beat and beartfelt wishes, is so diametrically oppoite to all known facts, reasons, and proofs, that I cannot but wonder any member of thte profession could, with suavity and good grace, be found ready to come forward in advocating their claims to merit, where such never could, in justice, be expected. Look at the hundreds of persons practising in the medical profession ilkyally, aye, openly, at the present time, in direct and daring defiance of the Apothecaries' Company, (not of the Actof 1815,) candidly and plainly stating: that theirfiars and terrors qf theAct of Parliamst are mt completety removed and safely obliterated from the inmbcility of the ladies by whom the powers of that Act are wielded. Hear, as I bave heard, from the lips of the clerk of the Apothecaries' Company, the statement-" That the Company has no wish or desire to commence or enter an any prosecutions against illegal practitioners, but, at the same time, he (the Clerk) must beg of me not to make that littlk mater public, as it might, andprobably would, prevent young mex from coutinuiag to apply at Apothecaries' Hall for the licentiatehip." Now, Sir, does not this show that the Apothecaries' Company are, and lave been, readily and greedily
