VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
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though it is a well-known fact that no cattle disease of any 
sort has been prevalent at any places near the borders for 
many years. There is a report that some disease had appeared 
at Johannisberg, the border town opposite the Prussian 
Stallapahnen ; but this is not believed. I am informed that 
a Prussian official is about to proceed to Courland to make 
the necessary inquiries. 
According to official information, the murrain (cattle- 
plague) continues to advance from Russia towards the 
Prussian frontier. The government has therefore, according 
to the instructions in sec. 3 of the Order 27th March, 1836, 
resolved as follows : 
[These instructions were printed in the previous report on 
the Russian Cattle Disease.] 
In order that these regulations may be duly observed, it is 
only allowed to cross the frontier in this district at the 
custom stations of Nimmersatt, Bajohren, Langallen ; and 
Paschkenkrug. 
The Provincial Counsellor, 
(Signed) Dieckmann. 
“Memel, 28 th May, 1855 .” 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
NORTHAMPTON. 
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and a Special Jury) 
HEWITT V. BATTAMS. 
Mr. Serjeant Miller and Mr. Field were counsel for the 
plaintiff ; Mr. Mellor, Q.C., and Mr. O’Brien for the defen- 
dant. 
This cause excited a good deal of interest among the sport- 
ing men of this neighbourhood. 
The plaintiff is an attorney at Northampton, and also a 
man of some experience in the buying and selling of horses, 
in which respect he was at least equalled by the defendant, 
a large farmer residing at Carlton, in Bedfordshire. It 
appeared that in the middle of December last the plaintiff, 
wanting to buy a hunter for his son, went to Snelson, in 
Bedfordshire, to see a gray horse belonging to the defendant, 
but did not succeed on that occasion, as the defendant’s 
son had him out hunting on that day. An appointment, 
however, was made to meet at Wellingborough station 
on a subsequent day ; and on that day the defendant’s 
son rode the horse over to Wellingborough ; and both the 
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