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plaintiff’s herdsman washed his hands, any infectious matter thereon 
would be removed. He also thought the period of incubation 
of pleuro-pneumonia to be variable, and likewise a point that would 
never be definitely arrived at. This closed the evidence for plaintiff, 
when some conversation ensued between the judge and learned 
counsel, as to the withdrawal of the record with costs, the advisability 
of allowing the case to stand over for further consideration until 
next assizes, or sending it on the two counts to the jury to prove 
pre-existing knowledge. Mr. O’Malley objected to the first; the 
learned judge would not consent to the second, and ruled, if the 
jury received the case on the third proposition, they would not be 
allowed to decide against the defendant before Mr. O’Malley had 
addressed them on behalf of his client. 
The case was then sent to the jury, and after consultation during 
five minutes, decided there was no evidence, and a verdict for 
defendant was at once returned, in which the learned .judge said he 
heartily concurred. 
Besides the ordinary witnesses retained for defendant, the follow- 
ing members of the profession had been subpoenaed, viz. : Messrs. 
H. Lepper, Aylesbury ; G. Armatage, Leighton-Buzzard ; W. A. 
Cherry, London ; E. F. Wilkinson, Kennington Cross ; H. King, 
Melbourne; E. Rogerson, Bedford; and E. Perry, Ibstock, whose 
services, however, as well as others on defendant’s side, were 
not called into requisition in consequence of the decision of the jury. 
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THE LONDON FOREIGN CATTLE MARKET. 
Sir H. S. Ibbetson asked whether it was true that the contem- 
plated site for the London foreign cattle market was likely to be 
insufficient in the event of the cattle from several foreign countries 
being declared infected. 
Mr. W. E. Forster said he was glad that the putting of the 
question enabled him to correct a false impression which had got 
abroad. In the first place, it was not correct that any increased 
tolls were being levied at the present time. According to the Bill 
passed last year, increased tolls could be levied upon a market being 
erected by the Corporation of London to the satisfaction of the 
Privy Council. He had every reason to believe that they intended 
to make a market, and he had no reason to believe it would not be 
