'The Lancet contains a letter from a sturgeon at Stowmarket,
com- plaining of a clergyman in the diocese of Ely, who has been practising as a medical man for the lust five years without apparently any other claim to professional knowledge than that of having served an appren- ticeship to a grocer. Similar instances are not uncommon in other parts of tlit country, and have occurred even in the metropolis. There is at this moment, or has been very recently, a man at Islington who calls himself an accoucheur, and also keeps a street-stall for the sale of oranges opposite his own door. —Morning Chronicle. [Every che- mist's and druggist's apprentice is a medical practitioner : such is the beautiful state of medical law in this country.] Captain Cain, of the barque Kingston, has been committed for trial at Liverpool, on IA charge of murdering the steward of his vessel in the river of New Calabar, on the Coast of Guinea, in May last. The evidence published is ex parte ; but if true, there never were a set of more cowardly ruffians than the Captain, his mate, and the crew. The steward was flogged and kicked to death by the whole gang.
On Saturday night, the cook (a man) and four ,table-boys, all ser- vants of General Wyndham, at Sladeland in Sussex, were suffocated by the fumes of a charcoal fire, which they left burning in their root. when they went to bed.
The Bradford Superintendent of Police having been told that a man was hawking without a licence, bought a whip of him for teashillinge, sad then demanded his licence; which the hawker immediately showed him.
The Superintendent, having neither horse nor ass to ride, offered the whip back to the hawker ; who repurchased it for nine shillings ; after which, he demanded the seller's licence; and, having none to show, he summoned him before the Magistrates; who, amidst much laughter, fined the Superintendent, on Monday last, sixty shillings and costs for hawking without a licence.—Hall Packet.
After a twelve weeks' strike, almost all the workmen who left Mr. Guest's factory at Manchester have solicited a reengagement. The Manchester Guardian says, that "much dissatisfaction was caused among the turnouts, by the keeping back one-half of the money sub- scribed ; the Committee only dividing 301. out of 601. to which the last week's contribution amounted, and retaining the balance for expenses."
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