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On Wednesday next, July 14th, w►ll be published, in 3 vols.
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THE ANCIENT' REGIME:
A Tale.

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NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA.
Just published, price ss.
PRACTICAL TREATISE on the
CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENI of
STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their CONSE-
QUENCES.
By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L.
And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary fen- the Cure of
Strictures of the Urethra.
.ZONTENTS.

- CHAFTML 1.
Causes •f Strictures.
Divisions of Strictur.s.

Consequences of Strictures.

CHAPTER 11.
Of the Different Modes in
practice for the Cure of
Strictures, by the Bougie,
the Catheter, the Lunar
Caustic, and Cutting In-
struments. The Author's.
Mode of Cure.

CHAPTER 111.

On the Diseases where thel

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CPENDII,

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ANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
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MORTALITY in th'i2IIIiTROPOLIS.
The following are the results- of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the I week- ending July 3,184 l." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General :

Weekly
Total. Average
1838-9-40.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l2l 204
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l3l 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Hea-t and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c 2 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat...
Old Age, or Natural Decay 49 71
Deaths byViolence, Privation, or Intemperance 32 25
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes 751

CAUSES OF DEATH.

60 60
0 4

Average Weekly Deaths 926
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths,lB3B-9-40.
128 139
147 163
152 ..... 190
14R ...... 211
:176 228

Western Districts ...
North Districts
Central Districts
East Districts 1
South Districts ......

Total 751

It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—.
and the parishes of St. Maryiebone, St. Pancras. Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith (Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camber veil, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly averrge for
1838, 1839, and 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in
the three years by 156.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
June 26. July 3.
87 740
51 53
64 62
1811.

Highest

Lo‘,cest

Daily Alean .
General register Office, July

DR. BIRKBECK.

It is in contemplation we unlerstand, to establish
some permanent testimonial of the gratitude of the
members of Mechanics and other education Institu-
tions to Dr. Birkbeck, the founder of Mechanics' Insti-
tutions, and the great promoter through a long life, of
the improvement of the working classes. A meeting
with this view is to be held in. the London Mechanics'
Institution, on the 15th instant, and we should hope that
other institutions will co-operate in order to render the
testimonial worthy of the noble individual in question,
and of the groat cause to which he has devoted all those
hours that other men give to indolence and pleasure.
Since 1825 a great improvement has taken place in the
character of the people, and much of that is due
to the numerous self-supporting educational institutions
for the industrious classes, which took their rise about
that period, and of which Dr: Birkbeck was the chief
founder and promoter. In our estimation the glory of
warrior statesmen is less pure and less bright than the
glory of such a man, and it will reflect discredit on the
nation, not on him, should the testimono not be made
by a combined exertion of all the mechanics and similar
institutions in the kingdom worthy of the great improve-
ment of which he is the author. Philosophers, poets,
generals, heroes, have all in their turn been deified by
the admiration of mankind ; the time.for such worship
is past, but its place should be supplied for the best inte-
rest of humaaity by a rational, a public, and an endur-
ing homage to those who like Dr. Birkbeck have largely
contributed to the welfare of the whole human race. We
hope and trust that all the friends of education through-
out this wide empire will concur in making the proposA
testimonial worthy of the man and the cause.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. W. DAW-
SON, the ECCENTRIC WESLEYAN PREACHER.
There are few persons who concern themselves with
the character and operations of the 'Wesleyan Metho-
dists, as a numerous body of separatists from the Esta-
blishedthis celebrated who have not heard of the fame of
and eccentric, but
Church,
we believe, pious,
and truly estimable man. Without the advantages
of even a common education, but. solely by the force
of a vivid imagination, and the energy of a Heaven-
enkindled zeal for the immortal interests of his
fellow-men, pouring itself forth in homely but hear-
tily-expressed phraseology, he succeeded in attract-
ing crowds to the chapels in. which he preached,
and excited an interest in, and produced an effect
upon the listening multitude, which the set discourses
of the regular ministers of the body failed to produce.
If " Billy Dawson "—the name by which he was,gene-
rally known and often announced—was to be the
preacher, or was to be one of the speakers on a mis-
sionary anniversary, there was no fear of a congrega-
tion. Hence his services were in constant request when
ever there was to be a collection •, and though termed,
in the technical phraseology of the Wesleyans, " a local
preacher," there was no one of the itinerants whose loco-
motive powers were more constantly or more Willingly in,
exercise..

The professed residence of Mr. Dawson was at Barn-
bow, near Leeds, where he, for upwards .of 30 years,
occupied a small farm under Lord Harewood.
Mr. Dawson's mode of entering the pulpit was
clumsy in the extreme ; he literally blundered into it.
His manner in prayer wore the appearance of an irreve-
rence to which his heart was, we feel assured, a stranger.
His addresses to the Deity were colloquial even to vul-
garity, and deserved the condemnation they often re-
ceived from the more judicious of his hearers—nor
would they have been tolerated in any other but in him
who possessed so powerfully.the admiration and esteem
of the majority of the societies and congregations. In-
deed, it was utterly iii vain for the preachers to endea-
vour to stem the current of their people's feeling in
favour of "Billy Dawson." That minister's piety would
have been questioned, and his own hold upon their
affections loosened, by so dangerous an experiment.
Mr. Dawson was the preacher in whom the poor of the
flock delighted—whom the better-educated esteemed for
his fervour, and consented to forego their own prefer-
ence for the better arranged and more correctly-ex-
pressed sentences of the regular ministers, from a defer-
ence to the wishes of the multitude.
The following are circumstances which preceded and
attended the death of the subject of these remarks. Mr.
Dawson arrived at Colne on Saturday last, in order to
preach the anniversary sermon in the Wesleyan chapel
in that place on the following day, according to public an-
nouncement. On Saturday afternoon he was as cheer-
ful and apparently as well as usual, and selected the
hymns. But how little we know of what will be on the
morrow. About three o'clock on Sunday morning, he
alarmed the house where he was sojourning by calling
for assistance, and said he wanted air ; but the sum-
mons had arrived—death had received his commission--
and notwithstanding all the help that could be rendered
he was a corpse before four o'clock. The. medical gen-
tleman called in at once pronounced the case hopeless.
The last sermon Mr. Dawson preached was, we believe,
in the St. Alban's Circuit, on Thursday, the Ist instant.
Mr. D. was in his 68th year.

FOOTE'S W-t-T—ODEN 14E0.—Geerie Colman, the
younger, observes :—".There is no Shukspeare or Ros-
cius upon record, who, like Foote, supported a theatre,
for a series of years, on his own acting, on his own writings,
and for ten years of the time, upon a wooden leg ! This
prop to his person I one 3 saw standing by his bedside, ready
dressed in a handsome silk stocking, with a polished
shoe and gold buckle, awaiting the owner's getting up ;
it ,had a kind of tragi-comical appearance, and I leave
to inveterate wags the ingenuity of punning upon a
Foote in bed and a leg out of it. The proxy for a limb
thus desorated, though ludricrous, is too strong a remind-
er of amputation to be very laughable. His undressed
supporter was the common wooden leg, like a mere
stick, which was not a little injurious to a well-kept
pleasure ground. I remember following him, after a
shower of rain, upon a nicely rolled terrace, in which he
stumped a deep round hole at every other step he took,
till it appeared as if the gardener had been there with his
dibble, preparing, against all horticultural practice, to
plant a long row of cabbages in a gravel-walk."
HOP INTELLIGENCE—WORCESTER, JULY 9.
--The accounts from the plantations are not so favourable this
w( ek as last, the wet weather being too much for the plant,
wi ich in the clay lands is getting yellow and stunted in the
growth ; very little business is doing. Prices nominal.