an > [JULY. I express permission of the committee of the members of to the chief of the Bath police :-"I was at the publicthe Carlton Club, while the letters spoken of, addressed | house, and at the time selling lucifers and other little to the newly-returned Whig representatives, ran thus:- things. things. I had half a pint of beer, and I saw the man "In having the honour of placing the enclosed written I murdered pull out his purse, which tempted me. list in your presence, I beg leave to propose the insertion followed him from the public-house until he went two of your portrait into the new series of this national or three fields over a stile, and when he got 70 or 80 work to which it relates, and will presume to wait on yards I tripped him up with my foot. He fell on the you for the requisite facilities to enable me to carry out back of his head and called out 'Murder' very loudly, my respectful proposal." The enclosed circular, headed and said to me, 'Do you want to murder me? I rewith the name of Lord J. Russell, and followed by plied to him, 'Yes.' Mr. Roebuck, Dr. Bowring, Col. Thompson, Mr. Hume, his arms, said, "I was then much stronger and more The prisoner, then looking at and a vast number of others in the liberal interest, active than I am now, and I held him a few minutes intimated that the writer, with the countenance of the and drew my knife across his throat two or three times, Reform Club, was about to dedicate his talents to that and he never moved afterwards. There was not much party. The prisoner denied that he had obtained the struggling, as it was soon over. portraits under false pretences, as he intended to have had when I was on him the blood came over me, and I tore I knelt on him, and copies engraved, but was unable for want of the promised up some grass and stuffed it into the cut. I then took support. He was remanded for further examination. his purse, but did not get more than seven or eight shilA case came before the Middlesex Sessions on the lings. I thought he had more, or it would not have 19th, which shows the evil arising from the Insufficient happened. I am sorry for it. It was a cold-blooded care of Lunatics. Joseph Aylieff, an elderly man, was deed, and one of the worst murders that ever was done. tried for stealing a publican's pot. In a field near I slept in a cart-house that night, and in barns and Kilburn he was found with the pot in question, which under haystacks ever since; but wherever I was I could he said he had brought from Kent, whereas he had not rest, as I saw the man. really taken it from the Swan Inn at Hendon. The have on the mind, and I am perfectly prepared to die It was a dreadful thing to innkeeper said he had known the prisoner for a number for it." On the 24th inst. Smith was brought before of years about the neighbourhood of Hendon-a respect- the county magistrates at Bath. A number of witnesses able man, and most respectably connected: he could not were examined, whose evidence corroborated the prisothink he meant to steal the pot. However, Joseph ner's confession. When the magistrates were considerAylieff was convicted. One of his sons then told the ing the propriety of calling further witnesses, he said, judge that his father was insane. It appeared that this "Gentlemen, there's enough of evidence to hang twenty, son had placed him in Marylebone Workhouse; but without any more." He was committed for trial at the after he had remained there nearly two years, another next assizes. son took him out, and allowed him to range uncon- A dreadful act of Piracy and Murder has been comtrolled-with the result of a conviction for theft. The mitted by Coolies on board an American vessel, the certificate of the master of the Workhouse stated that Robert Browne, in March last. An account of it is at the time the man was given up to his son, he was in contained in the deposition of Joseph Valentine, the "unsound state of mind." The judge remarked steward of the ship. She sailed from Amoy with a crew that the lunatic would not have been discharged from of 19 men, and about 400 Chinese, bound for San any regular public asylum, unless his relatives had given Francisco. The captain in order to maintain cleanliness security that he should be placed under proper restraint. cut off the tails of a great many of the Coolies, and Sergeant Adams would not try him on a second charge obliged them to come on deck and be washed all over of stealing a shawl. The formal sentence was six in cold water, the men scrubbing them with cane months' imprisonment with hard labour; but, on on a brooms. The Coolies evinced much concern at losing surgeon's certificate of insanity, the poor man is to be their tails, many of them crying. They were well placed in an asylum. furnished with food and water. On the 10th day out, while Valentine was at the galley door about half-past nine in the morning, he heard a shout from the Chinamen, and saw a body of them rushing aft, armed with pieces of wood as clubs, and, at the same time, one from behind seized him round the wrist. With a small knife he held he cut his wrist, and the Coolie let go his hold and followed his companions aft. Valentine then went into the galley with the Chinese cook, and both held the doors to prevent the ingress of the Coolies. From a small window in the front of the galley, he saw the murder of the second mate, who was knocked down by blows on the head from ten or twelve men, and some of the Coolies, having by that time obtained boarding pikes, stabbed him. He was thrown overboard not quite dead, and clinging to a rope was stabbed again with pikes till he relinquished his hold. The Coolies then forced the doors of the galley and stabbed at Valentine with the pikes, notwithstanding the intercession of the cook. He succeeded in wresting a pike from them, and drove them aft, one or two of the Coolies falling by his thrusts. He then jumped down the forecastle hatch, where they barricaded him in. In about an hour they called to him through one of the Chinese, who spoke English, and told him to come up, promising not In December last, a milkman named George Bush, a to hurt him. He did so, and was led aft to the wheel, quiet, inoffensive man, residing near Bath, was Mur-where Smith was also brought. After steering for an dered. He had attended an auction-sale at a neigh-hour Valentine was taken into the cabin, and ordered bouring village, and, after having spent part of the evening at the village public-house, left it to go home, and next morning was found dead in a field, with his throat cut, and his pockets rifled. Several persons were apprehended on suspicion, but discharged. But an Irish pedlar, named Christopher Smith, while imprisoned in Dorchester jail as a vagrant, told a fellow prisoner that he had committed a murder in Somersetshire. This led to his apprehension on suspicion of the murder of Bush; and the prisoner made the following confession In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on the 24th inst., Alexander Wallace, who had been a student at Oxford, applied to be Discharged. His debts exceeded 9007.; and for nearly 6007. he had received no consideration on accommodation bills accepted by him for other Oxford students, and now held by bill discounters. Mr. Commissioner Phillips expressed himself in indignant terms on the schedule. There were debts for cigars and jewellery. It was elicited from the insolvent that his father was a conveyancer, and had allowed him 150l. a year, and had paid some debts contracted at Oxford. The insolvent's counsel hoped it would be a lesson to him. Mr. Commissioner Phillips was inclined to make it a serious lesson by giving a remand, but it was pity for the father, and not for the insolvent, that induced him to forego. Had a tradesman opposed, he would have been remanded for six months. The insolvent was discharged. John Mepham, convicted of Highway Robbery at the Lewes Assizes, on the 23rd, was sentenced to transportation for fifteen years. He had waylaid a farmer who was returning home from a sheep fair, knocked him down, and robbed him of 107. in bank notes and some silver. under pain of death to show where the captain's valuables were. He did so, but they got but little. The men were aloft when Valentine came on deck, whither they had retreated after making unavailing resistance. The Coolies told the men if they would come down and take them to land they would not hurt them. The men did so, and they were all well treated while they were returning. Valentine was informed by the Chinese that the captain, two officers, and three men, had been killed The Coolies obliged him to attend the wounde but the strong stream carried the gentleman into deep water, where he struggled for life. Mr. Bowden saw him, leaped in dressed as he was, rescued the drowning man, and then composedly walked home to change his clothes; without mentioning the circumstance which was related by the gentleman himself. and did not aid the persons struggling in the water. Two brothers named Dawson, seafaring men of Sunderland, who were on board the Dahlia, and who saved two people, censured the management of the steamer. The vessel was crowded with passengers, standing up for want of seats: had the steamer kept a proper course the Three young men have been drowned in the Tay at disaster would not have happened; but when the people Dundee, by the swamping of a boat which was ill con- in the shallop shouted there was not time to avoid a structed to encounter the slight roughness of the waves collision. Neary, a waterman, a witness for the defence, caused by a breeze meeting a flood-tide, and raising gave testimony more in favour of the prisoner. He "jabbles" over the sand-banks in the river. A party stated that the paddle-wheel was stopped before the of five left Dundee for the Fifeshire coast. In the collision, and the persons in the shallop upset it by evening, one refused to return in the light and shallow suddenly getting on their legs when the steamer boat; but a young gentleman voluntered to supply his struck the boat. Alderman Lawrence adjourned the place-he perished. The boat was swamped by two inquiry for a week. Maddox was admitted to bail; waves; the five young men clung to it, but one soon and after a long investigation the charge against himi trusted to the oars to support him. For some two hours was dismissed. The three bodies were found. The no aid approached. Then he who was clinging to the sufferers were young persons-the women each nineteen oars was picked up, and search was made for the boat; years of age, the man twenty-one. A coroner's one survivor only remained clinging to it. Those who inquest on the bodies returned a verdict of accidental perished were Mr. Alexander Kinmond, son of a mer-death; but the jury added their opinion that a sufficient chant; Mr. Henry Bell, son of a deceased sailmaker; look-out was not kept on board the steamer. and Mr. David Kay-the volunteer-son of Mr. Kay, formerly Provost of the town. The Dangers of the Serpentine were shown at an inquest held on the body of a young man named Corner, an excellent swimmer, who was drowned in that river on Sunday the 11th inst. The testimony of the witnesses went to prove that he had swam half way across and suddenly called for help, when he turned over head foremost and went down into the deep mud beneath. It was nearly 20 minutes before he could be got up by the Royal Humane Society's men after the time he went down. Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the society, stated that observing the drags were out he instantly got a hot bath in readiness, and when the body was brought in it was black with the mud over the head to the waist where he had been fixed. He was quite dead, but still every means were used to restore him, and Dr. Woolley | attended. In answer to a juror, Mr. Williams said that three boats were on the river, but there were a great number of persons in the water.-The juror: Then three boats are not sufficient?-Mr. Williams: No; nor would six be. It is impossible for the boatmen to see what is going on.-The Coroner: The Serpentine, I have understood, is a most dangerous place to bathe in. Mr. Williams replied it was the most dangerous in the world. There were holes thirty feet deep, and then twelve feet of mud, out of which the best swimmer could never get. There were cold springs too in all parts.The Coroner observed that it had been suggested in consequence, as he understood, that the bed of the river should be levelled. As this had not been done there seemed no alternative but to prevent bathing altogether there. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally Drowned." A Fatal Accident occurred on the Thames on Sunday evening, the 11th inst. Seven men and three women, a party of relatives and friends, hired a shallop at Hungerford stairs, in the morning for a trip to Greenwich. About nine o'clock in the evening, the shallop was returning, with the flood-tide, through Blackfriars Bridge, on the Middlesex side, when she came into collision with the Dahlia steamer, which was going against the tide, down the river. The shallop was swamped, and its occupants plunged into the water. Two were picked up by the steamer, and five were rescued by boats which put off from the shore; but John Weston, Anne Williams, a married woman, and Emma Bates, single, were drowned. One of the men saved, husband of Anne Williams, clung to the paddlewheel, and he was much lacerated. On the 13th, John Maddox, mate of the Dahlia, who had charge of the steamer as the master was ill, was produced at Guildhall Police Office, on a charge of causing the death of the three persons by his wilful negligence. The witnesses examined were the survivors of the party in the shallop, and some persons who gave evidence for the prosecution. The survivors threw the whole blame on the Dahlia. The shallop was going with the tide, the steamer against it; the people in the steamer did not keep any look-out, went out of their proper course, did not stop the vessel when shouted to, A Fatal Railway Accident occurred at Burnly on the 12th. An excursion of Sunday-school teachers and children was sent by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, to Goole; there were thirty-five carriages, and more than a thousand passengers. The party did not approach Burnley on the return at night till halfpast eleven o'clock. The train stopped at Townley station, a mile from Burnley, to deposit passengers, and to detach the engine. Trains enter Burnley by descending a decline, the speed being regulated_by_breaks. About 120 to 150 yards before reaching the Burnley station, the railway crosses a small valley and some water by a bridge; and at the end of this bridge next the station is an iron handle for turning the points, in order to shunt arriving trains upon the main line which is connected with the East Lancashire; departing trains starting from what is in reality a siding, running parallel to the other, but at a gradual rise, till it reaches the station platform, where the siding terminates abruptly at the masonry abutment of a bridge, which is carried over the connecting length of railway, between the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire railways. At the platform, the siding or rails for departing trains is six feet above the parallel connecting line. The duty of the pointsman, whose name is Parker, was to shunt any arriving train, so as to descend the connecting line; but the points were not turned, and the impetus of the descending train, notwithstanding the use of the breaks, was so great, that it ran past the offices and station, and came to the solid timber buffers fixed horizontally to the wall of the skew bridge abutment; the effect of the two forces was to press upwards the fourth and fifth carriages from the engine, and to smash the body or frame of one of them almost to pieces. It took some time to cut open the carriages and remove the persons within; and then it was found that one man and three children had been killed. The dead were Daniel Greenwood, a weaver, aged thirty-six; a girl twelve years old, and two girls of ten. Mrs. Taylor, an elderly person, received internal hurts which threatened to be fatal. One man had his ribs fractured, and another had an arm broken. Many other persons were more or less cut and bruised. Parker was taken into custody. The stationmaster was in bed at the time of the accident, unwell: Gledhill, the station-clerk, was also absent-he was arrested, but soon liberated. A coroner's inquest was held, and after an investigation of several days, a verdict of accidental death was returned. In its preamble the jury declared their unanimous opinion "that the sole cause of this accident was owing to the deficiency of guards and pointsmen to let the train safely down the incline into the station, and to the employment of incompetent and irresponsible men, and to the want of order and discipline amongst the company's servants generally, and the total absence of any responsible person to direct and superintend the safe arrival and unloading of the train; and they feel bound to state that the greatest negligence was displayed by the executive officials of the railwa company on this occasion. It is the opinion of the ju there is great blame to be attached to the selection carriages for this train-more particularly on account of their inequality in size and difference in the height above the rails to the centre of the buffers, as given in evidence. At the same time, the jury wish to record that they had no opportunity of forming an opinion of their condition and construction, as the whole were removed before they were called upon to visit the station. In conclusion the jury beg to submit to the directors of this railway that in the opinion their siding into which the ordinary arrival trains run is fraught with danger, in consequence of being situated at the bottom of an incline, and terminating against a strong, dead buffer." Parker, consequently, was discharged from custody. at the place where the Leeds Northern line joins the Clarence, near Stockton. The driver of the Leeds Northern luggage train had been down the line to the old Stockton and Hartlepool station, at present used as a goods warehouse, and, after leaving the Stockton goods, was proceeding up the Clarence line, drawing the remainder of the waggons in front of his engine, to get on to the Leeds Northern line. Arriving at the junction of the two railways at the moment the Ferryhill train was coming down, one of the cattle trucks of the luggage train caught the corner of the tender of the passenger train, ran into the luggage van, and smashed it and the adjoining second-class carriage literally in pieces; it also carried away the side of a first-class carriage-tearing away the seats, and doing fearful havoc in its proinjured, among whom was Mr. Grainger, of Edinburgh, chief engineer of the Leeds Northern line, whose leg was broken in two places. A lady from the south of Scotland, named Cunningham, accompanied by her niece and nursery-maid, had, the two former, each a leg broken, and the latter was severely bruised about the ancle. A Mrs. Lewis, from Middlesbro', was also much bruised ; and a commercial traveller from Bradford is much hurt about the leg and ancle. The guard received a cut above the eye; and a man named Smiles Richardson is a good deal hurt about the knee. Some others are slightly injured, but these are the principal sufferers. The engine-driver of the Leeds Northern luggage train was taken in custody soon after the accident happened, and remanded. Alnwick town was visited on the 12th by a Thunderstorm of extraordinary violence. For several hours the flashes and reports followed each other without inter-gress. About a dozen passengers were more or less mission, the rain poured down in torrents, the lightning was of a most dangerous description, and the thunder terrible. At the new schools now building for the use of the corporation, eight men were standing under the shelter of the scaffolding, when the electric fluid struck one of the poles, which it rent from top to bottom; it then knocked down the eight men, two of whom were killed and another hurt, and then rent part of the wall in its passage. The Excessive heat of the Weather has caused several deaths both in London and the country. A nurserymaid at Notting-hill, a cheesemonger in Tottenham Court Road, and a labourer at Harrow, expired from coups de soleil. At Cold Aston an old man dropped down dead while whetting his scythe: and near Northleach a shepherd died in the fields. Several men bad to be carried from the fields near Newport Pagnell, and one subsequently died. Similar cases occurred at various other places. In Paris the effects of the heat were still more violent. People were found in the streets in a state of insanity, and several persons, in a delirious condition, threw themselves into the Seine. A clerk employed at the London terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway has lost his life from Attempting to Leave a Train before it had stopped. At Broxbourne, he leapt from a carriage while it was yet in motion, and fell upon the rails; some of the carriages passed over his left leg; amputation was necessary, and he sank from the effects of the operation. PROGRESS. A frightful Railway Accident occurred on Saturday evening, the 17th, to an engine-driver named Stanley at SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL Gobowen, on the Shrewsbury and Chester line. The unfortunate man had got off the engine at a siding, and was examining the machinery to see that it was in proper working order and not over-heated, and at the same time the stoker was engaged in filling the boiler with water, when three or four waggons which were moving down on an inclined plane towards the engine | were allowed to proceed too rapidly by the person who had the charge of them, and who, it is supposed, did not apply the break so vigorously as he ought to have done. The consequence was that the waggons dashed with great velocity against the engine which Stanley was engaged in examining, and the unfortunate man's arm was caught in the machinery, and he was thrown down and the engine went over him, tearing his arm out of the socket and mangling him so frightfully that he expired immediately. A melancholy accident from the Incautious use of Firearms, occurred at Standen-house, near Hungerford, Berks, the seat of the Rev. J. P. Michell on the 20th. His youngest son had been rabbit shooting, and returning home about 9 o'clock in the evening was called by his two youngest sisters from the nursery window, and in turning round to answer them, the gun, which happened to be loaded, went off, and unhappily lodged the contents in the forehead of the youngest, a fine little girl between nine and ten years of age, who survived only a few minutes. The children at the time of the melancholy occurrence had their arms round each others' neck, but strange to say, not a shot touched the other. Mr. John Dewdney, a respectable gentleman of sixty, Died while playing at Cricket on the 21st inst. During a match in Copenhagen fields, he was in the act of making a run when he suddenly fell down, and in a few minutes expired. He had only just taken the bat, scoring one r his first hit, so that it is quite evident that the fatal sult was not the effect of fatigue. He had complained Ill health, and said that during the last week he had fered from sun-stroke, but declined standing out the match, though advised to do so by several iends. On the evening of the 21st inst. a Collision occurred AN English, Dutch, and Belgian company, has been formed to Reclaim the land covered by the arm of the sea between the island of South Beveland, and the mainland. The extent of the area to be reclaimed is 35,000 acres. Captain Pelly, R.N., is chairman of the company, and Sir John Rennie its engineer. A great feature of the works will be the cutting of a ship-canal through South Beveland, in lieu of the channel that will be filled up. The turning of the first sod of the cutting for the canal was performed on the 1st inst., by Captain Pelly, in presence of the Governor of the Province of Zealand, and a company of Dutch and English persons of distinction. Afterwards there was a convivial reunion, at which the toasts of the Queen of England and the King of Holland were interchanged. A Parliamentary return has been printed which shows the Population and Inhabited Houses according to the Census of 1851, returning or not returning Members to Parliament. There are many towns, containing upwards of 2000 inhabitants, not returning members. The following unrepresented metropolitan parishes appear in the return: Chelsea, with a population of 56,238, and 7591 inhabited houses; Kensington, with 44,053, and 6136 inhabited houses; Hammersmith, 17,760, and 3115 inhabited houses; Fulham with 11,SS6, and 1797 inhabited houses. In the county of Middlesex, the population is 1,886,576, and 239,362 inhabited houses. From a late census return, the following are the totals of houses and inhabitants in the Metropolitan Parliamentary boroughs. In the Tower Hamlets, there are 75,710 inhabited houses, and the population is 539,111; in Marylebone, 40,513 inhabited houses, population 370,957; in Finsbury, 37,427 inhabited houses, population 323,772; 323,772; in Lambeth, 39,154 inhabited houses, population 251,345; in Westminster, 24,755 inhabited houses, population 241,711; in Southwark, 23,751 inhabited houses, population 172,863. In the City of London there are 14,580 inhabited houses, and the population is 127,869. The total number of persons receiving out door relief in Ireland in the week ending 24th April last, was the mean temperature was higher than on any day since 3498-in workhouses in the same week, 186,453; the 5th of July, 1836. The highest temperature on showing a decrease, as compared with the corresponding Friday was 89 degrees; the mean of that day was 70-9 period of last year, of 70,261 paupers, or 27 per cent of the whole. A meeting has taken place to Promote the Erection of Improved Dwellings for Married Soldiers. Prince Albert has given the project his warmest support, and a few officers of the Guards have been able to commence operations which may hereafter be extended. The scheme is to be entirely self-supporting, and, it is hoped, may be so remunerative as to induce capitalists hereafter to embark in a similar praiseworthy object. Funds to the amount of about 40007. have been already subscribed for, and the names of the Prince Consort, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Lords Ellesmere, Strafford, Verulam, F. Fitzclarence, and others, afford some proof of public opinion upon a question that affects the moral and social condition of a class in whose welfare the public cannot fail to take concern. More than usually restricted in their circumstances, they are often driven into the lowest society, forced, as they are, to seek within certain limits for a habitation. The meeting was well attended, and resolutions appointing trustees and approving of the object were passed. The official report of the Health of London during the week ending the 10th instant, contains some interesting particulars respecting the heat of the weather, and its consequences. The week (says the report) that ended last Saturday, brought a considerable accession to the mortality of London, which rose higher than it had been in the eleven weeks preceding. In the week ending July 3, with a mean temperature of 59.7 degrees, the deaths registered were 987; in last week ending July 10, with a mean temperature of 70-9 degrees, they were 1080, showing an increase of nearly 100. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1842-51 the average number of deaths was 889, which, with a correction for increase of population, will be 978. The present return therefore shows a mortality greater than the estimated amount by 102. The average temperature of the corresponding weeks was 62 degrees. From these facts it seems reasonable to draw the inference that a sudden increase of heat above the average, to the amount of 9 degrees, has shortened the lives of more than a hundred persons. A comparison of the returns of the last two weeks appears to show that extreme heat has been unfavourable to the young and the old, while with regard to the middle-aged its tendency has been beneficial, except to such of these as were labouring under consumption. In the week ending 3rd July, 416 children died under 15 years, last week the number rose to 505, exhibiting an increase of 21 per cent.; in the previous week 187 persons of 60 years and upwards sank under disease, last week the number was 203, showing an increase of about 9 per cent.; whereas the deaths among the middle-aged decreased from 383 in the former week to 349 in the last. But it will be observed that the number of fatal cases of phthisis amongst persons between 15 and 60 years rose from 110 in the preceding week to 127 recorded in the present return. Still, comparing the facts of the last two weeks, it appears that there is an increase in the epidemic class, arising partly from scarlatina, and partly from a greater prevalence of diarrhoea; that diseases of the brain and nervous system numbered in both returns 131, while those of the digestive organs rose from 59 to 74, and those of the respiratory organs from 91 to 122. This important increase in the last-mentioned class is due to a greater fatality of bronchitis and inflammation of the lungs among children, for while only 39 of the young died in the previous week of these diseases, they carried off 63 in the last. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.845 in. The mean temperature of the week was 70.9 degrees, which is 11 degrees higher than that of the previous week, and 9-2 degrees above the average of the same week in ten years. The highest temperature occurred on Monday, and was 90-3 degrees; the mean of that day was 75-6 degrees. The highest in the sun, on the same day was 116 deg. The reading of the thermometer in air was higher this day than on any day since the 5th of July, 1846, and ་ degrees; and the highest in the sun was 121-5 degrees. An election of seven children into the British Orphan Asylum, at Clapham Rise, took place on the 19th inst. It appeared by the report presented to the meeting that, during the past year, sixteen children had been elected by the subscribers and three admitted by purchase. The average number of the children in the asylum during the year was 100. The report of the examiner to the schools, the Rev. James Hill, expressed in strong terms the improvement in the schools both of the boys and girls, and stated that they never presented more unequivocal signs of general good health. Their industrial training kept pace with their literary progress; while their cheerfulness, their fondness for voluntary exercises, and the good feeling subsisting between the instructors and instructed, and among the pupils themselves, was highly gratifying. The receipts during the year amounted to 2,8357. 18s. 4d., and the disbursements to 2,4827. 15s. 8d., leaving a balance of 352l. 2s. 8d. The The annual general meeting of the governors of the Charing Cross Hospital was held on the 20th. The report of the committee gave a very favourable account of the progress of the institution during the year. number of patients had been 17,995; of these 1200 were in-patients. The number of accidents admitted during the year was 2238. Of the total number of patients, 16,498 had been cured or But it will be 16,498 had been cured or relieved; 57 had died; and 240 were under treatment. 204,858 patients had been treated since the opening of the institution. The funds received during the year amounted to 3,5547. 13s. 2d., including a former balance of 3187. 8s. 2d., and the expenditure had amounted to 2,4907. 11s. 2 d., leaving a considerable balance. The committee were very anxious to complete the upper portion of the building, which still remains unfinished, and for that purpose had opened a separate building fund, the total amount of which was at present 1,751l. As soon as this desirable end should be accomplished they would have 50 more beds at their disposal, and would be enabled to accommodate from 500 to 600 more patients yearly. Mr. Mechi, the spirited agricultural improver, had his Annual Gathering at his farm, Tiptree Hall, on the 21st inst. The company numbered above 300; among whom were Earl Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington, his Excellency Abbott Laurence, American Ambassador Baron Bentinck, Netherlands Minister; Col. T. F Lawrence, Le Viscomte Curzay, the Hon. J. L. Whit and H. S. Routh, Esq., Commissioners from the Unit States; Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P.; Sir E. E. Bak Bart., Sir J. P. Wood, Bart., Sir Thomas Tancre Bart., C. Du Cane, Esq., M.P., R. Greaves, Esq., MP., Sir A. Macdonald, Bart., Professor Henslowe, Professor |