The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-05 00:00:00

THS CATTLS PLAGUE.

RETURNS.

These retureA do not profess to give the total
somber of coma which helve occurred in Great Britain, but
only those which have been ascertained from the official
reformation received at this office from inspectors, whether
appoiated by the clerk of the council or by the local autho-
rities. The divisions of England are those of the OODOUS.
Column 1 only recoris the casea reported as having cola•
monad daring the weeks indicated by the healing. ;
'l/4 hook " son being added to °ohms 2.

atta4
I Y-1

Reset of reported Mei
from the oonnoeoce-
meet of the disease.

Census Dtrisioss.

1 L Metrop. police district 86
iBouil &astern Counties 91
3.Bouth Midland Counties' 786
4.l7astem Counties
ail US
M &uth Western Counties 70
IL West Midland Coenti 127
I.Nerth Midland Cc•untlin 5371
&North Western Countteeloo7l
9. Yorkahlre 117.12
l&Nortliern Counties I 118
31.1loninontdsldre & Waiesi 400
11724

T.

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s. 7~ x.g:

;c" , f M A al
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7238 310 S, 3283 231 543
4110° 14801 2521 379 042
6720 14871 4.2 • 367 640
6606 2365! 3044 406, 449
714, 171 374 So, 101
1853 45. 1018 151 25d
2393 435; 1442 136, 380
66ee' 4401 4114 441' 1674
10891 7311 6812 1297' 2261
1676 610 719 132. 202
2267 83! 1666 216 4LI
!UN 21127493172 ssel
173419 13931 41491 7045 llud

510
1/0131,
1446:
2131

(Sipa) ALEXANDER WILLIAM'S S.eretery.
Velermary Department of the Privy Council,
Odioe, 2, Po:tom-street, •,.W„ Jio. 4.

At the meeting yesterday, after report left,
Mr. LAURII siqgested that is • matter of each gravity
the committee should consist of all the members of the
eourr. He agreed is what the chairman Lad said, and that
they ought to establish • cattle blockade. The butchers
would thee have to go to the stock instead of the stork
fuming to the butcher,. The metropolis was a focus of
disease, and the manure which was sent from it to the
smutty was also a means of extending the disease. The
magistrates of Middlesex were not in the same favourable
position as the magistrates of other counties, for they had
mot the same control our the police. He was of opinion
they should sot first, and then consult the corporation. He
moved that the committee should consist of the satire
eourt.
Mr. lifrourtam seconded the motion.
Mr. Hong said that the Tottenham district was the re-
ceptacle of large quantities of cattle arrivieg from Harwich
and Blackman. 'rheas cattle were driven through the
parish to the Isliegkon market. The Edmonton magistrates
inquired of the government whether they had power to in-
terfere with this traffic. He thought that a committee of
the whole court was too large, and that it would be better
to confine the committee to the chairman of the petty see-
lions, with sub other members as it might be thought de-
sirable to add thereto. The object of the committee should
be to confer with the Lord Mayor and corporation whether
it was desirable to prevent, entirely or partially, the pas-
sage of cattle over any, and, if any, what roads of the county
of Middlesex. He proposed an amendment to this effect.
Mr. HELLY seconded the amendment. Ha thought it
would be impossible to carry out Mr. Laurie's suggestion of
having the butchers go to the stock.
Mr. L. TAYLOR was for &limited committee. He agreed
with the chairman that they were not in a position to come
to any filed resolutions that day.
Mr. E. W. 00x thought that all their eff-rts would be
vain as long as the magistrates had not greater power over
the police. The inspectors were too few to watch over the
removal of cattle. There were persons who were very
anxious to have the law enforced against other', but who
endeavoured to evade it themselves.

General WOOD thought that the government should
awry out the regulations they made. If the roeds were to
be shut up, the Islington market closed, and made a dead
wiest market, this could only be done by the government
and the perliameot.
Mr. NIZYMOK advocated the principle of complete Isola-
tion, and instanced Ireland and France, as well as his own
experience, in proof of its efficaciousness.
After some further cionveteatioo, in which Sir J. Kirk-
land, Mr. Wild, Mr. Glossop, Mr. Johnson, and others,
took part, the following resolution, suggested by Mr.
Turner. in lieu of that of Mr. Bask, was unanimously
adopted :—" That a committee of justices be appointed by
the court to consider what measures it is desirable to
take under the powers given by the Orders in Council of
the 16th !December, end that power be given to the com-
mittee to communicate with the Home Secretary, the Lord
Mayor, end any other authorities they may think fit, and to
report to the court."

A committee of seventeen magistrate', conaisting chiefly
of the chessmen of petty seesioss, was then appointed, and
the meeting separated.

tITAFFORDSHIRE.

The adjourned meeting of county magistrates, to
draw up the notice in relation to the cattle plague, wire
held on Wednesday, in the Shire Hall, Stafford ; the Lord
Listatensnt in the chair. The noble Cha;rinan introduced
the subject, and said it was an node it main, on Monday,
that the committee would draw up a notice in accordance
with his own suggestions, but be found alteratioes would
be proposed which some of the magistrates not present
would have resisted had they beau present. He dwelt
upon the necessity of making regulations iterecting the
movements of cattle as restrictive as possible. The peculiar
situation of the Wolverhampton and Henley market, in
the centres of great manufacturing districts required spe-
cial regulations for them. He (Lord Lichfield) was sur-
mised to find that the magistrates generally were less dis-
posed to stringent restrictive measures than the farmers.
Mr. Hand then read the draft of the notice, which was
reed by paragraphs, each of which ocensior ed rimpidereble
dithussioo. It was proposed to close all markers in the
county except those of Wolverhampton, Harley, and Stoke.
Colonel Irjott did not see why Stoke shoal' te excepted.
The reply to this was that special ieguletioi e had been
made at Stoke for the slaughter of as mirky as :lUO head •
day io ease of need. The regulations were net to prevent
the sale by auction of stock of an owner oc his own
place, providing it had been there fourteen days.
Mr. Whitley suggested that if Wolverh:.mptoo were
sufficient for the south, Hanley would he suttici.rat for
the north. Lord Lichfield said it would be es !e.i. to close
Stoke if Hanley were open. The Hon. and Bev. A. C.
Talbot congratulated the authorities gthere!ly for taking
wiser measures throughout the county than they had
hitherto done. Mr. Hartley, conceiving that blame had
attached to the authorities in his own distr et in the
south, took, as a county magistrate, with hi. fellow
county magistrates, some share of the blame which had
been attributed to the Wolverhampton with. ri i a Mr.
Talbot queried the meaning of the phrase " from place to
place" io the order, the construction of which would h.ve
to be left to the magistrates in the exercise of jariedic-
Coo. Much discussion to* piece as to who ehmild sign the
certificates of clean bills of health on the realm/A of cattle.
It was eventually decided that toe certificate should be
signed in the presence of a magistrate, ei•her by two
members of the County Cattle insurance Aaaeciation, or
by two members of a Board of Guardians, ',dog owners
et three heed of stock, or by an insp-ctor app Toted by the
North Staffordshire Insurance Associetion. Lnl Rather-
ton objected to farmers being compelled to go miles to a
magistrate, but Lord Harrowby thought there was a
necessity for it from the difficulty of getrlog p.rtiee to do
a friendly act if registrar-I.—Colonel ',Vett ohj •ete.l to the
mtmbers of the Lichfield Association being ig•inr•il by this
measure, 4,000 bead of cattle being insured by them.
Mr. Hartley moved, and Lord liatherten seconded, an
amendment embodying their views in tha previous regula-
tion. The Hon. and Rev. A. C. Talbot morel th•irsertion
of • provision that cattle sold at auction saki should be
slaughtered at the place of sale. This was to:emoted by
Mr. Woodroofe, and carried. Lord Hitherto° objected
that in many places where auctions were held there were
no conveniences for slaughter. Mr. Leon said a few words
ia support of the motley. He remarked that they could not
make fields where s.lea were held slaughter plsees, as such a
course would probably disseminate &these by exposure
of
the most noxious products of those animals, Ile t hought it
better that the animals should be removed for slaughter. In
relation to cows going to or from pasture before and after
milking, it was provided that such should have a certi-
ficate of cleanliness to accompany them. Otherally this
sew order would revoke orders made by lac.l authorities,
sad be • substitute for them. The orior would not
extend to the Wolverhampton and lian'ey markets,
which are out of conety jurisdiction. After the order in
its fulness had finally passed the court, Lord Harrowhy
made WOO observations as to the neceeerty of persons
moving about the county in infected districtp, t.king ears
to disinfect their clothes before going :mother. other people's
stock. He suggested the use of indiaruhb-r cows for
butchers, as the infection could be washed off. He also said
that it was very desirable to prevent dogs from moving about
from one fa.rm to another.

WORCESTERSHIRE.
The business of the &este ions wee con cl n. on Wed-
Bseday afternoon. Only one court a.t. the Mel of Dudley
presiding. Mr. It. P. Amphlett. Q.C., submitted his
atneoded resolution, in respect to the measures which the
county tnegistracy were about to take io order to provost
the introduction into Woroesterahire of that dire calamity,
the cattle plague. ln the first place, Yr. Amphlett pro-
poeed that the new order of the magistrates should not he
is force till the 6th instant, and that it should be extended
till the Ist March ; that no cattle should ho removed along
any highway from place to place within the county except
under the authority of a license, to be signed by a justice
of the pesos, exception being made in the case of a
farmer removing his cattle from one farm to another
in his occupation, and within a distance of one mile ;
that cattle should only be allowed to be removed between
sunrise and sunset; that the license should only he is
&roe from sunrise to sunset on the day on which it wee
granted and the following one ; that the license should be
carried by the person who had the charge of the animals
whilst they were under removal ; that it should he incum-
bent upon such person to produce, if required, the license
to any magistrate. police-of/leer, or owner or occupier of
land near to whose property the cattle were being
removed ; that each magistrate grantieg a lime**
shield keep a duplicate of It, and that mak