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long since a wise man died near here, and in his possession 
were found the books and other things that he used in 
his dealings with^^—after a long pause, and with a significant 
look—tlie devil/’ This was so absurd that a hearty lauirh 
closed the colloquy, with a hope expressed that before this 
the people in the west had become wiser than to believe such 
nonsense. 
Can such things be in this our day and not excite 
our yjity and regret ? Perhaps we are not surprised at 
reading that Bishop Jewel, in a sermon preached before 
Queen Elizabeth, in 1558, tells her, It may please your 
Grace to understand that witches and sorcerers, within the 
four last years, are mavellously increased within your Grace’s 
realm. Your subjects pine away even to death—their colour 
fadeth, their speech is benumbed, their senses are bereft; I 
pray God they never practise farther than upon the subject.” 
John Bell, minister of the Gospel at Glaidsmuir, says Provi¬ 
dently two tests appeared to discover the crime ; if the witch 
cries out, ^ Lord have mercy upon me !’ when apprehended ; 
and the inability of shedding tears : because as a witch could 
only shed three tears, and those with her left eye, her stock 
was quickly exhausted; and that was the more striking, as 
King James First shrewdly observes, ‘ since other women in 
general are like the crocodile, ready to weep upon every 
slight occasion,’ ” 
OBITUABY. 
Death of Professor Renault. 
We deeply regret to have to announce the death of Professor 
Renault, which sad intelligence we find recorded in the Cli¬ 
nique, which has just been received. It appears that he was 
sent on a mission to Italy, where the cattle plague— Rincler 
pest —now prevails ; and that, from exposure to the pernicious 
influence of the districts which he was compelled to visit, 
while engaged in his arduous duties, he contracted the malady 
which carried him oft’. We join our most sincere regrets to 
those of M. Leblanc, the talented editor of the Clinique, and 
also to those of the members of the Imperial Central Society of 
Vetei'inary Medicine, which were manifested at the meeting 
of the 28th of jMay, when the president after having announced 
the mournful intelligence and expressed his conviction of the 
great loss science had sustained, adjourned the meeting as a 
tribute to the memory of the deceased professor. 
