The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

THE LEVANT.

By this mail we have intelligence from Malta,
Athens, and Constantinople severally to the 29th, the
19th, and the 16th ult. . . _

H.M.S. Vengeance bad arrived at Malta to refit.
The Earl of Hardwicke had taken command of her.
There is no news of moment from Athens. Every-
thing was quiet at Constantinople. Mr. Layard had
arrived there.

FRANCE.—PUBLIC CHARITY IN PARIB.—The
report of M Frichon, in the name of the Committee of the
Interior, on the bill to organise public assistance in Paris, has
just ben distributed. The committee is of opinion that it
will be advisable to unite together the two administrations of
public amistaace and of the hospitals. According to oiseiat
documents furnished by the Prefect of the Seine, the totally
'indigent population to be succoured is presumed to be, ter
1849, 93,568 in number, forming 37,480 families. In the
winter of 1847, the number was 95,177, and that of those
who received temporary aid, 239,387. It is caleuls'ed
in Paris there is one totally indigent person in eve
12 23 100 inhabitants, and out of 24,000 deaths, 9,000
place in the hospitals and charitable institutions. Th
are in Paris fifteen hospitals, containing 7,174 beds, and
ceiving about 90,000 persons each year ; th ire are further/
four great institutions for receiving persons old, in
or fools, in which there are 8,000 persons; upwards
100,000 now receive luminance at their own dwellin ,
From an account for 1847, just published by the Administra-
tion 04, Orals des libitaux of Parilt, it appears that it has
under its direction 18 hospitals, 11 hospice., and 3 cha-
ritable establishments. The hospitals are the Hotel-
Dieu and its ruccunal, La Pile, La Charlie, St. Lnuiti St.
Antoine, Necker, Cochin, Bunion, Bon Smut's, du Midi, do
Lounine, des Enfans Maladea, lee Clinique', the Matson
d'Acoonchement, and the Maison Nationale de Sante, Pau-
beurg St. Denis. The hospices are : Be la Viellesse (men),
ditto (women), Incurables (men), ditto (women), dos M-
ugge., La Ithelefoueauld, Ste. Perin, lionised, Bream, Do-
villas, Sedans Trouves and Orphelins. There are 6,501
beds in the hospitals, and 11,079 in the hospices—in all
17,583. In 1838, there were only 16,224. In the course of
the year 1847, 88,493 sick persons ware treated in the me-
dial department of the hospitals, and 23,292 in the sur-
gical. The number of days passed by the sick persons of
both departments was 2,166463; that of the employb,
578,662—in all, 2,735,125. The average number of pu-
n= attended to in the hospitals is 5,800 daily. The penods
for which they remain on an average vary is the different
hospitals ; in the medical department it is about 231 days;
in surgical, 31f. Out of the 88,493 sick persons who
were attended, 8,317 died. The average of deaths is lin
10. The permanent population of the hospices and maisons
de retrain' is about 9,760, of whom 2,260 to 2,300 are In-
sane; and, in addition, 19,293 insane persons and infirm
persons entered the hospices during the year. Of these
29,043, 1,781 died. The days pared by the patients
amounted altogether to 3,539,773 The number of 'Mane
teemed. and orphans received in 1847 was 4,654, of whom
only 477 are supposed to he legitimate; and, in addition,
there were '2,860 children who had been received in the
previous year; 3,686 of the children were placed in the cows-
ill, 1.210 giver. up to their parents, 1,218 diid. In the
enures at the year, 24,554 persons altogether, including the
sick and the indigent, were relieved. The total expense of
the administration was 14,970,2111 r. Among the items are
the following :—Bread, our, etc., 2,154,1121 x ; wine,
867,0160. ; meat, 1,617,440 fr. ; different provisions,
1,189,9791 r. • medicine, 600,00 fr. ; bandages, dio.,
73,000 fr. ; 'firing, 693,0007. ; lighting and washing,
332,318 fr. ; linen, 246,0001 r. ; clothing, 259,240 fr. ; furni-
ture and utensils, 223,590 fr. The expense of children in
the country wile 1,691,4851 r. ; the direction des noterriow,
81,000:r. ; and assistance to the indigent at their own real.
decor., 2,183.698 n.

, .
MEDICAL STATIATICB.—The Almanack Ginical de
Midectse gives some cutious statistical details of changes in
the medical world. The number of medical pupils now
inscribed in the faculties, or preparatory schools, is 2,019 :
950 in Paso, 174 in Montpellier, 109 is Str-sbourg, and
the rest dirributed amongst the twenty-one preparatory
schools. Ii the faculty of Paris 272 pupils, in 184 g,
took their first Inscription, and 230 sustained a thesis
for their degree of doctor. The number of ree,p-
trona as dove', which had increased from 1826, when they
were 215, to 1837, when they were 487, has gradueily
declioted since this latter period, and in 1846 bad n to
211 An analogous decreaac has been observable for the et-
coed order of medical men—vis , efficiers de sante. The
medical jury of the Seine, which used to receive from 70
to 80. and even 90, per annum, from 1827 to 1837, boo not
admived more than from 40 to 60 since that year. The
diminution has been still greater amongst the pharmacians
received at Paris. In 1843 the number was 192, whist in
1848 it has been only 55. The reason of this falling off in
thee various branches was that the profeadon was over.
stoceed. Even at present in Paris, notwittstandiag the
decrease just mentioned, there are 1,380 doctors, 166 officers
de sauté, and 386 midwives. The second arrendiseernent
alone contains nearly 400 doctors more than existed in the
whole capital in the seventeenth century, in the time ei Poi-
In January, 1847, the number of doctors in Paris
was 1,442, so that at present there is a diminution of 62.
Since 1833, there has always been an increase until the pre-
sent year. In the last two years 56 doctors, of whom 27
had the cross of the legion of honour, have died in Paris;
112 quitted the city • and 114 new ones have established
themselves re. There are at present 398 memb.rs of the
Legion of Honour am .zigst the medical men of Paris, 7 com-
manders, 60 officers, and 341 knights. Since the revolution
of Fennaary, nine of the medical men of Paris have Leen
elected to the National Assembly—viz., MM. Bizio, Bnabeo,
Dezeimews, Gerdy, Lilut, Marasiat, Recurt, TtClat, andl
Trousseau. Amongst these, there were 1 president of the
Assembly (M. Buchfz) ; 2 vice-presidents MM. Bizio and
Titbit); 3 wittia'trs (MM. Recur, TrElat, and Blain)
prefect of the tline Recur° ; and two prefects of police
(MM. Hawn: and Gervais de Caen)

DETENTION OF THE MAILS BY THE
morning, NV*llll of the mail-bags broug t by the northern
mails were declined, is consequence of obstructions w.used
by a sudden i.nd exceedingly dense fall of snow on the Trent
Valley lira The gnarl reports that in many pane of the
line the snow lies from two to three feet deep ; and that uear
Tamworth i is full tour het deep. Father north the fall
has been ors eons:derable. Ile begs were about an hour
behind in consequence, but the delivery of letters wes made
about the usual time, w that the delay was not felt by the
public.

COLLEtie OF PRECEPTORB.—At the third annual
meeting tit :his body, held yesterday, at their r aims, in
Biooinabur,..aquarsit Mr. Turrtl, president. in the chair, the
report shit. d that on the 26th Dec. is, communica-
tion had I, a received from the attorney-general's office,
stating the. the charter of the College of Preceptors, a draft
f which hivi been submitted to the Board of Trade, had
been referred to the attorney and solicitor general by the
Cut:and-OMo, and requesting that the usual fees of twelve
and eleven tininess should be forwarded to them. Such was
the actual ..dsidon of the charter queati•in. The elf-rts of
the „1"e were already known sod acknowledged. not only
in Scotluno ant Ireland, but in Be Brunswick, Prince
Edward's Nand, and on the. Rhine and Ganges, Riot and
West Indita, as welt as in the new world of Au trails.
The espei.-.4 of obtaining the chatter would be 6001, end
toward. CAI sum the council had only to acknoa ledge
160/. 13s. 6.. They cad to regret that fund war as yet
so inadequate, as wittriut the charter they could give little of
a nations, eisracter to the institution • but with which thsg
could imprint upon a well organised body of men that mark
of genuine professional dignity which was long, both pub-
licly and pnvately, due to those who, as well informed and
conscientious teachtri of youth, undertake the cheese of
rearing ai.d training them for active life here and forth rnity
itereatter.—the remainder of the proceedings consisted of
the election of odic, ra sea other rou ins business and th ••• 1.!•-•
Rev. Dr. Wilson having been called to the clieireatVeold • •
vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Turrel, who retires heal
the presidency of the council, which he held for three lass, , 7:
—A suhaeription for the Charter Fund wastben entered IMP 1.
by the gentlemen resent, and amounted to newly Mit •
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