Star.
London, England, 1825-03-08 00:00:00

SURREY SESSION&

RIOT AT CAMBERWELL—MARCH 7.
This was a prosecution instituted by the Parochial
Officers of Camberwell, against five men, named Vin-
cent, Farky, January, Gosling, and Harris, for• the pro-
fanation of the Sabbath, and assembling on Sunday,
the 20th February last, in a brickficld, at Peckham,
where a crowd of persons had collected, for the pur-
pose of witnessing a pitched battle. The facts were
clearly made out against the prisoners, who were found
Guilty, and severally sentenced to three months at
Brixton, there to be kept at hard labour and enter into
sureties of 101. each, for their future good behaviour.

RESURRECTION DUN.
James and Daniel Pearse, two body-snatchers, and
W. Portsmouth; a watchman, belonging to the burial-
ground of St. George the Martyr, were found Guilty;
the two former with intent to steal four dead bodies,
and the latter with aiding and abetting them in the no-
torious traffic. The Court sentenced Portsmouth to
six months, and the other prisoners to two months at
Brixton, and hard labour.

VACCINI ESTABLISHMENT.

Copy of REPORT received by the Summits of &ram for the
HOUR DXTARTMENT, from the Moans of the VACCINZ EWA-
ZUSIIIIKNT ; 12th February, 1825.
TO THE RIGHT HON. ROBERT PEEL,
Secretary of State for the Home Department, &c. &c. &c.
SlR—The importance and value of. this Establish-
ment is made manifest daily, by the immediate and
certain return it makes to all applications for means ‘sf
protection against one of the greatest scourges in the
form of disease which has ever afflicted mankind.
It belongs to the improvidence of the lowest orders
of the people to remain careless and inactive, so long
as the hoar of danger is distant and uncertain, and to
become, perhaps, unreasonably alarmed when it ar-
rives. Our calls, therefore, are generally accompanied'
by information that the Small-Poi is committing great
ravages in the neighbourhood, and the demands for
assistance are urgent and pressing. These remarks
apply to our own country more particularly ; but we
Itrave frequent applications alio from abroad, and even
from Vaccine Institutions established in foreign capi-
tals, where it is admitted to be difficult to keep up the
supply ; and the request for matter is made under a
conviction that that which is received from this Esta-
blishment is more genuine and efficacious. Happily the
arrangement which we have made enables us to supply
every want, wherever, and from whatever quarter it
comes to us; and we have sent out 77,800 charges of
Lymph since our last Report.
It cannot be necessary now to enter upon an estimate
of the comparative merits of Vaccination and Inocula-
tion, as prOtectives against the Small-Pox ; but the
Board has been engaged in endeavouring to ascertain
what proportion of persons vaccinated take the Small-
Pox afterwards. By the information which we obtain
from our stationary vaccinators in the metropolis, it
seems that not more than eighteen out of the eight
thousand which are vaccinated upon an average an-
nually, are susceptible of the variolous disease after-
wards. The Returns from the corresponding vaccina-
tors in the country are less favourable; but we are fully
justified in concluding, that the number of those who
take the Small-Pot after Vaccination, and pass through
a safe and harmless disease, is not greater than the
number of those who die under Inoculation. The esti-
mate of this loss, where Inoculation was greatly prac-
tised, was one in 300.
By the bills of mortality we find that 725 persons
have died of Small-Pox this year, within the range of
those bills; but we have not been made acquainted with
any fatal case after Vaccination.—We are, &c.
(Signed) HENRY HALFORD,
President of the College of Physic,ians.
WILTLIAM NORRIS
esident of the Royal College of Surgeons.
WILLIAM LYNN, Vice-President.
WILLIAM G. MATON, M.D. Censors of the
HENRY JAMES CHOLMELEY, M.D. Royal Wiese of
FRANCIS WILI.IS, M.D. .
JOHN WARBURTON, M.D. Physicians.
CLEMENT' HUE, M.D. Registrar.

Friday se'nnight, a melancholy accident happened
near Doncaster. One of two young men, who had
been shooting rabbiti, proposed a stone might be thrown
up by his companion to shoot at, when unfortunately
the contents ot his gun were lodged in the back of the
neck of the young man who threw up the stone, and
killed hi' on the spot. The deceased was the son of
a respectable farmer of the name of STEEL, of Stainton.
In the case of SONNET against POWELL and others,
which, was tried on Friday in the Court of King's
Bench, a verdict was given for the plaintiff—Damages,
24,0001. the Lord Curer Jusrice having observed that
the plaintiff had a right to recover mach more than the
1,900/. the loss upon the wool, by the actual sale which
had taken place, as the defendants had not used due
vigilance in disposing of their consignment to the
gi eatest advantage for their correspondents.
The old duty last year of hop's, at 112-20 d, pet; 16:,
was 143.832/. the new duty, At 8-201. 110,60.
total, 255,238/.