can be mastered as well in private rooms as within the walls of ADDRESS TO Mr,. STILWELL.-The following is a copy á College; in fact, it is very difficult to see what such merely of the address which has been presented to Mr. Stilwell, physical detention within certain walls has to do with the on the occasion of the dismissal by the magistrates of the matter. Who does not know that the collegiate system of the charge which had been made against him by his late partner, two older English Universities is a mere farce as regards clas- Mr. Warder, and of which the particulars were given in THE - sica.1 and mathematical training---this being conducted by LANCET of last week. The address has been signed by the private tutors, and as often by the lakes, or elsewhere, as gentry, the clergy, and the principal inhabitants of Ux- ’within the College walls? The student, his rooms, and his bridge :- - books, either with or without a private tutor, constitute all " TO JAMES STILWELL, ESQ., M. R. C. S. the essentials for a in Arts or and all that is degree Laws, "SIR,-We, whose names are hereunto appended, beg to at Oxford and really efficient Cambridge--the lectures, halls, offer you our sincere and heartfelt congratulations on the issue and so use- chapels, being simply many muster-rolls, perfectly of the late charge of perjury preferred against you. Most of less for all of I therefore hail the purposes study. proposed us have known you long and intimately-can testify to the un- abandonment of all tests as a in the College great step right sullied truthfulness of your character, the irreproachable recti- or rather as the full of that of direction, development spirit tude of your conduct, and the kindness and courtesy of your and in which our was utility liberality metropolitan University disposition and manners as and a Christian. A I a gentleman - conceived. am, Sir, yours truly, of so seriuus a nature as that from which have D. charge you Trinity-square, Borough, HOOPER, B.A. & M.B. LoXD.,LOND., vindicated could not be otherwise than a June, 1857. And MemberMember of the London College of Physicians. recently yourself source of deep anxiety and annoyance both to yourself and every member of your family. We trust, therefore, that it A QUESTION IN MIDWIFERY. will be consoling and gratifying to you and to them to have the which we of our undiminished To the Editor of THE LANCET. assurance, hereby give you, respect, and to receive the expression of our full conviction SIR,-In the late painful case at the Central Criminal Court that you have come forth from the painfnl ordeal to which you I replied to counsel as I should not have answered before any have been subjected without the slightest stain upon your medical examiner. The proposition was-" In a case where a character, and that you are entitled to the same place in the surgeon was called in by a midwife, and found the head (with regard and estimation of your friends, neighbours, and fellow- the hand on the chin) had been born two or three hours, would townsmen you have ever held, and which nothing in the late he be justified in leaving the woman before the child was wholly proceedings has at all shaken or impaired. These are the ,born sincere sentiments of our hearts. And now, having conveyed This was not a parallel to the case, and I was obliged to to you our cordial congratulations, and assured you of our un- " answer, I could not say; but that such would never be my diminished respect, we have only to add our best wishes for own practice." your continued health and prosperity, and our earnest hope As I was not in the least degree discomposed, the reason that as you have passed forty years at Uxbridge with un- which led me to this involuntary imperfect statement of my blemished reputation, and in peace and harmony with your .opinion will be seen and duly appreciated by members of the neighbours, so the remainder of your days may in like manner faculty or of the bar. be passed in tranquillity and honour; and we now subscribe I do not wish to comment upon the case, further than to ourselves your unchanged and faithful friends." ,state that the evidence which appeared before the coroner’s We should cordially congratulate Mr. Stilwell on what may .amd .grand jm’ies was only partially produced at the trial, and be called his triumph, but we rather sympathize with him in consequently neither the opinion of Mr. Baron Channel nor his late sufferings from the persecution to which he has been the final verdict were likely to be at all in accordance with submitted. He can desire no greater retribution for his accuser the views expressed by those previous tribunals. Not that I than to meet daily face to face with the subscribers to the ‘ tnyself think the verdict of " Manslaughter" was supported by foregoing address. the whole but there is some difference’ evidence; surely slight KING’s COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-A meeting was held last ’,’between d.eserving praise, and being culpable to the extent of week to promote subscriptions for the building fund of this -such a verdict.-I obedient am, Sir, your servant, hospital. The Duke of Cambridge presided. £15,000 were Horseferry-road, June 19th, 1857, ROBT. KNAGGS, M.R.C.S. subscribed in the room. HER MAJESTY’S STATE BALL.—Drs- i Faraday, Lyon Playfair, A. Smith, and Armstrong, were present. DR. WILLIAM FARR, the distinguished medical regis- Medical News. trar, has received the honorary degree of D.C.L. of the Uni- versity of Oxford. ’ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-The following gentle- COURT OF COMMON’ JUNE 21ST. - JONES V. the examinations for the PLEAS, men, having undergone necessary HALE. - This was an action for libel the were admitted members of the at the meet- against registered Diploma, College of the News. The was Dr. Jones of the Court of Examiners on the 19th inst.:- proprietor Daily plaintiff ing of The libel was contained in the " Mauritius. Albany-street. Foreign BAZIRE, VICTOR, Correspondence’’ of the paper in question, and consisted of THOMAS. Yorkshire. BIGLAND, Bramham, an account of the death of a Mr. Brettle, a of ROBERT H,E.I.C.S. gentleman CLIFTON, WALTER, fortune who died at Paris last year, in which it was stated HARTLEY, DOCTOR, Blackburn, Lancashire, that Dr. Jones was under serveillance till his share in the HATCHELL, CHARLES, Bengal, treatment of Mr. Brettle’s case could be ascertained. The LA GEORGE FREDERICK Husband Bos- Fa RGUE, HERIOT, of a slanderous report was considered to constitute Leicestershire. repetition worth, a libel in itself, and the right of comment was denied by a LAWRANCE, FREDERICK, Bleadon, Somerset. verdict for the plaintiff of £150 damages. MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH, R.oyal Navy. MACKARSIE, WILLLIAM JOHN, Clay Cross, Derbyshire. THE NETLEY HOSPITAL.-ON Thursday, the 18th inst., ROLFE, ALFRED GEORGE, Virginia, U.S. a most numerous and highly-influential meeting of the medical WEST, HENRY RoGEit, Harpenden, St. Albans. profession took place at the Audit-house, .in compliance with WILLIAMS, JOHN DAVID, Criccieth, North Wales. a requisition from the Mayor, J. White, Esq., to take into consideration the observations and statements made in the APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - Names of gentlemen who debate in the House of Commons and elsewhere on the 9th inst., their examination in the science and of Medi.. passed practice as to the- alleged improper selection of the site for the con- and received certiiicates to on . - cine, practise, struction of the new Military Hospital at Netley, near South- Thursday, June 18th, 1837. ampton, and the alleged general insalubrity of Netley, the JAMES, JOHX DAVIES, Bedwelling, Monmouthshire. banks of the Southampton Water, and the town of Southamp- MEENES, EDWARD EVAN, London. ton. There were present between thirty and forty of the most METCALFE, ROBERT, New Zealand. distinguished physicians and surgeons of the town and neigh- PYLE, THOMAS THOMPSON, Earsdon, Northumberland. bourhood. Dr. OKE presided. ’ SPRAKELING, ROBERT JOHN, Canterbury. After some observations by the Mayor, Dr. J. ORSBORN, of SUTTON, WILLIAM, Smithwick, near Birmingham. Bitterne, made some remarks on the salubrity of his own TROLLOPE, THOMAS, Braintree, Essex. neighbourhood, and read the following letter from W. Hoare, WILSON, JOHN, Whitby. registrar of the district :- 658 " South Stoneham Union, June 17th, 1857. occurrence of fever in these localities-a conclusion which is. " I hereby certify that, in 1841, the population of my sub- fully borne out by the general register of deaths, as well as the district of St. Mary Extra, ’containing the parishes of St. Mary parochial register of sickness and mortality of the parishes of Extra, Hound, Hambe-le-Rice, and Bursledon, was 2708; and, St. Mary Extra, Bursledon, Hamble, and Hound, in which in 1851, 3166; and that the deaths in each quarter from 1837 district the Victoria Hospital is now being erected. We there- for the said district have averaged from seven to eleven, and so fore record our firm and unanimous opinion that in a sanitary unusually small is the number, that I have made minute in- point of view the site of the said hospital has been wisely se-- quiries as to the exactness of my registrars’ returns, and find lected, and that there is no proof nor any probability that them strictly correct, and, generally speaking, the inhabitants danger will accrue to its inmates from malarious ar other are very long lived." ; endemic diseases." The memorial had the names of thiyty Dr. William Bullar, Mr. Dusautoy, Dr. Joseph Bullar, Dr. three medical practitioners attached to it. Dr. and other bore to Marshall, Pardey, gentlemen testimony THE ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS, EARLSWOOD, RED HILL, the of the district. salubrity SURREY, AND ESSEX HALL, COLCHESTER.-A bazaar, for the- The CHAIRMAN said lie had gone over the site of the new sale of useful and ornamental work, in aid of the funds of this that and he should the Government could not hospital day, say ’ institution, will be held at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, on have selected a better spot. the 10th, llth, 13th, and 14th of July, 1857. J. WIBLIN, Esq., F.R.C.S., then proposed- " That the medical of and its HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING- practitioners Southampton JUNE 20TH.-, The total number of deaths neighbourhood having been called upon by the mayor of -the SATURDAY, regis- tered in London last week was 76 below the ave- town, John White, Esq., to meet and give their opinion on 987, being rate of The births exhibit an increase of 540 certain statements which have appeared in the public journals, rage mortality. and have been debated in the House of Commons, relative to over the deaths. The deaths referred to the zymotic class of the site selected the Government for the construction of the diseases were in the previous week 164 ; Hst week they were by 197. The increase arises from which in the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, near Southampton, and chiefly diarrhoea, last four weeks was fatal in and 35 cases. Two- also as to the salubrity of the locality and adjoining districts, 17, 26, 20, and the in accordance with such thirds of the 35 cases occurred to infants. No death is recorded Southampton Water, request, " iit the week as caused cholera," or other de- have this day held a public meeting at the Audit-house, and by English any after the most deliberate and consideration of the im- soription of the disease.. Forty-one children died of hooping- patient and two of Two cases’of were portant subjects submitted to their unanimously state cough, chicken-pox. small-pox opinion, died of one of that the alleged insalubrity of the site at Netley and the ad- fatal. Four children syphilitic disease ; person joining districts is unsupported by evidence, and utterly with- ischuria, one of diabetes, one of elephamtiasis ; three persons - were the victims of besides four whose death...- out foundation." intemperance, ’ are, assigned to (1(-Iiriiim tramPnc. Dr. ,Wr,LLIAM BULLAR seconded the resolution, which was

carried nem. con. ’ The second resolution was proposed by Dr. JOHN ORSBORN, F.R.C.S., of Bitterne and Netley, seconded by Dr. PARDEY, and carried unanimously,- Obituary. " That the individual experience of the members of the pro- fession practising in and around Southampton, is not only com- SIR JAMES EYRE, M.D. pletely -subversive of the statement that it, is a district pecu- WE regret to state this esteemed physician died at the resi-- liarly liatle to ague and fever, but tends in the strongest dence of a friend at Clapham on Friday morning, the 19th inst.. manner to show its almost from complete exemption the former He had attended the Queen’s levee on the previous day, and disease, and the comparative unfrequency of the latter, a con- had played at whist until late at night. He retired to bed clusion fully confirmed by the annual register of sickness and in his usual health and spirits, and was found dead early in the- mortality amongst the poorer classes in the parishes of St. morning. Sir J. Eyre was for many years in general practice Mary-Extra, Bursledon, Hamble, and Hound, the latter being at Hereford, and was knighted on the occasion of his presenting- the parish in which the new hospital is situated." an address to the Queen from that town (of which he was them It was proposed by H. DUSAUTOY, Esq., seconded by Dr. on the birth of the Prince of Wales. He ’ Mayor) subsequently, MARSHALL, and carried Me-M. con.,- settled in London, and practised for some years in Brook-- " That a committee be formed, consisting of Dr. Oke, J. street. He published a work " On the Use of Oxide of Silver Wiblin, Esq., F.R.C.S., Dr. Joseph Bullar, H. Dusautoy, in Uterine Affections," and another, entitled " The Stomach R. Esq., Dr. John Orsborn, of Bitterne, J. Sampson, Esq., and and its Difficulties." Both of these productions were of a semi- the a Dr. Pardey, to embody foregoing resolutions in memorial popular character, and had a large sale. Of late Sir James had- which shall be placed in the Audit-house on Saturday, from partially retired from practice, and resided at Brompton. He under care of some the twelve ’to six o’clock, the person, for was sixty-six years of age. On the day before he died he ad-- all the of purpose ’of being signed by medical practitioners dressed a note to one of the staff of this journal, saying, "I am Southampton and its vicinity, who concur in the propositions now dressing for the levée; kindly let iae, if any notice of be for- carried out at this meeting, and, when completed, to those attending should appear in THE LANCET, be amongst the- warded to the mayor with a request that he will use every list of doctors. I am independent of my profession, but never exertion to make known to the Government and Parliament wish to separate myself from it." We have now to record his- , the result of this meeting." , decease! Sir James Eyre had never a very extensive practice A vote of on the motion of Dr. JOSEPH thanks, BULLAR, a4 a physician, but he was much respected. He was a cheerfull J. was awarded to the for seconded by SHORTO, Esq., Mayor, companion and a kind-hearted man; fond and proud of his which that gentleman returned thanks, promising to do all in profession; true to old friends and old associations. He. his to out their views. power carry was a member of the Conservative Club ; and his genial dispo- H. a vote of thanks to the Chair- BENCRAFT, Esq., proposed sition and cordial bonhommie rendered him a great acquisition. man, which was carried unanimously, and the Chairman having to society. He loved " desipere in loco ;"-in the company of returned the thanks, meeting separated. kindred kindly spirits, to open the vast store of ane&- The memorial from the medical of pleasant following practitioners dote he or enliven conversation, with has been to the the possessed, freely- flowing;, Southampton presented Mayor ;-" We, repartee and jest-" for many a joke had he." members of the medical in undersigned profession practising An was held on the but, as there was no post- and around to to inquest body, Southampton, beg represent your worship, mortem examination, the coroner and knew no more of in of the statements that have in jury that, consequence appeared the cause of the death at the conclusion’ of the than. the and which have been in the debates inquiry public papers, repeated they did at its commencement. What a farce is such a mockery in as to the of Parliament, alleged insalubrity Southampton of an investigation! and of the district in which the new Military Hospital is in SIR ROBERT to the of course of erection, we have instituted very careful inquiries into CARSWELL, physician in ordinary King and of the subject; and we now desire to express our deliberate con- the Belgians, formerly professor pathological anatomy at his viction that the said statements are without foundation, and at University College, expired residence, at Lacken; near on the 15th 64. We in have originated in a complete misconception of the physical Brussels, inst., aged purpose, an and climatic characteristics of this part of the country; and early number, giving a sketch of the professional career of this.- able that not only is our individual experience subversive of the pathologist and excellent man. truth ’of such statements, but it completely establishes the WE regret to state that M. Thênard, of world-wide chemical almost entire absence of ague, and the comparatively rare renutation. has iust deDarted this life. 659