The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-25 00:00:00

would seem to be the ►etter of thie two.

Mr. John Smith, the attorney, here rested that &labia's'
bad been served upon the defendant to prodace Pepper and
Mutard. (Laughter.)
Lord Campbell—Let Pepper and Mustard be called. (A
laugh.)
'llse dogs were here placed on the table of the cout.
They were handsome di ge of the Skye and Otter breed
Frederick Hohens, the eon of the parish clerk of Aston,
stated that he had about a user back been attacked by the
dogs is question. One of them tore a steal hole in his
truism. He had previously shaken his stick at them, and
bad, in feet, thrashed them f growling at him.
A brother of the last witness, a boy used 14, proved that
about 16 months ago he was in the Vicarsgeiyard, going to
the vicar's, when he began to stroke the darker dog (has.
tard), when the other name behind him. Thinking ha was
going to bite h m he pat out his Lot behind ti keep him
away, when he tit him in the leg. It was a slight wound,
and hardly drew blood.
Thomas emery, the plaintiff, is a gardener, and lives
shoot a mile from the defendant's. On the 16th of Much,
last year, he was returning home from his west between five
, end eir. Was going down Park street, a quarter of a mile
from the Visizsge, when he saw a lady with two dogs.
They came barking. end attacked him, the one before and
the other behind. He was is the middle of the road. They
were trying to bite him, and 'within kept turning round
and trying to keep teem off with hie haw's, and while he
was doing so to the one before, the other (Pepper) bit him
from behind in the leg, sear the ankle. It bleu very mach.
He said, " Oh! dear. Oh ! dear." The lady came up, and
said she was very at rry. Witham said, " Very sorry will
wither conaty leg nor take the psis away." That lady wee
Mrs. Puke. Was attended by Mr Cross. a surgeon, who
attended him several weeks. Witness had been unable to
dig since. The doctor'e bill was W. 16s. 6d. Witues sent
a sump by the vicar' t that he wished tow him,
and the servant brought him half.a.ezowe. Went a second
time a few days after, end ant is a mange that he wished
to au Mr. Peaks. The setvaat name back and said her
master would not see him. _

Cresawasaitned—Had sever had a doctor's bill befrre,
sew a lawyer's either. Had been able to do wittiest either
us sow.

Lord Campbell—Did the dogs ems up, good-aataredly,
as It were, to lick your bind ?
I Witness—Oh, no; they came up and attacked me—they
came like licas. (A laugh.)
Mr. Cross, surgeon, proved that he attended ohs plaintiff,
who had a deep sore lour itches above the suede cod two
smaller wowed' on the other side. Attended him from the
30th of March to the 30th of May. The plaintiff was ital.
whited from attending to his I ork. He is not well yet,
thoegb the wound is healed over. His @bingo we. W. 16. ,
which was moderate, on accosat of the atatioa in life of the
Wm. Zesty proved that he was attacked by the two
dogs Mustard gad Pepper slate's months age. Oa' of them
bit through his trousers sad 'cookie', and four teeth went
Into his leg, The dogs bore a " tarions character."
(Laughter.)
Another witness, named Johnsen, stated that, in pawing
defendant's bonze, he bad bees bit he the leg by one of
the
AWeber, named Butler, who 'applied the defeadaat's
how, with meat, said that he had been bitten by Fever,
sad bad hie tremors tors. He complained of it to the
servaate. _ _

Butler, the es of the last with's', said that, fif.
toes months ego, when be di lisfred meet at the Views'',
he had bans twice bitten at by the doge, which were NOW
0111111 held by the servants till be bad left the pthalese.
Mr. Serjeant Hayes, for the defect' reminded the Jury
that the defendant we' chuged with keeping dogs of ..•
savage and ferocious estate, end aecuitneed to bite and
ii jars mankind." To a eer Alm silent it was their nature;
fm _ . _

Dogs deliebt to bath and bits
Am worry anttdrest too;
but the salamis complaioed of bad been brought Into court,
sad eertaialy two more amiable end quietly-disposed dogs
he (tbe leagued serjesnt) had
whole time they were wagnlng their rails, abash was of
Itself r.ther contradictory of any sign of ferocity. What
they had done had been done in play; and there was not a
particle of evidecce to show that Mr. er Mrs. Peeks knew
that, in Marsh, 1855, they kept a dog knowing its
of a
savage aad ferocious kind, and " to sag
injure mankind.' If iron what bad bees dens Yee 114w'
were to be pronounced lerodoue, what wee le beaus of ibe
ladies throughout the °pastry. They must at can Writ of
their doge,- and what would ins become or the ladies them
salves ? they could scarcely go anywhere into prints
lenses sr public inks but they saw lodise with their !ep-
ilogs ; aad if, because a the
trousers ware tom enemas
consion, they were to cell upon ladies to Mena their
favourite Skye tarien, which hod supeeseded the pug and
spaniel, and sow shared favour equally w:th those little
taw celled, by courtesy," bonnets "—what really would
beanie of the whole female sex ?

Thisdift;idantwascalecl,73el said thst he bad hod
Popper two year, can Ilostard about tie or 'eves. Up to
Murk last you sever knew that the dogs were of a savage
or ferocious mature, and heard or a single hiatus* ia
which they were so :aroused to hits and injure usakind.
They wide perfectly quiet. Everyday many of the poor
were eosin to his know, where the doss wire monis,
shout or is the yard. He had a dauber of was rabbits
ranalsa abort, with which Pepin r wee scustorsed to plod
Pleas of the poor ever o as Floated of bolsi Dittos.
Crossasansioed—Bab doss were perfectly quiet. He
lid lowed of the p:aatitff Woo bitten dam weeks after it
eeeerved, whoa his wife told him of it, sod be desired her to
seed wa.

Mro.Toolloooola that till Match last year she had sever
heard eftbe dor Lavin bitten any one, or that they were
of a same mid farosiows character. She (wind than jock
teospend lip. She was is the constant debit of
alh►g them wit with her for a year heir, that Iliac.
•ee bi the labia et taking the dogs with her late the bed-
room of the tick poor. They were nsv.r attained up, bet
frequently is the peed, where poor pet pie and eh litre,
passel throegh Claw or Wise had baud of theft twig'