June 17,1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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against me for the present.” If your Lordship re¬ 
members, we were being sued in the County Court for 
penalties. And, “ I accordingly, on the 27th of the same 
month of February, sent a full account of the facts, as 
also copies of the letters or certificates now produced and 
shown to me, marked respectively C, D, E, F and Gr, en¬ 
closed in a letter to the said Mr. Sandford, copy whereof is 
as follows:—‘Welshpool, 27th February, 1871. Dear Sir, 
—I have sent you a copy of statement, also copy of some 
of the letters that I am in possession of, shall be greatly 
obliged if you will lay the same before the Council. I 
think you will see by the enclosed that I have been sub¬ 
jected to the greatest insults, and the conduct of your 
local secretary here has been most disgraceful; a part of 
which has been in this place disposed of before the ma¬ 
gistrates.’ ” Now, in one of my affidavits we show that 
the local secretary and himself had been summoning one 
another before the magistrate, and were at daggers drawn, 
and that the whole proceeding has arisen from jealousy. 
‘ I also think it my duty to inform you that every time 
my name has been appended in the Journal it has been 
publicly exhibited by your local secretary. Thanking ’ 
you for the kindness and courtesy shown towards me 
when last in London. I am,’ ” etc. Then the affidavit 
goes on:—“ Not having heard either from the said Mr. 
Sandford or the Registrar, Mr. Elias Bremridge, I, on 
the 20th day of March, 1871, sent the following letter to 
the said Mr. Sandford, which I caused to be registered : 
—‘Welshpool, 26th March, 1871. Dear Sir,—I de¬ 
livered my statement to you before March 1st, 1871, as 
registered, and this being the 20th, I think I ought to 
have heard something from you respecting the decision 
■of the Council in my case before now. Will you kindly 
inform me by return wliat decision the Council came to, 
and oblige,’ etc.; and on the 24th of the same month of 
March, received a reply as follows:—‘March 22nd, 1871. 
Dear Sir,—Your statement was laid before the Council 
at its last sitting, and, as we only meet on the first Wed¬ 
nesday of each month, may be said to be still under con¬ 
sideration. After Wednesday, April 5th, you will, 
doubtless, hear definitely from the Registrar. In the 
meantime you know all the proceedings against you are 
stopped. Faithfully yours, Gr. W. Sandford.’ I then 
heai'd nothing more of the matter until the loth day of 
May instant, when I was served with the County Court 
summons now produced and shown to me marked H ; 
and on the 17th day of may instant, I wrote the said Mr. 
Elias Bremridge as follows :—‘Welshpool, 17th of May, 
1871. Sir,—Not having heard in reply to the statement 
forwarded to your President on the 26th February last, 
to be laid before the Council, and having been served 
with a County Court summons for the recovery of a 
penalty of £5, I beg to apply to the Pharmaceutical So¬ 
ciety to insert my name on the Register of Chemists and 
Druggists for the present year, and that on default 
thereof, I intend to apply for a mandamus to the Court of 
Queen’s Bench to compel the insertion of my name, and 
I have to request an immediate reply to this application. 
Youi's, etc., E. C. YGhisken.’ And, on the 24th day of 
ihe same month of May, I received a reply from Messrs. 
Flux and Co., Solicitors to the Pharmaceutical Society.” 
So that the answer after we had been sued, only oame 
from Messrs Flux and Co.:—“ Sir,—Your letter of the 
17th instant, addressed to E. Bremridge, Esq., Regis¬ 
trar, 17, Bloomsbury Square, has been handed, by that; 
gentleman, to us. On reference to the Pharmacy Act, 
you will find that the action brought against you is by 
the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society with the 
authority of the Council. You may be sure that the 
Council did not give authority until after full considera- j 
tion of your case. We may mention that one of the 
members of the Council was deputed to visit Welshpool, j 
and made inquiries, and that the Council are fully satis¬ 
fied that the action brought is proper in all respects.” j 
Mr. Quain. —Now allow me to interpose for a moment. 
So far from that being the case, as my learned friend has 
just stated, I have an affidavit in my hand of the Presi¬ 
dent, in which I have got this statement: that they took 
the trouble of sending one of their own Council to 
Welshpool, to investigate the matter again. I have the 
affidavit of the gentleman who went down to Welshpool, 
and, so far from there being no communication with Mr. 
Whisken, I have his letters, in the affidavit to the Presi¬ 
dent, on the subject after the statement was sent in. It 
is in Air. Sandford’s affidavit. He says, “ Mr. Whisken 
called on mo on the 10th day of February last. I lis¬ 
tened to what ho had to say, and told him that his best 
course was to lay a full statement (by which I meant an 
accurate statement) before the Council by way of appeal, 
promising that it should be laid before the Council's 
monthly meeting to be held on the then next first of 
March, and that he should hear the result of their deci¬ 
sion afterwards, and that I would request the solicitors 
to hold their hands until further instructed, and I did 
afterwards accordingly so request the said solicitors. 
The said E. C. Whisken having sent to me the letter 
of the 27th February, 1S71, set out in his affidavit, toge¬ 
ther with the documents therein referred to, I laid them 
before the meeting of the Council which was held on 
Wednesday, the 1st day of March, and they were con¬ 
sidered, and proceedings then took place as expressed in 
minutes of that meeting in the words following :—-‘ Re¬ 
gistration of E. C. Whisken, of Welshpool. An appeal 
and affidavits in support of Mr. Whisken’s claim to regis¬ 
tration having been read, it was resolved, That Mr. Abra¬ 
ham beauthorized to visit Welshpool, and to makeporsonal 
inquiry as to the claim of Mr. Whisken to be restored to 
the register of chemists and druggists, and report to the 
next Council meeting.’ I subsequently received from 
the said E. C. Whisken his letter of the 20th March, 1871, 
and replied by mine of March 22nd, 1871, set out in his 
affidavit. The statement in the said affidavit which im¬ 
mediately follows the copy of my letter dated 22nd March, 
1871, and which is in the words following—‘I then 
heard nothing more of the matter until the loth day of 
May instant, when I was served with the County Court 
summons ’—is absolutely untrue, so far as it is inconsis¬ 
tent with the following facts, for I say that the said Mr. 
Abraham did discharge the duty undertaken by him at 
the Council, and go from Liverpool to Welshpool and 
investigate the matter, and have an interview with the 
said E. C. Whisken; and that on March 28th, 1871, the 
said E. C. Whisken wrote and sent to me a letter which 
contained clauses as follows:—‘ I received your letter on 
the 24th inst., and on the 25th a person called upon me 
from Liverpool, stating himself to be one of the Council, 
and giving his name as John Abraham. He said he 
was in possession of my statement, and also copies of 
letters, and wished to see the original letters, which I 
allowed him to do. He then asked me a series of what 
I thought were impertinent questions, adding insult to 
injury; he also wished me to read some prescriptions 
which he had brought with him, but, taking into consi¬ 
deration the facts of the case, I declined to comply with 
his request. ... I shall therefore be glad to know whe¬ 
ther the Council had authorized Mr. Abraham to call and 
catechise me in the way he has done, and to hear the 
result of its'meeting on the 5th proximo.’ I also received 
from the said E. C. Whisken another letter, dated April 
3rd, 1871, also referring to the said call of Mr. Abraham. 
Mr. Abraham attended the meeting of the Council on 
the first Wednesday in April last, and proceedings took 
place thereat, and produced a report which was con¬ 
sidered by the Council, and appeared to be conclusive 
against the claims of the said E. C. Whisken, and the 
Council accordingly rejected and referred the documents 
and evidence in reference to the case to Mr. Flux, with 
instructions to take such further action in conjunction 
with the Registrar as might be desirable or necessary. 
In all the minutes aforesaid the Council of the said Society 
acted bond fide and in the exercise of the best of their 
judgment; they havo been anxious to discharge the 
