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his custody on the above charge. On the 11th inst., he proceeded to 
the house of Mr. Hornby, and went into the stable, and in the corn- 
bin, which was pointed out to him as being under the prisoner’s care, 
he found a brown-paper parcel, marked “ Poison.” He then examined 
the manger, and found a quantity of chopped straw, mixed with bran 
and corn. He swept it up, and delivered it over to Mr. Matthews. 
The prisoner said nothing in reply to the charge. 
The magistrates retired for consultation, and on their return said that 
in considering the case they could not think that the prisoner gave 
the arsenic to the horses with intent to poison them, and therefore they 
would deal more leniently with him than as if there had been any 
intention or malice proved; but still it was a case which called for a 
severe punishment, and they should sentence him to three months’ im¬ 
prisonment with hard labour .—Driffield Times. 
CLERKENWELL POLICE COURT. 
CONVICTION FOR EXPOSING A DISEASED COW FOR SALE.—THE CAUSE 
OF ILLNESS IN THE METROPOLIS. 
Thomas Camp, an extensive cowkeeper and dealer in cows, carrying 
on business in Argyll Street, St. Pancras, was charged before Mr. 
Barker with unlawfully exposing for sale, in the Metropolitan Cattle 
Market, a certain cow, which said cow was then and there diseased, 
and unfit for human food. 
Mr. Stuckberry, from the office of the City Solicitor, attended to pro¬ 
secute, and Mr. Beard defended. 
Mr. Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals, was in attendance. 
Mr. Stuckberry , in opening the case, said these proceedings were 
instituted under the 17th section of the 20th and 21st of Victoria, cap. 
135 (The Metropolitan Market Act, 1857), which gave the clerk or the 
inspector of the market power to seize any cattle or meat exposed or 
offered for sale which might appear unfit for human food, and the 
person guilty of every such offence is liable to a penalty not exceeding 
£20. In this case, which was a very bad one, the cow was sufifering 
from pleuro-pneumonia, as well as the mouth and foot disease. These 
diseases are contagious, and have made their appearance in all parts of 
the globe, destroying a large number of animals. That the flesh of 
the animals so affected was kept for' food, there could be no dispute. 
He should ask for a conviction, and he might state that it was the 
intention of the Corporation to prosecute inevery.case that was brought 
under tkeir notice. 
Mr. George Thatcher said—I am inspector of the Metropolitan 
Cattle Market. The defendant is a buyer and seller of cows, and keeps 
a large dairy. He had a cow in one of the alleys, with a halter round 
its head. In consequence of what a boy told me, I had some conversa¬ 
tion with the defendant, and he told me the cow belonged to him, and 
that he had brought it there for sale. He also said that there was 
nothing the matter with the cow—that it had only gone off its milk, 
and that he intended to sell it for grazing. The cow was in a very 
diseased state—it could hardly breathe—the steam was coming through 
its hide, and it was also suffering from the mouth and foot disease. The 
cow was in so bad a state that it could not move anv further. When the 
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