16 MAY 1868, Page 2

The Queen laid the first stone of the new Hospital ,

of St. Thomas on the South embankment of the Thames on Wednesday. The ceremonial was performed in a pavilion erected for the occasion, before a select crowd of some 2,000 persons, who cheered tier Majesty and Mr. Disraeli with about equal heartiness. The new building is to be on a vast soale, consisting of eight blocks, each 125 feet apart, all united by long corridors, and each forming a

.complete miniature hospital. The first, however, will contain the administration, and the last the medical school, museums, library, and lecture theatres.