The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

THE PORT OF GLOUCESTER.

We learn that there has been a very considerable
falling off of the trade of this port during the past
summer. It has arisen, however, entirely from the
diminution of corn importations, which in 1849 were
more than 30,000 tons in excess of those of 1850.
The timber trade is on the increase, and there is a
fair prospect of more flourishing times. The Canal
Company are using vigorous measures to facilitate the
trade. Hitherto, owing to the accumulations of mud,
large vessels have been obliged to lighten at Sharp-
ness, at great expense in labour and loss of time; but
the dredging operations now going on will soon enable
vessels drawing 1t feet of water to come up to
our docks without breaking bulk. This is tan-
tamount to a reduction of freights to this port,
as it reduces the charges on the shipper.
The company also intend to erect a quay for the
shipment of navy timber; and Gloucester being the
outlet of Herefordshire, from whence a large portion
of the materials for our " wooden walls" are obtained,
this may probably become an important branch of
traffic of the port. A spirited individual, Mr. Guest,
contemplates running a steam-boat between Glouces-
ter and Sharpness, for the conveyance of passengers
at a low rate. The communication between the
points is at present very defective, as there is no re-
gular conveyance between the railway station at
Berkeley and the Point. The boat, it has been pro-
posed, should make the passage in less time, and at
much less cost, than it could be accomplished by the
old route. An experimental trip was made a few
days since, on the canal, with a boat built at Bristol,
but the propeller made so much wash, as to threaten
injury to the banks. This boat will not, therefore,
be allowed to ply ; and we believe it is a matter of
doubt whether another will be procured. Regular
steam communication on the canal would certainly be
a great accommodation to the mercantile community,
and, in all probability, would largely develope plea-
sure traffic.—Gloucester Journal.

MEDICAL HONOURS.
THE WALKER TESTIMONIAL.

In the magnificent oration made by
Phillips, F.R.S., on commencing, a few days ago, the
winter sessional business of the Westminster Hospital
Medical School, there occurred a passage which is
worthy of a corner in the columns of every daily and
weekly newspaper throughout the kingdom. The
lecturer had just previously been contrasting the ser-
vices which medical men render to their country and
their kind with those rendered respectively by soldiers,
by sailors, by lawyers, by clergymen, and comparing
the honours and emoluments which these latter attain
as compared with the former. After observing that
no coronet had ever graced the brow of a medical
practitioner, although he may have toiled a long life
in his country's service—may, like Jenner, have
stayed a plague—may have obtained a reputation
world-wide—may have acquired wealth enough to
maintain a high station, he proceeds thus :—" True it
may be that Hippocrates was crowned by the Athe-
nians, and that Charles IX. threw his mantle over
Par 6 on the night of the fearful massacre of St.
Bartholomew. But what honours were conferred on
Galen, on Harvey, on Sydenham, on Hunter ? It
happens, too, that the medical men who have devoted
themselves to their country's service are not com-
monly successful candidates for fees, and their reward
is only to be met with in their own bosoms. If the
honours of the peerage or the comforts of a
well earned pension be withheld from him, it might
be that he found his reward in some place of trust or
profit. low stands the case ? It is notorious that
great but remedial sanitary evils prevail over the
country, tending to swell the registers of deaths.
The evidence of the existence of such evils, and the
mode of remedying them, have been pointed out by
medical men. The existence of the evil complained
of has been acknowledged by society, the necessity of
lessening them has been forced upon the Government.
Legislative enactments have been made on the sub-
ject; a board has been created, with powers to carry
remedies into effect ; but no medical man finds a
place upon that board. A single individual urged
upon the public from year to year the evils of intra-
mural interments. For years his voice was almost
urheeded ; still he persevered, and ultimately the
justice of his views and the necessity of putting and
end to intramural interments are generally acknow-
ledged. Powers are obtained from Parliament to form
a board to grapple with this evil, but no place upon
it is found for the man who raised the cry and urged
it upon society until a remedy was enacted."
This reference to the sixteen years of laborious
service rendered by Mr. George Alfred Walker in the
cause of intramural burial abolition must be highly
gratifying to the committee of gentlemen now en-
gaged in the collection of a "testimonial fund," in
order to give some tangible expression to the national
gratitude.

LIB TINDAL STATUE.—The final arrangements
are now so far completed, that this statue will doubtlesn,
rear its classic form in the centre of our town in the courser;
of two or three weeks. At a meeting of the committee on
Wednesday, the following inscription, to be in bronze letters
on the pedestal, was adopted; it is from the pen of Mr. Jus-
tice Talfourd, and is well adapted, from its appropriateness and
beauty of language, to adorn cur local work of art :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR NICOLAS CONYNGHAM TINDAL, KNT., D.C.L.,
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,
BORN AT CHELMSFORD, A. D. 1776,
DIED A. D. 1846.
ERECTED
A. D. 1850,
TO PRESERVE FOR ALL TIME
THE IMAGE OF A JUDGE
WHOSE ADMINISTRATION OF ENGLISH LAW,
DIRECTED BY SERENE WISDOM,
•
ANIMATED BY PUREST LOVE OF JUSTICE,
ENDEARED BY UNWEARIED KLNDNESS, .
AND
GRACED BY THE MOST LUCID STYLE,
WILL BE HELD BY HIS COUNTRY

IN UNDYING lIIIIIIMBRANCE.
As soon as the inscription is completed the statue will be
placed on its site, but we believe the inauguration by a publio
festival is likely to be dispensed with.—Essex Herald.
THE SEIZURE OF STOLEN PLATE IN THE
It is gratifying to be enabled to announce that the acti-
vity of the officers of the detective police in seizing the stock
of Mr. Sirrell, of Barbican, appears likely to bring to light
robberies of an important character in London and elsewhere.
Although only a few hours have elapsed since the plate and
jewels found upon the premises were removed to Scotland.
yard, already two owners of purloined articles have identified
' their property among the stock of Mr. Sirrell. Mr. Argent.
of the Rainbow Tavern, Fleet-street, yesterday morning at-
tended in Scotland-yard, and in a very short time recognised
plate belonging to himself, from which the mark had been
almost obliterated. Mr. Lovegrove, of the London Coffee-
house, has also claimed some spoons and forks; and the pro.
prietor of Dolly's chop-house, in Paternoster-row, has been
communicated with on the subject of some articles supposed
to have been stolen from his coffee-room. The officers of the
London and Liverpool plice continue to avail themselves of
the electric telegraph, and frequent communications pass to
and fro daily. Last evening it was ascertained that a pair
of salt-cellars, forming a portion of the plate sent up to
Mr. Sirrell by Maguire on Wednesday, were stolen, with
other property,from the house of Mrs, Tinley, No. 4, Peel-
street, Liverpool, on the night of the 28th ult. It is not ex-
pected that the prisoners will undergo any lengthened exa-
mination this day. It is understood that Mr. Dowling will
ask the magistrate to grant a further remand, in order to
allow the evidence to assume a collective form. Mr. Sirrell
has, it is said, retained Mr. Montague Chambers to watch the
case on his behalf.

The prize essay upon " The Laws respecting the
Protection of Women," for which the Associate Institution
for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of
Women has offered 100 guineas, is to be historical, theoreti
cal, and practical. We stated a few days ago that the Bishop
of Oxford, Mr. Page Wood, M.P., and Mr. Roundell Palmer,
M.P., have consented to act as adjudicators.
The new planet Victoria, discovered by Mr. Hind,
has had its proposed name and laurel symbol accepted by
the astronomers of England, Prussia, and Denmark. Ita
period, of revolution, Mr. Bind states, will probably be
nearly the' same as that of Iris, perhaps a little longer,.
Literary Gazette.
It is said that the recent movement of the tailors
against the slop system has not been entirely fruitless. The
combined,tailors and a
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to
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public
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told that they intend to take in wolk and execute orders oa
the co-operative principle.—Liverpool Mercury.