, 1876-11-11

tlSatl0n OF silver by european nations. IL
asserts, what is believed by all the best
observers, that general prices have not
risen in India. And finally, it
the policy of the Government to be to
avoid as much as possible in the future
mourning obligations that must be dis
charged in gold. The Government will
not suspend necessary public works, but
it will continue them only so far as money
for their construction can be raised in In
dia. As a policy of expectation, that is,
perhaps, the best the Government of India
can adopt. Its difficulties now arise from
the fact that it has to pay almost
s15,0 200, 900 q year in gold in England.
And the conclusion of the resolution is
that it will not add to that sum, if posi-
BILE.
The Medical men are not satisfied with
the compromise they obtained last Session
In relation to the Vivisection Bill, and
two at least of the medical Addresses
delivered at the opening OF this term have
bitterly attacked the Act. At the Lon
don Hospital, DR.. Andrew Clark, 10 an
address which shows how very weak an
exceedingly able mar can be when be
allows himself to be the exponent OF o
Trades Union feeling, stated that the
indiction Of suffering for Interior ends per-
vaded the whole structure and relations Of
civilized life. "What are all the suffer
ings inflicted by oil the vivlsectionists of
all the world, in comparison with the
hecatombs of suffering which political ex.
-..;-.o,Ao.. have i,QIotoI an, poOpL;1I -
their attempts to settle the question of
the balance Of power in EuropeH" Why,
che worthy physician might just as we'll
have apologised for the Bulgarian fortunes
on q similar ground,-namely, that when
you add them oil together, they WON'T
compare for q moment in amount, not
merely with the sufferings inflicted in the
attempt to settle the question Of the ball
ance of power, but, probably enough,
with the sufferings inflicted by medical
men themselves IN past times, IN clumsy
attempts to cure diseases they did not
understand. What makes the Bulgarian
fortunes SO horrible is thab they were de-
liberately inflicted, with the full know
ledge that nothing but pain would come
out of them to the victims. And though,
Of course, no iust-minded man will for one
moment compare the tortures reluctantly
inflicted on animals from q humane desire
to diminish human sutfering,-where that,
and not mere scientific curiosity is really
the motive,-with tortures inflicted out of
the ~fullness of a cruel heart, it is the intol-
cradle injustice and hardness involved in
the policy of deliberately torturing an in
Docent, sensitive creature, for the chance
of relieving a few other sensitive creatures
not more innocent, which makes this prac-
tice so offensive to the public, and so espsci-
ally dangerous for men who devote them
selves to the healing art. DR.. Andrew
Clark would have served his purpose bet
ter by silence. His zeal was too much
for his discretion.
The alarm as to the arrival Of the Co.
dorado beetIe,-the beetle which attacks
the potato,-in Europe, seems to have
been somewhat premature. At least. the
German specimen turns out on examina-
ton to be, not the potato-beetle, Dory-
phora decemlinSota (the ten-lined spear
bearer), but the Doryphor0 Jnncta (the
Joined spear-bearerJl, q nearly allied species,
native to the Southern States Of America,
but not one which attacks potatoes.