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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. [December 21, 1672 
Medals were awarded to— 
Andrews and Co., Dublin, for a general collection of 
food products. 
Berger, Spence and Co., Manchester, for alum. 
Boileau and Boyd, Dublin, for a general collection of 
tine chemicals. 
Bewleyand Draper, Dublin, for mineral and medicinal 
waters. 
Boyd and Alexander, Dublin, for chlorinated lime and 
manures. 
Belfast Cement Company, Belfast, cement. 
Colman, J. and J., Norwich, pure mustard and rice 
starch. 
Croft, Thomas, and Co., Cheshire. 
Cantrell and Cochrane, Dublin, mineral waters. 
Crawford, Alexander, and Son, Belfast, for tine samples 
of wheat starch prepared as food for sundry purposes. 
Cooney, Charles, Dublin, for ball blue and blacking. 
Drogheda Manure Company, Drogheda. 
Dublin and Wicklow Manure Company. 
Eckford, A. L., Dublin, manures. 
Fry, J. S., and Son, Bristol, chocolate. 
Field, J. C. and J., London, for ozokerite and gen eral 
collection. 
Moulding - , W. and H. M., Dublin, manures. 
Hayes Brothers, Dublin. 
Killaloe Slate Company, Nenagh. 
Lewis, Fred., and Co., Dublin, perfumery and soaps. 
Mining Company of Ireland, The, Dublin, for general 
collection, including the chief preparations of lead and 
silver. 
MTvenzie, T., and Son, Dublin. 
Marine Salts Company of Ireland, Dublin, for iodine, 
and products from kelp. 
Me Master, Hodgson and Co., Dublin, for general 
collection—linseed and rape oils, fluid annatto, Warren’s 
sweet essence of rennet, etc. 
Metcalf, Samuel, Dublin. 
Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Dublin. 
Price’s Candle Company, London, glycerine and 
general collection. 
Royal Dublin Society, The, for models of vegetable 
products. 
Richardson Brothers and Co., Belfast, manures. 
Rathborne, John C., Dublin, bleached wax, spermaceti 
and sperm products. 
Rimmel, Eugene, per Mr. Griffin, London, perfumes. 
Raynbird, Caldecott, and Co., Basingstoke. 
Stanford, E. C. C., Dunlocker, iodine, and various 
patent processes. 
Tallerman, London, for Australian preserved meats. 
Victoria Slate Company, Dublin. 
Certificates of Merit were awarded to-— 
Bolton, W., and Co, Dublin, whisky. 
Burke, John, Dublin. 
Green, John, London. 
HolC Nerwich and Co., London, for oil soaps. 
Ilickisson, John, London. 
Kelly, John, Graigue, for rice starch. 
Moses, Mr. T., Dublin. 
Pickering, D., Dublin. 
Rumsey, W. S., London, polishing pastes, etc. 
Wright, Freeman, Suffolk. 
THE INCOME TAX. 
On Friday, December 13th, a public meeting was held 
in the Guildhall of the City of London, under the presi¬ 
dency of the Lord Mayor, to consider the incidence of 
the Income Tax, and the justice of its final repeal. It 
was attended by many members of Parliament, and de¬ 
putations from various parts of the United Kingdom. 
Hr- W. M, Massey, M.P., moved the first resolution 
“ lhat the Income Tax is inquisitorial in its character, 
unjust in its operation, and demoralizing to the national 
character.” He said that the tax was almost peculiar 
to this country, and here it was adopted formerly only 
in times of great pressure, such as during the latter 
period of the great revolutionary war, and again in. 
1842, upon the accession of Sir Robert Peel to office. 
At that time that minister had to deal with a chronic 
deficit in the revenue, a million and a half of which was - 
due to the reduction of postage charge, besides having 
to provide for the great fiscal changes he intended. 
Even then it was vigorously opposed, and Lord Brougham 
submitted a series of resolutions to the House of 
Lords protesting against its adoption as a permanent 
source of revenue. Those propositions were even more 
applicable at the present time than they were then. 
Since that time no Chancellor of the Exchequer had 
ventured to suggest that this tax was ultimately to be 
adopted as a permanent part of our fiscal system. On * 
the contrary, each one had pledged himself to the final 
repeal of the tax. That period of repeal, how r ever, seemed 
still indefinite, and it was necessary that the tax-payers -■ 
should express an opinion whether the present time 
of the prosperity of the revenue v r as suitable for such 
abolition. He was not there to advocate the exemption 
of any class from bearing its share of the burden. If it 
w’-ere necessary that the trading classes should pay two ■ 
millions in the shape of direct taxation, let that contri¬ 
bution be made; but he maintained that no two millions 
of taxation was levied in a form more objectionable than 
that which was levied under Schedule D. 
The motion was supported by Sir John Bennett and 
Mr. C. E. Lewis, M.P., and carried unanimously. 
Mr. J ohn Glover moved the second resolution, to the 
effect that the continued imposition of the Income Tax 
is contrary to the pledges of Governments of both parties : 
is a direct breach of faith with the tax-payer, and 
having been always relied on as an extraordinary tax, 
ought now to be repealed. This wns seconded by Mr. 
J ohn J ones, a liveryman, and carried unanimously. 
A resolution, that with the view* of giving effect to the 
forgoing propositions, the meeting should resolve itself 
into a National Anti-Income Tax League, w r as proposed 
by Mr. Alderman Sydney, supported by Mr. Seaton, of 
Hull, Sir Charles Dilke, M.P., and Mr. Alderman 
Hawkes, of Birmingham, and carried unanimously. 
Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., proposed a vote of thanks 
to the Lord Mayor for his conduct in the chair. The 
Lord Mayor, in replying, said he felt certain such a 
meeting would have great effect on the Government, 
and lead Mr. Lowe to the reconsideration of the question . 
of the Income Tax. At all events, if it, or any portion 
of it, v'ere to be continued, the course of proceeding 
adopted within the last few years towards those wffio 
paid it should be so amended as to give no offence. 
Administration of Metals in Cod-Liver Oil — 
According to the Practitioner, Herr Godin recommends, 
in place of the ordinary solutions of the metallic salts, 
their solution in cod-liver oil by means of benzoic acid. 
Cod-liver oil can thus be made to take up benzoate 
of iron and benzoate of mercury. Benzoate of iron is 
a beautiful orange-coloured salt of stable character, 
wffiich increases the therapeutic activity of the oil, con-' 
ceals its unpleasant taste, and renders it more digestible. 
Laurel Leaves as a febrifuge.—M. A. Doran 
has communicated a note to the French Academy re¬ 
cording the febrifuge and antiperiodic properties 
of the leaves of Laurus nobilis. The green leaves are 
prepared by drying them at a gentle heat in a closed 
coffee roaster, to avoid the loss of the volatile constituents, 
until they become brittle, but without undergoing any 
alteration. They are then reduced to a fine pow r der of. 
which one gram, macerated in a glass of cold water for - 
ten or twelve hours, is administered as a dose. 
