The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY 'EVENING, MAY

way, the engine_ and train would have been- hurled'
over into the premises of the gas works, a height of
some 20 or 30 feet. The traffic along this part of
the line is very Considerable, perhaps 150 trains
passing to and fro in the course of the day ; and
had there been one approaching on the other lines
when the engine went over, the consequences pos-
sibly may be imagined. After some hours' exertion,
one of the blocked-up line of rails was sufficiently
cleared to allow the trains to pass through, but it
was late before the engine was got away and the
Whole line restored.
The usual notice of the accident has been for-
warded' to the Railway Department of the Board
of Trade, and the directors of the company have
directed an inquiry.
Mr. Gill, the surgeon, of Bow, attended the lady
who was so badly hurt in the face.

HEALTH OF _LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weehiy Return.)

The return for the week that ended last Satur-
day exhibits a considerable reduction in the deaths
of London. In the previous five weeks they ranged
from about 1,200 to 1,400 ; they have now declined
to 1,111. In April the mean temperature of the
air was 42.5 deg. ; in the last fortnight it had been
51.5 deg.; and latterly the south-west has been
the prevailing wind.
In the 10 years 1850-59 the average number of
deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week
was 1,067 ; but as the deaths in the present return
occurred in an increased population, they should be
compared with the average raised proportionally
to the increase, namely, with 1,174. The result of
the comparison is satisfactory, for the actual num-
ber of deaths was less than the estimated number
by 63.

By comparing the tables showing fatal causes in
the last three weeks, it will appear that small-pex,
scarlatina, and whooping-cough have decreased,
while measles and typhus have increased. From
small-pox the deaths in successive weeks were 20,
18, 16; from scarlatina 33, 35, 25 ; from whooping
cough 56, 53, 42. From measles there were in the
three weeks 37, 38, and 53 ; from typhus 34, 24,
and 34. From measles three deaths occurred in
St. Mary, Marylobone ; three in St. John, Padding-
ton; four in Bow; three in St. Mary, Magdalen,
Bermondsey ; three in the West sub-district of
Greenwich. In the previous week the deaths from
,phthisis, bronchitis, and pneumonia were respec-
tively 167, 139, and 59 ; last week they were 141,
88, and 62

Three persons died from burns, namely, a female
servant, aged sixteen, whose clothes had caught
fire, the daughter of a lighterman, aged one year,
from the furniture of the room taking fire, and a
woman who died in University College lospital
from burns received by some means not described.
The daughter of a smith, aged two years, was fatally
scalded by upsetting a tapot. Of eight persons
who died from suffocation, seven were infants suf-
focated in bed, and one was a labourer, aged 22
years, who was killed by the floor of a house in
Lombard-street giving way. A child died at Plum-
stead from scurvy. A woman died in Bethnal-
green from uterine hremorrhage, " aggravated by
occupying an apartment in which nine other per-
sons slept." And a woman, a hawker of lace, died
on door-steps in Woburn-place, in consequence of
her stomach being pierced and heart wounded by a
fish-bone two inches long which she had swallowed.
Last week the births of 786 boys and 819 girls,
in all 1,605 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59
the average number was 1,627.

Horse ;Guards,- which ignores capacity and post.
pones merit to money. Jobs as gross as that of
the appointment :of General Grey have been done
before • but never' certainly in • a manner which
shoved xo-ntter a disregard of the feelings of the
army of the country.—Daily News.

THE HOSPITAL

FOR CONSUMPTIO A

AND DISEASES OF. TEE CHEST.

A special festival in aid of the funds of this
charity was held last evening in the Albion Tavern,
Aldersgate-street, with the intention of forming a
special fund for extinguishing a mortgage debt of
upwards of £B,OOO, wllich had tended to impede
the usefulness of the charity. The chair was occupied
by Sir John Pakington, and the attendance was
very numerous.
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had
been given from the chair, and duly responded
to, _ _

The CHAIRMAN gave the • toast of " The
Church," remarking that no less a sum than £l,lOO
had been derived through the exertions of clergy-
men in aid of the charity during the past year. The
Rev. Canon Wordsworth replied, and expressed the
happiness he felt in believing that the above sum
was more than had been raised through the appeals
of the ministers of the Church during any previous
year. He adverted,to the nature of the disease, to
alleviate Which the society had been instituted, and
to the success of the treatment received by the
patients in the hospital, so that not only was every-
thing possible done to administer to their comfort,
but several cases existed in which this disease,
viewed as incurable, had been demonstrated curable.

He referred at some length to one particular case,
which had fallen under his own notice, and testified
that the directors and supporters of the institution
were doing a great and a holy work. The Chairman,
in next proposing the toast of " The Army
.and
Navy," referred to a letter -that had been received
from a dragoon, who had shared in the Balaklava
charge, who had been an inmate of the hospital,
and bore testimony to the kind treatment he had
received within its walls. The Speaker considered
the aspects of the times to be such that it was the
duty of Government to take all possible care. to
strengthen our armaments and increase their power.
flu hoped, however, that so far as Europe was con-
cerned it would be long before their services were
required, He begged leave to couple with the toast
the name of Major-General Downing. The latter
gentleman replied, and returned thanks for the
army, and Captain Halstead; R.N., shortly replied
for the navy, and expressed the hope that if this
branch was called into active -service it would be
found as proficient as it had shown itself on pre.
vious occasions.

The CIIAIRMAM next rose to propose the
toast of the evening " Prosperity to the
Consumption Hospital"—and appealed to the every-
day experience of all hearing him of the prevalence
of the fatal disease, and the necessity and corre-
sponding benefits of such an institution. The
greater number of the other hospitals in London. ex-
cluded patients labouring under this disease. Pay-
ing a high tribute to the estimable character of
metropolitan charities, and remarking that no less
a sum than £BO,OOO, as he had been informed, was
collected within the London Tavern towards their
support, he did not wish to attribute neglect to
any of them when he said that they excluded con-
sumption patients, as, from the peculiar lingering
character of the disease, it might be said they could
not afford it. During the year preceding the past,
667 patients had keen received into the hospital,
while:during the past year 972 had been admitted
and many discharged in both years with favoirable
symptoms, if the disease in its insidious nature had
not been entirely removed. The outdoor patients
in the year 1858 were 3,971. During the past year
they amounted to 4,647. .The- financial aspect of
the institution was satisfactory.. The income de-
rived from annual subscriptions had increased
from about £3,000 in the preceding year to
£3,832 during the past year, being an
increase of fully 20 per cent. The donations
had, however, fallen off in the sum of £1,659, mak-
ing a deficit of £9OO in the total income. Th., latter
source of income must be expected to fluctuate,
while the stability of the institution depended prin-
cipally upon the latter, and the directors wish; con-
sequently, to increase the former, on which they
can depend. At the same time he did not think a
more curious statistical account could be produced
than one showing the deficiency of the reliable in-
come compared with the ordinary expenditure of
London charities. The reliable income of the pre-
sent institution was £3,000, while the annual ex-
penditure reached £B,OOO. A similar deficiency was
common in other charities, but the available means
was also forthcoming. Presiding lately, at the an-
nual festival of the Orphan Asylum, £B,OOO was
raised in the dining-room. Another sum of £26,000,
he believed, was raised on a similar occasion in sup-
port of the London Hospital. When confidence was
felt in the direction of the institution the public
supplied the means. He trusted that the means of
improvement and of dispensing blessings would
always be at the command of. the present institu-
tion, and that the opportunity of studying the fea-
tures of this disease, which had hitherto baffled the
skill of the medical profession, might be placed
within their reach. Alderman Salomons proposed
the health of the chairman in a neat speech, to
which the latter replied. The sum raised on the
occasion was £1,722.

17, 1860.

Royal Literary Fund was entitled to general ap-
proval and siipport. -

The toast haing been-very cordially accepted,
Mr. O..GODWIN, on behalf of the committee, read
a list of the donations, amounting to between £7OO
and £BOO.

The Right Hon, Mr. NAPIER then proposed the
health of the right reverend chairman, which was
duly acknowledged by his lordship, and
Lord DUNGANNON proposed the health of the
clergy, as a body who had done much for the pre-
servation of literature.

Mr. MONCKTON MILNES, M.P., gave the toast of
46 Prosperity to the Literature of the United
States," which he observed was most interesting to
ourselves as a reflection of the British mind, and as
tending to perpetuate the intellectual communion
we still enjoyed -with those whom he would call
our fellow-Englishmen on the other side of the
Atlantic. He referred to the last romance of Mr.
Hawthorne as an example of the freshness-and ori-
ginality With which an imaginative American
author could treat the classical traditions of old
Europe; and in the graver department of history
he instanced the works of Mr. Prescott and Mr.
Motley, which related the most important events in
the old world with an entire freedoixr:Vrom the pre-
judices besetting most other writers on such themes.

Mr. MOTLEY, author of " The Rise of the Dutch
Republic," briefly replied. He would only venture
to recal once more an old and time-honoured truth,
never more, as he trusted, to be forgotten—that
America and England, although politically severed,
were united for ever by the strongest of all bonds,
those of a common language and a common origin.
(Cheers.) No man was worthy of a place in the
republic of letters who would not do his best to
strengthen that tie. Writers in English, address-
ing as they did so many millions of people, almost
equally distributed on both sides of the Atlantic,
had the privilege of appealing to the noblest and
widest public that ever existed in the world. He
hoped it would not seem inappropriate if lie there
expressed his hope and his earnest conviction that,
before long, an international copyright law would
be enacted, making this vast republic of English
letters one hnd indivisible. ' lie believed it was the
sincere wish of American writers that those Eng:
lish authors whose genius had so long instructed,
delighted, and charmed so many readers beyond the
seas should receive in America not only that praise
which could not be withheld, but their just reward
—and he believed that legislative action in Ame-
rica would soon complete the measure which had
been so generously proffered by the United King-
dom, so that the commonwealth of English litera-
ture might have not only one language but one 13,w.
(Cheers.)
The company- soon after this dispersed.