The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-03 00:00:00

SURREY.

Yesterday afternoon the Epiphany sessions were
opened at the Sessions-house, Newington, for the
despatch of the financial business of the county
for the ensuing year. The Chairman of the Quar-
ter Sessions, Mr. J. E. Johnson, presided—The
Chairman invited the attention of the court to a cir-
cular which had been addressed to him by Secretary Sir
George Grey on the subject of the prevention of the exten-
sion of the epidemic prevailing amongst cattle.—The Earl
of Lovelace moved a resolution to the effect that it is expe-
dient that no cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf shall at
any time on or before the let March next be removed, except
under the conditions hereinafter named to any market, fair,
Sc., from any place or places within the jurisdiction of
the justices of the district, or front any particular part of
such jurisdiction, or from place to plane within such juris-
diction. And it is hereby accordingly ordered that notice
be gives in some newspaper circulating in the district that
it is expedient until the let day of March next, that no
cow, Sc., shall at any time be removed, except under the
conditions mentioned, to the farm, or any market, fair, he,,
or from place to place within such jurisdiction. And pro-
vided always that nothing herein contained shall make it
unlawful for any person to send or carry any such animal
by railway through or out of such jurisdiction, or to
send or carry any such animal, if brought by sea, from
any place out of the jurisdiction into such jurisdiction to
the nearest convenient railway station for the purpose of
carrying through or out of • such jurisdiction, provided
always that any person msy with license of two
justices of the peace, carry or send inch animals
to the premises in their own occupation to other land
also in their occupation to the premises of other per.
sons where a bull is kept, and to bring back the
same, provided always that such justices shall in such
license specify that the acting inspector for the district has
certified that the animal in question, and the place it is led
to or from, and the locality they mint pass through, is free
from disease. The resolution having been seconded. Mr. Til-
' son moved as an amendment that the resolution be referred
to a special committee, as the details required the most
careful and minute investigation and inquiry. Mr. Brismor.
M.P., remarked that he had given great attention to the
question of the cattle disease in his own locality, and only
took exception to the provision of the recommendation of
the Secretary of State, that an animal should be slaugh-
tered within a given time after it had been brought to
market. He thought this regulation was extremely
stringent. In his own district the precautions
which had been carried out as suggested had
been most successful, and the result was that
his locality was free from diseases among cattle.
After some discussion, the chairman suggested that perhaps
it would be well that the resolution orginally moved by the
lord-lieutenant should be embodied into the proposition of
Mr. Tilaon to consider the whole subject, and that the coin-
mates should not be a special but a standing eommittee, to
report from time to time to the court and to the govern-
ment if necessary. The Earl of Lovelace aceepted the
suggestion, and it was agreed to. A dandies cemmittee,
consisting of the leed.lleittenant. Mr. Tibias, sad two
other magistrates, was then appointed, and these rotte-
n/II at moo met for the deserted el their dillies.