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      own dominions , defeated and disgraced . But this step was rendered inevitable by the landing of a small British force on the island of Karrak , in the Persian Gulf . Iaeufcenant-Colonel SiriBRiFi ' , with 500 rank and file of the Bombay Native Army , and two 6-pounders , took possession of that islet on the 19 th of June , and thence threatened Bushire and the very heart of Peraia . That island is , perhaps , at this moment again in the occupation of British troops , and . with a

      just to confide our diplomatic relations with Persia to the discretion of the Grovernor-G-eneral in . council . Desirable— -because in the Hon . Company ' s service are men of great experience in the ways of Asiatic princes ; find just- —because on that Government devolve the responsibility and expense of atoning for the blunders committed by Western diplomatists . ;

      Bimikr object in view . Weave told , indeed , that Herat is an insignificant place , in the 3 nidst of sandy deserts , altogether unworthy of notice from this country . Such , at least , ¦ was not Ulr . McjSTjiiL ' s opinion , thaa whom no better judge exists of Eastern questions . "Writing to Lord Paimeiistox after the siege had lasted , seven . months , he dwells upon the fact that , notwithstanding the Affghans had laid w / iste the surronndiug conntry as far as possible , it was from the

      immediate vicinity the Persian army had almost exclusively drawn ; its supplies . Count Si-MONicn had travelled thither in his private carriage from Teheran without inconvenience , and could , if he pleased , have continued his journey with eqaal facility to Candahar . JN"p physical difficulty intervenes between that important town and the frontiers of Greorgia . Even then the Russian minister bad guaranteed the secret treaty hy . which ManoarMEP Siiah undertook to cede Herat

      to E-onTTKDiti ICu ^^ , the ruler of Candahar , as a feudatory of Persia . Had the Persian monarch succeeded at that time , it is nearly certain that he would have pushed his conquests . further . . into Affghanistan , perhaps into Seiude , and thus have come into collision with our influence

      if not Avith-. diir . actual power , in India .. For these reasons , j \ Er . McNeil emphatically expressed his belief that it may be of the very highest importance to preserve the independence of Herat , or at least to prevent its being incorporated with Persia , and that if the Shah should succeed in taking Herat , we shall have reason to reoret nothavimr

      interfered to preveat it . " Dost Maiiommed ' s agent at the Persian Court , at that time , was well aware of the real motive for the solicitude displayed by Count Sucoxicii in furthering the Shah ' s designs upon Herat . " The object of the ( Russian > Elohee , " he write ? , " is to have . a road to the English ( in India ) , and for this they are very anxious . " And he reminds Iris master that lie holds a turnpike lower down " tlio road . " The Dost is now a

      feeble and aged man . Already the reins of power arc filing from his hands . Powerful chieftains have asserted their independence in every part of his dominions . And he must , indeed , ho weak who now pays more than a nominal allegiance . At his death the bonds of union will be entirely snapped—an event that mny happen this day or tomorrow , certainly within a very brief space of time . In the consequent confusion nothing would bo easier than for the Persian forces to march from Herat upon Candahar , arid thence upon Ctiubul . llussian influence ,

      Russian money , . Russian , oUlcers , will not he Wanting at such , a conjuncture . And thus , while the British Government was pluming itself on its rigid observance of tho doctrine of no n-intervention , its most formidable enemy would ho virtually established on the confines of oar Indian Empire To meet such a catastrophe , tho relief , or recovery , of ilerat is indispensable , and to prevent the recurrence of theso hostile demonstrationsexpensive m themselves and disquieting to other nations-the permanent occupation of f c-nrrak is much to be desired . wl , nH ^ la 8 i 01 ? ' ifc is WOT % of consideration ¦ whether it would not bo both desirable and

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      : PHARMACY REFORMS . We scarcely understand the object of a circular which has reached us froni the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society . It is stated to be to direct attention to the fact that the reformation which recent events have shown to be required , and towards which the force of public opinion is tending , ivas . projected more than , fifteen years ago by the society ; that great progress has already been

      other name , title , or sign , implying that they are registered , or members of the society . The Act does not interfere -with the sale of drugs and the dispensing of prescriptions by incompetent persons ; hut it cannot foe too widely known , that , in every neighbourhood , the public should seek out the " Pharmaceutical Chemist , * ' or " pharmaceutist , " and buy of him . There its a qualified class , and it should be supported .

      rJhe Pharmaceutical Society lias a right to this public recognition . We scarcely think it can work in . any other way -than it has worked , or that it can "be vested with , compulsory powers . The public wdll gradually acknowledge its usefulness , and asaO . itself of the protection offered . It is time that we should hear no more of ; poison being Bold in pennyworths to children , pr of persons in a state of frenzy being furnished with the meajis of suicide for the sake off he retailer ' s profit .

      made by its voluntary and unassisted agency , and that all that remains to be done may le effected by means of the society if armed with more extensive powers and assisted by the public . " The piiblic , we imagine , will "be glad to assist the society ; but if the council desire to secure a legal control over the entire trade in drugs , we think it will be dif-( icult to reconcile the -Legislature to that

      proposition . Itwould be necessary to demonstrate that no monopoly would be favoured by such a project , and that joint-stock companies / would not be kept put of the field . \ Ye arc inclined to believe that the race of poisonous dispensers would be materially diminished by the establishment of great companies , importing pure drugs , and selling them , certificated , at reas onable prices throughout the countrv . But the

      Pharmaceutical Society has xmdeniuble claims to the public gratitude . More than fifteen years ago the chemists and druggists projected a system . ' for the education of dispensers . It had been abundantl } ' proved that the physician might prescribe , in ¦ ¦ vain if the apothecaiy made up for the patient a dose of adulterated drugs , put Torture into a composing draught and Death into a pill ; or , to be satisfied with a less . extreme illustration , sold medicines so stale as tobeuseles 3 or so mixed

      as to be more deleterious than beneficial . -Moreover , one dispenser might vend a particular drug of a quality so different from that vended by another as to render a different proportion necessary in its administration . It was known , before the society existed , that the most ignoraut persons were accustomed to deal in deadly acids , salts , and essences ; but it never was and never will , be known how many murders resulted . In 1 S 41 , therefore , the association was

      set on foot , with a board of examiners , and began at once to apply educational tests to individuals soliciting * the privileges of membership . Two years afterwards a royal charter was obtained , the subjects of examination being chemistry , pharmacy , materia medica , and botany , including the practical manipulations of the laboratory and tho dispensing counter , the " modes of ascertaining the strength and purity of drugs , the tests and antidotes for poisons , the doses of ordinary medicines , and an acquaintance

      with prescriptions . A school of Pharmacy was founded inBloomsbury-squaro ; and professorships were established . In 1851 an attempt was made-by a parliamentary enactment to bring the entire profession under the influence of the society , but this failed , though an Act was passed in 1 S 53 recognizing the Pharmaceutical Society as a voluntary association for the examination and registration of pharmaceutical chemistry , and conferring upon persons so registered * tho ox-clusivo right to assume or use tho title of Pharlrtaceutieal Chemist , Pharmaceutist , or any

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      There : is -no learned man but -will confess lie h . ath much : profi . bed . by reading controversies ,. his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , tb . en . it be profitable for him . to read , ¦ why should it not , at least , betolerablefor his adversaryto write |—SIiKEOir

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      ASSURANCE SOU ASSURERS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , — " An Investigator" criticizes your article , " Assurance for Assurers , " by suggesting several questions which he fails to answer . What , then , is the insurable number of lives in Great Britain . ? I affirm that they who cannot afford to insure form a very small class ; that the poverty and distress existing only prove the urgency and the value jef assurance ; that in this calculation females ought not to be left out of " sight any more than males ; that of infants , not of an insurable .-age ,-a . large proportion will reach that age ; and that those . whose means place them above the requirements of assurance are

      very few . 2 Trom personal knowledge I am able to say that the average of insured lives among the middle classes is remarkably small ; and that of " those who stand aloof , the majority do not reject the assurance system because they are too young , . or too poor , or too rich , or too unhealthy , but because they are ignorant of its advantages , or insensible to them . As to Friendly Societies , of which there . exist thousands of an unprofitable and illegal character , I trust the day may come when the young : societies , adapt * ing their rates to the requirements of the poor , ¦ wil l induce them to select more certain and beneficial investments . A sort of Conservatism prevails among ; the older offices , many of which were original ! v

      established for the rich , and the rich alone . It is little to the point to urge that certain companies are doing : little business , and that their shares are depreciated in the market . Can " An Investigator" indicate a single healthily-constituted and skilfully-managed assurance society which lias failed ? You , I presume , referred to societies of this class , as you specially excepted the bubble concerns got up for the benefit of managers , solicitors , and chairmen , Moreover , you did not suggest , nor do I argue , that the business at present done by assurance companies might be divided amongst three times the number

      but the field of action may , and , I believe , will , be extended within the next half century" to a degree of which "An Investigator" has no conception . A great increase has taken place during the last ten years . New principles have , been developed ; new methods of benefiting the policy-holders , while living , have been discovered . Yet , as is remarked by the eminent Economist to whom you refer , few existing companies " seek to do business with the industrious classes or the smaller class of tradesmen . " I am your obedient servant , An Economist .

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      ASSURANCE FOR ASSURERS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ' ) Sin , —Permit me to remark on the increatinff capacity of the population in connexion with assurance . As the number increases daily of those who read , of those who travel , of those who live out of town , Sec , so will tho numbers of those increase who assure their lives for the benefit of their families , purcliase endowments for their children , &c . This is an element in the calculation which should not bo omitted . An AcTUAitr .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1856, page 1047, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2165/page/15/