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for the ease and comfort of the little sufferers. Long tablesdecked out with flowers and fruit, and groaning under theweight of more substantial things, are laid out on the green.The day is beautiful; gladness is on all faces ; everyone seemspleased to have contributed to, or to witness, the success ofsuch a praiseworthy enterprise; and a touch of tender feelinginvades every breast as the young convalescents come up in abody and thank their benefactors. At four in the afternoonwe were all back to Paris, after spending a happy day. Andso may the good work prosper and thrive ; and may this

example of what private initiative can do give rise to manyothers. At all events, it deserves to be noticed and encou.

raged.Paris, August 2nd, 1864.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-The

following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examina-tions for the diploma, were admitted Members of the College ata meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 2Sth ult.:-

Argles, Frank, Maidstone.Brend, Alfred, L.S.A., Bideford, Devon.Carnley, Vaughan, Hull.Colman, Thomas John, Bristol.Dibb, Edward Napier, Sheffield.Fennings, Allen, Islington.Field, Albert, Bradford.Gentle, Peter Hume, M.D. Edin., Inverness.Hill, Philip Edward, Cardiff.Leach, John Comyns, Crediton.Lever, Edward Kelsal, L.S.A., Padiham, near Burnley.M’Mahon, Jas. Thomas, L.S.A., Rochester-terrace, Camden-town.Nash, Edmund, Kensington.Newstead, Charles Vincent, Otley, Yorkshire.Philps, Philip George, L.S.A., Bayswater.Powell, Llewellyn, New Zealand.Pullan, Henry William, Epworth, near Bawtry.Sheldon, William, M.D. Edin., Stratford-on-Avon.Somerset, William Porter, Claydon, Bucks.Taylor, Francis Thomas, Deptford.Whidborne, George Herbert, Guildford-street.Woodcock, John R., Manchester.

The following gentlemen were admitted Members on the29th ult. :-

Arnott, Henry, Cheltenham.Carpenter, Edward, L.S.A., Lambeth.Carreg, Griffith Llewelyn, Carnarvon.Constantinides, Petras, M.B., Canada.De Zouche, Isaiah, Pennsylvania.Ellis, Edward Thomas Charles, Bexley Heath.Evans, Alfred Paget, L.S.A., West Bromwich.Fothergill, Thomas Prince, Bedale, Yorkshire.Fraser, John Martin, M.D., Canada.Haigh, Thomas Hinchliffe, L.S.A., Huddersfield.Hingston, Charles Albert, Plymouth.Jones, John William, Bangor.Kelly, James, M.D., Clare, Ireland.Locking, Benjamin, Hull.M’Clure, Andrew Allan, M.D., Pennsylvania.Metcalfe, Fenwick, Wisbeach.

, Shone, Richard Lewis, L.S.A., Great Marlow.Swann, William Booth, Leeds.Talbot, Richard, Limehouse.

The following gentlemen were admitted Members on the30th ult., being the last meeting of the Court of Examiners forthe present session :-

Bain, John William Devereux, Blackwall.Bluvitt, Byron, Algiers.Bryant, William Hicks, Plymouth.Hallett, Thomas George Palmer, Langport, Somerset.Ledingham, James, M.D., Aberdeen.Miller, Reuben Zaccheus, Richmond.Moreton, Charles Peyton, Leitrim.M’Pherson, Robert Nasmyth, Edinburgh.Powles, William, Strand.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. - The following is a list ofof candidates who passed the examination indicated :-

BACHELOR OF MEDICINE.

PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION.

First Division.*Anningso!t, Bushell, King’s College.Bennett, Frederic Charles, private study.Berridge, Edward William, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Buckle, William Turberville, King’s College.Cheetham, Joseph Priestnall, Guy’s Hospital.*Dove, John Reuben Bathurst, London Hospital.Fiddian, Alexander Paull, private tuition.Garrett, William James, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

*Giles, William Betts, Guy’s Hospital.Gowers, William Richard, University College.Kenyon, George Arthur, St. George’s Hospital.

... Kisch, Albert, St. Thomas’s and London Hospitals.

Loy, Thomas Richardson, University Colleze.* McCarthy, Jeremiah, M.A. Dublin, Dublin UniversityMarshall, Francis John, St. Mary’s Hospital.May, Bennett, Sydenham College, Birmingham.Morris, Henry, Guy’s Hospital.Parsons, Henry Franklin, St. Mary’s Hospital.Raine, George Rolph, Guy’s Hospital.Richards, William Alsept, King’s College.

*Scott, William Benjamin Archibald, University College.*Shaw, Thomas Claye, King’s College.Taylor, Frederick, Guy’s Hospital.Thomas, George Alfred, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Thomas, William, Queen’s College, Birmingham.Treves, William Knight, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Williams, Joseph, St. Thomas’s Hospital.Wright, Charles Romley Alder, Owens College.

Second Division.Addenbrooke, Edw. Homfray, General Hospital, Birmingham.*Bonus, John, University College.*Budd, Herbert Goldingham, Guy’s Hospital.Cortis, William Richard, Guy’s Hospital.

*Courtney, Stanley Thomas, St. George’s Hospital.Crowfoot, Edward Bowles, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Greene, Walter, Guy’s Hospital.Haynes, Frederick Harry, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

*James, John, University College.Langmore, John Wreford, University College.Leigh, Richmond, 1-iverpool Infirmary.Maasdorp, Gysbert Henry, University College.*Maclure, Duncan M’Lachlan (non-matr.), Westminster Hospital.Marshall, Henry Flamank, Sydenham College, Birmingham.

I Read, Arthur Walter, General Hospital, Birmingham.Rootes, George, Guy’s Hospital.Seecombe, Edward Hepburne, King’s College.Shaw, Frederick Charles, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Smith, Joseph William, King’s College.Snow, Herbert Lumley, Queen’s College, Birmingham.Stocker, James Reginald, Guy’s Hospital.Wyman, John Sanderson, General Hospital, Birmingham.

* Chemistry and Botany only.

APOTHECARIES’ HALL.-The following gentlemen passedtheir examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine, andreceived certificates to practise, on the 28th ult. :-

Best, Frederick Arthur, Cambridge- street, Hyde-park.Brown, George Arthur, Welchpool, Montgomeryshire.Byles, James Cotton, Victoria-park-road, Hackney.Evans, Alfred Paget, West Bromwich.Haigh, Thomas Hinchliffe, Gole.,ir, near Huddersfield.Jones, John Foulkes, Dolgelly, North Wales.Lavin, Michael Drury, Bushey, Herts.Lawrence, Frederick George, Malmeshury.Lawrence, George Richard, Wantage, Berks.Martin, James Hamilton, Tregony, Cornwall.Morris, Griffith Davies, Dyffryn, North Wales.Quick, John Roy, Old Kent-road.Taylor, James, Chapel-cn-Ie-Frith, Derbyshire.Turner, John Sidney, Guy’s Hospital.Watts, William Frederick, Dewsbury.Wearing, Allen, Lancaster.

The following gentlemen also on the same day passed theirfirst examination :-

Berry, Otha Windsor, Charing-cross Hospital.Clothier, Henry, University College.Flint, Frederic, King’s College.Haydon, Nathaniel Thomas John, St. Mary’s Hospital.Hembrough, John William, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Hughes, John Pearson, University College.Marsh, William Joseph, Guy’s Hospital.Taylor, Theodore Thomas, St. Mary’s Hospital.

THE ANTHROPOGLOSSOS.—An imposition of the mostbarefaced kind is being practised upon the public at St. James’sHall. A wax head, with :t tin trumpet fixed in the mouth,suspended from the ceiling, is said to sing and articulatedistinctly the words of various songs. This effect, the show-man states, is produced by the anatomical construction ofthe throat of the figure, air being forced through it. Hadthe exhibitor been satisfied with asserting that a trumpet-sound might be brought forth by these means, the inventionmight have been applauded ; but to endeavour to delude thepublic into the belief that the mechanical figure can distinctly

speak and pronounce the words is simply absurd, and insultingto the audience who have been induced to part with theirmoney. The voice is that of a man, conveyed to the figure-head. The delusion is so ridiculously transparent that wecannot imagine any sensible person being imposed upon by it.OFFENSIVE EXPOSURE OF DISEASE.—At the recent

summer assizes held at Maidstone, before Mr. Justice Willes,Jesse Gray, a herbalist, was indicted for exposing in his shopwindow, at Chatham, a disgusting picture of a man naked tothe waist, the body being coarsely painted to represent anoffensive disease of the skin. The defendant withdrew theplea of not guilty which he at first entered, and, upon therecommendation of his counsel, pleaded guilty. The learnedjudge, after passing a severe censure on the offence, mostleniently liberated the defendant on his own recognizances.

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DIPHTHERIA AMONGST MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.—M.Pagès, a medical practitioner of Paris, has just died of diph-tlaeria, taken from a patient affected with that disease whomthe deceased was attending.DOWNPATRICK LUNATIC ASTLUM.—A new lunatic

asylum is about to be built at Downpatrick from drawingsprepared by the county surveyor.QUEEN’S COLLEGE, CORK.—The official confirmation

of the appointment of Dr. Tanner as successor to Dr. Bullenhas been received at the Queen’s College, Cork.REFUSAL TO VACCINATE. - At the Southampton

police-court, a few days since, several persons were chargedwith refusing to allow their children to be vaccinated. The

prejudice which exists amongst the poor population of the

place is difficult to overcome, and the most strenuous measuresare employed to compel obedience to the law. In every casethe full penalty is inflicted, and it is hoped that the endeavoursof the authorities will be attended with complete success.INCREASE OF INSANITY.-From the eighteenth report

of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor,which has lately been published, it appears that during thepast fifteen years no less than 5000 patients have been addedduring each period of five years, or 1000 annually. In thefirst and second terms of five years, the addition did not reach5000, but in the last it was greater, an advance having takenplace from 22,852 to 28,285, being an increase of no less than5433. The admissions into all asylums during the last fifteenyears have amounted to nearly 120,000. When divided into

periods of five years, as in the case of the number of inmates Iresident, a great increase will be found of late. Some care-fully compiled tables show that during the first period-namely, in 1849 and the four following years-upwards of

36,000 patients were admitted ; that in the second divisionthe admissions were more than 38,000 ; and that during thefive years ending the 31st of December, 1863, as many as

44,69,i were received. As respects the relative numbers ofmen and women admitted into and discharged from asylumsduring these fifteen years, it appears that more men thanwomen have been admitted, and more women than men dis-charged. The number of recoveries has also been largeramong the women ; the rate of mortality is much greater inthe male than in the female sex. It appears that on the 1stof January, 1849, the number of insane patients in asylumsamounted to 14,560, and on the 1st of January last it hadrisen to 28,285. In the pauper class, according to last return,the number of women exceeded that of the men by 2000. Inthe private class, the number of men exceeded that of thewomen by 795, whereas in 1847 the number of females ex-ceeded that of the males in this class. As exhibiting thegreat and increasing confidence of the community at large inpublic over private asylums, a remarkable change has takenplace, as fifteeen years ago there were in licensed housesnearly as many patients as in hospitals and county asylums,whereas we now find that in the latter there are more thanfive times as many patients as in the former. On the 1st ofJanuary, 1849, there were 6931 patients in private asylums,and 7629 in public. In the former there are now only 4455,and in the latter as many as 23,830. In conclusion, the Com-missioners state that they are concerned therefore, more or

less, in the welfare of 44,695 persons of unsound or defectiveintellect.

ObituaryR. B. RIDLEY, ESQ., MAYOR OF SOUTH SHIELDS.WE deeply regret to have to notice the death of Richard

Baty Ridley, Esq., L.R.C.P. Edin., L. R. C. S. Edin., L. C. A.Lond., &c. &c., and, at the time of his death, Mayor of theborough of South Shields. A few weeks ago, Dr. Ridleyvisited London for a week, and was in his usual health.Shortly after his return to Shields, he felt unwell. In the dis-

charge of his municipal duties on a public occasion, he wasexposed to heavy rain, and got wet through. His symptomsbecame serious, and assumed the form of quartan ague, forwhich his medical advisers blamed the Thames embankment,Dr. Ridley having put up during his stay in town at an hotelin Norfolk-street. It will be interesting to know if any ormany well-authenticated cases of ague having such an originexist.

Be this as it may, the borough of South Shields has lost amost efficient mayor, many of its most respectable inhabitantsa very favourite medical adviser, and the medical professionone of its honoured and active members, just at an age whenmedical men come to the full enjoyment of the ripened confi-dence of the community in the midst of which they live. Dr.Ridley was born in 1812, and so was only fifty-two years ofage. He was a member of the ancient order of Freemasons, andduring his connexion with St. Hilda’s Lodge, South Shields,was elected W.M. on eight occasions. He was also surgeonto the Artillery Corps of South Shields. It is hard to be cutdown in mature life in the full tide of civic honour and profes-sional success ; but in the very memory of his honours and hisusefulness will be the great consolation of his relatives andvery numerous friends.

MEDICAL VACANCIES.

Metropolitan Free Hospital—Resident Medical Officer.Poplar Hospital-House-Surgeon.Royal South Hants Infirmary-House-Surgeon.St. Pancras-Resident Surgeon to the Workhouse and Infirmary.

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.J. ALLiNsoN, M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vacci-

nator for the 2nd or Spitalfields District of the Whitechapel Union, viceH. L. Sequeira, M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

A. E. BARRETT, M.1t.C.S.E., Medical officer and Public Vaccinator of the 2ndEastern District, and Public Vaccinator of the lst South-Eastern District,of the Freebridge Lynn Union, Norfolk, has been elected Medical Officerfor the Workhouse of the same Union, vice J. Headly, Surgeon R.N.,resigned.

J. A. BRIGHT, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Resident Medical Assistant andHouse-Surgeon to the Tunbridge Wells Infirmary and Dispensary, viceJ. F. Stamper, M.D., resigned.

C. COOPER, M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vacci-nator for the Needhqm District and the Workhouse of the Bosmere andClaydon Union, Suffolk, vice J. Pennington, M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

J. H. EDWARDS, 1’YI.R.C.S.E, has been appointed Assistant House-Surgeonto St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, vice W. G. Ormerod, M.R.C.S.E.,resigned.

T. EvANS, M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vaccinatorfor the Penbryn District of the Newcastle-in-Emlyn Union, Carmarten-shire, vice H. Evans, M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

R. GREENHALGH, M.D., has been elected Consulting Physician-Accoucheur tothe City of London Lying-in Hospital, in place of Dr. Conquest, resigned.

J. R. IRELAND, M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vacci-nator for the No. 1 District of the Fylde Union, vice V. Whitgreave,M.R.C S.E., resigned.

F. W. ISHERWOOD, M.D., has been elected Medical Officer for the NorwoodDistrict of the Uxbridge Union, Middlesex, vice J. Lee, M.R.C.S.E.,resigned.

F. M. LUTHER, M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer to the Constabulary,Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, vice J. Mahony, L.K.Q.C.P.I., deceased.

OWEN OWEN, M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for the Aberffraw Dis-trict of the Holyhead Uuion, Anglesey, vice T. Roberts, M.D., resigned.

E. B. SINCLAIR, M.D., Vice-Presideut and Censor of the College, has beenelected Professor of Midwifery to the School of Physic in the King andQueen’s College of Physicians, Ireland, vice Dr. Churchill, resigned.

W. WHITEHEAD, L.F P. & S. Glas., has been elected Medical Officer and PublicVaccinator for District No. 2 of the Mansfield Union, Nottinghamshire,vice H. Crutchley, L.R.C.P.L., resigned.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the 18th ult., at Deal, the wife of F. T. Hulke, M.B., of a daughter.On the 21st ult., the wife of H. May, M.R.C.S.E., of Nechells, Birmingham, of

a daughter.On the 23rd ult., at Queen’s-road, Dalston, the wife of Dr. Sykes, Surgeon to

the 83rd or Queen’s Own Light Infantry Regiment, of a son.On the 27th ult., at Dublin, the wife of R. F. V. De Lisle, M.R.C.S.E., Surgeon.

Major Royal Artillery, of a son.On the 28tli ult., at Ma3field, Hurst-green, Sussex, the wife of H. Harland,

M.D., of a daughter.On the 2nd inst., at Regent-street, Cheltenham, the wife of Fred. H. Morris,

M.D., of a daughter. _____

MARRIAGES.On the 14th ult., at All Saints, Kingston, Thomas Prangley, A.K.C., M.R.C.S.,

of A)dborough, Norwich, to Isabella Davey, eldest stepdaughter of F. M.Antonini, Esq., of Surbiton-park, Surrey.

On the 28th ult., at New Buckenham, Norfolk, William Lugar Mumford, M.D.,of Walsham-le-Willow, Suffolk, to Laura, daughter of E. N. Clowes, Esq.,Solicitor, of New Buckenham.

DEATHS.On the lOth inst., at Blaenant, Neweastle-Emlyn, Henry Evans, Esq., Surgeon

to the Penbryn District of the Union, aged 34.On the 23rd ult., at Colrose, near Truro, of phthisis, Agnes, the wife of Dr.

Arthur B. Hairis, of Falmouth, aged 25.On the 31st ult., suddenly, at Tollerton, Yorkshire, George Bird, Esq., Surgeon,

aged 65.