The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-25 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

Fashionable arrivals at the Grand Junction Hotel :—Lord
Temp!more, the Hon. Augustus Chichester, Major Wilson,
Lady Crofton, W. Blake, Esq., W. H. Dease and family,
Lyon Stephens, Esq., H. Hudson, Esq., Mrs. H. E. Jones
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, the Rev. H. Johnson,
John Stephenson, Esq., H. Mayne, Esq., J. W. Empson,
Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Smelt and family, Mr. Buckmaster, W.
W. Gray, Esq., E. Loughton, Esq., W. M'Duwal, Esq., Mr.
and Mrs. Young and suite, H. Thomason, Esq., Mr. and
Mrs. Leary, Captain Cousins, Captain Williams, F. Barti-
vallo, H. Temple, Esq., Colonel Staunton, Lady Mauvers,
Sir George Cornwall, Bart., Mr. James Hart.
CATHOLIC BA LL.--We understand that the annual Catholic
charity ball is fixed for Monday, the 11th Feb.
THE. CANADIAN PIIISONERS.—TherISOIIen from Canada,
an account of whose arrival at this port we gave last week,
still remain at the Borough Gaol, no orders having been re-
ceived for their removal.

STEAM TO THE WEST INDIES.—We are glad to find that
a meeting of the principal West India merchants has been
held, at which a provisional committee was appointed, in
order to take measures for forming a joint stock company,
far the purpose of opening a communication between this
poi t and the West Indies by steam-vessels. We hope we
shall soon have the pleasure of printing the prospectus.
MASONIC FUNERAL.—On Thursday, the remains of Mr.
Samuel Astles, spirit merchant, Warrington, were removed
from his late residence for interment in the family grave at
Overton church. The deceased was secretary to the free-
masons' lodge held at Warrington, and his brother ma-
sons, in order to shew their respect to his memory, escorted
the funeral procession as far as Wilderspool.
Sr. DAVID'S CHURCH.—On Sunday last, a sermon was
preached in this church, in the Welsh language, by the Rev.
Robert Davies, in his well-known eloquent style, from the 6th
verse of the 14th chapter of Revelations, after which a collec-
tion, amounting to 4s, was made in aid of the mission for
promulgating the Gospel in foreign parts. The singers com-
posing the Welsh choir, who render their services gratuitously,
requested that the plate should be handed round the orchestra,
and, much to their credit, each contributed his mite. —Corres-
ponden f of the Mercury.
THE WORK HOUSE.—We understand that Mr. Charles Cot-
tingham, bookkeeper at the Liverpool Workhouse during
upwards of five years, has been appointed to the governorship
of the workhouse belonging to the Stoke•upon-Trent Union,
near Newcastle, and that Mrs. Cottinghatn has been appointed
matron to the same establishment. There were fifty appli-
cations fur the situation which Mr. Cottinghain has ob-
tained.

LIVERPOOL POLYTECIINIC SOCIETY.—We are ham to
see by a circular that this society is now in a promising way,
and will be fully organised on Wednesday week, when a
meeting will be held for the purpose of electing a committee
and other officers. Its object is to afford encouragement to
original inventions and improvements in the mechanical
arts, by premiums, and the co-operation of the society. In
this useful object, many of the leading and most intelligent
gentlemen of Liverpool have already lent their aid, and we
hope their example will be yet more extensively followed.

MAKING SURE.—Last week, Mr. Davis, brazier, of War-
rington, became bail for the appearance of Joseph Cooper,
one of his apprentices, to answer a charge of felony at the
next Kirkdale sessions. The apprentice did not return to
his work, and Mr. Davis, thinking " a bird in hand worth two
in the bush," wisely caused his apprentice to be apprehended
on the charge of neglecting his work, and he berng brought
before the magistrates on Monday, he was sent to Kirkdale,
there to be kept to hard labour, until after the sessions
week.

THE NEWLY SOWN WHEAT.—There is a great quantity
of the newly sown wheat above the ground in this neighbour-
hood, most of which is looking very well, especially o❑ the
light open soils about West Derby, Childwall, &c. Many of
the good farmers near Liverpool seem to understand the im-
portance of early sowing, though throughout Lancashire and
Cheshire generally there is much less attention paid to it than
there ought to be.
LIVER THEATRE.—This favourite theatre will open for the
season to-morrow evening, with a strong company and seve-
ral dramatic novelties. Mrs. Waylett, one of the most
fascinating actresses of the present day, has been engaged
" for a limited number of nights," and will appear in two
popular pieces. She is also announced to sing several of
those delightful melodies for which she is so famous. The
entertainments will be altogether of a most attractive de-
scription, the pieces embracing, with the exception of Mrs.
Raymond, the whole talent of the company. The managers
have commenced their winter campaign with spirit.

RUNCORS.—We understand that a school-house is about to
be erected in Runcorn, which is to be used during the week
as an Infant School, and on Sunday as a Sunday School, in
connection with Trinity Church; and it affords us the most
unfeigned pleasure in being enabled to state' that Lady
Francis Egerton has placed at the disposal of the Rev. John
Davies, A.M., the minister of Trinity Church, the very mu-
nificent sum of £4OO towards the erection of the proposed
school-room, and has further promised an annual subscription
of ten pounds towards the support of the master, provided
the system taught at the school meets with her ladyship's
approbation.

DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Friday last, an inquest was
held on the body of Jane M`Lean, a girl, thirteen years of
age, who lived servant with Mrs. Marks, Old Hall-street
The house in which Mrs. Marks resides is also occupied by
Mr. Johnson, chemist and druggist. On the evening of
Wednesday last, Mr. Johnson's son, while in the shop, heard
some one scream; he ran out of the shop into the parlour,
and through the door of the parlour communicating with the
landing. He threw the girl down, and put the foot mat on
calling, at the same time for assistance. J. Rogers, a
sailor, who lives in the vicinity, burst the street door open,
and dragged the girl into the street ; he covered her with his
coat, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The girl
was taken to the Northern Hospital, and died the same night.
How the fire originated did not transpire. A verdict in ac-
cordance with the evidence was returned. On the same day,
an inquest was held on the body of a girl named Mary Lid-
vatt, ten years of age, who also died from the effects of burn-
ing. She lived with her parents in a cellar in Highfield-
street. Verdict, accidental death.
THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—The schools of this ad
mirable institution are in a state of exceeding prosperity•
They are to be re-opened, after the Christmas Holydays, on
the 2d January. Both the Higher and Lower Day School
are under the superintendence of the most able masters, gen-
tlemen of high attainments in classical and English litera-
ture, mathematics, philosophy, languages, and the arts.'? The
evening schools offer immense advantages cf instruction in
every department of literature, science, and art, on terms that
are within the reach of almost every individual in the com-
munity. The library now comprises three thousand volumes,
and a fine museum, a sculpture gallery, and a gallery of prac-
tical science will shortly be opened for the use of the mem-
bers. The public lectures, we perceive, are to commence on
the 21st of January next. Several sets, on highly interesting
and important subjects, will be delivered in the course of the
next year.—Albion.
RATING OF AN OCCUPATION AT CHAT MOSS.—At War-
rington petty sessions, on Wednesday, Mr. Pachett, of Man-
chester, appealed against a rate laid upon a railway or tram
road on Chat Moss, in his occupation, made for the relief of
the poor of the township of Astley. Mr. Nicholson, who ap-
peared for the appellant, stated that Mr. Pachett, and some
other gentlemen from Manchester, had embarked in the spe.
culatiun of retrieving the moss lands on Chat Moss, and with
a view to facilitate their farming operations, a tram road had
been formed from the line of the Liverpool and Manchester
railway, through their several occupations, without which, it
would be almost impossible for a sheep to trot over the moss,
and for this railway, the township had rated him at £39. 19s.
Mr. Hall enquired whether any toll had been demanded or
taken? Mr. Patchett replied that no toll had been contem-
plated, and not a farthing had been taken. The road was
kept strictly private; and was once a year closed, to prevent
its being claimed a public road. Mr. Holden, the solicitor
for the respondents, submitted that in this case the magistrates
had no jurisdiction, as it was a question for the consideration
of the quarter sessions, as to whether the property was rate-
able or not; the magistrate had onlythe power to fix the rate-
able value. Mr. Lyon, and the other magistrates, concurred
in this opinion, and recommended the appellant to go to the
quarter sessions, and appeal against the rate altogether.

TOWNSHIP OF LITHERLAND.—A meeting took place, on
Wednesday last, on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool
Canal, at which were present the Earl of Sefton, Mr. C.
Birch, the newly-appointed Magistrate of the county, the
Rev. Win. Itowson, Mr. Stanley, the Surveyor of the Leeds
and Liverpool Canal Com Pally, Mr. Williams, (son of Col.
Williams,) as engineer on the part of the township, Mr. Hall,
his lordship's agent, Mr. Tyrer, Mr. C. Lowe, and variogs of
the neighbouring gentry and farmers, when the intended plan
of a diversion in the road, under the authority of an act of
Parliament, was approved of; his lordship generously giving
the land required, and the company, with equal liberality,
undertakes, by their surveyor, to build a handsome stone
bridge, provided the trustees of the road, about to be con-
structed under the intended turnpike act, would make the
approaches. A greater benefit cannot be conferred on the
neighbourhood then the co:npletion of this long-wished-for
bridge: we sincerely trust, under the authority of trust such
as is contemplated, to see it carried vigorously into effect.
THEATRE-ROYAL.—Our theatre closed a most successful
season on Friday evening, with the benefit of Mrs. Clarke.
The estimation in which this lady is held was, we are glad to
say, indicated by an overflowing house, the greatest, indeed,
of the season, amounting to, we believe, no less than £250.
Of Mrs. Clarke's abilities in her peculiar line of characters
we have often had occasion to speak, but perhaps never was
enconium, however deserved, less needed than now, after the
handsome tribute just paid to her merits. The performances
were Sheridan Knowles's new play of the Maid of Marein-
dorpt, followed by a concert, performances on the tight rope
by Mons. Pledge and his sons, which were very highly ap-
plauded, and a new drains, founded on the story of Nicholas
Nickleby. We need nut add that the parts were all ably
sustained, and elicited loud ►narks of approbation.

THE DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—This invaluable
society has recently received some handsome donations to
enable it to meet the heavy demands on its funds occasioned
by the severity of the winter and the high price of all the
necesssries of life. Mr. Charles Tayleur has sent it the
liberal sum of £lOO, his Worship the Mayor £5O, in his offi-
cial capacity, and £2O in his private; Mr. Joseph Hornby
£2O, Mr. James Hevworth £25, Mr. J. Cropper £2O, the
late Ralph Peters £25, and Mr. Adam Hodgson has paid
over to the society being part of the surplus of the
coronation fund. Several other sums have also been re-
ceived. This society never gives without previously ascer-
taining the worthiness of the objects relieved, and conse-
quently £1 placed at its disposal will generally do inure
good than £lO expended in indiscriminate almsgiving.
SAD ACCIDENT.—Last week, a poor woman, a pauper lu-
natic with lucid intervals, confined in Sutton workhouse, one
of the establishments of the Prescot union, attempted to
make her escape, and with that view scaled the wall sepa-
rating the workhouse from the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway. She was found lying on the rails with one of her
hands nearly severed from the arm by a locomotive engine,
and otherwise so seriously injured as to render her recovery
a matter of great doubt. The hand has been amputated at
the wrist joint.

THE TELEGRAPH.—Sir William Follett has given bis
opinion on the case submitted to him by the mercantile asso-
ciations, that the Telegraph Establishment ought to be main-
tained altogether at the expense of the Dock Estate; that
the object contemplated by the act, authorising its erection,
was the speedily communicating to merchants and shipown-
ers the arrival of ships off the port; that they have a right to
require such communication to be made to them as heretofore;
and that any shipowner, whose vessels may be struck off the
Telegraph list, and, consequently, not reported. may apply
to the Queen's Bench for a mandamus. We understand that
the opinion has been sent to the Dock Committee, who are
deliberating upon it.—Albion.
THE ARMY.—On Thursday evening four troops of the 2nd
Dragoon Guards arrived here by the City of Dublin Com-
pany's steamers, from Dublin, en route for Manchester.
The weather being extremely tempestuous, no less than
eleven of the horses were killed during the voyage, and about
thirty more were lamed. They landed on Friday, and were
quartered temporarily in the barracks, New Haymarket.
The troops which have arrived are under the command of
Captain Campbell; and the remainder of the regiment, under
the command of Colonel Kearney, will follow in a day or
two. The regiment is to be stationed in the manufacturing
districts. where apprehensions are felt for the movements of
the torchlight men.

EXTENSIVE FA I LURE.—An extensive calico-printing esta-
blishment in Manchester has suspended its payments, whose
engagements are said to exceed £90,000. The assets are un-
derstood to be considerable.

NUMEROUS PROGENY.—Mr. Joseph \ hiteside, who died
at Lytham on the 13th instant, in his 78th year, has•left a
_family of floconcinots to the third generation, of ong4nodrad
444 twenty-ttiOt nnnlbor,—Prest

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE "CHURCHMAN" OF THE ALBION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4IVD.IRD.

SIR,--1 learn from your paper of Friday last, that some
wiseacre, who calls himself a Churchman, has, through a
letter in the Liverpool Albion, recommended our rector to
oppose the appointment of Dr. Tattershall, Mr. M`Neile,
Mr. Buddicom, Mr. James, &c., to the office of trustees for
the intended new churches. 1 have my doubts as to this
writer being a Churchman; I rather suspect that he is
some disaffected Dissenter, who is decidedly hostile to our
church, and who fears such men as those mentioned above.
The Dissenters know from experience that just in proportion
as faithful ministers are raised up in the Church—men who
will preach the everlasting Gospel of the grace of God—
declare the whole counsel of God—and proclaim the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,—in the same
proportion will Dissent decrease, the people forsake the
meeting-house, and attend the church : therefore they fear
such men. If all our clergy had been of the same stamp,
dissent never would have had such a footing as it boasts of
at present: the people would have been instructed in the
principles of the unchanging Word of God, and thus would
have been preserved from the dangerous paths of "false
doctrines, heiesu and schism." This the Dissenters know:
hence their opposition to the faithful clergy. They used to
sneer at them, and call them "dumb dogs ;" but now some
of these dumb dogs have been aroused, and bark a little too
loudly for some of our dissenting dissatilactionists. Consider-
ing this, Sir. and considering the medium through which
" A Churchman" has addressed the Rector, I have no
doubt whatever that he is a Dissenter in disguise. Be
this as it may, I hope that fit and proper persons will
he chosen as trustees, and that the ministers who shall
hereafter be appointed to the new churches, will be
men of talent, piety, and zeal, —men who have the love
of souls at heart, and who will preach the unsearch-
able riches of Christ,—who will see it to be their duty
as well as their privilege to "go out into the highways and
hedges, and compel sinners to come in, that God's house may
be filled." These are the kind of men that are wanted. But
if men are appointed who will "speak smooth," who will
"daub the wall with untempered mortar," it will be better
never to lay a single stone; but let faithful pastors be ap-
pointed, then the churches will be filled. Tbe people in-
structed, and put upon their guard against the cunning
craftiness of false teachers, who are lying in wait to deceive
sinners, will be converted from the errors of their ways, and
God will be glorified, and the new churches will be a lasting
blessing to the town. Hoping that such may be the case, I
remain, yours, very faithfully,
A CHURCHMAN INDEED.
Dec. 24. 1838.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Si n,—ln the police reports contained in your paper on Tues-
day last, was noticed the examination of a female servant from
my establishment on a charge of theft. This report was not
observed by me until last night, or I would have earlier no-
ticed it. The reason of my placing this woman in the hands
of the police must be obvious to every head of a family, as to
allow such coptinued filching practices to pass unnoticed, is
positive encouragement to them. This does not appear, how-
ever, to be a consideration with our police magistrate, Mr.
Hall ; for, although the stolen property was found upon the
girl's person after leaving my house and was identified, and
could have been sworn to by me, and though willing ►o bear
the coarse conduct of such a magistrate myself on public
grounds, I was unwilling that my wife should be submitted
to such imperious treatment, and the unnecessary inconve-
nience of attending in a crowded court the following day, for
the needless purpose of substantiating what was there and
then fully proved. Neither was the policeman who took the
girl examined at the time the witnesses present were ques-
tioned, thus allowing the escape of a delinquent. Although
no friend to severity, I would not have society insulted and
injured by indiscreet and improper lenity. By inserting the
above in your next publication, you will much oblige,
Most respectfully, your obedient servant,
Dec. 22, 1838.

JOHN SIMPSON.

THE CANADA FRIENDLY UNION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
thank you for intimating to the public the object
which has brought me once more to England.
My testimonials have been examined and approved by
ministers of different denominations in this town.
If Canada be saved from riot and revolution it must be by
giving to all classes of the rising generation the means of
education and religious instruction. At present not one-
third part of the people of Lower Canada can read the Bible,
and many of those who have emigrated from Ireland are in
the same deplorable condition.
An Institution, by the name of "The Friendly Union,"
has been formed in Canada, whose design is to promote use-
ful knowledge among all classes of the community.
Mr. Kenneth Dowie, Mersey Chambers, and Mr. Thom-
son, Exchange-court, will receive donations, if any should
be disposed to patronize this design. Mr. Marples, in Lord-
street, and Mr. Perris, in Church-street, will receive books
for schools and libraries in Canada connected with this
union.

I do most sincerely thank those kind benefactors who
assisted me on former occasions; and I humbly hope, that
my present appeal may not be in vain. I would beg to re-
mind all who are possessed of wealth, that the Divine Master
has promised fourfold to all who may lend to the Lord.
That many may grow rich in this way is the prayer of the
public's humble servant, F. OSGOOD.

THE LIVERPOOL APOTHECARIES' COMPANY.

TO 7 HP, EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sin,—ln the present day, when public companies are so
much the fashion, and men of almost every grade pursue
riches with an avidity altogether unworthy of beings destined
for immortality,—when the means which are resorted to are,
in many instances, not only in direct defiance of every prin-
ciple of honour and integrity, but altogether alien to that
noble spirit of generosity and liberality which of old charac-
terised the true Englishman, whatever was the nature of his
pursuits,---one can scarcely feel surprised that even grave
physicians and solemn-looking apothecaries should be some-
what infected with the malaria, and fall, alas ! but too wil-
ling victims, like the devoted Indian at the wheels of Jug-
gernaut, before that mighty god called Mammon, unable to
ward off the rankling and insidious venom of covetousness,
though such extraordinary magicians in reference to the
wholi, vast catalogue of bodily ills.
These remarks have been partly induced in consequence
of three letters that have appeared in the Standard of this
week—one bearing date Dec. 18th, and the others Dec. 21st,
signed respectively, " A Physician of the Old School,"
`• Anti-Cant," and "A Friend to the Apothecaries' Hall."
Now, I am not connected by trade, profession, or otherwise,
with either the physicians. apothecaries, or druggists of Li-
verpool; but as one of the public, whose interests this newly-
begotten company professes so tenderly to regard, I have a
right, in common with all, to try the validity of those prin-
ciples on which it is avowedly based—to test the truth of its
allegations—and to accept its professions of disinterestedness
and zeal for the public good with the salutary reflection, that
there is nothing indigenous to the soil of is physician's or an
apothecary's heart, whereby the public may be indemnified
from purchasing ought at their hands of a spurious or an
adulterated character; or that a body of men, from the sim-
ple fact of a joint interest, must of necessity be all that is
honest, noble, and good—inspired with a most unbounded
desire for the public weal; and an unconquerable disgust to
every species of fraud and imposition. If such be the fact,
'tis a discovery in ethics to the honour of which the modern
sons of Hippocrates and Esculapius are most indisputably
entitled, and some appropriate motto emblazoned on the arias
of the Liverpool Apothecaries' Company, might transmit
their names in fadeless glory to nations yet unborn; and
when the Tailors', the Butchers', the Shoemakers', "the
United Metropolitan Baking Hot Muffin and Crumpet"
Companies shall be exerting in full vigour their influence
over society,—in short, when individual competition shall
be extinguished, and the thousand petty streams of fraud
and rapacity shall be wholly absorbed by those capacious
reservoirs of virtue—public companies, then may the
public-spirited advocates of pure drugs, and plenty of
them, reap the rich reward of their disinterested efforts to
secure the public from the vile practices of such dishonest
men as Druggists, and all other tradespeople most undoubt-
edly are, who do not enrol themselves as partners in mono-
polies, ase in their nature, and in their effects destructive of
that free competition which secures to talent and honesty its
just remuneration, and which must ever afford the best secu-
rity from imposition of every kind. For who will lay out his
money where heahinks he shall be cheated, or, perhaps poi-
soned; those who resort to such villanies cannot conceal
them for any great length of time; besides, when men find
it the best policy to he honest, self-interest is in such a case
a more effective guard, then the vaunted honour and patriot-
ism of even such a noble and disinterested race of men as
physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries are most unquestiona-
bly admitted to be.

I readily admit, that the concentrated power of many may
accomplish that which the divided efforts of individuals never
could. Great national undertakings, requiring unity of de-
sign and action, enterprises of art and science, requiring a
nucleus of power and capital to which single and unorganised
supplies of skill, strength, and funds are wholly inadequate,
are of this description; and, although even here the motives
may be of a mixed character that actuate such a body, their
effect upon society is beneficial, inasmuch as they produce
with comparative ease those ends which it were vain in indi-
viduals, as such, to attempt. But this principle can never
apply to matters of common traffic, and more than hourly de-
mand ; and however fair and specious may be the pretence
with which any number of individuals may combine to effect
a monopoly of any commodity for themselves, depend upon
it, that the interest of every tradesman is concerned in coun-
teracting its mischievous effects; and, if possible, in destroy-
ing the monster wherever it may appear, regardless of the
fascinating shape or syren voice it may assume.
It is not to be credited upon the simple dictum of a nest of
monopolists that so useful and respectable a body of tradespeo-
ple as the druggists are known to be throughout the country,
are nothing more than a set of cheats and impostors, reckless
of the lives of their fellow creatures, prepared from the base
motive of gain alone, to administer any noxious stuff that an-
swers their purpose best, regardless alike of their own repu-
tation or the sufferings of others. It is said that the druggists
are interested in defending themselves. Of course, they are;
and not only so, but every class of tradesmen is alike inter-
ested in resisting the inroads of powerful and unprincipled
monopolies upon the rights of individual competition—the
only Just and honourable principle for the conduct of trade,
and the most powerful security that each can have for the
honesty of another. In all trades there are those who sell in-
ferior articles than others: but the public soon discover
where they are best served, and thus a powerful stimulant is
furnished to the trailer to produce the best article at a given
price. But large companies, by absorbing individual compe-
tition in the vortex of their own avarice, destroy that ener-
getic spirit of honest rivalry which at once affords the best
security from fraud, and the individual the just reward of his
labour. It is therefore the duty, as well as interest, of all those
who are engaged in trade, and those who are not, to set their
faces against combinations of this description, to discourage,
in every legitimate way, such destructive assaults upon the
principles of free trade, and to crush, with a strong and de-
termined hand, every attempt to infringe the rights of the
honest trader, although preceded by the attractive flourish of
public virtue, disinterestedness, and humanity.
I am free to confess, far short as society comes of the stan-
dard of purity, I am yet unwilling to believe that honesty has
been hunted through all the trades of the commonwealth, and
has at last found a home and a sanctuary in the enviable pro-
fession of physic. Assertion, however, is the best proof that
impudence usually offers, upon the supposition that it is the
most easily received; and therefore no great surprise will
accompany the following extracts from the " Prospectus of
the Liverpool Apothecaries' Company," dated April 29,

" It has been sometime matter of consideration among the
medical men of this town, to found an establishment where
they could procure drugs and medicines of genuine quality,
entirely free from the deleterious adniir tures which they have
found so frequently to thwart their skill, and thus to add con-
siderably to the sufferings and risk of their patients."
And again—_ _ _

" It is intended that the drugs shall be selected of first-ra:e
quality ONLY. The correctness of the chemical preparations,
manufactured on the premises, will also be strictly examined.
In fact, no article will be allowed to be sent out UNTIL THE
QUALITY BE SANCTIONED AND APPROVED BY A COMMITTEE
OF MEDICAL MEN."

" Provisions and regulations." " Both the profession
and the trade must necessarily derive an undoubted advan-
tage, in having a wholesale establishment, where the Com-
pany's CLAIM FOR SUPPORT will be
,founded upon the warranty
it will be able to afrd of the GENUINENESS of its stock."
" Address o the'Provisional Committee,

(Signed) "A, OiLLON, Chairman."
c‘ Oh:judgment, tbot; art lied to bruti4 Opasts,
B;iti 81414 ii4V9 tott-Olair re4oh'"

Such was the exclamation of Mark Antony in Rome's dege-
nerate days; and surely we may take up our parable, and say,
Oh, honesty, thou'st fled to doctor's shops,
And druggists may not keep thee !
The druggists are all inhuman rogues ! " The medical
men of this town" the most sensitive, sympathising beings
upon earth ! Not a quack nor an impostor amongst them ;
and were it not for the cupidity of the druggists, such is the
sublimity of their skill, that Muspratt might send forth his
vitriolic fumes from all the winds of heaven, and the public
sewers themselves might be dispensed with, without the
slightest danger to the health of any.
" One acre of performance," says Lord Bacon,. " is worth
the whole land of promise." 'Tis all very well to talk about
skill being thwarted—sufferings of patients—and genuine-
ness of stock; but one fact, which has come under my own
observation, may serve to illustrate the great philosopher's
aphorism. Several serons of bark, of some thousands of
pounds weight, were lately offered for sale in the Liverpool
marker, but were rejected by the respectable houses in the
trade as a spurious article. It, nevertheless, found pur-
chasers; but as a great law authority has decided " the
greater the truth, the greater the libel," perhaps those sturdy
champions for genuine drugs—the doctors—will save me the
risk of an action, by informing the public who it was that
made the purchase, and where this identical spurious stuff is
dispensed, at the moderate profit of full two hundred per cent.
Waiting for this disclosure from the members of this imma-
culate profession, 1 leave the public in the meantime to draw
their own conclusions of the characters of such pretenders to
disinterested honesty and humanity. OH !