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gave her it, and showed her the bottle from which he served her; but she denied that 
it was the same bottle, upon which he said he must have measured it in the laudanum- 
glass. He at length discovered that he had served her with laudanum; but, instead of 
promptly calling in medical aid, he resorted to his own skill in medicine, and suggested 
the propriety of giving the child a powder and a little antimony wine, which he sent it. 
In the meantime a doctor was called in; but his efforts were of no avail, and the child 
died in the course of the evening. As this is the second case of the kind in Leicester 
within the past six months, the jury made an example of the accused by returning a 
verdict of “ Manslaughter,” and he was committed on the coroner’s warrant to take his 
trial at the next assizes.— Times , August 20. 
JAMAICA SENNA. 
The Hon. Richard Hill, in a letter dated from Spanish Town, aud addressed 
to the “ Editor of the Transactions of the Incorporated Royal Society of Arts 
and Agriculture,” Kingston, Jamaica, suggests the desirability of cultivating 
the Cassia obovata , now found growing wild very plentifully in certain parts 
of Jamaica. He says, “ Cultivation in the gardens would ensure a sufficient 
quantity for druggists in an exportation of the article to the American and 
Euglish markets.” 
©liituarg. 
MICHAEL FARADAY, D.C.L., F.R.S. 
We have to announce the death of this distinguished philosopher, whose discoveries 
in physical science have gained for him a world-wide celebrity. He died on Sunday, the 
25th of August, after a protracted illness. His life and scientific labours will form 
subject-matter for an interesting and highly instructive biography. 
EDWARD MAYOR RANDALL. 
Edward Mayor Randall was born at Southampton (at the present house of business) 
in 1794; his father having commenced business in the town a few years before, when 
there was no other regular druggist in the place, which then consisted of about 6000 or 
7000 inhabitants. 
He “ walked the hospitals,” and qualified (as far as was then required) for medical 
practice, just before the Apothecaries Act came into force. He at once, however, joined 
his father in the drug business, avoiding “ practice,” as far as possible, and continued 
actively engaged in business until three months before his death, when weakness inca¬ 
pacitated him for further exertion. 
He was of so retiring a disposition that he never held any public office in his native 
town, though constantly solicited to do so; and while avowing his principles, as a 
Liberal, most frankly, he held himself aloof from political action, beyond recording his 
vote, which he invariably did. He took a full share, however, in philanthropic and re¬ 
ligious objects, and was constant in visiting the sick and dying, with a view both to 
their temporal and spiritual relief and comfort. A few years since, his name was placed 
on the Commission of the Peace for the borough, but he begged it might not be re¬ 
tained ; alleging advancing age as disqualifying him from fulfilling the duties of the 
office. 
He died on the 7th of August, universally respected. He is succeeded in the business 
by his eldest son, who has been for nearly twenty-five years his partner. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
A Preliminary Notice or the Akazga Ordeal of West Africa, and of its Active 
Principle. By Thomas R. Fraser, M.D., F.R.S.E., etc. (Reprinted from the 
British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, July, 1867.) London: Printed by 
E. J. Adlard, Bartholomew Close. 1867. (From the Author.) 
