EXPOSURE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 503 
tions; otherwise the latter would have given the former into 
custody rather than have suffered himself to have been tried 
and convicted for the misdemeanour of selling a glandered 
horse. On the 4th of June, Mr. Henson’s lawyer, offered 
to return Mr. Martin the purchase money provided that 
gentleman would not proceed any further against his client. 
But Mr. Martin refused to take the money on such terms; 
and at the same time assured the committing magistrate that 
he was prosecuting entirely on public grounds, with a 
view to put a stop to the frequent sales of glandered horses. 
We are now aware that publicly exposing and selling a 
horse, knowing it to be glandered, is a misdemeanour ; and 
that the offender may either be sent to prison, or permitted 
to be out on bail, and surrender to take his trial at the next 
general quarter-sessions or assizes ; and, also, that the ex¬ 
pense of the prosecution is not paid out of the county-rate, 
but falls upon the prosecutor, which circumstance will allow 
the majority of offenders of this description to escape punish¬ 
ment. If our legislative assemblies were aware how fre¬ 
quently glandered horses are sold in the different markets 
and fairs throughout England, and of the unheard of punish¬ 
ment for the offence, those members of parliament who 
represent the agricultural interest would feel assured that 
the laws relating to the offence of selling glandered horses 
are either too indefinite, or too expensive, to be fully carried 
out for the suppression of such a fraudulent and dangerous 
offence. In order to meet the exigency of the case, as well 
as for the more effectual suppression of the abominable traffic 
which is carried on in the sale of glandered horses, the law 
should invest the magistrates with the power of enforcing 
from the offender the return of the purchase-money to the 
complainant, and, at the same time, order the diseased animal 
to be destroyed ; and, in default of the delinquent complying 
with this part of the statute, the magistrates should have the 
further power of inflicting such summary punishment as 
would be deemed commensurate with the dangerous nature 
of the offence. 
As veterinarians, we are aware that the glanders is highly 
contagious, and that it may be likewise infectious to the 
horse species; also, that it has been communicated to the 
human subject by accidental inoculation ; and that, in con¬ 
sequence, any person who has the care of such diseased 
animals might lose his life by coming in contact with glan¬ 
derous matter. As the law deems such diseased animals a 
nuisance , and selling of them a misdemeanour , it behoves us, 
as members of an honorable profession, (noble in its nature, 
