The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-27 00:00:00

EDINBURGIi, AUG. 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 3/. 35.-
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21. I Is. 6d.-Arbroath and For-
far, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares,l 51.-Armagh and Portrush, 21. -
Banffshire, 21. Is. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 3/. 4s. 6d.--Bel-
fast and County Down, 3/. 17s. 6d.-Cambridge and Lincoln,
31. 10s.-Caledonian, 10/. 10s.-Caledonian Extension, 2/.
16s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 3/.175. 6d.-Clydesdale
Junction, 9/. - Direct Northern, '2l. - Dundee and Ar-
broath, 37/. Is. 6d.-Ditto, New, 18L-Dundee and Perth,
11. 70. Gd. ra1.,b,,0-gh and Bathgate, 2/. 10s.-Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 901.-Ditto, Quarters, 211_ 155.-Ditto New,
14/.175. 6d.-Edinburgh, Glasgow ,and Dumbarton, 1/. 17s. 6d.
-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 261.-Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 171. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 1/. 145.-Ditto,
New, IL 25.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 2/. 165.-Edinburgh
and Perth, 1/. 10s.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 891.-Ditto,
New Stock, 221.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 3/. 155.-
Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 11. ss. 6d.-Glasgow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New
Stock, 101. 58. - Ditto, Preference, 2/. - Great North of
Scotland, 2/. 15s. 6d.-Inverness and Elgin, I/. 25.-Kil-
marnock and Ardrossan, 5/. 155.-London and York, 4/. 10s.
-Monkland and Kirkintilloch, 33L-Morayshire, 11.-North
British, 31/. 10e.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 5s -North Wales
Mineral, New, 61. 55.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. Is.-Scottish
Central, 71. 145.-Scottish Midland, 2/. 55.-Shrewsbury, Os-
westry, and Chester, 4/. Is. 6d.-Shrewsbury and Hereford,
11. I Is. 6d.-Slamannan,lBL-South Midland, 6/. 12s. 6d,-
Stirling and Dunfermline, 11. 15s. 6d.-Waterford, Wick-
low, and Dublin, 1/. 165.-Wishaw and Coltness, 39/.

ROYAL SEA-BATHING INFIR-
MARY-MARGATE.

On Monday the 50th anniversary of the establishment
of this most excellent institution was celebrated at the
Town-hall, by upwards of sixty gentlemen.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor was in the chair. Near
his Lordship were seated the Very Rev. Archdeacon
Hollingsworth, Alderman Kelly, Alderman and Sheriff
Hunter, Alderman and Sheriff Sidney, and several other
citizens of high standing and character.
After the Chairman had proposed, and the company
had drunk the toasts of the Queen, the patron, and
the Queen Dowager, the patroness of the institution,
and the other usual loyal and patriotic toasts, with great
applause and enthusiasm,
The LORD MAYOR rose to give " Success to the Royal
Sea-Bathing Infirmary." He felt the utmost gratifica-
tion in stating that the infirmary established as it had
been for the relief of the poor who laboured under scro-
fulous maladies, had been most rapidly advancing
in utility, and that each successive season abun-
dantly testified to the vast amount of good it
effected. In the first year of its institution 16 patients
were admitted ; and, in 1844, 686 was the number to
which its advantages were extended, so that it formed
no inconsiderable degree of pride and satisfaction to re-
flect that the supporters of the infirmary were that
day celebrating its jubilee—(Cheers)—that nearly 19,000
patients—most of them deeply afflicted by the disease
against which the institution was, by the skill and libe-
rality with which it was supported, making head—had
derived signal advantages, which any other mode of
treatment was incapable of producing, and that the
whole of the establishment was conducted upon a plan
of economy, so well regulated, as to supply the patients
with the sort of living which was indispensable to their
recovery.—(Cheers.) The chief expense consisted of
the charges for the articles constantly supplied for the
purpose of adding to the comforts of those who were the
victims of the malady. Of the propriety of supporting
with all the vigour of a zealous and indefatigable activity
an institution to the excellence of which the united
voice of the highest medical and surgical authorities in
the kingdom bore most willing and ample testimony,
there could be no reasonable question. The meeting of
that day was ominous of the increasing exertions and
success of the benevolent friends of the institution, and
he felt assured that the jubilee year would be followed
by anniversaries of much larger profit, and that the
Committee would be enabled to look at it by the side of
other admirable establishments with some pride of com-
parison.
The toast was drunk with loud acclamations.

The LORD MAYOR next proposed, " The Archbishop
of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, and the
clergy." The two Learned Prelates whom he had
named entertained the highest opinion of the infirmary,
and manifested that opinion by the most liberal contri
butions, as well as by repeated verbal acknowledgments
of their faith in its efficacy. In fact, to the ministers of
the church the infirmary was indebted for the most
prompt and able support.—(Cbeers.)

Archdeacon HOLLINGSWORTH returned thanks .)n be-
half of the church, and bore testimony to the disposition
of the Primate and of the Bishop of London to aid the
efforts of the Committee. It gave him, he declared, the
utmost satisfaction to be called upon, unworthy as he
was, to express his feelings by answering to such a toast,
for it was the Primate of England who had advanced
him from the comparative obscurity of a college to the
performance of more important duties.—(Cheers.) It
gave him infinite pleasure to propose the " Health of the
Lord Mayor." It was known to tivlse most actively en-
gaged in dispensing the blessings of the institution with
what zeal and efficiency the Lord Mayor had always
exerted himself for the prosperity of so admirable a
charity.
The toast was drunk with three times three, and
amidst uncommon demonstrations of applause.
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks for the manner
in which his health had been proposed and drunk, and
declared that it was peculiarly acceptable to him to be a
witness of such acknowledgments on the thirty-third
anniversary of his treasurership.—(Cheers.) His lord-
ship then proposed the health of Alderman Kelly and
the Vice-Presidents of the Institution.

Alderman KELLY, in returning thanks, said he should
continue to visit on the anniversary day an institution
of which he entertained so exalted an opinion. He had,
when Lord Mayor, in the capacity of chairman, made
that promise, and nothing but bad health should at all
interfere with his determination. He felt high gratifi-
cation in being present at the jubilee of the charity,
and he hoped that Providence would grant him the
privilege of witnessing the day of the celebration of the
present chairman's treasurership.—(Loud cheers.) He
hoped too to see the external appearance of the edifice
bear a more fair proportion to the comforts of the in-
terior, and that a day would be soon appointed to take
that subject into consideration.

The toast of " The Medical Board" having been en.
thusiastically drunk,
Mr. CURLING returned thanks, and testified to the
satisfactory progress made amongst the patients to the
restoration of the blessings of health, through the power-
ful agency of the institution. It was with great sin-
cerity he declared that every thing that could be done
had been done for the comfort and restoration to health
of the patients.—(Cheers.)
The Secretary read a list of contributions, amounting
to the sum of nearly 1,0001., bearing some of the highest
names in the country.
His Lordship next proposed the Margate Committee,
and
Mr. COBB returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN said he felt much pleasure in drink-
ing to the health of the Sheriffs of London, who had
shown such readiness to aid the institution.
Alderman and Sheriff HUNTER regretted that he had
not been long ago informed of the peculiar advan-
tages of the institution, but from what he had that day
heard he had resolved to do all in his power to assist so
excellent a charity.
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actively engaged in conducting it, to increase its effiacy,
by adding as much as possible to the comforts of the pa-
tients. He particularly alluded to the Lord Mayor,
whose independent spirit as a public man all who were
capable of judging admired, and ono of the brightest
gems in whose public life that institution constituted.
The pleasure of the evening was much enhanced by
the admirable singing of Messrs. Charles Taylor, Francis
Fitzwilliam, &c.

TAE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON.—We have re-
ceived further accounts of the experimental squadron, which
we can rely on. From these we learn that the Queen had the
best of the first day. On the morning of the second day's trial
st. Vincent was first, Queen second, Canopus third, and the
rest far astern, the old Trafalgar almost out of sight to leeward.
Thick weather then came on, and continued for several days.
The next trial was a run of about eighty miles, on Saturday,
wind W.N.W., when Canopus was again the first, Albion se-
cond, Queen third, followed in rotation by Rodney, Superb,
S. Vincent, Vanguard, and last old Trafalgar, In the next
trial, on the following Monday, in a run of twenty miles,
course about North-West, St. Vincent was first, Vanguard
next, followed by Rodney, Canopus, Queen, Albion, Tra-
falgar, and Superb last. The locality of the cruising ground is
the Nymph Bank, which stretches across the chops of the
Channel!, and about ninety miles from Scilly. Subsequent ac-
counts to the 10th instant state the Queen to have proved her-
self the best of the three-deckers, and the Canopus the best of
the two-deckers, in all the trials which had taken place. It is
also stated that the Trafalgar, Vanguard, and Superb, were the
sternmost ships of the squadron, the latter universally so, and
her performances altogether had been throughout the reverse of
her name.—Hampshire Advertiser.