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(AL • • ~ . 6 •THE' IRISH COBBLER. . • • ' 44 Stiitinitssa eaustims." COBBLER. in the county Cork,'tis said, li By bard Industry gainl his daily bread; Would drink his whiskey, and enjoy his joke, Talk politics sing ballads, laugh and smoke, Make brogues, keel pumps; and none, beyond dispute, Knew► better how to renovate a boot ! Through allthe parish, none like Cobbler Pat Repeated an old tale, or knew " what!, That." Tit' Exciseman and the Schoolmaster would • Sit in his Wilke; the parish cares to softinsf; And, notwithstanding all their learning, mid Our honest Cobbler had a knowing bead; , For frequently the Cobbler would proceed, as The ancients aid, like old Archimedes, And, like thhlam'il Philosopher, inquire What element could best produce a fire : Of Carbon, and the famous Our Cobbler never knew but they were physie-.. So leldom•troubled his Industrious skull ' 'Bout things that often puzzle poor John Bull! Some one from London, called a Nobleman, Taller than Pat's acquaintance by a span, And therefore greater, came into the village To look about his rents, estates, and tillage : And one of his donteitics shortly brought Ilia Lordship's Boots to be repaired by Pat. Pat paw their brilliant gloss—the sun shone bright.... . Pat tried to smoke, but could not find a light ; Then seiz'd a Boot, reflecting War►en's black, • Which lit his pipe (as Pat said) " in a crack !" This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by .€lO ajzi.ZeilL 50, STRAND, London; Asti Amid ist. 'very Town in the Kingdom. ti4DID in Betties, 6d. tod. igd. and lad. eacls. Alin PASTE RLACKING, in Pots, 6d. 12d. and 184. 4 006 " 1 le.'Particular to %Oise fir ItOßt. W A It It ft WS, SO, STRAND. ALL Mali AAA 011011113110 IL • I*9o IXlNlóti - 4 . 401 . 74.1ffe• tfv. Aim i n Wisidser., emits* ilox aunt • Ste _fp . 4o N opt Eacejleot Majesty ip council. ant Ate Oletlaloy Ids Males!) , In Canna!, thait the Par. Wiest - tie OttitElitmor; Matt Thuted4 the twelity.egghth 4114 'of iilyMMiriftite to Tiortderthothittieth days( Ocesieet next. !;.§, ••••••-;-.. WitITNHALL, Atm. 136. , The Wog has boon Messed to order a toog4 d'ehre to.pase the fiscpt 2641 a. Site silaited Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelands empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of after, in elan t Bishop of that See; thi same twill void by tbeo nionsiatioiv4 the Right - -Itevetend Father In lisms.Charlea dames laaradhibap rbereotoothe See ot,Loodess; and hit Majesty has:Also Into p)witedatsy t i. ltoyal Sign Meouei, to recommend to the said Dean and Cliapter the Reverend Jofin Bird Sumner,,Doctor io Divhiltf, to bill tattl'Ateseti . Bishop of siddßee - of Chester: IAfKRJPTS. Frances Fustie, oiford-iftfeet l , OM . elost.4, to soriesitlet, Btptenther 5, *, chid 'OttObeer, - it two, at the Court of Com- Milsiet.ers eol-ilaistAtopts, ..httoroies, Messrs, Oolguire.Wd. cf- t !Igiiifice 6 tr!efl . . • Jsc,b Israel.Branjoti,, Kickmansvioit . lt , lieitfordsbire, merchant, Neithridier • 9 . ; it lei; 19, at . eleien, and . Oehler 7, at ten, .Wfvlse•Cotitt - Sf 'Commissioners of Bankropu, Basinghalt-etreet. Antietam Mr. JA , Jaitobs, r Great St. Helens. . . 13roolte, Gainiburgh, Lincolnshire, innkeeper, September 6, 16, and October 7; at nine, at the ‘larson's *ArmAnn, Gains burgh. Atterniei; Mr. Thomas Waterhouse• Wells, Gahrsburgh ; or Mr; SA*, Him.court,.Tensple. • George Dickinton, Liverpool, cnre,and flustrolialer, September 17, at hp, 15, and October);, at 4e at the Office o Mr. Woodburn. Preston. Attorples. Meares. Minis and CO: John..street, Bed fhed:rose• or Mr. WOOdborii;Preston... • ' • Alin' Aiiba;t 'Neter, Pdttkweil, .F..sser, miller, September tr. 8,• ' sld October 7;at-tali,-at the Anchor Jqs, Canewdon. Auoruies, Geosge Wood;Rsichford or jglessrs. Stevens and Co. Little St. norms AtWatle. John fitentwood, Essex, master matiner, August 49, at "cievinilleprember"4o, - at ten, • and October 7, at eleven, at the Gen of Commissioners of , Bankrupts, ,Basingball-street. At tones,. Messrs. Baduieley, Leman-street, goodman's-fields. . DE,CLA RATIONS ..OF INSOLVENCY. George 11;loravia,. lieurietta-street,. Brunswick-square, merchant, is in imilient circumstances. and is unable to meet his engsge 'avid iith Sit creditnrs—Fired August 23. Cooper Itess,"Hishoer Stortford,. Hertfordshire; grocer, is in • insolvenrcircunitvisces and is unable to meet his engagements • vids•his creditorr—POZd Augnft Drvimmns to be made in BASI NG HALL-STUMM Sept. 16. Henry Parry and John Underwood, Change-alley, Combat, bill briakeri, at twelve. Sept. 23; Thomas Court. iTirdrisbetesirrate; Doctors"Conunons, etighteel and snick at eleven. Nov! I$; raesrgb Wlittetead, ion. and Gatitidett 'Mao, ins of Basinglaili.atrest„ Blackwell-ball factors, at eleven. - DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. Sept. U, Rohde Heron Somerville, Liverpool, hosier, at twelve. at the Clammiest buildings, Liverpool. -Sept. 17, Betty Buckley, Robert puchley, and Joseph Buckley, Manchester, cotton spir.ners, at twb, at" ilieStar Inn, Mattebelter. Oct. 23, William !navel, Leattiington Prime, Waresicklhire, ironmonger, at 'level, at the Crown Hotel,:traniington Priors. Sept, is, Daniel Howard. Dokinfield, Cheshire, cotton spinner. at eleven. at the Star Inn, Manchester. Sept. 23, William Hayes and Thomas Hayes, Tnr quay,' Devonshlre; at eleven, at the Half Moon Inn, Exeter.— Sept. 16, Antes Okey, • Oranehester, Cambridgeshire, tattle and sheep allesman, at eleven, at the Eagle Inn. Cambridge. Sept.l2, Thomas Sdwrade, late of Alton, Southampton, ironmonger, at one, at the Ssian Inn, Alton. Sept. 26, Jeremiah Buckky, Manchester, dealer; at one, alichlte's Hotel, Manchester. Oct. 23, Eli Abbott, Leamington Priors, Warwiekshire, cabinet maker, at two, at the Crown Lou, Leamington Priori. Sept. 25. James Pittman, Bath, irtionninger, at one, at the White Lion Inn, Bath. CERTIFICATES, Sem to. Thomaslls Be 4 Lion-street, Sitalfrelds, potatoe merchant. WLrcup, late of Dartford, Kent, patent washing machihe end petenemangle manufacturer. John Welch, Manchester, pub and caerler.' John Cook,late of Burr -street, East Smithflei4, tador. George Peat Boyce, Princes-street, Haymarket, stove. Maker, gunmaish, fitc. liers and PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Wilton Wood and Thomas Scaife, Liverpool, ship repe.rnalters. Abraham Jones and James Levander, Old Broad. street, surgeon dentists. John Bridge Clark and John Satterfield 3 lassai. Liverpool. accountants. John Lowrey and James Chilton,. Pannres-hall court, Broad-street, attornies. Evan Griffnha and Wi#"ll. Morgan, ltrigdend, Glamorganshire, anomie.. Elias limes and S. Soloman, Aldgate and West Smithfield, salesmen; also of *W el 'John Cordelm, sen. John Cordeux.juu. and Thos. Scales Contain, Barnsby, Yorkshire,.linen manufacturers (so far as regards John Cordeux. sea.) Messrs. Phelps, Page, and Co. Madeira and London. merchants. Messrs. Douglas, Smalley, and Co. Holywell, Plintshire, 'sad at' Manchester (so `far as "gat" John Bart). Mary Sabine and Maly Aia Wpm, Plate, Mile.elid.road, schoolmistresses. ' ' 1 , T1!! , . .4 0 \ • ; ' • A re ..sc fe r • ; Is ed . ' o' ' - , ••• •-- - 4. •Pr* "•••..ie .• • F.' \ • I•N ys : • . •4•• • . • .• ir'4' •: • -• . '1 •• • I .'t )1107 • • • " -,"-• , . / ; [PRICE SEVENPANCE: • iastittition, 'and his late Majesty *ould eitend to it his' #Ounterince and protection, he met with a silent refusal. It was therefore only by stealth, and by means not re . , , oy cognizeathe law,'that the teacher was; enabled to placate subject's. These means it is notorious from the time of Dr. Hunter doVvn to the present :tinie, have been principally. diiinterment ; though of late other illejal modes and contrivances, such as stealing before burial, personation 'of relativesior the purpose of - claiming bildies. Sic. have occasionally been bad recourse to. For some time after • the first estahliitiMent of dissect ing schools, while the number of teachers and stu dents was small, and the demand for subjects vet) , limited, the means which were resorted to for obtaic, hag a suprily, were adequate to the wants of the stu dents, and bodies were obtained in abundance and theaply... The exhumators, at that time, were few, l and Clittsmspect iri their proceedings; detection Was rare, the offence was little noticed by the public, and was' y regarded ai'penal; so that (acccOrding to one ..- ...-selitietiself long affei the decision of thesJudgee, : 88, that disinterment was a misdetheanour,•prose c ions for this offence Were not ceuschtm, and offenders taken in the fact were usually - libeiated: .11 this state Of things had continued, though the illegalityof the pfictices' had recourse to must be cenieded, yet they coild 'tamely be said to occasion eves of such magni tude as to' require a legislative remedy. But the num bar,of itadeatiama teachers having greatly increased, and with theM;thademand.for subject; and the number artzlitithitbrs; detectiolis becime frequent, tbe practice of eitnisuatiou notorious, and Public odium' and aiyi 'WOW:Fere directed' atioogly against the offenders. It itf* be collected froth the debates in Parliament which tai 'place sii . the. year . J1798,' daring the progress of a Bill for isibjecting tdaissectiOn the bodies of feloni exe caterlfoilststOiry 'and - robbery, that even at that time, the' public regardeedliitileratent • with*au ong feelings of eidoity. s '... - '''" • ' . ''''. igsvOsikti is.44:•Pahlic became Sig• ilant, the laws teawig to sepnlirare trete interpreted and executed with iimeitsam. sigma ; end as the price l d subjects lose with the lliflictilty ,Of obtaining theta, 0.1. e premium , for bigakiai th e laws . increased with the penalty. The eahnerators increases( iinimber, and being now treated . . . . as eija.inalie . bicamii Of. a pore . .. desperate and degraded ciiiiisicter . .. ' . . ... . .. „The parties of - daring me; who tiow, took to raising *lies, did it happen (as was frequently the case), that, adAile in pursuit of the same spoil, they. fell.. in one with another, actuated by vindictivefeeling and reg;ird less of the caution and secresy on which the b uccessf ul continu ante of : their hazardous occupation must depend, bad contet..ts in. the places, of sepulture—left the graves open to public gaze, or gave information' to Magistrates, or the relatives of the disinterred, against their rivals. Fre.' qgently, with a view to raise the pr ice of subjects. toe', tort,mopey, or to destroy rivalry, they have proceedecito aciadafoutrageous violenceoeoding to excite the pogu latea•agaimt the teachers of anatomy. These, and semi r acasokviolestee : 'on imprudence, have been constantly bridging ezburaation_to light, and 144:exasperated dtt pOblic against both the eshumator and the anatomise; and this tu_such,a degree, that of late, in many cases 404v/ids:fills,. out of solicitude to guard the dead, have taken upon themselves to dispense.with.the laws of their coutury, artd have fired-upon• parties attempting disks. terment..other circumstances, but 4 minor importance, hoe been assigned by some cf:the witnesses as augment+ 'fn&the difficulty of obtaining subjects in London, or ia 'ereasing the,demand for them ; but as.regards them, the Committenheg leave to refer to the evidence itself. The -general renal; has-been, with some difference, according 'l4.4ifferences rf place and season (sometimes owing to sthe s Oprice and mercenary motives of the agents em 140foilt- at-other, times owing to the real. difficulty of Obtaining -a supply), that, of late, subjects have been to u bcptocuredeither not at all,•or in very insufficient scentity v , and at prices most oppressive to the teacher cad student... . . .. England, who, under.the law, if truly thus interpreted, 'is not indictablefor a misdemeanour. According to the opinion of the last cited witness, to he a party to the noninterment, as well as to the disin. te:ment of a dead body, would render a person indict able. for a misdemeanour. Two cases are cited in support of this opinion. In the one, Rex v. Young, a non•reported case, but rote: red to by the Court in case,of Rex v. Lynn, the master of a workhouse, a surgeon, and another person, were indicted for, and convicted of, a conspiracy to p-event tht burial of 4 person whodied in the workhouse. In the other, Rex v. Cundick, which ocru'red at the Surrey Spring Asm sizes, in the year 182 g, the defendant . was f und guilty on an . inJictment for a misdemeanour, thrilling hint with not having buried the body of an executest felon, entrpsted.to hisn by the gaoler of the county . for that purpose; but with hiving sold the body for lucre aisd, gain; and for tha purpose• of being dissected ; and. on this trial, it was slot considered necessary .to.prove that the body bad been sdld for Incr.-, or for the purpose of dissection. The witness infars,from the analogy of all these cases, that to treat a dead body as liable to any thing but funeral rites, is an offence conirahcnos mores ; and therefore misdemeanour. • This state of the law is injurious tosidderiti, teachers, and practitioners, in every department of Medical and: surgical science, and appears to the Committee to be highly prejudicial to the public interests elsO.„. ~ ~ It is the'disty of the student to obtain, before entering a • into practice, the most perfect knowledge he is, able of !his profession. and for that put pose to study thoroughly the structure and functions of the human body, in which study he can only succeed by frequent and, repeated dia.. section. But his wants cannot adequately be supplied in this country, except at an expense amounting. nearly f to a prohibition, which can be afforded only by the: most wealthy, and precludes many students from ..dis4 - secting altogether. From the precariousness or j.nsuik; ciency of the Supply, the dissections ' and lectures ere. often suspended for many weeks, duiingwhiehlhe pu !? . Oils: are exposed to the,xlmiger of accitiring.habits.n&•• disiPation and indolence; and fscisp ttle,seMccan.l9.ol4 • important part of surgical etin,catio4 iknautOlyoPirtii tedorshich consists in teaching ha* to petfot 9 on Osgi;lefsk bodY those operations which, the student may afteryf *._ .s• Ise requited to . practise on the living,. lipt , not,n4_, r o t the student find dissection expensive aixd . .tlitOctilt..o i Ali, tainmenr, but he canuot practiie it, withn* ut eit.her:cop., miffing an infringement, : of the l aw - himself., or,.itaking advantage of cane committed by others. 14 the former, case, he roust espose hintself t i inispinent hanfail., FA in either he may incur severe penalpes, andrike.expOlfik• td public obloquy. The jaw, thong's. khe.nise,iunis of, the ,authorities, entrusted pith 40floriog 4iFbgmas,.sl4. of the Board} deputesibt,thens :in eaansine,carkikdsicif for .public service , requires .sitiara4tr...pi e of, cf . , pse !!: ; ficienCy in anatomical science,. a t iiitcmgh ther.q. ar.f PA rneaninf acquiring that pioacieney.:Withoist.commiglilg. : daily off ences against the law. ‘ The .01,egAity surd,M .difficulties attenling . t'ie acquiitioit s tpt tliks . cienex."4i4t pose the, examiners i n spin* eases t o tfiAz.olPBll4c,Plom of theii examination, and induce ;Oen), in,the,4-‘44 .. the A pother atias' C,OinDany,, to. ,dissen se . w ir e lk 4 hawing . , altogether; the persons. to whom ceitific e xteNere•grMe4 by the examiners of this comp.'s's'', Acing: tlif4e wlus a: from their numberst. and extensive, practice, ; . otig . he, especially for the ,sdlety of the public,. to be well in... strutted. The annual number . of certi4cains so,granteil . exceeds 400.. . - 4... ‘' . 1.4; .4 The teacher of anatomy, besides the'evils which befaW him in common with the student; har - to t,ulFer: rtheri s • arising also out of the state 'of the laW, which Affect hhis with peculiar hardship. The obstacles which impede tlre study of anatutny in this country ate such, and.the ties presented to thestudy its foreign'coUntries are Ripe* 'that those. English students who've deiirons of obtaiaing a thorough knowledge of the sciencei deset tithe school% at home, and repair to those abroad. Theit principal ma sort is to Paris, where 200' English students Of anaviey - are now pursuing their course of instruction. Dissectitisi probably, under these circumstances, would scarcely-be followed - at home, we, it : not for the regulations of the College of Surgeons, which require the candidates.for the chplonia of the College to have learned the practife of surgery . in 'a •ieeognised • school within the United Kingdom ; so that the Atudetir; during the period - its quired for learairig this practice, in order that he may the sooner become qualified for his profession, employs a part of his tithe in *learisifig • abo to dissect. These disadvantages, affecting' the teacher, ate such, thrtt•eta cept in the most frequented schools, attached th the greater hospitals; few have been abl e to continue teaching withprofitAnd some private teachers bate beerftorit paled to give up their schools. To thetvils enutterathdit sktiy be added, bat it is disttessing to men of gord•e4ticaa lion and characterto'be compelled to , resort, for their means- of teaching, to h constant infraction of 'the:Uwe • of- their - country,' and to' be Ina de - ilependint; for their • professional existecce, on the mercenary tapsicesZf the* most abandoned distils- s eise commbnity. • ••• But it is not only student, white liirtinf rudiments Of . tleicictseisindlo theleacher, ?rhi e•ett ; clea4niing it, that dissection uereslaryi . ,. • anclYhe'dperation t4e la*injurious: It i,i essential .ht.w to the frectitiOner, that dining cflewhole Cookie iTtif., prisfelsioriat cheer hil . slweld dissect, in order to keep up . , his stock ofkaOtiledge, angtoitactise frecjirtnily on tn .: . dead Subject, lest; by • venturing to do 'so nnsfilrON " on the living, he expose his patie . ots to irmainent He is. tequirecr also v in many irriportatit cases, civil pod criminal, 'to guide 'the • judgment of . Judges and',9l- Jurors, and would fie rebuked - were:heto Ugo 4 any such occitioi, that, from 'hiving neglected the prictice of dissection; hiwas enable int** light apri a point at issue in that science which be prntessed: Ile is liable, in it Ciiiffiction, to damages for erfors:in prat: tiCe,"dde,• 14 prigessibnil ignolunte, though • ac th e sitrietWerhipAy be' visited - With penalties' as a eri: mina?,' for. indeatoorkpg to fake the only means of o b;. - -. • mining professional knot a ledge. Under these circumstances, affecting equallt7the dent, teacher, and .practitioner, the Committee were not surprised to find that this inquiry excited con..idera able interest in all parts ai the country, and that nu; rnerous petitions from all classes rf the profession, con nected with the science of anatomy, were laid upon the . . table of ..the :House,-uniformly praying for an amend. meat-of the existinrlaw pn.the-subject. JEht price of a subjeet.abont 30 years ago was froil otte.tvitvrogoineast;•the teacher now pa ys trom eight to tett guintis; and the price has risen even to 16 guineas. Thviereiters deliver subjects t•> their dissetting pupil% st alciwer price than that at which they purchase them; having keen compelled to resort. to this expedient lest dissection in London should be abandoned altogether. The4loss'whicic they thus sustain is made good out el the -freer which they receive for attendance an their lectures in the Anatomical Theatre. The cost of pro. vidiog.subjects is also entianeed t 1 the teacher, by his being - required occasionally to defend the exhumator against legal provecutionoind to' maintain him against , warit!.if sentenced to imprisonment, arid his family, in' case 'be has one; until the period' of his punishment • .-..t4oris it only of a)ireearronsi iaafcienti and even if* spode of Ohtaining sibjecrs;that the cultivators r 1 finettraryconsplaiti-it is by the law 'at as regards the ealti,lbelOrs, brit as it affects thentselies, that they ate abtieved. • . . 6 ftellist reported ease" of trial for disinterment; is Idunp in the year 1788; when the Court of liCing'sllench, naulnotion for an arrest of judgment, deadest it %o be a triiiderneanOur to carry away **dead bOdy from it charchiard, although' for the purpose of ditsettiiiii, as being an offence coning bonos mores and common deteucy. In this state, the law on the subject of disinterment, as interpreted by the Court of King's Bench, appears to have remained, until the present year ; when Davies and another were tried and convicted at' the assizes at Lancaster, and subsequently received the sentence of the Court, sitting •at Westminster, IT' having taken into their possession, with intent to disH sect, a dead body, at the time knowing the same to have: been unlawfully disinterred: A respectable teacher, of Anitirtey, residing at Liverpool, had been tried slind fotind 014 ou a moiler indictment at the Quarter Sessions at Kirkdale, in the niciniti of February in the same'year. With these exceptions. Magistrates appear hitherto to have taken no cognizance of receiving into possession a acid body, unit* there were strict evidence that ths - receiniei Via* a F 14.4 to the disinterment; and On ihii practical view of de state of the law, profes sional Men also appear hitherto to have acted. At pre ,seet; holivever, i tzicst intelligent Magistrate, one of the :considers thrii very slight evidence would Ontrirct the receiver ' with the disinterment; and that thertichas;se from the exhumator would suffice to send thesate to a Jiity, the knowledge of thelact of disinter: taieik biing to' be collected from the circumstances' if atrbejs enough itijustify the inference. Ins stated, that - mg! ) it Scarcely a 'Student Or' teacher of 'Anaroiny in' ~:.. t • ‘i • • (Te•br contialed). taitliiusuid England . . • • • '4... WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27,T528., PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. . . . The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the mann, obtaining Sobjecte for Dissection in . the Schools of Anatomy, and into the State of the Law affecting the Pascals employed MI obtaining or Dissecting Bodies; and to whom several Petitions for the removal of Impediments to the cultivation of te Selma of Anatomy were referred; and who were empoweredto report the Minutes of Evidence taken before thern;—Have, pursuant to the Order of the House, examined the matters to them referred; and agreed to the following Report : . . The peculiar nature of the Subject which the Com. mittee were appointed to investigate, has induced them to inquire principally into the practice of the Anatomi. ”calsSchools of London, where, by personal communi- cation with the most eminent stageon‘ and with the students and ptincipal teachers of Anatomy, it could be fully ascertained that no detriment toltheir interests was to be apprehended from the publicity to arise out of the present inquiry. With regard. to the practice' of . the provincial- schools, to avoid - the expense of ..-' Sunning witnesses from a distance, they ,have been • is fied with written carndiumlitionS from resident proles. . son or practitioners of eminence, which will be 'found in the Appendix. ' The Committee have inquired into the nature of .the difficulties "which the Anatomists have here to contend with, whether arising out of the state of the law, Or, an adverse feeling on the part of the people; and . into the evil conselpiences thenceensuing, as well tolhe sciences of Medicine and Surgery. as to ill Who study, taeh and practise theta; and eventually to the nietdber# e .the vihole comm u nity. They have callarteitnifia' ea v tin - *tow in whit manner the wants of the 4 . n atOtaist, are provided for in setter al foreign sthoci. Iti;_eit.iNi .. ll4oo Alias. opinion; Whether similar methods doofolio . .ged with advantage in this•cotititry ;**ihcfilleol3lo4 , . Id . be adequate to remove the presenitifteultis . ? ; ~... _*. • . . ~ .. The 'first origin of these dif#cutties isebvilm .. teals. treceirto the natural feeling , wilich leitalii leien . .tsi pain 'with reverence the remains of the deed; .and 401t,gyne feeling has prompted . theta; .in "Wink all timee „and countries, to regard with reptigninee,. And : to,peseecute anatomy,. . • • .;.;;" :- ' * As theimporiance of the science to the itellAcmor maolcioaArisilisccivesed, the Governments Of divot Statestrocaase its piOteitors; and in this country, petit ceArly, by the Statute of Henry VIII. protection, fa s *fain este" sins giien, end intended to be .giseN t is it; bat that piOtectiOn t which at first, perhaps,. max fully 'deviate, owing to the rapid progress .0(..4e science, has long since become wholly insufficient. ; ,,. How. Araiteii were the wants of the science in„iha former part oldie lait century, may be !earnt frniathe, leetures of William Homer, who describes th avo. *son of.tbe most celebrated schools, both at, home and abroad, as employing, *in seaCkcourse Of.jecxav not more than one, ,or et etiost,twq, aiifiject‘ nectiiss extiilsitiag the perfornianee *As 'operetiontof .susge r wr." not on hunian bodies . ..but Ois - those ef inlroals.. ilje represents the stodenta in medicine mid singer y as never exercising the mselves id the ntaCtisinf dissection,..)se ? cause f(ir soos.Fpitice they h4sl no opportunities., : For such * ',stria l'O inetritioa the provision s . 3 ei tbe: Statute of kienrY,lll. might a ell be adecamkte, 'enitthese penititinds . indeed may now be..earaidetest,of impnite, eanky..4Sis distinct a4mission of the . pfincii,de that cite eittiiis of this coantry outfit .to ptolq.t 1 91.1 apipsmsv. 1c - . !elation of this antinitated .andisp-.. perfect system 1 . . place in' this t countr y in the ,r, 1746whenDr.W ter,.tiiiing a singular enihuaiiikilit i R for the science, .estaialished . cmap u tte courses cif,enajp. niicallectui es, and omed:,, ! rps ..r,,,.sclionl f'*o:r. dialect 'tints. The reform thin introduced ryas c omplete, tqd, its, author exulted befote his deeifirn.hay.ing.raiseckant diffused such a spirit for dissection, that he should iffiest behind him many better anatomists thanbisnself. .• —., Under his immediate pnisil;,indthiiilly.--..e.sors,' this school has gone on increasing . *lli par ielst 'ilecount : that the 'Committee have met 'Veifhi'of the number df anatomical students resorting to London is that given' by 'Mr. Abernethy, who states that sluatli after life. breaking out of the -compares.war .with France they amotintedtsi 200. One of the witnesses, Dr. Macartney-compares. their number, in the year 1798,, at SOO; end t: Brookes, a teacher of anatomy, in a calcuLtion siibielil2 ted to Sir Astley Cooper, in the year IB2s,then reckoned their number to be 1,000. It appears firm the 'skarn} now furnished by the teachers of the different Scliolil an London that their number at present is sOnieWili* above 800; the diminutiOn in the number since thele* * ,' 1823 being the consequence, probably, of litiftli resorting to foreign schools, the advitinges Or which were less known at the former period than they 'aii.at . -:... 5. present. .. . ir • When it is considered what •deMind grieve is practitioners, as well to meet the:wants of an inCriat poPulatiOn at home as of an extended' empire of 040 . . in niei and dependenciel abroad, this rapid increase of students will not appear surprising; and if it . 4 cans!. dered also that not only is' that demand inn increistrit: one, but that every practitiOner, boivever huinblej fie that laudable desire for intellectual improvement which characterises the present age, endeavours, if be can af ford it, to obtain a good education, and anise regard ,himself as ill educated if he has not gone throngh a course of dissection, the eve teal increase of dissecting students can hardly be calculated, shoUld their wants be supplied abundantly and at a cheap rate. Although the students ~ow atteoditig the schools of anatomy in London exceed 800, not more than 500 of this number actually disseCt. The duration of their studies in Loudon is moan sixteen jacinths, and during that time the nember of su ljecti with which every 'ato debt in Surgery ought to be sitiplied appears, from the evidence talthOugh there h . . snare digerepce on this point) to be not less thin three ;,..:tio being required for learning the strecture of theleitti of the body. and be the mode of operating. "The total 'number of subjects actually Iliisected in the schools of London, in one year. is stated to be not greater than from 450 to 500, which is after the rate of 'less than one subject for each dis secting student—a proportion 'wholly insufficient for the purposes of complete education. , Disstction on an extended scale began in this enabVy before there eiisted any Such generatteeling in its favour; founded on an opinion - of in utility;,that that. Britiirh Government, after the e.sanipl e *o f .., K 444.(oteiS4 l l9 verobseuu, woolillvenieri e l imity to pitioniie it. roc. 4 ordingli when, in 1763, Dr. tinnier proposed to build an Anatomical Theairk, and to endow it with his 60 7 scum and a salary for a professor, provided the Goer* Mint would giant lam 'a "of nod lot . 40' me ground . T . 77' ""s"~!P~JR`' ~, s w.ilr '