of the book the proper extracts to support them | tions on my trunks, and questioning not only my fully would occupy more space than we can spare; servant but myself also, my name and purpose had but here is one.

A CLERGYMAN'S DUTY IN A COLONY.

been successfully made out before I had been an hour in their company. I was far from being sorry for this, as I received from them the most

“On one occasion I was called upon one Satur-marked and flattering attentions. day morning, I well remember it yet, to marry a couple at a settlement fifteen miles off. I started very early, and got back about five o'clock in the evening, weary and almost worn out, more by the excessive heat than by the length of the journey; and was very thankful to return to my comfortable home. But on giving my horse, which was about as tired as myself, to my servant, I was informed that a man was waiting for me, and had been for several hours, to go with him twenty-five miles to see his wife, who was thought to be at the very point of death. I directed my servant to give the man his dinner, and got my own; and then immediately set off with him on a fresh horse, and arrived at my journey's end about ten o'clock at night. I found the poor woman very ill, worse indeed than she had been represented to be. I sat up and talked and prayed with her, or read to her, till four o'clock in the morning; when her happy spirit ascended to Him who gave it.

"I thought at first, that, as far as good society was concerned, I had fallen on my feet:' but, alas! my judge turned out to be a petty shopkeeper, a doler out of drams to the drunken raftsmen; the magistrate, an old rebel soldier of the United States, living upon a pension of 201. a year from that government as the reward of his treason, and at the same time holding a commission of the peace under the one against which he had successfully fought. The colonel, the most respectable of my dignified companions, had been a sergeant in the regiment, and was now living upon his pension of a shilling a day; and to complete my catalogue, the major was the jolly landlord of a paltry village tavern."

"I then threw myself on a sofa, which I found in an adjoining room, for an hour or two; and starting again for home, got there in time to take a hasty breakfast, and to dress for church, at eleven.

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Morning service over, I rode nine miles to one of my outposts, for evening service; and then home once more.

"I was up early the next morning, in order to be off in time for the poor woman's funeral, which was to be at ten o'clock, by my own appointment. As I mounted my horse, my servant, a raw but well-meaning Irish lad, said to me- An is 't off agin ye are? Sure an the horses 'll be kilt, if the maister hisself is n't.'

I cannot help it, John,' I replied; I must

COLONIAL POVERTY.

"The people belonging to the church, although more numerous than those of any other single denomination, were still very few and the first time I administered the holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper, I had only nine communicants. They were also very poor, as new settlers generally are; and this was comparatively, with the exception of the small village, a new settlement; and yet, strange as it may appear to a dweller in the old country, they were all well off in the world. They had all the necessaries and comforts of life at their command, and even some of the luxuries: still they were poor, as far as the ability to pay money was concerned; they had it not, neither could they obtain it without great exertions, and still greater sacrifices; and nothing else would build the church. Some of the work, it is true, could be done by themselves; and they willingly and freely did it."

“ ́ Well, well!' he rejoined ; ' I never seen the likes o' this afore! But there's no rest for the THE Annual Meeting of the members of the wicked, I see.' London Library took place, some days since, at "I cast upon him a searching look, to ascertain their new mansion in St. James' square,-the whether his remark was to be imputed to imperti- Earl of Clarendon in the chair. It appeared, from nence but the simple expression of commisera-the report, that this institution is fast progressing tion on his countenance at once convinced me that

he meant no harm.

"I pushed on, for fear of being too late, to meet the funeral at the burial-ground, about three miles from the house of mourning. I was there far too soon, and had to wait several hours. There is an unwillingness on such occasions to be punctual arising, I am inclined to believe, from the fear of being guilty of an undue and disrespectful haste 'to bury their dead out of their sight.'

"It was late in the evening when I got home; and, what with the fatigue and the heat of the weather, and the want of rest, I was fairly worn out, and so ill as to be obliged to keep my room for three days."

CURIOSITY AND GOOD COMPANY.

in public favor. The plan (which includes the lending of the best books in every language at the homes of the subscribers, and some of these the most rare editions of standard works and books of the highest price, for the small annual subscription of 27. with an entrance fee of 61.,) has obtained such success, that, independently of the presents made by his royal highness Prince Albert and others, there have been expended upwards of 75001. in the purchase of books. The library already contains upwards of 10,000 volumes.

AMONG the public works in Ireland about to be immediately commenced, for the purpose of furnishing labor to the poor, we observe that preparations are making for the erection of the new college in Galway, on the site selected, and approved "I had for fellow passengers a country judge by the Board of Works. The design is described of the Court of Requests, a magistrate, and a as being that of a splendid edifice--of the architeccolonel and major of militia, all belonging to and tural style of Henry the Eighth's time-well residing in my intended mission. Through the adapted to the accidental resources of the locality, indefatigable exertions of some or all of these titled which abounds in limestone of the very best gentry, in examining the partially-defaced direc- quality.

From Chambers' Journal.
JENNER AND VACCINATION.

us." Such were the fatal effects of a disease de-
scribed by Sir Matthew Hale, even in those who
recovered, as "the very next degree to absolute
rottenness, putrefaction, and death itself."

No more fatal or formidable disease has ever The world was in this distressing condition when Scourged the human race than one-now happily becoming the subject for history-the small-pox. a remedy at once mild, harmless, and effectual, Authoritative evidence has of late years been ad- first attracted the attention of Jenner, then a young duced to show that it existed in the Mosaic period, man pursuing his studies under a practitioner at and in China it has been known from the earliest Sodbury, in Gloucestershire; where the subject ages. Most of the fearful plagues which from of small-pox being in the presence of a country time to time, on various portions of the earth's sur- girl who came for advice, she exclaimed, "I canface, have swept myriads into untimely graves, not take that disease, for I have had cow-pox." were no other than devastating visitations of this "This incident rivetted the attention of Jenner. dreaded disease; and even pursuing its ordinary ❘ It was the first time that the popular notion, which course, it carried off one in fourteen of all that was not at all uncommon in the district, had been were born. In Ceylon, whenever it broke out, brought home to him with force and influence. entire villages were abandoned; and in Thibet, on Most happily, the impression then made was never one occasion, the capital was deserted for three effaced. Young as he was, and insufficiently acwhole years. In the Russian empire, two millions quainted with any of the laws of physiology or paof human beings died of small-pox in twelve thology, he dwelt with deep interest on the commonths. Bernouilli calculated that fifteen millions munication which had been casually made to him fell victims to it every twenty-five years, taking by a peasant, and partly foresaw the vast consethe whole world, or six hundred thousand annu- quences involved in so remarkable a phenomeally, of which number not less than two hundred non."* Possessing much patience and firmness and ten thousand were estimated for Europe alone. of purpose, Jenner was willing to wait the fruition And to come down to more recent times, the read- of his ideas; and contented himself at first with ers of Mr. Catlin's work on the Indians of North speaking of the prophylactic virtues of the cow-pox America will remember the terrible accounts of the among his friends, which he recommended them to destruction of whole tribes by this deadly malady. investigate. But they treated it as an idle notion; Regarded as inevitable, it came also to be consid- and as he persisted in bringing it before them, they ered as irremediable, and the world submitted to threatened to expel him from their society, "if its ravages as a calamity of fate. In 1714, Dr. he continued to harass them with so unprofitable a Timoni of Constantinople published a work on the subject." His firmness of purpose came to his subject; and to the good sense, courage, and influ- aid; he persevered in his inquiries. It was conence of Lady M. W. Montagu, who caused her tinually urged, in reply to his assertions, "The son to be inoculated in the Turkish capital by Mr. evidence is altogether so inconclusive and unsatisMaitland, surgeon to the embassy, England is in- factory, that we put no value on it, and cannot His opinions, in many indebted for the counteracting practice. In 1722, think that it will lead to anything but uncertainty her daughter was inoculated in this country by the and disappointment." same gentleman; and the method was generally stances, met with abhorrence and contempt, and adopted until 1740, when it had fallen nearly into were treated with general indifference. Jenner was fortunate in possessing the frienddisuse; but favorable accounts coming from abroad, it was again revived; and, to propagate the saluta- ship of the celebrated John Hunter, under whom ry modification, the then Princess of Wales caused he had studied in London, and to whom he comtwo of her daughters to be inoculated. The new municated his views. The reply of the great anatremedy, however, met with great opposition. omist supported and stimulated his courageSome denounced it as an attempt, "at once impi-"Don't think, but try; be patient, be accurate." ous and unavailing, to counteract the visitations of He knew how to wait. In 1775, his ideas and prosan all-wise Providence;" asserting that, in the pects began to assume a definite form: he foresaw case of adults who voluntarily submitted them- something of the great work before him. To one selves to it, the crime was that of suicide; but in of his friends, to whom he had explained his theoHe vaccinrespect to children, "it was horrid murder of the ry, he said, "I have intrusted a most important little unoffending innocents." It was anathema- matter to you, which I firmly believe will prove of tized from the pulpits as an invention of Satan, and essential benefit to the human race." its "abettors" as sorcerers and atheists. A cler- ated his own son on three different occasions. gyman of London, named Massey, declared that it Many years, however, elapsed before he had an course of which a formidable obstacle was encounwas no new art, as Job had been inoculated by the opportunity of completing his experiments, in the devil. tered: he found that cow-pox was not, in every case, an effectual preventative of the small-pox. This led him to discover the true from the spurious vaccine matter; of which the former alone produces any specific action on the constitution. Though this disappointed, it did not discourage him. He investigated the facts, and arrived at last at the true explanation. He talked of it;

Owing to the careless practice of the time, there was some show of right in the opposition. The infected were not kept separate from others; and as inoculation always produced the true disease in its usual infectious form, it became more widely disseminated, and the mortality frightfully increased. In the year 1800, it broke out no less than twenty times in the Channel fleet alone; and the records of the Asylum for the Indigent Blind showed that three fourths of those relieved lost their sight from small-pox. Its victims in Great Britain amounted to forty-five thousand annually; and the celebrated La Condamine, pleading for the adoption of a remedy in France, said, "La petite vérole nous décime"-"The small-pox decimates

In after-life, Jenner was accustomed to relate an anecdote of the days of Charles II. Some one telling the beautiful Duchess of Cleveland that she would soon depox, then raging in London, she replied there was no plore the loss of her beauty from the effects of the smallground for fear, as in her own country she had undergone an attack of the cow-pox, which was a preservative.

wrote of it to his friends; and it was mentioned in the emperor and king," became "rude, and truly London in 1788 by medical professors in their lec- imperious," in proportion as his arguments were confuted. We are informed that "he knew no

tures.

In 1798, he published the result of his observa- more of the real nature of cow-pox than Master tions in a quarto of about seventy pages, in which Selwin did of Greek." But, said Jenner, writing he gave details of twenty-three cases of successful to a friend, "Tis no use to shoot straws at an vaccination on individuals, to whom it was after- eagle. ** My friends must not desert me now: wards found to be impossible to communicate the brick-bats and hostile weapons of every sort are small-pox either by contagion or inoculation. After flying thick around me. * My experiments weighing every sentence with the greatest care, it move on, but I have all to do single-handed." In was submitted to the judgment of his friends. The a subsequent letter to Ingenhousz, he explains, work is interspersed with remarks on the identity" Ere I proceed, let me be permitted to observe of the matter in the cow, and in the heels of the that truth in this and every other physiological inhorse, when suffering from the disease known as quiry that has occupied my attention, has ever "grease" and concludes, "Thus far have I pro- been the first object of my pursuit; and should it ceeded in an inquiry founded, as it must appear, appear, in the present instance, that I have been on the basis of an experiment in which, however, led into error, fond as I may appear of the offspring conjecture has been occasionally admitted, in order of my labors, I had rather see it perish at once, to present to persons well situated for such discus- than exist and do a public injury.' sions objects for a more minute investigation. In the mean time, I shall myself continue to prosecute this inquiry, encouraged by the hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind."

Many eminent professional men now appeared to favor his views, while others received them with derision and distrust. Some doubted all the facts and reasons adduced in his “Inquiry;" a second The publication of this work, so- modestly and party denied the merit of bringing forward a fact temperately written, immediately excited the great- which had been long known in obscure places in est attention. In the same year the author had the country; a third affirmed that everything reoccasion to visit London, where, during his stay lating to it had yet to be discovered; and a fourth, of nearly three months, he could not meet with a that the discoverer's opinions were worth nothing single person willing to come forward to test the-that he had originally obtained the vaccine virus experiment. Mr. Cline, however, afterwards tried from another practitioner; and, even admitting his the vaccine matter, and proved that, when it had reasons, the protective powers of the new remedy gone through the system, it was impossible to com- would be lost after the lapse of four years. The municate small-pox to the same person. Two declared enemies to the practice were less fatal to ladies, whose names are deserving of record-its success than its pretended friends: the latter Lady Ducie, and the Countess of Berkeley-broke had a professional status, which lent authority to through the prejudices of the day, and caused their their statements, that imposed on the unthinking children to be vaccinated. The countenance and part of the community. Experiments were made cooperation of the higher classes of London were at the Small-pox Hospital in London, which proved in great part secured by the instrumentality of Mr. most disastrous to the infant cause; as, from want Knight, inspector-general of military hospitals: of care, the true variolous matter, as Jenner exand it appeared that females were most conspicu- pressed it, was "contaminated" with small-pox, ous in the good work; arising, probably, from and differed in effect but very slightly from the their natural anxiety as mothers for the safety of real disease. This drew upon him the indignation their offspring. Lady Peyton urged the profes- of the metropolitan practitioners: who, however, sional men in her neighborhood to adopt the prac-as it was afterwards established, had been actually tice. In the following year the children of the disseminating the tainted matter over many parts Duke of Clarence, then residing at Bushy, were of England and the continent. vaccinated; and a feeling began to spread in favor of the protective remedy.

Jenner watched for the realization of his hopes. The happiness appeared to be his "of removing, from among the list of human diseases, one of the most mortal that ever scourged our race. But the opposition was brewing; and first, after the publication of his "Inquiry," came that of Dr. Ingenhous-a name celebrated in medical and scientific history. He was on a visit to Lord Lansdowne at his seat in Wiltshire, when, hearing of a case of small-pox in a man who had previously caught the cow-pox while milking at a dairy, he wrote to Jenner, pointing out the mischief his doctrine would cause, "should it prove erroneous. Jenner replied temperately and conclusively; but his opponent, who signed himself "physician to

* An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccina; a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the Cow-pox.

In 1799, Dr. Woodville, a physician of London, published a report throwing doubts on the real efficacy of vaccination, which tended to check the high expectations that had been formed of it. Another member of the medical profession, Dr. Pearson, lectured on the subject, and issued circulars, offering to distribute the matter to all who applied; thus constituting himself the chief promoter of the new method, to the prejudice of the discoverer, to whom his nephew wrote, "All your friends agree that now is your time to establish your fame and fortune: but if you delay taking a personal active part any longer, the opportunity will be lost forever." It had been intimated to Jenner, that if he would settle in London, he might command a practice of £10,000 per annum. He observes, in his reply, "Shall I, who, even in the morning of my days, sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life-the valley, and not the mountain-shall I, now my evening is fast approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame?"

But the good cause continued to make progress. It is now known "that there are at least four animals Its author, in a letter written to the Princess Lou-namely, the horse, the cow, the sheep, and the goat-isa at Berlin, in December of the same year, states which are affected with a disorder communicable to man, and capable of securing him from what appears to be a that 5000 persons had then been vaccinated, and malignant form of the same disease." afterwards exposed to the contagion of small-pox;

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In 1801, the vaccine was sent from Breslau to but without any ill effect. Lord Egremont took great pains, in a correspondence with Jenner, to Moscow, where the empress-dowager "zealously clear up the anomaly arising from impure vaccina-promoted the new practice," and desired that the She sent a tion at Petworth, where he took all the patients, name of Vaccinoff should be given to the first fourteen in number, into his mansion, to prevent infant-a female-submitted to it. the spread of the disease. This nobleman subse-diamond ring to Jenner, with a letter signed by quently became one of the most zealous promoters her own hand, expressive of "her gratitude to of the new method.

him who rendered this signal service to humanity."
Jenner replied, that the imperial favor was not for
him alone; "it will be felt by the whole world;
for sanctions like these will materially tend to ex-
tinguish prejudice." In Denmark and Sweden, so
effectual were the measures taken for the propa-
gation of the antidote, that the small-pox was ex-
tirpated, and did not return for twenty years; and
in Wirtemburg, penalties were exacted from all
those who neglected vaccination.

Notwithstanding the violent and unscrupulous opposition manifested in many quarters, the new cause made progress. In this same year attempts were made to form vaccine institutions for gratuitous vaccination, in which Bath took the lead, followed soon after by London. At the head of the latter was Dr. Pearson, of whom mention has been already made. He arrogated to himself all the honors and advantages as head of the establishJenner himself offered one thousand guineas ment; and, following his "rule of doing justice," as he stated in a letter to Jenner, had reserved for towards fitting out a ship to convey the vaccine to Asia, when it had been delayed by the parsimony him the honor of" extra-corresponding physician. Jenner declined the offered dignity, and wrote to of the government. It reached the East Indies in Lord Egremont his objections to the plan proposed 1801; and the physicians at Bombay corresponded by Dr. Pearson-the man who had denied and dis- with the discoverer on the subject. The coöperatorted his experiments-and declared firmly against tion of the Brahmins, and the favor of the natives, any compromise or contradiction of his own views. were secured by a trick. A short poem was writAlthough a fierce war was then raging, the fame ten in Sanscrit, on old paper, purporting to be of of the new remedy found its way to the continent. great antiquity, and to have been early known in Drs. Odier and Peschin of Geneva wrote and lec- the country, in which the remedy was recommendtured on the subject: and in the two following ed; and appealed directly to the religious feelings years 1500 persons were vaccinated in that city. of the natives, as the "wonderful preventive" was It was known in America before it had been heard said to have been originally derived from a cow. of in Paris. Dr. Waterhouse of Massachusetts It was carried to Africa by way of the Mediterrafirst made the American public acquainted with it, nean; and in 1802, Lord and Lady Elgin, being through the medium of the newspapers, as "Some-then on a tour, successfully introduced it into The president Turkey, Greece, and the Ionian Islands. The thing Curious in the Medical Line.' Jefferson, with his sons-in-law, vaccinated nearly matter was sent overland to Bagdad, on lint setwo hundred persons among their own connexions. cured between glass closely sealed, and dipped in At the same time it reached our colony of New- melted wax until it became covered by a solid ball, then packed in a box with paper shavings. It foundland. arrived safe, and succeeded at the first trial. In other instances, the matter was found to be efficacious after twice crossing the Atlantic, and retained its virtues during a tedious mission through the remotest provinces of the Russian empire to the borders of China.

Soon after, a vaccine institution was opened in Paris, superintended by committees appointed to obtain precise information, through whose labors the salutary remedy was made known throughout France. The Spanish government, in 1800, took up the question with extraordinary zeal, and fitted out an expedition to convey vaccination to their In 1801, a mission South American colonies. was sent to carry it to Gibraltar and Malta; and in the same year Dr. Walker accompanied Sir Ralph Abercromby's forces to Egypt, and vaccinated great numbers of the troops. It was also introduced at Palermo, where, in the preceding year, 8000 persons had died of small-pox; and into our vessels of war by Dr. Trotter, physician to the fleet, who said, in one of his letters, "The Jennerian inoculation will be deservedly recorded as one of the greatest blessings to the navy of Great Britain that was ever extended to it." It was eagerly welcomed in Germany and the successful vaccination of Princess Louisa caused its effective introduction into Prussia, the result of which was, the foundation of a Royal Inoculation Institute at Berlin. In Vienna, the use of the new remedy was at first forbidden, having been confounded with small-pox inoculation: the restrictions were, however, soon removed, and some of the most successful experiments performed in that city. At Brunn, in Moravia, a philanthropic nobleman, Count Hugh de Salm, exerted himself, by the distributing of rewards and treatises, to disseminate the practice in that part of the empire. A temple was erected and dedicated to Jenner, in which his birthday is still annually celebrated.

The progress of the "extirpator" was such, that in 1802 it was stated, in evidence before a committee of the house of commons, that 2,000,000 of persons had then been vaccinated, of whom not one had died of the affection. These numbers were, however, but a small proportion of what they might have been, had the practice of vaccination been allowed to have free course-unopposed by ignorance, prejudice, or selfishness. Though there were many to do justice to the immortal discovery, yet a host of others, on very slender grounds, raised a fierce and clamorous opposition. Few even of its friends took the pains to make themselves well acquainted with the principles of the new method. A "faction" of physicians got up a spirited opposition in the papal states, and reported that vaccination had been forbidden and abandoned in England. The most ridiculous and absurd reports were published. A lady complained that, since her daughter was vaccinated, "she coughs like a cow, and has grown hairy all over her body;" and in one part of the country the practice was discontinued, because those who had been inoculated in that manner bellowed like A Mr. Gooch of Suffolk had, with his bulls." wife, vaccinated 611 patients, of which he observes "In spite of all ignorant prejudice, and wilful misrepresentations, this wonderful discovery is

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spreading far and wide in this county. The first nations of antiquity would have raised altars to people we inoculated in Hadleigh were absolutely Jenner's memory, or, stamped his effigy on their pelted, and driven into their houses if they appeared out."

The same arguments that had been used nearly a century earlier against small-pox inoculation, were directed against vaccination; while, in Switzerland, pastors were recommending it from their pulpits, the most uncompromising hostility was shown in other places. Ehrmann of Frankfort undertook to prove from Scripture, and the writings of the fathers, that "vaccine was nothing less than Antichrist." Sermons, abounding in invective, were preached against it. The leading physician of Philadelphia pronounced it to be "too beastly and indelicate for polished society." In later years, the celebrated Cobbett also denounced it, in his sledge-hammer style, as "beastly," and unfit for adoption.

Dr. Rowley, a physician of London, was perhaps more violent in his attacks than any other opponent; and his work is so far useful, as it gives us the sum of the arguments used against vaccination, and shows at the same time to what extreme lengths individuals may be carried by passion and prejudice. The doctor set himself up as the hero of anti-vaccination; for which he formed a society to examine all cases of failures, and of small-pox after vaccination, which he condemned as a 66 greasy, horse-heeled project. The sooner cow-pox infatuation is abandoned in toto, so much the better for society. The world has been viper-broth mad-tar water mad-magnetism mad-cow-pox mad. **Cow-pox devastation-all supported by ignorance, knavery, folly, and false faith. Those will be considered the greatest enemies to society who longest persist in spreading the criminal and murderous evil. Chase from their houses all who propose vaccina

coins-as was the case in some of the states of Greece, and was done by the citizens of Cos in honor of their countryman Hippocrates. Cuvier said, "If vaccine were the only discovery of the epoch, it would serve to render it illustrious forever."

Part of Jenner's reward was in the letters he received from all quarters of the world, filled with expressions of grateful reverence, and anticipations of the benefits of his discovery. His case was brought before parliament, and, not without opposition, the sum of 30,000l. was voted to him in two grants. It was proved that, had he kept vaccination a secret, he might have made 20,0007. a year; but he worked not for himself. The chancellor of the exchequer said of it, during the debate, that it was "the greatest, or one of the most important, discoveries to human society that was made since the creation of man.'

But far greater the reward, in the consciousness that he had saved to the world millions of lives, and secured humanity from its deadliest destroyer. It is not what we undertake, but what we accomplish and confirm, that constitutes glory. Jenner died with the title of benefactor to his kind. In the words of his friend Dr. Lettsom, "His claim is that of having multiplied the human race, and happily invoked the goddess of health to arrest the arm that scatters pestilence and death over the creation." His is one of those English names with which intelligent foreigners are, as might be expected, most familiar. Often have such persons, taken to Westminster Abbey, and told that it is devoted to the names of our great men, asked for the monument of Jenner. Strange to say, while much military prowess, now of little account, is there recorded, this truly great and memorable Glaring tyranny, to force vaccination man is without his stone, and likely long to remain on the poor. The world did not require cow-so. pox: the cow-pox was forced into the world. Earth trembled! and Heaven profusely shed tears.

tion.

AMONGST French gossip, we may mention, that

The most excellent physicians are always the Minister of Public Instruction has sent M. modest, candid, and unassuming;" whilst vaccina- Alexandre, one of the Inspectors-General of the tors are "infatuated visionists," who pursue an University, to Greece, to examine into the best "irrational and destructive practice. Wild, light-means for facilitating the study of Modern Greek headed adherents, who have distinguished them-in the royal colleges of France. It is intended, selves by ignorance.' The doctor appears to too, to found an establishment at Athens, to which have exhausted the vocabulary to find terms for a certain number of pupils of the normal schools the expression of his abuse, which was not unare to be sent, with a view to the same acquisition. productive of evil. It was proved that, although WE find it stated, in a French scientific paper, vaccination was performed gratuitously at the that Siberia contains gold in such abundance, that Bloomsbury dispensary, yet not a single person its discovery is likely to produce a financial revoluapplied during several months of the year 1806. tion in Europe similar to that which took place on An able reply was published by a surgeon named the discovery of Peru. In the period of the last Blair, who turned the doctor's weapons upon himself, in a pamphlet whose title was quoted from one of his learned opponent's fiery paragraphs: it was entitled "The Vaccination Contest; or Mild Humanity, Reason, Religion, and Truth, against fierce, unfeeling Ferocity, overbearing Insolence, mortified Pride, and Desperation."

fourteen years, the produce of the gold mines in that country is said to have doubled. Eleven thousand persons are daily employed in washing the mineral; and three times the number could be so occupied if the hands could be found. Nothing but this want of laborers, adds our authority, prevents the markets of Europe from being filled with the gold of this rich deposit.—Athenæum.

The attacks on the invaluable discovery were, at the same time, vigorously carried on in other TO BE SOLD, (a great bargain, in consequence quarters. We should be at a loss to understand of the Corn Law Bill passing,) THE BRITISH LION, the motives of so much hostility, did we not see the proprietors having no further use for him. something of the kind in our own day, in the He would stuff well as a curiosity. His tail sneers occasionally bestowed on novel matters of would be invaluable to a young member who science. The cause, however, triumphed. Ribald- wishes to come out in the comic line, à la Sibry, scorn, and abuse have dwindled down to a mere thorpe or D'Israeli, on account of its waggish proecho, and are scarcely or never heard. The glory pensities. For terms, apply at the Agricultural of a great man is ever attended by envy. The Protection Office, New Bond Street.-Punch.