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

BUCKS.

The Quarter Sessions for— the county of Bucks
opened on Monday, and there wee an antimony large at. i
tendanos of magistrates, including Lord Cariegton, n the
chair, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Chesharn, Sir Harry
Verner, Bart, M.P., Mr. H. B. Hervey, M.P., to. Am
Sir H. Vraarn moved—" That a memorial be presented
to the Secretary of Slate suggestiog that the Court of Quar-
ter Seaton should be empowered in their discretion to pro-
hibit the removal of any animals, as defined by the order of
the 23rd November, from the farms on which they may be
located."
The motion wee carried with batons dissentient.

The iiia---moved,77fist the
government
xie4 be requested to take such steps as may be
expedient to prevent the carriage and distribu-
tion of manure, by rail or otherwise, without it ha• first
been carefully disinfected, and subjected to such an inspec-
tion as may prevent portions of carcases or other ob-
noxious matter being sent therein.*
This was 'wooded b., Mr. J. I'. SEGOS and carried.
Dr. BOOTH said he had waited to see whether any one
else would being forward the most important gnostic' of
all—whether the centre of infection was to be the farm,
the parish, the petty sessional division, or the whole county.
He moved, "That in the opinion of this court all eattle
should be oonfined to the farms on which they are located
for a period of two months." This was, in fact, asking the
overnment to do for the whole country what they had
just asked power to do in particular cases.
The Rev. P. T. OMIT seconded the motion.

Mr. LAMBERT thought gentlemen who proposed such a
measure could hardly have considered how a farmer was
to pay his mat and meet his engagements if be wee pre-
saged from carrying on his busload. This was apart from
the question of meat supply.
The Duke of BOCKLUGHAM Mad, 1111 to selling cattle there
was no practical difficulty. Many of the large farmers
avid stockholders confined their cattle to the farm, and
sales had takes place by auction and othecwise. Remaly
there was a sale of the stock on two adjacent farms together.
He believed it would be found necessary to restnct the
cattle to the farms ; and that this, by removing the plagai,
would give the farmers the beat chance of meeting their
engagements and paying their rent. (Hear.)
Some diecossion took place on the omission of the wards
sheep or swine in the recant order, it being deemed very
desirable that these animals should be included.

After some further discussion Dr. Booth withdrew his
motion, and the subject dropped.

HUMID.

The court of quarter sessions for the county of
Hertford on Monday took into consideration a communica-
tion from the Honurofflee, which bed been sent with a copy
of the new Orders in Council, constituting the quarter
asesions the local authority for the purpose of carrying out
the Orders in Council issued with reference to the cattle
plague, in pleas of the magistrates of the petty seadonal
divisions. The Marquis of Salisbury, who presided, ex.
pressed his belief that if the new order had been issued at
the beginning the disease would have been put an end
to long ago, and moved • series of very stringent
resolutions, the most important of which was to the
following effect —"That from the sth of January
until the Ist of March no oow, boll, bullock, oz. or calf
should be moved from any place within the juris-
diction of the quarter sessions along any highway ; with
the following exceptions : that cattle going by railway (as
allowed in the order in council), and being furnished with
a certificate that there was no diem" in the herd from
which they came on the previous day, might travel, with-
out deviation, to the nearest railway station; and that cattle
going from one part of a farm to another part of the same
farm might proceed along the high road for the distance of
100 yards and no more." It was objected by several of the
magistrates that the court could make no order, inasmuch
as the order in council, cooditutiog them the local autho-
rity, did not come into operation until the 3rd inst. Ulti-
mately, it was agreed that the resolutions should be dis-
cussed, and that if they were approved by • majority of
the magistrates, an adjourned quarter sessions should be
held on Wednesday for then formal adoption. In the course
of the discussion which ensued, it wee objected by several
magistrates that the resolutions were too stringent. Mr.
Marlborough Pryor said that in his parish of Weston, if a
farmer were prevented from driving his cattle along the
road for a greater distance than 100 yards, he would be
unable S. send them from one part of his farm to another;
and one or two other magistrate' said that it would be
impossible to enforce so stringent an order, as the farmers
generally would evade or refuse to obey it. Mr. Cherry
proposed tosnbstitute the words "half • mile "for "100
yards," bat on • division the motion was lost by eleven to
eight. It was then agreed that the allowed distance should
be 200 yards. A second amendment was proposed to the
effect that cows from healthy herds should be allowed to
go to neighbouring farms for breeding purpling, but this
was warmly opposed by the Marquis of Salisbury, and was
not pressed to • division. Eventually the resolutions were
agreed to, and the court adjourned to 10 o'clock this morn-
ing, for the purpose of then giving them the form and
authority of an order.