was no sewerage at all. It would be a puzzle indeed to find a village in Ireland, or any where else, of 200 inhabitants with any sewerage. His most serious mis-statement is however, relative to the household of the Lord Lieutenant, and to the death of the Comptroller of the Household.

Cholera broke out in Castleknock in the month of August, 1849; the following is the account of the outbreak from the Report of the Commissioners of Health, p. 32.

"In the small village of Castleknock, about two miles from Dublin, and about one mile from the Hibernian School, also in a healthy, high, and dry locality, containing about 200 inhabitants, the disease suddenly broke out at 2 o'clock P.M., on Saturday, the 25th of August, 1849, and between that hour and 2 o'clock, A.M. on Monday, 27th, a period of 36 hours, 25 deaths occurred. During the remainder of the 27th no new case appeared; occasional cases appeared up to 19th September, when the disease totally disappeared."

We felt very much surprised by the evidence of Surgeon Wilde; because, if it were true, it would appear to establish a clear and unquestionable argument for contagion, and if the Commissioners of Health had passed by in silence a case so remarkable as that of the late Major Turner, Comptroller of the Household, in the viceroyalty of the Earl of Clarendon, they would have been guilty of a very gross and mischievous suppression; particularly as they refer to the very spot in which the infection is alleged by Surgeon Wilde to have been taken. Thinking thus we have enquired into the facts, and find them to be as follow, and we can vouch for their accuracy, from the relation of persons most fully and perfectly acquainted with all the circumstances. Indeed we may observe that the shock of his short illness and death, the station which he filled, the esteem in which he was held, all combined to leave a painfully vivid recollection of the details of Major Turner's attack upon the minds of many, so that we have had no difficulty in obtaining our information.

On Saturday, the 25th of August, 1849, Major Turner breakfasted, at nine o'clock, with the Council, at the Zoological Gardens. He was then in perfectly good health; and the conversation turning upon the subject of the Cholera, which had appeared in scattered cases that morning about Castleknock, Major Turner observed, that although he had himself no fears on the matter, yet in deference to the feelings of Mrs. Turner, he would not attend Castleknock Church the following day

Sunday, and accordingly he did not attend that church, but went to the Chapel of the Hibernian School, and there a circumstance occurred which fixed remarkably the fact of Major Turner's having been at Church on that day at the Hibernian School and not at Castleknock. After the service, the late Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan, then the Chaplain, observed to the governor of the Hibernian School, that when in the pulpit, as Major Turner walked up the chapel, he was shocked at his appearance of extreme illness.

Major Turner returned to his house from the chapel, not having gone at all to Castleknock Church; on arriving at home he was prostrated, and he died, universally regretted, at five o'clock the following morning, Monday, the 27th of August. Surgeon Wilde says "a portion of the Household of the Lord Lieutenant went to the Church at Castleknock; they were stricken with Cholera." There is not one word of truth in this; with the exception of the lamented Major Turner, not a single member of the Lord Lieutenant's Household was "stricken with cholera."

Neither Lord Clarendon, nor his household attended Castleknock Church, as Surgeon Wilde has stated; they attended divine worship every Sunday at the Castle Chapel, in Dublin, and especially avoided Castleknock at the period mentioned.

Thus we have shown the entire of Surgeon Wilde's reply to Query 3069 to be as fanciful in its facts, as any of the returns in the Report on the Status of Disease. Its glaring recklessness of assertion, and its probable mischievous results on the minds of those ignorant of the real facts, have induced us to refer to it at so considerable a length. We suppose from the above that Surgeon Wilde is a contagionist--with his opinions either way we have no concern, nor shall we decide when Doctors differ,but his statistics and facts appear to be in perfect keeping of fancifulness.

We felt bound to controvert the authority of these blundering returns, which, if permitted to stand on record unexplained, might become the strong arguments of those who support all measures of just and unjust retrenchment of the National expenditure whether we have "paraded" unnecessarily, or unfairly, the errors of this "grave public document," is now in the judgment of every reader. But, in forming an opinion

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of the justice of our exposure of these blunders, let the reader remember that the reputation and feelings of any individual, be he a Census Commissioner, or a Surgeon, or anything else the reader please to fancy, cannot for one moment be permitted to stand in competition, or in equality of interest with the poor of Dublin, or the advancement of Medical and Surgical Science, or the existence of the Dublin Hospitals. We do sincerely hope, notwithstanding the blunders of the Census, that the Dublin Hospital Grants shall be continued; we found this hope upon these passages of the Report of the Select Committee, which declared that "The City of Dublin is in a position peculiar to itself, as compared with other towns of the empire. It is a metropolis for the poor but not for the rich. The value of its property has, within the last 14 years, decreased, while local taxation, population, and pauperism have increased. It has been shown that the ability of Dublin to support charitable institutions is less than it was when the Commissioners reported in 1842. Almost every witness has stated, that it would be impossible to raise a sufficient sum to preserve the hospitals in an efficient state, either by voluntary subscription, or local taxation; a withdrawal of the grant would, therefore, have the effect of entirely closing some, and of impairing materially the efficiency of all, these valuable institutions.

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A medical school of the highest repute has been established in Dublin, which is almost entirely dependent on the indirect mode of support by Parliamentary Grants to these hospitals. The system of instruction pursued appears to possess many advantages. Sir Benjamin Brodie has stated in his evidence, that its continuance is, as a national object,' very important. The most eminent physicians and surgeons in Dublin devote a great portion of their time to instruction and hospital attendance. Separate schools are attached to the different hospitals, which has the salutary effect of creating emulation. Museums, founded at great expense, and admirably adapted for their purpose, exist. Except in a very few cases the salaries of the medical officers are not derived from the funds of the institutions. Their emoluments arise from pupils' fees. This system, thus nearly self-supporting, has hitherto been most successful. Ireland has been furnished from Dublin, even in its remote districts, with medical men of sound education.

968 Dispensaries have now to be supplied with properlyqualified attendants: the withdrawal of these Hospital grants would, in the opinion of your Committee, occasion the ruin of this great educational system; and at a time when Parliament has shown so munificent a disposition towards the diffusion of knowledge, and the encouragement of science and art, your Committee hope that it will not hesitate to provide an adequate sum for the developement of that science which is most beneficial to mankind."

QUARTERLY RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF REFORMATORY AND RAGGED SCHOOLS, AND OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF PRISON DISCIPLINE.

This paper forms the first of a series to be devoted to the recording of such facts, to the analyzation of such statistics, to the reproducing, for general readers, such lectures, speeches judicial charges, or School or Prison Reports as may seem to us so important as to be advantageous to the Reformatory School Movement, or to the cause of the friends of improved Prison Discipline.

We have been induced to adopt this plan of a Quarterly Record from a knowledge of the fact, that many of the most important Reformatory School and Prison Reports are unknown to the majority of even those who take a lively and christian interest in the cause. For example; in this Quarter's Record we introduce a Report from the Kingswood School; and an account of the noble philanthropy of Lady Noel Byron we are enabled to report the opinions of the Rev. Mr. Field on the Separate System, showing that he is more fully persuaded, now, of its efficacy, than when, seven years ago, he published his admirable work on Prison Discipline, and we analyze the various publications of the quarter bearing on these questions. And turning to our own country, we can proudly state that though last in the active working of the Reformatory School movement, yet now we can record, from the evidence of Mr. Commissioner Senior-from the evidence and reports of Mr. Corry Connellan; from the recent charge of Mr. Thomas O'Hagan to the grand jury of his county; from the expressed and able adherence of The Daily Express, of the Northern Whig, of the Tipperary Free Press, and of the Midland Counties Gazette, that Ireland shall not be long without the protection afforded to England and Scotland by the passing of the Youthful Offenders' Act.

In the Thirty First Report of the Inspectors General of Prisons on the General State of the Prisons of Irelnd, 1852, the attention of the Legislature was powerfully and emphatically claimed for the juvenile criminal population of the country. The condition of the various gaols throughout the country was analyzed; their woful inappropriateness for all the requirements of separation, or even division, was pointed out. The