The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-02 00:00:00

TEA CATTLE DISEASE.
Oa Saturday Saturday, at the weekly theetins of ill o Norfolk'
Obuis Mao, Committee, Mr. O. S. Mead, la the
chair, reports were presented as to tko pogrom of the dis-
ease, wltieh appears to be prevail*/ with seventy in the
/Monad dktsaiet. Cases were also reported from the weigh-
beneficial t.f Antingbani and one or twoother points. Some
diarlarles took place with reference to some Weikel sheep
et Mr. Harvey, M.P. It was stated that Professor Symoods
sod Dr. Ltitheby will again visit the doe& (which oompriess
some 2.000 sheep) nest week ; and a °amities wee ar
palmated to confer with those gentians. se the subject, so
that some more positive conclusions might be arrived at as
to the actual nature of the liaise. Mr. H. Wood, agent of
Land Waliiogbatn, and • putleinso well koowo as the
writer of • :want essay at the breeding sod management
of sheep, espreesed doubts as to whether the dis-
arm which bad prevailed :mum Mr. litarvey's sheep was
La ttice! with the rinderpest—s point upon which Professor
Symonds and Dr. Letheby are not agreed. The questioa
Las excited very great interest in the district. Mr. Harvey
Elated that he bed set pane of salt and water in every oirec•
tiou for the sheep to drink out of ; his shephad believed
that this did the sheep good. and many of those attacked

bad =wired.
The plague is extending in East Kent. Fresh
ewes are reported almost every day, and the disease is ex-
itsediog to sheep and Om, the mortality among the latter
being very heavy. Notwithatariding the sppointment of
inspectors, the regulations prescribed by the Orders in
Council do sot ether to be willingly carried out. The prac-
tice of slaughtering off the herds to which the disease
breaks out is carried on to • great extent Large numbers
of cattle have been killed in this way. The magistrate,
appear determined to enforce the regulations provided by
the Privy Omani). At the St. Augustin petty sessions,
Canterbury, on Saturday, Mr. S. Hilton wan Seed
in the mitigated peitalty of 51. and cost& for neglecting
to give anise that the di seme had broken out amoog his
matte at MILL Mr. Joseph Hacker, of Chislet, was
Bawl is a similar sum sad meta, for driving a bullock
affected with the disease only *abort distance along the
public
kittway. In another ease, Mr. George Hayward, of
was lined 21. and costs for removiegleattle which
had been in contact with cattle suffering from the plague,
without first obtaining • certificate from the inspector
for the district. Darin the investigation of then oases,
Mr. Crowburst, veterinary surgeon, expressed his opines
that person in Misname, on diseased cattle are liable to
become infected with the plague.
Pinion to last week Berkshire bad boom re-
markably free from the cattle plague, but we have now
to report a serious visitation. A few days ago it was dia.
covered that the valuable beasts belonging to Mr. Holmes,
farmer, of Wsrgrave, near Reading, had been attacked, and
se Saturday it was found necessary to slaughter
fifteen. The man of Mr. Holmes beasts being thus
mind is not brown at present, but the plague has ex-
Seeded to Mr. Hollis' stock on the adjoining farmstead, and
serious fears ue entertained that it may spread still further
in this locality. A great number of agriculturists have
become members of the association established at Reading
for assertion against loss by the cattle plague.
Large arrivals of foreign cattle were (we learn
from the local Ckronick) landed at Newcastle quay es
Friday. The Sentinel arrived in the morning from
Bamberg with soars° comprising 49 cattle and a somber
of sheep. They were all carefully examined by Mr. Wil-
kin.on, government inspector, and Mr. lamb. The result
of the inspection was that the whole of the animals were
gassed, none of them showing the slightest symptoms of
A large steamer, the Fairy quest (which has
replaced the Storm Queen), arrived in the morning from
Animus, with • large (ergo consisting solely of cittle,
sheep, and pigs. The cattle numbered about 130 ; and al
the steep there could not have been fewer than 400. The
cattle we re • fine lot, and beyond some slight acir s cidentatets, re-
of
sulting from a somewhat stormy passage, he
health was most satisfactory, the whole of them being
passed. The sheep also were a prime lot, having the ap-
pearance in all respects of English bred sheep. With re-
spect to the health of the animals is the town, one more
death from disease took place ea Sat unlay morning moven
Hindson's cows at Graingereille. Mr. Stepbeerion ham been
called in to inopect other byres, but found Roth's( to show
that the plague was present.
From Kilinburgh we learn from the Scotsman
that Profenor Dick reports the appearance of five new
nen of riodsreen in town byres formerly affected, and six
cues in byres in which the disease has sneered fur the
first time. The diaeese is rapidly spreading in the country
district& On Friday two cues appeared in two byres at
East Piltou. Nine cows died in town byre oe Friday, owl
two is country byrer. Total number of new cases, 13;
number of deaths, 11. The sheep belonging to Mr. Swan
Rosehare. which was reported in the begiunisg of the week I
to be infected with Underpin, is now gene well. In
order thoroughly to test whether or sot ahem
are susceptible to the malady now raging unapt
cattle, the Messrs. Swan arid Sons have offered to
allow ten healthy sheep to be exposed to the
contagions atmosphere of the sanatorium, sad to come in
direct emits*, with the diseased apes there for cue boar
each day ; it being understood that the animals thercif wir
are allinred to go forth into the open air. The sheep ninths
tested are of different ages,cod trom different pasta of the
etr.ntry widths wietineet. There are, first, two four-yser-
old Chariot winners, takes out of • lot of 700 bred in
fluthetheidthins • second, two merino simmers from • flock
in Sweden ; third, two half-bred gime:tars from Denmark ;
!Math, two ewe iambs, a cross between a Leicester tap
end • black-faced ewe, from Roxbargbabire ; and. fifth, two'
you-ohl Cheviot manliest from the Orkneys. It is pro.
posed that, for the hot tea days or a fortniebt, these sheep
should only be permitted to be penned in close proximity'
to the affected cows, and to be driven through the sana-
torium. After that time, it is intended to leave some of
them to be fed ripen the hay which tbo dinned cows have I
been feeding epee, sod net which their saliva sad the
runnings of their eyed' have ben anneal.
Another supplement to the London Oa. :[c was pub-
lished on Saturday, anthill that It is expedient to take
measures for preventing the spreading of the dine's, sad
siring an order on the part of the Privy Connell, to the
Island and Barony of Lewis, in the county of Roes, that
it shall sot be lawful for any person to remove any
settle to that place from any other port or piece in Great
Br.tato.
The following extract from • privets letter relative to
the treatment of cattle disease in the neighbourhood of
Tilslt and Courlend, has bees received from his Majesty's
Charge d'Affaires at Berlin t

"September, 18&.5.
"There is no cattle plague here just now. When it
does appear they have only one remedy ; the moment the
plague shows itself in a cattle shed it is walled up, mid no
tomensuieation is allowed. AU that were in it, healthy es
well as diseased cows or cattle, even the men or
women In attendance, for the attendants carry the
stomplai:it in their hands and clothes. are shot up. Such
otteedauta are alone permitted to bury the dead
settle in a piece of ground enchmed for the purporsa,
AU food is passed through a hole in the well or enclosure,
sad if perchance the person giving over the food or fodder
inadvertaatly touches the parson receiving it be iv also
forced to enter the condemned space. When the cattle are
all dead, or the disease hes otherwise exhausted itself, every
thing in the shed is burned, all utensils end woodwork. and
MUM especially the clothes of the attendants. Such is the
mode of treatment here and in Coarlend, and it seldom fails
to stay the progress of the caoselaiet."

THE BUSH= PARK HERD OF CATTLE.—Hughey
Park, or rather we should say, the Hulsey Y.-Wicks, com-
prises abut eighty-seven acres of puturageospon which the
royal stud of race horses are reared and fad. The stud at
the present time numbers about fifty-eight animals—atal.
lions, mares, and mite. Colonel Maude, equerry to bat
Majesty, is atthe head of theestablishmeat ; and Mr. John
Itscsome, the well-known whip, is what is brined the stud.
groom, and has the genets' management of affairs. His the
custom at Bushey to purchase a certain number of cattle—a
=tailboard, in fact—to eat of the rough grams on paddocks
after the bones have passed over it ; and, accurdiogly,
twelve Scotch polled geillowaya were purchaud
at the last Barnet Fair, and added to the Bushey
bard. La about twelve days after they were per-
ehsasd one of them exhibited the smut signs of tee cattle
diseau, was immediately seisratad from the rest, and was
loft in • shed by Dull. Mr. Moon, of Kingston, the in-
spector of cattle, and we believe a veterinary surgeon, was
called in. and preseribed for the dimmed least, but to
10 uufuleffect,foris three days it died. Brandy and water,
we believe, wee administered to the poor beast, with other
things, but nothieg given to tt apneared to hove the
slightest salutary effect. The disease quickly spread through
the herd, and in stout a fortnight the twelve beasts fell
victims to its virulent attack. Everything was done
that could be done, considering the ignorance that prevails
rVurally as regards the nature of the disease, to save the
ill of the infected animals, but it was all to so purpose,
though a medical practitioner.we believe, was called in.
But, th.u,gbi the Bushey authorities could not, even with
medical aid, save their herd of cattle, they effectually and
promptly buried them where dead, so that no disease
should possibly emanate from them. The remains of the I
beams be in a grave, ails feet deep and proportionately long,
well covered over with lime ; and the grime npoe which
they fed has bees out dorm and burned, and a good drenii.g
of time spread over it. The fences, also, in the paddocks
are snug tarred, the hovels and sheds cleaned out and lime-
washed, mad the whole establishment M being put into •
good limitary state. Nose of the hones an effected by the
disease. although it must have bees, as it were, "under
their very nesse." These cattle, as we have said,
were
bought at Barnet felt, mod had been inspected by practised
veterinary gorgeous ere snot down to the fair, we
believe, to prevent any infected animals from entering the
market. This is sot the only circumstance of diseased
cattle being sold at Barnet fair. A fanner living in Hamp-
shire bought at the fair nine bead of cattle, and before he
got home every used them had either died of the disease
or had teen slaughtered by elder d aa inspector. Our
only surprises is that any one she bey cattle et any fair
while the disease aniengst the &admits r raging to the ins-
tant it unquestioubly does at the report tiaw.—Obiereer.

Htr Majesty Queen Emma, of the Sandwich
ylse L, besnared Mr. Alfred Teneyeea with a visit lest
week A Yarriegford•bosea
ROYAL Faza HORYITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—The
=arbor of patients relieved A Ws hoeshal dories the week
lodise Septersirer 30 was 4,034 el whisk 1,411 were new
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