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APRIL 17TH.

VACCINATION BILL.

On the motion of Mr. BRUCE, the following members were I

nominated as the select committee on the Vaccination Bill :- I,Mr. Bruce, Mr. Henley, Mr. Lowe, Sir J. Pakington, Mr. P.Scrope, Mr. Mitford, Mr. Enfield, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Evans,Mr. E. Egerton, Lord Henley, Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. Hibbert,Mr. A. Egerton, Mr. Candlish, Mr. Reed, and Mr. 0. Stanley.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.-At

a general meeting of the Fellows held on Monday, the 16thinst., the following gentlemen, having undergone the necessaryexamination, and satisfied the College of their proficiency inthe Science and Practice of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery,were duly admitted to practise Physic as Licentiates of theCollege:-

Brooke. Thomas Thornily, Stockport.Dunn, George Carr, St.anley-gardens.Eilery, Henry James, St. Stephen’s by Saltash, Cornwall.German, John Cooper, Weduesbury, Staffordshire.Griffiths, Richard Samuel Purnell, Dudley-place, Harrow-road.Hicks, George Augustus, Torquay.Hoffmeister, William, M.D. Heidelberg, Cowes, Isle of Wight.Lynch, Jordan Roche, Horbury-terrace, Notting-hill.Slaughter, George Monlas, Fort Pitt. Chatham.Wise, Thomas, Castietowo, Isle of Man.

At the same meeting the following were reported by theexaminers to have passed their Primary Examination :-

Robert Vacy Ash, St. Mary’s Hospital ; George William BarroH, St. Georg ’sHospital; George Farp Burton, Liverpool; Edward Noble Edwards,Guy’s Hospital; William Betts Giles, Guy’s Hospital; Thomas GeorgePalmer Hallett, Univerfity College ; Richard Clement Lucas, Guy’sHospital; Wm. Gordon Maddox, University College; John Aaron JamesTimmins, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; John Greaves Wiseman, Guy’sHospital.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.- Thefollowing gentlemen passed their primary examinations in

Anatomy and Physiology at a. meeting of the Court ofExaminers on the 17th inst., and when eligible will be ad-mitted to the pass examination:-Edward Colson, J. A. Sharp, J. F. P. M’Connell, Benjamin Walker, LancelotNewton, Joseph Gahe, T. J. Burroughs, W. T. Thnrston, Charles Wade,R R. Evans, J. R. Morgan, W. W. Saul, J. M. Kirkman, R. [,. Sheffield,R. Heathcote, Leonard Smith, G. E. Norton, Henry Bland, J. R. Fi,ldilig,J. B. Kyley, Joshua Duke, Henry Gould, H. T. jjutdn, William Little, H.E. Juler, A. C. Air, and Samuel Ridwell.

The following passed their examination on the 18th inst.:—W. H. Wood, Joseph Massingham, J. R. Lazenby, J. W. Blandford, T. H.

Pinder. Robert Laiug, J. T. Fox, Edward Young, C. W. Chapman, A. 0.M’Kellar, Alfred Peon, Clifford Crewe, George Amsden, C. W.Milne,Frederick Pollard, Samuel Alford, E. W. Mintpr, Arthur Atkinson, Charles Aldridge, Reginald Bayley, Charles Riehardsoi), F. B. Be,ly,Henry Case, G. A. Wood", T, H. Hickman, Peter Kyder, J. 1’. Goodhart,J. E. Burtun, Walter Hart, J. F. Codrington, Alfred Trubshaw, anuP. T. Scott.

The following passed on the 19th inst. :-Joseph Wharton. Fred Wsitaee, Albert Williams, W. A. Hunt, John

Welib, Thomas Fawsitt, Jnlm Orton, Fletcher Beach, J. H. Humphreys, M. W. W. Chorley, J. G. Ilaeldey, J. T. Cobat, F. M. Pierce, WetlardHnghes. R. L. Roberta, William Stvan (B.A. Oxon.), Thomas Grpen-hatgh, F. P. Davies, W. f. Middleton, W. J. G. Bedfori3, James Brown,Alexander Fox. R. H. Prior, George Mason, T. C. H. Spencer, AliredAshley, W. W. G. Stables, J. R. Hughes, W. R. Cortis, and V. D. Butcher.

It is stated that of the 108 candidates who offered them-selves for examination, nineteen failed to acquit themselves tothe satisfaction of the Court, and consequently were referredback to their studies for three months.

APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - The following gentlemenpassed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medi-cine, and received certificates to practise, on the 12th inst. :-

Bailey, Thomas, Gough-street North.Hay, Thomas Bell, Caledonian-road, N.Lorimer, John, Cariton-hill, St. John’s-wood.

The following gentleman also on the same day passed hisfirst examination :-

Timmins, J. A. J., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

PROFESSOR MOLESCHOTT, the illustrious physiologist,now residing in Turin, will be presented with the citizenshipof Italy.

AN inquest was held last week on the body of a mannamed Charles Hawley, who died from the effects of a bite hereceived from a horse ten days previously.ANOTHER case of hydrophobia is reported in Manchester.

The patient was a girl, aged twelve, who had been bitten by aScotch terrier at a house where she was engaged as a servant.

AT Hoxton a man named Alfred Lonsdale swallowedhalf a pint of neat rum at a draught. He shortly after felldown insensible and died in a little time. A quantity of un-absorbed spirit was found in his stomach.HYDATID OF THE BRAIN.-A post-mortem examination

made of a girl who died at Brighron rather suddenly, aftercomplaining of severe headache, showed a singular state ofthings. There was considerable effusion in the right ven.triele of the brain, in which was a large hydatid cyst.AT Christiania, in Norway, several cases of sudden death

had occurred, and on an inquiry being instituted by eminentmedical men there, it was discovered that the death had beencaused by the eating of oysters, which had been affected by apoisonous disease now prevalent amongst them.-Land andWater.

DR. BARBIER affirms that ground coffee possesses someremarkable properties as a disinfectant. In several cases wherehe had to make post-mortem examinations of bodies under verydisagreeable circumstances, he found that a handful of coffeestrewn over the body and about the room quite overcame anybad odour.THE GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL.-The members of

the "Alexandra Dramatic Club" have kindly promised afirst-class entertainment, under distinguished patronage, at

Myddleton Hall, on Saturday, the 28th inst., for the benefit ofthis charity. Funds are urgently needed to prevent refusal ofapplication for admission. During the last ten years the hos.pital has gratuitously relieved upwards of 400,000 poor cases.The cattle plague returns do not show much diminution

this week.THE Italian Government has organized a complete sys

tem of meteorological observations, according to the sytem ofthe late Admiral Fitzroy.THE Abbe Moigno has issued a French translation

of Professor Tyndall’s discourse on "Radiation," and of Dr.Hofmann’s lecture on "The Combining Power of Atoms."THE county population of England and Wales,

exclusive of cities and boroughs, at the 1861 census, was

11,427,755.FROM 1850 to the present time no less than 137

medical officers have left the royal navy, and during the sameperiod 117 have voluntarily left the army.A COMMITTEE, which was appointed some weeks since

to consider the question of nursing in St. George’s Hospital,have selected the sisters of St. Peter’s Home to undertake theduty, for reasons stated at length.AT the quarterly meeting of the directors of the Naval

Medical Compassionate F17.nd, held on the 10th inst., Sir E.Hilditch, inspector-general, in the chair, the sum of Z70 wasdistributed among the various claimants.

STATISTICS lately published show that there weremore accidental deaths in France in 1864 than during thepreceding years. They amounted that year to 12,378, against12,333 in 1863. Suicides, on the contrary, diminished by 92.They amounted in 1863 to 4521.MR. RICHARD PETTON, a gentleman aged fifty-eight,

was taken on Wednesday night, the 3rd, to a police-station ina state of insensibility, supposed to have arisen from intoxica-tion ; it proved, however, to be apoplexy, and he died on thefollowing Monday. An inquest was held, and the subjoinedverdict returned -.-" That the deceased died from apoplexyfrom natural causes ;" and the jury appended to their verdict arecommendation that the coroner should communicate withthe Home Secretary, and urge the propriety of a regulationbeing made, ordering that in all cases where persons weretaken into custody in a state of insensibility, whether thesupposed case was drunkenness or otherwise, a medical manshould at once be called in by the police.THE Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, will be formally

opened on the 27th inst. The proceedings promise to be of amost interesting character.