office that ever appealed to medical interests attained such success as that which has attended the NEW EQUITABLE in the same space of time. And on every ground, they are able to congratulate the Policy and Shareholders, as well as the meidcal profession, upon the continued prosperity of the Company.

4by me in the body-guard: that had any of us Europeans fallen, our saddles would have remained unoccupied; whereas, of the Natives, all were up (although feverish) and doing well, when next day we marched back upon Prome.The dangerous character of the disease is sufficiently exemplified in all the medical narratives which speak of the sunstroke, and is statistically shown, by Mr. Marcus Hill, in the fact that, out of 504 seizures, there occurred 259 deaths.Of the remaining number, this intelligent and promising officer (since killed by the mutineers) states that eight were doubtful; leaving the deaths to seizures at 51-38 per cent., while the recoveries were but 45'03 of those attacked. The statistics of Dr. Gordon, of the 10th Foot, are still more melancholy.Out of 28 cases treated by this able officer, but one recovered, and that imperfectly. He estimates the mortality amongst European soldiers at 80 per cent., and that of officers at 66 '66 per cent. Dr. Lindsay, of Bengal, again, states that, "once seized, he has never saved a patient." " His patients, and most of Dr. Gordon's, must have been beyond the reach of cure when cure was attempted. This would appear the only fair construction.

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CHEMICAL TESTIMONY IN COURTS OF LAW. arrangement the saving of time will be immense, the amount I of comfort indescribable, and the general advantage not easily to be appreciated. In fact, the bait of CHEAPNESS" is a species of allurement which every intelligent student must reject with deserved contempt. THE CHEMICAL EVIDENCE AT THE TRIAL OF MARY NORTH. LETTER FROM MR. ALFRED S. TAYLOR. To the Editor of THE LANCET. SIR,—I beg to forward you the copy of a letter to Mr. Harrington, in reply to his communication in your last number, with some remarks upon one of the most flagrant instances of the perversion of chemical evidence in a court of law which I have ever met with. Copy of a letter addressed to Mr. John J. Harrington. " SIR,—I beg to call your attention to a most serious misstatement in a letter written by you to the editor of THE LANCET, and published in that journal of Saturday last, (Sept. 12th,) page 304. "In reference to Mary North's case, you say-' the prisoner's defence rested entirely upon this question, whether sulphuric acid, sugar, and water, mixed together in certain proportions, and aniseed, sugar, and water, mixed together in like proportions, would, in point of colour, a few minutes afterwards, produce a similar or a somewhat similar appearance. The girl's life undoubtedly hung upon the result.'

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