The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-25 00:00:00

THE FISHERMAN'S GIFT.

On their journey they met a fisherman, who pre-
sented them with a basket of fish which he held in
his hand ; Confucius thanked him for his good-will,
and at first refused, but the fisherman persisted, and
said, " What I offer is of little value, but I offer it
with all my heart. You will perhaps not find any
fish where you are going to-night. You are just
there, and I should have a long time to travel before
I reached home, so that my fish would be spoiled, and
I should be unable to sell it. I have had the good for-
tune to meet you, can I do better than in giving you
the benefit which I cannot enjoy myself ?"
At these words Confucius advanced respectfully
towards the man, took the gift which he offered him,
thanked him warmly, and ordered his disciples to pre-
pare it as an offering to the ancestors.
His disciples could not forbear displaying their
surprise at his attaching so much importance to a thing
of so little value, which a person of the lowest rank
offered him only because he did not know what to do
with it, and because he could make no use of it him-
self. Confucius answered, that it was not the value
of the gift, nor the rank of the person who gave it,
to which attention was to be paid ; but the integrity,
the goodness of heart, and the sincerity of the giver
whose intention was to oblige. "As for me," said
he, " looking at the integrity, the sincerity, and good-
ness of heart of this fisherman, I own to you, I attach
more value to what he has just offered me, than I did
to the thousand measures of rice which I formerly re-
ceived from the King of Tsze."—Captain Pidding's
Chinese Olio.

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Die Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to his
residence, Beechworth House, Surrey, on Wednesday
afternoon.

MEDICAL REFORM.
A public address on medical reform was
yesterday by Mr. lilies, surgeon, at the Western Ifitie;
rary Institution, in Leicester-square. The object °well
address was to call the attention of the public, 09
as of the profession, to the injurious effects likely to A'
sult from Sir James Graham's Bill. Hr. Hines eq.!:
menced by observing that the profession did not requ;
a monopoly. They were willing to throw open f
compounding of medicines, and even the privilege
practising ; but what they contended for was, that tael
should be a marked distinction between the qualified 913ba
unqualified practitioner, so that the public might le _
misled. They objected, therefore,
to allowing preten,,
delivered
to medical science to assume the titles of " surgeon,_,°o
" doctor," and desired to limit such titles to those ?„,",',O
had attained the distinction by a regular education. The
plan of registration was, he thought, a very insideqt,
protection ; and, as there was little inducement to Pl-7,:,
titioners to register their names, but, on the contraye't
there would be an annual charge atteDding it, 001_50
would be that many of the most distin
would not care to register, and whilst .fled pan
were not to be found on the list, the unqualif he
would also pretend that he might register himseil O.
would, but that he considered it a disgrace to &am;
Mr. Hines pointed out many other parts of the Bill Sit
would be injurious to the respectable practitioners, tit
he declared his conviction that the sole object ofi'jyt
guished surgewoes
James Graham was to establish a medical por-,4,1
commission. It had been found that the surgeons o‘3"ja
not now so readily compete for the appointraeloi
poor-law unions, and by making a free trade of niet,oo
science it was hoped to increase competition for t'',/ie
situations. The lecturer inveighed strouglir against
heavy duties and miserable remuneration off owed
poor-law unions, and he asserted that, as the 00/100
object of the New Poor-law was to throw the p..oyr,ioi
their own resources, so the object of the present 3J-e;
Reform Bill was to throw the medical practitionerso
the poor, and to compel them to eke out a raiser%);
living by extracting the last shilling from their
patients. Mr. Ililles advocated the adoption of recv
sentative system by the medical profession. Il which
posed that the twenty-five thousand members of
that body is composed should elect represetaive:lo
protect their interests, and to protect the public ion.
from becoming dupes of the outcasts of the profess
The lecture was very scantily attended. dr
Yesterday a meeting of the Medical and Surging earn,
sociation of the borough of St. Marylebone took Poi.
for the purpose of considering and agreeing oatent °Jog
festo to be presented to Sir J. Graham, deprecgyeif
Bijl lately introduced into Parliament, as not effecflog
exclucniqg quacks from practice, as erroneously oPed ar
the field us,E practice to chemists and druggists,
prescribing a,2 improper scheme of professional canes'of.
tion. The Assoos.l
college of general
and court of examiners,
p:actioners, with an elective co of
ation also advocates the institute
United Kingdom. Mr. R.l.:Pen:li
education for the general ,ractitioners throughot"
ello9
in order to secure unifornsil.too
the College of Surgeons) was in thb' chair, and after;,irj.
discussion, in which Mr. Cooper, Mr. Ancel, Mri,vert,
ngton (Senior F
wood, Mr. Gray, Mr. Davies, and Mr. Mr.,:hele to.? to tli°
the manifesto was adopted. Thanks were vote.
chairman, and the meeting separated.