The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-12 00:00:00

ItOYAL FREE 110SPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patronflor Most. Gracious MATESTI the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron--
Ms Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.

President:l-Ms Grace tho Duke of BUCCLEtiCIL K.G.

This Hospital, founded iu the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders,
wholly dependent i:or support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average cumber of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the promises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contrilr:Aions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co..
Herries spa Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescctt, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Parcae, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co.,yerners-strect ; snd at
the Hospital from 10,till FP.

The Post thinks that the first session of the Reformea
Parliament has been most eventful. The main issue sub-
mitted to the country at the elections was one which
placed Conservatism and Liberalism in striking contrast,
and the new voters fully justified the anticipations enter-
tainei by those who had been their disinterested cham-
pions by pronouncing in the most unequivocal manner in,
favour of a generous and enlightened policy. In a word,
the Reformed House of Commons represented Liberalism
in its truest sense. In its conduct, the newly.
elected House did not belie the hol es that were
entertained of it, nor did it by a single vote
supply occasion to the late Government to charge itself
with precipitation in having so promptly resigned office.
The majority which the new Administration found at
its service on its accession to office never diminished.
A measure second in importance to none which during
the past half century has been submitted to Parliament
was carried through its every stage in the Lower House
by triumphant majorities. But in referring, however
cursorily, to the past session, it is impossible to ignore the
important part played by the House of Lords. If the
tide of democracy, as sonic assure us, has set in, it is
worthy of note that the wives have not yet approached
the House of Peers. Satisfied though the country was
with the Church Bill when it left the Commons, no voice
of complaint was heard when, in accordance with their
constitutional right, the Lords took it on themselves to
alter it. This bodes well for the future ; and the har-
mony which has during this eventful session been pre-
served between the two Houses of Parliament promises a
long continuance of our legislative system on its present
basis.

The Daily .News declares that the detailed results of the
session are great and enduring rather than numerous, and
give ample evidence of the new vigour which characterises
the legislation of the new Parliament. The Irish Church
Act is, of course, the triumph of the year. The long and
earnest attention given it by the House of Commons, and
the unwearied majorities which supported its great prin-
ciples against all opposition at every stage, made it as it
first went up to the House of Lords the greatest and most
remarkable measure of modern times. Nor was the con-
duct of the House of Commons in sustaining its main
features against the interested opposition of the non-
representative House unworthy of the great measure it
had passed. The respect with which the twice-
reformed representative body treated the unreformed
relic of feudal times must have reassured the most
timid worshipper of the past. Happily, the com-
promise which has saved the dignity of the ermine
has not destroyed the value to Ireland of the great Act
of popular justice, though it has a little marred its logical
completenesss. The stubborn attitude of the one class
Chamber of our Constitution is one of the anxieties of the
future. Ever since the first Reform Bill the divergence
between the Lords and the Commons has been gradually
increasing, and a second reform, which has made the repre-
sentative House more truly representative, has so much
increased that divergence as to render it already a ques-
tion how the hereditary Chamber is to be made to work
with a people's House. The session leaves that problem
looming in threatening aspect on the horizon of the future ;
and it would be well if, during the rural meditations of the
autumn, the Lords would accustom themselves to the
thought that they have behind them only a small, if
wealthy and privileged class, and that the House of
Commons represents and embodies the force and purpose
of a nation.

The Star remarks that the session which has just ter-
minated has been so absolutely identified with the Irish
Church that there is some difficulty in remembering the
other topics which have occupied the time and the energies
of Parliament. Those topics, however, have been many,
and a considerable proportion of them have been impor-
tant. Of the great mass of desirable legislation, it was
generally understood at the beginning of the session the
the Government intended to accomplish, besides the Irish
Church Act, an Act for the better control of Endowed
Schools ; an Act fur the oversight of Habitual Criminals ;
an Act that should relieve the ex-compound house
holder of the inconveniences brought upon them
by the Reform Bill ; a Bankruptcy Act ; and ^
Parochial Education Scheme for Scotland. Probably,
few imagined that all these measures except one would
pass ; but the Scotch Education Bill was the only one
among them which broke down. Trinity College, Dublin,
the opening of museums and galleries on Sundays, the
incidence of probate duty, the characteristics of posts:
contracts, electoral intimidation in Wales, the state of
things in New Zealand, the proposed re-arrangement
of the House of Commons, and the site of the
New Law Courts—all these topics have been most
industriously debated. Aud at the very close of
the session the Chancellor of the Exchequer
submitted for consideration during the recess
one of the toughest points of monetary management.
fir. Lowe, indeed, must have a prominent place in any
,rteaciatpl
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questions
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sound o o t
criticisms
has he
all
torts of deputations, but Le has for the first time in our
financial history sliewn a spirit of statesmanlike indepen-
knee towards the powers that be in the City. Such,
r:ef, is the history of the subsidiary work of the great
Irish Church session.

The Esmonde will case was concluded on Tn.s-
-7Ety with a verdict for the plaintiffs, establishing the will
.4 the late Lady Esnionde. The jury were twelve
minutes considering their verdict.

FATAL ExrLome's-. —Mr. Payne held an ingaest
at St. Bartholomew's Hospital respecting the death (1
John Greanes, aged 15. It appeared that the decease.'
was employed as errand boy. Last Wednesday afterno( a.
.vhile seated in a truck outside his employer's shop,
piece of wood knocked against his pocket and an explosion
occurred. His clothes were set on fire. The lad had been
in the habit of playing with "red fire," and at the time of
the explosion there was an ounce of it in his pocket. He was
frightfully burnt, and expired at the hospital from his in-
iuries. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death