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The late Dr. Hope. 
The narrative of this highly-gifted man is most instructive. 
He came to London proud and self-dependent. He was endowed 
with intellectual powers of the highest order, and he knew it. He 
would have little commerce with mankind, for he deemed himself 
superior to his fellows, and he lived apart in study and abstraction. 
If he worshipped any thing, it was the mind which he discerned in 
the productions of the learned, and of which he knew himself pos- 
sessed. In the silence of his retirement he vowed that he would 
become great in his generation, and that men should acknowledge 
him for a master and a guide. For years he laboured in obscurity 
and poverty. He made discoveries in science, but could not pro- 
mulgate them ; for it was necessary to accompany his statements 
with explanatory diagrams and drawings, and he was not rich 
enough to secure the assistance of an artist. With his discoveries 
accomplished, the ardent student, bent only upon winning the race 
with the competitors whom he saw still far ahead, gave up years to 
the study of drawing and painting, and, in time, produced with his 
own hand the designs that were essential to the publication of his 
work. We believe — but the fact we do not distinctly remember — 
that he himself engraved them. The proud and ambitious man was 
famous in a morning. The task that he had set himself was ac- 
complished. Sensible of the power that was in him, he had com- 
mitted a vow to heaven that he would become famous, and that 
men should acknowledge his greatness, and the goal was reached. 
Not yet sufficiently, however, as the doctor deemed. One prize 
remained to be achieved; that obtained, and his work was done. 
*The first physician must be the chief physician of the principal 
metropolitan hospital. Dr. Hope announced himself a candidate. 
An older and more influential practitioner opposed him, but the 
youthful and devoted follower of science gained the day. Flushed 
with success, he returned to his home, and bade his wife rejoice, 
for the promise was fulfilled, the early resolution honestly made 
good. Wife and husband rejoiced no more. That night the vic- 
torious student ruptured a bloodvessel : he languished thencefor- 
ward, and soon died. 
Foreign Cattle. 
An order from the Board of Customs has lately been issued, in 
substance similar to the one dated February 1845, directing the 
collectors and comptrollers of the customs of the several outports 
