The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-09 00:00:00

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIA

TION.

An annual meeting of the British Medical Asso.
ciation took place on Monday evening at the Free-
masons' Tavern.

At half-past three o'clock the Chair was taken
by George Webster, Esq., M.D., the President of
the Association, who, having explained the object
of the meeting, called on the Secretary to read the
Report,
The Report contained a gratifying account of the
progress and extension of the Association, of the
correspondence maintained by its Council with
various medical establishments throughout the em-
pire ; and of the adoption of its principles in vari-
ous parts of Scotland and of Ireland. It then
proceeded to announce that at a meeting of the
Council of the Association a report of a Sub-
Committee appointed to take into consideration the
preamble and clauses of a Bill for carrying into
effect a general measure of medical reform for Great
Britain and Ireland, having been read and dis-
cussed at great length, the following were unani-
mously declared to be the fundamental principles
on which such Bill ought to be founded :
" That it is expedient and necessary to unite all
the legally qualified members of the medical pro-
fession of the British dominions into one faculty,
to be entitled, The British Faculty of Medicine.'
" That this faculty shall have the power to elect
periodically, by ballot, a governing body, to be
called The General Medical Senate, consisting of
a senate in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, to be
elected by the respective members of the faculty in
each country.

" That these National Senates (of England,
Scotland, and Ireland), elected as aforesaid, shall
each be subject to the same regulations, and that
their members, or a part of them, shall meet from
time to time to consult together and act unitedly as
the General Medical Senate, in framing and admi-
nistering all necessary laws for the government and
protection of the faculty.
" That the General Medical Senate so consti-
tuted shall alone have power and authority to
frame, adopt, and promulgate all necessary by-laws,
for—

" lit, Regulating the said faculty.
" 21 Defending the respective rights and privi•
legesof the members.

idly. Superintending the medical police of the
country.

" 4thly. Advising her Majesty's Government
on all subjects connected with the public health.
" That the members of Councils or Boards of the
several existing medical corporate bodies in Eng-
land, Scotland, and Ireland, shall be invited to
take part in the preliminary steps towards the form-
ation of the first General Medical Senate.

" That all future candidates for practice in the
healing art shall be examined by a Board, elected
under such regulations as the General Senate shall
enact for that purpose.
" That an uniform high qualification—the result
of an extended course of preliminary and profes-
sional education—shall be required of all the can-
didates ; to be tested by oiae or more public exami-
nations—theoretical and practical.
" That all persons examined and recognised by
the Senates, and admitted as members of the fa-
culty, shall receive the same title or denomination :
enjoy equal rights and privileges, and alone have
the power to exercise any or all the branches of
the healing art in any part of the British dominions;
subject to such regulations as may or shall be esta-
blished by the General Senate for the interests,
welfare, and respectability of the profession.
" That no member of the British Faculty of
Medicine' shall be permitted to sell drugs, or to
compound medicines, unless prescribed by himself,
or by others in consultation with him, and for his
own patient or patients. except in rural districts
and by special licence from the Senates.
" That members of the Faculty who may con-
tinue to wish to act as General Practitioners, and
supply their own patients with medicines, shall be
authorised to charge for their attendance, in addition
to the cost of medicines so supplied.
" That in future, all persons purposing to exer-
cise the calling of chemist and druggist, or com-
pounders and sellers of medicines (to whom the title
of apothecary shall henceforth be limited) shall
undergo a suitable examination before a Board
appointed by the General Senate, and be licensed
accordingly, exception being made of persons already
so engaged.
" That a general and continuous register of all
persons who are, now legally practising, or who
shall in future be legalized to practise the healing
art, shall be kept in each of the three kingdoms,
under the direction Of their respective Senates; as
also of those who are now allowed, or who shall in
future be licensed to act as chemists and druggists,
or compounders and sellers of medicines ; and that
such general registers shall be the only great pub-
lic documents to be referred to, in order to establish
the legality of any medical practitioner, chemist and
druggist, or compounder and seller of medicines
The Report farther stated that the Council had
made out a list of the number of empirics practising
in this kingdom, with a view to their suppression if
possible ; also that in March last a deputation of
the Council waited on the Poor-law Commissioners
and suggested improvements to them in the selec-
tion and remuneration of medical officers, which
the Commissioners promised to take into conside-
ration. One of the recommendations of the Coun-
cil was, that the medical officer in each workhouse
should be paid about 6s. for each case, and 10s. for
each case not on the pauper list. That would be
about double the present rate of remuneration.
Mr. HOWELL, M.D., one of the auditors, an-
rm their finthanemciatlhaatffathiresy,
nhoeuwnacsedhatiptapty. wtiothbreegabarled
ttoo
were altogether out of debt, and a balance remained
in their hands.
Mr. LYNr a, of Newcastle, moved that the Re-
port be received. He thought that the Council
had merited their approbation fur the activity and
energy which they had displayed. He trusted that
the proceedings of their body would be imitated by
other medical bodies in other places. Medical
Reform (he observed) was more important to the
public than to the medical profession. That was a
fact not sufficiently known or appreciated. They
had much to thank those Journals for which had
advocated the cause of Medical Reform in the
country. It was evident that the plan of Reform
which had been adopted by the Council of the As-
sociation was a good one, inasmuch as it received
the sanction of the Irish Society. There were some
topics in the Report which had been made out with
which he was not quite so well pleased, but they were
of minor importance. On one subject, however, he
should confess himself to be a convert, that was the
subject of a Medical Coroner. Some time ago he had
been engaged in a controversy in which he had main-
tained that it was not preferable that the Coroner
should be a medical man. However, he was
happy to be enabled to say that the manner in
which the duties of the office of Coroner had
been discharged by the Hon. Member for Finsbury
had wrought a change in his opinions. That Hon.
Member had invested the office with a new dignity.
—(Hear.) It had been laughed at before, but
the accounts of Coroners' Inquests in the public
prints are now read with interest, though before
now nobody attended to them--(Hear.) Mr.
Lynch concluded by moving that the report be re-
ceived and adopted.
Mr. CAMPBELL, M.D., seconded the resolution,
which passed unanimously.
The names of the Council for the ensuing year
were then read to the meeting, as was also a peti-
tion which had been prepared fur presentation to
the Houses of Parliament.
Mr. WALLACE moved that the petition be
adopted and presented to both Houses of Parliament.
Mr. EALES, M.D., seconded the resolution,
which was unanimously carried.
Mr. THOMPSON, M.D., moved, and Mr. BAIN-
BRIDGE, M.D., seconded the resolution that the
thanks of the meeting be given to the Sub-Com-
mittee which had been appointed to arrange the
plan of medical reform, for the zeal and talent with
which they had discharged their duties.
The resolution was unanimously passed.

Votes of thanks were in like manner successively
passed to the Committee which had drawn up that
portion of the General Report which related to
" empiricism," and also to the Committee which
had prepared the portion of it which related o the
" Poor-law."

W. FARR, Esq.,
M.D., then read the annual
oration, which contained an eloquent expatiation on
the history and efficacy of medicine, and concluded
with an urgent appeal as to the necessity of a re-
formation of the medical instionons of the empire.

. .
Professor GRANT then moved the thanks of the
meeting to Mr. Farr for the exceedingly- able and
intellectual oration which he had delivered. He
thought the Association was much indebted to that
gentleman for such a display, and he would move
that it be printed and circulated.
This resolution having been seconded was unani-
mously carried.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, after
which the proceedings terminated.

LORD SPEN CER AN D MR. SELMES.

AWARD.

We, the undersigned having been appointed to decide
the match proposed by Mr. Selmes to show one hundred
Sussex beasts of his own breed against one hundred of
any other breed in England bred by the same person,
and which was accepted by Earl Spencer with one hun-
dred short horns, and having carefully inspected the
several herds on Mr. Selmes' farm at Beckley, in Sussex ;
on ,Earl Spencer's farm at Brampton, in Northampton-
shire ; and at Wiseton, in Nottinghamshire ; we do
hereby declare Earl Spencer to be the winner, and direct
the stakes to be paid to his Lordship accordingly ; at
the same time we consider Mr. Selmes' stock to possess
great merits and great uniformity of character.
Dated this 27th day of September 1839.
(Signed) JOHN PUTLAND,
WM. SMITH.

Sept 24. —Shown by Mr.
Selmes, of Buckley, in
Sussex.

40 Working oxen.

10 Cows in calf.

3 Three years old hei.

fers in calf.
2 Bulls.

10 Twoyears old heifers.
10 Two years old ttecrs.
10 One year old heifers.
10 One year old steers.
5 Fattening oxen, hav-
ing worked till they
were 7 years old.

Sept. 26 and 27.—Shown by
Earl Spencer, at Bramp.
ton, in Northamptonshire,
and at Wiseton, in Not-
tinghamshire.
4 Fat oxen.
9 Two yearling steers.
19 Three yearling steers.
24 Cows.
12 Three yearling heifers.
14 Two yearling ditto.
12 One yearling ditto.
4 Bulls.
2 Fat cows.

The above is a description of the two different herds
of cattle exhibited for the match named in the foregoing
award.

The four breeders of beasts from Kent and Sussex,
who accompanied the judges from Mr. Relines', in Beck-
ley, to Earl Spencer's, at, Brampton, in Northampton-
shire, and Wiseton, in Notts, carefully inspected both
herds, and they are of opinion that the value of Earl
Spencer's at this time is greater than that of Mr. Selmes',
but in what way the judges arrived at the merits of the
two different herds, it is apprehended, will never be made
public, although their merits and usefulness are very
different, as is also the mode of feeding. It would have
been a great satisfaction to till breeders of cattle if their
respective merits and usefulness had been more particu-
larly set forth in the award.

Too much cannot be said in behalf of Mr. Selmes'
stock, whether as regards its uniformity of character,
great usefulness for labour, kindliness of skin, aptitude
for fattening, strength of constitution, or gentleness of
disposition ; and last, though not least, the forty oxen
have been daily worked at agricultural purposes.—Sus-
sex Express.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 7, 1839

The Queen has been pleased to grant into Sir J. R. Grant,
Knt. , Doctor in Medicine, Inspector-General of Army Hos-
pitals, and Knight of the Hoyal Hanoverian Guelphic Order,
her royal licence and permission that he may accept and wear
the cross of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne, of the
second class, which his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Rus-
sia bath been pleased to confer t.Ton him for services rendered
to the Russian corps d'armee during the occupation of France ;
and that he may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto
annexed.

Anal also to command, that her Majesty's said concession and
especial mark of her Royal favour be registered, together with
the relative documents, in her Majesty's College of Arms.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 2.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Muskett, of Diss,
in the County of Norfolk, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary
in the High Court of. Chancery.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, dealer, Stamford Rivers, near
Romford, Essex.

BANKRUPTS.

THOMAS GRAY, grocer, Tunstall, Wolstanton, Stafford-
shire, to surrender Oct. 26, at eleven, and Nov. 19, at one, at
the Sneyd's Arms Inn, Tunstall. King, Furnival's-inn, Lon-
don ; Cooper, Tunstall, Staffordshire Potteries.
CHARLES HUM PH REYS, timber merchant, Bear-lane,
Southwark, Oct. 16, and /siov. 19, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
M'Leod and Stehning, London-street, Fenchureh-street.
HENRY NOEL, dealer in fancy goods, Brighton, Oct. 12,
at eleven, and Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Brighton.
Bennett, Brighton ; Bicknell, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
JOHN HENRY CHARLES ALBRECHT, spice broker,
Fenchurch-street, City, Oct. 23, at twelve, and Nov. 19, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Coleman-
street-buildings. official assignee; Wilkinson and Satchell,
Queen-street, Cheapside.
WILLIAM HAGUE, SAMUEL HAGUE, and WIL-
LIAM SHATWELL, commission agents, Manchester, Oct.
24 and Nov. 19, at two, at the Commissioners' rooms, Man-
chester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London ;
Hitchcock, Manchester ; Atkinson, Birch, and Saunders, Man-
chester.

ARTHUR CORT and THOMAS HARRISON, cotton-
spinners, Blackburn, Lancashire, Oct. 28, and Nov. 19, at
eleven, at the Town-hall, Preston. Wiglesworth. Ridsdale, and
Craddock, Gray's-inn, London ; Wilkinson, Blackburn.
THOMAS MA XFIELD TEMPLE, carver and gilder,
Great Titchfield-street, Portland-place, Oct. 16 and Nov. 19, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Coleman-street-
buildings, official assignee ; Richardson. and Pike, Golden-
square.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.

R. Hoggart, wholesale saddler, Fenchiu-:ch-street, London,
Oct, 31, at one.
W. Starie, builder, Cutler- street, Houndsditch, London,
Oct. 31, at twelve.
C. Basan and T. G. Bayntun, licensed victuallers, Strand,
Oct. 31, at half-past. twelve.
C. Fenton, plumher, Clement's-lane, Lombard-street, Nov.
ft, at twelve.
W. Wisedell and W. Cockett, iron-mongers, New-cut
Lambeth, Nov. 8, at two.
R. R. Reinagle, agent, Fitzroy-square, Middlesex, Oct. 30,
at two.
J. Hill, hacknernan, Montagu-mews, Montagu-square, St.
Maryleborn., Oct. 30, at one.
J. H. Butterworth, victualler, Leadenhall-market,, London,
Oct. 30, at twelve.
In the Country.
J. Rodgers, coach-builder, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Man-
chester, Nov. 1, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester.
J. Newsome, worsted stuff manufacturer, Tyersal-gate,Tong,
Birstal, Yorkshire, Nov. 1, at ono, at the Court-house, Brad-
ford, Yorkshire.
J. Elliott, currier, Birmingham, Oct. 31, at three, at Dee's
Royal Hotel, Birmingham.
T. C. Browne, hatter, Norwich, Nov. 1, at ten, at the Nor-
folk Hotel, Norwich.
J. P. Brandstrom and W. J. Thompson, commission-mer-
chants, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lincolnshire, Oct. 29, at one, at
the Kingston Hotel, Kingston-upon-Hull.
R. Hartland, mealman, Staunton, Worcestershire, Nov. 1, at
four, at the Booth Hall Inn, Gloucester.
R. Jordison, grocer, Stockton, Durham, Nov. 4, at two, at
the Black Lion Hotel, Stockton.

F. J. Hiller, builder, Dover, Oct. 30, at twelve, at the
Guildhall, Canterbury.
W. N. Buckley, linen-merchant, Manchester, Nov. 2, at ten,
at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.

CERTIFICATES.—Ocr. 29.

G. and W. Helder, money-scriveners, Clement's-inn, Mid-
dlesex. _ _

G. C. Dawse, print-seller, Regent-street, Pall-mall.
D. Worthington, flour-dealer, Manchester.
W. Davies, tailor, Queen-street, May-fair, Middlesex.
W. Fowler, brick-maker, Aston-juxta-Birmingham, War-
wickshire. . .

M. A. Gage, Fishmonger, Birmingham.
J. Galloway, iron-monger, Theobald's-road, Red Lion-
square, Middlesex.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Davenport and J. Roylance, cern-dealers, Nether Knuts-
ford, Cheshire.
E. Bardwell and C. George, milliners, Great Portland-street,
St. Marylebone.
J. Stelfox and W. Carr, coach-builders, Manchester.
L. Marriott and J. Booth, cabinet• makers, Wakefield.
R. Grundy and W. Maitland, coal-dealers, Manchester
T. Jones and W. Aldis, linen-drapers, Preston, Lancashire.
S., R.,and E. Blackwell, manufacturing chemists, Man-
chester, so far as regards S. Blackwell. )
E. Hatcher, J. Adlam, and N. Moore, curriers, Bristol, (so
far as regards E. Hatcher. )
J. and E. Vyse, curriers, Diss, Norfolk. .
J. L. Farrow and T. Rightou, butchers, Reading, Berkshire.
J. R. Evans and W. H. Brown, tailors, Godalming.
J. Spence and W. Macfarlane, coach-builders, Edinburgh.
R. Spetch and G. Hardie, colliers, York.
T. Johnston and J. Johnston, drapers. Manchester.
J. S. Turner and E. Hollier, chemists, Dudley, Worcester-
shire.

T. M'Cheane and D. M'Cheane, merchants, Portsea.
S. Saunders and J. Pendrell, pattern makers, Waterloo-
road, Southwark.
R. Norfolk and W. Potter, grocers, Louth, Lincolnshire.
J. Robinson and W; Hobbs, ladies' '3O a -makers, Charter-
house-lane, Charterhouse-square, Middlesex.
J. Bayley, jun., and H. Thwaites, common-carriers, Hast-
ings, Sussex.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
JAMES BARRY, merchant, Dundee, Oct. Is, and Nov.
7, at twelve, at Wallace's Royal
ter Hotel, Dundee.
Oct. 14
WALTER M‘GIBI3ON, wri, Glasgow, , and
Nov. 18, at twelve, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgpsr.

An Anti-Corn-law Association has been formed
at Lancaster.
FLOOD IN THE RIVER EYE.—The heavy
rains of Friday caused the river Exe to be overflowed,
and to present the most heart-rending of all possible
sights. On Sunday morning herds of cattle, sheep, and
poultry were seen faintly struggling against the rapid
current, down which were also seen floating hay ad
corn stacks, whole trees torn upbyatlhl eroots, large
and
masses of timber from the wharfs,descriptions of
property, every portion of which wag carried into the
German Ocean and irretrievably lost. The sufferers
are too numerous to be mentioued in detail. Al lthc
proprietors for a long distance on each side the river are
losers to a greater or less degree.—York Herald.
There are upwards of 5,000 registered electors
in Edinburgh this year ; what a contrast with its state
before the passing of the Beform Bill, when a dozen or
so was the number !