§ The Duke of Sussexrose to present a Petition similar to those which he had the honour to lay on the Table the other day. It was a petition signed by 288 students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who, after setting forth that they were diligently bent on procuring the knowledge and skill to enable them to practise in the several departments of the medical art, and after stating that for that purpose they were obliged to devote much attention to the structure of the various parts which compose the human body, called upon their Lordships to make such alterations in the law as would allow them to prosecute their studies in safety and with effect.! He would confine himself at present to the presenting this petition, for having stated 2 on the former occasion his opinions at some length, he did not feel it necessary to detain their Lordships now by repeating them. He would merely mention one or two facts communicated to him by the Gentleman who put the petition in his hand. There were two persons now in the hospital of St. Bartholomew, one of whom, by name Mary Clay, having undergone an operation, has ordered her body to be disected after her death; and the other, also a woman, before the operation was commenced, ordered that if she should die her body should be opened by the surgeon of the hospital. He merely mentioned these facts to shew that some arrangement might be made gradually to overcome the prejudices of the people. He was also informed by another Gentleman that a body of persons had agreed to leave their bodies for dissection, provided their remains, when the surgeons were done with them, should meet with Christian burial. He would present the petition, hoping that the attention of the Legislature would be directed earnestly to this most important subject.