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

THE! SUN LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1839

Flora was not pregnant. But that charge, if charge it be,
applies with equal three to Sir Charles Clarke, the
friend of the Hastings family ; for, so suspicious did
the case appear to him, that, before proceeding to the
extremity of a medical examination, he urgently en-
treated Lady Flora to confess that she was pregnant, if
such were the fact. But it is no reflection on the profes-
sional skill of either Sir James Clark or Sir Chas. Clarke,
that they were unable, before resorting to a medical exa-
mination, to pronounce Lady Flora to be non-pregnant,
for every person knows, that there is no class of medi-
nal cases which so frequently set the greatest profes-
sional skill at defiance, as those which relate to preg-
nancy. Who does not remember, that some of the
most distinguished physicians of whom the metropolis
could at the time boast, gave it as their decided con-
viction—and that, too, after the strictest examination--
that the celebrated Johanna Southcote was pregnant at
the time she represented herself as about to give birth
to a second Shiloh, and we-e only induced to admit
their error after a post-mortem examination of her body
had taken place.
But we will not, by any further observations of ours,
weaken the impression which cannot fail to be produced
on the mind of every one who reads Sir James Clark's
statement. It is, we repeat a document which is at
once temperate and most triumphant. Our only regret
is, that with the means of so complete a vindication in
his possession, he should have submitted in silence to
the calumnies which have been so profusely heaped upon
him. However, he will now have the satisfaction of
knowing that ho stands as clear, in the estimation of
the public, of the charge of any improper conduct, in
the case of Lady Flora Hastings, as he has all along
done in his own conscience. The only wonder is that,
in the very peculiar and difficult position in which he
was placed, by circumstances over which he had no con-
troul, he should have acted with so much judgment and
delicacy throughout the whole of the affair. We envy
not the feelings of his traducers, if they be not lost to
all feeling, when they shall have read his statement.
A report has been abroad for several days past—but
by whom set afloat we know not—that the Marquis of
Lansdowne, who, it will be remembered, recently set
out upon a journey to the Continent, for the benefit of
his health, had been recalled by a special messenger ;
and that a Cabinet Council was to be held immediately
upon his return. Not pledging ourselves in the slightest
degree for the truth of this report, it may nevertheless
be very fairly surmised, both from the position of our
foreign relations, and the changes which have recently
taken place in the Queen's Councillors, that a Cabinet
Council must speedily be held, and that its discussions
must involve the most important results, both at home
and abroad. Without for one moment countenancing
the idea so eagerly propagated by our Tory Contempo-
raries, that our Indian empire is in danger, either from
the ambitious schemes of Russia, the foolish enterprises
of Persia, or the hostile feelings said to be entertained
against us by several native chiefs, there is neverthe-
less so much cause for apprehension as to render the
utmost vigilance, the most careful deliberation, and the
most prompt decision necessary ; while with regard
to the relations, or rather the no relations, which
subsist between the Sovereign of Turkey and the
Pacha of Egypt, they have been so complicated by
domestic treachery and foreign designs, as to render
them an object of much anxiety, not to England only,
but to every power in Europe. Still, as no very essen-
tial change has taken place within the last few weeks
in our relations with either of these Powers, and the
policy of our Cabinet regarding them been long fixed
beyond recall, it is fairly to be presumed that the ap-
proaching Council has fur its object the settlement of
questions of domestic importance, rather than of those
which are interwoven with our foreign relations. What
questions are these ? it will be asked. Why, there are
first of all, the questions, the solution of which is calcu
lated to place our fellow-subjects in Ireland upon a
footing of equality with their brethren in England and
Scotland, or to leave them in the same anomalous and
dissatisfied condition in which they at present are—then
there is the question of a general Education of the
people—there are the questions of the Ballot—of tri-
ennial Parliaments—of a more extended suffrage—and,
last of all, of the Corn-laws—questions respecting which
the public will no longer be held in suspense, and upon
which the Government will do well to decide with the
least possible delay ; for, be it remembered, that it is
not complained of so much by its friends, supporters,
and well-wishers, on account of the absence of a well-
judged and extended liberality in its views, as on ac-
count of its slowness in evolving them, and the feeble-
ness with which it supports them when brought forward.
These two capital defects must, therefore, be removed,
before it either regain the popularity which attended its
first formation, or be successful in carrying its views into
effect.

railway that had been adverted to, certain tolls should
be collected, and placed in a common fund, each Com-
pany deriving benefit from those tolls, according to the
portion they contributed.

- A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether the Brighton
and South Eastern Companies were disposed to co-
operate with that Company—making the lines that had
been adverted to.

The CHAIRMAN said that the Directors bad not yet
had an opportunity of negotiating upon that subject,
but it was their intention to do so shortly.
The CHAIRMAN trusted if there was any sum to be
placed at the disposal of the Directors for their remu-
neration, it would be carried back to the time of the
old Directors.

A PROPRIETOR thought a distinct motion ought to
be made on that subject.

Mr. COOPER considered that such a motion ought
not to Le made in so thin a meeting.
Captain PAGE then gave notice of his intention at
the next meeting to move that a sum of 500/. should be
placed at the disposal of the Directors for the remunera-
tioia of their valuable services to the Company.
A PROPRIETOR also gave notice of a motion for the
next meeting, that 50/. should be placed at the disposal
of the Auditors as some remuneration for their services.
Mr. GOLDSWORTH, as one of the Auditors, declined
accepting any remuneration.
The Report was then agreed to, and ordered to be
adopted.
THE REPORTS AS TO SHUTTING UP THE RAILWAY.
The CHAIRMAN said that several reports had got
abroad that it was the intention of the Directors, after
the fair at Croydon, and during the winter, to shut ule
the Railway ; nothing could be more erroneous ; ill
fact, the adoption of such a step would be suicidal in
the extreme, and he thought in that observation the
Proprietors would join with him when he stated that
the average receipts were 104/. 7s. a day, not including
the fair.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. N.-SmiTir, one of the gentlemen who had been
elected to the Direction, after observing upon the
arduous duties they had to perform, stated that he
returned yesterday from traversing the whole of the
Brighton Line, and he was happy to say it was pro-
gressing most satisfactorily, and he did not despair
of seeing it opened as f'ar as Merstham early in the next
year. That no doubt would contribute greatly to the
benefit of the present undertaking.
A vote of thanks was then proposed and carried to
Mr. Cape!, and the Committee of Inspection, and also
to the Directors, and the meeting separated.

THE DORCHESTER LABOURERS'
FAREWELL BENEFIT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
S 12,—The Committee took the Victoria Theatre
for one night only, and got up the benefit (on
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1839). The house was crammed,
the applause tumultuous, and wreaths were thrown
upon the stage for the heroes. Scarcely had they
began to speak than the curtain descended with great
swiftness, to the utter astonishment of both parties.
Will any of the haters of deserving men explain
their motives publicly. Should they not, I shall
consider them base, cowardly creatures, who are
malicious enough to attack, though not brave enough
to answer the just charges brought against them.
[We have taken some liberties with our. Cor-
respondent's letter, as we have no right to insect
attacks on an individual on anonymous authority.]

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

(PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
We invite the special attention of our readers to a
statement by Sir James Clark, which will be found
in this day's paper, respecting the case of the late
Lady Flora Hastings. We hold it impossible for any
unprejudiced person to read this calm and candid docu-
ment, without coming to the conclusion that Sir James
has made out a most triumphant case, both for himself
and for the ladies whose names have been so much
mixed up with the unpleasant and unfortunate matter
to which it relates. It has been most pertinaciously
asserted. by certain persons, and by the journals in
their employ, that the rumours respecting the alleged
pregnancy of Lady Flora Hastings were the fruits of
a conspiracy in the Palace against her Ladyship. The
assertion was for a time believed ; but the correspondence
on the subject, recently published by the Marquis of
Hastings, has proved with clearness of demonstration,
its utter groundlessness. There is not an individual in
the country who now believes that there was aught of
unkindly feeling towards Lady Flora, far less of con-
spiracy against her, in the minds of any of those whose
names have been mentioned in connection with the recent
unhappy events. Even the very persons who still persist
in repeating the charge of conspiracy know it to be
utterly unfounded. Where, then, shall we find language
sufficiently strong to denounce, as it ought to be de-
nounced, the conduct of those who, to gratify private
enmities and to promote political purposes, can thus con-
tinue, day after day, to make assertions which are alto-
gether contrary to their own convictions. We need hardly
say—for the remark has occurred to every one's mind
who has ever thought on the subject—that had any
hostile feeling been entertained by the ladies of the
Palace towards Lady Flora Hastings, or any conspiracy
been entered into against her, those feelings would
have been manifested in a very different way, and that
conspiracy would have assumed a very different form ;
for the allegation of pregnancy, if it had been invented,
was sure to be disproved in a few months at farthest,
and consequently, while Lady Flora's triumph would
have been complete, the discomfiture and disgrace of
those inventing or circulating the calumny against her
would have been no less signal. In short, it is now uni-
versally known and believed, that the suspicion of preg-
nancy entertained for a time against Lady Flora was
the result of appearances of such a nature as to render
it, impossible for any one, in daily intercourse with
her, to resist the impression that she was enceinte.
It is now proved not only to have been a mistake, but a
mistake which, under the circumstances, was unavoid-
able at, the time. It will be seen from Sir James
Clark's statement, that so strongly did the symptoms of
Lady Flora's case resemble pregnancy, that even Sir
Charles Clarke, who stands at the head of the profession
in that class of diseases peculiar to married females,
could not, after he had seen and in one sense examined
Lady Flora, give a certificate to the effect that she was
not pregnant, until he had recourse to the extreme ex-
pedient known by the phrase " medical examination."
The suspicions of pregnancy in the case of Lady
Flora being thus not only natural but unavoidable, it
was a duty which the Ladies of the Palace owed to

(From the Times.)
The reader's attention will be well repaid by the pe-
rusal of a letter signed " Benbow," in this day's Times.
No man who is conversant with passing circumstances,
or alive to the spirit and temper which now possess the
officers of the British navy, with reference to recent
facts in which they arc all deeply interested, will be at
loss to conjecture the subject of a communication bear-
ing such a signature. We will venture to say that there
is one name, the name of an individual moreover, who
wears the uniform once distinguished as that of Horatio
Nelson, which within the last eight days has been pro-
nounced more frequently than that of Nelson, and has
suspended all outward demonstrations of the idolatrous
reverence due to his honoured memory. Does
the name thus dwelt upon belong to any Eng-
lishman who by glorious deeds of arms has eclipsed
the reputation of that mighty chief? Is it
by a rival of the hero of Trafalgar, or a worthy suc-
cessor of that immortal hero, that his admirers and
worshippers are confounded and struck dumb ? Is it
for the sake, or in the presence, of one by whose man-
date every British sailor has been reminded of his
duty, and by whose example he has been warmed to
_ .

the. discharge of it, that the whole navy of England
has within this week been electrified into an uncon-
sciousness that Nelson ever existed, or that the road to
distinction for a British officer is to conquer the enemies
of his country ? The person who has thus astonished
the maritime community of Great Britain, and drawn
universal notice upon himself, at the very moment of
his first emerging from the most profound obscurity, is
he who in the Navy List bears the designation of
" the Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleming, Admiral of
the Blue,"—and there it ends. We have looked in
vain for a single work of professional honour set against
the name of this same Admiral of the " Blue "
more appropriately Admiral of the " Yellow ;" not
a medal, nor an order of Knighthood, nor a state-
ment of service—not one. We have looked in vain for
any warlike document where any single achievement
was ascribed to him. The Hon. Charles Elphinstone
Fleming has been all his life a man unknown upon the
quarter-deck. He has been unknown everywhere but
on the hustings or in a mob assemblage, where he,
who never saw an enemy's fleet in his life, had the
modesty and the manhood to describe the formidable
fleet of Russia in the Baltic as a fleet of " paste-
board." Here, indeed, is one service—the only one
he ever yet performed—for which the Gallant Ad-
miral—and we are not base enough to insinuate that
lie may not be in substance as he is in sound—
a " gallant" Admiral,—we only affirm that he has
not had, or taken, an opportunity of showing it. The
" gallant" Admiral has in the instance which gave rise
to our present observations obtained the first profes-
sional distinction of his life, in his case a distinction
without honour, one which he has humbled himself
by filching from the veteran and respected hands to
which right and justice and public opinion had awarded
it—hands by which the prize would have been
ennobled, not tarnished, as it is, and must be, when
bestowed on those who have done nothing to deserve
it. Let the public just glance over the list of
veteran officers whom our correspondent " Benbow" has
presented to the nation as eligible and unquestioned
candidates for the Governorship of Greenwich Hospi-
tal—a list which might fairly be enlarged—and then
say whether the act of passing over such a race of
men in favour of so very common-place and, pro-
fessionally speaking, so insignificant a personage as
the " Hon." Charles Elphinstone Fleming, is anything
less than an insult and outrage to the marine of England.
Where there are among the competitors for this time-
honoured prize Moore, and Martin, and Trollope, and
Hotham, and Rowley, and Sidney Smith, and Stopford,
and Cockburne, Hargood, Durham, Bayntum, Codring,-
ton, Digby, Bullen, and all passed by, that Mr. Elphin-
stone Fleming may profit to their disparagement, can
anybody wonder at old " Benbow" for exclaiming " Now
this is too bad ?" if party services are to be rewarded,
let it be by some recompense within the legitimate means
and patrimony of party. To divert the pay of warriors
to the encouragement of partisans, is of all modes of
public robbery the vilest and most shameful. It is
pilfering the sanctuary of our glorious marine, and
sacrilege by hired menials within the walls of the
holy edifice. It is proclaiming to a midshipman on
his entrance on board ship, that the path to favour
and promotion is not that of active service, of con-
spicuous bravery, or of generous zeal and devotion ; but
that, however he shirks and skulks and lies by—how-
ever little he is noticed on the quarter deck, or seen by
the enemy, or pelted by the storm—if he only contrives
to canvass successfully at elections, to browbeat adver-
saries, or to bludgeon them, to cringe before patrons, to
puff the Admiralty, to misrepresent and malign all who
are not its creatures, to prove himself a zealous and
thorough-going tool of faction—if he can only execute
all this, no matter how much he neglects and abandons
his profession—though he has never had sufficient of
real fighting to teach him even the hoarse hiss of a
cannon-shot as it rushes—let him but gather votes, in con-
tempt of laurels, and be will be sure to win the race from
those who arc idiots enough to stake their professional for-
tunes on a barren self-sacrifice for the honour of King and
country. Was it the design of instituting such offices
as that of Governor to Greenwich Hospital, that it
should be filled by any but men who had shed honour
on the British navy, and distinguished themselves against
the public enemy, and set examples of glory to their
brother officers and seamen ? Was it ever meditated
by the founders of that noble charity that its advanta-
ges should be squandered upon men who bad not served,

their Sovereign, to the Court, and to the country—
aye, and to Lady Flora herself, too—to take the neces-
sary steps to have the question set at rest. If nothing
had been done in the matter, and the result had
turned out to be what was in the first instance believed,
not only by two or three, but by all the married ladies
in the Palace—if, in other words, the event had proved
that Lady Flora was pregnant, would not, we ask, a
loud outcry have been raised against the Ladies in wait-
ing and against her Majesty's physician, for not sooner
discovering and bringing to light a circumstance which
would have brought so much dishonour on the Court
of a virgin Queen ?

As regards Sir James Clarke himself, nothing could
be more triumphant than his vindication of his conduct
in this most unpleasant business. It will be seen
that he was no party to the origin of the
reports in the Palace respecting the alleged
pregnancy of Lady Flora. Not a word, not even
a whisper, escaped his lips on the subject until
the matter was brought formally before him by Lord
Melbourne, his Lordship's own attention having been
specially called to it by the Marchioness of Tavistock ;
and even then, it will be observed, Sir James Clark ex-
pressed no decided opinion on the point, but merely
admitted that the appearance of Lady Flora was cal-
culated to give rise to the impression that she was
privately married. So far from being actuated by
any unkindly feeling towards Lady Flora, or acting
precipitately, he suggested that no steps should at
that time be taken in the matter. The reluctance
which Sir James felt to do anything which could
cause :the slightest uneasiness to Lady Flora, and
his readiness, when evidence to that effect was
brought before him, to believe that she was not
pregnant, are more strikingly evinced in the fact of his
declining to make any medical examination himself, after
Sir Charles Clarke had done so, and stated that no
pregnancy existed. It was only at the urgent solicita-
tion of Sir Charles Clarke that Sir James was induced
to make an examination. His friendly feeling towards
Lady Flora was farther shown by his earnestly en-
treating her Ladyship, as soon as the examination was
over, to appear that day, as usual, at the Royal dinner-
table. The charges which have been made against
Sir James, of unnecessary indelicacy or abruptness in
his intercourse with Lady Flora, are disproved by the two
notes which she wrote to him soon after he had made
the unpleasant communication which it had been deter-
mined by others should be made to her, respecting the
impressions entertained by the Ladies of the Palace in
reference to her condition. It is utterly impossible,
had there been anything approaching to abruptness in
his conduct, that she could have written to him in the
courteous, and even friendly terms that she there does.
We could almost have wished that Sir James had not
taken any notice of the charge of coarseness or indeli-
cacy. If such a charge ever proeeeded from Lady
Flora's own pen, it could only have been at the insti-
gation of another party who had a purpose to serve by
it. Sir .Tames might safely have left his character, in
this respect, in the hands of the thousands of all classes,
who have been his patients, or who have had inter-
course with him. Every one who knows him, knows
that to be coarse or unfeeling is contrary to his very
nature. A more honourable minded man, whether
regarded in his professional capacity or private charac-
ter, does not exist. In one word, there remains not
the shadow of a charge against Sir James Clark in this
unfortunate affair, excepting this, that he was unable,
previous to an examination, to ascertain that Lady

or who had not rendered eminent service ? If it was,
then why not admit as pensioners to the hospital candi-
dates who brought no other testimonial but those given
them by election agents ? We know not why a Thames
waterman, ay, or a Thames mudlark, havinga vote, might
not be placed upon the house list of in-pensioners, to the
exclusion of deserving seamen, by the same rule by vir-
tue of which Mr. Fleming has been hoisted in as Go-
vernor, to the detriment of so many of his superiors,
and, above all, of the public service. It is gross and
barefaced corruption. It is an odious and disgracefu I
job. It is a fatal discouragement to all officer-like
zeal and enterprise. Admira Fleming, if he were a
man of the least feelimrb or delicacy, would reject the
plunder of the brave and great, and blush for the offer
made to him. It is ten times more execrable than the
Rice job, or the Shiel job, or the More O'Ferrall job
—More O'Ferrall, who is as fit to command an attack
upon Mehemet Ali's fleet as to discharge the func-
tions of Secretary to the Admiralty. This whole ca-
talogue of jobs is frightful, and they are the work of
men who disclaimed with indignation the crime of go-
verning by patronage. These jobs are the work of
men who are everlastingly getting up clamours against
the fair and disinterested government of the army, on
strictly military principles, from the time of the Duke
of York down to that of Lord Hill, and urging
the expediency of a transfer of power from
professional military hands to those of a responsible
Minister, like him who jobs and disgusts the navy.
We have never heard that military patronage was
confined to Tories. We have never heard that Caven-
dishes, Foxes, Molyneuxes, Greys, or Russells, were
postponed to the highest Tory families in the land—wit.
nets the rapid promotion of so many gentlemen apper.
taming to those favoured houses. Yet Admiral Flem-
ing:B usurpation is avowedly defended by the Ministerial
newspapers on the ground that "he is a Whig."
Shame! Shame ! will the navy of England stand it ?
ADMIRAL THE HON. CHARLES FLEMING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
S:r,—The most atrocious appointment of Admiral
Fleming to the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital fills
the thinking part of the navy with perfect disgust; for no
Admiral in the service ever saw so little fighting or did less
for his country than the lion. and Gallant Admiral Charles
Fleming. But he is indeed a fortunate youth. He has
had every good appointment in the service !or having done
nothing. He once saw a partial action, having commanded
the Es} ptian, 60-gun frigate, in Sir Robert Calder's af-
fair off Ferrol. Now, this is the whole of his fighting ser-
vice. He never had the honour of being gazetted for one
exploit during the two long wars.
If the Admirals of England had one spark of proper
feeling left they would go in a body end present a memorial
to her Majesty against this unjust appointment, made by
Lord Minto from merely political motives. But these are
the Reformers! the just, the equitable, the no. patronage
Government, with whom merit in all cases was to be the
sole recommendation to fill the public offices I But how
the Reform world, particularly the Ministry, are given to
lying, slandering, and deceit I

To conclude,l send you a list of officers who ought, in
common justice to have had Greenwich Hospital in pre-
ference to this busy partisan, viz. :
Admiral Sir H. %%lashed, G.C.B. A medal for Lord St.

Vincent's battle.
Admiral Sir G. Martin, G.C.B. Ditto for ditto.
Admiral Sir Graham Moore, G. C. B ,
G. C.M. G.
Admiral Sir H. Trollope, G.C.B Medal for Camperdown
Admiral Sir John Wells, G.C.B. Ditto.
Admiral Sir W. Hotham, K.C.B Ditto.
Admiral Sir J. Rowley, K.C.B ,
G. C. M. G.
Admiral Sir D. Gould, G.C.B. Medal for the 'Nile.
Admiral Sir W. S. Smith, G.C.B The man who first de-
feated Bonaparte and
his Invincibles at the
memorable seige of
Acre.
Admiral the Hon. Sir B. Stopford Medal for St. Domingo.
Admiral Sir G. Cockburn, G. C. 13 Services in America, &c.
Admiral Sir W. Hargood, G.C.B Trafalgar.
Admiral Durham, G. C. B. Ditto.
Admiral Bay ntun, G. C. 13.
Admiral Codrington, G.C.13....
Admiral Digby, K.C.B.
Admiral Bullen, K.C.B

Admiral the Hon. C. Fleming (got
Greenwich Hospital)
litics.

Now, this is too bad.
We have nothing to say against Fleming otherwise.
He is a friendly man and very courteous ; but when the
Reformers set themselves up as the perfection of justice,
it staggers one. Your moat obedient servant,
BENBOW.
It is a fact that Fleming's sole claim, and upon which
he founded his demand for the Governorship of Greenwich
Hospital, was his having, he says, " spent some money and
supported Ministers in returning Members in Scotland and
elsewhere."

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Tories are determined to ride without mercy
every society with which they are connected. All
occasions are seized upon for party politics. Even a
ploughing match or a cattle show cannot terminate
without harangues on the inestimable advantages of
carrying the principle of intolerance into full effect.
At the anniversary dinner of the North Essex Agri-
cultural Association, Mr. Round, the chairman, in
proposing " The Bishop and Clergy of the diocese,"
took occasion to allude to the alliance between
Church and State, which he contended was the set-
tled policy of this country ; and, among other obser-
vations, he declared that "as a matter of policy
alone it was inconvenient for the highest function-
aries of the State to be of more than one form of
religion. If they were to be of more than one, they
might profess one hundred different forms." The Chair-
man conceives that all who do not profess the opinions
of the Church of England arc entitled to these (pinions,
but to nothing more ; and that the treaty of union with
Scotland, the repeal of the Test and Corporation laws,
and the Catholic Emancipation Act, ought to be dead
letters in what regards eligibility to office. The Pres-
byterian in his Confession of Faith, considers Epis-
copacy a pestilent heresy ; but he has no objection to
live under the same Government with an Episcopa-
lian, and to fight in the same ranks with him for
their common country ; but he has an objection to be
treated as a hewer of wood and drawer of water, and
excluded from any of the functions of State. Lord
Melville and Mr. Pitt were opposed to each other
in creeds, but agreed in their views respecting the policy
to be pursued by the State ; and the Duke of Welling-
ton never found that the religious opinions of Lord
Aberdeen and Sir George Murray unfitted them for
the business of their respective offices. Mr. Round
would be more consistent were he to propose the repeal
of the Union with Scotland, and of the Test and Cor-
poration Acts, and the re-enactment of the penal laws THE
against the Catholics ; for if the State allow a diversity SURGEONS OF MIDDLYSEX HOSPITAL—At an inquest•
of religions, and religion be not made a ground of dis- held on Tuesday morning, at the Middlesex Hospit,A,
qualification for office, it will be found a somewhat diffi- Mr. Wakley asked Mr. Tomes, the house-surp,on,
cult task to prevent the professors of the different reli- whether he had entered the treatment deceased had re-
gions opinions from exercising an influence on the State ceived in a case-book ? Mr. 'Fotnes—" No. 1 was
in the ratio of their numbers and property. But the not authorized to do so by Mr. Tuson, the surgeon,
grand theme at this, as at all agricultural meetings, whose patient deceased was." Mr. Wakley—" Mr.
was the blessing we derive from the Corn-laws. Herbert Mayo has promised that I should have a case-
(From the Morning Post.) book, detailing the treatment of his patients, and if 1
The parasites of the Papist Administration, which cannot compel Mr. Tuson to do so likewise I shall sub-
is paid for ruling this country, are extremely angry scribe to this institution, and become a Governor of it ;
with us for what we have said upon the lately-pub- and if in that capacity I have not the power to enforce
fished " rules" of the Education Committee of the the keeping and production of case-books I shall try
w Privy Council. This we cannot help ; but we really what an Act of Parliament will do. For the future,
t wish that these irate Ministerialists had a little more though Ido not complain of house-surgeons, I shall not,
wit in their anger, so as to make it rather more in- in cases of the deaths of Mr..Tuson's patients, be satis-
I teresting to us and to the public. Why will they not tied with their (the house-surgeons') evidence, but shall
be so condescending as to explain, or try to explain, summon himself to attend and appear as a witness."
a rule made by the Committee, with an exception
The Coroner then made several remarks on the neces-
sity of having case-hooks, and how useful the entries in
which is an equi;-alent to the reversal of the rule ?
We want to know what they mean by saying that them would be to medical students. The students 'ln
the room did not seem to set great store by the Coro-
in every application for aid to the erection of a
ner's observations, for as soon as he began to clAirer an
schoolhouse in England and Wales, it must be stated
whether the school is in connection with the National opinion as to what he considered would tend to their
Society or British and Foreign School Society ; and, benefit they left the room.
if the said School be not in connection with either FALLOW DEER.-The spotted fallow deer were
of those societies, the Committee will not entertain the originally brought into this country from the Eastern
parts of the world ; two varieties
..,,re found in England,
case, except it be tha case of a school in England or
Wales which is not in connection with either of those the spotted and the deep brown, which seem to have
Societies. Surely there is some want of explanation formed a conjunction, as both the one and the other
here. And would it not be much better for the para- may be generally seen in the same herd, as well as indi-
sites (if they can) to show where the hidden sense lies vidual specimens which indicate the physiological union
in this apparent nonsense, than to boast in their furious ill question. The deep brown kind were introduced into
zeal that everything in this education matter has been this country from Norway, by James I. This m,oineadrctli:
done in order to exhibit defiance of the Tories? Cannot so celebrated for his aversion to tobacco anii;etlrinilirsol‘n,rnien.,toehrri,
her Majesty's Privy Council exhibit defiance of the derous treatment of Sir Walter Raleigh, had pro,,, red
Tories (if that be their principal object) without brown fallow deer from Norway
become
he swa
sceptre of this country ; her. had eccome awar;.• of their
publishing contradictory nonsense under the style
and title of " rules and regulations?" The para-
linfothretshtsis,
capability of enduring
ee
antshueemeniFeeordros
theot h
these
English
sites think it a fine thing to allege in pompous and therefore wdheernabil
w. for
deer,
phrase that in every step which Ministers brought a considerable
,ivided. themd amongstsetrein-ir„a\l,as
la e are rd ebted to James have taken in this matter of public education they have
of:ft:idol
award him the
country, an
acted in utter disregard and defiance of the Tory party. chases, • &c.
We take leave to suggest that it is not quite seemly to tureen offhlaiovrisne riamcinrgok,,eadndouwebrmeeady
merit
teod kind ogri inPated from beneath the almost scorch-
make such a question the ground upon which to fight a
jugßengal,were
ors of our frigid and frequently severe winters, and in
been one of political party, and they are well aware
rconsequencei the utmost attention of the keeper was re-
uisitc, durir, such periods, to prevent them falling vie-
them opposition to the Government plan, by many very
_tquns to a. climateb directly opposed to their constitutions.
earnest and serious persons who do not agree with
Tile,S,portsinan.
them in questions of party politics. The Tories have
treated the education question as one in which impor-
tant points of religious principle were at stake ; and It 1 vALs.--The .
Presbytery of Glasgow met
y y
man men who moved strenuously in the business against on Wednesda After the ustrAi business had been
the Government—the Archbishop of Canterbury for finished, a private meeting was held, at which certain
one—acted as they did because they felt themselves extravagancies and improprieties of language lately
bound in conscience so to do. used at revival meetings were discussed. Though no
(From the Morning Herald.) individual names were mentioned, it is understood that
A case decided yesterday at Marlborough•street has the Rev. Messrs. Burns and Sommerville were the ger,
brought into operation, another of the extraordinary tlemen alluded to. All the members who spr,ke,
provisions of the New Police Act. By one of the strongly condemned everything like eccentricity or ex-
sections of that enactment,police Magistrates are invested travagance on the part of those taking part iv the re-
with the power of deciding summarily on all claims, vivals, and expressed the great necessity that existed
(amounting to less than 151.) for work-done by trades- for the display of more than ordinary prudence. The
men, who hold in their possession the property on late hours to which meetings hay e recently extended
which their skill and labour have been expended, alation given,
were disapproved of, and a r.ecommer
Hitherto in such cases, tradesmen have exercised a that in future ...'id be delivered only every, sermons shoi
right of retention over the property. Now the police alternate evening, and f:,le other evenings devoted to
Magistrates are entitled to decide on the claim. We convo-satie,t; with sui:a persons as might choose to come
are little disposed to call in question the impartiality for,Nual.—G las' ozv Chronicle.
and
must be allowed of our police Magistrates; but we CAUSE
AND EFFECT.—NO One can have
to observe, that the ncr. Hower with flil, .observe of late years the increased splendourt,
which they have been clothed, iq 9' :er* ' arkable '
and 'p
palaces, and the result is
'ona:
character. The pow 4 4, to tact!' e4y
orerm -_
srletlr:eY melancholy facts that two wings
rtoo
.tof
gin
utterlyr, ekrsed to found in
the spirit nf the i;nglish Constifution, file t,onstitu- m ospltal, ar,d two
tion does not lately been added to Bethlehe H •
recogitise in iln,; highest judges of the land, others upon a larger scale to the Lunatic L'asVlutn, at
,
that peremptory power of deciding pecuniary disputes, I Hanwell.