&c., the history of St. Katharine's Hospital, a wealthy foundation
(its income will before long exceed £12,000), which was originally situated in the East End of London, but which, on the construction of St.
Katharine's Docks, was removed to the Regent's Park. His object is to
plead for a restoration of the foundation to its original purpose, from which of late years it has wholly drifted, and which certainly included the con-
ferring of benefits upon tho locality in which it was first placed. Mr. Lea
abstains from mak ing d efinite euggestions, but he establishes his point. The foundation is one of the very few which escaped annihilation or change when Henry VIIt was laying hands on charitable property, and it i8 peculiarly desirable that it should be made to serve the objects for which it came into existence. Nor should this be mado at all more diffi- cult by the personal patronage which the Sovereign commonly exercises in the matter.
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