MARCH. Burchell, the Right Rev. Dr. Richard 19. De Courcy, Colonel Nevinson Willoughby, C.B., late Royal Marine Light Infantry.- 31. Duthie, Miss Elizabeth Crombie, presented a public park to the city of Aberdeen, which bears her name. 30. Eo wards, Lieutenant Alexander T. Jenkins, Joseph J., Esq., Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Ker, Alan, Esq., many years a Puisne Knighton, Sir William Wellesley, O'Brien, Lieut.-Gen. Bartholomew, C.B.-8. O'Callaghan, the Hon. George Cornelius Gerald, only son of Lord Lismore. Parker, General Richard, late 1st Life Guards, and Colonel 5th Dragoun Guards.-15. Parkes, Sir Harry Smith, GC M.G., K.C.B., Ambassador to China.-21. Pearce. Dr. George, late Madras Saurin, Mark Anthony, Esq., of Trench (Margaret), the Hon. Mrs. Le Poer.-4. Watson, Morison, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy, Owens College, Manchester.-25. White, the Rev. James, Rector of Stoley, Norfolk. Whiteside. Rosetta, Mrs., widow of the late Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.-17. Wordsworth, the Right Rev Christopher, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lincoln. APRIL. Adams, Borlase, Esq., of Bedfordsquare, J.P. for Middlesex.-29. Alexander, General Sir James Edward, C.B., F.R.S. Edin., Westerton, Bridge of Allan.-2. Anderson, Robert, Esq., A.R.S.A., an engraver and water-colour artist.-24. Ansdell, Richard, Esq., R.A., the well-known animal painter.-20 Ashbrook, Emily Theophila, Viscountess.-9. Aylmer, Michael, Esq., of Courtown, Boteler, Captain John Harvey, R N.; Cotton, General Corbet, Col. 1st Bat talion Royal Munster Fusiliers.-30. Coffin, Dr. Robert Aston, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark.-6. Cremorne, Anne Elizabeth Emily, Dowager Lady.-11. Currey, the Rev. George, Master of the Charter house and Prebendary of St. Paul's.-30. De Freville, Mrs., of Hinxton Hall, Cambridge, Dent, Lady Selina, daughter of the eleventh Earl of Huntingdon. - 22. Duncan, the Hon. Lady, widow of Captain the Hon. Sir Henry Duncan, R N.-7. Eden, John, Esq, of Beamish Park, county Durham, J.P. and D.L.-4. Giles - Puller, Arthur, Esq, M.A., of Youngsbury, Heits, J.P.-31. Hales, Miss Mary Barbara, of Halesplace, Canterbury.-18. Hamilton, the Hon. Margaret Frances Florence, daughter of thirteenth Viscount Dillon.-19. Harvey, Colonel C. E., Royal Engineers.-G. Hawes, William, Esq., chairman of Council of the Society of Arts. Innes, Surgeon - General Francis William, M.D., C. B.-23. Kingston, Alfred, Esq., Ass. Keeper of Public Records, distinguished in antiquarian circles.-23. Knatchbull, Lieut -General Reginald E., R A., Bengal Artillery.- 12. Knox, Mrs. Arthur, daughter of late Right Hon. Denis Daly, M. P., of Dunandi -24. Lance, the Rev. John E., Rector of Buckland St. Mary, near Chard. Landers, General John Edmonstoune, late of the Bengal Infantry.-6. Leeson, Sir William E., Genealogist of the Order of St. Patrick.-21. Lincoln, the Very Rev. J. W. Blakes- Murray, General Freeman, formerly Primrose, Colonel the Hon. Everard Pring, Mr. Justice Ratcliffe, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Quin, Lady Edith Wyndham, daughter of the late Earl of Dunraven.-10. Rees, the Rev. Dr.. President of the Congregational Union of Englaud and Wales; author of the "History of Nonconformity in Wales," &c.-29. Richards, Brinley, Esq, musician and composer. Rigby, Major-General Christopher Thursby, Lieut. Colonel Richard Lesher, Thomas Neville, Esq., for Hasel, late Coldstream Guards.-5. merly II.M. Chargé-a'Affaires at Hayti.-18. Vaughan, Henry Halford, Esq., formerly Professor of Modern History at Oxford.-19. Weguen, Thomas Mathias, Esq., J.P, late M.P. for Wolverhampton.-5. Wells, Lady Mary Elizabeth, wife of MAY. Sarah Ayliner, Sir Arthur Fercy, twelfth -21. Chaine, James, Esq., of Ballycraigy, County Antrim, M.P. fur that county.-4. Chambers, Harriet, the widow of Dr. Gainsborough, Countess of, daughter of Robert, third Earl of Roden. Galloway, Countess Dow., daughter of sixth Duke of Beaufort.-25. Gray, the Rev. Robert, Hon. Canon of Chester.-19. Harding, Lady Grizilda Arne, widow of Lieutenant-General Sir George J. Harding, K.C.B.-20. Harris, Captain William, formerly of the 16th Lancers -5 Hay, Sir Robert, eighth Baronet, of Smithfield and Hagstoun.-0. Hepburn, Lieut -Colonel Archibald Buchan, Bengal Staff Corps.—10. Hodge, Lady Lucy Anne, wife of General Sir Edward Hodge.-2. Homrigh, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Plunket Van, Queen's Royals and 36th Regiments -11. Huntingdon, the Right Hon. Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings, thirteenth Earl of.-20. Innes, General James Charles, late of the Bengal Army.-5. Jerrold, Evelyn, son of the late Blanchard Jerrold.-23. Jones, John, the chairman of the City Bank (Limited). Lofthouse, Mrs. Mary, a member of the Royal Water-Colour Soc.-2. Ozzard, Colonel Albert Henry, Royal Marines; commanded the Marines at ouakim.-16. Peel, Xavier De Castanos Royds, Esq., of Donant, Pembroke.-29. Polwhele, General Thomas, of the Bengal Army.-23. Reid, Sir John Rae, third Baronet, formerly Captain 16th Foot.-7. Skinner, Allan Maclean, Q.C., formerly Recorder of the Royal borough.-23. Tatton, Thomas William, Esq., of Vesey, Colonel Charles Vesey Colt- JUNE. Armstrong, Colonel Frederic Macnaghten, C.B.—22. Arnott, James Moncrieff, Esq., a past President of the Royal College Benedict, Sir Julius, musical comof Surgeons. poser and conductor.-5. Biore, the Rev. Edward William, M.A., Vice Master of Trinity Coll., Cambridge.-24. Byron, Colonel William Gerard, 2nd Batt. King's Royal Rifle Corps. Conolly, General James, C.B.-22. Conway, General Thomas Sydenham, C.B.-7. Coventry, Captain Henry Amelius Beauclerk, KLOwn as a gentleman rider.-29. Douglas, Sir George Henry Scott, fourth Bobet. Fane, Major-General Walter, C.B., Gethin, Sir Richard, seventh Baronet, late of Percy Mount, Sligo.-11. Gosling, General William Clarke Francis, late of Madras, K.A. 14. Gunning, the Rev. Sir John, 'ourth Macfarlane, James, Esq., a Scottish daughter of third Earl of Dart- Baronet, J.P. and D L., 1ormerly M.P. for East Norfol8.-7. Stransham, Eliza, wife of General Sir Anthony Blaxland, K.C.B.-19. Tempest, Lord Ernest M'Donnell Vane.-13. Jenkin, Professor Fleeming, Professor Lee-Warner, the Rev. Henry James' Legge, Lady Georgiana Caroline, fifth Stracey, Sir Henry Josius, sixth of Engineering in the University of M.A., Hon. Canon of Norwich.Edinburgh.-12. 10. Kitson, James, Esq.. of Leeds, founder of the Monkbridge and other ironworks.-30. Liddell, the Hon. ir Adolphus Frederic Octavius, Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department.-29. Mackie, Robert Bownas, Esq., of St. John's House, Wakefield, M.P. for that town.-18 Madden, Lieutenant-Colonel Travers Dodgson, Bengal Staff Corps.-12. Malet, the Rev. William Wyndham, Vicar of Ardeley, Stevenage, Herts.-12. Milman, Sir William, third Baronet, Rouch, the Rev. Frederick, Minor of Littlebourne. Alexander, Major William, late 10th Bartlett, Major-General Henley T., Brady, Captain Maziere Kyle, of the Tod, late Madras R. A.-14. De Hamel, Felix John, late Solicitor the Grenadier Guards.-13. 30. Miles, Major-General Charles W., -14. Robinson. Serjeant James, Q.C., First Serj.-at-Law, Ireland.-1. Allan, Colonel Grant, late of 12th of Berkeley, the Rev. William Comyns, horticulturist-1. Bart.-17. Cuyler, Sir Charles Henry Johnes, Rector of Wilby, Norfolk.-14. Muspratt, James Randall, B.C.S., Potts, Robert, Esq., M.A., Trinity Puckle, Major-General James, late of Purton, Thomas Pardoe, Esq., J.P., Thompson, Major-General Richard Walsh, Frederick William, one of the Wigan, Horace, Esq., an actor and Wigram, William Knox, Esq., of EXPENDITURE OF THE METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD. The report of the Asylums Board, 1885, shows an increased expenditure, and deals with the subject as a whole. From it we learn that, although an enormous amount of money was spent, infectious disease had increased, and proceeded on very much the same lines as heretofore. Indeed, the entire policy of the Metropolitan Asylums Board seems to have been based on the idea of providing everything for an emergency, with which the Board was unable to cope when it arose, instead of providing for average requirements, accompanied by elastic arrangements that could grasp all the necessities of an epidemic when it occurred. In support of this statement the report refers to a number of striking facts. Taking the years from 1880 to 1884, the capacity of the hospitals and average number of beds occupied was as follows: Again, in the year ending Michaelmas, 1884, when there was an epidemic of smallpox, the hospitals were barely one-half full, and yet accommodation for another 512 was added at Winchmore-hill. According to the official statement of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, the cost per head per day of the hospitals, for the year ending Michaelmas, 1884, was:-Eastern, 138. 9d.; South-Western, Es. 1d.; Western, 15s. 1d.; South-Eastern, 13s. 2d.; North-Western, 118. 10d.; Plaistow, 118 5d.; ships, Ss. 4d.; Darenth Camp, 5s. A comparison of the relative cost of the maintenance of officers and patients per day also brings out some curious results : In 1884, with an average number of 1331 patients, there appears to have been an excessive number of officers employed. The discrepancies in the various hospitals of the cost of maintaining patients and officers is, the report observes, not only very remarkable but very suggestive. It is extremely questionable, it proceeds, whether the Local Government Board would have allowed such a state of things to exist in any workhouse or district school. It appears that the increase of expenditure in the year ended Lady Day, 1884, as compared with the corresponding period of 1880, was £187,000. The amount of the calls made upon the several unions and parishes for the year ending Michaelmas, 1884, was £454,302, while for the half-year to Lady Day of the present year the amount was £325,661. Against this alarmingly increasing expenditure, the committee contend that the number of patients under treatment bears no proportion whatever, the average number for the years 1883 and 1884 being 503 and 904 respectively. The report deals with other apparent irregularities on the part of the managers, and, reviewing the operations of the Board from its commencement, the committee concludes that the results are eminently unsatisfactory. There has, they allege, been an enormous expenditure on large establishments which were far in excess of the requirements for pauper cases, and, though they are used to a great extent for non-pauper cases, for which they were never intended, are far from full. The management has evidently been unsound in principle and most lavish in cost-as an example, the introduction of electric lighting into these establishments. Again, the expenditure of the Eastern Hospital for 1884 was £59,910, and the daily average of patients was 239. Thus the annual cost of a patient, on an average, at this hospital was about £250. As a large number of the patients were children, and as the expenditure referred to does not include rent or rates, it may be seen at a glance that the management of the Eastern Hospital was extravagant and wasteful, if not sinful. Spirits, wines, and beers were consumed in extraordinary quantities. In the last quarter of 1884 "there was said to have been consumed 1455 bottles of champagne, 970 bottles of beaune, 2571 bottles of port, 2447 of 'pint' bottles of port, besides sherry, brandy, whisky, gin, claret, and hock. There was also consumed during the same Jack-quarter of a year £85 worth of mineral waters, £116 worth of beer, and £443 worth of milk." Yet infectious diseases have increased, although the stamping out of infectious diseases in the metropolis was supposed to be one of the objects for which the Metropolitan Asylums Board was created. Erskine, the Hon James Augustine, Hincks, Sir Francis, K.C.M.G., C.B., 18. Killala, the Very Rev. William |