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St. James's Park. It has been decided that the exhibition of fancy paper on the boards of the enclosure of Trafalgar-square is to continue open to the public till further notice. By a recent Act of Parliament, foot passengers crossing Blackfriars-bridge are allowed to walk on whichever side of it they like best. * * * * * ERRATA IN THE "TIMES." For "Sir James Graham denied that he ever _changed_ his friends or his principles," read "_hanged_ his friends or his principles." For "Lord John Russell said that he had strenuously endeavoured to keep _pace_ with the march of Reform," read "keep _place_ with the march of Reform." For "though Sir Robert Peel is the ostensible _head_, the Duke of Wellington holds the _reins_ of the present administration," read "the Duke of Wellington holds the _brains_ of the present administration." For "Colonel Sibthorp said he despised the man who suffered himself be made the _tool_ of a party," read "the _fool_ of a party." * * * * * THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LONDON MEDICAL STUDENT [Illustration: O]Our lively neighbours on the opposite side of the _Pas de Calais_ (as they are pleased, in a spirit of patriotic appropriation, to translate the Straits of Dovor), have lately shot off a flight of small literary rockets about Paris, which have exploded joyously in every direction, producing all sorts of fun and merriment, termed _Les Physiologies_--a series of graphic sketches, embodying various every-day types of characters moving in the French capital. In the same spirit we beg to bring forward the following papers, with the hope that they will meet with an equally favourable reception. 1. THE INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE. We are about to discuss a subject as critical and important to take up as the abdominal aorta; for should we offend the class we are about to portray, there are fifteen hundred medical students, arrived this week in London, ripe and ready to avenge themselves upon our devoted cranium, which, although hardened throughout its ligneous formation by many blows, would not be proof against their united efforts. And we scarcely know how or where to begin. The instincts and different phases, under which this interesting race appears, are so numerous, that far from complaining of the paucity of materials we have to work upon, we are overwhelmed by mental suggestions, and rapidly-dissolving views, of
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