NEW MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION. 
At an examination of the pupils of the Royal Veterinary 
College, held on December 19 th, by the Court of Examiners 
of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the following 
received their diplomas: 
Mr. Thomas Billington 
— Joseph Clarke. 
— Henry Chesser 
— William Fox . 
— Alban Bull . . 
— J. Griffiths Cattrall 
— George Blake . 
— George Lewis . 
. Preston, Lancashire. 
. Horncastle, Lincolnshire. 
. Wood Green, Middlesex. 
. Walthamstow, Essex. 
. Shotswell, Oxon. 
. Chester. 
. London. 
Monmouth. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH.— Westminster, December 6th. 
(Sittings at Nisi Prius after Term before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn 
and a Special Jury'). 
botterill v . batty. 
Mr. Knowles, Q. C., and Mr. Field appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. 
Serjeant Pigott and Mr. Udall for the defendant. 
The action was brought to recover £250, the price of a four-year-old 
chestnut hunter, sold by the plaintiff to the defendant on the 26th of 
July last. The defendant paid £50 into court, and, as to the residue, 
pleaded “ never indebted.” 
The horse, which was the subject of dispute between Mr. Richard 
Botterill, of Garton, in the East Riding, and Mr. John Batty, of Bishop 
Monkton, near Ripon, was a remarkably fine animal. Mr. Botterill 
bought him in November, 1860, for £75. He was worked a little in a 
light chaise during the winter, and was thoroughly broken in during 
the spring. On the 15th of July, 1861, at the Royal Agricultural 
Society’s meeting at Leeds, the horse carried off the second prize iu 
the class for four-year-old hunters. On the 26th of the same month there 
was a large show at Driffield, and the horse carried off three prizes—as 
a four-year-old; as a hunter; and as the best horse on the ground. 
In the interval between the two shows a little hair had been knocked off 
one of the hind legs, either in the railway truck or by some slight blow 
from shying at the station. The material question, however, did not turn 
upon the injury, which was noticed both by vendor and vendee at the time 
of the bargain at Driffield, but upon the question whether the horse was 
naturally sound or not when Mr. Botterill arranged to sell him to Mr. 
Batty for £250, and to deliver him in a day or two. Mr. Botterill sent the 
horse over to Malton on the 8th of August, and in a day or two he was 
