The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. S.—Senor Mon brought forward his I long expected budget in the Congress to-day. 'The estimates of income for 1845 embrace several new taxes, while a great number of old taxes are repealed. The following are the estimates as presented, the first five sources of revenue being new ones, in place of others re pealed:— Impost on revenues derived from real pro- Reals. 350,000,000 petty Duty on mortgages 18,000,000 Duty on the principal articles used for in ternal consumption 160,000,000 Contributions levied on trade and manu -25,000,000 factures Ditto on the rent of houses Customs revenue . 120,000,000 Fourth part of confiscations, &c. Ten per cent. on administration of property 2,000,000 Fines decreed by tribunals, &c. Stamped paper, &c. Twenty per cent. on Crown property Titles granted 200,000 Tobacco Salt Saltpetre, sulphur, and gunpowder Playing cards Lotteries Bull of the Cruzada Ditto called Indulto Cuadragesisual 1,100,000 Military encomiendas, &c 3,458,000 Mines 11Lfountains state property administered by the Minis !ers of Finance, Marine, and War Tolls of roads, canals, lighthouses, &c 682.300 12,500,000 2,800.000 1,297,500 520,000 Mint National printing• office Renta de Poblaccon Tax on wine and oil, exported from Anda- 3usia Tax called Arbitrios de Atnortizacion Ditto from Boards of Commerce Ditto „ Boards of Health Produce from schools of public instruction HYdrographic Board From Astronomical Observatory Ditto College at Malaga Ditto College at Seville InLserpratation of Languages Deposits Patents',. &c Montes PlO 2 • Employments granted Arrears expcwted from taxes, hereafter to be extinguished Ecclesiastical revalues, during vacancies Three per cent. on offerings to Rome Passes to cross the line 3 of Gibraltar Reimbursements —Tax levied on grandees 400,000 6,000,000 2,400,000 750,000 6,652,577 186,000 210,000 25,358 10,500 20,000 150,000 6,000 130,000 1,100,000 110,000,000 600,000 200,000 228,376 And titled men Excess of colonial revenues • 3,750,000 40,000,000 1,210,635,353 The taxes to be taken off, and the arrears of which are included in yhe budget, are the following :—Rentas Provinciales yielded 101,800,000 reals. Equiva lents, &c., 40,000.000. Frutos Civiles, 17,300,000. Tax of Culto y Clero 74,000,000, together with the present duties levied at the gates of towtts, which is merged in the general tax on consumption, and the small taxes called Manda Pia, Medias Anatas, Donatum from Navarre and the Basque pro vinces, ditto from cemmerce, half per cent. on morgages, itax on right of succesabn to property &c., and the one lefied on householders in Madrid, in place of billetting troops. The estimates of expenditure are stated as follows: Reels. vtd Ro, '2l Family Queeß , yL _ Legislative bodies " 000 ...•••• 979,000 Ministry o'f Foreign Affairs Ditto Grace and Justice Ditto Home Department Ditto,War, including the new Guardia Civil 323,419,845 Ditto Marine and Colonies Ditto Finance 362,558,540 Sinking Fund Board Clergy and Public Worship 1,205,522,688 The above estimates, supposing the new taxes can be levied, show an excess of revenue of 45 millions of reels. Senor Mon also presented the following project of law:— " Art. 1. The expenses of the State for the year 1845, am fixed at 1,205,522,688 reels. " Art. 2. The Government is authorised to proceed to the arrangement of the national debt, both foreign and domestic, and to satisfy, according to that arrangement, the interest of that not comprehen•led in the estimates of expenditure for 1845, with the excess of public revenues and contributions, and with a . prudent increase of the same. An account to be given in due time to the Cortes of the use made of this authority, " Art. 3. The right of cesantea and jubilice on,' i.e., retirement from office on a pension, is only to be con ceded to those who serve by royal appointment, and whose salaries are equal to or exceed the sum of 16,000 reels i Ner annum. This disposition is not to have retro active e;fect, all rights acquired previous to this law being hereby recognised.' The above projects were sent to the Committee of the Sections to report upon. They were received in silence, there being no ms.rks either of approbation or disappro bation from the ChArnber. THE ANTI-CORN.LA LEAGUE. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The shrewdest opponents of the Anti-Corn-law League have been apt to think that its chief trial would be found in a season of commercial prosperity. Not a few of its friends have been of the same opinion. If the influence of the League depended on temporary causes, or if it were merely an expreasion of that sharp, impatient discontent which arises from physical distress, the opinion would have been well founded ; for Englishmen do not love political agitation for its own sake ; and with comparatively cheap food and a thriving trade, they would have cared little for the most eloquent philippics against monopoly. The event has not only not borne out, but has sig nally and totally falsified these anticipations. The power of the League has been tested by a season of prosperity ; and for the result look to the meeting of last night. Never since the metropolitan assemblages commenced was the vast area in which they are held crowded by a larger or more enthusiastic mass of human beings. Never did the agitation preeent an aspect of more resolute or more triumphant confi dence. This remarkable organisation displays none of the fitfulness—none of the alterna tions of success and adversity which are com monly said to mark poplar movements. Nulla vestigia retrorturn is its motto. It loses no ground that it has once gained ; but moves steadily onward with sagacity and courage—never hesitating to look difficulties in the face, 'or failing to take practical measures to overcome them. A body like this will do something more than repeal the corn-laws, if that repeal be delayed much longer. Surely Sir Robert Peel and others professing Conservative principles should meditate on the position taken by the Leave on opening the campaign for the new year. They lay it down as an axiom that nothing is to be hoped from the present House of Commons. The repeal of the corn-law is to be carried out of doors. How ? Not by any revolutionary change, nor yet by mere speeches; but simply by acting on the constituencies. Let us, says Mr.CObden, use the means at our disposal for enlarging and securing the constituencies of the three great counties, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Middle sex—the three counties which have been raised to their pre-eminence, not by the aristocracy or by any monopoly system, but by the inch:imitable industry of the people. Mr. Cobden is right. What he proposes is undoubtedly practicable, and if done will be decisive. The day which sees free-traders in Parliament for Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Middlesex, will be the last of the corn-laws. But in the meantime, what are the indirect conse quences of the agitation having taken this turn ? One inevitable consequence is, to bring the House of Commons, as ,nova constituted, into increased dis credit with the people, Is it worth while, merely for a short postponement of the inevitable fate which awaits the corn-law, to keep discussion constantly alive on the discordancy between the opinions of P'srliament and the opinion!' of the people. The loudest cheer of those that greeted Mr. Cobden last night from an immense assemblage of the middle class, was that which was called forth by his declara tion that the constituencies required to be enlarged, and that the sooner the power was really transferred to the middle and working classes the better. Mr. Cobden hinted at no organic change, and evidently meant no other extension of the franchise than could 'I be effected under existing laws. But his audience • seemed to put a larger meaning in hii words, and responded to them with an earnestness which showedt no ordinary discontent with the pre sent system. We cannot think it wise for those who dread organic change to drive men into these discussions. The idea of free trade has been taken up.by the public with a strength of con viction which will not now stop at any obstacle. A good deal may be sacrificed in the attempt to check its progress, but no object can possibly be gained to set against the sacrifice. Sir Robert Peel has all his life long made the mistake of looking more to what is thought in the House of Commons than to what is thought in the country. He judges only from hear say of the most vigorous expressions of public opi nion. It would really do him a great deal of good to pay a visit to Covent-garden. (From the Morning . Advertiser.) The League met last night, and afforded the mo nopolists another proof of its vitality. It looked any thing but a corpse. Never did it manifest greater -vigour. Never did it seem more resolved to live— vever more determined not to die, until it has ac complished the great mission which it was formed to ; fulfil. The speakers were,. as usual, eloquent, ener g, stic and full of hope. The audie n c e w a s most en- t h t uisstic. The number present was immense. Eve ry p a rt of the house was crowded. There was a v i a ib,.) sympathy between the speakers and the au dience-, ti of a sentiment was uttered by Messrs. Cobden, Milner Gibson, and Fox, which the thou sands as sombled did not greet with a cordial re sponse—in wardly felt where not audibly expressed. The pewee, Is of the county registrations was one of the principal topics of the evening. It is an iinpor- THE SIJN, DON, LOT/4 F A RIDY MORNING," JANUARY 17 1 1145 tant topic,—all the more so, because, before a brief fortnight has elapsed, the door of the county regis tration court will be shut against forty-shilling free holders. Those, therefore, who mean to qualify for any of the counties, by purchasing a property which will produce them forty shillings per annum, must carry their intentions into effect without delay. As the great metropolitan county is one of the places which the free-traders feel confident of being able, with ordinary exertions, to wrest from the grasp of the monopolists, and as our paper circulates to a very largo extent in that county, we wish to make one or two observations on the subject of a forty-shilling franchise, with the view of enforcing the exhortations of the League to qualify without delay. Our readers need not be told that a free-trade triumph in Middlesex would be of inestimable service to the anti-monopoly cause. There is a moral influence connected with the metropolitan county, the great ness of which it would be impossible to overrate. At present, Middlesex is represented by a rank mono list, and by an advocate of a fixed duty. The vene rable father of the House of Commons, who identifies himself with the corn-law views of Lord John Rus sell, might probably be induced, did he see a majority of the constituency avowedly favourable to total and immediate corn-law repeal, to desert the ranks of the Whig leader, and enlist under the banners of Messrs. Cobden and Bright. We hope he would; for having, for more than half a century, been the consistent and uncompromising representa tive of popular principles and popular interests in the House of Commons, it would cause us a pang were we now compelled to part with him. The national wish must be to see Mr. Byng die in harness. We should like to see him close his life as the Member for Middlesex. And we doubt not he will die as he has lived—the friend of the people, and the repre sentative of the great metropolitan county. Of his Tory colleague we must speak in very different terms. There are no hallowed associations con nected with his name. He ought never to have been the Member for Middlesex. His election was ore of the most lamentable occurrences which has been witnessed for many years. The poet Campbell tells us that " Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell." Liberalism, if it did not weep, ought to have done so, when Mr. Wood, or Tom Wood, as he is familiarly called, was chosen Member for so important a county as Middlesex. His presence in Parliament, as the representative of that county, is one of those things for which the friends of popular principles have cause to blush. An opportunity is now afforded of getting rid of him. If the free traders who possess the means will only, without the loss of a day—for, literally, a day is not now to be lost—purchase some little cot tage, valued at forty shillings per annum, there will be an overpowering majority of free traders at the next election for Middlesex. We need not, in that case, name the result—the legislative services of friend " Tom" will be dispensed with. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PEON THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Attention has been re-called to the Otaheite affair by the publication of the official correspon dence between the Charge d'Affaires of France, M. de Jame, and the French Cabinet, on that ,ques tion. The disclosures there made are so curiAts that we return to the subject. Some little is said about Morocco, but the Otaheite affair forms the staple, its indeed, it was the most critical, point in the relations between the two countries. The style of M. de Jarnac's dispatches is clear and intelligible, and with far less of ambiguity than belongs generally to displowatic corn - !nucleations. It exhibits clearly his sentiments as to the great danger of the interruption of friendly relatione between the two countries. In plain terms, M. de Jarnac thought the risk of war was imminent in August, 1844, fully bearing out the extreme suppositions of the contemporary press of that period. His expres sions are explicit enough. He " hopes the counsels of wisdom and moderation may prevail," implying that he fears greatly they will not : he speaks of " self-love so fatally engaged on both sides," of " lively Inquie tude and sinister presentiments," " rupture on the point of taking place," " feeling that a struggle was inevitable for England;" and many other phrases of a similarly unequivocal character. So, then, we were, in the estimation of the diplomatist who conducted the affairs of France in this country, extremely near a de claration of war during the last year. Several re flections arise out of this assumed fact. Under the theory and practice of protectorates, as ex pounded by . M. Guizot in his dispatch of August 29, authorising the expulsion of any individual at the virtual discretion of the authorities, and considering the ardour of French naval officers and employes for advanc ing the national honour after their own fashion, a similar case may probably occur again. And in such an event we cannot but think that a very awkward precedent has been established by the Government—that, we meal ; of waiving admitted claims without ob taining an equivalent. Our Cabinet seems to have acted in the right direction, but to have arrived at it by course injudicious in itself, and likely to cause future embarrassments. The end and object of its policy was the unexceptionable one of peace ; but, after a long silence on the part of France, Lord Aberdeen caught at the most distant approach to concession on the part of M. Guizot, although quali fisi by so much objectionable matter respecting the protectorate of the Society Islands. Let not our mean ing be for a moment mistaken ; none but the most rash and criminal policy would have risked a war with France on any grounds but those of absolute necessity. But we should have liked more dignity and reticence on the part of our Cabinet. The concession was the mini mum possible. There was no abandonment of the elastic theory of protectorates shown in practice to be absolute sovereignty ; on the contrar), the right of removing any individual " who may trouble established order," was triumphantly maintained in M. Guizot's latest dis patch. The description of benefits and blessings of the French rule in the Pacific, stands in painful conti adiction with every narrative, official or other wise, of what has taken place in the Society Islands. Yet on the bare intimation of a disapproval of the mode and plan of Mr. Pritchard's imprisonment, and the pro clamation of the 3d of March, backed by a hint at a pecuniary indemnity to that gentlemat:, Lord Aber deen hastens to proclaim the acquiescence of' this country in the proposals of France, rendering it im possible " that incidents of this nature, if treated in a spirit of justice and moderation, can result in other than an amicable issue." It is, no doubt, safer to err on the side of placable contentment than that of irritable jealousy, in our relations with foreign Powers. Yet it may well be asked, is there no medium ? Cannot a statesman, without captiously objecting to all offered terms of concession, avoid acquiescing in such as are ludicrously disproportioned to the cause of complaint ? Is, in short, no juste milieu attainable between a policy marked by rashness and one charac terised by timidity ? Our Ministers seem to have chosen the latter, and it is, as we said before, because we firmly believe that abandonment of national dignity leads less sorely to the maintenance of pacific relations with foreign Powers in the long run, than its due and moderate exercise, that we object to the tone taken by our Cabinet in its communications with that ;of France relative to Otaheite. There seems, indeed, little reason to envy the French their forci ble occupation of that island, which, to be main tained at all, must be so by continual exertions of an armed force. Assuredly, neither commercial power or military renown are to be reaped in the distant field of Oceania by such course as Messrs. Bruat and D'Auhigny are disposed to take; but from England something more might well have been expected, both in vindication of the national honour, insulted in the per son of its functionary, and in behalf of that oppressed nation who have received the rudiments of Christian civilization at our hands. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS CITY WEDNESDAY EVENING, CHRONICLE.—The second notification from the Railway Department, of the Board of Trade, which ap peered in the Gazette 'of last night, disposes of seventeen proposed schemes of railway in the southern district and vicinity of the metropolis. The first division consists of four lines ; and the second, or metropolitan division, contains thirteen lines. As respects the first, the Board has decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of one only, namely, the Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Fareham Branch, being an extension of the South- Western line from Guildford to Chichester. The pro ' posed direct line from London to Portsmouth is rejected by the Board of Trade, as well as the proposed line to Portsmouth, with branches to Shoreham-bridge, Fare , ham, and Reigate, and the proposed branch extension, ' by the Brighton Company, from Chichester to Ports mouth, now to form part of the south-western branch from Guildford. Of the second, or metropolitan district, the Beard has decided to report to Parliament in favour of three lines only ; namely—l. The extension of the South-Western from its present terminus at Nine Elms' to a more centrical and convenient position •, 2. The RiChmond and West-end Junction ; and 3. The pro posed line from Richmond to Staines. The Epsom and Dorking, one of the numerous irons in the fire which the Croydon Company has in hand—the London and Croydon Dorking Branch, belonging to the sa m e f am ily—the London and Brighton Dorking Branch —snd the South-Eastern Dorking and Reigate Branch, are recommendend to be postponed until a future period. The Board has decided on reporting against the Grosvenor Railway; the Great Western, Uxbridge, and Staines Junction; London and Brighton and Wands worth Branch; Landon and South-Western Epsom Branch; Metropolitan Central Junction; and the South London and Windsor. Four lines, then, out of seven teen, only are to be favourably reported on to Parlia ment; four others are postponed; and nine are thrown overboard by the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. The result is in favour of the South-Western line ; protective of the interests of that Company, nearly as much as the p rev ious notification was in favour o the interests of the Great Western line. The pr motors of ' rejected lines will prove a formidable and numerous body to all appearances. It is not to be expected that they will submit without further effort to the opinions of the Board of Trade, or at least it is not likely that ma ny, if any, of the Provisional Committees will rebut their eforts until they have an opportunity of perusing the report to be presented to Parliament, which, no doubt, will explain the principles on which the notifica tions have been made, and the reasons which Actuated the members of the Board in forming their decisions, The labours of the Select Committees on Railway Bills in the House of Commons must, in that view of the question, be of a very arduous and extensive character. What effect the previous opinions of the Board of Trade t may produce upon their proceedings it is difficult to say, but we see no cause to depart from t be belief already ex pressed under this head , t hat it must have great weight, as emanating from a department of the' Government. At the same:time, it is to be kept in view that Members of Parliament are the representatives of particular consti tuencies, whose interests will be more or less affected — favourably or the reverse—by the result of their delibe rations, and when the decision of the Board comes into collision with the wishes of the constituencies of Mem bers of Parliament sitting as judges, it is not to be pre sumed that the Committees will confirm the adverse views to be expressed in the report by Lord Dalhousie and his colleagues, without allowing evidence to be ad duced, and giving full scope to those parties interested in the new schemes which have been rejected or postponed, or which may be hereafter reported against in the future " notifications" which are yet to be made in the Gazette. - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. (From the Tinos.) In another column appears an " earnest and indig nant protest, by members of the Royal College of Surgeons, residing in the rural parts of Surrey, against the exclusion in which they are placed by the proceedings of the Council of the College in the matter of the recent charter." It is signed by no less than 68 gentlemen of (as we are assured) 10, 20, 30, and 40 years' standing as members of the Col lege, and of large practice in their respective neigh bourhoods; and we are given to understand, by a gentleman on whose information we have no hesita tion in placing reliance, that " it has not been got up or instigated by any agitating society, but is the inde pendent expression of the feelings of the surgeons of Surrey." Nearly six months ago we ventured to give a piece of advice to the members of the medical profession as *o the most prudent line of conduct they could pursue. It was that they should memorialise their representatives in Parliament, " earwig' than as occasion offered, and take every care that they shoetli feel satisfied that the votes at the next electissaa would show how far the medical men, " voters to a man," were satisfied or not with their conduct in regard to Sir James Graham's Bill. We are glad to see such an evidence, as this protest gives, of the surgeons being alive to the necessity of expressing their feelings in a mode which leaves no room fin cavil. Resolutions passed at public meetings may express the wishes of multitudes, or of mere coteries. Some local information of a rather precise nature may be necessary to test the practical value of such resolutions. But protests signed by scores, like the present, leave no space for dispute. These Surrey surgeons—" voters to a man"—" protest against the arbitrary elevation of a few gentlemen above those of their brethren who were previously their equals in professional rank, senior to many of them as members of the College, and not inferior to most of them in scientific and practical knowledge." This is the expression of a feeling all but universal in the pro fession, and no less universal, we fully believe, is the feeling which dictated the conclusion of the protest, that these 68 gentlemen " consider the invitation to the mass of the profession to undergo examination, in order to obtain the rank which has thus been conceded to a select few, to be an affront, which, if we remained silent under, we might be con sidered to have deserved." We fully concur with these protesters in regarding the offer of an examina tion to them as a sheer affront—an offer which the Council of the College must have known beforehand neither would nor could be accepted, and which, therefore, under the semblance of politeness was, in fact, most insulting. The Collegellexarninations are expressly framed to test mere rudimentary knowledge; they are not capable of Lestins experimental know ledge. We have no hesitation in saying that the ablest surgeon of 40, or 30 , or •20 years' standing, unless be had been in the habit of lecturing, or other wise continually recurring to the mere alphabst of his profession, would not do himself credit at an examination which any student, who had just completed his hospital studies and courses of lectures, might pass with comparative ease. The A B C of the science must be learnt first ; not as the ultimate object of study, but as preliminary to prac tice. What is of importance to the public is—not a most minute acquaintance with redunents or prin ciples, but—the ability of practically applying that knowledge to which those rudiments and principle. have been the mere stepping tones. As this ability is gained, the mere verbal recollections of the terms in which the rudiments and principle's are to be most correctly expressed fades away from the mind and, as a general rule applicable to ell professions and to all occupations, by so much the more As p. man is prac tically his business, by so rough the less is he competent to ~ , ,Indergo a satisfactory exam i na tion in its mere prelit:" 4l 47 technicalities. If we re tes point, we need do no more than refer to quired any evidence i," l ti Krinding system , by which young men of more a.7tielY t 9 get into practice than honesty as to the mea:' ywhich they may acquire the right to practise, mati:.7,'e t o render themselves apparently qualified. We under stand that there is one " grinder" in London who will undertake—" no cure no pay"—to fit any young man to pass in six weeks, provided he puts his nose to the grindstone without the least acquaintance with his profession. If he happens to have a smattering of medical or surgical knowledge, the grinding pro cess takes a proportionately longer time ; This pro test has been sent to the Council of the College, and we hope, though we scarcely dare expect, that it may have some influence with them. We foresee so many evils consequent on revolutionary changes in the pro• fession, that we would fain see the Colleges and the Hall kept on their old foundations, but better adapted to the condition of the present times ; and we tell the Council of the College distinctly, that they have been pursuing a suicidal policy, and that unless they take some decided steps towards meeting the wishes of their members at large, they will eventually rue it. It appears from a letter in another column, ad dressed by the clerk of the Apothecaries' Company to a Manchester Committee of General Practitioners, that the Company, believing " that a very large pro portion of the general practitioners of the country have declared their wishes in favour of a distinct incorporation," and being consequently willing to. act in accordance with what they understand to be a very widely extended feeling, have applied to Sir James Graham on the subject, and have had from him a very diplomatic reply which, though it absolutely pledges him to nothing, whatever beyond a readiness to receive a matured plan, appears to afford them " the utmost satisfaction !" They now invite assist ance from the profession towards complying " with what Sir James Graham has required as a preliminary to his forming an opinion on the proposed incorpora tion of the general practitioners." We must give the Company full credit for the generosity with which, for the benefit, as they think, of the profession at large, they are willing to surrender all their own exclusive privileges ; but we cannot applaud their prudence in the present instance. They are, un consciously no doubt, playing the Home Secreta r y' s game. • The question of the most vital importance to the profession, at the present time and for the next few months, is Sir James Graham's Bill; and against that Bill their exertions ought to be concentrated. The discussion which he would, as the Company rightly anticipates, excite in the profession on the mere details of the proposed charter, would operate as a most successful diversion in his favour. If a charter for the incorporation of the general practitioners were the best thing they could have, the chance of their having it would be as good after as before the passing of that Bill ; and it therefore is a mere question of time whether they shall agitate for it now or six months hence. But there is no time to be lost in opposing the Bill. Parliament is on the point of meeting, and the undivided energies of the whole profession ought to be brought to bear, not only. on each of the Houses of Parliament collectively, but also on every member of each house individually While they are in the country, the country practi tioners should avail themselves of every opportunity of explaining to them the injurious effects of the pro posed reform, and especially how the penalties of the Apothecaries' Act do tend to prevent irregular prac tice, and how imperfect is the penalty system esta blished by that Act. On this point the Members i of the Legislature most especially require to n formed. There is a very general belief among them that the regular practitioners have already had a fair trial of a protective system, and that it has been found totally inefficient. This mistake ought, by every fair means, to be thoroughly and immediately exposed. As soon as Parliament meets, its various Members will be beyond the reach of personal expla nations. Then they must be met by protests, memo rials, and petitions calculated to influence them in their legislative capacity. But if, instead of concen trating their efforts to check the progress of the Bill, the members of the profession waste their energies in discussions on the details of a charter, as to which Sir James Graham most explicitly declares that he will not even form his opinion, or even consider it, until all its details are laid before him, with the names of the leading persons who promote it, they will soon find themselves in the unenviable position of those who endeavour to avail themselves at the same time of "two stools?' That the charter will prove an apple of discord, we have great fears, and we are, therefore, earnest in our remonstranees against its present dis cussion. Let the question, by all means, be well con sidered and fully debated; and if the general practi tioners at large should eventually unite in calling for their separate incorporation, let them have it ; but while an enemy is at their gates, att.eeking their very existence, in the name of common pruden‘a 142 t there be no divisions in their camp. THE APOTHECARIES' COMPANY. Apothecaries' Hall, Jan, 8. Gentlemen,—On the 23d ult. the Master of this So ciety had the honour of receiving a communication from the Committee appointed at a general meeting of medical practitioners of Manchester and its neighbourhood to watch the progress of Sir James Graham's Bill, express ing the interest with wNch the Committee had observed the various movements mide by gie prpfession in differ ent parts of the kingdom towards one esientiai °Web c i i f to t r h_e o p en re e s r e a n i. t one were m ri o il v e e ob fo ta r in a ed viz., the protection of the general practitioner, and the 1 country.—l have the UPTON,or cl b er e k , t G o e t n h tle s m o e c n ie , t y y o . ur s c e o c u o l i d id opinion of the Committee that not least any mg the efforts i :cost obedient servant, quashed, and further time would be allowed for the made for that purpose were the measures now in progress ' fresh the h w S r c i s t l i for the incorporation of the general practitioners into au I I homes Dorrington, Esq., Honorary Secretaries to the ______ independent College, stating that the Comm ittee rejoiced Isaac A. Franklin, Esq., f Cornrnittee,&c., Manch( ster. to find the Society of Apothecaries favourably disposed THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. to this course of proceeding, expressing the desire of the We, the undersigned, being members of the Royal Committee to know the Society's views as to the main College of Surgeons, residing in the rural parts of principles of medical polity which should be recognised siurrey, desire to record our earnest and indignant pro in the proposed charter of incorporation, and as to the test against the exclusion in which we are placed by the plan of operations which the general practitioners through- proceedings of the Council of the College in the matter out the kingdom should adopt as most likely to effect if the recent charter. that object ; and adding that the Committee loo ked for- We protest against the arbitrary elevation of a few ward to this Society being naturally placed at the head of gentlemen above those of their brethren who were pre the movement for useorporation, and was eonsevently viously their equals in professional rank, senior to many anxious that the Society should avow the principles on ,f them as members of the College, and not inferior to which it intended to act, in order that the Committee mist of them in scientific and practical knowledge. might have full and sufficient grounds whereon to justify We consider the invitation to the mass of the proles its co-operation with the Society to the members of th ion to undergo examination in order to obtain the rank medical profession in Manchester (who had appointed ta which has thus been conceded to a select few to be an to watch over their interests), should it subsequently de affront which, if we remained silent under it, we might terming on affording such co-operation. be considered to have deserved. I had the honour of acknowledging this c ommuni c a- W. Chalmers, Croydon •W. T. White, Richmond tion on the part of the Master on the 26th ult., and G. Fletcher, Croydon R. Hassell, Richmond stating that the Society were willing and anxious to afford G. Bottomley, Croydoe R. Lomas, Richmond every assistance in their power to the general praeti- J. Bird, Croydoa T. B. Anderson, Richmond tioners of this country in their endeavours to obtain the J. Neville, Croydon J. C. Smart, Richmond grant of a charter of incorporation of a collegiate cha- H. A. Cleaver, Croydon P. Martin. Reigate ratter ; that the Society were then engaged in consider- It. Browne, Croydon A. Sisson, Reigate ing the means by which they could most effectively pro- E. Wallace, Carshalton A. T. Chandler, Godalming mote the object of the general practitioners i n t his re- .I. : R. Wallace, Carshalton C. A. Parson, Godalming spect, and that they hoped to be able to communicate T. Graham, Carshalton - R. Clark, Farnham with you very shortly on the points on which you had W. H. Butler, Guildford E. Y. Knowles, Farnham invited an expression of their opinion, with a view to the T. J. Sells, Guildford R. Stedman, Great Book. government of your body in the course which they G. N. Crane, Guildford ham might find it the most expedient to pursue in further- A. Napper, Guildford G. Smith, Halsemere atm of the object in question. H. S. Taylor, Guildford W. Stedman, Halsemere I am now instructed to inform you that the Society J. Stedman, Guildford I'. P. H. Johnson, ditto had, on the day on which the communication of your J. H. Taylor, Guildford R. Balchin, Godalming Committee was thus acknowledged, addressed a letter to r R. Eage Guildford J. N. Shelly, Epsom Sir James Graham, in which they had repre sented to J. R. Steadman, Guildford J. Ward, Epsom him that, during the progress of the agitation which had W. Hart, Dorking Dorkingoricing J. Allan, Epsom taken place on the subject of medical reform , the So- W. ciety of Apothecaries had felt it to be no part of their . G. Stilwell, Epsom Chalde G. Curtis, Dorking A. O'Brien Jones, Epsom duty to originate any proposal as to the specific changes T. Napper, Dorking C. H. B. Lane, Epsom which it might be expedient to advocate in the la ws of J. H. Re} nett, Dorking C. Stilwell, Epsom fleeting the medical profession ; that they had deemed it W. L. Nash, Leatherhead T. E. Vernon, Tongham to be more becoming in them, as one of the existing me dical institutions of the country , to wait for some dis- S. Courtney, Leatherhead G. Harcourt , Chertsey J. K. Eager, Ripley R. Cole, Chertsey tinct expression of the wishes of the gener al p racti- A. C. Gall, Ripley R. Smith, Chertsey tioners themselves upon the subject, and after ma- J. Ray, Bromley R. Harcourt, Heybridge turely eoneidering any wishes which their position G. P. Heyward, Egham J. Hewer, Chobham might give them in forwarding the views of their J. Smith, Richmond T. D. Martin, Cobham professional brethern—that the desire for au inde - F. Chapman, Richmond A.Cox,Kingst.-on-Thames pendent organisation of the general practitioners by an F. G. Julius, Richmond S. Mitchell, Kingston-on incorporation of a collegiate character had been of late E. 11, Hills, Riohmoad Thames so generally and unequivocally expres sed at p ublic meet. P. Lugar, Richmond B. Boulanger, Bletchingley. ings of those practitioners , and t hrou g h other p ublic Nov. 15, 1844. channels, that the Society thought themselves warranted in believing that a very large proportion of the general practitioners of this country had declared their wishes in favour of such an incorporation—that the Society, therefore, following out the line of conduct which they had proposed to themselves, bed &ready intimated to the profession their readiness to assist in representing their feelings on this subject, and in promoting, as far as they were able, the object of their wishes. The So ciety further represented to Sir James Graham that in discharging the duty entrusted to them by the Legisla ture, they had succeeded in materially raising the cha racter and attainments of the class of general practi tioners, and that the Society were now ready and willing irrespectively of personal or corporate considerations, to assist in obtaining for those who had been educated under their auspices a more perfect organisation than they could enjoy in connexion with either of the exist ing medical institutions ; and, after expressing their conviction that the grant of an independent charter of incorporation would be a boon most gratefully ac cepted by the general practitioners, and would be a mea sure of a very healing character, the Society respectfully invited Sir James Graham's favourable consideration to that pr© axial, ' The Society had the honour of receiving Sir James Graham's reply to this communication on the 4hth plt. Sir James Graham states, that "he is ready to re ceive any ;natured plan for incor p oratin g a now body of general prisetitismers, but that before he can form an opinion, or even Pko44ider such a project, all the details of the scheme must be htid before him, and the names of the leading persons who promote it, and who are parties to the proposed organisation, must be declared," Th.e society are assured that your Committee, in com mon with the rest of the profession, will hail this ex• pression of Sir James Graham's readiness to consider a !natured plan for incorporating a now body of general practitioners with the utmost satisfaction. The Society of Apothecaries are prepared, on their part, to afford their best assistance in maturing such a plan as may commend itself to the judgment of Sir James Graham, and secure hia approsal ; eed they in vite their medical brethren throughout the country to an immediate consideration of the details of the scheme, that they way bs enabled to comply with what Sir James Graham has remuircd lie a preliminary to his forming an opinion on the proposed incorporation of the general practitioners. As the Society of Apothecaries have abstained hitherto from urging any plan of medical reform of their own upon the acceptance of the profession from a sincere belief that they would more effectually promote the interests of their medical brethren by furthering the declared ob jeer, of their wishes, rather than by advocating any mea -s sd eganesieg with the Society itself, so now they se._ :..ad for th e same Fawn, from expressing any aobpint ain, ion of the us 46 -setety'a with respect to the details of the proposed scheme of incorporation: • If the position of the Society of Apothecaries, as one of the medical institution. of time country, or the niflnuer in which they may have suc,cecded in discharging the important duties with whieh they have been intrusted for the last thirty years give them any claims upon the con sideration of the Legislature and the country at large, they are prepared to throw the weight of that position and of those claims into the scale in favour of the object now sought by their medical brethren. They desire, however, that any influence they may possess should be exercised in a manner the most conducive to the real in terests of the general practitioners, and they are there fore deeply anxious that such influence should be exer cised legitimately, and as becomes a body continuing to discharge an important public trust. You have stated, that your Committee " look forward toithis society, being naturally placed at the head of the movement for incorporation." The society do not wish to disappoint this imputation, nor will they shrink from the duties and r esponsibilities which attach to what you term their natural position. They will state, therefore, in what respect they consider they can best serve the cause of the general practitioners at the present crisis. Her Majesty's Secretary of State has required that the details of the scheme for incorporating the general prac titioners should be laid before him. Now, It is almost unnecessary to observe, that it is most desirable that unani mity should, if possible, prevail in the profession on this important subject, because any material disagreement in principle or detail would afford strong reason for the Secretary of State withholding his consent to the scheme altogether. It is a subject in which large 'numbers have a common interest, and in the considera • tion of which all have a right, and many will have a desire to take part. It is not likely that upon points of detail, or even of principle, all will entertain the same opinions in the first instance. It will be necessary that the parties engaged in the consideration of the subject should understand each other's views, and they are not likely to understand each other's views without mutual explanations, or to arrive at unanimity in the result without something of mutual concession. To effect these objects it is necessary that they should have some common centre to which their views may be addressed— a sort of neutral ground on which they may meet to consider points of difference, and endeavour to reconcile conflicting opinions. The Society of Apothecaries are willing to place them selves in that position—to receive the digression of the views of the general practitioners throughout the king dom, through the medium of their local associations, on the details of the proposed scheme of incorporation, to smooth the way for mutual explanation and mutual con cession, and to assist in effecting such an agreement among their brethren, at least upon the wain features of the plan, as shall enable the Society to lay before her Majesty's Government, on behalf of the general pracs . titioners of this country, a scheme which may fairly repre sent the wishes of the great majority of that body. In this sense the Society are willing to place themselves at the head of the movement for incorporation. The Society feel that their position affords peculiar facilities and advantages for discharging this duty with substantial benefit to the general practitioners. They have no personal, corporate, or local interests to advo cate. The very existence of an independent College of General Practitioners implies a resignation on the part of the Society of all further interference with the education or control over the affairs of the general practitioners. They will have only one aim and object, therefore, left to them, namely, to see the general practitioners in the full enjoyment of an independent organisation, and to lend their zealous help to promote the success of that measure. As a preliminary and most important step, the Society invite the attention of your Committee to the following points, which you will find involve the principles of the constitution of the proposed College : PAO/ 1 06ED COLLEGE ON LICENTIATES IN MILDIC.INS AND SURGERY. The qualifications of the individuals to be incorporated. 1. In the first instance. 2. Subsequently to the grant of charter. The Council or Governing Body. BAIL COUR7',_,lan. 16. (Sittings at Nisi Priu,, before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) HILLS V. KENDALL. This case was resumed this morning, and tha jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. COURT OF C AMMON I'LEAS, Jan. 16. THE ILESSTRATION APPEALS. The Court this morning proceeded to take the ap peals from the Revising Barristers which were not gone through last session. ECKERSLEY V. BARIUM. This was an appeal from the decision of the Revising Barrister for South Lancashire, who had allowed the claim of a person whose qualification " for a cottage in Tinker's-lane, Hollingsworth, near Manchester," was objected to on the ground of insufficient description. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE gave now the judgment of the Court in favour of the vote and the barrister's deci sion. His Lordship observed that the number of a house in a street was a necessary designation ; but it could not be necessary to give a number to every house in a lane or upon a common. SCONE V. 1.1140111TT.-TILE CLAMS OF LODGERS. In this case the appellant elairned to qualify f r apart ments which he occupied in the house, No. 17, Catherine street, Strand. The claim was founded on the 27th clause of the Reform Act, by which Mr. Cockburn con tended that the appellant, having a latch-key, and the uncontrolled power of entry, was entitled to vote as for a separate tenement. The Learned Gentleman referred to a case from Stockvrt, in which the Court, last term, decided in favour of the claims of several persons who rented rooms in one mill, in which their machinery was worked by one engine. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that the Court held this claim to be upon very different grounds from the Stockport case. In the latter each apartment was, in fact, a separate workshop; but here the claimant had Tree entry only by sufferance, and could be at any time shu . , out by the will of the landlord. CIRCUITS. HOME—Lord Denman and Baron Ald.rson. MIDLAND—Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Baron Gurney. OxFoap—Lord Chief Baron Pollock and Justice Maule. NORFOLK—Baron Parke and Justice Patteson NORTH WALES—Justice Williams. SOUTH WALES—Justice Cre:swell. WESTERN—Justice Coleridge and Justice Earle. NORTHERN—Justice Coltman an Justice Wightman. Baron Rolfe remains in town. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday, Howell, Smith, and Franklin, the men who were on Saturday charged with having com mitted a burglary in the George and Vulture Hotel, were brought before the Lord Mayor for final ex amination. Mr. Nobler appeared for Howell, Mr. Wontner for Franklin, and a solicitor'= clerk at: laded upon the part of Smith. The justice-room was crowded extremely during the exatnination, and very great interest was excited. Eliza Ann Hughes, the chambermaid, who first. saw Howell and Smith in bed-roam No. 6, added to her statement of the former day that, up,tn going in with a candle for the purpose of lighting the fire on the night of the burglary, she saw them stooping down between the bed and a cheat of drawers, and that she ran out and tried to lock them in, but they burst the door open and prevented her ; soon after which they were seized by Mr. Warrener, the owner of the house. The following new evidence was then produced by Major Shaw, the superintend e nt of the City police City policeman No. 514 stated that on Friday night (the night of the burglary), at nine o'clock, he was on his beat, and did not see any cab in Lombard street At that time, but between twenty-five minutes and h an hour after nine he observed a cab stand ing near George-yard, and saw a person inside, who, upon seeing him, put up the window. The cabman was then placing the nose-bag on his horse. At ten minutes past ten witness heard a cry of " Stop thief" from George-yard. Went into the hotel. Saw Smith in the custody of Mr. Warrener. Conveyed him to the station-house, and, upon searching him, found upon his person a skeleton key, two latch keys, a knife, a half-crown, and a snuff-box. On the way to the station-house in Tower-street, Smith said to witness, " These poor innocent b-s have nothing to do with it. I know that I am a b--y thief, Wouldn't you go and rob a house if you thought you could get anything ? It will only be a drag. They could not give us more than three months for it." Bilbre they reached Moore-lane Smith said, striking one.liand against the other, "I'm d-d, they have got t lot." Smith tried to make himself appear drunk, b witness believed him to be perfectly sober, Tho witness, in his cross-examination by Mr. Wontner, stated that upon going to the premises of Mr. Warrener he found there was great confusion. City policeman No. 553 stated that Mr. Warrener gave the prisoner Howell into his custody. He found upon Howell's person a screw-driver, a skeleton key, four keys, and some matches, between the cloth and this lining of his coat. Three of seven matches ap peared not to have been used. Thirteen and sixpence were found in Howell's pockets. Howell said that he used the screw-driver, &c., in his trade us a cabinet maker. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. let. (Sittings in Banco.) IN RE CRARLE4 CAPEA Was" In this case Mr. Peacock obtained a rule for a habeas corpus to bring up the body of the prisoner, who was imprisoned in the island of Jersey for contempt. Sub sequently the Solicitor General carne before the Court, and obtained a rule to show cause why the writ should not be quashed fina improvideemanapit, or why a writ of suPfreedeas should not' be issued, The Learned Gentle man obtained the rule, on two grounds—the first was that the Court of Queen's Bench had not power to grant a writ of habeas corpus which would run into the island of Jersey ; the second ground was that, even sup posing the Court had the power to issue the writ, it was a matter of discretion whether it weald issue it, and that the present ease was such that the Court would nut exercise its power in favour of the prisoner, Mr. KELLY, with whom was Mr. Peacock, now showed cause against the rule. He did not think that the Learned Solicitor-General would seriously contend the first point, that the Court had the power of granting the writ, fur there (maid be no doubt,but that the Court had the power, both by statute and by the common law. The statutes of the 31st of Charles 11., ch. 2, sec. 10, and the statute of the sath of George 111., eh. 100, proved be yond question that the C curt had power to issue' a writ into any part of England and Wales, Berwick-on-Tweed, or the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. The second statute extended the power of the Court over matters which were not criminal. The only doubt ever expressed on the subject was to be found in suggestions thrown out in argument, but there was no decision or opinion to be found expressed by any judge, to the effect that at common law a writ of habeas corpus did not lie iato the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. On the con trary, there were precedents for the issuing of such writs. The Learned Gentleman then quoted Lord Hale and other authorities, to show the power of the Court. In 24 liarmw t p, fi34, 'lord Mansfield said that there could be no doubt as to the power of the Court, where the place was under the sulajeution of the Crown, Some &Nitta had been suggested whether the islands of Jersey and Guernsey were within the operation of a British Act of Parliament; but whatever might be the opinion of the people of Jersey on this subject, the Court of Queen's Bench here had no discretion but to obey the Act of Parliament, whatever it enjoined. With regard to the second ground, as to the discretion of tne Court, he apprehended that it aas an abuse of the word 1, discretion' to say that the Court could exercise it. It was impossible to fall into a greater mistake than to say it was matter of discretion at ill. When it was said, in the case of air J. VII - i.bhause, that It wits tf4attel' pP di4eTetioii, the meaning was that the writ would not issue at the mere instance of Counsel unsupported by affidavit, But where there was en affidavit showing probable cause that the prisoner was unlawfully imprisoned, the issuing of the writ was mat ter of right and not of discretion. It was a matter o f right to the subject, and ef imperalii ‘ e duty in the Court to issue the writ. It was not a matter of course, that as it was not to issue upon mere application by Counsel, but upon probable cause shown, the Court had no discretion but to issue the writ. In this case Mr Charles Carus Wilson, who was born in England, and a subject of the Queen, had been seised by the Deputy Viscount of Jersey on the 23d of September and lodged in prison, which Impri sonment he swears he believes to be illegal, On the 23d and 24th he asked for a copy of the warrant for his detention, and the gaoler. John Cantilch, told him he had nothing of the kind to give him. On the 29th of September a paper was brought into his cell, in which it was stated that he was condemned to pay a fine of 101., and was to make an apology to the Court, and was to be confined till then. The Learned Gentle man argued that this warrant was bad on several grounds, the principal of which was, that there was no means pointed out by which he could ever obtain his liberty, because he was to be kept in prison till he nude an apology, and how was he to matte the apology ? Who was to accept It Prom him The gaoler was net appointed to receive it, nor was he bound to transmit it. He, therefore, contended that there was sufficient ground before the Court to chow that this gentleman was illegally imprisoned ; and he therefore hoped the Court would set aside the rule with costs, and then the merits of the question, which was one of im portance, would be fully cliscussad when the party was brought before the Court, Mr. PEACOCK followed on the same side. The SOLCITOR-GENERAL, with whom were Mr.Wortley and Mr. Smith, appeared to support the rule. The Learned Gentleman, after arguing at considerable length botk the grounds on which the rule had been obtained, drew a distinction between the writs of habeas corpus which were judicial as the writs of habeas ad rospondendum, ad testificanduin, &c., which it was allowed would not run into the Channel Islands, and the great writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, which he would not contend the Court had not the power of issuing. But the writ, in this instance, was not the latter writ, but what was called the writ of habeas corpus ad faciendum et reeipieedum cum causA. If, then, those writs did not run into the Channel Islands, and it was not contended that they would, if the gaoler of Jersey, in obedience to this inferior writ, brought up the body of Mr. Wilson, he could certainly bring an action for false imprisonment. They were then in this position, that if they did not obey the mandate of the Court they would be liable to such proceedings as this Court had the power of ordering to enforce obedience, and if they obeyed, there could be no doubt that Mr. Wilson could bring an action for false imprisonment. This was a case of the most vital importance, because the Court was now called on almost for the first time, perhaps for the very first time, to issue a writ of this kind, and the Court would hesitate before it placed them in a position from which, do what they could, they could not extricate themselves. Mr. PEACOCK said that this was a new point altoge ther, of which they had no notice, but the Court would see that the terms of the present application were to show cause why the writ issued in pursuance of the rule obtained by him should trot be set aside, On the tith of November a writ of habeas corpus issued out of the Court, directed to John Canolch, the gaoler of Jersey, a copy of which was annexed to the affidavit, but they did not say that was the one issued in obedience to the rule, and of course the Court would presume that the writ had be , n properly issued in obedience to the rule, The SOLICITOR GENERAL said that it was not stated that the writ issued in conformity with the rule, but that it issued in pursuance of it. It was, no doubt, a writ of habeas corpus cunt caustl, and as such the Court could not act upon it. Lord DENMAN—I don't understand you, Mr. Solici tor-General, to contend that the Court has not power to issue a writ ad subjiciendum? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Certainly not, my Lord. Lord DENMAN— I don't see how you could do so. And I suppose you don't contend, Mr. Peacock, that a writ of habeas corpus coin causa would run into Jersey? Mr. Peacocx—No, my Lord, I do not. Lord DEN/tux—Then there is nothing at issue. The SOLICITOR GENERAL—It has been over and over offered to admit Mr. Wilson to bail, but he is so ena moured of prison that ho has reined these offers ; and there was no doubt, if the writ issued, the result would be that the prison doors would be opened to Mr. Wilson, and he would be at liberty to walk out. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—What do you say to that, Mr. Peacock? Mr. PEACOCK said that Mr. Kelly was not present, and he did not know how to act. He would ask for some time, to consult with Mr. Kelly on the proposal of the Learned Solicitor-General. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL did not offer the suggestion as a proposal; he had every reason to belieye fact he knew, that if the writ issued that would result but if Mr. Wilqou was 3C4 PPEr4lo4lrOd of pris on as nott„; leave it, he must make application for a new wrio , Lord DENMAN said that the first,.— • - regard to the posse. e' Mr. Warrener stated that one of the keys found upon Howell opened the door of No. G bed-room in the hotel City policeman 469 stated that at ten minutes past ten he saw Howell and Smith in the custody of the two officers who had just given evidence, and he was told by Mr. Warrener to apprehend Franklin. - Witness followed Franklin from Fenchurch-street to St. Mary at-hill, took him into custody, and conveyed him to the station-house, where a bag of large dimensions was found in his hat. After the prisoners were searched, Smith turned round to the witness and said, " D—n me, you've got the lot. I suppose they'll give three months apiece for it." Witness replied that that was fur the Lord Mayor to decide up n to morrow. In answer to questions from Mr. Wontner, the wit ness said that Franklin gave his name and address at the station-house, and that the conversation between Smith and witness just detailed was heard by the other persons in the station-house at the time. Jane Richardson, housemaid at the Georg- and Vulture Hotel, stated that some keys and a glove were picked up at the foot of the stairs when the prisoners Howell and Smith was in the custody of the officers. Mr. Hobler—You don't know how the keys got there ? Witness —No. Mr. Warrener stated that the keys did not belong to the house. The LORD MAYOR, who attended very closely to the whole of the evidence, and was most particular in ascertaining the exact time at which the prisoners Howell and Smith quitted the cab and were found in the house, desired to be informed in what parish the George and Vulture Hotel was situated r Mr. IN ar rener replied that the premises stood in two parishes —the principal part was in the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, and the remaining part was in the parish of St. Edmund the King and Martyr. The bed-room in which the girl saw Howell and Smith was in the two parishes, and he believed that one part of the bed was in one parish and the other in the other parish. The LORD MAYOR—Have you lost anything your self ? Mr. Warrener—Nothing whatever. The wit ness said, with respect to Franklin, he observed that prisoner following the other two when they were in custody, and saw that the moment Franklin saw that he was watched he turned away quickly, and was making off when he was apprehended. Mr. Wontner then submitted that there was not evidence sufficient against his client Franklin to jus tify the Lord Mayor in committing that prisoner as an accomplice with Howell and Smith. The cabman could not identify the two latter as the companion of Franklin in the cab ; and as for the appearance of Franklin in the hall, that hall was a passage common to the public, and a complete thoroughfare, from ap pearing ►n which an inference , was not to be drawn that he was aiding and assisting others in the commission of an nftbnce in the room above stairs. Mr. Hobler, for Howell, stated that it would, per haps, be a question with the Lord Mayor whether it would not be most advisable to di-pose of the case in a summary way. No property had been found upon Howell. The solicitor for Smith said that nothing appeared against that prisoner, except what had been said by the officers.—(A laugh.) No keys had been found upon him. The LORD MAYOR said he had distinctly heard and marked the evidence in the whale of the case, and hi% duty appeared to be very plain indeed. It was his duty to commit all the prisoners for trial. His Lordship declared that he by no means entertained the opinion of Franklin's, case which Mr. Wontner endeavoured to impress.. lie would, however, say no more upon the subject, hut leave the decision to Another tribunal. The prisoners were to he com mitted for trial as soon as the depsitions should be Number. Qualification. Election. 1. Qualification of electors. 2. Manner of voting. Duration of office. The Court of Examiners. Number. Qualification. Mode of appointment. Duration of office. The powers and duties of the proposed College will, of course, form the subject of consideration in con nexion with the general question of medical reform, but the Society conceive that the object of all parties will be hat such College should not occupy the same relation to the general practitioners as respects the control of their education and examination as the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeon s will occu py in relation to physieians and surgeons , but that it should en j o y to the fullest extent the same p owers of p rotectin g the privi legesm and representing the int,PrPsts of the general prac titioners exercise as t C r o e l f l e e r g e e n s ce o f t Physicians otemembers eers of tholie Itna Surgeons will branches of the profession. With this explanation of the course which the Society of Apothecaries feel it their 13;dm pu om r r tuateen iatstilosinio:ooTi;mta.hpso2proita:unietbrjleau.;ni.tsautr:oet,e:loea:motr,,odofefstibthure: views with regard to the details of thp scheme iiappy to receive from . i t yp i o u :o t u s y p t r a oc to te that the Society will for the prepared. The prisoners were then removed from the bar. CLERKEIV WELL. Two women, named Callan and Dawning, were charged with creating a riot, and breaking a great number of windows at the Holborn union workhouse. The prisoners were yesterday ilscharged at their own request, obtaining a shiT,ng each and a loaf. T . hey . re, Whoa at e leven drunk, but were admitted into the - ed." receiving lice earning they • smashed • ward, when they commenced fightinit. When they heard the P° ad the ey committed fur windows twenty-onevi press - has produced tdhanyasteshectreach. reach.--They A P a ris papir states that their within the Nisi year as many as 6,377 works in the dead and living languages, 1,353 prints and engravin , i"s 100 asusical works, 54 maps and charts; whilst the copies of PAP women struck uff omounted in number to 34,750,000. ~uusidet ation, that with - r tne Court, was now settled. As GOP other point, the discretion of the exercise of that power by the Court, it would be well if the matters could be arranged without coming to a decision upon it. The matter had better stand over till Monday. If the parties were equally hostile on Monday, Mr. Peacock LLOYD'S SHIPPING. fi n e . LONDON, JAN. 16. —Wind S.E., fresh breeme, and Arrd. DEAL, JAN. 15.—Wind S.S.W., moderate. Bom bay ti.h Merchant, Birnie, Singapore ; Helen, " Ann, Williamson, Bahia ; Vanguard, Longridget„,Mt ritius ; Wahan, Matanzas. Sld. Vanguar d and Calcutta ; Plantagenet, Madras and Calc utta ; Ea' Cape Coast Castle ; Matilda, Luckie , Borbice ;111°1-.4 al l vato Maujaka, C a p e C oas t Castle ; Rose, Newport Valparaiso ; Willi am and Ann, Ichaboe. OFF DARTMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Samarang, Madr as ' ... FALMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Wind S.S.W., strong bre_ Lein, Arrd. Morley, Hurst, Ichaboe, sailed Nov. 20 ; 1 .1 Hastings, Morrison, ditto. The Thomas Laurie's leak, burley, for Cork, left Ichaboe Nov. 17, sprung °A S ,. and was abandoned same day ; crew saved by the ‘-' re o f cent, of Liverpool, which was spoken by the Morlst, this SW port. riri e A SEA, JAN. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Lady Parker, Fortuna Islands. neat MILFORD, JAN. 13.—Wind S.W. 14. E.--Arrd . Clementine, Cardiff for Guadaloupe, leaky ; LadY Newport for Lynn, cargo shifted. ICHABOE, Nov. 19.—Arrd. Thomas Jones. pe ASCENSION. PRETIOUO TO DEC. I.—Arrd. the - -r A r Rosanna, Beccles, and David Banks, Ichaboe ; jesty's steamers Eclair and Penelope, and ships Albatross, and Ringdove. SHEERNESS, JAN. 15.—The Edward Robinson, if; land, from Whampoa to London, whilst in tow e a steam tug, struck on the Flats this afternoon, and,6Pr.,llo a leak, and has been brought in here and beadle° , tea feet water in her hold. ...oass" PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Wind S., fresh ,4, Arrd. her Majesty's ship Cockatrice, Rio, sailed "' c otton , iron hooped, marked " Elias, No. 814," Concordia, New York, for Rotterdam. A bale ofd not her .d long in the water, was picked up this morning ab °llt !eagues south of Culver Cliff, and landed here. h 15, aVa NEWPORT, JAN. 14.—Sid. Otto, H " 1/ " . Eliza, (;nylon. sppareeY TITHE COMMUTATION . TO THE EDITOR OF THE St ifi i ;jlto Sin,—As some of the London papers have c o p y ate" the Essex Standard an erroneous accou nt of o ble rages to Christmas last, and of the rent c harge ti w iat for the present year, I beg to send you the pecoo, abstract from the Annual Supplement t o the T 1 ,11 1 ., mutation Tables, which will be published in le" I am, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES M. WIL L 25, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Jan. 14, 1845. AVERAGE PRICES FOR SEVEN YE2 I VAI S T; ) Per London Gazette. fi 6 q ; .E ; ti al 0.. C12 A o : • On s. d. s. d. a. d. 1 00 To Christmas 1836 Dec. 9, 1836 7 114 3 11' ; 4 2 9 9i 1 1, 1836 Jan 13, 1837 6 81 , ,i 3 11% 2 9 91 ; —183 n 12, 1838 6 3 0 ' 2 8% 4 18381 —4, 1830 6 6t2 39% 2 8 98 1 ; 1839 —3, I;4' ' )3 9 3 114 2 9'4 10 1 ; 1640 6,1. 41 6 11 % 4 1 2 10% 1 0 -- 18411 —7, 184'd 73% 4 2 2 114 t oo 1 1 1842 6, 184; 7 4 114 2 10 ! 4 )04 , f 1843 — 5, 1844 7 7% 4 2 9,4 1844 —3, 184 i 7 4 14,4 2 9 FOR SEVEN YEA. 11.5..........-0".., vA 15 `,34 T ito Or ' d. 0 * i: 3 1 1 1 91 ; , 0 94 91 15 54 I pf IS gi I 10 10 10 4 0- 03" NE w s. —(Y EN'IIEO- cto. IS.°7 MAACK. Ai; rs. ( .41 1 0 SMITIIFIELD.—Course Meadow }lay, 31 1 06 — 5 / ig I%•eful ditto, 41 lis to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditt ° ' l / rf 51 lo.; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Stray'', .13111 0 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ l4s to 1/ 16s per 1050 ' mo:lerate,akal trade rather dull. 41 16 ' ; Cu M ISERLAN D.--Coarse Meadow Hay, 3 1 '";‘, to Useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 4s ; tine Upland (lit"' 11' 4 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 418 s to 5/ 16s; Oat Salo , Air to I ' I 6s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s per 1001 ° r , average sappy, alai a siugzi,li demand. 5 0 411 WitrrocoAeigt..—Coarse Nlead ,, w Hay, q/ 1 0 5 15d. tJ Useful dia.', 41 12s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland Si 105 ; Clover Hay, 41 106 to 6/ ; Oat Strsol 11 143 ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 16a per 103 w on the whole dull, at the above quotations. to MEAT MAItILETS. A sbeey SOUTHALL, JAN.ils.—For prime Beasts silu, „ d i, had a steady trade, at fully last week's quot a t , other kinds of stock were dull, but not che a if i le :l, s ,;,/ from 2s 8d to 48 4d ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d ; % - d pir to 4s 2d; and Pork, 3s to 3s Ed per BlbS• Beasts, 40; Sheep. 1,300 ; Calves, 50 ; - ":, 0 . 19 ROMFORD, JAN. 15.—There was rather on, „, business transacted here to-day, at full Pri c ;,l . ; from 2s 10d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 49,-',OO ' 3s 8d to 4s 2d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 35 Suckling Calves, 18s to 285; Quarter -old `) — csit?" 163 to 19s ; and Mild' Cows, with their sma ll to 191 each. 14 A /1 4 d LEWES, JAN. 14.—Beef, from 38 to 45 4 "' to' 2s 10d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s ; and r'o o6 ' per 81bs. Supply but moderate and trade firra• CORN AVERAGES. oO ro o r e GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF 8R1T 15 , 7 0 0 For the Week ended Jan. 11, 1815, made up from the sr In pector in the dilliqe ,t Cities and Town in .# v g e r a l t mperial Quarter. ... 45s UM I Oats Barley ...... 34s .d I Rye AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEltili/ Weeks ending WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATB. l ars. 145 2. 34 9 21 10 Sr ,) 45 1 '34 5 21 11 32 4 r, II 0 45 3 34 2 21 18 112 0 P 5 1 0 45 6 34 3 20 10 131 9 5 45 8 34 2 21 le 133 • g 0/ 00 .1 45 10 134 5 21 7 31 4 AGORIGAT2 AVIKAOIs or THS 61 , ..... 4.5. 53 Oats natio c 341. 4J Rye DUTISS OW mein); conln. Wheat 2C. ho. 0at......... 1 . 65. Bean"';,./ Barley ... nd. Rye .. P ,O " EXAMINATION OP ARTICLED CLErtg S ' e d 0 1 . 4 ~, miners of versons applying to be adwit t , tes , will proceed with the examination of candil f ,oo mission on Thursday, the 23d instant, at he doO , r a in the forenoon, at the hall of the Law Insti t ' ll oorr4 articles of clerkship, with answers to the 4 11e ,,,h °bo' due service; are to be left by Friday, the ' ll O O / It is stated by the notice that where the e` not expired, hut will expire during the ter gi ;he date may be examined conditionally, but must be left within th e first seven days Of tertreeVA SIGHT AND H x ARING.---39, Albemarle 5 „ e tt, dilly. Newly-invent e d s p ec t ac l es , teles%o,l4, glasses. microscopes, &c. Patronised by eti Edward Paget. Sir Evan Lloyd, Fre'cl e r o tt,'ije: Clayton. Galway, GroaveAoe, Morrison. I S, ) 0 ,0 7 1 i, son, and Mackenzie ; Major-Generals 5i1. ,„i 'fijor) stone, I', Fyers, D. Macleod, Hamilton, e" go‘ie p Li-ut.-Generals Sir Henry Boaverie, sin-.. e o r ) Sir H. Barton, Sir T. Dallies. Lord John 1-11) , Y 4 0')., 16 , Sir George Cockburn, Sir George tos Martin. Sir James Whitshed, Sir '"„ii or, t v!, ) l Ross. By the use of these newly-inveir str eeV f , Oat itnperfect vision becomes preserved 0% 1 th,;; e;et and very a4e,l persons are enabled to emP ee ii at the most initiate occupation, and can lenses of a much less magnifying powe r, require the frequent changes to furche u r et 00/ newly-invented achromatic waistcoat-r e cop o / ; 1 and opera glasses. Every kind of tele ° ye s 1) , I S size with increasing powers, for hhooting%., s eti,, and, upon stands, for astronomical purPv are sw S L ID same celebrated lenses, the powers are s ' e' o hje c o o ie t oocelebrated lenses so bright and brilliant, that minu te , eo ll .fe extraordinary distance are brought comp T iiii i4 4.fr eye. Sportsmen, tourists, and sea-si de odti c o l ,/ have a great treat. Their invisible voic e c oie o o rtie f ,:. 4 immediate relief to old standing extreM e o ph o fed ness. Caution—Messrs. S. and B. Soled 't jal 0 0 0 i" te and aurists, are not in any way connec t , h boe- t ePc of the same name in - their immediate neig toy e 0 prey 39, in any part of the country. To Pre 3 9, A lll cautious and observe, only to be had at street, Piccadilly, opposite the York lloto Dec. 7 14 ..... 21 25 ..... Jan. 4 ...... 11 , - sid e BIRTHS. not ry On the 10th inst., at Dublin, the wife 01 L v,cor Esq., of a daughter. 3 ra l3r j AVol di On the 11th inst., at Misc. hill, Sure'' , -I. On the 13th inst., at Not th-end, Fulna ul ;,r. vrit 9 tamn Dawson, Royal Engineers, of a ( taught - o f On the 14th inst., Mrs. T. C. MetbleY, Soho, of a daughter. ove" o 4 rlr On the 14th inst., at Claremont-place , -- C°' 1 M John's wood, Mrs. E. Fagg. of a daughter.rs. JOa a On the 14th inst., at Woburn-square , 000 0 of of a sun. On the 15th inst., Mrs. T. J. Har vad I" tr i d ughter. vt, 13 Y' On thA 15th inst., at Thurloe•place v ladyßenson Maxwell, ...sq., of a d aug e 1 4 .10 6 , , On the 15th hist , at Connaught•terrac ter,o; lady of Thomas Young Prior, Esq., bar Middle Temple, of a son. l'' :11ARBIED• ii , gri i id i On the 13th inst ,at St. Anne's , S° . '"„ t if ' l l>) , Harding, cf Candid, to '0 arion M. Kyle , c '"" • , 4 Joseph Ryle, deceased, (,f Calcutta. , i t0c ,,,, (fi r eg i , , 1 1 ,!0 *0- sciii o Oan t r i et, t i h ßie e et44 l e 4 tnh t t h inst., at St. Pancras '-' I , b, 0 1 , ePti worth, Esq., of York, to Maria Jane Fr 1.;0 o bai:i dr i Regent's-park. Ist. ar , k a't St. George's , IP t Frederic Style, M.A , to Louisa Catherine, loc ,, o f , of the late Mr. Robert Turton Nevittiona.noer,,eqotiootr , On the 14th inst., at. St. George's, Edis, Esq ,to Sarah Helena, eldest surY lerf' the late Lieutenant-Colonel Moor, BombaY i r litr tli _ A V . DIED. „, n , WO g„r On the Bth L:st .at Torqu?y, Rosa" — f. 'st ,r,ieutenant-Colonel Ckin.paiii. f It-ft p '‘ii On the 11th inst., Hannah, daughter ° ,et c i Til.otson-plzyce, Lambeth. WO ° ° P '' 141 On the lith Lis ~ at Chester-terrace, o ar ~o r : , nly (laughter of the late Richard Jo e , ° 0 < l% ,f lY o t h t n h e e t i h a e n t e e l a ! j r t a h ' i l l ' i li w n s s k o t es a , ~, On the 12th inst.. AbiliunniranSce°OuLtlsihq:ll:BPgtueda°ull:l74l'7:-: °S;l:e's ' att)::l oc e,, ~ Bradwr,v, of the Leigh, North Wilts. , e W° , d on the 12th inst., Elizabeth Marl r ti o loe i ", of' 9 4 of Mr. C. I'. Walker, of Dravcott-place, ily,a,°, l ) A il, On the 13th inst., at t i•sex-P l3ee .i r ' li rely, tlamber De Mole, Esq. of Metchart lifp, O on n ldt t - I• l , l t : e., l l• 3 oi t i l i t a: i i n en s ds t ;: it . t . ' 1 sling t on T2, 0 ° ,, 0 go t 0 plf On the 12th inst.. Sanwel, :L e : : t ' . j eo li l: .; tree re, Ja C Harrison, late ofGreat M arlborough's Oct the 12th inst . , A-connauglit-oqug . v 1 046 t A: Ls , t., aged 69 - 01 0' , i' f J 3tli O r ti e 0 116 sd r On the 11th inst., at Little Alie-D tor W. well New-road, ageldrsi S. L. Samuels, Esq., aged 71. . . tita S N t;' On the 10th inst., S. A.91-L:aeersk7,ls:lt:r'eleiitt,ei IC If . Godtre), 1, Or 1 On the 12th inst., Mrs. 1 w sr • 0 f L re 0 3,....;, 400. Vinegar-yard, Bankside, Sou t I _, - - . Y ` 4' o' : SUS atee t i,;o o _ . sr ~::I,o\2P,irninSttthread•nrprdeePiPriiatirribrtiertalidt:Tbsh4llB4so7oS9*: ill° tbs Aliddlesex, triday, , Joatiol 1 7 , 1111101