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SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
face of a larger audience than the theatre of the College of Sur- homceopathy, but we are bound in honour to ignore all those geons could afford to him. We have thought that views so who support it. Dr: Barker, at Bedford, hit the right nail on important and experiments so striking should be brought the head when he expressed his determination to refuse to within the cognizance of those thousands of our profession to meet in consultation any practitioner who favoured so monfrom occupation, locality, or a thousand other reasons, strous a quackery. We have reason to know that every they would else have been inaccessible. We look forward to attendant at the Bedford meeting was actuated by the same the early publication of these lectures, under the immediate honourable feelings. It is a useful lesson to those who require personal revision of their author, and with the aid of all neces- such a reminder to call them to a due knowledge of their sary illustrations, with the belief that they will constitute a interests and their position. bright era in the history of physiology in this country.
whom,
NUISANCES ON THE HOUSETOP. THE PROPERT COLLEGE.
WHEN King Solomon intimated his preference for a lodging on the housetop with a crust of bread enjoyed in peace, rather No one can regard the proceedings at the meeting of the the luxuries of the interior if marred by discord, it is prathan on Tuesday last, without a governors of this College, held bable that he did not contemplate the accessory discomforts of of The of Hancock satisfaction. Mr. masterly speech feeling sufficiently proves that in the main the council have acted, rotten greensin and stagnant water which suchin a residence the course London. Mr. Owen Rowland, under the circumstances in which they were placed, in a manner would imply some special investigations, has mounted upon some hunof which entitles them to commendation. We are far from rereports " that upon several occasions he has gretting that a discussion upon the affairs of the College has dreds of tops. ofHe animal and vegetable matter, as well as stagtaken place. Nothing is more conducive to the real welfare of found heaps nant water, (in consequence of defective gutters,) &c., lying a public institution than that all grievances, whether real or the roofs, and emitting the most offensive smells, which upon imaginary, should be brought before the governmental body. Publicity is the life of public institutions. Without it they in time, by percolation, no doubt saturate the walls of the houses to their very foundations, to the great injury of the languish and die. Now that the matter in dispute has been fully and ably dis- health of their occupiers." Every day satisfies us more comcussed, it is the bounden duty of every governor of the Propert pletely how little our philosophy wots of all that lies between institution to use his best efforts to raise it in the public esti- heaven and earth. We have been wont to look beneath our mation. Discord should cease when its continuance would feet for nuisances; in future, we must also look overhead. We be evidently disastrous. Unanimity should prevail where una- do not regard this announcement as of very serious sanitary nimity is essential. It is the fate of men who found great import; but there are many reasons why it should not be overinstitutions to meet with opposition, and often with ingrati- looked by our officers of health or sanitary inspectors; and Mr tude ; but no man in the profession of medicine is entitled to a Rowland’s hint of aerial inspection may not be thrown away, higher niche in the temple of fame for the services he has ren- whatever may be thought of his theory of percolation. dered to his poorer brethren than John Propert. When the discussions of the present hour have passed away, his name will live and his services be acknowledged. There will be no QUACKERY AND REFORM. blot upon the escutcheon of the great general practitioner of FORTIFIED by the support given to them by Mr. Thomas our time, who, by unwearied exertion and by incessant activity Duncombe in the House of Commons, the Coffinite quacks are in a noble cause, has founded for himself a reputation which petitioning Parliament to admit .them into the ranks of legitientitles him to rank amongst the highest and the best of those mate medicine. Our facetious contemporary, Punch, has who have succeeded in their efforts to alleviate the suffering treated this and with his usual
impudent proceeding
and distressed. HOMŒOPATHIC QUACKERY.
ignorance
ability
caustic satire. What a reflection upon our position is the movement of the Coffinite gang ! If anything could show the, necessity of a wholesome reform in medicine it would be the unblushing effrontery of these wretched pretenders to medical practice. However quackridden some members of the House of Commons may be, the proceedings ofthe Coffinites must convince the great majority of them of the necessity of placing legitimate practitioners of medicine in such a position as will effectually protect them from a miserable and degrading association with a set of ignorant and audacious pretenders, whose very name is suggestive of the influences they exert upon societv.
QUACKERY flourishes-quackery lives upon the and prejudices of mankind. On the one side are ranked the knaves and impostors, on the other the credulous and ignorant. It has always been so, and there appears no reason why it should not continue. Quackeries flourish like fashions; the more absurd the one or the other, the more for the time does it seem to outrage all the principles of truth and of comBut each has its end. It may inflict incalculable mon sense. mischief during its reign, but at length it sinks into merited obscurity. The homceopathic heresy, in the land of its birth, is already a byword and a jest. The Germans regard it as SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE AND THE ROYAL the mere emanation of a weak enthusiast, and it will not be SOCIETY. long before the English people will treat it as a delusion and a snare. The resolutions lately passed at Bedford, and pubFEW, indeed, are the posts of honour which it falls to the lished in THE LANCET of June 5th, should be adopted by every lot of practitioners of medicine to fill. There is no instance medical society in the kingdom. It is the bounden duty of in which one of them has been elevated to the peerage. Even the legitimate and honourable practitioners of medicine to in the Royal Society, it is remarkable, considering the many separate themselves in a most unequivocal manner from a eminent members of our profession who have belonged to it, dangerous and destructive system. Homœaeopathists separated and have added such a lustre to it, - Wollaston, Young, by a distinct line from honest men would sink into deserved Jenner, and a host of others-with one solitary exception, is no instance in which a president belonged to medicine obscurity and disgrace. So long, however, as they can rely in there difficult cases upon the aid and countenance of those who - that exception was Sir John Pringle, who was elected to the chair in 1772, after a severe contest with Sir James Porter, ought to show a better example, they will continne to insult whom Pringle defeated by a considerable majority. Itisgratilegitimate practitioners, and prey with relentless success on fying to announce that the Council of the Society have recomtheir victims. It is not enough that we should repudiate mended to the Fellows Sir Benjamin Brodie as the future pre-
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sident. It is usual that the individual selected by the Council should be chosen by the Society. We may, therefore, fairly
and unheard compliments were passed about, of a free than welcome" nature, when Mr. Cattlin read the congratulate the profession on the distinguished position which following as his list for the Conncil :-Dr. E. Ballard, Dr. C. will shortly be holden by the most eminent member belonging P. Croft, Mr. T. B. Curling, Mr. J. F. Harding, Dr. W. Munk, to it. From a very early period of his career, the name of Mr. T. Pollock, Mr. R. Quain, Mr. E. Ray, Mr. J. Ward, and Brodie is most honourably associated with the transactions of Mr. J. Warwick. The Rev. Mr. WHITE seconded the nomination as a lay the Society. It is not too much to say, that the choice of the ’Council could not have fallen upon any man more worthy of member, and challenged Mr. Propert to prove that he was the honour they intend him. Sir Benjamin Brodie is not only actuated by "factious opposition." Mr. Propert had threatIf ened to leave the institution if the Council were removed. a surgeon of the highest eminence, but a great philosopher. Mr. PROPERT. -And so I will. medicine be honoured by the selection thus made, the Fellows Mr. WHITE said such an intention was a mistake of judg. of the Royal Society may be justly proud of a man to presidee f ment, and proceeded, in a. very energetic speech, to confirm over their proceedings who has done so much in the cause of the statements of Mr. Cattlin, adding, that with respect to the and progress. humanity education question, he knew from personal experience that it could be done for X30 a year, which was amply sufficient for the purpose. (Cheers.) The charter told them to get £ 40, but ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE. it did not say, " You could not take £ 30 if you choose." Mr. THE ADJOURNED GENERAL MEETING. Propert had publicly spoken of him (Mr. White) as being actuated by factious motives, but he trusted his conduct in connexion with the institution would disprove that charge, and THE adjourned general meeting of this institution was heldL he called upon Mr. Propert as an Englishman and a gentleon Tuesday afternoon in Freemasons’ Hall. There was a very man, to withdraw that imputation. (Cheers, and "No, no.") full attendance of members, and it was quite evident that the! Mr. HANCOCK rose to defend the proceedings of the council of the College, and to correct some of Mr. Cattlin’s errors, as in the council had excited more than proposed change ordinary interest. Earl Manvers took the chair a little after two o’clock. well as to refute that gentleman’s charges. He was surprised that gentlemen should charge the members of a common proHis lordship asked for a fair hearing for every one, in order as those gentlemen opposed to him had done, in the fession, that the discussion might go on without interruption or loss of way they had all seen, in the different journals. (Hear, hear.) time. One of those gentlemen had said that the council had misapMr. CATTLIN then brought on his motion for the nomination plied the funds, and had obtained an Act of Parliament to of the new members of council; and, after some prefatory re- deprive the governors of their legal rights. (Hear, hear, and marks with respect to the fairness of public discussions, pro- No, no.) Those gentlemen allowed the charge to slumber; ceeded to say, that the charge of factious opposition which had they allowed the poison to do its work, and did not come for’been levelled at himself and those who thought and acted ward to give the explanation which Mr. Cattlin had done. with him was quite untrue; they denied such an imputation, They repeated the accusation that the council had prevented and had only one motive in the line of conduct they adopted- children being educated for X30 a year. (Hear, hear, cheers -namely, the good of the institution. (Cheers.) It was not be- and counter-cheers.) He hoped to prove to the meeting that the council was worthy of their high confidence. (Hear, hear.) cause men entertained different opinions that they were to be set down as factious. He wished to be distinctly understood That confidence should not be given to men who made mistakes such as those which had been made in that letter. (Cheers.) as entertaining no feeling of animosity against his respected friend, Mr. Propert, whom they all honoured (hear, hear); for The first accusation was that of improvident and extravagant he wished to see his name immortalized with the College he expenditure in building. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) They were had founded; but public must override private feeling. The charged with having spent upwards of .660,000; in a few speaker then went on to show that the acts of himself and months the charge had diminished to .645,000; whereas the friends, so far from being factious, proved how much they had actual cost was only .631,457 exclusive of the chapel, which the interest of the institution at heart. He said they had not cost £ 3050, including the commission to the architect. (Hear.) taken their present course without due advice, and the accounts In that alone a misstatement had been made against the council they were going to lay before the meeting had been examined by amounting to £ 1500. It had been said that they spent X1700 professional accountants. They had spent £ 63,273 148. 2d. up in law expenses, exclusive of the Act of Incorporation. (Hear, to Christmas, 1857. Out of that sum, less than £ 3000 has been hear.) There, again, was a mistake of £ 500. The Act of Inexpended on the object they had all so much at heart-namely, corporation cost £ 611, and the actual cost of the legal expenses the relief of their poorer brethren. He looked upon it as an up to the present time was .61800, including the Act of Incoract of injustice that the pensioners had only received X192 10s. poration. (Cheers.) That balance included also X900 which The profession, again, were promised education for the sons of had been spent in the enfranchisement of their land, and in conits members at £ 26 per annum, exclusive of books, whereas verting copyhold into freehold property. The cost of the land the council had raised it to £ 40, and it had become a subject after all these charges, with draining, fencing, planting, and of great grievance. (Hear, hear.) He could not tell how it sinking a well, was only 140 shillings an acre, whereas the was. Perhaps the council had accepted an Act of Parliament freeholders of the surrounding grounds at the present time are to its injury ; but he put it to the meeting whether it would asking 350 shillings an acre, exclusive of legal expenses. be worth while to spoil the institution for the sake of an Act (Cheers.) They could not charge the council of 1858 with the of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) He would readily put his hand shortcomings of the council of 1851. Why they might as well into his pocket to obtain another one, and his friends would charge the ministry of the Earl of Derby with the shortcomings do the same. (Hear, hear.) No one could shut his eyes to the of that of the late Sir R. Peel. The council of 1852 invested fact that there had been a misapplication and mismanagement .613,000 in consols- a course which was not at the time to be of the funds. He did not use the term offensively, but one commended, and which had produced a loss, and it was the claimant’s fund had been wrongly appropriated to another. same council that entered into a number of contracts, and He could not but again advert to the fact, that £ 63,000 had the present council are only carrying them out. (Hear, hear.) been spent in carrying out an object which had been promised It was the council of 1851 who published the original estimate for £ 18,000; nor was it now complete, for eighty-four resi- of .618,000, and had nothing to do with the present council. dences were still unbuilt, and he would ask any reasonable (Hear, hear.) With regard to the alleged loss of X1169 upon the consols invested, it was more; it was £ 1188 19s. ; but the man whether that was not something like mismanagement. (Hear, hear.) He called upon the meeting to adopt measures persons who found fault forgot to state that up to the time of that would tend to restore public confidence by stopping thei the selling out there had been received £ 1145 for interest, so mania for bricks and mortar, which was causing such a heavy that the actual loss was only X39 15s. (Hear, hear.) The cause expenditure. (Hear, hear.) He was willing, if the council of the loss was the Russian war, and Mr. Cattlin might as well would withdraw three names, to withdraw three from his list, charge them with being the cause of the Russian war as of the in order that harmony might be restored, and to show how loss occasioned by it. (Hear, hear, cheers, and laughter.) Mr. Cattlin had charged them with only giving the poor recipients little there was of factious opposition in him and his friends. Mr. PRO PERT said that the Council would not do anything X3000 out of the £ 63,000 ; he forgot that it cost between .6500 and X600 for the clothing of the boys ; furnishing the houses of the kind. (Cheers, and cries of " No compromises.") Mr. CATTLIN replied,-Then let the cry of factious oppo- for pensioners cost X250 ; and X2718 146. were expended on sition for ever cease. (Cheers and counter-cheers.) the foundation boys, exclusive of pocket money, and exclusive At this point the meetina began to assume rather a livelv of their share of accommodation in that noble building. (Great ’
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aspect, "
more
whom,
NUISANCES ON THE HOUSETOP. THE PROPERT COLLEGE.
WHEN King Solomon intimated his preference for a lodging on the housetop with a crust of bread enjoyed in peace, rather No one can regard the proceedings at the meeting of the the luxuries of the interior if marred by discord, it is prathan on Tuesday last, without a governors of this College, held bable that he did not contemplate the accessory discomforts of of The of Hancock satisfaction. Mr. masterly speech feeling sufficiently proves that in the main the council have acted, rotten greensin and stagnant water which suchin a residence the course London. Mr. Owen Rowland, under the circumstances in which they were placed, in a manner would imply some special investigations, has mounted upon some hunof which entitles them to commendation. We are far from rereports " that upon several occasions he has gretting that a discussion upon the affairs of the College has dreds of tops. ofHe animal and vegetable matter, as well as stagtaken place. Nothing is more conducive to the real welfare of found heaps nant water, (in consequence of defective gutters,) &c., lying a public institution than that all grievances, whether real or the roofs, and emitting the most offensive smells, which upon imaginary, should be brought before the governmental body. Publicity is the life of public institutions. Without it they in time, by percolation, no doubt saturate the walls of the houses to their very foundations, to the great injury of the languish and die. Now that the matter in dispute has been fully and ably dis- health of their occupiers." Every day satisfies us more comcussed, it is the bounden duty of every governor of the Propert pletely how little our philosophy wots of all that lies between institution to use his best efforts to raise it in the public esti- heaven and earth. We have been wont to look beneath our mation. Discord should cease when its continuance would feet for nuisances; in future, we must also look overhead. We be evidently disastrous. Unanimity should prevail where una- do not regard this announcement as of very serious sanitary nimity is essential. It is the fate of men who found great import; but there are many reasons why it should not be overinstitutions to meet with opposition, and often with ingrati- looked by our officers of health or sanitary inspectors; and Mr tude ; but no man in the profession of medicine is entitled to a Rowland’s hint of aerial inspection may not be thrown away, higher niche in the temple of fame for the services he has ren- whatever may be thought of his theory of percolation. dered to his poorer brethren than John Propert. When the discussions of the present hour have passed away, his name will live and his services be acknowledged. There will be no QUACKERY AND REFORM. blot upon the escutcheon of the great general practitioner of FORTIFIED by the support given to them by Mr. Thomas our time, who, by unwearied exertion and by incessant activity Duncombe in the House of Commons, the Coffinite quacks are in a noble cause, has founded for himself a reputation which petitioning Parliament to admit .them into the ranks of legitientitles him to rank amongst the highest and the best of those mate medicine. Our facetious contemporary, Punch, has who have succeeded in their efforts to alleviate the suffering treated this and with his usual
impudent proceeding
and distressed. HOMŒOPATHIC QUACKERY.
ignorance
ability
caustic satire. What a reflection upon our position is the movement of the Coffinite gang ! If anything could show the, necessity of a wholesome reform in medicine it would be the unblushing effrontery of these wretched pretenders to medical practice. However quackridden some members of the House of Commons may be, the proceedings ofthe Coffinites must convince the great majority of them of the necessity of placing legitimate practitioners of medicine in such a position as will effectually protect them from a miserable and degrading association with a set of ignorant and audacious pretenders, whose very name is suggestive of the influences they exert upon societv.
QUACKERY flourishes-quackery lives upon the and prejudices of mankind. On the one side are ranked the knaves and impostors, on the other the credulous and ignorant. It has always been so, and there appears no reason why it should not continue. Quackeries flourish like fashions; the more absurd the one or the other, the more for the time does it seem to outrage all the principles of truth and of comBut each has its end. It may inflict incalculable mon sense. mischief during its reign, but at length it sinks into merited obscurity. The homceopathic heresy, in the land of its birth, is already a byword and a jest. The Germans regard it as SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE AND THE ROYAL the mere emanation of a weak enthusiast, and it will not be SOCIETY. long before the English people will treat it as a delusion and a snare. The resolutions lately passed at Bedford, and pubFEW, indeed, are the posts of honour which it falls to the lished in THE LANCET of June 5th, should be adopted by every lot of practitioners of medicine to fill. There is no instance medical society in the kingdom. It is the bounden duty of in which one of them has been elevated to the peerage. Even the legitimate and honourable practitioners of medicine to in the Royal Society, it is remarkable, considering the many separate themselves in a most unequivocal manner from a eminent members of our profession who have belonged to it, dangerous and destructive system. Homœaeopathists separated and have added such a lustre to it, - Wollaston, Young, by a distinct line from honest men would sink into deserved Jenner, and a host of others-with one solitary exception, is no instance in which a president belonged to medicine obscurity and disgrace. So long, however, as they can rely in there difficult cases upon the aid and countenance of those who - that exception was Sir John Pringle, who was elected to the chair in 1772, after a severe contest with Sir James Porter, ought to show a better example, they will continne to insult whom Pringle defeated by a considerable majority. Itisgratilegitimate practitioners, and prey with relentless success on fying to announce that the Council of the Society have recomtheir victims. It is not enough that we should repudiate mended to the Fellows Sir Benjamin Brodie as the future pre-
589
sident. It is usual that the individual selected by the Council should be chosen by the Society. We may, therefore, fairly
and unheard compliments were passed about, of a free than welcome" nature, when Mr. Cattlin read the congratulate the profession on the distinguished position which following as his list for the Conncil :-Dr. E. Ballard, Dr. C. will shortly be holden by the most eminent member belonging P. Croft, Mr. T. B. Curling, Mr. J. F. Harding, Dr. W. Munk, to it. From a very early period of his career, the name of Mr. T. Pollock, Mr. R. Quain, Mr. E. Ray, Mr. J. Ward, and Brodie is most honourably associated with the transactions of Mr. J. Warwick. The Rev. Mr. WHITE seconded the nomination as a lay the Society. It is not too much to say, that the choice of the ’Council could not have fallen upon any man more worthy of member, and challenged Mr. Propert to prove that he was the honour they intend him. Sir Benjamin Brodie is not only actuated by "factious opposition." Mr. Propert had threatIf ened to leave the institution if the Council were removed. a surgeon of the highest eminence, but a great philosopher. Mr. PROPERT. -And so I will. medicine be honoured by the selection thus made, the Fellows Mr. WHITE said such an intention was a mistake of judg. of the Royal Society may be justly proud of a man to presidee f ment, and proceeded, in a. very energetic speech, to confirm over their proceedings who has done so much in the cause of the statements of Mr. Cattlin, adding, that with respect to the and progress. humanity education question, he knew from personal experience that it could be done for X30 a year, which was amply sufficient for the purpose. (Cheers.) The charter told them to get £ 40, but ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE. it did not say, " You could not take £ 30 if you choose." Mr. THE ADJOURNED GENERAL MEETING. Propert had publicly spoken of him (Mr. White) as being actuated by factious motives, but he trusted his conduct in connexion with the institution would disprove that charge, and THE adjourned general meeting of this institution was heldL he called upon Mr. Propert as an Englishman and a gentleon Tuesday afternoon in Freemasons’ Hall. There was a very man, to withdraw that imputation. (Cheers, and "No, no.") full attendance of members, and it was quite evident that the! Mr. HANCOCK rose to defend the proceedings of the council of the College, and to correct some of Mr. Cattlin’s errors, as in the council had excited more than proposed change ordinary interest. Earl Manvers took the chair a little after two o’clock. well as to refute that gentleman’s charges. He was surprised that gentlemen should charge the members of a common proHis lordship asked for a fair hearing for every one, in order as those gentlemen opposed to him had done, in the fession, that the discussion might go on without interruption or loss of way they had all seen, in the different journals. (Hear, hear.) time. One of those gentlemen had said that the council had misapMr. CATTLIN then brought on his motion for the nomination plied the funds, and had obtained an Act of Parliament to of the new members of council; and, after some prefatory re- deprive the governors of their legal rights. (Hear, hear, and marks with respect to the fairness of public discussions, pro- No, no.) Those gentlemen allowed the charge to slumber; ceeded to say, that the charge of factious opposition which had they allowed the poison to do its work, and did not come for’been levelled at himself and those who thought and acted ward to give the explanation which Mr. Cattlin had done. with him was quite untrue; they denied such an imputation, They repeated the accusation that the council had prevented and had only one motive in the line of conduct they adopted- children being educated for X30 a year. (Hear, hear, cheers -namely, the good of the institution. (Cheers.) It was not be- and counter-cheers.) He hoped to prove to the meeting that the council was worthy of their high confidence. (Hear, hear.) cause men entertained different opinions that they were to be set down as factious. He wished to be distinctly understood That confidence should not be given to men who made mistakes such as those which had been made in that letter. (Cheers.) as entertaining no feeling of animosity against his respected friend, Mr. Propert, whom they all honoured (hear, hear); for The first accusation was that of improvident and extravagant he wished to see his name immortalized with the College he expenditure in building. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) They were had founded; but public must override private feeling. The charged with having spent upwards of .660,000; in a few speaker then went on to show that the acts of himself and months the charge had diminished to .645,000; whereas the friends, so far from being factious, proved how much they had actual cost was only .631,457 exclusive of the chapel, which the interest of the institution at heart. He said they had not cost £ 3050, including the commission to the architect. (Hear.) taken their present course without due advice, and the accounts In that alone a misstatement had been made against the council they were going to lay before the meeting had been examined by amounting to £ 1500. It had been said that they spent X1700 professional accountants. They had spent £ 63,273 148. 2d. up in law expenses, exclusive of the Act of Incorporation. (Hear, to Christmas, 1857. Out of that sum, less than £ 3000 has been hear.) There, again, was a mistake of £ 500. The Act of Inexpended on the object they had all so much at heart-namely, corporation cost £ 611, and the actual cost of the legal expenses the relief of their poorer brethren. He looked upon it as an up to the present time was .61800, including the Act of Incoract of injustice that the pensioners had only received X192 10s. poration. (Cheers.) That balance included also X900 which The profession, again, were promised education for the sons of had been spent in the enfranchisement of their land, and in conits members at £ 26 per annum, exclusive of books, whereas verting copyhold into freehold property. The cost of the land the council had raised it to £ 40, and it had become a subject after all these charges, with draining, fencing, planting, and of great grievance. (Hear, hear.) He could not tell how it sinking a well, was only 140 shillings an acre, whereas the was. Perhaps the council had accepted an Act of Parliament freeholders of the surrounding grounds at the present time are to its injury ; but he put it to the meeting whether it would asking 350 shillings an acre, exclusive of legal expenses. be worth while to spoil the institution for the sake of an Act (Cheers.) They could not charge the council of 1858 with the of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) He would readily put his hand shortcomings of the council of 1851. Why they might as well into his pocket to obtain another one, and his friends would charge the ministry of the Earl of Derby with the shortcomings do the same. (Hear, hear.) No one could shut his eyes to the of that of the late Sir R. Peel. The council of 1852 invested fact that there had been a misapplication and mismanagement .613,000 in consols- a course which was not at the time to be of the funds. He did not use the term offensively, but one commended, and which had produced a loss, and it was the claimant’s fund had been wrongly appropriated to another. same council that entered into a number of contracts, and He could not but again advert to the fact, that £ 63,000 had the present council are only carrying them out. (Hear, hear.) been spent in carrying out an object which had been promised It was the council of 1851 who published the original estimate for £ 18,000; nor was it now complete, for eighty-four resi- of .618,000, and had nothing to do with the present council. dences were still unbuilt, and he would ask any reasonable (Hear, hear.) With regard to the alleged loss of X1169 upon the consols invested, it was more; it was £ 1188 19s. ; but the man whether that was not something like mismanagement. (Hear, hear.) He called upon the meeting to adopt measures persons who found fault forgot to state that up to the time of that would tend to restore public confidence by stopping thei the selling out there had been received £ 1145 for interest, so mania for bricks and mortar, which was causing such a heavy that the actual loss was only X39 15s. (Hear, hear.) The cause expenditure. (Hear, hear.) He was willing, if the council of the loss was the Russian war, and Mr. Cattlin might as well would withdraw three names, to withdraw three from his list, charge them with being the cause of the Russian war as of the in order that harmony might be restored, and to show how loss occasioned by it. (Hear, hear, cheers, and laughter.) Mr. Cattlin had charged them with only giving the poor recipients little there was of factious opposition in him and his friends. Mr. PRO PERT said that the Council would not do anything X3000 out of the £ 63,000 ; he forgot that it cost between .6500 and X600 for the clothing of the boys ; furnishing the houses of the kind. (Cheers, and cries of " No compromises.") Mr. CATTLIN replied,-Then let the cry of factious oppo- for pensioners cost X250 ; and X2718 146. were expended on sition for ever cease. (Cheers and counter-cheers.) the foundation boys, exclusive of pocket money, and exclusive At this point the meetina began to assume rather a livelv of their share of accommodation in that noble building. (Great ’
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590
aspect, "
more