The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-03 00:00:00

the CAI:ImM.

OUTOOINO MAILS.
The sails for Mader* the Brazils, amid Bassos Ayres, will
to made ay to.toorrow mobs.
The nails hoe British North Amelia mad the United
Slaws will tie node on on the swabs of Awli 6.
The mil* for Liam, sod .beittar will be wade
up as April 7.
Tbe wails yid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, i
Ceylon, led* Hearioes, i.., will ba ands sprg
'reship of April I.
The Vest India Mails, melodist Beressida, Ilavaanah,
Mesas, Hmidarse. New Orissa% and Menke, sad iseladisp
Base for Maileirs. $O. Jumesals-Niesseaus, New Oranadis,
ChM, end PIM will los ardour ea April 17.
The mills ter Gibrahmr, Malta, Ones', the Isaias
Naps, C•yloa, lad* sad Chime. no Boathamapiew.ishal
bo node up on tho mesas of April 20.

NMI WALVIS al. 1110111111011 IMUDIBM.
Ton Dal—llketim& S. 0.16 1=" We.
Tv•••••mor-.111asely. 413/4. as.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3.

leeslatiant'
and muntloned

of the ,
we tell

have On!'
great

issuure
medical L
introduction
meats of the oomnis....
pretension._ To Istemkes any iseasure confirming the
old powers eV 1111 ff Mere of Physicians wad flue
gems, Cr grandees One new ones, would be to kindle
afresh the luau *axed. and to divide and mint'
tie the profusion afresh. We wish we could se* ear-
nest sullied referniersmore impressed with this fact;
bat few, vary few, of them seem to be able to look at
the illeraioll et edical legislation but through the
spestaeles of collegiate institutions. They all seem
allege mad. All agree that nothing can be done with
the alleges whilst the law remains as it Is. One would
think, then, that the proper way to secure college re-
form would be to alter the law. But no ; all ire have
been about now is some gimcrack arrangement about
colleges, which, if carried into effect to-day, would
recurs, whited the law remains as it is, to be altered
to-morrow. We find that even that very respectable
body of medical practitioners, the Provincial Medical
and Surgical Amiciation, do not apprehend the ne-
cessity for understanding first prineiples of legislation
before legislation commences. The council of this
body has just issued a circular, in which they state
that the principles alone " on which any comprehen-
sive and satisfactory measure" of medical reform can
be based are :
" lstly. Uniform and sufficient qualification in eve 7
branch of medical science.
" 2adly. /kcal right fur all so qualified to practise
throughout the whole extent of her Ilajesty's domi-
nions.
" 3rdly. The adoption of the representative prin-
ciple in the formation of the council cr governing
bodies."
Although we do not profess to understand the hill
import ci the first of these principles, we gather from
it and the second that the association recognises the
necessity of the legislature regarding the medical man
as soeh, and not in his artificial relation to colleges ;
and this recognition having taken place, he is to be
allowed to practise how and where he pleases
without interference. To the third principle we
bare no objection, but it involves conditions
fee the chartering of colleges which we think
might be kept back till the other two principles are
folly carried into effect by the legislature. The first
two relate to a license to practise which we hold
should only be given by the government ; the last box
reference to bodies granting diplomas, which we
think should ever be different things from licenses.
But this license and diploma are so jumbled together
in our present corporations that medical men seem
incapable of soparating them, and, after the enuncia-
tion of the above principles, wo find the council of the
association sapiently proposing the following ques-
Vons: " hotly. Can these principles be carried nut by
the alteration of the Charter of the Cillrge of Physi-
cians in the manner proposed by them, and generally
approved of by the profession. and by the alteration
of the charter of the College of Surgeons in the
manner recently proposed by that body? 2ndly. Can
the College of Surgeons be 113 modified as to become
the licensing board of the gineral practitioners.
either alone or in conjunction with some other body P
3dly. If not, is it desirable that a separate incor-
poration of the general practitioners should be ob-
tained ?"

Two *Ears of more than ordinary distinction and
emolument have been filled up during the pest week,
and both have been conferred on mimbers of the
aristocracy. The First Commissionership of Woods
and Frets's, vacant by the promotion of Lord CAR-
usEE to the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lam:eater,
his been given to Lord SEYMOUR ; while the post of
Lord Steward of the royal household, vacant by the
resignation of Earl FORTESCUE, has b.en given to
the Marquis of WESTMINSTER.
We have no objection to make to either of the
noble lords thus sclected as the objects of ministerial
favour; for ministerial inch appointments confessedly
are. Neither do we pause to question in the present
instance how far the offices alluded to may or may
not be superfluous. To each a salary of 2,0031. a
year is attached; and certain duties, forming a more
or le s intelligible consideration for the payment of
slid monies, are supposed to be discharged by the
incumbents foe the time being. We take for
granted that there is nothing to be done by the head
of the reformed commission of Woods and Forests
which Lerd SEYMOUR is not qualified to do; and
without flattering Lord WESTMINSTER we are blend
to presume that be can walk backwards before the
QUEEN, and execute other courtly feats of homage as
well as any other peer of the realm.
Neither do we sympathise in any degree with the
feelings manifested by a morose contemporary against
noble recipients of political honours; or desire to swell
a vulgar cry spinet them because of their conspicuous
fortune. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER is known
ID possess princelv revenues, and whatever his expen-
diture, or his estimate of the value of money may be
(of which we desire to know nothing), the addition of
2,0001. to his income cannot reasonably be supposed
to mike any practical difference in his most noble
affairs. Neither do we believe that the pecuniary
value of the office recently conferred upon the son of the
Duke of SOMERSET constitutes its principal attrac-
tion in his 'eyes. Were it so, there is little doubt
that the whip would not have been nearly four years
in office without finding some opportunity f.r grati-
fying the wishes of so aleph and so valuable a sup-
porter. But we would fain direct attention to more
suitable and more serious considerations—considera-
tions to which these appointments naturally give
To the bulk of the community, for whose weal
the state in its manifold departments exists, and by
whose industry the means of remunerating those who
occupy them are contributed in taxation—it matters
little which of the Altar noblesy is a favourite at
court or with the minister. Just as little does it sig-
nify in their estimation whether a sinecure enriches
the marquisate of the Reform bill era, or a dukedom
three centuries old Provided there be no blemish on
the public or nrivate honour of him whom the cro en
deliehteth to honour, the people take small note of its
preferences, and yield a ready because indifferent ac-
quiescence in its choice. Tee number of offices and
pay attached to each is another matter ; bat we re-
peat that in the mere selection of individuals to fill
them the public is, in general, a lenient arid mpre-
judiced judge, and seldom troubles its busy head with
small scandals, petty priorities, or foolish favouritism..
Polif col or personal unfitnt sew& n clearly made out in
any particular cue, the public indeed is ever ready to
resent. When Lord LONDONDERRY, for example, was
named ambassador to St. Petersburg in 1835, the uni-
versal sentence of condemnation forced the reluctant
terries to cancel the appointment. And when Lord Et-
LENBOHOUOII was made Governor-General of India, the
incorruptible judgment of public opinion anticipated
that deplorable Lose which, in the course of a few
months, signalised his peremptory recall. Bat in-
stances of this kind are, comparatively speaking, the
exceptions; and no rule is requisite in order that we
should be prepared to deal with them when they
arise.
What does concern the people of this country, and
what there has too long been an urmanly reluctance
to grapple with, is this,—that administrative cffioes of
trust and distinctloe ought rot to be monopolised by
the aristocracy. We don't object to this nobleman
having a court place because he is rich, or to the other
nobleman because his ancestral honours date from the
Pi.sersnesers. Bat we do object tothe continuance
of a system of unjust and impolitic exclusion of talent,
worth, and service, on the ground of its being plebeian.
By the letter of the constitution all men
are eligible to every trust, preferment, and
distinction in the state. Yet what is the practice?
Why, that every department is stuffed with lords
and lordlier, or their immediate connexions. Not
only is every branch of the aristocratic bough that
shiers the least promise of fruitfulness sought
out and sedulously cared for, but too many upon
which no fruit his ever or will ever grow,
are made partakers of the same benefits.
A few individuals of ureennobled lineage are to be
seen, it is true, in every public office, on whom the
chief burthen and toil devolve. But the chief por-
tion of the fame, where there is any, and the chief
portion of the pay in any case is systematically appro-
priated by one or more of the privileged order.
The government of this country, we are told in
school histories, consists of three estates ; and the
showmen of the new Palace of Westminster
undertake to point out the separate positions occupied
by Queen, Lords, and Commons in the combined
blueness of legislation. But inasmuch as the admi-
nistration of laws is of considerably more importance
than their perennial modifications by parliament, un-
los the Commons renew an equal share of the power
and responsibility of the executive as well as of
the legislature, it is ridiculous to talk of a tri-
partite government, or of an equipoise of influents,.
between the one, the many, and the few. We speak
not in a party sense, or for a party object. We con-
tend for the indefeasible right of the people to have a
fall and fair share in the administrative rule of their
country. To pretend that they possess anything ap-
roachiog thereto would be mare mockery. On sat-
ferance or by favour, a commoner without high con-
nexions may be admitted to the cabinet, or other
notable distinctions. But when such events occur,
men set about discussing how in the world it
came to peas, and through what unknown instrumen-
tality it was effected. As of right, of natural conse-
quence, of equal justice, no such events are ever
dreamed of. Great wealth is, indeed, regarded now
and then as an alternative qualification to birth. But
although this is a useful relaxation of the exclusive
rule to those who thus squeeze in, and to those who
maintain the exclude°, it affords no compensation to
the great middle class, who feel themselves only the
more distinctly and invidiously disfranchised, when
they behold one of like extraction to their own singled
out for honour because in the accident of wealth he
differs widely from the residue of his fellows.

With regard to the first question, we feel inclined
to ask the council of the association whether they
have really seen • draft of the new charter of
the College of Physicians. If they have, they must ;
see that not one of their pnnciples is carried 4
oat in it. The college does not require a
" sufficient qualification in every branch of medical i
science." It does not contemplate equality of right, I
even amongst i's own members, much less in the pro-
fession. It does not seept the representative prin. 4
ciple in the formation of its cannel!. The same I
answer may be given to the question about the Col-
lege of Surgeons asd its coctemplated charter. With
regard to the second question, we say that it
would be unjust to make the College of Surgeons a
licensing board at the expense of all the other boards ;
but let them, if you please, be one of the beards
upon the production of whcse diploma the govern-
ment will grant a licence to practise. To the third
question we would answer—Get your two first prin-
ciples recognised, and then see if you want a new col-
lege. We think the effect of uniformity of education
and qualification, and equality of rights, would work
a mighty change in the Colleges cf Physicians and
Surgeon., perhaps ultimately unite them and place
them at the head of a common profession, which as it
contemplates one great object by the same set of means
sight to have been divided,and we could not have
a better visible unity in England than such an institu-
tion as the Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians, united
and governed on the representative principle.
We look forward with some anxiety to the meeting
called by the National Institute for the 11th of April.
We hope there will be representatives from all parts
of the United Kingdom, and that they will come with
a determination to support no college, no charter, no
ina'itution, but simply to insist on the profession being
put in a right position with regard to the state. A
well-educated body of men, secured by a sound exa-
mination, the right to practise, the prosecution of pre-
tenders, the suppression of quackery and the sale of
quack medicines, and henouesecording to men', are
' all points of much greater importance than any cor-
porate rights or professional standing which the cog-
s 1 ears
-"^•• •• have got to bestow,

Tits breach between the College of Surgeons and
the other parties to the Medical Reform Bill that was
to have been brought icto parliament during the last
session, is evidently undergoing the proem's of heal-
ing. Si, GEORGE GREY, in answer to a question
from Mr. WELD, stated in the House of Commons,
very modestly, that the LORD ADVOCATE had had
frequent communications on the subject of some better
regulations with respect to the medical profession,
and ho hoped to be able to establish a system that
would be approved by medical men, although he
did not hope to plea., all parties. Now we have
not the slightest doubt that Sir Geonos
GREY could carry through the House a
bill that would matt with the approbation of the
London Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians, and'
perhaps of the university authorities and colleges of
the sister kingdoms, but if the bill of the Lam; AD-
VOCATE is to be based upon the "principles of medical

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY-EVENING, APRIL 3, 1850.

the satuestsoo2=- of aberseeoratims, aul Dille
millgt Ottitilflut path. *IOW tirio al-
ters ice of Oa Mg"
den Rep= 1,1:31111
ithe alarlaind in if the geroshial
al , the Left piresed a tad of 1,100,000 fr.
M. Jules Fame -spoke in fevenrellthe independence
of the parable/ any, whom it eau essential to
emancipate Irak the metro& of prelates, and to make
unremovable by In sepericee.l7. M. Purim:, the
Meister r/ Weeilgr was left re yin'.
A report was spread on the th, at the Bourse of
Marseilles, that ens of the mil-packets of the Le.
Taal, the Lyourgas, had been lost in the Dardanelles.
Upon itiquby, t tau out that the Lyonrgne, thrown
out of her reei it
by the fogp and snowy wee-
thee, streak upon a sand-bent in the month of the
Dardanelles, on the 16th of Much. The steamer
Memo, and a hundred stamen of the lellexible,
were sent as soon as possible to aid the Lyeugue in
getting afloat. The passenpre, despatches, crew, and
merchandise were saved.

—iii7fundasi;;;;easible fall upon yestarday.
The last news from Germany seems partimo bate
contributed to this result, and partly the uncertainty
which prevails as to the success of the important mea-
sures of repression which have been submitted by
the government to the Assembly. The Fives opened
at the Passage of the Overa pretty firm, having risen
to 90-35. But at the Bourse the course of exchange,
which openod at 90.26, fell by degrees with scarcely
a break to 89 60, to remount and finish at 8985, a fall
of 86 centimes upon yesterday. As the German news
is not graver today than yesterday, the uncertainty
of the political situation here is probably the real
cause of this fall of securities. The fall at the Vienna
Bourse appears also to have been not without effect
upon the funds of Paris.
Nearly the whole press attacks the arrogant dicta-
tion of the Napoleon respecting the urgency of the
repressive laws, and condemn the alarmist tone
adopted by that weekly organ of the Eire..
The Opinion Reptibh'que declares that it will not in
the forthcoming election at Paris support a conserva-
tive candidate, unless. the conservauve party bring
forward a legitimist. This journal expresses its in-
tention in the following terms :
M. Vidal has decided to sit for the Bas-Rhin, and con-
sequently the department of the Seine will have a new
election. We are informed that the Union Ekdoralo,
which, according to its statutes, ought to dimly@ and re-
constitute itself shush, intends remaining in function, and
that it is decided to maintain M. Foy es candidate. We like
clear and frank positions, and we therefore think it our duty
at once to mate that they who had Immo, d the definitive
list of the Union, notwithstanding their repugnance, as weU
us they who had rejected it, are decided this time not to
admit any candidattship which in their eyes would have
the great wrong of being the expression of the selfi.h policy
which alone produced the present situation, and the pro-
moters of which aro still the greatest obstacle to the solu-
tion demanded by the general interest. A. to us we made,
in the first struggle, the concession of our silence to
conciliator ; bat this time we cannot consent to accept
the same p-altion.

or gist they might not anticipate the dal—
Jim of the other home, or the further replaeldieei
which are expected from the Tenvidursge-Bath,
who recent 'mealtime could not be considered
`as an ultimatum. It concluded by 'reseentsending
that no time should be lost, and that the necessary
preparation for the revision should et- once be com-
menced. The report was agreed to, and the mem-
mittee proceeded at ones to the revision of tholes.-
damental rights. They managed to get through
twenty-four paragraphs, from Par. 128 to 162, making
bat very slight alterations. In the ph which
refers to civil marriages, an amen meat wee istro-
duced, assimilating ft to the paragraph in the Prussian
constitution, which declares that differences of faith
are not a civil bar to
The committee ofistahrelizrakshaus received and
adopted a similar report from their reporter Camp-
hausen (the ex-minister), and then proceeded to a
revision of the fundamental rights. They resolved to
recommend the striking out of the paragraph which
ordains the abolition of fidei commits. (entails in
trust), in order to assimilate this part of the consti-
tution to the Prussian. Your readers will remember
that thefidei commine formed one of the points of
the royal message in February last, and that in con-
sequence of the king's recommendation they were
retained in the Prussian constitution. The committee
was very diligent in the course of its sitting. They
finished the revision of the fundamental rights, and
began the political organisation of the Confederation.
It is expected that, with diligence and persever-
ance the committee will be able to conclude their
preliminary revision before the re-assembling of the
parliament.
llassenpfing's proceedings in Cassel are exciting
public attention. It was of course to be expected
that he would lose no time in surrounding himself
with his own political friends; but the wholesale
manner in which he displaces the present holders of
government offices in order to make way for them is
remarkable.

Yesterday the Voix du Perlde was seized.
The fall in the price of wheat continues. Accord-
ing to the table drawn up on Feb. 28, at the depart-
ment of the Interior, the enrage for all France was
14f. 33c. On March 31 the average was 14fr. 4c.
This diminution extends to almost all the markets
which serve to regulate the average.
Mrs. Heald (Lola Monte.) arrived in Paris on
Thursday evening front Boulogne, and yesterday left
the Hotel Victoria, where she had been staying, until
the Chateau Beaujon, in the Champs Elyteee, which
has been taken by Mr. Heald, could be prepared for
her reception. Mr. Heald was to arrive at the Cha-
teau Beaujon yesterday.
'fhe tribunal of correctional police of Lycns, a few
days since, condemned different persons to fines
amounting to 24,975 francs, for hsvit g sent the prices
of the Paris Bourse and imp3rtant news from Paris to
Lyons by pigeons, so as to anticipate the mail, and
enable certain individuals to make speculations on
the stock examine of Lyons.
Ths Mondeur publishes the official return of the
election for the Vosges. The number of electors in-
serib.d was 114,099 ; the number who voted was only
62,134. M. Guilgot obtained 33,514 votes, and Gene-
ral Raoul 26,705. The former, therefore, was de-
clared duly elected.
BOURSE.

Ake," published by the
motioned by three of Edisraebatil -11:14419as !It
committee of the boasaitin
U Sir Elsones al= oni n
given eatidactioaprt bn
body of the on woad mak, \is
ire as utterly futile. If this eternal hubbub about
al reform hover lobe put down, it must be by the
ludas of a aware founded on the require-
" at the community and justice to the medial
. .