The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-30 00:00:00

MEDICAL REFORM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
lately read in your valuable Paper a long ar-
ticle taken from the Quarterly on Medical Reform, which
is all very %Nell in its way, but it appears to me that one
main step in the reformation of the practice of this science
would be to compel physicians by law to write their pre-
scriptions in good English instead of bad Latin; to abolish
those cabalistic flourishes, and instead thereof to state the
quantities of their nostrums at length.
I grant you this would be a serious blow and great
discouragement to the profession, but why are our lives to
be endangered by an extra cross or pothook, or why aro
we to be dependent on the classical education of a chemist's
boy, who may frequently read aquafortis fur aqua fortis ?

The Rey. Sydney Smith is, we hear, about to
take the Corn-laws under his patronage, and is inditing a
pamphlet thereon.—Cheltenliain Examiner.
The Earl and Countest, of Winchilsea and the
members of that family have been placed in mourning by
the death of Mr. John Finch Hatton, son of the Hon.
Edward Finch Hav on, and uncle to the Earl of Win-
chilsea. The deceased gentleman was in his Stith year.
The Duke of Richmond has been elected Presi-
dent of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot-
land, and the Duke of 11,xburghe, Earl of Erroll, and
Earl of Harrington, Vice-Presidents. Viscount Ken-
mure, Lord Frederic Fitzclarerce, Sir floury Dalrymple,
Bart., arc among the new members enrolled.

LORDS' APPEALS —The Lord Chancellor be-
gins the hearing of appeals, before the House of Lords,
early this Session—namely, on Tuesday next. There arc
three appeals set down for that daynamely, " Sir W.
Elliott v Cleghorn," " C:awford v. Edward (pauper)
ex parte," and " Parr v. the Attorney. General."
METROPOLITAN AND RURAL POLICE.—On
Tuesday there were required to be prepared for the Par.
liament, on the motion of the Marqu;s of Salisbury, Ist, a
report of the number of police employed in the metropolitan
police on the 31st of December, 1840; 23, the distribu-
tion of the force in the different districts, specifying the
number in each district on the 31st of Deeembier, 1846;
and 3d, theAotal expense of the forces during the year
1840, distinguishing the amount paid by Government and
that paid by rates levied on the different parishes and dis•
tricts An address was ordered to be presented to her
Majesty to give directiJus for.hwith for the preparation of
such accounts.

NEW WORKS.—The following interesting new
works have just been published by Mr. Colburn, of Great
Marlborough-street, and may be had at all the book-
sellers' :-1. Mr. James's new work, " Letters Illustratisa
of the Court and Times of William III.," 3 vols. See,
—2. The Sportsman in France, comprising Rambles
through Picardy and Normandy, and Boar Shooting in
Lower Brittany, by Frederic Tolfrey, Esq.-i-V. vols. small
See. with twelve illustrations' 21s. bound.-3. The first
volume of the new and revised edition of Agnes Strick-
land's " Lives of the Queens. of England," with illustra-
tions, los. 6d. bound.-4.-'The late James Smith's Comic
Miscellanies, Memoirs,-and Letters, second edition, 2 vols.
post Bvo., with-reittrait, 21s. bound.-5. The third and
concluding volume, in See., of Lady Blessington's " Idler
in Italy."-6. The Hon. Mrs. Norton's New Poetical
Works, second edition, 1 vol., with fine portrait, 10s. 6d.
bound.-7. Major Napier's Scenes and Sports in Foreign
Lands, 2 vols. post Svo., with illustrations, 21s. bound.—
ti. The History of the Turf, from the Earliest Period, by
J. C. Whyte, Eq., 2 vols. Svo., with illustrations, 28s.
bound.-9. Trollope's Summer in Brittany, 2 vols. Bvo.,
with illustrations.—And, 10. Raumer's Italy and the
Italians, 2 vols post Bvo., 21s. bound.
STORM AT NAANPDL Eis,
which raged at Naples during the night of the 4th and the
following day caused a great many serious losses. Three
ships, two of them belonging to the Neapolitan navy,
perished in this port. They had just arrived from Cala-
bria, and were crushed by larger ships, which were driven
from their anchors: The crews were saved. The French
brig Les Enfans Cheris, from Marseilles, made an attempt
during the night to get into the harbour; but finding this
impossible, the Captain tried to come to en anchorage at
the entrance. He sans driven, however, on the rocks.
His signils of distress brought him succour, and all on
board were saver'. Every vessel in our port has suffered,
aed even the largest ships of war were in danger. The
storm was so violent that it was not possible to remain on
the Mole, over which the waves broke. From Cosonsa,
in Calabria, we learn that on the 27th ult.,
in the morning, there was a strong shock of earthquake
at half-past six
which lasted fifteen seconds. The winter has commenced,
and the summits of our mountains, including Vesuvius,
full verdure, and the
gardens
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lreebriden
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and other flowers.
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decidedly,iTl l Two
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WestP
because MiddlesexaßgSSe'
matters lnsurance
bad come
sufficiently infamous to stamp the word " swindler" upon
the " Company " ••
and we termed swindlers because their
persons. The agent here resigned the
frauds were Snown to us, and the disreputable sad ruinous
all partics concerned in similar nefarious
nature of their schemes had already involved many credu-
hioeunsoubruotf honest persons.
connected with the parties, and since
that time the " West Middlesex" has had no agent in
this town. We were unable to follow up our ex-
posure of the scoundrels, for every step we took is
order to put the public on their guard, was, according
to the statutes, a breach of that glorious piece of legisla-
ture termed thC " Law of Libel." We were, at the
time, threatened with an action of libel by the solicitor of
the Company, which action, if the directors of the base and
foul conspiracy against the public, called the " West Mid-
dlesex Insurance Office," had thought proper to proceed
with, we must unavailingly have fought against to our oww
cost, for the " greater the truth the greater the libel,"
and however satisfactorily we might have convicted the
Company of fraud, we could not have escaped the perils
of such a prosecution. And thus, wherever bodies of
daring swindlers make their appearance, however conclu.
sive the evidence of fraud against them, the Press can
only stand between the public and imposition upon its own
for while the public are benefited by the
discovery,repon
ib ii
i tti.:e discoverers are the victims, and they who
should be protected in the discharge of tilt it useful duties,
are either imprisoned or punished by monetary penalties
for their thankless trouble. Such is the law of libel I
Boltsn Chronicle.
We are informed, on authority, that several false
tickets of invitation to a grand ball, to Le given at the
Tuileiies on Wednesday last, were fabricated for the
purpose of passing into the King's presence evil-disposed
persons, by whoa it is possible that his life would have
boen attempt d that evening. 'lle police, informed of
the fact in time, were taking measures to prevent the in-
trusion of improper characters to the ball. -.. Morning
Herald.

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