Summary Of News For May.

tired by 319 against 219 , giving a majority of 100 to Ministers . The House now stands adjourned for the Whitsun holidays . BENEVOLENT . A Festival was held ? . t the Albion on the 2 nd , to celebrate the opening of the new wing of King's College Hospital . Mr . Sidney Herbert , in tho absence of Lord

Palmorston presided . It appears that in the year 1854 , there were entered on the books 27 , 094 patients ; anel since the year 1839 , when the hospital was first opened , no less than 282 , 705 patients have been admitted to the benefits of the charity , of whom 17 , 943 were in-patients , 259 , 235 out-patients , aud 5 , 527 poor married women attended at their own homes . The annual subscriptions only amount to about £ 1500 , whilst tho expenses exceed £ 5000 . The subscriptions of the evening were nearly £ 3000 .

The Anniversary Festival of St . Mary's Hospital was held the same day , Viscount Ebrington presiding . He stated that the patients attended last year were 9140 , and the total number since the opening in 1851 , 26 , 078 . The subscriptions of the evening amounted to about £ 1500 . A Meeting was held at AVillis ' s Rooms on the Sth , to inaugurate a new society , tmdsr the title of " The Soldiers' Infant Home , " the object of which is to clothe , maintainaud educate the infant daughters of soldiers .

, On the l-lfcli , the Anniversary Festival of the Roj'al Orthopaedic Hospital , established for the cure of club foot , lateral curvature of the spine , & c , was held—the most noble the Marquis of AVestminster in the chair . The total income for 1854 amounted to £ 2724 15 s . llci , and tho expenditure to £ 2044 11 * . Id ., leaving in band a balance of £ 81 is . id . The subscriptions announced at the festival amounted to £ 2100 . The Festival of the Royal Literary Fund was held on the 22 nd , and £ 800 added to the funds .

The Annual Prizes to the Girls , who , haying been educated in the St . Ann s Asylum , have conducted themselves well , were delivered at AVillis ' s Rooms on the 25 th by the Bishop of Bath and Wells . Amongst those receiving prizes was Miss Fanny Souteiy the newly-elected school-mistress of the Royal Freemasons' Girls ' School—a situation which she obtained in consequence of the high certificate she holds from the Government Examiners . The Annual Meeting of the Cambrid lumthe onlpermanent home for

ge Asy , y soldiers ' , widows , was held on the 26 th . Br . Leeks , the Hon-. Sec . read the report , which stated that the number of widows now in the asylum was 21 , and that 14 rooms still remained unfurnished ; 10 of these would shortly be required for as many widows of soldiers who had fallen iii the Russian war ; a special election of whom had been advertised . It was also stated that the Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund had undertaken to provide the means of sustaining four other widows , to be nominated

hy them , in tho Asylum , and hopes were expressed that the liberality of the public would soon enable the committee to complete the building . The Annual Meeting of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear , was held at the Board-room in Dean-street , Soho-square ; the Rev . T . Davis Lamb in the chair . The Secretary read the report , from which we give the following extracts : — " To provide a source available for the industrious classes , this useful and excellent Institution was established in 1 S 1 G , under the patronage of their late Majesties George IV . and

William IA ., and the object of this Institution is the Cure of Deafness , Discharges , Noises in the Head and Ears , and other distressing diseases of a kindred nature , generally incapacitating the poorer classes from pursuing their avocations . This valuable Institution has been in active operation for 40 years . During the past year 1410 patients have been admitted on the books ; 371 have been cured ; 300 have been relieved , consisting of clerks in offices , needlewomen , domestic servants , artizans , soldiers , sailors , distressed foreigners , and police , who have received advice and assistance from the surgeon , AVilliam Harvey , Esq . " The report then sets forth the more prominent causes of Deafness which are indeed numerous and such as do not occur to the mere casual observer . The various resolutions were moved , of thanks to the nobility .