Star.
London, England, 1828-01-12 00:00:00

MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.

Yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, a Meeting of Nit
Society ss as held at the Committee Rooms, No. St
Sackville•street.
• Ile the absence of Sir Tames M'Gregor, the President;
who was prevented attending. in consequence of a dos
mestic calamity, the Chair was taken by Mr. Frost, the
Society's Professor of Botany.
The minutes of the last Meeting having been read
and confirmed. and the mat routine business disposed
of, a ballot for new Members was gone into. Ami.ngst
those elected were M. de Biedermann, Charge d'Affaires
f r Saxony, and Baron Rallamb, Charge d'Affaires fir
Sweden. Letters from the Kings of Wirtemburg and
Bavaria, expressive of the objects of the Society, were
then read, and entered on the minutes. A letter from
the Infant Don. Miguel, regretting that his other many
and unavoidable engagements prevented his attendante,l
and at the same time stating the high satisfaction he
should feel in being enrolled a Member, was also read,
and ordered to be entered on the minutes.
A very scientific and interesting account of the Ccsa
Tree of Caraccas was then read to the Society ; this
most useful plant, said the account, answered all the
purposes of animal milk ; with some alms it was, hi.
dependently of its nutritive qualities, easily convertible
into soap and bees' wax, and might be cultivated in
the mountainous districts of Caraccas with great profit
and advantage. •
Mr. FROST next addressed the M:eting'at considerable
length on Vegetable Physiology, and concluded by di-
recting the attention of the Members to a communication
he had received from a Mr. Willis, a person well known
from his knowledge in the cultivation of Briti.b timber.-
The attention of the Meeting
.was then directed by Mr.
Frost to severe' specimens of plants, both exotic and in-
digenous, which lay on the table; amongst the former
was a specie 4 of the Egyptian Papyrus, a most beautiful
-and curious plant. Thanks being voted to the Chair man
the Meeting broke

The Lord Provost haV received from the Secretary
of State a respite in favour of EAphattia Lawson. oe
M'Aliltan, now under sentence of death in the gaol'of
Edinburgh, until farther signification of his 111jesty's
pleasure.
REDUCTIONII.—In pursuance of the determination. of
Government to effect reductions in the public establish.
ments at Plymouth and other ports, thirty men haul
been discharged from the Government quarries at Ors.
stop, and twenty from the Breakwater barges.

MARRIED.
Wednesday, at. St. 110ln% Clerkenwell, the Rev. Leonard
Fletcher, B.A. of All Souls's College, Oafotd, to Mies Amy Irons.
The Rev. Francis Bryan'' M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, and al
Faradon. near Chester, to Sarah Clough, only surviving child it the
late R. C. Bury, Bel. of Manchester.

• DIED.
In the Island of Madeira, the Rev. William Owen, late °irate
of Gravesend. Kent, deeply•regretted by all who knew him.
At Welland, Worms eeeeeeeee the Eery. Henry Smelter, many pen
Vicar of that place.
Aged $4, the Rev. W. Wormington, Vicar of Norton and Leash-
wish, Weresstershire, upwards of forty.three years.

GLXXSAL WI SILT ATTRACT OT TIIE PRICY Or BILITIMM COSS,
WIISCAI GOVERNS biIIORTATIOL NADA VP TO JAL 4.
Wheat Sls. sd. Oats 21a. 4d. Beans 395. 7d.
Barley 295. 6d. I Rye U.. SAL I Peas 42.. Ikk
•

NEWOATE AND LICA4)ENHALL MARKETS, Isis. U.
Beef.. 35 04 to 4r 4d Veal 45 44 to 55 ad
Mutton ........3s Od to 45 Od I Pork 4s Od to 55 id

PRICES o► HAY am STRAW YESTERDAY.
ST. JAM ZS'S. WHITISNAPEL.
Hay 41103 Od to 31 5. Od I Hay 31 lOs to 41 151 04
Clover 5115. 6d to 61 Os 0.1 j Clover 41 104 to 51 ISs 04
Straw 11133 Od to 21 Os Od I Straw 11 10s to it 14s Oil

• PRICE OF HOPS, PER CWT. JAW 11.
new rooters. Di LW 1141 GS.
Kent nes to 1201 I Kent 74s to 1001
Sussex
Essex
Farnham fine 150 s to 16ds—Seconds. 1201 to 140$