The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-08 00:00:00

TH. SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8 1844.

EXETER HALL.
The Sacred Harmonic Society commenced their
se. ies of winter concerts on Wednesday at Exeter Hall,
and with the best work that could have been chosen
to manifest the colossal power of the body—Handel's
Israel in Egypt. The performance of the oratorio
requires but few remarks, the public who have been
in the habit of attending the Society's concerts being
perfectly familiarised with the style in which it is
rendered by the body. Excepting as concerns the
addition of some noisy and inappropriate instru-
mental parts to the score, and the interpolation of
one or two equally inappropriate vocal pieces, nothing
but praise is due to the exertions of the society on
this occasion. The splendid and characteristic cho-
ruses went in most cases better than we have yet
heard them at Exeter Hall, and the band did its duty
most efficiently. The " Hailstone Chorus" was en-
cored, and all the most popular pieces were received
with enthusiasm. The solo singers have so little to
do in this great choral work, that a word or two will
dismiss their claims to notice. Miss Dolby gave her
first air, " The land brought forth frogs," very im-
pressively ; and her last, " Thou shalt bring them,"
so charmingly and with such musicianlike feeling as
to bring down an encorc of unusual unamity. Miss
Barrett made a highly favourable debut; her air,
" Thou didst blow," was very sensibly delivered, aid
her last solo, " Sing ye to the Lord,' was remark-
able for its certainty and clearness. Miss Cubitt had
only one duet, to which she did full justice. The
duet " The Lord is a man of war," was to have been
sung by Mr. Machin and Mr. Atkins, but the latter
vocalist did not arrive in time, and so another gentle-
man volunteered his services under favour of a depre-
catory pleading beforehand. He succeeded extremely
well, and an encore was the consequence.

LITERATURE.

ST. JAMES'S. 3 Yalu. Mtn timer, London, 1844.
As this is merely the republication, in three
volumes, of a tale that has already appeared in suc-
ce,sive Numbers of Ainsworth's Magazine, and been
the subject of more than one monthly notice in The
Sun, we need say nothing more of it on the present
occasion, than that it is not unworthy of its author,
though, as a whole, it can scarcely be reckoned
among his most successful productions. It is decidedly
inferior in portraiture of character, and skill in the
handling of plot, to " Crichton," and in graphic vigour
to " Rookwood," but it is superior to the " Miser's
Daughter," and worth at least a whole cart-load of
such coarse, flash romances, as: " Jack Sheppard."

EPHEMERIDES. Newby, London, 1844.
There are many sensible reflections scattered
throughout this volume, which is a collection of essays
—or rather fragments of essays—copied out, appa-
rently, from the author's common-place book. A
great variety of subjects is discussed, and among
them is that of " Clerical Celibacy and Auricular
Confessions," to both of which practices of the Romish
Church the author professes himself decidedly hos-
tile; and to do him justice, we must say that he gives
good and sufficing reasons for the faith that is in him.
We have been pleased with the following remarks,
which occur incidentally in a sketch of Soult and
Wellington :—" In reading history we are almost
tempted to believe that the chief end of Government
in promoting internal quiet, has been 0 accumulate
greater resources for foreign hostilities. Bloodshed
is the staple of history; and men have been butchered
and countries ravaged, as if the human frame had
been constructed with such exquisite skill only to be
mangled, and the earth covered with fertility only to
attract the spoiler."

IRISH BEGGARS.—The first thing that gives the
stranger an idea of the poverty of Ireland, is the im-
mense numbers of mendicants who besiege him for a few
pence. They meet him wherever he goes ; they cross
his path in all directions. They are generally most
deplorably clad. Clothing, properly speaking, they have
none. Your philosophy is puzzled to know how they
continue to keep together the mass of rags which is
attached to their persons. You are afraid they will drop
off their backs while soliciting your charity. I could
not resist the suspicion, that many of the Irish mendi-
cants are actually in love with their rags, and that to put
them into a suit of new clothes would be to render them
altogether miserable. Of this I am quite certain that
they would never rest satisfied until they had made a
number of holes in their coat ; for a coat would seem
to them incomplete without a few holes in it. You
are struck with the fact, that many of the large per-
forations which you see in their apparel are very easily
susceptible of being mended, and that if they were
patched up, the appearance of this class of persons
would be greatly improved. The use of the needle,
however, is comparatively unknown to the Irish mendi-
cant. Nature has not made him a tailor, and he has no
notion of attempting to set at nought the purposes of
nature. That, he thinks, would be a reflection on
her. He seems to find a peculiar pleasure in his tat-
tered garments. You will always see more holes in an
Irish beggar's coat than buttons on it. And yet, amidst
all his rags, there is the absence of that actual misery in
the Irish mendicant which you see in the English beggar.
You are surprised at the jolly-looking and often ruddy
countenances which you see associated with so much
outward seeming wretchedness. No one can be half an
hour in Ireland without being impressed with the convic-
tion, that the Irish possess' constitutionally all the ele-
ments of happiness, and that, if their social condition
were but ameliorated, they would be the happiest people
on the face of the eartb.—lmpressions of Ireland and
the Irish.
A very serious accident was admitted into the Sus-
sexstPwite that morning riyonThursday morning. At
several men were about Countyhalf-past
H
em-
ployed in removing some earth on the railway near Hay-
ward's Heath ; and as the engine used on the occasion
was passing from one set of rails to another, it knocked
down the breaksman, John Hobbs, a fine muscular fellow
about 24 years of age. The engine passed over his arm,
and while be was falling must also have caught his head,
on which a large scalp wound was inflicted, laying bare
the bones of the skull on the left side. The poor fel-
low's right thigh was also broken, and the right arm was
so smashed that it was necessarily amputated imme-
diately he was brought in at half-past five. Hobbs is, of
course, in a dangerous state.—Brighton Guardian.
BOROUGH OF MORPETH.—A seizure of pepper, be-
longing to three respectable tradesmen, having been
made by the officers of Excise stationed there, about five
weeks ago, and a report of the proceedings, calculated to
do them serious injury, having been industriously circu-
lated, it is right to mention that the article so seized has
been tested in the usual manner, and that the owners
have received an intimation, during the present week,
that it is genuine and unadulterated.—Tyne Mercury.'
INFANT SAPPIIO. rhe concert given under the
patronage of the Mayor and Mayoress, at Clifton, on
Saturday last, was numerously and fashionably attended;
and on Monday, such was the anxiety evinced to be pre-
sent at the closing performance of this interesting little
warbler, that the Assembly-room, Prince's-street, was
crowded in every part, 1,100 persons being present.
The Infant Sappho is now at Bath, but will, we under-
stand, pay another visit to Bristol.—Bristol Mercury.
The public will be glad to learn that as arrange-
ment has been made, by which the letter-bags between
this city apd Oxford will be carried by the Prince of
Wales coach in place of by carts. This will amount to
a restoration of the old Oxford mail, the absence of which
has hien severely felt upon the road.— Worcestershire
Chronicle.

CIDER AND PERRY.—SO plentiful is cider and
perry this year, that both articles are now being offered
in this town at 255. per hogshead, and many of the pub-
licans are retailing it at 2d. and 3d. per quart.— Worca-
tershire Chronicle.

ALTERATION OF POLICE DISTRICTS.—SOMB ma-
terial alterations are contemplated in several of the
police districts of the metropolis, which are at present
widely scattered and badly distributed. Sir James Gra-
ham has issued orders to the Chief Magistrate at Bow-
street to make a survey of his district, in order to ascer-
tain its extent, and the second clerk and messenger
intend measuring it during the ensuing week. On
Thursday and Friday last Mr. Henry, one of the Magis-
trates of Queen-square, was closeted with Mr. Hall, the
Chief Magistrate of the metropolitan districts, for several
hours, examining each other's districts by the " Post-
office Directorz," and preparing a report to be presented
to the Home Secretary. As far as we can learn it is
intended to increase the Bow-street district by adding
Leicester-square, Pall-mall, Haymarket, St. James's-
street, and part of Piccadilly ; the present district being
bounded by the east side of St. Martin's-lane. It is very
clear that the Bow-street district will bear increasing,
for its size, as compared with any other district in the
metropolis, is most absurd. It would appear almost
impossible that three Magistrates should find anything to
employ their time in a district scarcely a mile square—
commencing at Temple bar and finishing at Charing-
cross, bounded by the Thames, and running up St. Mar-
tin's lane to Broad-street, St. Giles's, thence along Hol-
born to the top of Chancery-lane, and concluding in
Lincoln's Inn ; while two Magistrates have to do the
duty of districts like Marylebone and Clerkenwell many
miles in extent. Yet it is a fact, that Bow-street has a
greater number of night charges than any other office
in the metropolitan districts, owing to the fertility in
Drury-lane and St. Giles's for pugnacity. On Monday
mornings there have been continually from 50 to 75 night
charges, many of which, however, ought not to have been
sent before the Bench. The Bow-street district will,
however, well bear enlargement, and we have little doubt
such is the intention of Sir James Graham with respect
to
it, as
well
as Queen-square.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY: —A farmer named Lishman,
of Fenwick, Stamfordham, Northumberland, was on the
29th ult., whilst riding upon his horse, dragged from
the back of the animal by six men (disguised), who
robbed him of two pocket-books, containing 105/. in Si.
notes of the Bank of England and of the Union Bank of
Newcastle• on-Tyne, a stamp receipt for 1001, and two
receipts of the Northumberland and Durham District
Bank for 2001. and 500/.
REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY.—John

Richards, who has attained the astonishing age of 110
years, is now staying at Mr. Heslop's, the Bricklayers'
Arms, New Quebec. street, Portman-square. Although
the old man has long passed the term Scripture assigns
as the duration of human life, his faculties are little
impaired, and his appearance is that of a hale man of
seventy or eighty. For more than forty years he followed
the occupation of a sawyer ; he has known poverty,
suffered no little from accidents, and not very long ago
was run over. Notwithstanding all this he looks as if
his life was not yet at its close, and his cheerfulness is
as remarkable as his years. The evening of his days,
or it might be more proper to say the midnight (a clear
midnight it is), is rendered comfortable through the
liberality of a gentleman in his native county, Devon.
We trust Richards will equal the longevity of Parr or
Jenkins.
EDUCATION.—Wednesday a public meeting was
held at Trinity Chapel, Trinity-square, Southwark, for
the purpose of taking measures for the promotion of
" popular and unsectarian education." The announce-
ment that Mr. Pritchard, the late British Consul at Ota-
heite, would attend, drew together a large concourse of
persons. From statements made by the Rev. James
Sherman, a Dissenting minister, who took the chair, it
appeared that British schools had been erected in the
neighbourhood, in which some hundreds of children were
in course of instruction. Still much remained to be done,
as thousands were labouring under the sad effects of ig-
norance. Large subscriptions in aid of educational ex-
tension bad already been received, and grants had been
made by societies. Mr, Pritchard gave a long biogra-
phical account of himself, from the time be engaged as a
Sunday-school teacher till the recent disturbances at
Otsheite. At the close of his address a collection was en-
tered into, and a subscription of 250/. was announced.
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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of a
great deal of public business.

TIER MAJESTY S VISIT TO THE CITY.
The LORD Mayon stated to the Court that he had
received her Majesty's most gracious answer to the
address.

Mr. Woodtborpe, the Clerk of the Court, read the
Queen's answer, which was received with loud
cheering.

Upon the motion of Mr. JOHN DIXON, seconded by
Mr. JUPP, her Majesty's answer was ordered to be
entered on the journals of the Court.
The RECORDER read the letter of Sir J. Graham
to the Lord Mayor, announcing her Majesty's warm
approbation of the manner of her reception in the City
of London on the occasion of her visit upon the open-
ing of the Royal Exchange, and of the whole of the
proceedings adopted.
The letter, which was addressed " Sir William
Magnay, Baronet, Lord Mayor of London," was read
most emphatically by the Learned Recorder, and
loudly applauded.
Sir PETER LAURIE and Mr. Jury seconded the
motion that this letter be entered on the journals of
the Court.

Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy 1-licKs, the report
of the proceedings of the 18th of August, 1831, was
read. That report related to the opening of London-
bridge, and the honour conferred upon the Lord
Mayor of that period. The Deputy said that he was
induced to call for the reading of the document in
consequence of the similarity of these two occasions.
Sir PETER LAURIE stated that there was a differ-
ence between the two occasions. In the former in-
stance the communication thatithe Baronetcy had been
conferred was announced by the Secretary of State,
but in the case of Sir William Magnay the Queen
herself had thought proper, with her own lips, to con-
fer the dignity; and he (Sir Peter Laurie) had heard
the expression fall from her Majesty's lips, and the
citizens of London felt grateful for the honour.
Mr. llEprEr. wished to know when the report of
the Royal Exchange and Gresham Committee, stating
the amount of the expense incurred, would be pro-
duced ?

Mr. ANDERTON was anxious to learn when the
building itself would be opened for the mercantile
community ?
➢ir. JOHN DIXON said there were some defects in
the tesselated pavement, which would be very soon
remedied, and as soon as that objection was removed
(as we understood Mr. Dixon), the area would be
opened. The great rooms above stairs would not be
completed before Christmas.

THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL—NEW SCHOLARSHIP.
Mr. HALE, the Chairman of the City of London
School Committee, brought up the following report,
which was received with the warmest applause :
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Commons of the City of London, in Common
Council assembled.
" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, of
your Committee for managing the affairs of the City
of London School, do certify, that in the month of
December last we received. from Francis Hobler,
Esq., of Bucklersbury, whose father was for many
years a valuable and highly-respected officer of this
Corporation, a communication offering for our accept-
ance a set of steel dies, which he had caused to be cut
and engraved, for the purpose of striking a medal
commemorating the name of the late Colonel Mark
Beaufoy, F.R.S., and formerly a Member of Parlia-
ment (who was also a man eminent for his attain-
ments as a mathematician, and for his researches in
many important departments of practical science),
with a pr,,posal that a medal to be struck from such
dies, and to be called The Beaufoy Medal,' should
be annually offered in cotrpetition amongst the pupils
of the school, as a premium for proficiency in mathe-
matical knowledge ; and such offer of Mr. Hobler,
which was also accompanied by a present to the
library of the school of a splendid volume, containing
part of the scientific investigations of Col. Beaufoy,
was accepted by us with becoming acknowledgments
for the kind consideration and regard then exhibited
by him towards the school.
"On the occasion of the first presentation of the
Beaufoy Medal,' which took place at the annual dis-
tribution of prizes, presided over by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the 26th day of July last,
your Committee had die extreme gratification of be-
ing informed, by a public announcement then made
by Mr. Hobler, that Henry Benjamin Hanbury
Beaufoy, Esq., of South Lambeth, sail of the late
Colonel Beaufoy, in testimony of his gratification at
the respect shown to the memory of his father, and
from a desire to promote the object proposed by the
before-mentioned medal, and to encourage the
study of mathematical science, with a view to the
practical application thereof to the use and service of
mankind, had authorised him to signify his intention
of investing in the public funds, in the names of cer-
tain trustees, a sum of money, sufficient to produce,
as dividends, the yearly sum of 501., to be applied to
the perpetual support of a scholarship, to be called
the Beaufoy Scholarship,' to be established in con-
nexion with the City of London School, and to be
enjoyed by pupils proceeding thence to the Univer-
sity of Cambridge.
" We have now the satisfaction of reporting that,
in furtherance of this beneficent intention, Mr. Beau-
Coy has since caused the sum of 1,7171. stock to be
purchased in the Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank
Annuities (which will yield a nett sum of 501. per
annum, clear of any deduction for income-tax), in the
names of the Right Hon. William Magnay, Lord
Mayor ; Anthony Brown, Esq , Chamberlain ; Mr.
Warren Starmes Hale, the Chairman of your Com-
mittee ; and Mr. Francis Hobler, as trustees for the
purpose above-mentioned; and a deed of declaration
of trusts, similar to the deed with respect to the esta-
blishment of the Times Scholarship, having been pre-
pared and settled under the advice of counsel, and
also perused and approved by the Comptroller of the
Chamber of the City, on behalf of tke Corporation,
we beg to recommend the same for adoption by
this Honourable Court, and that this City's
seal should be accordingly fixed thereto.
We feel assured that this Honourable Court,
as Governors of the City of London School,
will fully participate with us in the gratification
afforded by so distinguished an act of beneficence as
that which it has been our pleasing duty thus to
submit to their notice. The advantage which must
result to the school from the acquisition of so valuable
a gift, and the stimulus which it will perpetually
afford to the pupils for the study of practical, as well
as theoretical science, combine to render it one of
incalculable importance. A peculiar interest must
also ever attach to the endowment, from the manner
in which it has been bestowed ; springing as it does
from the spontaneous liberality of a gentleman who
has hitherto had not the slightest connexion with the
school, or with the Corporation, beyond that of being
a citizen of London On accomplishing an act of gene-

rosity rarely paralleled in an individual, and wliO has
manifested a spirit of genuine philanthropy towards
his fellow-citizens, which entitles him not only to
their grateful thanks, but also to their lasting
respect and regard. In order that the remem-
brance of so valuable a benefaction may be
effectually preserved, and its object be the
better promoted by being constantly kept in the
view of those for whose benefit it is designed, we
beg leave to recommend that a tablet, with a
suitable inscription, commemorative of the esta-
blishment of the Beaufoy Scholarship;' and also the
armorial bearings of Mr. Beaufoy and of Mr. Hobler
' should be placed in a conspicuous part of the school,
at the expense of this City, in like manner with the
memorials already put up by the Directors of this
Honourable Court with respect to the Times Scho-
larship,' and other benefactors to the school."
Mr. HALE, in moving that the Court should re-
ceceive the report, gave a history of the magnificent
gift presented by Mr. Beaufoy, and spoke in terms of
high approbation of the conduct of Mr. Hobler upon
the occasion. He observed that a twofold benefit was
likely to arise from the circumstance. The public
might say amongst themselves, " Go thou and do
likewise;' and the tablet would not only perpetuate
the memory of the benefit, but provide against any
future misappropriation.—(Cheers.)
Mr. R. TAYLOR, in seconding the motion, said that,
amidst all the censures of the Corporation, they had,
at any rate, to boast that, young as their school was,
it had several scholarships already established.—(Hear,
hear.) He considered that the recommendation of
the Committee was calculated to induce men of sta-
tion, fortune, and learning, to follow the example of
NI r. Beaufoy.
The motion was unanimously agreed to, and the
City seal was set to the deed of trust.

Upon the motion of Mr. HALE, seconded by Mr.
STEVENS, a vote of thanks was voted to Mr. Beaufoy
(for which see advertisement), and the thanks of the
Court were ordered to he ornamentally written and
presented to him, and to be advertised in the usual
papers.

wholesale dealers to become free. He wished to know
why, upon a matter of such deep importance to their
constituents, the directions of the Court had not
been fulfilled, while poor retail tradesmen were har-
rassed and oppressed by constant threats of actions ?
Mr. BURN, in the absence of the Chairman, said
that the Committee had experienced great difficulties
in giving effect to the orders of the Court, because the
inquests of the different wards had failed in most in-
stances to present the class of persons to whom the
resolution of the Court principally applied. They
had, however, now succeeded in obtaining the names
of several, and the strongest measures would be
adopted.

Sir. GRESHAM said that a letter, signed " J. Pon-
tifex," ward clerk, had been sent to retailers in his
ward, threatening them with prosecutions, and he
wished toknow whether, pending the inquiry,,these pro-
ceedings would be permitted to go on ?—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. JOHN DIXON said that, in his opinion, mea-
sures should be taken to bring the question to an
immediate decision ; and that in the interval these
vexatious actions ought to be suspended.—(Hear.)
Mr. AsnuasT (the Chairman, who then entered the
Court) said it was only within the last few days the
Committee had been able to make the selection from
the numerous persons presented by the ward inquests.
They had now selected persons who stood on the
ward books as occupying the largest establishments
in the different wards—men of station and means—
competent to try the question of liability as wholesale
dealer:4, which it was the object of the Court and the
Committee to have fairly set at rest.
Mr. GRESHAM—But what do you say as to the
suspension of proceedings against the poor ?
Mr. ASHURST requested that the City Solicitor be
questioned on these points.
The CITY SOLICITOR being called upon, said that
in no single instance, since he had been in office, had
he taken proceedings against any one, either whole-
sale or retail—poor or rich. Under a resolution of
the Common Council, passed several years since, no
action could be brought against non-freemen, except
by the direction of the Chamberlain, and through the
instrumentality of himself, as attorney of the Mayor's
Court. He had received no such directions, and, of
course, he had taken no such proceedings. The
case, however, was now altered. On Satur-
day last he received instructions from a Com-
mittee, under the authority of the Court, on
which he should promptly act. A list of twenty-
three persons, principally merchants, bankers,
and wholesale dealers, had been selected by the Com-
mittee from the ward inquest presentments, and he
had received directions to write to them to take up
their freedom, and, in case of non-compliance, to sue
them for the penalties in the Mayor's Court. Upon
investigation, it appeared that some of these persons
were already free, and others were exempt, having
served in the army or navy. As in all proceedings of
this nature something depended upon the manner in
which they were commenced, he had framed a letter
to apprise the parties in the list of the measures in
contemplation. That letter he had submitted to the
approval of the Chairman and the Learned Town
Clerk, under whose advice the Committee were acting,
and, if it met their approbation, not a day should be
lost in giving effect to their directions.

Alderman—Lucas presented a petition from the
rector, churchwardens, and authorities of Gravesend,
more especially of the parish of Milton, praying for
assistance in building a new church.
After some discussion, the petition was ordered to
lie upon the table.

INFIRMARY FOR THE CURE OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES.

Mr. ANDERTON presented the following petition
against the establishment of an infirmary in Bridge-
street, Blackfriars, for the cure of cutaneous diseases:—

" To 'the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Common Council of the City of London.
" The petition of the undersigned, a Committee
appointed on behalf of themselves and other the
inhabitants of New Bridge-street, Blackfriars,
and the adjacent parishes of St. Andrew-by-
the-Wardrobe, St. Ann, Blackfriars, and the
Bridewell precinct,
" Showeth,—That the inhabitants have heard, with
the greatest alarm, that it is proposed to establish an
infirmary for the cure of cutaneous diseases at No. 25,
in New Bridge-street, Black friars.
" That an infirmary for such purposes conducted in
a small building, without an inch of open ground at-
tached to it, and situated in a populous and respect-
able neighbourhood like that of New Bridge-street,
is not only totally unfit for a public institution like
that contemplated, but will create so great a nuisance
to the neighbouring inhabitants as to drive many of
the most respectable families from their present resi-
dences, and depreciate the value of property not less
to the tenants than to their landlords.

" That the Governors of Bridewell Hospital, being
the owners of a very considerable property in New
Bridge-street, did, on the 13th day of October last,
pass the following resolution, viz.:—
" Resolved, that it is desirable that the establish-
ment of the infirmary should be opposed by the Go-
vernors of this hospital, and that the clerk be di-
rected to make known the opinion of this Committee
to the Apothecaries' Company, in the hope that they
will not supply the said infirmary with hot water, or
give their countenance and support to it ; and that the
Governors will assist the inhabitants of the street and
neighbourhood in preventing a continuance of the
nuisance.'

" That in confirmation of the opinions of your peti-
tioners and other the inhabitants of the neighbour-
hood, and of the opinion expressed by the Governors
of Bridewell Hospital, the Worshipful Company of
Apothecaries have decided on withdrawing the per-
mission (conditionally granted) of supplying hot
water to the Cutaneous Infirmary, and the birectors
of the New River Company have also determined not
to supply the said infirmary with cold water from the
main.

" That the house taken for the said infirmary is, to-
gether with many of the most respectable houses in
the street and neighbourhood, the property of the
Corporation. _ _

" Your petitioners, therefore, pray that your Ho-
nourable Court will take the subject of the said
nuisance into your consideration, and afford your aid
and support in preventing the same from being esta-
blished.

" JAMES ANDERTON, Bridewell-precinct.
" J. HARTLEY, New Bridge-street.
" JAMES BROMLEY, Churchwarden of St.
Ann's, Blackfriars.

" D. J. M‘LAUCHLAN, Printing-house-square.
DANIEL COCKERELL, Churchwarden of
St. Ann's, Blackfriars.
" H. SILVERLOCK, Churchwarden of St. An-
drew-by-the-Wardrobe.
" W. F. A. DELANE, 4, Chatham-place.
" NORTH, SIMPSON, and GRAHAM, 35, 36,
and 37, New Bridge-street."
Mr. ANDERTON supported the petition in a very
resolute tone. The Corporation of London, he said,
were bound to protect the citizens of London by all the
means in their power against nuisances of all descrip-
tions. They had never failed to petition Parliament
for the abatement of steam smoke, and those other
abominations by which the public health, in so dense
a population, is constantly assailed. They had com-
bated the various sources of annoyances that existed
for a length of time ; and here was a nuisance which
had not grown up amongst them, but had been
brought into the City in its entire condition, and oc-
cupied a building in one of its most populous neigh-
bourhoods.—(Hear.) It was quite impossible that the
inhabitants of Bridge-street and the vicinity could
remain there if an hospital, to and from which deplor-
able objects would be passing in constant succession,
were to be permitted to be established in one of the
houses. For himself he would say, that nothing could
induce him to allow his family to reside in the street.
A MEMBER-It is not on your side of the way.
Mr. ANDERTON said that was perhaps so much the
worse, for the objects would be seen from morning
till night by those who resided opposite to the place
to which they would have to resort.—(Hear, hear.)
He might be told that the diseases which the hospital
professed to remove were not contagious, and, there-
fore, could not be objectionable as regarded the health
of the neighbourhood. He knew that the itch and the
ringworm, the sufferers from which would form a
mass of visitors to the institution, were contagious.—
(Hear, hear.) Chatham-place was constantly re-
sorted to by nurses with children, and afforded an
airy and wholesome recreation to the youthful
branches of the neighbouring families. What might
their condition be if they were surrounded by crowds
of the objects whom the infirmary professed to aid ?
—(Hear, hear.) The very size of the building
selected for the purpose formed a capital objection in
itself, for there was not an inch of ground belonging
to it, and yet 700 or 800 individuals were expected to
crawl there every week to taste of its advantages.—
(Hear, hear.) Mr. Anderton moved that the petition
be referred to the City Lands Committee, with direc-
tions to assist the petitioners to remove the nuisance.
Mr. HARTLEY seconded the motion. He stated
that the objections;,to the establishment of an in-
firmary in such a place were innumerable. They
would be proved beyond all doubt by evidence which
should be produced before the Committee which
would be appointed. The thing was a complete de-
' ception. The wads, " suppprted by voluntary con-
tributions," was a gross misapplication of the language,
for the projectors of the scheme sold them medicine
and charged for their baths.—(Hear, hear, and
laughter.) It was also alleged, most modesty, that
the infirmary was established to supply the deficiency
of the royal hospitals, and other large establishments
of the kind. Why, the royal hospitals never rejected
a patient, and the poor were at all times supplied
with everything requisite for their cure in those ad-
mirable establishmenta.—(Cheers.) But it was pretty
well known that the philanthropic establishment for
the cure of cutaneous diseases was a mere bubble,
blown out by parties whose object was pecuniary prafit.
Why did not Mr. Moxey who was the prime mover
of the Im4ertaliing, give up part of his Commercial
Hall tur the undertaking ?—(Laughter.) No, no.
iie would net attempt to set up such a concern in

that neighbourhood. He (Mr. Hartley) trusted that
the Court would see the necessity of scouting a de-
sign calculated to destroy a most respectable neigh-
bourhood, without in the slightest degree serving the
poor, for whose benefit it was falsely declared to have
been projected.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. MOGGERIDGE also contended in favour of the
petition, and declared that the house was much too
small to answer the purposes for which it was said to
be intended, and that an hospital in such a situation
would completely destroy the neighbourhood.
Mr. WILLIAMS was against the petition, and in
favour of the hospital. He really considered the
objections to he imaginary. Those who were best
qualified to judge had decidedly expressed an opinion
that no public injury would be constituted by the esta-
blishment of an hospital there, and certainly no situa-
tion could be better adapted to the purposes than that
which had been selected. He gave every credit to
those who originated the plan for purity of intention,
and stated that, at all events, if opposition should he
persevered in, those who had exerted themselves for
the purpose of rendering such service to the poor,
would be interrupted.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. STACEY was against the petitioners. The Court,
he thought, ought not to be placed in the unpleasant
situation of interfering between the miseries and the
relief of their fellow-creatures.

Alderman LUCAS strongly contended against the
establishment of an hospital in such a place ; and as
president of Bartholomew's Hospital declared that at
that institution, and he was convinced at Guy's and
St. Thomas's Hospitals, everything that was possible
to he done was done for the patients, without regard
either to trouble or expense.—(Hear, hear.)

After some further discussion, in which Mr. R.
Taylor advocated the cause of the petitioners, and
Mr. Peacock and Mr. Corney supported the institu-
tion, the petition was, by a large majority, referred to
the Committee.

THE POLISH CIESE.

Mr. PEACOCK presented a petition from Lord
Dudley Stuart, upon the part of the Polish exiles,
praying for the use of the Guildhall, for a ball in
support of the Polish exiles.
The motion was carried by a large majority.
The Court adjourned at a late hour.

SOUTH EASTERN (LONDON AND
DOVER) RAILWAY COMPANY.
Yesterday a meeting of this Company was held at
the London-bridge Station, to consider the expedi-
ency of capitalising the mortgage debts of the Com-
pany, by creating new shares, and thus also providing
funds for the formation of the Canterbury, Margate,
and Ramsgate line of railway. Mr. Parry Richards,
the Deputy Chairman of the Directory, took the
chair. The Chairman having briefly advocated the
purposes of the meeting, was followed by Mr.
M`Grigor, who supported his views. After several
gentlemen, directors and proprietors, had addressed
the meeting, resolutions were adopted which autho-
rised the formation of the above line, and the raising
of capital of 1,400,0001., to be created by 42,000 shares
of the nominal value of 501. each, upon payment of
331. Gs. Bd. A vote of thanks was then passed to the
Chairman, and the meeting separated.