The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-31 00:00:00

THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

DEPUTATION TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE
PRIVY OOUNCIL.
A deputation waited upon hui Grace the Duke
of Yarborough, Lard President of the Privy Council, and
Lord R. Montagu, M.P., yesterday, on the subject of
cattle motets for foreign animals and slaughtering such
anim►ls at the ports of landing. Dr. A. Williams wee
in attendance.

The deputation was introduced by Colonel North.
Mr. Juttx CLATDOK, of Saffron Walden, addressed his
grace at some length, urging that an act should be passed
compelling all foreign cattle to be slaughtered at the several
porta of arrival, also that sheep should be placed in the same
category as cattle, in order that it should be out of therzaree
of importers of foreign animals to disseminate the
all through the counties of England by sending round sheep
when they were forbidden by law to send cattle. It was well
known that foreign cheep would disseminate that disease
quite as easily es beasts, and he therefore thought that
instead of the word "cattle "the word "animals" should be
inserted in any order emanating from the Privy Council
and any act of parliament made to prevent such a practice.
lie also thought that it would be advisable, if the legis-
lature did not think it desirable to have beasts slaughtered
at the ports of arrival, that there should he separate
markets both for foreign and English cattle, and be was
strengthened in that opinion by many facts which bad
come to his knowledge. Cheshire was one example where
they had lost one-tenth of their hides ; be was ahem aware
that there were 18 bullocks of fine quality, brought from
France at a cost of 36/. each, yet there wag not an offer
for one of them. In conclusion be had sanguine hopes
that such steps would be taken ws would entirely mush
out the disease, and prevent 16 tWinportattion from foreign
countries.
Mr. J. Guitoox RE.BOW' Colchester, after some
few remarks, suggested that there should be registered and
Loc:plaoe; of burial for all cattle which had died of the

Mr. FINSILL endorsed all Mr. Claydon had mud. He was
fully convinced that there should be two markets—one for
linglish and the other for foreign cattle. He thought the
most disastrous results would arise from allowing foreign
cattle to be peasod into the different counties of England.
The law at present prevented that with respect to cat ,tle
but not to sheep, and the Black Country was inundated
with foreign sheep, and he thought that highly dangerous
to the safety of the cattle in the kingdom.
The Familiars—Ain I to understand, as the importa-
tion of live cattle is against the LiW, you wish no foreign
sheep to be imported?
Mr. Fratirti,—l did not mean that, but that they should
be placed under the same regulations as the cattle, and the
word " animal " should be used instead of "cattle."
The PHILSIDENT—That has now been done. The word
"animal" has already been inserted in the clause.
Mr. Batrrotst. described the transit of foreign and infected
cattle by railway, and suggested certain means of removing
the dangers of such transit.
Mr. LIDDIU.L, M.P.. impressed upon his grace the
importance of separating the two claws of cattle, British
and foreign, and he was of opinion that they would be
quite tumble to stamp out the disease unless they entirely
I separated the two classes of animals.
Sir M. W. Rime) thought that the authorities were not
so vigilant In enforcing the laws as they should be, and as
an example he mentioned the port of Hull.
The Pitgattuurr said he wee much obliged to the gentle.
men forming the deputation for the expression of their
views on the subject of the cattle plague sad its prevention,
which was undoubtedly a subject of the greatest importance.
From all he could gather from their views it seemed that
all foreign cattle should be slaughtered on its arrival at
the port of entry ; if he made may promise on the part of
the government to that effect they might be very sure
that there would be many petitions from those whose in-
terests were opposed to such regulations against any law
or order being enacted, or put in form. Still he thought
that all means should be taken to stop the progress of
the cattle plague, and he would assure them that if the
present means were found inefficient, much more slain.
gent measures would be adopted. There was, he thought,
en
impression amongst some of the gentlemen who had
spoken, that the cattle plague had been re-imported, but
that was not the fast, he believed. He thought that
whore such a disease had raged so fearfully some of its
seeds must remain, and from those seeds they would see
it generate from tints time.
Mr. BEIXELIT, M.P., read • petition from the grasiars,
which, his grace said, there would be no difficulty in com-
plying with.
The deputation than thanked the president, and retired.
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The Supreme Criminal Court of Florence has
been engaged with a trial which will always remain one of
the rouses eikbres of Italian jurisprudence. It is not yet
finished, though, unless some stronger evidence be pro-
duced than that already furnished, it is almost certain to
end in the acquittal of the accused. That accused is the
Chevalier Oracle Buggiani, a person moving in the best
society of Florence, and whose sudden arrest in the
month of last September came like a thunder-clap on the
upper ten hundred of the city. lie was arrested ouder the
following circumstances :--Several threatening letters had
been addressed for some time previously to the various
parties menacing them with alarming consequences if they
did not deposit this or that sum of money in some specified
place. One of these letters demanded that I,ooofr. should
be deposited on a given night in the fountain on the square
of the Santissima Annunciate. The person who received
this letter took it to the police, and on the night in ques-
tion police agents were placed in ambush at different parte
of the square to wait and secure the expected criminal.
About 11 o'clock a man was observed to enter acd walk up
and down the square. He was almost immediately ac-
costed by two other men who, however, immediately left
him. He continued walking up and down alone ; at last
he drew near to the fountain. Before he had crossed the
railings of the fountain, according to one deponent ; after
he had done so, according to another ; whilst in the
act of doing so, acconling to a third—in any case
before he had touched the bag of sand deposited
by the police at the spot mentioned ill the letter—
the eight policemen rushed forth from different corners of
the square and secured him. To their great astonishment
they found that their prey was no less a person than the
Chevalier Dread° Boggle's'', son of one of the oldest and
most respectable merchants in Florence, connected by
e with its most aristocratic families, the heir to
some the finest house property in the city, the owner
of a small but very select and valuable picture gallery,
and a gentleman against whom, during his whole previous
life, and he is now fifty years of age, not a single whisper
had ever been breathed as regards his pecnnial7 means
or dealings. What, then, was the Chevalier Bug-
giant doing in the square of the Annunzinta! To the
inquiry the first and most natural answer would be that
after the beat of • September day in Florence lie was
simply doing the most ordinary thing in life—taking an
evening stroll up and down a public square elope by his
own house. More minute inquiries have indeed made it
probable that his motives for walking up and down the
square were skin to those ascribed by Bros ming to that
Grand Duke Ferdinand whose equestrian mettle now stands
close to that very fountain, the rider still gazing upwards
towards the window of the lady love who, when both she
and he were in life, formed the object of his idolatry.
Be that as it may, the police felt quite confident that this
was the very gentleman whom they bad " minted ;" he
has been kept in prison on the charge fmni the 7th of
September until the present day—sine months—nine long
months.

REFORM MEETING AT WORCESTER.—At a meet-
ing held last night at the Guildhall, Worcester, convened
by the Worcester branch of the National Reform League,
• resolution was unanimously adopted in favour of resi-
dential manhood suffrage and vote by ballot.
BELGIAN ItacarrioN Commirree.—A general
meeting of the committee for receiving the Belgian volun-
teers was held yesterday at Willis's Rooms; Lieut.-Colonel
Loyd Lindsay, M.P., in the chair. 111 r. Cockmft stated
that the Lords of the Admiralty had agreed to send Ad-
miralty steamers to meet the Belgian volunteers on their
arrival. They would be conducted to Westminster-bridge.
The chairman maul the Belgian volunteers would arrive on
Friday, the 12th of July, and would remain until the Xlrd
of that month. Multitudes of offers of reception had
been sent. They would be received by the Lord Mayor
and corporation. Mile Conti' had offered them a reception
at Holly-lodge, and it was proposed to give them •
night at Cremorne ; and that there should be a fits
and hall at the Agricultund-ball, Islington, which the
chairman mid would be one of the most splendid that had
ever been given in this country. There would also be a
great concert. The Lord Mayor had informed him that
he was anxious to give a grand banquet. There would
be visits to Windsor, and also a final review at
Windsor. On the Sundays it might be pomibie to find
some amusement for the Belgian volunteers at Kew-
gardens or elsewhere. Subscription,. to a coesidenthle
amount were announced, the most noticeable of which were
Messrs. Coutts and Co., 1001. ; Mr. Buxton, M.P., 1001. ;
and Mies Ceatis, NIX
NAXCOW Encara. —On Monday morning last,
when the Rev. T. B. Attenborough, Independent minister
of Newark, was in his garden stooping down to pick up
something against • row of kidney beans, the ground on
which he stood suddenly gave way, and he bad great
difficulty in throwing himself wide sufficiently to keep his
head and 'boulders out of the chasm. He succeeded is
catching bold of a hedge close by, which was fortunately
the means of saving his life. It was subsequently ascer-
tained that the place was an old well about 14 feet deep,
with a thick deposit of mud at the bottom. Over the
mouth the vegetation of the garden was nourishing. and
there was not even the remains of • board underneath the
soiL—Stamford Mercury.

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