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Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SUBGEONS.—The following gentle.

men, having undergone the necessary examinations for the

diploma, were admitted members of the College, at a specialmeeting of the Court of Examiners on the 31st ult. :-

BELLAMY, GEORGE, of H.M.S. Hydra, Plymouth.Cox, RICHARD, of Aldermaston, near Reading, Berkshire.

APOTHECARES’ HALL.—The following gentlemen passedtheir examination in the science and practice of medicine, andreceived certificates to practise, on

Thursday, August 25th, 1859.BiRD, JOHN DUNHAM, Stretford, Manchester.FALWASSER, FRANCIS, Sherborne, Dorset.FENNELL, EDWARD HENRY, Ramsgate.HAYES, ROBERT HuLME, Longton, Stafford.HERBERT, BENJAMIN HEYWOOD, Francis-street, Edgbaston.HICKS, ROBERT.KIRBY, THOMAS CHARLES, Bodicott, Oxfordshire.KNIGHT, THOMAS, Brill, Buckinghamshire.LLEWELLYN, DAVID HERBERT, Malmsbury, Wilts.MILLARD, WILLIAM JOSEPH, Whitchurch, Monmouth.PLATT, THOMAS, Oldham, Lancashire.VAN, ARTHUR FERDINAND, Northfleet, Kent.The following gentlemen also, on the same day, passed their

first examination :-

CALDWELL, WILLIAM TowNLEY DUNCAN, Harleyford-place,Kennington.

LANGTON, JOI-.--Z,, Denmark-hill, Surrey.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, EDINBURGH.—Thomas

John Warburton, Esq., M. R. C. S. E. and L.S.A., of MarketDrayton, Salop, was elected a Licentiate on the 2nd ult.THE CHOLERA.—This epidemic is spreading along the

shores of the Baltic. Its presence in Dantzic is officially ac-knowledged, as well as in Osnabruck and Elberfeld; and it is

reported to have made considerable ravages at Hamburgh.ROYAL ASYLUM: OF ST. ANN’S SOCIETY.-At a court of

the governors, held on the 29th ultimo, Dr. J. Mill Frodsham,Associate of King’s College, was elected Honorary MedicalExaminer of the Corporation.HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.-The meetings of this Society

will recommence on Wednesday, October 5th. The chair istaken at eight o’clock. The following is a list of the officersfor the session 1859-60: : -President: Mr. D. Henry Walne.Vice-Presidents: Dr. Herbert Davies, Mr. John Jackson, Mr.Thomas Brown, and Dr. W. W. Gull. Treasztrer: Dr. WilliamCooke. For the Orcztioza of 1860: Dr. Stephen Ward. Libra-rian: Mr. Nathaniel Ward. Secretaries: Dr. S. W. Devenish,and Dr. H. I. Fotherby. Council: Dr. W. J. Little, Dr. W.M. Cooke. Mr. G. C. Date, Dr. J. S. Ramskill, Mr. Miles Beale,Dr. W. S. Saunders, Dr. T. M. Daldy, Dr. Robert Barnes, Dr.Robert Fowler, Mr. W. B. Langmore, Dr. Joseph Reid, andMr. Buxton Shillitoe.

WAR OFFICE, Arc. 26TH.-15th Light Dragoons : As-sistant-Surgeon J. Griffith has been permitted to resign hiscommission. Royal Artillery : Assistant-Surgeon G. A. Grant,from the Staff’, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Farquharson, ap-pointed to the Coldstream Guards. 60th Foot: Surgeon H. J.Schooles, M.D., having completed twenty years’ full-pay ser-vice, to be Surgeon-Major, under the Royal Warrant of the 1stOctober, 1858.—Hospital Staff.—Surgeon-Major H. Maple-ton, M. D., to be promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals; Acting Assistant-Surgeon J. Lander,M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces. - GeneralOrder.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to commandthat the under mentioned Assistant-Surgeons of her Majesty’sIndian Army be promoted to the Brevet rank of Surgeons, fromthe 7th of Sept., 1858, in consideration of their services duringthe siege of Lucknow:—Assistant-Surgeons Joseph Fayrer,M.D., Samuel Bowen Partridge, Henry Martineau Greenhow,and Robert Bird.

HONOURS TO MEDICAL MEN.—M. Marc d’Espine, thetalented medical statistician of Geneva, has just received fromthe Emperor of the French the Cross of the Legion of Honour.Everyone must applaud this recognition of superior talent in aman conspicuous alike for scientific researches and for highlyhonourable bearing

TESTIMONIAL To HUMBOLDT.—The Town Council ofBerlin has just subscribed X1600 to a foundation in honour ofHumboldt, destined to afford aid to learned men and travellersin the prosecution of the studies to which he devoted his longlife.

THE GREATEST DiSCOYEBT AFFECTING THE AGE.-A physician in Louisville has just discovered that by livingprincipally on buttermilk, a human being may prolong exist.ence to the period of 200 years i-American Paper.

APPOINTMENT.—Surgeon James Flanagan to be addi.tional to the Victory, 101, flag ship, at Portsmouth.A GOLDEN EEL.-It is stated that a very beautiful

specimen of the golden eel is to be seen at the Mitre, in Ely-place, Holborn. It is fourteen inches long, and was caught inSuffolk in January last. A considerable sum of money hasbeen offered for it and refused; but the probability is that itwill eventually become the property of the Zoological Society.TITLE ABSTRACTED FROM A QUACK. - Lately, in

Algeria, a poor but proud itinerant quack, who has calledhimself M. de la Roche Lambert, and under that title has cutinnumerable corns and drawn innumerable grinders, foundhimself suddenly deprived of the means whereby he lived, inthe shape of his nobility, and reduced to M. Lambert tout court- with the privation not only of his superfluous title, but aconsiderable portion of his superfluous coin as well, in theshape of a fine, for having presumed to poach upon the manorof the lordly owners of the noble name of Roche Lambert.The man pleaded his cause most eloquently. He told his sadadventures through the four quarters of the globe in search ofthat most impalpable thing-an honest living. He told howhe had been twice shipwrecked, and once nearly starved in theDesert, and once struck by lightning and left for dead; but allwas of no avail. M. de la Roche Lambert failed to prove his

right to the name in spite of all his sufferings, which onlyserved to show that when a man is evidently predestined todie by one peculiar kind of death alone, he cannot die by anyother. Any other man who had been struck by lightning,for instance, would certainly have been picked up, as is alwaysrecorded in the papers, " in a neighbouring field," completelyblackened and disfigured; but M. de la Roche Lambert gotup, according to his own account, more lively than ever, carry.ing his shoes, from which all the nails had been extracted, inhis hand. It will be curious after this to watch his progressthrough life, and see what really does kill him.-Morning Star.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

’ On the 16th ult., the wife of Matthew Corner, M.D., ofMile-end-road, of a son.On the 18th ult., the wife of Oliver Pemberton, Esq.,

M.R.C.S., of Birmingham, of a son.On the 22nd ult., at Grosvenor-street, the wife of B. E.

Brodhurst, Esq., M. R. C. S , of a daughter.On the 22nd ult., at the Vicarage, Abbotsbury, Dorset, the

wife of Theophilus R. B. Parker, Esq., M.R.C.S., of a son.On the 28th ult., at Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, the wife of

Dr. Logan, Army Medical Department, of a son.

MARRIAGES.On the 18th ult., at the Parish Church, South Cave, John

George Shepherd, Esq., Paymaster of I-LM.S. Cornwaldis,Hull, to Mary Ann, only daughter of Edward des Forges, Esq.,M.R.C.S., South Cave.On the 25th ult., at St. Peter’s Church, Manchester, Alfred,

eldest surviving son of Joseph Marsh, Esq., of Stamford-hill,near London, to Emma, el est daughter of Joseph AtkinsonRansome, Esq., F.P,.C.S., of St. Peter’s-square, Manchester.

DEATHS.On the 16th of July, at the Sanitarium, Bombay, Assistant-

Surgeon Kaye, 2nd Extra Battalion.On the 22nd ult., at Chichester, Maria, wife of Sir Wm.

Burnett, M.D., aged 76.On the 25th ult., at Guildford, Mary Anna, the wife of W.

H. Butler, Esq., M.R.C.S., aged 46.On the 28th ult., at Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, the infant

son of Dr. Logan.