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laid at £1700, he thought, if the jury found for the plaintiff, £1400 
would be sufficient to cover the loss. Having brought before them all 
the points of the evidence on which, to his judgment, it was necessary 
to comment, he said the matter was now ripe for their decision. That 
decision must be founded on whether this was a “ reasonable, fit, and 
proper’’ composition to be used, according to the directions on the 
package, for dipping sheep. If they turned the matter over in their own 
minds, and thought that the result could not be reasonably attributed 
to any other cause than the improper composition applied on this 
occasion, then they ought to find their verdict for the plaintiff. But if 
the plaintiff had not made that out to their satisfaction, then they 
ought to return their verdict for the defendant. He left the case in 
their hands. 
The jury, after retiring for about half-an-hour, unanimously returned 
a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages £1400. 
The utmost interest and attention were sustained during the investi¬ 
gation of the whole of the case, and the court, shortly after nine 
o’clock, adjourned till this morning, at nine o’clock .—The Daily 
Chronicle and Northern Counties Advertiser , and the Northern Daily 
Express. 
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VETERINARY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
Acting Veterinary Surgeon Joseph Dulley has been 
permitted to resign his appointment. — London Gazette, 
March 11th, 1859. 
MISCELLANEA. 
STATISTICS OP EGGS. 
A curious statistical return has lately been made of the 
supply of eggs to England from France, by which it appears 
that the annual value of this export to this country exceeds 
that of wine. Even before the o'idium disease, the difference 
in value in favour of eggs amounted to 157,072 francs yearly. 
In 1815, there were imported into England from France, 
1,300,915 kilogrammes of eggs; in 1856, 9^005,758 kilo¬ 
grammes ; and as each kilogramme is calculated to be equal 
to eighteen eggs, it follows that France furnishes England 
with nearly 200,000,000 of eggs annually.— Athenaeum. 
ERRATUM. 
We regret that in the explanatory note inserted in our last number from 
E. N. Gabriel, Esq., relating to the omission in the Register of the names 
of three gentlemen who had graduated at the Examination held by the sec¬ 
tion of the Board of Examiners of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
for Scotland, the Christian name of Mr. John Dollar was printed T. Dollar. 
