The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-23 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION,

We have on some former occasions noticed the laudable ex-
ertions of the members of the medical profession in Liverpool to
raise an institution devoted exclusively to the science of me-
dicine. To effect this object the sum of £2,410 has been raised,
which, with the exception of £I,OOO, subscribed by the corpora-
tion, one hundred guineas by Charles Blundell, Esq., of Ince,
and some few sums of minor importance given by gentlemen
unconnected with the profession, has been contributed by our
resident medical practitioners.

A design for the building has been selected which will pre-
sent a cfaste and beautiful front of lonic architecture, resem-
bling that of the Temple of the Muses of the Ilytsus. The
internal arrangements provide a library, 40 feet by 24; a mu-
seum, 93 feet by 21; and a lecture-room, 40 feet by 21;, be-
sides some minor but necessary accommodations. A piece of
land near Hope-street has been conveyed to the institution by
the Corporation, as the site whereon the building is to be
erected.

The public generally is as much, if not more, interested in
the success of this institution than the members of the professiott
for whose use it is intended, for to the public it must necessarily
be an object of primary importance to place within the reach of
the guardians and restorers of health every possible f?cility of
examining the causes and treating more scientifically and suc-
cessfully the various diseases to which all arc more or less sub-
ject. An institution, therefore; having Ira' its main of jectthe
securing to the town a succession of well-informed medical men
is, we repeat, a matter of primary importance, and is eminently
deserving of the liberal encouragement of the town generally.
The building promises to become an ornament (we may per-
hap3 regret that a more conspicuous site could not be obtained)
to Liverpool; the works already accumulated amount to up-
wards of one thousand volumes, besides a great number of very
valuable plates and other subjects connected with the different
branches of the prolessiun. This property, together with the
building, is secured in perpetuity to the town of Liverpool for
the use of its resident medical practitioners, who will only
have access to it so long as they subscribe to the fund set apart
for its support and management.
The institution, it should be remembered, has been raised to
its present state by the public spirit of the medical body, the
'members of which, notwithstanding their expensive education
and the laborious and sometimes painful and even disagreeable
duties they are called upon to perform, are the most ill:requited
of any of the learned professions. The London college of sur-
geons has been considered an object of great national im-
portance. To obtain for that school the Ilunterian Museum,
a parliamentary grant of £lO,OOO was made, besides other
grants for building and other purposes. A Gonsiderahle addi-
tion to the funds of our institution is necessary to its comple-
tion. Seeing what has been done for other institutions'here,
some of them of very doubtful utility, we cannot imagine that
one, the advantages of which can scarcely raise a doubt—one
calculated to benefit alike those of every sect in religipn or
party in politics, will be suffered to languish for the want of
that support to which it is so eminently entitled.

PRESENTATION OF A SNUFF-BOX TO MR.
STRICKLAND.

On 'Wednesday evening the friends of Mr. Strickland, of the
Haymarket Theatre, London, who is now engaged at the
Theatre-Royal in this town, gave that gentleman a dinner, in
the Assembly Rem) of the Adelphi Hotel, for the pUrpose of
presenting him with a silver snuff-boa, a silver cigar case, and
a silver pen, as -a testimonial of their respect for his private
worth and admiration of his professional talents. Mr. Strick-
land made his debut before a Liverpool audience about two
years since, at the Liver Theatre, and produced so favourable
an impression in the characters be enacted as to induce the
:nanagers of the Theatre-Royal to offer him an engagement fur
a short period. lie first appeared at that theatre in the charac-
ter of Job 'fhornberry, in the play of John Bull, on Mr. Browne's
benefit night, since which time he has been very successfully
performing seven! of Parren's characters. The snuff-box and
other articles were presented to Mr. Strickland in the presence
of upwards of one hunrjred gentlemen, who attended the dinner,
which from tho excellence of the viands provided by Mr. Rad;ey,
and from the admirable singing of Messrs. Frazer, HorncuStle,
Andrews, Benwell, and other vocalists, went off with great spirit,
gull will long 60 remembered by those who were present as one
bf more than ordinary enjoyment.
,On the inside of the lid of the box was engraved the names of
the subscribers. The outside of it bore the following inscrip-
tion :—" Presented to Robert Strickland, Esq., comedian, by
his Liverpool friends, on his first appearance at the Theatre-
Royal. October, 1835."