EXPOSURE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
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our own, bearing on the mode in which and the extent to 
which contagion may prove operative, will not be read with¬ 
out interest. 
NISI PRIUS.— LEICESTER. 
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge .) 
THE QUEEN V. HENSON. 
Mr. White conducted the prosecution; Mr. Sergeant 
Miller appeared for the defendant. 
Mr. White said, the defendant was charged with misde¬ 
meanour, in having, on the 1st day of June last, at Melton 
Mowbray, exposed a certain mare, diseased with glanders, in 
a certain street called Burton-end, in Melton Mowbraj", to 
the danger of her Majesty’s liege subjects. Another count 
in the indictment charged defendant with exposing the said 
mare in Whitsun fair, at Melton Mowbray, to the danger of 
divers horses and cattle. The first witness called, was 
Henry Martin, Esq., of Colston Bassett, a magistrate of 
the county of Nottingham. He deposed that at the last 
Melton Whitsun fair, he went there to purchase a hack 
horse. He saw several horses in a string opposite the Noel’s 
Arms. He bought a mare of a man who signed a warranty, 
giving his name as Henson. There was a man standing at 
the head of the horses, and Henson stood behind them. After 
he had bought the mare, he sent her up to where one of his 
tenants put up. In about a quarter of an hour after he 
heard something which led him to go to look at the mare. 
He found a swelling in the fleshy part of the nose. He sent 
for Mr. Brown, veterinary surgeon, who pronounced the mare 
to be glandered. Witness then sent for the defendant, and 
as he did not come he went to him, and told him the mare 
was glandered. Defendant said, “ Glandered be d—d.” 
Witness replied, he had the certificate of a veterinary surgeon 
in his pocket. He offered to show defendant the certificate, 
but he replied, “ Veterinary surgeons be d—d.” He gave 
him into the custody of a policeman, and took him before the 
magistrates. When they got to the steps of the magistrate’s 
room, defendant said, u I think you and me could have 
settled this without all this fuss.” He (witness) would not 
compromise it, but took him before the magistrates. De¬ 
fendant was examined before the magistrates, and remanded. 
The magistrates on that day were Mr. Bingham and Mr. 
Hartopp. On the Friday, Mr. Bingham was the only 
magistrate. (By Mr. Sergeant Miller.) Defendant told him his 
name was James Henson, and that he lived at Loughborough. 
He had learned since that defendant’s name was Henson, 
