The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

AMERICA.

We have received the following details of the
Arabia's news from our correspondent at Queens-

town :

QUEENSTOWN, MONDAY.

The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Arabia arrived
off the harbour at an early hour this morning from
New York, with dates to the 30th January.
The Burnside expedition had encountered a
severe storm, and had been delayed by fogs. It
had, however, arrived at Hatteras Inlet, whence it
is intended to operate against some point of the
North Carolina coast.

The following official report of General Burnside
to the War Department is from the New York

Times :

" Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28.
A special messenger, with despatches from Gen. Burn-
side, reached Washington this morning. They are dated
Headquarters, Department of North Carolina, Hatteras
Inlet, Jan. 28, 1862.'
"The messenger left Hatteras on Sunday. Gen. Burn-
side states :
" We left our anchorage at Annapolis on Thursday,
the 9th, and after a protracted passage, owing to dense fog,
arrived at Fortress Monroe on Friday night at 12 o'clock.
Leaving Fortress Monroe on Saturday, at 10 o'clock in the
morning, we proceeded at once to sea ; but, owing to fogs
on Sunday night, our progress was very slow. On Monday,
the 13th the weather cleared, with a heavy wind and
rough sea, which caused our vessels to labour very heavily,
and some were obliged to cut loose from the vessels they
were towing. Most of them, however, passed over the bar
and anchored inside the harbour on the morning of the

15th, just in time to escape the severe gale of Monday
night and Tuesday. The propeller City of New York ran
on the bar at the entrance to the harbour, and, owing to
the severe weather and want of small boats, we could ren-
der her no assistance. She was laden with stores, and was
lost.'

" The General also says he had been led to believe that
he would find experienced pilots at Hatteras, but bad great
difficulty in accomplishing his wish, for want of proper ac-
commodation. He adds that he would commence that day
to build a wharf for landing supplies. The men were
cheerful and patient, and he would proceed with confidence.

" An accident occurred in an effort to relieve the steamer
New York, by which a boat was swamped, and the lives of
Col. Allen, of the 9th New Jersey, h,s surgeon, and a mate
of the boat were also lost.

" After the arrival of the expedition at Hatteras the
enemy made their appearance in one or two vessels on a
reconnoitring expedition. Our boats gave chase and drove
them back. The transports and vessels grounded will be
got off by the aid of the tug-boats. Only one, the New
York, was lost, and no lives, the three above referred to
excepted."

The gunboat Zonave, though not mentioned in
the official report, and the Grapeshot, ene of the
five floating batteries, are also stated to have been
lost. The City of New York had stores to the
value of 200,000 dots. on board. Several of the
vessels intended to supply the fleet with water had
refused to start at the setting out of the expedition
The forward movement of General M'Clellan has
not yet commenced. That officer is in good health,
and has appeared before the Committee on the
Defences and Fortifications of the Great Lakes and
Rivers. From Missouri we learn that—
"A large body of troops is moving from Rolla, Sedalia,
and Ottervillo, the destination of which is supposed to be
Springfield. The following is from Major Wright's report
t > Gen. Wyman :—Price's force does not exceed 8,000 to
10,000, all State troops. Price has been notified of his
appointment of Major-General in the Confederate army,
but has not been confirmed ; consequently the Confederate
forces decline to reinforce him. They say to him they have
30,000 troops ready to join him when they receive the official
notice that Mclntosh has gone to reinforce the rebels in the
Indian nation. Most of General Rain's men have gone
home : the balance (400) are at Sarcoxie and Granby. Last
Thursday Price was informed the Federals were moving
against him in forco from Rollo. It caused great excite-
ment in the rebel camp. Price expects his appointment
to be confirmed within two weeks, when he will be
reinforced by the Confederates from Arkansas.
Unless he can take command of the whole force
he will be obliged to retreat. He has a large numter of
waggons, and ting everything in readiness to decamp,

He intends falling back on Pineville, unless speedily rein-
forced. He has a large number of men on the sick list, also
foraging parties capturing men, Many Union men were de-
stroying their property. Ho has also fifteen days' supplies
on hand. Each rebel regiment has an organised corps of
the best marksmen to pick off field officers. A large amount
of property was seized by the Provost-Marshal, to pay the
amount assessed against prominent Secessionists by Gen.
Halleck, for the benefit of the Union refugees, and will be
sold at auction on Monday, February 3."
The correspondence of the Cincinnatti Gazette
contains a lengthened account of the battle of Mill
Creek :

" The enemy, under the immediate command of Major-
General Crittenden, marched, eight regiments strong, from
their camp, last Saturday night. Their mounted grand
guards were skirmishing through the greater part of the
night with ours. Colonel Wolford's cavalry were doing
out-post duty that night, and by their behaviour then, and
in the battle afterwards, completely cleared away the re-
proach which some unworthy officers have brought upon
them. They will always fight well when Wolford is with
them. The 10th Indiana occupied a wooden hill on the
right of the road. On the left was a field, stretching down
the hill for several hundred yards. In front of the woods
was another field of about 20 acres.

"The enemy formed in these two fields, attacking the
Indiana troops both in front and upon their left flank. A
section of Captain Standart's battery had been brought up,
and was stationed in the road. The attack here was made
about 7 o'clock in the morning. Colonel Manson coming
up to the position just after the attack begun, and seeing
that his men must be overpowered before the other regi-
ments could come up, ordered his men to fall back, which
they did in good order, fighting as they went. Captain
Standart reluctantly gave up the privilege of giving
the enemy one good blizzard' from that point, and retired
too

"Immediately to the rear of the woods, where the 10th
were stationed, is another field, with a steep descent to a
ravine, and then somes another dense forest. On the left
of the road the clearings continue to the ravine, the sides of
which at that point are covered with a growth of scrub oaks
and other timber.
"After crossing the river another field lies on the left of
the road. The 10th retired through the field on the right
of a road, and through the weeds for about 150 yards to the
rear of the ravine. At this point Col. Fry's 4th Kentucky
came up, and formed along the fence which separates the
road from the field on the left. There is no fence on the
right of the road at that point. Ihe two regiments here
formed in the shape of a V, its point towards the enemy
advancing from the ravine, behind which they had re-
formed after their temporary success in the first attack.
For nearly an hour they tried to break that V, but failed.
"What rebel regiments came through the wc.ods to attack
the 10th at this place I have not learned. Those which
attacked Colonel Fry were Battle's Tennessee and the 15th
Mississipi, the Wigfal Rifles,' and the Mississipi Tigers,'
as they loved to call themselves. These were the crack
regiments of the enemy, and they sustained their reputa-
tion. Again and again they charged across the field, but
were always met by the terrible fire of the Kentucky 4th,
and were driven back.

"At the point of the V died General Zollicoffer. He
fell nearer our camp than any other man of his army. Ho
was with Battle's Regiment, his own home friends, born
and brought up around him at Nashville. A short
distance from him, to his right, a party of his men had
been broken from their comrades, and were herding
together like frightened deer. Col. Fry's men were just
about to fire on them. Col. Fry himself was at the right
of his regiment, at the point of greatest danger. General
Zollicoffer was on foot, and within a few feet of the colonel.
A gum coat concealed his uniform. Seeing the condition of
his men, as the colonel rode up General Zollicoffer said to
Colonel Fry, ' Colonel, you would not fire upon your friends
would you ?' Colonel Fry supposed, from the general's
manner and remark, that he was one of our own officers, and
at once replied, Certainly not, Sir; I have no such inten-
tion.' Ho turned and rode a few steps, when one of the
general's aids fired at him, wounding his horse. Believing
that he was tricked, Colonel Fry at once wheeled and fired
at the General. The latter raised his hand to his breast and
fell dead. Another ball struck him at the same moment,
I believe, in the arm,
" The dtath of their general does not seem to have
greatly disheartened the enemy. They continued their at-
tack with as much vehemence as ever. The 2d Minne-
sota Regiment came up and formed along the fence, on the
left of the 4th Kentucky. The rebels still extended their
line to flank us on that side. The 15th Mississippi charged
up to the fence, and, the men in the two regiments fought
hand to hand, catching hold of each other's guns, and try-
ing to drag them through and over the fence ; but it was
all in vain.

"On they went. The enemy is driven through the
woods, where an hour and a-half before they nearly sur-
rounded the 10th, the heroes of Rich Mountain. Many
regiments are completely broken, and run tor the forests
on the left. Wood's Alabama regiment breaks for a swamp,
and scatter there. It has a home look to them, and is a
safer place than the road er the fields. Someregiments act
together, and form in a field a mile to the rear of their first
position. But Standart's shells, thrown from the hill where
the section was so nearly taken, begin to fall among them.
They fly again, pursued by our victorious troops. For the
third and last time they form, only to be scattered as before.
" After this the route is complete. Panic-stricken, they
fly in all directions. The pursuit is pressed up to the
very intrenchments of the enemy. Two of their pieces
have been taken. The third, which they took with them,
is only saved to be left behind in their flight across the
river. Our cannon open on their camp, our shells falling
into their most effectual battery, killing four of the men at
their guns and driving the rest away. The darkness of
nightfall only prevents a general assault, and our troops lie
down, hoping in the morning is complete the good work of
that Sabbath, a work they had not sought, for they were
resting that day, preparatory to the attack which General
Thomas had intended to make on Monday."

CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 9.

The Canadian Mail steamship Hibernian, Captain
Grange, has arrived with advices to the 27th ult.

The Hibernian was detained until the morning of
the 27th, in consequence of the non-arrival of the
Canadian mails, the storm causing them to be late.
On the 28th she passed a steamer, supposed to be
the Anglo-Saxon, bound west. On the 29th she
passed a ship-rigged steamer, funnel abaft the
mainmast, bound west. On the 30th she passed a
large steamer. On the Ist of February she ex-
changed signals with one of the Company's steamers.
The transport steamship Mauritius put into St.
Tohn's, Newfoundland, on the 24th, short of coal.
She experienced very severe weather, and had to
throw a number of horses overboard.
The Quebec Chronicle of the 25th says :

" The military authorities continue their task of
perfecting the defences of the city with unabated
vigour. scarcely a day passes but guns of heavy
calibre are conveyed to the citadel for the purpose
of being placed in position ; and no available point
will be left without its piece of ordnance. We saw
yesterday a 90-pounder—a weighty-looking piece
of gun-metal—being dragged to its destination by
a working party of the garrison."

The Quebec City Council had resolved upon the
following address of condolence to her Majesty:—
"To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

" May it please your Majesty,—We your Ma-
jesty's faithful and loyal subjects, the mayor, coun-
cillors, and citizens of the city of Quebec, beg
leave with feelings of deep and respectful sym-
pathy, to express to your Majesty our sincere con-
dolence with you in the great affliction with which
it has pleased God to visit your Majesty in the
death of your beloved and illustrious Consort, his
Royal Highness Prince Albert.
" We feel this sad event has occurred at a time
I when your Majesty was more than ever in need of
that faithful assistance and enlightened counsel
which it has been the especial province of the
Prince to render with honour and advantage to the
nation during the eventful period of his connection
with our country. Placed in a more than ordinary
difficult position, he succeeded in winning the
esteem of all. He honoured with his advocacy all
the useful institutions of the country, and to him
the Empire is largely indebted for the advance-
ment which has taken place in the arts and sciences
of the community. To his children he has left an
example which affords a new guarantee for the
happiness and prosperity of England.
" Devotedly attached as we are to our connection
with your Majesty's Crown, it is not only with the
good and beloved Sovereign we sympathise, but,
in common with the whore of our fellow subjects,
we feel profoundly for your Majesty in the rela-
tion of wife and mother—a relation which has en-
deared you in the affections of ycur people.
"That the Almighty may enable your Majesty to ,
support your great bereavement with resignation to
His Divine will, and long spare you to guard your
Royal family and guide the destinies of this great
Empire, is our earnest prayer.

_ - -
" THOMAS POPE, Mayor of Quebec.
~ Quebec, Jan. 4."

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—The annual
general meeting of the National Rifle Association will bo
held at Willis's Rooms,
on, Saturday, March Ist, at half-
past 2 o'clock, H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, president
of the association, ill the chair,

ST. THOMAS'S ROSPIIAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The selection of a site for St. Thomas's
Hospital is of great importance to the sick and dis-
abled on the Surrey side of the river. The lamentable
accident of yesterday is a case in point.
The evidence given before the Parliamentary
Committee by the treasurer of the hospital, and by
several influential governors and officers, renders it
virtually certain that a removal from the old site
must take place, notwithstanding the remonstrances
and imaginary legal difficulties set up by " Borough
Market." Every object for which the establish-
ment exists exclaims against any attempt to make
shift with the present site—already too small for
the accruing exigencies of a locality in which one of
the densest and poorest populations of London is
employed in dangerous and insalubrious depart-
ments of labour. The combined din of street and
railway is seriously injurious to nervous, enfeebled,
and excitable patients. It the noise be often FO
great that, in some of the wards the medical men
can scarcely hear each other when in consultation,
I need not say what the effect must be upon inva-
lids, to whose every fibre physical agony imparts
enhanced sensitiveness. With the railway close to
the windows this pernicious uproar, so hostile to
therapeutic efforts, so incompatible with "fair play"
to nature and medical science, would, of course, be
aggravated.

But discussion on this part of the subject is, I
trust, superfluous. It may, I believe, be taken for
granted that the determination of the governors is, in
the words of one of your correspondents, " to give
to the world a model hospital, an institution by
which the highest amount of benefit will be con-
ferred on the poor, and, at the same time, the inte-
rests of science be promoted to the highest degree."
To realise this object it is essential that the site
should be easily accessible by the great mass of poor
patients, out-door as well as in door ; that it be in a.
healthy locality, with ample space ; and that it he
sufficiently near town for convenient attention by
students and by eminent medical men, whose pro-
fessional time is so valuable and so fully engrossed.
Paraphrasing the language of" Guardian" I submit
to common sense that it is utterly impossible that all
these conditions can exist miles away from town.
I pass over the prescriptive right of three centu-
ries of possession by the Borough district, though
sound expediency, as well as equity, would not
wholly ignore it. But let me put the plain question,
whence come the majority of violent accidents, sud-
den and acute attacks of illness, and cases in which
everything depends on promptitude of treatment ?
Undoubtedly from the crowded neighbourhoods
within a comparatively short distance from the
bridges ; while they come in only intermittent units
from the remoter and sparsely peopled districts.
Your correspondent " Guardian," who seems to
contemplate an hospital as distant as possible from
where it is most wanted, talks in very vague terms,
about a " large proportion" of patients coming
frcm long distances ; about " little more than
a third" coming from the immediate vicinity.
of Southwark and Bermondsey; and "nearly
one quarter" from a lengthy list of re-
mote places. Now, the statistical truth is that
more than one-half come from the Borough district
and localities nearly adjoining, including Lambeth,
Newington, Walworth, &c., and scarcely one-fifth
from that district of which,. as " Guardian" says,
the centre is distant four miles or more from St.
Thomas's. This surely ought to set at rest the ques-
tion of expediency, or rather of life-saving accessi-
bility for the vast crowd of pressing cases well
represented by a professional writer as those in
which a short distance would " turn the scale of life
and death to many a wretch who should be compelled.
to leave the Borough in search of a hospital."
Place the hospital where you will some patients
will have to come a distance. The difference is that
if you build it on a thinly inhabited spot, quite
away from town, almost all must travel many miles
(thus making regular attendance by poor out-door
patients quite impossible) ; whereas by having the
means of relief near the chief focus of the want, the
evil of distance and delay is minimised to the many'.
Let all practical attention be paid to the scattered
units ; but the wants of the crowded masses should
obviously give the cue to the arrangements,

As to medical men in full practice expending two
or three hours during the busiest part of the day in
making their way by rail or brougham (or both) to
and from a country hospital, the idea may be dis-
missed as visionary. Respecting the student ele-
ment, suffice it to say that remote suburban quarters,
while by no means shutting the door upon 4, temp-
tation," would obstruct access to those means of
consultation with the experience of others, of refer-
ence, general observation, &c., so indispensable to
proficiency, and to be found only in great centres
of population.

The hap-hazard assertions of " Guardian" re-
specting the opinions of medical authorities are as
inconclusive, though not so indecorous, as his hi-
sinuations about " private interests," nor in such
poor taste as his apochryphal statements as to the
wishes of the late Prince Consort.

When, however, he endeavours, " upon sanitary
grounds" to prohibit the consideration of certain.
convenient situations, including the Surrey Gar-
dens, I take leave to refer him to the really
authentic opinion of " high medical authorities," as
indicated by one of their principal representatives
in the press. The testimony of the Lancet is, that
the Surrey Gardens " combine the requisite advan-
tages in a superior degree." " Here," it continues,
" is a site exceeding 12 acres, with a soil chiefly
gravel, where the air is free and salubrious, with
good facilities for drainage that will soon be im-
proved by the construction of the southern low
level main drain, and standing in the midst of
broad roads, connecting all the metropolitan
bridges, and concentrating the traffic from the
southern counties." The vital importance of good
roads and extensive communications for the prompt
conveyance of patients need not be descanted on.
The drainage of the gardens, too, has already been
carried to an advanced stage towards completeness,
for perfecting which all that is required is the con-
clusion of the main drainage works now in active
progress. Gas and water of the purest quality are
laid on, In short, much of the work that would be
necessary ou an unimproved cite is here already
executed.

In adducing these facts I do not mean to pro-
pound any dictum respecting the adoption of this
or that site, but simply to indicate principlEs which
appear to me of primary importance to the interests
involved, and to " guard" the public from being
being misled by fallacies, prejudices, and assump-
tions.—Your obedient servant, F.R.C.S.

LAMBETH BRIDGE COMFANY.—The report of the
directors states that the whole of the land required for the
works is In the hands of the contractors. It has been ne-
cessary to purchase more land than has been actually
required for the site of the bridge, but this will become of
value when the bridge is open, and way be resold with ad-
vantage. The terms of purchase have been satisfactorily
arranged in every case, except with the occupiers of the,
Lambeth Wharf, and a portion of the land on the West-
minster side. The directors have arranged with the London-
Gas Light Company to lay down two mains of 18 inches
diameter, which has required an increase in the strength of
the structure, for which the company receive a payment of
£3,000, with the advantage of the bridge being lighted free
of cast. The report of the engineer shows that rapid pro-
gress has been made in the works.

CIIARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A DERBY SOLI-
CITOR.—At the Derby Polico-court, yesterday, Joseph
Shaw, solicitor, Full-street, Derby, and high bailiff of the
Derby County Court, aged 35, was brought up in custody
on a charge of forgery. The prisoner was apprehended at
Normanton, near Derby, at an early hour on Sunday morn-
ing, by Mr. Hilton, head constable of Derby, Inspector
Fearn, and Detective Vessey. The warrant upon which the
prisoner was apprehended stated "that the prisoner, on the
Bth day of April, 1859, feloniously uttered a deed purport-
ing to convey certain land in Bath-street, Ilkeston, to•
Thomas hives and his heirs, the said deed being forged and
counterfeit, and by this means defrauded John Adsetts, the
person to whom it was uttered, of £850." 'Ebe court was
densely crowded by parties wishing to hear the case, the
apprehension of the accused (who is most respectably con-
nected) having caused a great sensation in the town. Mr.
Huish, barrister (Midland circuit), instructed by Mr. G•
11. H. Cox, solicitor, appeared for the prosecution; and
Leech, solicitor, appeared for the prisoner, who, when'
placed in the dock, seemed to fiel most acutely the serious
position in which he was placed, The prisoner was re-
manded fort week.

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