MEETING OF THE PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION.

The Anniversary Meeting of this Society, to the published Transactions of which we have elsewhere called the attention of our readers, took place at Birmingham, on the 18th of last month. Among the many eminent individuals who were present upon this occasion were Dr. John Johnstone, of Birmingham, the President; Dr. Edward Johnstone, of Birmingham, and Dr. Carrick, of Clifton, Vice Presidents; Dr. Hastings, and Mr. Sheppard, of Worcester, Secretaries; Dr. Kidd, of Oxford; Dr. Forbes, of Chichester; Dr. Bardsley, Mr. Ransome, and Mr. Turner, of Manchester; Dr. Jeffries, and Mr. Dawson, of Liverpool; Dr. Conolly, of Warwick; &c. &c. &c. These gentlemen, with other members of the Association, including most of the resident Faculty in the town and neighbourhood, assembled about 12 o'clock in the rooms belonging to the Philosophical Institution, when the President, Dr. John Johnstone, took the Chair, and opened the Meeting in an eloquent speech. The Report of the Council having been read by Dr. Hastings, one of the Secretaries, and unanimously approved and adopted by the Members present, Dr. Conolly was called upon to deliver the Address, which for purity of diction, simple elegance of composition, and that genuine eloquence which proceeds from an appeal to the finest feelings of the heart, has rarely been equalled, and we will venture to say never surpassed. A review of the principal occurrences which had taken place in connection with the objects of the Association during the past year, was brought before the Meeting, and the progress made in the various departments of Medical Science, was clearly and ably detailed. That portion of the Address in which the eloquent author alluded to the loss sustained by the Association in the decease of Dr. Darwall, Dr. Becker, and other eminent individuals, was peculiarly striking, and in the sketch of the declining years of the late Dr. Gordon Smith,-a man of high talent and endowed with all the finer feelings of human nature, the touching manner in which were pourtrayed the struggles of such a mind with almost every adverse circumstance which could embitter the cup of affliction, and the final sinking of the powers both of mind and body under the accumulated weight, made an impression upon the minds of all who had the privilege of hearing it which will not be easily effaced. A Report upon the present state of Anatomy was delivered by Mr. Turner, of Manchester, in which an admirable sketch of the elementary structures, and a new and highly ingenious classification of the several textures and organs which enter into the composition of the animal frame, were concisely and clearly stated. The views of John Hunter, Bichat, Dr. Wilson Philip, and other Physiologists, upon life, were examined, and the light thrown upon this important subject by modern researches in Minute Anatomy and Physiology detailed. In entering upon the consideration of the texture of the vascular system, or the arteries, capillaries, and veins, the author espoused the opinions of Dr. Hastings in attributing the action of these vessels to a contractile or muscular force, and clearly shewed that the tonicity of Bichat, a principle upon the existence of which the arguments opposed to these views chiefly rest, was merely another name for the irritability of Haller. The discrepancies in the microscopic investigations lately undertaken into the minute anatomy of the blood, muscles, and various other parts of the body, were appealed to by Mr. Turner, to shew that little dependence can as yet be placed on the results derived from this mode of examination. But even merely to allude to the many interesting topics brought before the Society in this admirable Report is quite out of our power upon the present occasion. A valuable Report was also read by Mr. Jennings, of Leamington, on the variations induced in the blood in certain diseased conditions, and especially in Fevers, in Inflammation, in Rheumatism and Gout, in Jaundice and in Scrofula. These researches are highly interesting and of great importance, and will we trust be continued and extended by Mr. Jennings to the other fluids of the body. A Report was made by Mr. Hebb, of Worcester, upon a communication from one of the foreign corresponding members of the Society, detailing researches lately made in Holland. Several resolutions were passed relating to the business of the Association, from which it appears that the

ensuing Anniversary Meeting, in 1835, will be held at Oxford, under the presidency of Dr. Kidd, Regius Professor of Medicine in that University. Dr. Pritchard, of Bristol, the learned author of a work upon the Natural History of Man, was appointed to deliver the address; Dr. Malden and Dr. Streeten, of Worcester, to make a Report upon the Physiology of Alimentation; Dr. Booth and Dr. Evans, of Birmingham, upon the Pathology of Dropsy; and Dr. Conolly, of Warwick, and Mr. Hetling, of Bristol, on the Rise and Progress of Provincial Medical Schools. These are subjects of great interest, and important results may contidently be anticipated.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

However ardently we may endeavour to gain an insight into the more Occult processes of nature as presented to our notice in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, and which is a never-failing source of rational amusement, still we cannot be indifferent to those grander results produced by natural causes assisted by human skill and industry, on "nature's ample lap." The annual returns from our fields and pastures, from our gardens and orchards, and from our rivers, mines, and the ocean which surrounds our favoured isle, constitute our real national income and wealth, and "the only wealth," as Dr. Johnson observes, << we can call our own;" and whence flows directly or indirectly all individual comforts and happiness.

In taking a survey of the agriculture of the kingdom, we may observe that the past season as affecting vegetation has been extraordinary, no frost even in the depth of winter; of course vegetation was unusually forward in the early spring; and except a few night frosts during April and May, nothing like winterly weather has been felt. These frosts, slight as they were, however, happened at a critical time, just as the early flowering fruit-trees (pears and plums) were in bloom, and when the first shoots of the meadow grasses were coming forth. Both these products suffered; the first were cut off, and the second completely checked; so that we have but few of these kinds of fruit, and very short crops of hay. The dry weather of May and June, accompanied by harsh easterly winds, checked the spring-sowed corn, and from which many fields of barley and oats have not entirely recovered. Most parts of the country have lately been visited by refreshing showers, which have greatly benefitted the field crops; and though they fell too late for the hay, will secure good second crops of clover, and a full bite of autumn pasturage.

Except some failures in the north-western parts of the kingdom, the wheat in general is looking well; and if this present month (July) continue dry and warm, something approaching an average crop may be expected; and much of it in the southern counties will be ready for the reapers before the end. In many places rye and peas are already cut, and in one instance a field of barley is down.

Both the metropolitan and provincial corn markets are on the decline, owing no doubt to there being a better prospect of the growing crops than there was a month back; and also to the fortunate circumstance, that there is still wheat in the hands of some few farmers, besides an ample stock of the same in bond. Every where the markets are well supplied; and it would be well for the sellers did they receive remunerating prices: but from some cause or other this is certainly not the case; wheat is actually at the present time the cheapest grain at market, comparing weight and prime cost respectively : a circumstance unknown before. The following are the imperial average prices of grain on the 27th ult-wheat 49s. 6d., barley 29s., oats 23s. 11d., rye 32s. 9d., beans 37s. 8d., and peas 43s. 11d. per quarter. Best flour in London from 43s. to 47s. per sack of 280 pounds. Best bread from 7d. to 8d. : household 6d. per loaf of 4 pounds. Malt new from 37s. to 47s.; best Hertfordshire from 52s. to 58s. per quarter, and trade dull.

Butcher's meat of the best quality in the London markets may be purchased from the salesmen at-viz. beef from 3s. 8d. to 4s. 6d., mutton from 3s. 6d. to 4s., veal from 2s. 8d. to 4s. 6d., pork from 2s. 8d. to 4s. 6d., and lamb from 3s. 10d. to 5s. per stone of 8 pounds, sinking offals.

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From the short crops of hay this article is advancing in price: best upland meadow from 100s. to 110s.; and best clover from 110s. to 115s. per load of 36 trusses of 56 pounds each.

Provisions. Irish butter from 50s. to 78s., Dorset 40s., Cambridge 49s., York 38s. per firkin; Cheese, double Gloucester, 48s.: single 41s. to 48s.: Cheshire 54s. to 74s.: Derby 50s. to 60s. per cwt.: Westmoreland and Cumberland hams 46s to 60s. per cwt.

The wool market is steady, though it is rumoured that the country staplers have been buying up at higher prices than the manufacturers are willing to advance. The prices of English wool vary according to quality and description, from 15 to 22d. per pound. Foreign wool finds a ready sale, but without improved prices.

Reports of the hop grounds are very unfavourable from all quarters; consequently good samples keep at a good price. East Kent pockets command from 9 to 11 guineas: bags from 87. 2s. to 10 guineas; Sussex pockets 77. 15s. to 8 guineas.

Fruit. From all appearance apples will be every where a fair sprinkling, except the early flowering varieties which suffered along with the pears and plums, of which two latter there is a very scanty crop. Cherries and small fruit are rather plentiful.

Neither the affairs nor prospects of farmers are much improved. Considering the heavy expense of cultivation, added to the public burdens to which the land is subject, the prices of corn have been far too low; and many would have suffered much more severely, had not the better prices obtained for wool, fat stock, and dairy produce, kept them from sinking.

July 14th, 1834.

PREFERMENTS, MARRIAGES, &c.

PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Thomas Butler, of Shrewsbury, is instituted, by the Archbishop of York, to the Rectory of Langar, in the county of Nottingham, on the presentation of the Crown.-The Rev. James Frederick Secretan Gabb, M. A., Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, to the perpetual curacy of Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, on the presentation of the Principal, Fellows, and Scholars of that Society.-The Rev. J. J. Cory, Vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, to the Vicarage of Aylsham, Norfolk, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The Rev. J. T. Fisher, B. C. L. Jesus College, Cambridge, has been instituted to the Rectory of Badgeworth, Somerset, on the presentation of Sir John Mordaunt, Bart.-The Rev. Henry Stonehouse, B. C. L. Fellow of New College, Oxford, has been preferred to the Rectory of Alton Barnes, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. W. Hare. -The Rev. Wm. Mills, A. M. of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been appointed one of the Masters of the Exeter Free Grammar School.-The Rev. William Trollope, M. A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and late one of the Classical Masters of Christ's Hospital, is nominated to the Vicarage of Great Wigston, Leicestershire, in the patronage of the Governor of that Institution. -The Duke of Sussex has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Henry Clarke, Rector of Northfield and Cofton Hacket, one of his Royal Highness's Domestic Chaplains.

MARRIED.

At Pitminster, the Rev. Samuel Phillips, Vicar of Llandewr, Glamorgan, to the Hon.

Juliana Hicks Noel, youngest daughter of Sir Gerard Noel, Bart. M. P. and Baroness Barham, formerly of Fairy Hill, in the same county, and sister to Lord Barham.-By special license, the Connt de Relationo, to Elizabeth Anne, daughter of the late Rev. Winchcombe Henry Howard Hartley, of Bucklebury House, Berkshire, and of Sodbury, Gloucestershire.-At Tong, Shropshire, Thomas Gllbert, Esq. (grandson and heir of the late Thomas Gilbert, Esq. M. P., and a Bencher of the Inner Temple, of Cotton Hall, Staffordshire), to Mary Anne Moss, youngest daughter of the late William Phillips, Esq. of Chetwynd House, in the county of Salop.-At Edgbaston, by the Rev. W. F. Hook, the Rev. Henry Clarke, Rector of Northfield, Worcestershire, fourth son of the late Major-General Sir William Clarke, Bart. to Agnes Mary, youngest daughter of Dr. John Johnstone.-At Twyning, near Tewkesbury, William Lacon Lambe, M. D. of Hereford, to Amelia, youngest daughter of the Rev. George Foxton, Vicar of Twyning, and Rector of Newtown, Montgomeryshire.-At Great Neston, Sir John Reid, Bart. of Bara, to Janet, daughter of Hugh Matthie, Esq. of New Hall, Cheshire.--By special license, at Sion, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, Viscount Holmesdale, only surviving son of Earl Amherst, to Miss Gertrude Percy, fourth daughter of the Lord Bishop of Carlisle.-At Chester, the Rev. Henry Biddulph, youngest son of Sir Theophilus Biddulph, Bart. to Emma Susan, only daughter of the late John Nuttall, Esq. formerly of Worley Bank.-At Leamington Priors, the Rev. Joseph West, M. A. of New College, Oxford, to Jane, only daughter of

the late Mr. James Marshall, of Churchstreet, Warwick.-At Edgbaston, near Birmingham, Samuel Danks, Esq. solicitor, Birmingham, to Jane Clinton, youngest daughter of the late Philip Hooper, Esq. of Bellbroughton, Worcestershire.

BIRTHS.

At John A. Addenbrooke's, Esq. the Hill, Stourbridge, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Wodehouse, of a daughter.-At Upton-onSevern, the widow of the Rev. John Davison, of a son. The lady of Ferdinando Smith, Esq. of Hales Owen Grange, of a son.At Weston Birt, Gloucestershire, the lady of Robert B. Hale, Esq. of a son.-At Warwick, the Hon. Mrs. Woodmass, lady of Charles Woodmass, Esq. of a son.-At Ludlow, the wife of James Baxter, Esq. of a son, still-born.

DEATHS.

At Hodnet, Salop, aged 83 years, Mary Helen, widow of the late Rev. Reginald Heber, of Hodnet Hall, in that county, and mother of the late Dr. Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta.-In Grosvenor-place, William, eldest son of Colonel the Hon. and Lady Susan Lygon.-John Philips, Esq., of the Heath House, Stafford.-At Cam, the Rev. Wm. Fryer, for 33 years Vicar of that parish, and for 20 years Perpetual Curate of Wheatenhurst, both in the county of Glouces

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At Gloucester, George Swaine Hebburn, Esq., late Captain of the Indian Navy, of Underdean Larches, in the Forest of Dean, in the county of Gloucester.-In the 53rd year of his age, the Rev. John Marc Wood, M. A., Vicar of Stottenden, in the county of Salop, and diocese of Hereford.In Melcombe-place, Dorset square, Charlotte, relict of William Weston, Esq., late of Leamington Priors, Warwickshire.-In Sussex-place, the Right Hon. Lady Teignmouth, relict of the late Lord Teignmouth.-At Hackney, aged 28, Benjamin, the third son of Mr. Tomes, solicitor, Lincoln's-inn-fields,

and late Associate on the Oxford circuit.Sarah, wife of the Rev. John Sleath, D. D., High Master of St. Paul's School, London.At Dodderhill, Worcestershire, of which parish he had been Vicar for forty-four years, the Rev. John Amphlett, D. D.-In Sackville-street, Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart., in his 84th year. At Ludlow, in her 87th year, Mrs. Rogers, relict of the late Charles Rogers, Esq., of Ludlow, and of Stanage Park.-At his seat, Stoke Park, Bucks, in his 75th year, John Penn, Esq., Governor of Portland, heretofore a Proprietary and Hereditary Governor of the Province, now State, of Pennsylvania, in North America.-Rebecca, relict of the late Abraham Darby, Esq., of the Hay, and of Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. -In Cambridge-terrace, the Hon. Mary Roper, relict of the Hon. F. Roper, of Linstead-lodge, county of Kent, and mother of the present Lord Teynham.-This venerable lady had attained her 100th year, being born in February, 1733. She was the daughter of Launcelot Lyttleton, Esq., of Lichfield, grandson of Sir E. Lyttleton, the second Baronet, of Teddesley Hay, county of Stafford.-At Shrewsbury, Christiana Frances Curwen, youngest daughter of the late John Christian Curwen, Esq., of Workington Hall, Cumberland.-At Rome, in consequence of a fall from his horse, Lord Ranelagh, well known in the sporting and fashionable world.-At his house in Harley-street, Cavendish-square, London, Mr. St. John Long, whose name has been for some years familiar to the public as "the kneading Doctor,' in spinal complaints-who has been the object of the bitterest attack with many, and almost blind idolatry with others. He had been ill for about two years, in consequence of the rupture of a blood-vessel, and was sensible of his approaching end.Aged 88, much respected and lamented, Wm. Cary, Esq., of Bevere; and on the day subsequent to the funeral, in consequence of the bursting of a blood-vessel, Colonel Wm. Robt. Cary, R. A., second son of the above gentleman.

LIST OF NEW PATENTS.

George Bather, of the Haymarket, Westminster, for a weighing machine upon a new construction.-May 22, 1834.

Thomas Edmonds, of Burton Street, Hanover Square, for a method of manipulation and treatment for the preparation of leather -May 22, 1834.

Joseph Morgan, of Manchester, for improvements in the apparatus used in the manufacture of mould candles.-May 22, 1834.

Charles Louis Stanislaus Baron Heurteloup, of Holles Street, Cavendish Square, for improvements in certain descriptions of fire arms.-May 22, 1834.

Andrew Smith, of Princes Street, Leicester Square, for a new and improved method of preparing phormium tenax, hemp flax, and other fibrous substances -May 24, 1834.

Luke Smith, of Manchester, and John Smith, of Hepwood, for improvements in weaving machinery. May 24, 1834.

Philip Augustus De Chapeaurouge, of Fenchurch Street, London, for a machine engine for producing motive-power. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad.-May 24, 1834. Stephen Hawkins, of Milton House, near Portsmouth, for improvements in warmingpans.-May 24, 1834.

John George Bodmer, of Bolton-le-Moors, for improvements in steam engines and boilers applicable both to fixed and locomotive engines.-May 12, 1834.

John George Bodmer, of Bolton-le-Moors, for improvement in the construction of grates, stoves, and furnaces, applicable to steam-engines.-May 24, 1834.

William Crofts, of New Radford, Nottinghamshire, for improvements in machinery for making lace.-May 27, 1834.

William Henry Hornsby, of Blackheath, Lancaster, and William Kenworthy, of Blackburn, for improvements in power-looms to be used in the weaving of cotton, linen, silk, woollen, and other cloths.-May 27, 1834.

Richard Simpson, of Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, for improvements in machinery for roving and slubbing cotton and wool. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad.June 3, 1834.

John Bertie, of Basford, Nottinghamshire, and James Gibbons, of Radford, in the same county, for an improved texture of the lace-net, hitherto called bobbin-net or twist-net,June 5, 1834.

George Saint Leger Grenfell, at present residing at Cadogan Place, Sloane Street, for improvements in the construction of saddles. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad.-June 5, 1834.

Edward Keele, of Titchfield, Southampton, for an improved valve and apparatus for close fermenting and cleansing porter, beer, ale, wine, spirits, cider, and all other saccharine and fermentable fluids.-June 7, 1834.

Thomas Ridgway Bridson, of Bolton, Lancashire, for improvements in machinery to be used in the operation of drying cotton, linen, and other similar manufactured goods. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad.-June 10, 1834.

James Whittaker, of Wardle, near Rochdale, Flannel Manufacturer, for improvements in engines used for carding wool.-June 12, 1834.

Matthew Bush, of Dalmonarch Printfield, North Britain, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for drying and printing calicoes and other fabrics.-June 14, 1834.

James Lee Hannah, of Brighton, for an improvement in surgical instruments for reducing the stone in the bladder, and enabling the patient to pass it off through the urethra.-June 16, 1834.

Joseph Jones, of Oldham, and Thomas Mellodew, of the same place, for improvements in the construction of power-looms, and in the manufacture of corded fustian.June 16, 1834.

Charles Wilson, of Kelso, in the county of Roxburgh, for improvements applicable to the machinery used in the preparation for spinning wool and other fibrous substances.June 17, 1834.

Isaac Jecks, jun., of Bennet's Hill, in the city of London, for an apparatus for drawing on or off boots.-June 17, 1834.

William Symington, of Bromley, Middlesex, and Andrew Symington, of Falkland, Fifeshire, for a paddle-wheel of a new construction for the propulsion of vessels and other motive purposes.-June 23, 1834.

John Chester Lyman, of Golden Square, for improvements in cleansing rice, barley, and coffee. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad.-June 24, 1834.

[The Meteorological Report for Malvern, for each succeeding month, will appear regularly

in the forthcoming numbers.]