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This day, Octavo, Part 1., containing Chemical Physics, with
upwards of 200 Illustrations, 10s. 6d.,
ELEMENTS of CHEMISTRY : Theoretical aid
Practical.
By WILLIAM ALLEN MILLER, M.D., F.R S , Professor of
Chemistry, King's College, London.
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Just published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d.,
STRICTURE of the URETHRA : its Rational
Treatment and Prompt Care.
By F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Englsnd.
uWe believe Mr: Courtefay's experience in the treatin9ef tof litris,
tore during the last tweritYyttirr has-igualird, -it indeeltrit bas not
surpassed, that of any of his contemporaries. It is, therefore, no
mater of surprise that he should enjoy the reputation of being a
most dexterous and skilful manipu ator wish urethral instruments ;
and alien it is remembered that the lamented Liston used to assert
that the introduction of instruments through a stricture which bad
previously been impermeable to them, was the most difficult in the
whole range of surgical operations,• it must be no slight source of
stratification on Mr. Courtenay's part to have achieved the reputation
he has in this res iect ; and for our part, with the knowledge we have
of his experience, we know of no man to whose care we would with
greater c.•infidence entrust the treatment of a severe case of stricture
of the urethra."—Medical Circa' ar.
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298 tons, n.m. ; built at Liverpool in 1834. Length 'OO feet 9-12 the ;
breadth 25 feet 9-12ths ; depth 18 feet 2-12ths ; sheathed with yellow
metal ; lying in Prince's Deck.
The Barque MEDOR ;
386 tens, n.m. ; built at Nova Scotia in 1841. Length 108 feet 8-10th t.
breadth 23 feet 8-10ths, depth 17 feet 8-101 ks ; sheathed with yellow
metal ; lying at Liverpool.
The Ship PEMBERTON;
1,050 tons, 0.m., 1,253 tons, n.m. ; built at Quebec in 1146, now
classed .&t I, and sheathed with yellow metal. Length 160 feet,
breadth 34 feet, depth 24 feet 2.loths ; lying in Birkenhead Dock.
The Ship SARAH ;
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136 feet 1-10th, breadth 27 feet 4.loths, depth 21 foflt Oths ;
sheathed with yerow metal ; classed A. 1 ; copper fastened ; lying in
Brunswick Dock

The Ship SUACKAMAXON;
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The Ship SC/100MAX ;
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(From the Times of this day.)
We have within the last few days some important addenda
to the confirmations of our statements given by the witnesses
before the Crimean Star-chamber. There is some little diffi-
culty in dealing with these separate blocks of evidence. One
witness testifies to the shortcomings of the commissariat,
another denounces the mal-administration, a third inveighs
against the transport service. The report is, as it were, a
tesselated pavement, and can only be dealt with piecemeal.
It may perhaps add something of clearness to, our notice of
the testimony given, if we confine ourselves to the statements
of two leading witnesses, each deposing to matters strictly
within his own knowledge, and of the utmost importance to
the welfare of the expedition. We speak of Lord Lucan, who
commanded the cavalry division, and of Mr. Macdonald, the
gentleman who acted for the subscribers to the fund for the
Relief of the Sick and Wounded Soldiers, with which the
name of our own office has been so largely involved. Lord
Lucan shell have the precedence.
The difficulties against which he had to contend seem to
have had their beginning almost simultaneously with the ar-
rival •of the cavalry at Scutari. No sooner were they
placed in barracks at Kululee, about four miles from
that place, than Lord Liman began his contest with the
Commissariat officers—a contest which seems to have raged
with greater or less intensity during the whole period of de
general's stay with the British forces. The two commissaries
et Kululee knew nothing about horses. They were two young
gentlemen from the Treasury—one was Mr. Murray, a son of
the Bishop of Rochester ; the other a Mr. Cookesley. Dur-
ing the encampment at Varna the heavy cavalry suffered
fearfully from the cholera, but that is nothing to our imme-
diate purpose. When the embarkation for the Crimea took
place numbers of horses were left behind for want of trans-
sports, but even for all of those taken riders could not be
found. So great was the sickness among the men that when
the army reached the Alma there were no less than 150 led
horses on 1,100 taken. Each of these 150 horses required a
mounted trooper to lead it ; so here were 309 men and
horses hors de combat. We pass over the transactions at the
Alma. When the army got to Balaklava at first there was
forage enough for the horses, " great quantities of hay being.
found about the country." Not only was there plenty of hay,
but there were cargoes of forage in the port. " There could
have been no difficulty," said Lord Lucau, " in making stores
to any extent, as the weather was fine and there were plenty
of ships in the harbour full of forage." Nothing was done,
and soon the sharp pinch came. At first the commander of
the cavalry sent his own troopers to the ships to procure
forage for themselves, which they did out of the holds of the
vessels, and this staved off the evil day for a while. Next
came representations to Quartermaster-General Airey, and
bickerings with Mr. CoMmissary-General Filler; both were
unproductive of result. "The Commissary-General continued
to entrust the commissariat duties to youths utterly inexpe-
rienced, and who, moreover, showed no great zeal or desire
to make up by their exertions for their personal deficiencies."
Can we wonder that, as a natural consequence of such a
state of facts, we find Lord Lucan, a little further on in his
evidence, complaining that the supplies of forage for the
cavalry were most irregular, and sometimes failed alto-
gether? The Light Brigade were in an analogous situa-
tion. The forage was never landed from the ships, unless
immediately before it was wanted. Lord Lucan com-
plained of this in the proper quarter, but simply received no
answer to his letter. At one time, driven to desperation, he
was forced to apply to General Canrobert for assistance, aid
the French General lent them from his stores 30 days' fodder,
which was chopped straw. This was as early as November.
Then, again, Lord Lucau complains of the want of common
necessaries for the use of the cavalry—such as cornsacks,
nosebags, Sze. This led to a great waste of grain, for when
the nosebags were worn out the corn was cast Gown upon the
ground, and a great portion of it wasted, especially in wet
weather. And all this time there were ships innumerable in
the harbour and offing, with sailmakers aboard, who would
soon have made nosebags by the score, and Constantinople
was distant but three clays' sail ! The whole history would
appear to be related rather to play upon our credulity than
to convince our judgment. We have not, unfortunately, space
to follow Lord Lucan through the remainder of his valuable
evidence, but in it may be seenhow speedily, under " existing
arrangements," the high-nettled racer is brought to the dung-
cart—in other wards, how soon the few half-starved sur-
vivors of the British troop horses, which should have borne
their brave riders to victory, had common precaution been
taken for their preservation, were brought down to the duty
of carrying up stores from the port to the camp, for the pur-
pose of keeping the infastry alive. It is the same through-
out, on Lord Lucan's showing. Planks for huts for the horses
were brougld, from Sinope, " but they were not able to use
the boards for some time from the want of nails. By
some mistake or other, they bad forgotten to seat' nails with
the planks," &c. And so we pass on to the evidence of Mr.
Macdonald.
What can we do with this testimony ? Transcribe it ?
Part has already appeared in our impression of Thursday, and
the rest we pm lish to day. We take it up with the idea of
briefly mentioning the principal points, and we fall straight
upon the followins statement, whiN, if false, can easily be
set aside by those whose credit is involved. For five weeks
after the arrival of Mr. Macdonald no washing was done in any
oll: its!' ewiss hospital,
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under the beds as it was, crawling with vermin, filthy
with the discharge from wounds, and sometimes containing
maggots." Medical stores and medical comforts of all kinds
were wanting, notwithstanding the flat denial with which this
statement was made at home. Upon one occasion, and one
occasion only, the ambassador, Lord Stratford, sent down to
the hospital to inform the medical authorities that he had the
power of supplying them with anything that was wanted.
Their answer was that they were not in want of anything ;
they did not have recourse to him, and he never troubled his
head any more about the matter. Everything, or most things
wanted, might, have been purchased at Constantinople, but
nothing was done. The great failure was in the purveyor's
department. One infirm old man and a couple of youthful and
imbecile assistants seem to have been charged with the duty
of catering for the wants of so many thousands of sick and
wounded men. "If the medical officer saw a mau in want
of a shirt he would wri e a requisition for one, and
send it to the purveyor, and the purveyor word I say
there was no such article in store,' or ' Call again to-
' morrow,' or some such answer." Mr. Macdonald's account
of the condition in which the men were brought down from
the Crimea, although it contains nothing with which we were
not before acqnainted, must affect the reader's imagination
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away. When they arrived at hospital,—but here we must let
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have denounced this journal for calling attention to such in-
famy, what is their idea now? Ought not things to be
known ? Ought not the guilty persons to be brought
to jus-
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people free of all charg,, except that imposed by the rate in
aid. The formation of an educational district is not corn-
pnlsory upon tV:e ratepayers, but it rests in their discretion
whether in each union the act shall be operative or
a dead letter. Once adopted, however, the observance of all
the subsequent and attached provisions'becomes, of course,
compulsory. The schools are to be subject to Government
inspection, as at present, and the central:educational govern-
ment iS to be vested, as now, in the Committee of .Privy
Council, which, however, is to be subjecefd to a good deal of
remodelling, and is to be represented iu ;Parliament by a re-
sponsible Minister of the Crown. Theri is to be no inter-
ference exercised in respect of any existing agencies for
education.
Such, in the main, is the machinery rich Sir J. Palling-
ton proposes, not to substitute for, but to superadd to, that
which he finds at work. We should have strongly protested
againit any proposition which involved the abrogation of
the 'numerous establishments which voluntary efforts and
private benevolence have constituted, and are now maintain-
ing throughout the land, and which, although it may be con-
ceded that they fall short in extent, and in some degree in
form, too, of the present and prospective requirements of the
community, have done a vast deal more, we are disposed to
think, than Sir John Pakington gives them credit for, to in-
crease the knowledge and advance the social condition of the
people ; but we see no objection to this scheme being imposed
upon the existing system if the imposition can be effected
without material disturbance. And we do not see why it
should not. Coalition, we should think, may be compassed,
even though amalgamation may net be possible. We are quite
ready to admit that the machinery which we have in operation
now is not adequate to the work which it is called upon to
perform. We are ready to admit, without dispute or cavil, a
great, the greatest part of the statements which Sir John
put forth ; and of the opinions which he advanced with re-
gard to the prevalence and degree of ignorance among the
masses of our population. We feel strongly, and we have
urged our conviction, over and over again, upon the public,
that a very large proportion of the ednUtional acquirements
which our population is reputed to have attained—whatever
show and appearance theymake upon pa*, and in statistical
returns —have no reality ; and thatthe system which makes such
a display in report,produce,s comparatively trifling results, and
excerciscs but ephemeral influences. This is but the natural
consequence of educating men—whose destived, occupation is
that of teachers of petit. living by niani(al labour—u if
their present object was.to- take high honours at-the nniver.
sities, and their contemplated career that of the statesman,
the barrister, the physician, or the Churchman, and of these
men attempting with similar mistaken views to pour—just
as you would pour water into a pail--into the mind of a
child who, at the utmost, is to be two years under their ma-
nipulation, as great an amount and as great a variety of ac-
quirements as is attainable, and attained by a clever and in-
dustrious so-a of a man in easy circumstances, who is able to
devote absolutely to mental cultivation at least twelve years
of his life. This is one of the chiefest evils of our present sys-
tem as conducted by the Committee of Privy Council, and
we have observed, with much regret and apprehension, that
several of the cleverest and most zealous of the Government
inspectors have given encouragement to its growth, and have
forced the directors of some of our training establishments,
from year to year, to a perpetual ascent iu the scale of educa-
tion applied to candidates for the masterships of schools. It
is a practice which is objectionable not only because it defeats
the object for which the training schools are specially estab-
lished, but because it, moreover, has a tendency to create,
and that at the public expense, a class of men in whom is
generated, by the unwholesome and unfitting stimulus applied
to their minds, an ambition without a distinct object or a
tangible resting place, and a largo proportion of whom, con-
sequently, will probably pass their lives in wandering to and
fro through society restless and discontented, seeking a posi-
tion and finding, none, and the ready instruments of every
political agitation that the turmoil of life in large towns may
send forth.
It is evidently impossible in the limits of a single article to
give an opinion upon the variety of important questions to
which a Ration is given by the great scope of Sir J. Paking-
t- scheme, and we, therefore, pre:Cr to reserve, till we
see the bill in print, any positive expression of our views
with regard to a large proportion of its contemplated provi-
sions. The policy or hp policy of free admission, for instance,
wili depend considerably, iu our opinion, upon the extent of
the area to which it is proposed to apply the rating. If it be
extended so as to embrace all families really capable
of paying, and it is found capable of producing, with
the aid of the Consolidated Fund, a revenue suffi-
cient for the maintenance of the school in each
district, we see no reason for requiring the payment
of pence from individual children; the education of those
who have the ability having been, in fact, already paid for
by the contribution of their families to the rate ; but we
would beg Sir John Pakington and the house to bear in mind
that the great danger to be guarded against, in all plans for
giving good and cheap education to the poor, is the natural
and almost inevitable tendency of the class above them to
press into the establishments and elbow them out—.-a tendency
which we doubt will always be found active at all times and
in all places, so long as the private schools to which the
middle classes resort are so miserably constituted and admi-
nistered.

The last and greatest difficulty with which Sir John pro-
poses to grapple, namely, that of religious teaching to all
classes and sects, presents such a large field of consideration
and discussion, that it is impossible to enter fully upon it
within the limits of this article ; and to touch upon it, with-
out going completely into it, would only be to do injustice
both to ourselves and the subject. We postpone, therefore,
to a future occasion the expression of our views, and will
only add, that whatever may be th individual opinions
's
with regard to Sir John Pakingtou p osition, there can be
but one feeling of respect and admiratte , for the tolerant and
Christian-like spirit which he evinced- treating that com-
plicated and momentous question. -

'TELLIGENCE,

SIR JOHN PAKINGTON'S EDUCATION BILL.
(From the Morning Post of this day.)
Sir John Pakington, iu a speech remarkable alike for its
comprehensiveness and its temperate and tolerant spirit, in-
troduced last night into the House of Commons a bill for the
promotion of education, which, whether it meet with diAsen-
sion or agreement, must be admitted, at all events in scope
and completeness, far to surpass any schemes which have
preceded it. As far as the framing goes it- is unquestion-
ably superior to that which has been submitted to Parlia-
ment by Lord John Russell. It embraces more objects,
and faces and grapples with the larger difficulties, to
which Lord John appeared rather disposed to give the go-
,by, in a bolder spirit and in a more comprehensive manner.
The scheme which Sir John Pakington sketched out, and
which he proposes to embody in a bill, amounts shortly
to this :—Ho proposes to take advantage of the division
of the kingdom, which has already been effected for the pur-
poses of the administration of the Poor-law, for the objects 'of
wiglin and'
its
his bill, and to constitute each union an educational district,
within which the provisions of the bill are to bo administered
bstyreanbgotharedneedlebetyedobey
atdhdeitiosunffrqafgetshe magistrates
atghierraatpsA
area, vebose office is to constitute them members of it. The
means for snpplying education to. the population are to be
furnished by'the imposition of a rate, aided.by proportional
grants to be voted. by Parliament, and charged upon the Con-
solidated Fund, and that education is to be tendered to the