The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-02 00:00:00

HONG KONG.

Mr. FORTESCUE moved for copies of, or extracts
from, any papers connected with the confinement of
Chinese prisoners at Hong Kong, and with the trial
of a baker and others on the charge of poisoning.—
Ordered. _

MEDICAL PROFEr,SION (No. 1.) BILL.
Mr. ILEADLAM, after presenting a great number
of petitions in favour of his bill, moved its second
reading.
Mr. CR&WFORD rose to move that the' bill be read
a second time that day six months. The hon. gentle-
man proceeded to describe the difference of opinion
that existed when the subject of medical reform
was formerly ' under their consideration, and re-
gretted that the bon. gentleman had not thought it
necessary to consult the committee that had sat upon
the subject, and that by adopting the present course he
had totally disregarded the resolutions that had been agreed
to. He strongly objected to this bill, as if passed it would
not carry out its object. Now the bill of his noble friend
was one of a totally different nature, its provisions were
so admirable that he felt it a great honour to have had
his name placed at the back of the bill. The hon. gen-
tleman concluded by comparing the present bill with
that of Lord Elcho's, and said the lat'er was by far the
best, as it would.greatly improve the medical profession,
and benefit the public.

'Viscount BCRY supported the bill. The object of
the amendment was to throw out the bill of the hon.
member for Newcastle, and to substitute for it the bill
of the noble lord.

Col, SYKES said be approved of the principles of both
bills, the object of both being to improve the system of
education of medical men, and to extend the
liberty of practising to the whole of the Unitel
Kingdom. (H• ar, hear) He approved of some of
the points in loth of the hills; but in consequence of the
bill of the noble lord providing for nominations by the
Crown, he should oppose it, and vote for the bill brought
forward by the non. member for Newcastle. .
THE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION COMMITTEE.
At this point in the debate,
Mr. DEISY appeared at the bar, and reported that
the Cambridge Committee assembled this morning, and
after sitting an hour—the Marquis of Blandford being
absent—a telegraphic messsgs was received from the
noble lord, stating he was attending the deathbed of his
father, the Duke of Marlborough. Since then he had
received another communication from the noble lord, to
the effect that the nob!e duke was dead. He therefore
moved that the Marquis of Blandford be discharged from
further attendance ou the committee.

The motion was agreed to..
The debate upon the Medical Reform Bill was then
resumed.

Colonel FRENCH said in order that the house might
know the exact course t‘, e noble lord intended to pursue
he ought distinctly to state his intentions.
Mr. W. EWARP greatly preferred the bill of the
noble lord (Elcho), although the system proposed by the
hon. member for Ne vcastie was very alluring. The
former bill he considere more workable. He did not
seilt that there was any objection to the Crown nomina-
tion as the board was a national one and responsiole to
Parliament. '

Mr. BLACK said he should have preferred a more
liberal measure than ember of the bills, but he thought
that No. 3 bill was the best, and such beling the case he
should support the amendment.
Mr. NEALE said be sand vote for the second read-
ing of the present bill, as he considered it the best of the
two.

Mr. VANCE supported the motion for the second
reading of the present bill. The bill of the noble lord
violated existing rights, which had been granted by
Royal charter, while that of the hon. member for New-
castle protected them.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he should oppose both
bills, as he looked on them as anything but reform bills.
(Hear, hear.). The examination of practitioners he
thought should not rest either with nominees of the
Crown or self-consituted bodies. What the public wanted
was liberty to select their own medical attendant. We
had a State church, a State la N, and the present was an
attempt to . force upon the pulslio State physic.
(Laughter.). It was stated to be the object of both the
bills on the paper to put down medical quackery, but
be thought that there was a quackery which required
putting down just as much as that, and that wa legisla-
tive quackery. The bodies which this bill sought to pro-
tect he had no Confidencs in, as they had committed some
of the moat egregious blunders possible. This assertion
was borne out by the fact that the inventor of ft. tourni-
quet and the prescriber of cantharides had both been
• sent to Newgate at the instance of the head of the Col•
lege of Physicians. The Medical Reform Bill the public
required Was one with a schedule Ain it. (Laughter.)
Lord ELCHO defended his bill, and said he only sub-
mitted his measure from a sense of duty -'--not to ob,truct
the medical protesion. The existing anomalies required
amending. If the principal medical adviser of her Majesty
in Scotland—Professor Simpson—was called to consult
upon the state of her Majesty's health in this country,
be would be liable to prosecution. Another of the ano-
malies wastbat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who
had the privilege of granting medical degree-.
without passing an examination. The bill in
which he was interested had been approved of by a
committee of this house in preference to that of the hon.
miinter for Newciatte, • and* therefore he coni,ended it
was the best; and ought to meet with the approval and
in-4;6a of the house. The noblelord then compared the
principle and provisions of the bid of the committee and
that of the hon. member for Newcastle, which he con-
trasted; and said 'Oat the bill of the hon. member for
Newcastle would establish a monopoly ,which he (Lord
Elcho) very much objected to. (Hear, hear.) After
some further remarks in favour of his own
bill, the noblelord said that he bad received a memo-
raodurn from the medical professors ef Jersey, asking to
be placed under the provisions of this bill, and be also
referred to the unanimity of the profession in its favour.
He called upon the house to reject the bid No. 1, and
&dot.* tell No. 3.
_ _

5. Because divorce from'this cause is justified as
Scriptural by the highe.t eccl-siastical authorities.
It is well known that at the Reformation the subject
was anxiously and carefully 'considered by prelates
and divines eminent for learning and piety, and
that they came to the conelu.ion that wilful asser-
tion was a scriptural ground for divorce. We find
the names of Archbishop Cianiner, of the Bishops
of London, W ncliesrer, Dy, Exeter, and other!, ;
of Latiuier, Parker, &c.; of Peter Ma kyr, ---Wf
.artin
Bucer, Beza, Luther, Melaucthon, Calvi.:,, jzo.
.
among thoes who maintained this optnion, and
which was adopt,-11 by the whole bod-1
Protes-
tants on the cintineiit of Europe. of
Accordingly,
this has be,n the acknowledgfd doctrine of all
their churches to the present day. We find the
s .me doctrine expressly stn red and adopted in the
g
Bth Article on D vorce ie.,. the 4,Reformatio Le
um
Eccle-ia-ticarurn," no'apiled under the authority of
Henry VIII. and E.,:iward VI., which body of laws
—although it diva
not receive the confirmat.on of
the Crown, in consequence of the early and unex-
r;Jected de.aila. of King Edward, has always, as the
Commissioners on the Law of Divorce, in their re-
port, ,ustly observe, been considered of great an-
tio:tt • . We also find that at a more recent period
a right rev. prelate, eminent for learning and talents
(Cozens, Bishop of Durham), in his celebrated argu-
ment delivered in this house, in the case of Lord
Roos, maintained the same opinion. His words are
these—" The promise of constancy in the marriage
ceremony does not extend to tolerating adultery or
malicious desertion, which dissolve the marriage."
6. Because, by the law of Scotland, wilful deser-
tion, as in all the Protestant churches on the con-
tinent, is considered to 'toe a Scriptural ground for
divorce, and the la 7; in this respect is regarded by
all the first autkorities in that country not only to
be free from
teconvenience, but as just and highly
beneficial. We further deem it to be most desirable
7:eon such a subject as marriage and divorce,
taIIII".a.: ictling as it does the whole social system, the
same law should, as far as practicable, prevail in
bo,h parts of the kingdom, and the more so as con-
The Peninsulor and Oriental Company notified tinned experience has sown the great inconvenience
by the difference and anomalies of the
terdav that a Ter:notion of 25 per cent. wouldb yes-
in their ratsa of passage money for all officers on' male
two systems.
occasionedpired furlough compelled to return to India durinunZ
next two mouths. It is said that the
number oi! fur- 7. Because, as to the objections of thd of its ten-
proposed
lough is 800,
extension of this m-asure on the groun
deney to demoralise society, thisis not only dis-
[Areizari3z]ieyr.l—We hive re-;d with much pleasure Du Proved by the example of Scotland, but a careful
'Barry's report on the cure of tßseases without medicine by Du
Barry's Food, of Indigestion(
(dyspepsia),' Flatulency, Constipa- tholic countries
examination of the state of *society in Roman Ca-
will we think, lead to the conclu-
tion, Nervous, Bi!ions, awl iverComplaints Cough, Asthma, z,ion that the
Consumption, and Deby:ity. The following are a few extracts riage is far le morality than the
less favourable to .
I appeartomeritthe attention of many :—Cure
whic i No. 47,121. - •
opposite doctrine, accomprinciplepanied with a cautious
—Miss Elizabetli JacObs, of Hazing Vtarage, Waltham cross,
exercise of the power of divorce in such extreme
Beds; a cure, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gather-
ings, low spiAts, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 48,314. cases as those of adulte,
whatY and malicious desertion.
Miss Elizab,eta Yeoman, Gateacre, near LiverpBol: a cure of 8. Because, as to .
10 years' •Ayspepsia and all the horrors of nervous irritahhility. to the law of our to
courts we answer
that the object of the present billthrow bout •
is urged with reference
Cure 62
1854,- ,tll2.—Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9. t Dec.,
, r Countess of Castlestuart feels Induced, g is to
-.The Do
amend that law and
in t4•-=she interest Ofa'etr • , humanity, to state that Du Barry's i to render it more .consistent
eYcenent Itevaleusuta suffering
Food has cured her, after with reason and justice ; and, with respect to the
all , medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great Church of England, we will merely repeat what we
-tervousness and irritability of many years' standing. This - find stated in the argument of the learned !relate
lood deserves dm confidence of all sufferers, and may be con to which we have already referred—viz , that " W
sidered areal blessin an g. Inquiries will be cheerfully cannot see why they are to be styled the Chun, e 1 of
his reed by testimonials from the celebrated prolsoors of
England who join with the Council of Trent, rather
Chemistry, Dr. Andrew DTs. Dr ll ' el • Dr Harvey ,
Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattikee ; ijrh ran ~
Dr.. Ingiwn : i than those who join w ith all the reformed churches,
Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dow.age urzer, e
of
sc
e.
I I and plead against the canon of the Church of Rowe,
btuart; Major-Con. Thomas King, and nia
r Counter ucata...e
Tie bl Iwhich hash laid an anathema upon us if we do nut
persons, whose health has been restored byy?thefr're-s ii othe 1 •
te a. h th m "
tr agree With e .
means of cure had failed. For further i)r,
ine this invaluable food oui readers are ref ,oculars lespm-
0
sired toDu Barry's
advertliemenii in another part of th ,1„,,.?„,.
i. • .

Air..NAPIER supported the bill No. 1. He entered
into the principle of both the bills, contrasting it and
their details with the report of the select committee
appointed last session to enquire into the principle and
de'ails of Mr. Headlani's medical bill of that session. He
called upon the house to eupPort the second reaoing of
the bill, which which would have the effect of improving
the profession generally throughout the country.
Mr. COWPER, in reply to the hon. and learned
member for the University of Drolio, expressed
his surprise that the representative of an uni
versity could be found to support a bill that proposed
to deprive it of granting medical degrees. Ile (Mr.
Cowper) approved of the bill No. 3 over that of hilt No.
2, and expressed an opinion that the principle in
discussion did not rest on the formation of the coun-
cil under either of the bills, but that how they
should provide hereafter legally quAlified practi.
tioners.. After sorn, further remarks on the gen:n.3l
•qtiestion of - medical education, there were loud cries
of divid., on which the hon. gentleman turned ro-ond and
said, " We shan't divide just yet, and if I leave off some-
body else must speak." (Loud laughter.) Die right hon.
'gentleman, nowever, continued to addr,ess the house
amidst continued cries of " Divide."

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A 'H
lit EADLA having rerlied,
The hone divided, when the utir.ibers were—
For the second reading .. 225
Against it
.••••
Majority ... 147
The bill was then rea,.., a second time.
Lord ELCIIO MEDICAI4 PPLOFESSION (No. 3)
BILL.
eithdres; this bil'.
Sir
, Y. ,P.-OCIIDALE ELECTION.
J. I .dt.TLLER brought up the report of this ebm-
•mittee, w'Ach declared the sitinz membe eled.
The °Aber orders were disposed ot, andr duly
the hmect e ad-
jourßea at six o'clock.

LYNDHURST.
Ht/TCHINSON.