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It was resolved that, in place of the disqualification of pigs being 
final, when the state of the dentition is not satisfactory, the last 
clause of rule twenty-one shall he as follows: “It the dentition 
shall indicate that the age of any of the pigs had been incorrectly 
returned in the certificate, the steward shall call upon the exhibitor 
to prove to their satisfaction the correctness of his certificate. 
It was resolved that the fee to be paid by non-members for the 
privilege of exhibiting be two guineas instead of one as heretofore. 
The Council determined that the date of the shows be regulated 
by the same rule as heretofore, and the next will therefore commence 
December 6th next. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
MANSION HOUSE.— March 10th. 
A doctor’s horse. 
Walter Leonard, twenty-four years of age,a coachman, was charged 
before Alderman Carter with ill-treating and torturing a horse. 
Police-constahle Fleet said that yesterday afternoon he saw the 
prisoner driving a horse and brougham in Cheapside, and noticing 
that the animal could hardly walk stopped it and led it into King- 
street. On removing a large cloth across its back he saw it was 
nothing but skin and bone, and that under the throat was a large 
wen as big as witness’s double fist. Its skin worked up and down 
loosely on the bones, and he told the prisoner to take it from the 
shafts. He refused, and said his mistress inside the carriage would 
talk to him if he wished. Witness then took it from the shafts, 
and the prisoner to the police-station, where he was bailed during 
the night. The horse belonged to Dr. Baker, of 66, New North- 
road, and witness afterwards took it to the green-yard. There, as 
he was giving it some water, a discharge from the nostrils ran over 
the side of the pail, and a veterinary surgeon was called in. He 
described it as very badly glandered, as being very old, and in bad 
condition—quite unfit for work. 
Mr. Sangster, a veterinary surgeon, said the horse was in a very 
wretched state, was badly glandered, and so ill that to prevent in¬ 
fection it had to be removed to a shed in Goswell-street. 
Dr. Baker, the prisoner’s master, said he was quite astounded at 
hearing of the charge. The horse had been presented to him nine 
years ago by a lady, and was a great favourite. It had lately been 
in a low condition, owing to the negligence of a servant, but since 
the prisoner had been in his service it had regained its strength, 
although not much flesh. He could not believe that it was glandered. 
llohert Halves, another veterinary surgeon, said he had known 
the horse for some years, and there was nothing the matter with it, 
except its lowness of condition. 
Mr. Alderman Carter said it was a most disgraceful case, and he 
