Beaufoy in perpetual trust to maintain them in good
repair. The building is of modern architecture, of two
stories, with extensive wings, and so arranged that the
boys and girls occupy opposite sides of the range: there
is room for one thousand children.

On the same day, Lord Ashley presided at the annual
meeting, in the Store Street Music-hall, of the supporters
of the Ragged Schools in Phillips's Gardens, Upper
Tottenham Place. Lord Ashley stated, that when he
first undertook the advocacy of these schools, there were
only five in the metropolis; there are now one hundred
schools, at which 20,000 children are taught.

The annual general court of the Society of Friends of
Foreigners in Distress, was held at the London Tavern,
Mr. John Labouchere in the chair. The report which
was read stated that the board had satisfaction in
announcing that they had been able, in the past year,
to continue their exertions with undiminished vigour.
The number of persons benefited by the society during
the year had been 1982, of whom 251 were new cases.
About 180 foreigners had been enabled by the funds
furnished to them by the society to return to their
native countries. The average weekly number of
applications to the board for assistance was 40, and the
greater proportion of these persons were Europeans;
Africans, Asians, and Americans had also, however,
been among the recipients of the bounty of the society.
The amount spent in affording casual relief was
£814 18s. 6d., and for passage money £144 6s. 8d. The
total receipts on the year, including the balance of last
year, was £3471 14s. 7d.; total expend., £3021 11s. 9d.;
leaving a balance, in favour of the society, of £450. In
the course of his remarks, in comment upon the report,
Mr. Labouchere expressed a hope that the wealthy
foreigners who would visit London during the period of
the great exhibition, would not fail to admit the great
claims which this society had upon them.

The thirteenth anniversary meeting of the corporation
of the Seamen's Hospital was held at the London Tavern
on the 12th, the Earl of Hardwicke in the chair. There
was a very numerous assemblage. The object of this
charity is the maintenance of the Dreadnought Hospital,
off Greenwich, for the reception of the sick and diseased
seamen of all nations. From the report laid upon the
table, it appeared that from the date of its establishment,
its patients had numbered no fewer than 63,345;
comprising—Englishmen, 37,252; Scotchmen, 7,736; Irishmen,
5,029; Frenchmen, 235; Germans, 841; Russians,
789; Prussians, 1,233; Dutchmen, 205; Danes, 849;
Swedes and Norwegians, 2,018; Italians, 572; Portuguese,
485; Spaniards, 287; East Indians, 1,046; West
Indians, 1,088; British Americans, 859; United States,
1,173; South Americans, 127; Africans, 374; Turks, 16;
Greeks, 50; New Zealanders, 30; New South Wales,
31; South Sea Islanders, 182; Chinese, 38; born at sea,
131. These had been employed in the royal navy, 3,101;
in the East India Company's service, 1,797; and in
merchant vessels of different nations, 58,447. The number
of patients admitted into hospital during the last year
was, 2,095; out-patients, 1,528; total, 3,623. The chairman
observed, that the public generally supposed that
the institution required but little of their assistance,
having large resources of its own; but the fact was that,
although it had an income of £3,000, it expended twice
that sum, and the difference had to be made up by
private contributions. They must therefore appeal to the
public for assistance to enable them to carry out the
objects they had in view. This appeal was well responded
to, the subscriptions made during the evening having
amounted to £814.

A dinner in aid of the funds of the Royal Infirmary
for Consumption took place on the 13th, and was
presided over by Mr. Hankey, jun., Deputy-Governor of
the Bank of England. About 70 gentlemen assembled
on the occasion, and subscriptions to the amount of £400
and upwards were announced by the treasurer. From
the report it appears that the charity, which has been
established 36 years, and is the oldest institution of the
kind in London, has during its existence administered
relief to 36,978 out and 486 in patients, the annual number
of cases treated being more than 1000.

The United States frigate St. Lawrence, of fifty guns,
arrived at Southampton on the 12th, freighted with
1000 tons of packages forming the contribution of the
Americans to the Great Industrial Show. The freight
was so much larger than was expected, that all the
armament of the St. Lawrence, save only the guns on
her upper spar deck, had to be taken out.

Among the things which have arrived at the doors of
the Great Exhibition were the whole of the parts of the
celebrated hydraulic press by which the tubes of the
Britannia Railway Bridge were lifted to their present
situation. Some detached portions of this enormous
apparatus weigh no less than fifteen tons.

The Great Northern Railway has undertaken to lay
down two hundred yards of specimen permanent railway,
embracing all the latest improvements of construction
and apparatus, for the trial of the troop of locomotive
engines which will be exhibited. The work is
already begun.

The Queen will exhibit the beautiful carpet worked
for her by a hundred ladies of Great Britain. It is said
also that her Majesty will confide the celebrated
Koh-i-noor diamond to the custody of the commissioners
for exhibition.

The meeting of the British Association at Ipswich is
to commence on Wednesday, July the 2nd. The officers
selected by the London council are: President—Professor
Airy, Astronomer Royal. Vice-Presidents—The
Bishop of Norwich, Professor Henslow, Professor Sedgwick,
Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., Lord Rendlesham, M.P.,
Sir W. F. F. Middleton, Bart., J.C. Cobbold, Esq.,M.P.,
T. B. Western, Esq. Treasurer—J. B. Alexander, Esq.
Local Secretaries—C. May, Esq., W. D. Sims, Esq.,
G. A. Biddell, Esq., G. Ransome, Esq. The local
secretaries have already received the names of several
hundred intending visitors, amongst whom are Lucien
Buonaparte, Prince of Canino; Sir R. Murchison, Sir H. de
la Beche, Sir W. Jardine, Sir C. Lyell, Sir D. Brewster;
Professors Daubeny, Silliman (of America), Owen,
Ansted, and the celebrated naturalist, M. Lorrillier, a
relative of the late Baron Cuvier.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The Queen held her second Levee of the season, at
Buckingham Palace, on the 6th. Her Majesty was
dressed in deep mourning for the Princess Elize Hohenlohe
Langenbourg; intelligence of whose death she
received on the preceding day. Mr. Alfred Tennyson
was presented, on his appointment to be Poet Laureate.
A deputation of ladies, consisting of the Misses
Lawrance, Marshall, Cubitt, Witten, Simpson, and Fuller,
had an audience, to deliver to the Queen an address on
presenting a carpet executed in needlework by 100 ladies
of Great Britain.

The Royal Family left Buckingham Palace for
Osborne, Isle of Wight, on the 8th.

The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal family,
returned from Osborne to Buckingham Palace on
the 25th.

Her Majesty has presented the sum of 250 guineas to
the new Asylum, for Infant Orphans, Stamford Hill,
in order to secure the Prince of Wales the right of
presentation to one bed for life.

Prince Albert has become one of the patrons of the
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life
from Shipwreck.

Prince Albert has manifested the deep interest which
he feels in the operations of the Society for improving
the Condition of the Working Classes by engaging to
build, at his own expense, an Exhibition Model House,
for four families, and to place the same in the stable-yard
at the west end of the cavalry barracks, Hyde
Park, immediately opposite the Exhibition building.
The intended house is to be of hollow brick, with
fire-proof floors and flat roof; showing the applicability of
these important principles to houses of but very moderate
dimensions.

Captain Ross Donelly Mangles, M.P. for Guildford, a
Director of the East India Company, has lately placed
at the disposal of the Governors of St. George's
Hospital an Assistant-Surgeonship in the East India
Company's service, for presentation to the most deserving
pupil of the Hospital.