The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-10-16 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE MEDICAL EDUCATION OF WOMEN.—The medical women question has received a speedy and decisive answer at Birmingham. It will be remembered that a deputation of women's rights advocates recently waited upon the Council of Queen's College, and urged the desirability of making provision for the education of female medical students, backing up their suit with the hint that to admit female students would tend to ponularise the College. It was very prudently remarked that the assent of the hospital authorities should be obtained before the scheme could be entertained. At length the Council have unanimously resolved to decline to admit women students. The Council were induced to come to this determination in consequence of the result of the joint action of the professors ant of the medical officers of the General and Queen's Hospitals, to which we called attention last week, and from a subsequent resolution of the professors, carried by a majority of nine to three votes, that they (the professors) could not undertake the medical instruction of women students in Queen's College. It would apeear, therefore, that another door has been closed against the well meaning but misguided females who are afflicted with the delusion that the arduous and responsible labours of medical life are not properly performed by the members of the sterner sex. If we could but feel that the matter would end here, what a relief? But sooner or later other attempts will be made, at Birmingham or elsewhere, and it may happen that some aspiring institution, desirous of "popularising" itself, will in a moment of weakness accept the seductive offer, and the female aspirants to medical practice find another home.—Lancet.  Celestial Empire seems inclined to give way before the menacing attitude of the most peaceful of terrestrial powers. Lord Palmerston once said, in reply to a long and dreary speech from the late Colonel Sykes, that the Chinese were remarkable for "perfidy and cruelty," and that anyone having dealings with them must take those two enaracteristics into account. This has been evident lately. An English envoy has been murdered, and we demand reparation. Our demand is met with evasion and shuffling. It is guaranteed us by treaty, that our relations with China, including our treaty rights, shall be made public in the Pekin Gazette. A special edition of the Gazette is published for Europeans, and the important information is left out of all the others. Lastly, our ambassador protests that he will stand no more nonsense, and the Chinese government begins at once a wholesale mutilation of its own subjects, so as to show energy in pursuit or the murderers y anbtind cruelty"cavilliaLtrligoarbliThP•inaerlamereteirsmwteoenhissapvooette.h.oeuN‘r‘ poe!rdidfi:eal, because the oo ff widisputeswhich insensate prejudice against foreigners is not proof against facts which will before long force themselves on the understanding of the meanest Chinaman. But it is something to remember, when we are talking of progress and civilisation, and the advance of practical Christianity, that we have in China one-third of the human race without knowledge of any one of the three as understood by us. The regeneration of China may be nearer than we think, but it will hardly come on this side of the dissolution of the Empire, and any peace whi,di we may patch up for the moment will hardly affect the dimensions of the impending revolution.—Pictorial World.