650 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
the putting into that, either by accident or mistake, or some other cause, by 
some person or other, for whom Mr. Kidd is responsible, although without his 
knowledge, of these articles which proved so injurious on this occasion. You 
know, first of all, we find a considerable quantity of seeds, and the chemist 
tells you that, in the present state of science, it is impossible to say what 
injurious properties they may possess. There are some of them, the wild 
mustard, and darnel, and some others, that are unquestionably injurious, but 
science cannot point out their eifects. Then, with regard to the actual quan- 
tity of seeds, or the proportion, as my friend put it, recollect you have got to 
judge of the ground portion in the cake by those which were found ungrouud. 
It is not merely the unground seeds and busies which are found there that 
constitute the injurious property of the cake, because, as Mr. Kidd told lue, 
" If I had thought right, I could have ground it \\p in such a way that nobody 
could have discovered what it contained." Therefore you know it might be 
so ground ; and recollect further that the sesame-cake is ground by a different 
operation, if I understand it rightly, from that which combined the two cakes 
together. 
We will see how that is. With the exception of Mr. Kidd and his people, 
and the production of the sesam^-cakc without any opportunity of examining 
it or of having any analysis made of it, we have had no account of the 
.sesame-cake, or what it contained, given at all. It was bought in JS^ovember. 
It is an article made in France. No vendor or broker through whose hands it 
passed is called, but I will put it to you thus : If the elements are there, what 
is there to show that they were not contained in the sesamd-cake ? To begin 
with, we have no account of it. They have had it, and could have analysed 
it if they pleased. They could have submitted it to a microscopical exami- 
nation if they pleased, and what they do is not to say a word about it in the 
early part of their case ; but this morning, for the first time, they produw 
some of these sesame-cakes and hand them to you as some evidence of what 
they may be. Gentlemen, it is impossible upon any examination which we 
could make to-day to judge of that. 
But you have further the siftings which arc brought into separate existence 
in contiguity with this very lot of cake, and if you find that these things in 
that way may have got into the cake, and the chemists and medical men that 
we have called satisfy you on the other hand that they arc there and caused 
the injury, can you doubt at all that it is so, and that, therefore, that asser- 
tion in the Report is proved that the cake was composed of the various articles 
mentioned there, apparently made from dirty linseed and the sweepings of 
warehouses ? Dr. Voelcker and Professor AVay made their analysis together. 
Mr. Tuson made his analysis separately. Mr. Fairley made his analysis 
separately. They have had no communication with each other, and they all 
concur. Mr. Tuson says, "I found, besides linseed, grains of wheat, rye- 
grass seeds, dodder and millet seeds, the husks of wheat, barley, oats, rice, 
cotton seed, and cocoa or palm nut." They have had the opportunity of 
calling anybody they please to contradict him, to examine the Cijke which he 
spoke to between the time it was produced here and to-day ; they have called 
nobody, they have it upon the evidence of the gentlemen that we have called, 
and it is therefore clearly established, as I venture to submit to you, that 
these things are to be found in the cake. Then if these things are found 
there, are they or are they not injurious? Can you have a doubt of it when 
you see what the consequences of its administration were '? 
Well, Gentlemen, 1 think now 1 have almost exhausted what I have to say 
to you, because I do not wish to weary you or to detain you longer than I 
ought ; ami yet, of course, I am very anxious to deal w'ith any observations 
which I think my friend will be likely to make against me. There. is one 
other topic which has been urged, aud that is over-ifeediug, or over-gorging as 
