Star.
London, England, 1828-10-30 00:00:00

MEDICO BOTANICAL SOCIETY.

The first Meeting of the ninth Session was held ye,.
terday evening. at the Society's apartments, Sackribe.
street. The Meeting was very numerously attend*
and among the company were—
His Rria.irtry Count Wolf, the Neapolitan /linker; Bars
de Cetto the Bavarian Miniver; Count Illornejvraa. the :kw
dash Minister; Baron Rehash, Charge d'Affaires tor Swain; se
of whom wore their Orders. Karl Stanisfipe; dr. limersiser,
Secretary to the Russian Rnsbarsy ; Count de la Garde, led erase
distinguished personages were also present.
Previous to the Chair being taken by Sir James
M,Grigor, the President, Earl Stan Nope. invested him
with a splendid gold medal and chain, the latter being
that worn by his late Royal Highness, the Duke of
Yosk. the former patron of the Society. The medal
was a striking likeness.
The Secretary, Mr. Jour, enumerated a great variety
of valuable presents to the S iciety from the East India
Company, Earl Stanhope, the King of Bavaria, Sir J.
M'Grigor, and others, including specimens of valuable
medical plants.
The Foreign Ministers mentioned above were admit.
ted Members of the Society.
The Archbishop of Canterbury. the Lord Chandler,
the Duke of Bedford, Sir J. Murray, Mr. Vesey Fits.
gerald, the Honourable Charles Arbuthnot' and others,
were on the list for ballot; but, owing to the crowded
state of the room. this form was dispensed with, aad
they were elected by acclamation.

This morning, about nine o'clock, Mrs. Smithsols, aa
elderly kaiak; in crossing Ludgate bill*towardi the
Old Bailey, slipped down almost under the feet of some
horses drawing a waggon. and before she could be ex-
tricated the wheels passed over her thighs, both of
which were crushed in a dreadful manner. She was
carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, without hope of
Mover].
Monday morning, about half-past two o'clock, a fire
broke out in the house of Mr. Palmer, ham and beef
shop, in Newington Causeway. The house was bunt
down, leaving the bare walls only standing. The in.
mates escaped with the greatest difficulty. The fire is
supposed to have been occasioned by the gas escapiag
from the pipes. .•
Yesterday an inquest was holden at the Black Hone
Tavern, High-street, Poplar, on the body of Martin
Patenon, a youth fifteen years of age, serving on board
a Swedish vessel lying in Limebouse Hole. From the
testimony of two of the crew, it appeared that on Moo-
' day last the deceased was in the hold removing one of a
pile of deal planks, when the remainder fell ul on his
body, and instantly crushed him to death. Verdict—
Accidental Death.
Yesterday morning Mr. Adkins, the Governor of
Warwick Gaol, and Dyke, his assistant, arrived in tows
by the Balloon Coach, having in their custody ten
female convicts; one of them was left at the Minhask
Penitentiary, and the other nine were taken to Wool-
wich, and placed on board' a convict ship bound for
Botany Bay.
The detection of Mr. Sften.'s sham speech reminds
us of a well authenticated anecdote of another patriot.
equally renowned in his day for his modesty and the
purity of his principles. The celebrated Jose Wages,
when getting op one night to speak on occasion of a
very late debate on a political question. the HOGSe
calling out loudly. "Question, question r A hired
who sat by him. pulling bins by the skirts, requested
him to keep his seat, all having been already said that
could be said. He whispered, " I must mumble some-
thing—my speech is at this 1110411101 K in the printer's
hands."

Monday evening, about four o'clock. the remains of
the three unfortunate children belonging to Mr. Ball.
in Huntingdoo-street, and who canoe to their deaths is
consequence of the room taking fire in which they biers
while their father and mother were from home. wile
removed for interment to the church yard of St. Leo.
mud's, Shoseditch. Notwithstanding the severity of
the weather, there were not less than 2,000 pennon
present. Each of the three children were laid is elm"
rate coffins.

Not long since a son of Negeme. belonging to one d
the ships in the port of Plymouth, bad the banns of
marriage published at the parish church of Stoke DA'
snerel; but unluckily, whoa they were off taus out. as
'Jack would say, he could not get on shore to be spliced.
Never at a loss for an ezpedsent when the ship is in
dibtreis, he hit on the novel mode (as some greater oleo
adopt) of being married to his lass by proxy. and =ni-
-1 ally requested a enessmate who was going on shore to
I walk his dosy to the church, get the service performed.
and send her off. The brother tar accordingly nude
his appearance at the church with the young woman;
but his name not &tussling with that inserted irt the
*aunt, the Clergyman was puzzled to make out the cot,
Ind told Jack that he did not understand the affair.—
Why, Si,,'' says he, •• my messmate. this 'ere young
momen's sweetheart. is on board busy, you see; and
to could not come on shore he axed me to marry
Nbee
or him. and send her off.—that's all your boom. --
Plymouth Gazette.

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