42 A BILL ON CABUIAGE AND DEPOSIT OF DANGEBOUS GOODS. 
After some discussion, Mr. Pliippen said he did not know the distinction between this 
case and the one v/hich preceded it. There would be a similar judgment therefore. 
Mr. Giles intimated his intention of appealing against the decision. 
Mr. Ponting, Mr. Eobert Fendick, Mr. A. Hodder, and Mr. Edward Maish were 
severally charged with the same offence, and judgment given as in the former cases. 
Another case is reported in the ‘Leeds Mercury ’ of June 22nd, in which a grocer, 
named Horsfall Cowgill, was charged before the magistrates at Colne, with retailing 
“ Indian Brandee.” Mr. F. Hartley, who appeared to prosecute, said it was notorious 
that the “ Indian Brandee ” was bought at Is. 96?. per gallon, and sold at about 6s. per 
pint. The Bench inflicted the minimum penalty of £12.10s., and expressed the opinion 
that the conviction w'ould be suthcient to deter the large number of grocers in this loca¬ 
lity who sell the “ Indian Brandee.” 
A BILL FOE THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW WITH EESPECT TO THE 
CAEEIAGE AND DEPOSIT OF DANGEEOUS GOODS. 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament 
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 
1. The goods or article commonly known as nitro-glyceriue or glonoine oil shall be 
deemed to be specially dangerous within the meaning of this Act. 
2. Her Majesty may from time to time, by order in Council, declare that any goods 
named in any such order (other than nitroglycerine or glonoine oil) are to be deemed 
specially dangerous within the meaning of this Act; and may from time to time amend 
or repeal any such order; and any goods which are by any such order declared to be 
specially dangerous shall, so long as such order is in force, be deemed to be specially 
■dangerous within the meaning of this Act. 
3. No person shall deliver any goods which are specially dangerous to any warehouse 
owner or carrier, or send or carry or cause to be sent or carried any such goods upon any 
railway or in any ship to or from any part of the United Kingdom, or in any other 
public conveyance, or deposit any such goods in or on any warehouse or quay, unless 
the true name or description of such goods, with the addition of the wmrds specially 
dangerous, is distinctly written, printed, or marked on the outside of the package, nor in 
the case of delivery to or deposit with any warehouse owner or carrier, without also 
giving notice in writing to him of the name or description of such goods, and of their 
being specially dangerous. And any person who knowingly commits a breach of this 
enactment shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding^ue hundred pounds, or at the dis¬ 
cretion of the Court to imprisonment, wdth or v/ithout hard labour, for any term not 
exceeding two years. 
4. No warehouse owmer or carrier shall be bound to receive or carry any goods which 
are specially dangerous. 
5. In construing this Act the term v/arehouse owner shall include all persons or bodies 
of persons owning or managing any vrarehouse, store, quay, or other premises in which 
goods are deposited; and the wmrd carrier shall include all persons or bodies of persons 
carrying goods or passengers for hire. 
6. The Act of the Session of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years of her Majesty’s 
reign, chapter sixty-six, “for the safe keeping of petroleum,” is hereby extended and 
applied to nitroglycerine, and that Act shall be read and have effect as if throughout 
its provisions nitroglycerine had been mentioned in addition to petroleum; save that so 
much of the said Act as specifies the maximum quantity of petroleum to be kept as 
therein mentioned without a licence shall not apply in the case of nitroglycerine, and 
any quantity whatever of nitroglycerine shall be deemed to be subject to the provisions 
of the said Act. 
7. The said Act of the Session of the twenty-fiflh and twenty-sixth years of her 
Majesty’s reign is also hereby extended and applied to any substance for the time being 
declared by any Order in Council under this Act to be specially dangerous, and that Act 
shall be read and have effect as if throughout its provisions the substance to which such 
