The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-05 00:00:00

70th Foot, to bear date July 16, 1858, in lieu of July 90
1858, as previously stated.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.

Tower Hamlett—George Parbury, Esq., to be Depiity•
Lieutenant.

6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Walter lie
Lambert, Gent., to be Ensign.
Royal Rifle Regiment of Denbigh Militia—Lieutunta
Boscawen Trevor Griffith to be Captain, vice Drake, re.
signed. _

I -2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Edn 'Ma
Broughton Knowles Lacon, Gent., to be Lieutenant.
Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Millirem.
Lieut. Pryce Ilbert Harrison to be Captain, vice Ryc. vfto
resigned ; Lieut. Carrington Jones to be Captain, vice
Bridgeman, resigned; Ensign George W. Moore to be
Lieutenant, vice llarrison, promoted; George St. Jzh
Sherwood Doyle, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Regiment of Derbyshire filitia—Robert Curzon,
Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Woolnough, promoted.
2d Regiment of Derbyshire Militia—Thomas J. P ayser
to be Ensign, vice Reid, resigned.
Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Robert Plow..
den Weston, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Thomas
Brittain, promoted.

Captain Frank Corbett andRESIGNATIONS. Lieutenant Edward Charles
icks.

BANKRUPTS.
John Gooch, jun., corn merchant, Isleham, Cambridge-
shire, to surrender Oct. 20, at two, and Nov. 23, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Wright and Samuel Stringer, woollen cloth mor-
chants, Manchester, Oct. 15 and Nov. 10, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court.
Samuel Longden, grocer, Chesterfield, Oct. 16 and Nov
20, at ten, at the Leeds District Court.
Valentine Butteris, printer, Dartmouth, Oct. 12, and
Nov. 11, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Nathaniel Bullivant, victualler, Altrincham, Cheshire,
Oat. 15 and Nov. 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court.

John Carmichael, merchant, Liverpool, Oct. 15, and
Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Charles Wm. Pratt, draper, Cambridge, Oct. 21, at
eleven, and Nov. 18, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Auguste Martins, merchant, Mark-lane, City, Oct. 15, at
half-past eleven, and Nov. 18, at twelve at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Joseph Blunt, money scrivener, Austin Friars, City,
Oct. 21, at eleven, and Nov. 16, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.

- SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
!Robert Cochrane, mason, Crown-street, Glasgow.
Roderick Young, shipowner, Inverness.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tms DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam —ll 18 11 161
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 32} 25 37
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 37f 25 42/
Frankfort on Maine — 1184 119}
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 35 351
Madrid
Cadiz —49 k
Leghorn — 29 90 29 95
Genoa — 25 50 25
_55

Naples
Palermo

Messina

Lisbon

40
122
92

122
52
521

41k
123

Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York

123
62
52

E.I. Co's bls. House bls. 60t1
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 24
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 24
Eaat India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ult. to
the Bth inst.

. £1,201 5 0
0 0 0
0 0 0

BenNal.
Madras.
Bombay

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 17 • 9
Mexican Dollars . „ 0 4
Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 5 14

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-

ROAD.

Mr. J. F. Gant, one of the surgeons and patho-
logical anatomist to this hospital, delivered the in-
troduction to his lectures " On the Application of
Pathological Anatomy to Surgical Diagnosis and
Operations," in the theatre of the hospital, yester-
day, to a numerous audience.
After a few preliminary remarks,
Mr. GANT proceeded to observe that the great
end or object of medicine is the cure of disease. To
accomplish this object it is necessary to acquire a
preliminary knowledge of many branches of
science ; but the medical importance of each
department of such knowledge should be esti-
mated by its more or less direct applicability to the
art of curing disease. Anatomy May invite by its
matchless demonstrations of constructive skill and
perfect mechanism—by the endless gradations of
structure which the animal kingdom presents, and
by the sublime laws of comparative anatomy. Can
these dry bones live ? Yes, and physiology may
captivate by the history of living beings—by the
history of ourselves before birth, through infancy,
childhood, adolescence, decripitude, and death.
The beauties of botany and the marvels of
chemistry may each engage our attention ;
and pathology, the science most akin to
therapeutics, may claim our special study ; but
we arc not anatomists or physiologists, or botanists
or chemists ; no, nor pathologists alone. We are
somewhat of all these professions, and something
more—we seek to remove disease. We are physi-
cians and surgeons, or general practitioners, as the
case may be. This object obviously implies the
previous detection and discrimination of disease,
or the art of diagnosis, which thus lies at the
root of practical medicine. It has been said of the
practice of medicine without this perceptive power,
that nature is fighting with a disease.. A blind
man armed with a club, that is the physician, comes
to settle the difference. He first tries to make peace.
When he cannot accomplish this, he lifts his club and
strikes at random. If he strikes the disease, he
kills the disease. If he strikes nature, he kills na-
ture. The fundamental importance of a correct
diagnosis being settled, Mr. Gant proceeded to
compare the various methods of detecting and dis-
tinguishing diseases, and showed that the know-
ledge of pathological anatomy applied during life
was the surest and safest guide to this end. This
position was illustrated more especially by a re-
view of certain diseases of the joints, and by a ge-
neral gOrrvey of medicine and surgery. This method
of applying pathological anatomy during life is a
new feature in the history of medicine. In con-
clusion, the lecturer dealt with much warmth and
energy on the intellectual and moral aspects of the
medical profession, and on its political, social, and
domestic relations. The health of nations (he said)
is the chief source of national wealth. If the hand
be feeble, or the mind subdued by disease, we may
perchance hold our own, but can scarcely hope to
stand in the front rank of the great battle of life.
But for mental and physical vigour combined, the
very hospital in which we are assembled would long
since have been subverted, when its invincible
founder went forth with a trowel in one hand and
a spear in the other. And as with an indivi-
dual, so with a nation. The question of progress
is very much one of health, and the history of
nations is but a chapter in the physiology and
pathology of man. Need I say more for the poli-
tical influence of medicine ? And yet, so regardless
has the state hitherto been of her own interests,

that only within the last three days in the history
of England have we been recognised and protected.
I may take this opportunity of recording. the fact
that much of the reform we now enjoy is due to
the untiring exertions of my colleague, Dr. O'Connor.
Meanwhile it has been our privilege to see and to
relieve more of the sufferings and sorrows
of the human race than fall to the lot of
any other order of men to witness or remove. In
almost the language of Seneca, we invite all, we
command all, we recognise neither wealth nor
patronage, but accept the man and the slave, the
cLoetttaugsehroakinfdahstisto our lord,
o the sovereign and the exile.
distinctive privilege of detect-
ing and relieving disease. To this end the resources
of pathological anatomy will prove sure and faith-
ful guides. They will
will I confirm your give you confidence, for they
judgment, they will give you
composure and a steady hand ; they will make you
happy, for they will make you safe.
The lecturer was listened to with marked atten-
tion, and concluded his discourse amidst rounds of
applause. .