1816.] The Statutes. — Reports on the State of the Country. 

 adopted by the two houses of Parlia- 

 ment: — 



•'Resolved,— Tliat,from the present state 

 of the Statute-Law of this realm, it is 

 highly expedient that effectual measures 

 ihonid he taken to arrange the matters 

 contained in the Statutes of the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and 

 in the Statutes passed in the separate Par- 

 liaments nf England, Scotland, and Ireland, 

 respectively, under distinct and proper 

 heads." 



The following joint address of the 

 two houses to the Regent was also 

 agreed to and presented : — 



" May it please your Royal Highness, — 

 Wc, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal 

 jidyects, the lords spiritual and temporal, 

 and commons, in Parliament assembled, 

 humbly beg leave to represent to your 

 Royal" Highness, that, from the present 

 ktate of the Statute-Law of this realm, it 

 is highly expedient that effectual measures 

 should be taken to arrange the matters 

 contained in the Statutes of the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 and in the Statutes passed in the separate 

 Parliaments of England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland, respectively, under distinct and 

 proper heads ; and to request that your 

 Royal Highness will be graciously pleased 

 to order that such measures he adopted as 

 shall appear to your Royal Highness the 

 best calculated for the efficacious attain- 

 ment of that important object." 

 When this great work, is eflccted, and 

 our Statute-Law reduced to one code, 

 ■worthy of the enlightened character of 

 the age, we rcconimeiid tliat, in honour 

 of the mover, it may be called the Stan- 

 HOPiAN Code ; and, to give effect to his 

 labours, we advise, that the volume be 

 sent to every parish-vestry in the empire, 

 ^d be tiiere accessible to every inha- 

 bitant. 



The winter courses of Lectures at 

 4lie Medical School, St. Thomas's and 

 Guy's Hospitals, will commence, as 

 usual, the 1st of October : viz. — At St. 

 Thomtis's: on anaton:y and the ojicra- 

 tious of .surgery; by Mr. A. Cooper 

 and Mr. H. Cline. Principles and 

 practice of surgery, by jMr. A. Coopek. 

 — At Giii/'s: oil flic practice of medi- 

 cine, by Dr. Ba bington and Dr. Curry.- 

 Chemistry, by Dr. Babington, Dr. Al ar- 

 CRT a!id Mr. Allen. — Experimental 

 pliilosopliy, by Mr. Allen. — Theory of 

 medicine, and materia medita, by Dr. 

 CuKRY and Dr. Cholmeiey. — Mid- 

 wifery, and diseases of women and ciiil- 

 dren, by Dr. IIaiohton. — Physiology, 

 er laws of the animal occononiy, by I'r. 

 Haighton. — These seveial "ivrefnres 

 arc so arranged, that uo two of Ihcm m- 



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tcrfere in the hours of attendance; and 

 the whole is calculated to form a com- 

 plete course of medical and chirurgical 

 instruction. 



The following courses of Lectures 

 will bo delivered at the Medical The- 

 atre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, during^ 

 the ensuing winter. On the theory and 

 practice of medicine, by Dr. Hue. — Oo 

 anatomy and physiology, by Mr. Aber- 

 NETHY. — On the theory and practic« 

 of surgery, by Mr. Abernethy. — Ott 

 chemistry and materia medica, by Dr. 

 Hue. — On midwifery, by Dr. GoocH. 

 — The demonstrations of ariatomy, by 

 Mr. Stanley. To commence ou Tues- 

 day, October 1, at two o'clock. 



The courses of St. George's Medical, 

 Chemical, and Chirurgical Schools, will 

 commence in thehrst week of October. — 



1. On the laws of the animal oeeonomy 

 and the practice of physic; by George 

 Pearson, M.D.F.ILS. sen. physician 

 to St. George's Hospital, &o. &c. — • 



2. On therapeutics, with materia ntedica 

 and medical jurisprudence; by Georgk 

 Pearson, M.D. and W. T. Brande, 

 F.R.S. professor, Koyal Institution. — 



3. Onchemistry; by W.Thos.Brande, 

 f.R.S. professor of chemistry, R. I. — 4. 

 On the theory and practice of surgery; by 

 B. C. Brodie, F.R.S. assistant surgeon 

 to St. George's Hospital, &c. — And Sir 

 E. Home will continue to give lectures 

 on surgery gratuitously to the pupils of 

 St. George's Hospital. 



An extended aud practical coiu-se of 

 lectures and demonstrations on Che- 

 mistry, will be delivered in the labo- 

 ratoij of the Royal Iivstitiition ; by Wil- 

 liam Thomas Brande, esq. Tliesw 

 Lectures will be commenced early in 

 October, at nine in the morning, and be 

 continued every Tuesday, Tluirsday,' 

 and Saturday. Two courses will be 

 given during the season, which begins 

 in October and terminates in Rlay. 



Our readers, doubtless, remember the 

 judicious queries lately circulated by 

 the Board of Agriculture, with a view to 

 asecrlaiii tiie true state of the country, 

 and the officially compiled summaries 

 of the answers for the information of 

 Parliarneiil, bolli which were inserted in 

 our Number lor June last. Since that 

 time, the Directors of the Board, for the 

 more complete information, at least, of 

 their own associates, have printed tlio 

 substance of every ans'.Al 

 volume of 412 pages, u 

 " Af^ricnlliirnl Stale of 

 Fetrnary, March, and \ ^^ 



itig the substanco of the J ^{Jj^ 



