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tirely exclude persons, otherwise qualified,from its exercise ; or prevent them from

using their discretion in regulating theirbill by the means of those whom they attend,rather than by any vain regard to profes-sional respectability. We would, therefore,appeal to the better sense of the leading ’,

members of the College, if it would not bemore consistent with their duty as directorsof a national establishment, designed for thediffusion of medical education and the secu-

rity of the public health, to take these plainobjects of their incorporation into consi-

deration, than to separate themselves fromthat union of interests which binds the se-

veral departments of society in a state of

reciprocal dependence. And by holding outin support of useless ceremonies of tuition,to deprive the pupil of the sources of in-formation ; the patient of effectual and at-tainable advice ; the parent of a provisionfor a part of his family ; and to render thoselocal advantages for the conducting of a

great school of medicine and surgery un-

availing, which Dublin, we believe, pos-sesses to a more ample extent than anyother British capital.

A FRirNDof ours was sitting lately in CAL-.Low and WILSON’S Reading Room, whenthat facetious wight, JoE BURNS, entered,and took up the first weekly excrescenceof MACL3’.OD’S YELLOW FUNGCS. He had

just raised it to reading distance, when hesuddenly removed it from the neighbour-hood of his olfactory organ, with a ges-ture and expression of face indicatingstrong disgust. JOE was asked what he

had got there, " a Bat’s * * * *" was

the short reply ; affording an unexpectedconfirmation of the naturalist’s remark on

the bat-kind; 11 alvi dejectiones in hoc ge-nere fcetore horribili imbutm sunt."

A GARBLED, and, in many respects, anerroneous statement, has gone forth respect-

ing a duel which recently took place betweenDr. FORBES and a M. ToNsoN. We abstain

from alluding further to this transaction

until an authorized account of it, which is

in preparation, shall be presented to thepublic.

VERY IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE ! I

MR. BRODIE, the eminent surgeon, whenopening the body of the late Earl of Pem.broke, cut his finger with one of the ir.stru.ments he used on that occasion, and was soill for several days afterwards, as to be in-capable of attending his patients.—MorningPost.

On Monday morning last, at nine o’clockprecisely, a cat sneezed at the door of No.14, Saville Row.

EPITAPHIUM

LAPIDI INFELICIS ISTIUS LITHOTOMI

BENJAMINI TRAVERS

INSCRIBKNDUM.

QUI MODO TOT SECUIT SANOS 1IIVUS ARTE

PERITUS

INVENIT LAPIDEM : NE DUBITES ; OB11T.

ALTERUM.

INVENIT I,APIDEM TRAVERSIUS j ANSE RE-QUIRIS

PLURA 1 VEL HOC IPSUM SAT MONET; OC-CUBUIT.

A Practical Essay on Stricture of the Rectnm j&c. By F.SALMON, Surgeon to the Gene.ral Dispensary Aldersgate-street. Lon-

don : Whittaker, and Callow and Wilson.8vo. pp.180.

THE author of this work, announces in his

preface that his object is 11 two prove that

stricture of the rectum is a very common

disease, inducing other important affections,and that surgery furnishes us with means

adequate to its removal or alleviation, pro-vided such means are exercised with judg-ment and science."