The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIG-ENCE. I". Thomas's Hoof London. sital and the Corporation
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AMERICA.
Per the Nova Scotian, via Greencastle.
NEW YORK, FEE. 6, 3 P.M.

(By Telegraph to Portland.)

The Nashville Union says that the Federal army
has crossed the Tennessee River near Larkins-
villa, and surmises that its object may be to at-
tack Rome, Georgia.
The Judge of the Admiralty Court at Halifax
has decided to restore the Chesapeake and cargo
to the owners, subject to conditions respecting
the payment of such expenses as the Attorney-
General may exact.

The Attorney-General demands a surety against
latent claims, but the owners of the Chesapeake
demur to this.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(Per the Nova Scotian via Greencastle.)
NEW YORK, FEB. 6, 3 P. 31.

Money easy. Gold, 587 per cent premium.
Stocks firm and advancing, market very excited.
New York Centrals, 1337; Illinois, 132; Erie, 111 ;
6 per Cent. United States Bonds, 1077.
All other markets unchanged.

THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 17.

The Government have published the regula-
tions for the blockade of the ports of the enemy.
Count Hamilton, Swedish Minister at Copen-
hagen, has been summoned to Stockholm to con-
sult with his Government.

The enemy in Sandbjerg, and the Danes in
Boehave, fired at each other across the Sound
without Lffdct.

REPORT OF GENERAL VON GABLENZ,
VIENNA, FEB. 15.

The following is an extract from a report by
General von Gablenz, commanding the Austrian
troops in Schleswig. The report is dated :

" Austrian Headquarters, Froerup, Feb. 10.

"After the engagement at Oversee upon the 6th,
and the exhaustive marches attendant upon the
pursuit to Flensburg, in the most trying season of
the year, it became necessary to grant the troops a
few days of rest, and to bring them under shelter
after several days of bivouac.
" The Prussian Gaards division was to advance
towards Apenrade on the 9th, at the same time
occupying Gsvenstein, to reconnoitre Dilppel from
that point. The quarters in Flensburg, vacated by
this movement, will be occupied by troops of the
6th Corps.

" Since the last engagements the public feeling
in Schleswig is enthusiastic for Austria and the
Imperial army. It was intended by the inhabitants
of Flensburg to prepare a festive reception for the
Austrian troops.

" Seven waggons were sent from Kiel with re-
freshments fur the Imperial troops and the head-
quarters, and supplies were also forwarded to the
headquarters by the Hamburgers.
" The rural population, in spite of its apparent
phlegmatic apathy, is willing to give assistance.
The peasants were especially kind to the numbers
of wounded, who were at first necessarily left without
sufficient aid, as the medical establishment and field
hospitals, left behind in the positions before theDan-
newerke, were unable to follow the extraordinarily
rapid advance of the troops with the requisite speed.
The wounded are now partly under careful treat-
ment in Nowmiluster, partly in Rendsburg and
Schleswig. In the latter town the establishments
have been given into the care of civilians. Professor
Esmareb, of the Kiel University, with all the sur-
geons of that institution, hastened to Schleswig,
and undertook the surgical treatment of the sufferers
with as much readiness as skill. Saxon surgeons
have also arrived from Rendsburg, where 15 of
their number had volunteered for service in the
hospitals. The superintending staff-surgeon of the
army corps has further made arrangements for the
engagement of civilian hospital nurses, and the
arrival of field-hospital No. 12 is daily expected in
Schleswig.

" The spirit of the troops, in spite of all their
hardships, remains excellent. The men bear fatigue
cheerfully and without a murmur, and look forward
to the coming engagement with courage and hope.
They have shown themselves, without exception,
worthy of the confidence placed in them.
" Atter the engagement at Oversee, the com-
mander of the corps remarked touching instances of
military comradeship. He met imperial soldiers
carrying a wounded Dane, while a few steps further
on were encountered Danish prisoners carrying
wounded Austrians.
"Snow has fallen incessantly for the last three
days, and it is to be apprehended that the commu-
nication, already greatly obstructed, will be entirely
interrupted in places by the heavy drifts."

IMPORTANT NOTE OF AUSTRIA AND
PRUSSIA,

VIENNA, FEB. 18 (Morning).

The Presse of to-day says :—" A note of the
Great German Powers to the minor States declare
that they do not recognise the necessity of a federal
reserve being stationed in Holstein. Should such
a want arise the Great Powers would place at the
disposal of the Diet a sufficient reserve for execu-
tion purposes."

SPAIN.

MADRID, FEB. 17.

. The Madrid papers announce that a bill has been
introduced in the Cortes authorising credit opera-
tions on the guarantee of the bonds given by the
purchasers of national property.

On Tuesday a special general court of the
governors of St, Thomas's Hospital was held at the
Terminus Hotel, London Bridge, Alderman Sir
John Musgrove, the president, in the chair, to take
into consideration a matter in which they have been
brought into collision with the Court of Common
Council in reference to a proceeding about to be in-
stituted in the Court of Chancery, at the instance of
the corporation, touching the future site of the hos-
pital. The summons stated that the court of
governors was convened to receive a report of the
recent act of the Court of Common Council in using
the seal of the Royal hoTihils without the authori.y
of the governors, and in disregard of the formalities
required by the Act of Parliament, and to authorise
such proceedings as might be necessary to protect
the rights of the governors.
It appears that by an act 22d Geo. 111., c. 77,
passed in 1782, and which embodied an agreement
entered into between the corporation and the pre-
sidents, treasurers, and acting governors of the
Royal hospitals, St. Thomas's among the rest, for
their management, it was provided that the seai of
the several hospitals should be kept by the Cham-
berlain of London for the time being, and that all
leases, deeds, and other instruments relating to the
hospital or their estates, revenues, or possessions,
after the same should have been examined and
signed by the presidents and treasurers and a com-
petent number of the aldermen and other governors,
should be left at the Chamberlain's office from time
to time for the seal to be affixed, with a docquot or
writing explaining their purport, won which
such documents should be sealed in the next
Court of Aldermen or of Common Council which
should first happen, without any reading, addition,
examination, or alteration of the same. That being
so the Court of Common Council, without the
knowledge of the rest of the governors of the hos-
pital, affixed the seal of the hospital, at a recent
meeting to a retainer to Mr. Nelson, the City
Solicitor, to carry into execution the powers vested
in the governors by the St. Thomas's Hospital Act,
and they empowered him to make such application
to the High Court of Chancery in the matter of the
site as he should deem necessary or expedient.
This act on the part of the corporation appears to
have given umbrage to the rest of the governing
body, and at meetings of the grand committee of the
hospital, held on the 26th of January and the 12th
of February, resolutions were passed expressive of
regret that recourse should have been had to
it, and stating that it is subversive of the constitu-
tion of the Royal Hospitals, as settled and esta-
blished by law. The solicitor to the hospital, Mr.
Wainwright, has also been instructed to take such
stops as in the opinion of counsel are necessary and
proper, not only for rendering the unauthorised
proceeding of the Common Council nugatory, but
also for maintaining unimpaired the rights an
privileges heretofore enjoyed by the hospitals unthr
the act of 1782.

After the minutes of the grand committee had
been read,
Dr. LEESON moved a resolution to the effect that
the Court desired to express its full concurrence in
the views of the committee in reference to the pro-
ceeding of the Common Council, and authorised the
committee to take such steps as, in the opinion
of counsel, were necessary to protect the gover-
nors and to maintain the rights and privi-
leges of the hospital, under the statute of Geo. 111.
He also moved that Mr. Wainwright, the solicitor
of the hospital, be directed on behalf of the gayer-
nors,to give notice to the charity commissioners of the
proceeding which counsel had advised to be taken,
and to apply for the commissioners' warrant to
authorise such proceedings. He said that while
they were in apparent opposition to the City of
London, they all felt that it was not the Corporation
of London as a whole, hut a certain party in it, who
were taking steps in regard to the hospital which
were objectionable to the views of the general body
of the governors. A very erroneous opinion pre-
vailed that the hospital was indebted to the Corpo-
ration for a great part of its funds. In a report of
the charity commissioners a full account was given
of the disputes which in times gone by arose
between the corporation and the donation governors,
and which were supposed to be amicabiy settled by
the act of 1782. Now, however, the donation
governors were much in the position of the Danes
in relation to Schleswig-Holstein, for an attempt
was made to set the treaty aside, and it now be-
came a question whether this Royal Hospital was
to be governed solely by the corporation, or whether
the corporation was to be associated, as heretofore,
in its government .by a number of large-hearted
men of great experience and independent means.
Mr. STEWART, a member of the Common Council,
denied that the seal had been clandestinely affixed
to the retainer by the Court of Common Council,
and be questioned that they were precluded by the
terms of the act from doing it in the manner they did.
It had been imputed that it was the act of a clique
in the Common Council, but he denied that any such
clique existed. The corporation of London believed
that the hospital was about to be re-erected in a
wrong place; and all that they wanted to do es
governors was to prevent that, in the public inte-
rest. There was a long list of noble-minded citizens
who from time to time had given immense sums of
money towards the endowment of that and other
of the royal hospitals ; and the corporation, as the
representatives of these men and in their own right
as governors, were only desirous of doing their duty
before the world in this important trest, and had
no sinister parpose to serve.
The PRESIDENT, in reply to Mr. Maudslay, said
he believed the seal affixed to the document in ques-
tion was the seal of all the Royal hospitals.
A GOVERNOR contended that by the statute the
Common Council were limited to a ministerial act
simply, and had no deliberative power, inasmuch as
they were required to seal even without reading.

Dr. LEESON said that this WdS the first occasion
on which the seal of the hospital had been in used.

After acme further conversation, in which Mr.
Alderman Salomons, Mr. Johnson (the treasurer of
Bridewell Hospital), and other governors took part,
the resolution was put and carried with few, if any,
dissentients, and the court adjourned.

ROYAL COLOSSEUM.—Our readers, although
Familiar with the prefix " iast season," to the an-
nouncements of this famous institution for some months
past, will scarcely be prepared to realise the fact that it is
no longer one of the sights of London, There are all sorts
of rumours prevalent with respect to it. Some go to the
length of demolition, others, on the contrary, speak of
entire renovation, with new and special entertainments under
the entire direction of the untiring acting managerMr,Ni In mo.
Nothing, however, is yet possibly known as to the future,
but it is to be hoped that an establishment which has
afforded so much delight and gratification to many thou-
sands of our counrry folks and foreigners may be preserved
for the greater number who knew it only by report, and
cannot possibly realise the great interest which it possesses.
With the disappearance of the Colosseum London will pre-
sent one feature the less.'

THE WAR IN DENMARK,—Mr. Bentinck will, on
Monday next, ask the President cf the Board of
£rade " whether her Majesty's Government have re •
ceived any confirmation of a statement which has ap-
peared in the public journals, to the effect that the Prussian
authorities in Schleswig have extinguished all the coast
lights in that locality on the shores of the Baltic ; and, if so,
whether British shipping will not be exposed to great in-
convenience and risk in consequence of that proceeding ;
and whether, in the opinion of her Majesty's Government,
each a proceeding is in accordance with the usages of civi-
lised wartare, in cases where the safety of neutral vessels
is thereby compromised•','

THE CONCIERGE OF PARTS.—The privileged of
the concierge are bearable. Let hica take the biggest
log when you are suppliedd-with half a lead of wood. You
pay him the expected gratification when you return home
after midnight.„You cannot help the friendship that springs
up between him and your cook. He must know when the
price of peaches is low enough for your pocket, and that
you quarrelled with the cobbler over his charge for mend-
ing your shoes. Every detail of your contract with the
traiteur is his property. You drink Bordeaux at 25 sous
the litre, and he knows it; and it is only when you have
friends you go even as far as Beaune. The fowls are too dear
in the market to- ay for Madame; the cook has told him so
with a toss of the head ; and he holds that are bier Feu de
chose. A friend out at elbow has paid you a visit, and went
out arm-in-armwith you, and tu-toied you. The landlord
has called three times for his rent. It is the privilegeot the
concierge to be posted up in the doing of the back eta:rea, 4e,
You and of the front staircase, of your establishment. tur-
nish Sunday afternoon conversation to hini and his friends.
—Once a Week.