The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

At Paisley a number of printworks have heft
stopped in consequence of the dispute which has
arisen in reference to the request made by the work-
men for fortnightly instead of monthly payments.
Nearly I,oon hands iu the town and neighbourhissl,
and about 50t) ill liarrhead, have been thrown out of
employment, entailing in the meantime a very
senors loss to the eommunity. A conferenee was
to be held on Thursday. at which it was bolas' the
matter would be amicably arranges'.
The workmen of Seaton Colliery, near Seftham
Harbour, about two months ago requested certain
additional advances of wage.; the proprietors, having
during the previous fortnight given a eonsiklerable
advance, declined to grant them, but stated their
willingness to refer the matter to iii interested
parties. The workmen declined this, and in conse-
quence a strike of seven weeks' duration resulu3d.
At length, however, the workmen agreed to refer all
matters in dispute, and, accordingly, Mr. T. E.
Forster, of Newcastle, was appointed on behalf of
the owners, and Mr. John Tkior, of Haswell, on be-
half Of the workmen. These gentlemen met at the
colliery on Friday last, mutt have Made an award of
prices, &c., satisfactory to the respective parties. It
is much to be desired that this may be the com-
mencement of a better understanding between the
owners of collieries and their workmen, and that the
latter may see that great misery and crime—the
inevitable results of protnieted strikes—may ho
averted by at once miming their disputes to arbitra-
tion.

LONI)ON iIOSPIT.II.ti AND 11111)1CAL
SClU►t►l,`t.
THE commencement of the medical session In Lon
don has lately been commemorated by the usual
series of inaugural leetures, delivered at the vari
metropolitan hospitals MIA Isill4WlS of medicine, by
11w seleetett professors. The address at the new
llualiral College just opened in conntectitat with the
Ituval Free Hospital, and which was delivertsl by I►r.
Tyler Smith, contnintsl an elaborate and highly inter•
eating account of the growth. of medical scienve in
England; the establish►aent of hospitals and medical
charities ; the exercise of professional skill for the
benefit of the pottier classes in the noble
insttuliuus with which London abounds, und the
admirable advantages which these oh.ll4llffielit
have afforded in return, by giving epportmlities for
instruction and practice to litany sitecessiNo genera.
lions of practitioners. After toatin4 that the first
hospital in I tendon, St. Bartholomew's, was founded
in the Century, and the earliest, public lectures
on physic were delivered in the fifteenth century by
Linacre at Oxford, 1)r. Smith U•aced the gradual
steps of advance effected sinee that data in the
practice and the science of healing, the tli‘ision into
different branches, the study of anutouay, the rime
and decline of anti theories,
,C•e. Ho then proeeetled to remark upon the
octal
lishment of the numerous motion. hospitals
now exist in the metropolis :

" Otir hospitals have shared hi the re his given to
nuslical education iu modern times, and
acv. r
strikingly than in 4.111'5. It 1111/4 4.411111111111
repniewli that the hospital iwisimmodation iii London is
inferior ill extent to the sane kind of ne..onninolidt..n
iu
tandinculml eitirs. and Pans has lwen esticcially pointi.l
as the proof of this. No fair esimparimat can, 111111 4.% vr,
mathe betwis.ti the two cabs+, because the deartiption of
sick who an• received into our parochial Infirmaries thol
their way into the Parisian klispitalm. As far as the com-
parison is just, there is every turnable that the present
genenttion will witness the retinasl of this reproach. The
first Mil of the Royal Free Hospital was occupied in Its.as;
it now 1111 l ahem 100 Leda King's Collego Hospital was
opened hi P 439, count' • g bells ; the new 110 W
rising in earey-street will provide. lids fair .o.!+i 1 patients. St.
Mary's Hospital, completed iti Iµ'.l, reeeken Ifitt patients.
and additiimul acts, 1111 l iodation is lill'etnly eiititemplided.
lty the late improvements the Mlifillesi.x Ilialpital leis
iticreatted f ...A11 to :m beds. Tao tow wings have
recently been 41+41 to Boy's Hospital, and %Willi the last
few years great iniprio outruns have liven rani'sl out at St.
'lfliontas's mid St. Itartholionew's. At the present tunic an
wing is in eoa,r., of s.r.i.ntan at the
Hospital. and au udditionnl winglnas
.0151, becu completed
at St. tieorge's. Signs of unusual activity are eveowliere
apparent. Within a very few a 1 'ti, the Fever Hospital,
the 1111.111 nil. the Prins). Hospital, mid
tile Lock Hospital have Men entirely rebuilt. Two large
'onsiiiiiption Hospitals, One of 11.. r the iirciiinnosla
tint, of 'rill in patient., have beets erected. lk•siiles these
institutions, the +++Timm Ilimpital at I tallltt in, Ole .leWs.
Hospital. St. Mark's Hospital. two Hospitals for Women.
the Hospital for Sick Children, the Hospital for I ij,44.10464.µ
of the Skin, and the Ciower all of thew
origin, descry+• to he ttttt 10.1111A:11. Ni/r is inn'
lies .ital
MCCollinithllittiall COIII.IIOII U. 1...W1W1. Thi. Senlont 111 lig
hinimin'y at Nlurglito• is essentially a metropolitan charity.
At Eastbourne, In Sussex, there is au institiithon fur
receiving the patients of a familial At lloolinso-
mouth, in Hampshire. a Aar plan has been projected.
The. institution at earaloillou has been Cu. some thme in
beneficent operation. in entineetion with the bonbon n 0...
comiad atstem. Almost every hospital lima itoienisitileseent
fund, atoll noble t'onvitleseent Hospital is Mow iu e 4511106.•
of erection at NVeybridge, 111 Stirrey, Subscriptions have
slay tirtn rainyti tvr ltil iiinututivu in thy island of ui ad,