The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-12 00:00:00

711 MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES AND THE
curns PLAGUE.

SPECIAL MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
The oommittee yesterday sat upwards of two hours with
dosed doors, and os their return into court,
Mr. Borth, the chairman, said—in proposing the sewed-
masts which they had made in the original report, be
should only troutde the court with a very few observations.
The committee bad met in large numbers, and the pried-
* question they bed M earether and deal with wee as to
the restriction of the Mao to and from the great cattle
market at lilingtoo. That court had no direct control
over that market, se that remnant with the Privy
Oeusiell end the Lord Mayo; sod all they Gould do wee by
usigisting the traffic oa the roads to and from that markeL
• 1110 propodtime the, had made they bad endeavoured
to maintain with stases% stringency orders regardiag the
removal of cattle from ose place to 'Loather in the metropo-
ha, without in anyway interfering with the supply of food
to the inhabitants of Leedom. He hoped the restrietio.e
they proposed would be toyed sufficient for the purpose
of preventing contagion, without unnecessarily interfering
with the supply of meat, which was so essential for the
wants of the inhabitants of their peat metropolis.
Mr. NICHOLSON, clerk of the pesos, then reed the foi-
-1 lowing report, u amended by the committee :
"Ate meeting of the oommittee appointed by the
court on the 4th of January, 1866, sad held by adjourn-
ment on the 11th day of January, 1866, it
wee resolved ' That all appointment. made, nee
tires given, and other sole done by any local
authority within the jurisdiction of the court of general
sad quarter sessions of the peace for the said county, under
end by notice of soy order of the Lords of bee Majesty's
Privy Council in this matter, be, and the same are, hereby
revoked, provided that nothing in this order contained shall
effect any breaches of existing order, or any proceeding
In respect of such breaches. That it shall not be lawful to
semen any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, in, or sill, to any
marketer fair within the aforesaid jurisdiction to or through
any other place within the same jurisdiction, with such ex-
eeptioes and mealtime as in the said order of council of the
16th of December, as specified, with each exceptions and
conditions. This order shall not apply to the removal of
any cow, heifer, bull. Which, ox, or calf, from one part to
another part of the same holding, where there is no inter-
vening highway, public road, bridle road, canal, or navi.river. That this order shall not as regards
eli cattle, fit and intended for immediate slaughter for
human food, apply to any place within a radius of four
miles from Charing-cross, and within the above-mentioaed
juriedictioa. That it shall be lawful to remove any cow,
heifer, ball, bullock, ox, or cell across or along any high-
way, public road, river, or canal, from one part of a farm
to another part of the same farm, provided that so disease
exists, or, foe the epees et six days prior to the date of the
authority herein motioned, had existed in say animal oa
such farm ; and provided that en authority In writing from
a justice of the pesos or police magistrate for seek removal
be produced by the person or proms having charge of say
such animal or animals, and provided the distance along
such highway, public road, river, or canal to be so teavereed
, shall not exceed 440 yards. Every such authority shall
'be in the form prescribed. (The forms prescribed were set
forth.) That the order shall not extend to or include any
ball, cow, or heifer the person or memos having charge
whereof shall produce on demand as authority In writing
from a justice of the pesos or a police magistrate for the
removal thereof, for say distance not exceeding two miles,
for breeding purposes. This order shall come into operation
on the 16th day of January next" "
Mr. Bose moved that the revert of the committee be
received and adopted, which was put by the Mamas and
agreed to.
Sir JANIS HAhuvrox asked whether any resolutions
could have effect without reference is the county day.
TheCaarsMax said these proceedings were quite Ww
spectres of the ordinary county day, and they could take
place at once.
A eonvereatioe then took piece as to the mode in which
the resolutions of the court should be published, sod it was
agreed that they should be published in the daily sad
weekly papers, and that placards should also be supplied,
to be distributed throughout the police district.
The Castanet; then , moved " That the standing order
No. 18 be suspended, and that business, as far as relates to
any proceedings under any orders in council touching the
cattle plague may be tranescted oa any day when six
justices are present, sad at suck time as they may from
time to time appoint."
The motion was put and unanimously agreed to.
Captaio Mesiar then drew attention to the mile
which he considered to be generated by the manure of
cattle, and said he trusted the committee wood seek for
legislative power for the removal or destruction of the
manure of animals, and he mentioned the cue of a farmer
at Hansel! who lost the whole of his cows, and they could
not account for it in any way. The nearest solution of the
plague that had prevailed wee io the fact that there was a
large heap of manure at a neighbouring farm. He hoped
that the committee would represent to the Home-office any
suggestions they might have to offer upon this question,
so that steps might be taken in reference to the deposit of
manure as well as the cattle plague.
Mr. W yaw said the subject had not been lost sight of by
the osaimittee, but at present they had not time to go into
the matter.
Captain MORLEY 'said he did not intend to make any
complaint of the committee, and bad Do other object than
to draw attention to what he considered to be a very im-
portant subject.
The mart then adjourned.

Lord Kinnaird has addressed the following letter
to Sir George Grey :
Dear Sir George,—The V. S. of this district, Mr. D. Bax-
ter, having bad an opportunity of making post mortem
examinations of several animals affected with rinderpeet in
the first stages of the disease, came to the conclusion that
by proper treatment it was easily cured, and his treatment
in different cases was attended with such marked success
that at my request Lord Spencer, chairman of the Cattle
Plague Commission, arranged for Mr. Romaine, V.S.,
Edinburgh, a gentleman who had treated the plague most
snocessfolly at Leitb, and also in Russia, to come over and
report. It is remarkable that his view of the disease and
of the mode of treating it should coincide in every particular
with that of Mr. Bastin—both agree that no animal other-
wise sound should die of rinderpest, if the malady be taken
in time, and the treatment be adopted which each in their
different fields of experience. and without any oommuuica.
tion with one another, have found, after careful investiga-
tion, to be the ore needed. If they are right in their views,
of which I have no doubt, the natural inference is that a
treatment founded on • totally different principle from
the one in question most prove fatal ; end that to such
erroneous treatment and not to the disease taken per se. is
the mortality to be attributed.
The treatment .doped by Mr. Romaine and Mr. Baxter
ma only be applied when the animals are homed ; as moo
as the grazing season begins it will be too late. And as the
nature of the disease is most infectious. I would impress
upon you the urgent neceedty of not losing a day in getting
the Privy Council to eremite their full powers in stopping
for two months the moving of all cattle throughout the
ciountry, whether by railway or otherwise ; also the transit
of all manures, hides, fodder, ht. The Privy Council, or
rather the government, will incur very grave responsibility
if they do not take this step—little short, indeed, of the
ruin of the agricultural interest, as from the eaters of the
Memo so human power can ewe it, or stop he spread whoa
owes the grazing ~on eommearess. It is sheet-sighted
Ponce to sae:ides so important en interest as the wind-
tura merely to prevent the comme ntereet—the oos-
MUGU mid butchers —beingputto temporary inooevenienos
by the stoppage of trade in live stook for two months,
wale tie farmers ere will*/ to submit to the loos which
this stoppage would mitten on them. in the bops of arresting
the progress of thin fearful seourge„—Youre, faithfully.
Seeds Priory, Later. N. 8., Tea. &

A suggestion has been made at Halifax, with the
VI.. et relieving those who have eutsrsd low by the cattle