The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

(THIS DAY.)

in a manner favourable to the dignity of France
and the interests of the Mexican bondholders. i
Great Aorta are made to inculcate the belief 1
--
thaSso far from France having evacuated Mexico i
COI7RT OF QUEEN'S BM'ICE,
under pressure from the United States, the latter
After Term Nid Prins sittings at Westmiaster.--
is now the agent of France to recognise Juarez and the Lord Chief Justice and Special Jam) ---"'
.!
protect his government This is not quite con' ; ma was the first day of the after term 'Mug
~
ati
10L each for non-attendance. urYamm were Lai
thwarted
the expedition was a grand conception
sistent with the theory of La France that list Mt' very beam,. Several 'Pedal j
The defendant pleaded nut guilty, and further, ifirta.
by the unfortunate state of public opinion in This was an action
.for libel against thePattleaff,
Franco. Neither will it, I believe, be borne out alleged libel was tree in substance and in fact. '''
by the Blue Book, when recent diplomatic Hr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Ballaniinci sad a_
despatches come to be published. But it serves a Hume Williams, were ePuniel for the plaintiff; In
each case.
account, closing at 69fr. c 7 c. in for the .damnef new
turn. 'tenth rose l7ic. for cash and 22irc. for Kerslake, C. and Mr.yitzjames Stephen were "-
Mr. Coleridge, in stating the case to the j
Mobilier rose Ififr. 25c. ,and Credit Foncier,3fr.2iic. i
plaintiff is OLD. of the New York Unievreyrkwild4Jll
member of the School of Medicine and Surg'' "'" a
.x 7 j tie
city, and also • registered licentiate of medicine met
a degree conferred by the Governor-General aster i • .
and searching examination by the medical win .i
that provinoe. The defendant is the print* ..1
publisher of the Pall Mall Ua:( fie, a very "at
publication, though of no great age, but wocriakai
raven', Mr. HARTHHHIE in the chair, to consider the
aboutat
the of
London the
with considerable ability, and with that --"'
' CoThmismoafnteFrnunr"nshaareinhoeeldtiersngwoasf held
esisedhaaftererhheyldtthe payment of the working ex-
steps necessary to be taken to maintain their rights as de- of oessoosiity which he supposed
was
found
to yes
fined by the London, Chatham, and Dover (Additional motets, and without which few newspapers
amp;
Powers) Act of 1862. thought they could, flourish. The libel compiaimill
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said it had was published en the 10th November, 1866, sal al
point of the libel was that it was intended ai, sui;
that the plaintiff was an impostor, so far as medical mi.-,
ehnosethireireautrehporrietznftedmushtadhe
afirspritotrhiatyt
was concerned ; that he was a scoundrel so far ai sad--..
qualities were concerned ; and that he was a ---si.
some of the debenture holders, and hence
takes in patients by advertisements, and by eine gni,
been
ennsescrlalzirecg;h7ofbut this right had been questioned by
letter to the chairman of the board, eking what steps had
the necessity for that meeting. He had addressed a fears extorts large fees from the timid ; and that Jiro,
was a quack and unworthy of the degree which he he it
reply was that none were considered necessary; but the wideandgenniaternini which wananembinnuing tel
been taken to protect their interests in Chancery, and the tained. The defendant had. pleaded a justification is
meeting of yesterday tended to show the contrary, and often for • plaintiff to meet, and lie applied to thena
he might add that the committee of investigation for the defendant to state the details and particalarsegi
had stated that they wen" not prepared to define the justification, but it was successfully resisted. Theft'
priorities of the several parties. That meeting was in- declined ►to make the order, but intimated that tie in-
tended as a preliminary one, and he must confess that the siding judge at the trial would use his discrete.
proceedings contemplated would involve considerable ex- anything be sprung on the plaintiff which he dooldtke
pease. It must be impressed on the directors that these he ought to have time to answer. The plaintiff suit
sectional movemeots were to be maintained; and on son of Dr. James Hunter' en English
..ir . .
various grounds it was desirable that there should be was born in England. His father 7_, 01
be an organisation for their protection. He emigrated to Canada, taking hisfoliar:
concluded by moving the following resolution : him. He was an enrolled licentiate in Omsk
" That a committee of five shareholders be now appointed, and practised there with considerable success. He heeigi
with power to add to their number, for the purpose of the plaintiff up to the medical profession. Theism'
maintaining the priorities of payments end other rights ns counsel then detailed the antecedents of Dr. Hama and
specified by the London' Chatham, and Dover Railway his mode of treating pulmonary complaints, sad Qua
(Additional l'owers) Act, 1862 ; and to take such steps
in November, 1865, the plaintiff was charged by a ea,
before parliament and in the Court of Chancery and
elsewhere in relation thereto as they may deem neoessary." Merrick with having committed an aggravated sang is
her. The plaintiff was committed on the chap
Mr. Bultantr, in seconding the resolution, said he had and tried, but acquitted without calling in,
always considered that the " Common Fund" shares were deuce. It was whilst this charge WU Ude is
a tint charge, and ought to be paid with the working ex- vestigation the Pall Mall Gazette published their* ell
penses ; but proceedings iu chancery had been taken by a series of articles to which the learned mussel sass
Mr. Harrison which, if successful, would reduce them to the attention. Common fairness, he thought, would he,
position of first preference shareholders. He hal himself been dictated to the Pall Mall Gazette if it wished to han,
served with a till for that purpose, and he had found run at the plaintiff, to have waited and seen if therms
several shareholders to join him in his defence. An any foundation for the charge. The learned owed
opinion had been laid before Mr. Bacon, of the Chancery
then read the libel in extenso. It was lisald
bar, and he having strongly advised them to defend the is
Impostors and Dupes," and referred to the dim
suit an answer was filed about a fortnight ago. in the police-court, and alter referring to his epsi
In reply to a question, his name, Robert Hunter, M.D., and that frost es
The Ceanimarr said he admitted that there was a deben-
"offensive phraseology
ture debt of 250,000/. on the common fund which must of the basest class of medical"
one is led to suspect the existence of very seams ash
take precedence of that fund, practices," kc., it went, on to state—" There is so odd
Mr. C. RITCHIE observed that he had always understood the revelations of a police-court to show that the'
si
that parliament had carefully distinguished between the process means a process of working upon the fan
several sections of parties interested ; and the position of the ignorant, and of obtaining enormous fes;'
the common funslholders was based by the legislature on • .• a man must. indeed, be a sorry pinciiiisoei i
terminal charge, tho money having been raised expressly he cannot work upon the terrors of a fro
to complete the termini—the lingers and toes, as it were, woman, especially if she is really ill, and so keeeqth
of the undertaking. : game of questioning. and examining, and physieZeg gig
In reply to a question, the poor victim's purse will bleed no more. If, as n din
The CHAIRMAN said the committee about to be formed the case, the patient is a man, whose confessed ' isga
would not consent to any compromise. ' cretions' furnish a pretence for all sorts of horrible we
After some further discussion the resolution was adopted. gestions as to his ruined constitution, the FR= II
' equally easy, and the profits to be expected even are
exorbitant. The terrifying and the plundering an, has
ever, it appears, only one portion of the fate that RN
await the 'ladies' who study the advertisements den
---- I gentry. The charge made against Dr. Hunter by es
This slay a meeting of this company was held at . credulous Mrs. Merrick sufficiently indicates this, whelk
the London Tavern for the purpose of laying before the he be guilty or not, and it is known to those who hoe
shareholders the mode in which the directors proimeed to given themselves the disgusting duty of inquiriee le
reduce the liability on the uncalled shares of the coin- such matters that kindred quacks (though of aan
pany. In the notice calling the meeting it was stated that shameless kind perhaps) do unquestionably me is tie
the balance-sheet would be presented to the shareholder's as basest manner the advantages given them by Wort's*
soon after the 31st December as practicable, but a SUM. ! women." The article then went on to comment entitle
mazy of its affairs as they stood on the 31st October gumption of degrees, observing:—" But what would ben
was laid before the shareholders, from which it appeared evils of permitting some foolish gentleman to all lie
that the liabilities to third parties were as follows :—(A) self count or baron, compared with the mischief does is
1. Bills payable, 33,143/.; 2. Deposit receipts, 24,002/.; scoundrels who utter this base forged coin, and dealt
3. Accounts current, 197,300 r.; 4. Sundries, 3,6501. —258,075 t. be respected as qualified physicians on the geese/le
(It) Contingent liabilities. 1. For calls that may be made some diploma obtained in Canada or New Yorke' fis
on sundry shares the property of the company, 44,2'2.5/., it learned counsel complained that after the trial sal
being believed that not more than half of this amount is acquittal the Pali Mall Ga:ytte followed up the nit
likely to be called for some years. 2. The company is with which they were animated against Dr. Henn by
under a covenant to lend money on the shares of the strictures they then made on the result of the MIL
an English railway now in course of construe- I The libel was then put in.
tion (with an undoubted personal guarantee for the . Dr. Robert Hunter—l am M.D. of the Palen* d
repayment) to the extent of 1114,500/. during the year • New York and licentiate of the Medical Board of lin
1661, repayable 31st December, 1868. 3. The company is York. I produce the two diplomas. My father vs 6
further under an engagement iu respect to a foreign govern- medical man. He is now retired. I and my three Iselin
ment lomi, which may or may not result in an invest- were educated as medical men. I was aeon
ment therein to the extent of about 45,0001. sterling. partially in Canada under my father. I comma
On the other hand, the assets of the company amounted to my studies in 1840, and in 1843 I went to is
2,041,100!. The directors did not mean to represent to University of Geneva, in the United States, viii
the shareholders that every one of the i'ems of aseas is was then one of the most celela ated in Amain I
Perfectly good ; they could hardly expect to pees through remained there two years and went through every Wei
such a year without making some losses, but the directors of science. I attended the hospitals end lectures lid
could say they had not made any debt which could not pass an examination there. I then went to date,
at the present moment be pronounced positively bad, ' versity of New York, which I believe is the most dine
though one item, relating to a reilwav in Por- guished school of medicine in America. The ideal
tugal, was in an unsatisfactory state. The only Canals were of recent origin, and the teethes me
actual losses hitherto made were from sales of not even of such eminence as those of en
securities, the loge on which bad been wholly written off York. Valentine Mott was at that time a teen
before making up the statement of assets and liabilities ; at the school of New York. He was the profaned's',
and further, after careful consideration of the outstanding gery. I studied there two years, and he egad le
debts, and making allowance for such as may be regarded diploma. The curriculum was very large. I took i
doubtful, the directors consider these will be degree of M.D., having first pegged en examiners'
fully met within the limits of the reserve a fund every branch. I returned to Canada, and took tk,
formed expressly for meeting such contingencies. • colonial license, having first undergone the end lel
The share capital of the company the directors regular examination there. My diploma is Opel 4
feel themselves justified in considering intact. General Cathcart, the then governor, and the ow**
The mode iu which it was proposed to reduce the liabilities of the board of medical examination is appended I";
Was as follows :—A new company, under the title of the it is duly registered. I took a certificate of caste!
General Credit and Discount Company (Limited), to be also. I practised for five years near the city of Torok.'
formed for the purpose of taking over the business, the had a very large practice in all branches. I had an stet
liabilities, and the assets of the old company, as on and of bloat-spitting from exposure or over work, and Ikeils
from the 31st December next ensuing. This new company give up my practice. I transferred the practice DS/
will have acapital of 2,000,100/., formed from 200,010 shares, brother, an English doctor, and at one tins en
of 10/. each, 7/.los. paid up. The thareholdersof theoldeom- nected with Haswell Asylum. 1 reamed VW
pany will, in lieu of their present holding,receiveshares in tics about eight months afterwards. During thd
the new company as follows :—For every five shares, of time I turned my attention to and comae' Or
20/. each, which • member of the old company at present sicians as to pulmonary complaints. I ellwr.,
holds, having already paid thereon in all 30/., and being on myself, and consulted the Professor of Chemeel•
further liable for 701., he will receive four shares of 101. New York, and he endeavoured to persuade et kw
each, on each of which 71. 10n. will be credited as paid, adopting inhalation. I was not then aware OA 5571
making together 30/. paid, with a further liability of had written on it. I persevered in the trestnin
only 10!. The new mpany will thus start with myself. I gradually improved. and ultimately _ _
a subscribed capital of 2,000,1001, of which paid-up I had • repetition of blood-spitting in 1337, wiles new,
co t
1,500,075/. The arrangements provide for reservation and York, and I again found my remedy effectuaL I 106
Payment of a dividend of 6s. per share (including the 2e. Europe, and returned to New York and returned my re
per share already paid), payable ;tut December. When Lice. My finale is consumptive, and my brothels !Ise
the balance sheet to 31st December was presented, the hail recourse to tnhalations. From 1852 to 1857 and tilt,
directors believed it would show that a larger dividend that time to this I have studied the subject. I had see!
might be declared out of the profits of this year, but large practice in New York. I published two 'NTs
they thought it prudent to restrict the distribution consumption in 1853. They are out of print. Isr
within perfectly safe 'hulls. edited a medical publication very much devoted tei7i
Mr. BKAHLET-M, /ORE said he had little more to Pay than eases of the chest. I came from Canada direct to
wait contained in the circular which had been distributed land. On the 27th of June. 1864. I eiviee'l le Edglite
amongst the shareholders, and which informed them of came here to visit my relatives and educate my
seeee
the 31st of October there was only an amount of without any profession. I have a
the object for which they had been called together. On dren. At that time I was possessed of moderate
26,000/. of unpaid calls. The unsatisfactory item living, and they reside with me. When I came to IR
to which the circular referred was one of 151,000/. land I commenced to establish myself as a practitialmair.
due from a Portuguese railway company. But though before I came over I was not aware of the pr.:nee:FA"
in an unsatisfactory state this item was by no Medical Practioners' Act of lsele. I applied to be
__.
' means to be considered • bad debt They might not re- supposing I had only to present my credentedi to ner
wife and eight _
ceive the money at once, but from what he knew of the tered. I corresnded with Dr. Burrows and Sir Stmt
character of the Portuguese government he believed a Grey on the po
subject. If I had practised beforeleee
large part, if not the whole, of that sum would be ulti- England I should have been registered on my,
mutely paid. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the position diplomas. I published a work on consumption i
New York I associated myself in practice.
,
of the company, if he could take the shareholders into the
confidence of the directors they would see that it was appending my American and Canadian degree,.
wee
satisfactory. (Hear, hear.) The chairman concluded by several other medical Practitionerowing IL d
proposing resolutions to carry out the objects stated in extent of my practice. Dr. Melville wee west
the circular, them. Ile was associated with meA
good deal of discussion on minor points and party- until I left New York. When I came to Lossl ee-.
r ...a....
culare on the remuneration of the directors took place, and elated tepid( with Dr. M'Gregor, a member of the veer.
was still proceeding when we went to press.
- ; without registration, although I could not
rreceee jrie
hold certain medical appointments. D • Den?fges
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has formed me the same. Mean'. Mitchell are the puerri
instituted the Rev. Wm. Lilley Smith, M.A., to the Rec. of my book, and the advertisement was firet P_es7le
of burgeons of Edinburgh. I wee informed I cooldrpreee......
petition as patron, vacant by the cession of the Rev. John
tory of Dorsington, in the county of Gloucester, on his own in the Times. (The advertisement wasp
o tint In
.11:1 no
the east
the extracts from the book ; and in ,__,
James Merest, M.A.; and his lordship has licensed the whole of the book was so published. (The ''''.o.
Rev. Samuel Edwards, A.M., to the Perpetu.l curacy of written in the form of chapters, witharid)ettis ill
The publishers prepared the advertise? te ,g.
nation of the Rev. Wm. Riley Bathurst, M.A.. of Lydney-
All Saints, Viney-hill, in the same county, on the nomi- terspersed as if from persons who had been, :; std
park, the patron. inhalation; on the inhalation is the rinae.trn 71
I have more faith in it than in anythieg_7l4
A despatch from Paris says :—" The United treatment of consumption is by drugs
..roulin..,
don't think it is a specific, but it is efficacious. pe:i
States Minister at this court has, lam informed, just re. reliance in my remedy is by the administriation ee e.
copying ten hours in transmission. This is supposed to
ceived • long telegram in cipher from his government, oc- The principal upon which I rely is the 'nerette,m,l_ ,i 0
D ced by the iration of the net eat
genera pu , is ~. og
relate to the Mexican question, and is probably to
--- convey forrrethe medical profession. I Rift not awe res.&
to the Emperor Napoleon • definitive solution of it." medical works are. There is no established prer Mice
It appears that a large number of young men cure of emullumPtimu• I deprecate the use
p.r.. 07',
y nd consider
the
belonging to the provinces incorporated by Prussia have thrirg
h the
ore heentileficoull, nese alto all the othemerc7.
Prussia. The cabinet of Berlin has addressed souse reels- ;erede 'Published for the I blic and not es wee:
taken refuge in Switzerland to avoid the obligation of mill- knownm to the profession for the treatmeet.
szo
Lary service to which all able-bodied citizens are liable in sumption. I doubt the chemical the don't tiet
which has requested the cantonal authorities to forward a is strong in ita absolute purity. • pas.,
motions on this subject to the Helvetian government, blood will take more than • onygea et re
have Inhaled 400 cubic feet of
___e. of
report on the matter. . listed in Leyden shies mine on the eideee" ts of e"
another exemplification of the proverb " L'eatt vs ton-the wee. ~..
M. Kaulla, banker at Stnttgard, has gained the (The plaintiff was then examined on
saws o
lot of 300,000 florins at the last lottery in Austria ; being Abbott Smith's work
sitting. Two medical books eave absialee...
on the of old edeaaill ri7e
0 tine, the Lanai, and other works • 20
jOUTS a la Helen." secret medal
• tence kir saying that I claim any
Unit the advantages of inhalation./ Thilaired

LONDON, CATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY
COMPANY-(THIS DAY.)

tENERAL CREDIT AND FINANCE COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)