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should consider my reason for declining tomeet you was from an overstrained eti-quette, as I believe it is the established ruleof conduct in the profession generally. Hadyou been in attendance previously to mybeing called in to the patient, I could nothave had the slightest objection to meet youin consultation."The gentlemen are friends, and the cor-

respondence was conducted good temper-edly.

DR. RICHARD POOLE has been appointedMedical Superintendent of the Montrose

Lunatic Asylum, vice Dr. Browne, who hasaccepted a similar office in the Dumfries

Asylum. Nine candidates entered the field,of whom, however, votes were given to onlythree. Dr. Poole received 19 votes, givinghim a majority of 11. On leaving Edin-burgh for this appointment, a gift of 2001.was presented to Dr. P. by his medical

brethren in that city, as a proof of their es-teem. Dr. Poole is the author of the arti-

cle, " Mental Diseases," in the new editionof the 11 Encyclopaedia Brittanica."

COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH.

THE QUEEN V. MANSELL AND OTHERS.

ON Friday, the 29th of June, a younggentleman named Mansell, Dr. Sullivan, ofMuseum-street, and others, were indictedon a charge of conspiring together to de-ceive the Royal College of Surgeons, and toobtain a diploma for the defendant, Mansell,by fraudulent means.The prosecution was mainly sustained by

the testimony of an individual of the nameof Stack, who, according to his own ac-count, had filled honourably the several

professions of dealer in Morison’s pills,servant in a lodging-house, clerk to an at-torney, policeman, billiard-marker, and sol-dier.Aided by the evidence of this person,

the College of Surgeons succeeded in ob-taining a verdict of Guilty against all ofthe defendants.We shall probably recur to this affair on

the occasion of judgment being rendered.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A STUDENT at the Westminster Hospitalcomplains that the governors of that institu-tion, notwithstanding the large sums paid bythe pupils for admission within its walls,peremptorily refused the students permis-sion to witness the procession at the coro-nation, from -,,.iiy part of the building, evenfrom the roof. He regards the denial as notonly mean and ungenerous, but contrary to

all custom, on occasions in which institu’tions connected with science or literatureare concerned, relative to the Sovereign, thestudents, or scholars, therein being alwaysconsidered as part and parcel of the institution. The medical officers of the hospital,he adds, were also excluded from a view ofthe procession from the hospital withoutpayment for the sight./ The fact stands in

disagreeable contrast with the liberality ofthe governors of St. George’s Hospital, into ’

which building the students were directedto be freely admitted on the occasion. /The treatment experiencea by Mr. Gmi!.

den, at the hands of the ill-bred and ignorant coroner, stated in a letter in the "NorthCheshire Reformer," was not sufficientlyexplained for restatement in our own M.

lumns; besides, the remedy will be bettersupplied nearer home.The communication from Halifax vas

without a signature. The facts should h lestated more fully, and the account autlienti.cated confidentially. :

The letters of Mr. Payne and Dr. Burncs :have reached us. ’

P. P. No cases are inserted in TneLANCET unless they are authenticated.We would advise Delta to state his case

candidly, and without the least reserve, tothe Examiners of the Apothecaries’ Com.pany. According to the letter ofthelaw,itis necessary for him to be transferred to an.other apothecary for the remainder of theterm ; but, according to the spirit of the

law, he has obviously served a five years’apprenticeship to an apothecary. It is pro.bable that the Court of Examiners may takethis view of the case.

&Dgr; should have sent his name, with refer.ence to a case in point. However, we are

of opinion that no great honour attaches toto the membership of any of the more an.

cient establishments. In reply to the ques.tion respecting E--, we answer yes,if the writer will confidentially authenticalehis communications with his name and ad·dress.Mr. lllacilwain’s case of strangulated her-

nia shall appear next week.A correspondent informs its that Mesmer.

ism is under employment at the EdinburghInfirmary, as a remedial means.The paper of Ml’. John H. B. consists

only of opinions. There is, indeed, hereand there a fact stated in evidence, but noingenuity in theory will compensate for an

absence of proofs.A Constant Subsci-iber. The discovery

has not yet been made.The request of Mr. Harper shall receive

attention.ERRATA,-At page 454, col. 2nd, for dates

of " June" 29 and 30, read May 29 and 30,Page 493, col. 2nd, line 12, transfer the

semicolon from the words " the mouth,)) tothe next word, " the incisors."