you that the receipts nearly covered the
expenditure. The fixed income, however, can only be put down at
L1200 or L1300 a year, and the authorities of the hospital, to
carry it on successfully and to keep it out of debt, have to
collect annually between L4000 and L5000.

"I think every Englishman and every foreigner will agree as to
the necessity for a hospital founded as this is. We who are
Englishmen must all feel what a terrible position we should be
in if we found ourselves weary and sick in a country where it
was impossible to make ourselves understood. When, therefore, we
are told that in this London of ours all who speak German are
instantly admitted to this institution, we can readily imagine
the enormous benefits which foreigners and Germans especially
derive from it. There are, I am told, as many as 50,000 Germans
living in London, many of whom have to work in unhealthy trades,
such as sugar-baking. They are mostly confined indoors all day
long, and, but for this hospital, they would not know where to
go to find comfort and succour.

"A great merit, in my mind, of this institution is that it is a
free one. It is not at all necessary to obtain a letter of
recommendation before admission. Sick people have only to
present themselves there and speak German to insure that the
doors will be immediately thrown open to them, and that they
will be tended and cared for in the most admirable manner. The
nurses there are all trained in Elizabethan-stift at Darmstadt,
and they do their work admirably under the care of the excellent
chaplain (Dr. Walbaum), who has taken so deep an interest in the
welfare of the hospital. They are thus found most important to
the working of the hospital.

"As so many Englishmen derive benefit from the institution, I am
sure I can appeal to my fellow-countrymen to do all in their
power, and I ask the company generally to see if they cannot
collect a sum larger than on any previous occasion. At the last
annual dinner, at which the Duke of Cambridge presided, a sum of
L500 in excess of any former collection was obtained, and I hope
to-night we may even exceed the sum subscribed then. I may tell
you that a distinguished guest among us to-night, Baron von
Diergadt, of Bonn, sent us a few years ago the magnificent
donation of L10,000. I do not