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THE FRANCIS FREELING PACKET.

We are sorry to announce that very painful apprehen,
lions are entertained respecting the safety of his Majesty's
packet Francis Feeding, Captain Frederick White. She
left Weymouth on Wednesday evening, with the mail and
passengers for these islands, and has not since been heard
of. This intelligence was received by the Countess of
Liverpool, Captain Robert White, which arrived here
yesterday, with Friday's London mail. It appears that
Captain F. White was not on board, being gone to London
on busiinss connected with the steam-packets. It wu
stated, as a probable fact, that she might have taken
shelter at Cherbourg, as the wird was favourable for mi-
lting into that port; but we learn by the Mary, which
arrived last evening from thence, that she had not been
seen or beard of in those islands.—titeerotey SAN, &pa
Amber 12.

THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LONDOIE

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An important change has been made in the regulations
of the College cf Surgeons, by the abrogation of the ob-
jectionable order of the Court of Examiners to which we
recently called the public attention. The following met
has been just promulgated by order of the Council:—
ROYAL COLLEGE SURGEONS IN LONDON.
117.1. aw of the College, and sanding Orders of the Coen of Ens.
miners, relating to the Age, and Professional Education, of Ga.
&dates for the DOGMA.
BY-I.AW. Sect. 3V/i. see. I.—No person under twenty.two yell
of age shall be admitted a Member of the College.
STANDING ORDER, I. The only schools of anatomy and !Ga-
my recognised by the Court are, London, Dublin, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, and Aberdeen.

2. —Ciliilicates of attendanc, upon the chirorgical practice of eat
Hospital will not he received by the Court, unites such Hoitoi!albe
in one of the above recognised schools, aid shall cue:ain, ea an
average, one hundred patients.
3. The Court will, however, receive as testimonials of educa-
tion, certificates of attendance on provincial limpiuds, contnining,
respectively, one hundred patients . • provided a modent sf al hare
previously attended two courses of anatomical lectures, and MO
courses of dissections, in any of the recognised Schools of anatomy\
Rut the Court require that the term of attendance on such provincial
Hospitals shall be of twice the duration of that required at Hospitals
in any of the recognised Schools of anatomy.
Candidates will, conformably to the above llylaw and Standing
Orders, be required, respectively, to produce, pilot to turnips.
Non. Certilicon s
I. Of-being twenty-two years of age.
2. Of having been engaged six years, at least, in the acquibi:lon
of professional knowledge.
3. Of having regularly attended three winter courses, at least, of
lectures on anatomy and physiology, delivered at subsequent
periods; and, also, one winter course, at least, of lectuns On
surgery.
4. Of hav'vg performed dissections (luring two or more subfe•
quest winter courses.

5, And of having diligently attended, during the term of, at
least, one year, the chirurgical practice of one of the fi.lowal:
Hospitals
St. Bartholomew's, S:. Thomas's, the Westminster, Goy's, St
George's, the London, and the 31idd1esex—in London ' • the Rich.
mom!, S:eeven's, and the 3leath—in Dublin ; the !loyal Infirmary,
in Edinburgh ; the Royal Infirmary, in Glasgow; or the /loyal
Infirmary, in Abenleen ; or of twice that term in any of the pl.
vincial Hospitals, coxfonnably to the above Standing Oyler, No. 3.
Such certificates must sl.o express the delis of t!te rommenci.
ment, and of the termination, of attentlan eon eacl corn! of lee.
tures, and of ttissections ; and the periods of the comtrencement,
and of the termination, of attendanc t, Itospital.prac- ice.
The required Certificates must be delivered at the college tea
days, at least, prior to the day on which Candidates shall, respec•
lively, be desirous of admission to exam nation.
Candidates under the following circumstances, and of the P.
quire(' age, are, also, admissible to examination :
Members of any of the legally•conotituted Colleges of Surgeons
in the United Kingdom.
Graduates its Aledicine of any of the Universities of the United
Kingdom, who shall have pert; rmcd two, or more, courses of die.
section, es above specified, No. 4 ; and who shall have regularly at-
tended tl,e chintrgical practice of one of the Hospitals, as above de-
scribtd, No. 3.

By order. EDMUND BELFOUII, Secretary.
Lincoln's Inn-fields, flth &reinLer, 1d26.
It will be seen that in this new edition of their regulations, the
monopoly in favour of the teachers rcc •gnised by hospital wsii
bliAtments, and of hospital surgeons, is given up. and that as
attendance on the practice of the large provincial hospitals is under
certain limitations admitted. The limiiation M the places at which
anatomy may be taught is perhaps justifiable, upon the ground that
in the present state of po•roLr feeling anatomy cannot be taught in
provineiel towns. This feeling is said t yen to throw great obstecics
In the way of the teachers, even in the Universities of Scotland.
But a much better security against deficiency in this science thin
any limitation as to the locality of the schools is, the care which
ought to be, and we believe is, taken by the Examiners to ascer-
tain diet the pupil has learned anatomy, 1)0t by reading or hearii
merely, but by dissecting. Candidates for admission, though very
well Waite eel in baok anatomy, have been sent back to cootinve
their studies, because (probably for want of opportunities in the
places of their education) they had not taken this only effeLtol
method of learning their profession.
Mr. Abernethy is the President of the Council of this year
the prevalent b• lief is, that the practical good sense of this di
tinguished surgeon was employed to persuade his College to
quit what a late orator would have called "a false position."

The Lord Chancellor and the Duke of Wellington paid
visits yesterday to the Duke of York, at the residence of
the Duke of Rutland, in Arlington-street. His Royal
Highness transacted military business yesterday with Sit
Herbert Taylor, his Military Secretary, and Sir Henry
Torrens, Adjutant-General, General Macdonald, fluty
Adjutant-General, and also with Sir Willoughby Gordon,
Quarter-Master General. The usual medical attendants
visited the Royal Duke.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence have been on a visit
to the Duchess of Saxe-Meiningcn, the mother of the
Royal Duchess, at her seat at Alton, in Germany. Their
Royal Highnesses were expected to take their departure on
the lat of the present month, to return to England. At
the time the last letters were received in town from their
Royal Highnesses, the Duke of Clarence was in the en-
joyment of good health.
The Countess of Eldon is so far recovered from her late
indisposition al to be able to take an airing almost daily di
her carriage.

TRADE WITH PERSIA.

(From the St. Pikriburgh Journal of Aug. 29 1
ST. PETE 114111•11011, AUG. 17, (29) 11126.

Notwithstanding the importance of trade with Persia, it has been
hide understood up to this time in Europe. -The merchants of
Coustimtinopie know little of the market. The English is the only
foam which trades direct with Persia, by the port of Ilenderhuk.
kir, in the Gulf of Persia, where they sell their merchandise either
for ready money, or barter it against silk ; and the English trade is
very considerable. The festival called Nourouz, which is celebrated
tt Tauris, Teller-in, and in ell pars of Persia, at the end of Fe_
proper time for :he sale of European merchen-
bruary, is ihe most
disc. The fair, which takes place at this time, comitm • a whole
Month. It is necessary to arrive at Stimuli In the mmth of June,
(luring the annual stay there of the Shach. This is the only town
in Persia where goods arc sold for cash, because there is no barter
trade; at Tauris, on the contrary, the principal transactions are by
barter; nevertheless, European cloth, of gold and silver, as also •
small assortment of other goods, are bought for ready money.
Persia receives from Constantinople manufactured silk, cloth of
gold and silver, and other French manutlictures, for the purchase
of which 300 merchant% of Tauris make the journey annually ; the
Prince Abbas-51irzs ordinarily devote,' 211,000 (omens in this sort
cf speculation. The distance trout Tiflis to Tauris is about 600
*erste. This journey. which is made with the convoys of merchan-
dise in about twenty-two to thirty d uys, and which may be made
on horseback in six to ten. is travetsed liv an infinity of rivulets,
and must be forded, which occasions many diflicultirs at the e
of the mountain thaw. At all times this road is free from danger,
and provisions may be pro:tareil every where. The caravans con.
some ten days in going front Tiuris to Sultanit, at which place a
person on horseback may arrive in three.
At this present time the Armenian. send by the way of 'Pala
and (Milan. to the amount of 1,1;00,0100 of Russian merchandise.
the chief of which arc glass ware, and crystals. coarse calicoes, refined
sugar, nankee'', printed calicoes. common cloths. and suchlike
TIM trade from Astrachan is carried on by sea to henkoran, from
whence the merchandise is forwaaled to Tauris by horses. At
Timis there is an annual arrival, by the way of Erzertim, of 10 to
12 caravans from Constantinople. According to the Persian Cue-
torn-house registers. Persia imports by this road to the amount of
tour or five hundred thousand tonans of English and French was_
and gives in return raw silk. Cacimmere and Kerman shawls, to.
bare°, indigo, god pepper. Very little is brought front Smyrna,
because the gstoils must be bought with ready money. 200
or 300.hnewes bring annually from Trebizond to Tauris glass
ware, pottery, porcelain, and ordinary cloths; from Benilerhukhir
are brought sugar, cofiee, indigo, printed cottons, coverlids, and
English cotton goods, toe considerable amount. The valtie of the
imports at Teheran and Taints by this mail is reckoned at about a
million of romans. The shawls of Cacheinere are also brought by
the way of Ihriderbukhir, because the read by land is dangerotm.
Ludy, by the way of Bagdad many English and French goods are
brought. and by this Wad, at least to the amount of 100,000 romans,
goods art brought to Tauris.

Psspatches were sent off yesterday from the Foreign I I
irks, to Lord Bloomfield, our Minister at Stockholm;
also to Lord Granville, our Ambassador at Paris.
It was Mr. Hunter, sen. the King's Messenger, who was
sent off on ‘Veelairsday evening from the Foreign Office, to
the Right lion. F. Lamb, at Madrid.
WENTWORT It AND Cu's BANK lit" rTCV.—We are not
quitejitstfied, perhaps, in saying, that the hints which we
last week pretunnai to give the assignees under this commis-
tion were wroductive of the steps taken by them immedi-
ately afterwards, but e cannot repress our feelings of sa-
tisfactica that the course suggested has, whether for-
tuitously or not, been adopted. On the afternoon of
Thursday, the negotiation with Mrs. Beaumont, for the
Birthwaite estate, was closed, this lady agreeing to pay
down for it, on the completion of the conveyances, the
sum of 49,000/. and a fraction. The sth of October
was also appointed, at the same time, for striking a first
dividend of the monies already realized, and fixing a
day for its payment, which will be probably between
the middle and conclusion of next month. By this
meets, at least 100,000/. will be circulated through the
minty, and come, no doubt, as a very opportune aid to
many persons long suffering, under the depress:on of
the times and general scarcity of cash. The addition of
the dividend under Dobson's Commission, nearly at the
same moment, and which will distribute from 20,000!. to
30,10,2/. more. cannot fail to heighten perceptibly the bent•
tit derived from the other source. With reference to the
apparently partial indulgence experienced by individuals in
paying up their balances, to which we adverted last week,
the palliation put forth is a desire, " under existing cir-
cumstances, to use considerable forbearance." We are our-
selves satisfied, that this principle has been acted on with
equal good feeling and advantage; but, it nevertheless
would seem anomalous if while rigorous law proceedings
were enforced against some persons, others, still better able
to bar a moderate pressure, should be allowed to put off
the evil hour, almost at their own pleasure. The 'amount
of debts proved on the 6th and 7th inst. was not great.
with the exception of 73,0001. in part of 110,0001. proved
by Mr. Scawin, one of the York assignees, against the
%Vali:field bank, pursuant to the decree of the Vice-Chan-
cellor. The 23.1 instant is appointed for further proofs of
debts at York.—Lirerpcol Paper.
CASTLECARY.—This town is situated in one of the
most beautiful and fertile vales in the county of &NW rset.
The gentlemen's and farmers' houses surrounding it cor-
respond with the richness of the country ; but the town,
winch contains nearly 2,000 inhabitants, is exceedingly dull.
This is a wheat and bean country, the land being strorg
and productive. Wheat was never known better,
whereas beans were never known to be worse. The
Pictures are coverts! with verdure, and the turnips
lank remarkably fine. There is a very fair crop of
apples, and as the poor people are unable to drink
cyder, it wilt be sold cheap this year. Barley and oats
are very had. The late potatoes generally promise to be
a good crop, but those sown early are growing out, will
not Lep, and are not good now, being damp and waxy.
The rows about this place are in excellent state. Coals
are comparatively cheap. They are brought from the
Mendip hills, which are near, but there being neither rail
road nor canal the price is doubled in carriage. A remark-
ably fine and hard blue stone is found in great abundance
within a few miles. The silk throwing has been carried
on in this part of the country for many years past wtth
great 'meals to the owners anti occupiers of the mills.
The land is admirably adapted for growing flax, which
would cause a vast demand fur labour, anti find a ready
sale to the mills in the neighbourhood ; flax from this soil,
when well managed, being preferred to foreign flax; but
the great obstacle to its growth is the enormous price de-
manded for the land by the farmers, who demand as much
now as they did during some periods of the war, whereas
being admitted duty free it does not yield half the price.
This causes great number of men anti boys to flock to the
parishes, who used to grow it in summer, and work it c.it in
the winter.

A r(7ilAl.t. VrTERAN.--liary Hyde, now living at
Chorleybottoins, Lancashire, is 94 years of age. On Sae'
turdav, Sept. 2, she buried the last of her children, in the I
whole, nineteen sons and one daughter. 'f he day following
she said, " Now I have buried all my children, and my I
two husbands ; thanks be to God, I have seen them all re-
move.] from sorrow and care, and I am ready to follow."
—Site stated that she lost ten sons in the army and
nay y. "My eldest boy," she said, " lost his It gin an
engveement with De Grasse. He died in the Nest Indies.
I trts not 16 when he was born. Two were killed at
Guidaleupe, two with Nelson at the Nile—four of my
sins we re there ; two died at Chelsea, one having lost a
I'7" and the other an arm. One died at Newcastle, in
the 20th regiment ; another at the same place, on board
the Tender ; and the tenth lost his life in going to Pub•
Ow" She was horn in Mecklenburgh, and came to Eng-
land with a Mrs. M'Mullin, when eleven years of age.
She says her first husband was in the slave trade, but after-
wards became a soldier. She was nine months with him
at Gibraltar, and then went to America, and landed at
Boston. " I was never in the field," she said, " whilst
the battle lasted, but I have been to plunder afterwards.
They won't allow them to plunder now as they did in those
days; there k a deal of opposition to it now. I can recol-
lect the first field of battle very well. I have reason to re-
collect it ; but one head cannot contain all—it was above
Charlestown. I was wounded there by one of their bush-
fighters, who lay concealed. I have been upon many fields
besides that, but never was wounded since ; my husband
received a wound in America, and died afterwards in Eng-
land. I was with him eight years and three months."
This veteran received ifid. per week from the pariah of
Pendleton, near Manchester. She recently applied for
some increase of allowance ; hut, shameful to relate, they
threatened to place her in the workhouse !—Birmingham
Chronicle.