The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-23 00:00:00

HERTFORDSHIRE.

At the Watford weekly petty sessions on Tuesday
last, before the Earl of Essex, chairman, and a full
bench of magistrates, Mr. H. H. Burchell Herne,
of Grange, Bushey, and Mr. Joseph Arden, of Rick-
mansworth-park, who, as will be seen upon refer-
ence to the " Law List," are both barristers, and
who are likewise magistrates for the county of
Hertford, severally appeared in answer to summonses
charging them with having infringed an order of
her Maj esty'sPrivy Council, byeach burying a diseased
cow without first giving notice to Mr. W. Dale, the
cattle inspector for the Watford district. Mr. S. G.
Finney, of Queeusbury-lodge, Aldenham, near
Elstree, Middlesex, also appeared in answer to a
summons charging him with a like offence, and with
removing cattle from where the disease had been
and sending their carcases to Newgate-market for
sale without the licence of the cattle inspector. Mr.
G. E. Eyre, barrister, appeared in support of the
prosecution in each case. Mr. H. 11. Burchell
Herne conducted his own defence in person, as also
did Mr. Finney ; and Mr. H. W. Willoughby, of
the firm of Willoughby, Cox, and Lord, solicitors,
Clifford's-inn, Fleet-street, appeared for Mr. Arden.
Each of the defendants pleaded " Not Guilty."
In Mr. Herne's case the defence was that he did
not at first know he had the cattle disease on his
premises, so for prevention he had the beast in
question shot and buried. Afterwards he gave
notice to the cattle inspector, but the bench decided
he had given such notice too late. In Mr. Arden's
case the defence was that a cow died, as he thought,
of the lung disease, and of course it was accordingly
buried by his orders without notice. In Mr.
Finney's case the defence was that, six weeks prior
to any complaint being made of the disease on his
premises, he had a diseased heifer, and sent for Mr.
Dale, the prosecutor, who said decidedly it was a
plague, and so he (Mr. Finney) had the heifer in-
stantly slaughtered and buried, and he had no fresh
outbreak until about six weeks afterwards, when
the disease among his stock broke out again, and he
considered the first notice he had given to the in-
spector was quite sufficient, particularly as he had
a certificate from a Newgate-market salesman that
the meat so sent to him was perfectly good. These
defences were, however, of no avail. The bench
convicted the defendants, fining Mr. Herne and
Mr. Arden £lO each and costs, and Mr. Finney
two sums of £5 and costs.

WRECK ON THE LINCOLNSHIRE COA ST.—The Thecl-
dlethorpe lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion was instrumental on the 17th inst. in saving nine men
from the fishing smack Splendid, of Grimsby. The smack
was full of water, and her crew had taken to their own
small boat, which was found approaching the surf, where
she would probably have been capsized and her crew
drowned but for the timely services of tho lifeboat. The
cost of this lifeboat was the gift of two attached friends to
the institution. _

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