The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-29 00:00:00

TO MR. LA MOTT.

Sut,—Having derived considerable benefit from the use
of Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine, I feel, in duty
bound, to publish the same, that others, in the hour of
extreme affliction, may know where to apply for a certain
remedy. Mine was a severe bowel complaint, and I was
lo telaxed and reduced that I had scarcely any flesh left
.(113°.n My bones; I bad no appetite, and was as weak as
1
'4.. Infant; my sight became so dim and bad that I really
'ought I was going to be blind. I had the advice of
several Medical Gentlemen, and took a great deal of medi-
Vne, but all without effect. Hearing the great fame of
olorison's Pills, I was induced to give them a trial, and I
I'lenanly declare that I had not taken them more than
three days before I found a wonderful change for the better,
40,1 by persevering for a short time am perfectly cured,
'1(1, nay eight is restored and stronger than it was. It is
S:II months since I received this benefit. I take the pills
i°%'' occasionally, and have not enjoyed such good health
ur many years. Your's, respectfully,
J. CASS.
Alec
hanics'-lane, Pottery, August 22, 1832.

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The "Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be bad at
the College,New-road, King's-cross, London ;at the
Sur
Rsurrey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars; at
Q- Field's, 16, Air-street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappel's,
Royal Exchange ; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit-passage,
Lion-square; Mr. J. Lofts, 10, Mile End-road; Mr.
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,town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and
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cif America.
13.—The College will not be answerable fur the con-
sequences of any Medicines sold by any Chemist or Drug-
!jet, as none such are allowed to sell the " Universal
Medicines ;" which can only be had genuine at the Bri-
ti'h Colleg
own andae of He
country.d lth, An of the regularly registered
atents in t

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HOW WILL IT ORK ?Or Conjec-
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The DIVISIONS of COUNTIES and BOUNDARIES
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VALUABLE AND BEAUTIFUL ESTATE IN
STIRLINGSHIRE.
TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC ROUP,

Within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh,
on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of October next, at One

o'clock in the afternoon,
rUHE ESTATE of GARGUNNOCK,
1- five miles west of the tow❑ of Stirling, containing
nearly 1,900 imperial acres, of which about 500 are of a
rich clay soil, about 600 dry-field, and the remainder
sound hill pasture.
The Lands are inclosed and subdivided, and there are
substantial and suitable onsteads to the different farms,
also a Corn Mill, and thriving Distillery.
The MANSION HOUSE, which is partly modern, is
large and commodious, to which is attached a complete
court of offices, as well as farm offices; the Garden is sur-
rounded with a wall, and stocked with fruit trees and
bushes, with Hot-house and Conservatory.
The Cess has been redeemed, the Teinds of the Parish
are exhausted, and the burdens are very trifling.
There is a great deal of valuable old Timber on the
Estate, as well as thriving Plantations of Coppice, &c.,
and the Lands abound with Game.

Viewed as an investment of capital, such an Estate is
seldom in the market. The dry fie:d lands are sm,ceptib:e
of great improvement, at a small expense, which would
yield a liberal return.
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the centre of a pretty extensive lawn, which is ornamented
with beautiful full grown trees, with clumps and belts of
planting along the boundaries, from which Stirling Castle,
the Vale of Forth, and the interesting and romantic
scenery of the West Highlands of Perthshire are seen in the
distance.

Farther informatio❑ may be obtained by applying to
Messrs. Green, Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardiner, soli-
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Ure, W. S., Edinburgh ; or Andrew Hutton, writer, in
Stirling, the latter of whom is in posse,sion of the titles
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Within the Royal Exchange Coffee-room, Edinburgh, on
FRIDAY, the 7th of September, 1832, if not previously
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principles which it has advocated, whether on Parliamen-
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VALUABLE MEDICINES,
(Adapted for the present period.)
TOWERS' CHEMICAL SOLUTION
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THE UNITED SF
and NAVAL and M.
SEPTEMBER, contains

1. Camps of Exercise.
2. Threatened Expedition to

the Scheldt.
3. Dundas's Assimilation of Ca-1

valry and Infantry Tactics.
4. On the Occult Principle.
5. Old English Archery.
6. The British Cavalry on the
Peninsula, by au Officer,
of Dragoons—(Continued).
7. Recollections of a Sea Life,

by a Midshipman of the lasi
century—(Continued).
S. Sketches of the War of the
French in Spain, in the

.
year 1823, No. 4.
9. Life and Adventures of the
Black Joke, lately deceased
at Sierra Leone.
10. New African Expedition.
11. Visit to the summit of Mount

Etna, by Lieut. G. H. P.
White, R.N.
12. Memoirs of the services of
the late General the Earl
of Donoughmore, G. C.B.—
Of the late Vice-Admiral
Sir Israel Pellew, K.C.B.—
And of the late Rear-Ad-
miral James Oughton.
Published by Colburn ant
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stomach, irregularity of the bowels, loss of appetite, dis-
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may be given to weak and delicate children. They are
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SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT, LANCASTER, Auc. 25.

REX Y. DOHERTY.

This was a crimiyal information at the suit of the Rev.
Martin Gilpin, against the defendant for a libel.
Mr. J. WlLLrams stated the case. The prosecutor
was a clergyman. He was the son of Major Gilpin, long
resident and well known in the county, and was at pre-
sent the perpetual curate or incumbent of the church of
St. Thomas, in Stockport. It appeared, (or rather he
ought to say, " it would seeni" for he only knew it from
the publication before him)—it would seem, then, that
some time ago an interment had taken place in that church,
in which it had been found that the coffin was empty,
and that the corpse had been taken away. It would
seem, also, on the same authority, that some time before
the circumstance just adverted to, at the funeral of another
person, an Irishman, which bad taken place at the same
church, the coffin had been found to contain a quantity
of sand, and the corpse, which had been removed out of
the coffin, had been discovered in a very disfigured state
on the table of some dissecting-room. Now it was a
fart, which the Jury would find not immaterial,
that a near relative of the prosecutor (a brother-in-
law, be believed) was a medical man, and they
would find that to a desire to serve that relative the con-
duct charged upon the prosecutor in the libel was
referred.—(Mr. Williams here read the libel, which was
contained in a penny publication, published by the defen-
dant, and called the Poor Man's Advocate. The article
was of considerable length, and in substance stated, that
a person of the name of Perry having been interred in the
church-yard of St. Thomas, Stockport, his widow was
in the habit of repairing to the spot to shed her tears over
his grave ; that the sexton at lenoh informed her that she
was mourning over a spot where her husband's remains
were not, for that his body had been removed, and that Mr.
Gilpin knew it i that tlin widow in a transport of grief,

and indignation had proclaimed the story, and that upon
examining the grave the coffin was found to be empty :
that suspicion bad at first fallen upon the sexton, but that
he had declared that the body had been remove 4. with
the knowledge of Mr. Gilpo, who had watfted4.ti,
swear him (the sexton) to 'secrecy, but ft trd''' re-
fused ; and it was added, !that the slut cion"tliii.
transferred to Mr. Gilpin was considerably strengthener
by the recollection of an occurrence that had` taken
place two years ago, when, at the funeral of an Irishman
at the same church, the mourners, perceiving sand to drop
from the coffin, had caused it to be opened at the church
porch, and then discovered that it was filled with sand,
and that, compelling Mr. Gilpin to accompany them ie
search of the body, they had at length discovered it
in a mutilated state in the dissecting-room of Mr. Gilpin',
relation.) It was his duty to present to them another ex-
tract from a paper, published some time after the first, in
which the same subject and tone were continued. It
ran thus :

1 " Jesus and G—lp--n, so, tis said,
" Both, in their turn, have raised the dead;
" The former broke the bonds of death,
" The latter raised them without breath ;
" One gave them back to light and life,
" The other to the surgeon's knife."
After this, was he (Mr. Williams) not justified in saying
that the prosecutor had been compelled to place his cha-
racter in the hands of the Jury, who would by their ver-
dict do him justice.
James Turner hought a copy of the Poor Man's Advo-
cate in Whitby-lane, Manchester, at the shop of defendant.
Witness had no doubt that the prosecutor was the person
alluded to in the publication.
Another witness bad purchased the second publication,
in which the lines appeared, at the shop of defendant, and
from defendant himself.

The defendant then addressed the Jury in a speech o.
great length, and, in some parts, of considerable ability.
After which, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.

DEATH of the REV. DR. ADAM CLARKE

(From the Christian Advocate.)
This melancholy and unexpected event occurred
at a quarter past 11 o'clock on Sunday night, and
was occasioned by the mysterious. disease to which so
many of all classes have already fallen a sacrifice. The
venerable Doctor was expected to preach at Bays-
water on Sunday morning, and, as usual, a large con-
gregation was assembled to hear him ;but while they
were lost in conjectures as to the cause of their dis-
appointment, intelligence arrived that he had been
suddenly taken ill, and was not expected to survive
the attack. Mr. Thurston, of Catherine-street,
Strand, who had been long favoured with the Doc-
tor's friendship, had gone to Bayswater expecting
to hear him, and, on learning that he was seized
with choler►, immediately went to Mr. Hobbs's
house, in Bayswater, where Dr. Clarke was stay-
ing, and remained with him till nearly noon, when
he started in a chaise to Heydon-hall, the Doctor's
own residence, for Mrs. Clarke, who returned with
him about half-past 5, and found her distinguished
husband breathing with great difficulty. The Doc-
tor had been relaxed as to his bowels for a week
past, and was attacked with alarming symptoms
about six o'clock on Sunday morning, when he de-
sired Mr. Hobbs's servant to call her master, who
immediately obeyed the summons. On returning to
bed, he told slr. Hobbs that " he thought be should
die," on which that gentleman recommended him to
put his trust in his Saviour; the Doctor replied,
that lie had done so already. All that could be done
by the united skill and exertions of the medical
gentlemen in attendance was effected, but without
affording any prospect of recovery. The Doctor
said very little, being greatly exhausted. Indeed,
he was at times insensible, as was evinced by his
occasional questions and observations, such as,
" What do the doctors think of me ?" " Have
they bled me ?" " Rub my legs." His sons,
Theodore and John, and his daughter, together with
his afflicted wife, were present at his death. Dr.
Clarke's remains are to be interred at the City-road
Chapel to-morrow (this day) at 12 o'clock.
Dr. Clarke was born in Ireland, but his father, a
mar, of great learning, was an Englishman, and his
mother a native of Scotland. His birth took place
near Magherafelt, in the county of Londonderry, in
1763. He took early a serious turn, and his boy-
hood was passed in acquiring the rudiments of a
classical education, and in attending to the concerns
of his father's farm. He was afterwards placed
with Mr. Bennet, a large linen manufacturer ; but,
taking a dislike to the business, he left that gentle-
man. He was brought, by letter, under the notice
of the Rev. John Wesley, and became a pupil of
that great man's school at Kingswood. He had not
long been there, where he displayed considerable
talents and great aptitude in the acquisition of the
dead languages, when Mr. Wesley intimated to him
his intention to send him out as one of his itinerant
preachers. Accordingly, in 1782, he commenced
his labours in that character, and, though but 18
years of age, acquitted himself to the satisfaction
of Mr. Wesley, a competent judge. In 1831, the
Methodist Conference made him a supernumerary, not
only, as we understand, without his knowledge or
consent, but also, as it afterwards appeared, much
against his wish. During this period—a period
which would have been half a century had it ex-
tended to the present time—he travelled in most
parts of England and Ireland. At three several
conferences he occupied the President's chair, and
retained to the last.a popularity which the word po-
pularity is not fitted to describe, for he constantly
enjoyed the mingled veneration, admiration, and
affection of both ministers and laymen of his own
denomination. In 1805, his acquirements obtained
for him the honorary degree of which was
followed in 1806, by that of D.D., and subsequently
by his election as a Member of the Royal Irish
Academy. Of late years he had lived in compara-
tive retirement, but took great interest in the pro-
gress of Christianity, especially in the Shetland
Isles, where he was instrumental in establishing a
Wesleyan Mission, which he continued to foster
with great care.

The barometer has, within these few days,
made an extraordinary rapid fall, being now lower than it
has been at any period since February.
NOT DEAD YET.—A narrow escape from
being buried alive occurred last week at Llanelly. A man,
who it was supposed had died from cholera morbus, and
who exhibited almost unequivocal signs of death, was re-
gularly laid out by his friends for interment, when sud-
denly the suspected deceased person arose from amidst h:s
death-like habiliments, coffin, &c., aed, after staring
about in silent wonderment at the oddity of his situation,
he bolted out of tLe house stark naked, and made off as
quick as he could, exclaiming as loud as be was able,
"I am not dead yet," to the no small terror of the people,
who had assembled to pay their last duties to their friend.
—Carmarthen Journal.
An extraordinary case of suicide occurred on
Sunday in Baltic-street, St. Luke's. A woman, named
DIARY Comas, a respectable shopkeeper, hung herself.
Preparatory to the dreadful act it appears she left a letter,
in which she expresses a wish to be buried in the apparel
she hung herself in, a pair of trousers, &c. A letter also,
enclosing her will, was found thrust between her neck and
the cord, and several letters relating to her family and
connexions, which appear to have been written only a few
hours before her death. Frotn one of the letters it appears
she met at Camberwell fair, a few days ago, a gentleman,
who, having obtruded himself on her notice, and after-
wards made a strong impression on her mind, promised to
see her again ; but in consequence of not doing so, it is
supposed she was induced to commit suicide, although she
had a'husband residing in New South Wales. So deter-
mined was she to put an end to her existence, that she had
tied a 141 b., a 71b., and a 31b. weight to her person, for
the purpose of accelerating her death. A key was also
found attached to the cord, which opened a drawer, in
which was the sum of 71. 10s. for her landlord, and in
another drawer was also 10s. in a tea-cup, and a gold
watch.

(PRICE 7D.)

ON VOTING BY BALLOT.

The attempts made by candidates and their
,friends to intimidate electors, have brought this
subject again under discussion, and opinions in
favour of the ballot have been strongly expressed
, -
:by some of our contemporaries. The evil com-
plained of is, that by open polling, electors " are
exposed to the hardship of injuring themselves
in their interests, or to the crime of offering up
their conscience a sacrifice to their interests."
Tenants in farms and shopkeepers are the chief
victims of this intimidation, and it is expected that
the ballot will afford them complete protection.
The question is not of easy solution ; but the
grand difficulty attending it appears to us not to
have been generally perceived. It is assumed,
that if candidates and their friends cannot dis-
cover how electors vote, there will be no can-
vassing, and no exacting of pledges by grew
landlords and wealthy customers, from their de-
pendents, to support particular interests. We
doubt this extremely. Although open voting
were abolished, pledges of support would still 1)-(.1
exacted by the dominant from the dependent
party ; and if they were, the only boon which
the ballot would confer on the elector, would be
the privilege of playing false with his own honour
and conscience, by first giving a promise (extorted
although it be by fear), and then breaking it, be-
cause only God and himself can know that he does
so. This is no enviable privilege ; and yet it ap-
pears to us at present to be all, or nearly all, thw
the ballot could confer. In the great majority
of instances, the man who gives a solemn pro-
mise, although extorted by dread of patrimonial
loss, will redeem it, notwithstanding of the ballot ;
because he would feel less degraded in surren-
dering, by compulsion, his freedom at the shrine
of his interest, than in staining his soul with
falsehood. To promise, under the influence of
fear, to support a cause of which we disapprove,
is to put our necks under the yoke :—To break
that promise secretly, is not to achieve inde-
pendence, but to add meanness to subjection,
which last may be involuntary, and therefore
not disgraceful. All success in private life, all
valuable public institutions, and all substantial
improvement in the condition of the community,
require intelligence, strong attachment to moral
rectitude, and a bold independent spirit, in indi-
viduals, as their basis. The importance of
Parliamentary Reform, according to our judg-
ment, consists chiefly in its tendency to produce
these qualities in the people, and to improve
their character as moral and intellectual beings.
—Let us beware, therefore, of rashly re-
sorting to a practice which would tend to
cultivate dishonest purpose and cowardly
feeling in electors. If any class of voters
be placed incirsumstances really depen-
dent, they canre rendered free, while these
continue, by a screen which would shield only
their hands, but not their minds, from the in-
fluence of their oppressors. If they are not
truly dependent, but only, through timidity or
a slavish spirit, think themselves to be so, we
recommend that moral means exclusively should
be used to elevate their condition. If we pro-
duce in the minds of this class of electors a clear
perception of the merits of the cause which they
ought to support ; a firm reliance on the power
of right to maintain itself; and a bold energy of
moral resolve ; the feeling of dependence will
vanish ; and with thefeeling the reality will dis-
appear. The danger to the interests of the
humblest individual from acting according to his
conscience, is much less than is generally ima-
gined. It is positively immoral in a rich pro.
prietor to force a poor man to vote against his
conviction—it is persecution in its worst form—
it is essentially a demand that he shall surrender
what is dearer than his birthright, his purity
of mind and consciousness of rectitude, for a
mess of pottage. The practice is so revolt-
ing to every honourable feeling, that it can-
not become general. Pusillanimity in the elec-
tor invites big talking and loud threatening
in hot-headed and furious canvassing politi-
cal agents ; but the great bulk of the commu-
nity consists of honest and virtuous men, who
are incapable of punishing voters for maintaining
their independence. It is our belief, therefore,
that the great majority, even of the Tories, are
incapable of acting so unjust and so injurious a
part. Most of them would disdain to use a
threat ; some who would use it, would shrink
from carrying it into effect ; and only the basest,
and therefore the least respectable and:influential,
would actually put it in practise. For these rea-
sons we consider the common estimate of the
danger to which dependent voters are exposed, to
be considerably exaggerated.

Besides, if one political party abandon a shop-
keeper or tradesman on account of his principles,
the public announcement of this fact will, ac-
cording to the nature of things, bring to him, if
a conscientious and respectable person, ample
compensation in an accession of new customers,
prompted by the love of justice to redress the
injury which he has sustained. The names of
political tyrants, also, who attempt to deprive
humble electors of their freedom, ought to be
published, and such an exposure would bring
down upon the oppressors a storm of public in.
dignation that would speedily arrest their unhal-
lowed exercise of power.
Experience proves that an imperfect convic-
tion of the inherent strength of right, and feeble-
ness of moral resolve, are the grand defects in
electors who feel dependent. In every county
there are tenants, and in every town shopkeepers,
who openly and actively advocate the cause, be
it Whig or Tory, which they prefer; and such
of them as we have conversed with, assure us
that their patrimonial interests have not suffered
by their independence. We have heard of no
well authenticated instances of respectable tenants
being actually ejected, or honest shopkeepers
ruined in consequence of their political opinions.
We have been told by staunch Reformers, who
live by keeping shops, that at first, intimidation
was tried with them ; but that from the moment
when a firm conscientious resolve was announced
on their parts, it ceased to be applied ; and it
some customers actually left them on account of
their principles, new friends were attracted by
the same cause, who afforded them a compen-
sating support. We have heard landlords also
declare, in serious earnest, that in these times a
good tenant is too valuable an acquisition to be
parted with, on account of difference in political
sentiments; and that the men of character and skill
among the tenants, if they only knew their own
position, might vote as independently as their

landlords. Their independence exists; what
wanted, is a conviction in their own minds, that
it does so. They are much more afraid than
oppressed. This, indeed, must be the case.
would be au impeachment of human nature, if
in a civilized community, with a free press, the
humblest individuals could not exercise their
constitutional privileges openly and honestly,
but required a screen to hide them from the fice
of Heaven when discharging the highest duty of
freeborn subjects.
The ballot would annihilate also the public
responsibility which every man incurs who votes
in support of a bad cause. It would bring the
magnanimous and the coward to an equality. It
would put an end to moral persuasion, which
may be successfully applied to a voter who has
erred at one election, so as to lead him to better
views before the arrival of the next. In short, if
ballot be at all necessary, it can be so only on
account of the yet imperfect action of moral
principle in the community at large ; and as its
introduction would increase this weakness, we
desire to see every honest means sedulously em
ployed to protect electors, before it shall ha
adopted as a last resource,—Scotsman.

MEDICAL REFORNI—THE COLLEGE or
SURGEONS.

(Abridged from the Medical Gazette, )
We are told by Mr. Lemuel Gu►liver, of fa-
cetious memory, that when, in the course of his
travels, he visited the Flying Island, he found
his Majesty the King, and his principal cour-
tiers, so much abstracted by " intense specula-
tions," that passing events made no impression
upon them, till their attention was recalled by
an admonitory touch on the mouth from their at-
tendant " flappers." Now we begin to suspect
that the Council of the loyal College of Sur-
geons are somewhat in the predicament of thou
aforesaid Monoich of Laputa, and we respect-
fully offer our s'ervices to them in the capacity
of flappers ; nothing doubting but that our ad-
monitions, which, like those of our prototypes,
are well intended, will, like them, be well re-
ceived.

It has been a thousand times surmised—now
whispered as a secret, and now openly announced
as matter for congratulation—that " something"
was to be done to meet the general wish. What
this something was, no one, indeed, exactly
knew : perhaps the mode of election was to be
altered—perhaps the accounts were to be pub-
lished annually—perhaps the library and museum
were to be farther improved, and rendered
worthy of a great national institution—in short,
there might be difference of opinion as to Ivhat
was intended, but every one agreed that " sonic-
thing" was positively to be done. Now all we
know about the matter is, that if any change, in
the way of improvement, or any act of graceful
concession, be or ever were contemplated, it still 4.
remains unperformed—it still remains as one of
those " intense speculations" described by our
friend Gulliver as occupying the mind, without
influencing the acts of the parties. Will the
Council, then, not be warned ? Will they still
disregard alike the advice of their friends and
the threats of their enemies ? • Arc they so
blind as to fancy that they are popular ? •
It is notorious, that while personally most of
them are esteemed as honourable men and skil-
ful surgeons, and while some of them hold,,the
highest places in science and in practice, yet le
very moment that they are contemplated collec-
tively, through the atmosphere of Lincoln's-Ina
Fields, the whole becomes changed as in a
phantasmagoria, and they assume the ungraci-
ous aspect of monopolists, hostile to liberal
measures, and upholding an obnoxious system
for their own proper and individual gain. Nay,
even their neighbour, Mr. Professor Green,—
who stepped forward some short time ago as a
mediator, and whose distance from the council-
chamber is in every sense of the word so small,
cannot look upon it through the short space that
intervenes, without seeing around its inmates
" descensive" and other bewildering " circles,"
till he becomes involved in the perplexing maze
of " distinction without separation ;" and ail
his proposed improvements are lost in the con-
fusion.

The first point is this—the mode of election
must be changed. It is felt as an anomaly and a
❑uisance ; every member looks upon it as a
personal grievance, and, so long as it endures,
there will be no cordiality between the Council
and the general body of English surgeons—no
bond of union—no mutual feeling, save mutual
jealousy. We are not among those who find
fault merely for the love of censure, or who raise
the hackneyed cry of Reform, to make our
journal sell ; but, looking dispassionately upon
the subject, we have no difficulty in perceiving,
and no hesitation in declaring, that the consti-
tution and management of the College of Sur-
geons is in several respects faulty, and that the
Council do not set about their reformation ar
they ought to do. It behoves them not to wait
till they be driven—they ought to lead ; and we
earnestly exhort them—if they would show that
they prize their own best interests, or do what
seems graceful in the eyes of others—to come
forward, and that quickly too, with some plan of
reformation.

Again, we are told that no such change is
necessary, because the system " works well :"
now we shall not stay to inquire whether this po-
sition be true or not, but shall content ourselves
with declaring, that the question is not whether
the present mode leads to the choice of the best
possible persons as the governing body, but
whether the odium which attaches to the manner
of election does not extend to those elected,
whenever they are contemplated in their corpo
rate capacity. If not co lectively, certainly many
of them did individually, give reason to be-
lieve, that they contemplated some improve-
ments in their system. What has become of them ?
Possibly we may be mistaken, but we think the
college has much more to fear from making it
the wish of all its members to undermine it, than
in giving them a mutual interest in its support,
We take leave, in conclusion, to recommend
to the Council to carry into effect without delay,
some of those " intense speculations " with which
we doubt not they are occupied ;or if it really
be, that by the nature of their charter, they cannot
be so liberal as they would wish, let them re-
member that we shall soon have assembled at St.
Stephen's a Reformed Parliament, consisting of
Members returned by the suffrages of a much
larger body of the people than have hitherto
enjoyed the privilege of voting, and, it is to ly
presumed, the friends of liberal measures.

FATAL ERRATUM.-A printer's widow, in
Germany, while a new edition of the Bible was printing
at her house, one night took an opportunity of going ,nto
the office, to alter that sentence of subjection to her hos.
hand pronounced upon Eve in Genesis, chip. iii. ver. 16.
;he took out the two first letters of the we,rd Herr, and
übstitutA Na in their place, thus altering the sentence
from " and he sha I be thy lord" (Herr) to '6 and he
-,h411 be thy fool" (Nary.). It is .aid her life paid for this
,ntentional erratum ; and that some secreted copies of this
edition have been bought up at enormous prices. Curio-
skies of Literature.