The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

NISI PRIUS COURT..--SATURDAY.

Mr. BAINES applied to his lordship to grant speedy ex-
ecution in this case, grounding his application on two affi-
davits, one to the effect, that steps had been taken for the
purpose of sweeping away all the defendant's property to
prevent the satisfaction of the plaintiffs demand ; and
that, after the verdict was given, the defendant was I eard
to say, by James Cook, one of the witnesses of the trial,
" It is all right : I am prepared for it."
Mr. WATSON said it was exceedingly inconvenient that
an application of this kind should be made at the end of
the week, when the Solicitor General and Mr. Dundas,
who, with himself, (Mr. Watson,) were counsel for the
defendant, had gone. If his lordship granted immediate
execution it would be the utter destruction of the defen-
dant.

The JUDGE asked whether Mr. Watson would give
security ?
Mr. WATSON replied, that he knew not ; hat he
should apply for was, an opportunity of answering the
affidavit.

His lordship granted Mr. Watson's application to
answer the affidavits on Monday.

BENTLEY V. FLEMING
The hearing of this case was then resumed ; and, at the
clase of the plaintiff's case, Mr. KNOWLES addressed the
jury for the defendant, contending, that there bad net
been any infringement, inasmuch as the invention was not
new. The Jury, after an ahsence from court for six hours.
returned a verdict for the plaintiff.

CROSKILL 71. GROUNSELL.
This was another special jury case, similar to the last,
in which the plaintiff, William Crostini, a machine-maker.
of Beverley-, in Yorkshire, brought an action against Wil-
helm Grounsell, another machine-maker, of Louth, in
Lincolnshire, for the infringement of the patent of a clod-
crushing-machine, used in agricultural purposes. The
defendant pleaded the general issue, and that the invention
was net new. Mr. Knowles, Mr. Martin, Mr. Cowling,
and Mr. Unthank appeared for the plaintiff.; and Mr.
Watson and Mr. Webster for the defendant.

At the close of the plaintiff's case, at six o'clock, the
Court adjourned to nine this morning.
Neither of the foregoing cases possessed the slightest
interest, except to the parties concerned.

FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER.

(Prom the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine cf

Fashion.")

The make of dresses this month offers more variety as
to ornament than form. The corsage with lacings having
become rather common, is often replaced by those a revers,
or a pestles, many terminating at the waist with small
jackets, more or less deep, which gives length to the
waist ; this style will be a prevailing one for autumnal
dresses. Many corsages are round with ceinture and
buckle, which is now insensibly returning to favour;
large buttons are very fashionable ; sleeves vary much,
and may be worn long or short, wide or tight, but the
Oriental is still the favourite.
Cannezous with sleeves are worn with low bodies; they
are of embroidered muslin, termiuming at the waist with
a small jacket embroidered in a wreath, which forms
heading to a narrow lice, the half-long sleeve correspond-
ing. Guimpes are also made with sleeves.
Pelisses or dolmans, lightly wadded and quite distinct
from the winter costume, are made for the promenade;
they are taffetas d' Italie of pale colours ; the hood and
sleeves only are trimmed with lace ; some are of plain
Indian foulard, buttoning from top to bottom.
with;
The manteau de voyage is of silk or thin merino, lightly
wadded, and lined with coloured silk, made very full and
with hood, often with a large pelerine and a running
string at the waist, and wide sleeves with wristbands.
T
, worn
during the summer, are now made in fancy silks, either
checked
anoteets rl
stripedo transparent f
iliac e
trimmed mmautieerdial u s
it il a smallsleev cr
ruche.
he rn

Acacia, lili^s of the valley, mses, trernieres, double
ponies mixed with corn-flowers, are :elccted at this mo-
ment to ornament bonnets.; a banana of field flowers on
a paille de riz is very pretty. Fancy straws are worn
With flowers or feathers : veils and toilettes are much
used, particularly at-tke sea.side... Pretty little ct.ps are
made with simple crowns, small and round in front, with
papillous of tulle bouillonne; having a ribbon through

Sept. 3, 1811.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MEDICAL REFORM BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.-

you allow me to occupy a small space in
your columns, in order to arouse the attention of the me-
dical profession and the public to the proposed measure of
medical retorm, which is now before the country. There
are nearly 300 medical men in Liverpopl, and it is a mat-
ter of surprise that a bill, which will alter the whole aspect
of the profession, seems to have excited no attention
amongst them. And yet it is a fact, that the con-equences
to society, which will follow from its adoption by parlia-
ment, will be evil, and only evil.
I am glad to observe that there is a movement all over
the country on the subject, and it is to he hop, -d that here
also the sentiments of the body whose interests are most
immediately concerned, will be freely expressed. It is not
to be supposed that the intentions of government are
otherwise than good ; but in legislating on matters which
are only known to professional men, they must depend
entirely on information derived from without; and in the-
present case there can be no doubt that they have been
most grossly misled. Indeed, if the British College of
Health, which vends Morisoi's Pills, had beets consutted,
it is impossible to conceive any piece of legislation more
calculated to degrade medicine, and exalt quackery, pro-
ceeding from such advice.

Quackery is acknowledged, for the first time, to have a
legal existence by this bill; while its restrictions on medi-
cal education are such, that it holds out a direct induce-
ment to the increase of unlicensed pra-titioners. All
medical men are to be registered, not by compulsion, but
by certain inducements, which they are either in posses-
sion of at present, or which 19-twentieths care nothing
about ; and all parties who choose to practise without re-
gistering, may do so, whether they be possessed of d,plo-
mas or not. In short, any one may put a brass plate on
his door, with the title doctor or surgeon thereon, and no
man has a right to prevent him. The pecuniary position
of the quack is much better than that of the regular prac-
titioner, and the only difference between them is, that the
quack cannot hold an appointment to an hospital or dis-
pensary, which, indeed, he cares nothing about. lie is
obliged to serve on juries (which his fellow subjects must
also submit to), and he cannot prosecute his patients for
debt, which he can easily evade by not trusting them.
The all but universal opinion of the measure is, that it
degrades the noble science of medicine into a higher kind
of quackery, and it lets loose all sorts of imposition on
psorecisestiyo.n
of
Af
otpeinnaiopner,aoten,thanedp,arat o
time,ttfhemseadmicealmen w
, firm,iuper:e.:
vent the sane•uary of their profession frombeing profane,"'
so as to become a place within whose precincts no gentle-
man or man of honour can enter ; and to such a state the
proposed bill would at once debase it.
I am, yours, &c.
ACADEMICUS.