The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-11 00:00:00

THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

The half-yearly general court of this society was
held yesterday at the offices of the institution, 'l
'ra-
falgar-square, Mr. B. B. Cubbell in the chair.
Among others present were Sir Walter Stirling,
Mr. T. E. Baker, Dr. Christian, Capt. Cartwright,
Mr. Octavius Ommanney, Mr. Case, &c: The
minutes of previous courts having been read and
confirmed, the secretary, Mr. Lambton Young,
read the report of the society's operations since the
last general court in December. From this it ap-
peared that the number of cases brought under the
cognisance of the various committees in which lives
had been placed in imminent danger was 75 ; in
these 81 persons had been successfully treated by
the officers of the society, but seven were beyond
recovery. The number of cases of attempted sui-
cide for the same time had been 10 ; and 9 eases
had been referred to the general court for the award
of the silver medal of the society. The Hyde Park
cases reported since December last were 36, of
which 32 were treated successfully, three were
beyond recovery, and one person found drowned ;
four attempted suicide. On the motion of the
chairman the report was adopted. The silver medal
of the society was then awarded to the following :
—To Mr. Alexander Golland, vice-consul at Per-
nambuco, for saving aman named Johnson, who ac-
cidentally fell into the river Jabalao, Pernambuco,
on the Ist of November,lBs9 ; to Capt. C. Goldsmid,
of the ship Melazzo, for saving a Garibaldiaa
volunteer, who fell overboard in Gibraltar bay on
the 27th of September, 1860 ; to Mr. Stephen
Court, master, Royal Navy, for
saving William
Who
Wire, ablebodied seaman,; of H.M.S. Calcutta,
_,
accidentally fell ie to the river Peiho, China! t.,..r.L
1858 ; to John Fraser, aged 16, a boydet -t1
L gulf
Chesapeake, for saving a seaman narTe.rt
Aplin, who accidendally fell overbtoaldBo ;
to
of Pecheli, China, on the 11th S
Royalep Artillery, for
Elkanaht_e
Gun-
ner Alexander Beady, of
_thuerke,
fythe sane corps,
by the tide in
trying to save Gunner MB
who was being rapidly carried
Island, Pembrokeshire, on the
a heavy sea at Thorn
Ellis, ablebodied
• to Samuel se-
aman,3lst Dec., 1860 ,
both of H.M.S.
and John Bate,Cambridge,
awoa
for saving Thomas Stevens, ablebodied seaman of
the same vessel, who fell an
overboard in the harbour
at
Devonport on the 21st February last ; to Lieut.
G. Fitzroy. RN., and. Wm. Metters, abAebodied
1
seaman, of H. M.S. Termagant, for saving Frederick
Pringle, seaman, who fell overboard at sea on the
19th January last ; to Lieut. J. H. Coxon, R.N., of
H M.S. Hero, for saving Alexander Thorn,. caulker,
who fell overboard at sea on the 24th April last;
and to Lieut. Arthur Allington, of H.M.S. Megeera,
for saving J. Brown, a private in the Royal Engi-
neers, who, being lunatic, jumped overboard in the
Bay of Biscay on the sth' May last; Some. discus-
sion took place in reference to the Royal Humane
S. • .ciety granting medals in cases of saving life from
fire, and other business of a• mere formal nature
having been transacted, a vote of thanks wa.s passed
to the chairman,:and the court adjourned.

ENGLISH LETTERS ON TEE AMERICAN QUES-
TION.—The tone of the letters received from England by
many of our leading bankers and private merchants by the
last mail has been very severe in their treatment of Ameri-
can affairs. We are just now reaping the effect of the un-
reasonable and impolitic articles published by our city jour-
nals in criticism of the conduct of Great Britain. We stated
at the time that in our opinion the attacks upon the sin-
cerity of the English people were entirely without founda-
tion, and that the bullying braggadocio which makes up the
staple of American newspaper comment in reference to Great
Britain was a vulgar exhibition of impertinence wlnch
.
would be taken abroad as a national likeness. Al,l this Is
now realised,--, ew York lourna4 of Conowce`