Efgery were commenced on Thursday, the last., by Mr. B. Cooper. In the first ecture, owing to the novelty of his position, he was somewhat nervous, and did not explain his views so clearly as he was anxious ijdo. On the second occasion of his lecturhowever, he was " quite at home," and attempted to show that fracture of the neck the femur within the capsule never could occur; that, in fact, nature never intended that it should. He entered at considerable length into the arguments which had been

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... adduced on both sides of this contested point, and denied that a case of osseous union of the neck of the thigh-bone within ibe capsule had ever occurred. assure you that we have had abundant evidence, in the course of the last year, of the increasing confidence of the country in the protective power of vaccination; though this satisfaction is somewhat diminished by the frequent avowal of our correspondents of their inability to maintain a supply of genuine authentic lymph without the aid of that afforded by this national establishment. Among other facts which prove the importance attached to the existence of this board, we may mention, that small-pox having broken out in the Orkney Islands, immediate recourse was had to the board, and a large quantity of lymph sent thither, which appears to have arrested the progress of this horrible malady, and probably to have placed the inhabitants of those distant parts of her Majesty's dominions beyond the fear of its recurrence. We have vaccinated, at the several stations within and in the immediate neighbourhood of the metropolis, 15,361 subjects; and have sent out to our correspondents and tc the colonies, at the instance of Government 152,668 charges of vaccine lymph. We have, &c. (Signed) HENRY HALFORD.