The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-19 00:00:00

MEDICAL REFORM.

Lord TALBOT DE MALAHIDE asked what were
the intentions a Goveinineni with regard to medical
reform and the sale& poison-I
The Earl of DERBY sad no doubt the subject of
medical reform was of great importance. Nevertheless,
the noble lord must allow him to remind him there
was a certain class of cases to which everybody was
agreed that something ought to be done; but when they
came to consider what ought to be done, they disagreed
as to the details. There was no better illustration of that
proposition than the question of medical reform. The.
noble lord himself admitted that the members of the pro-
fession were not agreed among themselves as to what
should be dens. During the 20 years he was a member
of the House of Commons ho recollected there was a
subject on which some enthusiastic member—generally
a young member—was continually bringing in bills, and
that was to amend the law with regard to salmon fish-
eries. No one could doubt the necessity for medical re-
form. But the noble earl had not done justice to the acti-
vity of the other house in ells respect, for whilst last year
two bills were introduced, this year no less than three had
been laid on•the table by different members. He was not
prepared to say that the Government were ready to
enter the lists and bring forth a fourth bill on their own
responsibility. The measures to which he had referred
had been introduced by gentlemen well acquainted with
the subject, and it was the intention of his colleague 3 to
give their best consideration to these measures, with the
view of making an amicable arrangement which should
meet the views of the profession and the public. (Hear,
hear.) With regard to the sale of poisons, the noble
earl was aware that the late President of the Council
appointed a committee, which sat for a considerable time,
and suggested various amendments to the bill before
their lordships' house, which were inserted and reported.
He had already communicated with his right hon. friend
the Secretary for the Home Department, and requested
him to consult the Pharmaceutical Society, and if it
should be found that any chance existed of Carrying a
satisfactory measure, her Majesty's Government would
not hesitate to introduce it. (Hear, hear.)
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBERS.

Mr. MOWBRAY (Judge-Advocate.) and Lord DUNKEL-
LIN took the oaths and their seats, the former for Dur-
ham and the later for Gal•xay (County).
SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY (EXTENSION

OF TIMES BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
GALWAY ELECTION.

Mr. ROEBUCK presented a pc titiou from the freemen
of Cr4l,ay relative to the motion f.)r the it,trod ur tion
a bib f)r di-franchising them on the ground of bribery,
in which the petitioner, prayed that equa, jos: ice sight
bit extended to all who had been guilty ot otioery. The
petition then proceeded to state that the evHeuce
taken before the c,,uitni,sion w,bt to show that
Lord Cianricaroe, lieutenat t of the county, Via
a party to the bribery the elections for 1852 and 1857
by furnishing the money by which the electors were
bribed. That Sir T. Burke, M.P., deputy lord lieu-
tenant ; Dr. J. V. Browne, professor of Queen's Cul-
lege ; Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. .T. Moore, justices of the
peace, and Mr. R. .Carter, deputy clerk of the
peace, were also goiltY r.f such practices as agent, and
the petition has expressed a hope that equal jetstice
would be done to all who had been guilty r f any such
misconduct—the great as well as the small, the powerful
as well as the weak—the latter having received the
bribes which the others had paid to them. (Hear-)
AUSTRALIAN POSTAL COMMUNICATIONi
Mr. MACARTNEY moved fur a copy of any shupphe•
mental contract made since July, 1857, with
teiet eßrot
Royal
Mail
European and Australian Mail Company
i.
Agreed or
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to
andfr
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to. Company,h:
Australianor bth' fcoorlotnhe es conveyance

ARMY CLOTHING, &c.
N r. LAURIE moved an address for returns from the
various commanding officers of regiments and depot bat-
talions in this country and in Ireland of the several re-
isitions made by them between the Ist day of Septem-
L.O 1857, and the 28th of February, 1858, in the War
DePartment, for supplies of clothing and necessaries,
with the dates of the same, and when the said articles
were received from the War Department ; and of the
number of letters written to and received from the War
Department on the subject.—Agreed to.
BARRACK ACCOMMODATION.

Mr. LAURIE moved an address for return of the
sums of money voted during the last three years for bar
racks in or near the metropolis, and how the sums have
been appropriated.
Agreed to.

THE DISMISSAL OF MURZA. ALI A.KBA.R.
Sir DE L. EVANS moved for a copy cf all the cor-
respondence between the Court of Directors and the
Government of Bumbay respecting the dismissal of
Murza Ali Akbar ; including the memorial of Murza Ali
Akbar to the Court of Directors, presented through th e
Bombay Government in the year 1855 ; also the letter
of Murza Ali Akbar to Sir James Melville, K.C.8.,
Secretary to the Court, with the Court's answer.—
Agreed to.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

Mr, PACE.E gave notice that on the 'notion for the

seoond reading of the Agricultural Statiet.o. 8.1., h•
should move that it be read a second time thm, d,..y six

months.

THE ROYAL VW ‘R,RA.NT OF OW ORL!•, 1854.

Gen. WYNDHAM aeke the Sectetaiy o. wr for
War whether any, and wbat steps hai ne-n 1-34“:11. or
were in progress. to miter and amend the Rlal
rant dated 6th Oct. 1854

Gun. PEEL said that his change of 1-1..,!;i07i
altered big °valor) Kith regarf: to thk cti;i7 r
hear)—or the only satisfactory manner in Which
it could be dealt with. (Rear, hear.) The
warrant bad not acted justly, and he believed the nom-
p'aint cf many otticers well founded. On taking ogee he
found the draft of a new warrant had been prepared, with
many portions of which he approved, but though:
an .iteration -ought not to be made in.a warrant of so
muck importance without investigation, by a Royal
Com Mission, it was his -intention to obtain from. bows
onrable members the appointment of such a
R iyal Commission, to take into consiclursvioo the report •
of the Royal Corarrrssien on. which !tits w^,rrtrit was
foundtd, and also to con •ider Lb- present ey:, emu of pro-
motion in the army. (Hear, hear.) He w..01d take
Car*. that every bry;ch. of th scri we -was 1414
and ,
bi ..:arrant i.a,2 C•pp ;rtuui. y 4?.f
f r tht: iLcl 1- %Antu:ssiuzi being tuhy

(1-1, ar, ',ear.) •
CO Rup r PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT.
Mr. H. BERKELEY ks-ked the Ciuncelior of the
Exchequer wl.ether hf.r Majesty'e Ministers intended to
act on the intention of :belr pre irctlssore and appoint *
select committee to inquire into the w,c Icing t f fle,C )r-
-rupt Practice, P evention Act; or what course Viey in-
tended to pursue in relatiol to the act, which would
expire with the nreeet t .selion of Parliatne-ct?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER i,ftid
ber 11,1,4jesty's G)vera,r-ne,,t vnisidert-d btsj clur.,!,
ii retet ence t) aria snqict woe to introduoi a new bill,
funded on the exp,rience, of the last. general
and when it-was so in'roduced, to submit it to a select
committee. (Hear, bear )