The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENINEI, SEPTEMBER .1 1900.

Mates, area diung the=fea. A asi,
whisk will tolerate Mr. sent be vs
la its chase; we euclidean need net be avow
Preetisally, the shone It piss Bee betwee
Cowonto cad Mr. Seinionit,Wansout ; for
the lance holds beck a Mikan ts . witty arta'
he will consent to have " vainness thrust upon I
between then two gentlemen there is really
maim. to choose; sad any oaten between their
Meads will amount to the old struggle between
Trinity and Bt. John's Colleges for imprenmey in the
amenity. Both see men resilient in their comma
paining, the law ; both were distinguished is their
anderakel career; either is a fitting repressetative
fur the aaiversity if it really be sank in the dough of
Wynn' p for though it is quite to_ punk how sash
able and iatellirt anin u Mr. Wat.roUt and Mr.
Comics° can are persuaded themselves into the
political opinion they hold and avow, there
to be no elements of political choicebetween=
both are so ekes, so bigoted in their profession.
Compared with either, Oxford has in Mr. GLADSTONE
returned a high liberal to parliament, for be, at leer,
world not persecute the Jews or half starve the work-
is fn t
elasesss.
the University of Cambridge should return •
member of the Maschester school, should send a
church reformer to oceoperate with Mr. 11011SMAN or
Sir B. Ralt in the House of Commons; or should
select a representative to @upset Mr. Fox's views of
*stimuli education, is net, of coarse, to be ex-
pected. But Cambridge end, indeed, be seek
low in intelligence if Mr. Cowuno's indifilesu
sully earpreesed clap-traps can secure its aut.
frogs'. aid enable him to ride on its shoulders to
that pendia ot the Temple,—the judidel had.
Dear bread, restricted commerce, religious inhaissame
in education, Jew disabilities, and the preludes of
tho University from all suggestions of reform—snob we
the " oonservative principles" on which • late sealer
wrangler and a rising lawyer seeks the representaties
of an University whose especial boast it is that she is
eminently successful is educating and sending forth
men capable of directing public affairs. Why, it is
exactly on each " principles" that COL SIETZOW
solicits the " sweet voices" of the Lincoln Memo,
or that Sir lons Teem addressee the " botulism"
of ENROL Cambridge might rarely expect something
higher and better from candidates for its representa-
tion than the advocacy of exploded restrictions on the
means of subsistence, or than bigotry so faded u to
be repudiated even by Mr. DISRAELI.
Radicalism, or even whiggory can hardly be ex-
Clato prevail in elections for the University of
ridge, where ecclesiastical influsnee is so power-
ful ; bat we might hope for intelligence, for some evi-
dence of thought, for some perception of what is
passing in the country, for reasonable and rational
opinions; and it is in these particulars that Mr. Cow-
LIIT'S address is so deficient; it might have been
writ'en by the porter of the Carlton, so stale are its
sentiments, sostereetypod its language, so unmeaning
its views. A great lawyer Mr. Cowuzeo may be ;
but he has amok to learn before he becomes even a
common pine politician ; and that much it would be
as act of commendable modesty to have endeavoured
to pick up in some snug little borough such as Mid-
burst ; and not to have thrust himself on Cambridge
during the long vacation.

, Wee

THE session of parliament has passed away, and
although
i the question of medical reform has received
a new phobia its settlement seems as distant as ever.
The government seem determined not to take up the
subject, and the colleges, corporations, and companies
am left to strive and settle their differences. They
have however, in the midst of all their contentions,
this one comforting assurance that when they are
• all aimed" the Home Secretary will be glad to
listen to them. A very easy good-natured way of
getting rid of a troublesome question. What Sir
Omura means by "all agreed" is a difficult point to
settle. Of course be meson the majority of the pro-
fession Ws Mr. WAELISY, and accordingly he has
earned into effect a plan for the issue of ballotting
papers to every member of the profession, enquir-
ing if he wishes for a modification of the Col-
lege of Surgeons, or for a new incorporation.
The result of Mr. W•snitr's ballot has been a trium-
phant majority in favour of such a reform of the Col-
lege of Surgeons as shall render a new college of ge-
neral practitioners unnecessary. On the other hand,
the National Institute have issued balloting papers,
and their returns are not less decidedly in favour of a
new college. Unfortunate determination of the
Home Secretary that be will do nothing in medical
reform till the doctors bewail agreed. Sir HEOROB
HILLY is undoubtedly in that painful state of mind
which is so often expressed in the pathetic apostrophe
" Who shall decide when doctors disagree P Yet of
all questions affecting clause in the community this
is one requiring to be settled, and which cannot by
any possible means be decided in the way suggested
by the Secretary of State. A vigorous minister
witk a firm determination to secure to the state
a well-educated body of medical men on
whose services all could rely with safety, and to
suppress all quackery and imposition, would be sure
not only of the support of the people of this country,
but of the most intelligent and enlightened members
lof the medical profession. He would have to contend
I with opposition from the College of Physicians and
from the College of Health, from the professors in
some of the schools of medicine as well as Professor
HOLLOWAY; but he would as assuredly carry his
Immure sa that there is both in the public and the
medical profession a common sense, which would at
ease secede to that which is just, as it is opposed to the
renal unsatisfactory state of medical law.
In the absence of any attempt on the part of the
nment to take advantage of the evidence
keept before the committee of the Heure of
Oseusees on medical registration, of which
the USD Puma was chairman, the National
Ledtate has taken the opportunity of framing
a measure of its own, which, in the form of a bill for
the incorporation of general practitioners in medicine,
I surgery, and midwifery, was introduced into perks-
moat by Mr. WYLD and Colonel Tnomrsoot. This
measure provides for the establishment of a New Col-
lege of General Practitioners, quite independent of the
Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians. It, however,
the repeal of the act by which the Almelo:-
I Company obtaiced its powers, so that in this
paint of view, the new college will but take the play
sf the proud Apothecaries' Society. All qualified
Factitious" at the present time, are to be eligible
Übe regisbrodi as ambers ; and every person mo-
tile& err bail g slim, as a surgeen-apotheau7, not
retail? rasa of
ion.
new sane is to
rate tar the = of a pre
Aden
and
council by the whole of the members of the col-
lege, these siker, le sleet szeminers who are not to
be isemhem of the emu& The Beentktes and gra-
duate of ether alleges sod universities are to be
simiMeg Embers ea the production of satiefactory
e Whose kat they have pee through a proper course
of egssMlea, and submitted toe standmd of examine-
lien awned by the council. The whole sesame is
wed eke:, and as far as it is calculated to give
:•2211b orpaintion to a large section of the
peelmeion is to be commended. We would
hell this bill of the Institute to the Colleges of
lhytiisas and Surgeons for imitation, assured, if
they would bat copy its liberality and somprobes-
eikelMl in any measures for their own
improvement, that they would immediately ob.
Wu the interest and seas ef the who
me new anxious for the new • The
two great Matures of the mosses of Insatiate are
seprematation and rceipsedty. If either of the col-
leges would est upon dims principles, they might be
.eared the newt of the whole prefeedos. It is
set the name if liquid's et surgeon that the medi-
cal prestitkeir le kehing let ha waits an amnia-
lien is diet ide Minsk and these of the public
he Wades Mks miming shall be represented. He
wants MIMI kimeW a penile of some institution,
where there is Reality ef rights and privileges. He
wants an ergaideation whisk, whilst on the
we
hand it would “press inept prac-
tise, quackery, and preleades, on the ether
head wield extend its fostering elm and pretest's
to all wbo could lay claim to it. The great polka
for medical mesa to weeder, with regard to this lie
of the ketitute is, eau it be obtained, sad if it be
will it snits the proluesion. That the College of
Physicians and Burgeons together are too Amp he
any measure that maLbs proposed, bee bee, pawl

woad be but a lom.of moat valuable t4ava. Already
the divisible of the nroirsedos iaiii4unZ college end
told coils. eperetees to giviar to those sibs
W exbting abuses that Idle anticipated,
a few monk ego
Bat, provided. this bill were *tablets ennr:sat
geverninast anxious to quiet soatedve or six t
medical saes, greeted the proposed shorter of boor- '
widen to the general prsetitionen, what would be
Ike result? Would it Bette the prefewier ! Car.
tasty sot.. 11=Pkysiolas. and Borrow
weal sot be ex have existed, and
mast ge on to exist. If the new College interfered
with their interests and privileges, they would have
a right toenteplain ; they would obtain the protection
they seeded ; these colleges would be more firmly than
ever Axed in their position. The odious distinction.
ut physician, surgeon, and general practitioner would
be maintained by law ; the same lealossies would ex-
ist then as now, and exoept that the general peach.
timers would have • liberal college instead of the Apo-
theorise Company, things would be mach the
same then as they are now. Ws fail to discern, then,
anything in the new bill that can by any possible
means be regarded as a fundamental reform, or that
could kindle the enthusiasm of the medical profession
im ceder to obtain it. What, then, is to be done P
We can only hope that there are some earnest men,
both in and out of parliament, who are watching with
interest the progress of events, and that at the proper
time and sewn we may see laid upon the table of
the house a bill which, once made known, will be
recognised by all parties as oontainicg the substance
of every nee medical reform. Amongst the rejected
measures of the peat we have seen an approach to
such a recognition, and we would still pant to the
Medical Registration Bill as of all attempts at legisla-
tion on this subject, the only one which embraces the
just and fundamental principles of medical reform.

RoPalligtekit the constitution rename, retire
thrummed May, 1862, and be maceeded
swam Pheliest.,4aly slated on thee deg—wheaj
woad be illeposithm otthis great fasetiesioy to ohs
west etthe sew imentitsset assembly deeldieg tint
there shield bertePresident at all—or that M. Beer
pale limit %tide President P All thew vendee&
sad many more of the like kind, are dusamaile
with the 'inkiest* prolixity with whisk eel
nisi river lalrytt woad argue them belsefk
a jedge ; bat in bah teething ooeld pad*
he more idle, for who supposes for • moment that the
President, or the Assembly, or the different politica
triwill, is 1862, allow themeless to be fettered
nble tesimisal taterpretetioes of the written law P
Ausseding he am of the journals, the Bonapartist
Seedire de Dix Decembre has enrolled upwards of
96,000 members, and Ins a fund of nearly 26,0001
That this, however, is a gross exaggeration, there
can, I think, be no doubt; bat this famous society,
whatever its numbers or pecuniary resources may be,
excites not • little fear in the public mind, for it is
known that its chief. are a set of reckless adven-
turers, and its adherents, far the most part, complete
desperadoes, fellows who are not unwilling to handle
the musket and throw up the barricade; it is
known too, or at least confidently asserted, that it has
abundant stoma of arms and ammunition in hiding.
Of its object so secret is made : it is that of securing
power for life to M. Louis Bonaparte, and, if possible,
of making him emperor. It was reported, you will
remember, that this society had intended to effect •
sort of coup detest at Lyons on the President's recent
visit; but the chilling attitude of the populations on
his routs rendered it impossible: on his return the
Societe not only got up a Boeapartist demonstration,
but, it is generally asserted, terionsly proposed at one
moment to take the President to the Tuileries; now
it is said, sa I have already told you, that the society
intends to make his arrival from Cherbourg the
signal for an outbreak, which it thinks will enable
him to paeans himself of supreme power. Now, it is
very possible that M. Bonaparte himself may not
have the folly of encouraging any such extravagant
schemes ea these, but why, people say, does he not
break up an association which is illegal, which alarms
the publics, and which compromises him?
In the event of the " Dix Decembre" party getting
up a demonstration on the President's return, the
red republicans were determined to get up • counter
affair, and, if possible, make a/aureate. But the Mon-
tagnard representatives have strongly recommended
them to refrain fmm anything of the kind, and it is
not doubted that they will do so.
The Ordr• has the following on the effects of the
new electoral law :—" We can affirm from calcula-
tions made at the Prefecture of the Seine, that the
number of electors of the department of the Seine
has been reduced to 112,000, 80,000 of whom reside
in Paris, and 32,000 in the environs. In this number
are not included the military electors, the number of
whom may be estimated at 12,000. The electors
inscribed at the election of the 28th April last
amounted to 324,000, iee'uding the soldiers. The
new electoral law has, therefore, cut off 200,000 elec-
tors in the department of the Seine."
A scene of scandals occurred the other day in the
sitting of the council-general of the Mem. M.
Miot, the unfortunate socialist representative of the
people, so well known for his antipathy to President
Dupla, complain. d in the strongest terms that the
prefect had caused a representative of the people
named Malardier, who is in gaol at Nevers, in virtue
of a condemnation for the publication of a seditious
libel, to be most infamously ill-treated, to be debarred
from sufficient exercise, kept in solitary confinement,
and not to be allowed due medical attendance. M.
Miot even added that the ill-treatment of his friend
had injured his health and affected his brain. Tne
Montagnard loudly and indignantly denounced the
atrocity of so treatieg a political toe, and specially
dwelt on the barbarity of making a m-re political
offender suffer greater humiliation and hardship than
an assassin or thief. The prefect replied by en as-
surance that M. Mist's statements were exaggerated,
end the reactionary majority of the council, glad to
take him at his word, passed at once to the order of
the day.
Mr. Mitchell, the director of the French theatre in
London, is at this moment in Paris, making his u-
ra nits for the ensuing season.
TrCharles Bemble, the once celebrated tragedian,
whose representations are still remembered with
pleasure in Paris, is here at present on • abort visit.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has in-
creased If millions in Paris, and diminished about 1)
millions in the provinces. The discount accommoda-
tiou has fallen off # of a million in Paris, and in-
creased 2/ millions in the branch banks, the amount
of the former being 49,388,701 fr., and of tile latter,
77,140,346 fr. The protested bills in Paris have de-
clined from 91,894 fr. to 76,461 fr., and those in the
provinces from 1,152,858 fr. to 1,140,968 fr. On the
side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have
fallen off 51 millions in Paris, and increased of a
million in the provinces. The account-current of the
treasury has increased 6 millions, the present amount
being 79,290,057 fr. Private accounts-current in
Paris have increased 2 millions, and those in the pro.
vinces 1 million, the amount of the former being
68,578,390 fr., and of the latter, 24,574,773 fr. The
whole amount of the metallic reserve is at present
466) millions, to 497 f millions of notes in circulation.

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GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

A telegraphic) dogma& from Berlin, of the 6th
Test, in the Cologne Gasette, states that the semi-
official papers publish a summary of a declaration
from England and Fon°e mating forth that these
two powers will not be represented at the seat of any
federal organ is which Prussia refuses to take part.
If this news be authentic, the Austrian .*Bundestae
will want the Notion elthe great European powers.
The Berlin Constitutionals Correspondens, of the
4th inst., states, that in consequence of a resolution
of the Provisional Commit of Princes, all the go-
vernments ot.the Loges hare peremptorily refused
to join the Austrian " Bundestag."
Smut, Barr. B.—Vidatatsrp Loss, 1061; Now Lees,
Fivaz•sad-o•Halt per Coate., 998 ; Natiout Debt, 858 ,
Comotortdat Marl Be Pronlam,ll2l; Beak Shaun
961,
vows*, ann. 4.—Five per Cot. Motalliquet. 961;
FOW-Saft-11-Hall per Cents., ditto. 84 1.18; Beak !Shure,
1,170. Ruhangs cm Lodes, 11.41.

ELECTORAL HESSE
A telegraphic davit& from Cassel, of the sth inst.,
in the Gologo; Gasetk, announces the publication of
a decree enforcing the payment of all direct and in-
divot taxes, and the appliastion of their proceeds to
defray the current *spout, of the state. A Bavarian
corps of 12,000 men is being concentrated near the
frontier kr the purpose of !palling any revolutionary
outbreak which pomibly might be provoked by this
measure.

We Iwo gym Son Camel of Sept. 2.

This seereieg the Clamber stet: at eight o'clock,
bat was cads speed by the resident for the reading
by thea=alik treMwdmary of the following do.
worse the aawiy-eleeted parliament, which
bee est bees qesed above a week :
W FRA* Velem 1., by the pees of Gad, Elector
sad Leadpeave of thew, Archduke of Fulda,
Floes of ha, *a., &a., iambi mash to our
woramoop, Edward Vce Cieedeels, ryerr and ustherity
1.111111.11.111.1 order contenting the oneehttioa en this day
ache peened Illimmbly of states, and to okay it into =sel-
-1 ow
aim at Omni, tier I. Faun. WILLILY.
HASSINPPLIIG.
We, Frederick Masai I, be. ham, with ch. odotoo of
our eatabsakaesolved and do hereby ordain, In renforrel
with seetiss Oli of the eceetltatioo, the fullowial • • See. 7
The piratehmbee of !Cates is harsh,'' - •