The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-04 00:00:00

DOVER SAILORS' HOME.

We have much pleasure in publishing the eighth
annual report of this very excellent institution, the
doors of which are always open to the distressed
and shipwrecked of all nations :
" The directors have again to congratulate their sub-
scribers and friends upon the continued prosperity of the
Home, success having attended the institution from its
commencement up to the present time. Every expectation
regarding it has been fulfilled ; and the more it becomes
knom n by the seafaring class, the more is it appreciated by
them. It is difficult to conceive and impossible to describe
the comfort which the home affords to poor destitute ship-
wrecked men, so many of whom, of different nations, and
from different parts of the world, are landed at Dover. If
a ship founders either in the Atlantic or in the North Sea,
and the crew are providentially picked up, they are most
frequently brought to Dover as the neerest port which the
friendly vessel makes in her homeward voyage. The largest
proportion of foreign crews wrecked in the Channel and
brought to the home have been Frenchmen. It is but jus-
tice to the South-Eastern Railway Company to record with
thanks their long. continued generous conduct in passing free
to any part of their line all weeked men who are landed at
Dover, and whose case is authenticated. The Shipwrecked
Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society continues to defray its
stipulated proportion of the expenses incurred for wrecked
men at the Homo, and to forward them to their destination.
This society is very strongly recommended by the directors
to the kind consideration of the public. A large number of
men have been entered at the Home as members of this
society. Several sick and wounded sailors have in the course
of the year been forwarded to the Seaman's Hospital, the
Dreadnought. A few more youths have also been entered for
continuous service, according to the regulations of the Admi-
ralty, for her Majesty's Navy. With reference to the pro-
posed Government school for navigation, under the auspices
of the directors, as mentioned in the last report, the inhabi-
tants of Dover made no response. The directors therefore felt
that it was their duty to decline the very liberal offers of the
Government, and to advise that the establishment of such a
school be for the present abandoned ; with the hope, however,
that it is only postponed for a time. Capt. Ryder, R.N., was
commissioned to come down. to Dover on behalf of her Ma-
jesty's Government. His report for the commencement of
such a school in connection with the Dover Sailors' Home
was of a very favourable character. The inhabitants cannot
hereafter complain of any loss in the matter of the education
of those children who were intended for the sea, which has
arisen entirely from their own apathy. The Hon. Secre-
tary having succeeded, on his own account, in purchasing
a site, and in building a school-room, adjoining the
Mariners' Church, at 'an expense of £350 (the whole of
which is paid)—in a deed of gift has placed the building at
the disposal of the directors, and as the property of the
Home. The deeds of conveyance are drawn out and handed

over to the Sailors' Home free of charge, by the hon. soli-
citor, G. Fielding, Esq. In the event of a navigation
school being hereafter established, this building will be
found of .essential service; or beds can be made up in it
should a larger number of wrecked men be landed at Dover
at one time than the Home can accommodate. The balance
sheet will be the best expositor of the financial state of the
institution; all debts are paid. The directors feel it to be
no slight matter to be able to report that there aro now no
liabilities upon the building, and no outstanding accounts
for the current expenses. Since the completion of the house
upwards of £6OO has been paid oft. Four hundred pounds
of this was due to John A. Beaumont, Esq., the liberal
patron of the institution, who, in addition to a donation of
£5O and other gifts, advanced the money free of interest,
until (without limitation of time) the directors were en-
abled to return to him the money so kindly advanced. The
directors beg to acknowledge the receipt of a largo quantity
of cast-off clothing for the use of destitute shipwrecked
men. These clothes aro found of essential service in many
cases where the crews are not members of the Shipwrecked
Marines' Society. Further contributions will be received
with thanks. The receipt of coke from Messrs. Anderson
and Jones ; of local papers from their respective proprie-
tors ; together with books and charts from various friends,
are acknowledged with thanks. The directors cannot con-
clude their annual report without again expressing their
humble acknowledgment to Almighty God for the success
of the past, and their trust to Him for His blessing upon
the future. They would urge upon their friends continued
exertion in behalf of this national establishment. Every
wrecked crew that has been brought within it has been
from other some port, either British or foreign, not from
Dover. Upon this ground the directors feel that, as
hitherto, so for the future the Home should be supported—
not alone by the inhabitants of Dover, where, as the most
eligible spot for general purposes, the institution is located
—but by all who have the interest of the seafaring class a
heart. The:directors hope that the subscriptions in 1861
will be so liberal as to enable them to enlarge the sphere of
there operations ; and to put the home in such a state of
efficiency, in all its departments, as shall render it still
more worthy of the high position which it holds [amongst
the philanthropic institutions of the various seaports of
Great Britain."

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4N MISR MARRIAGE BY SCOTTISII

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An interesting ceremony was ratified and declared
before Sheriff Strathern on Saturday which happily
illustrates an old principle of Scottish law, under
the forms prescribed by the act passed two or three
years ago to abolish the too hasty unions which,
had previously been celebrated chiefly at Gretna
Green. The bride and bridegroom on this occasion
had travelled all the way from Ballymena, in the
county of Antrim. The latter is a gentleman of
fortune, of the susceptible age of 17, and a ward in
Chancery ; while the bride is an accomplished
young lady, only three years his senior, endowed
with remarkable personal charms. The Lord
Chancellor, it appears, had refused to assent to the
marriage, not from any objection to the choice
1 which his ward had made, but from a desire to
decline the responsibility of authorising a union
which might have very important effects on the
destination of the property in the meantime under
his keeping. In this dilemma the youthful lovers
bethought them of a trip to Bonnie Scotland. To
the Firth of Clyde accordingly they sailed, accom-
panied in this most interesting voyage of life by
the young lady's uncle and by the stepfather of her
accepted suitor. Upon arriving in Glasgow they
were informed by the legal adviser to whom they
confided their tenser tale, that they must reside 40
days in Scotland if ti:iey would be married according
to the forms of the Church, or 21 days if they chose
the simpler and direeLer process of the civil law.
'They- preferred the shor,ter period, and on Satur-
day t. he 21 days of probatfon had transpired, and
promp try at the appointed hour the youthful couple,
accomp anted by the uncle and ,stepfather, appeared
before tie legal agent, who had all arranged for the
pending, ceremony. A stamped document was pro-
duced, in which the loving pair declared before
witnesses that they were man and wife, and engaged
to perform the duties of husband and spouse re-
spectively till death should them p art. The people
at the hotel in which they lived vere ready, of
course, to testify to the legal period of residence,,
and thus armed at all points the happy pair pro-
ceeded to the chambers of Mr. Sheriff Strathern,
where the marriage was formally declared ratified,
and taken legal note of. The next step was to re-
pair to the registrar of the district, who entered the
particulars of the marriage in his books, and gave
the married couple a certificate, which, according
to the recent act, is a good and valid declarator of
marriage in all parts of the United Kingdom. The
ceremony was now concluded, and the same even-
ing the marriage party departed in the steamer for
Ireland.—Dublin Morning Journal.

COUJNTRY MARKETS.

BIRNLINGHAM-JAN. 3.

A good business was done in wheat to-day, with a full
supply . English old and new wheat must be quoted at
is:advance on late rates. Barley held for is more money.
Oats were 6d dearer. Beans and peas held firmly, and
were fully as dear.