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SCOTCH MEDICAL GRADUATES AND THE POOR-LAWCOMMISSIONERS.—At a meeting of the Edinburgh Town Councilon the 27th ult., Dr. Sibbald moved that the Council memorializethe Home Secretary on the present most unjust and partialapplication in the medical appointments in the Poor-law unionsin England, whereby men of the best professional attainments,and who have obtained their medical degree or licence in Scot-land and Ireland, are excluded, as evinced in the rejection ofDr. Wilson, of Berwick, who is both a physician and surgeon,unless subjected to an examination by the Apothecaries’Company, an inferior licensing board-thus degrading the

graduates of Edinburgh University and also those holding di-plomas from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. TheDoctor, in support of the motion, alluded to the absurdity ofsubjecting to such an examination gentlemen who were con-sidered qualified to serve in the army and navy, and in manyother important stations, merely because they had to cross theTweed to enter on their duties as surgeons, under the EnglishPoor-law Commissioners; remarking, that this was an un-becoming time to insist on such an examination, when Dr.Laycock, an Englishman, and Dr. Allman, an Irishman, neitherof whom held a diploma from Edinburgh, were elected pro-fessors in the University. The Poor-law Commissioners hadthe power to abolish this grievance by a simple alteration intheir Act, and without any new statute. He thought a memo-rial from the Council would have some influence in getting Dr.Wilson, and all other practitioners similarly situated, theredress to which they were so justly entitled. Dr. Rentonseconded the motion, briefly adverting to the exclusiveness ofthe London Apothecaries’ Company. The subject was remittedto the College Committee, with powers to memorialize theHome Secretary. if thev saw fit.

WE regret to announce the loss of another valuable life,sacrificed at the shrine of duty,-that of Mrs. WilloughbyMoore, Lady-Superintendent of the officers’ hospital at Scutari.She went out this last summer, with a band of nurses, to or-

ganize and superintend a hospital at Scutari for sick andwounded officers, similar to those for the men under Miss

Nightingale; and the unequivocal testimony of those who wereunder her care proves the zeal, the diligence, and the judgmentevinced by this devoted lady in her sacred mission. A dysen-tery which lasted three weeks was the cause of her death.

BRANDING DESERTERS. - Deserters are still brandedwith the letter D at the head’ quarters of their corps. It is tohe hoped that the surgeon of the regiment has not to performthe office.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDINGSATURDAY, DECEMBER I.-The mortality of the metropolitandistricts continues to increase. The deaths, which in the twoprevious weeks had been 975 and 1073, rose in the last week ofNovember to 1124. The number of deaths last week is lessby 137 than would have occurred if the rate of mortality hadbeen as high as it was, on an average, during the correspondingweeks of the last ten years. The weekly deaths in Novemberhave been, taking the averages, 126 more than they were inthe preceding month; and the mean temperature of Novemberhas been lower to the extent of about 9 degrees than that ofOctober. There died last week 547 males and 577 females.The number of males corresponds exactly with that of theprevious week, and, therefore, the increase (amounting to 51)in the total deaths arose entirely in the female part of the popu-lation. Fatal cases of diseases of the respiratory organs (ex-cluding phthisis) have been since the middle of May less numer-ous than those referred to diseases of the zymotic class, and inpart of summer the former were little more than a fourth ofthe latter. The proportions are now reversed, and last weekzymotic diseases numbered 207, while complaints of the respi-ratory organs were fatal in 234 cases. This effect is due chieflyto bronchitis, the deaths from which were 123: in pneumonia,which numbers 84, hardly any increase is apparent. Hooping-cough was fatal in 29 cases, small-pox in 10, measles in 25,typhus in 27, scarlatina in 62. Four deaths from the last-men-tioned complaint are returned from Kensington, all of them,except one, having occurred in the " potteries." Four occurredalso in Somers-town, where the Registrar complains that cleans-ing operations have been greatly neglected by the PavingBoard, under whose management part of his district was

placed. A labourer, aged 58 years, died of cholera, after 47hours’ illness, in Fuller’s-rents, Cotton-street, Poplar. Fifteenwomen died of fever or other illnesses incidental to child-bear-ing. A girl, 7 years old, died from drinking a quantity ofsherry, ‘‘being ignorant of its effects."

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the barometer roseto 30’20 in. on Monday. The mean reading of the week was29-969 in. The mean temperature was 39-5°, which is 2-3*below the average of the same week in 38 years. The mean

temperature was higher towards the end of the week than atthe beginning, but was below the average on every day exceptWednesday. The highest temperature occurred on Tuesday,and was 46°; the lowest occurred on Monday, and was only29 1°. The lowest of the water of the Thames on that daywas 40 7°; the mean temperature of the river in the week was42.1°. The mean dew-point temperature was 36.1°, and thedifference between this and the mean temperature of the airwas3-4’. The wind, which had been in the north, changed tosouth-west on Saturday. With the exception of some mistyrain on two or three days, none fell in the week.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS. -On the 17th ult., at Renkioi, Dardanelles, the

wife of T. Spencer Wells, Esq., F.R.C.S., Chief Surgeon ofthe British Hospital, of a daughter.On the 29th ult., at Park-road, Stockwell, the wife of J. L.

Lowdell, Esq., M.R.C.S.E., &c., of a son, stillborn.

MARRIAGES.-On the 29th ult., at Holy-cross Chapel, Ber-nard Conway, Esq., L.R.C.S. Edin., &c., Leicester, fourth sonof the late Henry Conway, Esq., of Moneyhoughan, co. Lon-donderry, to Louisa, third daughter of the late Mr. B. Haines,of High-street.On the 29th ult., at Guisborough, John Richardson, Esq.,

M. R. C. S. E., of Middlesborough, Yorkshire, to Margaret Eliza-beth, eldest daughter of William Weatherill, of Guisborough.On the 4th inst., at Milford Church, Hants, Robert Har-

court, youngest son of William Frederic Chambers, M.D.,K. C. H., of Hardle Cliff, Hants, to Julia Eliza Dormer, youngestdaughter of the Rev. Thomas Robinson, Vicar of Milford, andRural Dean.On the 4th inst., James Tinker, Esq., of Inverness-road,

Bayswater, to Lucy Elizabeth, eldest daughter of EdwardMeryon, M.D., of Clarges-street, Mayfair.

DEATHS.-On the 22nd ult., at Wick, N.B., aged 83, JohnnyHarriet Sealy, widow of the late James Robertson, M.D., ofPitstruan, Aberdeenshire.On the 27th ult., in his 45th year, Joseph Welsby, Esq.,

M.R.C.S., &c., of Prescot, Lancashire.On the 30th ult., Hugh, youngest son of H. Scott, Esq.,

Surgeon, Greenwich.On the 3rd inst., at Guildford-street, Russell-square, Char-

lotte, the wife of Silas Stedman, Esq., M. R. C. S. E., &c., inher 53rd year.

MEDICAL DIARY OF THE WEEK.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 P.M.

’GuY’s HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY 01?LONDON.—8½ P.M.’ST. MARY’s HOSPITAL,-Operations, 1 P.M.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. - Operations,

2 P.M.NORTH LONDON’ MEDICAL SOCIETY. 7 ½ P.M.HuNTEmiAN SOCIETY.-8 P.M. Mr. D. de Berdt

Hovell, "On some Cases of Pneumonia, whichproved rapidly Fatal."’MIDDLESES HOSPITAL.-Operations, 12 ½ P.M.ST. GEORGE’s HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. -

Operations, 1 P.M.KING’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETY.-8 P.3c. Mr.Watson, "On Artificial Respiration:’

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETY.-8 P.M. Mr. E. Andrew, "On Hydro Pneumo-thorax."OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MOORFEILDS. - Opera-

tions, 10 A.M.LONDON HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 r.at.WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. - Opera-

tions, 1 ½ P.M.CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.-Operations, 12 ½ P.:!f.WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 P.M.ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.-Operations, 1 ½

P.M.

EiNQ’s COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Operations, 2 p.m.MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,-8 P.M.