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MISCELLANEA. 
mentsto comprise a Patron, twelve Vice-Patrons, and a proportionate 
number of Honorary Associates ; the parties so elected not, how- 
ever, to be deemed members of the body politic and corporate.” 
Sitting of November 24, 1847. 
Present — the President, the Secretary, Messrs. A. Cherry, 
Wilkinson, Peech, V.P., Goodwin, Field, Braby, 
Percivall, Henderson, Jas. Turner. 
The minutes being read and confirmed, 
The President stated, that this meeting was convened for the 
purpose of deciding upon the propriety of granting a special exa- 
mination. 
A long discussion ensued, which terminated in leaving the 
matter entirely in the hands of the President. — Adjourned. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Punishment for exposing a glandered Horse for Sale. 
Guildhall . — On Saturday, Samuel Jordan, a carman and horse- 
jobber, attended before Mr. Alderman Moon to answer the com- 
plaint of the sergeant of the Smithfield police, for bringing into the 
market for the purpose of sale a glandered horse. 
Sergeant White stated, that his attention was drawn to this horse 
by one of the policemen. He found two horses tied to a rail, not 
in that part of the market appropriated to the sale of horses, but in 
the sheep-market. One of the horses was labouring under a pro- 
fuse discharge from the nose, and a little boy was standing close 
to the horse’s head. Its head projected over. the rail, and the dis- 
charge dropped partly on the rail, and partly on the backs of the 
sheep in the pen. The sheep had been sold to a butcher, and were 
afterwards fetched away in order to be killed. He untied the 
horse, and while he was leading it across Smithfield, the prisoner 
came up and claimed it, stating that he had sold it to Cross, a 
