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 cam-
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 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
purchase of the land opposite the Houses 00,000. f
parlia-
ment, provided the sum did not exceed £90,000.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHREY hoped the westing
grand
would not agree to the amendment. The
committee would do what they thought
best under
the circumstances. If they wenttßethlehem and
offered £175,000, it might be
Vir raisedthe
e committee next
to £200,000 ;
and if, after taking that course, I
for they
treated with the Board of
° as go
they hadStangate, offered
would probably be told
that,price of the land at
£175,000 for Bethlehem,th
Stangate was £120,00.e 0.
meeting would agree to the
Mr. GRAY hoped tae
Humphrey, and reject
suggestion of Mr. Ain
the amendment.
Arne t was then put and negatived, only
The amendment
and the resolution was carried,
three supporting
~
held up th • hands in •
having their its
39 governors

tavour.
This concluded the principal business for which
the meeting wee convenes.

A
ITE sxIITHOB.SHIP OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.--
,' we don't believe this story" (any more than Little
Paul Dombey believed Mrs. PiP chin 's apologue about the
Mad Bull) as told by Mr. Malet in his "Errand from the
South," upon the authority of one Dr. Harrill. He (Dr.
n
Harrill) was at Castleton i 1864. 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 left badly off. This lady had travelled in
the South, where few Northerners ever go, except it be to
settle there ; she bad 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 Airs.
Beecher Stowe's name. Hall was to be paid for writing,
and Judge Howe was to give Mrs. Beecher Stowe part of
the profits,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."
SUICIDE.—On Tuesday a gentleman named
business in Liverpool, shot him-
Weber, engaged in
self through the bead at his house in Grassendale-park.
lie had betrayed symptoms of insanity, and was watched,
but availed himself of the mometary absence of his attend-
ant to commit the act.