The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, W EDNESDAY EVENING, JAN UAIIY 21, 1863

GEOLOGY.—KING'S COLLEGE, London.—
Professor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a
COURSE OF LECTURES, on GEOLOGY, on FRIDAY
MORNING NEXT, January 2:7d, at Niue o'elo.k. They
will be continued on each su, eeeding Wednesday and Friday
at the same hour. Fee, £2 12s. 6d.
R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal.

INDEMNITY MUTUAL MARINE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,

36, GREAT INCIIESTER-STREET.

FIRST EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT OF

PROPRIETORS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the BOARD of
DIRECTORS of the INDEMNITY MUTUAL MARINE
ASSURANCE COMPANY do hereby call and appoint an
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT of the PRO-
PRIETORS of the COMPANY, tote holden at the Office of
the Company, No, 35, Great Winchester-street, in the City of
London, on THURSDAY, the cth day of February, 1863, at
1 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of taking into
consideration and deciding upon the propriety of altering
the number of shares necessary to quality a shareholder for
the respective offices of Director, Auditor, or Trustee, and
reducing the same to 20 shares as the qualification for ea h
office, the present qualification being for a Director or Audi-
tor 50 shares, and for a Trus'.ee 100 shares, and also to decide
upon such alterations in the laws of the Company as may be
necessary or expedient for carrying out the above objects, or
either of them.
Dated this 16th day of January, 1863.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
FRANCIS* STEPIIENS, Secretary.

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New Zealand's Antipodean Welsh Forest-law Chief, in

MALTA•ALLIANCE A Cl 4 GREEK-PALATINE OF CHESTER,
on JULIAN O.S. I [1 01 + 19 i] v. GregQrien c x.style
meansun Calender of Papal-palmer-n-one,—cancelled.
TAX INCH-FULCRUM' OF ARCHIMEDES,
ON AMERICA'S CARIB IND'N § BALTIMOIC RATE, '42.

.arlbro'-street Coal-hole Anthrax-case,Dorr-set'ng harm,
with its L'Ell r E ka Gladiatorial Inchkeith Toga'rray.

The Telegraph of CI-alas-day states that Capt. Ackerley
claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur-
ner, and wife, agents of George Harrow), on their being
bound over to keep the peace six months, under £lO
penalty, for misdemeanour, and wilful dog offence with a
"Le micmac"-plot intent to do injury by canine agency,
on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis-
crepancy in R.c.iPolice reports, induces us to refer to this
Tark-government persecution against the plaintiff (the sup-
porter of Anglo-America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter
Banquet, 11/ years)—for holding under his Coal Hole
County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double-rent
lease, now a 20-yrs title ; forecloses ' the Wools & Forest-
law rerks'-1552 N. 8.- Chiliarcher Cowper of St. Mic. Corn-
hill's gold-key lessees' wish, by Ouster le main to regain a
Primer Seisin by getting the Captain to recognize an in-
verted tenantcy by their lessee Batchelor building-in his
Coal -hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam..
engine boiler HEAT—to effect cold-di aft ejection.—to
Tomb. ). 'Think !—every day to be thy last, .( Chandos.
For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.'
Whence papal r 29 Metropolis police act, 3-Wm. 4, c 19,
§ 15, 39, 44—gives £5 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on
"Offences against the person, &c, 24-25 Vict., cap. 100, sec.
4, 42, 67, 77--Garot-Chlorceformists, and Chester police soc:
fire-raisers" conviction, with £5 fine—recoverable against
stipendiary-justice. In King's fwan Ge-"-herd homage we
refer to this Clapham Atkins case (of City Beam Cygnorum
nostrum Swan-mote River bailiff's seaman of peaceful lake
in God's pen'umbri Game amphibious to Forest common
law—in upper X Cygni-nota night, as in ;over spirit-level
Oath Kt. mark—Rich. 2 and 3 H. 8, c 18—Dip-Swane's
" Float double so-Q-
S wan, and shads,'' _ _

Sydney-like-13 Hen. 8, in 1835-Meter act) wherein the Cap-
tain (& brother Atkins Chamberlayne, by reason of Jul, 3's
papal Pr boy Edw. 6th, Swan-herd city grants, at age 14), as
Montague kin executor of privy council by 35 H. 8, c. 1, he
being sworn trustee of Brandon and Southwark's Bethlem
Hospital Estates, now on St. James's Hall, as Q. Eliz, Park
lodge, 5 Swallow-st. & Ormond-Yard—the people's land.
The city w.end Onus shift brings back H. s's C.xhandts
under no 'British-crown' Queen's Church head 1- assump-
tion from Cardinal (John o'Gaunt's Swinford) Beaufort's
bastard niece Joan---=James I. Stuart 1424 race in Vie.
as Papal illegitima'd 1397—book'd on 1752 to Greerien
mytholog mean 6'un (non-siderial) Priests of Peru Indian,
on Ego Rex mandat', 1546.7, at 11. B's death—cancelled
in Emp. Iturbide, Pedro 1, See Post, Jan. 7, '63, p. 7,
N. f She was and is. what can there more be said ? 1 ,
I On earth the chief, in heaven the second maid.' f S.
* Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Troy-wt. from Ex-
chequer 1838 for Pope's mitre-and-key mint Conefalonier.
So, by wine City charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Besse Mayor Rose,
M.P. of Southampton (Tower Ordnance office-shift), for K.
John's Bd-tun,—was mock presented in November to Indian
Peter, Constable of the Tower—Anglo Micmac flag union
Theoeone-ic Parliament Succession oath'n., 1843 act—on
Ackerley's 1837 Siderial 'Cwt.' voice regular--whence the
CHRISTIAN HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES ELECTED PETER
by Ashburton Commission, their Antipodean Maori New
Zealand Carib'ean Pope, in 1842—by uaedal/ien-flag.
tOn Luther-set 3ty of 21-July, 1521, by Leo X and Imp.
Charles V, by Pavia'n intermediate Heligo-land supremacy
in Sydney—made the )1 S•Melita Goza r segittaLLArch'r
inch bearer. Likewise, by 30 May 1814-31's Co-partner Act,
No. 54, for 2.3 Will. 4, Caput-81, 92, 1832, (for Russian
Dutch Loan guarantee—on Submission of the Clergy and
restraint of appeals to Rome, on lack of justice—names 25
Hen. 8, c 19 and 3 Eliz. c 5), for 1863 marine link causes,
to avoid tedious suits—' now O.S. pending' for peace.
So, on Sir C. Stuart and MELLO'S Brazil S.A. election,
(witnessed in Adm. Remand and Secretary Hill Sandys),
by the 1825 Holy Alliance of Kings' abolition, the Malta
Cwsar Peru 1547 rota-crown 1829-Protector Lieut Ackerley,
zz.N, as King John's Ist Montague 'n/ kin trust, was sworn-
in aa Chief-judge, at Worcester's Crt. in Jan. 1837, by Gold
stick archer-Wm. 4 [whose Joni-k:I-daughter marries the
Captain's nephew, by 2nd-branch of Dartmouth's Slane
le Fleming Charaterlayne, in Leicester Denton Coke, Hun-
loAe gate Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fitzclarence bar'd in
heraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-hill Egerton, by Somer-
set' half-cast],—as Malcolm 111. line of Clare Lincoln-in'-
Lacy as Pala-Nen of Wales-Ireland, since 1825-37 by Holy
Alliance in Ackerley's X. mint of Chester by Indian Mary
on Law Crt-tie 1820 (2d) as the fist Civic Christian marriage
by Pomponia Gra3cina =-- Plautus, 43 A.D. edict Claudii.
" As Chester's Judge—like Owl alone
tr. c. { Hugh '4=Loop'd am I,—thy 'Braose'a one. }A' B'
¶ The same evil Isolating influence—appears to have
closed against him the doors of Junior United Service Club,
on his £4,000 Co-burn discovery fraud, and U.S. Museum
membership, for holding to his Duplex official duties, and
civil law mixed church cause (of his imprisonment at lath,
Tothill, and Merthyr Tydvil), without crime,
§ So, for a death-rid of Ackerley's Nfndland Bal-timore's
Maryland, of Car. 1.1634 Indian 2-Arrow trust on Cherokee
Nation, 1730-74's Cecil N.s• Exeter Change attaint--which
Calvin-papist Quakers Percy-Smithsonian' peculiar insti •
tution' on Can'ng's £.Rush native by Gladstone Hs. Com.'-
mittee, 1833-37-touch Georgia's Belly.g4rant-war for LIN-
coLN's last Dec. PIRATE Army word Nation.
*God's arc -s' Ofeilla' tic of pendulum in lat. 51.. 30 N. as
' the 1. 30 irr to & 'A'istoult go to like polar *declina-
tion (above 25 M.) below the pole, 29 Sept., for Poor-law
Treasury audits year, now in :: • 0. Style as /1/3road ' R.'
, anc'ver"' It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for
towns prefix /3* to 51. 30 /3ow, Bantry, gellisle, drunswie.
Mansion House 'Market,' London, 2-Jan. 21, 1863.

Great Snow-storms and Loss of Life in

Switzerland.

Accounts from Switzerland for some time past
have stated that serious interruptions to telegraphic
communication and to travelling have been caused
by the great falls of snow which have broken down
the telegraph posts and blocked up the roads. The
journals of different cantons contain many versions
of a frightful Fohn storm which occurred on the
sth, and lasted until the 7th inst., inflicting great
damage, as is usually the case when this wind
blows. Not only were roofs torn off by the dozen,
but entire houses and sheds were blown to pieces,
and the boards and other materials of which they
were composed flew about in the air like straws.
Thick trees were torn in half, or were uprooted,
and some men were killed by flying branches, or in
other ways. In Upper Toggenburg alone the da-
mage is estimated at about a million of francs. The
Like of Geneva was so much agitated that the
steamers had great difficulty in effecting their pas-
sages. On the Gotthardt and Bundner mountain
passes, the quantity of snow which fell was so great
that communication was suspended for six days.
The temperature is, however, very mild, so much
so that at Thun, about a week since, cowslips were
in blossom, and in some very sheltered spots com-
pletely developed buds were seen on the vines.
An official telegram received in Berlin, on Satur-
day, states that on the 11th inst., at Locarno, in the
canton of Tessino, the rafters of the church there
p
gave way under an immense mass of snow, when 45
women and a man were killed on the spot, and
Several other persons so seriously injured that six
haveers since
haveee
of themdied.
been Tkihleledteblyegarnamavaalisaor
estates
that 23 persons
the n
—otthardt.

The Nord says
rrßiseearoaonrothGe rauosp,:owsithiolvvitaiss
saapia-
pointed ambassador of
month ago, has not yet
be tell IGareeds as ambassador in
Franco in England more than a
Paris. This delay give: to
to his post, and is still in
diplomaticintheanother
destination,world, that Baron would gladly re-
ceiveLondoß by some one in a position to maintain good rola-
tips between France and England."

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL

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111 L E LING OF THE GOVERNORS.
Yesterday a general court of the governors of
this institution was held at the Terminus Hotel,
London-bridge, to receive the report of the Grand
Committee in reference to the permanent site of the
hospital,—Sir John Musgrove, Bart, in the chair.
The minutes of some preceding meetings of the
Grand Committee were read, including the report
of Mr. Whitfield, resident medical officer of the in-
stitution, presented to the meeting of the 16th of
January last. In this document, Mr. Whitfield
alluded to the characteristics of the several sites
offered for selection, giving the preference to
Bethlehem Hospital, to a site on the ground to be
reclaimed at the foot of Westminster-bridge, or to
the Surrey Gardens, at present occupied by the
hospital, strongly condemning the proposal of the
Fishmongers' ground at Lock's-field as one of the
very worst that could be found around London,
and considering that, as well as the Newington
ground, and Myatt's garden at Camberwell, as not
worthy of mention. In reference to the Surrey
Gardens, and the Fishmongers' ground respectively
the report remarks :
" That the Surrey Gardens would afford ample space for
the construction, as far as elevation and plan are concerned,
of a very good and spacious hospital, cannot be questioned ;
and I believe, from the nature of the surrounding property,
that more land might be easily acquired upon reasonable
terms. , ."
"The space for the construction of an hospital, with
500 or GOO beds, being sufficient, and of a tolerably uniform
shape, the several buildings could all be placed with proper
aspects. The water supply is of the same quality as in
Southwark, and is abundant. . The soil generally
throughout the gardens is gravel."
Respecting the Fishmongers' ground, the report
proceeds
I beg to record my opinion that a more unhealthy, or
a worse spot for the erection of a general hospital, could
scarcely be found anywhere round London."
Proceeding to give additional reasons for this
opinion, Mr. Whitfield mentions the " narrow
streets, covered with small houses, back sheds, and
hovels of the worst description ; costermongers'
dens, cabmen's cribs, and places for the collection of
all sorts of refuse ; also chemical works, glue, size,
and parchment factories.
" Where the refuse matter from fellmongers' yards,
stable-keepers, road scrapings, ashes, cinders, and rags,
&c., are collected, net only from the large parish of St.
Mary's, Newington, but from a large portion of London.
At these receptacles the refuse remains to be sorted, ready
to be converted into the different purposes for which it is
afterwards sold. . • . The private beadle of the dis-
trict, on my asking him if it was offensive, remarked that
frequently the stench was awful.' He also told me the
persons employed in the disgusting business in time got,
he supposed, used to it ; but that there was much sickness
in the neighbourhood.
The report further alludes to the ut.'.ealthy
businesses of various kinds carried on in th neigh-
bourhood :
" Accidents and operations would always be liable to the
fearful consequences of erysipelas, pywinia, or hospital gan-
grene. The whole of the dwellings at the back of the
Fishmongers' site are of the most squalid description.
Cholera, fevers, and all other infectious disorders are more
virulent in that locality than in any other London district.
This site is accessible from only one main line of road,
whilst the Surrey Gardens are placed between two main
lines."
Taking the Fishmongers', in conjunction with
two other sites, Mr. Whitfield observes :
"I do not think the Fishmongers' ground at Walworth,
the Newington piece of ground at the back of Kennington-
lane, or Mr. Yates's, at Camberwell (Myatt's Gardens),
worth a moment's consideration."
The minu. es having been read, and the report of
the Grand Committee, which purported to give an
account of the proceedings of that body since the
removal of the old hospital was first mooted
being taken as read,
Mr. 'rITE, M.P., recommended that, as to past
discussions, bygones should be bygones, and that
they should now only consider how and where they
cold re-establish this noble institution on a scale of
utility commensurate with its resources, and con-
sistent with its main objects. It was a misunder-
standing to suppose that the Grand Committee had
asked to take the hospital entirely out of town.
What they had asked was, to have an hospital of
moderate size in town, and a very extensive one out
of town. (A. laugh.) But the general feeling of
the public and the press appeared to be that the
proper course was to construct a great hozi :tal upon
a site as central and convenient as possib'e in the
south of London. (Hear, hear.) That was now
distinctly understood, and there could be eo differ-
ence about it. On the question of site, that site
belonging to the Board of Works, opposite the
Houses of Parliament, would present an imposing
frontage, but he (\lr. 'rite) thought it undesirable
in other important respects, and on the whole he
considered that Bethlehem Hospital, the cost of
which, as reduced, would be -1145,000, was best
fitted for the purposes of the charity. Then came
Myatt's guunds at Camberwell, of which the no-
minal cost was lower. To the Surrey Gardens he
entertained objections on the score of the drainage
of the land and the coat. The Fishmongers' land,
if they only took the eight acres, was cheaper, but
the immediate neighbourhood was a great drawback
and the property at the back of a very bad de-
scription. The Grand Committee, however, did
not propose to recommend any site in
particular, but desired that further time
should be allowed them to consider the various
sites, and report the result to a fuller court. (Hear.)
In answer to questions from several governors,
Mr. TITS denied that the managers had been ac-
tuated by any love of litigation in their transac-
tions with the railway company. The costs of law
and reference had been exaggerated in the public
press, and a portion of them was borne by the rail-
way. The hon. gentleman, in conclusion, described
the estimates given by the surveyors respecting the
value of the present site, and generally justified the
course which had been taken by the Grand Com-
mittee, and moved the adoption of their report.
Mr. Deputy ELLIOTT maintained that neither
the hone gentleman nor the Grand Committee's
report had stated the whole case to the gover-
nors with reference to the valuations and other im-
portant particulars. (Hear, hear.) Indeed, he
entertained very grave objections to the reception
of the report, which by no means gave the entire
history of the transactions to which it referred, and
ought not to be entered on their minutes as a truth-
ful record of their proceedings. (Hear, hear.) He
would ask Mr. Wainwright whether, previous to
the 7th of April, 1859, an offer had not been made
by the solicitor of the railway company that if the
governors would forego -their threatened opposition
to the then pending bill, the company would give
them the option either of being paid a compensation
of £120,000 or a rental of £6,000 a year for the
corner of the garden required by the company ?
(Cries of " Hear, hear.") If this were the case, the
omission of so important a fact from a document
professing to give a faithful account of the nego-
tiations could not be too severely reprehended.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WAINWRIGHT offered an explanation to the
effect that the proposition had been in the form of
a penalty, and was of a strictly confidential nature,
but on being pressed, he admitted that the proposal
as stated had been regularly reduced to writing.
Mr. Deputy ELLIOTT then said that a document
in which so important a matter was concealed could
not be regarded as containing full and accurate infor-
mation, and proposed an amendment in accordance
with his opinion.
An animated discussion hero ensued, in wh
several governors expressed a decided opinion tha'
the eaplamtion offered respecting the omission o
any mention of the facts elicited by Mr. Elliott was
not of a satisfactory character. After this conver-
sation had continued for some time,
Mr. FAGALLY stated that late on a Saturday
night the proposition referred to was submitted to
him for a reply. He declined to accept the offer on
his own responsibility, and his conduct in the mat-

ter had been approvedby M. Sergeant Wrangham.
(A laugh,)
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS spoke in favour of
Bethlehem, and recommended that in their next re-
port the committee should not mention more than
two or three sites+, and Mr. Alderman Laurence
spoke in favour of the ground behind Newington
Church, advising at the same time that the Grand
Committee should go round and carefully inspect
the various sites.

After a general discussion, in which a number of
governors took part, and in the course of w hick re-
newed animadversions were made upon the omis-
sions in the report of the grand committee.
Mr. Deputy ELLIOTT consented to withdraw his
amendment, and the report was accordingly re-
ceived, but not adopted.
The minutes of the meeting of the grand com-
mittee, held immediately before the general meet-
ing, were then read. They related chiefly to a ne-
gotiation pending with Mr. Simpson for an exten-
sion of the time for the occupation of the Surrey
Gardens for five years, and to which it was hoped
that gentleman would accede.
Power was then given to the grand committee to
make the requisite arrangements with Mr. Simi).
son, and the hour for the future meetings of general
courts of governors having been altered from 2 p.m.
to 2.30 p.m., the proceedings terminated.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The official trials of the Tyrian, new screw gun-
vessel, at Portsmouth on Monday, and the Hima-
laya screw troopship yesterday, have both been
postponed, owing to the strong gale which has been
blowing there since Sunday night from the west-
north-west. Some interesting experiments at 4i
and 51 inch armour-plates, which were appointed
to take place in Porchester Creek on Monday, were
also postponed for the same reason.
The Prince Consort iron cased frigate, is ordered
to be fitted with her machinery of £l,OOO horse
power by Maudslay, Field and Co., previous to her
leaving Pembroke for Devonport. The Prince
Consort will be the first instance of a screw frigate
having been fitted with her engines at Pembroke.
Mr. 'Sampson has joined the ship as chief engineer
from the Portsmouth Steam Reserve.
The Prince of Wales' paddle yacht Osborne, in
the steam basin at Portsmouth, is having her wheels
fitted with common floats preparatory to her voyage
to Antwerp. On the conclusion of her duties in
conveying distinguished Royal visitors on the
occasion of the marriage of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, to and from the Continent and
the Thames, the Osborne will return to Portsmouth,
and will there be fitted with new feathering float
paddlewheels by Messrs. Maudslay and Field. It
is a somewhat remarkable fact that the Osborne,
although a Royal yacht, was never fitted with the
wheels originally designed for her, but, instead, had
a pair intended for the Firebrand patched and
fitted to suit her shaft and different form of side of
hull.

The Mars, 74, s2rew line of battle ship, of 2,573
tons and 400-horse power, Cspt. James N. Strange,
arrived in St. Helen's Roads, off Portsmouth, yes-
terday, from the Mediterranean. Owing to the
roughness of the weather, no communication by boat
was held with her from the shore. She is expected
to proceed to Sheerness to dismantle and pay out off
commission.

The screw steamship London, 86, Capt. H. Chads,
from Malta Dec. 18 and Gibraltar Jan. 7, arrived in
Plymouth Sound yesterday evening.
Her Majesty's ship Ariadne arrived at Bermuda
on Dec. 16, four days from Charleston. She re-
ported the blockade as being extremely strait in the
neighbourhood of Charleston. Her Majesty's ship
Galatea is ready for sea. On the 27th the Spitfire
had not arrived. Her Majesty's ship Styx arrived
at Bermuda that day from Jamaica, bringing intel-
ligence that the flagship Nile, with the Nimble
(tender) was expected to leave Nassau on Dec. 22
for Bermuda.

The screw steam sloop Princess Royal, 73, has
been removed from among the steam reserve in
Hamoaze to Keyham Steamyard, for the purpose of
being supplied with new boilers. '
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—G. F. Trollope, midshipman, to
the Forte ; J. T. de Saumarez, midshipman, to the
Victory ; T. 11. Keown, surgeon, to the Dauntless ;
John P. Pasco, assist.-paymaster, to the Fisgard ;
Chas. E. Ingram, master's assistant, to the Forte.