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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1835.

THE CITY HOSPITALS.

The following is the annual report of the City Hospitals :

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
Children put forth apprentices, and discharged from
Christ's Hospital the year last past 178, nine thereof
being instructed in the mathematics and navigation
were placed forth apprentices to Commanders of
ships out of the mathematical school, founded by
King Charles 11.
Children buried the year last Fast l3
Children now under the care of the Hospitals in Lon-
don and Hertford

ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.
Patients admitted, cured, and discharged during the
last year, 5,267 in-patients; 7,852 out-patients; and
15,597 casualty patients, most of whom were poor,
sick, and lame persons, and, being destitute of all
relief, many of them have been supplied with money,
clothes, and other necessaries to enable them to re-
turn to their several habitations, in the whole 28,716
Buried from thence
In- Patients 506 346
Remaining under cure
Out-Patients 2,163

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.
There have been cured and discharged from St.
Thomas's Hospital, in Southwark, the last year, of
sick, wounded, maimed and diseased persons 2,904
in-patients; and 26,632 medical and surgical out-
patients, including casualties, many of whom have
been relieved with money and necessaries at their
departure to accommodate and support them in their
journeys to their several habitations 29,536
Buried from thence after much charge in their sickness 237
I Remaining under cure In-Patients 402
1 Out-patients 1,125

So that there have been during the year of poor mi-
serable objects under the care of the said hospital,
and destitute of other proper care 32,000
BRIDEWELL HOSPITAL.
Received into this hospital during the last year under
commitments by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of
this City, as criminal or disorderly persons, who have
been kept to hard labour (or received conviction) 6lB
Apprentices sent by the Chamberlain for solitary con-
finement 6O
Received into this Hospital during the same period
sundry poor persons who have been committed for
wandering abroad and begging in the City of London 135

813
The Governors inform the public that they have recently
opened a new house of occupation in St. George's-fields,
where the honest and industrious poor (and more especially
the young) are instructed in useful trades, upon a more ex-
tensive scale than has been found practicable of late years,
owing to the increase of buildings contiguous to the old
site, and where in the case of those who have forfeited their
character in society the great objects of moral reform and
restoration of character (as contemplated by the original
charter) are provided for on an enlarged scale.

HULL MARKET.—AptiI 21
Wheat, Old 34s 36s 38s. New 34,.35i. 365.
Foreign —s. s. —s. In bond... —s. —s —s.
Oats, Poland
-- Small or Feed.... —s. 18s. 20s
Foreign
Barley, Norf. & Suf
-- Foreign
Beans 325. 34s 381 Foreign
Pease, White 365. 38s. 425. Grey —s. 305. 345.
Tares ..... .................... —s. -s. —s Foreign
Rapeseed, in bond none . Free, per last 301. 351. Os.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT,

BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW.

(From the London Gazette.) H M.
H. Rowed and Co., tailors, New Bond-street 2 at 11
J. P. and C. E. Hicks, clothiers, Easington, Gloucestershire
F. Sandon, druggist, Newgate-street 2 11
J. Penn, bookseller. Leamington, Warwickshire 2 12
J. Smith, surgeon, Wheatley, Oxfordshire 2 11
J. Bates, linen-draper, Bellevue.place, Clapham
G. Green and A. Lynn, leather-sellers, Golden.lane

SOUTH DEVON ELECTION.-WEST-

MINSTER MEETING.

Last night a numerous and respectable meeting was held
at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, to take
measures to secure the return of Lord John Russell, free
of expense, for the county of Devon.
Colonel Evaiis, M.P., took the chair shortly after eight
o'clock. After having thanked the meeting for having
called him to the chair, he said that he could not help con-
atulating them on the recent change which had taken
place in the political affairs of the country.--(Cheers.) In
cimsequence of that change, he need hardly observe, they
had then met together, and their object was to promote the
return of Lord John Russell to Parliament free of expense.
He did not wish to trespass upon them at that time, but
he could not help alluding to the address of Lord John
Russell, and contrasting it with that of Sir Robert Peel to
the, electors of Tamworth. The one address declared
clearly and specifically the reforms Lord John Russell
was prepared to advocate as a Minister, while the other
held out nothing but vague and uncertain promises.—
(Cheers.) When Lord Grey came into office, little more
than four years ago, there were two great objects to be
carried into immediate effect, namely, the removal of the
great abuses which existed in the representative system,
and a reform in the Government of Ireland.—(Cheers.)
The first was of incalculable importance, and Lord Grey's
Government had provided a measure to remedy the defects of
the representative system ; but they shrunk from interfering
with the evils of the Irish Government, not from a disincli-
nation, as he believed, of doing so, but from a fear of grap-
pling with them.—(Cheers.) That Noble Lord and his
.colleagues had resorted to strong measures, instead of pro-
viding remedial measures.—(Cheers.) A material altera-
tion had subsequently taken place in the Administration of
Earl Grey, by the removal of four of the Ministers of the
Cabinet, at the head of whom was Lord Stanley, and which
removal had taken place, as he understood, at the instiga-
tion of Lord John Russell, who persisted in urging the re-
moval of the gross abuses which existed in the Government
of Ireland.—(Cheers.) Lord Melbourne's Administration
came into office towards the end of the last session, and ex-
hibited a want of energy which had led to its dismissal.
They had now been returned to power, and he was satisfied
that they would not again show such a want of determina-
tion as they had previously displayed.—( Hear.) Whatever
else could be urged against Lord John Russell, he thought
that it was impossible, after what had taken place, to
charge him with want of sincerity as a Reformer. Sir
Robert Peel had, however, also said that he had never
been anything else but a Reformer.—(A laugh.) With regard
to Municipal Reform, the Right Hon. Baronet had promised
to lay the Report of the Commissioners on the table, and
to give the subject his consideration. These were but
vague terms on a subject which the people regarded with
the greatest anxiety. Lord J. Russell, however, declared
that he was prepared at once to bring fbrward a measure
to correct the evils in the existing corporations, and to
apply the principle of free election in all such bodies.--
(Loud cheers.) With reference to the Dissenters, Sir R.
Peel had shown something very like narrow-mindedness ;
he not only denied the Dissenters the right of admission
to the two Universities, but he also refused that a new
University for their education should be established in the
country. Could anything be more bigoted than such con-
duct ?—(Cheers.) Lord John Russell was at direct vari-
ance with the Right Hon. Baronet, not only with respect
to the point connected with the Dissenters, but in other
more important matters—he was not only prepared to grant
a charter to the London University, but also to grant—
and without which the Dissenters ought not to be satisfied
—a civil register for births, marriages, and deaths.—(Loud
cheers.) On another question alluded to in both the ad-
dresses, there was an important difference between the
Noble Lord and the Right Hon. Baronet ; namely, as re-
garded the government of Ireland. Sir R. Peel—that
most excellent and consistent reformer had declared
that he would not consent, either with regard to Ireland
or any other portion of the empire, that any part of the
income of the Established Church should be devoted to any
other objects than purely promoting the interests of the
Establishment ; that no part of the property of the Church
should be taken from it, whether there were duties to per-
form or not ; and therefore, that in point of fact he was
prepared to support, to the full extent, a sinecure Church
iu Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) Lord John Russell had, how-
ever, declared—and he had induced the House of Com-
mons on repeated occasions to sanction the opinion—that
a portion of the property of the Church should be devoted
to the promotion of the education of all classes of the
people, of whatever religion they might be.—(Loud cheers.)
This he (Colonel Evans) thought was amply sufficient to
satisfy the people of Ireland on this point. With reference
to himself, he begged to observe that he had closely watched
the conduct of Lord John Russell for the last two or three
months, during which period he had filled such a great and
commanding position in the eyes of the country, and he
(Colonel Evans) would venture to say, that judgment, abi-
lity, and discretion had never been displayed in a more
eminent degree by any public man than by Lord John
Russell.—(Loud cheers.) They had that night met toge-
ther for the specific purpose of supporting the nobleman to
whom he had alluded as the representative of a Liberal
Government, and to give effect to the opinions he had ex-
pressed in his address, by promoting his return to
Parliament. The meeting probably would not have been
called had it not been for the ostentatious display re-
cently made by the Tories, and above all in Devon-
shire, and the threats they had held out of throwing
out the Liberal candidates wherever they should
present themselves. He had thought that they had met
with a sufficient reception in the metropolis to have pre-
vented them, at least for some time, coming forward in the
way they had done, but the truth was, they appeared to be
almost in a state of desperation. It had been reported
that Lord Rolle had been exerting himself to the utmost
against the return of Lord John Russell. What Lord
Rolle had ever done in the political world was entirely be-
yond his (Colonel's Evans's) comprehension, and for what
his Peerage had been conferred he did not know, unless it
was for his exertions against the liberties of the people.
That Noble Lord bad constantly distinguished himself by
his interfering with the franchise of the electors of Devon-
shire, and he had endeavoured, by every means in his power,
as well on this as former occasions, to prevent their having
a free choice in their representative. He could not help
thinking that his conduct was something very like a breach
of privilege.—(Hear, hear.) It had been stated that Lord
Rolle had given 2,000/. to oppose the Liberal candidate in
Devonshire.—(Hear, hear, and cry of " only 1,000/.")
Whatever the amount was, it was equally illegal, and steps
ought to be taken that a Peer should not interfere in elec-
tions with impunity.—( Hear, hear.) Another person who
had distinguished himself in the same way as Lord Rolle,
by subscribing money, and by endeavouring to interfere with
and intimidate the tenantry in the exercise of their fran-
chise, was a Major Pittman, whose name had recently been
before the public. He did not know that gentleman, but
he understood that it was the same person who had re-
cently been before a Court of Justice for some severe and
tyrannical conduct to a servant.—(Oh, oh.) He believed
that he had been convicted before a bench of magistrates,
and had been sentenced. to pay a fine. This gentleman
was on the commission of the peace, and his conduct of
course necessarily came under the cognizance of the Lord
Lieutenant of Devonshire. That office was at the time
held by Lord Ebrington, than whom there was not a more
liberal or humane man in the country—(Loud cheering)—
who thought that the person in question was not properly
qualified to administer justice, and therefore recommended
his dismissal. The gentleman felt himself aggrieved, and
appeared determined to show the feelings he entertained by
the conduct he was pursuing, in interfering to prevent the
electors of the county of. Devon sending Lord John Russell
back to Parliament as their representative.—(Cheers.) He
trusted that the Noble Lord and the person to whom he
had just alluded, as well as all other persons in authority
who presumed to interfere with the free choice of the elec-
tors, would find their exertions unavailing—that they would
suffer most bitter disappointment.—(Cheers.) Although
they were not so rich as the Tories, who had governed the
country for nearly fifty years, and who were enabled to
amass great fortunes by the plunder and pillage of the na-
tion, and could therefore give large sums to keep up the
system of misrule ; still they could, by their joint exertions,
produce quite as much as was necessary for the promotion
of their
irr.ights and liberties, as well as those of all other
Loud cheers.)
Mr. HUME said that however meritorious the conduct
of Lord John Russell might be, he did not come forward to
support this man or that, but to do all in his power to up-
hold a great principle.—(Cheers.) He wished to place
Lord John Russell by his sincere, and, he hoped, effective
support, in such a situation that he would be able to carry
into operation the principles he had expressed in his address
to the electors of Devonshire. They had succeeded in
ejecting the Tories—Cheers)—and they had now to con-
sider not only how to keep them out, but how to profit
by their being out.—(Cheers.) He was, therefore, anxious,
as a first step for the pr. motion of this object, to use every
exertion to promote the return of Lord John Russell,

whose absence from the House of Commons at the present
time, if not ruinous to the popular cause, would at least be
highly detrimental to it.—(Cheers.) The great object
they had in view was to support the cause of the democracy
against that of the aristocracy. The great question, then,
at issue was, whether the aristocracy should by intimidation
and corruption be enabled to annul those privileges which
had been given to the people after such a long and severe
struggle. They had some large sums collected for the purpose
of promoting the return of the Tory candidate, and every
improper means would be resorted to to effect that object ;
it was then the duty of Reformers to subscribe sufficient
funds to return Lord John Russell free of expense, by de-
fraying all the legal charges for his election, and at the same
time by using every exertion in their power to rouse the
electors of South Devon to a sense of the duty they had to
perform, and to let them know that the eyes of the whole
empire were upon them.—(Hear, hear.) The defeat of
Lord John Russell in Devonshire would be the defeat of
the cause of Reform.--(Cheers.) If they, however, re-
turned the Noble Lord to Parliament, they would not only
place him, but the Administration with which he was con-
nected, in a situation to carry on the affairs of the Govern-
ment immediately and effectively.—(Cheers.) He did not
think that Lord J. Russell and his colleagues, when they
were formerly in office, did all that they might have done,
for they were backed by the House of Commons in a way
in which no previous Government during his (Mr. Hume's)
time had ever been supported.—(Hear, hear.) They gave
way too often to the House of Peers, and in consequence of
this they lost the confidence of the country. They should
have rested on the support they met with in the House
of Commons and in the country ; and although their
measures might have been rejected by the other House, they
shotild haws-persisted in endeavouring to carry them into
effect. The people, on seeing that the Government and
,the House of Commons were anxious to carry into effect
measures of Reform, would have looked to the House of
Peers—ay, and would have made the House of Peers
responsible for its conduct.—(Cheers.) He trusted that the
Government would not again be induced to fritter away
their, measures of reform with a view of conciliating those
who would be satisfied with no concession, but who, not-
withstanding all their declarations, were the unceasing
enemies of reform.—( Hear, hear.) It was their duty to
come forward and support Lord John Russell, that he
might carry into effect the principles which had received the
sanction of the House of Commons. If they succeeded in
their object, and the Noble Lord and his colleagues did not
do all that was anticipated of them, they would still have the
satisfaction of feeling that it was not their fault that the Go-
vernment had not done its duty.—(Cheers.) If one thing more
than another induced him to support the Ministers, it was
that although they appeared slow in reform, they had been
dismissed by his Majesty without any reasonable cause, at the
instigation of bad advisers.—( Hear, hear.) The present
Ministers, when formerly in office, had lost a great portion of
their popularity by deferring to the caprices of the Court,
and opposing measures which were looked for with great
anxiety by the country. How had these men been treated ?
Immediately the Court thought they had sufficient power,
they turned round and ejected them from their offices. A
lesson, however, had been read by the people through their
representatives to the Court, which would not be soon for-
gotten, for it had to beseech those men to return and ac-
cept office who had been so indignantly turned out to make
way for the supporters of bad government.—{Hear, hear,
hear.) He (Mr. Hume) wished to see no greater humilia-
tion imposed on an opponent than that which the Court bad
recently had to submit to.--(Hear, hear.) He trusted, as
the Ministers bad been returned to power by the people,
that they would always rely upon the people, and zealously
and steadfastly advocate their cause.—(Cheers.) He had
seen the strongest opposition against the people—for cer-
tainly more powerful exertions were never made than by
the Tories to support Sir Robert Peel and his Cabinet—
defeated by the representatives of the people, and the cause
of truth and justice had triumphed. The Government
which had now been formed had a career of glory before
them, and they should make the best use of the victory they
had just obtained, and follow it up without delay. He was
not a supporter of Lord J. Russell or Lord Melbourne
merely as men, but he came forward on the present occasion
in consequence of the principles they advocated. He trusted
that the men who had been brought back by the people
with such honour to the places they formerly filled, would
for the future trust to the people, instead of relying on
that broken reed on which they formerly depended. He
hoped they would never forget to watch sedulously and
anxiously over the wants and interests of those who had
been instrumental in placing them in their situations. The
cause they had then met to support was not the cause of
Lord John Russell, but of reform itself, and therefore every
exertion should be made. The Hon. Member then pro-
ceeded to compare the address of Sir R. Peel to the elec-
tors of Tamworth, with that of Lord John Russell to the
electors of Devonshire, and said, that while the former was
vague and unsatisfactory, the other was founded in facts.
Lord John Russell, he regretted to say, was an enemy to
the ballot, and thought other means could be devised to put
down corrupt practices at elections. He (Mr. Hume) was
however, convinced that the Noble Lord would, ere long,
be induced to change his opinion on this subject. With
reference to the claim of the Dissenters, he would only
observe that until all civil distinctions, in consequence of
religious opinions, were removed, they never could expect
the Dissenters to be satisfied. With reference to the im-
mediate matter before them, the people of Manchester had
done themselves the highest honour, for they subscribed
1,0001. in the course of a few hours.—{Hear.) He con-
cluded with proposing a resolution to the effect, " That the
meeting had observed with pleasure the admirable and con-
sistent conduct of Lord John Russell in the House of Com-
mons in the late struggles—that they felt the great impor-
tance of his return for South Devon in a triumphant man-
ner—and they therefore .called upon the friends of religious
liberty and reform to exert themselves in every way to ob-
tain that desirable object.—( Loud cheers.)
Mr. WAYMOUTH made a few observations on seconding
the motion. He said that he had repeated opportunities
of knowing, as an active member of the Dissenting body,
that there was not a more sincere friend of religious or civil
liberty than Lord John Russell.--(Cheers.) Some dissa-
tisfaction had been expressed with reference to the Mar-
riage Bill he had introduced, but he (Mr. Waymouth) was
able to state that the Noble Lord was compelled to bring
it forward by the Government of which he was a member.
He trusted that the feeling of the meeting would give an
impulse to the whole country. The motion was agreed to.
Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE addressed the meeting in a
short speech. He said he hoped that if Lord John Russell
should be turned out of Devonshire, and that if Mr. Byng
was called to the peerage, as it was reported would be the
ease, that the electors of Middlesex would choose the
Noble Lord.—(Loud cheers.) With reference to Ire-
land, he would merely observe, that if they only did justice
to it, they would hear no more of Repeal—until justice was
done, they ought not to complain that the people of
that country demanded Repeal. With regard to Mr. O'Con-
nell—whose absence from the meeting he regretted—he would
only observe that his conduct on the late occasion had com-
pletely wiped away any injurious suspicions that might have
attached to him, and he had acted in such a manner as to
merit the admiration of every Reformer of England and
Scotland, as well as Ireland.—(Cheers.) He concluded
with proposing the following resolution :—" That in order
to counteract the machinations of the Tory faction, who,
by an enormous expenditure of money, were in hopes of
influencing the electors of South Devon to sacrifice their
own interests, as well as those of the nation at large, it was
expedient that a public subscription should be immediately
entered into for the purpose of defraying the legal expenses
of the election of Lord John Russell."

Mr. Bisx, M.P., in seconding the resolution, stated that
he trusted the Whigs would profit by the late proceedings
of the Tories, and use every exertion to promote reform.
Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR then addressed the meeting.
He thought that if Lord John Russell was defeated, al-
though it would not be ruinous to the cause of reform, yet
it would inflict an injury on it which it would not recover
for a long time. He trusted, however, that the electors of
Devonshire would do their duty, and not act with such in-
gratitude as to reject the man to whom they were mainly
indebted for the Reform Bill.—( Hear, hear.) The party
to which he belonged had been called factious ; but had they
exhibited any thing of faction since the change of Govern-
ment ? He did not despair of the cause of reform ; for he
was satisfied with the truth of the observation of Lord
John Russell, that the whisper of a faction could not pre-
vail against the voice of a nation.—(Cheers.) He had no
doubt that Lord John Russell and his colleagues would
carry on the Government in such a manner as to ensure the
confidence of the country. He then proceeded to vindicate
the conduct of Mr. O'Connell, upon whom he passed a high
eulogium, and denied that there had ever been any thing in
his conduct to warrant the observation of Sir J. S. Lillie.
The body with which he was connected in the House of
Commons were capable of swaying the destinies of England
and Europe. In c.,!iclusion, he observed that he merely
came forward to oiei his mite to promote the return of an
English Reformer for an English county.—(Cheers.)
Mr. LEONARD LIVINGSTONE then addressed the meeting