The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-15 00:00:00

1880 90 92

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

A meeting of this board was held to-day in the Conn•
cil Chamber, Guildhall. The President, J. Thwaites, Esq.
took the chair at twelve o'clock.

MAIN DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS.

After some routine business was disposed of,
The report of Mr. Bazelgette (which has already ap-
peared in The Sun) was read, for the purpose of fully con-
sidering the arrangements proposed.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON said he disapproved of some
words of the following passage in the report, viz.:—
"On the north side of the Thames, the northern high
level sewer, from Hampstead to the River Lea, is urgently
needed. It will form a substitute for the open Hackney
Brook Sewer, and embrace a length of 71 miles of
main sewer, and 11, miles of branches ; and, in an engi-
neering point of view, it is a convenient portion of the
work to commence upon. I have, therefore, first pre-
pared the contract drawings and specification for this
portion, to be let in one contract, which is now sub-
mitted for your approval ; and I recommend that adver-
tisements be forthwith issued for tenders for this contract."
He should therefore move that the Board agree with so
with so much of Mr. Bazalgette's report upon main drain-
age, date 30th Sept. last, as recommends that the Northern
high level sewer, from Hampstead to the river Lea, should
be commenced with as little delay as possible, and that ad-
vertisements for the contract be forthwith issued, upon the
terms and specifications being agreed to by the Board.
Mr. CA nYmAEL seconded the amendment.
After a long discussion the amendment vas agreed to.
Resolutions for the appointment of a committee to carry
out the foregoing were under discussion when our reporter
left.

GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—At the meeting,
held at Liverpool yesterday, of the National Association for
the Promotion of Social Science, Mr. M. Mihies, M.P.,
observed with reference to the petty description of patron-
age which was supposed to be inherent in members of the
.Legislature that it was the unanimous experience of mem-
bers of Parliament that the small patronage which came to
them in the way of recommending to public offices was
nothing but an annoyance, and could not by any reasonable
being be supposed to have the slightest effect upon the opi-
nions and actions of political men. He hoped, therefore, it
would not be supposed that they were performing any great
act of superlative patriotism when they took away the ap-
pointment of a tidewaiter from a member of Parliament and
gave it to a public examiner. He also urged that superior
education meant neither more nor less than wealth, and
that by giving up all offices to the best educated they would
be merely giving them up to the sons of the wealthiehe
r
classes. The adoption of a universal competition must,
thought, in the end deenerate into a system of routine, and
he reminded the meeting that that great country, com-
prising a third of the peope of the human race, yhere every
single office was givin by competitive examination--China
—surrendered the whole of its forces the other day to a few
uneducated English sailors.
ANGLO-FRENCH PORCELAIN COMPANY.—An
association under the limited liability act has been formed
in the City, for the purpose of enlarging and working the
celebrated porcelain manufacture.
s at Valentine in the
Pyrenees. Those works, we believe, have always been
highly remunerative, the productions from its potters and
artists being eagerly sought after throughout France. The
change which steam has made in giving increased facilities
for transit direct to every portion of Europe, and the im-
mense improvement in the taste of the people induced its
promoters to look forward to a demand very considerably
beyond its former means of supply. In this it would ap-
pear, they were far from being sanguine, and large profits
upon the operations of the company, as a surplus
are accruing
over the original gains of the Valentine works. In addi-
tion to the purely trade nature of theundertaking, its re-
fining influences upon increased and increasing circles of
society should not be lost sight of,

P.,INK O.

OBONN,

The following warrant was issued yesterday
morning :
" VICTORIA R.
"Whereas we have taken into our consideration

the recommendations of the commissioners ap-
pointed by our authority to inquire into the regu-
lations affecting the sanitary condition of our mili-
tary forces and the medical treatment of the sick
and wounded of our army, our will and pleasure is
that from and after the date of this warrant the
following rules shall be established for the future
admission, promotion, and retirement, and the pay,
half-pay, relative rank and allowances of the medi-
cal officers of our army, and that by these rules our
Commander-in-Chief shall govern himself in recom-
mending officers for admission, promotion, and

retirement.
" The grades of medical officers in our army shall
be four in number, viz.:—
" 1. Inspector-general of hospitals.
" 2. Deputy-inspector-general of hospitals.
" 3. Staff or regimental surgeon, who after 2Q
years' full-pay service in any rank shall be styled
surgeon-major.
" (4.) Staff or regimental assistant-surgeon.
" 2. No candidate shall be admitted to the com-
petitive examination for a commission in the Medi-
cal Department of our army who does not possess
such a certificate or certificates as would qualify a
civilian to practise medicine and surgery ; and no
such candidate shall receive a commission as assist:

ant-surgeon until he shall have satisfactorily passed
an examination in military medicine, surgery, and
hygiene, after attending the authorised course in a
general military hospital.
" 3. No assistant-surgeon shall be eligible for
promotion to the rank of surgeon until he shall
have passed such examination as our principal
Secretary of State for War may require, and shall
have served on full-pay with the commission of
assistant-surgeon for five years, of which two shall
have been passed in or with a regiment.
"4. A surgeon, whether on the Staff or attached
to regiments, must have served 10 years in the
army, with a commission of full-pay, of which two
must have been passed with the rank of surgeon in
or with a regiment, before he will be eligible for
promotion to the rank of deputy-inspector-general
of hospitals.
"5. A deputy-inspector-general of hospitals
must have served five years at home, or three
abroad, in that rank before he shall be eligible for
promotion to the rank of inspector-general.
"In cases, however, of emergency, or when the
good of the service renders such alteration desir-
able, it shall be competent for our Secretary of
State for War to shorten the several periods of ser-
vice above-mentioned, in such manner as he shall
deem fit and expedient.
" 6. Assistant-surgeons shall, as a general rule,
be promoted to the rank of surgeon in the order of
their seniority in the service unless unfit for the
discharge of their duties from physical or profes-
sional incompetence or misconduct. In cases of dis-
tinguished service, however, an assistant-surgeon
may be promoted without reference to seniority
and in such cases, with a view to insure the respon-
' sibility attaching to an appointment made out of
the regular course of promotion, the recommenda-
tion, in which the services, of the officer shall be
detailed, shall be published in the General Orders
of the Army and in the Gazette in which his pro-
motion appears.
"7. All promotion from the rank of surgeon to
that of deputy-inspector, and from the rank of
deputy-inspector to that of inspector, shall be given
by selection for ability and merit; and the grounds
of such selection shall be stated to us in writing,
and recorded in the office of our Commander-in-
Chief, the selection being made from the whole rank
of surgeons, whether styled surgeons or surgeon-
maj ors.
"8. The rates of pay of the medical officers of
our army shall be in accordance with the following
schedule :

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Resistant-Surgeon — 13 0* 11 610 0

• Or on promotion, should these periods of service not be

already completed.

9. In addition to the pay of their ranks, offi-
cers at the head of the medical department on
foreign stations shall receive allowances at the un-
dermentioned rates, when serving under the follow-
ing circumstances, viz. :
"If with an army in the field of 10,000 men or
upwards, 20s. per day.
"If with an army in the field of 5,000 men or
upwards, 15s. per day.
" If with an army in the field of any less number,
10s. per day.
" If serving in a colony where the forces consist
of 1,500 men or upwards, ss. per day.
" 10. After the date of this warrant every medi-
cal officer -placed on half-pay by reduction of esta-
blishment, or on the report of a medical board, in
consequence of being incapacitated by reason of ill-
health, caused by wounds, or brought on by the
discharge of his duties, shall be allowed the half-
pay to which his period of full-pay service may
entitle him, according to the following schedule :

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Surgeon-Major...,. 01800 16 6
Surgeon — 13 6 11 0
Assistant-Surgeon.. 10 0 80 6 0

efficiency of
he rank of
rgeon shall
shall have
inspectors-
the age of

" 11. With a view to maintain the
the • service all medical officers of
surgeon-major, surgeon, or assistant-s 1
be placed on the retired list when they
attained the age of 55 years, and all
general when they shall have attained

65 years.
" Officers thus superannuated shall be entitled to
the rates of half-pay stated in the preceding sche-
dule.
" 12. Every medical officer who shall have served
upon full pay for 25 years and upwards shall have
the right to retire upon half-pay, at the rate of
seven-tenths of the daily pay he was in receipt of
when thus retiring, provided he shall have served
three years in the rank from which he retires, or
shall have served in any rank for ten years in the
colonies, or five years with an army in the field.
But if he shall not have complied with any of these
conditions he shall be entitled only to half-pay at
the rate of seven-tenths of the daily pay he was in
receipt of before his last promotion.
" 13. Every medical officer thus claiming to re-
tire must give six months' notice to the head of his
department of his intention to claim this right prior
to his being allowed to retire ; and no medical offi-
cer shall have a right to give such notice after he
shall be under orders to proceed to any foreign sta-
tion, until he shall have served at such station for
one month.
" 14. If a medical officer is placed on half-pay
from any other cause than those hereinbefore named
he shall only be allowed a temporary rate of half-
pay (not exceeding the rates stated in clause 10) for
such period and at such rate as shall be
Ana assignedto
him by our Secretary of State for War, o
consi-
deration of the length and character of the services
rendered to the public by such medical officers.
" 15. On reduction of establishment the surgeon
and assistant-surgeon who are junior in rank shall
be the first reduced, and on restoration to full-pay
the reduced officers who are senior in their ranks
shall be the first restored.
16. The relative rank of the medical officers of
our army shall be as follows
staff or regimental assistant-surgeon as lieute-
nant, according to the date of his commission • and
after six years' full-pay service as captain, accord-
ing to the date of the completion of such service.
Staff or regimental surgeon as major, according
to the date of his commission ; and surgeon-major
as lieutenant-colonel, but junior of that rank.
" Deputy-inspector-general of hospitals as liente-
naonnt;-caonlodnaeflieracficvoerdyienagrst,ofutltepdayatseerovficheisascodmepmuitsy-
siinspector-general as colonel, accordino• to the date
of the completion of such service.
" Inspector-general of hospitals as brigadier-
general, according to the date of his commission, if
with an army in the field, or after three years' full
pay service as inspector-general as a major general,
from the date of his joining such army ni the field,
or according to the date of the completion of such

service.
" 17. Such relative rank shall carry with it all
precedence and advantages attaching to the rank
with which it corresponds (except as regards tha
presidency of courts-martial, where our will and
pleasure is, that the senior combatant officer be
always president), and shall regulate the choice of
quarters, rates of lodging money, servants, forage
fuel, and light, or allowances in their stead, dete:
tion, and prize money. But when a medical officer
is serving with a regiment or detachment the officer
commanding, though he be junior in rank to such

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15 0

" 21. Surgeons or surgeons-major of infantry-
regiments shall not in future be subject to any di-
minution of the allowance of forage, according to
the regulations in force, nor to any stoppage out of
their daily pay for any ration of hay, straw or oats
supplied for the horse or horses kept by them for
the public service.
" 22. All staff-surgeons of the first-class and senior
surgeons of artillery now serving, or who, being
now on half-pay, shall hereafter be called upon to
serve, shall rank as surgeons-major from the date
of their commissions as staff-surgeons of the first-
class, or senior surgeons of artillery, and shall re-
ceive the pay of surgeon-major according to the fore-
going schedule of full-pay from the date of this
warrant or from the date of being called from half-
pay to full-pay ; and all surgeons who have already
completed 20 years' full-pay service, or upwards,
in any rank, shall have the rank and pay of sur-
geons-major from the date of this warrant.
" 23. Medical officers shall be held entitled to
the same honours as other officers .of -our army of
equal relative rank.*
" 24. A medical officer retiring after a full-pay
service of 25 years and upwards, may, if recom-
mended for the same by the head of his department,
receive a step of honorary rank, but without any
consequent increase of half-pay.
" 25. Good service pensions shall be awarded to
the most meritorious medical officers of our army
under such regulations as shall be from time to
time determined by us, with the Advice of our Se-
cretary of State for War.
" 26. Six of the most meritorious medical officers
of the army shalt be named my honorary physi-
cians, and six my honorary surgeons.
" Given at our Court of St. James's this Ist day
of October, 1858, in the 22d year of our reign.
"By her Majesty's command, J. PEEL."

* This clause does not extend to the compliments to be
paid by garrison or regimental guards, as laid down in pages
29 and 30 of the " Queen's Regulations for the Army."