The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-25 00:00:00

THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

Active steps are being taken in the east end
distatiota to recoup the emrkeepwe who ►avelist their °stile
through the plague. The Wrenn resident in the Tower
Hamlets have been in oomrounieatioe with their parliainet-
tary representatives as to the necessity of convening a pub-
tic meeting to mime subscriptions, but no reply has se yet
been reosived. The oowkeepers of Shorediteh have held
meetings at which it wee determined to sppral to the publics
Gar aid, and a benefit bas been arranged to come off at the
Cambridge Music hall in a abort time, the proceeds of which
are to be appropriated to a fond formed by a committee of
inhabitanta. The district of Bethnal-green has ono resolved
as immediate action. A gre►t deal of sympathy is eater
tabled for the sufferers of all the eastern districts, inas-
much am they almost eaciesively consist of pesos" who
lived on the profits attendant on milk selling, and who from
small begiouiogs, acquired by thrift and industry,
a comfortable dependeoce of which they have best
so suddenly deprived. The ravages of the dimes are re-
ported to be less severe this week than hitherto, bat this
easaet be looked upon as a correct intercom, as there is an
Lwow in the number of animals brought to the slaughter-
house at Whitectuipel. Sonia cures are said to have been
effected in Si il °end, where four outof ten plague-stricken aid-
, may recovered SS alleged, owing to the treatment of a per-
son who took the oases in band. The recovery of the cove
ia, h , with truth attributed to natural mum, sad
elan the outbreak of the dimes it has been (ow-
-1 rally observed that in well Ailed sheds several
animals, from coostitational advaoteges, escaped
he ravages, when the majority had perished by
them. At an adjourned moods( of eowkespers mid others
I interested in the cattle plague, held at the Duke's Head
tavern, Whitechapel-road, on Saturday evening, Mr.
Manua Pool presiding, it was resolved to send circulars to
In various cow owners of the Tower Hamlin districts, re•
quentiog them to furnish particulars of the effects of the
disease in their sheds from the lit July to the Ist of
October.

MILL
Very few (*am of alma's have appeared in the
Teaching Hundred darn the kat tear dye An attempt
to tone a county cattle 11111%11111C41 uaoc &tioo is Fara bee
beau abandoned. The disease has inflated most severe
ravages on the stook of °Diaspora aad farmer in the
Stratford dietriet.

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CAXBIUDOIMURI.
A county association Las been organised here.
The Duke of Leeds has subscribed 201.

11011 FOLK.

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At Thorpe, near Norwich, there has been a
severe outbreak of the diseue. A few eases are
also reported from Gimmingbant end one or two other
points. The weather has, however, become cooler, and on
the whole the disease is not now considered tabs extending
is Norfolk. Os his estate at Crown-point, neer Norwich,
Mr. Hervey, H.P., has lost about ninety besets. vetoed at
U. each, risd some forty calves. valued at 2/. 10e. each. At
• meetiog of the committee of the Norfolk Cattle Plain
Assurance Association, on Saturday, Mr. B. Lemon cam-
planted that Mr. Harvey had, while the disarms was stall
prevailing, removed some other steel from the Crown-plot
property to BrandalL

81:11,0tX.
The disease is eonsidesed to be at last subsiding
In the neighbourhood of Mefferd. Caen are reported from
Holton, Kooddi•hall, Carnal, Gialiagham, &a. Most of
the animate attacked have bees idiot.