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President—His (Irace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in ►he 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 ou voluntary contributions and zacies.
It affurds 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 con3iderable period averaged between
1,000 and 4,000 weekly.

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benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
co, taining several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite ninth; to maintain them.

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TREASURERS.
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This Institution is designed to supply a great national
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HOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.,
for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of
Out. ast and Destitute Boys, and those verging on crime,
under 10 years of age.
President—d.OßEßT HANBURY, Esq., ALP,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P. Sir S. M. Peto, Bart, M.P.
Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Samuel Morky, Esq.
• COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. H. M'Sorley.
I Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short.
Mr. E. F. Gedgo. I Mr. Robert Sinclair.
Mr. George Moore. Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. I Mr. R. T. Turnbull.
Treasurer—W. H. Willans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 26, Suffolk-street,
Pall-Mall East, S.W
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, i, Lombard-

sired. 4, :C.

„
The mode of admission to the House is twofold,
Ist. By election of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed. educated, and taught ill
they are 11 years o age.
With the view ost cure the election of the most deserving
cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas-
sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers.
The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care-
fully investivated by the Committee, an,. with thin informa-
tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to
those most e:lgible for free admission.
This El: me was opened in April, 1861. It was designed to
take to the little ones whose character and circumstances
disqualify the for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender
age precludes their admission to the R. fuges. Such are these
who, from neglect, are already on the roan to ruin. Such are
those who have been deserted by theirnatural protectors and
left to bee-come idle wanderers. Such are those whose
parents may have at one time or other received parish relief,
and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose
parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who
train their children in the same path. Such are those whose
evil associations have already had their painful effect, and
must lead them to a life of crime and misery.
There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of
age to 10. There is room for nearly 100, and the Committee
would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait
for the necessary subscriptions.
The Committee feel constrained to plead for those who
oannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir-
cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they
ask—is it right to make a widow and her family paupers for
life because ono of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs
wild in the streets and is beyond her control? Is it kind to
tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not
h-lp her to put one of them into a Home, but that they must
ail go into "the house ?” Is it doing the beat we can for the
lithe destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it
doftig to others as we would they should do unto us that when
thete little ones have unnatural parents who tarn them into
the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "run away,"
none of us shou d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly
word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe th, m ?
Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the
other side, or else exclaiming "Am I my brother's
keeper ?"
The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi-
dent from the police statife ics, which show that in London
alone, in one year, no fewer than 811 boys under 10 years of
age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom
were convicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were die-
charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too
young to punish, though not too young to learn the beginnings
of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but
for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must
otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli-
ance and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State.
'1 he Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established
to reseoe the little ones, to save them from the prison on the
one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour
to make them useful members of society.

The daily routine of the Institution presents all the fea-
tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones
are cared for ae children ; they have their regular meals,
their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement,
and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every
morning is devoted to school work—reading, and writing,
and ciphering, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional
lessons in o` jests and other subjects. But they are also
trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early
period in lite, earn their living by the sweat of their brow,
they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after-
noons are occupied with vat bus industrial occupations—
making brown paper bags for bankers, and white 1 aper bags
for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any
who will buy them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending
the o othes. &c. Some assist the master in the garden,
digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By
degrees they are being made useful in the hou-e, scrubbing
and s coping, while the elder ones lean all the boots,
knives, &c. In this vi ay it is sout2ht to fit them for an active
working life.
?d. By paymt nt of 5.4. a week, made quarterly in arivsmce.
All children must be under 10 y ars aF ag- at the time of
adotiss on. Those ,sei ivtd on payment ire admitted at any
time as soon as approved by t e 4 ommittee.
Elections of eni dren to be ad.aitted tree will take olace as
irequi titly s th- increase in the annual subscriptions win
admit, til , the Home is f 11; they will then be held periods-
'Sally
Forms of application for the admission of children may be
had at the Home, and of the Honorary secretary,

The Cattle Plague.

SPECIAL MEETING OP MIDDLESEX
MAGISTRATES.

Yesterday a special meeting of the magistrates of
the county of Middlesex was held at the Sessions-
house, Clerkenwell-green, to receive the report of
the committee appointed on Thursday last in pursu-
ance of the following resolution :—" That a com-
mittee be appointed to consider what measures it
would be desirable to take under the orders given to
the court by the Order in Council of the 16th De-
cember, 1865 ; and that such committee should be em-
powered to communicate with the Home Secretary,
the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and any
other authority on the subject they may think re-
quisite ; and that such committee should report to
the court at its next meeting." Mr. Henry Pownall,
chairman of the court, presided, and amongst those
present were :—Mr. Northali Laurie, Mr. Wyatt,
Mr. Loveland, Mr. Antrobus, Colonel Elsey, Sir
J. J. Hamilton, Bart., Dr. Jervis, Mr. Prance, Mr.
Spearman, Dr. M'Cann, Capt. O'Brien, Mr. W.
Drake, Mr. J. F. Pownall, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Hogarth,
Mr. Busk, Mr. Glossop. Mr. Charles White, Capt.
Morley, Mr. Turner, &c.

The committee had drawn up a report, which had
been circulated ; but this morning, in consequence
of a deputation from the cattle salesmen of the
metropolis having attended and nointed outme
objections to the proposed order, the court resolved
itself into a committee to consider whether any and
'what modifications should be made in their report
to meet, if possible, the views of the salesmen, and
at the same time to carry out efficiently the object
they had in view.
The committee sat upwards of two hours with
closed doors, and on their return into court,
Mr. BUSK, the chairman, said—ln proposing the
amendment which they had made in the original
report, he should only trouble the court with a very
few observations. The committee had met in large
numbers, and the principal question which they had
to consider and deal with was as to the restriction
of the traffic to and from the great cattle market at
Islington. That court had no direct control over
that market, as that remained with the Privy Council
and the Lord Mayor, and all they could do was by
restricting the traffic on the roads to and from that
market. In the propositions they had made they
had endeavoured to maintain with sufficient strin-
gency orders regarding the removal of cattle from
one place to another in the metropolis, without in
any way interfering with the supply of food to the
inhabitants of London. He hoped the restrictions
they proposed would be found sufficient for the pur-
pose of preventing contagion, without unnecessarily
interfering with the supply of meat, which was so
essential for the wants of the inhabitants of their
great metropolis.
Mr. NICHOLSON, clerk of-the peace, then read the
following report, as amended by the committee :
"At a meeting of the committee appointed by
the court on the 4th of January, 1866, and held by
adjournment on the 11th day of January, 1866, it
was resolved—' That all appointments made, notices
given, and other acts done by any local . authority
within the jurisdiction of the court of general and
quarter sessions of the peace for the said county,
under and by notice of any order of the Lords of
her Majesty's Privy Council in this matter, be, and
the same are, hereby revoked, provided that nothing
in this order contained shall affect any breaches of
existing orders, or any proceedings in respect of
such breaches. That it shall not be lawful to re-
move any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf, to
any market or fair within the aforesaid jurisdiction
to or through any other place within the same juris-
diction, with such exceptions and conditions as in
the said order of council of the 16th of December,
as specified, with such exceptions and conditions.
This order shall not apply to the removal of any
cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf, from one part
to another part of the same holding, where there is
no intervening highway, public road, bridle road,
canal, or navigable river. That this order shall not
as regards fat cattle, fit and intended for immediate
slaughter for human food, apply to any place within
a radius of four miles from Charing-cross, and
within the above-mentioned jurisdiction. That it
shall be lawful to remove any cow, heifer, bull,
bullock, ox, or calf across or along any highway,
public road, river, or canal, from one part of a farm
to another part of the same farm, provided that no
disease exists, or, for the space of six days prior to
the date of the authority herein mentioned, had
existed in any animal on such farm ; and provided
that an authority in writing from a justice of the
peace or police magistrate for such removal be pro-
duced by the person or persons having charge of any
such animal or animals, and provided the distance
along such highway, public road, river, or canal to
be so traversed shall not exceed 440 yards. Every
such authority shall be in the form prescribed. [The
forms prescribed were set forth.] That the order
shall not extend to or include any bull, cow, or
heifer the person or persons having charge whereof
shall produce on demand an authority in writing
from a justice of the peace or a policemagistrate for
the removal thereof, for any distance not exceeding
two miles, for breeding purposes. This order shall
come into operation on the 16th of January next."
Mr. BUSK moved that the report of the commit-
tee be received and adopted, which was put by the
I chairman- and agreed to.

Sir J. HAMILTON asked uhether any resolutions
could have effect without reference" to the County day.
The CIIAIR3IAN said these proceedings were quite

The motion was put and unanimously agreed to.
Capt. MORLEY then drew attention to the evils
which he considered to be generated by the manure
of cattle, and said he trusted the committee would
seek for legislative power for the removal or destruc-
tion of the manure of animals, and he mentioned
the case of a farmer at Hanwell who lost the whole
of his cows, and they could not account for it in any
way. The nearest solution of the plague that had
prevailed was in the fact that there was a large heap
of manure at a neighbouring farm. He hoped that
the committee would represent to the Home-office
any suggestions they might have to offer upon this
q'iestion, so that steps might be taken in reference
to the deposit of manure as well as the cattle plague.
Mr. WYATT said the subject had not been lost
sight of by the committee, but at present they had
not time to gsrinto-theiwitter.--
Captain MORLEY said he did not intend to make
any complaint of the committee, and had no other
object than to draw attention to what he considered
to be a very important subject.
The court then adjourned.

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The Military Revolt in Spain.

(Front the Correspondent of the Times.)
MADRID, Jan. 8.

Don Manuel de la Concha, Marquis del Duero,
and one of the Field Marshals of Spain, sends us
some puzzling telegraphic bulletins. This gallant
officer, on hearing of the sally of the rebel Prim, set
out alone, like one of the Paladins of old, on a hunt
after him, and gathering together 300 between sol-
diers and gendarmes, volunteered to co-operate
from the south with the column of Zabala, which
has been since last Wednesday afternoon in pursuit
of the same game from the north.
Zabala, it may be remembered, was close on the
footsteps of the insurgents, and had reached Mad-
ridejos, when they were at Porto Lapiche and Vil-
larubia de los Ojos. Concha was coming up from
Manzanares, when Prim had proceeded southward
as far as Daimiel. The latter had as nearly fallen
into the toils of his pursuers as these could them-
selves have desired, and it seemed as if he must
needs either fight one or both of them or else again
make a run to the westward towards the Portuguese
frontier. In this state of things what does Field-
Marshal the Marquis del Duero telegraph to the
`War-office ? He says that at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning he reached Daimial by train, and " with-
out alighting" he saw in the town a group of indi-
viduals mounted, whom he took to be Gen. Prim
and his staff. Whereupon Concha set out in pursuit
of the forces which accompanied General Prim, and
which were filing out of the said town of Daimiel.
General Prim marched at 11 upon Villarubia de los
Ojos.

Whether or not Concha and his 300 men ever
left their train, and how, if they did so, they could
avoid a collision with the rebels they were in quest
of, is more than the despatch enables us to make out.
The only important fact is that Prim, who had
moved from Villarubia to Daimiel in a southerly
rubia, again from south to north, abandoning, as it
would seem, all idea of a retreat upon Portugal, and
heedless of the possible encounter he might have
with the column of Zabala which was close on his
rear. All this has Prim done, and we hear as yet
of no engagement either between him and Zabala,
or between him and that Concha who had so nearly
laid his grain of salt on the bird's tail.
Prim's conduct admits only of one explanation.
His first move was from Aranjuez to Alcala, where
he hoped to be joined by the two regiments quar-
tered there, and whence, at the head of at least
1,600 sabres, he might have ventured on a coup de
main on Madrid. Disappointed by the withdrawal
of the Alcala regiments he fell back on the Tagus ;
and as he there, by sinking the bridge of Fuenti-
duena, had given the slip to Zabala, it was supposed
'that he would have made the best of his way to the
eastward, and thrown himself on the partisans whom
he was thought to have in Aragon and Catalonia.
His course, however, was not to the east, but back
to the south and west, where he knew he risked an
encounter with his pursuer, but where, it was con-
jectured, he might make his way to a land of refuge
in Portugal.. But he evidently has not made the
best of his south-Western move ; once more has he
returned in his own footsteps ; once more placed
himself in the midst of foes whom he seems equally
unwilling to fight or to escape.
The fact is, Prim's friends aver that the district
Prim now occupies is a battle-field of his own choice.
It is near Villarubia de los Ojos that the rebel
General possesses that country-house and those vast
hunting-grounds which were his favourite haunt
and delight for many months in the year. There
is not a span of earth throughout that wild and
lonely Mancha that is not as familiar to him as the
playground of his boyhood. There is not one of
the hinds and boors of that dreary region that is
not as devoted to him as a foster-brother. If he
choose to play hide and seek with his enemies or
to carry on a harassing guerilla warfare against
them, that is the very spot and those the elements
that will enable him to hold on for months.
South of the Toledo mountains, a climate reigns
that knows no winter, and the land which, with the
favour of the inhabitants, would supply stores just
sufficient for him, would starve any other troops.
Prim's enemies, indeed, describe his followers as ut-
terly exhausted, and demoralised. They represent
Prim himself as suffering severely from affection of
the liver, a complaint to which he is notoriously
liable, so severely, indeed, .that " unable to sit his
horse, he has himself driven about in a camp carriage
drawn by six mules." But the truth of the matter is
that ho is afield yet, and that the superior forces of
the enemy, which have caught more than one glimpse
of him, have not hitherto had either the skill or the
heart to come to close quarters with him. The Mar-
chioness of Castillejos, with her children, was seen
driving about at the promenade of Fuente Castel-
lana, yesterday afternoon, bearing on her counte-
nance very little outward concern for her husband's
fate, about which she probably thinks she has reason
to be easy.
If Prim can carry on the game for any length of
time, say for a week or two, it is impossible to fore-
see what consequences his apparently rash and in-
considerate movement may have on this country.
There hardly ever was one of the many military
pronunciamentos which have had so much influence
on the destinies of Spain, which was not given up as,
a failure at the outset. " He who endures conquers,
is nowhere so true as in this " hard land of Iberia."
That the stir of men's minds is great, both in the
army and the people, and the alarm of the Govern-
ment proportionate, no one in Madrid can doubt.
Battalions and regiments are ordered here and there
with incessant change. Now it is the Chasseurs de
Baza, presently the Llerena regiment; next the Re-
giment de Bourbon that causes O'Donnell uneasiness,
and that must be senth north or south, east or west,
from one end of the peninsula to the other, or even
quite out of it, to the Morocco fortresses, or the Canary
Islands. The Madrid garrison has been shut up in its
barrieki since last Wedn es:lay...This is the first day in
which any of the soldiers off duty have been seen
about the streets, and they are mostly artillerymen

and engineers, those corps onwhich, as Ihavestated,
O'Donnell places the greatest reliance. For the rest
it is almostlaughable, as you walk past the barracks,
to see the poor penned-up men peeping out of their
windows like sheep, while a superior officer in a
t3ocked hat lounges before the door—a general keep-
ing guard on his own men. The regiment of Arpi-
les, one of the most insubordinate, which had to be
disarmed on Wednesday, together with other corps
—I believe those that came in on that same event-
ful day from Alcala—were marched to the station
of the Northern Railway early in the afternoon yes-
terday, and sent off by a long train, no one knows
whither. The mere fact that these troops have been
set at large, though far out of the way of mischief,
proves something like reviving confidence on the
part of the Government ; the same inference may be
drawn from the fact that the royal children, after
five days'seclusion, were allowed out yesterday in a
close carriage, drawn by six mules, for their custo-
mary airing. The Queen also drove out, but later
in the evening, and almost in the dark, enjoying a
relaxation that seems quite necessary to her, but of
which she had been deprived for the best part of last
week.

Notwithstanding these symptoms of a partial re-
covery, the O'Donnell Government seems still a
prey to a variety of terrors. Somewhat easier on
the score of the soldiers, they seem more apprehen-
sive of outbreaks among the people. Yesterday and
h
oYndalosr—mnch, wild rejoicing
Saturday especially,
44410tTwelfth
tbDheefaoysr,epaawnrieioraecrtii,ose
heard
that_there„wae
some disposition to riot in the so-called " Barrios
de Bajo," the lowest quarters of the town, down the
Atocha and Toledo streets, where the loosest and
most suffering part of the Madrid population huddle
together in wretched dwellings. To guard against
the chance of untoward events, the Government
added to their usual precautions, a measure hitherto
never resorted to—that of stationing soldiers, or
civil guards, in the apartments on the first floor of
the Palacio de is. Gobernation at the Puerto del Sol,
those apartments which are taken up by the Home
and other offices. The masked balls which were an-
nounced for last night at the theatres were forbidden
by the authorities. Plays and the opera these last
days have been very thinly attended.
The Deputation of the Senate appointed to lay
before the House the assurance of the firm allegiance
of that body to the cause of the dynasty and of
order was received by the Queen yesterday at 3 in
the afternoon. The President, Marshal Serrano,
Duque de la Torre, presented the address, and was
answered by her Majesty with a gracious-assurance
of her gratitude.

We have had here for the last week Mr. Seymour
Fitzgerald. He had been in Madrid, and travelled
about Spain in the summer, and people, not un-
naturally, attribute his journey to some political or
financial motive. In fact, hardly an Englishman
is ever seen in Madrid without being taken for a
negotiator, or, in other words, a dun coming to
settle the great question of the Spanish Coupons or
Certificates.