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T ma acquittal of QUILL'S HODGSON, the chemist
of Shipley, at whose shop was sold the mosaic
that erased the Bradford poisonings, ie no doubt
technically right, but it mints to a state of the law
which can hardly be regarded Si satisfactory. The
Gullies of tin awe will be in the reoollection of au
readers. Hannaaxt, a seen who kept a nrestmant
stall at Brodkin market, sold a quantity of lesseve
penned with arsenic, which craned amongst those
who partook of them an extemive amenst of
seek= Wass% end se Ws lima twisty ass egading
&sem RAIDAIIII, who was altagetin wiliest
bine is the walitetr, len height the lonengee hem
NW, a arailletieser la Bradford, by whom they
bad bees manalieheneel. Nut, in making up kis
imam lie the market, wan asseetonsed to use a
manna mad "deg• ere preps:adorn of
ginner el Paris bees be aummeree as " tens Elbe."
In making vp die pardoner lot of Imam
be bed vieknowingly used not " daff" but
amnia Thls amnia bad been udstakenly meld
as der by HODGSON'S assistant, at HODGSON'S
atisp le a wow met ties by Nett.
Tie penes circatostiumee ander which this
diseiteems mina* was anis Imo tally brought out
ea the meat trial. It wee en the I Oth of October
that noes simmager called at HODOION'S shop to
peewee a quantity "deg." Hcomion was at the
time ill la bed, 854 the only perms in the shop was
WII.LteK OODDAID —a yank who had been a
pail Member, end had stied for about three
weeks es HODGSON'S assiatent. The lad, of course,
barn nathiag &bent drugs. He did not know the
digit _s between " deff " and aresaie in ap-
pennase. The oaly ermine he knew was that
Tbill be bed to sell in the shop, which wee
sedvered end labellad. When Nnot.'s messeager ailed
he the " de‘" the lad went up to his nester with the
ammege. Hovoson asked what the " doff" wee Serf
CiODDARD, after melees inquiry below, Mimed
Wm et tarn popes, for which, and described the
poem by Irina. the staff wee wanted. HODGSON
then mid IMP ems bad better wait till he maid
snood to it himself. The customer, be Inver, in-
sisted ea bag served, with • violence of manner
by wink lie led states he was Burned, and HODO-
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sow them angled die awdetant to go up to the wee-
• boo" wine be usald tad the " der is a
banal hi a 1101111, of the room. " I asked
• We, aye the whams, " what kind et staff
le was He said it mose whits mod law "ow :"
• denriptios equally applicable to the deadly pains
and the disarm* impudent. The anistent of three
wad experience, with so better dbesties the this,
tad with se speeds warming wins the poise
barrel, went up to tN werebeen, sod is the @Oti-
tis' of his isesperisees, ieressul, as he sates, by
the enelsther's angry nether, sleighed eat hem the
wag esk—a ink eat la the sense of the wom-
bs," bet ter the heed of the etabeese—l2lbs. of
arcs le. Oa eirethexamisedes beednitted that his
rarer, wham be ',thistly est nasally wiebed as
seek as possible he semen, had takes him op into the
surehothe some time before, had pointed oat to Wm
the semis isnel, and told his" to be mindful silt.•
That wee is the Int week of hie service i it conned'
ealy saes, and the lad ►ed never sold blip free the
earabernees sepals* masks. It further apposed
that, amp& by the heal dawripties of the " tier
boned es "ins a mess"--a description whisk, if the
beffeevidethe le Snotty to be relied epos.th mast hens
slam se ewe heyeties se wiltkli7 segiseted—there
we seals( whatever to distinguish see era bee
do ether. Use was so visible label, or ether
reek is theete that the snook barrel bed
pulses. 'Ha yogis; man states, that se he as
be bees, the ',entire mines of the asks bed
set beset allured before the pollen s& sun tonna
the meths. This may have boss so, bet the evi-
dime that it was so seems anything but conviasies,
sad it see of mane a some whet material hot is the
7.

Take fits lake, however, in the sense mask fa.
weambie to the pima : empress he directed this
sosketsat of thres weeks, who had sever sold any-
thing from tho weehoun before, to p to the
right ask, sod that the lad is his sew
Amon had pee to the wrung one I admit.
further, that he had are, sane three weeks he-
fore, pointed out to this limps* yang
man one ask smog essay, esitietinguisbed
except by keel position, se ocanining mesh; yet
surely, whea all Utah sosseded, the ease remains see
of very sulpha if set of statinal, negligesee. Mr.
lens WATMON. the honed jsdge before whom ties...
VIM (64* We* reported te hew said, in direstag
an sepittal, a Hew could it be maid that this, was
" sag Negligees& awe He (the judge) did sot knew
a whets sass said de an, except not keep ans.
" sin. He had warmed his yang man that the
" seek asatsimed enema that it was pion,
• lad had deleted him to p to slather
a plass for the 'aisle required." It is pa-
Mae that these sepresions, which are re-
ported briefly, do stet fully oouvey the plan rsens-
ing et his lordehip. If they are te be aseseed as so
doing, we sane scam in them. We set tally
thank that Bottom, sight have dew mom tad
aught te bees dew seen ; het we ere of opinion he
scald Maly kayo dose km. It he did not pad*

is rebating to serve the custemirilkhe at Ina hp I
Wild, he night hove gese,Alsaght to heat
gems, himself to the ado w tad en *Sore-
lame i if he did set do this, ht mkt gig events
to have repeated to the young min at
about
the music ; he ought, at the very least.
here takes the very simple precantion, which
'would have met hire no trouble, of directing the an-
lelhemed led to being hba the stuff which he bad
Stionost et the warehme, and of mantle* it him-
edf blew ho allowed the osolsator to take it away.
Dolt he Ens asebiag of the kisd—relying es a local
eisefelles of the" ded" mak, and epee a washing
glees free weeks Wise shoat the anomie cask, he
mods Me With youth up into a warehouse whwe
there is • barrel tiled with deadly poises, which he
Immo is not distinguished by say violin mink from
ether barrels, and he trusts the ansees of lilt and
dose to a dreeription of its contents, which is mealy
as applicable to amuck as it is to dad. We, of eemee,
dein to the opinion of the learned Boron, that, in
point of law, this dose not constitute such " criminal
" segligesse" es to support a charge of manslesghter ;
bat that is the Court of Osman Sense it is negli-
genes, sad grass segligenes, no hentan being, we
think, will deny.
The result of this and many similar cams in which
charges of manslaughter founded on alleged criminal
negligence have broken down, seems strongly to point
to a defect in the law by which this branch of
err criminal jurisprudence is reralated. The legal
quality of menslaeghter, as an offence next in the
erbeinel seals to murder, is of so serious a nature,
ad the eassequaloss it may possibly involve me
isms, that there is a very natural inclination on the
part both of jades and juries, to take the mat
limiest view of all mass whim such a charge, is.
waiving suck ozwequences, is based upon nog&
genre, however grow, and in the ordinary scene
culpable. The result is, as the law now
stands, that such offences practically escape
without legal penalty. This lea very unsatisfactory
state of things, for which we cannot think it would
be impracticable to devise a remedy. The subject is
well deserving of the attention of the Law Amend-
ment Society—that very useful institution to which
we have been recently indebted for the initiative of
so much salutary Legal Reform.

Mx Conn.

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