The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-18 00:00:00

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THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

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MEETING AT THS MANSION-HOUSE.
A 'paha meeting of the Markets Committee of
the Camera= of Loudon was held yesterday, in the Loa.
Parlour, MADIDOD-bore. ander the preaulesoy of the Right
Hee. the.)..010 HATO!, t 0 mare a report on the subject
of the cattle plague, end lb* steps which had been takes
with • view to preventing the spread of the =stages.
The mailing was very sumerously attended by cattle
dealers shed ieenes, hatehers, <Aare of health, sad
oaken inhered is the sobject.mattsr.
The Loan ?Won, having briefly stated the object for
shit& helpenned the meeting, celled on the chairman of
the Markets Oommittee to slate what had been done is his
ispertarept for the disinfecting of the metropolitan mark=
Orproakohairmet of the Markets Committee, mom-
mooed bp reading s letter from Dr. Aldie, senior physician
gi St. Oporp's Hospital, apologisiag for non-attendance,
bat add* that he sad visited eighteen cowsheds in St.
Osorge's perish without meeting with • tingle case of
the endemic. Many of the manned' ware however
weey
lad . Mr. Gribbin" then proceeded to my that he
bad sentprequisitioca to the medical Alone of every dis-
trict is rges, mad he was delighted to and that msay of
those imam= were preset. The question with which
he had M deal was, whet had been does is the way of pre-
castles liElegton market? Rut, io the ant plass, lie mast
remind are that thai corporatioa had so power to
Fewest warp ci eagle into the market however
M dis-
eased—ani of Wirt= =meat. Last week the 0002.
OMNI wailed ea George Grey, and be thought with
setae effigit. (ies; hear.) But even sitar the publicans
of the Order u Conseil the corporate inspectors could only
/sal with diseased cattle at the markets the
saisehia was dose, whilst the metropol
wine them la the roman& It bad hem said
is a letter that deemed setae were exposed
in the I Übe in the meek* but that was net
the net Os the osakerr, wherever disease was de-
tweed the manna wee hemedistely destroyed, and four
addition& infooters WA bees awaited to see that the
histreetiona of the corporation wen carried out. He maid
she delay the slatemeat shish had appeared is the Times,
to the offset that the beasts romance In the .arket with.
eat watch er feed from Saturday to Monday They never
same to the market until me or two o'clock on KNOUT
money' where then wee peaty of water provided, with
hay ago.. the latter at s see&eate prim if the osiers of the
rattle ctsw to pay for it. The exertions of the Marketa
Otunisitim were efficiently seceded by her Ma)esty's
=eict=e of whom was seamed at every cattle port,
the bee= carefully os hang. The animals
weraela examined at the part of de tun
and if the
items was latent, the sea voyage would no doubt acme-
ate it, e,ed the usual appearances would meet the eye of
the inspector. He could state, however, that up
to Yestierdey no diseased cattle had seemed at
Leedom A Hull, or any of the other places of impart.
Zet,,d,bear.) Sir George Grey had asked him whether my
beasts had bees found amongst the foreign cattle
at the market sad his answer was, ' Not one (Obsess.)
On the other band they had had many cases of disuse
seseePtathe mach cows so called, but which, as • matter of
fact, did ceased to give milk the moment they caught the
disease. The first effect of the deem was to set the cow
dry. (Hear, hear.) The moment they became dry they were
driven off to market, rind sold as fat besets. As yet the
disease had been manned to the cows, not • eagle buil max
having caught it. What the earamittes bad done was
this :
_they had mused the market to be thoroughly
eleansed and Wanted with a solatioe of chloride of lams,
banding the whole of the pens, rails, lain, and ropes.
Everything in short had been pot is thoroughly good wadi-
Sios with a constant flow of water. In order also to re.
move the alarm from the publics mind with regard to the
coadenaed meek they hd appropriated me alaughter•
house for infected cattle, sad slam Saturday last 40 cm-
stemma animals had bees killed there. In future the
=healthy wield beteg* away from the heathy meat, end
properly dimmed of. Care was taken to supply the cattle
with plenty of water, air, and space, sod the corporates
were about to lay out 4,0001. in enlarging the market
Ibis win reediest' absolutely nemseary by the won-
derful sod rapid inmwse in the import of
foreign cattle. Is 1863 the number was 50,000,
last year it was 119,000, and this year would probably be
1110,000. (Hear, hear.) The question was, therefore, most
isaportest, and should preveattateto Geeing too lamely with
he
the idea that foreign castle were dimmed. aell must
!Dept oat of the market, than depriving the poor rasa of his
food, which already he found it difficult swarth to pennies.
(Hear, hear.) Let them take oars he got Do diseased VMt
bat let them get wholesome meat from every part of the
world. The;ver weee folly olive to the netessities
of the' crisis every district was co-opeating, and
be had a nameable hope that we should soon get rid of the
plag:altogether. (neer he
nectar having bean afterwards addressed by Dr.
Tripe, of Hackney, Mr. Whitmore, Professor Symonds, and
Proles= Gamy%
Mr. Mina said be believed that the dimnesse curable, and
roderteek to CUM it. He denied that it came in is June, and
sonbi prove that it was present In Yorkshire at Christmas
lest. lie attached little value to the advice of the scion.
Iliac airmen if In this nineteenth century they bad DO
y but the knife and the poleaxe. Anyone could
kill the, cattle, bat be usdertook to core them. He had
read Pacifism? a es
hook, but believed it to be great
seabler-)
a Maancre introduced seen statements to show that the
could not have been introduced from Rim ; and
plague a committee of medical officers, veterinary
and male dealers was nominated to peeper* suggingt=ea
sans
to meet at the suer place and time on Monday next.

The following letter baareoently been addressed to
the Coincide'Moen of Customs, by de:ectioa of the Lords of
the Cooncil. with a view to the rigid enforeement of the
proration' of the Order in Conseil far preventing the ismer-
ktioa of diseased cattle :
" Privy Coaseil4Allee, August 11, 1885.
Sir —Advert' to my letter of the 9th August instant,
weggeeting the edopeios of oertain measures with a view to
prevent the importation into this casintr7 of dimmed cattle,
I SRI directed by the Lord' of the Comical to acquaint you,
far the information of the Commimiossen of Customs, that
their lordships are of opinion that it is desirable to
suspend, for the present, the authority given in
my letter of the 30th June, 1864, is conformity
with ea opinion expressed by a committee of the
House of Commons, to relax some of the re-
gulations relating to the examination sod admission of
foreign cattle, enforced by the Commissioners of Customs
under" the provisions of the Order in Council of the 28th
July, 1856. lam therefore directed by the Lords of the
Clonnail to request that you will move the Commissiooers
of Customs to give the necessary instructions to their
eilioaris in London, and at the various outpaces in the
United Hiogilom, to ensure the rigid enforcement of the
caveitoes, against the admission of diseased cattle coo-
ns the abovementiossed Order in Cooncil of the 28th
July, 1856.-1 MN ha (Signed). Amos Haus."

The following notice has been issued by the
general manager of the London end North Western Rail-
way to the station agents of the company :—" The atten-
tion of the directors ban bees called to the disease
amongst cattle at the present time, and with • view of
preventing its astensioe, so far u the carriage of cattle by
this railway is concerned, they direct as follows uattl
farther notice —L That no cattle presenting any symptoms
of infectious disease be received for carriage at any of the
stations. 2. That the cattle wagons be thoroughly cleaned
immediately after each journey, and that Mr. &anion, the
cattle manager, tau, steps, in conjunction with the district
sapeitotemitiote and goods managers, to carry out this
regulation. 3. That chloride of lime, whitewash, or other
disinfectants be need in the cleaning of the wagons.—
General Manager's Office, Easton Station, London, August

SUFFOLK.
During the last two or three days there have
yep several district meetioga to consider what steps should
he taken ; and yceterday• meetiog of sects of the more
influential iobabifaet• of the county, prelimlosry to a
county meeting wasbeld at/Newmarket. The chair wee taken
by Lord Henniker, M.P.
BERKSHIRE.
At Maidenhead, on Wednesday, the agricultu-
rists.' the district held a meiotic, wider the chairmanship
el the mayor, for the purpose of sppointiog impacton of
dtes•psd cattle. The mamba still spreads in this locality,
and L large number of cattle bars died daring the week.

coanwALL.
The Council of the Royal Cornwall Agricultural
Peoiet7 held a disenseloo !pepsin at Truro oa Wedesedsy ;
Mr. Pepe Regers, the president. ie the chair. Mr. 'Pucker,
who ,had at eraidIPIOT Sp:needs' request inspected certain
dead beast. at Egg Rockland, gave some valuable leforrna.
lion on the subject of the disease. Mr. Rebel.) contradieted
the report that the murrain had appeared at Pentanes.
Mr. Rowe, who melded seer Norris, said he had lost 73
bead ; bet an (minim was expressed by several gentlemen
present that them cattle bad died of pleuro•pneumoaia and
not of the murrain.

IWOTLAND. •
011 Agriculturalgs were held by the
lead and and Society of Seedbed, and by the
Ohabber of Agriculture. It was resolved by both these
bodies that amnesties should be made to the Secretary of
Steinke extend to Scotland the order and regslatioss of
She Privy Council. and also to take minimum to prevent
the importation of cattle from constr.'s' where the cifeetse
is known to exist. A great deal of important information
wee given at the mertisgs, awl the resolutions were in both
own unanimously adopted. We believe we are is • position
to state that the imeassion of the Privy Council orders to
&enema will be putted imandiarsly.—ldinburgh Courant.

ISILLND. I
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le.rom trustworthy reports that have reached us,
we apdpetand that the disease has made its appearance ie
the toasty Meath. There could be aro greater mass of
trees to the tamers of Ireland thee the ravages whirl this
terrible pis would Mahe if, atfortemitely, it Amid
became so wide3pnaa lame es is Reglead. —Northers Whig.

fa=of Wtowr.—There was quite a bread
some plea al the island but Staley and Massday,
eimasquenes at tile WM: et ton ommyed by lie
=gm betweia 808 sod IlMaklis.