The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-31 00:00:00

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS AND VACANCIP.B.—Dr.
James P. Byrne, L.K.Q.C.P. Irel. M.R.C.S. Eng., and
L.M., has been appointed medical officer, public vacci-
nator, and registrar of birthe, for the Aughrim Dis-
pensary District of the Rathdrum Union, on. Wicklow,
and medical officer to the Aughriin constabulary, vice Mr.
John Kearney, M.R.C.S. Eng deceased. Dr. William W.
Brereton, Incl., has been appointed medical
officer, public vaccinator, and registrar of births, &c., for
the Oughterard Dispensary District, and medical officer to
the workhouse of the Oughterard union, 00. Ordway, vice
Dr. Willis, M.R.C.S. Eng., deceased. There are vacan-
cies for • physician to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham;
for a district surgeon to the Salford and Pendleton Royal
Hospital and Dispensary, laantheeter ; for a medical offi-
cer to St. Leonard's Hospital, Sudbury, Suffolk ; for a
surgeon to the Wakefield House of Correction; for an in-
spector of factories for the district of Peebles ; for a sur-
geon to the county prison, Peebles; for • surgeon to
the county poorhouse, Peebles; for a surgeon to the
Ophthalmic Hospital, St. Oeorw's-eircus, Southwark; for
• house surgeon to the Meeckdield Dispensary ; for a
house surgeon. to the Carnarsonshire and In-
firmary and Diepensary, Bangor ; for a redden*cal
offioer to the Revel Kent Dispensary, Greenwich ; for an
assistant medical officer to the Asylum for Idiots. Earls-
wood, Surrey; for a medical officer to the Dod
No. 2 District of the Woodstock Union; for a =
officer to the Female side of the St. Rifler,' Workhouse;
for a parochial medical officer for Peebles, Eddleeton,
Strobe, and Manor ; for a parochial medical officer for
Rothes, Morayshire ; for a surgeon dentist to the Royal
Pimlico Dispensary; and for a resident dispenser to the
Ripen Dispensary and House of Recovery.
DIVIDED AUTDORITY LE ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-
Tann.—The open space within the realises which surround
the cathedral is in the charge of three bodies. All that
part west of the north and south doors is the property of
the dean and chapter; a second portion running eastward
from the north door to St. Paul's School belongs to the
pariah of St, Faith under St. Paul's ; and the remaiudet
up to the eastern side of the south door to the pariah of
St. Gregory by St. Paul. As to the first part, which
belongs to the dean and chapter, we can only say that it
is in anything but a creditable condition. On one aide we
finds dust heap ; in front a lot of planks, boards, rails,
and poets. It has been suggested that the large space in
front and around Queen Anne'smonument should be laid
out as a garden. It would be better perhaps that the
railings should be removed, and the whole space laid with
paving similar to the promenade in front of the
Royal Exchange. As to the second part, the parish-
ioners of the pariah of St. Faith have wisely re-
solved that it shall no longer. remain a "howling wilder-
ness." A private subscription was entered into, and Mr.
Potter, of Farringdon-street, employed to lay out the
ground. The that promos was to cut down the over-
grown grass, and, strange as it may appear, some bun-
dreds-weight of hay was made in St. Paul's-churchyard.
Several paths have been laid out and gravelled, beds
made, and an avenue of poplars planted, which are " all
doing hell," and the view from the north-east corner of
the churchyard is now a pleasant one. As to the third
portion, which apportaina to the parish of St. Gregory, it
is overgrown with rank grass and foul weeds, and a
winkling of wild flowers. As they are about to repair
their church, perchance the parishioners of St. Gregory ,
may be induced to follow the good example set there by
the neighbouring parish of St. Faith.--City Aass.
ABSINTHE Lanett has analysed a
sample of what it believes to have been the veritable
absinthe Suiree. in order to determine whether the rustily-
ris would throw any light upoi the extraordinary effects
produced by the compound on the human frame, namely,
the high and even delicious excitements, followed by pro-
portionate sitheeiluent depression, with, ultimately, early
decadence of the nervous and vital-powers. The results of
the analysis were as follows :—.Specilic parity, t 902;
alcohol, absolute, ed. 528 per cent., .&,i 28 per 1.000:
green essential oil, -202 per cent.. 2.02 per, L 000: sager,
gum, Cm.. 364 per gone. 2.34 per 1.000 ; mineral matter,
.046 per cent., 1,000 per .de. Two putindere of the
analysis, taken together, go far to explain the highly
injurious and deleterious aeon of abinthe 'upon the
system. First. akohol is present in very large amount
as huge. is tact. in the very strangest brandy.
Second, It contains no lre tine 2 par I,oon ges..of ereenthl
CA,ni Ai aus.-40 is repeated thlt
the Fart of Antic intends to build smuttier memsden CM-
tiguotu to tic site of the fainous eV! ccsfle. and that a
itstinpuisted Eeglish architect has ken down at the
gio.ud taking mtseunment. and levet,. I"ue ediiier will
cost from seventy to eighty thou and 'nand&
New &Kip's from the Paris Exhibition Intl-
he.t. introdoctd Into all branches of the slosh d.partmeat at J.
W. &Taco's. watch and eke* maker to the Primo of Wales, 0!d
Ponn-etroet,Wertboonw,arene. and Loddate-bat See peke 114,
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