682 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
Mr. Seymour : Any costs incurred with regard to the Special Jury your 
Lordship will certify for in the ' Yorkshire Post ' case ? 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Are there any ? 
Mr. Seymour : I believe so. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Well, no doubt it is a proper case. 
Mr. Field : I intended that, my Lord, no doubt. 
Ms. Justice Blackburn : Very well ; take your verdict, if you please, and 
as you please, with any certificates you want. I suppose if you swear the 
Special J ury and take their verdict, they must be paid. 
Mr. Field: Will you withdraw the record.? 
Mr. Seymour : Yes ; we will take a Judge's order — we will consent to your 
Lordship's verdict. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Witlidraw the record on the terms mentioned. . 
Mr. Seymour : We will take your Lordship's verdict by consent. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Very well ; be it so. 
The Associate : Is that in No. 3 ? 
Mr. Eoberts : No ; that is in the case to which the York.shire Conservative 
News Association are Defendants. 
Mr. J ustice Blackburn : That is No. 33. 
Mr. Eoberts : We are to have all the certificates. 
The Associate : Then in both the other cases the records are withdrawn? 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : I understand not withdrawn — made remanets. 
Mr. Field : Made remanets. 
The following Report, taken from the ' Yorkshire Post ' of the 16th of 
August, shows the result of this action upon the trade : — 
Meeting of the Hull Linseed-Cake Trade. 
A meeting of seed-crushers and cake-merchants of this town, 
at which four-fifths of the trade were present or represented, 
was held at the offices of the Chamber of Commerce, Bowlalley 
Lane, Hull, on Wednesday, Mr. Horatio Harriman Ayre (of the 
firm of Ayre, Brothers) being in the chair. 
The Chairman opened the proceedings by reading the circular 
convening the meeting. He then referred to the recent actions 
for libel which had been tried at Leeds, and stated that the 
attention of his firm had been called to a very important point 
in a letter which they had received from their solicitor, Mr. F. 
F. Ayre. The letter was as follows : — 
" Dear Sirs, — During the recent trial at Leeds of fiie action 
of Kidd V. the Royal Agricultural Society of England for libel, 
Mr. Justice Blackburn expressed a very decided opinion that to 
sell under the name of linseed-cake any cake not made entirely 
from linseed was to perpetrate a fraud. At the same trial Mr. 
John Wells, who appeared to have received regularly your trade 
circulars, and to have been treated by you as one of the trade, 
stated in his evidence that he believed that the cake sold to him 
as Triangle Best linseed-cake, notwithstanding the price sokl at, 
and his knowledge of pure linseed-cakes and genuine linseed- 
