Star.
London, England, 1829-07-17 00:00:00

ksaylicentiate or member of the companies of apothecaries. in the
aforesaid kingdom.
9. And be it enacted, that the following shall be the form of the
certificate, signed by a physician, surgeon, or apothecary, referred
to above :
I testify that I have opened the • of the body of
and having found therein am of
opinion was the cause of bis death.
(Signed)
10. And be it enacted, that any person interring, or aiding sad
abetting of the interment of a body, the said person or persons
knowing the same to be unopened ; also, all surgeons refusing to
perform, or neglecting the fourth and fifth clauses of this act, shall
be committed to the county gaol, for any term not exceeding one
calendar month, by any two justices of the peace.
We have said above that we consider this remedy de-
fective, and now, in a few words, we will state why.
Bodies, which are so submitted to the surgeon, cannot
ever be generally accessible to the student. It is true,
could such an enactment pass—which, however, we feel
to be impossib!e—a great facility would be afforded for
• arriving at the seat. and often the origin, of many com-
plicated and mysterious disorders; but this would be a
nosological benefit, rather than any assistance towards
anatomical perfection in the examiner. The course, for
example, of the nerves and vessels, the origin and inser-
tion of muscles, and the investigation of the bony struc-
ture, all objects of the first importance to a student in
chirurgical knowledge, are unattainable by these provi-
sions. We feel that our friend Gascckurs has written
admirably, but something more effective most be devised
for the wants of science. In the meantime, we recom-
mend him cordially, as a great corrector of prejudice,
and a clever and ingenious handler of a subject which it
is most difficult to render popular.

JAMAICA PAPERS.

The Jamaica papers furnish us with the following pro-
clamation :
18 By Ma Excellency, Stewart, Governor of St. Lucia,
Major General, du.
" Whereas, his Majesty, taking into his gracious coadderation the
loyalty and good conduct of persons of free condition of African
birth and descent, inhabidng the island of St. Lucia, and having
considered the restriction under which they laboured by Virtue of
laws passed previous to the cession of the Wand, has been pleased,
by hts order in council, issued at the Court of Windsor on the 15th
January last, to order that an laws and all edicts or ordinances hav-
ing the force and effect of laws at any time heretofore promulgated
within the island, whereby free persons of African birth or descent
were subjected to any disabilitlea or restrictions to which other free
persons inhabiting the said island were not subject, should be, and
the same were, repealed, and for ever annulled and cancelled.
" The Governor doth hereby announce and promulgate such,
his Majesty's pleasure, and therefore all such laws, all edicts and
ordinances whatever, are declared to have been by the said order in
council repealed and for ever annulled and cancelled.
" The Governor is assured that the parties in whose favour this
order has been issued will show by their future conduct, and by
their readiness and seal in coming forward without distinction of
class for the maintenance of order, as they have hitherto done. that
they entertain a due sense of the King's gracious regard for them.
(Signed) " By order of his Excellency,
" J. TENCH, Government Secretary."