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THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.
A large party of the members and friends of this
Association dined together yesterday at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. It was, we believe, the
117th occasion on which the supporters of this excel-
lent Society had assembled, on St. Andrew's Day,
to promote its charitable objects and to celebrate the
recurrence of its anniversary. The Right Hon. the
Earl of Haddington (the First Lord of the Admiralty),
one of the Vice-Presidents of the . institution, occu-
pied the chair, and was supported by the Hon. William
Fraser, of Saltoun, and several other liberal friends
of the Society. The Association owes its origin to
the exertions of a body of benevolent persons who, as
early as the -commencement of the reign of James
the First, formed themselves into a society for the
relief of the less fortunate individuals of the Scottish

the last battle in China took place, where their noble
and gallant countryman had borne so full a share of
the honour of the day.—(Cheeis.) He would, there-
fore, give them the " Health of Lord Saltoun."
The toast was drunk with marked enthusiasm,

it a condition of sale that they should hold the proxies
of those shares to use as they pleased, so that they sat
and controlled the affairs of the Company, having
either none, or a very small stake in the concern: The
names of these Directors, they understood, to be Mr.
Bourne and Mr. Hartley.
The CHAIRMAN said the article had been noticed by
the Directors, and he was glad they had an opportu-
nity of answering it. 'So far from the Directors hav-
ing acted as imputed, none of them „were holders of
proxies at all.—(Hear, hear.) So much confidence had
Mr. Hartley in the Company, that he had increased
his shares to I,loo.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. POTTS said the next charge was, that the trade
in cattle from Vigo was completely monopolised by
Mr. B. A. Wilcox, son of the 'senior Managing Di-
rector ; or that the Managing Directors themselves
were enlisted in this traffic. In corroboration of this
rumour, it was affirmed that a gentleman having ap-
plied at the Company's offices, to know the freight of
some cattle from Vigo, received for answer that they.
could not bring any, and that no freight had been
fixed, yet it was said they did carry cattle to and
from Vigo.
The CHAIRMAN said that, in answer to that, he
begged to say that the short stay at Vigo, only two
hours, and frequently at night, rendered it impossible
for the Company to come under any engagement to
bring cattle. In all cases where cattle had come, it
had been through Mr. Wilcox, as agent of the Com-
pany, and the freight was carried entirely to the profit
of this Company._ „L._ _ ,
Mr. POTTS said the third rumour was, that all the
Mediterranean and Peninsular parcels were taken to
this same ,son's offices. and the public thereby taxed
6d. or Is., or more, extra on each package.
The CHAIRMAN said that certainly the parcels went
to Mr. Wilcox's office the same way as they went to
Mr. Waghorn's, Messrs. Harvey, Tucket, and Co.,
and others, and 6d. was charged for booking and
agency, as they did not feel themselves responsible for
the parcels until they were shipped at Southampton,
when the responsibility fell on the Company.
Mr. PoTTs—The fourth rumour was, that since
Mr. Charlton had come into the direction the vessels
had all been repaired at Liverpool, and such new ves-
sels as had since come out had been built and fitted
there ; as for instance, the Lady Mary Wood, the
Hindostan. A third vessel, of 1,800 tons, was now
building there. This Mr. Charlton once belonged to
the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, and after-
wards to the Transatlantic Company, both Liverpool
concerns.

B AYMARKET THEATRE.

A Cure for Love is the title of a most amusing two
act comedietta, which was produced at this theatre on
Tuesday night. As the disease is at all times a prevailing
epidemic, and as in this case it was of nine years stand-
ing, our readers will be doubtless anxious to become
acquainted with the mode of treatment which, in this
instance, was so completely successful. The patient
was Richard Sadgrove, Esq. (Mr. Buckstone), Bar-
rister-at-Law, who having, at Cheltenham, met with
a divinity rejoicing in the name of Laura, inconti-
nently waxed, like Petrarch, amorous and poetical—
took to reading Moore instead of Coke upon Lyttleton
—wrote sonnets " to his mistress' eyebrow" instead of
endorsing briefs, and, deserting the Courts of Law,
opened pleadings in the Court of Love; but alas.!
after the record had been filed, notice of action
served, and the cause called on, poor Mr. Sad-
grove was nonsuited. A rich East Indian had
made an offer to Laura after Sadgrove had fixed the
wedding day, and the lady preferring a metallic cur;
rency to a paper or a parchment one, had accepted
the gold, burthened as it was with a husband as bilious
looking as itself. Love is proverbially light, and she
only followed the fashion of the times in refusing to
accept a light sovereign. Sadgrove wandered all over
Europe in search of a cure, and at the end of nine
years returned to London with his disease as violent
as ever. having arranged his worldly affairs he de-
termined to try the cold water cure by throwing him-
self and his woes into the Serpentine. Arrived on the
banks of the river he finds there a certain Felix
Trimmer (Alr. W who. Farren)who had 'come with the
same Preissnitzian intention ; and here we find a re-
markable instance of universal applicability of the cold
water cure : Sadgrove sought it as a remedy for the want
of a wife, Trimmer as a cure for too much wife.
He, the son of a cotton-spinner with 8,0001. a year,
had made an offer to a widow, who on that single
occasion had answered him " Yes," for which con-
cession she had indemnified herself by saying " No"
to everything that he had proposed from that time
forward. But not alone by a wife was the unhappy
Felix tormented—that wife had a mother, a Mrs.
Major Browne (Mrs. W. Clifford), " a woman of
war," as Felix feelingly describes her, who, living in
the same house, brought the artillery of her tongue
to bear on the miserable victim, on whose devoted
head she kept up a constant fire. These twain it
may be thought would be quite enough to keep an
elderly gentleman in hot water but they have a
potent ally in Miss Bitterton (Airs. Glover), an old
maid, who, if she had had a little oil in her com-
position, would have been an excellent dressing for a
salad; but that ingredient having been omitted,
we find her composed of mustard and vinegar
in equal proportions, and both of the most pungent
possible quality. Company, they say, is pleasant in
hanging; but, from this instance, it would appear
that the proverb by no means holds good in the
article of drowning, for Trimmer and Sadgrove,
having compared notes, appeared to be of opinion
that the Serpentine was only licensed to carry one
inside, and, balked in their desire for water, they ad-
journ to a tavern, and try wine. Here they meet
with some friends, and the wine makes Sadgrove
tipsy, and Trimmer courageous. The latter returns
to his own house, accompanied by his friends ; as-
sumes the command, ejects Miss Bitterton, forces
" the woman of war" to strike her colours, and
his own wife to return to her allegiance. But to
the cure. In the virago Mrs. Trimmer, Sadgrove
recognises his quondam divinity, Laura, who, having
worried her East Indian husband to death in a
twelvemonth, has been endeavouring to cut the thread
of the cotton-spinner in the same manner ever since.
Blessing his stars for his lucky escape, and full of
gratitude to Trimmer for having shown him the sort
of angel into which a divinity may be metamorphosed,
he returns to the Middle Temple a merrier and a
happier man, completely cured of love, and a deter-
mined advocate for celibacy. The piece was strongly
cast and admirably acted. Farren, as the henpecked
husband, was the very beau ideal of well-bred Jerry-
Sneakism. The tavern scene was excellent; he
warmed gradually under the influence of the old port,
until at last, elevated but not intoxicated, he screwed

The Hun. W. FRASFR, in returning thanks for his
Noble brother, assured the company of his gratitude
for the kind manner in which his health had been pro-
'paled and received, and said that the greatest pleasure
which his family could, in his absence, feel, was ;in the
"hope that they might soon have the pleasure of seeing
him among them again.—(Cheers.)
The Earl of HADDINGTON next gave, " The health
of the Secretary, Mr. Auld," who would, he regretted
to say, on that occasion, announce the list of their
subscription's for the last time.—(Hear.) That duty
he had performed for 26 . successive years, and he
(Lord Haddington) would take the opporthnity` of his
retirement from the office to say that; during the many
long years he had known him, he had ever found him
a most kind-hearted and intelligent man, and a faith-
fill and most useful servant of the corporation.—
(Cheers.) He proposed the " Health of Mr. Auld."
The toast having been drunk in a manner: which
must have been highly gratifying to the feelings of
that gentleman,
Mr. Aura, in acknowledging it briefly allitcled to
the long period during which he had held the cif ice of
Secretary to the Society, and referred with just pride
to the prosperous state of its funds at ?regent, in com-
parison 'to their amount when he first joined the Asso-
ciation.—(Cheers.) Mr. Auld then, with nutch emo-
tion, bade the Society farewell—wishing health, hap-
piness, long life, and prosperity to the members of the
company present, among whom he recognised many
of the warmest friends of the Corporation.—(Cheers.)
Some other toasts having been drunk, a list of sub-
scriptions was announced, amounting to about 3501.,
and after a highly convivial evening the company se-
parated.

OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
R) The DAILY PUBLIC LECTURES delivered by Dr.
Ryan, Professor Bachhoffner, and, the other Lecturers, are
varied and extended to all the most recent DISCOVERIES
in ART and SCIENCE, and are familiarly illustrated by
Means of the 'best MODELS, APPARATUS, and DIA-
GRAMS, including the COLOSSAL ,ELECTRICAL MA-
CHINE. Dr. Lardner's Working and Sectional MODELS
of the STEAM-ENGINE, &c. &c. The subject of the Daily
Lectures (for each week) is suspendedln the Hall, and the
hours at which they are delivered are Twelve, Two, and Three
o'clock in the Day, and at Eight o'clock in the Evenings.
On Saturday, at Two o'clock, the Lecture will be on the
STRUCTURE and FUNCTIONS of the EYE. The exten-
sive Exhibition is open Mornings and Evenings, except Sa-
turday Evenings.—Admission, Is.. , Schools, half-price.

nation. Since that period, however, several important
changes have taken place in its constitution, with a
view to increase its efficiency, and it now extends
relief to many objects not originally entitled to claim
its charity. It has a branch society. at Edinburgh,,
under the Presidency of the Duke of Buccleuch, and
managed by Directors of the highest respectability;
and it may be characterised as an institution emi-
nently advantageous to the nation to which its opera-
tions refer, as a Society of merited prosperity and in-
creasing usefulness, and peculiarly worthy of that
distinguished patronage of which the charitable asso-
ciations which adorn our common country bear lasting
and substantial testimony on the occasions of their
annual Celebrations.
After an excellent dinner had been disposed of, and
the cloth was removed, the usual loyal toasts were
given from the chair, coupled with an announcement
that her Majesty the Queen was an annual contri-
butor to the Association of one hundred guineas.
In proposing the toast of the " Army and Navy,"
The Earl of HADDINGTON said that if ever there
was a moment when a loyal company was called upon
to drink that toast with gratitude and enthusiasm, it
was the present.—(Loud cheers.) To the unwearied
energy, gallantry, and perseverance of our brave sol-
diers and sailors the country was indebted for the
happy news which had so recently arrived of the res-
toration of peace in India and China—(Cheers)--the
consequences of which it was not easy, at the present
moment, to foresee.—(Hear, hear.) Our disasters
during the last year in Affghanistan had now been
repaired, and the character of-our country had been
vindicated in the very scenes in which those disasters
had occurred—(Cheers)—and the result was that the
(he trusted) well•founded notion of the " invinci-
bility," if he might use such a term, of the British
arms had been once more insured.—(Cheers.) He
need scarcely add, that nothing could possibly be
more calculated to perpetuate our empire in the East,
nothing more likely to keep those countries in peace,
than the prevalence of that .notion in the minds of
the native population. (Hear, hear.) With
respect to the very singular warfare in which
we had been engaged in China, it was most for-
tunate that the contest in which we had there
been engaged, had been brought to a conclusion,
by the united efforts of the army and the navy—
(Cheers)—which had acted during the whole pro-
gress of the expedition with a concord highly credit-
able to both services—(Cheers)—and which had given
to himself, in the situation which he had the honour
to hold, the greatest pride and satisfaction in reading
the account of the manner in which the Gallant Ad-
miral, commanding the naval force, had disembarked
his men, and acted with the military branch of the
expedition as one united body.—(Cheers.) We had
not, .however, owed these successes alone to the army,
properly so called, of her Majesty. Let it, not be for-
gotten that, in one of our important victories in India,
the greater proportion of our troops were those in the
serve„ of the East India"Company=(Cheers)— and
who had vied with their European comrades in shed-
ding their blood for the British cause.—(Cheers.)
Let it not be forgotten that in China also there were
engaged many volunteers from India, and Sepoys
from the Madras territory—(Hear, hear)—and that
of the twelve steamers employed no fewer than ten
were the property of the East India Company.—
(Cheers.) Although, Gentlemen (concluded the No-
ble Earl), the forces of the East India Company are
not usually united with our own services in this toast,
I trust, that, in drinking to the health and success of
the " Army and Navy of Great Britain," you will not
forget the duty of paying, at the same time, the debt
of gratitude you owe to the Company's forces.
The toast was drunk with signal enthusiasm, and
followed by " Rule Britannia," which, together with
several other vocal pieces in the course of the evening,
was excellently given by Messrs. Broadhurst, Young,
Fitzwilliam, and Bradbury, accompanied by an effi-
cient band. The Scottish character of the festival
was also kept up by some lively interludes played by
Lord Haddington's piper on the national instrument

SOUTH OF DEVON.
TO BE LET, for a term of years, an elegant
MANSION, in the Elizabethan style, replete with
every convenience, and suitable for the residence of a Noble-
man or family of distinction; situate about eleven miles from
Exeter and Tortitiay,' seven miles from Teignmouth and
Ilawlish, and one mile from the market and post town of
Chudleigh. The tenant may be accommodated with any
quantity of land not exceeding 170 acres.
For further particulars apply to Mr. Richard Comins, soli-
citor, 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, whero a drawing of the mansion,
lawn, &c., may be seen.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW, 1842.
BENJAMIN ED GIN GTON, 2, DUKE-
STREET, LONDON-BRIDGE, SOUTHWARK,
having received instructions to cover in the area for the Cattle
Show, respectfully informs the Public that the CANVASS
will be of a superior description, and it is intended to SELL the
WHOLE as SECOND-HAND, immediately after the Exhi-
bition. It is suitable for Rick Cloths, Waggon Cloths, and all
purposes where resistance to wet is required.
Address in full, Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street,
Southwark.
B. E. will have a Stand, as usual, in the Cattle-yard, where
orders will be received.
A Warehouse, 208, Piccadilly.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPAN Y.
The Second Annual General., Meeting of the Di-
rectors and Proprietors in this Company was held
yesterday at their offices, 51, St. Mary Axe, for the
purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, and
agreeing to a dividend on the shares in the Company.
Sir JOHN CAMPBELL took the Chair, and the Se-
cretary, Mr. James Allan, having read the adver-
tisement,
The CHAIRMAN rose to submit the Directors' Re-
port to the meeting. The Report stated that the ba-
lance of profits on the 30th Sept., 1841, amounted to
58,6821. 13s. 7d., out of which had been provided the
sum of 12,3331. 6s. Bd., as premiums for insuring the
ships of the Company for the year ending on that
date. The dividend of 3, per cent. declared last May
amounted to 11,8091. 3s. 6d., had also to be deducted
from the profits alluded to, and the surplus of profit
left available on the 30th September, 1842, therefore
amounted to 34,5391. 13s. sd. There was a gradual
increase in the gross receipts this year over that
of last, which the Directors were not prepared
to expect, from the depressed state of commerce dur-
ing the last 12 months. It would be recollected that
in May, 1842, it was resolved that 150,0001. should
be insured on the floating property for the third year
of the Company's operations, commencing October,
1842. The Directors, however, availing them-
selves of the discretionary power vested in their
hands at the last general meeting, had thought
it prudent to increase the amount to be insured to
230,0001. They had adopted this precaution under
the impression that it would be satisfactory to the
Proprietors to know that their property was thus pro-
tected. It was nevertheless the desire of the Direc-
tors still to proceed with caution, under the assurance
(which the experience of the past justified them in
entertaining) that by annual appropriation out of the
profits a surplus would accumulate available for an
insurance fund, to which premiums of insurance now
annually paid away to other parties, might hereafter
be added by the Company and invested in available
securities, so as annually to increase the fund in ques-
tion.—(Hear.) The Company's new iron steam-ship
the Pacha, was now ready for sea, and promised to be
fully adequate to the wants of the trade. During the
past year the Company had frequently been under the
necessity of chartering ships, but now they were
wholly independent of such expensive aid, and the re-
gularity of the mail service had been frequently no-
ticed by Government in a gratifying manner.— (Hear,
hear.) When the Directors met at their last half-
yearly meeting their attention was drawn to- the sub-
ject of the claim on the Government, which the Di-
rectors intended to follow up, in consequence of their
being still required to send the Company's vessels to
Falmouth for the outward mails for India, which it
was contemplated would only continue for a
short time after the contract was entered into
originally. The Directors had succeeded in estab-
lishing their claim, and the Government had agreed
to pay an additional sum of 2,0001. per annum, so
long as this additional service was required to be per-
formed by the Company. The Government had re-
leased the Company, on liberal terms, from keeping
up a semi-monthly communication between Malta and
the lonian Isles. The Report then went on to state,
that the new ship Hindostan had arrived safe in Cal-
cutta, and the passengers. appeared to approve highly
of her accommodation. The passage money received
was 6,2501. It would be satisfactory to the propri-
etors to know that the instalments which had not yet
been called for, were fully sufficient to meet all the
existing engagements of the Company, including the
contracts for the completion of the vessels ; out of the
instalments called up amounting to 128,2381., only
4901. remained unpaid. It was scarcely necessary to
state to the Proprietors that the entire property of the
Company was wholly unencumbered. The inter-
course of passengers to and from India, during the
year ending Sept. 30, 1842, had increased conside-
rably. In the first year the number, via Egypt, did
not exceed 573; now there were 800.—(Hear, hear.)
In order to facilitate the transit through Egypt,
which embraced a distance of 250 miles, the Di-
rectors had placed two efficient steam-packets
on the Nile, with two iron luggage-boats. The Di-
rectors, however, were still unable to say that the con-
veyance across the Desert from Cairo to Suez (a dis-
tance of 84 miles), was made as convenient to pas-
sengers as it ought ere this to have been. This was
owing to the parties who Lad hitherto been connected
with that branch of conveyance neglecting to place
this part of the transit On, an equally improved foot-
ing. Every facility had been promised and given to
the Company by his Highness the Pacha. His High-
ness had granted the Company firmans for navigating
both the Nile and the Canal by steam, had established
telegraphs across the Desert, and was now taking
measures to erect a coal depot at Alexandria, and a
large hotel at Suer, at the expense of the gyptian
Government, the former for the
Company's use, and
the latter for the accommodation
of the passengers.
The Company had sent out Captain
J. R. Engledue
to Calcutta, to represent the Company there, and the
East India Company had consented to afford them
whatever facilities their establishment at Calcutta ad-
vice, in effecting the repairs pf this
mitted of, without impeding their own public ser-
-ompany's ves-
sels. The Report, after recommending a
P,
dividend of
3} per cent. for the half-year, concluded in these
roprietors on the
the Directors
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prospect of increased prosperity to the undertaking,
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which the recent brilliant successes of the British
arms in the East have opened up. The settlement
of affairs in the north of India, the establishment of
peace, and the extension of our commercial relations
with China, are events which must obviously lead to
an increased intercourse with these countries, and a
consequent enlargement of the resources of the great
enterprise in which we are embarked,"
The CHAIRMAN having made a few general obser-
vations on the Report, it was adopted, and ordered to
be circulated amongst the Proprietors. A statement
of the accounts was submitted, from which it appeared
that the balance remaining in favour of the Company
was 34,539/. 13s. sd, which would be appropriated to
the payment of the dividend.
A PROPRIETOR then proposed that the sum of
1,0001. should be divided amongst the unpaid Direc-
tors, as a recompense for their exertions in behalf of
the Company.
Sir JOHN PIRIE thought it would be better to leave
the consideration of this question until another year,
as the present unpaid Directors were self-elected. At
the end of the next year the Proprietors would have
an opportunity of electing fresh Directors, and then
it would, perhaps, be better able to consider this
question.
The CHAIRMAN concurred with Sir J. Pine, and
the motion was withdrawn.
Mr. POTTS said he wished to call the attention of
the Chairman and Directors to an article which had
appeared in the Railway Magazine. In it there were
certain charges brought against the Directors, and he
wished to know if they had been noticed by the
Board. The first charge was, that the Directors .had
sold, or rather forced sales, of a very great portion, if
not of all, of their shares in this Company, to certain
parties, over whom they had influence, having made

The CHAIRMAN said that all the ships -were not
built in Liverpool; nor were they all fitted out there.
The Lady Mary Wood was fitted at Liverpool, but
she was fitted out by Mr. Simpson, of Charing-cross,
who was sent down to do so. The same vessel re-
cently met with an accident in coming from the
Peninsula to this country, and she was placed on the
slips at Cowes.—, The vessels Bentinck and llindostan
were built at Liverpool, because the Liverpool tenders
were more advantageous to the Company than the
London tenders.

Mr. POTTS said the Magazine went on to ask how
it was the Company had no vessel in the Mediterra-
nean, to carry on the mails from Malta to the lonian
Islands, and how did the Company manage with the
Government about it? Why had the Braga= been
laid up for nearly three months to have new boilers,
and to the present time nothing had been done to
her ? Why had the Pacha, a new iron steamer, an-
other of the Company's vessels, lain so long idle at
Greenock, and the repairs of the Lady Mary Wood
been only just begun ? Was it possible that a Com-
pany dividing 7 per cent. was short of the needful, or
was the whisper true, that there were certain shares
to some considerable extent paid for,. not in bankers'
promissory-notes but in private promissory-notes,
which now lay in the banker's box, and had never
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would not leave Greenock where she was built, until
next spring, and with respect to the Lady Mary
Wood she had been repaired, and was now actually
running on the line. With respect to the shares of
the Company having been purchased by promissory
notes, he could tell them that every share that had
been sold had been paid for in hard cash. He (the
Chairman) congratulated the meeting and his col-
leagues on this subject having been brought forward,
as it had not been their intention to involve them-
selves in a newspaper controversy. It had not been
their object to conceal anything from the Proprietary,
and he trusted that these reports had originated rather
in ignorance than malevolence to the Company.
A PROPRIETOR wished to know how it was that
the shares were at a discount, when the Company was
paying 7 per cent.
The CHAIRMAN said the reason he supposed was
the depression in all steam property, and unfounded
reports which had got abroad that the Company-was
embarrassed, and had been obliged to borrow 8,0001.
A DIRECTOR said there were two classes of shares,
those paid up in full, and those on which only four
instalments had been paid. The shares paid up in
full were selling last week at a premium, and it was
the other sort of shares that sold at a discount.
Mr. POTTS then proposed a vote of confidence in the
Directors, which was seconded, and carried una-
nimously.
A vote of thanks was then carried to the Chairman,
who briefly acknowledged the compliment, and the
meeting separated.

his courage to the sticking-place, and, returning home,
stormed all the enemy's positions, and made his house
once more his own; and a most formidable undertak-

ing.it was, as all those must admit who saw the Mrs.
Major Browne of Mrs. W. Clifford—she looked every
inch " a woman of war," and one by no means indis-
posed to maintain her sex's charter by an appeal to
physical force, if necessary. Miss Bitterton lost none
of her pungency in the hands of Mrs. Glover ; with
what gusto did she recommend, as the best mode of
managing the male wretches, to constantly " worry,
worry, worry !" Oh ! what a proficient would
she have been in the art if Providence, out of compas-
sion to men, had not doomed her to irrevocable old-maid-
ism. Buckstone, as the love-sick swain, was very good
in the earlier scenes his despair and his misery were
richly humorous. In his drunken scenes; however, he
was somewhat too• extravagant—his was not the intoxi-
cation of a gentleman—it was the drunkenness of gin
and bitters, not the effervescing inebriety of the gene-
rous juice of the grape. The piece was announced
for repetition by Ferren amidst the unanimous ap-
plause of an exceedingly well filled house.

of Scotland.
The Noble CHAIRMAN next proposed the toast of
" Prosperity to the Scottish Hospital," and, in the
course of a short speech in support of its object, stated
that it appeared, from the Report which had been that
morning read, at the Annual General Court of the
Governors, that the number of poor persons relieved
during the past year had been, on an average, 259 in
each month, of which 82, together with their wives
and families; had been provided with a free passage
to Scotland. The aggregate for the year was 3,115,
besides 80 aged and infirm objects, to each of whom
a pension of 101. a year was granted. In those ob-
jects the sum of 2,2881. 3s. 6d. had been expended in
the past year, which, with other expenses, to the
amount of 4421. 4s. 10d., made a total expenditure for
the year of 2,7321. Bs. 4d. The property of the Hos-
pital consisted of 35,7701. 16s. ld. in the Three per
Cent. Reduced Annuities, 5,1001. Old South Sea
ditto, aud also 3,1821. 9s. 2d. invested in the Three-
and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, of which the interest
was devoted to the schools attached to the churches of
the Scottish Establishment in London, or under the
ministers thereof.—(Hear.)
After this toast had been drunk, and " The health
of the Duke •of Sutherland" had been also given
from the Chair, _ _

The Hon. W. FRASER rose and proposed the healti
of a Nobleman who tied long been one of the Vice.
Presidents of the Society, and who, in the midst of
other duties of an important and official nature, had
ever shown himself ready to do whatever he could for
the benefit for the Corporation, to the funds of which
he had been a most liberal subscriber. He need not
add that he referred to the Noble Earl who had done
them the honour to preside on that occasion, and to
whom their best thanks were due for his kindness in
having found time, amidst other duties, to do so.
" The health of the Earl of Haddington" having
been drunk with appropriate honours,
The NOBLE EARL, in acknowledging the toast, ex-
pressed a hope that every St. Andrew's Day would be
as well attended as the present ; and concluded by
proposing " The health of the Duchess of Sutherland,
and the Ladies Patronesses," which, with the toast of
" The Duke of Buccleugh," was drunk with much
applause ; as was also that of " Vice-Presidents of the
Society."
The Noble CHAIRMAN then rose, and said that he
was anxious to propose to the Company the health of
a gentleman who had long filled, to the advantage of
their valuable Society, the useful office of its treasurer.
—(Cheers.) It was the business of treasurers in ge-
neral to give themselves no more trouble than they
pleased, and to content themselves with the simple
discharge of the duties of their office ; but such, how-
ever, was not the case with Mr. Fraser, whose addi-
tional services had been most valuable to the Associa-
tion, and for which he had no other motive than the
exercise of his natural generosity and humanity.—
(Hear.) He (the Chairman) well knew, that among
the other modes by which he benefited their Society,
there was one branch of his duties which gave him
(Mr. Fraser) considerable trouble, and that was the
exertions which he annually put forth in securing the
patronage for the Caledonian ball, which had become
a great favourite with the ladies, with whom also it
might be some consolation to his Honourable Friend
to know that he was equally a favourite himself.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He would give them the
health of the " lion. W. Fraser, of Saltoun."
Mr. FRASER, in returning thanks, briefly expressed
his acknowledgments of the honour conferred upon
him, and the pleasure it had given him to do the
humble duties he had performed since his connexion
with the office he held in the Society. He would con-
clude by asking them to fill their glasses to the health
of Lady Haddington, whose exertions in behalf of the
Association demanded their gratitude.
Lord HADDINGTON returned thanks.
The NOBLE EARL then rose to propose the health
of as brave a soldier as ever Scotland sent forth to
fight the battles of his country. Lord Saltoun—
(Cheers)—had served under his immortal captain, the
Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsula, and finished
his services under the same Illustrious Commander at
Waterloo, where he gallantly sustained the difficult
defence of Hougoumont.—(Cheers.) His name had
now again to be mentioned with honour and distinc-
tion in connection with the attack of a place of which
he (Lord Haddington) could not exactly recollect the
ame--(A laugh)—it was, however, that at which