The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-25 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1835.

and throw the odium of rejecting such measures upon
the Tories, it will be the most popular, and therefore
the strongest, Administration, that ever swayed the
destinies of Great Britain.

The desperate efforts which the Tories are making
to supplant the Ministerial candidates, whom the ac-
ceptance of office has sent back to their several con-
stituencies, ought to warn the Government in time of
the necessity of introducing immediate measures for
purifying the Representative system. So long as it
continues in its present state there will, and can, be no
security against the attacks upon the freedom of the
people, which the Tories, by the strong arm of corrup-
tion, will never relax in making. Let the Reformers
look to this in good time while the hour is their's.
The purity and freedom of Election, shorter
Parliaments, and a less intolerant restriction of
the Suffrage, are not yet a forgotten song. The
more speedily these important subjects are ad-
justed to the wants of the people, the sooner will
the corrupt influences of the Tories be effectively crip-
pled, and the unshackled liberty of election—the only
means by which public opinion in its real force and
undoubted truth can be ascertained—be established.

Hope still lingers with the Tories, and their resto-
ration to place they yet believe to be neither improba-
ble nor distant. There is but one certain mode that
can be employed to defeat their attempts to perpetuate
the stagnant condition of Church and State affairs, and
that mode is by carrying into instant effect those salu-
tary improvements in the Representation of the people
which have been so long the ardent desire of every
true Reformer. What avails it to speak of
this or that question—the Church, municipal
Corporations, Ireland—the settlement of which is
agitating the public mind ? How can any question of
such magnitude be finally disposed of, whilst the Tories
are possessed of the means of procrastinating and de-
feating its decision, by holding seats in Parliament
obtained mainly through corrupt influences. To neutra-
lise those influences is, or ought to be, the first, the prime,
object ; when that is done, and not till then, we may
hope to see errors acknowledged, abuses corrected, and
misgovernment prevented.
For the sake of the people, then, as well as, for its
own sake to the MELBOURNE Ministry, it should be a
point of paramount importance that not a day's un-
necessary delay should intervene between the inten-
tion, and the act, of rectifying the abuses
which now prevail. Who shall declare, in times
of political commotion like these, how long the
present or a succeeding Government shall continue ?
If the Reformers would protect the public liberty
against Tory aggression, let them begin at the begin-
ning—let them reform the electoral law—and then the
Tories, aye, or the Prince of Darkness himself, may
be defied. There is not one question of the many
that press for consideration—not even that of the
Church—which should take precedence of this :- keep
them all in abeyance till the law of Election be purified.
Again we say, Reformers, look to it instantly, while
the hour is your's.

The Report of the Select Committee appointed to
inquire into the laws, regulations, and usages relating,
to the education and practice of the Medical Profes-
sion, and parts 1 and 2 of the evidence given
before the Committee, have been laid before the House
of Commons. In consequence of the extent of the
evidence, which obliged the Committee to continue
the examination of witnesses until the latest period of
last session, the Committee state that they had not
time to bestow on the evidence that consideration which
was necessary to lay before the Haase their conclusions
and opinions thereon ; and they ecommand the re-ap-
pointment of the Committee during the present session
for that purpose. It is our intention to quote or con-
dense the most important parts of the evidence ; and
we are only prevented from inserting the commence-
ment of it to-day by the press of matter relating to the
re-election of the Members who form part of the new
Ministry.
The evidence given before the Committee exposes a
system of selfish, narrow-minded monopoly and fla-
grant injustice that is in perfect keeping with those
abuses in close Corporations, in the Church Establish-
ment, and in various departmems of the State, to
which the hand of Reform is now about to be unspar-
ingly applied. Patronage, not talent, has been
the key to medical honours ; a pro forma ch-
gree from Oxford or Cambridge has gained ad-
mission into the College of Physicians, while it has
-been refused to the most eminent professional merit.
It will be seen from the evidence, that the ad-
mission into the College of Physicians is almost en-
tirely restricted to the Graduates of the two English
Universities ; although no difficulty was found in de-
parting from the usages of the College when his late
Majesty requested the President to make his physician a
Fellow of the College I Will it be believed, too, that
the College refuses admission to any one who prac-
tices midwifery—one of the most important and
necessary branches of the profession—because they
consider it as " a sort of manual occupation,"
and, therefore, "as disparaging to the highest
grade of the profession" I It appears, that at
Oxford and Cambridge, those precious schools for the
study of medicine whose degrees alone can enable a
candidate to be admitted into the sanctum sanctorum
of the College of Physicians, there are no Lectures on
Physiology, none on Pathology, none on Materia Me-
dica, and the Learned Professor explains and illustrates
the process of incubation by means of one-and-twenty
eggs of different ages ! It will, of course, be imagined
that the candidate is strictly examined at the Uni-
versities, before conferring so important a degree
as the one which is to admit him into the Col-
lege of Physicians. But, deceive not yourself,
gentle reader, for it is clearly stated in evidence
by one who went through the farce himself, that on ar-
riving at Oxford he entered his name at St. Alban's
Hall, went the next day to the Senate House, read
some syllogisms, took the oath of allegiance, and was
dubbed an Oxford Doctor of Medicine, without under-
going any medical examination whatever, and not re-
maining in Oxford twenty-four hours altogether
The exclusive use of the latin language in examina-
tions, and the bye-law of the College which compels
surgeons to be disfranchised as such before admission
as physicians, instead of requiring candidates, on the
contrary, to have studied surgery, are also among the
absurd and injurious practises which are exposed in the
evidence.

Madrid Papers to the 16th inst. have been received.
The Chamber of Procuradores continues to discuss
the settlement of the internal debt, this being now a
question of paramount importance. The fist article of
the Bill was passed during the sitting of the 14th. It
simply suspends all payments to ecclesiastical corpora-
tions now vacant, or which shall become vacant, until
the Legislature shall have determined the changes
about to be made in the disposal of Church property.
The QUEEN has determined not to leave Madrid for
Aranjuez, until the effect of VALDEZ'S appearance in
the north is fully ascertained.
General MINA has addressed a despatch to the Mi-
nister of War, dated the Bth inst., from Pampeluna,
containing the reasons which induce him to seek to re-
tire from the command in Navarre. These reasons are
—want of health and the necessity of a General being
placed in command able to take the field in person.

He states that he did all in his power to conceal his
illness,while the QUEEN'S forces were weak, and so long
as there was no other person to whom her MAJEsTY
would entrust the command of the Army ; but now that
the troops are sufficiently numerous, and that approved
officers can be found to supersede him, he cannot with
justice to his Queen, his country, and himself, with-
hold the fact of his incapacity,. from bodily infirmity,
to discharge those functions which constitute the ne-
cessary and imperative duties of the Commander-in-
Chief.

The Paris papers of Thursday have been received.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, a long
debate took place on the subject of slave emancipa-
tion, which was finally adjourned to the sitting on the
following day. The debate arose on an item in the
Bill for granting 900,000. francs to defray the expenses
of the Marine and Colonial Departments for the pre-
sent year.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Arum 23.
Five per Cents., 107 f. 85c 55c./50c.
Four per Cents., 92f. 10c.
Three per Cents., 82f.
Bank Actions, 1,960 f. —e.
Rente de Naples, 98f. Mc. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102,4;4 103.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 50 50U.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 32.
Royal Spanish Loan, 49;4
Itente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 49 40%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102%.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 98%14.
Haytian Loan, 432 f. 447 f. 50e.
ExcitaNne ON LONDON.
Oraa month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 251 457.
Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 3234 c.
—Cours Authentigne.'

BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK.—The Rentes are stationary
between 82f. and 82f. sc. ; little business is doing. Spanish
securities are in demand, and notwithstanding the articles in
the Messager and Journal du Commerce about the Differes,
they have only declined about per cent. There is much spe-
culation in the Haytian bonds ; they have risen to-dayto 4501.,
and a further improvement is expected.
QUARTER TO Foua o'CLoex.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 75c. ;
Three per Cents., 821. 10e ; Five per Cents., Spanish,
491 ; Three per Cents., ditto, 311; Cortes, 504 ; Coupons,
32 ; Guebhards, 491 ; Differes, 221; New Loan, 68-:} ;
Ducats, 98 80 ; Romans, 103; Belgians, 1022-; Pedros, 981 ;
Dutch, 37 90 ; Haytians, 450 ; Brabant Bank, 20i prem.

Advices from Athens to the 12th of March have
been received. They bring us long, but uninteresting
accounts of the state of the army, and the proportion
between the number of native and foreign officers and
men. The Government Journal states that Greece
has thirteen battalions, consisting of 728 Greek, and
36 German companies, or 2,400 Greek, and 3,290
German soldiers, with 533 Greeks, 54 Philhellenes
(who received their commissions under former Govern-
ments), and 144 German officers. The number of
officers of the former light corps is 200, and the total
number of officers in the Greek army is 731.

We have just received a letter, which will be found
in another column, relating to the practical operation
of the principle of the new Poor Law. We have not
time now to enter into a discussion of the subject, but
the facts there mentioned speak volumes in reply to
the absurd and unfounded objections so constantly
made against the new Act. Here is a parish in
which the rates for maintaining the poor amounted
formerly to from 1,2001. to 1,3001. per annum, be-
sides incurring debts ; and now that the new system
has been introduced, the expenditure for that purpose,
last year, was only 524/. 3s. 11d./

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, APRIL 24.—Wind N., moderate.—Arrived the Pallas,
Green, from Dublin. Arrived from the River and sailed the John,
Dixon, for Sidney ; Majestic, Carr, for Bordeaux ; Duchess of
Kent, Lamb, for Quebec ; Rambler, Hail, for Cadiz ' • Ilusco Castle,
Murray, for Constantinople ; Mitf,rd, Taylor, for Mogasiore. Ar-
rived and proceeded the Arcade, Wilson, from flannelly to Lon-
don ; Success, Wheeler, from Arundel to Newcastle ' • Camilla,
Anderson, from Portsmouth to Sunderland ; Mary Ann, Carpenter,
from Arundel to Shields ; Venus, Harvey, from Arundel to Shields ;
Columbine, from Shields to Alexandria.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Wind N.
DARTMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Arrived off port the Emerald, Paul-
son, from St. Croix.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 24.—Arrived the Robert, Hamilton, from
Savanilla; Propontis, Pratt, from Mobile ; Globe, Micuhen, from
Savannah; Grace, White, from Virginia. Off port the General
Gaseoyne, Fisher, from China; Higginson, Gillesrie, from Bar-
bacloes ; Martha, Greaten, from New Orleans; Susan Ann, Car-
gill, from Bahia—sailed 21st ult. ; Margaret Forbes, King, from
New Orleans ; Hamilton, Balls, from New Orleans ; Snowden,
Gemmill, from Charleston, sailed 24th ult. ; and Ambassador,
Upton, from New Orleans.
DUE LIN, Arm'. 22.—Arrived the Atlas, Pearce, from London.
COUN, 22.—Arrived the General Coffin, Andrews, from
St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port the Pacific, Gardner, from
Monte Video ; and Emma, Nelson, from St. Domingo.
FA LMOUTIT, APRIL 23.—Wind N., fresh breezes.—Arrived the
Opossum Packet, from Vera Cruz—sailed the 11th ult., and Ha-
vannah the `2lst; the Fenwiek, Kyle, for Santa Martha; and
Poledora, Huckfield, for Rio Janeiro.

The Robert, Gardner, bound to Montreal, put back to Liver-
pool on the 23:1 inst., with only her lower mast standing.
The
tAleajet:ohttis,niiiiti. leaky.iler,bound to Amsterdam, put back to Charles-
ton on h

Extract from the Agent to' Lloyd's at Vera Cruz :
" On the night of the 24th ult., the soldier:; in the castle of San
Juan Ulica mutinied, and, joined by the prisoners whom they re-
leased, arrested the Governor. Early on the following morning
they attacked the town, but were repulsed. They contmued in a
state of mutiny until the 9th, when their provisions running short,
without hope of succour, they surrendered to the Government
Commander. Between mid-day of the 25th and morning of the
Bth, no vessel was permitted to leave this port, but no outrage was
committed on any foreign flag, and a Government vessel anchored
in the Bay, to order all vessels entering to anchor at Sacrificios.
" His Majesty's ship Arachne is now here to take in specie, and
will sail for Tampico and England 14th inst."