ORDER OF COUNCIL. 161 
The Town Clerk thereupon repeated the question, when the wit¬ 
ness answered that he did not know what the cost would be. 
John Whitehead , who stated that he was a butcher in the Sham¬ 
bles, of twenty-two years’ experience, said that he had examined the 
carcases, and found them perfectly sound and wholesome in flesh 
and bone. 
This concluded the case. 
Mr. Bruce asked Dr. Robinson if he agreed to the opinion that 
the livers might be bad to a certain extent without rendering the 
flesh unwholesome? 
Dr. Robinson replied that the sheep might have flukes in the 
livers and the liver not be diseased ; but in this case the livers were 
diseased in addition to the flukes being present, and the flesh of the 
sheep, in consequence of the action of the liver, was unwholesome. 
Mr. Bruce .—Are flukes a disease? 
Dr. Robinson. —Unquestionably. 
Mr. Bruce. —Then a liver is diseased so soon as it has flukes 
in it ? 
Dr. Robinson. —Yes. 
Mr. Bruce. —But this disease mav exist without affecting the 
flesh ? 
Dr. Robinson. —Without affecting the flesh to any appreciable 
extent, and does often exist, so far as our knowledge goes. 
Mr. Bruce said that his mind was in a state of doubt upon the 
case. He had heard the evidence on both sides, and the evidence 
of the scientific witnesses had left his mind (as it often did) in a 
perplexing state of uncertainty. Persons for whose judgment and 
reputation the highest respect were entertained had been called, and 
sworn to quite the opposite thing. Both Dr. Robinson and Mr. 
Ferguson admitted that the meat had been put in a place which was 
very likely to produce a bad effect upon it—as it did upon human 
beings when there was no ventilation at all, except such as might 
find its way through the crevices of doorways. There was also a 
large amount of contradictory evidence as regarded flukes, and, in 
fact, the testimony generally was so conflicting that he could not 
make an order. 
The order was therefore refused.— Leeds Mercunj. 
REVOCATION OF THE ORDER OF COUNCIL 
RELATING TO THE IMPORTATION OF SHEEP 
FROM GERMANY. 
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 7th day of January, 
1873, by the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy 
Council. Present—Mr. Forster, Mr. Stansfeld. 
The Lords and others of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy 
