The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

VAOC!IATON AND WIZ CATTLI PLAOCI.

The Daily News sees reason to fear that the hopes
which have been lately entertained with regard to the
prevention of the cattle plague by vaccination are not des-
tined to he realised. Tae operation has cow been per-
formed in very many places, and by very many persons,
and the result, allowiog for a large number of cease of de-
forties application, is sot satisfactory—one clearly aeoer-
tallied failure in a matter of this kind being enough to
outweigh a thousand asserted successes. The inves-
tigations of some Trench savants confirm the failure
and further show that we have been in error
respecting the nature of vaciciaation,ll and that
the matter from human small pox introduced into the cow
produces not cow pox, but a disease which being trans-
mitted in turn to the human being, gives not cow pox, but
modified small pox. Natural cow 'pox,. therefore, the
dimes from which we derive the material of such vast
utility as regards the human race, cannot be considered as
identical with small pox in the cow, but as a separate die.
order. Some years ago it wee proved in Wiltshire that
sheep successfully vaccinated obtained no immunity from
small pox. There being a striking difference between the
pathological predispadtione of men and; *the brute
creation, we are not Jae Med in coecludieg
that rim/airport is not small pox, but an only infer
that vamieation no more pr.iteete the cow from rinderpeet
than it doss the sheep from small pox ; and this for some
!WOW whisk 11140011 is not at prasest prepared to explain.
The failure of vaccination is a severe blow to our hopes,
but we know, at all swats, that the disease is intensely
aontagione, and therefore at all hazards the movement of
cattle about the ooantrj, wherever the disease has mhos a
itself, must be chocked by regulations of sufficient strin-
gency to compel obedience. If dimmed cattle can be
prevented from contact directly or indirectly with healthy
animals the disease mu: die oat, as surely ea a fire decays
for west of fuel.

The noses this alarming publishes mescal letters from
bedowisers sad others woo have tried vaccination sod
found it uusueoseafel, &Wanes the varnimatioa is each
case had " tsksa " in a promising way.

'AZT WORM.

The Star has been rendered uneasy and serious by •
rumour, repeated with some show of oonfidonee, that Lord
Rang' is not unlikely to be overbore. by some of the
members of his cabinet, who wish to substitute a franchise
of six pound rating is place of s six pound rental. To
substitute • franchise bend ors rating intend of
r•atal la • departure from the principle este-
bibbed by the Reform Act of 1832, and will introduce a
new and needless source of complexity and inequality
Into the borough qualification. Oa this vousd any
such proposition as this should be opposed sod rejected ;
but sea far more important cansideratioa that it will but
increase the roll of electors by about 75,000 names, it should
be condemned and denoa•osd by every min who wee for
reform, sea who wishes to keep faith with the liberal
party, and with the great class to which the franchise has
been hitherto denied.

The Herald is satisfied thst every intelligent working
mote feels, that eves if a vo`e be now beyosd his attain-
ment, he dots not want a 64 !squalor. A bill like that
introgmeed by Lerl Darby would give every man a vote
who really cares about it, sad working men knew too melt
of the in4ividaal liberals with whom they have to deal,
they know too much of the injustice done them by the
peaty, to allow themselves to be used to further

a disreputable party move. A•e the working men of
Leeds, for example, likely to believe that such
men as their exeellent member Mr. Beseroft, whose
good works they see every day ; as Mr. Ferrand,
whose life has been given to the great work of obtaining
justice for them ; ea Colonel Edwards, who is liked by all
who know him—are their enemies ; and that their true
friends are Mr. Bright and Lord Russell—the former of
whore lute done his utmost to degrade them, whilst the
latter has always treated them as inferior beings
The Telegraph note. as • singular part of the tory
tactics, that whilst the professional oondottieri of conserva-
tism have been pushed forward, and whilst the " Secesh"
malcontent bushwhackers of liberalism have been hovering
about, if not conquering end to conquer, yet plundering
and to plunder, the tory chiefs themselves have been
ominously silent. The gentleman who supplies the con-
servatives with intellect has, indeed, uttered • few sen-
tences with regard to cattle, but none with regard to the
constitution. Instead of him we have bad Mr. Ferrand,
with whom no one attempts to argue, but whom, on the con-
trary, every one endeavours to avoid. It is a pity that
just before the opening of a new parliament we should be
thus troubled with the mouvais Nista of an old one ; but
if the tory chieftains will not speak, we are obliged in de-
cency to warn off their camp followers.