Star.
London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

LONDON VACCINE INSTITUTION.

Yesterday the Governors and Members of this Insti-
tution met at the City of London Tavern, for the pur-
pose of receiving the annual report.
The LORD MAYOR was to have taken the chair, but in
consequence of being obliged to preside at the Cou:t of
Common Council, the chair was taken by W. D. Con-
DELL, Esq. The Chairman said, in addressing the meet-
ing, that the report would give great satisfaction to the
friends of humanity, although prejudice still continued
to be the means, unfortunately, of sacrificing the lives
of thousands.

Dr-WALKER read the report. It stated that the bene-
fits of vaccination were diffused to the inhabitants of
every land, but in this metropolis the joinites of the
small pox still lurked amongst the ignorant and preju-
diced part of the population-774 persons fell victims to
the dreadful disease in the course of the last year within
the bills of mortality, and the deaths of many are not in-
cluded in those annual registers of departure from life.
The managers coninued to watch the departure of ves-
sels to foreign nations as well as to all the British Co-
lonies, and continued to afford supplies of the vaccine
ichor for the pr..tecting the Colonies from the small-
pox. During the last year there had been vaccinated by
Dr. Walker 3,236 persons ; by the appointed inocula•
tors in the metropolis and its environs, 18,987 ; by the
appointed inoculators in the country, 21,664.; from the
beginning, by Dr. Walker, 52,116; from the beginning,
by the town inoculators, 185,235; from the beginning
by the country inoculators, 484,693. Dr. Walker had
supplied from the beginning 98,850 applicants. The
receipts of the institution since last year's report amounted
to 8671. 16,i. the disbursements to 1,0671. 19s. 3d. ba-

lance against the Institution, 2001. 3s. 3d. The receipts
of the institution since its formation in 1806 amounted
to 11,830/. the disbursement to 11,9171. .ss. 3d.
Dr.Wa LKER stated, that the Prussian Minister of State,
Count Hertsberg, had observed, that in times when,
from causes without example, the numbers of the hu-
man race were diminished, the consideration of greatest
importance was, that the more general the adoption
of vaccine inccuiation became, the more practicable
would it be to keep up the complement of the neces-
sary armies. Dr. Huhn laid before the Minister of
the Interior of Russia, Count Kotschuby, a plan whereby,
through a more general extension of vaccination,
the ravages of the small pox in Russia might be ex-
terminated, and be the means of preserving half a mil-
lion of men to combat the enemy. A fifteenth of the
population of Russia, amounting to 2,200,000, were
susceptible of the small-pox : the mortality of one-fifth
of those from the small-pox, amounted to 440,000. If
the loss of a child in Russia be estimated as it was at
25 roubles, the State lost by the disease 11,000,000 of
roubles; vaccination assured this sum to the State, or
440,000 effective men. Dr. Walker read extracts from
several medical men in other countries, descriptive of
the never-failing efficacy of vaccination, who stated,
that for many years they were in the habit of testing
the efficacy of the vaccine virus, by exposing their
patients to the variolous matter, and in no case was the
small-pox communicated to the constitution.

The Report was unanimously approved, and adopted.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the thanks to Dr. Wal-
ker, complimented the venerable Doctor upon his per.
severance, zeal, and skill, and observed that the system
had immensely benefitted by his exertions.
• Thanks were then •oted to the President, Vice-Pre-
sidents, and Managers of the Institution, and the Meet-
ing separated.

Saturday night last, as three men and two girls were
walking in the streets of Worcester, the men began to
quarrel, when two of them eized the third, and with a
knife cut him across the, throat, chest, and arms. He
was taken to the Infirmary, and the other men and
women are in custody.
Sunday night, between eight and nine o'clock, a fire
broke out in Mr. Dunlop's cotton-spinning mill, in
Bar rowfield-road, near Glasgow, where the house in
which the steam-boilers are place,' had taken file.
The house itself was burned down; but the judicious
exertions of the firemen succeeded in preventing the
flames from spreading farther.
A German book manufacturer read the words " Beg-
gar's Opera," under a motto of a chapter, and having,
of course, never heard of Gay's famous play, he or she
translated them Beggar's Werke, i. e. Beg,gar's Works.
This is almost as ridiculous as the blunder of the French
translator of the " Ileart of Mid Lothian," by whom
" a buxom woman" was transformed into " une femme
taint couleur de huis."—Literary Museum.
On the arrival of the 93d Highlanders at Demerara,
a good joke is told of Blackee, that " King George de
Fourt was in such rage and so great hurry to punish
dem for deir rebellious conduct, dat he send his sogers
off widout de breeches!"

A GOOD STORY.—Among the first settlers of Bruns-
wick (Maine) was Daniel Malcolm, a man of undaunted
courage, and an inveterate enemy of the Indians, ti ho
gave him the name of Sungurnumby, i. e. very strong
man. Early in the spring, he ventured alone into the
forest for the purpose of splitting rails from the spruce,
not apprehensive of the Indians so early in the season.
While engaged in his work, and having opened a log
with small wedges about half its length, he was stir-
' prised by Indians, who crept up and secured his musket,
standing by his side. 44 Sungurnumby," said the chief,
" now me got you.; long me want you; yo❑ long time
speak Indian, long time worry him; me have got yon
now; look up stream to Canada." " Well," said Mal-
colm, with true sangfroid, " you have me, but just help
me open this log before I They all, five in num- ,
ber, agreed. Malcolm prepared a large wooden wedge,
carefully drove it, took out his small wedges and told
the Indians to put in their fingers to the pal tially
clefted wood, and help pull it open ; they did ; he then
suddenly struck out his blunt wedge, and the elastic
wood instantly closed fast on their fingers, and he se-
cured them. —Baslo3 Parer.