VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
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to the sentiment expressed in Swift’s question, “ Why 
should we think of posterity, for w 7 hat did posterity ever do 
for us ?” 
We have obtained a status. A foundation has been laid. 
Let us erect a substantial superstructure thereon, so that 
succeeding generations may commend our wisdom and our 
forethought. Nor let us be half-hearted in our work, or 
torn by dissentions ; nor be mere day-dreamers, sublimely 
conceiving, but never realising. It has been well said, that 
“ It is better to realise the possible, than to sigh for the 
ideal : better to do the work of an ordinary man, than to 
dream the work of a giant.” All truly great men are 
builders. Each, too, should co-operate in his separate 
sphere, with earnestness and activity. Thus by united efforts 
we shall accomplish that which alone or single-handed never 
could have been achieved. Like soldiers conducting a siege, 
some must be willing to dig in the trenches, while others 
man the guns, and others are ready to scale the walls when 
the breach is made. So we, having to contend with ignor- 
ance, must take its stronghold by force, and the citadel 
being entered, we must keep possession of it by instituting 
a new system of tactics, founded on knowledge, A few may 
be called upon to direct, and to these, where there is no 
undue usurpation of power and authority, submission wdll be 
readily yielded, and thus order will be maintained, vrithout 
which there is no real strength. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH, June 20. 
Sittings at 'Nisi Prius , at Guildhall , before Lord Campbell 
and a Special Jury . 
SMITH V. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. 
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a potato sales- 
man, carrying on business in Spitalfields Market, and farmer, 
