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and, the horse starting, his Grace fell with great violence to the ground. As- 

 sistance being at hand, the Duke was enabled to walk, but with great difficulty, 

 into the Park at the Stanhope Gate ; and he proceeded as far as his own 

 garden-gate ; but the pain and exhaustion prevented his proceeding further 

 without help. His Grace was. assisted by his own servants into Apsley House. 

 On entering the first apartment the Duke felt something snap in his knee ; and, 

 after staggering to a couch, he desired Mr. Hume to be sent for. On the 

 arrival of Dr. Hume, leeches were plentifully applied. On Saturday morning 

 we learnt that the Duke had passed a very restless night, complained much of 

 pains in his back and loins, and was otherwise much enfeebled. 



"Apsley House, Sunday noon. His Grace is rather better; he can now 

 bend his knee." 



On Monday the Post added 



" We understand that a contraction had taken place in the limb, which hap- 

 pily had given way to the treatment recommended by Sir Astley Cooper. The 

 Duke had had rather a restless night, but the pain in the back and loins had 

 abated." 



The Duke has since recovered almost entirely from the effects of 

 this accident. 



IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. The wretched state of the law as it 

 at present stands respecting" debt requires amendment more than 

 any in the whole body of our national statutes. Last year a bill was 

 brought in for abolishing imprisonment for debt, accompanied with 

 regulations to secure the interests of the creditor more effectually 

 than they can be according to the present arrangement. The bill 

 passed the House of Commons last year, and Lord Lyndhurst set it 

 aside in the Lords as coming too late in the session. The Commons 

 have sent a bill of similar purport to the Peers this session ; and the 

 duke of Wellington, on July 4th, gave it its conpe with as little cere- 

 mony as the ex-chancellor. The Lords must look to it. Neither the 

 people nor their representatives can be thus repeatedly trifled with. 



METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY. There is little doubt that ere 

 another short month shall have elapsed this great measure of educa- 

 tional reform will have been brought forward, and all the hopes and 

 fears of the minor institutions of London, which are to constitute parts 

 of a grand whole, be put at rest. We have always felt that the ex- 

 clusion of dissenters from the old established universities has been a 

 hardship to them ; but we think that the question of their admission 

 is surrounded by so many difficulties (on grounds which those only who 

 well know Oxford and Cambridge can properly estimate) that we 

 are very glad that an arrangement has been made that seems to 

 render its further mooting quite unnecessary. The following gentle- 

 men are to be the examiners of the new Metropolitan University : 

 The list is complete with the exception of the medical department 



Dr. Maltby, Bishop of Durham; Henry Warburton Esq., M.P. ; 

 Andrew Amos, Esq., Professor of Law in the University of London ; 

 W. Empson, Esq., Professor of Law in the East India College ; Dr. 

 Roget ; J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.; Dr. Arnold; Rev. R. Sheepshanks, 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Rev. Connop Thirlwall, 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; G. B. Airy, Esq., Astronomer 

 Royal ; J. W. Lubbock, Esq., Vice President of the Royal Society ; 

 Nassau Senior, Esq.; and Michael Faraday, Esq., F.R.S. 



