The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-16 00:00:00

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.

A general court of the governors of this hospital
was held yesterday afternoon, at the London• bridge
Railway Terminus Hotel, Alderman Sir John Mus-
grove in the chair, for the purpose of considering
and determining on a site for the new hospital
building.
The minutes of the Grand Committee, held on
June 23 last, containing, amongst others, the report
of the conference between the deputation from this
hospital and Bethlehem Hospital, pursuant to the
resolution of a previous general court, and the com-
munications which had taken place with the Metro-
politan Board of Works relative to the site at Stan-
gate, were read and confirmed. The minutes which
suggested subsequent committee meetings relative
to the question of site, the substance of which has
been already published, were also read and con-
firmed.

The report of the Grand Committee of July 14,
which recommended that power should be given to
them to purchase either the Stangate site for
£lOO,OOO, or &thethem Hospital, as they in their
discretion should decide, subject to the approval of
the governors, was then read.
The CHAIRMAN moved the reception and adop
tion of the report, observing that it was open to
Mr. Adams, who had given notice of a motion for
the purchase of the Surrey Gardens, to move it as
an amendment.
Major LYON proposed an amendment that t.he
' committee have power to conclude a bargain loarrifiae
purchase of the land opposite the Houses of r
meat, provided the sum did not exceed £90,000.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHREY hoped The grand
would not agree to the amendment.
o the meeting
thought best under
committee would do what they
th
to Bethlehem and
the circumstances. If they wentraised to £200,000 ;
offered £175,00U, it might be
and if, after taking that coarse, the committee next
rks
treatA with the Board of Wo for Stangate, they
that, as they had
offered
would probably be told
the price of the l
£175,000 for Bethl
wa ehooerlend at
s £l2O, .
Stangate meeting would
Mr. GRAY hoped toe _ agree to the
ir. Alderman liumphre.) ,
suggestion of 1% and reject
the amendment.
dment was then put and negatived,
The smen only
it, and the resolution
three supporting .
lOn was carried,
39 governors havingheld up their hands in its
favour.
This concluded the principal business for which
the meeting was convenee,.

THE AurnortsiliP OF U n
NCLE i01,1'13 CABIN
,c wo don't believe this story"(n y more than Little
P
Paul Dombey believed Mrs. Pi chainh's apologise afbomnt the
Mad Bull) as told by Mr. Malet in is,, Errand from the
South," upon the authority of one Dr. Harrill. He (Dr.
Harrill) was at Castleton in 1864. Dr. Howe was there,
anda Mr. Hall was at Prospect Hill, near White Hill.
These gentlemen were friends of the family of Mrs. Beecher
Stowe, who was left badly off. This lady had travelled in
the South, where few Northerners ever go, except it bo to
settle there ; she had written notes about the slaves. judge
Howe concluded, as an abolitionist and universalist, to
make out a book, and employed Hall, a clever hand, to
write it. He called it Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a fiction on
the said notes ; it was agreed to bring it out under Mrs.
Beecher Stowe's name. Hall was to be paid for writing,
and Judge Howe was to give Mrs. Beecher Stowe part of
the profit ',which immensely exceeded all their expectations,
and proved fortunes to them both. A conscientious
Methodist minister in the same district, feeling that false
impressions would be made by the book, wrote a pamphlet
to counteract it ; but he was threatened with dismissal from
his congregation, and the pamphlet was quashed."
SIIICIDE.—On Tuesday a gentleman named
Weber, engaged in lousiness in Liverpool, shot him-
self through the head at his house in Grassendale-park.
He had betrayed symptoms of insanity, and was watched,
but availed himself of the mometary absence of his attend-
ant to commit the act.