The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-24 00:00:00

ST. THOMAS'S HOSTITAL

Yesterday a General Court of the Governors of
St. Thomas's Hospital was held at the London-
bridge Railway Terminus Hotel ; Sir Sohn Mus-
grove presided. Mr. Tit() M.P., raid that the
authorities of Bethlehem had proposed that a tw.et-
ing should be held between men of moderate views
belonging to the two hospitals, but it would be
six years before it could be obtained. With regard
o the second site—namely, that at Stangate—it
was unquestionably a very open site, airy and
lizalthy, but it was limited to nine acres. Ills iia-
pression was that it was worth XlO,OOO. Having
generally adverted to the nature of the two site,
he moved a resolution to the effect that the General
Court request a deputation of their body to meet a
similar deputation from Bethlehem as soon as
possible, with a view to ascertain whether it is pro-
bable that an arrangement can be made for obtain-
inr, the Bethlehem site on terms mutually adrot-
tAgeous; and in the went of the Grand C(,1111-iy;lt.e
not being satisfied that such an arrangein,:,nte-At
made within a reasonable pariod, that they be
authorised and requested to continue their negotia-
tions with the Metropolitan Board of Works for the
purchase of the site on the proposed South Embank-
ment of the river. Mr, Alderman Finnis seconded
the resolution. Dr. Leeson moved, by way of
amendment, that so much of the resolution as re-
lated to Bethlehem Hospital be omitted, so that the
deputation should exclusively confine themselves to
the site at Stangate. Mr. South seconded the
amendment. There were, he said, many reasons
why the site of Bethlehem was objectionable. The
first was the time which must elapse before posses-
sion could be obtained; the next, that the build-

ing itself when got would be of no use, and must be
taken down ; and a third, that the sum demanded
was greater than St. Thomas's could possibly afford
to pay. He had been informed that, although the
Board of Works had asked as much as £135,600
for the laud on the river, yet they would willingly
accept £lOO,OOO for it. Mr. James Adams said that

the situ proposed was swampy, and aften flooded.
In his opinion, the air arising from the water would
always be impure. Mr. Alderman Sidney considered
that, in an economical point of view, the site at
Stangate was to be preferred. It might be obtained,
he understood, for £lOO,OOO, whereas it was his de-
cided conviction if they were to obtain the site of
Bethlehem it would require altogether a sum of
£200,000. Besides, the whole site of Bethlehem
would be very small compared with the nine acres
of land at Stangate. He thought, however, they were
bound in courtesy to take notice of the resolution
of the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital. After

some further discussion, the amendment was put
and negatived, The original resolution was after-
wards agreed to without a division. A deputation
was thereupon appointed, consisting of the Presi-
dent, the Treasurer, Mr, Tite, M,P., Mr. Deputy
Elliott, and Dr. D.eson. The Court then ad-
journed.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1863.

A change has at length come over the spirit of
the dream of the French—Ministry. Not of the
French EMPEROR. His Imperial Majesty remain-
ing, as ever, impassive and inscrutable. Through
all the fluctuations of (pinion, of administrators, of
representatives—the Ruler of France continuing to
the last profoundly silent and absolutely imper
turbable. The Cabinet at Paris, it appears, has at
length been quietlybut comprehensively transformed.
M. WALEWSKI disappears from the select group as
Minister of State without Portfolio. His place at
the council board in that capacity being occupied
now by M. BILLAULT. Another, and a still
more noticeable change in the Imperial Go-
vernment is—that particular one that almost every
observer of late events has been confidently look-
ing forward to, ever since the Opposition candidates
were returned en masse for the city of Paris at the
late elections—that involved in the apparent dis -
appearance also from the political scene of almost the
foremost of the imperial administrators, or rather
maladministrators, that is to say of M. DE PERSIGNY !
The Ministry of the Interior having now, as the
telegram of this afternoon informs us. been confided
to M. BOUDET, instead of, as heretofore, to M. DE
PERSIGNY. What may become of the latter remains
doubtful. Rumour, meanwhile, however, ac-
cords to M. WALEWSKI a return to his old
post of honour and trust, the Embassy to the
Court of St. James's, in succession to the
present ambassador the Baron GROS. No changes
whatever are announced in regard to the
Ministry either of Finance or of Foreign Affairs
so that M. FOULD, we may presume, still retains the
portfolio of the former, and M. DROUTN DE L'HUYS
of the latter, vitally important department, of the
administration. Together, however, with the nomi-
nation of M. BILLAULT as Minister of State in lien
of M. WALEWSKI, and with that of M. BOUDET as
Minister of the Interior in place of M. BE PERSIGNY,
we receive tidings, now, of other new appointments
in regard to three other departments of Adminis-
tration. M. BAROCHE being named Minister of
Justice, M. DURNY Minister of Education, and M.
BEHIC Minister of the triple department of Public
Works, Commerce, and Agriculture. Supple-
mentary announcements appearing also as to the
nomination of M. ROUHER as Ministerial Presi-
dent of the Council of State, and of the Due DE
MORNY as President of the Corps Legislatif.
Altogether these last Ministerial changes at Paris
imply much more than the shaking np
into a new combination of the same vari-
ously coloured bits of glass in the Imperial
kaleidoscope. It is a transformation far more than
a mere transposition. The excellent Foreign
Minister and the inestimable Finance Minister are
still retained, aTisely enough, in the Imperial Go-
Terument. The Emperor still confides those all-
important departments of his Administration to the
skill, respectively, of M. FOULD and M. DROUYN DE
MITT"'But, other's ise, the Cabinet is root and
branch transformed. The snm when worked out,
whether from faulty calculations, or from whatever
other cause, it matters little enough, now appeared
to be yielding of late gam—
'Y unsatisfactory' quotient.
The wet sponge hasbeen applied.
The two topfignres
upon the slate have been alone left untouched—
ethers have been entered beneath, and a new and a
happier result may be looked for at the hands of
that subtle political arithmetician, who combines in
himself the readiness of the famous Calculating Boy
with the impassability of BABBAGE's Calculating
Machine. It is significant in regard to the situa-
tion Question, that while
tion just now of the a o.
these Ministerial changes are transpiring at Paris,
thera is this talk of the ex-Minister of State, M.
WALEWSKI (by birth a Pole, though by lifelong asso-
ciation a Frenchman) returning to London as, again,
his Excellency the Ambassador. And more signifi-
cant still, in reference to the situation just now of
the Mexican Question, to read the particulars given
elsewhere, on this same page of our impression of
this evening, of the remarkable interview which
took place the other day between Mr. ROEBUCK
and the Emperor NAPOLEON, in the Palace at Fon-
tainbleau. Remembering the scurrility of the remarks
which not so very long since fell from the not over-
nice lips of Mr. ROEBUCK, in the British House of
Commons, in reference personally (very personally)