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marble statue of George III., by Turnerelli, a present 
from H. Pownall, Esq. The hospital had relieved 12,248 
patients, exclusive of mere casualties, during the past 
year. The report acknowledged the receipt of the bequest 
of the late Dean of Westminster of 1,0002. The receipts 
during the year were 20,369/. 7s. 3d., and the disburse- 
ments 19,4662. 19s. 3d., leaving a balance with the 
bankers of 9027. 8s,; and there remained in the Bank of 
England 4,0002. in Exchequer-bills. The total cost of the 
building, with its fittings and furniture, had been 
133,346/. 0s. 7d. The report was adopted, and the officers 
for the ensuing year were re-elected. 
University College.—The annual distribution of prizes 
and honours in the medical faculty of this College took 
place on Saturday, in the Botanical Lecture-room of the 
institution. The theatre was crowded with a fashionable 
and attentive audience. The Earl of Auckland presided, 
re the several Professors, with loud 
The business of the day was commenced by 
the Dean of Faculty reading a report on the Medical 
Department of the College. It stated that the Medical 
classes continued to maintain, with reference to other 
Schools, their relative proportion of students, the num- 
ber during the past session being 304, of whom 91 were 
new students. The business of the session had gone on 
in all respects satisfactorily ; and of the rewards conferred 
by the University of London during the year, which 
consisted of two certificates of special proficiency, three 
scholarships, four exhibitions, fourteen gold medals, and 
one book prize, the students of the University College 
had carried off one certificate of special proficiency, two 
scholarships, one exhibition, and seven gold medals. 
Valuable and extensive additions had been made to the 
Medical Museum of the institution. A nomination to an 
assistant-surgeoncy in the Hast India Company’s service 
had, through the kindness of Mr. Martin Smith, been 
placed at the disposal of the council for competition, and 
it had been determined that the examination for it should 
take place in the first week of July next year. The report 
also referred to the high standing in India of several of 
the old students of the College, particularly mentioning 
Mr. W. Griffith, and Dr. Mouatt. The prizes were then 
distributed as follows :— Minter Term, 1842-43.— 
Chemistry (Professor Graham).—Gold medal, Mr. John 
ewton, of London; first silver medal, Mr. W. B. Ran- 
dall, of Southampton; second silver medal, equal, Mr. 
(oan Goodman, of Northampton; Mr. 'T, F, Grimsdale, 
ot Uxbridge ; silver medal (essay), Mr. Charles Prentice, 
of Kingston-on-Thames.—Medicine (Professor Williams). 
—Gold medal, Mr. H. Fearnside, of Otley, near Leeds; 
first silver medal, Mr. J. Hakes, of London ; second silver 
medal, Mr. F. J. Brown, of Rochester.—Anatomy and 
Physiology (Professor Sharpey, M.D.).—Gold medal, Mr. 
obert D. Harling, of Chester ; first silver medal, Mr. B. M. 
Eyre, of London ; second silver medal, Mr. N. Brangwin, 
of Henley-on-Thames.—Comparative Anatomy (Professor 
Grant, M.D.).—Gold medal, Mr. F. W. Marshall, of Nor- 
wich.—Anatomy (Professor Quain).—Senior class, silver 
medals, equal, Mr. I’. J. Brown, and Mr. N. Brangwin ; 
third silver medal, H. Vevers, of Dormington ; junior 
class, silver medal, Mr. W. Cadge, of Norfolk.—Materia 
Medica (Professor Thomson, M.D.).—Gold medal, Mr, 
Henry Sutherin, of London ; first silver medal, Mr, Henry 
Ward, of Northampton ; second silver medal, Mr. W, HH. 
Colborne, of Chippenham, Wilts.—Midwilery (Professor 
Murphy, M.D.).—Gold medal, Mr. Thomas S. Lee, of 
ambridge ; first silver medal, Mr. Alfred J. Tapson, of 
ondon ; second silver medal, Mr. Henry James Stokes, 
of London.—Surgery (Professor Cooper).—Gold medal, 
r. G. Y. Heath, of Westoe, Durham ; first silver medal, 
Mr. Henry James Stokes; second silver medal, Mr, 
Thomas §, Lee.—Summer Term, 1842.—Pathological 
Anatomy (Professor Walshe, M.D.).—Gold medal, Mr. 
Pu. Williams, of Wem.—Botany, senior class (Profes- 
Sor Lindley, Ph.D.).—Gold medal, Mr. A. Jackson, of 
ortsmouth ; silver medal, Mr. W. Brown, of Cornwall. 
—Medical Jurisprudence (Professor Thomson, M.D.) 
Prize, Mr. Charles J. Tomkins, of Abingdon, B 
Zoology (Professor Grant, M.D.).--Silver medal, Mr. 
Edward Ballard, of London.—Fellowes Clinical- Medals. 
Summer Term, 1842.—Gold, Mr. A. J. Tapson ; silver, 
cae T. S$. Lee—Winter Term, 1843.—Gold, Mr. 
Richard Tador, of London. 
Dulwich College.—On Monday, according to the sta- 
Goa’ Mr, Edward Alleyne, founder of the College of 
aa 8 Gift, Dulwich, the churchwardens of the parishes 
St. Saviour’s, St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, and St. Luke’s, 
ig he master and four fellows of the college, in whom 
ened the election of the warden, assembled at the 
db ge for the purpose of filling up the vacancy occasioned 
ae the elevation of the late warden (a son of the bisho 
Ely) to the mastership. At the close of the ballot the 
Alle Sentlemen selected as candidates were Mr, Charles 
Nie of Brazennose-college, Oxford, and Mr. J. G 
Dr vton Alleyn, of Dover-street, w 
tesden for 
t uccessful 
4 titor, he was declared to be duly elected warden of 
Colleze. 
uy Antiquities l 
Coun, quities.—At the 
uel Mr. Eagleton, chairman of the City Lands Com- 
»Yecommended that a portion of the Roman wall 
Compe 
last Court of Common 
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Lill should be given u the C ch Extensi 
5 dt p to the Church Extension 
Mea for the building of anew church there, which society 
» “Arough Sir R, Inglis and other gentlemen, petitioned 
on the subject. Mr. R. Taylor deprecated the idea of 
demolishing that venerable vestige of ancient London. 
While other cities preserved with care their interesting 
remains of antiquity, the Corporation of London seemed 
bent upon accomplishing their destruction. The wall in 
question was not only valuable in a historical point of 
view, as ill i ion of London by the 
art. The contest is expected to be a severe one, and 
the friends of both candidates are making great exertions 
to promote their success. 
Anti} Corn-Law League.—The seventh weekly meeting 
of the League took place on Wednesday night in Drury- 
lane Theatre. The [house was crowded in every part; 
long before the appointed hour not a spare seat could be 
obtained, and upwards of three thousand applications for 
tickets were refused, the whole of the admission cards 
being exhausted by three o’clock on Monday. The 
Chairman announced that it was the last time the League 
would meet in that Theatre, and that as they had once 
erected a hall in Mancl pable of taining 10,000 
put arsenic in the jar. Mr. Howell died soon after he had 
drank the beer, and the woman who was called in to lay 
out the body, died a few hours after she had partaken of the 
remainder. The bodies have been exhumed and examined 
by Mr. Herapath, the chemist, of Bristol, who has 
detected distinct evidence of arsenic in them. The sister, 
Mrs. Thomas, and her husband, have both been appre- 
hended, and are now in custody until further evidence 
has been received. 
Carmarthen.—The proceedings of ‘ Rebecca and her 
Daughters” still continue unchecked, On Friday, at 
the Neath petty sessions, three workmen in the employ 
of the Abbey Iron Company were brought forward to 
answer to a charge of breaking and carrying away some 
gates at Neath Abbey on the 10th inst. The evidence in 
this case was clear and ive, as a fy rgeant 
caught them in the act of destroying the gates ; but as the 
parties whose property had sustained injury did not appear 
to prosecute, the magistrates, on account of previous good 
character, deemed it expedient to dismiss the case.—The 
new steam-yacht built for Her Majesty’s use at Pembroke 
dockyard was launched on Wednesday the 26th ult.; the 
ceremony of naming her was performed by the Countess 
of Cawdor. The length of the yacht is 225 feet, breadth 
33, tonnage 1,049 ; and her engines are of 450 horse-power. 
Cricklade.—A labouring man, named Isaac Litten, 
belonging to the parish of Eisey, with his wife and four 
children, having been ejected from’ their cottage, were 
sheltering, on the night.of the 21st ult., in a hut they had 
constructed of hurdles and straw covered with a piece of 
cotton patchwork, in Golden Rose-lane, in the above 
parish, when about ten o’clock, the fire not being pro- 
perly extinguished, the place ignited. Litten and his wife 
escaped unhurt, leaving three of the children, aged five, 
seven, and ten years, in the flames, without making any 
attempt to rescue them. Before any assistance arrived 
the children were burnt {to | death. n examining the 
ground where the fire took place, some blood was disco- 
vered. This excited suspicion, and on examination of 
the bodies, the skull of one of them was foundto be frac- 
tured. This added to the suspicious nature of the cir- 
capable o 
persons, in eight weeks, they could also erect one in 
London if required. he meeting was subsequently 
addressed by the Rev. Dr. Cox, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Latti- 
more, and Mr. Moore. The Chairman then announced 
that the next meeting would be held in the Victoria 
Theatre, and that next week another meeting would be 
held in the Hall of Commerce in the city. 
A ccidents.—Another of those alarming accidents which 
So frequently occur in firework manufactories took place 
on Monday afternoon, in Regent-street, Lambeth-walk, 
on the premises occupied by Mr. Fenwick, firework manu- 
facturer, by which an old man named Field susteined 
Such injuries as to cause his death on the following day ; 
and two others, the one a son of Mr. Fenwick and the 
other a workman in his employ, were dreadfully burnt. 
The buildings were so completely destroyed by the explo- 
sion, that, when the engines arrived, very little water was 
required to extinguish the burning embers. 
Mortality of the Metropolis.—The following is the 
number of Deaths registered in the week ending Saturday, 
April 22.—West districts, 150; North districts, 190; 
Central districts, 168; East districts, 210; South dis- 
tricts, 243. Total, 961—(505 males, 456 females. ) 
Weekly average for the last five years, 902, for the last 
five springs, 854. 
Provincial Nets. 
Bristol.—The local papers announce that his Royal 
Highness Prince Albert has accepted an invitation to yisit 
Bristol on the launch of the Great Britain, which was 
intended to have been in the month of May, but owing to 
some difficulty in the float, has been postponed to June. 
—We copy the following account of Mr. Brunel from the 
Bristol Gaxetle :—‘' The operation, to which we alluded 
in our last, was performed with remarkable skill and pre- 
cision by Sir B. Brodie, assisted by three other eminent 
surgeons. Very little blood was lost by the incision in 
the windpipe, but coughing and irritation supervened in 
such violence, that the forceps could not be used, and the 
half-sovereign still remains in the trachea, The operation 
occupied a considerable time, and Mr. Brunel endured bis 
sufferings with remarkable fortitude. We are glad to learn 
that the accounts received this morning are considered 
very favourable, the exact position of the coin having 
been ascertained, and its extraction by the forceps, when 
a necessary alteration has been made in the form of the 
instrument, is anticipated to be nearly certain.” 
Bridgend.—This neighbourhood has been for the last 
few days much agitated by the sudden death of a respect- 
able farmer, a Mr. Howell, of Laleston, as was affirmed, 
f Asiatic cholera, followed immediately afterwards by the 
Z lly sudden death of a poor woman named Harvey, 
who bed assisted in laying out the body. Further cir- 
Me et tances, however, invested the case with very extra- 
Sane appearances, and an investigation was resolved on. 
riealerenet Mr. Howell, it appears, was a bachelor, 
possessed of property to the amount of about 2007. per 
ee m, and was about to be married to a Mrs. Lewis. 
To this match, the sister of the deceased farmer, a Mrs. 
Thomas, strongly objected, as it would be the means of | 15,0007. worth of property is 
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senating from her the property to which, if he died a 
ee er be need eee remonstrances with 
her brother had, however, been fruitless, and the period 
for the marriage was fixed. On Friday se’nnight, Mr. 
Howell had occasion to send for some beer to the house 
of his intended bride, who resided at a short distance, 
and the servant was directed to take a jar and fetch it, 
On his way he called at the house of the,sister, who is 
supposed to have taken advantage of the opportunity to 
and thejfather was immediately apprehended. 
A coroner’s inquest was held, and after a protracted deli- 
beration, the jury returned a verdict, ‘ That Isaac Litten 
wilfully set his tent or camp on fire, thereby causing the 
death of his three children.’ _He was immediately com- 
mitted to take his trial at the next assizes. ; 
Hertford.—On Saturday last, Mr. Cobden went down 
to Hertford, for the purpose of addressing the agricultu- 
rists of that district on the repeal of the Corn Laws. The 
Shire Hall was originally fixed for the meeting, but, hay- 
ing been found too small, the meeting adjourned to the 
Plough Mead, a large field at one extremity of the town, 
where an assemblage of nearly two thousand persons, almost, 
exclusively farmers, was collected—the outskirts of the 
crowd being flanked by a number of the principal land- 
owners of the county on horseback—among whom were 
Baron Dimsdale, the Hon. W. Cowper, Sir Minto Farqu- 
har, Bart., Mr. Bosanquet, and several others, Mr. 
Welford, the Chancery Barrister, who has a farm in the 
neighbourhood, having been called to the chair, Mr. Cob- 
dev proceeded to address the meeting on the usual topics 
of the Anti Corn-Law League. Mr. Bennett, a Bedford- 
shire farmer, and a Mr. Maydwell, moved resolutions in 
support of the Corn Laws, and expressive of a want of 
Confidence in Ministers. Mr. Lattimore, a neighbourin, 
farmer, moved an amendment in favour of total repeal, 
which, having been seconded, was carried by a large 
majority. Considerable interest was excited by the meet- 
ing, it having been expected that a strong Opposition 
would have been got up by the gentlemen of the county. 
Everything, however, passed off quietly. 
Liverpool.—On Thursday afternoon a fire broke out 
in the extensive warehouses belonging to the Trustees of 
the Duke of Bridgewater, which bas destroyed a great 
quantity of cotton and grain, and done very considerable 
damage to the immense pile of buildings. The fire orj- 
ginated amongst some cotton in one of the upper rooms, 
and almost immediately burst into a volume of flame, 
threatening destruction to the whole property, which is 
estimated at the value of about 500,000. The warehouses 
stand close to the Duke’s Dock, not far from the Custom- 
house, and are built east and west. Fortunately the wind 
was blowing west, and only a very light breeze, or doubt- 
less the fire could not have been got under. Three of the 
warehouses are nearly destroyed, and entirely so in the 
upper stories. The warehouses are seyen stories high, and 
the different rooms are let off to merchants who have 
cotton, corn, and other goods consigned to them, The 
three higher stories of these warehouses are reduced to 
complete ruin, the roofs having fallen in soon after the 
fire began. The three lower rooms contained corn, a great 
portion of which is either destroyed by fire or considerably 
damaged by water. The lower story, principally filled 
with Burton and other ales, has escaped with compara- 
tively little damage. The goods destroyed are the pro- 
perty of various merchants, but it is beli¢ved are nearly all 
insured, the building being the property of the Trustees 
of the Duke of Bridgewater, of which Lord Francis Egerton 
is the principal owner. No accurate estimate can at this 
moment be made of the loss, but it is calculated that about 
y is destroyed. 
—On Monday evening a fire, which destroyed 
able amount of property, broke out at the cotton 
T. Fearnley, situated on the south bank of the 
ort viaduct of the 
ay. The fire com- 
| menced in the uppe It is sup- 
| posed to h : nsequence of the flame of a 
| lamp coming in contact with some roving. The flames 
spread rapidly from floor to floor, and notwithstanding 
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