Foundation of the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta

" By the last received Overland Mail, we were favoured by a Correspondent with the accompanying Sketch of a very interesting ceremony in Calcutta, on September 30?the laying of the foundation-stone of a large hospital, which, when completed, will add even to the architectural beauty of the ' City of Palaces.' The ceremony was performed with Masonic Honours by the Earl of Dalhousie, the Governor-General; and we are happy to be enabled to commemorate the event by a view of the spectacle, accompanied by a portrait of his Lordship. The site of the new building is a large plot of ground due east of the Medical College. The visitors began to arrive about an hour before the appointed time 5 o'clock in the evening. Among them were Majors-General Sir J. H. Littler and Dudley Hill, Bishop Wilson, the Hon. Mr. Bethune, the Hon. Mr. Millett, Mr. H. M. Elliot, Mr. Halliday, Mr. Bushby, and others. A quarter of an hour prior to the arrival of the Governor-General, the Brethren of the Masonic Craft marched in procession from the Medical College into the area where the ceremony was to take place, and drew up in front of the platform which was to form the basis of the corner-stone. His Lordship upon arrival was led by Mr. Longueville Clarke as Grand Marshal, and by the Hon. Mr. Bethune, Mr. Elliot, and others, to the throne in the pavilion that had been erected for the occasion, the Band playing the National Air. The Brethren of the Mystic Tie also did honour to his Lordship by a salute