The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

the Vioe-President, on nondition that the donor's name
should be concealed .—((sheers.) He would now turn to
,
the other side of the picture, which unhappily repre-
sented a very serious loss the institution had recently ..
suffered. He alluded to the death of his most invaluable
friend, the late Mr. Liston, to whose merits such eloquent
and ample testimony had been borne in the very able; .
report read by Dr. Grant.—(Hear.) Mr. Liston's merits
11 were only half known to the world-lie was onfeeri!iitze-77--
sidered generaby as the first surgeon of the age ; but his
~, • ':
othermerits should be considered--his unbounded charity
to the poor, as well as his general skill and profound
knowledge of every branch of pathological and medical
..
science connected with surgery—a knowledge not sue- : e
passed by any surgeon of the age ; to comprehend all
his merits, be should be also known as a man ot liberal
feelings on questions of civil and religious libei ,
and what was :more, he should be known asea stria , upright and honest man.--(Cheers.) That college.ii, ie.
hospital, society, the comniunity at large, had reason to .. ,
deplore the loss of one of the greatest men that ever'
professed the - healing art—who knew. sehets-49-...--,
operate, and who never had recourse to the knife notil
every other means consistent with safety had been tried and faded.—(Cheers.) Thu institution had received .
ano her loss, happily net by death, but by resignation—
lie meant that of the most: able and accemplished profes-
-or ot surgery, Mr. Cooper.—(l.leur.) He hoped thst •
eircurestances surrouridnist that resignation would be
inquired into fully, as Mr. Quoin wished. As the
report showed the flourishing state of that great
medical school—the greatest, lie thought in the world
—he could not help pointing out one item to which ‘•
Dr. Grant had alluded, viz., to the new entrances,
which had, since last they met; exceeded by 25 per
cent, those of former years.—(Cheers.) - fie would now
say u few words about .the conduct of the students •
on a certain day, for he could not. leave them without- . • -
expressing his sentiments of the great good resulting ,
from their conduct.—(Hear, hear.) 'Oil a certaindayee: -.--
about three weeks ago, or more, a threat was held out ,•
by some misguided people—(Hear, and -laughter).-4e--
presented to be much more numerous than they Were,
by people fit to be treated as patients—(Laughter}—e,
and some thought this threat would be carried into exes
cution, and that it would put in jeopardy the quiet4and- '-
peace of the metropolis; that it would do even still more . .
—that it was fraught with dangpf, to which he might • .
refer by and by;—great preparations for 'mischief were
made by these misguided persons, and great prepare.-
tions were made to prevent it by the Government, for •
which it deserved thanks—those preparations extending, ' ,
and being supported by the inhabitants, in the cities: of
London and Westminster, and into Southwark: Thou-
sands and tens of thousands of the citizens of London,
from the highest to the lowest—the whole of the
coalwhippers—resolved to maintain what it was-their -
interest to maintain, viz., the rights of property, the
lives of their fellow-subjects, and the peace of the metro-
polis. It gave him the greatest satisfaction to see that
amongst those sworn in as special constables to keep the
peace on the day alluded to there was a very large body
of the students of that college.—(Hear, hear, and
laughter.) If anything gratified him more than.anotheri ..
it was the way the threat had been met (it was but a
threat), rat), that it should have been met without the 'aid of
the military, who were perfectly ready to act, and who
would have acted, it ordered, so effectually as to render
to call
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that be eli done
firm conduct of the community at large, and, above all, .
by the assistance of young men who were destined to be
the strength and ornament of the country.--(Hear,
hear, and laughter.) They had borne their part in de-
fence of the institutions and peace of the country. He •
did not like making invidious comparisons, but on look-
ing across the Channel to another country, and on look-
ing to this, how different was the course taken by the
ae oswe of
iu Europe"tNhoo:
./I>ttng men here from that taken by the students there! •
There their conduct was characterised by acts which
jeopardyF
wag r France—(Loud nce—
anything(t
hLeo uphde
eaccresi
had subverted the peaceful and free Government of
eat 1 nud thew
deplorablewhioe world.
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st in
It
with
ei in
e
more sorrow and disgust than•
another, it was to behold
grown up persons putting arms •h
;Into the hands—but not
risking their own persons— t
upset the Government. (11)elt• e Parisian
students
to
would now say little more. He 2d On this subject he
his fellow inhabitants of Franee—laie sot
concealed
front
opinion as plainly as words could had given them his
and of the state of things there. lifetitka—of their acts
t opinion were
not palatable he cared not; but still he
should not prove palatable. He trusted,wl7oeweeuvrreY, if
it
when they reflected their good sense would lead
them to
appreciate its justice. If finally it were not palatable,
he hoped they would look upon it in the light of medi-
cine, not pleasant to the taste, but still very good for
the patient.—(Elear, and -laughter.) He would now
return to the 10th ult. Many great and influential
persons were grateful for the good conduct of the work-.
ing portion of the community on that day, and they
thought a testimonial ought to be established to show
this feeling, and the testimonial should be a subscrip-
tion to found a nets hospital, and that there should be
annual subscriptions to keep the hospital agoing. He
felt deeply gratified to the people of London for their
conduct on the day in question, though be believed
nothing worse could have occurred than the shedding of
the blood of the misguided people he had already spoken
of. He differed from those who projected the memorial
on two points. Anything like absolute danger on the
day in question he would deny in the strongest words—
he would dent' that. there was danger for one instant of
tune, either liefore the linh. on it, or after it—that
1 there was the slightest, shadow of ti shads of danger
to the Goverzine-td, the institutions.
„et...lmm o..,the
revolt or a. ieptihlie. A republic might be a
very good thing, but he would leave it to othera
—revolt ruigh: be a very good thing for those who had
rothing to I.:: e, but ec t rything to gain in the scramble.
The republican was a very good form of government for
i those who liked republics. but the people of England
w.,re not repubjcai.s.—(Cheers.) St. Peter was very
aril at Rome, as Sancho liana., in Don Qui.rde said ;
but it the person who now represented St. Peter there
did not take care, he would not be long at Rome, infal-
lible though he ea', said to be. lie hoped that person
would prove infiable. But, at any rate, whatever they
might do abroad, republics wouldn't do either in England
Scotland, or Ireland. He was the more anxious that
such an opinion should go abroad, for some persons
spoke as it there was danger of a republic in England.
lie would tell them what was in danger—those mis•
1 gui-led people themselves. The only thing that could
happen would be their punishment, which he should be
sorry to see, particularly as they were being treated
as patients.—(Laughter.) The reason he stated all
this was because in France it was thought that the
meeting of the 10th was dangerous to the constitetion.
He was in that country -at the time, and they advised__
him not to be hasty, and that he would find a Republic
established there on the 11th of April. He told them
that there was as little danger of a Republic in England
as in the Celestial Empire.—(Laughter.) Referring to
the names ot the committee for getting up the proposed
testimonials, he saw those of dukes, archbishops, and
lords, all of whom looked as if they had escaped from.
some great danger. He had a great respect for such
names, and now paid them all the respect he could feeL
He, however, had not much respect for their opi-
nion on the present occasion, though that opinion
should be supported by Sir Roberts and Lord Johns.
—(Loud laughter.) Such a testimonial would be
acknowledging that they had escaped from some im-
minent danger, and reasoning that it did not follow that
it would not happen again—on the 29th, for instance,
for he believed on that day something of the former
sort was promised. A great statesman had written to
him to support the " order memorial," but he refused, as
it would be recognizing the existence of a danger that
had never existed. Of all memorials the establishment
of a new hospital in London would be the very worst.
A high medical authority told him so, and gave his rea-
sons. There were already hospitals enough in London,
and all that was wanted was sufficient money to support
them. It would be necessary to subscribe 50,0001. to
build a new hospital, and that would be just so much
money taken from the other already existing hospitals.
That was not all, for it would be necessary to subscribe,
according to the calculations of his eminent medical
friend, 8,000/. or 10,0001. a year for the continued sup-
port of a sew hospital. All of this would be withdrawn
from the hospitals already established, the most of which
were actually languishing in a state between life and
death. Take their owh hospital for instance. Iry it
there were 200 beds, 130 of which only could be kept,
for want of funds.—(Hear.) The walls were up, the
rooms bare, 70 beds unoccupied, and funds were wanted
it;
from year to year to support so every hospital in
London could tell them the same story.hoped and
He
trusted, therefore, that the proposed . building would not
take place, as it would injure the existing medical insti-
tutions of the metropolis. He thought it necessary to
state these objections publicly, and he thanked the
meeting for the patience with which it had listened to
his statements.—(Cheers.)
His Lordship then
left the chair, and the meeting sopa-
rated.

THE WAR IN KAYFlRLAND.—Considerable interest
has
publication of a work entitled
•
The author is Mrs. Ward
"Five
late Colonel Tidy, 24th Regiment),
(thes been
daughter
Years
ehaerati eicriiten ofd lithabe yffi
who,- it appears, courageously determined to accompany
her husband, Captain Ward, on his being ordered to join
his regiment in Africa in 1842, and embarked in the
Abercrombie, Robinson, which ship, it will be remotes-
bered, was wrecked on her arrival at the Cape. - Alter
writing an account of our colony there, Mrs. Ward pro-
ceeded with her husband direct to the theatre of war in
Kaffirland, anti kept a journal in which she noted down
whatever she considered worthy of record during the
entire period of hostilities. The presence of an English
lady in the wilds of Africa, exhibiting in her own person
an example of courage and fortitude under privation—
like tbat of Lady Sale in another quarter of the globe—
must certainly have been attended with good effects en
the minds of the gallant fellows who served during the
campaign. The work will doubtless meet with a cordial
reception from the English public. -
CHARTIST MEETING IN ST. PANCRAS* FIELDS.—A
meeting of Chartists was held yesterday (Sunday) after-
n,,on in St. Pancras-fields, for the purpose of pro-
pounding the principles of the Charter, and for the more
ostensible object of getting subscriptions towards the
support of the National As,embly. Mr. Hutchings pre-
sided, and the meeting was addressed by the delegates
from Longton, in Staffordshire; Edinburgh, Devizes,
Huddersfield, &c.

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