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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
And yet, notwithstanding these fearful changes, which we 
have shown either the disease itself or public professional 
opinion respecting it have undergone, and in spite, too, — as 
we learn from Mr. Martin’s letter (at page 504 of our Number 
for August, 1852,) — of the grievous fact of the sale of glan- 
dered horses being an evil growing under our very nose in 
extent and profligacy, does the law touching an evil of such 
magnitude remain unrevised, unsharpened, all, in fact, but 
inoperative and obsolete, as is shown by the case extracted 
(in the same Number) from the Leicester Journal. A man 
charged with the grave offence of having exposed a glandered 
horse for sale, “ to the danger of her Majesty’s liege subjects,” 
and “ divers (other) horses and cattle,” and fraudulently 
selling the same as a sound horse, is simply “ charged with 
misdemeanour /” What ! is it but a “ misdemeanour” to intro- 
duce into a public place — such as a fair or market — a fomes of 
contagion, which, beguiling the common run of persons fre- 
quenting such places, may spread among them and their 
horses a disease of a nature out of the pale of remedy, and 
but too certainly fatal? Well might Mr. Martin exclaim, 
“ Selling a glandered horse deserves the gallows !” And great 
reason had he to be dissatisfied, even to disgust, with the 
result of the prosecution he had been at such pains to in- 
stitute, not for his own personal benefit, but for the purpose 
of putting down this most heinous traffic in glandered horses. 
We would hope, on reflection, that he will not let this Jbe the 
the last time he will appear in so laudable and meritorious a 
character; but will, on the contrary, continue to agitate and 
exert his powerful interest in so vital a matter until such time 
as the legislature shall take up the question, and assign to it 
its proper place and penalty in our statute book. 
