The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-15 00:00:00

DE VON.

OXTON HOUSE, one of the choicest and most delightful demesnes
and seats in the beautiful viciulty of Exetes. n ar Stareross. Daw-
lish, and Chudlegh, only live or six hours' journey from London .
comprising an elegant, suh•tantial, and most comfortable Mansion
in the midst of richly dressed park-like Grounds and wildly varied

Woodlands, through which are romantic secluded Rides and Walks

of several miles in-extent, opening to surprising scenery.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned by the Proprietor to announce that the above
well-known delightful FREEHOLD ESTATE will be OFFEREI
for SALE BY AUCTION in SEPTEMBER, at the London Hotel, in
Exeter (unless an acceptable offer should bo made by Private
Treaty).
It comprises nearly 700 acres of rich pasture, meadow, fine or-
chard, and arable land, in a ring fence, adjoining tie domains of
Powderham Castle and Mamhead, overlooking the magnificent estu-
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Exeter, Powderham Castle, Exmouth, and other interesting objects.
The mansion is a handsome modern structure, with south and east
fronts, replete with every comfort for a large family, placed
on a gentle elevation, in a secluded and romantic valley, re-
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meadows, and falling into a small lake abounding with trout,
below the house. The demesne is well stocked with all kinds
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slopes and overhanging wooded brows of the surrounding hills,
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a good proportion of pasture and meadow land, with a newly-built
f.unnhouse and homestead of a superior description, and other
farm buildings.. Possession may be had on completion of the
purchase.
The mansion can only be viewed with cards, which may be had of
Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Waterloo-pl. ce,
Pall-mall, who are authorised to treat for the sale of the proper y.
Particulars and orders to view may also be had of Mes,rs. Every
and Sod, solicitors, Exeter.

TO SNUFF AND TOBACCO
MANUFACTURERS._

PO BE DISPOSED OF, in consequence of the death of the pro-
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lucrative Snuff and Tobacco Manufactory, at the East end of Lon •
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mises. Any person taking the same will have the Snuff receipts,
which are of considerable importance, as the Snuff trade is very
large.
Apply to Messrs. G. and H. Davis and Co., Tobacco Brokers,
107, Fenchurch-street.

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Messrs. ARCHER and HOLT most respectfully invite their
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which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived.
Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with
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o'clock. Private Dining-rooms excellent Beds, superior Wines and
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THE CHOLERA.—Yesterday an inquest was held by
Mr. Bedford at the Bridewell, l'othill•fields, on the body
of Jane Davis, aged 27. The deceased, in December,
1848, was sentenced to seven years' transportation at the
Clerkenwell sessions, and removed to the above prison.
On Friday last she was attacked with a complaint of the
stomach, but she had instant attendance from Dr.
Levies, who was in the prison. She got worse, and Dr.
Levies saw her on Saturday morning. She had then
unmistakable symptoms of cholera of the Asiatic
character, from which she died the same nght. Dr.
Levies, in answer to questions put by the Coroner, said
that they bad had several cases of cholera in the prison
since the last jury sat, but the treatment, with the ex-
ception of this case, had been most successful. They
had hsd 17 cases and seven deaths, but all the patients
were convalescent now. The Inspector of Prisons and
Surveyors of the Sewers bad inspected the sewer close
by, and he understood it was now covered over. Up-
wards of 100 prisoners had also been removed, and the
diet entirely changed, all soups being done away with.
He would also suggest, at the request of the coroner and
jury, that bodies for the future should not be kept in th.
deadhouse till the jury saw them, but that they_should
be placed in an open yard for their view. The jury re•
turned a verdict of " Died of Asiatic cholera."
The mercantile advices from Vienna of the 9th
inst. state thst the decree which had just been issued
for the compulsory receipt throughout Hungary and the
adjoining provinces of such paper issues as may be
created by the Austrian authorities at Pesth had pro-
duced,from the increase of irredeemable circulation which
would thus be occasioned, a further unfavourable move-
ment in the foreign exchanges. The rate on London
had advanced to 12 8, but some reaction had afterwards
taken place, and the last quotation was 12-4. The pre-
mium on gold was 29, and on silver 19 per cent. The
depreciation in the note issues had of course been fol-
lowed by a nominal rise in the funds, and the Five per
Cents. were at 93k—a quotation which in specie would
be equivalent to 64i. These accounts mention that the
wool market continued to rise in consequence of unra-
vourable anticipations regarding the present and future
production.
a Member to serve
KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION.—The Gazette of last
n;ght contains the Speaker's notification, that he mill
in the ehpisrewseanrrtarntarfoliramtheen
telfeocrtirm the osibove borough at the
end of fourteen days after the insertion of the notice*
(dated 13) in the London Gazette.
The vine twig shows not more ingenuity as it
trey. ries some rocky crag in search of the coil stream,
ut once its luxury and It. life, than does our injured
self-love, in seeking f r eenaeletion fr 111 the inevitable
easualities of fate, and the irresistible strokes of fortune.
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REPORT OF A TRIAL WHICH TOOK PLACE AT
THE GUILDHALL COUNTY COURT, LONDON, ON
FRIDAY, JULY 13,1849.
THE PUBLIC AND MEDICAL MEN,
GRIFFITH 3 V. WALFORD.

This case, which, from the crowded state of the court,
and the large attendance of medical practitioners, ap-
pears to have excited great interest in the medical world,
came on for trial on Friday, the 13th ult., before Mr.
Bullock, in the Guildhall County Court, London, As
the case seems to involve a point of great importance
between the public, the medical profession, and drug-
gists, we think it right to place it before our readers at
some length.
The plaintiff, Mr. Samuel Griffiths, oil merchant, of
Wolverhampton, said that he felt himself in a peculiarly
embarrassed position—in the first place, owing to the
unavoidable absence of the Learned Counsel who wasex-
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motives which brought him into that Court, that he
preferred going at once into the case himself, relying
entirely upon its merits, and regardless of the adverse
circumstances connected with his position in respect
to it that day. The facts, as alleged in
the plaint, were these—that on Sunday, the Ist of
April lest, while in London on business, he felt himself
taken ill with a violent irritability of the stomach, to
which he was subject; and that being somewhat nervous
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James Murray's fluid magnesia. He therefore went
into a chemist and drueeist's shop—that of the defend-
-ants, Messrs. Ltinn and Watford. 149, Aldersgate-stroet,
to procure it. Seeing, however, that there was only an
apprentice boy in the shop, he was on the point of leav-
ing, when Mr. Walford came in. He immediately asked
him for a dose of Murray's fluid magnesia, and a four-
grain calomel pill. Mr. WalfOrd, after putting one or
two unimportant questions, and volunteering some advice
and medicine of his own mixing, proceeded, as Mr.
Griffiths supposed, to execute the order he had given
him, and poured out from a bottle, which he had taken
down, a dose of what Mr. Griffiths presumed was fluid
magnesia. He noticed, however, the turbid appearance
of the mixture, as contrasted with the clear and brilliant
appearance usually presented by Sir James Murray's
fluid magnesia, and observed to Mr. Walford—
" Are you sure there is no mistake? I see some
crystals in the bottle; this is not usual." " Oh,"
was Mr. Walford's reply, "it is all right, sir—
lam a surgeon." On the faith of this assurance
and in full reliance on Mr. Walford as a surgeon, " I
swallowed the draught," said Mr. Griffiths, with a
qualmish grimace at the recollection, and momentarily
exclaimed, " you have given me Epsom salts, sir! You
have done me an injury you can never compensate!" for
ne must inform the jury that he had the greatest horror
of Epsom salts; the drastic effects of which invariably
increased the irritability of stomach to which he was
liable, and excited inflammatory symptoms, to avoid
which was the very reason he was in the habit of taking
Murray's fluid magnesia. " Will you take your pill
now, sir?" asked Mr. Watford. " No, sir," replied Mr.
Griffiths, angrily, " I wish you had given me what I
asked you for, sir. I wanted magnesia—fluid magnesia
—not Epsom salts." " What! are you not aware," was
Mr. Walfurd's reply, " that Epsom salts are magnesia?
Will you take your pill, sir?" The plaintiff then
angrily and peremptorily refused to take any more
medicine of Mr. Walford's making, who then became
excited in his Burn, and reiterated several times that he
was a surgeon. Being now seized with violent head-
ache and nausea, the plaintiff hurried off to Messrs.
Butler and Co., St. Paul's Churchyard, where he
mentioned the circumstances, and procured a
bottle of Sir James Murray's fluid magnesia
and a calomel pill. On reaching his hotel, the action
of the- salts had evidently increased his malady,
superinducing colic pains in the stomach, and great ner-
vous excitement in the gastric region. In this condition
he remained, purged and vomiting all that night and the
next day, when, as soon as he could crawl out, he pro-
ceeded to Messrs. Lunn and Walford's shop, in Alders-
gate street, to remonstrate with Mr. Walford on the
matter, and to demand an apology. He found,. however,
that, instead of apologising, that gentleman took high
ground, and seemed to think that he had done quite
right—whereupon Mr. Griffiths declined any further
explanation, as offered by Mr. Walford, and told him he
would seek reparation in a court of justice. " Now, gen-
tlemen," said Mr. Griffiths, addressing himself to the
jury, " it is for this injury that I seek redress at your
hands. Believe me, it is not with me a question of
amount of damages. lam compelled, as a means of
bringing the matter before the Ceurt, to claim certain
amages, and I have therefore estimated the stoppage of
my works, my compulsory delay in London, and conse-
quent loss, at a definite amount; but I care not what you
eive me, it you give me a verdict—the damages, what-
ever they may be, I shill present to the South Staf-
fordshire Hospital, at Wolverhampton. My object
ion of this important principle—

For IS, • a
end ask fur some particular medicine—that drigrist—
)r surgeon in attendance in his shop—shdl not be at
liberty to substitute another, either because he has not
eot the one we ask for, or does not choose to sell it ; or
desires to sell something else, by which he makes a
larger profit; or has the vanity or the presumption to
think he knows hotter than his customer what is good
for him. This latter may be very true, gentlemen, and
I dare say Mr. Walford, who is a highly respectable
man, thought so, too, in my case; but, gentlemen, " at
forty," says the proverb,—l believe, by the bye, it is an
axiom of the great Paracelsus—" every man is either a
tool or a physician;" and when I went to Mr. Walford's
shop to purchase my own prescription for myself;—Sir
James Murray's fluid magnesia,—l did not intend to
ttke Epsom salts, because Mr. Walford might think
them better for me. I knew what was best for myself;
knew why I wanted Murray's fluid maenesia; I knew
-flat it had been our domestic remedy at home 'or my
tinily ever since accident had made me acquainted with
•ts virues. I wanted the irritability in my stomach
allayed, not excited; I wanted the gastric region soothed,
.ot excoriated. I have a great repugnance and horror
e any and every kind of medicine, more especially
,enna, or Epsom salts. The medicine I asked tor was
ferfectly tasteless, and comparatively agreeable, while
A:psom salts are exceedingly bitter, and have a pecu
ierly offensive and nauseating taste; besides which, it
to a drastic neutral salt, in no way adapted to the de-
rangement of stomach under which I was labouring;
whereas Murray's fluid magnesia is an antacid and
agreeable remedy, admirably adapted to neutralise the
.eetous secretions in the stomach, the primum mobile of
ho disease from which I was suffering. Again, it is
!laid magnesia that I always take for analogous symp-
wrns—it was this that I went for; that I asked for;
and, instead of which, Mr. Walford gave me Epsom
..alts! He said Epsom salts were magnesia. Of course
hey are, gentlemen, hat magnesia in what form? Here
is the Pharmacopoeia, the standard authority of the pro-
fession, which your Lordship doubtless knows well.—
[Judge, with a shudder, " Oh, no, no!"]—(Laughter.)
sVell, what does this Pharmacoposia say? First, let us
read the description of what I wanted—the carbonate of
magnesia in the fluid state, as prepared by Sir
James Murray—" Carbonate of magnesia, when pure
is colourless, inodorous, tasteless." Now let us look at
the sulphate of magneisa, (that is, Epsom salts, which
Mr. Watford substituted)—"Sulphate of magneisa is an
exceedingly bitter salt." Did I want a bitter salt, gen-
tlemen? If I did, I should have asked for it. What
right had Mr. Walford to administer it to me? Am I,
or is any man, to be dosed, and nauseated, and griped at
she will of a medical man and against his own? Let us
look at the composition of these Epsom salts; what is
the first element, "forty parts of sulphuric acid!" Did
I want sulphuric acid, or any combination of it—l with
an irritable stomach? Gentlemen, persons who are sub-
ject to this affliction know it to be a fearful complaint.,
and it is a God-send when a man finds out what will
allay this dreadful sensation. I have found that God-
send in Sir James Murray's fluid magneisa, and for this
I applied to Mr. Walford, and Mr. Walford gave me
Epsom salts. Now, gentlemen, you are well aware that
,f a baker is detected mixing alum, gypsum, or other
deleterious substances with his bread, the law at once takes
eogniz Ince of the offence; the defrauder is by that law
,everely punished; and the man, whoever he may be,
whether wealthy or otherwise, withers before the effect of
public opinion, and never shows himself again in the town
where. before, he might, for aught I know, have filled
the most important public situations. The same penalties
would be awarded against the grocer fur mixing his
sugar; the brewer for doctoring his ales; or the wine
merchant for substituting his own logwood mixture for
the generous Oporto juice. Shall it, then, be said that
in the professions, especially in the one where so much
confidence is necessarily placed; where every man de-
livers himself blindfold in his ignorance, bound hand and
foot by the mystery in which medicine is perpetually
kept, into the hands of his druggist or his doctor—shall,
then, I say, be allowed to gentlemen of this profession
the power of fraudulent substitution which is denied to
all trades? You see, at once, the importance of this
question, the high importance of the principle I come
here to vindicate. To some constitutions particular
medicines, as we all know, are most dangerous. For
myself, I have a horror of senna and Epsom salts. I
happen also to know a gentleman, at this moment en-
gaged in a house at Wolverhampton, who is so sensitive
to the effects of ipecacuanha, that if a cork were only
taken out of a bottle, and only one pound of the
powdered drug weighed upon the scale, although it
might be in a distaut part of the warehouse, it would
.iff-ct his stomach to such an extent, that he would
übliged to leave the office, and be rendered unfit fur
business during the whole day. The effect of
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requiring the nicest discrimination .and accuracy iteets
preparation—and there are medicines, gentlemen, as the
records of coroners' inquest's too fatally make known to
us, in which the turn of a scale, or the measuring of
a half drop make the difference between health and
death—what security have we, I ask you, if such as I
now complain of be the practice of druggists i What
security have we—the ignorant confiding public—mys-
tified by the Latin of the prescription, and bamboozled
by the mysterious importance of the surgeon-druggist—
that he will not make up this carefuliy-obtained pre-
scription, on which the life of the bread-gainer of a
large family may depend, totally different from the
purpose and intention of the able physician who wrote
it, and administer to us some drastic sulphate, or bitter
nauseating gait like this, instead of a testeleas, inodorous,
and innocently refreshing medicine, like Murray'a fluid
L.:law:lop:de, or any other proper ingredient, legibly written
in our. prescription ? This, then, is why I am here.
This is why I have left my home and my business to
follow up this matter in London. It is a public question,
gentlemen, and the public, in my humble person, seek
Justice and redress and safety for the future at your
hands. I can have no personal motive, gentlemen; God
forbid that I should bear malice. Mr. Walford caused
me a fearful griping; I have to thank him that he let
me off so easily. It is for you, gentlemen, by your ver-
dict this day, to read to him and the medical profession
a wholesome lesson for their future guidance. I have
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lutely necessary. Mr. Gibbons also proved the amount
d salve claimed by the plaintiff to be fairly estimated.
Mr. Griffiths was then sworn to his statement, which
he repeated in evidence.
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Cross-exatniwd by Mr. MELLOR, who attended as
I had taken a little rice pudding oily, as I felt Ile—Wilt
you swear you had not eaten mutton and turnips? I
certainly had not.—And that you did not tell Mr. Wel
enoeuenn,el diningfor tohne dtheetednadyany,
t;4llr7pp'
ford that you had eaten mutton and turnips, and that
they had disagreed with you? I told Mr. Walford that
I had a violent pain in the heal; that I was liable to
irratibility of the stomach; and I might have told him
that I had dined the previous day on mutton and turnips,
hut, not on that day certainly.—Well now, when you
went into Mr. Walford's shop did you not ask for some
advice? No! there was no one there but the apprentice
buy, and I should not have asked a boy for advice.—But
when Mr. Walford came in, you complained of your
head and asked his advice, did you not? No; I said I
should like a dose of Sir James Murray's fluid magnesia
end a calomel you prescribed fur yourself a
calum-1 pill? Yes, I prescribed fur my self a epitome! pill.
—And did you take the pill? No, nut from Mr. Watford
—Now, Mr. Griffiths, may I ask you why you take this
Murray's fluid magnesia, of which you seem so great an
admirer? Because fur some years past I have known it
as a sate and certain some ty for all complaints of the
stomach and bowels; and more than that, I consider it as
a preservative against cholera; I am going to take some now.
[Here, much to the amusement of the court, Mr. Grit-
nths opened the bottle of Sir James Murray's fluid mag-
nesia, with which he was provided as part of his evi-
dence, and pouring a little of it, with some acid syrup,
into a glass, manufactured for himself a beverage, the
effervescence of which excited a sensation of envy in the
whole court.]—Now, will you swear that you did not
ask Mr. Watford's advice? I will swear that I told him
that I had a violent headache, and that I wished for a
dose of Murray's fluid magnesia and a calomel pill.—And
you did not ask him to prescribe for you? I did not.
—After strongly pressing the plaintiff again on the ap.
parently important point of mutton and turnips, Mr.
Mellor closed his cross-examination by asking, when you
saw Mr. Walford pour the mixture out of so large a
bottle, did you not know at once it was not Murray's
fluid magnesia, as that is in small bottles only, such as
the one you have before you? I had no reason to think
so; for I know Murray's fluid magnesia to be supplied to
the trade in bottles of that very size for dispensing.—You
seem to know a great deal about this fluid magnesia? I
ought to do so, as I am an operative chemist myself, and
more than that, I owo my health to it. —Pray, Mr. Grif-
fiths, have you any interest in this medicine? None
whatever.

Mr. MELLOR then addressed the jury for the de-
fendant. He considered this one of the most extraordi-
nary cases that ever came before a court of justice; and,
were it possible for the plaintiff to obtain a verdict, no
medical man, for the future, could be safe in prescribing
for a patient; and here it would be necessary for bim to
remind the jury of a specious and ingenious attempt on
the part of the plaintiff to beguile their sympathies by a
philanthropic clap-trap, viz.—that of giving the damages
to the South Staffordshire Hospital. This was cheap
charity on the part of Mr. Griffiths, as the money was to
come out of the pocket of his client, Mr. Walford. Mr.
Griffiths claimed damages from his client, which the
jury could not concede; besides which they must con-
sider the serious effects and consequences which a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, if only for a shilling, would entail
upon Mr. Walford, whom the plaintiff admitted was a
highly respectable young man. He was nut there to
impugn the moth( s of Mr. Griffiths, who had cer.
,ost ahle and gentle

case. What weie the fattts? He goes into a do&or's
soup; he states he is ill; he asks for advice; be
takes the medicine ; then cries out 4. Oh, you have given
me Epsom salts ;" becomes angr'y and excit.d ;
rushes off to another chemist and druggist ; buys more
medicine there, and takes it ; goes home, retires to bed,
teels a natural conscquenca of Epsom salts and calomel
pills ; and, most ungratefully, as soon as he is up and
better, goes into the druggist's shop and says he shall
bring an action against him. An action ! For what ?
We have cause and effect—illness and physic. But Mr.
Griffiths, who justly describes himself as irritable,
wishes to subvert the usual order of things, and turn
th,•m to physic and illness. But what caused his illness?
Was it the mutton and the turnips ?—for he was pre-
pared to prove that Mr. Griffiths told 'air. Walford that
he had dined that day ,n mutton and turnip,—or was it
the pill, or the Epioie salts, or the fluid magnesia,
or all altogether ? Wouid he have been just a-t ill with-
out the Epsom salts, or did he get better through them?
l'he jury would see at a glance what an idle ca,e this
was to trouble the court with, and bring so many
respectable practitioners away from their ordinary occu-
pations. He was prepared to contend, that the medicine
administered by Mr. Watford was a proper one. It was
not Epsom salts, but bicarbonate of magnesia, a prepa-
ration in which Epsom salts only entered for a small part,
and in which their effects were neutralised. To prove
this he should call an eminent medical gentleman, a
professor of chemistry, whose evidence he bad no doubt
would be sufficient to ensure a verdict for the defendant.

Mr. Lloyd, surgeon, of Jewin-street, spoke as to the
efficacy of the bicarbonate of magnesia, and as to its
being a mixture such as he would have prescribed for a
person in Mr. Griffiths's state.
Cross-examined by Mr. GRIFYITIIS—HOW long have
you been in practice, Mr. Lloyd? Twenty-five years.—
As a surgeon? Yes.—l think you stated in your exa-
mination that the mixture referred to was very similar
in its properties to fluid magnesia? I did so.—Was
there any Epsom salts in that mixture? There was.—
But excuse me, Mr. Lloyd, are you accustomed to pre-
scribe Epsom salts for an inflammatory state of the
bowels and stomach? Certainly not.—Did you not say
that the medicine administered by Mr. Walford was a
very proper one for my complaint? I did.—Pray, sir,
did you see me on that occasion? No.—By what means
did you obtain the diagnosis of my disease? From Mr.
Watford.—Are you not aware that hearsay evidence
cannot be received in a court of law? And you knew
nothing of my complaint except what Mr. Walford told
you. Are you accustomed to prescribe for your patients
without seeing them? Certainly not.—Then I appre-
hend, Mr. Lloyd, my case was an exception, not the rule
of your practice? Mr. Lloyd then, in a very talented
manner, answered the chemical questions of Mr. Grif-
fiths, as to the composition of the mixture administered
to him by Mr. Walford, and after giving a clear analysis
of the same, stated that the chemical combination yielded
a product very similar in its properties to fluid magnesia.
Mr. Griffiths stongly pressed him as to Epsom salts
(sulphate of magnesia) being one of the components,
which Mr. Lloyd acknowledged, but contended that their
action was neutralized. Mr. Griffiths observed that he
did not see how that could be, as in Mr. Valtord's mix-
ture there remained the taste and the griping effects of
these drastic salts.

Mr. %Valford, of 149, Aldersgate-street, stated that he
was a partner in the firm of Lunn and \Valford, Mr.
Lunn not being his partner as a surgeon, but simply as
a chemist and druggist. He is himself a surgeon, Mr.
Lunn only makes the prr-pararions. He recollected the
plaintiff coming to his shop. tie was out at the time and
just returning from visiting a patient, when he met Mr.
Griffiths coming out of the shop. lie re-entered with
him. The apprentice said that the gentleman wanred
some advice. Mr. Griffiths complained of flatulency and
heartburn, and said the mutton and turnips had disagrrieied
with him. lie had not been drinking anythriantrig a
looked at his tongue and sent for the buythtliel:o
mixture of bietirbonate of magnesia.
uite as goolol. Mr.
replied he would give him something ~et, Mr. Griffiths said he shoduldhliikbgeutflcilinlu pouringnii this
Griffiths then swallowedd tahewry d s nang 81
aa
d ee
face, and angrily ex-
done so, then he p
haveu lle
given me Epsom 'salts, which is
replied'Y"a have given you something quite
to
os
bgyo%l;s what
pf:,;t:el3::.
wrong." He
yrf,u asked for, and I wall nut be dictated
He made a rule of not telling his
gave them; as otheri.lso they night
patients w
doctor themselves, and do mischief, by, an injudicious
usP of proper medicines on improper ocessinni. That
was the common sense of .the mystery of medicine. Mr.
Griffiths was very angry, and, in an excited manner,
said he did not care for Lilo, to which he replied that he
did not care for Mr. Griffiths, and took his money aid
left him.
•
Cross.exam;ued by Mr. GRIFFITHf —The mixture be
nave was not Epsom salts, but was composed Of bicar-
bonate of porasi and sulphate of m.ign era; siilphate of
magnesia was Epsorn salts, but they became neutralized
in that mixture, which they became Nearbonate of mag-
i nog& Lie could not tow thstvAir. Griffiths dicinot

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Ifr7
him or the lid ma six, but distinctly remem•
his asking for ace mel pill; thought Mr. Griffi'bs
.d his advice. He complained of headache, flatulency,
heartburn. lie could not say whether they had
.r.sy's flui I magnesia on the premises at the time.
flti salts was not fluid magnesia. He could not re-
iber the name of the patient from visiting whom he
was just returning when he found Mr. Griffiths in the
shop. Remembered Mr. Griffiths mentioned fluid mag-
nesia, while he had the bottle of mixture in his hand
and was pouring it out; will not swear that Mr. Griffiths
did not ask for Murray's fluid magnesia. Mr. Griffiths
said "You shall not make the pill for me—you have given
me 'wrong."
Alexander Jackson stated that he was the apprentice
of Messrs. Lunn and Walford; be remembered the
plaintiff coming to the shop, and thinks he said he wanted
some advice. He remembered the plaintiff saying after
he had taken the dose, " I wish you had given me s‘ hat
I asked for;" and also remembered that lie said "I won't
have the pill, you have not given me what I asked for."
1!e cannot swear that he remembered hearing plaintiff
ask for Murray's fluid magnesia, but will not swear that
he did not ask for it.

Mr. Lunn, of the firm of Lunn and Walford, said that
lie was a chemist and druggist, and in partnersitip with
Mr. Watford. Tin y had Sir James Murray's fluid mag-
nesia in stock on the Ist of April. They obtained it
from Mr. Edwards, St. Paul's Church-yard. He does
not sell much of it, as he generally sells his own pre-
parations, which pay him better.
Cross-ex :mined by Mr.GRIFFITHS —Begged distinctly
ti state be the court, that he did not profess a knowledge
of anat.-Any, or the practice of physic; was not a surgeon
end nil not wish to be examined es one. He was a
chemist. Mr. Griffiths—Very well, Mr. Lunn, we will
examine you as a chemist than. [ discussion as to
the elements of Epsom salts, and the true properties of
sulphates, carbonates, and bicarbonates of magnesia, here
became co animated and exciting between the various
medical witnesses, and Mr. Lunn and Mr. Griffiths, both
of them operative chemists, that the judge, the jury, the
court, and even the cause itself seemed to be forgotten,
and we might have fancied ourselves present at a
scientific reunion ; when, on a sudden, a very
nal,:e offer made by Mr. Griffiths in the excite-
meat of the discussion, that the jury should test the two,
by taking a dose of the Eesom salts and a dose of tho
fluid magnesia, convulsed the jury with horror and the
court with laughter. This trial, by ordeal, was, it is
needless to say, declined, with great energy, by the gen-
tlemen of the jury—and the examination proceeded.]
Mr. Griffiths: Mr. Lunn, as an operative chemist, do
you know a bottle of Murray's fluid magnesia when you
see it? Yes.—Do you keep it in your shop? I d..--
Du you sell touch tit it? No.—How is this? I sell my
own preparations, which pry me much better.—Now.
sir, will you tell the jury wit•-ther Epsom salts ars fluid
magnesia? They are th.t.— Is Murray's fluid maene,ia
Epsom salt.? C. itainly not.—Do you make all sour
own preparations? No.—What do you mak. ? Those
prep ,r itions that pay me best.—That I was aware of',
sir, but that is no answi rto my question. De 3ou make
the preparations of opium, morphine. and so on? No.—
Extracts? No.—Plasters? No.—Paregoric and syrup
of rhubarb, I suppose you do make? Yee.—Pray, Mr.
Lunn, are you a member of the Pharmaceutical Society?
I am not.—Not a member of the Pharmaceutical Society;
oh, indeed! I shall not examine you any turiher then.
Mr. Griffiths (the defendant's case having now closed),
in reply said, may it please your Lordship and gentle-
men of the jury, I fear that the protract. d nature of this
case, together with the number of hours that you have
patiently listened to it, will have exhausted your en-
durance, and naturally have rendered you anxious tor a
truce from this dry question of physic, the greater part
i.f which must certainly have been to you most intoler-
able but for the great principle involved in it; neverthe-
less. I must beg or you to listen fur a short time while I
make a few remarks—first, upon two ideas which
emanated from my Learned Opponent, in his address for
the c'efence—becondly, upon the evidence for the defence
—and thirdly, upon the importance of your decision in
regard to the great principle in this case trampled under
foot by a diplonsati.ed member of a learned profession.
Now, in the first place, perhaps I may be permitted to
acknowledge the very liberal and gentlemanly manner
in which my Learned Opponent has conducted this case
for the defence, from its opening until now. But I regret,
on behalf of that noble institution which I was anxious
to assist with the damages accruing to me this day, that
I can no longer appear as its suppdant ;
for my Learned Friend, by his antiphilau-
thropic " clap-trap " has placed me under the
painful necessity at foregoing damages altogether, ex•
cepting so far as will carry the costs of this action. I
am not in the habit of dispensing cheap charity, or of
clothing the naked at other men's cost; nor will I, in
this instance, leave my motives open to suspicion to you,
who know nothing of me, by the insinuation thrown out
by my Learned Opponent, perhaps ";not because he loved
Cmsar less, but because he loved Rome more." You
will remember, in the second place, that my Learned
Friend was exceedingly anxious to excite your sympa-
thies in favour of the defendant, in consequence of the
serious effects which a verdict fur myself would entail
upon him. Now, gentlemen of the jury—as his honour
will tell you—with the effects or consequences of your
verdict you have nothing to do whatever; you are placed
in that box, and expected by your country to give a
verdict according to the evidence, upon your oaths and
consciences as Englishmen, entirely regardless of the
effects of that verdict. This is all I ask of you this day.
Mutton and turnips, &c., &c., I shall not trouble you
with. Now,, gentlemen, let us look at the evidence.
You will recollect my own evidence, which, condensed,
means just this—that I asked plainly and dis-
tinctly, at Messrs. Lunn and ViYallerd'e druggist's
shop, for Sir James Murray's fluid magnesia
and a calomel pill—and that Mr. Walford substituted
for, and ndininisered to me, in the place of it and in-
stead of it, a solution of sulphate of magnesia or Epsom
salts. Gentlemen, this is my atliimation. It is fur you
to say, after I have ;minted out to you its confirmation
by the evidence of Messrs. Waltord and Jackson, whe-
ther it be true or false. Mr. Walluid himself says
that I ordered a foul-grain calomel pill, and that while
he held the beetle iit his hand I mentioned fluid mug-
-4 h., most. distinctly .and unequivocally
d. eluted to swear that I did not ask for oar Jawivi
Murray's flu d mats sia. He likewise stat,s that I
charged him with givii g me the wrong med;cine at the
time; and also ca!led the next morning to r, monstrate
with him upon the substitution. Now for the young
lad, Jackson. He states that I charged Mr. Waltitrd
with giving me the wrong; remembers my orderin," the
pill; and declines to swear that I did not ask fur fluid
magnesia. The Learned Professor, Mr. Lloyd, admits
that he knew nothing of the diagnosis of my case except
what Mr. Walford had told him, and that although it
is a rule with him to see his patients before pre-
scribing for them, in this case he made an exception,
and gives a strong opinion, backed by the reputation
of a professor, without either seeing or pro-
scribing for me. Then comes Mr. Lunn, who
states that he knows a bottle of Murray's
field magnesia when he sees it; that Moray's fluid mag-
nesia is not Epsom salts, nor Epsom salts Murray'. fluid
magnesia. lle also states that he bims, if makes the
preparations sold in the shop; but, after asking him what
tie dues make, we get at the fact that he makes paregerio
and syrup of rhubarb; and likewise, what to y our minds
most be of the highest importance, that he does not hold
a diploma from, nor is he a m, miear of the Pharmaceu-
tical Society of Great Britain. Gentlemen, as far as
my memory serves me, this is an analysis of the evidence.
Now, gentlemen, first as to that which has not, and after-
wards that whichl has, to do with this case. Mr. Pro-
fessor Lloyd's evidence has nothing whatever to do with
the case, for all he knows about it was communicated to
him by Mr. Walford, and, as I before observed, his
Honour will tell you that hearsay evidence cannot be
received in a court of justice, and, consequently, you
will be pleased to forget Mr. Lloyd altogether. Now,
gentlemen of the jury, it must be clear to your mind,
from the synopsis of the evidence which I have given,
that every witness for the defence has confirmed, in the
most ample and satisfactory manner, my case, as alleged
in the plaint, and proved by myself on oath. Mr. Wal-
ford does not venture to deny my statement, but, on the
contrary, directly confirms it, when he states that I
spoke about magnesia ; and indirectly, in the order for
the calomel pill. He likewise acknowledges to you that
I reproached him angrily for the substitution ; and now
I ask you, as men of common sense, what can be more
confirmatory of my testimony than this evidence? The
boy Jackson, in a very honest and straight-forward
manner, confirms Mr. Walford's testimony; adding that
I said, " I wish you had given me what I asked you for,
sir." This, gentlemen, if it were necessary, is another
•ogent witness to the truth and stability of my case ;
and I feel sure I must have satisfied your minds as to
the consistency and integrity of my case, as alleged
ou the records of the court, and established by my own
testimony before you this day. And here I think it
necessary to state to the court and jury one of the rea-
sons why Murray's fluid magnesia is used in ray family.
It is not what is termed a " quack medicine," but
merely a well-known and simple elementary medicine,
prepared in a peculiarly scientific manner, according
to a formula invented by and known only to Sir
James Murray, Physician to the late Lord-Lieutenant
aa
of Ireland. It is recognized as a particularly valu-
able preparation by most of the learned members ofsir
the faculty, and is invariablyil prepared
dred bliry him
M
James Murray himself personally,
sod p
tt
oh e
e the
se
sole
becomes
to r. William Bailey, of Wolve
con-
signee. But, gentlemen of the Jury.
J y
,
of much greater public importance,
Austria, Spain, and, inncet,'
if you bear in mind
the fact, that Franca, Prussia.
fact, all civilised countries except England and the United
States, prohibit all parties tr,,m noting as cnemists and
druggists, or in any
way practising the art of pharmacy,
without having a licence or diploma from some competent
tribunal, college, or royally ensnared body, so that we
in this country are liable to be imposes, upon by the
ignorant, licentious, and knavish ; tor, as the law now
stands, gentlemen, the veriest knave who operates in the
early Billingsgate-market might, if he had she means,
purchase the brilliant bottles we see brightly shiuieg in
every street, red, green, and blue, hoist them up in a
shop window, and supply himself with good or bid drugs
as he pleased, proclaim hiniselt chemist end druggist in
bold gold letters, and tact accordingly; nay more, it cate•
tious, and not scrupulous, he may hire a surgeon to stand
behind his counter and sell e• his own preparations."—
(Laughter.) Gentlemen, however startling this fact
may be to you, it is the law of the land, and on
this account, it is your duty the more de-
terminedly to mark the conduct of this gentleman,
who is a professional nr,n, with your disapprobation.
Gentlemen, I assure you it is nut at all an uncommon
thing in country...places tor,a.gtsocers who writhes under
the effscts:of iionouraltle cumpetiiiete,eto'drop the soap
and.the candles, the treacle and the sugar, to hoist the
.red bottle, and halloo out " two ounces of salts for three
halfpence, " paregoric arid syrup of rhubarb," and in
very neat and small type. on his bill-heads, to say,
Gen-
physicians' prescriptions accurately prepared..
and alarming this may appear
dolmen, however appalling
to you, it is a notorious fact, and one which the records
of coroner, inquoto during the limit ten yeuhif searched,

would mournfully and amply testify. Gentlemen, these
individuals are beyond the pale—Mr. Welford, on the
contrary, is within the pale—of the law, and you, gentle-
men, are his judges this day. Gentlemen, the medical
profession in this kingdom is divided into four classes—
first, the physician; secondly, the surgeon; thirdly, the
apothecary; fourthly, the druggist. Now, gentlemen,
necessity and the increased requirements of the popula-
tion have, de facto, amalgamated the two latter grades,
or I might pehaps more properly say, the former is ex-
tinct, and the latter (vie., the legitimate druggist) is the
de facto apothecary of the present day; and, gentle-
men, to the hour of that respectable body be it
said, that I believe there is not a druggist
from John o'Groat's house to the Land's End who would
have been guilty of a substitution so grave in its charac-
ter and injurious in its consequences as the one of which
I complain this day; fur you must bear in mind, that al.
though anybody may practice the art of pharmacy, yet
all respectable druggists hold diplomas from, and are
members of a chartered body called the Pharmaceutical
Society of Great Britain, the council of which society
exercises a strict surveillance over the pharmaceutical
conduct of its members; and I have not the least hesi-
tation in saying, that the council would withdraw its
diploma from any member who gave a man asking him
for Sir James Murray's fluid magnesia, Epsom salts in
substitution for it. Such, gentlemen, is the importance
of the question in its general bearings. I will now, in
c secluding my case, apply myself closely to the parti-
cular instance in reference to myself which I have
brought before you. Mr. Griffiths then went on to say,
that an attempt had been made by the doctors to get out
of the difficulty by suggesting—they did not venture to
swear it—that he had asked for advice. If he alked
Mr. Walford for advice, why did he ask him for a calo-
mel pill? When you ask a doctor's advice, do you tell
him what to give 'you? If he had asked his advice and
stood there to take the medicine as recommended, how
came he to be so angry about the Epsom salts? Could he
have shown so much feeling, if he had taken them under
Mr. Walford's advice? What right would he have had
to say—" You are wrong?" Is that the speech of a
patient to a d .ctor whose advice he is seeking? Is it
not rather the reproach of a man, who has asked for one
thing and finds himself aggrieved by the substitution of
another? Away, then, at once with this flimsy pretence
of his having asked for advice. He was himself a
chemist and druggist, and went into the shut) of Messrs.
Lunn and Walturd to get the medicine—Murray's fluid
magnesia—which he was in the habit of taking. Mr.
Watford had chosen, from carelessness, or design, or
from the habit of always giving Mr. Lunn's own pre-
parations (a very natural reason), to administer to him
what he did not want. He did so on his own
responsibility, and he must take the con-
sequences. He (plaintiff) would now repeat
what be had before said, that he had no personal feeline
in the trater, and no desire for vindictive damages. It
was the principle in question for which he stood out—
that the drug, Lt should sell to his customer the
article for n hich the customer asked him, and
not substitute, at his pleasure, another medi-
cine, because more convenient or more profitable
to himself. The public safety required that this rule
should be rigidly fra'crced amongst medical men.
" There is no profession," said Mr. Griffiths, " in which
we are called upon to place so much implicit faith and
confidence as the medical. Why, almost more than one-
half of the secret of success in medicine is the confidence
—the reliance of the patient in the physician. And what
defence have we—what safeguard? If one lawyer de-
ceive us we can go to another; if one clergyman attempt
to lead us from the right path, we have the Holy Book,
whp re we may track rAs wanderings and map our own way
back again to the right course, but the doctor! he first
kills you, and then leaves you to your remedy.—(Great
lauehter.) In your hands, gentlemen of the jury, I now
leave this important question, trusting that you will
bring your common sense to bear upon it, and return a
verdict which will teach the medical profession not to
tamper at their will with the health or these who place
implicit reliance on their supposed good faith."
His HONOUR observed that there were several points
in this remarkable and ably-argued case, which he must
submit to the consideration of the jury. First, whether
the plaintiff asked the defendant for advice. Seondly,
whether he asked for fluid magnesia and received
Epsom setts. Thirdly, whether he received not Epsom
salts, but something equivalent. Fourthly, whether this
was done through gross ignorance or negligence on the
part of the defendant—because, if not, the plaintiff would
not be entitled to recover. Fifthly, whether he had
waived the medicine he had called for by tacitly taking
what was given him in place of it. These points, and
the question of amount of damages he must leave to
their consideration.
The jury, after some discussion among themselves,
retired to consider their verdict.
In the meantime the judge intimated his wish to taste
some of Sir James Murray's ,fluid magnesia, which,
combined with the acid syrup, also of Sir James's pre-
paration, appeared to make a cooling and refreshing
effervescing beverage. Mr. Griffiths politely supplied
his Honour with a glass of the mixture, which he pro-
nounced, er cathedra, to be " delicious." The opposing
counsel and solicitor also requested a "refresher," and
the whole court, as far as the bottle would go, proceeded
to try Murray's fluid 'magnesia; :after which they pro-
nounced a unanimous verdict in its favour. Indeed Mr.
Mellor, the opposing counsel, went so far as to say that
it was fortunate for his client that the jury had not ac-
cepted Mr. Griffiths' offer of tasting it previous to their
retiring, as their verdict would, otherwise, have been
most assuredly in his favour. At this moment the jury
returned to their box, after an absence of half an hour,
and returned a verdict for the plaintiff.
The trial lasted five hours, and excited an intense in-
terest. Mr. Griffiths was highly complimented by all
parties on the able manner in which he conducted his
case, without professional assistance of any kind.

HUNGARIAN SY3IYATHY IN
CARLISLE.

ft .fi,cs, Lucnawra vt- (fie lelDperaßCV Ivractufg COOM,
Market place, sympathising with the brave Hunga-
rians now struggling for liberty, held a meeting in
their own reading-room for the purpose of raising a
subscription in behalf of those patriotic people, such
subscription to be forwarded to the London com-
mittee. Having formed a committee, the members
present entered into a subscription amounting to
2/. 4a., which has since been increased to 101.
A deputation from the above committee waited
upon their respected townsman, Joseph Ferguson,
Esq., of Fisher-street, for the purpose of consulting
with that gentleman as to the propriety of calling a
public meeting. A public meeting was agreed upon
and held this evening (Monday) in the lecture room
of the Athenssurn, when the following resolutions
were unanimously agreed to
1. That this meeting deeply sympathizes with the
people of Hungary in the fearful struggle in which they
are so nobly engaged for the maintenance of their inde-
pendence and the right to govern themselves against the
unprincipled, unjustitiable, and tyrannic conduct of the
Austrian and Russian Governments. _ .

"2. That this meeting holds in the utmost detestation
the conduct of Russia, in its armed interference to aid
Austria in forcing upon Hungary a tyrannical and op-
pressive Government; and loudly protests against this
attempt to overpower, by a blood-thirsty war, a gallant
people, righteously and nobly struggling fur their in-
dependence.
"3. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to
Lord Palmerston, with a request that he will recommend
to her Majesty the Queen to take such steps, either by
way of remonstrance or otherwise, as may tend to stop
the effusion of blood in Hungary, and restore to the
gallant people of that country the blessings of peace,
liberty, and self-government."
At the close of the meeting a collection was entered
into amounting to 41. 33. 9d. We understand that
the subscription list will continue open for a few days,
when the amount will be remitted to the London
committee.

A tenant-right meeting wag held last week in
Coleraine, Ireland, at the Town-hall, Dr. Boyd, M.P., in
the chair, supported by all the influential gentlemen of
the place. Resolutions were passed, calling on the
tenant farmers of Ireland to form an association, to seek
by all legitimate and constitutional means, fur such
changes in the law as will effectually protect their just
rights.—lrishman.

-HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.—The half-yearly ge-
neral meeting of the shareholders in this company was
held on Saturday, at the offices at Hull; Mr. Watson pre-
sided. Mr. Locking, the secretary, read the report,
from which it appeared that the sum 0129,014/. Ma. 4cf.
was available for the payment of a dividend, out of
which the directors recommended that a dividend of
21. 9i. 6d. per share on the 501. shares, and 1/. 4s. 9d.
on the 251. shares, being at the rate of 9/. 188. per
cent., less income-tax, should be paid. With reference
to the lease of the line to the York and North Midland
Company, the report says :—" Rumours having been
circulated that there are doubts as to the validity of
the agreement for the perpetual lease of the Hull
and Selby Railway to the York and North Midlsnd
Company, on the terms at present existing, the direc-
tors beg to assure the shareholders that no such doubts
are entertained by them or their law advisers, nor has
any official communication of any such doubts been made
to your board of directors by the board of the York and
North Midland Company. The existing agreement for a
perpetual lease is under the seal of both companies, held in
due form, and confirmed by the Hull and Selby Purchase
Act of 1846. The deeds were prepared by eminent counsel,
and your directors have again recently submitted them to
counsel,sence o
whose opinion has altogether confirmed the con-
your directors in the perfect validity of these
instruments." The report, on the motion of the chairman,
was adopted. resolution, declaring a dividend of 21.
9a 6d. on the
original share_ s, and 11. 4s. 9d. on the 25/,
shares, having been carried, a vote of thanks closed the
proceedings.
DEATH OF THE REV. C. M
the above
D.D.—We
Gentle-
have to announce the death of
Gentle-
man, Chaplain of the North Dublin
on Tuesday
a vi:sday last,
who was cut down in the prime of life
at his residence, Royal Canal-terrace, by
respectede
of brief duration. lie was universally
classes in his capacity as a minister of the Gospel, andy allas
a private friend he was beloved by all who had the plea-
sure of his acquaintance.—lrishman (Dublin paper).
STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER.—Trade in this
market continues exceedingly prosperous. Home trade
for the autumn season is now setting in, and promises
to
be as prosperous as the export trade has been for some
time past. A good arneunt of business was transacted
yesterday, and during the past week. Though the de.
mand for exportation is not now so brisk, yet it is ex-
pected that the call for goods fir home consumption will
much increase. Many man ufacurers are now drawing
near the close of their engegi.ments, and are more ready
than for tome time past to accept fresh orders. Prices,
however keep exceedingly firm, and there has been little,
if any, giving way.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRLDGE.
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