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ROIAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Ineorporstal by Royal Charter).
PATnoruss—fier Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT —Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum-
berland, 8.G., F.R.S.
CIIMRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P.' F.R.S., V.P.
DEP UTY.CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has incurred expenses amount ng to £27,260 on
various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of Eng and,
Scotland, and Ireland.
During the same period .the Lifeboats of the Institution
have een instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the follow-
ing Vessels :
Barque Vermont, of Halifax. U.S. ..
Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon
Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby • • • •
Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis
Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. ••
Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester ..
Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee ..
Schooner Rose, of Lynn •• •• ••
Brig Prodroma, of -tockton ••
Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough •• ••
Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg ..•
Brigantine Hans, of Fredrikshamn
Brig Gloucester, of South Shields ..
Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham •• • •
Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. • •
Schooner Prospeci, 01 I.lcrw;ck .• ••
Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose
Schooner Jane Rnper, of Ulverstone
Brig Pallas, of Shields ..•
.• • •
Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow ..
Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .• ••
Schooner Catherine, of Newry -. • •
Barque Niagara, of Shields .. • •
A Barge of Teignmouth •• •• ••
Brig George and James, of London • •
Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• 4
Coble Honour, of Cullercoats • • •
Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. ••
Barque Oberon, of Liverpool .. • • •
Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .• .. •
Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth
Brig Scotia, of Sunderland ..
Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole ..
Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .• • •
Brig Ann, of Blyth
Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves-
sel and one of the crew) ..
Sloop Hope, of Dublin
Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth ..
Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and
crew) _ .. • • , • • • • .. 4
Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8
Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and
crew) •• .• •• •• •• •• •• 6
Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved Yes-
and crew) .. .• .• 3
Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel an:l. crev.w).
Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives
Fishing-boats of Whitburn
Brig Arethusa, of Blyth •• •• •• •
Schooner Dewl Wyn, of Portmadoe • •
Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris
Schooner William, of Morecambe ..
Smack Gipsy, of Newry • • • •
Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston
Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven
Schooner William, of Liverpool ..
Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown
Brig Providence, of Shields ..
Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle
Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood ,
Barque Guyana, of Glasgow •
Brig Roman Empress, of Shields ..
Brig San Spirid one, of Galaxide
Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna
French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese
Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough
Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater • •
Ship Danube, of Belfast
Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover ..
Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven . • • •
Brig St. Michel, of Marans .. • • • • • .
Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam ..
Barque Druid, of' Sunderland •• • •
Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. •• •• ••
Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon . • •• •• .
Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich
Brig Minerva, of Workington
Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6
Brig Sisters; of hitby .. • • • •
Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm • • • • .. 4
Brig Jane, of North Shields • . • • .. 1(
Brig Trial, of Poole .. • • • • • •
Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. • • • • • •
Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and
crew) .. • • • • • •
Barque Frederick, of Dublin ..
Barge Peace, of London
Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft ..
Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. ..
Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft ..
Barque Undaunted. of Aberdeen .
Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish
Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone ..
Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk ..
Schooner Rook, of Liv, rpool
Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland ..
Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth ..
Schooner Friends, of Lynn ..
Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin ..
STlmriLkColl:illiren' o
ntnwf Owens, Sunderlandof ardig a n
Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda
SMaCK Er, daham, of Liverpool
Sloop William, of Liverpool
Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth
Portuguese Barque Ouz V. ..
Ship %nnie 143, Hooper. of Baltimore, U. 5...
Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester

.. 16
.. 2
- 5
.. 3
.. 9
.. 6
.. 5
- 3

.. 2
~ 8
.. 6

.. 4
.. 8

.. 4
.. 19

.. 2
.. 8
.. 6
.. 5
.. 4

.. 7

.. .. ..134

Total

For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has
voted £2,15g as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It has
also granted re tards mounting to £572 for saving 51,2
-hipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak-
ng t total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during
the last tit o years and a half.

The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society. nd other means, since its formation; is 12,690
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 711 Silver Medals, and
£lB,OOO in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-car► iages, and Boat-houses.
The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts
now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship-
wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at
the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions
the Society has made within the past few years, it has now
One Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man-
agement, 'or the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough
efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely
needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated.

• The Committee grateßilly acknowledge the following Con-
tributions:—
X s.
Her Majesty the Queen annual 60 0 0
A Lady at Leith, per W. G. Slater, Esq.. don. 100 0 0
Clerk. Colonel, R.A. .. annual 1 1 0
Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. . .. don. 25 0 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0
Erle, Lord Chief Justice .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Harvey. Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 3 0 0
Lambton, Messrs. W. H. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0
Lanesborough, the Earl of . .. annual 60 0
Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq of
mMooartiren;RSeivr.Hoenftry,
Salford.
••
Bart. •• •• •• 100 0 0
7dthond.on.
151
15
0 0 00
liobartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. .. anunal 5 0 0
Stirling, Cot Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0
Trench, Lady Helena .. .. don. 30 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
reived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by al the Bankers in the United
Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at
the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Lon-
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Jackson's corps and a column of the enemy, took place in
the immediate vicinity of Boteler's Mill, by which designa-
tion the battle will probably be recorded. It was another
Ball's Bluff affair, as we learn from various sources.
The Lynchburg Republican of yesterday has some inte-
resting details of the battle. It says that on Saturday
morning Gen. Jackson, who still held the north bank of
the Potomac, near Shepherdatown, became aware that a
heavy column, commanded by Burnside, had arrived on the
opposite bank, and was preparing to attack him. General
Jackson concealed his troops as well as possible, so as to
show but a small force, leading the enemy to believe their
capture would be an easy matter. A battery of four pieces
was placed on a hill, in close proximity to the river, but the
artillerists were ordered to fire only one round, and then to
abandon their guns. The ruse had the desire l effect. Four
brigades of the enemy rushed across the river and towards
the guns, when Jackson precipitated his whole force upon
them, as with the power of an avalanche. The enemy were
literally mowed down, and their entire body nearly anni-
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most terrific ever known in so short a space of time. Many
of the poor wretches endeavoured to regain the south bank
of the river, but were slain in the attempt, and we are as-
sured that so great was the number of the dead that the
stream was almost dammed up by their bodies.
About one thousand five hundred prisoners were taken,
and of the whole force, estimated at ten thousand, not more,
it is thought, than two thousand escaped.
Our own losses are represented to be very inconsiderable,
but the extent was not precisely known. It was supposed,
however, that two hundred and fifty, killed, wounded, and
missing, is a large estimate.
Thus has the invincible Stonewall and his brave band
added another imperishable leaf to the already lustrous
chaplet which encircles their brows.

LITERA7 URE.

Les Miserables. By Victor Hugo. Authorised
English Translation, by Lascelles Wraxall. 3
vols. Hurst and Blackett.
Curiosity, long excited in England, respecting
Victor Hugo's master-work will now be gratified.
Thanks to the enterprise of Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett, it now appears in an English dress, and
the translation, executed by Mr. Wraxall, with the
valuable assistance of M. Esquiros, does credit both
to his industry and his skill. The work, as our
readers are doubtless aware, differs in important
respects from an ordinary novel. It is not a mere
tale of passion and event, but is the expression of
the author's matured opinions respecting the im-
portant
social problems of the age, which, from the
position he holds as one of the foremost thinkers of
his time, are entitled to careful attention. As the
title would indicate, the chief characters in the work
are by no means among the higher classes, the prin-
cipal among them being a released convict, named
Jean Valjean. He, a peasant by birth, having lost '
his parents while young, had been brought up by
an elder sister, whom, with her family of seven
children, he, in turn, supported when she lost her
husband. But one hard winter having no work,
and the family no bread, Jean broke a baker's win-
dow, stole a loaf, was taken, and sentenced to five
years in the galleys. Having made various unsuc-
cessful attempts to escape, his term of punishment
had been gradually lengthened till, at the time of
his liberation, in 1815, he had served nineteen years.
e Let us," says the author, " make room for a short
parenthesis. This is the second time that, during
his essays on the penal question, and condemnation
by the law, the author of this book has come across
a loaf as the starting point of the disaster of a des-
tiny. Claude Gueux stole a loaf, and so did Jean
Valjean, and English statistics prove that in Lon-
don four robberies out of five have hunger as their
immediate cause. Jean Valjean entered the Bagne
sobbing and shuddering: he left it stoically. He
entered it in dispair : he came out of it gloomy.
What had taken place in This Soul ? "
On his release he proceeds to a town
in which resided an excellent Bishop called Mon-
seigneur Welcome, to whom, repulsed-from the
inns and famishing with hunger, Valjean appeals
for succour. The good Bishop receives him as a
brother, regales him with the best, brings out his
silver plate in his honour, and gives him a bed.
But nineteen years in the Bagne have borne their
fruit, and the convict, in the night, gets up and
goes off with his benefactor's silver plate. He is
taken, however, by the police, and brought back,
but the Bishop exonerates him by saying that the
things were given him, reproves him for leaving
behind a pair of silver candlesticks, and exhorts
him to employ the money produced by their sale
in becoming an honest man. Valjean, astonished,
departs, but meeting with a little Savoyard boy he
deprives him of a two-franc piece, and, although he
immediately repents this crime, sows the seed of
many future troubles. We are now introduced by
the author to an episode of Paris life, the actors
being four students of the Latin quarter with their
attendant grisettes. These, with the exception of
the youngest, Fantine, call for no especial comment,
but she is one of the prominent characters in the
Earlier part of the story, as her daughter, Cosette, is
in the latter. Deserted by her lover, and having a
child dependent on her for support, she leaves Paris,
having placed Cosette on the road with an inn-
keeper's wife named Thenardier, and proceeds to a
town in which Valjean, who has assumed the name
of Father Madeleine, has set up a manufactory of
imitation jet, by which he has not only enormously
increased the prosperity of the neighbourhood, but
has accumulated a fortune of 600,000 f., notwith-
standing his expenditure of large sums in charitable
undertakings. In this manufactory Fantine gets
employment, but misfortune pursues her; the virtue
of the establishment is indignant that a woman
should be employed who was known to have an
illegitimate child ; she is dismissed, and after part-
ing with her hair and her front teeth to raise money
to supply the extortionate demands of the Thenar-
diers, who had charge of her child, she is forced to
resort to the lowest depths of female degradation.
A brutal jest practised on her by " a householder
and elector," and for which she retaliates, causes
her arrest by Javert, an Inspector of Police,
but Father Madeleine, who is now Mayor,
instead of consigning her to prison, sends her,
notwithstanding Javert's opposition,to his infirmary,
where she dies. This Javert, one of the represen-
tative characters in the book, is thus delineated :
" This man was made up of two very simple and
relatively excellent feelings, but which he almost
rendered bad by exaggerating them—respect for
authority and hatred of rebellion ; and in hie eyes,
robbery, murder, and every crime were only forms
of rebellion. He enveloped in a species of blind
faith everybody in the service of the State, from
the Prime Minister down to the gamekeeper. He
covered with contempt, aversion, and disgust every
one who had once crossed the legal threshold of
evil. He was absolute, and admitted of no excep-
tions ; on one side he said,—' a functionary cannot
be mistaken, a magistrate can do no wrong ;' on
the other he said,—' they are irremediably lost :
no good can come of them.' He fully shared the
opinion of those extreme minds that attribute to
the human law some power of making or verifying
demons, and that place a stye at the bottom of
society. He was stoical, stern, and austere; a sad
dreamer, and humble yet haughty, like all fanatics.
His glance was a gimlet, for it was cold and pierc-
ing.
His whole life was composed
watching and overlooking.s thing
straight line into what is the most
htoisr
He had in
usefulness,
introducedt two
uo
tortuous
words,
the
in the world ; he was conscious of
and was a SPY
had religious respect for his d uties,
to the wretch
as well as another is a priest.
have arrested
who came into his clutches! he woul Woe d
and denounced
his father if escaping fronlPr ban. And he would
have done it with that prison,
his mother had she brokenhe
sort of inner satisfaction
atiWoni,th all this he spent a
self-denial, chastity.
which virtue produc.soes.
life of privation,
He was the implacable deity, the police compre-
hended as the SP°eons
comprehended Sparta,
a pitiless
t ehtn„, a marble-hearted spy,
a Brutus containedli- in. a Vidocq." An inno-
cent
peasant now being arrested in mistake
forV d
aljean and about to be condemne
n, th
finding no other way of saving him,nobly comes

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forward, states that he is the real criminal, and
although he is at first refused credence he so clearly
proves the fact that he is put in the place of the
accused, and is sentenced to the galleys for life.
Previously, hOwever, he had withdrawn his money
from the bankers and had buried it in the forest of
Montfermeil. M. Victor Hugo now makes a digres-
sion and describes the battle of Waterloo, giving
his own account of the reason why the French lost
that memorable day. " Was it possible," he says,
" for Napoleon to win the battle ? We answer
in the negative. Whv ? On account of Wel-
lington, oo account of Bincner? No; on account
of GOD. Bonaparte, victor at Waterloo, did not
harmonize with, the law of the 19th century.
Another series of facts was preparing, in which
Napoleon had no longer a place; the ill will of
events had been display-Ted long previously. It was
time for this vast man to fall; his excessive
weight in human destiny disturbed the balance.
The individual alone was of more account
than the universal group; such plethora of
human vitality concentrated in a single head
—the world mounting to one man's brain—
would be mortal to civilisation if they endured.
The moment had arrived for the incorruptible su-
preme equity to reflect, and it is probable that the
principles and elements on which the regular gra-
vitations of the moral order as of the material order
depend, complained. Streaming blood, overcrowded
graveyards, mothers in tears, are formidable
pleaders. When the earth is suffering from an ex-
cessive burden, there 'are mysterious groans from
the shadow which the abyss hears. Napoleon had
been denounced in infinitude, and his fall was de-
cide?. Waterloo is not a battle but a transforma-
tion of the universe." That his Engliih readers
will agree with him in the opinions he expresses
with regard to this battle is scarcely probable,
nevertheless all must admire the graphic vigour
with which he sketches the main features of the
conflict. To return, however, to the fortunes of
the convict Valjean, now in the Bagne at Toulon.
Having saved the life of one of the crew of the
Orion, who had lost his balance when on the main-
topsail, and, clinging to a rope, was in a position
of extreme peril, Valjean let himself fall
into the water, as if accidentally, and
was supposed to be drowned, but in reality
he seized the opportunity of escaping. His
first proceeding was to rescue Cosette from the
Thenardiers, who persistently illtreated her; and
he then took her to Paris, where, in disguise, and
under an assumed name, he employed his time and
money in doing good. But be is tracked by the
indefatigable Javert, with difficulty makes his
escape, and takes refuge with Casette in the garden
of a convent, where an old acquaintance of his,
whose life he had once saved, was employed, and
through whose influence he is taken as assistant
gardener. Here he remains for several years, till
Cosette approximates to womanhood, when, not
wishing that she should remain there for life, he
leaves, and they once more take a lodging and pur-
sue a career of charity. The author now indulges
in another episode and introduces us to a Gamin
de Paris and to a certain Marius, who afterwards
weds Cosette. The former, Gavroche by name, is
one of the most natural creatures in the book, and
the genus to which he belongs is thus described
"This little being is joyous ; he does not eat every
day, and be goes to the theatre every night, if he
thinks proper. He has no shirt on his body, no shoes

on his feet, and no covering on his head ; he is like
the flies, which have none of these things. He is from

seven to thirteen years of age, lives gregariously,
lodges in the open air, wears an old pair of his
father's trousers, which descend lower than his heels,
an old hat belonging to some other father, which
comes below his ears, and one yellow list brace. Re
runs, watches, begs, kills time, colours pipes, swears
like a fiend, haunts the wino shop, knows thieves,

is intimate with prostitutes, talks slang, sings filthy
songs, and has nothing bad in his heart, for he has
in his soul a pearl—lnnocence; and pearls are not
dissolved by Loud. So long as the man is a child,

GOD desires that he should be innocent. If we
were to ask the enormous city what is this crea-
ture ? It would reply, 'ltis my little one.' " The
" manners and customs" of this eccentric character
are described by M. Victor Hugo, con amore and so
well that no one, we should think, would have cou-

rage enough to touch it after him. We have, then,
after various adventures, in which Marius and Val-
jean take part, a most vivid account of the attempted

revolution in 1832, in which Marius is wounded,
but is rescued by Valjean, who, at imminent risk,
carries him through a sewer, and then surrenders
himself to Javert, whose life he had saved when
recognised as a spy by the defender of the Barri-
cade, and condemned to be shot. Javert, however,
is for once unequal to this occasion; duty commands
him to consign Valjean once more to the galleys ;
admiration of his generosity impels him to leave
him free. Torn by these conflicting emotions his
mind gives way, and he cuts the knot by jumping
into the Seine. Valjean is now relieved from perse.
cution, and Cosette'is married to Marius, but his
conscience impels him to tell the latter his history,
and Marius, not approving his wife's intimacy
with such a character, and unaware that he owed
him his life, discourages his visits. Hurt at this,
and worn out with anxiety and hardships, Val-
jean takes to his bed and dies, though not before
Marius, disabused of his prejudices and suspicions,
has, with Cosette, been to him and sought recon-
ciliation and forgiveness. Such is the meagre out-
line of the main thread of the plot of this very re-
markable novel, which is so rich in both thought
and incident that it would require not one but a
series of articles to du it justice. For the combina-
tion, of dramatic vigour, artistic construction, and
earnestness of purpose, it stands almost alone
among modern French fiction, and the publishers
by producing it in its present form, have conferred
a boon on the reading public, of which, we
should
think, they would not be slow to avail themse.ves.
s

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A WORD ABOUT RINGS.--1.-n
—Pliny tells usthat rings
were originally only put on the third finger, but later on
finger alone
middle
the first and little fingers, so that the n
the little finger,
was left free. Some wore rings only
others kept that finger for the signet.
re their rings on the
of the Greeks, says that they mostly
woof course the left, as
third finger. The hand intended
wasthough the Arabs, as
°Plutarch, speaking
the right is not convenient for rings,
s wear their si -
the left is the less honourable hen Once a Week.
nets on the little finger of the right band.—
iv r ►
LEMAN.—Your little
d always
THE FOREIGN OLD o
anything-tretimvade ad
they are to be found extant at all,
old men abroad live, whenrru se to be subject to the same
ito a prodigious age. ''''sseYthe bodies of the old monks in
I mummifying influenceersy
yellow, very withered, their bones
but they don't die. Take ray
ca:strreammeamciurbear,
wasthe
for instance. I have known Senor,
seem to
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thwevy walk,
friend Extremadura,
That hidalgo knew my papa, and
knowledgefive-and-thirty rr
t ysinyeeearsl .
he has been dead
that the
Id when I was a child nurses used to frighten
Ramon de
ofE
so o I have met him off and on '
with him. in almost every
me
'tat in Europe. Only this summer, drinking tea with
capital
friends, there came a brisk though tremulous little
double knock at the door. " Ecoutez,', cried 'the lady of
the house ; "that surely is Estremadura's knock." Estre-
madura I There was a cry of derisive amazement, Every
body agreed that he had been dead ten years. Somebody
had seen an account of his funeral in the newspapers. But
the door opened, and Estremadura made his appearance.
He was the same as ever. The same yellow face, black
bead-like eyes, innumerable wrinkles, filed grin ; the same
straw hat, grass-green coat, white trousers, and big stick—
his unvarying costume ever since I bad known him. " How
you do ?" was his salutation to me. " Ver well since I saw
you lease?" I had not seen him for 15 years. He chatted
and talked and drank tea. He was asked whence he had
come ? From Rome. Whither he was going ? To Stock-
holm. He was charming ; yet we could not help feeling,
all of us, as though we were sitting in the presence of a
facetious phantom, of a jocular ghost. It was rather a relief
when he skipped away, and was seen no more. I wonder
whether he will ever turn up again. It is clear that Estre-
madura is ninety, if he be a day old ; yet I dare say he will
read the account of my death, if anybody takes the trouble
to advertise that fact in the newspapers, and say, " Aha I
and so he die. Eh I I knew his good papa ver well. "7
Dickens's .411 the Year Round.

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name any one who has more p owerfutteintrititlt4::4.V '
to the improvement of medical science in a.tity ofiti s
branches, or who has more assida ously exerted him-
self to acquire scientific and proh.ssional informa-
tion,ate that and ungrudgingly to dissemin
know-
ledge, than the_ illustrious surgeon v,'hose decease
took place at an early hour on Tuesday morning at
hie residence Broome-park, Betchworth, Surrey.
Certainly no member of the profession hati reached
so high a position, or maintained that dia.tinetinn
for so long a period as the late President ,of the
Royal Sociefy,—fol Sir Benjamin Brodie w is the
first surgeon upon whom thiollonour had been con-
ferred.

The subject of this short and imperfect notice ?tag:
the third son of the Rev. P. B. 13rodie, Rector of
Wiaterslow. an infinfotial rucgistrate and deputy-
lieutenant of South -417 i hs, and of Sarah, dun:litter
Of Benjmin Collins. 01- w-r iii
bury, in w hie!. City a bl,,t Ike; Ot ti t' (4,A't
weal-known bunker and late Par,i-amcntaty e--
sentative, now resides. Sir .Benjamin was born on.
the 9th of June, 1783, and consequently at the time
of his decease was in his 80th year. After ecquir -
ing a sound preliminary education under the pa-.
ternal roof. to which he often said he was mainly
indebted for the success he has since met with, he
was placed under the care of Messrs. Wilson and
Thomas. These distinguished surgeons (the latter
of whom became President of the Royal College of
Surgeons) were at that time engaged in teaching
anatomy at the Hunterian School in Great Wind-
-oG3ehoergbee,s-cmaimlle-sttrheeetpu(npoiwl
cmaimlle-sttrheeetpu(npoiwl
oaf psriinr tEing-Hoffionicee.?
atinSltB.
Hospital, where he was observed as a most industri-
ous, hard-working student, and, as a result of this ap-
plication, .was enabled to pass his examinations, and
become a member 3f the College on the 18th October,
1805 ; immediately after which he began to assist
Mr. Wilson as Demonstrator of Anatomy, and
continued in this office until nop, when he
was associated with his. former master as lecturer
on this subject. In 1808, when only 25 years of
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and nte d h a ads sl tt spurt;
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Sir Everard Home's patients in ;Ahat institution, as
well as for some years those of Mr. Gunning, then
absent with the Duke of Wellington's army in
Spain. In 1810 he was elected Croonian Lecturer
to the Royal Society, the subject of his discourse
being " The Influence of the Brain in the Genera-
tion of Animal Heat." He continued his inquiries,
and laid before the society an elaborate paper on the
subject, and was rewarded with the Fellowship, and
in the following year received the Copley prize from
the same learned society.
It was not until 1822—an unusually long period
to have acted as assistant—that Sir Benjamin was
elected full surgeon, and six months later made his
debut as lecturer on surgery, and continued to give
a regular course to a large class until 1830, when
his increasing practice compelled him to relinquish
all but clinical lectures. As a lecturer he was plain
and easy in his delivery—acute, and always to the
point ; not a sentence could be spared, for every
sentence had its value ; to lose it was to lose the
thread of his discourse, to break the connected series
of argument or detail of facts upon which his opi-
nions were legitimately based. In 1819 he was
honoured with the appointment of Professor of
Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Sur-
geons, and held this office until 1823. In 1832 ho
was appointed Sergeant-Surgeon to 'William 1V..,
by whom he was made a baronet, the patent bear-
ing date August 21, 1834, and on the accession of
her Majesty she was pleased to retain him in the same
office. From his own college he received all the hon-
ours that institution has it in its power to bestow on
those members who have upheld the honour, dignity,
and welfare of the profession, having been elected
professor, a member of the council, of the court:
of examiners, Hunterian orator, and, finally, in
1844, president. The Sun of the 9th of May
last records the regrets of his colleagues at re-
ceiving his resignation of all collegiate appoint-
ments. He had previously retired from the posi-
tion of President of the Royal Society, owing
to increasing bodily infirmities (his mental faculties
remaining unimpaired), and for a few weeks preced-
ing his death had suff.red actually from some dis-
ease of the shoulder joint. Sir Benjamin Brodie
had contributed largely to the advancement of medi-
cal and chirurgical knowledge, and was a member
of most of the learned and scientific societies both at
home and abroad. He leaves a widow and two
sons, one of whom, who succeeds to the title, has
greatly distinguished himself as an accomplished
chemist.