The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-28 00:00:00

offer was made several times, and the same answer was
returned. At the time they came in be was engaged
with patients, and no time was lost in attending to the
young women. They had not been waiting above
twenty minutes. He did not see any reason for
supposing that they were in immediate danger, and
they only complained of being fatigued and exhausted.
He did not consider that.their complaint was of an alarm-
ing nature. He had read an account in the Times,
which was grossly exaggerated. That account was
highly coloured. It was said that he had stated that
there was a rule against the admission. He said
no such thing. He was acquainted with the regulations
of most of the London hospitals, and he believed that,
under the circumstances, they would not be admitted into
any. Consumptive cases are not admitted in the other
London hospitals. Meant consumptive cases, not cases
in the first stage of pulmonary disease. When
he had said to the Coroner that if he would
give 5,0001. plenty of beds would be provided, he
did not speak offensively, as would appear from
the statement in the Times. Relief is frequently
afforded to out•door patients. The question about the
funds of the hospital was put to the porter, which he
thou2ht should have been asked of him; but he cer-
ta"nly did not mean to offend the Coroner ; and it ap-
peared to him, that when he was asked, the Coroner did
not want an answer, for he did not wait for one.
The examination of this witness being closed,

Mr. PACaMAN said that he thought It right to state,
that instead of the receipts of the hospital being 11,0001.
a year, as stated by the Times, they only amounted to
5,072/. Bs., and the disbursements last year to 5,8261. 4s.
From the City of London Union alone they had relieved
during the last two years no less than 613 cases of
venereal and fever. The hospital had received other
donations to the building-fund, but these had nothing to
do with the expenditure of the hospital part of the esta-
blishment. The income and expenditure in that de-
partment were as he had stated. The fact was, that the
hospital was 6,0001. in debt, in consequence of affording
more relief than the means of the hospital afforded.
Dr. MARSDEN said out-doer relief was often afforded to
no less than 300 patients daily on the average, and, if
they could grant it, 500 or 1,000 might be relieved.
Ar. Evans, son of the officer of the London Union,
called—Had brought three venereal patients to the hos-
pital on the 19th of November. He brought them from
Peckham. That was between twelve and one. He
offered, at the request of Mr. Cooke, the surgeon, to take
the two young women to the union, and Mr. Cooke
said that he would take them back whenever a vacant
bed could be procured in the hospital. He offered to
take them in a cab, but they said they were sick and
tired of the workhouse, and would sooner die in the
street. On their refusal, he bad offered to take them
to Guy's, Bartholomew's, or St. Thomas's Hospitals,
but they would not go. He told them the hour at which
admission could be got in those hospitals, but they would
not g). When the rain was over they left the hospital.
J. Evans, the father of the last witness, said that for
three or four years he had been in the habit of bring-
ing ca.ual patients from the London union to the hos-
pit.al, and that he was never refused except when the
h.,ue was full ; that he had never paid anything there,
but that one guinea was charged at the Fever Hospital
for every patient. He had, within the last two years,
brought, perhaps, 600 patients to the Free Hospital.
Harriet Warner, the cook, was next called—By direc-
tion of the Chairman she brought in cans of broth, such
as was given to the two young women, which the gentlemen
present tasted, and declared excellent. She stated that
she put 11b. of mutton to every 11 pint of water. She
corrwborated the evidence of the porter as far as the
making and delivering of the broth was concerned,
which she saw the young women take. The bread and
broth were very good.
Ws concluded the evidence.
Tiw books of the hospital were then referred to, and
proved the proper management of the establishment, to
which the visiting members present bore their testimony.
DA,,lticE proposed the first resolution, and expressed
his apprebaLion of the establishment.
:sts..SissPseer seconded the resolution.
Mr. JOHN WATSON proposed the second resolution,
and commented at great length on the unfair manner in
which the statement in the Times had been garbled. He
had been an attentive observer of the institution, and he
had observed that it was conducted with the greatest
regularity and humanity.
The Rev. Dr. WORTHINGTON seconded the resolution,
and agreed with the previous speakers.
Mr. WATSON then proposed a vote of thanks :to the
Chairman, which was carried by acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN, in a very able and eloquent speech,
returned thanks, and the meeting separated.
The resolutions, which were carried unanimously, will
be found in our advertising columns.

THE TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT.

ADVERTISING AGENTS.
(From the Railway Express.)
A system has lately sprung up, engendered and
nourished by railway speculation, which " has increased,
is increasing, and must be diminished." It is alike in-
jurious to the respectable advertisement agents, and to
every journal which is the medium of advertisements.
We allude' to the practices carried on, against railway
companies and the press, by improper persons who take
up the business of agents for advertising.
It came out this week at a meeting of railway share-
holders, that out of liabilities incurred on the part of
one company—liabilities amounting to 6,sooL—one item
was for 2,200 L, on account of an advertising agent, "who
had charged 251. per cent. for inserting the company's
advertisements."

The established, respectable, responsible advertising
agents are bound to come forward and deny (for they
can do it) that such a charge of extortion can or does
refer to them.

We have heard of an advertising bill, and for an un-
opposed line, too, made out against a railway company
to the tune of 2,5001. ; a claim said to be incurred be-
tween July and November. Can any rational man
believe that such a claim was ever fairly incurred ?
Our firm belief is that one-fourth of the amount would
be sufficient, and more than sufficient, to give proper
and full publicity to any unopposed railway project.
When such charges are made—amounting, in the case
mentioned, to more than one-third of the entire liabi-
lities of the company—it is certain that they have not
been fairly made.
How, then, is the bill swelled up to an amount like
this ? We can explain how the trick is done. Within
the present week, several bills sent in by one of the
mushroom agents against different railway companies
were examined, to ascertain, by reference to newspaper
files, whether the advertisements sqid to have been in-
serted therein, and heavily charged for, had actually ap-
peared. It was found that in numerous cases the adver-
t cement had never been inserted, and that the actual
charges were always far beneath the agent's charges.
In one instance, an advertisement charged 51. by the
newspaper, was charged 91.95. by the agent. In another,
a two-guinea advertisement was charged eleven pounds.
Now these are transparent facts, and their operation
cannot be other than injurious to the press. When ad-
vertising becomes such an enormous tax, railway and
other people will naturally shrink from incurring it.
The respectable agents are confounded by advertisers
with the swindling agents, and suffer, by such confusion,
in pocket and in character.
What' is the real state of the case? Every newspaper
has an established scale of prices. On such prices the
agent gets an allowance cf from sto 10 per cent. We
belive that the custom is, for the agent further to charge
the party who employs him with 10 per cent. on the
gross amount ; nor is this a heavy allowance consider-
ing the agent's risks. The result is, that for an adver-
tisement which the newspaper would ordinarily charge
IL ca4h, the company, ordering it through an agent, on
credit, would pay IL 2s. This cannot be considered
unfdr.

The agent of the D )-'em-all class asks 25 For cent.
from the newspapers, and charges another 25 per cent. to
the parties who employ him. This gives a nett profit of
50 per cent. One might hope this would be sufficient.
Not at all :—the Do-'em-all agent will not hesitate to
take 53. out of every 20s. from newspapers, and then,
multiplying the said 20s. by two or three, charges 25 per
cent. on the amount thus obtained. We may state a case.
A Do-'em-all agent inserted an advertisement in a flaws-
paper, the fair price of which was 30s. The newspaper,
in self-daence, charged forty shillings, to allow the
agent his 25 per cent. The agent made out a bill, not
for the 21., but for 8/., and charged the company 25/.
per cent. on that charge, making a total of 10/. for an
advertisement which actually cost thirty shillings, and
for which, with the usual credit to respectable adver-
tisers, the legit;mate agent would have charged about
335. No wonder, the public will say, that certain ad-
vertising accounts are so heavy.
licspeAable journals will not allow the Do-'em-all
agent more than 10 per cent., and do not like to deal
nab hln except for cash ; but there are petty mushroom
papers, which aro glad to take advertisements on such
terms, and the agent, having credit with them, instead of
putting the advertisements, as he is desired, into papers
of good repute and circulation, slips them into the petty
unknownjournals, where no one can see them, and thus
ruby the established papers, and cheats the company
which unhappily employs him.
The press suffer very much from this class of agents.
Unless they give them credit, advertisements are care-
fully excluded from them; and, when they do trust them,
the payments are
" few and far between," and, at last,
when the bubble bursts and the crash comet, when' the
firm is done up, there are, usually amounts on the wrong
side of the newspapers ledgers. Every way, then, the
newspapers are the sufferers.
The game cannot last long. Meanwhile, we believe
atilt we discharge a public duty in making these re-
marks.