The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-12 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, FRFUY SVENINTO, DECEMBER 712, 1862.

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tee, have denounced with one voice the scheme 1
of removing the noble hospital from the half million
of working people to whom for more than two
centuries it has been so great a boon. Already
the grand committee has found public opinion,
acting on the whole body of the governors, sufficient
to check them in their course, and they have
now met with a rebuke from a body which, in
such a case as this, will, we have no doubt, com-
pel unqualified deference.

The corporation of London, it will be seen, has,
unanimously voted, that " having regard to the
local duties for which the great charity of St.
Thomas's Hospital was originally chartered,
founded, and endowed, and which have been ful-
filled for three centuries, the new hospital ought,
so far as circumstances permit, to he built in a
situation no less central than that which the for-
mer hospital occupied." The vote was not only
unanimous, but so enthusiastic, that when the
seconder of the motion, Dr. ABRAHAM, was about
to speak, also, to the motion, the Court was so
anxious to express its opinion, that he gave up
his speech, and the vote was taken at once.
One circumstance of weight was noticed by the
mover, that the tendency is increasing every day
to leave the City of London and the Borough to
the class which needs hospitals. All who can
afford it migrate to the suburbs, and the resident
population of the centre of business will consist
more and more of the working classes. In the City
and the Borough, also, all that kind of work is
carried on from which the worst accidents needing
immediate attention are continually occurring. The
very idea, therefore, of removing an institution,
which spends £30,000 annually, and will soon
spend £50,000, in relieving the pressing wants of
the poor, away from the residences of the pocr, is
so extravagant that it is really difficult to see how
it could have originated. An hospital and a sana-
torium are, in fact, different things. The latter
may be a very valuable adjunct to the former, but
it is not an hospital in the now current sense of
the word. If the Governors think it worth
while to employ the additional £20,000
when the rents fall in, in establishing a Sanatorium
in connection with the full establishment of the old
Hospital, we will not say that the subject might
not be worth consideration. We rather expect,
however, when the time comes, that ample employ-
ment will be found for the additional income, in re-
lieving the wants of the constantly increasing popu-
lation of the locality for which the charity was
originally created. As the corporation has even
now the nomination of thirty-eight governors, and
has it because " the said hospital is a Royal Hos•
pital founded by and at the cost of the citizens of
London," we may assume that the vote of yesterday
will be final a% to the general site of the Hospital.
And as to the precise spot, it would surely be im-
possible to find one which, all things considered,
can compete with its present temporary site—the
Surrey Gardens.

711 E ATLANTIC 7EL EGRAPH COM.
PANY S SCHEME.

The Emperor of the French received a letter in
which General Mitre announces his elevation to the post
of President of the Argentine Republic. His Majesty also

received the reply of the King of Sweden to the letters of

recall of M. Charles Baudin, French Minister at the Court

of Si(dtholin ; and those from the King of Hanover and

le Duke of Brunswick, to the letters of recall of Baron de

Malaret, French Minister at their Courts.
Marshal the Duke de Malakoff was received yes•
terday at the Tuileries by the EmpDror.
fIIE MEMBERS FOR NOTTINGHAM.—The banquet
to the borough member at Nottingham on Wednesday gave
to Sir Robert Clifton end Mr. Paget an opportunity for
giving an account of their parliamentary stewardship. Mr.
Paget explained his views with an amount of caution that

did not appear to give entire satisfaction to the radical sec-
tion of his audience. Sir Robert Clifton entered at great
length into a review of his first Parliamentary experience,
denouncing the present Government for its extravagance,
and intimating that it was his intention to do everything
in his power to repress the enormous expenditure of the
country, which exceeded that of any previous period of
peace,—.Nottingham Daily Guardian,

A LADY IMPRISONED BY THE CONFEDERATE
G OVERNMEN T.-A Southern paper, the _Richmond Inquirer,
says that 10 days ago a very accomplished lady, connected
with people in Richmond of great wealth and influence,
was imprisoned in Castle Thunder under a charge of giving
information to the Yankees by way of Portsmouth, where
she dwells, and from which place she has made several
visits to Richmond.

SIGNOR GIUGLTNI AND MRS. WINDHAM.— On
Monday evening Mdlle. Tietjens and Signor Giuglini, ac-
companied by three operatic stars of less brilliancy, gave a
concert in the Music Hall, Aberdeen. The lady was re-
ceived with unqualified approbation; not so the great tenor,
his part in the last public act of the Windham drama having
created an unfavourable feeling against him. The conse-
quence was that the Signor, on malting his first appearance
was greeted with considersble hissing—a manifestation
which not a few evidently thought all the more deserved,
that the now notorious Mrs. Windaam, nee Miss Rodgers,
occupied a prominent place in the gallery, and was hearty
in applause of her favourite. The fara regarding Giuglini
and the lady of Felbriggo Hall, hoxever, spoiled the con-
cert commercially.

A TEST OF LOYALTY.—Among the political pr
soners recently released at Camp Chase is a boy of 13, who
was employed on a steamboat running from Parkersburg to
some point up the river. He contracted a wash-bill with a
woman in Parkersburg, which he paid, with the exception
of 15c., which he would not cr did not pay. She reported
him as disloyal; he was arrested, and, as is usual in such
cases, he was hurried off to•prison, not even being told of
what he was charged. 14 has beena close prisoner for
four months, but was lately brought forth for examination,
and told that there was nu sufficient charge against him,
and that he was at liberty again.—Dayton (Ohio) Empire.
GARIBALDL—A friend rites from Turia, Dec.
5 :—" I have received a letter from the General to-day.
He says he is going to get on horseback, and that he will
soon return to his blessed solitude in Caprera—which sig-
nifies that he is better."
THE LATE MR. SHERI') tN KNOWLES.—It gra-
tifies us much to hear from a private source that a memo-
rial is being prepared in Glasgow, soliciting a pension of
£lOO a year for his widow. A memorial to the same effect
should be sent from Belfast, where Mr. Knowles was so
well known and so highly esteemed. A handsome monu-
ment is about to be erected to his memory in the Glasgow
Necropolis ; and, as evidence of the spirit evinced in refe-
rence to it, we may state that two of his friends in London,
one of whom went all the way to attend the funeral, have
put down their names for £lOO each. We are glad to know
that Mr. Dalgli,h, M.P. for Glasgow, and several of the
leading men in Glasgow, take a warm interest in the move-
ment to do honour to the late Sheridan Knowles.—Belfast
News Letter.
DR. GUTHRIE IN LIVERPOOL.—The Rev. Dr.
Guthrie, of Edinburgh, says the Liverpool Mercury, the
elo ,uent and warm-hearted friend and advocate of ragged
schools, has kindly consented, in compliance with a nume-
rous and highly influential requisition, signed by the
Mayor, ex• Mayor, the President of the Chamber of Com-
merce, and other gentlemen, to lociatre in this town next
week, in behalf of the Lancashire relief Fund.
THE LION OF CHOERONEA.—A cast of one of
the most famous relics of ancient Greek art has just arrived
at the British Museum, and is being put together under the
auspices of Mr. C. r. Newton, of Christ Church, Oxford,
keeper of antiquities, well known for his able work on his
excavation at Halicarnassus. About a mile from Choeronea
(Kapourna, or Kaprena), in Boeotia, on the right-hand side
of the Orchomenos-road, is the sepulchre of the Boeotian's
who fell in the battls of Choeronea, fighting against Philip
of Macedon, B.C. 339. Pausanias speaks of the tomb in his
quaint but touching language as " having no inscription, but
a figure of a lion placed on it, as emblem of the spirit of these
men. There is no inscription," he adds, "because the gods
willed that their fortune should be unequal to their valour."
In the time of Dodwell, Leakes, and other travellers, the
lion had disappeared. About twenty years ago, according
to Colonel Mure, the splendid marble figure was discovered
strewed in detached masses about the sides and the interior
of the excavation. It was said that the celebrated patriot
chief Odysseus, when occupying the town, observed a piece
of marble outside the summit of the mound, sounded it
with a stick, and, finding it hollow, broke it up, Greek •like,
in the idea that treasure was concealed in it. Other people
think that the discovery is due to the patriarch of philolo-
gists, the Austrian consul Gropius. With the exception of
the Marathonian tumulus, the famous lion of Choeronea
is the only relic of the best days of Greek art. When put
together this gigantic figure will, no doubt, attract much
interest.

TilE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY.--The following
short biography of the now Italian Ministry is given by the
Temps :-"M. Farini, the President of the Council, is a
Roman ; he was an eminent physician and a leader of the
Liberal party when he was appointed Director-General of
I the Hospitals and Prisons of Rome under the Ministry of
Count Rossi. In 1848, when the Republic was proclaimed
in Rome, he emigrated to Tuscany; thence he removed to
Piedmont. M. Farini was for some time Minister of Public
Instruction in 1850, and subsequently he was Minister of
the Interior in the Cavour Cabinet. He was Dictator of
Emilia and Lieutenant General of the King at Naples after
Garibaldi's departure. N. Farini was the principal nego-
tiator of the cession of Nice and Savoy to France.
He was born on the 22d of October, 1822. M. Peruzzi,
the new Minister of the Interior, is a Tuscan. He was a
leader of the Liberal party in 1848, and in 1859 was at the
head of the movement which transferred Tuscany to Pied-
mont. He was Minister of Public Works in Ricasoli's
Cabinet. He is a man of energy and undoubted liberalism.
It has been said by mistake that he is an enemy of the
French alliance. M. Minghetti was, in 1848, Minister of
Commerce to Pius IX. ; he has twice been Victor Em-
manuel's Minister of the Interior-once under Cavour and
onco under Rieasoli. He is a distinguished political
economise; ; as Finance Minister he will now have an
opportunity of showing his talent. M. Pasolini, the new
Minist-r of Foreign Affairs, is also a Roman. He was for a
long time Mayor of Ravenna. In 1847 he was a colleague of
Rossi, under whom he filled the office of Minister of Public
Works. A refugee in 1849, he went into Piedmont. In
1859 he was appointed Governor of Milan, which post he
held till M. Itattaizi came into power, when he resigned.
Shortly afterwards, at the personal request of the Ring,
he accepted the appointment of Governor of Turin.
M. Manna, the Minister of Commerce, is a Neapolitan.
He was a director-general of customs under the Baur-
' bons, and in ISGO was sent by Francis 11. to Turin,
to negotiate an alliance with Piedmont. M. Menabrea,
Minister of Pubic Works, is a General of Piedmontese
Engineers, He was secretary-general to the Azegiio in
1850, and Minister of Marine in the Ricasoli Cabinet. M.
Amari, Minister of Public Instruction, is a Sicilian ; ono
of the most eminent savants in Italy, and an Orientalist of
European reputation. He long resided in Paris as a re-
fugee, and is a corresponding member of the Institute. M.
Della Revere, Minister at War, held that porfolio under
Ricasoli ; he has been Lieutenant-General of the King in
Sicily. M. Ricci, Minister of Marine, is a Genoese, and
has had the reputation of being a naval officer.
MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE.-The waifs and strays
which float into the national exchequer are some of them of
a curious character. Thus, small branches of hereditary
revenue produced £33,580 in 1861-2, as compared with
£16,421 in 1860-1; fees of the House of Commons,:£79,ols
in 1861-2, as compared with £60,350 in 1860.1 ; fees at the
Home-office, £1,287 in 1861-2, as compared with £1,159 in
1860-1 ; fees at the Privy Council-office, £1,027 in 1861-2,
as compared with £915 in 1860-1; fees at the office for the
registration of joint-stock companies, £10,505 in 1861-2, as
compared with £7,073 in 1860-1 ; fees at the office of the
registration of designs, £3,068 in 1861-2, as compared with
£2,659 in 1860-1; fees and fines from police courts, £10,812
in 1861-2, as compared with £19,809 in 1860-1; fees at
British Consulates abroad, £11,891 in 1861-2, as compared
with £4,124 in 1860-1; surplus fees in superior courts of
common law, £120,000 in 1861-2 (this item does not appear
in the corresponding accounts for 1860-61); miscellaneous
fees, £8,020 in IE6I-2, as compared with £7,060 in 1860-1;
fees from public offices in Scotland, £39,261 in 1861-2, as
compared with £40,970 in 1860-1; fees from public offices
in Ireland, £10,631 in 1861-2, as compared with £3,800 in
stores, &e., 191,953 in 186
11886601:12,;
aasi ncloynalpnadreodrdnwainthce, &c., extra receipts, £363,045 in
in :860-1 ; receipts in office of works for old materials, &C.,
£l-426,9a,9s5c9oninipalre8d6ON-clit;hnLyB,9o2
old
£35,905 in 1861.2, as competed with £12,071 in 1860-1;
seignorage cn bullion purchased for coinage at the Mint,
£69,580 in 1861-2, as compared with £34,321 in 1860-1;
pro ceeds of the sale of books at the Stationery-office,
£21,080 in 1861-2,
as compared with £28,963 in 1860-1;
productive labour of prisoners in convict establishments,
£13,641 in 1861-2, as compared with £15,179 in 1860-1;
hoe ( on, Dublin, and Edinburgh Gazettes, L 24,479 in 1861-2,
celeleared with ,e 22,289 in 1860-1 ; conscience 11-lulu,
£7,"573 :n 1801-2, as compared with £10,219 in 1860-1; va-
li2U 0S 9 Cs
receipts, G ; £3,487 in 1861-2, as compared with
and £18,914 set down in sheer despair
as "miscellaneous" in 1861-2, as compared with £18,360
in 1860-1,
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BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 12.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which
shows the following results, as compared with the

November return :

INCREASE.

Francs.

Cash in hand
Treasury balance

DECREASE.

Bills discounted, not yet due .... 38

Advances
Bank-notes
Current accounts

PARIS, DEC. 12.

The Moniteur of to•day says :

" M. de l3udberg, the new Russian Ambassador,
in delivering his credentials to the Emperor, said :
"' I have been commanded by the Emperor, my
master, to be the interpreter of his feelings of
sincere friendship for your Majesty. I shall do my
best for the development of a mutual understanding
between two great nations, the union of which is
based upon the right comprehension of their mu-
tual interests.'

" The Emperor replied—
"' I congratulate myself upon the friendly rela-
tions existing for six years between the Emperor
and my Government, and which have the more
chance of continuing, as they are due to the mutual
sympathies and real interests of the two Empires.
I have been enabled to appreciate the straight-
forwardness of heart of your Sovereign, and have
conceived for him a sincere friendship. You will
find among us a hearty reception."

The " bulletin" of the Moniteur contradicts tele.
grams published in the Paris papers, stating tha
several of the legations at Athens had landed ma
rives to protect their hotels, which had been threat
ened by the movements of the populace.

BERLIN, DEC. 11, EVENING.
Sir Andrew Buchanan, the new British Ambas
sador to the Court of Berlin, has arrived here.

ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 12.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day says :
—" We can state on the best authority that the
great Powers have agreed to maintain the protocol
of 1830, but have not yet come to an understanding
about any candidate for the throne of Greece.
The Russian Cabinet has not proposed any can-
didate."

COPENHAGEN, DEC.,12.,

The lodrelandet and Dagbladet of to-day assert
that the Swedish Foreign Minister, in the middle
of October last, forwarded a despatch to the
Minister of Sweden, in London, stating that as
Earl Russell's despatch upon the question of
Schleswig can only be destined for the enemies
of Denmark, or for those who are not acquainted
with the real position of that question, the Swe-
dish Government thanks Earl Russell for not
having forwarded to Sweden a copy of the despatch,
as she does not belong to either category.

MADRID, DEC. 10 (Evening).

In to-day's sitting of the Senate General Prim
read some confidential letters addressed to him by
Admiral Lagraviere, containing strange details in
reference to the expedition to Mexico.
According to these letters, Aimonte had declared
that he was authorised by the Emperor Napoleon
and the Archduke Maximilian himself to put for-
ward the candidature of the latter, and that the
French troops would guarantee the throne of
Mexico to the Archduke.

General Prim then read letters written by Mar-
shal O'Donnell and Senor Collantes, recommending
the strict execution of the Treaty of London. He
said that the Representative of England made
similar declarations to him, and, under the circum-
stances, he deemed it wise to re-embark for Spain.
In conclusion, ho expressed his opinion that the
French expedition would not have the desired
result.

TURIN, DEC. 11

The Italian Parliament re-assmbled to-day.

All the new Ministers were present. Signor
Farini officially announced the formation of the
Cabinet and its programme, which was received
with great marks of approval.
The President of the Chamber of Deputies ten-
dered his resignation to the Chamber, which how-
ever, declined to aceept it.
The Minister of Finance laid the provisional
budget on the table of the house.
The following is a summary of the speech de-
livered by Signor Farini. The minister commenced
by saying :

" We shall find in the assistance of Parliament
the necessary authority for accomplishing the in-
terior organisation of the country, and for worthily
representing Italy abroad. The administrative re-
forms will be based upon a system of decentralisa-
tion and the development of constitutional liberties.
The first condition of liberty is the maintenance of
public order."

Signor Farini then eulogised the army which had,
under a painful trial, given an example of abnega-
tion and discipline, and restored the authority of