Two of the jurymen who tried the action for libel
against Miss Jex Blake have written to the Scotsman to express their great regret at the award of the judge that she should pay the costs (about £600). The result of the award has been, we now learn, to embolden the male students to fresh outrages. Miss Pechey, the young girl who last year gained the position of a medallist in chemistry, writes to the editor of the Scotsman that a knot of young men—gentlemen they can never have been—follow her and her companions in the streets, addressing them by the foulest epithets, and " using medical terms to make the purport of their language more intelligible to me." A lady, "moved by indignation," has already sent Miss Jex Blake £.200 towards a women's hospital, to save women from the attend- ance of such male advisers as these ; and we shall not be surprised to hear that the whole of the £.600 will shortly be subscribed by friends, who will feel that Miss Jex Blake has received in Edin- burgh a very scant measure of justice, not to speak of courtesy.
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