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gutter practitioners, and they had not been prneterted because the
money would come out of the pocket of the Examiners.
Mr. WHATELEY begged leave mask Mr. Shillito which clause it
was in the Act of Parliament that gave • power to the apothecary
to prescribe
Alt. Sit I.ITO eeclared that he co.itd not 'naive, the question*art
he had nut looked into the Act. ( Laughter.) His geuersi understand.;
ing un the subject was, that there was a clause in the Act which
empowered an apothecary to prescribe. He could aurae the mee•O
ing that, although an old Member of the College, he was young•
and irrexperienced in its lawn and regulations. He aubtlnitted that,
if the Resolution was.pressed, it would rust • slur upon the Lieen.
time* of the proMesion. He would propme, as an anatiodnient.t
the words " that the course of study laid down by the Coal of
Ettrnincra," etc., be left nut of the Rescittlibri.
Mr. Wasnonoroit seconded the amendment.
Mr. RAY was of opinion that the Apothecaries' Act did not can.
lain sufficient directions to the Examiners to qualify any man set
practise. The course of study should be extended to double the
time. Many young men might be of a different opinion, but we
should endeavour to obtain that education to enable us to practise
with honour. (Cheers.) Three years, he thought, was quite suf.
Heient as an apprenticeship. (Hear. hear.) In Scotland, in Dub-
lin, in France, aid, in fact, in every other place but Er lard, the
education was twice as long, and, by consequence, much au or
education, far the medical science in England was now inefficient
and defective.

The 411 Ara MAN Raid that, before the resolution was put, he
should suggest that students do not vote. The measure was billy
tile measure of the practitioners.
The amendment was then put, and the show of hands war 00 •
nearly equal, that a dlvlsiun was insisted upon. after which. the
Chairman declared the amendment negatived. The original reso-
lution was then passel.
Mr. PRITCHARD proposed the Record resolution
:
"That the defective course of education prescribed by the recs.
lations of the Court of Examiners is not only calculated to produce •
mischief to society by means of the inefficiency of those candidates
who limit tbems.ilves to that plan of study, and are subsequently
licensel, but that it has led to en incorrect opinion, on the pars et'
persons unacquainted with the Medical Schools neLondon, of tilt
talent and aCquirements of the whole body of English general`
prartioners, and, has exposed them to very untnerited and injurious
' aspersion., idevidenced by astatemeet, entitled sA case fof she
ltnyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, in relation to Act BS
lieu. 111, commuply called the Apothecaries' Act'—lately printed
and cireJlated among the members of legislature by that corporate
linfy t wntCh statement also contains assertions directly at variance
with their own regulatinna, formerly published In the Edinhurgia
Media-41mi Sti.:Airal
Mr. Sutra. T said that that resolution implied that the Ceihrgei
of Edinburgh was superior to that in Idondon ; and that those edu-
cated in the latter College were not competent to pravise.
Mr. ALI.COCK said the ex_trnination which was made of the
students was insufficient and bad. Ile thought no fault could be
fwinti with the Att of Pa:tan:cm, but the Examiners dld not cent.
ply with its provisions. lie had known several young men who
came up to London to be made mertibeht of the College, and he
instructed them how to construe the Piarmaroperia, and told
them what answers to give to the quttiions that would be put to
them by the Examiners. Some of thcie young men were so lg.
norant that they did not know whether the stomach was in the
thorax or in the abdomen. Still they Underwent to etarnination,
and were admited members.
Ale. e acurte said that sufficient time had tint been allowed
for the apothecaries to consider of the resolufiuns. He proposed an
ad,journment t and that in the meanulne the resolutions should be
pr.nted and circulated.
Al r. WHAT EL E r thought the object woUit, be afteined if the per-
son who read the resolutions would explain them.
Mr. Sin I.LITU said it was his opium that the ••ystcrr. of educa-
tion w,ts a mischief to society.
Mr. bASIIIERT-4 say it iv a mischief to society. (Great disac.
pr übation. and cries of •• Prove it.")
Mr. Sit I'LLITO was pursuing his line of argument, tten the
Chairman interfered.

The question for the adjournment was then put arid negatived.
A GENTt.E3I.IN then proposed that a Ci.mmittee should lie
appointed to wait on the Committee or the Surgeons, fn order
that the appointment of persons to practise might W regulated,
and that they stionld make s repot to a future meeting.
This question wait put and carried unanimously ; but +lin h von
proposed and agreed to, that the Committee should not tit:.:t
the meeting of the College of Surgeons had been held ; and it was
suppised that the intimation they would receive of the sense or
A poillecariete Company would have the same effect as the consulta-
tion between the Committees.

„.... .......
Thanks were then voted n the Chairman, for his conduct :a
the chair, and the meeting ati;ourned.

LITERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGE.XCE.

SATt.'HD•Y, FEEL 23.
Our Sugar Market continual in the same dull state, only 400
hhds. B.P. Sugar have been sold at fall Is. lower, end in some In-
stances Is. 6d. lower. The East India the grocers have taken.
200 bags of tine white Bengals at 768. Not any inquiry for foreiga
Sugar, and tor Molasses not any demand whatever. The trifling
sales in coffee are at a reduction of 21. ss. In Pimento, Cocoa or
Ginger, not ifiy demand. In Rice only 144 casks Of Lir neer Ca-
rolina, a little discoloured, at 17s. fld. a 195., being about Ts. to ,
Is. 6d. lower. Rum remains steady in demand ; as this article is
now sold by the imperil nieasere, the quotions are made accord., •
ingly. Ashes are lower. 120 bartcls new Montreal Pot sold at
28s; and ten at 275. 100 barrels of Montreal Pearl at Rik. sd. In
States Ashes nothing done. Quercitron Bark, I otligo, and Cochin ea!
are quite neglected. In Dyewoods, 16 tons inferior Jamalea off the
quay, sold at 51. 174. 5t1., and a small parcel of Honduras Logwood
also off the Quay, at 13/. 10s. Seventy tons good solid Nicaragua
Wood sold at 211., and a few tons of Camwood at 241. In Olive •
Oil the only sale is three tons of Oalipoli at 411. 10s. In Sal,- '
petre, a fair inquiry, and 770 bags sold at 245. 61. a 275. Sumach
sells but in small lots, and only amounts to 100 bags, Sicily, at
ns, s las. A parcel of Turpentine offered by auction has beret
sold, but price not named, A small lot of new Dutch Flag Seed
for sowing bas been sold at 665.; and 268 quarters of Canada fur
crushing at :Zs. 61 imperial measure. Nothing done in Oak or
Cork Tree Bark. In cotton the prices have again declined about
id. on last week's prices. Public sales held yesterday, and part.of
which were sold.

1962 bags Upland offered
871 Orleans .
60 . Ceara .
120 - Egyptian
22 - St. Andreas

. 1126 sold at trid. a 70.
- 486 . 6d. a 01.1.
. 6U . 90.
- 120 . - id, aal
32 -31 d.

305 18:24 3014 :
besides which the private sales have been srglo bags Uplands a
6J. a 7iJ., 100 New Orleans at B.ld. a :lid., 1.10 Alabama 60.
7i(1., 300 Sea Islands at Is. 64d. a 2a. 4d., 750 Pernambucoes

94d. a 190..950 Maranhams at 9d. a 9Ad., .250 Bahia at 9d. a
139 Para et 81(1., 70 Minas Novas at I;icl., 80 Demerara at 9d. 4
10d., IGO Egyptian at Bd. a ltd., '2OO lAguirss at 74d., and 230
Sumo% at f,d. a 6kl. making a Will of 10,800 bags ; or which about
2000 bags new 1 pliinds have been taken on speculation, and 2C41
Sea Island ; 300 Upland and 300 Pernams for spedulatiun.

Sugar
Ditto
Ditto
Mulassea -
Rum
Ritto.
Coffee
Ditto
Ditto

IMPORTED INTO I.IVEILPOOL.
748 hhds. Ashes
37, tierces I Flaxseed
168 barrels. Turpentine
702 casks. Hides
2111 puns.
.58 hhds.
14 tierces.
:9 barrels.
42 bags.
893 hags.
1111 bags.
1 tierce.
19t n.
9 Berson'.

- casks
- 425 casks
1:01) brls.
- 1644

----.•
Cotton :
Demerara and Ber-
W 14
bice .
est Indies . 12 bald
Egyptian - 886 ..,,
Brazil - 1545
American - nou t

Cocoa
Pimento -
Ditto
Logwood
Indigo

11,336

THE MEDIC•L Aar.—Dr. Prus of Paris has just pub.
lisind a new doctrine of medicine, in which be maintains
that the study of the healthy man can never lead to the
knowledge of the diseased man ; that the state of health
and the state of disease offer distinct phenomena ; that the
symptoms, sear, suns, and proper treatment of morbid af-
fections are not disclosed by physiology ; and therefore that
physiology can never be the tbundatlon of medicine, lie
subsequently examines the real utility- of physiology ; ,
points ont the inevitable evils which it has caused since its
forced introduction into pathology, and places physiological
doctrine by the side of those physical, mechanical, and
~chemical doctrines,. the fetal intithence of which is nearly
universal. 'the art of healing, according to Dr. Prus, is
founded solely on the examination and appreciation of the
phenomena whlth attend a sick person ; and he traces them up to their primitive causes, that is, to the changes whialt ,
the vital properties sustain. Those properties he states to
be four. viz., sensibility, contractibility, expansibility, and
vital aftlnity.—[,Mary Gazelle.
• Tue J we's-1-1A it r.—A German herdsman and labourer
of the name of Pulenstein, is at present astonishing alf
Paris by his performances on the Jew's-harp. /3y dint of
great application and practice, he has converted this harsh,
meagre, and vulgar inatrument into one of the most elegant,
harnioniotia, and &Ail* chankter. Availing himself of
sixteen different hartivitoftich he intuitive with such dex-
terity that the time of lite'fiiNlC,Vtielr he plays is neversuspetlilLA ,fer a inomank by the trtiNlNk..frost one to
another, he tuns wfth'eastrover fedi °MVP'S and executes •
with gnat grace and expr, Asian the most dillicult Italian.
French, and German pieces.—Litrrury