The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-13 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBUROIT, AUGUST 11.
The Edinburgh inspector of cleaning has published
a pamphlet on the obstructions afforded to his office,
containing revelations of such visual and olfactory
horrors that the council have to a man agreed that a
sanitary bill for Edinburgh must at once be obtained.
The pressure of the times is not acting with such
force on the faculty of advocates, who have told the
town council that, in their opinion, the time for
building. Chalmers' hospital has not arrived. When
that period will come it is very difficult to conjecture ;
but as the bequest leaves it entirely in their hands,
there is no remedy bat patience. Meanwhile there
are other semi-medical topics of general interest
that require to be mentioned.
The first is the threatened action between the
university and town council regarding a resolution
of the latter body, issued by them as the patrons of
the former, to the effect that attendance at a few of
the extra academical classes in Edinburgh should, in
common with the license allowed to similar classes in
other medical schools, be allowed to count as part of
the medical curriculum. The College of Surgeons is
to make common cause with the council, and, if
pushed, the college may retaliate on the university by
not recognising university attendance as qualifying
for their surgical diploma. It would be very absurd
were matters to come to such a cries ; but timely con-
cession appears at present to be the only method of
preventing it, unless, indeed, a general medical bill be
carried next session.

Dr. Andrew Combe, brother of George Combs, and
well known as a popular medical author, died in the
neighbourhood of Edinburgh on Monday last. For
several years the continuance of Dr. Combs's life has
been almost miraculous. His complaint was in the
lungs, the consumption of which induced such ex-
treme delicacy of frame that nothing but the most
unremitting scientific treatment kept him alive
_ _

Some interest has been excited by a game-law pro-
attention in Perth against some boys, at the Weems
of the procurator-fiscal for that county, and oars•
quently at the public expense; and as soak motions bays
of late been brought forward at the In oir pinto
parties, it has been suggested that, in the prime
Mats of public opinion regarding tines laws, time Ham
Secretary or the Lord Advocate &MI be espnisi
not to make petty infringements an lam as saddest
of crown prosecution.

Scornful Scgeousiiernite.—Scotland has loeg enjoyed
the advantages of national education. Every child,pallig
or girl, can demand instruction as a right. In the
schools instruction is not confined to reading, writing, and
arithmetic. Greek, Win, and French are taught. The
Scottish schoolmaster undergoes a severe examiasiims
before he is inducted into Aloe Many of themlaw
been brought up in the universities, and ponces mead
and comprehensive erudition. How than it agy be asked,
are these teachers paid? What is their MIMS Of NW
=ion ? We rein* to state the remmasenden assty, and that t* dam of tree giedensa, whale
labours are of thmmes=to the an n re kra, are a
well paid Si a or • asbleneak bathe.
Thee is a charge on the Ind wale by the Wien whisk
=tas a zumimeneaVel. per le the illeelikk
ale. He leen, bet the Meade ally
enacts that then ate* be two near fa it ; the hakes me
not strictly boned to furnish any been esemarnodet=oll
the rooms may De of the narrowest luscious. In
to the salary, which lea nortspsys ea the land, the wheal-
master is entitled to 3s. • knot every pupil; but If
the pupil is taught fereign the fees are raised to
seven &inlet's a quarter. Os en amass, the parents of
about one-third of the children in each school never pay anr
thing, and it is a hopeless attempt to obtain the trifle demanded
&anthewinertnmepoverty. The schoolmaster who in one
shepe or another reosinslol. a year, from the charge of 301. on
the and the pupilage fees united, is at the top of the
tree in money nutters. To fern this, he must train up
about 60 boys and girls, if they all pay, and more if there
are delimiters. Our English readers may have some diffi-
culty In crediting such a statement, but it is exactly true,
and we know that thole talented and laborious gentlemen
would be fully satisfied if they were secured to the amount
of 1001. per annum. Surely such a system demands the at •
tandem of the legislature, and the active Interference of the
Scottish representatives ; the more so, since the heriton may
give the minimum stipend of only 101, we believe, and only
provide two miserable rooms for the doodahs, even though
he has a wife and children. When parliament assembles,
we shall not fall to use our beet efforts In livedng the sub-
ject on the notice of the government.--/errolif's Weekly
Newpaper.