The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

THE CATTLE PLAGUE

lIIITIOPOUL—KITITItO AT TIM tiairaltorffelfMit.
A meeting of the Compensation Committee was
held yesterday afternoon at ties Maseiteehesse.
Gibbing in the *heir. The followieg members wore pre-
sort r—Dr. Stiff, Mr. Rodkin. Mr. E. Burkett. Mr. 11.
Haines, Mr. Beeps, he. Dr. Stiff called the atemben
the committee to the osoessity of &rising the elms elf pore
amens towbom oompeosation should be gives. He believed
all sone applicetioes would some before them =lea
moms brooder! were &cal. Ths alumnae said oomkeepsge
ebosid give ieformetioo as soon as possible of the 'Wade'
symptoms of &woo in their abode, and a come
Potent prawn would be deputed to go and aacedels
if the animal err &simile were as
with the
'mottle plague, and so, to arraege as to the price which
the ootranittes would pay for them After the parches at
the animals, they would be seat for tract or:ma to the sum-
tariem. Dr. Stiff asked if the principle which the com-
mittee intended to adopt would apply to unliceosed cow-
kralimen. The chairmen replied that an osorkoopoto wire
included. Mr. Modkke said a tot of ;civets cormeods bad
been winked at by the iospookea Dr. Stiff said It
was very important to know if those who bsel
cows me for sale would be 'Milled to solepener
Soo. The chairman mid every limo, whether be bad
enor fifty rows, would be entitled to tompsnsatica,
provided be gave cosies of the existence of abase in hie
shed. Dr. Stiff thought the owaene of team oaths should
ramie* so compensation. The °Warmer, considered the
committee should enlarge the principle with which they
started, sanely. to give cemponsmion to all parties giving
inforanatioo of the disease. Kr. Haines thought the first
thing to be don. was to provide carts or ambulances for con-
veying pisgeecreickes made. There was a lame number
of carts in the mieropolin fee cosmic% wosodadantele, and
the committee might hies them. Mr. Bodkin
said they should don appoint two competent
veterinary snrgems, whose duty is scold be to go about
and report the miaow* of deems in the sheds, and deter-
mine the price of the infected auimsls, which would be-
come the privet, of the committee. He would eastern
that an &deo turenceit be put immediately is the papers for
two such inspectors, and they should also advertise for the
carte. as proposed by Mr. Heists. Mr. Deeps asked if it
would be dedroble to wait seta they got Doom of disease.
He knew a ease in which au infected saw was kept in the
shed from Tuesday till Thursday. Mr. Bodkin said thee
should sot give compinsatOn to any exempt those orb
pre information of the dimes* at the earliest stops.
After some monvenation Mr. Sarnia proposed the appoiat-
meet of two veterinary surgeons to act as inspectors under
the oommittos. Mr. Hems eireouded the proposition, and
it was umnimossly edopted. The chairman suggested the
&deniability of investing the impactors with the power of
a government inspector. If ao ofecial were divested Of
this authority, be would not have the power of allowing the
dimmed animals to go through the streets. Mr. Radian
said no opposition would be offered to the driving of the
cattle through the streeta. It bad been done to Scotland,
and be believed the government inspectors would only be
too glad M al ow them to do it. A resolution proposing that
cattle commences be advertised for, was then put and
adopted, when the committee adjourned.

Yesterday at the Highgate Policeettourt Mr. Potter, el
the Homey Highway Board, informed Mr. Bodkin and
Colonel Team that the cattle piaci° had broken out it
Church Bottom Farm, Horosey-. Mr. Farmer. the sanitary
inspector, had npetioned last week that the plague was at
Highgate, sod asked for the appoiotmeut of additipeel
inspectors, as stated iu skis journal on Taesday. Mr.
Bodkin rid the matter wee of public imports:me, and
Colonel Teekes said promptitude was essential, and
suggested the immediate appointment of inspeeters. Mr.
Searle, the magistrate's clerk, said apetty sessioss had power
to appoint Mapsotors, sad Me. Allem, a veterinary Evros
at Kennett-tow°, who was preeeut, would accept an so-
pointment. The bench preferred an officer in the neigh.
bouthood. Mr. Potter, Mr. Merry (inspector of nuisances),
and inspector Moab's° pre eyidonoe theta farmer named
Batemaa bad die -seed cows, end no great was the steads
that near Church Bottom Farm, Homer, the laltabitaatt
sat up ell night. The bench at once appointed Mr. Potter
inspector, and urged upon him immediate action. Addi-
Costal inspectors would be appointed, if necemary, at a
divisional monologs, red prompt maseures adopted to prevent
the sprawl* el the plasm is the locelity.
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woe:.
We are sorry to state that the disease continues
to show itself ia different parte of the miabboorlind of
=. Noes our last report, Mrs. P. Sabers, of Staple.
sr,
has lost a hake ; Mr. Crawley, of the same plass,
has bad woe snacked, folk of which ere deed, and three
are reoneriog ; Mr. liworler, of Tawny Hall, has lass a
bullock, and three otban are dons with the malady ; and
Mr. 11111 malt, of Bobbiegworth Hall, has lest unbar One
cow within three weeks of cabin, tusking 26 head of
cattle he lass lost by the plains. Mr. Saward, of Easton
Hall. has bon unfartusately a great sufferer by the pro.~
sent prevailing murrain among cattle, having lost els calves
and sight flue mulch cows, 'even of which since the
let iastaat. Ho has nee obliged to bury them is his nook-
yard, not haring any arable land accessible without tabs.
them over the high road, which is probibitcl. Mr. Seward
hag deposited with the remains of the animals, %today a
pine of ins, a stem bottle, hermetically sealed with pitch,
cootabeing a memorandum so parchment stain( the date,
the number of animals, and the reason why they were no
interred together. io order that posterity, whoa discoveries
them, may be hiformed of the nature of the disease of
which the cattle died, aid so to act ea a oautiaa sot to dis-
turb the boars, for co one coo tell Dow long contagion may
remain. At the same time it ought to be added that the
bodies were honed 10 feet dear, sod each pit wen Iliad up
with as &Madames of quick Ham —Essex Herald.