The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-05 00:00:00

N, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1868.

ARCHBISIIOP MANNING ON HOSPITALS.

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On Sunday Dr. Manning preached at St. Mary's,
Moortields, in aid of the funds of the Royal Hospi-
tal for Diseases of the Chest, City-road. The
church was crowded in every part. The Archbishop
selected his text from the second chapter of the
Epistle of James, verse 12th, " So speak ye, and E o
do ye, as they that shall be judged by the law of
liberty." At the conclusion of his discourse Dr.
Manning said :—.

"We desire to-day to promote the objects and
increase the funds of the Hospital for Diseases of
the Chest. Charity in itself is always a blessing;
not only to the naturally benevolent, but to every-
one—to everyone with a heart to feel for another.
Think, for a moment, of the sighs, the weary,
wakeful nights, the long, anxious days—the
silent agony—to be found within the walls
of an hospital. In the enumeration of these items
is to be found more than an appeal. Words will
only weaken its strength. An hospital appeals to
Christians more than any one class of charity, to
any other class of persons. This hospital for diseases
of the chest has a very special pleading in it. lam
correct in stating that of all the diseases mortal to
the human frame, in the come of a year, there is
none which carries off so large a proportion of its
victims, and which disables so many more from
earning a livelihood, however scanty and meagre,
as these affections of the chest and lungs. Misery,
utter wretchedness, helplessness, the death of
fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers—the
wreck of households—the breaking up and sending
adrift of whole families—poverty, hunger,and gradual
pinching away of the children—that is the meaning of
sickness to the poor—aye, the industrious, honest
poor. When sickness falls on the rich man, how-
ever severe, there are all sorts of alleviations to
accompany and palliate it ; but on the poor man it
comes with redoubled force, from the very fact of
his poverty. The poor man disabled by this linger-
ing, creeping, insidious disease of the lungs, be-
comes helpless, and all his household suffers with
him ; and this is, I need hardly remark, a kind
of malady which attacks those who, in honest
industry, are exposed to the keenness of the
wind and the intense cold of the winter both
morning and evening. The numbers of those
who, engaged in honest daily labour, receive
their first wound in this way are very great—
greater perhaps than would be imagined. Last year
thirty-nine thousand persons were relieved by this
charity. The in-patients were 2,300. The out-
patients, as I said before, living by its benign and
beneficent influence, 29,000. It has, however, so
far increased its operations since then, that for this
year the figures will be some 45,000 or 50,000 out-
door patients.

" I feel confident you who are strong and healthy,
who do not know what the pain and languishing of
sickness accurately mean, will indeed be glad to
make an offertory thanksgiving for the health and
strength you enjoy. I feel sure too that if any of
you have been struck down by the same fell malady
at any period of your lives, and perhaps never ex-
pected yourself again to join in the worship of the
sanctuary of God, that you will now be the more
ready to give to-day. There is not one of you in
my presence who ere long may not be the victim of
this terrible malady. Does it not, then, behove us
all, seriously, in the time of health, to remember
sickness which may come alas too soon ? It is
a fact generally known that none die so happily
and so softly as those who in health and life have
been careful and attentive in charity towards the
sick. They who with their own hands have
smoothed the pillow of the dying, and gently eased
their passage to the grave, receive the most assured
grace, the most pleasant, loving recollections in the
time when their own sickness and death approach.
" Let us, then, all remember that we live under
the dispensation of Christian liberty (the topic of
the discourse) ; you are not, in your contributions
to-day, bound by the law of tithes, or the computa-
tion of numbers. By the law of Christian liberty
you may be bound—compelled to give more than a
tenth of your income to charity. Do not, I say, be
merely profuse. Such giving is not always gene-
rosity. But be really generous ; give from the
heart. Again, I say, it is not always the largest
gifts which show the most liberal heart. It is when
people give that which costs them something to
give that true liberality is shown. Rem3mber,
Christ gave the last drop of his own precious blood
for you. Surely you all can give something gene-
rous in aid of the cause of I.litu who went about on
earth doing good."

711EATRICAL AND MUSICAL ITEMS.

(From the Era.)

The Christmas pantomimes by Mr. E. L. Blan-
chard, at Drury-lane, will be entitled " Grimalkin
the Great ;" at Covent-garden, " Robinson Crime"
is the subject ; at the Haymarket a burlesque will
be produced, "The Rightful Heir" forming the
subject.

Mr. Sotheru has accepted an engagement to
appear in New York.
Miss Sheridan has quite recovered from her late
accident ; she reappears at the Strand on the 12th
in " A Comical Countess."

Mr. Barry Sullivan has been acting with great
success at Bath.

Miss Hazlewood's benefit takes place next Mon-
day at Sadler's Welk.

It is entirely untrue that the building of her
Majesty's Theatre has stopped for want of funds.
Everything is going on rapidly, and it will be
opened, as originally intended, in March next.
Miss Bateman appears for the first time in the
play of " Pietra" at the Haymarket on Monday
next.

Miss Lydia Thonapsou is meeting with great suc-
cess in New York.

The " Grand Duchess" is attracting largo audi-
ences at the Standard.

(From the Sunday Times.)
Mr. Sothern is at present performing in the
,6 Hero of Romance" at Glasgow with great success.
Miss Marriot has met with a great reception.
Gounod has gone to Rome for the benefit of his
health.

The " Lancashire Lass" is being performed at
two or three theatres in America.

Mr. Brougham has written a new drama called
" The Emerald Ring." It is to be produced imme-
diately in New York.
Mr. Toole has met with great success at Bir-
mingham and Manchester.
(From the Musical Standard.)
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Mendelssohn's " Reformation Symphony" has
been performed in Paris.

Madame Rossini has consented to the transfer of
her late husband's remains to Italy.
Two new opera boUffes have just been performed
at Paris : one is entitled "Le Vengeur," by I.
Legonix, the other "Le Grand-Due de Matapa,"
by M. Debillemont.
The Italian Government has ordered a grand
funeral service to take place at the cost of the State
in honour of Rossini. A statue of the composer is
to be erected in Milan.

The director of the Imperial Theatre in Russia
has brought an action against the singer Thascini,
who has refused to come and sing at St. Petersburg
according to his engagement. The damages are
laid at 80,000 francs.

Verdi has written a letter suggesting that the
best Italian composers should write a Requiem in
honour of Rossini.

The Stamford Mercury is informed upon good
authority that steps are being taken by some of the lead-
ing laity in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, for the
presentation of a testimonial from the laity and clergy to
the Bishop of Lincoln, on the occasion of his translation to
the diocese of London.

VERY BAD WEATHER.—On Tuesday and Wed-
nesday the Liverpool Local Marine Board investigated a
charge of drunkenness against Captain White, of jilt)
schooner Ripple, and his mute, C. J. Bruce. A number of
witnesses spoke to the captain's drunken habits. Mr.
Robert Hargrove, one of the owners, deposed to having
engaged Captain White, receiving at the time good testi-
monials. The morning that he put back the captain said
to him the weather was so bad that the sea had washed
the watch out of his hand overboard. A number of wit-
nesses were examined fur the defence, but the court
held that the charge was proved, and suspended the cap-
tain's certificate for six mouths. The chargo against the
mate was dismissed.