The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-19 00:00:00

THIS NEWSPAPER,

"THE SUN,"
To be SOLD by AUCTION, by a Decree of the Lord
Chancellor and with the approbation of the Master of the
Rolls, on THURSDAY, the 4th December, 1882, at the
AUCTION MART, London, unless previously disposed of
by Private Contract.
The property may be viewed by cards, to be obtained from
the auctioneer, Mr. Edward Lumley, of 87, Chancery-lane,
London, W.C., and of the undersigned; of each of whom
printed particulars may also be had, and to whom proposals
for purchase by private contract may be made.
ADAM RIVERS STEELE, Solicitor,
44, Bloomsbury-square, London, W.C.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TH is DAY.—Morning, 1111. 42m.—Afternoon, h. m
TO-MORROW.-Morning, 12h. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 31m.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1862.

We congratulate our fellow-citizens on the South
side of the Thames that their voice, backed by that
of the press and the public generally, has prevailed.
Grand Committees, as well as Dukes of BtiC-
CLEUCH, find it useless to resist when a job be- ,
comes so glaring, and the parties interested are so
numerous, that full discussion is insured. in this
case the press and the—in a eonventional sense—
respectable portion of the public were perfectly dis-
interested. They have contended entirely on behalf
of their poorer neighbours. An hospital is an in-
stitution to confer upon the most needy of the poor,
in the most critical medical cases, the benefit of the
highest medical skill; this aspect of the case should
never be forgotten. The physicians and surgeons
in attendance upon St. Thomas's Hospital lay just
and deserved stress upon it in their statement. In
England the poorest enjoyed " the skill of HUNTER
and ABERNETIIY and COOPER, BAILLIE and
BRIGHT, LISTON and BRODIE, CLIVE and
TRAVERS, when each was at the zenith of
his power and reputation." A splendid
charity this, but one entirely conditioned on the
proximity of the hospital to the great city in which
first class surgeons and physicians must reside.
Those who have demanded the abandonment of the
scheme for making St. Thomas a country hospital
may truly say that in so doing they have secured
for the poorest person suffering under a case need-
ing the highest skill, or needing to undergo an .-„,pe.
ration of the greatest difficulty, the ver-j-, men who
would be sent for by Belgravia, by the Palace
itself.

To this is to be add the other great considera-
tion, that the ca
;des most claiming hospital atten-
tion are ttote "of acute disease, and the immediate
effee,e.s of severe accidental injury." The number of
4,:nese is very great ; and their conveyance by railway
tor other means would always involve great suffering,
often danger, frequently loss of life, before they
could receive attention. These two facts alone are
sufficient to decide the question of removing the
Hospital, or of retaining it near its old site. There
are several collateral reasons of great importance ;
but the incalculable advantages, of being near to
the highest medical skill; and to the innumerable
cases which requile immediate attention, are suffi-
cient alone to convict of folly, if nothing worse, the
proposal of the Grand Committee to remove the
Hospital into the country. We observe that the
statement of the Physicians and Surgeons endorses
t 1143 arguments which we urged the other day, sup-
porting them irresistibly with their greater means
of lihstration ; nor can we conceive that after that
statement has been published, and public opinion so
strongly ex.-,
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rresged it will be possible for the Grand
old oneMi to . attempt: any scheme similar to their

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possible, but the u Ittee were let down as gently as
submit to an a .P6ll't of all was that they had to
tion, by tilen4roent rescinding their resolu-
tion, of tt
the thing. The Gr to 28. That will settle
and commit
be safely left after such an „ int" itself may now
their search for a locality, stllktina" to resume
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us to the necessity of not too much said by them
choice, lest the proprietor their
of thereefttaing
filiculd demand an unreasonable sum. (.1,:d• site
there is something in this; but f eee
proprietors mast
know that the public would no more tolerate the
Grand Committee in wasting the funds of the
charity in giving an unreasonable sum for a dealt._
able site, than in purchasing an undesirable
one. Railway companies and all public companies
are considered by a certain class as fair game—as
fat geese to be plucked ; hut the man who had pro-
Foy in the market, and who raised the price exor-
bitantly, to the injury of a charity to the poor,
could never hold up his head again in
society, To make a sharp bargain with
persons who are avowedly seeking profit as
much as you are, may be excusable.
Conlin •
ercial 'natality cstainly excuses it;

but few men would defend the seller who should
add a large sum to what he had previously been'
willing to take, because the land was needed ior
the s3rvice of the poor, the sick, and the dying.
It was very well to use this as a pretext to save
the Grand Committee from too much humiliation,
but till we see it we will not believe of any of our
countrymen that they would demand more for
their property, because it was wanted for an hos-
pital. The man who could do so ought to be
haunted by the remorse which would make his
gains a very uneasy possession. Its full value he
ought to have. All beyond that would be robbing
the poor.

At the first general meeting of the Law Amend-
ment Society, held on Monday evening, when
Lord BROUGHAM again, according to annual wont,
occupied the chair—an admirable speech was de-
livered by the Noble Lord the member for King's
Lynn—a speech in which the progress of the cause
of Legal Amendment during the 'last few sessions
was tersely and most clearly epitomised. By the aid
of Lord STANLEY'S opportune reminders, it becomes
at any rate clearly recognisable that if the Legisla-
ture has been otherwise idle of late, it has made an
uppreciable advance in the way of realising a variety
of most important legal improvements. So viewed
—regarding our legislative labours of late years,
that is to say, exclusively in reference to their effi-
ciency in bringing about many desirable changes
or modifications in the laws of England—the ses-
sions of 1860, 1861, 1862, cannot be deemed to have
been in any way inoperative. They can, on the con-
trary, be looked back to, with extreme satisfaction.
They have secured and realised to the nation, in ra-
pid sequence, beneficial changes of an extraordinarily
comprehensive kind, in regard to the law of divorce,
in regard to the law of h -all/Li upLu.y, aiza, laUt uuL
least, in regard to the laws hitherto regulating the
transfer of land. Besides all which, and a multi-
tude of minor improvements, there are those grand
preliminary steps which have been at length taken
towards the general consolidation of the law ; steps
that, if persevered in, must ultimately lead us to
the codification of the whole mass of our ancient,
composite, and, at present, most complex system of
jurisprudence. Numerous other legal improve-
ments are still, as many of them have been,
indeed, long since, in active preparation.
Upon the law of patents—the most diffi-
cult and complicated question, Lord STAN-
LEY protests, he had ever had at any time brought
under his consideration—a Commission having
been issued by the Crown, has actually this very
day commenced its sittings ! As to the question
of the Concentration of the Law Courts, we are
rejoiced to observe the noble lord the member

for King's Lynn asserting that, in his opinion, it
must prove one that cannot possibly give much
trouble, if only for the simple reason that, upon

the theory of it, there is just absolutely no dif-
ference of opinion at all anywhere discernable.
" The whole world," said he, " agreed that the
concentration of the courts would be an advan-
tage to all parties ; the real point being whether,
in the present actual state of affairs, when the
expenditure was going on at a rate absolutely
unprecedented in a time of peace, it was possible
to find funds to accomplish that reform." As to
that vitally important problem relating to the
possible creation of a Department of Justice—a pro-
blem, the solution of which, Lord STANLEY observed,
with truth, that the House of Commons has now,
for some years, stood formally pledged, that for rea-
sons specified by himself, reasons, however, that we
candidly confess we do not recognise as in any

point of view either cogent or conclusive, Lord
STANLEY does not deem to be ready for any im-
mediate action. In the first place, he thinks thus
unfavourably as to the probability of its early so-
lution, because the subject itself is not exciting any
great amount of public interest. And, in the
next place, he is led to that disheartening con-
clusion in the matter, by a vague conviction that
but few among his fellow members would
care very much to go into it. Neither
of these reasons, as we take it, being in any
way sufficient to justify the relaxing of the
efforts making of late years, both within and with-
out the walls of the Legislature, towards the bring-
ing about, if possible, of this long wished-for crea-
tion of a distinct Department of Justice, a depart-
ment comprising amongst its great functionaries
that most desirable Law Officer—a Public Prosecu-
tor ! The questions that Lord STANLEY considers
are among all others the ripest just now for the
immediate consideration of Parliament, the noble
lord, on Monday evening, with an evident gusto
gladly and even eagerly enumerated. First and
foremost among them being of course the still in-
COMPlet; and indeed (considering its magnitude and
complexity) the R 2 yet hardly commenced work, the
great work of Consolidation ! " This," Lord STAN-
LEY shrewdly remarked at the first mention of it,
" was really a double process, for unless, besides
consolidating existing laws, they devised some plan
for incorporating new acts as they passed them, in
the legislation of which they formed a part, their
work would be like pouring water into a sieve, and
they would never see the end of it." So re-
garded and so treated, however, namely,
as a double process, it does undoubtedly,
we cannot hut recognize with him, admit of

a gradual solution. The work must be done, o,
course, slowly, continuously, and with the utmost
possible circumspection and systematization. II

cannot, by possibility, be accomplished—all at once.
The labour is herculean of its kind, and must be
accomplished (above all things, thts should be borne
in mind by the promoto.n of the enterprise) gradu-
ally. Besides the foregoing questions, there were
others that Lord STANLEY enumerated before the
close of his remarks on Monday : legal improvements
projected in regard to railway legislation, in regard
to the ecclesiastical courts, and in regard to pri-
vate bill legislation. Alogether, the noble lord's
speech, brief and condensed though it necessarily
was, was full of encouragement.

It is not simply interesting, it is also in the
highest degree important, to note in some way the
exact extent of the progress made and making to-
wards the relief of the immense distress now deso-
lating Lancashire. Several weeks since Mr. COBDEN
warned us, through a singularly impressive speech
of his in reference to this destitution among the
Manufacturing operatives, that the loss in wages
alone amounting then to a weekly loss at the rate
of £7,000,000 per annum, would inevitably (ac-
cording to his calculations) before the winter should
have passed by, have risen to a still more frightful
magnitude. He told us plainly that, in wages
alone, before the turn of the year the manufacturing
districts would be losing week after week at the
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