The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

CHEMISTS AND PHARMACEUTISTS.

(From the Lancet.)
The recent Parliamentary recognition of the chemists
who belong to the organisation of the Pharmaceutical So-
ci. ty, bg granting to them immunity from serving on juries,
promises to answer in some measure the useful end which
we foresaw, and which the members of the medical profes-
sion must, in the public interes, especially desire to bring
about. Besides the pharmaceutical chemists, who are at-
tested to possess the ordinary scientific qualifications ne-
cessary for the taEk of preparing and dispensing drugs, there
is a motley host of traders outside this organisation who
exercise the calling of chemists and druggists. Undoubt-
edly a considerable number of these are persons of respec-
tability, of sufficient attainments, and proper qualifications
for their occupation. Some few, whom jealousy, iner-
tia, or peculiar circumstances have kept out of the
pale of the society, are of considerable standing.
But in the ragged army are included numbers of
chandler shop keepers, and the smallest dealers
in sundries,—men who, as the Mayor, Mr. Goadsby, told
his fellows in the drug trade at a meeting last week of the
United Socie y of Chemists and Druggists at Dianchester,
are " no more fit for their duties than they are to be cardinals of
the Holy See." No parliamentary exemption could be given
to such a body, for the simple reason that they could not
i
define themselves, Free trade in poisons is n England car-
ried to such an extent that if it were once understood
.that a
ld servdng o
mere vendor of drugs should be
exempt from
juries, every shopkeeper in the kingdom wou adds
a fewn
potent poisons to his articles of sale.

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—Yesterday evening, Dr.
A GROSS IMPROFRIET '.,. • the King's Arms Tavern
Castle-street
Lankester held
g-acr Lon an inqu e
e, irY °teeing the death of a child
, utrir
dBPstate in the coffin of an adult,
which was found in a p
surreptitiously, under the follow-
where it had been placed
Leonora Spiller, 6, Princes-row,
ing circumstances :—lsirs •
Pimlico, said
a friend of Mrs. Norton, who re-
'd that she IrToner-street. On last 'Wednesday
cently died at Dro.2S'r,
Compton-street, gr. R. W. France, of 4, Little
night the underbuutarteght
the coffin to the house. Ills men
wanted to screw down
the lid in a great hurry, in spite of
the remonstrances
of the family. Witness saw that the
deceased
was so raised that it could not let the coffin
be closed, and
ecl
she put in her hand and found the body of a
child wrapped up in a bit of cloth. The stench that came
" -
and offensive. The son of Mrs.
it was most powerful
from
ed Mr. France with a policeman, Norton follow and the pre-
sent inquiry wasinstituted. Dr. 'Wm. Bennett said the
deceased child was so decomposed that the bones of the
head were coming asunder. The child was stillborn. Mr.
France said he had received the body for burial a fortnight
Previously, and it was well known to the trade that there
would be a great difficulty in bury ing still-born children
unless with others. The cot oner said that it was mostim-
proper to introduce the bodies of children into the coffins of
others in the surreptitious manner that had been attempted
in the present case. He hoped the publicity that would be
given to the fact might act as a warning to undertakers in
the matter. The suspicions that had been aroused had na-
turally causes a great deal of trouble. A verdict of still-
born was returned.
ETON COLLEGE.—His Royal Highness the late
Prince Consort's prizes for modern languages :—German—
M'Kerroll, prizeman ; Martyn, H.S., 2d ditto. Arranged in
order of merit :—Langley, Middleton, Butler, Bentincb,
Divett, Allen, Mr. De Grey, Jones, and Cotes. Examiner,
the Rev. Dr. Albert Wintzer, King's College, London;
Master, Frederick Schonerstedt, Esq. French—Puller,
prizeman; Pollock, 2d ditto. Arranged in order of merit:
—Mr Fitzmaurice, Spearman, Muirhead, Mr. Do Grey,
Talbot, K.S., Moncton, Lovell, Northcote, Lord Lascelles,
Lord Dalmeny, Giles, H.S. Examiner, M. A. T. Narzials,
B.D. i Nagel., M. Tsrver,