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 publi'shed, were also read and con-
firmed.

The report of the Grand Committee of Silly 14,
which recommended that power should be given to
them to purchase either the Stangate site for
£lOO,OOO, or Bethelhem 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 the
committee have power to conclude a bargain for the
purchase of the land opposite the Houses of Parlia-
ment, provided the sum did not exceed £90,000.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHREY hoped the meeting
would not agree to the amendment. The grano
committee would do what they thought beat under
the circumstances. If they went to Bethlehem and
offered £175,000, it might be raised to £200,000;
and if, after taking that course, the committee next
treated with the Board of Works for Stangate, they
would probably be told that, as they had offered
£175,000 for Bethlehem, the price of the land at
Stangate was £120,000.
Mr. GRAY hoped the meeting would agree to the
suggestion of Mr. Alderman Humphrey, and reject
the amendment.

The amendment was then put and negatived, only
three supporting it, and the resolution was carried,
39 governors having held up their hands in its
favour.
This concluded the principal business for which
the meeting was convened.

THE AUTHORSHIP OF UNCLE Tom's CABIN
' We don't believe this story" (any more than Little
Paul Dombey believed Mrs. Pipchin's apologia about the
Mad Bull) as told by Mr. Malet in his "Errand from the
South," upon the authority of one Dr. Harrill. lie (Dr.
Harrill) was at Castleton in 18,64. Dr. Howe was there,
and a Mr. Hall was at Prospect Hill, near White Hill
These gentlemen were friends of the family of Mrs. Beecher
Stowe, who was loft badly off. This lady had travelled in
the South, where few Northerners ever go, except it be to
settle there; she had written notes about the slaves. judge
Howe concluded, as an abolitionist and universalist, to
it was sgrecd to bring it out under Mrs
make out a book, and employed Hall, a clever hand, to
r conscientious
write it. lie called it . 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a fiction
on
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the :aid notes ;
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to
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with dismissal from
the profits,Which immensely exceeded all their expect • c''
and proved fortunes to them both.
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impressions would be made by the
hie congregation, and the pamphlet tMoectoll;antieBrtarnctinitis;
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quashed."
SUICIDE.—°n Tuesday a
gentleman
Weber, engaged in business in
Liverpool, shot him-
selfnamed
through the head at his house ie
had betrayed symptoms of insanity,in Grassendale-park.
lie
but availed himself of the tame and was watched,
monetaryabsence of his attend •
ant to commit the act.