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On naming the latter, the remark
came imperative that it was a son of the coroner, before
Elora, or before whose deputy, the demanded inquiry

DIM be held ; and, with her customary one-sided
arity, scandal at once attributed to parental tenderness

I inquest ; and, with or without rhyme or reason,
coroner and his son, along with Mr. COOKE, were
up with the unsuccessfuroperation, and the charge
The parents of the child having now

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parte statements, were laid before Lord PALMERSTON,
behalf of the RICITARDSONS, and his lordship ordered
investigation into all its circumstances. On what field

could professional jealousy expect a richer harvest of gra-
tification than this ? The courtesies of the elder Mr.
WAXLEY, it may be remembered, have never raised him
to a high position in the personal esteem of many of the
medical profession, not a few of whom retained a vivid
recollection of the unrelenting spirit and ceaseless assiduity
with which he pursued Mr. BRANSBY COOPER, on a charge
of incompetently performing the same operation on an
adult, with a similarity of fatal termination ; and twenty-
five or thirty years expired were as nothing when the oppor-
tunity of seeming retaliation was offered. The chance of
connecting him, even indirectly, with a bungled operation
for lithotomy, and adding to that a feasible plea on which
to charge him with a supp!esion of inquiry, was too

tempting to be foregone, and all kinds of chit-chat and
gloomy gossip were rife in certain circles regarding the
probable issue of the government investigation, which has
now, by adjournments, occupied many days. From that
investigation, on the authority of high surgical testimony,
the operation, if at all necessary in the case, was far from
dextrously performed ; no direct connexion, however, has
been traced between it and the elder WAKLICY, at any
stage of the business, and the junior one, it seems, was
only a subordinate operator. That an attempt was made
to evade inquiry seems also indisputable, as a sum of £lOO
was paid in the name of compensation to the parents, and
preliminary expenses, the lion's share of which appears to
have been bagged by a clever attorney, the father having
been paid off with £2O. That such an inquiry should

evelations which have been brought to fight by
means of it are infinitely more so. They tend, in a great
degree, to shake public confidence in the conduct of
valuable institutions, and foster prejudices against an
honourable, an arduous, and really benevolent profession.
Great and dangerous improprieties have obviously been
connected with the treatment of the poor child, whose
sufferings were terminated by death, which the disclosures
made in the present instance will, it is hoped, prevent the
recurrence of in all time coming ; yet nothing in the shape
of even carelessness, far less of cruelty, was made ap-
parent. On the contrary, the utmost extent of charge
seems to amount to no more than might arise from inex-
perience on the part of an otherwise able surgeon. Still,
the public mind has been shocked, and the reputation of
valuable charity been called in question. Good some-
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it has unfortunately been attained.

At the Royal Italian Opera, Madame VIiaDOT continues
her triumphs, Madame Gimes farewell nights are to be
extended to a few more representations, which are to be
posi-tiv-ely her last appearances in England, her departure
for America having been postponed till the end of the
month. The concert-rooms of London, numerous as they
are, seem hardly sufficient to accommodate all the concerts
whose attractions woo the various classes of London
amateurs and auditors: an attempt at enumeration of even
the least of them, far less noticing the whole, would so far
exceed all bounds, that I shall not essay it, but content
myself with saying that, as usual, at this season of the
year, the admirers of every class and grade of musical per-
formance will find ample room and verge enough to employ
all their time, and give scope to more than all their
admiration.

CRICKET

On Thursday last, a very spirited match between the
Ist Eleven of the Collingwood and 2d Eleven of Roscoe
Clubs on the latter's ground, Hall Lane, was terminated
in favour of the former. By a glance at the following
score, it will be seen that at the fall of the Roscoe's last
wicket, the Collingwood only required 13 runs to head
their opponents : _