The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

of the subject leads us to the conviction—but
little, with a beneficial effect. The menufaeturer
and wholesale druggist, we suppose, P"e already
amenable, and, if they are not, sheuld be
made so, for want of care in supplying the parti-
cular article asked for. The apothecary and
druggist should be compelled minor penalty to
exercise a reasonable disdretion in the silo of
poisonous drugs in daily use—refusing them to
individuals ignorant of their properties, to chil-
dren, and to any asking for them under suspicious
circumstances. Where the sale can be effected with
apparent propriety, the apothecary or dt uggist
should be compelled under penalty to label the
article, whether in parcel, bottle, or j tr, correctly,
with the word "Poison," in large letters, and in
the most conspicuous position. Further, the s9le
of arsenic—indeed, any poison—in dangerous
bulk should be registered by the seller in a book
kept for the purpese, and accessible to superin-
tendents of police on a magistrate's order—the re-
gistration describing the name of the purchaser,
the date of purchase, and the motive advanced by
the buyer for wanting the article sold. Where
"raw" apprentices, or other incompetent persons,
occasion death by their ignorance, the principal
should be held responsible. Women, by the way,
are not necessarily incompetent, as manya town and
country surgeon or druggist's wife or sister's expe-
rience would prove. Nor is a surgeon or master
druggist necessarily the most reliable dispenser.
Intelligent young men and grown women have
sometimes shown a great aptitude that way,
and may be relied on in ordinary cases.
In no case should anything of a poisonous nature
be sold in a cup or in any vehicle not admitting
of the label "Poison" being conspicuously placed,
so as to attract the eye—or likely to be used for
ordinary purposes by any member of an ordinary
household. As for the grocer or other trader
selling drugs, in country or out-of-the-way
places, it might be well if one or more of the
medical profession and of the body of regular
druggists in the district should furnish the
intended seller with testimonials as to his fitness
to retail medicines in common use, and, armed
with these, he could apply for the permission of
the magistrate, who should be compelled to grant
it if the testimonials be satisfactory. We merely
throw this out to be canvassed by those who
understand the subject. In no case should he
be permitted to dispense arsenic or any drug or
chemical used as poison of a like virulent nature,
and an observance of the same regulations as
those followed by the apothecary and druggist
with regard to the sale of needful drugs of a
poisonous nature Must be demanded from him.
Such appears to us to be the outline of what can
be done by legislation for the protection of the
subject against poison with effect. Despotic
legislation would infallibly defeat its object, nay,
occasion more mischief than it was intended to
prevent. A system of penalties for neglect of
due precautions in the dispensing of poisons, if
neither over nor under rigorous, but invariably
put in force, would, we are certain, be produc-
tive of marked beneficial results.

ROYAL CREMORNE GARDENS.

MR. ADAMS'S BENEFIT.

The special entertainments of the Et eason at this de-
lightful resort were on Thursday night brought to a
termination in a manner every way calculated to main-
tain the high character they have for so long a period
enjoyed. This was the last grand fete of the season,
and the performances were for the benefit of Mr. Adams,
the indefatigable secretary, for whose invariable cour-
tesy and attention in those matters pertaining to his
particular jurisdiction the public are so much indebted.
It was the first benefit of the kind that Mr. Adams has
had at these gardens, notwithstanding the long period
he has filled his present appointment, and the manner
in which he was supported bore ample testimony to the
high estimation with which he is regarled by all who
know him. The programme was of the most liberal
description, and in the musical department this observe
tion was especially applicable. Some concerted pieces
by Mr. and Mrs. Limpus, with cornet accompaniments
by Mr. Davis, were excellently performed ; And when
we say that Miss Poole, Mr. Bathurst, and Mr. Rooke,
together with Miss Sey fried, sang some of their favourite
songs in their best style, we need scarcely add that the
whole was received with great applause. The fire•
works of the Chevalier Mortram fitly closed the scene,
displaying irA pyrotechnic colours E. M. Adams's thanks,
and the 1856 season of Cremorne expired in a blaze of
glory and a storm of app'ause.

The Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, the New
York Herald informs us, has been declar-1 an illegal
body, and its president, William Coleman, has been
arrested.

The woman-flogging business has not yet been settled
by the guardians of the poor at Marylebone. The Poor
laav B )ard haa called upon the.malter of the workhouse
to resign ; he has refused to do so ; and at the meeting
yesterday it was order. d that the request be taken into
c .tv ideration at a special court to lx:3 held for the
purpose. _

Yesterday Mr. Halo was elected Alderman of Cole-
man-street Ward, in the place of the late Alderman
Hunter.

A man undergoing penal servitude on beard the
Defence bulk, off Woolwich, yesterday attempted to
escape, but be was recaptured. He mixed Kith
labourers at breakfast-time, and passel through the
gates. He was recaptured in a short time after.
Robson, the person charged with defrauding the Crys-
tal Palace Company, and for whose apprehension 2501.
has been offarei, is still at large. The police, up to last
night, had not discovered his hiding-place.
"It is stated," says the Malta Mail, " that Commis-
:qtry-General Smyth, C. 8., is appointed to replace Com-
missary-General Wyll in this island. The departure cf
this latter estimable gentleman we are sure, bo ge-
ner sly regretted."
General Narvatz, whoae ar ival at Bayonne has been
already announced, was to lcave that place yesterday
for Spain. We are informed that he will proceed by
easy stages to Madrid, where his friends are anxiously
waiting his presence.
The i[oniteur Algerien, of the 25th ult., contains some
farther account of the operations of the expcJition
against the Kabyles. After the successes obtained on
the 12th and following, dais several sheiks sent in their
OSCAR OF SWEDEN.—Toe Royal family of
*Sweden (say the Cologne Gazelle) is about to contract an
alliance with the ducal family of Nassau. The marriage
of Prince Oscar, second son of the King of Sweden, born
in 1829, with Princess Sophie, born in 1836, the
youngest sister of the reigning De'ee of Nassau, he ;
been determined on.

.
The Counter of Marseilles says :--"A party of from
ten to twelve English sailors maie an irruption two
nights back into a tobacco shop here, and after having
extinguished the gas laid bold of a number of merschaum
pipes, and then made off. Not one of them has been
arrested."

Rear-Idmiral C mut de Gueydon has been appointed
to the command of the French squadron on the station
of the Antilles and the Gulf of Mexico. He wll hoist
his fl ig on board the Cleopatra frigate.
Marshal Pelissier left Paris the day before yesterday
for Clermont.

Count de Benkendorff, who is charged to conVey'to
Queen Isabella an autograph letter from the Czer, Lai
arrived in Paris on his way to Madrid.
Mr. Mann, the American minister, Las returned to
Paris from England.
SUICIDE BY OXALIC AClD.—Mary Ann Hill, the wife
of a lighterma.n, yesterday p >isoned heraelf by t.tking
quantity of oxa'ie acid. The deceaced was a very in-
temperate woman.
FLIGHT OF A SOLICITOR.--A Norwich solicitor has
lately fled the city, leaving behind him liabilities, prin-
cipally in the shape of bills to the amount of 2,000/. It
is believed that the party, who was in a fair way of lousi-
ness, has left the country, aed proceeded either to
Au,tralia or to the United States.

PEEL PARK, BRADFORD.—The very pleasing duty, says
the Bradford Marvel., devolves upon us this week of
announcing the payment of the two subscriptions of
9,000/. to this object, by Mr. Salt and Messrs. Mil-
ligan, Forbei, and Co., and of 250/. by Mr.. Win. Rand.
libscriptions were contingent upon the raising, of
8,000/. towards the object, and although the fact is not
officially announced, we essuno the payment of these
amount: to mean that the said sum has been realised.
We congratulate all parties upon this result.
Mrus.—Tho business transacted in ruining shares
thi:2 wee': has been of a more extended character than
fur soave time past, though prices in some instance.]
have been flUctuating and uncertain. The safest
principle to act upon in mining investments, tbat
of laying out a small amount in some half dozen or
doz .n well selected mines, instead of confining pur-
chases t) any one in parocular, seems to be more gene-
rally adopted, especially by new parties to the market.
Great Alfred shares have again fluctuated very much,
various opinions being circulated rospocting the mine,
each party supporting his own. The opinions, how-
ever, of the best practical agent, and those most to be
relied upon, aro decidedly favourable.—Mlitiny TozMial
of t4iB clay.