton, Esq , J. S. Sherwin, Esq., I. C. Wright,
Esq., W. J. Pickin, Esq., T. Close, Esq., T. Marriott,
Esq., R. Milward, Esq., W. Taylor, Esq., T. B.
Charlton. Esq., J. Heard, Esq., S. Newham, Esq., T.
Carver, Esq., R. Morley, Esq., A. Morley, Esq., F.
Braithwaite, Esq., T. Bittlestone, Esq., W. Crippa,
Esq., J. C. Williams, E2q., T. Bishop, Esq., W. Lacey,
Esq., G. Beaumont, Esq., S. Wilmott, Esq., W. Enfield,
Esq., C. Swann, Esq., Captain Legard. Captain Salmond,
Captain Bodham, Aldermen Carver, Knight, Reckless,
and Heymann; and Messrs. Hawkridge, H. M. Wood,
B. Eddison, Fowler, Adams, Skipwith, and Tomlinson.
Earl MANTERS said he had, with extreme regret, to
inform the meeting that his son, Lord Newark, who was
to have presided over them that day, was, to his great
grief, prevented by ill health from attending. Such
being the case, he had requested their mutual friend,
Mr. Sherbrooke, to officiate as President in his place.
The company then adjourned to St. Mary's Church,
whither they were attended by the town bailiffs, bear-
ing the maces. After matins had been said, an excellent
and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. T.
Twells, rector of Gamston, near Retford, from Matthew
vi., 23, 24, 25. At the conclusion of the service a col-
lection, according to annual custom, was made in aid of
the funds of the society, the amount received being
0011. 103. The plates were held by the Hon. Mrs.
Howard, wife of the Dean of Lichfield, supported by
his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, and Lady Georgians
Clinton, supported by the deputy-president, Henry P.
Sherbrooke, Esq.
The Governors re-assembled in the County Hall
shortly before two o'clock, when in succession votes of
thanks were accorded, on the motion of Earl Manvers,
to Mrs. Howard and Lady Georgiana Clinton, for
the honour they had conferred on the charity in
acting as Lady Patronesses, on that of the Duke
of Newcastle, to the Rev. T. Twells, for his
impressive and excellent sermon cn behalf of the
institution just preached in St. Mary's Church; on that
of his Worship the Mayor, to the President and
Stewards, for their kind exertions on the occasion; on
that of Mr. R. Holden, to the Auditors, the Rev. R. W.
Almond and F. Hart, Esq., for their great zeal and at.
tention to the interests of the institution; and of Mr.
Nixon, to the Vicar and Churchwardens of St. Mary's
and all who had assisted gratuitously on the occasion.
Directions were then given that the weekly commit-
tee should elect a chaplain pro tem, to the institution,
and that the permanent appointment should be made at
the ensuing anniversary. Tho weekly committee ac-
cordingly appointed the Rev. Henry Bell.
Mr. HART proposed that Mr. Bell be appointed chap.
lain to the hospital; Mr. NIXON seconded the motion;
and there being no other candidate proposed, Mr. Bell
was deolared unanimously elected.
The meeting, after awarding a vote of thanks to the
chairman, then broke up.—Derhyshire Courier.

RAILWAY LONDONFIII
Last night Dr. B. F. Thompson delivered a lecture at
the St. George's (llanover-square) Library and Reading
Rooms, on the manners and costumes of Oriental na-
tions, and on the proposed railway to India by the Eu-
phrates Valley. Raving pointed out by means of
drawings and other illustrations the costumes of the va-
rious Arab tribes, and commented upon their peculiari-
ties. he proceeded to point out on a large chart the proposed line of railway, the difficulties in the .___
con-
struction
of which he could state from personal obser-
vation, vation, having resided some years at Damascus
rs t as had
other cities in the East, were by no meansh
been imagined. Ile believed that evens tuses°..f_f'r_tattiroef
sections of the line would lead !obi:3
op.niclomx:wbuere the
completion. The only difficulties,bianbie 1
Gulf, but
of the tribes on the shores
were
both
favourable to the
jealousy of Russia and the prof
the
Persia herself and Turkey we
y posts stationed along the
Persianhostility of some
scheme, and a
this source. The route indi-
cated inconvenience
which, four centuries ago, was pursued
e would obviate any proba-
line of railway
cated was that
whhiicch carried on the traffic between the
by the caravans w
and the east. Dr. Thompson, after re-
western world
mode in which the passage through the
ferring to the
fotreirsommmielittfilnir
northern part
ed by 'Enean of the Taurus range might be aceem-
s of a tunnel, which would not present
greater
engineering difficulties than many great works
accomplished
d this country, then expatiated at some
length
upon the social and moral advantages of intro-
-1 clueing the civilization and the education of the west
among the nations of central Europe. From a want of
previous arrangement the lecture was somewhat pro-
tracted, and the audience began to exhibit signs of im-
patience before it Wes brought to a close.
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LASGOW,
Nov. S.—Cotton—We have had a fair
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baTlens:oyrdaas3o, sffeargeod
inquiryi. for cotton wool, and prices are a shade batter. Sea
aforpasairceel
boyf
auction. The sale went on with considerable spirit at a re-
duction of from ),d. to lid. at; compared with terms going a
fortnight previously. Prices ranged between 21,id. and 361 d.
per lb. About two-thirds were disposed of, and a parcel of
400 bales was bought privately after the sale. There is more
firmness in yarns and goods, and the downward tendency
has been arrested. Iron—The past week bas been a very
dull one in the iron-market, and prices are a shade more
favourable to buyers. Warrants may be quoted 38s. 9d.
cash; No. 1, 395.; No. 3,385.6 d. in makers' hands, cut oa
deliyery.