The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

'NO 141 SUN, LONDOM. ntinAY. itiNUARY 8. 1811.

LIT 1-s Ti; RE.

THE NEW ANNUAL ARMY LIST
.for 1841.
BY H. G. HART, Lieuttnan± 49th Regiment.
London, Murray.
On the publication of the " New Army List'
last summer, we had occasion to advert to it ii
terms of high praise, and the edition for this yea,
fully bears out the opinion we formed of it. To
those who are unacquainted with its contents,
brief outline of the plan, with one or two speci-
mens of its details, will suffice to point out the na-
ture and value of the work. It commences with
list of the Field-Marshals, of whom there are nog•
five ; namely, the Duke of Wellington, the King
of Hanover, Duke of Cambridge, the King of tin
Belgians, and Prince Albert. Then follows a list
of the Generals, with their military pedigree. ai
the head of which is the veteran Earl Cathcart
(aged 86), who was appointed Cornet June 2
1777 (64 years ago) ; Lieutenant, November 14
same year ; Captain, December 10, same year ;
Major, April 13, 1779 ; Lieutenant-Colonel.
February 2, 1781 ; Colonel, November 18, 1790 ;
Major-General, October 3, 1794 ; Lieutenant-
General, January 1, 1804 ; General, January 1.
1812 ; Colonel of the 2d Lifc Guards, Governor
of Hull, &c. This plan is followed throughout the
whole line, down to the Ensign ; and appended in a
note to each name illustrious for skill or bravery are
details of the battles and seiges at which the officer
was present, the wounds he received, and the clasps
and medals conferred on him by authority. On
running over the list, one is surprised to find such
a number still alive who had served in Holland and
Egypt, who had undergone all the fatigues and
dangers of the Peninsular campaigns, and passed
through the fiery ordeals of Quatre Bias and Water-
loo ; some with the loss of a leg and arm, others
with ten or fifteen wounds, and not.a few disabled
for life. In addition to these the " New List"
contains the names of those who for their services
have received British or foreign military orders,
with many other particulars interesting to persons
connected with both army and navy. The work
cannot fail to be dilly appreciated at every mess-
table and every club-room. We subjoin three speci-
mens of the details—giving a brief military his-
tory of the present Master-General of the Ord-
nance, of a Colonel who has done no small honour
to the army by his deeds and his writings, and of a
Lieutenant who has distinguished himself on many
occasions in foreign as well as British service.
Right Hon. Sir Richard Husse) Vivian, Bart., C.C. B.
and G. C. H., Ensign 31st July, 1793 ; Lieutenant 20th
October, 1793 ; Captain 7th May, 1794 ; Major 9th
March, 1803 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 28th September, 1804 ;
Colonel 20th February, 1812; Major-General 4th June,
1814 ; Lieutenant-General 22d July, 1830 ; Colonel of
Ist Dragoons 20th January, 1837. Sir Hussey Vivian
served in Flanders and Holland, under the Duke of York,
from June, 1794, until the return of the British army in
1795. Present in the sortie from Nimeguen, and was left
with a picquet of the 28th Regiment, in conjunction with
other picquets, to hold it after the retreat of the army.
Present in the affair at Geldermalsen, in which his regi-
ment (the 28th) suffered severely, and in other skir-
mishes. Also present in all the different battles which
took place during the expedition to the Heldei, excepting
on the landing. Commanded the 7th Hussars in •he
campaign under Sir John Moore, in 1808 and 1809.
Commanded a brigade of cavalry in the Peninsula, from
September, 1813, until the return of the army ; incliding
the battles of Orthes, Nive, and Toulouse. Severely
wounded in carrying the bridge of Croix d'Orade, near
Toulouse. Served at tho battle of Waterloo. Sir ►lussey
has received a medal and one clasp for Saliagun and Bale-
vente, and Orthes.

William F P. Napier, C. 8., Ensign, June 14, 1800 ;
Lieutenant, April 18, 1801 ; Captain, June 2, 1804;
Major, May 13, 1811 ; Lieutenant-Colonel. Nov. 22,
1813 ; Colonel, July 22, 1830. Colonel William N. -
pier served at the siege of Copenhagen and battle of Kioge
in 1807; Sir John Moore's campaign of 180$-9; the sub-
sequent Peninsular campaigns from 1809 to the end of the
war in 1814, and was present in many of the sou!-stirring
scenes which he has described with s ; much ability in his
admirable .‘ History of the Peninsular War," including
the combat of the Coa (wounded ), battle of Busaco, com-
bats of Pombal, Redinha, Casal Nova (severely wounded
at the head of six companies supporting the 52d R Ti-
ment), Foz d'Aronce, battle of Salamanca, passage of the
Huebra, combat of Vera, when Soult attempted to re-
lieve San Sebastian, and again when the allies passed the
l3idassoa, battles of the Nivelle, Nive (wounded defending
the churchyard of Arcangues), and Orthes. Medal and
two clasps for Salamanca, Nivelle, and Nive, at which
battles he commanded the 43d Light Infantry, as also in
many minor combats. Served also in the campaign of
1815.

Shaw, Sir Charles, Cornet, Jan. 21, 1813 ; Lieutenant,
Dec. 9, 1813 ; placed on half-pay, Dec. 25, 1818. Sir
Charles Shaw served the campaigns of 1814 and 1815 in
Holland, Flanders, and France, including the reconnoi-
sance of Bergen-op- Zoom, attack on Merxhem, attempt
to burn the French fleet at Antwerp, and battle of Wa-
terloo. In 1831, joined the army of the Queen of Por-
tugal, and served throughout the civil war in that
country, including all the general actions, sor-
ties, and skirmishes during the defence of Oporto,
affair of Torres Vedras, and battle of Almoster :
in the above service he was seven times wounded. In
1335 he was appointed a Brigadier-General in the British
Auxiliary Legion in Spain, and till Aug. 1836. he took a
leading part in all the contests in which the Legion was
engaged, including the successful assault on the Carlist
lines before San Sebastian (severely wounded), and for
which a medal was given.

THE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIREC-
TORY, 1841.
London, IV. Kelly and Co.

We noticed some proof sheets of this work a

few weeks since, with new improvements. It is
now published complete, and comprises, among
other information—a Street Directory, a Commer-
cial Directory, a Directory for Trades, Law, the
Court (including the nobility, gentry, and others
not engaged in trade, law, or commerce), for Mem-
bers of Parliament, the City, including the Public
Functionaries, Common Councilmen, &c. ; and
gives, as might be expected, the most ample infor-
mation relative to the Post-office. To this depart-
ment are allotted forty-four pages, containing all
late regulations, the postaffe of foreign letters to
every principal place in the world, the arrival and
departure of the mails for every town in Great Bri-
tain, and the number of deliveries daily in the
London and suburban districts. There arc sepa-
rate departments for railway trains, for conveyance
by coaches, waggons, barges, and boats, all ar-
ranged on a simple plan, and easy of reference.
" It cannot be necessary to state in detail," says
the Compiler, " all the improvements effected in
the present edition. Every division of the book,
and every page, contains much that cannot be
found in any other book for the year 1841. The
very late information now published, has 1)f:co
obtained by means of the peculiar resources placed
at the disposal of the proprietor by the Postmaster-
General. Thousands of instances could be adduced
in which the information is published a year earlier
than in any other annual work." We have looked
over this Directory with some care, and, as far as we
can judge, it appears to be the most copious and
correct work of the kind hitherto published. In a
book comprehending so many thousand details, and
extending to 1,448 pages of royal octavo, in small

print, there cannot.faii to be both errors and omis-
sions, but we have observed very few. In some of
the streets in the outskirts of the metropolis an im-
provement might be made. For instance, in Clare-
mont-row, Pentonville, only two numbers are given,
while there arc probably sixteen or seventeen
houses. Altogether, however, we can safely re-
commend it as a Directory especially adapted for all
classes in country as well as town.

THE BIJOU ALMANACK.
Schloss, London, 1840.
With the aid of an excellent microscope we have
been able to master the contents of this curious al-
inanack, which ought to have been printed and
published in Lilliput, or if not there, at least in
fairy -land, where it would have been in high favour
with Oberon and Titania. Seriously speaking, we
never saw a more perfectly unique production than
this literary bijou. It is almost half the dimen-
sions of a good-sized oyster, and seems to us to
grow less and less every year, so that in a year or
two, if it keep diminishing at its present ratio, we
may expect to see it, like a phantom, vanish altoge-
ther into thin air I Not the least singular thing
about it is the correctness of its portraits. That of
Sheridan Knowles is perfect, though his phiz is
actually no bigger than the head of a brass nail !
Hundreds of young people will, of course, buy this
Almanack, in order that they may hare it to say
that they are in possession of the most original
work of this, or any age; but we would advise old
people also to buy it, for its literary contents will
be a pleasing Christmas puzzle to them, even with
their spectacles on.

In Kensington Gardens, on Thursday, about
noon, a proof of the extreme severity of the weather was
given in the following incident : For some time a magpie
was hovering about a spot on which a starling was picking
up a few crumbs that had been thrown it by a spectator,
when suddenly the magpie flew down, a•ki luttck, and
seizing the starling in its feet, rose up with it into the air.
Before, however, it had flown above thirty yards, the mag-
pie let its prisoner go and the starling fell to the grcuud.
It was alive, but considerably injured by the magpie, which
is a bird that does not become caruivotous while other food
is to be obtained.

MED I L ICIFORM.

The interest taken in-this subject generally,
well as by the medical profession, induces us to malt
an abstract of the article on " Medical Reform," i:
!Le Quarterly Review, to which we have alread:
referred. The author begins by noticing the Com-
.nittce of 1834, the evidence collected by whirl
Has so voluminous as to defy analysis, and proven
report. Four hundred out of the eight hundred
~ages of evidence, were taken up with the dispute:
uetween the Fellows and Licentiates of the Collegi
if Physicians, in which the public feel no interest.
rhe first question discussed by the Reviewer is—
But here a preliminary question presents itself. An
ve to admit it as a general principle, that it is wise one
•xpcdient for the State to interfere in any way with th,
regulation of the medical profession ? There is no suel,
interference with the majority of other professions. N.
course of study is prescribed as a necessary qualificatio
'or civil engineers, architects, surveyors, sculptors, of
painters ; nor are there any colleges whose business i
.. to examine those who have completed their studio
is to their knowledge and attainments, and give then
licenses to practise :—Yet there is no want of talent
a formation, and skill among those who are engaged it
these pursuits. Even in the Inns of Court, the beity
called to the bar proves little as to the qualification o,
the candidate, except that there is nothing disreputabli
in his general character. It may be further observed—
ted it will not be denied by those who are acquainted
with these matters—that no degree of discipline, nor
Any kind of examination, can ensure the public against
having a certain number of persons who are very indif-
ferently qualified included in the list of well-qualified
practitioners. . Young men may be compelled to bare
eppottunifies of study, but they cannot be compelled to
learn ; and it is notorious that of those who hart
wasted their time for two years and nine months there
are many who contrive, by means of labour and a gooe
memory, to learn their lessons so well by rote in the re-
maining three months, that the most careful and expe•
rienced examiner will find it no easy matter to detect
their. insufficiency. It is, indeed, impossible, under the
very best system of examination, to prevent a certair,
qu intity of base metal receiving the stamp which ought
to be impressed only on the good ; and it to this we ads'
the following consideration, that such an examination
as all are required to pass neither can, nor ought, to
prove more than that the individual examined has the
f v;nitnum of knowledge which a practitioner should
possess, we cannot well be astonished that there should
be reasonable persons who doubt the advantage of ex-
aminations altogether ; and who regard the various me-
dical corporations as being nearly in the same situation
with the City Companies, which, however useful they
may have been in nursing the infancy of British cum-
merce, contribute little or nothing to its advancement
at the present period.
Admitting, as we do, the force of these arguments,
still they are not convincing to us. Would our naval
officers be such as they now are, if midshipmen were ad-
mitted as lieutenants without examination ? or would
our artillery and engineer officers have the high cha-
racter which they now possess, if, as cadets, they had
not been made to go through a certain course of study,
and prove their fitness afterwards ? As to the attain-
[Dents of those engaged in most other professions, the '
public have the means of forming a tolerably correct
estimate. Every one can see what goes on in the con-
struction of a church or a railroad, and those who do
not understand the subject themselves may be assisted
by the opinion of those who do ; but in what regards
the medical profession the case is wholly different.
There is no subject of which the public, on the whole,
know so little as they do of the medical sciences. Al-
though in the end they seldom hid to distinguish know-
ledge from ignorance, and real talent from mere preten-
sion, they are always liable to be deceived in the first
instance. It is true that the physicians and surgeons
of a large hospital, having a school attached to it, prac-
tice their art openly enough, and are sufficiently sawn-
able to criticism ; but it is also true that, in private
practice, the practitioner is not before the sante tribunal.
What he prescribes is often known only to himself.
Those who employ him have no direct means of judging.
of his qualifications ; and it is not until after the lapse
of a considerable time that even those belonging to the
same profession arc enabled to form an exact opinion as
to what he is really worth. 'fhen, although, when a
certain course of study has been prescribed, it may not
be always diligently pursued—it will be so in a great
number of instances ; and it is of no small importance
to the student himself that his friends should be corn-
pelled to afford him the proper opportunities for ac- '
quiring a knowledge of the profession which it is de-
signed that he should practice. Lastly, although no
examination can be regarded as furnishing an exact mea-
sure of the fitness of a candidate to enter on the du-
ties of a practitioner,' yet it is a measure of it to a cer-
tain extent ; and there is no doubt that the prospect
of the examination which is to close his career as a
student is, in a great many instances, the principal sti-
mulus by which a young man is urged to be diligent.
And here another question arises. Should those who
have passed their examination, and received their li-
cense, have a monopoly of practice ? Should there be
penal laws to prevent their being interfered with by the
competition of the ignorant, the uneducated, and unli-
censed ? or is it sufficient that the public are supplied
with a list of those who are supposed to be qualified
practitioners, it being then left to individuals to procure
medical assistance where they please ? To us it seems
not in the least doubtful that the latter is the proper
course to be pursued. It is right that no individual ,
should be allowed to he inoculated for the small-pox,
because he,n may com
himselfmunica theotelon e,
wesee no
disease t o others ;
hut in whatconcerns
justice in
the interference of the State. It may be foolish to be
rubbed with St. John Long's balsam, or to trust to the
prayers of Prince Hohenluhe, hut mankind do many
things more foolish than these, and nothing can rrevent
them. There can be no greater mistake than to sup-
pose that, if there be no penal laws to prevent the ex-
istence of unlicensed practitioners, there will not be suf-
ficient inducement to those who enter the medical pro-
fession to go through a long course of study, and then
to subject themselves to an examination. The empire
of opinion here, as in most other instances, will do more
than legislative enactments ; and this is no speculative
doctrine, but the result of actual experience.
The College of Physicians possess, under their char-
ter, confirmed by Acts of Parliament, a monopoly of
medical practice in the metropolis, and within the dis-
tance of seven miles from it ; and they in many instances
instituted legal proceedings against the unlicensed phy-
sicians by whom those privileges had been invaded ;
but, finding that no good arose from these prosecutions,
either to themselves or others, and that they were in
fact altogether ineffectual, they have for many years
abandoned them. The London Society of Apotheca-
ries possess a similar monopoly, under the Act of Par-
liament of 1815, hut on a still larger scale, as it extends
to the whole of England. They also have frequently
resorted to courts of justice in defence of their privi
le/es, but with so little success that it is notorious that
many apothecaries are practising without their license,
either in open defiance of the law, or (which is no diffi-
cult matter) contriving to evade it. On the ether hand
the London College of Surgeons have no monopoly, no
privileges, no power to prosecute. Any one may esta-
blish himself as a surgeon, even next door to the Ca!-
lege, and no one can molest him. But the College is
of Royal foundation, and the diploma which it grants
has affixed to it the signatures of many of the leading
surgeons of London : and so necessary has it become
to any one who makes the least pretension to practise
surgery, that there are few, either in England or in the
colonies (with the exception of those who have a similar
diploma from the Colleges of Dublin or Edinburgh),
who venture to call themselves surgeons without it. _

We are aware that the foregoing observations wil)
not be very acceptable to many of the medical proke•-
sion. It is natural that the managing bodies of
the several corporations should be anxious to maintain
arid extend their powers and privileges; and it is also
natural that I;censed practitioners, who have expended
considerable sums of money, and no small portion of
their lives, in their education, should be jealous of the
competition of others. Accordingly we find, among
the resolutions and petitions of the lately formed me-
dical associations, no subject connected with schemes of
medical reform put so prominently forward as the sup-
pression of quackery. I.etthem, however, he assured
that this is what no legislation can accomplish. It is
no more possible to put down quackery in medicine than
it is to put down quackery in politics or religion. Tho
medical profession, while human nAture continues to be
meetsuc
tle demands h asiitisannod;' and always has been, can never
which arc made upon it. That men
are born to die ; that the power of giving relief is li-
mited ; that many diseases must prove fatal in defiance
of all remedies ; that other diseases, though not of a
fatal tendency, may be incurable—no one will doubt the
truth of these as general propositions : but the indi-
vidual who labours under the infliction of disease will
always indulge himself in the hope that he is at any
rate safe on the present occasion, and that the time is
not yet come when he cans derive no benefit from art.
" It is very extraordina.ry,.said a gentlemen who had
ap-
proached his (ty
nlittlie ofi
gob, e.;eanthgrinii t
iit ieisr
birthday,
age until he had
d ay,.
" that no one can
do
my complaints,': Where the re-
sources of a cure fo
ofskill and r science fail, the instinct of self-pre-
servation will lead many sufferers to look for other aid;
and the honest and well-educated practitioner will al-
ways have to contend not only with the St. John Longs
of the day, but withthoseatnoag his own brethren who
do not partake of his anxiety to avoid making promises
which cannot iie (failed. There are in fact no more
of-
fensive impostors than those :.0,9 march under the ban-
. however, be misunder-
stood Ra n
of the
inoo
truef faith,
the petitioners we supi?Qsie that even theoners against quackery w0,;14;
m not expect that such as these can be extinguished by an
Act of Parliar,irPP! Vet us not, however,ver,
stood as recOalPen.dr`PS, !1.4t pp distinction should be
made between
those Nrn,o Pie FfiPPAIY P44P4tPd and
licensed, and others. Bach individual' ip Aocietii bl 4,
with respect to his own coriopliotS: t, rig ip con Spit
whom ho pleases ; but it is quite different where he i$

provide medical attendance for his fellow-erea-
u'm The rrovf•rnors parish orion, or a
of county magistrates, should be bound to make
their selection from those who are prcprly authorised
to practise. They have no right to collide the care of
'be parochial poor, or the inmates of gaols and lunatic,
,v.ylunms, to any other persons. The same rule applie,
to merchant-ships, to schools, to the army and navy, and
,!very other department of the public service.
The Reviewer is so well satisfied with the exist-

ug separation of the profession into physicians,
,urgeons, and general practitioners, that had it
'ieen artificial, it seems, he says, so exactly what is
wanted, that he should be unwilling to disturb it.
We now come, following him, to consider—
The wisdom and propriety of the plans which are at
the present time adopted for the regulation of this part
'I the medical profession.
The Act of Parliament of 151.5 requires that all
those who mean to practice as apothecaries in England
and Wales should he examined by, and receive a license
from, certain persons appointed to be examiners by the
London Society of Apothecaries : and the force of public
pinion brings nearly the whole of these to be examined
dso by the examiners of the College of Surgeons. Thus
the great ni:jority of the general practitioners, in this
part of the British Empire, have pursued their studies
ender the direction of the governing bodies of two se-
parate institutions ; the one prescribing a system of
fducreion with respect to pharmacy and medicine, and
the other with respect to anatomy and surgery. These
two systemr, of course, agree iu many points, while they
differ in others.

We conclude that there are no individuals belonging
to either of these governing bodies who will hesitate to
idmit the following propositions as the basis on which
all their regulations should be founded : first, that they
are bound to consider the trust reposed in them as held
or the good of the community at large, and not for the
benefit of the particular corporation to which they be-
'ong ; secondly, that it is their duty to require of the
candidates for their diploma or license the highest qua-
iiLations which they may be expected to possess, at the
same time taking care that they do not raise the stan-
iard so high as to prevent a sufficient number of per-
q)ris entering the profession to meet the wants of the
public and ensure a wholesome competition ; third:y,
that as to the extent of the qualifications which ought
to be required, no general rule can be laid down ; but
that they must vary from time to time according to the
state of society generally, or as the means of obtaining
I good education are easy or difficult. Roderick Ran-
dom became a surgeon's mate in the navy with no other
stock of knowledge than that which he had obtained
from the surgeon-apothecary to whom he had been ap-
prenticed ; and we conclude that many private practi-
tioners muFt have been in the same situation when
Smollett wrote ; as schools of anatomy and medicine
were then only just established in Edinburgh and Lon-
don, and these, in London especially, were of a very
imperfect kind. At present, however, the case is widely
different. There are schools, not only in each metro-
polis, but in many of the great provincial towns, and the
.;renter wealth diffused throughout society, places the
means of acquiring an education within the reach of a
greater number of persons than possessed them formerly.
The College of Surgeons and the Society of Apothe-
caries have respectively taken advantage of these cir-
cutnstances, and have gradually increased the amount
of studies required of those who come before them.
No one can now receive a license of any kind to prac-
tise who has not been engaged at least for three years in
the pursuit of his profession in a regularly organised me-
dical school, not more than three months being allowed
for a vacation in each of these years. Many young men,
indeed, remain in the schools for a still longer period ;
but we doubt whether it would be safe to make a more
prolonged education a matter of necessity : and, in fact,
a diligent student may obtain a great deal of informa-
tion, and may qualify hints:lf for becoming an excellent
practitioner on all ordinary occasions, during the term
which is now prescribed.

But although no alteration in the system of education
may be wanted in this respect, it appears to us that
much alteration is wanted otherwise. By the Act of
1815 it is made necessary that every candidate for a
license to practice as an apothecary should have been
apprenticed to an apothecary, who had also been licensed,
during a period of at least five years ; and the regula-
tions of the Society of Apothooaries have from the
beginning admitted the candidates for examination at
the age of twenty-one years. The College of Surgeons
fOrmerly did not allow candidates to appear before them
until they had completed their twenty-second year, but
of late (fur what reason it is difficult to be understood)
they have taken off one ycar, and they now admit them
at the same age as the apothecaries.

Now we hold that the minds of very few young men
can be sufficiently matured at the age of twenty-one
years to fit them for such serious and responsible duties
as those of a medical practitioner ; and we further see
another great evil as the result of this regulation, that
it induces parents, in their anxiety to get their children
off their hands as soon as possible, to send them to begin
their professional studies while they are yet boys, and
often without the advantage of even a moderate degree
of education previously. We have conversed with
many persons who have been engaged in the education
of young men, not only for the medical profession, but
for others also, and have always been informed that
these whose minds have been prepared by a good preli-
minary education have on the whole been found to be
much more diligent, and to have gained knowledge much
more easily, than others. Our own experience, which
has been sufficiently extensive, would lead us to the
Barrie conclusion ; and we suppose that no one will ven-
ture to deny that there are moral as well as intellectual
advantages belonging to a well-trained mind which arc
nowhere more likely to be conspicuous than in the va-
rious departments of the medical profession.
As matters new stand we find the subject of general
or preliminary education altogether unnoticed in the re-
gulations both of the College of Surgeons and of the
Society of Apothecaries, except, indeed, that the latter
require that the candidates should construe some scraps
of Latin. If education be a thing of so much import-
ance, ought such an omission to exist ? and ought not
proofs of a good general education to form a part of the
documents which the candidates are expected to pro-
duce as entitling them to examination ?
With all our prepossessions on the subject we doubt
the policy of any regulation of this kind ; and we would
willingly avoid the fault of recommending that over-
legislation which so frequently defeats itself.
Let us look at the question as we will, we perceive
insurmountable difficulties in the way of any other sys-
tem than that of offering a negative encouragement to
young men to obtain a good general education, by the
removal of every inducement to begin their professional
studies before they are eighteen or nineteen years of age.
But further, we believe that this would be found to he
generally sufficient. A father will not incur the ex-
pense of entering his son at a medical school sooner
than is really necessary ; and, for his own sake, if not
for his son's he will be disposed to keep him employed
in some kind of study, rather than he should dissipate his
time in idleness. Besides, satisfied as we are of the vast
advantages which the many are likely to derive from a
good preliminary education, we are aware that intellects
of a higher order may overleap the barrier which the
want of it places in their way, and we should be sorry
to witness the adoption of any measures the effect of
which would be to prevent these master-spirits from en-
tering the medical profession. The inns of Court have
acted wisely in this respect. The tendency of their re-
gulations is to encourage those who propose to be called
to the bar to be liberally educated. They do not insist
on it, and, if they had done so, the legal profession
would have b_een deprived of some its brightest orna-
ments.

After advocating very judiciously the propriety of
the selecting a later period of life than twenty-one
lor admitting young men to practise, the Reviewer
has these correct and careful remarks on