The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-27 00:00:00

TO THE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN MEDICINE, SUR-
GERY, AND MIDWIFERY IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
THE SOCIETY of APOTHECARIES
earnestly invite the attention o f their Licentiates to the Bill
which has been introduced into the House of Commons to alter and
amend the laws regulating the Medical Profession.
The Society have no hesitation in publicly expressing their opinion
that the changes in the law which are contemplated by this Bill
would prove highly detrimental to the interests of General Practi-
tioners, that is to say, to the int, rests of a great majority of those
who are practising the healing art in this country.
The Society, therefore, entreat their Licentiates to examine the
provisions of this Bill for themselves, and to form their own opinion
of its real scope and object, and they caution them, in the mean-
while, against accepting the Bill upon the opinion and recommenda-
tion of its promoters.
A prominent feature of the Bill, which will not escape at' ention,
is this, that any person who does not actually assume a medical title
(such as that of Physician, Surgeou, or Apothecary) will he at liberty
to practise any In'anch of the profession without the necessity of
undergoing an examination, or receiving ally medical education
whatever. Consequently, Chemists and Druggists, should the Bill
become law, will be legally entitled to practise any and every branch
of the profession.
By order of the Society of Apothecaries.
• ROBERT 11. UPTON, Clerk to the Society.
Apothecaries Ball, 26111 Feb., 1856.

CONTRACT FOR SCOTCH BARLEY.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, •
Somerset-House, 231 February, 1556.
flinE Commissioners for executing the Office of
J Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY, the
6th March next., at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
-nch persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering
in'o her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned
article, viz.:—
When to he delivered.
Lbs. Half in 3 weeks, and the remainder in
SCOTCH BARLEY ..50,0002 3 weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may bs made for the whole or any portion of the Barley.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part
thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of
not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selection.
Samples of the Barley (not less than 2155.) must be produced by
the parties tendering.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con-
tract has been decided.
No tender will bo received unless made on the printed fstm pro-
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at
the said office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Ser-
vice at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
The conditions of the revised contract, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and
Bristol.
No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty,
and it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on
his behalf should attend at the office on the day of contract, a; the
result of the offer received from each person will be communicated
to him and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for Scotch
Barley," and must also be delivered at Somerset House.