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London, England, 1869-01-29 00:00:00

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THEMEDICAL DIRECTOR GENERAL-SHIP

OF THE NAVY.

The Army and Navy Gazette, besides asserting among the
rwmoura of the day that it is intended to amalgamate the
medical with the victualling and transport branches of the
navy, under the supervision of Bear-Admiral Mends, inti-
mates that, in addition to this reduction of the dignity of the
office, its emoluments are to be diminished to the extent of
£3OO a year. It seems, too, that the title of Director-General
is to be abolished. Now, whatever may be the title of the
medical officer at Somerset House may bear he is the repre-
sentative man of our professioh, and must be the profes-
sional adviser of the Admiralty in all that concerns the
health of the navy, which is a matter of no secondary
weight, and he must be looked up to as the protector of
the vitality of our profession employed in that service.
Therefore it has been hitherto the practice that
the holder of the office should be one of the
senior and most distinguished officers of the depart-
ment —one to whom a large body of educated men
shall look up to with great respect. We concur with
our contemporary in thinking that the proposed changes
are of a nature to prevent any of the highest medical
men in the navy seeking this mutilated superiority over
their brethren, since the official status he would have
assigned to him will be no better than that of a senior
clerk, and the entire profession in the navy will receive
through him a corresponding depreciation. We sympathise
deeply with our naval brethren in this possibility of further
degradation relatively to the army ; and we shall anxiously
await the decision of the present First Lord of the
Admiralty, who has taken office under promises to make
himself the perfect master of a difficult position through
personal acquaintance with those officers who have the
practical working of departments in their hands—trusting
that he is not so soon about to subordinate farther, and to
remove still another step from him, the officer who is the
chief guardian of the health of the Royal Navy.—British
Medical Journal.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR UPON PARO-
CHIAL MISSION WOMEN.

A letter on the above subject has been sent to the Times
by Lord Hatherley, the Lord Chancellor. The following,
says his lordship, are the advantages of this scheme :
"1. The parish is a definite area to be worked, and
instead of broad-cast, haphazard schemes of benevolence,
an aim is given, and the effect of the work can be and is
watched. Returns are required weekly by the managers
from the lady superintendents of the number of visits
made by the mission woman, the amount of money
received, and other work done. Each manager receives
these returns from specified districts, and visits the
meetings without giving any previous notice. If the
mission be not satisfactorily worked, it is either aban•
doned or suspended. A mission may be closed for anY
cause by the managers, on the one hand, or the clergyman;
on the other, at a month's notice.

"2. The mission woman and lady superintendent We
their definite civilising lay work, and the clergyman is
assisted by their co-operation, not thwarted by controver*
sial zeal.

"3. The mission women are of the same class as those
they instruct. A clergyman or lady superintendent might
make many visits without producing the effect desired.
They and the poor do not often understand each other
when it comes to be aquestion of interference with domestic
habits and arrangements.

"4. The test of this effective teaching is furnished 231
the returns. In the year 1867 over £7,000 (a portion of it
in farthings) was collected from the poor of 130 mission
districts. The society commenced its work with six Lair
sions, and the deposits in the first year amounted to £B5.
.A. steady increase to the numbers of 1867 is a very note'
worthy fact."

The Lord Chancellor then goes on to say : " The
average cost of each mission is £35 a year. The clergy'
man is expected to guarantee a certain portion of this
sum, according to the circumstances of the case. The
only items of expenditure are the woman's salary and
occasionally the rent of a central room, the advance 'omit'
being repaid as the capital of each district increases•
The total cost of management in 18G7 was only £lBO.
This cost is mainly incurred by the employment of
one clerk and the hire of au office, at 15, Cocksput'
street. Scarcely a charity can be named where s°
much is achieved by so small an expenditure. Those who
know with what despair many a clergyman or district
visitor enters a sick room the window of which is closed,
the floor of which is foul with dirt, while the patient Po'
sesses neither bed, bedstead, chair, nor table, perhaps 11°
blanket or coverlid, can alone appreciate the transforms'
tion that can be effected by a woman in the same class of
life as the sufferer, who teaches cleanliness, order, industry,
and foresight, through the medium of Christian kindness
and Christian example."

The Conservative members for IVest Suffolk, Lord
Augustus Hervey, M.P., and Major Parker, M.P., wero e 0"
tortained at dinner on "Wednesday by their friends and sup-
porters in the Clure district.

STORAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS.—A Liverpool
merchant has been summoned before the Liverpool stipor
diary for having sent to the Sandon Dock one case °f
hydrochloric acid, without being marked " dangerous
goods." This being the first case of the kind which 1114.°
come under the special Act before the magistrates, a witP
gated penalty of £lO was imposed.

WELSH LIBERAL BANQUET.—A banquet is to be
given on the 24th February, at the Freemasons' Tavern'
to the Liberal members of the Principality. The Right
Hon. H. A. Bruce, Home Secretary, will preside.
conference will be held at the same place on the day f°:
lowing, to consider matters in connection with Wales .
its political aspects.

The rejoicings in Limerick over the failure of the
petition against the sitting members continued through tvi°
nights. Tar barrels blazed in various districts. At th°
" Treaty Stone" four were set on fire, and a similar
number were placed on the O'Connell monument. An effigy
of Sir Peter Tait was burned amid the mock "keening" °i
the populace. The police patrolled the streets, but no diel'
turbance occurred.

A man in a cart was crossing the Manchester and
Sheffield and Lincolnshire line on Wednesday as a lugg9ge
train close by began to move. The result was that before
the horse and cart could get clear the engine caught theAl'ii,
and carried them up the lino for a distance of twenty yar
before the train could be stopped. The horse w.f°ullo
with three of its cut off, whilst the cart and gears
broken to pieces. The old man, however, who sat In Ill,:
cart at the time the engine caught it, escaped with fe"
serious injuries.

Sir Louis Mallet, of the Board of Trade, had 511
audience with the Board of the Manchester Chamber of C°l33-
merce on Wednesday when a conversation took place yv4ol
reference to the recent failure in carrying out the intentiellt
of the Austrian Supplemental Convention by the Governme%
of that country. He detailed the circumstances under wbici
the British Government was placed with regard to the 'lt
mate fulfilment of the convention, and referred also to t""
negotiations taking place with regard to the revision cf the
Russian tariff, the French treaty, and the alleged inacculled
of the Board of Trade returns.

The Recorder of Wigan, at the borough seesi°93
on Wednesday, advocated a thorough revision of the linen'
sing system ; and with reference to beer he said he was
favour of becrhouses in which there is no temptation
drink so-called ardent spirits. But beer was frequeiltil,
adulterated by the infusion of salt and other even rilcrfo-
injurious ingredients, to provoke unnatural thirst. be
guard against this dishonest and iniquitous systeol, at
would have competent persons appointed to analyst',
short or uncertain intervals, the beer sold in every be:,;
house, and even in every public-house. On proof of
deleterious adulteration a heavy fine should be inflicted. 0
An unfortunate man named Robinson, who lino
bitten by a dog at Halifax several months ago, has died fro
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the effects of hydrophobia, this being the fifth case of t
kind which has ended fatally at Halifax during the last f°of
months. The excitement caused by the announceinOtto
the death was intensified yesterday by the report that a
dog, which bad come from Leeds, bad bitten three chila4
at Lee Bank. Two men, who pursued the animal into te;
Market-place at Halifax, in or to destroy it, were bitttbe
by the animal, which also attacket several other dogs iTidot
street. These were afterwards killed, to prevent fur
mischief.
ter
The members for East Devon have been en,to
tamed at a banquet at Siahnouth in celebration of i'de,
return. Sir Lawrence Palk said they nliglit an
pond up n it that the surrender and counsc3ior
of the Irish Establishment was only the stePPlicti.
stone to granting further demands of the Roman Cath:relt
The objection that the Church in Ireland was the ecti.
)f a minority applied alto to the English Cbil the
In his opinion, however, they must retain be_
Church at all hazards, and the Irish Glittre;htirell
ause it was ono of the bulwarks of the `"-iotOt
in England. And they must do more than that, th°la
it
reform and unite the Church if they wished to gu-tiso.
against the enemies of the faith and
4Protestalloged
Lerd Courtenay said although his party bad c,lll Frio"
:ts position in the country it had not changed. Ter able
civics. As a compact Opposition they would be bet 0 too
to give effect to their principles than they would bat
ill 6
had they continued in the position of a Goverenie p,lOl
minority. Mr. Disraeli had taken a course Patrlto lilc1
gentlemanlike ; nothing in hiupolitical life hecanlo3.bil 0
his resignation, which had immensely