The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-04 00:00:00

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.

The physicians and surgeons of St. Thomas's Hospital,
in consequence of a communication from the treasurer, re-
cently held a meeting to consider the relative merits of the
sites now proposed for the future hospital—and their atten-
tion was particularly directed to the question of the admis-
sibility of Myatt's ground at Camberwell for the purpose.
Dr. Barker, the senior physician cf the hospital, was re-
quested to make known to the treasurer the unanimous
opinion of the meeting that Myatt's giound is not oligible
for the purpose. With respect to thia principles which
should determine the site of the future hospital, the meet-
ing adhered to the opinions which had been expressed in a
memorial signed by all the physicians and surgeons on the
11th of November last, and then circulated among the
governors of the hospital and others, and published in the
papers. The meeting found that the opinions expressed in
this memorial had been abundantly confirmed by the expe-
rience of the great diminution of the usefulness of the cha-
rity which has already resulted from the distance of the
temporary hospital in Surrey-gardens from the centre of
London. The meeting believed that the selection of
Myatt's ground by the governors would, in consequence of
the great additional distance of the hospital on that site,
very greatly increase the above evil. and would rscluce to a
still lower level than at present the usefulness of the cha-
rity. The meeting expressed a hope that, if the site of
Bethlehem should be unattainable, the governors might
secure for the new hospital some site a near as Bethelem,
or even nearer, to the centre of the metropolis.

Finally, Dr. Barker was requested to direct the trea-
surer's especial attention to the concluding words of the
memorial signed by all the physicians and surgeon's in
November last :

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" At present, before ali other objects, there presses, in
our opinion, the one imperative need that St. Thomas's
Hospital be restored according to the pattern of its former
usetulness—not misplanted in some country district, where
it would scarcely at all fulfil the objects of its existence,
but re-constructed as nearly as may be in the very heart of
London, where, according to the intention of its founder,
it may still efficiently minister, as for three centuries it has
ministered to those innumerable emergencies of disease and
accident which belong to so vast a city."

TILE BRAZILIAN LEGATION. Excellency
the Commander de Carvalho Moreira and family, and the
personnel of the Legation, will leave the Brazilian Lega-
tion to-day for the Continent.
A THEATRICAL DIFFERENCE.-^A case of general
importance to the theatrical profession Was heard
before Sheriff Arkley, at Edinburgh, on Friday last, and
again on Monday, in which Mr. Charles Lyall, of the Royal
English Opera Company, is pursuer, and the said company
and ihe managers—Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harri-
son--are defenders. Mr. Lyall sues for recovery of salary,
withheld by the managers under these circumstances :—By
the memorandum of agreement between. the pursuer and
defenders, the former is taken bound " to gins his exclusive
services to the said Louisa Pyne and William Bitzrrison, to
play and sing such parts as may be required of him, either
in London or the provinces ;" and the agreement is declared
" to be subject to the rules and regulations annexed ;" No.
eerythe cancellation of his or such
to
4 of which declares that " any performer refusing or r
ne-
glecting to act a part or cast assignedtposhritm,
three or
he
weeksby
the
managers,
shalland be
of
h
her engagement, or either, at the option of the managers."
salary,
li every
During the late engagement of the company in Edinburgh,
the managers required Mr. Lyall to sing and play, and
assigned to him a short subordinate part in addition to the
Principal character he was to represent in the same
opera. Mr. Lyall having refused, the managers inti-
mated that he had thereby forfeited three weeks' salary
in terms of the 4th regulation above quoted ; and hence
arose the present question with a view to recover pay-
ment of the pursuer's salary. Mr. pandas Grant, advo-
cate, appeared for the pursuer, and Mr. Somerville, S S.C.,
for the defenders. Mr. Somerville, in defence, pleaded let,
that the sheriff had no jurisdiction, the defenders being
foreigners, who had not resided 40 days in Scotland, and
that the Court of Session was the only commune forum, be-
fore which a foreigner, not having a 40 days' domicile, can
be competently sued, in support of which he quoted numer-
ous authorities-2d, to the merits, he pleaded non-liability,
in respect of the terms of the agreement between the par-
ties. Mr. Grant replied at great length, and also cited nu-
merous authorities in favour of the pursuer's case. At the
close of the arguments, the sheriff intimated that he would
take time to consider his judgment. Mr, Somerville then
stated that his clients being anxious to obtain a judgment,
without prolonging the litigation, 1,
-0 was quite ready to
give up the plea of no juTisdicton, and to take the sheriff's
judgment upon the agreement itself if the pursuer would
consent to that course without leading proof. This Mr.
Grant was willing to do if practicable; but the sheriff
having intimated that he could not make up his mind upon
the agreement without some light from individuals conver-
sant with operatic management, the case was ultintately
continued, that a remit may be arranged to a person so
qualified,—Nerth British Daily jw,xii.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ---This Day.

ASCOT RACES—THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
£lOO PLATE, Swinley Course.
Lady Evelyn colt ... .
Glance
Petersham
£lOO PLATE, T.Y.C.

Gem of the Sea .. 1
King Tom colt
Gentle Kitty

LAT r:ST BETTING.
GOLD CUP.
2to lon Tim Whiffler
2to 1 agst Buckstone.
Not more than three expected to run.

THE TORTURES OF AN ORRERY !

My memory presents a birthday when Olympia
and li were taken by an unfeeling relative—some
cruel uncle, or the like—to the slow torture called
at Orrery. The terrible instrument was set up at
the local theatre, and I had expressed a profane
wish in the morning that it was a Play; for which
a serious aunt had probed my conscience deep, and
my pocket deeper, by reclaiming a bestowed half.
crown. It was a venerable and a shabby Orrery,
at least one thousand stars and twenty-five comets
behind the age. Nevertheless, it was awful. When
the low-spirited gentleman with the wand said,
" Ladies and gentlemen (meaning particularly
Olympia and me), the lights are about to ba put
out, but there is not the slightest cause for alarm,"
it was very alarming. Then the planets and stars
began. Sometimes they wouldn't come on, some-
times they wouldn't go off, sometimes they had boles
in them, and mostly they didn't seem to be good
likenesses. All this time the gentleman with the
wand was going on in the dark (tapping away at
the heavenly bodies between whiles, like a weari-
some woodpecker) about a sphere revolving on its
own axis eight hundred and ninety-seven thousand
millions of times—or miles—in two hundred and
sixty-three thousand five hundred and twenty-four
millions of something elses, until I thought if this
was a birthday it were better never to have been
born. Olympia also became much depressed, and
we both slumbered and woke cross, and still the gen-
tleman was going on in the dark—whether up in the
stars, or down on the stage, it would have been hard
to make out, if it had been worth trying—cyphering
away about planes of orbits, to such an infamoui ex-
tent that Olympia, stung to madness, actually kicked
me. A pretty birthday spectacle when the lights
were turned up again, and all the schools in the town
(including the National, who had come in for
nothing, and serve them right, for they were always
throwing stones) were discovered with exhausted
countenances, screwing their knuckles into their
eyes, or clutching their heads of hair. A pretty
birthday speech when Doctor Sleek of the City-Free
bobbed up his powdered head in the stage-box, and
said that before this assembly dispersed he really
must beg to express his entire approval of a lecture
as improving, as informing, as devoid of anything
that could call a blush into the cheek of youth, as
any it had ever been his lot to hear delivered. A
pretty birthday altogether, when Astronomy
couldn't leave poor small Olympia Squires and me
alone, but must put an end to our loves! For, we
never got over it; the threadbare Orrery out-
wore our mutual tenderness; the man with the
wand was too much for the boy with the bow."—
Charles Dickens, in " All the Year Round."

Reminiscences of " Stonewall" Jackson.

The following is from a correspondent of the New
J ork, Tinges;-
In the course of my journeyings as a correspondent, I
have met with many old classmates and acquaintances of
the late rebel General Jackson, from whose lips I have
heard much about him; and, as everything pertaining to
this remarkable man seems to interest the public, I will
set down two or three anecdotes which have not yet found
their way into the public prints. Jackson, you know, was
a graduate of West Point in the class of 1846, considered
the most remarkable class that ever graduated from the
Acadmy. M'Clellan, Couch, Foster, Leno, Seymour,
Stoneman, and others equally or less distinguished
belonged to it. While at West Point, he was regarded as
decidedly dull and slow. It took him three times as long
to learn his tasks as the average of the boys, but when
he had them, he had them well. He was of a retiring
and tactiturn disposition, but whenever he spoke his face
would light up with a pleasant smile. At this period he
used to fancy he had consumption, and was wont to sit
bolt upright at his meals. Illustrative of the difficulty
he had in learning anything, I remember an anecdote
of General Seymour's. Seymour was, at that time,
learning to play on the flute, and Jackson (they were
young lieutenants together) took it into his head that
he also would learn. He went to the work with his
accustomed vigour and perseverance, but he could
not succeed in learning to play even the simplest air•
He blew six months on the first bar of " Love Not,"
and then gave it up in despair. The story of his behaviour
at Chepultepec, I have seen given, but incorrectly. It is
thus—Jackson was a lieutenant in command of Magruder's
Battery. The 15th regular infantry was ordered to charge
up the road, but the fire was heavy, and the men seemed
disinclined to advance. perceiving this, Jackson stepped
out on the road, amid a shower of missiles, exclaiming—.
" You see, nay men, there is no danger, follow me l"
whereupon they immediately rushed forward to the
charge. At various periods of his life he was afflicted
with different forms of hypochondria. One of his manias
was to believe that everythihg he ate went down and
lodged in his left leg 1 At another time he would never
eat except by the watch, at the precise moment; and he
would take out his watch, lay it on the table, and eat at
that moment. If the meal was behindhand, he would
not eat at all. Probably camp life cured him of these eccen-
tricities. Current reports have stated that Jackson was
slovenly and rough in dress; in action or on the march not
distinghishable from the common soldier. Th's, at least
lately, since he came into high command, seems to be in-
correct. In the manuscript diary of a rebel engineer officer
—which we found at the Chancellor House on our arrival,
1 and now in my hands—among entries of the greatest inte-
I rest and importance, extending over several months, T find
the following portrait of " Stodewall" Jackson. It is, as
you. will observe, a mere silhouette, but the picture is almost
Carlyean in its tuoch:—March 25. . . About dinner time
" Stonewall" Jackson came over to make a visit to the
General. I went out to ride, and met him going away in the
road between headquarters and:Mr. Garnett's. He was sweep.
ing along at an easy gallop on a handsome bay. Passed so
quickly that I had not time to distinguish his features
nothing in him to recall the caricatures which popular vene-
ration has delighted to make of the popular hero; hand-
somely dressed in full general's uniform—a jaunty cap, a
full black beard and a fine horse; altogether a rather daz-
zling vision for one used to our slovenly headquarters."
Jackson's mode of attack was peculiar, even in the tactical
formation of his troops, and it was his own. He always
threw his men in in column of battalions, about a two corn -
pany front, without skirmishers, resting on their colours,
and with a yell peculiar to his men. He was a gallant foe,
and I have heard many an officer in the army declare he
would like nothing better, if we only had this affair settled
up, than to follow Stonewall Jackson into fight. His per-
sonal loss to the rebel cause is immense ; but he has trained
many able division commanders such as Early and the two
Hills.