The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1859.

THE HEW dflillfY MEDICAL SCHOOL.

The
Royal

a proposed in the report of the
appointed to inquire into the

Sanitary Coadition of tie British army, presented to
parliament last year by command of her Majesty,
are gradually being carried into operation by 6e
present Seeretary of State for War, the Right Ham
Sidney Herbert. This is only what might be ass
petted, as the Commission itself sat under the pessi.
dency of the right boo. gentleman. The publication
of the Royal Warrant improving the position, pay,
and retirement of the medical officers of the army,
has been succeeded by the change in the constitution
of the Army Medical Department recommended In
the report—namely, the formation of a Council to
assist the Director-general by their deliberations
and advice in the transaction of the affairs of the
department. This council consists of three medical
officers, each presiding over a special branch of the'
professional pursuits in which the medical officers of
the army are engaged. These divisions are the
sanitary, the medical and surgical, and the statisti-
oil. In consequence of the vast extent of the
British Empire, and the iscressed attention to the
sanitary condition of the troops over its whole
extent, the number of returns and reports, from the
medical officers have become so great, that, as
proved before the royal commission, it is impossible
for any one person to look into all of them with pro-
per are mid attention. Routine reports and returns
are now to be referred to the member of the medical
council presiding over the division to which the
report or return may belong, but all extraor-
dinary reports and matters of importance are
to be submitted to the Director-general, or,
if thought sufficiently important, to be discussed
with the director-general in council. The sole re-
sponsibility in action, however,rests with the director-
general of the department, the only restraint on his
conduct being, that if advice on any nbjeet is ten-
dered to him by the council which he thinks proper
to reject, he is required to record his reasons for
doing so. Various other changes have taken place.
The interior economy of the army hospitals has
been considerably modified, more especially as re-
gards simplification of the accounts and method of
supply, and improvement in the dietary arrange-
ments for patients. Other changes are in pogrom
The sob-commission charged with the daly of
examining into the measures required for the it
provement of barracks and hospital buildings—an
off-shoot of the royal commission on the sanitary state
of the army—la still pursuing its investigations.
Another change, and one of the most important,
emanating from the report of the Sanitary Commis-
sioners, has just been determined upon—the esta-
blishment of an army medical school, to correspond,
in a great measure, with the military medical
schools which have long existed in all the other
leading nations of Europe. The organisation of the
school, the regulations affecting candidates for com-
missions, the subjects of the courses of lectures and
instructions, the mode of examination for commis-
sions, and the rules for the examination of assistant-
surgeons previous to promotion, have been printed in
a War-office document bearing date October
the 17th.

The Gazelle of last evening publishes a return of
the state of the officers, seamen, and Royal Marines
wounded in the action at the inauth of the river
Peal°, on the 23th of June last, forwarded by Rear-
Admiral Hops in a letter dated the 30th of August,
1839.

TILE SEErnExsos 111oNumELLE AT NEWCANTLP.:-.
Ge Saturday morning a meeting of the Stephenson Memorial
Committee took oleos in the Boerd-room, Central-Madoe,
Newmunle-uponeTyne, fur the purism. aeon...den aawhether,
ooneequesee of the death of Mr. Robert St It
woe advisable to male say chance in the tananment proposed
to he emoted to the memory of Mr. George S•ephettem, so a•
to combine • atonement to both totter and eon. There want
present —Mr. Ridley. M.P., Mr. N. Wood, Rev. Dr. Brum,
Mr. John Clayton, Mr. P. Stamm, Mr I. L. Bell. Mr. Aid.
Dodd.. Mr. B. J. lemma, Mr.T. E. Barrieen, Mr. J. Booms,
Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Haswell, and Mr. Spencer. Mr. N. Weed
occupied the choir. It was resolved dim the Mates of Mr.
Gawp by Mr. Lough, to be placed at
the saglioginrsille 46:11Vagete creme, be proceeded with,
sad that albe subject of soother monument to the memory of
Mr. Robert Beeptomme be !sought before a polite meeting
of holmbitimat of the tome sad aelghbottrhaod.-11'neeselle
Cirsissilit.

TBIt CURTI,/ BILL AT WEgt Hew.—The tolling
of the Gerber boll, whkh bee been et 8 p.m. from thee
Inimeinerlal in this with, mid elso the tolling of a tau b..
twee 5 and 6 in the rooming, h.ve mewed frees the period
elninhrates were dimliowed. Yr. Golletee, the elm* at AU
deints, tatimeted • few weeks since to °woes Users,
that army of the old inhabitants m re ominous that the curfew
boll showld toll main. whew that gentlemen trohutterily
offered to pof the swam, crow quetstly the boll was tolled
ague lot the gest tires ew the 29;6 ult.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(TIM DAY.)

COURF OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Won Mr. Commissions, Holroyd.)
IN RZ THE LONDON AND BIRNINOMAN IRON AND HARD..

.RAIL COMPANY (LIKITID):

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TMa was a dividend sitting. The liabilities of the com-
pany are about 6,0001. ; and some additional proofs were
now taken. The full amount of call had been made, and a
dividend of 6.. in the pound has been declared. The &meta
in the hand, of Mr. Edward., the official liquidator, it is
anticipated will yield another dividend of 2a. or 2.. 6d. in the
pound; and there will be a small further dividend.

IN IC BISHOP AHD PARBRIDOK.
The bankrupts were Bast India merchants, of Corohill.
Thu wee t►e sitting fur &otos of assignees. The liabilities
of the firm are stated by Mr. Smart, the accountant, at
13.0001.; the SINNs are of uncertain amount.
Mr. Samuel Bishop, of Bedford-square, uncle of one of the
bankrupts, nought to prove for 1,3891., for money advanced
on bills given by the bankrupt.
Mr. Lumley opposed the proof oa the ground that the ore-
ditor held security in the form of a good bill on Calcutta.
The proof wee admitted, on the ereditee agreeing not to
take any interest derivable from the bill.