Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

LORD JOHN H&Y AT WICK.

The great question seems to be in regard to the fu'ure
I do not say that we should interfere to break down caste
in India ; nor do I think it necessary or proper to inter-
fere with the religion of the p.?ople, I believe that all
people should be allowed to profess and carry out any
religion they please, and that it is not the duty of any
government to ccorce. (Cheers.) In fact, I feel assured
that our indirect interference with caste has done not a
little to =produce the present state of affairs. For instance,
the establishment cf rail ways in India. approved by every
thinking man, has been one of the strongest blows against
caste. The fact of its chameng the value of property,. and
of altering the eandition of villages which had remained
in the same state for hundreds of years, and given pro-
prietors of land a new position in the country, has greatly
affected caste. Another important thing that affects it is
that whoever pays a certain money price for a seat in a
railway carriage can sit side by side with the most power-
ful. Thus in India the greatest Brahmin has to sit by the
the side of a parish, whom he regards as worse than the
dirt on which he treads. This is indeed an ordinary occur-
rence ; and yet before the levelling influence of British
rule was felt the same pariah, if he saw a Brahmin at a
distance approaching him on the road, would have to
go over the hedge or a ditch. into the field, to avoid
tainting the Brahmin. This is not an exaggerated
view, but it is a fair index to the general state of
the people; and therefore we can fancy the existence of a

very good reason fer the higher classes not being partitti..
larly pleased with English rule. Among other things it
has also been the Taut that promotion in civil situations
has been by merit, to the great objection of men of high
caste in India; consequently it is quite clear that men of
low meet who did good service were better rewarded than
men of high caste who performed fewer services, and
whose ideas are that men low in a certain position, while
they may descend, ought never to rise. There is another
matter. This country has been accused of annexing large
tracts of territory to our Indian dominions ; butt think
the charge has been made by those who are not :so r_
ficiently acquainted tvith the ques'ion ; for, while it c t
be denied that considerable annexation has taken l 1 ice
it is', not to be forgotten that the people have been g e t,t ly
benefited by the change, and that no annexation has taken
place without sufficient reason. With regard to the
future of India, Lord John held that the Government had
alrea ly shown by the ac ivity displayed in sending out
troops that the country nii;ht depend on Lord Palmerston,
that he world introduce such vigorous measures to Par-
liament as would be worthy of support.

THE LADIES AND THE COLD ES.

(From the New nrk Tribune)

Mkts.jessie M. White, an English woman, who had a
lame little brother who had repeated!), broken ?is leg—
once when hia doctor 7143 out of to-dra, aid when he could
not be induced to submit to a painful operation by a
stranger—was compelled to set it herself, and succeeciA
so as to win a compliment from the surgeon who attended
next day. He sportingly offered her a surgeon's
certificate;-. she asked hira-insteal to assist her is gaining
e student'S admission to one of the hospitals, which he
declined, although she hnd not only her unfortunate
brother but another lame boy under her daily charge.
Another doctor, being appealed to, warnit-espoused Miss
White's cause; and gave her letters and introductions to
leading medical friends; but her applications to all the
hospitals Of London—fourteen in nunfier—were
successively re3ected. She also applied for tickets to
attend a three year'gi course of medical and surgical
lectures, but was.pA.emptorily refused. It is fixe.l that a
woman must not be allowed to cr.quire a regular medical
education in England:

A year or so ago; three young women, from exemplary
New England families, applied foi-ttle prlvit ge of attend-
ing the clinical lectures at the Philadelphia Hospital-
They were admitted, on the same terms with other stu-
dents—in fact, we believe there was no legal right to
exclude then—on payment of the regular- charge. They
soon discovered, however, that they were to be driven
Out, if possible, by systematic indecency on the part of
those' with whom they were. compelled' to a?soci ate,
including some whom they had paid-as instructors. Wont
sort of morals are prevalent am ea; too-many of the young
men who congregate to listen to medical leo, tares is pretty
generally known, and Philadelphia had aeilairel a " bad
eminence" in the matter of dissipated mescal students.
The young women, however,. being most anxious to
acquire a knowledge of the healing art. continued to
attend the lectures, iu spite-of repeated declarations that
they shouldibe driven away. Indecent remarks, wantonly
made in the course of the lecture?, did not acco rap!isla
their evident purp ace. At length, on entering the lecture-
room at the time appointed• for a lecture, the young
women perceived from the winks and -chuck-1....8.e yclianzed
among their gentlemanly. associates, that some special
annoyance was prepared for theme and its character was
soon revealed by the introductiea-of an ins tne - man in a.
state of entire nudity to .form-the sebjact of the current
lecture 1 The pretext for this introduction w-as a desire
to elucidate a certain disease of the skin. The necessity
for the indecent exposure maybe jailged from the fact
that all the appearance tf. disease in this unfortunate
subject was confined to the scalp and the back-of the
head; but no rawer, the female students were driven
away, and their money, paid-for admission virtu dlr.
taken without consideration. Wte bpjjeve that is
" putting as fine a point on it 'as facts will warrant and
the law req,aires.
The WognAn's.Advocate (Philadelphia); from which we
have condensed the above statement, adds :
."' Bet there was still another set of persecutors con-
nected with the matter. T:fta Board-of Guardians; the, -
very men who had voted to admit the youuz ladies and
to take their money, being instigate I by the doctors, and
listenalg to their falsehood and slander without investiga-
tion or inq eirp, passed a res -ilutioa to the pqrp,rt that
certain disreputable rem ties were attending the lectures.
tor improper purposes, and should be excluded. Tnis vile
slander was publi.hed in the proceedings. Nobody
acquainted with that board would be affiliated by it, tOr
the character of the body was far below suspicion. It
was established as bad. To it they should, rob three
young women-was not surprising, whea the propensity for
robbing the alms house was so well known. Wno were
the persons thus slandered?' They were fr.ora the best.
families of New England and of. this State, and as far
above the average standing of the majority of the Board
of Guardians, as the latter are below that of ordinary
men.
" Such are some of the difficulties of obtainirr, a mAical
education in the United Stags; . or rather, they are
difficulties in the w y of hospital practice alter an edoca-
tion'is obtained. It will not be of lung Scott
professional In to will be superseded. by more moral ; and
more liberal inM-ds will have charge of public hospitals."