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rule to the contrary, the (Wire of the audience for a I
repetition was irreprcssi-d). Again, the opening
chorus of the second part 'From the censer," was
magnificently given. The solo parts were sustained
by Miss M. and Miss A. Williams, Miss Stewart
Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Lawler. Miss M. William'
particularly distinguished herself by her execution os
the music assigned to Solomon ; and Miss A. Wil-
liams imparted much pathos to her delivery of the
air, " Can I see my infant gored." The hall was
crowded, and the whole performance went off so
satisfactorily as to imply a very auspicious commence
ment of the season.

ESTABLISHMENT OF A LAW
SCHOOL. .

A general meeting of the Society for Promoting
the Amendment of the Law was held last night, at
the rooms in Regent-street, when, Mr. James Stewart
submitted a project for the establishment of a Law
School; Mr. Spence, Q C., was called to the chair.
Mr. STEWART, in his address, said the teaching of
law by means of oral instruction appeared to have
been almost coexistent with its being taught at all as
a science. Lectures or professorships had been
established in most civilized countries, and it was
difficult to show why, as one means of impart-
ing legal knowledge, they should not be
useful. Of late years, however, but little favour
had been shown for this means of instruction
in some departments of the profession. On the one
hand, it was said that professors accessible to all
students were not appointed; and on the other, that
students would not attend the lectures of those who
were appointed. There was perhaps truth in both
complaints. But it could not be disputed that under
certain circumstances, and in some departments,
lectures had been successfully delivered, both at the
Universities and in London ; and the Inns of Court
bad recently revived, upon the suggestion of Mr.
Bethell, a course of lectures exclusively confined to
students. These would seem, however, not to have
been generally successful. Indeed, so little prospect
of success had appeared as to induce the Society of
Lincoln's Inn, the first in number if not in rank
and importance, to discontinue after a short trial the
lectures that society had established, and it was pos-
sible that the example might be followed by some
or all the other societies. He attached no blame
to the benchers of the Inns of Court for this result,
but he showed from documents that the original
intentions with regard to examinations and prizes had
not been acted upon. Mr. Stewart went into this part
of the question with some minuteness. There was
then no institution in London for the purpose of de-
livering lectures on all the branches of the law; and
it seemed open to any one, more especially to a
scientific society, to provide for the teaching of the
law in this manner to all who were willing to be
taught. He therefore submitted that this would be
an appropriate and fitting duty for the society to
undertake. There could be no better method of
amending the law than first to ascertain briefly and
clearly how the law stood which it was proposed to
:mend. No better means could be taken for this
purpose than fully to investigate what it was, and
then to declare it publicly before those competent to
listen to it; and he believed that no better mode
could be found of obtaining a correct and accurate
idea of the law than by lectures followed by
repeated examinations, the lecturer and the
class working together. On these grounds he
invited the society to use its influence and authority
to found a law school fur the purpose of teaching the
law in all its departments, and to afford the means to
every one of acquiring a knowledge of those rules
which govern his property and his liberty, his own
rights and the rights of others. He would let in not
only students but the public. The school should be
entirely of a practical kind. It should consist of
classes in which the main object should be to teach
particular branches, not by fixed rules, or in any
prescribed mode, but by such means as might seem
best to the particular lecturer ; by oral or written
communications, by examination, and free conversa-
tion between the lecturer and the classes. All that
he had consulted upon the subject cordially approved
of the plan ; and he read a letter from Lord Brougham
in which the Noble and Learned Lord offered 25/. as
his contribution towards the prizes, and further inti-
mated his willingness to volunteer a course of lectures
upon Constitutional Law. Mr. Stewart concluded
his very interesting paper by moving that it be re-
ferred toa committee to consider the subject.
The motion was seconded by Mr. PULLING.
The CHAIRMAN said that having been appointed
Professor of Equity in Lincoln's Inn, under the reso-
lution to which his Learned Friend had referred, he
would state the result of his experience in that
office. He commenced his lectures in the Hall. The
system was to deliver written lectures in term, and
after term he instituted examinations upon them.
The society had made it compulsory upon students
who desired to be called to attend these lectures; but
the examinations were entirely voluntary. The
number of students who originally attendedthe lectures
was about 18 or 19. Some of them evidently attended
because they were compelled; but he found that
those who attended the voluntary examination after
term made great progress. This went on for about
a year. At the end of the year the society came to a
resolution that it should no longer be compulsory for
students to attend the lectures ; on which those
who had attended only to qualify themselves to
be called ceased their attendance ; but those who
attended the voluntary examination, to the number
of eight or nine, continued. Finding the numbers
thus reduced, and thinking they could be much more
effectually taught round a table, he gave up the Hall
lectures and invited the students to meet him in the
Chancellor's private room, where he proceeded with
them, taking care when he came to the end of every
branch of a subject to inquire whether the principles
he had endeavoured to expound were thoroughly un-
derstood ; and after term the voluntary examination
was gone through, as usual, upon what had been
treated during term. He must say he never met
a set of young men more regular in their attend-
ance, or who devoted themselves more completely
to the subject than his pupils. These lectures
would terminate next term ; but from his
own experience he could, in the mean time, state
that the teaching of the law by this mode had been
eminently successful. To show that it had not
failed, he would mention that several gentlemen who
attended the first course of lectures also attended the
second, though the subject was the same ; and
that, seeing the earnestness with which the pupils
seemed to devote themselves to the study, he had
himself proposed that at the end of the course
they should receive prizes. The numcboeurlsd, hsoowa:eveeiry,
not having been adequate, for he
think it justifiable to establish a professorship to
teach only eight or nine pupils, the society was quite
right in discontinuing the system, but it could not
be
man who
awould leave the course now in progress without being
consequence offelatnsyurfaeiluthreereas
wreagsarndoetdathose who
morendseed advanced state as regarded knowledge than
if he had been at the bar for five years under the ordi-
iinnntatceeanoy course of study. The system of teaching by
lectures, and the system of a legal school, would, he
was satisfied, be effectual for teaching the law ; and
the results of his own experience led him to concur
heartily in the principle.
Mr. ATECKETT described the success of the lectures
at the Law Institution to articled clerks in the other
branch of the profession, and said it was most de-
sirable that similar advantages of acquiring know-
ledge should be afforded to the students for the bar.
The establishment of a law school would in this
respect be a public benefit; and parties who distin-
guished themselves in it would, on that account, be
very often selected for business.
Mr. STEWART regarded the case of the Law In-
stitution as a most valuable one, because it was an
instance of a successful law school having been estab-
lished by a private society.
The motion was carried unanimously, and after
the remaining business had b:en disiosed of the
meeting adjourned.

DRAINAGE OF TIDAL TOM NS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sru,—An original suggestion for the drainage of
London has been just made by Mr. Goldsworthy
Gurney, proposing to take advantage of the tide of
the Thames, running down seven hours, and only up
fire. The paper containing this suggestion has been.
put into my hands to examine into the correctness of
certain data and calculations necessarily connected
with its practical application. I have maturely con-
sidered the subject, and have been forcibly struck
with its originality; and at this moment, when our
attention is so closely drawn to sanitary considerations,
deem it important to be put before the public. I
have obtained permission to do so; and if you think
so with me it is very much at your service. He says
—" The current of the Thames, in round numbers,
at London-bridge, runs down seven hours and up
five every tide—in winter more, in summer less—
depending on the amount of rain-water. It runs
at a rate of almost from five to seven miles per
hour—no matter the exact rate, if we suppose
that it ebbs and flows at the same; it will be plain
that anything thrown into, and forming part of the
Thames at high water, would, in seven hours, be
carried by the stream more than forty miles down the
river, never to return. In order to make this more
clear, let us suppose a portion of the sewage (or what
is better, a sea-log) to be thrown into the Thames,
and to become part of the current, precisely at the
turn of tide at high water, at London-bridge ; in
• seven hours, taking six miles per honr as the mean
run of current, it would be carried forty-two miles
down the river. On the return of the tide, even sup-
posing it to run up at the same rate, in five hours it
will only have come up thirty miles ; and at the time
of the next high water, at the turn of the tide, it
would be full twelve miles below the bridge. It
would now run down again for seven hours, and be
carried 42 miles further, or 54 miles below London-

bridge. On the turn of the next tide it would
be left 24 miles down the river, and so on, de-
scending 24 miles in 24 hours until it went
clear into the sea. If our numbers are correct—
they are not far from the truth—it is self-evident
that if the sewage of London was collected and
allowed only to run into the Thames at high water,
like the sea-log above stated, it would at low water
be forty-two miles down the river, never to return ;
for five hours flow would only bring it within twelve
miles of the place from whence it started." He goes
on to show that under such conditions the water of
the Thames above London-bridge would be always
pure ; that no pollution could affect it, and that the
river below the bridge, instead of being, as now,
constantly filled with filth, would only be fouled during
the short period of the opening of the sluices—about
an hour a day. His views are self-evidently true in
principle; he follows them up by a detail of arrange-
ments to suit the conditions in practice, which need
not be stated here; but at the end of the paper appears
the following anecdote, which so clearly shows the
principle, and is so naturally put, that I cannot help
giving it as it originally stands. He says :—" When I
was a boy, I was much amused to observe a dead pig to
flow up and down a tidal river, every day; as regularly
as the day came my friend the pig came also ; he grew
bigger and bigger, and shortened his visit about a
mile a day, until at last he went to sea, and, poor
fellow, I never saw him more. He made me a phi-
losopher. What could make a dead pig grow bigger ?
If he had been a living one the question never would
have arisen—or why did he choose to shorten his
visits so regularly a mile a day ?"
Now it is evident, carrying out this anecdote in
connexion with our subject, that if a " dead pig "
were thrown over Waterloo-bridge at low water, he
would go up with the tide for five hours, and he would
in five hours more return, making ten hours. He
would now only have two hours' ebb before he would
meet the tide coming up ; consequently he would
return again with it, and go up the river ; he might
be seen every day for a week : but if he were thrown
over at high water, he would float down for seven
hours, and up only for five, consequently he never
would be seen again within twelve miles of the bridge.
The calculations of under-current, the fact of its
being twelve and a half hours between tide and tide,
difference in rate, &c., are all in favour of the prac-
.cability of its being carried out.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
King's College, Nov. 10. JAMES HANN.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 11.—Orders were received here
on Thursday for the fitting out of the Indefatigable,
50, with a crew of 500 men; and Lieutenant Joseph
Edye, the son of her able constructor, being ap-
pointed to her, was especially ordered by the Lords
of the Admiralty to commission her immediately.
This officer was at Teignmouth when the order came,
but the electric telegraph called him down, and in
two hours and a half he was with the Commander-
in- Chief of the port to receive his instructions. The
Indefatigable was commissioned on Friday by
Lieutenant Joseph Edye (1849) for Captain Robert
Smart, K.H. (1837). This gallant officer's expe-
rience extends over a period of twenty-three years,
since his entry into the service in October, 1810.
As a master's-mate he served in the Glasgow, at
Algiers ; obtained his lieutenant's commission
September, 1820; and, as lieutenant of the Cambria,
was in the action at Navarino, and was subsequently
wrecked in an attack upon a nest of pirates at Cara-
busa. He was made a commander April, 1828, and
served in the Satellite three years ; and, since his
elevation to the rank of captain, has commanded the
Impregnable, 104, and Howe, 120, and has lately
returned from serving as captain of the flag-ship
Collingwood, 80, in the Pacific.
Her Majesty's brig Hound, 8, was commissioned
on Friday, by Commander F. Patten (1837), for
service on the coast of Africa, and is to have a com-
plement of eighty officers and men. She will take
out the December mails. Commander Pattern
entered the navy in January, 1814, and has served
twenty-five years on full pay, afloat and in the coast
guard. He was a lieutenant of 1822, and was
promoted from the command of the Rapid, 10, in
South America. His last vessel was the Osprey, 12,
wrecked at New Zealand, at a place called False
Hokianga, which had never been surveyed.
The Conflict, 12 (screw), Commander Blake, went
out of harbour yesterday.
The Ganges, 84, Captain Smith, C. 8., was paid
wages yesterday.
The Shearwater, Lieutenant-Commander E. Tur-
nour, sailed yesterday for Liverpool.
The Royal Dockyard Female Orphan Fund pro-
ceeds well. There has been a large number of
subscriptions entered into; and the patron Sir John
Louis, Bart., has presented 1001. from the Bunkers'
Hill fund. It has been proposed that a bazaar should
be held the first week in January, and several ladies
in the dockyard have kindly consented to receive
contributions. There are seventy-six orphans, whose
parents died in the course of the cholera visitation.
Admiral-Superintendent Sir John Louis resigned
the duties of the dockyard yesterday, and is succeeded
by Captain Lord John Hay, at present one of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
The Leda hulk, stationed off Mutton Cove for
convalescent persons during the prevalence of cho-
lera, has been towed by the Confiance steam-vessel to
her moorings in Swanage, the cholera having entirely
disappeared from these towns.
The keel of the Narcissus, 50, will be laid down in
No. 1 slip in the course of a few days.
WOOLWICH, Nov. 12.—The Enterprise, Captain
Sir James Clark Ross, and the Investigator, Captain
E. J. Bird, were inspected to-day at eleven o'clock
A.m., by Commodore Henry Eden, accompanied by
Flag-Lieutenant Gore and 'Mr. Dyer, private secre-
tary. The gallant Commodore, on going on board
the Investigator, was received by Captain Bird and
the officers, and inspected the whole of the crew and
Royal Marines as they passed singly from the port to
the starboard side of the vessel. The Commodore
then went below, and examined the state of the vessel,
which was very good, considering the nature and
length of the voyage, and the great quantity of
spare stores with which she was supplied. From
the Investigator the Commodore went on
board the Enterprise, and was received by
Lieutenant M'Clure and the officers of that
vessel. The crew were then passed singly from
the port to the starboard side of the vessel. The
saws with which the ice was cut to make channels
for the vessels to go through were shown. They are
about 14 feet in length, without the handles, and
the iron of which they are made is of considerable
thickness. The shape of the teeth was considerably
improved by the men, the original form being found
to retain pieces of the ice. Immediately on the Com-
modore coming on shore the crews of the Enterprise
and Investigator went aloft, unfurled the sails, and
struck the topgallant mast, preparatory to their being
paid off. Captain Sir James Clark Ross arrived
in the afternoon, and went on board the Enterprise.
The Enterprise and Investigator entered Port Leo•
pold on the 11th of September, 1848, and remained
locked up in the ice until the early part of September
of the present year. When these vessels arrived in
the extreme northern regions they burned blue lights
and sent rockets up every morning and evening, the
Enterprise firing at ten P.M., at twelve at night, a:
two o'clock A.M., the Investigator using her rockets
at nine and eleven P.M., and one o'clock A.M., and both
burnt their blue lights at about five minutes before
the rockets were sent up. During the long and tedious
days of winter the officers and crews amusedthemselves
by catching foxes, and secured upwards of a hundred
of these animals, which are nearly the size of the
common foxes of this country, only the fur of the
former is white in winter and of a grey colour in
summer. The whole of the foxes were liberated after
each had a collar put round his neck, made of bear
skin, and having the names of the vessels and the
captains commanding them, with the latitude and
longitude of the places where the ships were at the
time, written upon them. Several of the foxes were
taken a second time, with their collars upom them.
The traps used for taking the foxes were empty
casks, and some times three or four of the foxes would
be taken in one day.
The carpenters have finished their work to-day on
board the Terrible, steam frigate, and she is expected
to be commissioned on Wednesday next by Captain
Hope.
The Styx steam-sloop, when she left Woolwich on
Thursday last, under the charge of Lieutenant
Robertson, remained at Greenhithe during the night,
and on the following day made two runs up and
two runs down the distance between the Nore and
Mouse lights, and was ascertained to have an average
speed of 9+ knots per hour. That result proving
satisfactory, and her engines working well, she pro-
ceeded for Devonport, and landed Mr. Stuart, the
Government pilot at Woolwich, at Dover.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Termagant steam-
frigate, 1,556 tons, 24 guns, 620-horse power, went
out of this harbour under Commander J. A. Stevens,
of the Blenheim, this morning to make a trial of her
speed and sea-worthiness under steam at the measured
mile in Stokes-bay, and to test the working of Mr.
Grant's cooking and distilling apparatus. There was
enough sea on to try the vessel well under every
phase of tide, if not of wind, of which element there
was a stiff breeze blowing all the time, but the vessel's
speed was insignificant for her power corapared with
the performance of steamers of only auxiliary
power by steam—viz., 6:1- knots, making 25 revolu-
tions. She lay over from 3f to 5 degrees. Mr.
Murray, C.E., superintending engineer of this dock-
yard ; Captains Sulivan and Hayes, Mr. T. T. Grant,
and other officers, were on board during her trial,
which is considered a fair one. Her cooking and dis-
tilling apparatus was set in operation the whole of tin
time, and prepared various condiments for the visitors
on board, showing the excellences of the invention
and adaptation to the manifold necessities of a ship's
officers and crew. It distilled one gallon of fresh

water from that taken out of the sea in one minute
and ten seconds, and performed all its work in a most
satisfactory manner.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord
Amelius Beauclerk, arrived this morning from the
Channel, and was dispatched this afternoon to the
vicinity of Whitecliff, to offer assistance to a ship in
distress, reported to be a steamer on her way from
Cork to London, with a cargo of turpentine and pas-
sengers on board, which had been run aground on the
island to save the lives of the passengers. No parti-
culars have yet (6 r.ii.) come from the scene of the
disaster.

The Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, was inspected at
Spithead yesterday, by the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel,
K.C.8., the Commander-in• Chief, and her crew
exercised in gunnery by Captain Chads, C. 8., of the
Excellent.

The Hecate, steam-sloop, Commander Shadwell,
was also inspected yesterday by the same authorities,
and lies ready to embark his Excellency Sir H. L.
Bulwer, for America, whenever he may appear.

The Sidon steam-frigate was undocked yesterday,
and returned to the steam-basin, for completion for
trial.

A sad accident happened yesterday on board the
Excellent to a boy whose name we have not ascer-
tained, whilst engaged in the gunnery practice con-
stituting the education on board that ship. Some
portion of the ship's company were exercising with a
couple of small guns on the forecastle, about ten A.M.,
and the boy in question, who was stationed outside of
the port, mistook the report of one of the guns for
the discharge of the other, and while in the act of
inserting his rammer into the muzzle of the wrong
gun, those on board, not seeing him in the smoke,
fired off the charge, which carried the boy off the
ship's side into the water, and blew his right arm off
above the elbow. Several of those who witnessed the
catastrophe plunged overboard after the boy, who was
speedily conveyed to Haslar Hospital.
The Sprightly steam-tender was undocked yester-
day, and the Bloodhound taken in, when her iron
showed another most signal triumph for the chemical
officer of the dockyard, whose composition had been
on six months and was quite clean, whereas the side
of her bottom coated with the preparation of an op-
posing agent was covered thickly with grass, presenting
the appearance, in the words of an officer looking on,
of " a garden of young leeks."
A Board of Admiralty, comprising Rear-Admiral
Dundas, C. 8., M P., Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
M.P., Captain Milne, and Mr. Parker, secretary,
arrived this afternoon from London, via Brighton, to
pay Captain Dacres, of the Leander, a complimentary
visit before his sailing for Lisbon. Their Lordships
were accompanied by Captain Charles Eden, Private
Secretary to Sir Francis Baring; Captain Sir B.
Walker, Surveyor of the Navy; and by Rear-Ad-
miral Prescott, C. 8., Superintendent of this Dockyard,
and were received at the Landport station by Flag-
Lieutenant Cochran, Mr. Superintendent Sutton, &c.
Sir Bladen Capel's carriage was in attendance to bring
their Lordships into this town, their barge being in
waiting at the old Sallyport-stairs, and the Myrtle
port tender. Master-Commander Braddon, moored
off the Victoria- pier in readiness to embark them for
Spithead. Sir Bladen Capel and Commander Lord F.
H. Kerr met the Board at the Sallyport, and his
Lordship formed one of the party for Spithead. The
weather was very forbidding, the rain pouring heavily,
and the wind blowing with considerable violence,
coupled with anything but a Lords-of-the-Admiralty
sea, rendered the aquatic fete a rather nauseous
trial. No salutes were fired, no flag hoisted, there-
fore it may be presumed this visit was a private one.
They remained on board the Leander about two hours.
Commander Jerningham is concentrating the
broadside of the Leander. The object of this is to
insure the certainty of delivering the first broadside
with the most deadly effect ; the whole of the guns
should be fired simultaneously, or the smoke from a
single gun would obscure the object at the moment
the others are to fire; and after the smoke has ren-
dered everything invisible from between decks, the
only chance of getting a sight of the enemy is from
the upper-deck, or aloft as long as the masts are left
standing. Captain Jerningham's plan, therefore,
which was satisfactorily proved on board the Wel-
lesley in India and China, in 1837, and on board the
Excellent in 1847, is one that may be adopted in every
ship without any additional fittings, and that in a few
hours. The guns may be brought into position to
cover a horizontal line varying in length from 1 inch
to 50 feet, at any distance up to 600 yards within the
angle of training of the guns in the ports, and the fire
repeated with the same precision and rapidity as is
now done with single guns.
The Board of Admiralty returned to town this
afternoon by the 6 30 train.
APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, Nov. 13.—Midshipmen—William G.
England, to the Scourge, at Portsmouth; Edwin S.
D'Arcy, and C. H. Stainforth, to the Hound, at
Devonport.
Naval Cadet—W. A. Welch, to the Indefatigable,
at Devonport.
The Devonshire, 72 guns, was towed down the
river to-day from Deptford by the Monkey, African,
and Adder steam-vessels, and is to be taken to
Chatham.
The Retribution steam•frigate has had her engines
of 800 horse power taken out, and she was taken out
of the basin to-day into the river, to have her masts
taken out to-morrow.
The Minx steam•vessel, fitted with a screw pro-
peller, has been fitted with a 10 horse power disc
engine. The steam was got up yesterday to try the
working of the disc engine of the Minx, in
the basin, and it made 106 revolutions per
minute. The vessel is to be tried down the river
in the course of the week. The diameter of the
screw is 4 feet 6 inches, the ball of the engine 10
inches, and the drum in which the ball works 27
inches. The shaft of the screw descends to the stern
of the vessel at an apparent angle of 35 degrees from
the engine.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert having caused
an order to be forwarded to Captain the Hon. W. E
Fitztnaurice to bring his model of his rotary en-
gine and the engine itself and pinnace to Windsor
Castle for his Royal Highness's inspection, the gallant
Captain attended on the 6th instant at Windsor
Castle, and caused the pinnace, with the engine on
board, to be conveyed to Datchet-reach. His Royal
Highness went up the reach in the pinnace, and ex-
pressed himself highly pleased with all he had wit-
nessed.
The Enterprise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross,
has commenced unloading her stores into lighters for
the purpose of their being taken on shore. Captain
Sir John Ross, accompanied by Mr. Lang, master
shipwright, visited the Enterprise yesterday after-
noon, shortly after the return of Capt. Sir J. C. ROES to
town. Sir John Ross speaks with great confidence
of the safety of Captain Sir John Franklin's expe
dition, and says he will suggest to the Lords of the
Admiralty to offer a reward of 50,0001. for the
recovery of the whole or a part of the officers and
crews, leaving the whole further exertions to private
enterprise, and he, for one, will proceed to the Arctic
regions next season. Sir John Ross also asked and
obtained the promise of some of his former associates
in his perilous North Polar voyage to accompany him
again to the Arctic regions.
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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Nov. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol.
low :—Great Western, 62—Ditto, Quarters, 11% dis.—Ditto,
New Shares, 71. 13s. 9d. dis.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13.
STOCK EXCIIAIME.—The share market was dull to-day
at the quotations, which were rather lower than yesterday.
The transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire, (late C. and B.), 6 per cent. till 1850, 13—
Caledonian, 113 M—Great Northern, 13 dis. Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 6% dis. —London and North-
Western, 1134—Ditto, New Quarters, Bs. 9d. p.—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Quarters (No. 1), guaranteed
71,4 till 1853, 1314 dis.—Midland, Halves, 21% dis.—South-
Eastern and Dover (so. 4), 6/. 6s. 3d.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Manchester and Leeds, 32/, Shares, 10% dia.—
Ditto, Fifths, 6% dis.—Bolton and Bury, 40 dis.—Edin
burgh and Glasgow, 30 dis.— Sheffield, Preference, 91A
North Staffordshire, 914 dis.—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 614--
Grimsby Docks, 434—Ditto, Quarters, 101 A dis.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 13.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The only transactions to-day were—
Great Western, 62 South Staffordshire, 4 dis.
YORK, Nov. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 171 A Great North-
ern, 7%—York and North Midland, 1911.
GLASGOW, Nov. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Clydesdale Junction, 51— Glisgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 41—Glasgow and Greenock, 14—North British,
Preference, 5.

DEATH FROM A KICK ON THE LEG.—It has
remarked, on the highest authority, that the body is not
one member but many; and whether one member Buffer,
all the members suffer with it. Of this a re-
markable example has occurred at Chapel of Lochore,
five miles south of Kin, oss. A healthy boy, eight
years of age, received from a schoolfellow a kick on the
calf of the left leg, which caused considerable pain,
though there was no perceptible scar or discolouration
This happened about noon on Wednesday.
In the afternoon, the boy reached home
from the school at Mary burgh, a distance of rather
more than two and a half miles, having walked with
some difficulty. On Thursday he was observed occa-
sionally to wander in his mind, and had two fits, each
lasting about half an hour. On Friday there seereq,
from the account given, to have been difficulty ct
swallowing, but to which no importance was at the time
attached. On Saturdly be had Income neatly in-
sensible, but after medical means had been re-
sorted to, he recovered so far as to be sensible
to the pain of the leg, which was still, however,
neither much swollen nor discoloured. In this state he
remained with little change till the morning of Sabbath,
at four o'clock, when he expired—being eight hours less
than four days from the reception of this apparently
trivial injury.—Caledonian Mercury.