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TIDE IOYAL FREE HOSPITAL.

It is now about 30 years since, finding a girl in the
streets in the last stage of destitution and disease, and

discovering that there was no hospital open fcr her recep-
tion without a ticket of recommendation from a governor,
which could not be obtained until the following morning,
Dr. Marsden determined to endeavour to found an hoe-

pital, for admission to which no other I.g-commendation
should be required than that of labouring under disease,
and needing assistance. The idea was in the first in-
stance carried out by the opening of a dispensary in
Greville street, Hatton-garden, which ere long expanded
into the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-lane. It is no
wonder that the claims upon such a charity should be
unusually large, and accordingly we find that whereas at
the commencement of the institution the number of pa-
tients only amounted to a few hundreds, they had last
year increased to nearly 40,000. At the death of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, Grand Master of Freema-
sons, a subscription was entered into to erect a memorial
to his memory. This subscription amounted to about
1,6001., and after some deliberation it was determined to
present it to the Royal Free Hospital towards the erec-
tion of a Sussex wing, on their obtaining a sufficient
further sum to carry out such a design. A sufficient
amount was considered to have been reached last yearto
justify the committee in proceeding with the work, and
accordingly in July last the foundation-stone was laid,
with masonic honours, Br. Dobie G. Reg. officiating for
the Grand Master, who was prevented from being present
at the ceremony by the illness of the countess. The work
was entrusted to Mr. C. In❑es, and has been most ad-
mirably carried out, the new portion of the building being
catculated to afford accommodation for 135 beds, 54 of
which, however, were displaced by the alterations in the
new building, necessary for the new wing, so that the
real number of additional beds is about 80—making the
total number of beds in the hospital about 200 in all.
The hospital is still upwards of 2 0001. in debt, and
whilst the regular income from subscriptions i• only
about 1,5001. a-year, the expenditure exceeds 3,7001.--
leaving the remainder to be supplied by donations and
legacies, which la•t year were of sufficient amount to li-
quidate ❑early 2,5001. of debt.

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The opening of the new wing took place yesterday, the
ceremony being performed by the Right Hon. Lord
Leigh, R. W., Prov. G.M. for Warwickshire, supported
by the committee and a large number of the brethren of
the mystic tie ; though, strange to say, the ceremony in
no way partook of a masonic character, and not an
arnb!en2 of any description was exhibited. The ceremony
was as simple as possible. Lord Leigh and the committee
having seen patients placed in the beds, a procession
was formed, and Lord Leigh and a number of the com-
mittee took up their position on a temporary platform ;
when the obj,cts of the charity and the circumstance,
under which the wing was erected 114% ing been explained,
a statue of his Royal Highness, by l!.1 r. H. L. Thomas,
was revealed to public view amidst loud cheers. Under-
neath the memorial is the following inscription:—
" Blessed is the man that provideth for the needy. The
Lord shall deliver him in time of trouble."—Psalm xli.
"As a memorial in strict conformity with the tenor of
the life of his late Royal Highness Prince Augustus Fre- '
derick Duke of Sue.ex, and, therefore, most fitting to
perpetuate the memory of his many virtues, this wing to
the Royal Hospital was erected in the lAth year of the
reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria."
The playing of the National Anthem by a band which
bad been in attendance throughout the morning closed
the proceedings.
In the evening the friends of the charity dined toge.
ther in Freemasons' Hall, under the presidency of the
Right Hon. Lord Leigh, who was supported by the Earl
Of Zetland, Lord Denman, the Rev. Dr. Bowles, grand
master for Herefordshire; the Rev. Dr. Owen, Dr.
Mar.den (founder of the hospital), Mr. Prichard, high
bailiff of Southwark ; Alderman Spiers, of Oxford ; Dr.
Kent, grand master for New South Wales ; Drs. Brin-
ton, Hassell, O'Connor, Glover ; Messrs. De Merie, C.
R. Britman, A. Marsden, B. Brown, G. B. Graham
G. Warre, Watson, W. Cooke, W. Cook, C. Walmisley,
Head, T. Wakley, jun. ; Mr. Fenn, secretary, and about
300 gentlemen, the large msjority of whom were Free-
masons.

In proposing the toast of the evening, the noble lord
descanted on the great advantages derivable from the in-
stitution, and the purely free principles on which patients
were admitted ; the only recommendation required being
that of being in want of assistance—rendering the
canvassing for letters of recommendation, which too
many poor persons were unable to obtain, altogether
unnecessary. No institution upon that principle was in
existence prior to the Royal Free Hospital. It was true
that others were now partially adopting the system, but
whilst with those establishments it was the exception,
with the Royal Free Hospital it was the rule. (Cheers.)
As a proof of how the principle was appreciated, be
might mention that in the first year of the opening of the
hospital only 926 patients were relieved, while last year
the number had increased to 39,891—the total of die.
tressed persons relieved since the formation of the hos-
pital being upwards of 500,000. The hospital was always
ready admit persons suffering from epidemic, and when
cholera first made its appearance in this county in 1852,
the hospital threw open its d iors for the reception of suf-
ferers by it, whilst all others kept theirs closed against
such patients. Upwards of 700 persons labouring under
that disease were then admitted, and during sub- °Tient
visitations more than 9 000 were relieved. There could be
no doubt the public derived great advantage frnn this
hospital, by the check which bad been given by the insti-
tution 5o the spread of infectious and contagious diseases,
from the facility of admission given to persons afflicted
therewith. It was also worthy of remark than the benefits
of the institution were not confined to the metropolis,
but hundreds of poor persons from all parts of the coun-
try, as well as foreigners of every creed and nature, had
been recipients of the charity ; and, not long since,
amongst their patients was„the son of Nene, the New Zea-
land chief, who commanded the native forces on the side
of the British at the war of the Bay of Islands in 1845.
In addition to the other patients, large numbers of desti-
tute, unfortunate females were yearly admitted into the
wards of t!e hospital, and not a few of whom, on being
cured, were, by the exertions of the rev, chaplain and
the committee, restored to their families and friends,
with every prospect of I ecoming respectable members
of society. These, as well as other destitute patients,
were, on leaving the hospital, assisted with clothes
and others sums of money. The noble lord then
adverted to the inadequacy of the regular subscrip-
tions to meet the expenses of the charity, and, after an
eloquent appeal to the company for support, concluded
by proposing, " Prosperity and perpetuity to the Royal
Free Hospital," which was most cordialy responded to.
The next toast given was, " The Memory of his late
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex," whose name has
become connected with the hospital from a subscription
having been entered into on his demise to raise a monu-
ment to his memory.

The Earl of ZETLAND, in proposing the toast, impress-
ed upon the company that the idea of raising a monu-
ment to the memory of the Duke of Sussex bad not ori-
ginated, as was in some quarters most erroneously sup-
posed, with the masonic body. Undoubtedly the leading
members of that body had cordially co•operated in the
proposal to connect the tneint,ry of the duke with an in-
stitutio❑ so eminently calculated to represent the bene-
volent feelings that bad actuated his Royal Highness
throughout life—still in the main, the erection of the
"Sussex wing" of the Royal Free Hospital bad ema-
nated from the admirers of his character from amongst
the community at large.

The next toast was 'I The House of Lords," which was
responded to by Lord Denman.
The SECRETARY then read the list of subscriptions,
which amounted to 1,3351. is. 6d. Amongst the prin
cipal subscribers were—Her Majesty, 1001. ; the Duke
of Cambridge. 10/. ; the Chairman. 311. 10s. ; H. Par-
nell, Esq., 30/. ; Wm. Cotton, Esq., 201. ; Mr. C. 8.,
501. ; Mrs. C. B. 501. ; Mrs. M. C. 12.501. ; Dr. Mars-
den, 501. ' • Earl Fortescue, 101. ; Lord Yarborough,
201. ; Dr. O'Connor, 21. 2s. ; Mrs. and Miss Dolan, 21.
2s. ; Mr. O'Connor, 11. ls.
"The Health of Dr. Manion, the Founder of the In-
,titution," was then proposed, and was received, as may
well be supposed on such an occasion, with great en-
thu-iasm. _ _ _

Dr. MARSDEN returned thanks in a very eloquent and
feeling speech, in which he took occasion to mention the
many and various difficulties of every kind which he had
to go through in working out the establishment of a free
hospital, a class of institution at that time utterly un-
known in London.
Several other toasts followed, including " The Com-
mittee of Management," coupled with the name of the
Rev. Mr. Owen; "The Medical Gentlemen who gra-
tuitously attend the Hospital," and "The Stewards of

the day."
The musical arrangements were under the direction of
Mr. Donald King, who was assisted by Madame Ella
Henderson, Miss Heywood, Mr. Young, Mr. M. Smith,
Mr. J. Coward, and Mr. Lawler. The selection of pieces
Was in all respects admirable, aid it is only fair to say
that Miss Heywood ingparticular called forth the marked
applause of the audience.
Mr. F. 0. Higgins acted as toastmaster.

TER sum LONDON, TIITYRIDAY EvENlNtirs JUNE lc me;

THE ALLIED GENERALS.

PAINTED BY T. JONES BARKER.

L I Everybody knows the name anii appreciates the
genius of Mr. Barker, who happens to be at all
acquainted with those beautiful and p )polar en-
gravings taken from his original paintings—works
of art such as the historic pictures of "Nelson
boarding the St. Josef at St. Vincent ; or, better
still, the " Meeting upon the Field of Water-
loo (at the close of the battle) between Blucher
and Wellington," or best of all the " Inci-
dent in the early life of Napoleon the Great,"
the incident of the dog howling over the dead body
of its master among the slain and wounded. Paint-
ings these are, enough (almost we had said any
I one of them) to establish an artist's reputation.
I Here, to crown all, however, we have decidedly the
most daring and pretentious work yet undertaken
by Mr. Barker—the illustration not of a single
battle, nor yet of a solitary campaign, but
one commemorative in an especial manner of
an entire conflict—a war in which were engaged,
either as principals or auxiliaries, some of the chief
powers amongst the nations of Christendom. It
represents—this remarkable and comprehensive pic-
ture—" The Allies' Gen-rats with the Officers of
their respective Staffs before Sebastopol." It corn-
prises altoeether, we believe, no less than eighty
distinct "Portraits"—portraits of almost every one
of the men of mark in any way distinguished dur-
ing the progress of the protracted and sanguinary
struggle in Crim Tartary. And these very nume-
rous
personages possessing, both for our own and
future times, a really historic interest, are intro-
duced, not as a mere crowd upon the canvass, but
as a picturesque assemblage of soldiers and civilians
grouped together most artistically. The picture
having as its back ground first of all such memor-
able localities as the Mamelon and the Malakhoff,
and beyond those formidable acclivities the flashing
waves of the Euxine and the gleam of the terrible
fortifications of Sebastopol. By a courtly arrange-
ment of his eighty-odd historic personages, Mr.
Barker has so contrived that the central point of
his IMAILVASS happens to be that oc by S.B.H.
the Duke of Cambridge and H.I.H. the Prince
Napoleon. Grouped immediately in whose vici-
nity are the really prominent heroes of the Painting
—the Allied Commanders-in-Chief! Silver-bearded,
grey-headed Omer Pacha—afterwards removed to
the command of the Turkish Army to the
south of the. Caucasus. Field-Marshal Lord
Raglan, the very amiable, but alas ! also the
very irresolute—since then dead, and buried, and
almost forgotten ! Marshal canrobert the " preux
chevalier" of the war, not yet grasping the "ba-
ton," nor yet even magnanimously resigning the
sword of his military dictatorship as never before
by any general of whom we have any record what-
ever, was that covetted and formidable weapon so
resigned—to a subordinate !It is strange, looking
at this extraordinary picture, to remember how, a
little later on from the date of which it may be pre-
sumed to be especially commemorative, some of
those minor figures in the background stepped
forth into the front ranks to fill the gaps left by
death, or (as in the last-mentioned instance) by vo-
luntary self-abnegation ! There, for example,
scarcely noticeable among the clustered heads of the
" ruck" of generals, are the do-nothing nonentities
so unaccountably chosen to be the successors of
Lord Raglan as English Commanders-in-Chief—
the smirking face of General Simpson, and, not far
off, the crabbed, common-place one of General Cod-
rington. Close beside his heroic brother in arms,
Caurobert, "posed" in a ludicrously natural man-
ner upon his war horse, is the successor of Canro-
bert as the French Commander-in-Chief
Marshal Pelissier, with his fat figure and
his stubby moustache, for all the world
looking like a sort of a Keeley "en militaire !"
Yonder is the handsome countenance of General
Marmora, the leader of the brave " Sardines,"
who (according to a popular camp joke) were said
to have been sent over to the Crimea for the ex-
press purpose of being "potted." there is Sir
Richard England, looking (if one may judge from
the expression of his face) as if he had just heard
this or some other ridiculous witticism, or as if be
were going to sneeze "at a pinch." Yonder is Sir
John Campbell, and yonder, again, is Colonel Yea of
the 7th Fusiliers—both killed on the 18th of June,
but having, when we are supposed to see them, no
presentiment of their soldier's death ! There is the
Earl of Lucan, as yet unrecalled—to fret his proud
spirit in vain over wrongs those in authority fail
to the very end of the chapter to recognise ! There
—the Earl of Cardigan, as yet unrewarded for his
personal share in the matchless gallantry of the
Light Cavalry Charge at Bala.klava, by " the
whispered word, the shrug, the hum !' the ha,
those petty brands that calumny doth u,e !" There
the dauntless Bosquet and the gallant Sir Colin
Campbell, and dashing old Sir Geo, ge Brown, and
the heroic Sir De Lacy Evans. Be sure, too, one
fails not to recognise here—in no obscure corner of
the picture—General Wyndham, the hero of the
last fierce attack upon Sebastopol. And not far
off, in his little, weather-beaten, scarlet, shell jacket,
the young Ensign Massey, commonly called Redan
Massey—a hero though but a stripling. Miss
ightingale, moreover, is very happily introduced
—aud the Captain Pen who recordel so eloquently
the deeds of Captain Sword, W. R. Russell, " The
Times correspondent," he, too, as a matter of course,
has been honourably remembered in the composi-
tion ! Commander Maxse also is there, Maxse
who (all the world knows) took the despatches—
until somebody found out that he didn't ! And
Sir Harry Jones, who wore the red nightcap in the
trenches, and was carried there on his litter ! And
Lord Burghersh, who brought home the news of the
victory of the Alma—and got promoted I And
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, who did
nothing particular I And Lord George Paget, who
accomplished about as much—and came home
again ! Here they all are, the Heroes of the War,
preserved for after times in glowing colours
(for the wonder or admiration of posterity,
as the case may be) by the vivid brush of
Mr. Barker, one of the most accomplished of all
our living historical painters. The extraordinary
picture under notice, certainly all things con
sidered the most remarkable work of art
Mr. Barker has yet produced the property
we believe at present jointly of Mr. J. Garle
Browne, of Leicester, and of the Messrs. Thomas
Agnew and Sous, of Manchester—ought ulti-
mately, we cannot but think, to belong to the
nation, and not to any individual. Essen
tially a national work—it would be a magnifi-
cent collective contribution towards the Por
trait Gallery of British Worthies recently pro-
jected in Ministerial quarters, a scheme already
agitated within the walls of Parliament.
Meanwhile, it is satisfactory, at least, for the pub.
lic at large to know that Mr. Barker's great paint-
ing of " The Allied Generals, &c., before Sebasto-
pol" is about to be engraved by Mr. Charles G.
Lewis, the engraver of so many of Sir Edwin Land-
seer's masterpieces, and of Mr. Barker's earlier and
noble picture of the Incident in the life of the First
Napoleon.