avoidably have miseries here, life is short, and they will soon be over. Thus do these consolations destroy each other; for if life is a place of comfort, its shortness must be misery; and if it be long, our griefs are protracted. Thus philosophy is weak; but religion comforts in a higher strain. Man is here, it tells us, fitting up his mind, and preparing it for another abode. When the good man leaves the body, and is all a glorious mind, he will find he has been making himself a heaven of happiness here; while the wretch that has been maimed and contaminated by his vices, shrinks from his body with terror, and finds that he has anticipated the vengeance of heaven. To religion, then, we must hold in every circumstance of life for our truest comfort; for if already we are happy, it is a pleasure to think that we can make that happiness unending; and if we are miserable, it is very consoling to think that there is a place of rest. Thus, to the fortunate, religion holds out a continuance of bliss; to the wretched, a change from pain.-GOLDSMITH.

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Pol. Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame;
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,

And you are staid for. There, my blessing with you!
And these few precepts in thy memory

See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in,
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;

And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all,-To thine ownself be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee.

SHAKSPEARE.

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Regulus was a man of the old Roman kind, like Curius and Fabricius, devoted to his country, eager for glory, frugal, bold, resolute or (call it)

stubborn. He has been censured for excessive presumptuousness in his African campaign, and for the extravagance by which he lost all the advantages which he might have secured. But it must be allowed that he had some grounds even for overweening confidence. Ever since the two nations had met in arms, the star of Carthage had grown dim before that of Rome. Even on the sea, where her navies had long ridden triumphant, the Queen of the Mediterranean had twice been beaten by her unskilled rival. There was enough to make more sagacious men than Regulus believe that Carthage was well nigh powerless against Rome. The Romans had yet to learn that when the jealous government of Carthage allowed great generals to command their armies, such as Xanthippus, and Hamilcar, and Hannibal, then the well-trained mercenaries might gain easy victories over their own brave but less practised citizens.-LIDDell.

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Sublime, emerging from the misty verge.
Of the horizon dim, thee, Moon, I hail,
As, sweeping o'er the leafless grove, the gale
Seems to repeat the year's funereal dirge.
Now Autumn sickens on the languid sight,
And leaves bestrew the wanderer's lonely way;
Now unto thee, pale arbitress of night,
With double joy my homage do I pay.
When clouds disguise the glories of the day,
And stern November sheds her boisterous blight,
How doubly sweet to mark the moony ray
Shoot through the mist from the ethereal height,
And, still unchang'd, back to the memory bring
The smiles Favonian of life's earliest spring.

KIRKE WHITE.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF M. B.

PROFESSOR LAW.

1. What are the organic peculiarities of those animals whose calorific function is most active?

2. What are the two great purposes or ends for which food is taken into the body; and the composition of such food according to the exigencies of each?

3. How many different renal affections are comprehended under the general designation of Bright's Disease, and what are they?

4. What are the proofs, derived from physiology, pathology, and comparative anatomy, that there exists a vicarious action between the lungs and liver?

5. What are the signs, symptoms, and post mortem appearances of a case of acute phthisis pulmonalis ?

DR. BENNETT.

1. Describe the operation of tapping the chest; and state the circum stances which indicate the performance of the operation, and the accidents which should be guarded against in the execution of it.

2. Describe the symptoms which indicate the passage of a calculus from the kidney to the bladder; and state how you would treat a case of this kind during and after the passage of the calculus.

3. State the characters which distinguish malignant and benign tu

mours.

4. What are the causes of epistaxis, and what the methods of arresting the hemorrhage ?

5. Mention the varieties of fracture of the clavicle, and describe the symptoms of the most common variety.

MIDWIFERY, ETC.

PROFESSOR SINCLAIR.

1. Under what circumstances would you advise the induction of premature labour at the seventh month?

2. Explain the various methods which may be adopted for replacing the prolapsed funis.

3. What are the circumstances and conditions which may give rise to abortion?

4. You are called to a case of uterine hæmorrhage at the ninth month of gestation; explain the manner in which you would arrive at your

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diagnosis, and give the proper mode of treatment under every circumstance of the case.

5. Four or five days after a delivery which had been prolonged in the second stage, on withdrawing a bright silver catheter from the urethra of the patient, it is observed to be blackened; the import of this?

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

DR. TRAVERS.

1. What phænomena occurring within the body after death, are liable to be mistaken for pathological conditions produced during life?

2. From what circumstances observed in anatomical investigation, would you be justified in believing that sudden death had been caused by disease of the heart?

3. State the objections to what are described as the colour tests for strychnia; and by what means you would obviate the difficulty arising from them.

4. In what cases will the usual characters of death from drowning, be absent from the lifeless bodies of those who have been submerged while yet living?

5. From what characters besides those observable in the thoracic viscera, is it possible to determine the viability of the fœtus?

BOTANY.

DR. DICKSON.

1. What is the difference between a Corm (as in Crocus), and a Bulb (as in Lilium); and in what respect are they identical?

2. In an aquatic plant, with leaves, of which some are submerged and some floating, in what situation should you expect to find stomata ?

3. Name natural orders, in which syngenesious, monadelphous, diadelphous, and didynamous stamens respectively occur.

4. In the capitulum of the Daisy (Bellis perennis), how do the florets of the ray differ from those of the disk, as regards corolla and sexual organs?

5. State the characters of the natural order Primulacea, as regards calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF MASTER IN SURGERY.

DR. ADAMS.

1. Describe a case of ranula, and the treatment likely to be successful. 2. Suppose a case of epistaxis dangerous from its continuance, how would you effectually arrest the hemorrhage? and mention the appliances on which you would rely.

3. Give a case of obstinate onychia of the great toe nail; mention the indications of treatment, and how these are to be fulfilled.

4. What are the principal dangers in the lateral operation of lithotomy? and mention the means suggested, and had recourse to, to obviate these dangers, by Cline, Blizzard, Brodie, Scarpa, and Dupuytren, and before him by other French surgeons, as well as by Surgeons Daunt, Peile, and Crampton of this city.

5. Mention some of the more serious forms of inflammation which attack the skin, cellular membrane, &c., in the neighbourhood of the anus; the local and general symptoms of what Mr. Pott called a “phyma."

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Trace the nerves of the tongue, and assign their functions.
2. Give a description of the mucous membrane of the duodenum.

3. Give a description of the femoral sheath.

4. Give the relations of the anterior tibial artery, and enumerate its branches.

5. Enumerate the ligaments which connect the head to the vertebral column.

DR. BENNETT.

1. State the symptoms which distinguish blood, pus, or depressed bone, as the cause of compression of the brain.

2. Describe the methods of opening the trachea and larynx, and state the cases to which the operations are respectively suited.

Describe the methods of acupressure used in the control of arterial hemorrhage.

4. State the differential diagnosis of the following varieties of inguinal hernia occurring in the male, viz.: hernia virilis, hernia congenita, and hernia infantilis.

5. What are the chief causes of mortality consequent on amputations of the limbs, and the means adopted with a view to the reduction of the mortality?