The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-02 00:00:00

THL METROPOLITAN MEDICAL SCHOOLS.

INAUGURAL A DDRESSEB.

Yeaterday the annual campaign in the medical
schools connected with the coat hospitals of London wee
commenced by addresses from the most distinguished pro.
lessors.

The lecturers were as follows —Dr. Itamshotham, at the
London Hospital; Dr. Murchison, at the Middlesex ; Pro-
fessor at Unlversity Collage Professor Bentley, at
King's ege ; Dr. lf art, at Westminster; Professor
Bump, at St. Thomas's ; Mr. IL T. Masters, at St
Heorge's ; Dr. Frankland, at St. Bartholomew's ; Mr. E.
Canton, at Charinverres ; and Dr. (Alin, at Guy's.
The whole of the lectures ars fully reported in the Daily
News of this morning.

" EMANCIPATED" WOMEN.—The heights So which
ladies umy DOW attain, were it nut inspiring to contemplate,
would be truly aLarming. Think of women learned in the
doctrines of Malthus oar Population ; their mornings spent
on the " Wealth of Nations ;" their evenings devoted to
the last perhatuentery returns touching the balance of trede
mid the laws of navigation' To a lady immersed in the
depths of these profound oilculations, or raised to the sum.
mit of this high social philosophy, in vain, we fear, would
the appeal be made—
" Come down, 0 maid, from yonder mountain height ;
What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang),
In height and cold, the splendour of the
But cease to move au near the heavens, and cease
To glide a sunbeam by the blasted pine,
To sit a star upn• the sparkling spire ;
And mese, fur Love is of the valley—come,
For love ie of the valley —come thou down."
"•• - -

As aw old bachelor, we hod the notions of our youth already
grown antiquated. We are, in fact, in the melancholy situ.
anou of being left far behind the times. We date back to
• period when women were mutest to do a great deal of
quiet good in their own simple, unpretending, sod heartfelt
manse?, without presuming to any very positive "voca-
tion." We had imagined, that while mau's business was is
the bustle of the world, in the hot contest of life, with its
disappointmenta no less then its Ferrante and distinctions,
woman's spline was within the shelter and retreat of the
tranquil home. We had known indeed of women, humble
in mind, wholly free from the ambition which .gluts the
ruder sea, deeming it an honour, had they • brother, or it
might ems Darin' than a brother, who had achieved for
the family name renown. To the true glory of the
female character we have, in short, (limy one
el es, known women content to live without
:L etwass willing to perform day by day the simple
home, to train up children, to watch domestic
and, if needs be, to work ; in tine, to do all which
d▪
evoted self merinos can dictate to render our English
households the abodes of tummies& And we rejoice to
think that thousands and tens of thousmils of such women
may still be found, who have nut given an est to nail
WSW, or political philosophy. Yet we moot, as we have
meld, but feel that our 'totems on these subjects an every
day growing more out of date. But we are not without the
hype that, at least among the most unenlightened portions
411 the community, our old prejudices may meet with some
faint response.—Btark„.o.u('s ayazine for October.
FOILILIuN•orYirE, SEPT. %.—The Queen has been
g=4,110 approve of Mr. John S. Prettyman, as Camel at
far the United States of Amenva. --Oared&

The 30th September wan the last day appointed
by the Commissioners of the Great Exhibition for
the reception of applications for space. So far as
their capability of complying with such requeata is
concerned, they have been powerless long since ;
but a rigid compliance with all rules laid down is a
part of the disciplinary system of the managing
Wdy, and therefore postulants were allowed to
send in their demands up to the last hour. Some-
thing like five hundred applications came in on the
last day. A gigantic file was improvised on which
letter after letter was impaled, the whole making
up a heap partaking of the „scharacter of thaw
prayers which the gods are mard to disperse into
empty air. In fact, any further concession in this
matter was hopelessly impossible • and except to
illustrate the magnitude of the undertaking to which
they apply and to swell its gigantic statistics, the
bulk of the recent applications are of no avail. This
preliminary proceeding having been brought to a
close, the next step to be taken by the operative
staff is an important and laborious one. Having
made one broad division of space that is, having
given one-half of the building to English and the
other half to foreign exhibitors, it is now their task
to plot out the subdivisions • to meet the require-
ments, in the first place, of local committees ; and
next, to deal with the fishes and desires of indi-
vidual& • This, as may be supposed, is no light
duty. It is not easy for the uninitiated to compre-
hend how great is the pressure on the part of ex-
hibitor'', and bow great will be the labour of meeting
their demands, reconciling their rivalries, and ad-
justing their claims. Any notion which may have
prevailed with regard to disinclination on the part
of persons to contribute to the exposition may
at once be dissipated. The difficulty is not
to get up a show with scanty materials,
and to wring articles for exhibition out
of reluctant manufacturers and owners, but it
consists in an embarrassment of wealth, and a
puzzle as to what is to be done in the location of
the contributions which are imminent. Some time
must elapse before this troublesome business can be
disposed of, and the labours of the officials are now
becoming as nearly distracting as possible. The
question of season tickets still remains unsettled,
but it is believed that a conclusion on this point
will soon be arrived at. It is supposed that nego-
tiations between the Commissioners and the Horti-
cultural Society, having reference to the admission
of the holders of season tickets to the neighbouring
gardens during the. Exhibition, havesomething to do
with the delay. An alteration has been made in
the plans connected with the refreshment depart-
ment, which has caused some hindrance in the com-
pletion of the contracts, the candidates for which
are numerous, and embrace professors of purveying
of note both foreign and native.
In the meantime the progress which is making
with the building has, owing in some degree to the
favourable weather, been little short of marvellous.
The advance in a fortnight is palpable to the most
inexperienced eye. The scaffolding of the eastern
dome was completed a few days since, and the huge
skeleton towers iu the air, and any adventurous
visitor who may happen to scale it. height will
obtain one of the must novel bird's-eye views of
Louden and its environs that has yet been obtained,
inasmuch as the point of view is one quite untried,
and the locality has not hitherto possessed any
gazebo, far less one of such au altitude. It is to be
noted among the magnitudes of the work that the
framework of this dome has caused the expenditure
of a hundred thousand cubic feet of timber, has
rendered necessary the eniployment of three thousand
iron bolts, five tons weight of iron clamps, and
something like twenty tons of nails and iron
spikes. A steam-engine, fifty men, and the labour
oLe thousand bursas have been employed for two
mouths in this monster erection. The fixing of
the ribs for the roof of the nave is going on rapidly.
On Saturday last at least a third of them had been
fixed, and it is expected that the whole of them
will be in their places in about ten days. When
it is recollected that each of these ribs is 86 feet in
span, that its weight is 5 tons, and that it ham to be
raised to a height of 100 feet, one cannot sufficiently
admire the completeness and ingenuity of the
machinery by which they are raised in a space of
time so singularly short ; iudeed, an hour is about the
average period necessary for raising and fixing one
of these ribs. Of course they are brought to the
building in a state of thorough finish, and as
everything is in readiness for their reception,
the work goes on steadily and rapidly.
The Picture Gallery is very nearly roofed in ; and
as a whole is in a very forward state. As the visi-
tor gases on the apparently complex combination
of iron, glass, wood, and brick work which make
up this curiously composite structure, covering as
it dues so large an army he probably feels some in-
clinatiou to learn a little of the details of the con-
sumption of building materials. He may learn
that the iron castings are executed at the Stavely
Ironworks, Derbyshire, and that the proprietor of
theme works, Mr. Barrow one of the largest iron-
masters in the kingdom, himself superintends their
construction ; while the castings have been pro
flounced by competent judges to be of first-rata
quality. There are 166 round columns for the
nave and transepts, 12 inches in diameter,
connected with a like number of square
pilasters ; 312 eight-inch round columns, sod 149
twelve-inch square columns for the galleries ; 138
eight-inch square clerestory columns and 168 ten-
inch square columns supporting the floors of the
picture gallery ; and 62 round columns for sup-
porting the roofs of the glass courts. To give a
popular idea of the extent of the iron-work used,
it may be stated that if all the columns were placed
lend to end together, they would reach from the
Exhibition building, eastward, as far as the London
Decks • westward, as far as Kew ; northward, as
far as Hampstead ; and southward, to the Crystal
Palace, at Sydeuham. There are 1,165 girders,
11,600 feet of pipes, 15,000 feet of gutters, 14,000
feet of railings, 1,000 brackets, 700 trusses and
girders, 1,400 shoes, and the whole is estimated to
weigh nearly 4,000 tons. The wrought iron is sup.
plied by the Thames Iron Company, the builders of
the Warrior. This will be chiefly used in the great
domes and for the roofs, and the whole quantity that
will be employed is estimated to weigh about
1,200 tons. The bricks are supplied by makers at
Sittiugbourne, Kent, and upwards of ten millions
will be used. In the timber work it is estimated
that about 17,000 loads of wood will be used. For
the windows below the picture galleries there are
thirty-two window-frames, 16 feet by 13 feet, and
sixty-eight window-frames, 10 feet by 7 feet. For
the top lighting of the galleries 45,000 superficial
feet of frames and glees are in course of prepare-
tiou. For the clerestory lights of the nave and
transepts nearly a mile's length of frames, 25 feet
highot ill be constructed ; and for the courts upwards
of thirty miles of sash bars and glows. It may be men-
tioned that the fixing of the iron-work has been
entrusted to Mr. Ashton, who performed the same
duty in the building for the Exhibition of 1851 and
the Crystal Palace. The roofs will be covered
with slates for the great picture galleries, and
elsewhere with felt, except in parts where it is
proposed to show how ornamental roofing may, if
necessary, be hereafter applied. With every con-
fidence in the strength of the building itself, the
public will perhaps be glad to know that the foun-
dations are equally secure. A bed of gravel under-
lies the whole ground, and the foundations have
been excavated to the gravel, and a base of concrete
put in, on which brick piers, with York stone slabs,
have been placed to receive the iron columns. The
slabs for the columns of the great domes weigh up-
wards of a too.

In considering the whole plan of the Exhibition
building, and contemplating it with reference
to all its purposes and conveniences, there is
one thing which wiU strike the observer, and that is
the capabilities that the locality affords for the pas-
sage to and fro of large crowds of persons. In

On Monday evening a numerously attended
meeting of liberal electors who had been objected to was
held at the New Globe Tavern, Mile.end.road, in order to
take steps to defend their rights.
Sir Thomas Powell Buxton, Bart, was announced to pre-
side ; but in his unavoidable absence Mr. W. NZWTON was
unanimously voted to the chair.
Mr. JOHN HONPHILLYS said that in the various parishes
comprising the Mile-end polling district no fewer than 530
votes had been objected to. whereas at the last election the
liberal majority was only about 1,000. Most of the votes
impugned were as land fide as any re the register. (Hear,
hear.) He urged times who were objected to to
attend before the revising barrister on Tuesday next,
and, when they had made good their claims, to
apply for meta, which would be probably granted.
That was the only way to meet such attempts to choose the
electors out of their rights. If freeholders, let them, if
possible, geode* their title deeds; if copyholders, a copy of
the court roll. If it were a question of tenancy, there were
three things to prove the tenancy, an occupation for twelve
months before the 31st of July in the year, and the nature
of the holding. The best evidence on these points was the
production of the lease and receipt, for rent. He moved
the appointment of a committee to moist electors objected
to, and give all necessary information. (Hear, bear.)
The Rev. Dr. BLACK seconded the motion, which was
unanimously carried, and three gentlemen from each parish
in the polling district nominated.
The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

OATHS IN CRIMINAL CASHEL —Yesterday an act
of parliament, pared in the late mossier (24th and 25th Vic.,
c. 66), came into operation—" To give relief to persons who
may refuse, or be unwilling from alleged conscientious
motives, to be sworn in criminal proceedings." It enacts
that, if any person called as a witness in any court of criminal
jurisdiction in England or Ireland, or required or desiring to
make an affidavit or deposition in the cause of any criminal
proceeding, shall refuse or be unwilling, from alleged con-
scientious motives, to be sworn, it shall be lawful for the
court or judge! or other presiding officer or persons qualified
to take affidavits or depositions, upon being satisfied of the
sincerity otsuch objection, to permit such person, instead of
being sworn, to make his or her solemn affirmation or de.
claratiou in the following words -" I, A. 8., do solemnly,
sincerely, and truly affirm and declare that the taking of any
oath is, according to my religion' belief, wasteful ; and I do
solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare," etc. The
affirmation is to have the same force as an oath, and the
punishment for making a false affirmation is to be the same
as for wilful end corrupt
AN °TER& MONSTgRpirMDING STAGE TOR THS
Mxaexy.— Messrs. T. Vernon and Son, of Tranmere Works,
near Liverpool, have partially completed and launched a
sew landing stage, intended to be moored opposite Wood-
side Ferry, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey. It will be
800 feet in length, will comprise 2,500 tons of iron work,
about 80,000 cubic feet of timber, and will be supported
upon 50 pontoons. The width will he 80 feet. This lauding
stage forms a portion of the Birkenhead dock extension and '
improvement scheme which was projected some years ago,
and is being carried out under the direction of the Mersey
Dock Board
DUri-H-RHENISII RAILWAY.—The receipts for the
fortnight ending Sept. 15 amounted to 9,2061. Is. 10d. ; and
for the corresponding period of last year to 8,0001.5 a. 7d. ;
showing en increase of 6071. 2s. 3d. in favour of the pre-
sent year. The receipts sine. the commencement of the
present book-year, ou the Ist May,, including the above,
amounted to 83X61. 7s. Bd. ; showing an increase as corn-
pared with the corresponding period ollast year, of 8,0661.
Is. 4d. The working expenses for the fortnight amounted ,
to 3,11221. Us. Od. or 32.82 per cent. of the receipts; and for
the corresponding' period of last year to 3,01 If. 19e. 5d., or
35.00 per cent. • showier( an increase of expenses amount.
log to 101. 14a. '4d. against the present year. The working
expenses. from the let May, 1861, to the 15th dept.,
1861, amounted to 27,8601. l's. M., 0r33.51 per oiaL of the
receipts. The working expenses for the year 1860 and 1881.
were 38.42 per cent.
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event that might have been attended by mast disastrous
and fatal consequences. The Ring—the good and amiable
King—of Prussia had been shot by the hand of •
cowardly and dastardly would•be assassin ; but, happily
for Prussia, the life of their monarch was spared. This
startling event took everybody by surprise, and everybody
wished to know when the attempt on the life of the King
took place, at what time, and the manner in which the
King conducted himself on so trying an occasion. it was re-
lated that at nine in the morning the King, attended only by
one gentleman, was walking in the promenade by the Kur-
saal, when he felt something strike his neck ; he turned
round and saw a man with a pistol in his hand ; that nun
was Becker. The King said to him, "Did you shoot me!"
Docker was nut heard to make a reply ; he was quickly
arrested and conveyed to durance vile. The King pursued
his journey homework', and on relating the event to the
sainted queen, she fainted, and on her recovery she, with
tears, offered up her prayers to God for having spared the
life of her royal consort. This event naturally caused a
great commotion ; everybody appeared anxious to learn the
fate of the King, and everybody wished to show how much
they esteemed the worthy monarch ; not because he was •
monarch, but for his individual worth as a man. Mono( all
nations have sent their ompatulations to the King on his
happy eacrpe from death, the great have paid their homage
to him, and so have the more humble classes paid every
tribute of respect ; for as night set in, the little town of
Baden sent out a procession of 800 men with lighted links ;
they with their flambeaus paned the house of the King,
while the national anthem wan being played by the Prussian
band, and sung with heart and soul by the mighty throng
who hail assembled round and about the King's house.
The next event that produced some excitement was con-
nected with the speculative world. Mr. M., the great
Vienna banker, had broken the bank—the Kurssal Bank,
and had won nearly 4,000(. This event caused great excite-
meet, as everybody thought that they would try to do the
same. Then came Garcia, the renowned lion of the Ger-
man gambling towns ; his presence caused a great sensation.
Then came the commemoration of the Grand Duke's birth.

day, when Mr. B. treated the Badenites with a rich display
of fireworks and blue and red lights, which for brilliancy
and design Paris itself could not rival in artistic beauty.
Then followed the in►uguration of the statue of Leopold,
the late Grand Duke of Baden. This was a very pretty
sight, and worthy of the oumaion ; all the arrangements
were carried out with good taste, and entirely to the satis-
faction of the present Duke. U the late Duke could only
rise (loin his grave, it might be some compensation to see
loyalty in the subjects who in the year 18 rebelled against
his power, and would have driven him from his home and
dominions ; but fortune favoured him, and he was enabled
to preserve his domain for the benefit of his son. And now,
at the fag-end of the season, we have the Princess Royal of
England and her husband, Prince William of Prussia, stay-
lag here, with their infantine family. The Prince of Wales
was on a visit bore fur two days.

• Topi4.rert, Preoch name fur a gambling table, on ac-
count of ita being covered with green cloth.

EMIGRATION FROM LI VEI: POOL. --Yesterday, the
Government Emigration Commissioners at Liverpool issued
their monthly report of the number of paimengers leaving
Liverpool fur the United States, Canada, Australia, /sc.
From these returns we learn the already well-known fact
that the civil war in America has all but checked the exodus
to that country. During the month just elided there
left Liverpool under government superintendence 10 ships,
having on hound 317 cabin and 1,171 reams passengers ; of
these, 474 were Fmglish, 246 Irish, 50 Scotch, and 84 belong.
ing to other couutries. To Canada there was only one ship,
having ou board 15 cabin and 118 steerage passengers, of whom
62 were Eoglish, 45 Irish, aod six other countries. To Victoria
there were three ships, having on board 28 cabin and 1,233
steerage passengers, of whom 450 were English, 500 Irish,
ant 180 :scotch ; eight belonged to other countries. Making
a total of 390 cabin and 2,522 steerage, of whom 986 were
couE"nitritsB.lB Irish,
hni 74°
the Scotch,,
month tahledre9Balsobelonsaigile,nlg to3l other
ships for the United States, fr., the whole of which only
carried out 1,290 passengers. To those who pay attention
to such matters the above figura will be full of meaning;
yet while the exodus is thus apparently stopped iu Liver-
pool, the arrivals of passengers in that port from the United
Stare are almost as great as the departures.
MURDER ON THE NORTH STAFFORD RAILViAY. —Ol2
Monday a pointsman on the North Stafford Railway, named
Peter hill, was killed, under the following circumstances :
He had been at Macclesfield, and was returning home to
North Rode, when, near Moss Rose Bridge, he met three
men, who had the appearance of poachers. He asked them
their business on the line, and told them they were tres-
passing, when they instantly commenced a violent attack
upon him, striking him with sticks and kicking hum This
occurred about four o'clock iu the morning ; and some time
I afterwards some men were attracted by cries of murder,
and found Hill lying on the line completely disabled. They
removod him to the Moss Roes lon, and a medical Ma
was procured, but the unfortunate man died at eleven
o'clock the same day. Ile has left a wife and five children
His age was ;13 years. He :iced at North Rode, nut! had
bees a railway servant sixteen years, nine of which he had
pared at the North Rode station.