The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

[STAMPED, Id.
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THZ CATTLZ PLAGUE.

The following letter has been addrewied to the
Oceimissioems of Onmerene by the Oterk of Ike is
iteasequeees of the recopt of a oommunicedoe
• malady, bearingstriking resembles°, to inseam
which in now cawing snch meagre among the cattleZ
lend. ben atope is the Netherlands. Is is
Inflebel in the Netherlands that the disease bas bees Im-
peded from Eagland by cattle returned from thence es ea-
' sal,ltNa :

•
" Privy Clara Moo. Whitehall, August 26,1865.
olek,—l have to acquaint you, for the information of the
tientraissiosers of thustoins, that her Majesty's government
lam received isMlligeam from the HEW* Waimear at the
Hague that • malaly amonpt cattle, blaring a
eeneemblance to the &sew which sow exist; io
Vwhich is celled the cattle plague, has broken out a the
etherlseds, I am directed by th 6 Lords of the Council
to masa that We Comenlasiosers of Oisstoris will slake
havre this fact to their °Moen at the eatforts, in order
that the ma be careful not to relax the rigilsoce which,
as their Ire were, those *Moen have skews by
striggy miforrang • the regulations laid down byrrar hard,
in owoordaaos with the letters addressed to the otwitmis-
dooms by the Privy Conseil on the 156 b of July sad the
lltk and 12th cd August, baring for their,eblent ha pepvmel
the importation of dimmed cattle into this country from may
foreign ports.—l am, ha, "Angus Burs."

The Lords of the Privy Council have east t, aopy.,
of their order of the 26th hut to the directors of ell the
railway oceepasien the United Kingdom, wadi* di.
reoting their &Weeks le this Bth section, which prohibits
the sionthog or carrying by railway of animals labourieg
under the disease is question.

The neighbourhood of Brixton, which has hitherto
'seeped the pestilence prevailiug among cattle, im now
eerimisly threatened, and the epidemic has within the lest
few days manifested 'Melt in • alma's, form. One cow.
keeper, who kept • shed al five cows, has WWI the whole of
them. A dairymen in Amebae very recently purchased
Dutch milch cow, sod placed her with his stook, when she
soon afterwaids ded. but sot before mamma lotting the peril-
limos to the other beasts. Up to yesterday three cows from
I.the same shed had succumbed to this fatal disease.

LWAIII.OOI.
No cases have broken out in the neighbourhood
of Liverpool The foreign cattle coming into the pbrt an
very healthy. The authorities are very vigilant. A veheri.
nary surgeon oa the part of the corporation, and one also on
the part of the government, inspect the lock on arrival,
bet they have failed to discern any rymptems of dime&

The fears of an outbreak of dreaded tinder•
pest, or Russian cattle plague, at Hartlepool, have not been
altogether ponerdless, as the importation there is very great,
and during the peat week two foreign .berate belonging to
Mr. Matthew Carter have been seized with the diastase,
wbieh proved fatal in • very short space of time, one
seimal expiring • day prior to the other. Mr. Carter mos-
municated the eirearnstaum to the Town-clerk, who CJO.
vetted a meeting at ones of the justices of the peace for
the district, is order to as eerie appoint an inspector er►
media( to the order of the Privy Council. The meeting was
held os Saturday, at the Atheoarnm, West Hartlepool, the
Rev. J. A.. Perk, of Elwiekthall, presiding. A bug die-
ouisloa emend; emotive other things upon the difficulty
which was often experienced is burying the dead animals,
and as to whether it would not be more practicable to bur.
them. It was then agreed that Mr. IL Peels be appointed
inspector for the petty sesathusl distnata—Northern Daily
Express.
tnatrosma
The progress of the cattle plague still continua
among the dairy stock in this city, but we are OW to say
that it is not spreading to so alarming an tuatara ss might
have been anticipated from the large number of mare that
were reported last week. Daring the last two days the te-
mper:tor trrefemor Diok) lass received reports as to the
disease breakrog out in oily two b)res where it had not
previously ezhited. In cue of these three cows have taken
ill, end is the other two. One new case of gloms hostess
reported u occurring in a byre whore the disease had for-
merly appeared, end two oases are sucionnoed is a byre
where use bad been previously affected. Tao temporary
erection M Easter-road, to be used as a sanitanam, was
finished os Saturday forenoon, and made ready for the re-
eeptiott of stock cantering from the malady ; but °sly cod
bad been placed, in it on that eveciog. There are elnen
sown in the city which have been labouring under the
disease, that are now, tinder the treatment of Professor
Dick, almost eonvalesOsnt, and may of them are yield's(
from two to three punts of milk daily. —Edinburgh Courant.

GLABOOW.

No further cases of the cattle plague bare been
discovered in this city so far as we can learn. Mr. Wm.
Fordie, Leetiorer on Anatomy and Physiology, Glasgow
Veterinary College. has been appointed one of the Inspec-
tors of Cattle for the city. A meeting of the West of Scot-
land Veterioary Medical Automation was held in the Bed-
ford Mobil on Friday Mat, when, after full dieausaion, the
following resolutions were adopted:—let. That rinder-
peat it &disease of foreign import, and highly ecintagions.
2nd. That it does not exist at present in any town or dis-
trict in the west of Scotland. 3rd. That, in order to stay
its progress, each member should insist on cow owners to
cleaves and whitewash their cow-houses, and shall give is.
mediate information where symptoms analogous to the dis-
ease exist, and inspect. 4th. Purchase as seldom as poses-
Me Irma publics markets. —ol4segow