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Medical News.APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - The following gentlemen

passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medi-cine, and received certificates to practise, on Feb. 1st :-

Breeze, Richard Goodwin, Euston-road.Mahomed, Fredk. Henry Horatio Akbar, Brighton.

On the same day the following gentleman passed his FirstProfessional Examination :-

Barron, Fredk. William, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF IRELAND. -

At meetings of the Court of Examiners held on Jan. 9th,10th, and llth, the undermentioned passed their primaryexaminations in Anatomy, Physiology, and Materia Medica :Benjamin Armstrong, Francis T. Bray, Valentine J. Browne, Henry W.

Burton, James H. Callery, Charles J. Diamond, Thomas Elliott, WilliamHamilton Elliott, J. K. Gentleman, Matthew P. Healy, Henry J. Hillis,Richard J .ckman, Thomas J. Kelly, Robert Alagill, Michael J. Maloue,Roger Mae Auly, James M’Gann, Archibald M’Kinlay, James Murtagh,Hamilton Macmullen, John L. O’Keefe, Thos O’Meara, Edward Peele,Samuel B. Shekeiton, Chas. J. Smith, William J. Smyly, Henry Tweedy,William Whittaker, John H. Williams, Stewart Woodward.

At the preliminary examination in Arts held on Jan. 17th,the following were awarded certificates :-FIRST CLASS.-Michael Molohan, James F. Hogan.SECOND CLASS. - Wm. J. Cahill, Peter J. Huglies, James O’Brien, Fredk.Walsh, Michael W. Kerin, William Thompson, Henry Howard, EdwardWalshe, Patrick Carney.

UNCLASSED. - Charles Anderson, Thomas Bellew, Ulick Bourke, EdwardFoley, Robert Grier, John Keoghan, Hugh Mackintosh, Patrick Poett,Henry Powell, Thos. Reed, William Ross, Kennedy Ryan, John Smith,Bernard Smith, Terence Smith, Lawrence Ward.

IN Paris the oxy-hydric light is used with greatsuccess in lighting up the Boulevards.A RETURN issued by the Local Government Board

shows that on July 1st, 1871, the number of paupers relievedin England and Wales was 973,603.THE Chelmsford Local Board of Health are desirous

of appointing a medical officer of health for the district ata salary of £25 per annum.

A SERIES of dramatic performances recently givenat the residence of Sir Percy F. Shelley, Christchurch, inaid of the National Sanatorium at Bournemouth, producedthe handsome sum of £200.

A REPORT on the hospital small-pox cases, latelyread before the Manchester Board of Guardians, showedthat while the mortality among unvaccinated patients was55 1/3 per cent. of the total number attacked, it was only 4½ per cent. in the case of those who had been vaccinated.

THE sum of twenty guineas has been presented toMr. James Neighbour, the Sanitary Inspector of St. Luke’s,Middlesex, as an acknowledgment of the valuable servicesrendered by him during the epidemic of small-pox. Mr.

Neighbour is one of the most efficient vaccination inspectorsin the metropolis, and gave evidence on the subject beforethe Committee of the House of Commons.

M. PULVERMACHER, the well-known medical elec-trician, gave a soiree at his residence at Hampstead, onSaturday evening last. A numerous company, includingseveral members of the medical profession, were present.In the course of the evening various interesting experi-ments were performed, demonstrating the importance ofmedical electricity.A MEETING of the Royal Star Life Assurance Sick

and Medical Benefit Society was held on Thursday evening,Feb. 1st, in the Temperance Hall, Wolverhampton. The

prevalence of small-pox and other sickness had caused agreat strain on the Society, but it had been able to meet itand to report a balance of £1090. A special paragraph onthe report was devoted to the praise of Dr. G. N. Smith,and, better still, the following resolution was agreed to :-That the committee be and is hereby empowered to ex-pend the sum of twenty-five guineas in presenting to Dr.G. N. Smith a testimonial from the members of this Societyof their high respect for the integrity and benevolence ofhis character, and in recognition of his skilful and self-denying labours during the past seventeen years, and moreespecially during the epidemic of the past year, as chiefmedical officer of this Society."

Medical Appointments. BARRY, J. C., L.K.Q.C.P.I., L.F.P. & S. G’as., has been appointed Medical

Attendant to the Royal Irish Constabulary, Ballyduff, Co. Waterford,vice R O’Reilly, L.K.Q.C.P.I., L.R.C.S.I., resigned.

CROMBIE, J. M., M.D., has been appointed Resident House-Surgeon to theCancer Hospital, Brompton, vice J. Hayward, M.R.C.S.E., late ResidentAssistant-Surgeon, resigned.

ETHERIDGE, C., 1VI.R,C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer for the UpperDistrict of the Leighton Buzzard Union.

HOLMAN, H. C., M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer for DistrictNo. 3 of the West Firle Union, Sussex.

HORDER, T. G., M.R.C S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer of the LoyalBourne Lodge of Odd Fellows, Bournemouth, vice W. H. Blenkinsop,M.B., resigned.

JACKSON, A., L.R.C.P.Ed., L.R C.S.Ed., has been reappointed for six monthsMedical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Pocklington No. 2 Dis-trict and the Workhouse of the Pocklington Union, Yorkshire.

J OJINSON, W.F., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for DistrictNo. 2 of the West Ashford Union, vice C. Wilks, M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

MAUNSELL, J., M.D., L.R.C.S Ed., has been appointed House-Surgeon to theBlackburn and East Lancashire Infirmary, vice W. G. Scott, M.B., C.M.,resigned.

PEACOCK, E., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Surgeon to the Midland Rail.way Friendly Society, to the Prudential Assurance Company, the Man-chester and Nottingham Order of Odd Fellows, the Foresters, theDruids, the Druids’ Sick and Burial Society, the Free Gardeners, andseveral other Friendly Societies, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, vice Eaton,deceased.

ROBINSON, A., L.R.C.P.Ed., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officerto the Foresters’, Druids’, Odd Fellows’, and Free Gardeners’, Societies,Nuneaton, vice F. B. Eaton, L.R.C.P.Ed., L.F.P. & S. Glas., M.R.C.S.E.,deceased.

SALMON, A. L., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed House-Surgeon and Secre.tary to the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro, vice William Nettle,M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

SmrsoN, Mr. J., has been appointed a Dispenser to St. Thomas’s Hospital.SKELTON, H., L.R.C.P.Ed., M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer for

the Mangotsneld or No. 5 District of the Keynsham Union, vice H. M.Grace, M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

TATBAM, E., M.B., C.M., has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vac.cinator for the Bentham District of the Settle Union, Yorkshire, viceR. Tatham, L.R.C.S.Ed., resigned.

TROTTER, J., M.D., has been appointed Consulting Physician to the DurhamCounty Hospital, on resigning as Physician.

WADDY, H. E., L.R.C.P:L., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Surgeon to theGloucester Lying-in Charity, vice T. S. Ellis, M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

WILLIAMS, J., M.D., has been appointed Assistant Obstetric Physician toUniversity College Hospital.

WILLIS, J., L.R.C.P.Ed., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer forthe Mitcheldever District of the new Winchester Union, vice F. Etdndge,M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

WINEFIELD, A., F.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer of Healthfor Oxford.

WOOD, W., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer and Public Vac-cinator for the Middleton District of the Driffield Union, vice J. Wood,deceased.

WOODHOUSE, W., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer for DistrictNo. 6 of the Norwich Union, vice T. W. Crosse, F.R.C.S.E., resigned.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

HIME.-On the 5th inst., at Glossop-road, Sheffield, the wife of Dr. Hime, ofa daughter.

JOLLYE.-On the 28th ult., at Donington, Spalding, the wife of E. W. Jollye,M.R.C.S.E., of a son.

MooRE.—On the 28th ult., at Cambridge-heath, the wife of Dr. Moore, of adaughter.

ROSE.-On the 5th inst., at Mile-end, the wife of C. Rose, L.R.C.P.Ed., of adaughter.

WINKFIELD.-ON the 6th inst., at Forest Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, thewife of W. B. Winkfield, Esq., of a son.

MARRIAGES.PORTER-WILLIAMS.-On the 6th inst., at Ardingly, Sussex, Wm. Elliott

Porter, Surgeon, of Lindfield, youngest son of the late Rev. J. T. Porter,formerly of The Close, Salisbury, to Julia Martha, only daughter of thelate H. W. Williams, Solicitor, and granddaughter of the late ThomasGibbs Crawford, Esq., of Pax-hill-park, Lindfield, Sussex.

CAIRELESS-OGSTON.-On the 1st inst., at Golden-square, Aberdeen, EdwardNicolls Careless,M.B., C.M., of Devizes, to Amelia, youngest daughterof the late Alex. Ogston, Esq., of Ardoe.

DEATHS.BALDERSON.-On the 3rd inst., at Woburn-square, Abraham Thos. Balderson,

L.S.A.L., for many years Assistant to Sir Astley Cooper, in the 68thyear of his age. Friends, please accept this intimation.

OWEN.- the 2nd inst., at Bron Philip Bottwnog, Ellen, the wife of E. 11.Owen, L R.C.P.Ed.

QUEKETT.-On the 6th inst., at Delamere-crescent, Upper Westbourne- terrace, Isabella Mary Anne, widow of the late John Quekett, F.R.S.,F.L.S., Conservator of the Hunterian Museum, and Professor of Histologyat the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

RAYNER.-On the 26th ult., after along and painful illness (angina peetork),William Rayner, M.R.C.S.E., in his 71st year.

TOWNSEND.-On the 29th ult., after a short illness, Charles Townsend,Surgeon, of Pakenham-road, EdgbastoD, and Temple-row, Birmingham,