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sequences there stated. Not so; the arbitrary law applied 
to free-trade foreign cattle, was not, it seems, applicable 
against diseased Irish droves. Again, I lately saw in an 
omnibus a thin horse discharging at the near nostril. Now, 
only fancy it had been my duty (though I have no desire to 
be a shinder), to have examined the said horse, and, having 
found him glandered, I had directed the driver to descend and 
take the horse out ; the conductor saying, “ Ladies and gen- 
tlemen, the wetinary has brought the ’bus to a fix, and you 
must get out.” — Daughter. “ What’s that, mamma ? ” Mother . 
“ Only the horse doctor, my dear.” Daughter . “ Let us run 
away, mamma.” Then to hear the male passengers alight 
with voices none of the sweetest. They would have their 
pennyworth without such interruption, not considering any- 
thing else. 
The Habeas Corpus Act does not include John Bull’s 
horse ; but in the Times’ leader, June 14, 1852, you will find 
the following : — 
“But the liberty of the subject and the rights of the 
meanest criminals are so protected by British procedure, that 
it is impossible to import into this country the arbitrary 
preventive measures of the foreign criminal police, without 
applying to the persons who are the objects of it a form of 
law very much at variance with our own.” Such is the 
language held against giving up the contagion of foreign 
criminals, much more John Bull’s own glandered horse. It is 
evident we must run the risk of contamination of both, rather 
than bate one form of law. Mr. Brown’s proposition, in your 
Journal for September, p. 503, is very good, standing as it 
does alone; but, as stated in the same leader, that too 
“ would raise innumerable points of law r of the most delicate 
character.” 
You will never see John Bull giving up purchase-money 
to the complainant, by order of his worship, because he will 
never have such power. There are a host of lawyers in the 
new parliament, who would overwhelm with eloquence 
agricultural members making propositions contrary to English 
law ; or to make it felony to buy and sell glandered horses, 
which a man might unknowingly do, as Mr. Martin did this 
himself ; and, upon reflection, would he have liked to have 
been subjected to such a law for having bought the said 
mare ? That he has very praiseworthily diminished, for a 
time, this traffic, wherever the result of the trial may be known, 
may be readily conceded ; but what preventive measures 
should be adopted remains to be considered by those better 
acquainted with English law than those who write in ‘The 
