The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-24 00:00:00

THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
A proclamation adopted by the Lord Lieutenant
and Privy Council was issued this day, extending
to all parts of Ireland the Order in Council of the
20th instant for preventing the spreading of the
cattle plague. Another ease of rinderpest is re-
ported from the county Down. An official report
states that on a farm of James M'Kibbin, at Bally-
loughlin, a heifer was found labouring under de-
cided rinderpest, and she was ordered to be de-
stroyed. A post mortem examination of the case
confirms the opinion. Another yearling heifer had
died from the same disease.

Saunders' News of yesterday says :—" No
further case of rinderpest has occurred in the north
of Ireland, and we may reasonably conclude that ,
the ' stamping-out' process, so promptly resorted
to, has proved successful. There appeors to have
been some alarm in the neighbourhood of Dundonald and
Comber, owing to the deaths of several cows belonging to
• gentleman named Jameson, the circumstances connected
with which were stated in the letter of our Bel-
fast correspondent? published yesterday. We now
learn that Mr. Litt, who held the position of a
government inspector in England during the pre-
valence of the plague, having made a post-mortem
examination, has declared that in the body which he
examined ` all the characteristic symptoms of rinderpest
' were absent.' This assurance has allayed the fears which
were beginning to prevail amongst the people of the dis-
trict. Unfounded reports of the appearance of the cattle
plague have been received from various parts of the
country. It is satisfactory to know that the erroneous
opinion was in all instances promptly corrected. A com-
munication was received in Dublin on Monday stating that
• cow had died of rinderpest • short &stenos from Water-
ford. Yesterday Dr. Foot, one of the government in-
spectors, held a post-mortem examination of the body of
the animal, and reports that death was caused by lung
disease, and not by the plague, as was supposed."

MODERN PICTURES. —loth° auction of the col-
lection of pictures formed by Mr. Martin, of Manchester,
at Mews. Foster's, in Pall-mall, yesterday, Lot 54,
" Windsor Forest," by J. Linnell, sen., sold for 545 gui-
neas. Two small easel pictures by Thomas Feed : Lot 51,
" A Flower from Paddy's Land ;" and Lot 53, " Home,"
sold for 315 and 300 guineas. Lot 53, " A Summer's Day,"
by Sidney Cooper, 155 guineas. Lot 52, " St. Valentine's
Morn," by Caloott Horsley, 130 guineas. "The Butter-
fly," Lot 49. by Le Jenne, 103 guineas. Three cabinet in-
teriors, by Frere, Lots 40,41, and 47, 341 guineas. The
" Connoisseurs," by Ruiperez, pupil of Meissonier, Lot 43,
115 guineas ; and the finished small sketch for " The Order
of Release," by Millais, Lot 42, 300 guineas.
ORFORD, MAY 23.—NEW COLLEGE. —This morn-
ing Mr. T. R. Redfern, from the College School, Taunton,
and Mr. H. Oreenwell, from Marlborough College, were
elected exhibitioners of this society.
A correspondent, dating from Newport, Isle of
Wight, says :—" An unusual circumstance took place at
Parkhurst barracks, a few days ago—that of soldier flog-
ging. A private soldier, stationed at Marchwood maga-
Mnes, near Southampton, broke bounds, and was
imperti-
nent to his superior officers, for which he was sent to the
depot of his regiment, at Parkhurst, tried by a court-
martial, and sentenced to receive fifty lashes, and to be
imprisoned for six months. The flogging portion of the
sentence has just been carried out. The culprit was flogged
before 1,500 soldiers. The sight was unusual, and the
severity of the punishment and the sufferings of the cul-
prit caused several soldiers to faint. The culprit is a fins
handsome young fellow, belonging to the neighbourhood of
Southampton, and bears a good character for honesty and
temperance. "