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Thor Preach papers which ariived last night contain no
political intelligence of importance. The raising of the
siege 4 Kiesolonghi is ascribed to the defeat of the Turks
iimailiers. We have no further details of the el:tory of
• I.3orwaxaosrt over the Egyptian army under ler:anus
.• *VicWe; but the fact is again stated in general terms. The
.*lihrult of the conferenees of the Ministers of the Allied
Powers. at St. Peteraburgh is said to have been commu•
arkolod to the Porte. No formal answer has been returned,
but she nets Errs Not has declared verbally to the Ant-
'. boometersat Constantinople, that the Ottoman Government
lowed tflialt no intervention in a matter soderoratory to
• its befteer.
• IFTOfII the Menitear of Ssturday.l
PARIi. JULY 29.
Tye naval division of the artillery, commanded by 11,ar Ad-
tr;ra: Judea, captured, on the 26th Blarch last, the I. rench brig,
I:Adelina, at the moment when it just landed a cargo of slaves as
-LaPointe du Precheur, in the isle of Martinique.
Tlr psoceedhp against this vessel are carrying on before tat
tribunals of Martinique.
-Beata eleDarnas, hliniater of Foreign Affairs, has pure. and, of
Mr. Calvert, a flock of English long woolled sheep.
I.From the ENile, dated Monday, July 31.1
TRIESTE, JPLY 17.
Act/etting toucan nts from ('orfu of the 7th July. and from Mis-
salungbi of the 221 June, the Sersakier Redschid Pectin has raised
t^e stage of Itlissolonghi, In consequence of the events which have
to►en plea at Salons, and has gone to Vrachori. It is mad that
t"e diversion of the Albanian troops has much incraved on the
news of the defeat of the Capitan Pacha, who was to have brought
proxilions and ammunition to the Turkish camp before 111wes-
longht.
Act:Ants from the Mores state. that Colocotroni has already had
so engagement at St. Fiore with Ibrahim Pacha, and that the latter
has sustained a considerable loss.—Ar,grhorgh Gazette.
ODESSA. JULY 10.
The ramie of the conferences hell at St. Petersburgh in the
winter between the. Ministers of the Allied Courts of Russia,
Alumna, France, and Prussia, has been communicated to the
Porte by means of a note presented by the Ambassadors of those
Power, at Constantinople. According to the accounts from that
cap,tal of the 20th of Jane, the Porte has not given any vritten
woven to this communication ; but the Reis Effendi has declared
verbally to each Ambassador, that the Porte must decline all inter-
vention in this affair, as derogatory to its honour.
Frei ice FUNDS. Pears. JL'r.Y 30.—Five per Cent,.
1421.90,. • 1 ditto, 71f. Wk. ; Bank Stock, 2.193 f. : Neapolitan
Rentes,B99o; Spanish ditto, 171; ditto Loan, 531. Exchange
on London, one month, 23f.; 3 months, 24f. B:le.—Cows Alithen-
fifigt,

The news received yesterday, by private letters, was not,
we regret to say, favourable to the cause of Greek inde-
pendent*. A letter from Malta, dated on the 11th July,
advises the receipt of intelligence froth Zante, dated on the
Ist July. This letter states that AZIRAIIIIII PAC II A, when
he arrived in the environs of Tripolitza, found Urn the
'Greek forces bad set fire to that city, and had marched in
different divisions to occupy the passes in the rear of the,
Ottoman Army. • harms, we are assured, continued
his advance on Napoli di Roniania. This circumstance is
represented to have excited the fears, and at the same time
the courage of the Moeeotes, who had assembled in great
force to oppose the further advance of the Egyptians. The
discord prevailing amongst the Greek Generals is the only

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cattle of the succm which during the present campaicn

has attended the invasion of the Nlorea. Thirty thousand
Turks perished two years ago in a similar attempt, and
mete:tub, the same number of Eg)ptians could not fur a
mcen mitt an united effort of the Greeks.

Ireliare authority to state, that the article which ap- I
pelted yesterday in the Ti nos, respecting the non-ratitication
of t* commercial treaty with the Ilexican &public by hit
assrry, is entirely without foundation. How a falni-
cation of such great import to the property of individuals
obtained insertion in the " leading Journal" may per'uaps
ha gl...ssed. That Paper hat long rendered indelf remark-
able fc: the readiness with which it heaps its insults upon ,
those whom it may suit its purpose to attack and
ate. i'h friendliness with which t great capitalist ycster-
!ay those who had taxed him with a want of

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honesty, attracted universal *boa
Eachaoge. There are evidently some who,
us the more firmly attached in proportion to t►e
with which they are whipped into'sUbmisaion 411
With these considerations in out mind, we used
surprised at the appearance of the article which
way yesterday into the columns of tho

A singular case has lately come under the decision of
Police Magistrates. .A Mr. Law roan, a respectable
bookseller in St. James's, has been heed for tefusing to
Cognlzance of sharges brought before him as constable 1
tbenight. Mr. Lawroao claimed the right of exercising
discretion in such casts, and upon being over-
/*the Megistratis, gave notice of his intention to
. against their decision: We know not whether to wish
'sieges' or not to this spirited individual. He is at all events
' by the best feeling iu his opposition upon this oc.
The authority of the intolerably ignorant guar.
Of the night is already almost inauttportable in a free
if there is to Lie no check upon the caprice of I
watchmen in the discharge of their high functions, our
condition will be almcst.as bad as that of a province ut:Jer
• operation of the Insurrection Act. The persopal
• of the subject will be reduced to a lOw ebb when
man who has the intrepidity to be out after dark.
dragged through the streets, and laid by the heels
felon at the discretion of these lantern and bludgeon
of the Peace. Mr. LAWIORD stares upon hires-.
e of the oßice that no street in the Parish would be
_,. enough to contain the unhappy prisoners who an
nightly collared in their passage through the streets by
-e Parish Dodberries
attention of the .plablic can never be Jo effectively
to any subject as at a moment, and on an wail*
its feelinpare roused by an event which gives to wbat•
Connected with it an urgent and immediate interest.'
therefore on this account that we are induced to ad..
the affair of St. George's Hospital, and to the Co-
_ inquest on the decease of JORN HAMMOND, the
particulars of whose death, in that Hospital, have deem-
- excited such general observation, and been followed
with so laudable a spirit of public inquiry. It is not
intention to offer any. remarks on the particular ease."
tvestigation cannot be in better hands, and we have no
interfere with it. Our object is to attract the pub-
attention to a subject of the deepest interest, as con-
, with the state of medical and surgical knowledge in
country, and with the fate, consequently, of every in-
itial, whether in an hospital or cut of it, *hose reco-
, from disease or accident must depend on the skill or
ignorance of the physician or surgeon, to whose treat-
they must wholly trust themselves, and in whose
humanly speaking, are " the issues of life and

_ inquest of the Jury in the ease of Hammoun charge
death to havebeen caused by improper surgical treatment.
bad met with his accident lam a fall Whilst engaged in
service of his employer. Whether the conclusion
. the Jurors come to as the cause of his death be the,
one or not, it is foreign from our purpose to inquire.
presumption certainly' is, that as disinterested men;
grounding their judgment on the evidence before them,'
cause assigned in their inquest is the correct one. That
&mild so be is lamentable ; but what are we therefore to
Are we to infer that gross abuses exist in all the
different charitable institutions of this description, and ap-
peal to this instance in St. George'S Hospital as a case In
pant? Such a conclusion wculd be neither candid nor
warrantable. Bin this we may fairly affirm, not judging
from this case alone, but from cases out of nuitrber,-and
occurring daily, that the state of surgical knowledgia,he
sadly imperfect, and that the consequences are most dis-
astrous, and are daily felt, not in St. George's Hospital
only, but in every hospital—not only in the metropolis,
but throughout the kingdom. The question we are na-
turally led to ask here is—to what is this to be ascribed P.
We answer—to the obstacles which in surgery retard the
progress of knowledge, and by which the ptiLic and the
legislature must continue to inflict misery and suffering
Intensely and without end, unless they can be brought to
look calmly on the result of the course they have been hi-
therto pursuing, and to adopt that enlightened system al
policy which can alone remedy the deplorable evils which
attend it. In entering on this subject, we have no other
preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will
divest himself of prejudice, and give to his reason all the
benefit of mature, manly, and reflective deliberation.
Without an exact acquaintance with the inward parts
of the human frame, and the local situation of the organs,
OD the regular action of which all health depends; with-
out, in a word, that complete anatomical knowledge of the
bones, the veins, the vessels, the arteries, and the whole
interior organization by which the functions of life in the
human body are carried on, and on which all practical
skill in the treatment and cure of disease and accidents by
fracture wholly depend, no medicines can be safely admi-
nistered, nor can any surgical operation be successfully
performed. Where this knowledge is wanting, all treat-
ment is empiricism, and all cure is the work of chance.
Bat this knowledge, like every other, cannot be acquired
without the means. Bodies then must be furnished for
dissection, for it is self-evident that without the means it is
belpossible to obtain the end. Mere complaining will not
meet the exigency. It is quite right that we should regard
the employment of resurrection men with horror. That
the repose of the dead should be disturbed—that the loved
relative, whose last remains we have laid quietly in the
earth, should, in the dead of night, be torn from his
diroud, is an outrage riot to be endured, and the law does
well to punish the violator. But has the Legislature no
further fast to perform? Is it not manifest that this im-
portant subject, as far as the matter of dissection goes, is
Inc in which our private feelings, and the dearest interests
At the community, are at variance ? It the science of
autatumy is indispensible, and if, therefore, subjects must
be supplied, is it not the imperative duty of Parliament to
inquire into, and ascertain what means it may be expedient
to adopt and sanction for the attainment of an object, so
vast in its importance, and which can alone afford to the
surgeon that information, " wilhout which," as has been
most justly remarked, " the practice of his profession is
murder." Before we stir up the passions and feelings of
the public against any fatal instance of the ignorance and
mistaken treatment of a patiett's case in any of our Dia•
pensaries and Hospitals, let us first take into account the
:insuperable difficnitim which our own prejudices, and the
apathy of the Legislature throw in the way of that
,inoomka/ rderat:on, without which no physician or sur-
geon can cultivate his profession with success, or practise
it with safety.
We braise been led to say thus much with a view to ha-
,press mere strongly on the attention of one reallikreitiO
.valtiable extract which see have given in anottitit
our paper, flow a periodical work, in which the subject. 4,
pursued in detail. It is a subject in which we.have alit
common interest; and horn the alacrity which Pr-fitment
has shown to attend to the many objects of concern

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