The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-19 00:00:00

THE SUEZ CANAL.

On Tuesday was published the report of Capt, Richards
Hydrographer to the Admiralty, and Lieutenant Colonel
Clarke, Director of Engineering and Architectural Works,
on the condition and capabilities of the Suez Canal. The
report is of considerable length and of much interest. The
conclusions come to are the following :-4. That for a
certain class of vessels this great work, which must always
be a monument of persevering energy and engineering
skill, as it now stands, is a convenient mode of passage
from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. 2. That it will
be so to a greater extent when the works contem-
plated, viz., the deepening of certain shallow parts,
the enlargement of the Bares, and the widening and
improvement of the curves, are carried out. 3. That it is
available for the transit of ships employed in the Eastern
Aeas, with the exception of the large ironclads, and other
exceptionally heavy vessels. 4. That for the present type
of Indian transports it is not a desirable route. 5. Further,
we think that the cost of maintenance will not exceed
the amount estimated for it when the work was first
projected.

FATAL COLLISION WITH AN EMIGRANT

SHIP.

Early on Sunday, the Ist instant, a disastrous collision
occurred on the River St. Lawrence, about 115 miles be-
low Quebec. The screw steamer Germany, of 2,075 tons,
Captain John Graham, left Liverpool for Quebec on
Good Friday with over 800 passengers and crew,and arrived
in the river after a passage of fifteen days. Having taken
a pilot on board on Saturday night, April 30th,
a little below Farther Point, and, the weather being clear
she was proceeding at full speed up the St. Lawrence,
when, at twenty minutes past three in the morn-
ing she came in collision with the steamer
City of Quebec, 592 tons, Captain Connell, belong-
ing to the Quebec and Gulf Ports Steamship
Company. The latter vessel was carrying the Govern-
ment mails, and 'a full cargo of stores and commercial
wares, from Montreal to Quebec, to the ports on the south
coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. l'he force of the
collision was terrific, the Germany cutting down
the City of Quebec just before the paddle-box
on the port side. It was at once evident that
the ship was fast sinking. Passengers and crew to the
number of 59 managed to save their lives by climb-
ing on to the forecastle of the Germany over
the anchor; but unfortunately the third engineer
was killed in his berth and two steerage passengers
one of whom was said to be lame, were also lost.
Another passenger, a Frenchman, after escaping from the
sinking ship, was killed by the fall of the Germany's fore
royal-mast, thus making a total loss of four lives. After
remaining locked together for some twelve or
fifteen minutes, the Germany backed her engines, when
the City of Quebec immediately settled by the head,
threw her stern many feet into the air, and went down
bow foremost, leaving no trace behind her but a boiling
whirlpool to mark the spot where she disappeared. The
eecape of the Germany, with her immense num-
ber of passengers, may be considered most pro-
vidential. Directly after the disaster a fire broke out
in a saloon cabin, but was soon got under. The vessel
proceeded slowly to Qvebec with three large holes letting
daylight right through her starboard bow. Fortunately the
holes were just above the water line, and the water was per-
L.Ol-13, smooth, or she must have inevitably filled. The
passengers, who consisted of about equal numbers of Eng-
lish, Germans, and Norwegians, worked all the Sunday
morning in removing the heavy cargo from the fore part
of the ship, to prevent her settling by the head, and she
arrived safely at Quebec at sunset. The cause of the col-
lision cannot be rightly ascertained until the official
inquiry takes place.

The Russian Government has decided to admit
women into the Medical University of St. Petersburg,
after passing an examination. They will be taught se-
parately from the male students, and the whole course
of study is limited to a period of four years. A diploma
as midwife, which confers the right to practice, is to
be given to those who go through all the prescribed ex-
aminations.

Yesterday morning a number of boysand young men
were bathing in the river, off Rotherhithe, when a
bay named Joseph Smithers. aged 14, got out of his
depth and immediately disappeared. His brother, who
was standing on the shore, at once jumped into the water
to his rescue, when he went under and disappeared also.
A cry was raised, and assistance was almost immediately
at hand. Everything was done to save the boys, but
without avail.

An Oxford correspondent writes that no intelli-
gence of the gentleman who disappeared from Christ
Church on Sunday night has as yet been received, but the
police have been sent in search of him. There is a rumour
that the other culprits intend declaring themselves to the
Dean, but it is doubtful whether he has any power to
receive their confession after legal proceedings have been
instituted, nor, in fact, does the matter rest with him at I
all but with the governing body, who announced on Mon-
day their determination that nothing should stop the legal
proceedings.
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—A. sloop ran
ashore on Tuesday on Skinburness Point, during a heavy
gale, when her mast went over the side and she filled with
water. The lifeboat Angela and Hannah, belonging to
the National Lifeboat Institution, and stationed at Silloth,
near Carlisle, was launched, and through a fearful sea
followed the sloop, which had floated and drifted round
Grune Point:pnd up the river Wampool. On arriving
alongtlide, however, they found the vessel abandoned, and
it of wards appeared that the crew of two men were
drowned before the sloop could be reached.

There is a pressure upon the great Powers of Europe to
urge them to compel, on the part of Greece, the extirpa-
tion of the brigands, so that such outrages as the recent
murders of Englishinen- may not occur again. From
the practical travellers' point of_view this is a good idea.
It is. no doubt, when one goes on his travels, a great
deal better to go with the certainty that he
may come home with his head ail right so
far as the brigands otherwise might damage it.
But then imagine the historical respectability,
of the class it proposed to destroy. How can Conserva-
tive John Bull think of the thing ? Why, there are the
real ancient Greeks. Achilles himself was one of those
fellows, Witness his carrying away the fair Briseis,
whose father followed to ransom his daughter with the
richest ransoms." Thereus also, who was of the same
kidney in his hot youth, gained some good fame in later
life by making the roads safe by the example he gave in
the punishment of Sinius, the pine bender. Sinius used to
catch unwary wanderers just as the brigands recently caught
the pleasuring Englishmen. Then he used to bend down
the main stems of the young pine trees and tie them to
the earth. Next, he used to tie the limbs of his prisoners
ingeniously between the trees, one limb to one tree,
another to another. So long as Sinus kept the trees tied
to the earth the prisoner was comfortable enough, and
while he was thus comfortable his friends might come
with a ransom. If they did not come promptly Sinius
gave himself no further trouble. Why should he bother?
He merely, cut the cords that held the young trees to the
earth, and the trees, with the splendid elasticity
of their young stems, returned to their places. It was
difficult to say which tree held most of the traveller in
such a case. Theseus tied Sinius to a few of his finest
young pine sprouts, and hence originated the phrase of
" putting a person through a course of sprouts." Since
then the brigands have cut their prisoners' throats, and
now it is thought they will be annihilated. So antiquity
passes away. But while the pressure is up to compel
Greece to clean out her brigands, why not put a little of
it on the good old Pope, who keeps a preserve of these
precious rascals in his dominions for special uses, and is
not able always to control them ? Why not clear the
throat-cutting vermin of all the classical countries at
once ?—New York Herald.

THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE

GOVERNMENT MEDICAL BILL.

A meeting of the British Medical Reform Association war
held yesterday at Willis's Rooms, London, for the pur -
pose of considering the various provisions of the bill recer fir
introduced by the Government relating to the medico
profession. Dr. Chadwick, president of the associa tier.
occupied the chair.
The PRESIDENT, in opening the proceedings, said be
regarded the large attendance as an evidence that the
action of the executive in the question under considera-
tion met with the approval of a large proportion of the
medical profession. They had assembled to consider the
new Medical Bill brought into Parliament by Government,
It appeared to him that the bill had one great merit.
one great fault, and one great omission, and tbev
would have resolutions submitted to them which
would, he hoped, express their approval of the
one and their thorough condemnation and dis-
approval of the others. They would be asked to
approve of that which the association had for thirty yeais
been working to obtain, and an opportunity for adopting
which had presented itself for the first time. They would
be asked to adopt a minimum of qualification which
should secure the approbation, respect, and confidence of
the public in the exercise of their calling. (Hear.)
Whether that should be carried out by the adoption
of one board or three boards was another question they
would have to consider. It was a question of great diffi-
culty, because he was satisfied that the Government,even
if they felt as he felt, that the principle called for one board
alone, would have to meet contending influence and
conflicting interests. (Hear.) He trusted that Earl de
Grey would be enabled to effect such modifications in the
bill as would secure the advantages which he was satisfied
would ensue from one examining board, for he saw in the
adoption of three boards a principle which would result
in the entire subversion of everything the Association
was now doing. (Hear.) He believed that the fault of
commission in the bill was the monstrous power claimed
by the Privy Council. (Hear, hear.) If they con-
tinued, as he preferred they should, to be represented
at the board, the influence which they exercised upon the
action of the board should be reduced to the veriest
minimum. (Hear.) If they succeeded in getting the
board constituted as it should be, the board ought
to be able to manage the affairs of the pre
fession without interference from Government.
(Hear.) That, then, brought him to anetb er
great blot of the bill—the fault of omission as distin
guished from that he had just adverted to—the fault
commission. That fault was that the Liberal Govern
ment should have left out of consideration
altogether the long cherished wish of the
profession to be represented directly upon the Council.
A clause had been introduced into the bill by a kind of
side wind, vesting a power in the Council to over-rule the
examiners in giving degrees, and this he strongly
deprecated. It was also proposed that gentle.
men who had obtained colonial and other
degrees should be enabled to practice in Great
Britain without passing through another examination ;
but if it were allowed it would open the door to an
immense abuse. If they could not obtain at the present
time a satisfactory bill he would advise them to wait
for a future opportunity of realising their desires.
(Applause.)
Dr. HUSBAND (York), proposed the first resolution,
which was as follows : That the members of the British
Medical Association tender their thanks to her Majesty's
Government for the bill which they proposed to
introduce."

Dr. LEE (London) seconded the resolution.
Dr. SOUTHAM (Manchester) proposed, and Professor
HAUGHTON seconded a resolution, proposing the addition
of the following words to the resolution :—" That this
meeting is_ of opinion that there should be a single exam-
ing board for the entire kingdom, instead of three boards
for the three different parts of the kingdom."
The resolution, as amended by Dr. Southam, was
eventually carried by a considerable majority.
Dr. WATERS (Chester) proposed—" That this meeting
views with regret and disappointment the entire absence
of the claims of the profession to direct representation on
the Medical Council, and pledges itself to exercise every
constitutional means to secure this vital and all important
principle in any measure of medical reform that may be-
come law." . .

Dr. STEWART seconded the resolution, which was also
carried unanimously.
Mr. ROGER HARRISON proposed the third resolution,
which had reference to what the President designated the
sin of commission, and was as follows :---`That this
meeting of the British Medical Association offers its deter.
mined opposition to any bill which gives to the Privy
Council more extended control over the medical profession
than that given to it by the Medical Act of 1858."
Dr. HALL seconded the resolution, which, on being
submitted to the meeting, was carried without dissent.

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A vote of thanks to the president terminated the pro-
ceedings.

ALLEGED ROBBERY OF A CART AND VALUABLE CON-
TENTS.—Robert Lozlge, a carman, living in Bethnal
Green ; William Muggeridge, a porter in the City ;
Thomas Lodge, who lives in Finsbury ; and Samuel.
Edmund Coombs, barman at a public-house in the Curtain-
road, Shoreditch, have been charged at the Greenwich
police court with being in possession of a horse
and cart, containing a large quantity of stolen property.
Robert Lodge said he had been employed by two men to
bring the cart from a court in Shoreditch, but he did not
know where the men were to be found. The prisoners had
only accompanied him for a ride. The packages in the
cart were found to contain elastic material, cashmere
cloth, and canvass for bootmaking, and the police stated
that a quantity of property. of this description had been
stolen from a shop in Shoreditch. The men were all
remanded.

CHASTISING A CONSUL —At the Liverpool police-court,
Mr. John de Costa, a shipping master, was summoned
for threatening to " chastise " Mr. Dudley, the American
Consul at Liverpool, and was bound over to keep the
peace for siv months. The defendant appears to have
been exasperated by. a refusal on the part of Mr. Dudley
to grant him certain facilities for the despatch of his
business.

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