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

CHEIGHSTS AND PHARMACEUTISTS.

(From the Lancet.)
The recent Parliamentary recognition of the chemists
who belong to the organisation of the Pharmaceutical So-
ciety, 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 aro at-
tested to possess the ordinary scientific qualifications ne-
cessary for the task 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 aro 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 Society of Chemists and Druggists at Manchester,
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
define themselves., Free trade in poisons is in
England car-
ried to such an extent that if it were once understood that a
mere vendor of drugs should be exempt from serving on
juries, every shopkeeper in tho kingdom would add a few
potent poisons to his articles of sale.

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+ day evening, Dr.
yes,er ,
A GROSS IMPROPRIETY.—
s Arms Tavern
Lankester held an inquiry at the
of an adult,
the coffin
Castle-street, Long-acre, respecting death of a child
which was found in a putrid stattiettousin
where it had been placed surreps
Siller, 6, Princes-row,
under the follow-
ing circumstances :—Mrs.
On last Wednesday
Pimlico, said that she was Lae friendrfstree tt). f Mrs. Norton, whorecently died at No. 28, T_o_wr. .p. INr. France, of 4, Little
night the undertaker,iu 'w
the coffin to the house, His men
Compton-street, brought
the lid in a great hurry, in spite of
Witness saw that the
wanted to screw down o family.
the remonstrances n
face of deceased was
so raised that it could not let the coffin
be closed, and she _,it in her hand and found the body of a
child wrapped up i_
•P„ a bit of cloth. The stench that came
most powerful and offensive. The son of Mrs.
from it Was ed Mr. France with a policeman,
Norton .
nt f°ll°l°instituted.
se
child was
inquiry
deceased c
~ was Dr. WM. Bennett said the
so decomposed that the bones of the
._
coming asunder. The child was stillborn. Mr.
head were
F 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 bur 3 ing still-born .
children
unless with others. The col oner said that it was most ini-
proper to introduce the bodies of childt en into the coffins of
others in the surreptitious manner that
had been attempted
in the present case, Hehoped 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 01 merit :—Langley, Middleton, Butler, Bentinch,
Divett, Allen, Mr. De Grey, Jones, and Cotes. Examiner,
the Rev. Dr. Albert Wintzer, King's College, London ;
Master, Frederick Schoncrstedt, Esq. French—Puller,
prizeman ; Pollock, 2d ditto. Arranged in order of merit:
—Mr Fitzmaurice, Spearman, Muirhead, Mr. De Grey,
Talbot, K.S., Moncton, Lovell, Northcote, Lord Lascelles,
Lord Dalmeny, Giles, K.S. Examiner, DI, A. T. Marzials,
8,D,; Master, M, Tarver,