The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-28 00:00:00

THE CATTLE DISEASE.

The West Sues= Chrtetta of to-day says :—" Around
Ambuley we have fresh eases to natant Lest week we
stated that 10 beasts had hem sacrificed, sod the distriot
impactor has yet other caws to record. Mr. Humphrey, of
Amberley, had on* beast killed yesterday. He had alto-
gether 35, sad these have bees killed to avoid further exten-
sion of the dimes*. Mr. Rows, of Amberley, who has
six calves, last cos yesterday ; in the dairy of Mr.
Robinson the mareein has appeared, and one cow has
been killed; Mr. Elliott, of Beckham, has lost 10 oat
11 beasts ; and Mr. Carpenter, of Amberley, has
had two more calves killed this week. The plague hovels
about this district with insular obstinacy. At Fetch=
Mr. Monday has lost one bull, and yesterday Mr. Crone,
the district inspector, ordered a cow to be killed suffering
from the murrain. We had hoped to congratuLte the
Arundel Petty Sessional District ou its escape
_from the
spread of the murrain but we are sorry to Hod that we
have name for speaking in another tone. A report was
spread in this nesghhoorhood as Tuesday morning that the
disease had made ite appeases°e smog the tine herd of beasts
grazing in the Arun valley, belonging to Mr. Charles Duke, of
Celesta Farm. It was found to be true, for on the district in-
spector (Mr. Crofts) visiting the brook' MU to Ford
bridge, sod close to the river Arno, it was seen that the
disease bad attached the bullocks in its most virulent
form. The poor anisnals—althoegh is prime 'volition and
fit for the butcher—were foaming at the month and ap-
peared almost frantic, one or tee rushing into the ditches
and keeping their heeds just out of water. There were 20
of them in the herd, sod it is feared that all must be mori-
Seed. What makes the cue more remarkable is that the
beads have been glazing in these brooks does lest May.
They have hese brought into contact with no animate
likely to be infected, aid the disease had not made HO aflooat-
anoe previously within five miles of the spot. Why it
should have settled upoe this herd is a mystery which can-
not well be unravellei In the brooks adjoining are grazing
• large number of cattle, to the value of some thousands of
pounds, and this spontaneous outbreak has naturally enough
alarmed the farmers of the district. Mr. Duke is fortu-
nately insured in the Mutual Cattle Laurance Association
of Arundel. Twelve of the beasts were shot yesterday
morning. It was a distress* sight to use this floe herd
levelled by the gun toe after soother, while • body of
men were mimed in the field digging the pits for their
interment. On Sunday last all the cattle appeared io good
health, but as Monday night 13 were down simultaneously.
and it was beyond the skill of the veterinary surgeon to
recover them.

=LAID.
We have received the following communication
from Mr. Edward Barrow, V.S., dated Wicklow. Woodsy:
—" I was telegraphed for on Saturday, to visit some cattle
in this county, sad I find a dims= to have broken out
among them which is running through ambers of oath. It
is • disease nekoown here, but which I recognise es •
disease which I have witnased is Scotland, sad to which
cattle in America are very much subject, and which has
probably been occasioned in the premed instance by she
changeable weather—the heavy dews at night. I visited a
large number on Saturday sad yesterday, end hays • num-
ber to sae to-day."—Sounders.