The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-24 00:00:00

THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

The following letter has been addressed by the Clerk
of the Council to the various railway companies is &KUM,
Scotland and Wales :

" Privy Coupon Office. Whitehall, August 18.

"Sir,—l airs directed by the Lords of the dotnaciil to
request that you will be so good sa to call the early atten-
tion of the directors of your company to the inclosed copies
of four orders which have ban issued by their lordships,
with a view to prevent the spreading of the cattle plague.
Their lordships are persuaded that your board will not fail
to recognise the magnitude of the mischief involved in the
rapid extension of this very serious diadem, and that their
lordship. may rely upon rewiring from your board the
most cordial 00-operation. They feel assured that you will
render to the looal authorities, who are entrusted with the
execution of these Orders in Council, all the information
and assistance which it may be in your power to give them-
-I am, Sir, your obedient sermint,

Piped/ •• Alma HELM
Railway Company..

' The Secretary

MEETING AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday afternoon an adjourned meetiorwas
held to receive s report from a ahmmiWW appointed at e
roestiag beagle Thursday Lit wee she ssMls pleirset In
the &bents of the Lord Mayor the chair was taken by
Sir R. °awns.

The report recommended that • fund abroad be raised by
subscription to compensate the owners of cattle falling with
the disease within the metropolitan dietrict ; that • com-
mittee should be formed for the purpose of administering
this fund; and that the several vestries and local boards in
the metropolis be requested to nominate gentlemen to act
thereon.

The committee had also procured an opiolon from the
Common Serjesnt, to the effect that though the ins
might Wu cattle, they could not order them to Lactias
liri-
stroyed without the aniseat of the oversee, or an order from
a justice. It had been resolved, therefore, to mod • depu-
tation to the Home Secretary, pointing out the difficulty,
and asking for au opinion from the law officers of the crown,
for the guidance of those entrusted with the administration
of the law. It was also recommended that slaughterhouses
should be established whore animate from sheds where the
disease prevailed might be sent, under • certificate from •
government itspector, there to be slaughtered and inspected
prior to being disposed of.
Mr. Otrisos. the chairman of the committee, in moving
the adoption of the report, said the rocommendatioes it
cootaiued would, in hie opinion, be attended with the beet
results. The committee were at present unable to report
specifically whether the cattle dames was on the incresse,
but they were oollecting fasts. It was thought that if the
oowkeepers were compensated for the losses they sustained,
they would bowers willing than ninny of them were at pre-
sent to give the seoeseary notice to the authorities.
The money proposed to be raised was only intended I. apply
to the cattle plague, nod was Dot meant to go in the shape of
compamation for pleuropneunionia, or for the foot disease.
He resided at Dulwich, and Ins found that in the villages
adjoining, there wore many ones, and never is Ms life bad
he sees finer. Not one of them had been affected by the
disease. There was • cow keeper at Peckham who had 2W

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mints of the ease. The first Ming to do was to make it the
interest of the dairy people to see that the artisans of
London would stand by Um if they acted honestly by the
(Mesas.
After some further diacumice the report was unani-
mously adopted.
A oommitteri, of which the Lord Mayor was appointed
obainsen, was then appointed to cony eat the oboes' arm
Mined is the report.
The LORD MAYOR (wbo had mine in during the pro-
asedisgs) said be should convene a meeting of the Ociart of
Commos oouncil for the Lt or god of lieptember, whits
the report just adopted would be laid before them. and he
should support a motion in favour of their subscribing to
the °reanimation fund.
Upon the motion of Mr. RODEM a vote of thanks was
passed to the Lord Mayor, and the proceedings, whieh lasted
nearly the
or
tinolastod.

It was yesterday resolved at a public meeting of
the farmers and agrieulterista of ttda emghbourhood to fonts
an association for she Peterborough Uoioe and for any
pariah within 12 miles. Mr. Matikinder, veterinary surgeon,
stated his belief than was already ow, SOD in the city.