Mr. Gladstone made a lively and effective speech on Wednesday
at Guy's Hospital, where he was entertained on the occasion of the opening of the new Medical College for resident medical students of Guy's. It will accommodate the members of the junior staff, at present lodged in the hospital, and fifty resident students besides. £20,000 had been raised by the issue of debentures secured on the proceeds of the Medical School fund, by the liberality of the medical staff, a financial opera- tion on which Mr. Gladstone, as an old Chancellor of the Exchequer, cordially congratulated the College, remarking that it gave him hopes that some future Chancellor of the Exchequer lay hid among the medical staff of Guy's, as the poet Gray had hoped that some village Hampden lay hid in the rustic society around the church on which he wrote his immortal " Elegy." In his speech Mr. Gladstone noted with satisfaction the rise of physicians who could compete almost with great commercial men in the magnitude of their fortunes, referring especially to the fortune left by Sir William Gall, a former student of Guy's, which exceeded £300,000. But this was only one of many indications of the great progress of the profession in the esteem of the public, and of the growing belief that they can help very materially in securing and in restoring health that is seriously endangered or lost.
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