The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-29 00:00:00

tion, incomplete and temporary as it appears. During the
four weeks ending 13th October, 211 cases were admitted ;
30 of these were accidents, a number about equal to the
average attended at the old Hospital. The out•patients
numbered during the first week 284, second week 658, third
week 830, fourth 1,062. These figures show how conve-
nient this place is for the people, and that directly they
know of it, how ready they are to use it; and it should not
be forgotten that a sum of £7,000 to £lO,OOO has been
already expended by the Governors in making this
place suitable. As to locality, we have a gravel sub-
stratum immediately under us, and the great drain-
age scheme which has been so long needed for South
London now hastens to completion ; so that with our na-
tural drainage—the gravel—and our artificial drainage now
under construction ; our drainage will be complete, and our
health condition will in this respect be almost perfect. But
even now the great institutions of our locality are quite
healthy. Bethlem with its 15 acres, its level and its posi-
tion, is the best possible type of what the Surrey Gardens
will be. Mr. Lawrence, a surgeon of the highest repute,
reports in 1855 "That the new comers both in the hospital
and house exhibit almost invariably, within a short time
after their arrival, a marked improvement in health and
appearance. The inmates of the House of Occupations are
singularly healthy, almost free from attacks of active or
serious disease, not plagued with scrofula, and affording
very little occupation to their medical attendant; for 24
years there had been but 9 deaths among 210 boys and girls
always there." In 1860 the resident physician of Bethlem
wrote to the then officer of health of this parish, " Nearly
eight years' continued attendance in this hospital enables
me to assure you that the inmates are unusually healthy,
and free from all epidemic disease. The mortality is very
:mall as compared with similar asylums. I attribute this
freedom from disease to the great attention paid to cleanli-
ness, good ventilation, a due regard to hygienic measures,
&c." So that the one officer tells us the fact that people
become healthier and better when they come there; that
they are " singularly healthy ;" and the other tells us the
reason that the commonest and most sensible means adopted
for health, are quite efficient in making the institution,
existing as it does in the very centre of this neighbourhood,
as healthy as any other. Mr. Brodribb says of "the Mag-
dalen"—" I have now been medical attendant to the insti-
tution for the last 15 years, and daring that time there has
been no prevailing,intractable disease." Mr. Turner con-
siders " the Deaf and Dumb Asylum particularly heslthy."
After this, can there be the least shadow of excuse for re-
moving St. Thomas's Hospital away from us on the score
of health. There must be, we think, other reasons which
are not in accord with public benefit.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 28

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
Prince Christian, the Princess Alexandra, and Prince
Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon. Lord Charles Fitz-
Roy (Equerry in Waiting) attended on horseback.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis
of Hesse took a carriage drive.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Christian (of Den-
mark)
and the Princess Alexandra left the Castle yester-
day at 25 minutes past 6 p.m. for the Continent, attended
by General and Madame d'Oxholm. Colonel Seymour,
C. 8., Groom in Waiting to the Queen, also attended their
Royal Highnesses.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and Prince Louis
of Hesse accompanied the Prince and Princess to the rail-
way station, where a special train was in waiting to convey
them to Dover.
The Hon. Horatia Stopford and the Hon. Harriett Phipps
have succeeded the Hon. Lucy Kerr and the Hon. Victoria
Wortley as Maids of Honour in Waiting.

THE DEPARTU.RE OF 711 E PRINCES
ALEXANDRA.

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The Princess Alexandra of Denmark, accompanied by
her father, Prince Christian, and also by General and Lady
d'Oxholm and suite, left Windsor by spacial train shortly
after 6 p.m. on Thursday evening, on their return home.
The Prince and Princess, who were attended by Colonel
Seymour, Groom in Waiting to the Queen, travelled, with-
out any change of carriage, over the Great Western Com-
pany's narrow gauge line from Windsor to Kew, and
thence, via the South-Eastern lire of railway, to Dover.
The Royal train arrived in Dover at 10 p.m., and on the
Prince and Princess alighting from their State carriage
they proceeded to Birmingham's Lord Warden Hotel, and
afterwards embarked on board the Admiralty steamer
Vivid, Commander Allen, which had been specially or-
dered for the service of their Royal Highnesses, and
which left the Admiralty pier for Calais at about 11 30 p.m.
Colonel Seymour accompanied their Royal Highnesses
from Dover to Calais, from which place their Royal High-
nesses would proceed by special train, through Belgium,
towards their own dominions.

It is expected that his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales will meet the Princess Alexandra at Brussels, and
accompany her Royal Highness to Denmark.
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The Prince Christian and Princess Alexandra were re-
ceived at the Dover Railway station by Captain Triseotta
R.N., the superintendent, General Garneeh, and on' the
part of the South-Eagtern Railway by Mr. C. W. Eborall,
general manager, and by Mr. S. Tenlon, one of Ow dire'-
tors; the two latter gentlemen having travelled in the
train. The Prince and Princess thanked Mr. Eborall for
the comfort and attention paid to them by the railway
authorities. The station had been suitably prepared by Mr.
Way, the company's stationmaster. The Princess looked
exceedingly well, and the few select residents of the town
who were present were much gratified with a sight of the
handsome and pleasing features of her Royal Highness, and
also with the gracious manner in which her Royal Highness
acknowledged their respects. Mr. J. P. Knight, the super-
intendent of the line, had charge of the Royal train over
the South-Eastern line, and, with Mr. Walker, the com-
pany's telegraphic engineer, accompanied it throughout
from Windsor to Dover.