The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-20 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT.—Yesterday.

Mr. J. Pollock, who was evidently labouring under indispo-
sition, took his seat on the bench this morning. There were
very few defended cases to dispose of.
BLAIN V. PULFORD.—In this case the plaintiffs, Messrs.
Blain and Sons, corn merchants, of Brunsxvick street, were
the plaintiffs, and the defendant was a flour dealer and broker.
The claim was for £4O is 7d, the value of fifteen sacks of
Irish flour. It was alleged that the flour was sold on what
was called " association terms ;" that is, the flour being sold
by sample the buyer was allowed until six o'clock on the
evening of sale to examine the bulk, and if not then repudiated
to be held as a complete sale. The defendant did not take
delivery until the 10th of November, the flour having been
sold on the sth, and on the 11th his customers returned it,
and represented it as being exceedingly bad, and gave him a
great amount of abuse. The defendant ultimately baked
same of the flour, and found it bad. Re then applied to the
brokers to have the flour taken back, but this was refused on
the grounds that it was sold on " association terms." The
defendant denied that such was the case, and refused to pay for
the flour. The defendant had paid £3O 15s into court, as
what he conceived the value of the flour. His Honour gave
a verdict for the plaintiff for £9 6s 7d above the sum paid
into court, reserving the entry of judgment for fourteen days.

VALUABLE PIGS.—On Tuesday, the 3rd inst., a pig, the
property of John Young Esq., of Galgorna Castle, was sold
in the pork market of Ballymena, and its weight proved to
be 6 cwt oqr 22 lb. We are not aware of the exact price
at which the carcase was purchased, but the cash proceeds
could not have been much under £lB. The animal was
only eighteen months old when slaughtered. On the 7th
of June last, John NPllravy, of Liswatty,bonght a suckling
which was then five weeks old. He sold it last week in
Coleraine fel. £8 15s, its weight being 3 cwt 1 qr 18 lbs.
Ballymena Observer.
THE REAL ENEMIES OP THE PROFESSION. —Th e disclosures
made in the course of a recent action brought against a De.
Griffith Jones, have painfully impressed us with the truth
of an observation of Sir Thomas 0 verbury, who in one of
his " Characters," says—'‘ as a maggot turns to a fly, so
the corruption of the cunning man is the generation of an
empiric." It is always our endeavour to defend members of
the profession when wronged • it is equally our duty to
denounce those who, " void of all hononr, avaricious, rash,"
compromise our fair fame, and bring dishouoar on the body
to which they belong.
" Pudet hrec opprobria nobis,
Et dici potuisse et non petuisse refessi."
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If the Fates need propitiation, we must not hesitate to sacri-
fice our black sheep, as did th Greeks of old. Dr. David
Griffith Jones is an M.D. of M tritchal College, a member of
the English College of Surgeons, and in practice in London.
The details of the trial alluded to FigniL intiv describe the
manner in which he fulfils the trust thus confided to him.
We simply abridge the law report of the case. We " nothing
extenuate nor set down aught in malice." This action was
brought against the maid De David Griffith Jones, for
forcibly ejecting and assaulting the plaintiff, a creature
engaged to manage an establishment in Oxford street, bi-
the sale of some compound called "Astra mantas." In the
course of the trial it was stated that Dr Jones styled himself
a " hydro-homceopithic doctor," and, in his addition to his
interest in the " astra-mancax" (of which term ro one at
the trial could explain the meaning) saw patients at the
establishments where it was sold. The plaintiff was also
engaged to lecture on the chemistry of food, and to specially
puff th t said untranslatable compound. Having filled this
desirable post for a year, the plaintiff insured his valuable
and useful life, and on the policy thereof, Dr. Jones borrowed
a hnndrel pounds. Then there came a split. The p'aintiff
demanded some acknowledgement of this transaction; where-
upon, in the words of the counsel, " the dJendant being
irritated, sent a man named Ray, and a body of nearly
twenty men from St. Giles's, who broke into the plaintiff's
rooms, assaulted him violently, and endeavoured to drag him
from the room." Some of these hired ruffians gave evidence
as to their subsequently receiving pay at the house of Dr.
Jones, for committing this dastardly outrage. The j ury found
for the plaintiff, with damages. We are at a loss to understand
what sort of treatment a patient experiences who falls into
the hands of a hydro-loomce ipathic doctor. Does it mean
that water is administered in infinitesimal doses, or that
a dropsical patient has to gulp down gallons, on the prin-
ciple of " similia similibus curantur ?" Should not the word
be spelt hydra•homceopathy, in fitting compliment to the
venomous reptile that sprung from Echidna and Typhon ?
There is a grave point involved in this case which it is
well that the profession should consider. No re-
butting evidence was produced to invalidate the statements
above given. The name of David Griffiths Jones is still
enrolled on the hooks of the London College of Surgeons,
amongst whose bye-laws appear the following regulation :
Should a member of the College render himself, in the
judgment of the Council, disgraceful to the College, his
name may be omitted in the printed lists of the members
thereof." We await the judgment of the Council,
Lancet.