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ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
West-hill, Putney-heath.

Esiablished'3lst July, 1854.

This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
able bodily disease.
Relief is afforded-Ist. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in-
valid.

2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at the
own homes.

A new wing to the Hospital has lust been completed
at a cost of upwards of £lO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and cspo-
clay annual subf3riptions, aro earnestly solicited. Life
subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion.
Information will be supplied, with the g-oatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions
will be thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW Secretary
No. 10. Poultry Loudon, E.C. September 1868.

BRITISH HOME for INC URABLES, Clap-
bam-rise. Instituted in 1861.
Patroness—H.R.H. the Princess of WALES.
This Institution provides a home for life, with good
nursing and skilled medical attendance, for porscns over
20 years of ago and above the pauper class, who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted
The Homo was opened in September 1863 ; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections
in May and November. Forms of application may be ob-
tained from the Secretary.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited.
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-
street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
ED WD. WEAVER, Sec.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C.

THE RESCUE S_
Ire ae fol
For Faller
28, Church-row, Hamp-
stead.
13,Camden-street,Camden-

0 CIETY'S HOMES

I:ows

Women.
150, Now Kent-road.
48, Church-street, Stoke
Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, (Treat Portland street. I wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, lionstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's- street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
cLaracter, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The borne at. Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories aro recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never road a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers aro Messrs. Barclay and 00.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CODPEB, Soc.
Q.110012-street Cheapside.

DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN.
A_ —The ROYAL INFIRMARY for CHILDREN
and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-road. Instituted 1810.
Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most
urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the
poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital.
Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E.
Bankers--Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 71, Loin-
bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
CHARLES J. F. REN TON, Secretary.

/FRE DEAF & .DUMB.—The Committee of the
JEWS' DEAF and DUMB HOME are prepared to-
receive APPLICL.TIONS for the ADMISSION of DEAF
and DUMB CHILDREN, of all denomivatious, as Day
Pupils, for instruction in audible speech and lip-reading.
The system adopted rigidly excludes the use of the
manual alphabet and all artificial signs.
A public lesson is given every Wednesday, at 3 p.m.,
when the successful results of the system can be wit-
nessed.
Applications for terms, the course of instruction, and all
other particulars, to be made to
W. VAN PRAAGH, Esq.,
Director of the Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home,
44, Burton-crescent, W.C.

EAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN.
Tl:e Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which
shall enable them to establish the Hospital in more suit-
able buildings. The promises now occupied are crowded
and inconvenient, causing additional expense from that
circumstance. It is impossible even to purchase on whole-
sale terms many articles of daily consumption from want
of room for stowage, every inch of available space being
occupied. There is a daily demand for more beds, and the
staff of nurses would be able to attend apon more children,
but no more can be admitted in the present building..
£B,OOO at least is required to carry out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Trea-
surer, B.S. Norris, Hsq., Shadwell ; or by
SHERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon. Sec.,
Rectory, Wapping, B.

ESTABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN
during TEMPORARY ILLNESS.
The relatives of Clergymen, Naval, Military, and Pro-
fessional Men, Governesses, and Artists may, for a small
weekly payment, receive the comforts of a HOME, com-
bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the
establishment, 90, Upper Harley-street.
This establishment, which was opened in 1850, is patro-
nised by her Majesty. Tho Bishop of London Visitor,
and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormonde, the
Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady
Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and othei ladies.
All information respecting it may be obtained on writ-
ten or personal application to the Lady Superintendent.
Subscriptions received at the Institution, and by the
Treasurer, at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, 59, Strand.
W. C SPRING RICE Hon. Sea.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MArEfrrr the QUEEN.
Vico-Patron-
- His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.

President-L-lEs Grace the Duke of BLC.CTEIeaI- S.G.
This Uospital, 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, is
wholly dependent f.er support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.

It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destiluto 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 premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contrib--tions aro received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyv and Co.;
Hurries and no.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smitb, Pape, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deticon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co.,;Beruers- street ;:and,at
the Hospital from 10,till 5.

On Sunday, August Bth, in the presence of a numerous
congregation, this sacrilegious scene (says the Times cor-
respondent) was enacted in the cathedral church of Berlin.
The Rev. H. Heinrici was standing before the altar,
reciting the Belief, when a young man, rising
from a front seat and interrupting the clergy.
man, gave him the lie, and at once discharged a pistol at
his breast. The next moment he was in the hands of the
sexton, and quietly suffered himself to be led away to the
vestry. A portion of the congregation, seated at a dis-
tance, having only heard the report and seen the curling
smoke, without any definite notion of what was going on,
immediately began to move towards the door, and created
considerable tumult; but those near the altar, who bad
been witnesses of the daring attempt, retained their seats.
In preserving their composure they but imitated the noble
example of the clergyman whose life had just been placed
in such jeopardy. The Rev. H. Heinrici was unhurt.
No sooner had the trying interlude come to an end than the
intended victim calmly resumed reading the Creed, and with
redoubled fervour proclaimed that Belief the utterance of
which had imperilled his life. After this the service was
continued in accordance with the prescribed ritual. The
Rev. H. Heinrici left the altar, when the Rev. Dr. Kugel
ascended the pulpit and preached a sermon, in which ho
introduced a passage expressive of hit thanks to God for
the miraculous escape of his clerical brother. Quiet had
been speedily restored, and the greater portion of the con.
gregation, agitated as they were by the most powerful
emotions, left the church only after the final benediction.
In the meantime the criminal had been conducted
by a policeman to the nearest station, and examined
by a superior officer. To all the questions put to
him he replied with the utmost frankness and composure-
He said :—" My name is Biland. lam 19 years of age, a
Protestant, and the son of a blacksmith, in the village cf
Lank, county of _Lower Barniin, a few miles from
Berlin. My parents sent me to a grammar-school,
wishing me to become a candidate for the ministry in the
Established Church. But my eyes were soon opened to
the falsehood of the creed I was expected some day to
teach, and my dislike was increased to disgust when I
perceived that many of those professing to believe it were
liars at heart. I refused to pursue a career which had
become so hateful to me, and resisted all attempts of rof
parents to force me to persevere. Eventually I saw myself
left by them to my own devices, and began to study art—
the dramatic art, I mean. I wished to become an actor,
and to preach to the public in my own way ; but the
religious mendacity rampant around me gave me no rest.
Some I saw uttering deliberate untruths, while others,
knowing them to be such, listened with contemptuous
indifference. Gradually I taught myself that some
striking deed was indispensable to rouse the public mind
from its apathy, and chase away the mists of superstition.
I, therefore, determined to seize the first favourable
opportunity that offered for shooting a clergyman
while in the act of uttering his accursed perjuries.
I have done it. I have myself cast the ball and
done my best to render the shot fatal. I am sound in
body and mind, and scorn the suggestion that I have
acted under the disturbing influence of temporary
insanity. I perfectly knew what I was about, and am
convinced there are many able to comprehend the disinte-
restedness of my purpose, though they may, perhaps,
not approve the method chosen to compass it. My design
was to shoot Mr. Heinrici, and I was prepared to pay the
penalty of the deed." Such in substance was the state-
ment of the reckless, misguided young man. Inquiries
seem folly to confirm his words. His having missed at a
distance of three paces at first gave rise to the surmise
that he Lad fired with blank cartridge; but it is only too

true that there was a ball in the barrel. The course of
the ball has been exactly traced. Passing within an inch
of the clergyman's head, it penetrated the open balustrade
of the gallery, in which the Dom Chor—celebrated for its
vocal performances—was stationed, and grazed the cheek
of one of the choristers, a boy of 12. The little fellow,
although his cheek instantly began to swell, did not leave
the church, but sang his allotted part to the end. The
Prince Admiral Adalbert, the only member of the Royal
Family present, when the service was over hastened to ex•
press his sympathy to the two clergymen and the little
chorister boy.

Last week a young girl, in the County West-
meath, was stung by a wasp, and died in a few days
afterwards.

Tun LlEnnnw ALPHABET.—Verse 21, chap 7, of
Ezra, contains every letter of the English alphabet. It is,
perhaps, not so well known that verse 8, chap 3, of
Zephaniah, contains every letter, including finals, of the
Hebrew, as well as every vowel sound, and also the diffe.
rent form of the Sheva.--jewish Chronicle.

RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO Wnipsoß.—Her
Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Prince and Prin.
cess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Princesses Louise
and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the
ladies and gentlemen of the Court, is expected to leave
Osborne about Wednesday or Thursday next, and return
to Windsor. It is believed her Majesty will leave for
Scotland at the close of the week. At Windsor Castle
preparations are being made for the reception of the
Royal Family.

THE THREATENED STRIKE AT ST. KATRARTNE'S
Docks.—The threatened strike of the labourers employed
about the London and St. Katharine's Docks has been
avoided. It appears that the grievance of the men was
not the act of the dock directors, but of one of their super-
intendents. Mr. C. Gassiot informed a deputation of the
labourers on Friday that the directors had no intention to
deprive the men of their holidays. In making their men
comfortable, they believed the company would gain in the
end. The interview ended with mutual expressions of
good-will.

TILE LATE SIR ROBERT CLIFTON. —Whitehall,
Aug. 6.—The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Henry
Robert Markham, of Clifton Hall, in the county of
Nottingham, Esq, her royal licence and authority that he
and his issue may, in compliance with a clause contained
in the last will and testament of his maternal great uncle
Sir Robert Clifton, late of Clifton Hall aforesaid, Bart.,
deceased, take and henceforth use the surname of Clifton
instead of that of Markham, and that he and they may
bear the arms of Clifton quarterly with those of Markham,
such arms being first duly exemplified according to the
laws of arms, and recorded in the College of Arms, other-
wise the said royal license and permission to be void and
of none effect ; and also to command that the said roya
concessson and declaration be recorded in Her Majesty's
C ollege of Arms.—London Gazette.

THE NEW 1, sly COURTS.—Last week we printed
the repor t agreed on by Mr. Lowe's Select Committee on
the New Law Courts site, in which the Committee resolved
in favour of Carey-street. Following the example of one
or two of our contemporaries we have this week presented
our readers with Mr. Lowe's own draft report, which was
rejected by the committee. It is rumoured in various
quarters that the "Battle of the Sites" is not yet over.
The reference to a select committee was made at
the instance of the Government, and it was so far unwel-
come to the supporters of Carey-street in that it deprived
them of Sir Roundell Palmer's advocacy. The committee,
however, have decided, and we cannot imagine that after
this the Government will persist in their endeavours to
force the Embankment site upon an unwilling majority
of the public and the profession. Moreover, Mr. Lowe re-
cently in the House of Commons disclaimed any intention
of bringing in any measure for the purchase of any fresh
site. At least this is the reasonable interpretation of his
reply. When asked on Tuesday whether the Government
meant to take any steps during the recess, he stated on
that occasion that the Government could not do any-
thing in the recess. As the select committee had not
recommended the purchase of any fresh land no notice
would be given of any bill for that purpose, and as no
grant had been obtained from Parliament for the erection
of the courts on either site, no steps, he said, could be
taken. Had the Howard-street site never been brought
forward, this delay never need have happeued.7-$940(4r?
sT9urn_ai.