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London, England, 1844-10-19 00:00:00

MEDICAL REFORM.

GENERAL MEDICAL PROTECTION AS-
SEMBLY.

The Committee of this Assembly met on Monday,
the 14th inst., W. Simpson, Esq., in the chair, when
many of the most influential members of the profession
were there, and expressed a lively interest in the pro-
gress of medical reform. Business of great importance
was transacted. Among other matters, Mr. Curtis sub-
mitted to the Committee a series of propositions with
reference to the formation of borough meetings, on a
particular plan, which was warmly entertained, and
a Sub •Committee was finally appointed to take the
subject into further consideration, and report thereon.
The members were ardent in the expression of their
wishes to appoint a time for a general cemference
with delegates from the metropolitan and provincial
associations ; and in order to effect this desirable ob-
ject, Dr. Lynch moved, and Mr. H. Hodson Ruff
seconded, the following resolution :—" That the
Medical Protection Assembly do open communica-
tions with the secretaries of the different associations
in the metropolitan districts and in the provinces, with
a view to make arrangements to hold a conference
with delegates from the same, in order to devise mea-
sures best calculated to insure unanimity of senti-
ment, by which the interests of the profession might
be promoted and strengthened, and to enforce on the
Legislature a due attention to such facts as are ne-
cessary to a correct view of the principles of medical
reform."

The foregoing having been unanimously parried,
the meetingadjourned, at a late hour, to Monday even-
ing, the 21st inst., at eight o'clock.

DERBYSHIRE SESSIONS.
(From the Derby Reporter.)
CROWN COURT—THURSDAY, OCT. 7.
CONVICTION OF A CLERGYMAN FOR A SHOCKING
ASSAULT UPON A CHILD.—The court opened this morn-
ing at half-past nine, and proceeded to try
Alphonsus Win. Henry Rose, aged 32, charged with
having, on the 27th of September, at Glossop, assaulted
one Martha Thornley, with intent then and there vio-
lently and against her will, feloniously and unlawfully,
carnally to know and abuse her.
Mr. WILDMAN opened the case ' for the prosecu-
tion, by stating that the defendant was a clergyman of
the Church of England, and that the offence with
which he was charged was one of a most revolting
nature. The prosecutrix was of the tender age of eleven
years, and the offence was alleged to have been com-
mitted while defendant was on his way home, after
having assisted at a service connected with the church of
which he was a minister. The Learned Gentleman
would not offer unnecessary evidence to the court, but
would at once gate that the first count of the indictment
had been abandoned, and thus the more serious portion of
the charge was done away. He had, as a lawyer, come
to the conclusion—after the most careful consideration
of the evidence—especially that of the medical gentle-
man who had examined the female, that the allegations
in the first count could not be borne out, and it was for
this reason that count was abandoned, and with the
permission of the court they would proceed with the
charge of common assault only. He would add that the
father of the child had that morning refused a large sum
of money from defendant to abandon the prosecution.
Defendant, by advice of his counsel, Mr. Wilmore.
pleaded Guilty, did the Learned Gentleman addressed
the jury at some length in an under tone, but we could
not catch the purport of his observations.
The Learned CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, told
the defendant that he would not distress himself, nor
shock the ears of those who heard him by unnecessarily
reverting to the revolting circumstances connected with
the offence of which he had been guilty. When, how.
ever, he looked into the age of the female, the sacred
profession to 'which the defendant belonged, and to the
fact that he was, at the time of the commission of the
offence, returning from a service connected 'with
the Church of England, he could not imagine a
more shocking or revolting case. The Learned
Gentleman proceeded to state that he was glad
the first count had been abandoned, as had it been
gone into and substantiated, it would have been his duty
to have added hard labour to the punishment he was
about to award. He should not have regretted this as
far as it would have personally affected defendant, but
he should have regretted the extra disgrace to the pro-
fession of which he was a member. The sentence of the
Court was—that he be imprisoned in the common gaol
for twelve calendar months.—[We understand that there
were two other charges of the same shocking nature
hanging over the head of this clerical culprit.]

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or TNTELLIGENCE, WORCESTER, OCT. 16.—We
fwohuerrehohuersr.em
have to note another quick market on Saturday last,
with a further advance upon last week's prices of 3s.
per cwt., and the supply of about 1,400 pockets was
nearly cleared off-1,320 of new, and 13 of old hay •
ing passed the scales ; in addition to which, there
were weighed in the week I,OSt pockets of new, and
81 of old hops. Yearlings are much inquired after, and
command high prices, the finest parcels selling readily at
71. per cwt. Many of our principal growers have sold
the whole of their crop, and opinions are now generally
against 17,0001. duty.— Worcester Journal.
TRIAL BY JURY.—Twelve sapient " good men and
true," selected from the adjacent districts, wore last
Tuesday engaged in trying a case of larceny at the
Worcestershire sessions. The evidence appeared very
clear to ordinary capacities.; but not so to the wise.;
acres in the jury-box, who remained in long and grave
deliberation. At length the twelve turned round toward
the bench, and the officer of the court put the usual.
question, " How say you, gentlemen—is the prisoner at
the bar guilty, or not guilty ?" The foreman replied, to
the astonishment and amusement of the bench, the bar,
and the audience, " We would rather leave it for the
court to decide."

SPIRIT of tbs PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Louis Philippe has left the shores of
England amidst storm and tempest, but bearing with
him the cordial good wishes of the English nation.
Several reflections naturally arise out of this visit
to our shores of, indisputably, the most remarkable
amongst the Sovereigns of Europe. The advan-
tages of peace between the two nations is a point
hardly susceptible of additional demonstration, yet
this moral is pointed in an emphatic manner,
when a powerful and intelligent Monarch not
only proclaims such to be his personal con-
viction, but practically enforces it by his visit to our
Sovereign, and the abstraction of a week from his
multifarious avocations in his own country. It
could never be doubted that such an event would call
forth the bitter hostility of the Opposition press at
Paris, and causes would be at work to produce this
result. The King's presence here as the apostle
of conciliation and good-will between France
and England, provokes, naturally, the antago-
nism of a faction which trades on the excite-
ment of hostile feeling between these countries ;
and this is doubled by the leading member of the
Cabinet being the associate and witness of the Mo-
narch's pslite attention to English deputations and
English topics of interest. This blind rage has made
the journals in question lose their accustomed bril-
liancy and point. Never have heavier articles been
penned than those wbiah have appeared in the Op-
position journals of Paris, relative to the King's vi-
sit to this country; and we are bound, in fairness,
to admit that this quality is not usual. We feel
no respect for, or sympathy with, the journals in
question, yet it is idle to deny that their articles are
often ingenious, and sometimes brilliant ; there is
abundant talent perverted to faction for its object, and
using calumny and falsehood as its means. The King
conducted himself, while in this country, just as might
be expected from a knowledge of his character. Full
no doubt, of bonhommie and unaffected kindness in
the domestic circle of our amiable Sovereign, on all
occasions in which he was brought into the presence
of representatives of English feeling, he expressed
with dignity and cordiality, yet not without a certain
appeal to effect inseparable from kingship, his wish,
for the preservation of peace and good-will between
the two countries. Much has been said, by a weekly I
Contemporary, on the good effects to Sovereigns them-
selves of such friendly intercourse. We are far from'
dissenting from this, but we would rather dwell at
present on its influence on national feeling here and,
in France. As to the first, no great change has
been wrought, because the English people were
prepared to honour and respect the guest of
their Queen, as an able and intelligent ruler
of the first continental monarchy, and a firm
friend to peace ; yet, still, a visit like that which has
just taken place, revives and concentrates these pre:.
viously existing sentiments. We shall not easily
forget that a Monarch whose reputation is so essen-
tially European has been amongst us, declaring in
emphatic terms, his good-will towards our Sovereign
and nation. And to the numberless private circles,
of all ranks and degrees, which converge into the
large mass we call society, either by personal view
or the recitals of our journals, the King of
the French, from a distant abstraction, has be-
come a familiar idea. As to our neighbours them-
selves, if the visit of their Sovereign has roused in a
section (and we believe a great minority) of that
nation still deeper towards us, may we not
hope it will have the counterbalancing influence
of exciting amongst the more intelligent and libe-
ral, a wish to co-operate more zealously than
before in seconding the desire of their Monarch
to preserve the peace of Europe—a desire em-
bodying the common interests of both countries?
And surely the interchange of courtesy that
has so cordially taken place between brave and
tinguished.officers in the naval service of both coun-
tries, cannot but aid this consummation. Now that
this distinguished Monarch has left our shores, and
the mind dwells more minutely on the peculiarities
of his individual career, the sight of this vigorous
man of 72, so full of energy of body and mind,
brings home to each one the great moral of the em-
ployment of time. How much work, in every sense
of the word, does the King of the French personally
go through ! Even his night journeys, his replies
to deputations, the ground he has traversed, the num-,
ber of persons he has seen, remind us that he is in con-
stant training for any demand on his energies. We
may, indeed, reflect, not without a feeling of pride,
that no nation is more capable of steady and even in-
tense application than our own. From the highest
grades of professional existence to the lowest of mecha-
nical labour, the English people are ready to do their
work, and do it right well. Even those who have no
professional avocation display an energy, even in their
amusements, which astonishes foreigners. But no
where can be found an existence more ceaselessly
occupied about great interests than that of Louis
Philippe, and in this light he has the strongest claim
on the sympathies and tastes of our nation. No
where, indeed, can now be found the dilettanti Kings
and Queens that of old slumbered on the throne,
like an eastern idol in its temple. War, revolution,
the irresistible tide of public opinion, have replaced
them by a widely different race—and the world has
gained not a little by the change ; for instead of war
being the only vent for the misplaced energies of
royalty, they are now exerted in diffusing the bless-
ings of peace, by the development of industry and
commerce. The quietest monarchs now look about
them, and do their work ' • and foremost in this rank,
foremost in age, and perhaps in the necessity imposed
by his position of unceasing application to business, i 3
he who received on Tuesday the adieus of the English
people at Dover.
STANDARD.—There is, we believe, no longer
any question of the fact that the Whigs are at this
moment engaged in negotiating the terms .of a new
coalition with Mr. O'Connell, of which their adhe-
sion to Federalism is to form the basis. Tile Irish
Whigs, Sharman Crawford and Lord Charlemont
included, are said to be taking the initiative in
the matter; and a formal announcement of
their sec )nd compact with the repeal con-
vict, will, it is understood, make its appear-
ance in a few days. It cannot be doubted
that the intriguers of Lichfield House will, with a few
exceptions, become parties to an arrangement, be its
terms what they may, which may seem to offer them
the remotest prospect of a return to office. We are
assured, indeed, that the English Whigs had pro-
posed to throw themselves on Mr. O'Connell's mercy,
and accept whatever conditions he might be disposed
to offer them, even befOre the reversal of his judgment,
and we are induced to believe that the objects and
progress of the negotiation were well known to Lords
Denman, Cottenham, and Campbell, several months
ago. It cannot be denied that the condition of the
poor Whigs at the present moment is pitiable beyond
all comparison with any previous stage of their de-
cadence.--T-Lie finances ,of-the_ country-are improving
with st,:rapidity -Which has exceeded the most saner
guine anticipattens of their successors; the' chance
of a war 'with France 'is either wholly extinguished.
or rendered, so remote as to offer them no hope
of relief froM such a Vontingency ; trade and com-
merce have recovered from the depression intd' whiCh
Whig measures had plunged them ; and even the
Anti-Corn-Law League, that ultima spes of their
cankered and deeply mortified faction, is all but
extinct. In addition to these calamities, Ireland
is more tranquil than . it has been at any single
period during the last ten years ; and the
chief conspirator having had his claws trimmed
and his incisors drawn, is reduced to the painfnl
necessity of adopting a comparative decency of
manner and language, as foreign as it must be
repugnant to his nature. What alternative, there-
fore, under such a complication of misfortunes, have
the Whigs left to them ? Beside, has not their patron
taken off the brand of " base, bloody, and brutal,"
which he had affixed to their names, and declared
his gratitude to them for their indirect exertions in
his behalf during the last session of Parliament ?
Does he not owe them his present "moral triumph ?"
Are they not his gaol deliverers ? Finally, have
they not sunk to the lowest stage of destitution, whe-
ther of character or influence—to that condition which
renders them fitting objects for the eleemosynary
aid they now seek at his hands—for the sake
of earning his patronage ? Let no man condemn
this last and most desperate expedient for keeping
their heads above water who has not maturely
considered the extenuating circumstances of
their case. Like begging-letter impostors who
having exhausted the charity of every name
upon their lists save one, that one the property
of a knave who has invaded their trade
and anticipated them in their impostures, have
nothing for it but to receive the rogue into their firm
upon his own terms. and practice their future
chicaneries in his company; content with such
hard fare (and hungry dogs, says the proverb, will
eat dirty pudding) as he may cast among them
from his wallet. This is no imaginative picture
of the present condition of this once formida-
ble body who, after having been accustomed to carry
on their " thimble rigs" on their own account, are
reduced to the painful extremity of having to divide
the profits of their ingenuity with a sharper who is
pretty sure to appropriate to himself the lion's
share. Bankrupts alike in character
and influence,
hunted from expedient to
expedient, and beater;
on their own arena by a swindler incomparably
more expert than themselves, what prospect had
they- of -being able to earn
mr,
an honest ?
When such dexterous knaves
nuisanceis O'Connellerdaonudbitu:
Whig. friends combine, the
formidable one ; but such allianneeesitey
froarr 1 y
entered into without imposing. the cegsae
creased vigilance on the honester portion of the- corn
'
niunity. In the letter destined, of COUrget as the pre-
face to the announcement bf the coalition in que3tion,
and in which the Battle of Waterloo is described'
s " the mere triumph of physical force, com-
bined with military organisation—a bloody