The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-01-24
SECOND NOTICE
TO THE KIND FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE OF
Peter Riersen. the Dane.

The notice which we published yesterday calling
upon all those persons who had any unlncKy ac-
quaintance iththat prenr cheraAer, Pc TEX hlEh-
SEN, the DANE, brought 10 our Office Yesterday,
nearly thirty respectable persons IN society, each
telling his own grievance, and bemoanng the ac-
quaintance in the most udcrous and pathetic tones.
We beg all these persons TO come up to-day at III
O'Clock, as witnesses to the Superior Court in the
CITY Hail. BY mistake yesterday, we called it
the Circuit Court-bu: it is the superior Court.
We particularly beg of Captain Ellis, weigher in
Brooklyn, TO attend-and we hope he and all others
will consider this notice as good as subpGna for
that purpose. The trial for the libel the preur
oheualig comes of to-day, and it will probably
make one of the mos, curious developments of the
cheralier's history in New York, that ever took
place. Talk not OF novels or light literature-of
Bulwer or Byron-of Madame George Sands or
Monsieur Paul de Kock, alter you hear read this
trial. The best joke OF all is, that the cheraiie
wants jury to give him $3.50 for a very serious
hole, rent, or damage. we have made in his cha
racter.
Tomorrow full report will be given in the
Herald, together with memoir Of the chevalier.
MEDICAL MovEMEN1s.-A very important move
ment has been recently originated for the purpose
of throwing open to the medical profession the vast
resources which the Bellevue Hospital possesses,
but which have hitherto been almost altogether I'M
developed and unemployed This hospital is one of
the most commodious and largest institutions Tor the
treatment of the sick in the world. The opportuni-
ties afforded its wards, of studying eve.
ry form of disease ARE not inferior any of the most
celebrated hospitals in Paris or London and in some
he ReIlevue Hosnita IN Than,
Natives of almost every cline are to be found
among the patients, and the number of important,
remarkable and instructive which are every
year be with in the institution, lis very great
Yet, with all these immense advantages the Belle.
vue Hospital has been of very little value to the
medical profession. A resident physician and half
dozen pupils have been the only recipients of its
benefits Now, however, movement has been
made by number of the most talented and influen-
tia members of the profession in this city, for the
purpose of effecng the reorganization of the hospi-
tai on broad and liberal principles. Drs Mott,
Revere and Pattisen of the new school, Drs Parker,
Gilman and ]. M. Smith of the Crosby street Col
ege Dr. Richard S. Nissan and one or two others
unconnected with either school, are the leaders in
this movement. The standing, character and ab-
ties of these gentlemen are well known, and the
friendly union of the interests of both schools of the
profession generally furnishes reasonable grounds of
anticipating full success in carrying the proposed
plan
l. proposed to constitute Medical Board, COM
posed of six physicians and six surgeons to be APP
pointed by the Common Council and to whom
shall be entrusted the management of the Aims
House and Aims Hospital. The members of this
Board shall visit in rotation the patients in the Hos
pltal-four consultations the proprety OF opera
tons, &c. and deliver clinical lectures on the cases
IN the house. The visiting physicians and sur.
geons will perform their duties gratuitoas!y The
Medical Board are to be authorised to nominate
and appoint four Resident Physicians, and two Me-
dical Assistants. Clinical Wards are to be desie-
mated, and students admitted to them on payment of
moderate fee.
We consider this project to be most praiseworthy
If carried fully, with spirit and berahty it will
advance to an lncaculable extent, the cause of me-
dical science. We would then have class of
young practitioners, very different from that now
annually turned out of our Colleges. Ii is indeed
manifesy unreasonable to expect that students who
have never studied diseases in the ward, and in the
inspection room, can do any thing but bunder
bindly on during at least the first few years of prac-
tee. Were the vast facilities which Bellevue pos
sesses, proftably employed, according TO the pro-
posed plan, we would soon have a practical School
Of Medicine and Surgery, which could suffer no.
thing in comparison with ST. BartholOmew's or the
Hotel Dieu.
We have been led to look on this movement with
the greatest confidence in its success from our know
ledge of the fact that its orglnators have merged
all private differences and seem disposed 10 go on
with cordially and good feeling. The great obsta-
Gle hitherto to the success of medical movements in
this city has been the jealous anmosty existing be-
tween the members of the profession. But we have
already seen what union and friendly CO operation
amongst respectable practitioners can accomplish in
the prosperity and usefulness of the association
formed last summer under The title OF the "Coege
of Medicine and Pharmacy" This has already done
to improve the science of pharmacy and to pro-
mote the importation and sale OF genuine medicine,
than all that the individual eyer,ons OF our best
physicians could have done in years.
We look on all these movements as extremely i'm
portant, and we will cheerfuly do all in our power
to aid the respectable and benevolent men who are
engaged them.
Yrs AND DowNs.-While the Presbyterian con-
gregatons are breaking up and selling out their
churches, the Methodsts seem to be gongiahead,
building, preaching, increasing and improving, at
great rate. We find that new Methodist Episco-
pal church in Twenty seventh street, near the Third
avenue, was dedicated 10 the service of God on
Friday last. The dedcatory prayer was offered by