The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-25 00:00:00

The Cattle Plague.

Mr. Ebsworth, the medical officer of health for the parish
of St. Mary, Newington, attended before the sitting ma-
gistrate at Southwark, yesterday, to make a statement with
regard to the condition of the parish from the influx of
diseased cattle and the manner in which they were disposed
of.
The chief clerk (Mr. Edwin) communicated that the sub-
ject had been brought last week under the attention of Mr.
Woolrych, who had stated that he had no power to orderthe
destruction of diseased cattle, but if the parties were sum-
moned for a nuisance thereby occasioned, he should be
enabled, on summons, to reach them with penalties.
Mr. Ebsworth, addressing the magistrate (Mr. Burcham),
said that on that morning he received an order to attend
professionally a man who was seriously ill in Kent-street,
within the parish. While paying the visit to the patient,
his attention had been drawn to the condition of a slaughter-
house on the other side of the street, where, it was reported
to him, there were 15 cows which had been ordered by the
Government officer to be destroyed at the Bricklayers' Arms
station, and then to have been buried. The animals were
accordingly destroyed by a man in the employ of Mr. Geo.
Nicholls, the proprietor of the yard in question, and from
Mr. Nicholls he had learned that instead of the carcasses
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but regard this as a most iniquitous proceeding, and he at-
tended with a view to prevent a repetition of the practice.
Mr. Frederick T. Stanley presented himself, and said he
accidentally had heard of the present application, and that
in consequence he had felt it his duty to attend, with a
view to explain that he was a member of the Royal College
of Veterinary Surgeons, practising within the precincts of
the court. He had been appointed an inspector of cattle
under the orders issued by the Privy Council. The order in
Council, which he produced, ran in the following terms :
"Every person within any district for which an inspector
shall be appointed on whose premises there shall be any
animal labouring under any such disease, shall as far as
practicable keep such animal separate and apart from all
the other animals, and any person who shall, without the
licence of such inspector, send to market, or remove from
his premises, any such animal which has been kept in any
shed or stable, or hoarded, or come in contact with others
labouring under the same disease, shall incur penalties un-
less they were conveyed to the horse slaughterer, there to
be disposed of." After this a fresh order was issued under
the authority of the Privy Council, that the animals thus
slaughtered should be sent to the manure works at Plum-
stead ; but his duty was to see that the carcasses, after the
animals had been slaughtered at Bricklayers' Arms station,
should be sent to the knacker's yard belonging to Mr.
Nicholls,whose name hasbeen mentioned by the applicant,
Mr. Ebsworth. In point of fact, he must mention that,
within the district, there were no means of burying the
carcasses of diseased and condemned animals, and in the
instance referred to they could not have been buried in the
cow-shed.
Mr. Burcham inquired where he could find the order in
Council to which reference had been made.

Mr. Stanley at once produced and handed in the printed
document issued under the authority of the Lorda of Privy
Council, which

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if such animal be not buried in its skin, its
skin be disin-
fected in such manner as the inspector of the district may
direct."
Mr. Stanley remarked that it was impossible to bury the
carcasses in the London districts, and now they were sent
to the knacker's yard, where it was supposed they would
be disposed of.

Mr. Ebsworth—And that, your worship, is what I com-
plain of.

Mr. Burcham—You think the practice to which you hate
called my attention is calculated to propagate the extension
of the disease ?

In answer to the magistrate Mr. Stanley declared that
all skins were disinfected under his special orders.
Mr. Burcham remarked that the animals had been taken
to the slaughter-house not for the purpose of being killed
and buried, but that their skins should be taken off and
disinfected. Why should they have been taken toMitchant?
Mr. Stanley stated that the disease could not be commu-
nicated from a dead animal, and it was conveyed only by
inoculation, or through the breath of a living animal upon
the dead body of a diseased ox.
Mr. Burcham—l do not agree with you in that opinion.
I believe that infection may be conveyed by a dead animal.
Mr. Ebsworth said that such was his opinion. He thought
such things ought not to occur.
Mr. Burcham was of the same opinion, and that such a
commodity ought not to be allowed to be conveyed through
the public streets in open carts.
Mr. Stanley said that he was acting under the authority
of the Government.
Mr. Ebsworth—Where is your authority ?
Mr. Stanley--Do you doubt my word, or do you suppose
that I would be guilty of a falsehood or a lie ? Here is my
authority
Pro to act, and that has been issued with the cogni-
sance of fessor Simonds, the head of the inspection ap-
pointed by the Government.
Mr. Burcham read the appointment which ran as follows:
_ct privy Council Office. In pursuance of the provisions
of the Order in Council, dated the 24th July last, Mr. Fre-.
derick T. Stanle7, M.R.C.V.S., of Stone's-end, Borough,
hereby aorised to inspect ~nd ex.:lnaine cows, heifers,
bulls, bullocks, and oxen labouring under infection or dis-
order within the limits prescribed by the above-mentioned
Order in Council." Signed, Arthur Helps, and dated 28th
July, 1865.

Mr. Stanley added that if time were allowed he would pro.
duce an authority from the Privy Council-office to show that
his appointment was correct. He felt that almost a public
accusation had been made against him, and he was of course
desirous to maintain his character. He reasserted that be
acted entirely on the Order in Council. With the permis-
sion of the Court he would procure the attendance of one of
the highest functionaries of the department.
Just as the magistrate was about to rise Mr. Stanley in-
troduced to his worship Professor Simmonds, and a long
colloquy, in private, ensued between them. At the close
Professor Simonds retired.
Mr. Burcham said--I am glad the reporter is present, as I
wish to state that I wanted to be satisfied that everything
was done by Mr. Stanley that could be done under the cir-
cumstances by which he was surrounded in midst of a great
difficulty. I have had an interview with Professor Simonds,
and he informs me that there is the greatest difficulties, if
not impossibilities, in finding places near London in which
to deposit the dead carcases of dead animals. In the case
now before me, these animals were slaughtered at the Brick-
layers' Arms station, and were then sent to the slaughter-
house in Kent-street, under the notionthat the owner of the
I slaughter-house had the means of boiling them down. It
appears that he has no such apparatus, and hence he found
it necessary to send the carcasses to Mitcham, the nearest
place at which he believed the carcasses could be buried
and disposed of, and the neighbourhood thereby disinfected.
Professor Simonds is perfectly sure that this meat when
boiled down cannot by any probability cause the infection
to spread. It was possible, but not probable, that infec-
tion might be introduced by the carcases of diseased ani-
mals on their way to the place where they had to be boiled
down, but it appears to me, from what I have just heard,
that every precaution has been taken to prevent such an
occurrence. It seems that the authorities cannot find a,
place within a reasonable distance in which the carcases •
can be buried, and, therefore, they are obliged to have re-
course to boiling them down as the only alternative. It is
right that I should add that the conduct of Mr. Stanley,
the inspector, has been quite in conformity with the direc-
tions he has received, not only under the orders in council,
but also sanctioned in my presence to-day by Professor
Simonds. I trust that this statement will remove from
the mind of Mr. Stanley any unfavournble impression he
may have entertained ; and I will only add my opinion
that the deceased cattle ought to be removed through these
populous districts in closed and not in (wen carts.

The conversation then closed, and at an unusulaly late
hour the Court adjourned.

Mosby, the Guerilla.

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The Richmond correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer writes John S. Mosby, the famous
guerilla chief, was in Richmond yesterday. Some-
body has described Mosby as a handsome man in
personal appearance, but he is nothing of the sort.
Of ordinary height, his build is good enough, but
his face is very commonplace, and his light brown
hair, worn unkempt, adds nothing to its attractive-
ness. Mosby's features and expression would impress
you as those of a man resolute and cunning, not
captiously honest nor viciously cruel, and I suspect
that in the stories of his cruelty he has been some-
what belied. When the life of John Singleton
Mosby comes to be written it will show a succes-
sion of startling personal adventure unsurpassed
by those of any partisan chief on record. That
Mosby was always hanging on the outskirts of
our armies, cutting of our trains, capturing our
stragglers, and harassing us in every possible
way, the people generally know ; but they do not
know that he went in and out of our camps at his
own pleasure, and was never once detected. It is
said (and undoubtedly truly) that while Burnside
lay opposite Fredericksburgh, in the winter of 1862,
Mosby dined with him in the character of a Union
farmer from across the river, and gathered with his
shrewd cunning from the general table-talk much
valuable information, with which he regained the
rebel lines without molestation. Burnside that
winter was literally badgered by Mosby, and de-
termined to capture the partisan, and to this end
sent detachments of cavalry to scour the country
thoroughly and bring him in dead or alive. One
day one of these detachments, led by a lieutenant-
colonel, was going up the Dumfries-road, when
from a house in sight of the Federal line a man
emerged dressed in the uniform of a Federal captain,
and attended by an orderly dressed in our cavalry
blue. At the gate were two horses marked U.S.,
and furnished with our regulation saddle and bridle;
and mounting, the captain rode up and accosted the
colonel, who was still marching up the road. The
colonel informed his new companion that he was in
search of this Mosby, and asked if he had
heard anything of him. The captain had heard and
knew to a certainty that an hour before Mosby had
been at Jones's, four miles up the road. Visions of
promotion and newspaper paragraphs dancing before
him, the colonel ordered Trot, march,' while the
captain, with his orderly, dashed across a field to a
farm-house to get some milk, he said, before re-
turning to camp. Arrived at Jones's, the colonel
found that Mosby had been there, but also found
that he had departed in the direction of Burnside's
camps. Back the colonel beats in haste, making
inquiries everywhere, but finding no trace. ArrivOil
again at the house from which the communicative
captain had appeared, the woman accosted him,
and this colloquy ensued Woman.—Kurnel,
who was that ere Yank capting met ye hear as ye
was gwine t'other way ?' Colonel. —' I don't know*
his name, but he belongs to a Massachusetts regiment.'
Woman.—' Yeas ; well neovi, aint you sold ? That
air was John Mosby.' Colonel.—,H— 1'
And he
rode back to camp and said nothing whatever about
his morning's work, except to report that he had
not captured him. Some of the men did, however,
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DEATH FROM A FIT IN BATHING.—On Tuesday
afternoon a young man named Pearson, of Ashton-under-
Lyne, whilst bathing in the sea at Southport, was sud-
denly seized with a fit, and before assistance could arrive
he was suffocated. The water was only seven or eight
inches deep where he was found. An inquest was held at
the Royal Hotel, and a verdict of accidental death was
returned.

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