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The jury retired to consider their verdict, but in about three hours 
sent word that they were not likely to agree. 
His Lordship asked whether the counsel in the case would accept the 
verdict of the majority. 
Mr. U. J). Keane said that on the part of the plaintiff he should decidedly 
object to do so. 
Shortly afterwards the jury were sent for, and in answer to the Lord 
Chief Justice, said there was no probability of their agreeing. By con¬ 
sent of the parties, they were accordingly discharged without a verdict. 
CONVICTION FOR EXPOSING FOR SALE DISEASED 
CATTLE. 
A conviction of some importance has taken place before the magis¬ 
trates at Worcester, who have expressed a determination on a former 
occasion of putting the law in force with the view of preventing the ex¬ 
posure of diseased cattle for sale in the local markets. At the last 
Worcester fair a cattle-dealer, named Slade, brought a herd of twenty 
or thirty cattle for sale.. In consequence of the prevalence in the district 
of a disease among cattle called the foot and mouth disease, an officer has 
been appointed by the town council, whose special duty it is to watch the 
fairs, and see that no diseased sheep or cattle are exposed for sale at 
them. On Monday the inspector (Berridge), while on duty in the cattle- 
market, examined Mr. Slade’s stock, and found among them two cows 
which exhibited symptoms of disease. He accordingly seized them, and 
summoned the owner before the magistrates. Evidence was given by 
him, and by a veterinary surgeon, that the cows were so affected, and the 
disease was contagious and infectious. The animals had sore mouths 
and tongues, and swollen fetlocks. The veterinary surgeon said that 
the owner could not plead ignorance of the fact, for no person at all 
acquainted with cattle could fail in detecting the disease. The magis¬ 
trates accordingly convicted the defendant, fining him 71. and costs, and 
ordering the cattle to be detained until cured, and the extra costs of 
their cure and maintenance to be paid by the defendant before the cows 
were given up to him. 
SALE OF DISEASED PIGS. 
At the weekly meeting of the Liverpool Health Committee, last week, 
it was formally reported that Mr. Lewis, the steward of the Rainhill 
Lunatic Asylum, had, on the 12th inst., sold 80 pigs to a pork-butcher 
in that town, and he had been induced to do so because lung disease had 
broken out among the pigs at the asylum, of which it was usual to keep 
from 100 to 200, and that number was found barely sufficient to supply 
the consumption of the establishment. Finding that a virulent disease 
had broken out among the animals, which neither a veterinary surgeon, 
who was called in, nor the medical superintendent of the institution, 
could cure or counteract, Lewis, with a view to prevent loss to the 
asylum through the death of the pigs, sold them to the butcher referred 
to. Some of these pigs had been in such a condition as to be fit to be 
driven off the premises; but others had to be carted, in consequence of 
being unable to walk. It is believed that these pigs were slaughtered in 
Liverpool, and were consumed as human food. Others of the pigs which 
were left at the asylum died, and were buried ; but it is believed that 
