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BOMBAY MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT. - Surgeon - Major ’,Henry Vandyke Carter, M.D., to be Brigade Surgeon.-TheQueen has approved of the retirement from the Service ofthe undermentioned officer : Brigade Surgeon EdwardSomerset Cleveland, M.D., of the Madras Army; BrigadeSurgeon Hunter Adam, of the Madras Army; Surgeon-Major Wi)liam John Busteed, M.D., of the Madras Army ;Surgeon-Major Walter Fry, of the Madras Army.RiFLE YOLC:BTEERS, -4th Lanarkshire (Glasgow 1st

Northern) : David Newman, Gent., M.B., to be ActingSurgeon.

ADMIRALTY.—Fleet Surgeon David Wilson, who wasplaced on the Retired List from December 18th last, hasbeen allowed to assume the rank and title of DeputyInspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets on the RetiredList from the same date.The following appointments have been made :-Fleet Sizr-

geon Henry Macdonnell, to the Alexccradrcc; Fleet SurgeonHenry A. Close, to the I2?.viibeible, vice Macdonnell; Fleet Sur-geon Thomas G. Wilson, to the Trincomalee, vice Close ; StaffSurgeon William Brown, to the Cruiser; Surgeons WilliamF. Spencer and Arthur W. May, to the Alexandra; SurgeonJames A. Jeans, to the Coqnette; Surgeon Edgar G. Swan,to the illuji(ti,c7t, vice Brown ; Surgeon Arthur W. E. B.Barrett, to the Cygnet; Surgeon Maurice :M:, R. Mackenzie,to the CtunbrÙlrr. vice Swan ; Surgeon Charles A. Macaulay,M.D., to the Warrior, vice Spencer ; Surgeon Robert J.M’Cormack. M.D., to the Achilles, vice May ; SurgeonCharles H. Wheeler, to the Espoir; Surgeon Charles E.Geoghegan, to the Indus, additional, vice Wheeler ; Sur-geon Anthony Kidd, to the Terror, vice Nash; SurgeonHerbert M. Nash, to the Dido, vice Kidd.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE METRO-POLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.

AT the meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board onthe Gth inst. Sir E. H. Currie presented the following letteraddressed by the chairman of the General Purposes Com-mittee to the Premier :-

"Sir,-The Royal Commission issued on Nov. 16th, 1881,on the advice of the Government, to inquire respectingsmalt-pox and fever hospitals in the metropolis, having onJuly 21st last presented to Her Majesty an elaborate andexhaustive report, embodying a series of practical recom-mendations as to what accommodation is desirable and whatlegislation is needed to enable the Metropolitan AsylumsI3oard to carry out the important and not very agreeableduties imposed upon them by the Legislature, the managers,by a unanimous vote, have directed me very earnestly toask of you the favour to receive a deputation from the Gene-ral Purposes Committee of the managers, with a view totheir explaining the difficulties which prevent the managersfrom performing the duties imposed upon them by Parlia-ment, or from carrying out the recommendations of theCommissioners. In support of this application I have beendesired to state-

"(If) That during the greater part of the twelve yearswhich have elapsed since the constitution of the Metro-politan Asylums Board, under the Metropolitan Poor Act oflSG7, the managers have been persistently harassed and im-peded; and have incurred heavy costs, on behalf of the rate-payers, in the performance of their duties, by legal pro-ceedings, followed in some instances by injunction, and bythreats of proceedings whenever and wherever they have en-deavoured to carry out the intentions of the Act by pro-viding hospital accommodation for the infectious sick poor,and that at the present time legal proceedings are beingpressed in respect to at least two of the hospitals under theircontrol.

’4 1,,) That although the Act under which this Board wasconstituted clearly defines the duties which the managersare expected to perform, yet it does not afford them any pro-tection against adverse actions at law.

" f’) That the great majority of the several metropolitanve-trie’ and district boards of works having failed to pro-side the necessary accommodation for the treatment of thenon-pauper infectious sick, the care of this class, as well asof the pauper class, has practically devolved upon themanagers; and the invariable consequence has been that

during epidemic periods the accommodation at the managers’disposal has been altogether inadequate.

" (d) That recent and urgent representations to the LocalGovernment Board as to the necessity of further and promptlegislation had only resulted in the very unsatisfactory an-nouncement that, while sympathising fully with the diffi-culties of the position in which the managers found them.selves placed, the Local Government Board must at presentanswer to this, as to similar questions on other subjects,that the Government could not at the present time under-take to state what measures they may be able to bring for-ward during the next session of Parliament.

" (e) The managers are aware of the numerous and press-ing demands upon your time, but they nevertheless respect-fully submit that in their judgment it is impossible toconceive any questions more pressing, or requiring moreimmediate consideration, or more likely to be fraught withserious and complicated consequences than those which theydesire to have dealt with, questions which affect not onlythe health and lives of a large portion of the population-namely, the population of the metropolis-but also, in-directly, the lives and health of the community at large."At the same meeting, on the motion of Sir Edmund

Currie, it was agreed that the infectious hospitals of themetropolis should be known by the initials of the postaldivisions of the metropolis in place of being known by thename of the localities, so that the names of " Hampstead,""Stockwell," "Fulham," "Homerton," and "Deptford" "will be dropped out of the Board’s nomenclature of hos-pitals. This course was adopted to meet the objections ofproperty owners and others.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

THE will and two codicils of William Alexander Anderson,M.D., of Wilton Lodge, Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, whodied on Oct. 22nd last, were proved on the 14th ult. byMr. Charles Bettesworth Hellard and Mr. Daniel Ball, thesurviving executors, the value of the personal estate exceed-ing £38,000. The testator leaves to his wife, Mrs. CharlotteElizabeth Anderson, his residence, with the furniture andeffects, an immediate legacy of £200, a further sum of £3000,and i900 per annum for life; and there are some other

legacies. The residue of his property is to be held upontrust for his nephews and nieces, the children of his. sisters,Mrs. Hellard, Mrs. Burnes, and Mrs. Cantor.The will and two codicils of Sir James Alderson, M.D.,

F.R.S., D.C.L., of 17, Berkeley - square, who died on

Sept. 13th last, were proved on the llth ult. by Mr. VincentThomas Thompson and Colonel Henry James Alderson, thenephews, the surviving executors, the value of the personalestate amounting to over .615,000. The testator, amongstother legacies, gives the piece of plate, presented to him as atestimonial on his leaving Hull, to his nephew, ColonelH. J. Alderson, to be made a heirloom in his family. As tothe residue of his property, he leaves one-third to his saidnephew, one-third to the children of his sister, Mrs. MargaretThompson, and one-third to the children of his brotherChristopher Richard Alderson.The will and two codicils of Samuel Newington, M.R.C.P.,

of Ticehurst, Sussex, who died on July 3rd last, were provedon the 19th ult. by Mr. Campbell Newington and Mr.Theodore Newington, the sons, Mr. F. W. Aitkins, and theRev. A. G. P. Humfrey, the acting executors, the value ofthe personal estate exceeding £10,000. The legatees underthe will are the testator’s wife and children.The will of Amerly Allcock, M.R.C.S., of Dudley-road,

Smethwick, Staffordshire, who died on Nov. 14th last, wasproved on the 4th ult. at the Lichfield District Registry byMr. Egerton Allcock, the nephew, the surviving executor,the value of the personal estate amounting to £9600. Thetestator leaves his residence, with the furniture and effects,to his nephew, Egerton Allcock; one-half of the residue ofhis real and personal estate to his niece, Ann Maude Jennings,and the remaining half to his nephew, Charles EgertonJennings.

. The following legacies have recently been left to hospitals, and other medical charities :-Mr. Peter Walker, of Wrex-, ham and Liverpool, brewer, ;f500 to the Wrexham Infirmary.t —Mrs. Eleanor Baily, of Elm House, Ellison-road, Barnes,