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of premeditated murder, and we understand that steps are being 

 taken to bring the murderer to justice*. 



In a brief notice of Captain Speer's career and untimely end, 

 communicated to the Quebec Mercury of the 9th of July by ah 

 officer of the 75th Eegiment, with which he passed the preceding 

 winter in Quebec, it is stated that, just before setting out, Captain 

 Speer dreamed that he saw a coffin with " W. D. Speer, died June 

 17, 1867 " on it. This is one of those strange coincidences of the 

 apparent fulfilment of a foreboding which, though by no means 

 inexplicable, yet, whenever they occur, are calculated to excite sur- 

 prise. 



Thonvas Pridgin Teale, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., F.E.S., died on the 

 31st of December, in his 67th year. 



Mr. Teale was born at Leeds, the son of Mr. Thomas Teale, 

 a medical practitioner of high repute in that town. Educated 

 for the medical profession, Mr. Teale entered on its practice 

 in conjunction with his father in the year 1823, and soon 

 evinced such knowledge " and skill as an operating surgeon, 

 as at a very early period of his career to show that he could 

 not fail to attain an eminent position in his profession. Nor 

 was this anticipation disappointed, seeing that, for many years 

 before his decease, Mr. Teale was reputed one of the most eminent 

 among provincial, and, it may be said, metropolitan surgeons. 

 In the year 1824 he was elected Surgeon to the Leeds Public 

 Dispensary, the duties of which office he continued to discharge 

 for nine years, when he was appointed one of the Surgeons to the 

 Leeds Gl-eneral Infirmary, which afforded him an appropriate field 

 for the display of his ability. He was also one of the founders 

 and most active teachers in the Leeds School of Medicine, which 

 at the present time stands second to none out of the metropolis. 



Immersed as Mr. Teale was, from a very early period of his life, 

 in the labours and anxieties of a large and constantly increasing 

 practice, the greater part of his published writings were, as might 

 be expected, devoted to professional subjects, and several of them 

 have deservedly obtained, and will long maintain, great estimation. 

 But, like many others belonging to the medical profession, Mr. 

 Teale, notwithstanding the almost complete absorption of his 

 time and thoughts in the practice of surgery, found leisure and 



* In the Gardeners' Chronicle of July 11, 1868, it is stated that William 

 Barry, the soldier who killed Captain Speer, had been brought from Fori 

 Stevenson to Yancton, to be tried for murder. 



