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offices belonging to a small establishment, he has been very 
profuse, and those mentioned by him are doubtless very 
convenient for the different purposes for which they are re¬ 
quired. 
We find, by referring to the catalogue of Messrs. Cottam 
and Cottam, St. Pancras Iron Works, London, that they 
are identical, or nearly so, with those manufactured and sold 
by that firm, whose stable-fittings are very extensive, and 
suitable for almost every variety of stable. 
In concluding our review of this work, we may observe 
that it is very nicely got up; the illustrations, eleven in 
number, are very neatly executed, and altogether it is a 
publication worthy the perusal of gentlemen and others 
about to build good and healthy stables. In some future 
edition we hope to see utility, simplicity, and a strict regard 
to healthiness, extended to all varieties of stables. These 
objects the author has aimed at, and to a considerable extent 
attained ; but we think there are some few points which 
require reconsideration, with a view of abandoning them 
altogether, and others that may be modified with consider¬ 
able advantage. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
WOOLWICH. 
IMPORTANT CONVICTION FOR CRUELTY TO HORSES. 
John Gosling, a licensed horse-slaughterer, carrying on business at 
Plumstead, Kent, appeared before l\Ir. Maude, in answer to two sum¬ 
monses, obtained against him by Mr. W. Love, of the Royal Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, charging him as follows “ For 
that you, on the 9th day of January instant, did neglect and omit to 
supply a sufficient quantity of fit and wholesome food and water to 
thirteen horses, and that you did neglect and omit to cut or cause 
to be cut off, the hair of the necks of eleven horses brought to 
be slaughtered to the place kept and used by you for the slaugh¬ 
tering of horses, contrary to the statute 12 and 13 Vic., cap. 92, 
sec. 8,” &c. 
Mr. John Wakeling, solicitor, of Clerkenwell, instructed by 
Mr. Love, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. H. Davis for the 
defence. 
Mr. J. Wakeling said the society for which he appeared, in taking 
these proceedings against the defendant, was actuated by no other 
feeling in the matter than that of a sense of public duty; and he would 
show by the evidence of the respectable witnesses he should call, that 
