We hardly require to remind our readers of the state of the case between the Lords of the Admiralty and the medical profession. It is briefly this :-The assistant-surgeons are so badly treated in the Royal Navy, that few of the best class of men enter that service: the House of Commons passed a resolution to the effect that the naval assistantsurgeons ought to have cabins and gentlemanly treatment, so as to remove the stigma which now attaches to that branch of the medical service of the State;

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... whereupon the Lords of the Admiralty, upon a variety of pretexts, paid little or no attention to the wishes of Parliament, insinuating that the naval surgeons were such snobs that they really could not think of sitting down to table with them.