The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

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A DOUBLE NUMBER al the EXPRESS will
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the l'edimentary recess.

Ton are topics which will not wait, interests
Allii and be laid Lida, eves when we are all
=arm& election. If the chokes had
t: shore of the Channel, we should
mini* ft, any degree of election excite-
meat a ad 11111.11.4 now attend, without delay, to an
win WWI far turn out worse than the chokes has
ever beim psi.. Wo of the. present generation listen
very Ma taampe* the mars that the murrain is
spreading and Wally among the stock-
breeding • of the Continent, and that
it has ado* raaehrd the districts whence
our iagarlilliiii of cattle and hides take place.
Ig Prow aeklilik inquiry into the disease has been
galitiaa is ma time, and the malts, as published,
do nag dmedsg—the mortality being estimated at
110 per coat of those attacked; and scarcely any
cattle escaping attack where the disease has once
appeared. In Kuria the price of tallow has already
risen very oonaiderably, in anticipation of the coining
scarcity ; and perhaps every Government but our
own is adopting measures for excluding all new
cattle from healthy districts. They enyy us our in-
sular position which renders precautionary methods
so euy (supposing the diseeae to be contagious); but
we seem to be using our insular position only as an
excuse for carelessness and delay. There was some
joking in the House a few weeks ago on a condemned
calf; and some loose Custom-house orderswithout any
stringent provisions for their enforcement, have been
paraded to keep off inquiry, and the dread which would
solemnise the country if the peril were fully under-
stood. If we had a little more knowledge, a little
more thought, even a little more imagination (to
easeeive the horrors of a murrain and its conse-
quences), we should not now have been waiting ;to
sea what Government will do to keep the disease
tram our shores.

Some say that certainly nothing can be more
dreadful than a murrain in the old times, in all oar i
islands: but then the conditions of living were so 1
different from ours! The very worst we have an ,
account of was before the development of agriculture. 1
when the people depended almost entirely on cattle
and game for, not only food, but clothes, shelter, and
utensils. Some would not eat fish ; and some would
not eat fowl ; but all depended on flesh f and when
their cattle were all deed, they betook themselves
(so it is said, truly or finely) to that species
of dish which is had recourse to only in
despair. At a later time, when there was
a comiderable variety in the national food,
and the meat for all winter and spring was
secured by salting down in autumn, the owns.
queues of a malignant epidemic among the cattle
were nearly as terrible as in the days when the
natives wore hides. No plague that ever visited the
human inhabitants of Greet Britain was so donee-
tire of human life as some moraine have been.
Awful as were the " sweating sickness" and the
" black death," and every form of plague, the saw-
talky ended when the disease paned away, or soca
after I whereas, a visitation of murrain is equivalent
to a sentence of dearth. for a long course of years.
Our modern travellers in Egypt know that no best
sr veal ma to be had ten years after the murrain of
1817, and that the cattle seen in the country seemed
es remote as amid well be from any due proportioa to
the Inhabitants. To kill a cell ce ex was thee aa
anon peniabable by severe indiction. If the
murrain carries of our cattle se it slays these
of every country where it has spread, we shall have
to seam welt a food ern", as has sever beet men
in Elegised within this eentney, and ef whisk see
would think we bad been salleiently Mind by the
state of Ireland in 1847. If we will net take skins
from any example but that of the lams Seem, Ist
am leak back no further than through the bet INS-
rery. during which (and several preceding anew*
the pod new not to have varied at all in ha ere,
eighties. Let the readers of history remount the
stets at the Continent, and the mortality smug ea
peasantry, from 1710 to 1714, while the peat was
present, sad fee the long coarse of years after, dung
which th® was really scarcely any cattle left in
the great grazing countries. Look at Professor
Summar:l account of the pest of 1790 sad ITN is
France t and at Dr. LATAZD'e history of the epidemis
of 1737 in F.ngland; and then see what we have
to aspen if we do not take timely and oaf.
Seised precautions. Our grandfathers have told am

what It was te celebrate le thanksgiving day i;
17* whew the disease was really gone; bat where
wets of herds--troin the Isle of Skye to Devon-
attire I' In Skye alone, the lose wee computed,
bathe* the malady had ceased, at upwards of
10,0001. of the money of that day. Fire years later,
the peasants of Saxony were confounded by the in-
roads of the pest, which mai carried of the herds.