The College of Physicians devised a scheme for granting licenses
to practise physic to persons entitled to be registered as medical practitioners, and not restricted by any law from vending medicines and drugs. The Society of Apothecaries object to this, and filed an information to restrain the College from proceeding. The College demurred, and Vice-Chancellor Page Wooif has allowed the demurrer.
Volunteers going to or returning from their place of exercise, if in uniform and bearing arms, are legally exempt from tolls. Some time since Mr. Elliott, the police magistrate, sent up a case for the opinion of the Court of Queen's Bench, and the Court has remitted the case to the magistrate. The mere fact of volunteers riding in a vehicle plying for hire—in an omnibus, for instance—does not entitle it to exception; but a carriage substantially used for conveying
volunteers to or from exercise, whether another.person be conveyed in it or not, is entitled to exemption. So this question is settled.
A workman, named Youle, contracted to serve the firm of Mappin and Co., Sheffield, for three years. Before the time expired he ab- sented himself without leave, and the magistrate of Sheffield sentenced jun to three Weeks' imprisonment with hard labour. Youle was afterwards convicted under the same contract for not returning to his work, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour, and against this he appealed. The man, it seems, had a dis- pute with the firm about wages, and offered *to pay all he owed them to be released. The Court of Exchequer found that the conviction was bad, and quashed it.
Mr. Commissioner Pane, in delivering judgment in the case of the bankrupts Hooper and Parkinson, suspended their certificates for one year dating from the presentation of the petition. This firm was mixed up in the notorious bill transactions of the leather trade. Mr. Fane said: "The whole examination showed a system of the most reckless trading, supported by a long-continued system of ac- commodation bills, drawn, not for round sums, but for sums ending in shillings and pence, to give them the appearance of honest trade bills, and to delude dealers in money into the belief that they were proper bills to be discounted, as being based on trade transactions, when they were really nothing better than accomodation bills, which I have no hesitation in denouncing as shameful and mischievous frauds. My judgment is that the granting of the certificates must be suspended for one year; that the bankrupts must remain without protection during that period ; and that the certificatea, when granted, must be of the lowest class."
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