There was a gloat reform meeting at Birmingham last night,
the Mayor ia the chair. Mr. Seholefield and Mr. Bright made extensive speeches ; the latter advocating, in his address, the policy of compromise
indicated by him at the London meeting. Making allowance for the exciting effects of a Birmingham as compared with a Metropolitan po- litical atmosphere, Mr. Bright's speech was a tolerably fair development of his London programme.
The Lancet makes public a fact of great interest. Through its columns Professor Owen "announces that he possesses, and is about to publish, a collection of those manuscript works of the illustrious John Hunter which Sir Everard Home, for his owir purposes, destroyed, and which it was feared were lost for ever to the profession." They were preserved, it seems, by Mr. Clift, a former Curator of the Hunterian Museum, who copied the originals.
Vries, the Black Doctor and cancer-curer, is on his trial in Paris for ille- gally practising medicine and obtaining money under false pretences. The examination of the Doctor has afforded amusing illustrations of his shifty genius, and the inquisitorial method of French procedure.
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