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DROWNING OF A SHIP’S SURGEON.—On the 11th inst. honours can at a small expense be assisted in their studies. for a body, identified at the subsequent inquest as that of Classes matriculation, Latin, Greek, French, German, Mr. James Oakley, L.R.C.S.I., was washed ashore at Millom. music, and shorthand are taught by well-qualified teachers. The deceased was surgeon to the mail steamer Calabar, Full particulars of the classes may be obtained from C. Smith, sailing between Liverpool and Cape Coast Castle. The organising secretary. circumstances attending the casualty seem obscure, as the SUICIDE IN PRUSSIA.—The following record of vessel appears not to have been wrecked. The coroner’s jury suicides is contained in a recent number of the Statistuschen returned the verdict of " Found drowned." Correspondenz:-In the kingdom of Prussia during the year DENTISTRY IN GLASGOW.—The dental students of 1885 there were 6028 cases of suicide, as compared with cases in Glasgow have met to protest against the amount of un- 5900 1884, and 6171 in 1883; so that while there qualified dental practice being carried on in the city. A had been a decrease from 1883 to 1884 of 271 persons, or petition was drawn up appealing to the West of Scotland 4’39 per cent., the sum had risen from 1884 to 1885 by 128 branch of the British Dental Association for protection cases, or 2’56 per cent. The suicides of the year 1885 are men In against men who, without right or title, are practising divided into 4811 and 1257 women. 4928 cases th& dentistry, to the detriment of those who have spent both motive for suicide was known, andis catalogued as follows :- time and money to qualify themselves for the duties of their 1582 cases from insanity, 766 grief, 659 vice, 611 weariness of profession. life, 477 physical suffering, 435 remorse, shame, &c. Most of these 3632-ended their lives THE BIRTH-RATE IN FRANCE.-The French suicides-namely, by hanging. popula- The rest are divided thus: 1150; tion returns for 1886 have been issued. The births Drowning, shooting, 636 ; just 245 ; cutting the throat, 123 ; jumping from a exceeded the deaths the smallest excess known of poison, by 52,560, height, 81 ; under railway trains, 71 ; opening a vein, 46;-, In 1881 the excess was in late years. 108,000; 1882, 97,000; &c. Suicide was most above middle and in The’ relatively frequent age, in 1883, 96,000; in 1884,78,000; 188.5, 85,000. for 21’3 were from to in the per 100,000 persons twenty thirty years divorces, which for the second time figure returns, of 281 from to 391 from to in 1885. Paris furnished 650 age; thirty forty ; forty fifty; were 2942 in 1886, against 4277 52.7 from to 59’7 from to seventy ; 537 of them, whereas Hautes and Lozere had and fifty sixty ; sixty-six Alpes none, from seventy to eighty; and 55’2 above eighty years of age. Cantal, Savoie, and Vienne had only one each. MEASLES AT HANWELL.—On the 19th inst., at the ordinary fortnightly meeting of the managers of the Central London School District, the clerk reported that the medical and superintendent of the Hanwell Schools advised the sending Births, Marriages, Deaths. of no more children from the of London or St. Saviour’s City BIRTHS. Workhouses at present, in consequence of the outbreak of measles at the schools. It was eventually, however, deter- CARTER.-On the 17th inst., at Belmont, Shipley, the wife of D’Arcy B. of a mined to send the children to the schools, but to prevent Carter, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., daughter. their intercourse with the other children there. CHEPMELL.—On the llth inst., at Forrest-road, Edinburgh, the wife of already Chas. Chepmell, L.R.C.P.Ed., of a daughter. MIDDLESBOROUGH TRADES COUNCIL HOSPITAL DE- GLYNN.—On the 15th inst., at Rodney-street, Liverpool, the wife of T. R. MONSTRATION.—A few since the annual Trades Council Glynn, M.D., of a daughter. days HEDGES.-On the 15th inst., at Rutland the Demonstration was held in the Theatre House, Leighton Buzzard, Hospital Royal, wife of J. A. M.R.C.S., L.S.A., of a son. the Ad- Hedges, Middlesborough, Mayor (Mr. Hinton) presiding. MULLIS.—On the 29th ult., at Boyson-road, Walworth, S.E., the wife of dresses were delivered by Mr. Isaac Wilson, M.P., and other George William Mullis, L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., of a gentlemen. The theatre was crowded in every part, the daughter. representatives of the several trades having paraded the PRIESTLEY.—On the 19th inst., the wife of R. C. Priestley, M.A" M.B.. chief streets of the town accompanied by several bands of of Upper Berkeley-street, of a son. music. The collection in aid of the North ROBSON.—On the 10th inst., at 20, South-street, Durham, the wife of Riding Infirmary E. Sheddon Robson, M.R.C.S.E., of a daughter. and Cottage Hospital amounted to £12 15s. 7½d. INTERNATIONAL SHORTHAND CONGRESS. - Many of MARRIAGES. our readers are no doubt interested in sufficiently rapid ADAMS—JOYCE.—On the 13th inst., at St. Thomas’s Church, Ryde, by methods of handwriting to welcome the announcement that the Rev. S. W. Stevens, Charles Edward Adams, M.B., B. Se.Lond., the International Shorthand Congress will assemble on Mon- M.R.C.S. Eng., of Buckhurst-hill, Essex, to Fanny, fifth daughter of day next, in the theatre of the Geological Museum, Jermyn- Edwin Joyce, of Ryde, 1. W. street. The will be continued the whole ARNISON—HOLDING.—On the 20th inst., at St. Jude’s, Southsea, bythe meetings during Vicar, the Rev. J. S. Blake, M.A., William Christopher Arnison, of next week. On the 26th, at 8 P.M., the inaugural address M.D., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Kate, youngest daughter of the late will be delivered by Lord Rosebery. On Wednesday, the Richard Holding, of Southsea. 28th, at the same hour, a bust of Mr. Isaac Pitman, who may BUSH—ROBERTSON.—On the 20th inst., at the Parish Church, Weston- be said to be the father of the modern of shorthand, super-Mare, by the Rev. F. Andrews, Rector of Kinnersley, Hereford- system shire, assisted by the Rev. H. Gibbs, Rector of Hutton, Somerset- will be presented to his family. shire, J. Paul Bush, M.R.C.S., fifth son of the late Major Robert Laura eldest the EFFECT OF ON UTERINE HÆMORRHAGE.—— Bush, of Clifton, Bristol, to Annie, daughter of QUININE late John (Quartus) Robertson, Esq., of Cororooke Colac, Victoria. new Geral de Medicina e The Brazilian journal, Boletim DELEVINGNE—YOUNGER.—On the 17th inst., at St. Gtorge-the-Martyr, Cirurgia, publishes a paper by Dr. Deocleciano Ramos on Queen-square, Bloomsbury, by the Rev. H. B. C. Delevingne, cousin the Effect of Quinine on Uterine Hasmorrhage. He cites to the bridegroom, Henry Ferdinand Delevingne, of Kronberg, Stoke to elder of the late two cases of who it is from Newington-common, Constance, daughter patients suffered, true, malaria, Edward Younger, of 117, Leadenhall-street, E.C., and Holly Mount, in whom a very few full doses-fifteen grains-of quinine Blackheath-hill. served to check, and indeed to cure, violent and intractable JONES—ROBY.—On the 21st inst., at St. Michaelys-in-th6-Hamlet, by the uterine haemorrhage. In one case iron and ergotin had been Rev. Canon Burbidge, Henry Jones, Surgeon, of Upper Warwick- and cold without street, Liverpool, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late John Roby, given internally, injections administered, of Rainhill. much but a dose of a con- effect, single quinine produced SHIRLEY—VERE—WALWYN.—On the 15th inst., at St. Mark’s, Bath, by siderable diminution in the amount of blood lost, and a the Rev. E. J. Wemyss-Whittaker, Matthew Bernard Shirley, second similar dose completely arrested the discharge, which L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., of Grove House, Batley, only son of Matthew did not return. Shirley, Physician and Surgeon, Beeston-hill, Leeds, to Frances Harriette (Dollie), Vere-Walwyn, youngest daughter of the late CHARTERHOUSE SCIENCE AND ART SCHOOLS AND F. A. Vere-Walwyn, Esq., of Greenheys, Manchester. LITERARY INSTITUTE.—The winter session of this, one of the largest science and art schools in the United Kingdom, DEATHS. will commence on Oct. under the of the Ist, presidency ILOTT.—ON the 18th inst., at Bromley, Kent, Edward Ilott, F.R.C.S., Rev. Henry Swann, M.A. Instruction of a practical character aged 60. is given in most of the sciences at a very nominal fee. Day KmLERY.-On the 19th inst., at York-place, Portman-square, St. John classes will also be held to prepare candidates for the London Killery, M.D., Brigade-Surgeon, Medical Staff, aged 51. matriculation, the clerical, medical (including dental), QUAIN.—On the 15th inst., at Cavendish-square, W., Richard Quain, legal, F.R.C.S., F.R.S., Surgeon Extraordinary to H.M. the Queen, and other examinations. Students who aim at becoming 87. aged - proficient in chemistry (organic and inorganic) have the opportunity of working in a well-fitted laboratory, capable N.B.—A fee of 5s. is charged for the Insertion of Notices of Births, of accommodating sixty students. Aspirants of university Afarriages, and Deaths.