The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

Dr. Castle writes to the Boston Medical aid Sur-
gical Jourtesa:—An interesting young lady about 17 years
of age had presented to her a gold ring, which she forced
over the joints of bet middle finger. After • few minutes
the finger commeseed swelling, and the ring could sot be '
removed. The family phyucsan was sant for, bat could do
nothing. The family, and t►e young lady especially, were
now in the greatest scesternatioa. A jeweller wee seat for.
After many (lode attempts to eat the ring with cutting-
nippers, and to saw it apart with a Sae saw, and after
bruisint; and lacerating the 8,03, warm fomentation. and
leeches were applied, but without affording the slightest
benefit. . . .

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presence was required, with the compliment that
"perhaps my mechanical ingenuity might suggest some-
thing." lat once proceeded to the house of the patient,
and found the young lady in a most deplorable state of
mental agony, the doctor entbareasesd, and the family in
a high state of excitement. I procured some prepared
chalk, and applied it between the ridges of swollen flesh,
and all around the linger, and succeeded in drying the
easing and abraded ilesb; then with a narrow piece of
soft linen, I succeeded in polishing the ring, by drawing
it gently round the ring between the swollen parte.
I then applied quicksilver to the whole surface of
the ring. lees than three minutes the ring was broken
(by pressing it together) in four piece., to the great relief
of all parties. In a similar manner (without the chalk) I
some time since extracted a small brass rialt from the ear of
a child, who, child-like, had inserted it into the cavity of
its ear. The operation was more painful and tedious, but
was equally successful. The name operands: the quick-
silver at once permeates the metals, if clean (with the ex-
ception of iron, steel, platina, and one or two others), and
amalgamates with them. It immediately crystalises and
renders the metals as bard and as brittle as glass. Hence
the ease with which metals amalgamated with quicksilver
can be broken.

ST. GEOZOIt's HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL.—
Yesterday the annul distribution of "chola:ships and
prises took place at this school, when the following awards
were made :--Scholarships: Mr. John Bowman Collison,
of Doncaster; Mr. Henry Charles Andrews, of Braboume,
Kest. Sir Charles Clarke's Prize: Mr. Theodore Duke.
Anatomy—Senior Class—Prize, Impales : Mr. Christopher
Bulteel, of Plymouth; Mr. H. W. Bellew, of Plymouth;
Certificate : Mr. P. F. Bellew.—Junior Class—Prize : Mr.
J. B. Collison; Additional Prize: Mr. Allan Douglas
Mackay; Certificates: Mr. Alfred Hunt, Mr. George God-
dard Rogers. Physioloey—Prise : Mr. Christopher Bul-
teel ; Certificate : Mr. H. W. Bellew. Botany—Prise :
Mr. H. Lewis, of London ; Certificate: Mr. E J. Mar-
shall. Chemistry—Prize: Mr. Henry Charles Andrews ;
Certificate: Mr. Albert P. Knight, of London. Practical
Chemistry—Prize : Mr. James Keene, of London ; Certifi-
cates : Mr. P. P. Bellew, Mr. W. H. Bellew. Materia
Medina—Prise; Mr. J. B. Collison; Certificates: Mr.
Henry Charles Andrews, Mr. B. J. Marshall. Medical
Jurisprudence—Prize: Mr. John Hopkins Willis, of Ply-
mouth; Certifleate : Mr. Garland. Midwifery—Prise,
sequales: Mr. William H. Dickinson, of London ; Mr. P.
F. Bellew ; Certificates : Mr H. W. Bellew, Mr. C. Bol-
ted, Mr. F. H. W. Iles, Mr. C. Roberts. Practice of
Physic—Prise: Mr. J. C. Penny; Certificate: Mr. B. C.
Garland. Surgery—Prize : Mr. George Yeates Hunter, of
Margate; Additional Prize, misfiles Mr. Thomas Dun-
can. Mr. J. C. Penny. Certificate : Mr. H. J. Strong.
SHLESHAMPTON.--SISOULAR AND FATAL ACCI-
DLNT.—Last week Mr. Power, of Bristol, with another
gentleman, went down to Shirehampton to dins with a
friend, when the phaeton is which they drove was left is
front of the house with the shafts turned up, the horse
having ben taken off. The carriage having attracted the
attention of a child between two and three years old, the
son of Mr. Heaven, mason, of that place, the little fellow
ed unobserved to play with it, when by some means
Eriigt down the shafts, when the semi-circular iron which
attaches them together, near the carriage, wheeling round,
caught the child by the neck as if in a mousetrap, between
it and the fore-carriage. Here the little fellow was sus-
pended, End actually strangled to deatli before he WAS dis-
covered. No blame can be attached to soy one, as no one
could apprehend such an accident. —Bristol Japer.
A SAILOR SHOT BY HIS CAPTAlN.—Captain Nat-
trom, of the ship Matanzas, was charged on Saturday before 1
the Liverposl magistrates with this crime. The &cure-
stances were these :—At Bahia, on the 26th of June, two
of the crew reftssed to work. The captain called the men
forward, end asked them to heave the anchor. They said
they could ant, as the ship was short-handed. One of the
etenes, George Wake, acted as opoliesman for the men,
and though he said the men would work when the ship got
Ott to Dee, he, on their behalf, refused to heave the anchor,
sad said they would rather die first. The captain urged
them to comply for his sake. Wake said they could not.
The captain then drew a pistol, and exclaiming, "Take
that, thou !" fired at Wake, wounding him on the shoulder.
Wake was removed to a hospital, where he was left in a
dangerous condition. The British consul was informed of
the 'affray, and he dispatched the captain home in the
Yieeount Sandon. Kaman was committed for trial at the
next muse, the magistrates refusing to take bail.