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August 2t>, 1853.] THE LEAD ER. 811
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SUICIDE IN THIS AKMY. *Vk have received ...
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SMYTH p. SMYTH AND OTHERS. {To the JEdit...
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A COUPLE OP RECTIFICATIONS. (To the Edit...
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A Word Fob The Doctors. Education Is The...
The effect of this mutual'kind , feeling , is highly favourable ; and where respect is not extorted for position , it is cheerfully conceded to ability . Lest the system above detailed should not be sufficiently organized , there is in force an admirable plan . Every jsurgeon has attached to him three dressers j every physician three clinical clerks ; who really discharge all the practical duties , and who are personally responsible for the patients during the absence of their superiors . Of every case a daily record is kept in an official book , which is read by the bed side . Thus many of these young men have under their immediate daily
ittspection more cases than will fall to their lot in practice during five years of semi-starvation . And if ever there should arise among them one with the pencil of a Thackeray , he will publish a work , called Notes from a Hand-Boole , whose fame will fill the country ! One amusing trait casually attracted our notice . A poor man left his home in ruddy and vigorous health . He met with an accident which placed him beyond the hope of recovery . His wife was sent for , and showed the tenderest and most touching sorrow . However , before remaining with him , she expi-essed a desire to leave for a short time . On her return she had contrived an
unprecedented mode or displaying her conjugal emotion . She had mounted the daintiest conceivable widow ' s cap ! And in it she actually nursed her husband up to the period of his decease . "Not every man Las the opportunity of seeing how weeds become the wife of his bosom . It must have been a delicious sensation , to feel that the last glimmer of earthly light which flickered over him as lie sank into the valley of the shadow of death , was reflected from the premature " trappings" of his bereaved helpmate . , We have digressed ; let us return .
Our student , then , is now prepared—we beg pardon , there is yet one thing to be done ; having learnt his profession , he has to cram the crotchets of his examiners . Most of these worthies cultivates pet monomania , which if he neglect woe be to him ! Consequently , he has ^ o deliver himself of these with unperturbed decorum , though he probably believes them to be what Sydney Smith would call , " the full bloom of imbecility /' At length , then , he enters the world , dubbed M . R . C . S ., L . A . C ., and forthwith embarks in his profession—we rejoice to say he does so with far better chance of success than his father . Fifty years ago the medical
profession seemed inexhaustibly prolific ; as a natural consequence it was soon glutted . The ingenious were driven to start various opathies and isms , tho less inventive , or more honest , starved . This , uninviting prospect , and tho impulse given to engineering by the railroads , prevented any great accession of young members , and when the present race of practitioners pass away there will be abundant opportunities for those who are rising to fill their places . Moreover , a fine field has recently been opened in Australia , of which many will avail themselves . In tho course of a single morning there were no less than four applications at
one of the hospitals for surgeons , to tako charge of outward bound vessels . We will conclude with a hint on this subject which may prove useful . A young man , with neither interest or property , was desirous of settling in London . How was he to manage ? He rented two feet and a half by one of a handsome street-door in an eligible lo ' cality , near Brompton , and immediately set « ail . On his return , he found lie had not been "ought by a single patient . Without hesitation he took i second voyage ; on his return this tinio he was told there had been one inquiry . He took the hint and remained at his post . Ho is now doinp : well . V .
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SUICIDE IN THIS AKMY . * Vk have received a very painful account of a recent tragical occuvronco in a distinguished Cavalry regiment . Our informant states that " m tho First ltegimont of rngooii Guards , n respectable young man , an cnginoor "y trade , ami a native- of Glasgow , " shot himself through _ ' «> heart with his carbino , on tho morning of tho 17 th "' stimfc , in Jtia burraclc-room . An inquest was hold on bin > wy tho samo nflornoon , and a . verdict of folo da so "turned . Tho consoquonco of which was that the body of t ] 10 unfo * fcunato youri £ man waa thrown " into a holo of »« < nteh in tho grave-yard at Nowbridgo , after being jjHHoc tod by tho doctor . " Our correspondent , who adr <)! W ( J » us under feelings of deep indignation , assorts that hoV ai > Py < lc (! 01 l 8 ° d was drivouto suieido by tho cruelty and ' ?' ° > O 1 ' ionml intho rogmionfc ; nnd that tormented ho 1 * 'MtriU ! * l ) y ft lift ) of mifiory nnd constant punishment , ii , tak . ° rofu ff ° «> w lin « I « ct of despair . Wo aro wiU ° M > Siti ( m to vouch for ( ihof ) O ractil > but wo trust they of . 1 ^ ro < : t-ivo tho immediate and strict inwnti < ration 1 ll »« aulhoritioa at the Horso Guards .
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There-Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There-is no learned man but will confess he hath much pr ofitedby readingcontroversies , his senses awakened , and nis judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why shouldit not , at least , be tolerable ¦ „ for his adversary" to write . —Milton .
Smyth P. Smyth And Others. {To The Jedit...
SMYTH p . SMYTH AND OTHERS . { To the JEditor of the Leader . ) Sib , —Being a " constant reader , " and a sincere admirer of much that is excellent in your paper , I deeply regret the observations you have made on the conduct of Mr . Bovill and his associates , at the late " Smyth " case at Gloucester . ' - It appears to me that you have not sufficiently distinguished between " Sir Richard Smyth , " plaintiff in
the cause , represented by himself and his friends ( among whom I may mention Mr . Cayley Shadwell , and other gentlemen of reputation ) as an injured man seeking for a restoration to his undoubted rights—under which guise he was presented to the notice" of his - counseland the self-convicted forger and perjurer shrinking from the piercing eye of Sir Frederick Thesiger , as he levelled at him the last overwhelming questions , which he found himself unable to answer .
Then when , to the astonishment of his counsel and , we would believe , of his solicitor , they found that the story they relied on was a tissue of falsehood , having been retained to conduct an action at nisi pri-ics , and not to defend a forger and a perjurer , they threw up their briefs . I regret too , permit me to say , to observe in your article the expression , " a weary judge . " It seems to imply that the judge was anxious to bring the case to a conclusion .
I had an opportunity of closely observing tho judge through the cause , and never did I see such unwearying assiduity in taking tho notes with extreme exactness , which often had to bo tested , owing to tho repeated contradiction of his own previous statements by tha plaintiff . Tho extreme courtesy of manner with which Mr . Justice Coleridge addresses all equally , was preserved to the last moment of tho trial ; and even when , I feel morally certain , he could have no further doubt of the plaintiff ' s falsehood and guilt , ho frequently excused hi . s irritability and impertinence to the examining counsel , and spoke to him so gently and kindly that , it appeared to me , the prisoner scorned to rely on his protection , even after his crimes were evident to tho wholo
court-Such inflexible love of justice , tempered with the utmost suavity of manner , i . s , \ imagine , rnro , even on the English bench . Long may Mr . Justico Coleridge adorn it . Sir Frederick Thcsigcr ' s activity and zeal were only equalled by the rapidity with which he saw every turn of the witness ' s mind , and traced every one of hi . s subterfuges . When tho exposure- waa complete , ho jippeaml almost overcome by his feolings , and is said to have- exclaimed , " Tuwell again , by Heaven !"
Mr . Catlin will not again derido " country attorneys , " after this . specimen of tho acuteness and energy of Messrs . Palmer and Wansey . But perhaps , above all , tli « youthful defendant in most indebted to bin uiu : l <> , Mr . Arthur Way , the receiver of tho estates , who , with tho most untiring prodigality of personal exertion , traced out the movements of tho plaintiff in Ireland and elsewhere ; und , with the assistance-of tho celebrated "Field , "
tho " Inspector Bucket" of Jilaafc Jfouse , mado the discoveries which led to the crushing' weight of ovidenco under which tho soi-disant "Sir Richard , " losing all his impudence- and self-possession , shrank , cowed , into the corner of the witness box , all his villany exposed ; nor is it probable- that Itichard will ever bo " himself again , " uh his next appearaneo will bo an " Thomas William Provis , " tho ox-convict of Ucheator gaol .
A word more , as to Mr . Bovill and his associates . I assure you it was the opinion of all , that if there was any indiscretion on their part , it was in exceeding , and not shirking , their duty to their client . The forgery of the document , on the validity of which they principally rested their-case , was sufficiently proved to satisfy the most earnest partisan of the plaintiff , on the second day ; and had they been desirous of avoiding their duty , or perhaps , had they been of longer standing at the Bar , they might then , without any injustice to their client , have resigned his cause .
I must explain , that I have not the least personal knowledge of Mr . Bovill , or of either of the gentlemen associated with him , and that I was deeply interested in the exposure of his client ' s infamy ; but I did see and feel the painful position in which Mr . Bovill , one who has already raised himself to a position scarcely inferior to any in his profession , was placed ; and I respected the chivalrous and honourable manner in which he persevered for his client , till perseverance become impossible , unless the counsel was to become the accomplice of the declared criminal .
Pardon my trespassing at this length on your columns . I know your love" of fairness to all ; and therefore subscribe myself—by the somewhat hackneyed title , A Lover of Justice .
A Couple Op Rectifications. (To The Edit...
A COUPLE OP RECTIFICATIONS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) SlR , —In the Leader which has just appeared is this portion of a paragraph concerning the pattern drawers and block cutters of Paisley : — " They wish to . limit the apprentices , and to insist on getting in the slack season an equal share of work with that given to the journeymen . " Now , this word "journeymen" cannot be the right one , as thus applied , and must have either slipped out unwatched from the pen , or from under the Angers ot
the compositor , for as it is , the fact is wholly changed ; the object of these Paisley journeymen being , that while no more than three apprentices shall be allowed to every five journeymen , so , again , it is their aim not to let thejipprentices get all the work in the slack season , bufthat ,. as the saying is , there shall be " share and share alike "—no very unfair regulation , as I should conceive ; and especially as a block-cutter with whom I am well acquainted has made known to me such illustration of the over apprenticeship in this trade as well warrants such an opinion .
The second correction concerns what is said of the dock labourers of London , whose " strike is ended without any advantage , their riotous conduct deserving the failure " A statement of this wholesale character looks ugly in print , but as I am perfectly aware in what manner it must have originated ( from a much overdone report which appeared in a certain daily journal , the Advertiser ) , so am I anxious that some contradiction should be given to tho same , mid especially in tho Leader , whose evident good feeling in the cause of the poor woi ' ker is ever present , more or less , in its columns . True , there were riots , or rather assaults , committed towards the conclusion of this striko—several on tho
1 ucsday evening in the neighbourhood of tho West India Docks , but on the whole the conduct of these men proved much better than might have been anticipated at such a juncture from such a class ; for generally , and under circumstances of an unusually trying nature , they bore themselves most quietly ; indeed so much so , that I heard myself some of the polieo authorities speak to this fact in a very complimentary manner , while I knew from my own knowledge that the compliment was deserved , having been present at most of their meeting . ! , which they held in JJonnerV iields , near Victor ! :.-park .
As , therefore , 1 do not consider that tho bad deeds of a few should bo taken us a justification for punishment to fall on the majority in any of these social struggles , so do I hope that you will permit the appearance of thin rectification in your columns ; and 1 hug also to apprise you that , it is the intention of the writer of thin note to pul ; together the wholo ctiso of theso really severely treated dock labourers ,, when I am suro ' ifc will- no longer be thought that they deserved to fail , but rather to have triumphed . J « ' )• ¦ ' } - Aug . 15 , I 81 V . J .
[ Tho first correction makes clear what our printer's error confused . Tliat the Paisley print-cutters seek what i . s unfair—namely , dictate to their masters tho amount of work to bo given to them and to the " apprentices , " ( which word should have been the hml ; in the sentence , instead of "journeymen . " ) 2 . The dock-labourers , as 11 body , must be judged by tho conduct of the most prominent of them . Wo see two fuo , < B : " riot" and " failure ; " both aro faults . All failuroH aro not faults ; but in tho present condition of industry tho ineu who deserve hucccbs generally coinmnnd it . —JEd . l
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 20, 1853, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20081853/page/19/
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