The Great Northern Hospital.

THE GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL .

Trtrs admirable , but ive fear insufficiently known , institution is situated close to the railway terminus at King ' s Cross , in an exceedingly populous and also a very poor neig hbourhood . It has been tho means during the few years of its existence of effecting an amount of good which cannot , but be considered remarkable when its limited resources are taken into consideration . From its propinquity to the cattle market and [ tho Great

Northern Railway it affords a ready resource in numerous cases of accident ; but its principal value is found in the relief which it dispenses daily to a vast number of the sick poor , who would otherwise be deprived entirel y of medical assistance . At the hospital every day in the week are to be found some of the most eminent members of the medical profession , generously devoting their valuable time for the good of their suffering fellow creatures ,

by whom their services are most gratefully appreciated . We regret to be compelled to add that , hitherto , the public has not given to the hospital that support which it deserves ; and indeed it has more than once been ou the point of closing its doors for want of the necessary funds to pay the current expenses . Strenuous efforts are now being made by a few benevolent individuals to place the institution on a firmer footing ; and as a means to

this end Miss Annie Goddard has generously undertaken to give a concert at St . Martin ' s Hall on the 31 st instant , the entire profits of which are to be given to the hospital . To say nothing of the excellence of the object , ivhich in itself ought to prove an attraction , Miss Annie Goddard has secured the most eminent artists in London for the occasion , and ive trust our brethren will do what they can to support her in her good work .

A CHINESE LIUP . ART . —If it had not boon for the strangely shaped furniture , the odd arrangement of all tho objects , the foreign character of the paintings , and the whimsical distribution of tho books , we might have fancied ourselves suddenly transported into the sanctum of a bibliomaniac or antiquarian of our own country . The man himself was as greedy of rare smoke dried editions and Chinese Elzevirs as the most rapacious specimen of tho class could be , iu his own way , amongst ourselves . The windows of the cabinet of Pan-so-Chen open upon a pretty court ; the graceful boughs of tho weeping willows find their way almost into the very

asylum of learning , and the birds who nest in tho gray foliage are uot afraid to peck at the furniture and the dusty bookshelves . A table of some very dark wood stands in the middle of the apartment , upon which are ranged the implements necessary for the labours of the intelligent proprietor—the . bamboo pencil of marten's hair , the writing paper , and the inkstand cut in agate , of the shape of a lotus-leaf , upon which rests a stick of Indian ink gilt in strange characters . Paper-clips of marble and precious stone , representing gods , animals , or fantastic

flowers , serve to keep together pencil sketches and scattered notes . Pan-se-Chen told us there was not one of these beautifully executed articles which was of a less , antiquity than a hundred years . The capacious easy chair of tho studious man is made of a black , shining wood , and no soft cushion covers the elegantly shaped seat . The cabinet is oblong in form ; on one side are the bookshelves , on tho other the walls are covered with magnificent drawings aud gigantic hieroglyphics , — Inside Canton ; by Doctor Yvan , 3 R