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lately stated to you by my friend. Mr. Bradburn being a 
manufacturer of manures, Mr. Whittingham — a person who 
represented himself to be an agent of his-^procured from him 
some manure, which he bought of him as bone and bone-waste, 
and which he (Mr. Whittingham) resold to Mr. Broughton as 
pure bone-dust. Mr. Broughton, as a Member of the Royal 
Agricultural Society — of which Mr. Bradburn is a Member, — 
knew that one of the great objects of the Society was to have 
manures analysed so that the agricultural interests should not 
suffer by having from time to time spurious instead of genuine 
manures given out to them, and they should not be dis- 
appointed by having crops come up of an inferior character. 
Mr. Broughton sent a specimen of this manure to Dr. Voelcker, 
the analytical chemist of the Society, and it was reported by 
him, that instead of being pure bone-dust it was bone-dust with 
an admixture of waste, and that under those circumstances a 
great deal of its value was lost. The report of Dr. Voelcker 
Avas laid before the Council of the Society, and at the time when 
it was originally laid before them and was published, and before 
any explanation was given by Mr. Bradburn, there was, no 
doubt, in the minds of the Council of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, a belief that Mr. Bradburn had through an agent — or, 
as it was supposed, by himself, — 'Sold as bone-dust that which 
was really bone-dust and waste. After a considerable corre- 
spondence between Mr. Broughton and Mr. Bradburn, and after 
an explanation by Mr. Bradburn as to the part he had taken in 
the sale, it turned out that Mr. Whittingham, who had been his 
agent, and who might for some purposes be still deemed to be 
an agent for Mr. Bradburn, had been told with reference to this 
transaction that he was not to sell this as pure bone-dust, but 
as bone-dust and waste. The correspondence was afterwards 
laid before the Royal Agricultural Society, and they, taking the 
view that what was done by an agent W£is in fact done by the 
principal, in the month of August (when this work* is sent 
round to different members of the Society) published the report 
of Dr. Voelcker, in which it was stated that on analysing a 
sample of bone-dust that had been sent to him by Mr. Broughton, 
who bought it from Messrs. Bradburn and Co., through Mr. 
Whittingham, their agent, he found that it was not pure bone- 
dust, but bone-dust and waste. But, gentlemen, now that this 
matter has been sifted, and I have had the honour of seeing 
some of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, I may 
say that they are satisfied that the statement of which the 
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