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1, Hawley-terrace, Camden-town, Mussulmen 226, Greeks 151, Armenians 153, Jews 30. The August 31st, 1848. first in the list,’being strict observers of the Ramazan, are the- to the of circular SIR,—I beg acknowledge receipt your most numerous. Another- remarkable episode of the history to the - life. I never relative assurance of Mr. answer of the disease may here be mentioned. At Koubeli, on the -usual fee from such without first receiving the the directors, Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus, there are cavalry barracks well information I is for their knowing that any possess benefit, which can accommodate from 1200 to 1500 men. Hard by is and the of which I shall the case the due upon receipt give an hospital which had formerly been used as a lazaretto. As to attention it merits, and reply your questions. several cases of cholera broke out in the barracks, the soldiers I obedient am, Sir, your servant, there were ordered to leave them, and pitch a camp on a neigh- EDWARD GIBSON, M.D., M.R.C.S.E.M.R.C.S.E. bouring hill. The attacks of the disease became very rare; Charles Jellicoe, Esq., Secretary, when suddenly, in the night between the 14th and 15th of Eagle and Protector Life Association, the cholera broke out with such that 3, Crescent, Bridge-street. August, intensity, above 100 men were seized- in the space of a few hours. The next day,l&th,102 cases were reported; on the 17th, 75; on the 18th, 26; on the 19th, 15; on the 20th, 13; on the 21st, none; Medical News. on the 22nd, none; in fact, the disease had disappeared. In six days the disease had attacked 331 men, who were’con- PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.-In the first number veyed to the above-mentioned hospital; from whom, up to of an able little periodical which has reached us, entitled the the 22nd of August 170-viz., more than half-had already Anglo-Jewish Magazine, the middle-age Hebrew philosopher, died. Now, how is this sudden inroad of the epidemic; and, Maimonides, is represented as having anticipated Sir Charles not less wonderful, its sudden disappearance, to be explaineda Bell in showing that the nerves were "the instruments of Investigations -relative to the peculiarities of the locality have sense and motion" respectively. N passages from the learned led to no- definite solution of this puzzling problem. This in- author are, however, quoted. It may be well here to remark cident ought certainly to hold a prominent place in the his- -as we have done before-that it was not Sir Charles Bell tory of the cholera, and will be rather a hard nut for con- who first pointed out that the anterior and posterior roots of tagionists to crack. We will close these few remarks by giving the spinal nerves have separate functions, but that it was our readers a table, by which the rate of mortality by cholera Mr. Alexander Walker; and there is shortly to be published in large cities may pretty accurately be measured. The dis- in THE LANCET some papers illustrative of Mr. Walker’s ease broke out at Alexandria on the 25th of July; the popu- and of the diversities between his and those lation is about 80,000. The mortality up to the 8th of August views, opinions . of Bell, Majendie, &c. was as follows: MEDICAL SCHOOLS IN RUSSIA.—The medical schools oj Russia are carried on in a grand and becoming manner, and they are plentifully supplied in every respect. The studies must extend over five years, each- year beginning in August, and terminating in June. The whole of May is given up to examinations; all the courses last the full year, and every student is obliged to attend them, irrespectively of the- pecu- liar branch of medical science he may wish to study. There are six censures, or examinations. If the candidate do not At Cairo, however, where the population is treble, the give satisfaction with the first three, he is put back for one mortality reached only 296. On the 5th of August, it had year; but when he has creditably passed five, he obtains his fallen to 150. doctor’s degree. The sixth is only attempted by those who L’ Union Medicale has published several private communi- are looking for state appointments. The fourth and fifth cations which that received from the various are dedicated to clinical after journal places years especially instruction; where the cholera has broken out. From these we the men settle in of perceive which, young may any part the empire. that at Stettin the disease reigned with the greatest intensity BURIAL OF PERSONS APPARENTLY DEAD.-The Medico-Chi- in a certain district called Lastadie, which is thickly inhabited rurgical Society of Milan has lately expressed a wish that by labouring people, penned up in high houses and small rooms in some for the reception of corpses (as they exist rooms. This part of the town is made still more unhealthy of should be likewise parts Germany) established; that the by containing a large slaughter-house, which spreads around dead should not be buried until signs of decomposition became the most offensive effluvia. The cholera here made more manifest. Three medical officers would be appointed to victims in August 1848, in the short space of three weeks- ascertain, both in the above-mentioned rooms and in the viz., 275-than in seventeen weeks, when the disease reigned deceased persons’ residences, the characteristic signs of’disso- in 1831 and 1837. Let this be a lesson to the authorities of lution &c. this country; we know of several parts of London where FRENCH NAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE.-A call for reform in slaughter-houses, if we are visited by the disease, will be as the French naval medical service has issued from the sur- fatal to human beings as they are to cattle. geons of the naval school of Toulon; for it would seem that A MEDICAL MAN IN TROUBLE.—Dr. Pinel Grandchamp, this service, as in England is also the case, has been over- who, unfortunately for him, was Mayor of the twelfth district looked in the improvements which have been brought about of Paris in June last, and who, in spite of many kind acts by in the medical service of the army. The first appeal is that which his period of office was marked, allowed himself to be the naval be assimilated to the army medical service. At involved in the insurrection, of which his district was the the head of the navy medical department is an inspector- chief focus, has just been condemned to transportation, to the general, whose power is despotic, although under the control great regret of his professional brethren, by whom he was of the minister of marine --a control which is but nominal. much esteemed. Instead of this, a central council of three members is pro- GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MEDICAL MEN OF ITALY.- in posed, meeting Paris, and selected from the three chief The project of a general association of all the medical men of ports of the country. Other changes are advocated, as in the Italy seems to be gaining ground. On the 26th of last July, mode of promotion, and in the concours, which is carried on to a large meeting was held at Turin, Dr: Trompeo, the great the injury of the medical,officers, &c. promoter of the association, in the chair. Resolutions were THE CHOLERA IN CONSTANTINOPLE AND ALEXANDRIA; EFFECT passed, to the effect that the Piedmontese Association should OF LOCALITY ON ITS APPEARANCE.—That errors of diet have take the name of Piedmontese Section, and that it should act a great deal to do with the attacks of cholera, when the dis- in unison with the Lombardian section. The sections will be ease is epidemic, is shown by the increase of mortality which divided into provincial committees &c. The same agitation the advent of the Ramazan produced at Constantinople. It is prevailing in Tuscany, and in the papal states. The aim is is well known that at this period great excesses follow very to put everywhere extensive and far-spread associations in severe fasting. The Ramazan began on the 31st of July, and the place of petty and jealous corporations. the first week’s return then gave 113 deaths from cholera. PROFESSIONAL LOYALTY.-Sir Philip Crampton, Bart., with From the 31st to the 9th of August, the number rose to 197; several noblemen and gentlemen, waited on his Excellency and from the 10th to the 17th of the same month, it reached the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, at the Viceregal Lodge, last 201; but from the 17th to the 24th, it again fell to 165. And week, with an address, or declaration, against repeal, signed to show that the Ramazan really augmented the mischief, it by upwards of 80,000 persons, determined to maintain the may be noticed that in casting up the deaths of these three union between Great Britain and Ireland. The address in weeks, we shall have a total of 563. which were thus divided.:-- question was signed by upwards of 260 physicians and surgeons. 411

ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION.-The Court of Common about the cholera than all medical men ought to do. I may have Council, on Thursday last, unanimously voted a grant of £100 done. I do not know that I have very specially turned my atten- to augment the funds of this excellent institution. tion to that subject; but, however, in consequence of my con- MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.-A handsome turret clock, having an nexion with the Cholera Board, it was my duty to pay, and I illuminated dial eight feet in diameter, has been purchased by did pay, great attention to all the circumstances at the time, subscription of the inhabitants in the vicinity of the hospital, and I devoted myself to seeing that the town was purified, and was presented on Thursday last to the trustees of this in- and we did what we could to prevent the cholera coming into stitution, to be by them placed in the nearly completed new the town." wing of the hospital.-In consequence of the resignation of the It appeared from further evidence that Birmingham was surgeoncy by Mr. Arnott, Mr. C. H. Moore is a candidate for remarkably free from Asiatic cholera; only thirty-one cases that appointment, and Messrs. Nunn, Hillman, and Henry for in all were reported to the Board of Health in London during that which would be vacated by Mr. Moore. the whole time that the disease existed in England, but that WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.—At a meeting of the Committee of at Bilston, which is only ten miles from Birmingham, it raged Management of this institution, last week, the following muni- more than perhaps in any other place in Great Britain. ficent bequests were stated to have been left during the past Bilston at that time contained 14,700 inhabitants, of which year-viz., from Miss Collyer, of Farningham, Kent, .E2000; number 3568 had the cholera, and 742 died of that disease in Sir Simon Howard, Bart., £500; Mrs. Elizabeth M‘Pherson, less than seven weeks. One in fourof the population had the £500; and X500 from a gentleman who did not wish his disease, and one in five of those who had the disease, died. name to appear," making a total of .63500. The income of the "Were any precautions taken to prevent the disease spread- year, from all sources, amounted to £7,332 3s. 3d., being an -ing between Bilston and Birmingham ?-None. And there were excess over expenditure of £1,555 Os. 8d. communications constantly between the towns; coaches and STINK-TRAPS.—A person with the slighest sense of smell other conveyances went through. The disease went on to a might walk through the streets of London blindfold, and frightful extent, till the Government sent down to Bilston Dr. point out the exact locality of these danger-valves of our McCann, who had seen a good deal of the cholera in India, streets. If not able to detect the nuisance in Regent-street, and, I believe, in Persia, or abroad somewhere." we would direct their course over Trafalgar-square, and just The remainder of Mr. Hodgson’s evidence is chiefly taken in front of Northumberland-house they will find two most up with the detail of Dr. McCann’s recommendations and magnificent gullyholes, which have lately never failed to ideas, "that if you catch (oppose) the disease in the pre- warn our nostrils of the dangers lurking near. Over one of monitory condition you may stop it at once, but that when it these precious holes all the omnibuses passing to and from comes to the other condition there is great danger. I wish to the Strand always stop to take up and set down their Gharing- state (added Mr. Hodgson) that I consider that very great cross passengers. It would be an inquiry of some interest to merit is due to Dr. McCann; there. is no merit due to me except ascertain the exact number of omnibus passengers who have that of pointing out-to my friend, Mr. Chadwick, the importance caught influenza, continued fever, or other zymotic disease, of Dr. McCann’s proceedings. from being thus freely exposed for a few minutes to the pesti- Such, then, is the evidence and the witness which have lential gases that are exhaled from this unclean mouth of the satisfied the requirements of the sanitary commission ! Strand and St. Martin’s-lane sewers. Those who understand Verily the commission yields .a hopeful prestige of the doings the action of these vapours in the air upon the system will I of its archetype the Boardof Health. not for a moment doubt that they must tend most powerfully ’i AN HOSPITAL REVOLT.—The Hotel Dieu, of Marseilles, has to maintain that peculiar condition of the atmosphere in which ’, just been the -seat of -a regular insurrection. The physician epidemic diseases are most rife. The exhalations of an open I to whom the ward of the 11 Fille8 Soumises," or penitent girls, drain, a gullyhole, a dung-heap, an ash-pit, may not produce a (rather an inapplicable epithet in this case,) belongs, was specific disease, but they will produce a state of the system in obliged to impose one day’s low diet on all the patients of which derangements that are ordinarily trivial and easily the ward, for insubordinate conduct. As soon as they heard cured become severe and fatal. They will not produce of this, they n-tade a general attack upon the Æsculapius, scarlet fever, or measles, or small-pox, but persons living in and nothing but a prompt retreat saved him from severe their neighbourhood will more easily catch these diseases, and handling. Exasperated by his flight, the women became in- when they have caught them they are much more likely to furiated, and soon heaped together tables, chairs, beds, mat- die with them. If we have no evidence to show that such tresses, &c., wherewith they formed a huge barricade, behind gases can ever produce cholera, we have abundant evidence which-they began voeiferating patriotic hymns, &c. The mili- to show that persons exposed to them are most likely to have tary were called in to destroy the barricade, and now begunfa cholera. We are not, then, so free from liability to disease regular shower of divers pieces of furniture and utensils, by living in large houses, in open streets, as some persons hurled by these furies upon the poor fellows. The soldiers might be led to suppose. The vapour of these gullyholes will succeeded at last in securing the leaders, and no little curio- find its way as easily into the air of a carriage as on the foot- sity was evinced by the people outside to get a glimpse of path, and may be inspired from the open window of a palace these heroines. as easily as in the street.—Daily News, Oct. 3rd. THE SANITARY COMMISSION AND THE CHOLERA.-We notice BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW. in the Birmingham Journal a lengthened report of the evidence of Joseph Hodgson, Esq., who, on the authority of£ ’, A Lecture on the Nature, Causes, and Prevention of a correspondent, " never visited a single case," yet who was ’, Cholera. By J. M. S. Kennedy, M.D., Ashby-de-la-Zouch. called upon to state to the Commission his opinions on the 1832. Hextall. 8vo. pp. 36. characteristics and cure of cholera in Birmingham and the British American Journal of Medical and Physical Science. adjoining towns. The following are some of the minutes of September, 1848. Montreal: Bichet. evidence:- ’, Rapport Addresse a M. le Deleque, du Gouvernement Pro- " You are a surgeon of eminence at Birmingham ?-I am a visoire, sur les Traitements Orthopediques de M.le Dr. Jules surgeon in Birmingham. Guerin, a I’H6pital des Enfans, pendant les annees 1843-44-45. " You were in Birmingham during the time that the cholera I Par une Commission composee de MM. Blandin, P. Dubois, visited England, in 1832 and 1833 ?-Yes, I was. I was one ’’, Jobert, Louis, Rayer, et Serres. President, M. Orfila. Paris: of the two medical officers appointed at that time by the bureau de La Gazette Médicale. 1848. Folio. pp. 202. government on the Board of Health in Birmingham. ’, Plain Directions for the Prevention and Treatment of " Then, on account of that, as well as other reasons, you Cholera. By Thomas Allen, M.R.C.S. Oxford: Vincent. took especial note of everything with regard to that disorder, London: Renshaw. Pamphlet. pp.40. at that period ?-No; I cannot say that I took especial note. I Report of the Secretary of the National Philanthropic did not write down anything, but I paid particular attention to Association, of the Sanitary State of the Parish of Saint the cholera at the time. We had an inspector and other Martin-in-the-Fields. Renshaw. Pamphlet. officers appointed, and it was part of my duty to see what Observations on Hospital Gangrene, with Prefatory Re- means could be adopted for the purpose of preventing this marks, Cases, &c. By John Boggie, M.D., Surgeon to H.M. disease coming into the locality, and to secure the safety of Forces. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox. London: High- the inhabitants. ley. 1848. 8vo. pp.151. " Have you not made it a special object of your inquiry, by On Femoral Rupture, its Anatomy, Pathology, and Sur- reading the publications, or watching the evidence in relation gery ; with a New Mode of Operating, applicable to Cases to it, in your own general experience ?—The circumstance of of Strangulated Hernia generally. With Plates. By John my being on the Board of Health brought my attention a Gay, F.R.C.S.E. &c. London : Highley. 1848. Royal 4to. good deal to the subject. I do not know that I have read more pp.97. 412

A Register of Cases of Cholera Professionally Attended. A Stranger Student.—University College, we regret to state, has ceased to A Note-Book for the Practitioner. London: Smith, Long- offer any advantage as a school of practical surgery. acre. Small 8vo, bound in cloth. L. H.-The circumstances are very peculiar, but a portion only of such Cholera Investigated. By F. Smith, Surgeon. London: details is fit for publication. Gibbs. 12mo. Our correspondent Britomart should forward the circulars which he states have been issued the whom he has and The Fifty-Second Report of the Friends’ Retreat, near by practitioners named, who York. York: Linney. 1848. reside in his neighbourhood. British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. No. IV. The letter and extracts on cholera, of Alr. Arneciple, shall be published. 1848. London: J. Churchill. THE "CONFERENCE." October, Highley; I To the Editor of THE LANCET. The A Journal. No. I. Anglo-Jewish Magazine. Monthly SIR,—When I became a member of the National Institute, I did so, (and Tishri,5609. October, 1848. London: Solomon Bevis Marks; I presume that most of the members did so too,) upon the understanding Aylott and Jones, Paternoster-row. pp. 56. that it was intended "to form. irrespective of the special colleges, an ill- A Letter to Lord &c., on the Cholera stitution comprising within itself the entire range of medical and surgical Morpeth question-Is So at least says the with all the that or knowledge." prospectus, emphasis Contagious, Not ? By W. Reid, M.D. London: Highley. can ’ large type give. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart. Pamphlet. But now, instead of this, it appears by the lately published report, that Hints on the Probable Approach of Cholera. A Letter Mr. Bird and Mr. Ancell, under pretence of representing this body, have addressed to the of Newcastle. T. M. been employed, together with the heads of the Special Colleges, in concoct. Mayor By Greenhow, ing a joint-stock scheme of medical reform, and settling the terms of a most F.R.C.S.E. &c. Pamphlet. Newcastle: Charnley. 1848. disgraceful compromise with the College of Surgeons, the functions of The Nineteenth Annual Report of the Inspectors of the which body, so far as the general practitioners are concerned, the Institute Eastern State of was formed for the especial purpose of superseding. Penitentiary Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Will you allow me, through the medium of your journal, to ask these 1848. gentlemen, what authority they have for those proceedings, which, are in Cuvier’s Animal Kingdom. Part VII. London: Orr and direct violation of the fundamental principle upon which the Institute was Co. Large 8vo. (Cirrhopoda to Arachnida.) based. The Charleston Medical Journal and Review. Vol. III. Their answer will determine whether or not I shall again subscribe myself, as I do now, Your obedient servant, No. IV. July, 1848. Charleston, United States: Burges, September 2sth. A MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE. James, and Paxton. A Junior Practitioner.—It is useless to appeal to the council of the Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. By College of Surgeons in such a case. Obtain evidence which would amount Charles West, M.D. London : Longmans and Co. 1848. to proof of the fact in a court of law, and then bring an action against the 8vo. pp.488. slanderer. It is likely that heavy damages would be given in such a case. On the Ganglionic System of Nerves. By C. Radclyft’e To the Editor ofTHi., LANCET. Hall, M.D. &c. Pamphlet. pp. 77. SIR,—Will you oblige me by solving the fol!owing queries? of What is the number of candidates at present on the Medical Naval Journal Public Health for October, 1848. List ? A Treatise on the Advantages and Necessity of Frequent Did all on the list prior to the demand lately made in the North, (who Bathing, with Drawings of the various Kinds of Baths. By would accept of them) get appointments? and if not, why? E. 1848. Is it often the case that a surgeon sei ves for twenty years or so without Perry, Wolverhampton. Pamphlet. Wolverhamp- mean an assistaut When such is ton : Price and Williams. promotion?-I surgeon. is the case, what the retiring allowance? I am, Sir, yours respectfully, Water Cure Journal. No. XIV. October, 1848. A CONSTANT READER. The Charleston Medical Journal and Review, (late Southern *** We are not in possession of official information which would justify Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy.) Vol. III. March,1848. us in giving replies to the questions asked in the above note. It is No. 2, (bi-monthly.) Charleston, United States: Burges, James, probable, however, that the publication of the questions may have the and Paxton. effect of supplying us with materials which may enable us to comply with the request of our correspondent at a future period.-En. L. A. B., (Sussex.)-Can a member of the College enforce payment of a TO CORRESPONDENTS. charge for journeys? and if so, at what rate per mile? Yes; but there is Preparations of Cod-Liver Oil.-The best method of preparing cod-liver no fixed charge per mile. The charge must be a reasonable one, and it oil consists in extracting the oil from the liver by means of heat and must be in conformity with the established custom of the neighbourhood. moisture. For this purpose, the livers should be boiled in water, and the A Weekly Reader.-The pleximeter is used as a medium of percussion ; it oil, as it collects, skimmed from the surface. After all the oil has sepa- can be purchased at any surgical instrument maker’s, and its price is very rated, it should be purified by repeated filtration through flannel. The trifling. old a livers yield, on an average, one-third of their weight of oil. The quality of An Subscriber asks-Is person possessing only the diploma of the the oil depends on the care with which the livers are selected, as to their College of Surgeons considered a legally - qualified medical practitioner, and freshness, &c.; and secondly, on the mode in which the filtration has been eligible to the office of vaccinator under the poor-law commissioners ?-Yes. performed. ALDERSGATE-STREET SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. M.D., (Islington.)-It is deplorable indeed that, in the words of our cor- WINTER SESSION. respondent, " the honoured name of Liston should be made use of by the Anatomy: Mr. Chance, daily, except Saturday, at half-past Eight. Course, £5 7 7s. and it makes one blush for the laws of the It is 5s.; unlimited, ;E7 filthy quacks; country." Chemistry: Mr. Holmes, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday,at preposterous that the present state of the law should be such, that the half-past Ten. Course, aE5 5s.; unlimited, £7 7s. public have no remedy against the base and glaring impositions to which i Physiology: Mr. Holthouse, daily, except Saturday, at half-past Two. quackery resorts. Course, £5 5s. ; unlimited, £7 7s. Materia Medica: Monday, and at half-past Three. Americus.-Does our mean basalt or Wednesday, Friday, correspondent bay-salt? Course, £4 4s.; unlimited, £5 5s. The request of Methodos shall be responded to as soon as we can afford Medicine: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at half-past Three. Course, complete information on the subject. £4 4s.; unlimited, £6 6s. Both the communications of J/f. Cox have been received. They shall MIdwifery: Dr. Cutlett, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Six. Course, £3 £5 5s. ’meet with the earliest insertion of which our will admit. 3s. ; unlimited, arrangements Surgery : Mr. Smee, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Seven. Course, We thank Mr. Camden for his note. We will refer to the advertisement £3 3s.; unlimited, £5 5s. and the subject of it. SUMMER SESSION. We have seen the document signed "G. Bum," which is a tissue of mis- Botany: Dr. Arlidge. Course, £2 2s.; unlimited, £3 3s. Forensic Medicine. .3 representations from beginning to end. It was printed evidently for the Course, £2 2s.; unlimited, 3s. Practical £2 2s. of from the credulous. As we have often stated, Chemistry. Course, purpose obtaining money Midwifery. Course. £2 2s. the bill was drawn by its promoter in parliament, and finally settled by Mr. Coml arative Anatomy : Dr. Rayner and Mr. Pittard. Theobald, Barrister-at-law, of the Middle Temple. General Fee to all the Lectures and Hospital Practice required by the Mr. Hulbert.—It is uncertain, but we will make further inquiry. Royal College of Surgeons and Society of Apothecaries, Fifty-five Guineas, or to the Lectures, without Practice, ThIrty Guineas. A Young Surgeon.-At the Government Emigration Office, 8, Park-street, Hospital Westminster. It is of immense advantage to medical gentlemen who may Communications have been received from-Dr. Parkes; Mr. Edwin Lee; emigrate to possess a thorough knowledge ’of practical agriculture. The Mr. Dixon, (Norwich;) Mr. Todd, (Evenwood;) An Old Subscriber, (Lan- fee-simple of a good estate may be purchased in Australia or New Zealand cashire;) Dr. G. Paterson, (Edinburgh,) Methodos; Mr. H. J. W. We1ch; for a sum which would only be equivalent to the rent and taxes paid for a’ Sir James Murray, (Antrim Castle, Ireland;) Mr. O’Shea, (Lambeth;) Mr. good house in London for a single year. But the Australian colonies, how- Camden, (Hounslow;) Dr. Robert Lee; Dr. Aldis; Justitia; A Weekly ever well-suited for farmers and artizans, hold out little prospect of ad- Reader; A Member of the Institute; A Junior Practitioner, (Yorkshire;) vantage to medical practitioners, who are there, as in Great Britain, over- Mr. Cuolahan; Dr. Parrish, (Philadelphia;) Mr. Cox, (Kennington;) Mr. numerous, and many of whom have become farming or herding settlers in Thomson, (Aberfeldy—two communications A Medical Pupil ; Mr. Izod, " the bush." The superintendence of an emigrant ship, if he can obtain it, (Bewdley;) Mr. Moore, (Bourton-on-the-Water;) A Constant Reader; would best suit the views of a young surgeon, and others like him. Querulus; Mr. Boyle, R. W. D. Argus had better look again, and with all his eyes. There is much to be! The Birmingham Journal of September 30th has been received. The unveiled that is wrong. The delinquent professors are receiving an appro- remark in the margin has not been lost upon us. priate punishment. The Carlow Sentinel of Sept. 23rd has also been received,