The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-27 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals and letters of the 22d have ar-
rived. " Yesterday, at 3 o'clock," says a semi-official
organ, " all the monthly liabilities of the country
were paid up, and the sum of 2,000,000 dols. re-
mained in the Treasury. This," it adds, "is a palmy
state of things, of which the like has not been seen
for some years in this country." The Peninsular
Correspondence says :—" The Minister of Finance
is understood to have expressed a strong opinion
with reference to the case of foreign creditors, and
to be determined. as soon as the financial
state of the country shall allow, to do
justice to the holders of Spanish coupons." A royal
decree in the Gazette appoints M. Bayarri, who
was one of Marshal O'Donnell's colleagues in the
Cabinet of 1856, to be Crown counsel and member
of the Supreme Tribunal of War and Marine. The
rigorous treatment of the press continued ; a new
prosecution of the Espana had been ordered, and
the Novedades and the Esperanza had been seized.
The Correspondancia Autografa, a governmental
publication, contains the following somewhat
singular announcement : " General Dulce,
Captain-General of Catalonia, has been autho-
rised by the Queen in the kindest terms to
marry the Senora Treserva, who belongs to the
best society of Barcelona." Rumours having
been spread that General O'Donnell contem-
plated making himself dictator, the semi-official
organs assert that they are unfounded, and are only
concocted to render the Minister unpopular. " The
man," says one of these journals, " who possesses
the confidence of the Queen has no need to employ
extraordinary means to consolidate his power."
Some of the journals assert that there is no truth
in a statement made by some American papers that
conspiracies amongst the blacks in one of the
Spanish garrisons at Cuba have been discovered. A
letter from a ministerial source says :—" The oppo-
sition journals, which, during the time that M. Mon
was still in Madrid, were continually speculating on
the probability of that gentleman's succeeding the
present Minister, are now asserting that a discord-
ance of views between Marshal O'Donnell and the
Minister of the Interior exists. But the fact is
there is no matter of any kind of importance on
which there has ever been any difference of opinion
among the men in power."

THE NEW MEDICAL A CT-MEETING
AT THE BRITISH COFFEE-HOUSE.

Last evening a meeting of the profession was
held at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street,
Charing-cross, for the purpose of forming an associ-
ation, to be called the " London Medical Registra-
tion Association." The proceedings have been
suggested by the coming into operation of the new
Medical Bill.

Amongst the gentlemen present were Thomas
Wakley, Esq., the coroner for West Middlesex :
Dr. Smiles, Dr. Semple, Dr. O'Connor, Dr. Webster,
of Dulwich; Mr. T. Wakley, Mr. G. T. Brent,
deputy-coroner ; Mr. Weedon Cooke, Mr. Sotherin,
Mr. Clarke, of Soho ; Dr. Ladd, Mr. Allen, Dr.
Horne, Dr. Lavies, Dr. Cross, Dr. Routh, &c.
On the motion of Mr. Wakley, Dr. Webster, of
Dulwich, took the chair, and having congratulated
the profession on the passing of the new act, re-
commended them to make the most of it by secur-
ing a fair representation in the council.
Mr. WAKLEY then addressed the meeting, He
referred to his own struggle for medical reform in
the House of Commons, stating the moment he
began to converse with members upon the subject
of quackery a number of them were always ready
to state the benefit which some members of their
families had derived from quack medicines. Had
he prosecuted the subject under such circumstances,
as he could have wished, he would have had some
200 of the legislature advertising those quack im-
postors through the country. He urged all present
to aid the registrar appointed by the new act to
carry out its provisions in a proper manner.
Mr. ALLEN, who moved the first resolution,
expressed the desirability of forming a registration
association, and mentioned the filthy advertise-
ments which quackery was thrusting before the
eyes and into the hands of every one, as an abuse
that required to be checked. He passed a high
eulogium on Mr. Wakley for his efforts on behalf
of the profession, and said that a close watch must
be kept on the College of Surgeons in the election
by the council of that body of its representatives.
Dr. O'CONNOR said that legal opinions had been
taken on that point, and they were directly at
variance ; the solicitor to the college holding that
the council had the right of election. (Laughter.)
Dr. THORNE seconded the resolution, and the
meeting was subsequently addressed by Dr. Ladd,
of Lambeth ; Mr. Clarke, of Gerrard-street, Soho ;
Mr. Lavies, of Westminster ; and several other
gentlemen.

- With respect to local associations already formed,
Mr. WAKLEY thought they might be made of great
value to strengthen the central association, and
suggested that their chairman should be ex olficio
members of the central committee.

" The London Medical Registration Association"
was then formed, a committee was enrolled, and
several subscriptions announced. There were
upwards of a hundred gentlemen present.

THE LIBERAL INTEREST IN -NORTH
WARWICKSHIRE.

The annual meeting of the association formed.
" for the purpose of establishing the Liberal inte-
rest in NorthWarwickshire," was held yesterday in.
the committee-room of the Town-hall, at Birming-
ham ; the Hon. E. C. Leigh in the chair. Among
the county gentlemen present were Sir T. G. Skip-
with, Mr. C. H. Bracebridge, Mr. W. Martyn, M.P.,
B. D. Webster, Esq., &c. A long report was read,
setting forth the result of the operations of the as-
sociation during the past year. From this docu-
ment we need only extract the concluding para-
graph, which said—" If the Liberals of North
Warwickshire will exert themselves in furtherance
of the cause, taking an active interest in the work-
ing of the society, your committee look forward to
the time when the objects of the association will
be fully accomplished." The report was adopted,
and all who are desirous that the purposes for
which the association was established may be at-
tained, will concur in the wishes of the committee.
At the same time it may be noticed that of late
years the achievements of those who have assumed
the direction of the interests of the Liberal cause
in North Warwickshire have not been marked by
so much success as might have been anticipated ;
and it may be hoped that a sense of shortcomings
in the past will be the means of stimulating them
to a better-directed action in the future. North
Warwickshire may be won by the Liberals in two
or three years ; if the present movement fails in
that respect it is because those who are its prime
movers are deficient in the power to rally round
them the Liberal party generally. In alluding to
the result of the election for the county in 1852 we
referred to the folly and absurdity which had dic-
tated the blustering notices to quit which had been
given to Messrs. Newdegate and Spooner. The
county is not to be won by buffoonery of that kind,
and we should be sorry to see a repetition of it.
The meeting yesterday was addressed by most of
the gentlemen named above, and the desirability of
having a candidate ready was strongly urged. On
that there can be•no difference of opinion.

SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last an
accident, nearly attended with fatal consequences, happened
to Mr. Gaston, superintendent of the mills at Barcorn be. It
appears he was standing beneath a trap-door, when a sack of
wheat fell from an upper story direct upon his Tread. In its
descent it struck an intermediate floor, and burst the tie,
consequently the blow was lessened in force, and as Mr. Gas-
ton is a strong thickset man, he withstood the shock, which
dislocated his neck ; but instinctively raising his hands, he
pulled his head up, and the workmen heard the bones snap
again into their socket. Although he still feels the effects
of the blow, yet we aro glad to hear he is recovering, under
the care of his medical attendant, who states that had lie
not acted as he did, his death, in five minutes, would have
been inevitable.—Sussex Express.
FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF- A CHILD FROM FIRE.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. William Carter, coroner for East
Surrey, held an inquest at the Sea Lion Tavern, Wootton-
street, Blackfriars-road, on the body of Mary Ann Cole,
aged four years and a half, who lost her life by being fright-
fully burnt through the accidental ignition of her clothing.
The evidence of several witnesses tended to prove that the
deceased was the daughter of Stephen Cole,
.a porter, living
at No. 5, Sigwell-place, Broadwall, New-cut. She was
left in the care of her grandmother, who had occasion to
leave the room for some water, and on her return found the
poor girl with her clothes on fire. The grandmother with
groat difficulty extinguished the flames. Dr. Jones was
called in, but was unable to preserve life, the deceased being
much burnt about the neck, face, chest, and arms. The
deceased herself admitted that after her grandmother left
the room she took the candle off the table to look for a
needle which had fallen on the floor, when her clothes
caught fire. The coroner, in summing up, said that he
had not had a case of the above description for some time,
but as the winter approached such cases always unfortu.
nately increased, -as the poor had to leave their children
with a fire or candle, of course, for a much longer time
than during the summer, The Jury returned a verdict of
"Accidental Death."