The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-16 00:00:00

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TIVERPOOL LADIES' COLLEGE, BLACK-
, BURNE-PLACE, HOPE-STREET.
LECTURES ON ESTHETICS.
A Course of TEN LECTURES on "/ESTHETICS, OR THE
SCIENCE OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND OF TASTE," will be
given at the College, on Wednesday nest, 22nd inst., and succeed-
inz Wednesdays. at Three o'clock, p.m. by Professor CARL
RETSLAG, Ph.D .of Berlin. Fee for the Course, 12s 6d. Sylla-
bus—Subject of 'Esthetics; Hi‘toric .1 Sketch, Burke on the Sublime
and Beautiful, The Beautiful in Nature, The Beautiful produced by
Art, &c.

More extended Syllabuses may be obtained at the College.
ASTRUP CARES, Secretary.

LIVERPOOL LADIES' COLI EGE, BLACK-
BURNE-HOUSE, HOPE-STREET.
FREE PUBLIC LECTURES.
This morning (Thursday), the 16th instant, at Eleven o'clock,
"GEOLOGY," by the Rev. Professor GRIFFITHS. On Tuesday
afternoon n.xt, the 21st Instant, at Three o'clock, " ENGLISH
LITERATURE," by the Rev. JAMES CRANBROOK. Pros-
pectus_s of the College may be obtained on application.
ASTRUP CARISS, Secretary.

IN THE COUNTY COURT OF LANCASHIRE,
HOLDEN AT LIVERPOOL.
WHEREAS, a Petition of EVAN JONES, late of
No. 48, M'Kenzie-street, Breck-road, Everton, near
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, extra Weigher in her Majesty's
Customs at Liverpool aforesaid a previously of No. 13. Stancliffe-
street, in Liverpool of i re3aid Grocer and Provision Dealer, an In-
s Avent Debtor, having been fi'ed in the Liverpool District County
Court, and an hiterini jrde.. Protection from process having been
given to the said EVAN J ONES, under the provisions of the Statutes
in that ca'e made and provided, the said EVAN JONES is here-
by required to appear in Court before JOSEPH POLLOCK. Esq.,
Judge of the said Court, on the 4th day of November, 1856, at
Twelve o'clock at Nooa precisely, at the Liverpool District County
Court, No. 80, Lime street, Liverpool, for his First Examination,
touching his Deb's, Estate and Effects, and to be further dealt
with according to the provisions of the said Statutes. And Notice
is hereby given, that the choice of Assignees is to take place at the
time so appointed. All persons indebted to the said EVAN JONES,
or who have any of his Effects, are not to pay or deliver the same
but to Mr. WILLIAM STATHAM, the Official Assignee, at his Office,
No. 80, Lime-street, Liverpool.
THURSD AY

LECTURES

The following well known and justly respected ministers and
gentlemen have very kindly agreed to lecture as below :

October 16, —`• The Jewish-Theocracy,
D.D., Frimarlus Professor of Divinity,
Author of "Typology of Scripture."
Ociober 23.—" Mahom et and the Koran'
Warn phray.
October 30. —" The C aracteristics of Christian Civilisation"

'—Rev. Patrick Fairbairn,
New College, Glasgow,

'—Rev. Peter Hope, 8.D.,

Peter Bayne, Fsq., M.D., author of " Christian Life."
November 6 —" The Eastern Church—its Points of Resemblance
to, and Difference f,om, the Western "—Rev. W. M. Hetherington,
D D., Edinburgh, Author of "History of the Church of Scotland,"
&c.

Novembeel3.—" 'The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes "•
Julius Wood, D.D., Dumfries.

'—Rev.

November 20.—" The Romanism of the Middle Ages "—Rev.
James Begg, D.D , Edinburgh.
November, 27.—" St. Louis and the Waldenses "—P. E. Dove.
Esq., author of "Theory of Human Progression," "Logic of the
Christian Faith," &c.
Other Lectures, by the Revs. J. B. Owen, of London; John
Baillie, Author of" Memoirs of Hewitson," and "Adelaide Newton;"
Dr. McGosh, Author of "The Method of Divine Government," &c.
to follow (with interval at the close of year) till month of March.
Due announcement to be made when arrangements are completed.
T. B. HORSFALL, Esq., M.P., Rev. JOHN KELLY, Rev. J. R.
WELSH, JOHN CROPPER. ESQ., W. JONES, ESQ., and P. M. Dova,
Esq., have agreed to take the chair.

ADMISSION FREE-COLLECTION TO PAY
COSTS-SURPLUS TO TOWN MISSION.

N.B.—Persons who desire room to be kept for them may have
Retained-seat Tickets from Messrs. SMYTH, 12, Berry-street, an 1
62, Bold-street; NEWLIN°, 27, Bold-street; REID, 61, Ranelagh-
street ; Tuosisorr, 90, London-road; BENSON and MALLET?, 10,
Castle-street; and other Booksellers, at Two Shillings and sixpence
for the Half-course (Oct.—Dec.), or Family Tickets for Four at
Eight Shillings, for Seven at Twelve Shillings. Retained-seat
Tickets for Single Lecture. Sixpence.

_
Masters may procure half-cotirse Tickets for Clerks or other mem-
bers of their establishments at half-price, from Messrs. TURNZR and
DuNNETT, 4, James-street.

The Surplus at Manchester, where these Lectures will (D.V.) be
delivered on previous Tuesdays, to be given to the Manchester City
Mission.

PRELIMINARY ADVERTISEMENT FOR
LIVERPOOL.

THE GENERAL APOTHECARIES' COM-
PANY (LIMITED).
CAPITAL, £lO,OOO, with power to increase to £lOO,OOO, in

Share; of LIO each.
DIRECTORS.

JOHN CHARLES ATKINSON, Esq., M.D., KPw Green Surrey.
JOHN GARDNER, Esq., M.D., M, Mortimer-street, and
Harrow on the Hill.
HENRY HARDINGE, Esq., M.D., Sackville-street.
EDWARD JOHNSON, Esq., M.D., Regent street.
JOHN J AMES EIHGE, Esq., M.D., J.P., Gravesend, Chairman.
GEORGE HENRY SMITH, Esq., 51, Cleveland-square.
(With power to add to their number.)

BANKERS.

UNION BANK OF LONDON, 4, Pall Mall East.

SOLICITOR.
E. Mcss, Esq., 23, Moorgate-street.
AUDITORS.

GRIFFITH TAYLOR, Esq., Gravesend:
SAMUEL HARRIS, Esq., Mansell-street, Whiteehapel.

OFFICE, LABORATORIES, AND CENTRAL WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL DEPOT, 49, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London.

September, 'SA.
This Company has been established to meet the urgent public
demand for pure Drugs and Chemicals, and for Medicines prepared
by the aid of the present advanced state of science.
It was Incorporated in January last, under the provisions of the
Limited Liability Act.
Spacious Premises have been taken—Warehouses, Dreg Mills,
Laboratories, and Machinery erected; and the Company is now
prepared for business, wholesale and re ail.
An ,nspectlen of the Estab ishment in Berners-street will abun-
dantly prove that this Company possesses power and facilities to
perform all that it promises, namely—to prepare and svmply the
Medical Pniession and the P bile with Medicines of every kind,
of known strength, and perfect purify. Invalids' Foods, and Domes.
tic Chemicals. It is confident y believed that, ;:y observing good
faith with the public in its operations, such a Company cannot fail
to inspire confidence, and accomplish far more than any corps of
Government Inspectors.
Among its arrangements may be mentioned :-Ist. That no
foreign or indigenous Drugs are purchased. except such as are
sound arid genuine. 2nd. That they are crushed or ground upon
the premises. 3rd. That all commercial Chemicals are te.ted or
analyzed before they are sold for medicinal perpo,es. 4th. That the
Pharmaceutical and Chemical Laboratories are under the constant
superintendence of a resident eminent. scientific Chemist, recom-
mended by Baron Liebiz and Dr. Fresenius, as eminently qualified
for those duties. sth. That toe preparations ordered by the Colleges
in their Pharmacopoeias, are made strictly in accordance with their
directions.

The Directors have taken measures to ascertain the views of the
Profession ; and they are gratified to find that this enterpripa, has
elicited the cordial approbation of a very large number of Practioners
of Great Britain; they receive daily assurances of support, and the
Company is already doing a very satisfactory amount of business.
The first issue of the Capital of the Company was readily sub-
scribed, although very little publicity was given to the design ; and
a considerable stock, together with Buildings, Plant, Machinery,
Utensils, and the Fittings of a spacious Shop for dispensing and
retail, with all preliminary expenses, and advertisements, have been
paid for, leaving a portion of the Capital in hand sufficient for the
business on a certain scale
It was always, however, contemplated by the Directors to make
the premises in Berners-street the Manufacturing, and Central
Wholesale Depot ; and to open Branches to suit the convenience of
the public in various parts of the Metropolis, and in the principal
Provincial Cities and Towns of Great Britain, for the sale of their
drugs, and preparations, and for dispensing prescriptions. This
intention is strengthened, since many profitable businesses, already
established, have been offered to the Company, under the Impres-
sion that it must command a very large trade founded on public
confidence,

By the establishment of such branches, the company will not
only secure the profits of a wholesale and manufacturing business,
but will add thereto the larger proportionate profits of the retail—
and, moreover, it will he able to conduct Its branch Establishments
at far less expense than individuals, since all preparations and com-
pounds will be prepared at the central laboratories, in Berners-
street.

The public Press has added another to the many important ser-
vices it has rendered to Society by exposing the evils arising from
the prevalence of adulteration of Drugs and Chemicals employed in
Medicine, and, demanding a remedy for this abuse, The Times, of
August 25, observes:—

"It requires but a slight portion:of common sense to understand
how important an ingredient of medical success the purity of drugs
must be, Drugs are the executive of the medical man, and, therefore,
with bad or inefficient drugs he acts like a paralysed man, whose
limbs refuse o obey him. The physician may have the most exact
idea in his head of the amount of drug power which he wants to
apply to the patient's disease; but if his drug deceives him, and con-
tains less of this virtue than it professes to do, and perhaps even
that injured by some foreign admixture, his whole estimate Is
affected, and the process becomes a piece of guesswork. As one
witness says before the Committee on Adulteration, 'The mischief
of defective medicines is not always immediate. It frequently hap-
pens that a person, from taping a defective drug, increases the dose
In order to produce the desired effect. Then, upon taking the same
prescription to be made up, when the genuine drug is used the per-
son is almost poisoned.' It is therefore with much concern we learn
from the evidence given before the Committee on Adulteration that
the adulteration of drugs, though considerably reduced of late years,
still goes on to a large amount. Nor Is this concern lessened when
we hear that the commonest and the most powerful drugs are both
subject to this adulteration. There must be numberless critical
eases of disease in which the correctness of the strength of an
opiate must make all the difference of life amid death; jet we are
told that 19 out of every 24 samples of opium are adulterated."
The Directors of the GENERAL APOTHECARIES' COMPANY
(limited) consider that the remedy for the evil thus exposed will be
found in their plan, and that public confidence must be obtained by
a large and respectable Company. able by its constitution and
arrangements, to meet the demand for purity in medicines, and
staking its existence upon maintaining good faith with the pro.
fession and the public. .

Upon these considerations it was resolved, at a General Extra-
ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders, held at 49, Berners-street,
August 28, 1856, that the Capital of the Company should be at
once increased by the issue of further Shares, at the discretion of
the Directors, for the purpose of extending the business of the
Company ; such Shares to be issued at par, namely, £lO each.
The Directors therefore amiounce, that they are prepared to
receive apps cations for such Shares.
The Premises and Laboratories are open to the inspection of
Visitors, on forwarding their cards to the Manager ;
desirous of subscribing for Shares are invited ta visit the
Establishment.
September, 1856, and persons

FORif 04‘ APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the GENERAL APOTHECARIES' COMPANY.

(Limited.)
49, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London.
Gentlemen,—Phase to allot me Shares of £lO each in
the above Company ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any
less number of Shares which may be allotted to roe, and to pay the
amount uron allotment • and i undertake to abide by the prochions
of the Deed of the said Company, and to sign the same if required.
Date

Name in full

Residence

Prolusion or occupation
Referee .. .

..... • • • •
*l *ApplicationsWiShares to be transmitted to the Manager, at
49,
The Directors have sad nothing in the foregoing Prospectus
respecting the expected protes cf this undertaking ; it is well known
ierners-street, Oxfor,i-strcet.
that in a successful Dru, I,us!ness they are very large.
Shareholders in this Company are entirely exempt from
Liability, by the Art of Parliament under which it is incorporated.
The Company are now making arrangements to open a
Liability,
Depot in Liverpool, of which the local Shareholders
will have the con
Central ward.trol, subject to the approval of the