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Newport, and formerly of Walsall, was next called. He said 
he examined the horse on the 4th of the present month, and 
he considered him remarkably sound about the hocks — sin- 
gularly so — and he had scarcely ever seen a horse with less 
appearance of spavin. 
Mr. Matthews , farrier, Newport, stated he examined the 
horse in question for Challenor, and he considered him sound. 
Strangles, he said, arises from atmospheric influences, and 
other causes which cannot be accounted for. 
Mr. Smallwood then addressed the jury in reply, and com- 
mented at some length on the absurdity of the tricks of the 
“ long company, 5 ’ and on the still greater absurdity of the 
professional evidence adduced for the defence. 
The learned Judge lucidly summed up at considerable 
length, and the jury immediately found a verdict for the 
Plaintiff for the full amount claimed. 
The hearing of this case occupied upwards of six hours. 
MISCELLANEA. 
A NEW BULLET EXTRACTOR. 
That “ necessity is the mother of invention ’ 5 has just re- 
ceived another illustration, which all wffio sympathise with 
our army in the Crimea must hail with peculiar pleasure. 
The frightful list of our wounded at the hard-fought battles 
of Alma and Inkerman, suggested to Mr. Ezra Miles (of Stoke 
Hammond) the idea of constructing an instrument for ex- 
tracting bullets from the wounds with comparative ease, 
rapidity, and safety. The contrivance is very simple, consist- 
ing of a small air-pump and cylinder, to which a tap is affixed. 
To this tap is attached a suitable length of flexible tubing, 
about a quarter of an inch in diameter, lined inside with 
silver wire to prevent its collapsing. At the other end of 
this tube there is a small globe, from w hich a tube sufficiently 
minute to pass into a bullet-wound, is fixed, the end termi- 
nating w ith an India-rubber collar. On the top of the globe 
there is a small tap in order to admit a probe to pass down 
the tube to sound when on the bullet. The mode of opera- 
tion is this ; a vacuum is created in the cylinder ; the tube 
before alluded to is passed into the wound, and when it is 
ascertained to be on the ball, the tap in the cylinder is opened, 
when the bullet becomes fixed to the tube by the vacuum 
