The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-30 00:00:00

President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and I zqacies
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
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.

Contributions are"received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Giyn and Co.;• }Terries a. d Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W Mims, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; l(isbet and Co., Berners-street ; I. Barned and
Co,, Liverpool 3 and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.

13TAN'YOUD SMITO, secretary

T)ROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.O.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give broad and coals to 'poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rey. D. GILBERT I
D.D" No 22
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rin§bury-oiroits, 8.0.

A MAN OF WE GOOD MEAL A-DAY.—DR.
George Fordyce, the anatomist and chemical lecturer, was
accustomed to dine every day, for more than twenty years,
natosp°terl-1 Read-passage, Pater-
parative anatomy had
led him to conclude that man, through custom, eats oftener
yro'sw.Chnopi-shroeuseso,arcihnesQiunecenom's
than nature requires, one meal a day bob,
sufficient for that
noble animal the lion. He made the experiment on himself
at his favourite dining-house, and finding it successful he
continued the following regimen for the above term of years.
At four o'clock, his accustomed dinner hour, he entered
Dolly's Chop-house, and took his seat at a table always re-,
served for him, on which wore instantly placed a silver
tankard full of strong ale, a bottle of port wino, and a mea-
sure containing a quarterof a pintof brandy. The moment
the waiter announced him the cook put a pound and a half
of rump steak on the gridiron, and on the table some deli-
cate trifle, as a bonne bouche to serve until the steak was
ready. This delicacy was sometimes half a broiled chicken,
sometimes a plate of fish. When he had eaten this he took
a glass of brandy, and then proceeded to devour his steak.
We say devour, because-he always ate as rapidly as if eating
for a wager. When he had finished his meat he took the
remainder of his brandy, having during his dinner drunk
the tankard of ale, and afterwards the bottle of port. The
Doctor then adjourned to the Chapter Coffee-house, in
Paternoster-row, and stayed while ho sipped a glass of
brandy and water. It was then his habit to take another
at the Oxford, after which ho returned to his house in
Essex-street, to give his lecture on chemistry. He made
no other meal till his return next day, at four o'clock, to
Bojo Aqua.