The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

MEDICAL OFFICERS IN THE ARMY.

Colonel LINDSAY moved that an bumble address be
presented to her Majeety, praying that she will be graci-
ously pleased to reconsider the eleventh clause of the Army
Medical Warrant of October, 1858, as far as related to it.
reircapective application to medical officers at that time
serving in the ranks affected, having dna regard to the effi-
ciency of thepublic service.
Mr. S. HERBERT regretted that he could not accept the
view taken by the hoe. gentlemen of this case. There was
a distinction between the surgeons and the eurgeon.maj.ns
of the army, and the inspectors and deputy-inspectors. The
Mt were executive officer., the latter were administrative.
There was no point more strongly insisted upon by
the commission which considered this subject than that
there should be a compulsory retirement at the age of 65
for the officers of the higher, and at the age of 55 for those
of the lower grade. And there was less ground of com-
plaint in the case of medical officers than others, because
after retiring they generally set up in practice in private
life, and got a fair amount of business as consulting sur-
geons. The medical officers themselves urged their right to
retire at the age of 50. With regard to the warrant being
retrospective, he admitted that it bore hardly on some
idiom, but if the warrant washt in itself it must be in-
troduced some time, and he did not believe that any-
thing would be gained by postponing it any looter.
The medical officers had received an increase of pay,
an increase of balmy, of retiring per, and their status
had been improved, and this being so, be did not think it
quite fair for them to object to the oily point in the war-
rant which pressed on them. In addition to this several
excellent situations had been given to some of these medical
men rebelled been affected by the warrant of 1858. One
had been placed in the college of Sandhurst ; another had got
an appointment in Chelsea Asylum, and a third in the
Hibernian School. It was important when a change was
once made that it should not be departed from if it was not
unjust, sod it was mischievous to coostantly going back-
wards and forwards. It was said that the expense would
no. be much in this case, but if he bad yielded to all the
motions of a similar kind which had been made it would coat
the country something like 40,00&. or 50,0001. a year
more. (Hear, hear.)
Colonel DICKSON said that if these changes had been
made with more care, there would not be so much necessity
for reconsidering them. He agreed in what had been said by
the hon. sod gallant officer. and as this was a case in
which injustice had been done, be did not think that the
consideration of expense ought to stand in the way of a
remedy.
Colonel LINDSAY thought he had a right to complain
of the warrant if it was unjust He would not, however,
divide the house on the motion.
The motion was then withdrawn.

VOTES YOB DIBQCALIFIJCANDIDATES AT
DNS,
Yr. BUTT moved he leave to bring in a bill to amend
and declare the law relating to vol. given for a disqualified
candidate at parliamentary electima As the pudica stood
at present it wee most untiatiefactoey. If the voters were
served with a notice theta candidate was for any cause dia.
qualified, and it was decided by a committee that he was
aquahlied• , all such votes given to that candidate were de.
dared to be null and Tool, and the candidate who bad the
minority of votes wasdeclared to beduly elected. The result
of that was that *candidate might represent a constituency

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contrary to the wishes of the great majority of the voters.
That esiurred in tile case of Mr. Fergus O'Connor, who
was Maned in 1835 for the county of Cork by a vast me-
=or Mr. Imagfield, but because notice of disqualifies-
been served on the votes of Mr. O'Connor, and •
sommlass &sided that a lease of lives renewable fur ever
gusset a imMaiirot qualification, Mr. aftioner wee un-
seated, sad Mr. Longfield made thu member for Cork, con-
trary to the undoubted desire of the electors. The same
thing occurred in the ow of Mr. O'Dwyer, who wee returned
for Dragheda. The state of the law was such that if cum.
mittees should follow some of the precedents in the hooks,
it would be possible that • person might be returned from
a borough or county who was very much disliked by nine-
tenths of the people of the place or county. Therefore he
would propose that, if a party in the discharge of a public
duty in say election did something which was foreign to
its. purpose, his vote ought to be considered as thrown
away, but not so when he discharged his duty honestly.
(Cries of " Yore, move.") The hon. and learned member
emeluded by asking leave to introduce the bill.
Mr. MILAIION seconded the motion, and leave was Mi-
-1 mediattdy granted.

coat etc hsigng iu the deceased, he eventually died from
the en ea, of the accident. Under these circumstances the
jury found the above verdict
Mr. T. Jones now argued in discharge of the rule, and
that the finding was correct. The fact of death ensuing
from the accidental discharge of a gun was prime facia
evidence that the oanier was guilty of negligence. But in-
dependently of that it was carelessness, and neglect of •
proper caution, for any one to attempt to carry three guns.
The Conti, without calling upon Mr. Price, who was on
the other side, decided that as the learned judge who pre-
sided at the trial was not satisfied with the verdict, end as
the evidence disclosed that day showed that the deceased
had acquiesced in the defendant's carrying the three guns,
end had even purported to have examined the guns to
ascertain whether the hammers were down previous to their
being handed to the defendant, there ought to be a new trial.
The evidence, so far as it went, did not support the finding.
Rule absolute accordingly.