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NORTH DUBLIN UNION.

A deputation from the guardians recently waited on theGovernors of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in order toobtain a capitation grant of four shillings for the pauperlunatics sent into the workhouse from the asylum under the9th section of 38th and 39th Vic., cap. 67. The governors ofthe asylum, however, were of opinion that these lunaticswere sent in under the provisions of the llth section, andnot of the 9th, of the Act referred to, and declined to makeany payment or to enter into the matter until the guardians.could produce the consent of the Local Government Boardand of the Lunacy Inspectors to the claim. As the sum.claimed is £1600, and as the South Dublin Union are

endeavouring to establish a similar demand, the matter willbe again brought forward, and doubtless will ultimately begranted. The refusal of the governors to acknowledge theirindebtedness is said to arise from the fact that the pre-sent accommodation and attendance given to harmlesslunatics sent into the workhouse is very deficient.Dublin, April 13th.

PARIS.

(From our own Correspondent.)

DEATH OF PROFESSOR BOUCHARDAT.

THIS eminent physician expired on Thursday, the 8th inst.,at his residence in Paris, in the eightieth year of his age.He died from extreme exhaustion resulting from great-depression of spirits, by which he had become affected since.his retirement from the Professorship of Hygiene, which heheld at the Paris Faculty of Medicine since 1852. For sometime before his retirement he became rather deaf, in con-sequence of which he was obliged to refrain from takingpart at the examinations for the Doctorate. He was other-wise in good health, but his forced retirement from anactive life so preyed on his mind that he gradually broke,down and nothing seemed to renovate him. ProfessorBouchardat did not do much in the way of practice, but- devoted his whole time to the improvement of his office andto scientific and literary work. He wrote a good deal, andthe mere enumeration of his works would fill some columnsof THE LANCET. He wrote principally on Materia Medica,Pharmacology, and Hygiene. The works bearing these titlesare the text-books of the Paris Faculty, and will probablyremain so for some years to come. His " Annuaire deThérapeutique," which was commenced forty-five years ago,and his" Nouveau Formulaire Magistral," which has passedthrough nineteen editions, are well known to the profession.He took his degree in 1832, and was soon after promoted toagrégé, but, as he evinced a predilection for pharmacology,he was appointed pharmacien to the hospitals, in whichcapacity he was attached to the Hotel Dieu from 1834 to1853. He was a member of the Academy of Medicine since1850, and became its president in 1866. He was also an officerof the Legion of Honour. He leaves two sons, one of whomis a surgeon-major in the French Army, and the other is aprofessor at the School of Pharmacy. The funeral of thedeceased physician took place on Saturday last, in thepresence of a large concourse of persons of all ranks inand out of the profession, among whom were many of hispatients of both sexes; and to give your readers an idea ofthe number that attended I may mention that the old-cathedral of Notre Dame, his parish church, and where theservice was performed, was at least half full. Though hisdesire was that his funeral should be as simple as possibleand without any official pomp, yet the members of theFaculty and the Academy of Medicine considered it theirduty to attend in a body, though not in their official garbs.

DEATH OF DR. AMEDJJB FORGET.I have also to report the death of Dr. Amédée Forget,

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which took place on Sunday, the llth inst., in the seventy-fifth year of his age. He was for many years in failinghealth, which induced him to retire from practice. He wasonce president of the Société de Medecine of Paris, and athis death was consulting surgeon to the Institution of theLegion of Honour, of which he was also an officer. Hismedical knowledge was very extensive, and he more thanonce received a prize from the institute in recognitionof the value of his works.

A VENERABLE SAVANT.

There are three men whose names have been for sometime almost constantly before the public: M. Pasteur, forhis remarkable discoveries; M. de Lesseps, as a pioneer ofcivilisation; and M. Chevreul, as an illustrious chemist,academician, and centenarian. M. Chevreul styles himselfthe " doyen des étudiants." In order to celebrate hishundredth birthday, which is on Aug. 31st next, the variouslearned societies of France propose having a public demon-stration in his honour. It is also proposed to celebrate thecentenary of the introduction of the potato into Europe byParmentier in the form of a banquet, which will be pre-sided over by the three illustrious men above named, andon which occasion " la pomme de terre will be the " platd’honneur."

M. PASTEUR.

The Stanley Club at Paris gave this evening a dinnerto M. Pasteur, which was presided over by the AmericanMinister. In replying to the toast of the evening, M. Pasteur,referring to his system of treatment by inoculation,said that the insults of anti-vaccinators and anti-vivi-sectors, the hesitation, temporising, or jealousy of news-papers, were immaterial to him. He could afford to wait withconfidence, albeit there were some who waited with the hopeof his failure. I may here mention that the Sultan of Turkeyhas decided upon sending a mission to Paris composed oftwo medical men and a veterinary surgeon to study theanti-rabic method of M. Pasteur. One of the party is thebearer of the Grand Cordon of the Medjidieh and a sum of10,000 fr., which are to be given to M. Pasteur in the nameof the Sultan, the latter being intended for the PasteurInstitute. At the last meeting of the Société d’Hygiene,M. Pasteur announced the death of another patient (whichwill be the third) of the first Russian party from Smolensk.He died on April 2nd, at the Hotel Dieu, with the symptomsof hydrophobia. M. Pasteur is by no means discouraged bythese deaths; he will only be induced to study more particu-larly the phenomena attending the bites of wolves, which heconsiders more grave than those of dogs or other animals.Paris, April 14th.

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MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT.

Contagious Diseases Acts Repeal (No.2) Bill.IN the House of Lords on the 9th inst., Lord Sandhurst,

in moving the second reading of this Bill, said that it wasintended simply to carry out public opinion, which had oflate years gone in one direction-viz., in that of the repealof the Acts. Viscount Cranbrook agreed that when Actswere inoperative they should be removed from the StatuteBook, but protested against the idea of local authoritiesbeing called on to undertake a duty which the Legislaturerefused to carry out. The motion was then agreed to.On the 12th inst. the Bill passed through Committee, and

on the 13th inst. it was read a third time and passed.The Idiots Bill.

On the 12th inst. this Bill was read a third time.

The Medical Act, 1858.In the House of Commons on the 14th inst., a Bill to amend

the Medical Act, 1858, was brought in by Mr. MorganHoward, and read a first time.

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

following gentlemen passed their Primary Examination inAnatomy and Physiology at a meeting of the Board ofExaminers on the 8th inst., and when eligible will beadmitted to the Pass Examination:-W. H. L. Copeland and H. S. Tuppen, Cambridge University and

St. Thomas’s Hospital; Montague Tench, J. Kynaston Couch. J. A. T.Woodgate, and F. G. Parsons, Middlesex Hospital; A. E. Norburn,R. Devereux Mothersole, and C. Price-Jones, Guy’s Hospital; A. H.Cheatle, King’s College Hospital; J. England Brogden, St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital; W. S. Sharpe, G. Coleridge Davis, and AlexanderLewers, St. Mary’s Hospital; F. Grange, Charing-cross Hospital;W. B. Ransom, Cambridge ard University College Hospital; W.Harris Best, London Hospital; A. J. Adkins and C. J. Martin,St. Thomas’s Hospital.

ANATOMY ONLY.—H. Lee Green, Toronto University; John Griffith,St. Mary’s Hospital ; A. H. Blunt, St. Thomas’s Hospital.

PHYSIOLOGY ONLY.—P. W. Turnor, St. George’s Hospital; P. Christiande Wet, St. Thomas’s Hospital.