The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-25 00:00:00

cover 07 ALDJULIERN.

A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday (after
the Common-bell), the Lard MLTOR presiding ; et whiob
Mr. B. /butt, was sworn in in the usual way upon his re-
election es Chamberlain of the City ; end a good tell of odor
fennel business was transacted.

10IUEIGN LITNATTCS.

A report upon the Orders of two justices relative to same
dry foreign lunatics chargeable to the City, and for pay-
ment of expenses incurred, amounting to 991. 12e. 6d.,
having been brought up,
Mr. Aldermen COPELAND moved its adoption, at the same
time expensing a hope that the attention of the represent/I.
lives of foreign powers in this country would be culled to
the fort, that while foreigners residing in England, who be-
come lunatic, were maintained here afterwards, Englishmen
becoming lunatics after residing abroad 30 or 40 years were
at our mat over here end landed in a state of destitution.
He thought the subject was one in connexion with which
there should exist a fall reciprocity, end he trusted that some
steps would be taken to bring it a►uut.
The LOUD NlAvon raid he himself had three application.
within the lest week for orders to per home Englishmen
who were not lunatics, end who had nevertheless been sent
home from foreign coon• riesinastate of destitution.

Aldermen WILSON remarked that formerly all such pauper
lunatics became chargeable to the pinkies in tallith they
resided, but now the espenee fell entirely upon the corpora-
tion.
Upon the recommendation of the LORD MAYOR the
report mu adopted, and the money ordered to be pail, while
the subject genethily was refened to • committee f>r full
inquiry and consultation with the law °elan of the coepo.
radon.
The court then adjourned.

D.R. GODFREY AND THE COLLHOB OP
PHYSICIANS.

The College of Physicians of Edinburgh held an
extraordinary meeting yesterday to consider " the allegations
against the character and conduct of Dr. John Godfrey, a
nonresident fellow" of that body, as cootaisied in the
newspaper reports of recent trials in which he appeared as
defendant, and then as plaintiff. Wo (Pest) understand that
the college has the power of censuring fellows, and even of
depririog them of their fellowships. The following ate the
laws which relate to the forfeiture of fellowships :
" I. Any fellow of the college who shall by himself, co-
partner., or servants, keep a public apoth, eery's, drug-
gist's, or chemist's chop, shall, ipso fret., forfeit an the
rights and privileges which he does or may enjoy as a fellow
or licentiate of the college, and his name shall be expunged
from the list,
" 2. Any fellow of the college who shall act to a manner
unbecoming the character .f a physician may be deprived of
his fellowship. In which case the following form shall be
observed :—A motion to that effect mast be made and
seconded et one meeting and determined at another meeting
' called for that purpose—the object of both meetings being
annoancei In the billets, which must be circulteed one week
previously, and it shall require a majority of three-fourths of
the fellows present to carry the motion,"

PUBLIC REcoans.—The 20th Annual Report on
Public itswords (Key 9, 18)9) has been published is a blue-
book of 200 poges. The report chiefly deal, in matters of
detail, ititersale g only to the initiated, but one preens of it
is of general importance to the pnblic. Tim authors of the
report moist on the valet and Importance of our public
archives. Those of Franca (the moat complete in Continental
Europe) mood no higher than the reign of St. LOOD., or
Louis IX., who flourished In the 13th rectory, and, compared
with cum aro „stilted and jejune." whereas in England,
taking up our title from Doodier.y, the documents DOW plated
or beteafter to be placed tinder the ears of the Master of the
Rolla contain what the French oall misweres pow Nvvir—
that is to my, the whole of the materials isseeseary for the
history of the c,untry in every branch sad under every
respect, civil, religious, political, social, moral, or materiel,
from she Norman Conquest (1066) to the present day, •
period of nearly 800 jeers. Chasms, or hiatus, "much to
be deplored," there certainly are, but the only one of a-
portents fa that intervening between Domesday and
the Greet Rolls of the Ezeliequar,—viz., from 1058
to 1130, and, inasmuch as in the reign of Henry 11. (1184-
1189) we have authentic testimony that no documents of the
reign of the Conqueror, except Domesday, existed, it is most
probable that none were ever framer. With respect to sub-
sequent petiole, the place of lost or non-existent documents
is generally supplied by others affording information nearly
equivalent. .‘ It is needlers to state," adds the report, " that
the public records, accompanied by the state papers and go-
vernment archive*, now united to the Department of the
Public listed,, constitute the backbone of our civil, eccle-
siastical, and political history; but their value 11.1 equally
great for the investigation of those [medal and c ?Petered
subjects without which the mere knowledge of public .or
political affairs geode but • small portion of the reformaelutionte.
needed for elucidating the march of Watery and the
tiara end progress of society. The real history or the Courts
of Common Law and Equity, nay, of every breach of juris-
prudence, awaits a competent inquiry; and, so far as respects
their earlier eras, the standerd work first placed. or which
used to bs first plead, in the bends of the legal student, is a
congeries of errors, eqcodly with respect to our ecclesiastical,
our political, and our legal institution," The statistics of
the kingdom, In every branch, can irom three sources be
investigated with Weirdo patiefaceon and. accuracy. The
" Minnie Doke" up to 1800 are °specialty uttere,bug.

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