The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-02 00:00:00

THE PHARMACY ACT AND THE CHEMISTS.

On Friday afternoon, a meeting of the chemists
and druggists of Manchester was held at the Atheneum, to
consider the provisions of the act of parliament for regu-
lating the profession of pharmaceutical chemists, which was
passed into • law just before the expiration of the late
session. About fifty persons were present, among whom
we noticed one or two medical gentlemen—Mr. Jacob Bell.
the late member for St. Albans, and Mr. Macfarlane, of
Edinburgh, with Dr. Edwards, chemist, of Liverpool, who
attended as a deputati a from the council of the Pharma-
ceutical Society, to explain the new position of the trade.
Mr. Standring, who was requested to occupy the chair, in-
traduced the business, and stated the provisions of the act.
Mr. Bell then addressed th., meeting at much length, stat-
ing the intentions of the promoters of this new law. If
this bill were acted upon generally, it would become almost
a matter of necessity, for those who wished to hold a re-
spectable position in the business, to become members of the
Pharmaceutical Society ; and conseqeent/y all the appren-
tices now in the business who had probably entered it
without any very definite ideaof the amount of education
they might require, would find it absolutely necessary for
them to read and study, to undergo the examination pre-
viously to being registered. In future the term " phar-
maceutical chemist " would have a special distinction re-
cognised by the law. No persons would be admitted to
enjoy the privilege of using that term without having
pseud the examination of the Pharmaceutical Society,
except simply those persona who were in business at
the present time, and who had already a certain claim
to be recognised. The chemists had no views of en-
croaching on the business of apothecaries; nothing could
be further from their intentions; but they wished to
have their own business recog • d as it was on the con-
tinent; for an important profession conducted by men of
science and education. The Pharmaceutical Society would
not prevent any one who chose to be merely • chemist
and druggist, from felling and dispensing medicine;
but the law would prevent such a person calling himself
" pharmaceutical chemist." It would be to • young max
no hardship, but • real privilege, to be able to go before
the examiners, and prove that he had studied and obtained
• legal testimony to his being a properly qualified
Several questions were asked, in reply to some
of wbieh Mr. Bell stated that an apprentice who came
forward to pass the examination would be received at pre-
sent, though he were the apprentice or pupil of a mere drag-
gist,n • member of the society ; but it was probable that
taet
course of a few years, after the dssti'etion be-
tween druggist and pharmaceutical °Medd should be well
understood_ then the examiners would require the appren-
tice to bring a certificate of peptises tram a phermeneutist.
It was not designed to maw the revelatiga seeidealy.—Dr.
Edwards and Mr. Maefertene also spoke, sad a enavereation
ensued which ended in the sigution of the followiag reso-
lution: " That it is desirable that the local association esta-
blished in Manchester should serpents with the Pharma-
ceutical Society in Lesko. Ilse the purpose of admitting
into the Pharmacentierd /sally emit members of the trade
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as are duly qualified."—Thaida having been given to the
deputation and to the chairman, the meeting separated.—
Monehorier Esarairaw.

Sleßlol7B FIRE IN LAMBETH.—Yesterday morning,
shortly alter live o'clock, • fire of • very alarming the-
raster occurred on the premises of Mr. J. Wortley, • hair- '
dresser and perfumer, and Mr. Lawrence, a bookseller and
geeenl dealer, No. 75, New-cut. The disooesry was made
by Mr. Wenley, who was awakened by an unusual noise in
the shop. He immediately jumped out of bed for the pur-
pose of oicerteining the cause, but the moment he opened
his room door be was met by volumes of smoke which
nearly prostrated biro. He succeeded, however, in mount-
ing the stairs sad arousing the other inmates, consisting of
six or sews pasews, massipt whom was an old lady be.
twain N mid de years of age, named Nicholls,
who bad bees beddelem for a considerable period. The
whole of the residesis except Mn. Nicholls, at ma sada
an attempt to deemed 17 the staircases, but the smoke
obliged them to reams, and having got out of one of the
upper windows, they alighted upon a penthouse over the
shops, where they doubtlessly would have lost their lives,
had it not been for the timely arrival of Mr. Hambletoo,
with the engine and firemen from the Waterloo-road brigade
depot, by whose scaling ladders they were enabled to de-
scend, la the Illsentilllo, Police-constable Ireland, No.llB
of the L division, who was on duty near the spot, had
climbed lip one of the poles in front of the house, and
intend several of the rooms, for the purpose of rescuing
Mrs. Nicholls. During the brief interval, however, Mee.
Woraley had entered her apartment, and having pulled her
out of hod, • Mrs. Jackson who resided in the premises,
carried her out on her hick. The constable, however,
went from room to room, in search of the poor old lady,
until becoming almost overpowered with smoke, he was
obliged to jump out of window, to avoid suffocation.
Unfortunately, he fell through a glass skylight,
by which he was frightfully cut by the broken glass, and
otherwise seriousl., if not fatally, injured A large piece
of glass entered one of the lips end lodged in the roof of the
month. His knee-cap is also broken, his shoulder dislo-
cated, and nearly every part of his face is cut with broken
`lass. He was at once removed to Guy's Haspital, when
he at peewee remains in • very precarious state. There
being en abundant supply of water, the fire was at last
extinguished, but not until Mr. Worsley's lower premises
had been nearly consumed, and three of Mr. Lawrence
extensively damaged. The origin of the disaster is enve-
loped in obscurity. Mr. Woraley was insured in the County
Fire-oMcs, and Mr. Lawrence in the Royal Liverpool office.
DEFAULT 01, PUBLIC COLLECTORIL—Within the
pat few days two out of the three collector, to the Leeds
Water Works Company have beers discovered to be defaul-
ten. One of them, named Heaton, whose accounts an
deficient 2001., has absconded. The other is • defaulter to
the extent of 401. The company hold security to the ex-
tent of 1001. in each case. _ _ _

YACIITINO.—Tho America and Mosquito yachts
are entered for prim on both days of the Plymouth regatta
—Wednesday and Thursday neat. It is anticipated that
a larger fleet of yachts will visit the port on the occasion of
this regatta than has been here at any one time for many
years previously.

TRAFFIC IN ARMY COMMISSIONS.
(Plum the (Ailed &Trim Casette.)
There are, we have heard, generally about eighteen
hundred persons' names on the Commsnder•in-Cbiel'S list
fur commissions. Lord Fitzroy Somerset stated as much
in his evidence before the select committee on army and
ordnance expenditure. To expect that Lord Fitzroy should
remember these names, or the particular claims of one-tenth
part of the number, were ab.urd. He trusts to his lista
and to the recommendations of officers who write to him or
attend his levees, and.l names are brought before him
with a fair word in their favour, he does not hesitate to
select them for commission•. This opens the door to the
jobbery carried ou, to the infinite scandal of the florin,
Hoards..

That the excellent and honourable Military Secretary may
know to what extent this gum on, we unhesitatingly state
that there are persons of all classes, in town and elsewhere,
putting themselves in communication with the gentle-
men who prepare young men for the army, offerings
for certain sums, to get their tisane brought for-
ward some months earlier than they could exherauie
hope for. No less than four individual+, tutolly un•
known to each other, assur d a friend of ours the week
before last that they possessed this mysteriou+ power
Of course, they were very close as to the manner in
which the thing was done ; but one of thnn having
demanded three or four hundred pounds to effect a certain
oliject, he was roundly asked into whose pocket such a
cum would go ? lle ans awed in great confide nee, that he
was obliged to bribe certain necessitous general officers,
who would wait upon Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and on the
strength of their rank and services, solicit the favour of his
speedily
nominating the youth who was to nay the amount.
The others asked much less for what they pinioned to eff,ct
—and declined to state how they accomplished the end;
but that they had the means they were prepared to prove
by reference to certain successful cases—that is to say, cer-
tain preferential nominations obtained through their moans,
at no distant date.

DEATH OF SIB J. W. LORING, ADMIR.4L. OF
TRH BLUE.

Sir John Wentworth Loring, K.C.8., K.C.H. of
Pear-tree Howie Southampton, died at Ryder on Thursdaylast. Admiral Loring was born Oct. 13, 1773, in Atn-riea,
being eon of the late Joshua Loring, Esq., permanent legit-
theta of the Province of Massachusetts, previously to tho
American War of Independence, and grandson of Commo-
dore Loring, who commanded on the lakes of Ca 1111,141. also
previous to that war. lie served from June 1789, to
December 1791, on board the Salisbury, 30, hearing the
Bag of Vice-Admiral Milhanke, at Newtouadhand, sod
afterwards en the home and Mediterranean rations as mid-
shipman in the Alcide, 74 ; Romney, 50; °metes, 18 ; Confla-
gration, fire ship; and Victory, 100, Bag-ship of Lord Hood.
With this nobleman, at the occupation of Toulon, Mr. Loring
served us a voluuteer at Fort Mulgrave, where, on the nigiit
of its assault and capture by the republican troupe, Dec. 17,
1793, he received a severe wound ly a musket hall just
below the knee, which compelled him to proceed to Gibral-
tar for surgical aid. Rejoining the ictory, he again
acted at the reduction of Bastin, having commend of a
gunboat, and employed from night till morning in watching
the Mole-bead. On the surrender of that place, May,
1794, Mr. Loring was promoted to a lieutenancy in La
Fleche, 16, Captain John Gore, being soon after trams-
leered, at the request of Sir Hyde I'srker, to his Bag-ship,
the St. George, 98, by which he had an opportunity of
sharing in Hotham's actions of March 14 and Joly 13, 1795.
!In the early part of the following year be was
serving with the I.IIIIC admiral un board the
Britannia, 100 ; and at its close in the West
,Indies on board the Comet tiro-ship. In June, 1798,
being in command of the Rattler, 16, he ably co-
-1 operated with Sir Brett Spencer in superintending the
evacuation of the Cargemite Island near St. Domingo.
Thuprocured him his removal to the Lark, 18, the hest
Teasel of her class on the station. During his command of
her Captain Loring secceeded in capturing 8 privateers
and 27 merchant vessels, and on 011 C UCL.laioll the Lark
bring dismasted in a hurricane, be so re-equippc:i her with
such expedition and in face of so many diffisulties, that
Lord Seymour, the new commanderin-chier, net only re-
turned him public thank., but suecessivey appointed hint
toile Abergavvnny, 54, and Siren 32. In March, 1802, he
displayed so much coolness in quelling • most dangerous
mutiny that had broken out an board the Syrtis
that the Admiralty coi7Brmcd him in post rank by a commis-
sion, ante-dated to the day prior to the v.nersl promotion
which had tak. a place in honour of the peace of that year.
After serving in several ether ships, in We, being in the
Niobe, 40, Captain Loriug observed on the 28th el March
three large French frigates and a corvette standing Out to
sea oaf L'Oriente. Notwithstanding the superiority of the
enemy, he immediately made sail in pursuit, and in tho
course of the night he came up with Le Ne,arque, Ii guns,
of which be took possession. On the 20th of October, 1810,
he captured L'Hirondelle, privateer, of 4 guns, and in the
course of the following month he received the approbation
of the Admiralty for an attack made in company of tho
Diana, 38, upon two French 40 gun frigates, the Amason,
and Elise, which were driven under the batteries of La
Hague, the Eliza being ultimately burnt. Watching the
pert of Havre, where the Amazon had made
her escape to, lie made prize of Le Loop,
privateer, of 16 guns, and towards the close of the
same month the Amazon having slipped in the night was
forced on shore nee.r Cape Banfieur and destroyed. From
March 1816 to October following, when he resigned, Capt.
Loring was superintendent of Sheerness ordinary. He
was lieut.-governor of the Royal Naval College from Nov.
1819, to his attainment of flag master in January 1837.
By the death of Admiral Loring, Vice Admiral Sir
P. -Hellen becomes Admiral of the Blue; Sir F.
Mason, Vice Admiral of the Red; C. J. Johnston, Vice
Admiral of the White ; C. S. J. liawtagne, Vice Admiral
of the Blue ; E. Harvey, Rear Admiral of the Red ; M. F.
F. Berkeley, Rear Admiral of the ‘Vhite; and Capt H. W.
Bruce, (Commodore on the Coast of Africa) is promoted to
the rank of Rear Admiral. By the latter promotion a cap-
taia's good service pension is at the service of the First
Lord of the Admiralty.

CLERICAL.

Rev. Augustus Stung, M.A., to Wakot Curacy. Bath.

Vicastsoza. Arlington, Suez, diocese Chichester,
value Mel., patron the Prebendary of Woodhorae ; Rev.
R. Belaney, seceded.
Candover, Preston, r. Nutley, Hants, diocese Winches-
ter, value 2281., patrons Dean and Chapter of Winehestcr ;
1t,,. ThomasWesteombe, deceased.