The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-25 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1850.

'OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ON
THE PROPOSED INFORMATION AGAINST THE
EXHIBITION BUILDING IN HYDE PAIL.

Tb• Glob* publishes this document with the follow-
ing eomment:
The following lea full copy of the statement shade by the
Attorney•Geserel in justification of his retail to aunties the
proposed information:
" 1 hays hi this matter a duty of a judicial nature to per-
form. The otdeet of the information le to call is question the
exercise of the diseretioa of the Woods and Forests is the
management of a past of the roperty of the crown. The
Intormados states that what the Commiestoners of Woods
and Person are about to do is illegal a= Works= to the
public The informatics states no foots whieh, la any
opinion establish Alter of these prepaeltie= But
even it there were a question m to the legality,
the Attorney. Bimetal is bound to judge whether it is for
the Merest of the public to litigate the question.
Cam may be soneeived, end, indeed, not unfrequatly,
arise, la which the latter of the law has been violated, and
in which the court has, nevertheless, required the Attorney-
General to consider whether he would allow informal= to
premed oomplidaing of each violation, even when the
Attorney Genera had already in hie dkeretioa allowed the
Information to be tiled, sad where, if the tafermation had
proceeded, the mitt could have dose no other than =tom
toe strict tight. The dberetion of the Attormy. General le
interposed to p this mischief ; and his exercise of that
daereden is purely an =ere= of a judicial function, and se
nth I have exercised it to the best of my ability. In the
present ease • the =nee or what is for the interest of the
public, with relation to what the Commissioners of Woods
end Forests propose to do, has been en. quivocally expressed
by a vote of the Rouse of Commons. It would, in my opi-
nion, be ea improper measure on the part of the Attorney-
General if, in the exercise of his discretion, and acting on
tiehslf of the public, he were to sanction a 1 reseeding
directly at variance with that vote. If any private right
were &Meted by my decision It would be a different matter;
but I have the satisfaction of knowing that no private tight
of any 7 individual or individuals can he withdrawn from the
ceulderedon of any court, or in any manner anted by my
refusal to sanction this informstion."
We print this statement at length, injustice to Mr John
Romany. Our own views of the propeety of the site are, se
our readers are aware, the same es those avowed by the par-
ties who desire to file the Information. Bat we are bound
in candour to admit the., legally speaking, he is perfectly
instal= in the course he has taken. Lord Campbell, when
Attorney-General, took the same course with reference to the
opposition mote to the erection of the statue of George 111.
in Yeti Mall East—in which Cll6ll a bill wee filed, making the
Attorney-Oeneral a defendant (see Milne and Craig's Es
ports, i. p. 469) The discretionary power cannot be da-
-1 petit Whether, in this instance. it has been =My exer-
cised, is another question ; but &r J. Moonily, thirling as
he does on the subject, has, it seems to tea, no alternative.

NORTH AND EAST LONDON BENEVOLENT horrru-

710 X.—Yesterday the annual festival in aid of the funds of
this institution took plop at the Freentuone Tavern,
Brest Queen-stmt, Lincoln's Inn.fislds. The Barl of Car-
lisle presided, and in proposing the Wad of the evades—
.' The North and Ent London Benevolent Institution," ►is
lordship staled that the society was established in the yeas
1849 for the purpose of granting permanent amenities to
manufecturers, tradesmen, artisans, mechanics, and others,
and the widows of such persons above 60 yr►rs of age, with
additional pecuniary aid, medicines, and medical attend-
' men at their residence, in eases of sickness. His lordship
proceeded to expatiate upon the advantages to be derived
from the institution, and celled attention to certain facts
which were embodied in an ►ddress distributed on the occa-
sion. It appeared from this address that, in addition to an
annual stipend, this Society gives further pecankry
relief to the pensioners in the time of sickness,
together with medicines sod medical attendance at the
abodes of the patients, and also an aduwanee to the widow
of a deceased pensioner, of such amount as the directors shell
see AL This arrange meat will confer a benefit upon the
recipients w►ich co other pension society affords, and rendem
this charity the most complete of its kind in the metropolis.
The extensive and dersely populated district which this in.
sti'ution proposes to comprehend, peculiuly requires a
society of this deteription ; a large portion of the inhabit-
ants consisting of persons most likely to need the aid of
beneficence—v z., operatives, tradesmen, manulacturers, and
others; the firssnamed, from their rarely being eusbled to
provide for the exigencies of old age and infirmity; and the
latter, as before observed, brine liable to casualties from th,
fluctuations of trade ; these aro the person., and their widows,
whom this society proposes to suee•.or, without distinction as to

country or reiigio;. ; and for such the directors appeal to the
beeevulcnt and humane, earnestly hnping that the appeal
will not be frui:less. The institution allows 11. Si. per
month to the males, and It per month to the
female', payable the first Monday in each month,
with an additilnal weekly sum at the discretion or
the board during sickness. This toast was followed Ly
•e the Loath of the Esrl 01 Carlisle." proposed by the Rev.
Dr. Carlyle In a speech warmly eulogistic el the character
of the noble chairman. Several gentlemen addressed the
company ►a the course of the evenirg, and subscriptions
were announced amounting to about 20111.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OP MEDICINE.—MEDICAL
Rarettat.—Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the council of
the Nat West institute of Medicine, Suriery, and Midwifery,
and other member/ of the medical profession, was 'whist thtir
rooms, in Hanover-square, Thomas Mar:in, Ertl , presid-
ing. The report of the council exhibited a mate of amporta..t
documents bearing upon the cue of the general practitioners,
leaving little doubt of the ultimate etlaeSl of the exertions of
the institute, notwithstanding the opposition of the College
of Surgeons and Physiciins„to redress the grievances warner
which the general practitioners of this kingdom at present la-
bour. A ci,culer, bitted by the Institute to the general grand-
damn, detailing its objects, and requiring individually the
persons addressed to state whether they are desirous of a se-
parate incorporation of all the qualified general practitioner.
of medicine, surgery, and irilwifery, in an independent col-
kge of their own, upon the elective principle, compr.sing
within its own limits the entire range of medical and
surgical science and practice, with the control of the educa-
tion and examination of all future members, has already
been responded to is the affirm s:lye by a great msfirity of
the thousands of practitioners throughout the kingdom,
proving the necessity of a separate incorporated body.
Mr. Wyld, M.P., has just ilitained leave to bring into tine
House of Commcus a bill (on behalf of the council), with
the sanction of the Secretary of State, but which, from the
advanced period of the session, cannot he fur her proceeded
with beyond its introduction. The details of the bill show
the anomalous position in which the g I practitioners ral
medical science in this tenet'', are placed, in consequence el
their bring obliged to uadergo an examination and take oat
a diploma from the College of Surgeons and the company
at Anothecaries'-hall, without being enabled to participate
in any benefits derivable from thou institutions. The passing
of thu bill through the legislatuse would place the general
practitioner in a higher status, and enable him to occupy
a more di fined position than that which he now holds. Os
Wednesday last, at a dinner given at the Thatched House
Tavern, St. James's, by the members of the institute, a pre
eentation took place to James Bird, Esq., and Henry Ancell,
BM.. the late honorary secretaries of the Institute, In token
of the valuable and efficient services rendered to the cause of
the general practitioner/ of medical since since the forma
tion of the society in 1545. The testimonials °resisted of
handsome silver candelabra, bearing suitable Inscriptions,
each of the value of 80 guineas, mutated to each of the
above gentlemen.
THE CHARITIES OP LONDON.—The following is a
summary of the charitab:e institutions of the metropolis,
excluding local charitii 1, and those in the gift of the corpo-
rate companies, from" 8. - "w's Ch. ' sof "

:4; 00.;;O3oor frotto"43l;ol;;;6ll44liies of t;ssio7J•T2—
Ii It 11 ilq
Q, ~"
Gourd Sosobary. 011 - IS 1 I ill
igigig
1,. h -it
. .
& &
Omni moiliod burbolo 5 5 2 13 31,136 111,841
WOW aboritho tor woe
olegols=6. 34 II 1 $
17,974 88,690
22 13 14470 2,934
Pions*. of 1118 aod
Olio arab
Sr llones, It 1 It 8,730 2,773
1 Tail milt=iorogror
of NOM
pe. l4 4 18 14299 114737
abi orol lbo
the modabtrao l2 2 14 20, 3,224
Aillintlamblo
Beata opilo4 Or me 9 2 1 12 19,473 18,108
pm 41
m. 13 1 14 4,877 3,369
Per Y. Ibid. &X sad
dumb .Orb'fasis. =
8 3 11 11,983 23,797
Oollosib sabir sad
obsit be
sPd
Chablis lO 24 69 103 5,837 77,190
woks so
dodo
Clar bablo orl pro=
dilly !kr
ism
Asykus Sx orphans 56 15 3 74 19,903 33,222
orl other setoolitoss
abbot lB 15 31 65, • 25,549
blourionsl lboadadoos . 10 10 13, , 78,112
ariorkotio soolora boo -
Odom
Mogi moieties,
Wok, Churobra=
mg auuthisi yilabg,
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11614 orrikolawy 27 8— SS 494 03,048
Ithselhassos
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Total

Total
_, to k9III.4STAiIi
FOOL-CATCHINO.— A correspondent says :—" A
very lags nambor of bitten kayo lately passed themes tbe
Dead Utter office, each containing • shilling's weeds
stumps, addressed to • person who called Metal a prassear,
and who, for lOW eon or other, was OOPS 014 when Ilhe
letters arrived for hia. These lima wore addressed to the
ti*Sw; in masegnmes of his advertising that lie
for a =Wisp, • give plain direetioas to enable MdMs
Bag
to Isla, by a simple bat eaptivatiag eel
Bag prows, tbe devoted amnions of as nag eales=l
site ea as their hearts say desire.' Frew the
of these letters, it was evident that they smal•liiiTa:'
middle-aged, sad yang persons if both mass, hi every cask
and station of life. Sash a fast as this enables an estiwar.te
to be brined of the almost marvellous extent of hew ere-
daily in this enlightened age and essary.