The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-03 00:00:00

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

On Friday a numerous meeting of general practi-
tioners was held at Exeter-hall.
William Jones, Esq., M.D., took the chair, and was
supported by Mr. Wakley, M.P. Mr. H. Hodson Rugg,
Mr. T. H. Cooper, Mr. Hilles, Mr. M'Cann, Mr. Simp-
son, Mr. Hunter, Dr. Lynch, and other gentlemen.
Mr. WAHLEY, M.P., after some preliminary remarks
from the chair, said that at a previous meeting,he had given
notice that he would move that a petition be presented
to the Crown on the subject of the grievances under
which the profession has laboured. The Hon. Member
said he had prepared a petition, and he would now sub-
mit it for approval.
The petition, after pointing out the alleged abuses of
the College of Surgeons, summed up the grievances of
the petitioners as follows;
" That your memorialists are still suffering under
many of the grievances, of the existence of which
they have complained during the last twenty years,
and thus they are compelled to allege that the go-
verning council are still managing the affairs of the
College, so as to excite feelings of discontent and ani-
mosity amongst the thousands of member of the incorpo-
ration, who are not even permitted to assemble within
the walls of their own College to address your Majesty
on the subject of the injuries which they have received,
and the degradatiou to which they have been subjected,
or relating to any measures connected with the manage-
ment an control of the institution. That being strongly
impressed with the painful recollection of the fact that
the last charter was obtained silently and secretly,
through the misrepresentation of the council, and with-
out the knowledge or concurrence of any portion of
upwards of ten thousand members of the institution,
they consider it to be an imperative obligation upon
them, most dutifully, earnestly, and respectfully, to pray
that your Majesty will not consent to alter or amend the
existing charters of the College, in consequence of any
petition which the council may again present to the
Crown, until after your Majesty shall have been gra-
ciously pleased to give to the memorialists, and the other
members of the College, an opportunity of being heard
by themselves or their agents, before your Majesty and
your Honourable Privy Council."
Dr. LYNCH seconded the adoption of the petition, and
several gentlemen spoke in its support. It was unani-
mously adopted.
It was then arranged that a committee meeting should
be called for Monday evening next, when the petition
would be signed.

FIRE AT VICKERS'S DISTILLERT.—On Friday, about
coon, considerable alarm prevailed in the vicinity of the
Eorough Market, in consequence of the sudden outbreak
of a fire, which at one time threatened great destruction
of property on the premises belonging to Messrs. Joseph
and John Vickers, the distillers, in Stoney-street. The
fire originated in the still-house, a large building, in
which there were four or five stills at work. It was
caused by an escape of spirit through the manhole of a
still contaiaing about twelve hundred gallons. One of
the workmen, on seeing a blaze round that portion of the
Mill, ran forward at the risk of his life, and attempted to
subdue the flames. Finding he was unable to accom-
fliah the object, he called for further assistance, and sent
ur the engines. With all speed numerous engines
arrived. The workmen having exerted themselves in
drawing off the spirit, all danger of the fire extending
was at an end by the time the brigade arrived, and
one engine was found sufficient to cool the building.
The damage done is considerable, bat the firm was fully
insured.
DEATH OF VIE CELEBRATED STAG HAMPTON.—
This extraordinary animal, which had been hunted by
her Majesty's buckhounds for the past ten seasons, and
bad afforded some of the most interesting and clipping
runs on record, was killed in consequence of an attack
with which the noble animal was seized, immediately at
the conclusion of the run on Friday, the 24th ult.
Ilimpton was four years old when he was first hunted
which was in 183.5; and was regularly hunted three or
four times every season since. His favourite line was
generally ever the grass country to Harrow, and thence
towards the metropolis, having been taken, on three or
four occasions, in the vicinity of Edgware-road and the
Itegent's-park. his extraordinary speed and powers of
endurance were first observed to fail him the first time he
was turned out this season, in the early part of Decem-
ber. He was then upwards of fourteen years of ago; the
eldest stag, we are informed, ever hunted by the royal
staghounds. Foxlty, who was taken on Tuesday last, at
Pinner, after being at large for upwards of a fortnight,
Lids fair to prove in every respect equal to the celebrated
llarnpton deer.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—WOOLWICIT' JAN. 31.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Petley, left Woolwich for
Sheerness on Monday, and returned to Woolwich on
TuesdaY, with the Havannah frigate in tow, which she
brought from. Sheerness to Deptford to be cut down to
a corvette, similar to the Daedalus. The Rhadamanthus
steam-vessel wan re-commissioned on Wednesday as a
steam troop.ship
Smith,
by _ Mr. Thomas Lean, master, her
former commander. T
Rattler steam-vessel, Corn-
re ander Henry eft Woolwich for Greenhithe,
yesterday, to have her co
wards ptoceed to Portsmouth, adjusted, and will after-
be paid in advance.—
C LIATUA3I, JAN. 31.—The Comas, 20, Commander
Thompson, will sail for this rt on the 10th of next
month. The Apollo troop-ship,
Wednesday
W. Mac-
lean, arrived cif the dockyard
01)"
e 29th instant, with troops from Corfu,a
Malta, and
esds,y afternoon,
Gibraltar, and other places in the Mediterranean
Fantom ,e 16 guns, Commander Sir Frederick
c.holnThe,
is complete, except some trifling jobs connected with her
rigging. The workmen employed building the Bull
Dog steam-frigate, and the Raleigh, 50 guns, also the
.ctive, 36 guns, are employed one hour longer in the
evening than the rest of the yard, in addition to their
dinner hour, to insure their being launched early in the
summer. Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Gell,
from the Excellent, is ordered for the Military College
at Portsmouth, to be instructed for the service of the
!marine artillery: Captain Thomas Holloway, of this
division, is appointed to the Excellent, at Portsmouth,
snd left on Thursday, the 30th, for his division head-
quarters for that ship. Captain Thos. Park is under
orders from this division for service at Spike Island.
liajor Wilson, Assistant Adjutant-General, arrived on
Tuesday last, and inspected 30 privates, who Yolunteered
into the come of the amine ertallery.

THE WEATHER—Sirs OFFICE, FEB. 1.

NERMOMETER, Lowest, 22 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 33,
BAROMETER, 29.85.—W1ND, N.W.

NoTn—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and

Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is geaerally placed opposite to 30, and
"Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.