The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-01 00:00:00

Oh:ivies! nowlinte et tope—

but there is an earnest e.etermination still among the
Romans not to rest till the Peninsula is fully liberated,
and their wishes from accounts recently received seem
to be on the point of realisation. When the German
coalition, in the days of Clement 7tlarot, sought to
establish a rioting in the plains of France, that
earli st of Gallic songsters addressed the Duke
d'Alencon in a noble war chant, the Sth stanza of
which I would fain waft to Charles Albert :
lgethinka I ere brigh, victory to robes oratory dreg,
Jot fait appear on our north frontier to the chieftain she love* best;
While grim defeat in contrast meet, aeowls on the toeinaree tent,
She on our duke atonea down with look of Moths encouragement.
t 'en now I seen our foe. have seen their hopes of conquest fail,
Glad to regain title homes again and qw.ff their Au4ti fan ale ;
go may it be whit- chivalry and loyal hearts combine
A brand to wield kg the land that yleiJa the olive and the Tine.
PROUT, vol. ii., page 91.

EAST INDIA llOUSE.—Yesterday a court of directors
wag held at the E tot India 11,01.1), when M-. .hn LoWil
W3ll app .inted a pin:Won't member of the Council of India,
and Mr John Fryer Thomas a pr nal member of cowl
eft at Madras.
I'OOR-LAW MEDICAL RELIEF.—DEPUTATION TO
SLR Osoaoe G Itsty. —On Tuewity Sir G. Grey receive.l, by
appointment, at the Home-office, a deputation of poor-law
union um dial officers, scemnpaoied by representative. from
the several m.dicsl colleges. Dr. Hodgkin in roduced
the depot Pion, and Mr. T rrrrr • president of the Royal
C-Rory of Surgeon, Mr. Stanley, vice-presideot, Mr.
Bean, prraitirrit .0 the 'Airo.hec4rieri Society, and Mr. Itidout,
Tice•prestdent, bri. fly gave the it sanction to the of jests of
the deputation ; of t r which Dr. Burton, president of
the late aygreg .t.. meeting, entered u on a gsnerul state-
ment of the rrievances complrined of, urging first the nerve-
, sity of a sorter inspection of the local operation of those
port one of the poor law regulating medical ?eh. f In many
cases, but more especiully in atrietly medical, he cm-
, tended there mac a nee..ssity that the inspector should be a
man of medical education, in order to decide whether the
intentions of the legisla.ere were fulfilled. Ile tin refore
urged that at lea,t come of the assistant itommissioners

ehou!d be teat n from the medical orfession.--Sir O.Grey here
inn rposed,stating the• this p already under considera-
tion, and that in Ireland, where a medical man had bet n
app-inied aweetant co ino-inner without any paricular ilis-
trio b ins es.ign..d to hint tho r stilt had be, n in ):•..
faetery.—Dr. Baron then encs cried to pAnt out the mis-
cnion arisieg from having appointment!, frequently held by
an annual t. nurv. With the fear before him of dismissal
without cau,e as limed the medical man could not do his
ditty to the poor, either comfortably or independently. A
further point urged wee the extremely lo rate of remune-
ration received fir medial services under the poor law.
Owing to the degradation of tut rate the medical officers
received a sum which barely covered the cost of drugs and
merited appl;ancem, and the expenses of keeping a horse,
nothing being left to remunerate the u, ion surgeon fur his
loss of time, and for the exercise of his skill. While in a
few cases as much as sixteen shillings were paid,
in the vast majority the payment was of a
wry insignificant character inch, d, reaching below sixpence
each case.—Sir G. Grey remarked that it was the peculiarity
of the poor law to unite the two principles of local manage-
ment and central superintendence, and the evils complained
of were the c nio quence.—Mr. Healey submitted that the
central eupemision WAR entitled to take a more prominent
part in Ms matter than in the subject of administration ge-
nerally, an government had guaranteed to pay half the poor-
law medical esteem's from the consolidated fund.--Sir G.
Grey observed that government had not lost sight of that view
of the are. The same principle had regulated their proceed-
ings in reference to the education grant in the eases of
schools beneh:ed by it.—ldr.klartin and 140/silence related
a recentcase of .1 pauper who had died ,the surgeon living 6 miles
distant, and n-t receiving sufficient remuneration to enable
him to keep a home, The average payment for attendance
on prison patients wee 13s. 6d. ; that of union patient not
one-tenth or that sum —Sir G. Grey having assured the
deputation of the interest he felt in the matter, and of his
d. termination to confer with Mr. Buller, president of the
poor law commission upon it, the deputation withdrew,
acknowledging the comm.,' with which they had been
received.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TtIie DAY.
OATHS OF MEMBERS.—REFORM ACT.
Lord J. RUS/4ELL gave notice of hie intention to
move for leave to bring in two bills, one for the altera-
tion of the form of cath taken by members of parlia-
ment at the table; and the other for the alteration of
the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Art.