The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

CATTLE PLAGUE BILL

The hone having gosie into eommittee on the Cattle
Plague Bill, which relates principally to the movement of
asl4o,

Mr. W. HUNT explained that hie object had been to en-
demur to establish a code 'that would be sufficiently elastic]
to apply to every (aunty is Groat Britain. The would
shoo utely prohibit the movement of cattle on all highways,
railways, rivers, and numb up to the 25th of March next—
with these exceptions only, that beasts might be conveyed j
along a highway from one farm to another for 200 yards
where lauded from a nee -going steamer they might
travel on the highway for 500 yards • and in gang j
from the farm to the slaughter-house they mightl
traverses distance on the highway not exceeding two miles. j
Newly-dropped calves might be conveyed hi carts from the
place in which they were bora to the farms where they
were to be reared ; working oxen employed in the cultiva-
tion of the soil and in barna', which was some security for
their being in health, might also be moved for a distance to ,
be specified ; and to enable emigrant and other see-going
ships to get a supply of mils oil board, mita cows
might be conveyed to them in covered carts. By adopt. I
log these precautions he hoped the plague would
be got within manageable compass by the 25 h of ,
March. From that date it would be necessary to still •
further relax the restrictions upon the movement of
cattle. Then incoming tenants took possession of their
farms, and he proposed that boasts for the stocking or re-
stocking of farms might be moved by license at any time
during 14 days from any quarter-day after public notice. I
For the purposes of bresclisg a cow or heifer might be
moved with a licence for any distance not exceeding three
miles, and a bull 20 miles. In like manner calves might
be removed provided they were sound and not more than
21
The days old.
consideration of the clauses was then proceeded
with.
To clause 13, which prohibited absolutely the movement
of cattle until the 25th of March, leaving to the government
power to continue the prohibition by ceder in comma, a
proviso was added that districts of not lees than 1,000
miles having borders defined by the natural features
squareo the country country might be declared free trout the plague by
order in council.
On the clause relating to the movement of cattle on
farms an amendment was introduced that they should be
allowed to go over any highway for a distance of 200 yards
without alkalis, and fen two miles with a license. It was
further provided, on clause 16. that sound beasts intended
for immediate slaughter might be removed to a slaughter-
house any distance not exceeding six miles.
Oa reaching the 27th clause the house resumed, and the
chairman reported program.
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NATIONAL DEBT BED creTrom—SA VINCE! BANKS—
AND POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS BILLS.
Thee, bills pissed through committee.
The house rose at 5 minute' botore

"'ARRAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRILARD) AM—
YL Dawson (Londonderry °minty) was amidentally shut
oat from voting in the majority upon the introduction of
this bill.

711111ANI3M IN IRELAND.

Saunders' News of yesterday lays :—" The polio.
arrangements is Dublin oa Saturday wet. admirable, and
the aneste were made without difficalty, and without any
reelstance on the part of the persons apprehended, the
tone engaged in the sward captures being so strong that
any attempt of the kind was at once perceived to be useless.
As far as it has bees ascertained the number of arrests
made in the city sad it. vicinity, including Kinptown,
is about 120. Many of the prisoners are Americans,
or Iriah-Americans, who have served in the Northern
armies, and who, there is little doubt, came to Ireland
for the purpose of leading the Fenians in the event of a
rising being attempted. Among them is Oolocel Byroc,
who has beet going about the country inspecting and taking
plans of such of the barracks as he contrived to get admie-
don into. Seam fourtems American officers, it is un
went off to England on Saturday night by the lida=n
host, and it is believed that their example will be fol-
lowed by all their fellow-coerpirators of the same clue
who can evade the grasp of the police. The suspen-
sion of the Habeas Corpus Act has, therefor es bean produc-
tive of good results. It is rumoured that Inumerous arrests
h
ave taken plum throughout the country, but no par-
ticulars have as yet reached us respecting them. The Dublin
Fenian' are in a state of great consternation, every one
expecting that his turn to be incarcerated will come next.
The promptness and vigour shown by the authorities are
deserving of the highest commendation, and we fully en-
' dorm the troth of the remark made by the Observer, that,
I in the opinion of the country at large, Lord Wodehouse
will use the large powers entrusted to him with energy and
with disoretioa."
Dr. (Mien, in his Lenten pastoral, read in the Roman
catholic, places of worship in Dublin on Sunday, refers at
some length to the subjects of Oraneeism and Fonianism.
In regard to the latter, he says :—" This brotherhood or
society, so far from promoting the interests of the country,
only tends to aggravate ite evils, checking business, in-
creasing poverty, playing into the hands of Orangemee, as
appears from the rejoicings of their press, and giving
strength to all oar enemies. In America, indeed,
some Head Ceske* and leaden of Femianigni, en-
riched by taxes levied on the 'implicit,- and good faith
of our countrymen, have been retied to a position in
which they can live splendidly, and surround themselves
with the state and pomp of a mock court. But bow diffe-
rent thecae. in Ireland. Here those who heiveht themselves
he duped by agents of the brotherhood have been left
without employment, and many of them reduced to the
greatest difficulties, sad even to a state of destitution.
Buoyed up for • while with foolish hopes and fallacious
promises, they have been used as mere tools to ex-
cite a popular feeling in favour of the organisatioa
in America, persuading our poor countrymen that
great events, wonderful revolutionary movements
were impending in Ireland, and thus inducing them
to part more trebly with their money. Whilst the
Head Centres were thus enriched in America, their
unhappy agents in Ireland, having become the victims of
spies and informers, were brought before the public tri-
bunate, and oondetened to dreg out a miserable existence
amongst felons, in all the horrors of penal servitude. The
moral effect, of Yenisei= have been most deplorable.
Like Ribboniam and other secret associations it is con-
nected with drunkenness, and it is recorded by the public
press that come of the leaders, whiht inebriated, lost
papers which b'trayed their sertuidt, ind left them at the
Ferry of the poii.t. Il'ad not Fenisnisrn been checked in
i.e destructive career, it would have deluged the country
with infidelity ; sod, imitatieg Voltaire and his impious
followers, it would have prepared the minds of the people
for the barbarous scenes which were enacted in France in
the last century."

TUE Forux PRISONERS 111 LONDON.—Yesterday,
in onzanince of instructioes from the Home•otfice, Sir
Richard Maybe, the chief commissioner of the metropo-
litan police, gave orders that twenty men and a seryreant
should be posted at the Model Prison, Pentonville. to aid iu
guarding the Fenian prisoners confined there. The polioe
were first posted there on Saturday, the duty oommencieg
at six o'clock in the ' g, and terminating at six in
the morning, the duty tieing divided into portions of two
hours each, two constables going on at one time. A strict
order has been given that no Irishman should be employed
in this special duty. When the two constables who have
done their turn of duty are relieved they join their cam.
rades, all of whom are provided with accommodation inside
the prison.
ARRIVAL OF SUSPECTED PENTANE: IN LIVERPOOL.
—On Saturday evening•and Sunday morning (writes our cor
respondent) a large number of well-dressed and stalwart-
looking youmg men arrived at Liverpool by the Irish steamers.
!tie believed they are members of the " Brotherhood," who
are anxious to escape the clutches of the law. Some of these
men have taken passages for America, others gave gone into
the country, end a few remain in Liverpool.

NORTH LONDON RAILWAY.—The report of the
directors to the half-yearly meeting on Saturday next
states that the traffic returns for the pest helf-year
exhibit the following results as compered with the corm-
enooding period of the previous year :-1865: Passengers,
60,5771., increase 12,800 E. merchandise and minerals,
47.0921., increase 3,0.591. ; live stock, 2,1161., increase Rat. ;
total, 109,7851. ; total increase, 15,9531. The large increase
in the receipts from pueengers is, in a great measure, at-
tributable to the City Extension line, which was opened
for passenger traffic in November last. The working ex-
penses forththe same period are 62,6794, as &cellist 51,3311.
to i
increased expenditure beteg chiefly caused by
the additional staff required for the new line, sod the double
service offtrains necessary to connect the City terminus with
the stations east and west of Ralston, A half-hourly train
service ham also been established over the Hampstead Junc-
tion and North and South Western Junction Railways,
the exposers of which is considerable ; it will, however, be
observed that the receipts for working those sections of the
company's system arc increased by 3,3741. The passenger
traffic over the City Extension line has been such as fully
to bear out the original estimates, and there can be no
doubt that so soon as the goods station of the London and
North Western Company Is completed. the receipts from
both descriptions of traffic together will secure to the pro-
prietors a good return, notwithstandieg the heavy coat of
the line. The conditions under which the preference shares
were issued provide that the interest thereon shall cot be-
come chargeable against revenue until after 31st December,
1865 ; and the director'', therefore, propose to carry forward
• large portion of the increased receipt in anticipation
of this charge, which will come into operation during
the present half-year. Dividend and interest on the
increased capital raised by ordinary shares and debentures
have bees charged mf ain't revenue from the date of issue.
After providing for debenture intermit, the net balance to
the credit of revenue is 43,880/. Is. 6d., from which the
directors recommend that a dividend be declared at the
rate of 6 per cent, per annum, leaving a balance of 4,6851.
Is. 6d. to be carried forward to the current half-year.
Several bills affecting the interests of this company are
promoted is parliament during the present session, and are
receiving the attention of the board. Resolutions will be
submitted for the sanction of the proprietors to the issue
of the additional capital, 150,0001., authorised by the
company's acts of 1864 and 1863, which it is proposed to
raise by Pane of ordinary shares, to be offered in the first
instance to the holders of other stook in the company, the
amount to be called up from time to time, as may be

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OETNTAL PAL AU& --• ON. Bau.Lneo DAT...m.
MONDAY, Fal9.—Adniboloas ea payawfin, 1,444 ; ditto,
by isms Waft, 1,118; W TIAN.% 2,882.