The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-17 00:00:00

MEDICAL SCHOOL, ROYAL INSTITUTION.

It gives us pleasure to learn that the Lecturers at the Me-
dical School have awarded Prizes this year for the first time,
and we understand that the examinations have been ex-
tremely creditable to the pupils generally, and highly grati-
fying to the Lecturers.
The following is a list of the successful competitors in the
respective departments of Medical Study :
Anatomy.—(Dr. Formby.)—Mr. E. D. Stater and Mr.
H. H. Radcliffe : equal prizes. Certificate of Honour, Mr.
T. H. Davies.
Anatomical Demonstrations.—(Mr. Long)-Ist prize, Mr.
Statter :2d prize, Mr. Radcliffe. Certerficate of Honour,
Mr. J. F. Crellin.

Chymistry.—(Dr. Reynolds.)-Ist prize, Mr. W. P. Bull :
2d prize, Mr. A. Parr. Certificates of •Honour, Mr. J. W.
Harding, and Mr. P. Leigh.
Materia Medica.—(Dr. Duncan.)-Ist prize, Mr. Leigh :
2d prize, Mr. W. B. Deacon. Certificate of Honour, Mr.
J. G. Jones.
Medicine.—(Dr. Scott.)—Prize, Mr. Griffith H. Herbert :
Certificate of Honour, Mr. Joseph King.
Surgery.—(Mr. Banner.)—Prize, Mr. Crellin : Certifi-
cate of Honour, Mr. F. Bainbridge.
Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children.—(Dr.
Malins.)—Prize, Mr. Henry Pitman: Certificate of Honour,
Mr. Crellin.

EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP.—One of those dreadful ac-
cidents, so common in mining districts, occurred at an iron-
stone pit near the Donnington Wood Furnaces, two miles
from Wellington, about five o'clock on Thursday evening.
There were four men at work at the bottom of the shaft—viz.
Gabriel and Barzilla Pickering, (two brothers,) James
Dawes, and John Ball ; and as soon as it was ascertained
what had occurred, two men volunteered to go down, and
ascertain the fate of the men ; but on proceeding bout
twenty yards, owing to the great accumulation of sulphuretted
and carburetted hydrogen gas in the shaft, they were obliged
to be pulled up. The scene which presented itself at the
mouth of the mine is stated to be distressing in the extreme,
when the disfigured remnants of the miners were exposed to
the assembled thousands.

MACHINERY IN INDIA.—A Calcutta paper says, "We
are glad to see that the increasing demand for machinery is
likely to be supplied in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, with-
out the necessity of waiting till orders sent to England can
be executed. By an advertisement in our page, it will be
seen that the Cossipore foundry will undertake not only the
ordinary work which has hitherto been executed here, but
also the manufacture of land and marine steam-engines not
exceeding thirty-horse power, and also iron steam-boats
r.nri Ms is. indeed, a new era in the an-
nals of Indian art, and will, we thine, not a UMW surprise
our friends in England, who imagine that we are dependent
on them for every description of iron-work, down to a box
nail. We wish the enterprising proprietor of the Cossipore
foundry the most complete success, as we look upon his un-
dertaking as one of national importance, cheap machinery
being now almost a necessary of civilised life.—Oriental
Herald.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 14.
(From the Circular of Messrs. James Scott and Son.)
The imports of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal from Ireland, Coast-
'wise, and frnm Foreign Forts, since this day week, have again
been very small ; but the demand for all kinds of Grain has con-
tinued very limited at the prices then quoted, excepting for Flour
and Oatmeal, for which there has been a better sale, and on which
an advance of about is per respective sack has been obtained, here,
and in our country markets, during the past week. The weather
has been unseasonably cold, and rain is still very much wanted
throughout this district.
The only alteration since Friday in the duties on Grain from
Foreign ports is a decrease on Rye and Pease of is 6d per quarter.
Some few sales of Flour and Oats in bond have been made for ex-
port at our quotations.
The import has been considerably increased by arrivals yesterday
of Wheat, Flour, Barley and Pease from the Baltic, which for the
present go into bond At this day's market sales were more languid
than anticipated, in some degree influenced by the decline in Mark-
lane yesterday of about 2s per quarter on Wheat, sales of which
were effected here to a very limited extent at about our last quota-
tions, whilst for Oats and Oatmeal and also for Four the advance
above noted was obtained, and for Beans. Pease, Malt and Barley
for Malting and Grinding, last quoted prices were supported. At
the close of the market about-1000 brls of Baltimore Flour, of mid.
dling quality, were sold by auction at 34s 3d to 34s 10d per brl. duty
free.
WHEAT, per 701bs
English
Scotch.
Irish...
Bonded
BARLEY, per CIT
English 42 0 44 0
Chevalier 44 0 45 0
Scotch, per 601 b. 5 4 510
Irish 5 4 510
Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0
OATS, per 451 b.
English
Scotch 3lO 4 2
Irish 3 8 4 I
Foreign, in bond 2 9 3 2
Ditto, duty free 3lO 4 1
RYE, per quarter
MALT, per qr. fine 6B 0 70 0
middling 50 0 62 0

s. d. s. d

9 6@ll 6

INDIAN CORN, 4SOIb.
Red 4O 0@42 0
White 42 0 44 0
BEANS, per quarter.
English 43 0 44 0
Irish 37 0 42 0
PEAS, Grey 3B 0 42 0
White 46 0 49 0
SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b.
In bond l7 0 20 0
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b.
Fine 48 U 55 0
Irish 46 0 54 0
Amer. brl. free 35 0 37 0
Sweet U.S 35 0 37 0
Sour 33 0 35 0
OATMEAL, per 2401 b.
English 33 0 34 0
Ditto, new 35 0 36 0
Scotch ' 33 0 34 0

9 0 10 3
66 9 3
90 9 6