The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1860.

OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
1-11 i INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution
earnestly APPEAL to the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST-
ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on
the limited funds of the Society. It has now 106 lifeboats,
some of which have saved this year 120 persons from a watery
grave.

THOMAS BARING, Chairman.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman.
14, John-street, Adelphi, W.C., Sept., 1860.
Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Herries
and Co. ; and at the Institution.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
TOURISTS' SEA-SIDE and FAMILY TICKETS,
available for a month, or longer by extra payment, are now
issued at Paddington and other principal stations.
To Exeter, Bideford, Barnstaple, Dawlish, Teignmouth,
Torquay, and Paignton, 50s. first class, and 355. second class.
Truro, 60s. and 10s. And Penzance, 655. and 455. To parties
of not less than three parsons.
To Weymouth, Dorchester, and Bridport, 355. and 255. ; to
arties taking three or more tickets.
To the Isle of Man, Bangor, and Beaumaris, via Chester
and Liverpool, 70s. and 50s.
To Llandudno, via Liverpool, 61s. and 475.
To Carnarvon, via Llangollen and Llanberris, and to Bala
and Dolgelly, via Llangollen, 70s. and 50s.
To Narberth-road and New Milford, for Tenby and Milford
Haven.—Tourists' tickets, 725. and 50s. ; family tickets (to
parties of not less than three persons), 635. and 455.
To Limerick and Killarney, for the south of Ireland, via
Milford Haven and Waterford, £5 ss. and £4.
Bills, giving full partictvars, can be obtained at the Com-
pany's offices and stations, or upon application to the Super-
intendent at Paddington.

CONTRACTS FOR RUM AND TOBACCO.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
and Transport Services,
Somerset-house, 25th Sept., 1860.
'THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
1- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 9th
October next, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to
treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for
supplying. anti delivering into her Majesty's‘ Victualling
Stores at DEPTFORD, the undermentioned articles, viz. :
BUM.. ..
TOBACCO . 5O Tons.
When to be delivered—Half of each in Three Weeks, and
the remainder in Three Weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the above articles.
Their Lordships reservelo themselves the power, when the
Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole or for
such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater
quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited
power of selection.
The articles to be exempted from the Customs' duties, and
parties tendering are to state where they are respectively
lying.
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several Trade
Marks and Numbers, and the countries or places of its growth
or produce, and a fresh drawn Dock sample of each cask or
package must be produced by the parties tendering, and any
cask or package that is found not to be of the same mark,
number, or quality as the sample tendered and ac,:epted, will
be i ejected by the officers.
.amples of the Rum to be sent in pints for each Import
Mark, and the average strength of each Mark ex to be
stated, and not an average of different marks or strengths of
several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not to
be of the same quality, mark, or average strength of the sam-
ple tendered and accepted, will be rejected by the officers.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not
accepted, are requested to be taken away by them immedi-
ately after the contracts have been decided.
No Tender will be received unless made on the Printed Form
provided for the purpose ; and which may be obtained on ap-
plication at the said Office, or to the Officer conducting the
Packet service at Liverpool, or to the collector of Customs
at Bristol.
Particular attention is called to the recent modifications of
the Conditions of the Contracts, which may be seen at the
said Office, and at Liverpool and Bristol.
No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party
tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re-
ceived from each person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten-
der for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-
hoase.

sto 1 agst any other. A fine race with three resulted in a
dead heat between Recompense and Certainty; the third
beaten two lengths; Punch bolted,

Deciding Heat-6 to 4on Recompense, who was defeated
by a length.
The Volunteer Welter Plate of 30 soya. One mile and a

half.

Mr. Jackson's oh g Spiteful Dick, agedt.l2st 311?

• - (Mr. Erskine) 1
Mr. J. Stenhouse's br h Wellington, 5 yrs, lOst 121 b
(Owner) 2
Peggy Taft, Dilkoosh, and Merrick also ran.

TILE DEBBY AND' THE LONDON

HOSPITALS.

The following is a copy of a most important com-
munication, which has been addressed to the
stewards of the Jockey Club by Mr. Joseph Bond,
a gentleman well known in racing circles, who
comes forward in the most liberal spirit to assist
the London hospitals, by endeavouring to secure
for those noble institutions a permanent endowment
from a source that can well afford the desired aid.
Mr. Bond proposes to allocate 10 per cent. of the
Derby and Oaks Stakes, and undertakes to subscribe
the like sum as the basis_ of a fund to accomplish
the object in view. The nobleness of the sugges-
tion is only equalled by the generosity of its author;
and taking it for granted that the stewards of the
Jockey Club will not withhold their support to the
proposed plan, we feel confident that no owner of a
horse about to start for either of the great races in
question would refuse his,consent to so laudable a
measure, which must tend in every way to exalt
and ennoble the character of the nations sport and
its followers : . .
To TIIE STEWARDS OF THE JOCICSY CLUB: -•
My Lords and Gentlemen,—Were I not perfectly satis-
fied that the appeal I am about to make would be indul-
gently received, and not suffer from misconstruction, I
should shrink from the grave responsibility of importuning
you up on the subject respecting which I am about to ad-
dress you. That subject, my lords and gentlemen, is the
distressed condition of our metropolitan hospitals.
It has been made a matter of severe reproach to me, as a
member of Tattersall's of 20 years' standing, that out of the
vast sums won and paid over as racing stakes, amounting,
in the year 1859, to nearly £200,000, not one farthing, as
far as the public arc aware, has ever been applied to the
aid of our London hospitals. It is admitted, with as much
wit as truth, that charity is like gratitude, and frequently
shuns the light, and .I do not for one moment dispute that
many connected with the Turf, in their individual capaci-
ties, contribute largely and generously to charitable ob-'
jects ; but that the vast' fund alluded to yields one six-
pence to alleviate the appalling distress and misery of the
helpless and homeless sick of London, I do not believe.
How urgently a portion of this fund is needed may be seen
from the eloquent appeals made by the indefatigable secre-
taries of our hospitals in their annual reports, exhibiting
their bitter struggles with an increasing expenditure for
the relief of gaunt poverty and fell disease. Theirs is no
statement of fabled suffering—no delusive tale of sickly
sentimentality, but the inexorable logic of facts, the stern
realities of life in their most appalling character. The six
hospitals which I have purposely selected, after duo deli-
beration, are St. George's, Hyde-park-corner; St. Mary's,
Paddington ; Charing-cross, Strand ; King's College,
Lincoln's-inn-fields; the Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road;
and the London, Whitechapel. Now, gentlemen, cannot
something be done for these glorious receptacles, with their
large and augmenting masses of suffering? Shall a fund,
which at this moment may fairly be calculated at £200,000,
and which may probably ere long reach a quarter of a mil-
lion,
contribute nothing P

To whom can I better appeal than to you ? In a ques-
tion of such magnitude I can only submit it to those who
can estimate its value, and reason on its importance. You
form one of the most powerful and influential corporate
bodies of this realm—your voice is potential to succour and
to save. I ask you, therefore, to allocate a portion—a
mere per-tentage—of this large sum to the purpose I have
but crudely adverted to. You will by so doing neither en-
courage idleness nor pamper sensuality and vicious ex-
penditure. I ask you not "to listen with credulity to the
whispers of fancy," when I solemnly assure you that not
one farthing deposited on these sacred altars is alienated
unrighteously from its original purpose, not an ounce of
bread wasted, but garnered scrupulously for solace and
nutriment, the whole presided over by watchful adminis •
trators; with medical boards second to none in the world,
men who shed lustre upon one of the most arduous profes-
sions that ever taxed the brain and intellect to adorn ecience

—undeviating messengers of healing and mercy, unwearied
in their patient and skilful efforts.
My lords, there is a very trite Asiatic proverb that a man
need not mind being pelted with salt if he have no sores.
Now, with respect to the Turf in relation to these hospitals,
I feel that there is a sore—an ulcer—and the sooner it is
healed, not filmed over, the better. To me it is personally
humiliating, and I would willingly endure much inconve-
nience and sacrifice if I thought I could humbly assist in
effacing this blot from the racing community.
Here, gentlemen, let me respectfully express my deep re-
gret that this subject has not a more gifted interpreter.
But sure I am that the high feeling and urbanity so pre-
eminently characteristic of your honourable body will kindly
accept this suggestion on its merits, and not allow the in-
significancy of the individual, nor the feebleness of the
advocate, to weigh against your benevolent resolves.

Confident in the hope, therefore, of your lordships' co-
operation, I venture to make you the following proposi-
tion :

The summer meeting at Epsom, where the highly
coveted " blue riband" of the Turf is contended for, is
regarded as the groat metropolitan festival. The net amount
of stakes for the Derby and Oaks I put as follows—£s,ooo
and £1,000—X9,000 in round numbers ; 10 per cent, upon
this would produce £9OO. Now, if you will afford me
your valuable and influential support to secure and perpe-
tuate annually this amount, either by way of resolution in
full council—or requisition submitted by your courteous
and efficient officers, Messrs. Weatherby, for signature, to
the owner of each starting horse, cn the morning of the
race, I solemnly engage myself, at the ensuing summer
meeting, to hand over to those gentlemen, Messrs.
Weatherby, through Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.,
Pall-mall East, a sum equal to such allocations of 10 per
cent. on the Derby or Oaks Stakes, to be immediately paid
over to the treasurers of those hospitals ; and should your
lordships' powerful and kind intervention succeed in allo-
cating 10 per cent. upon both those races,-my contribution
shall be equal to one thousand guineas ; for having brought
the child to the font, it is only manly and right that I
should do my part, and deposit with him my humble tri-
bute and best wishes (with your fostering care) for his
future growth, expansion, and welfare. I have now con-
cluded my appeal, which I earnestly recommend to your
lordships' high approval; and exalted indeed will be
the honour of being permitted to associate myself with
your distinguished body in so glorious a work.—With
much respect, JOSEPH BoNn.

Queen's-road, Glo'ster Gate, N.W., Sept. 1860.

P.S.—The statistics relative to the present distressed
condition of the six hospitals named are ample and incon-
trovertible; and I wish it to be distinctly understood that
my proposition involves the allocation of the fund men-
tioned, as well as my inauguration fee, solely to the per-
manent endowment of those institutions.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The Metropolitan board of Works reassembled
after the recess yesterday, in the Council Chamber,
Guildhall—Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair.

The financial statement was presented, which
showed a total cash balance in the hands of the
treasurer of £235,140, 14s. 3d.
THE METROPOLIS MANAGEMENT ACT AMENDMENT