The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE HERMANN FROM

-NEW YORK, AT SOUTHAMPTON.

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 3.—The Ocean Steam
Navigation Company's steam-ship Hermann, com-
manded by Captain Crabtree, from New York, ar-
rived at Cowes soon after four o'clock P.M., with
mails for France, England, and Bremen. She had a
full valuable cargo of general merchandise, with
specie to the amount of 45,000 dollars. After trans-
ferring her mails on board a small steamer awaiting
her arrival, she at once proceeded to Bremen. The
Hermann left New York on the 20th ult., conse-
quently the news from America by her has
,been
forestalled by the arrival of the steamer at Liverpool,
which left two days after.

ILLEGAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.—A case WAS
on Wednesday last tried at Hungerford before the County
Court of Berkshire, in which a person named Bishop,
who resides at Ramsbury, in Wiltshire, was charged by
the Apothecaries' Company with practising as an apo-
thecary without being legally qualified. Mr. W. H.
Rowland, who appeared for the plaintiffs, stated the
nature of the case, and explained that the action was
brought under the 55th of Geo. 111., chap. 194, com-
monly called the Apothecaries' Act, by which ft is
provided that it shall not be lawful for any person or
persons (except persons then in the practice as such) to
practise as an apothecary in any part of England or
Wales, unless he has passed his examination and re-
ceived a certificate of his being duly qualified. He then
adduced evidence to prove that Bishop, who possessed
no certificate, had acted as an apothecary, and furnished
medicines for the use of a man named Henry Bagman,
who subsequently died. Mr. Astley, for the, defence,
endeavoured to show that the evidence had failed in
proving the charge, and raised some technical objec-
Lions, which were overruled by the Court. He denied
that there was any proof of his client, who was a very
respectable man, practising at Ramsbury as a physician
and chemist, having compounded the medicine. The
jury, however, brought in a verdict for the plaintiffs
for 201., the amount claimed. This is said to be the first
case of the kind which has been tried on the merits.
AN EVENTFUL LlFE.—Died on the 21st of July, at
St. Stephen's, New Brunswick, aged 111 years, Mrs.
Elizabeth Dodd. Deceased was born on board a British
ship of the line, in the Bay of Biscay; cradled on the
broad Atlantic. Her father having been killed while
fighting for George 1., she was cast an orphan on the
shores of New York; thence carried to St. Augustine.
After her marriage she settled on the banks of the Ala-
bama. On the outbreak of the war between France,
Spain, and England, she, with other British settlers, were
made prisoners and taken to New Orleans. After two
years she was transferred to the Spaniards and taken to
the castle at Vera Cruz, where she remained until its
capture by the British in 1761. She was then relieved,
and taken to New York. During the first American
war she followed her husband through the principal
campaigns, and was at the hard-fought battles at Mon-
mouth, White Plains, Yorktown, &c. At the close of
the war, in 1784, she went with the Loyalists to the pro-
vince where she died.
IMPORTATION OF NUNS.—A party of DIMS passed
through Greenock on Saturday on their way from Dub-
lin to Glasgow. They were dressed in long black cloaks
with tippets, black bonnets and crape veils, and each
wore around her face a white cloth resembling a bandage,
covering most of the brow, cheeks, and chin. They were
generally middle aged persons, but irie or two were
young. They were escorted by a priest. In passing
through the railway office, and to the carriage, they
walked in single file,
and, though eight in number,
crowded together in a single compartment of a firet-elasa
carriage.— Witness.