The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-11 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865.

SEPTBILBBIL
Doncaster
Brecon lB Manchester Autumn ... 22
Richmond
Canterbury l9 Walsall
Hendon (Welsh Harp)... 21 Lanark

OCTOBER.
Bedford
Caledonian Hunt and West Drayton
Edinburgh 4 Kelso
Northallerton 5 I Newmarket Ho. I&
Newmarket 2d Oct 9 Worcester Autumn Bl
Perth
ROVIMBER.
Lincoln Autumn
Liverpool Autumn
Shrewsbury

THE APPOINTMENT OF CAPTAIN SIR F. LEOPOLD
MCLINTOCK TO BE A COMMODORE OF THE 2D Class AT
JAMAICA, in succession to the late Commodpre Peter Crn-
croft, is one which cannot fail to give satisfaction to the
service. Sir Leopold has completed his 34th year in the
navy, having entered it in 1831. He passed his examina-
tionOt we e
ea
for lieutenant in 1838, but, being without
wasthoutpa advanced
lciad
in-
terest, he was not promoted until 1845.
to the rank of commander in 1851, and was promoted to be
a captain in 1854, owing to his great merits, and in defe-
rreecenc,ent a to
ethhearpauctbalric
tow ilrel.quiSrier
aLneyopfroalsdh's career is nof too
notice,
n-
bu
not refrain from alluding once more to the happy knack
which ho possesses in rendering his officers and men com-
fortable. The Aurora, while under his command, has
been an example which may be well followed. She has
been always contented and well disciplined—the model of
a British man-of-war. We can say nothing higher in
praise of her captain and her crew.—Army and Navy Ga-
zette,

INGENIOUS DEVICE.—A gentleman near Ware-
ham, in Dorset, who has a small field in which there are
crops of carrots and mangold wurzel with which bares and
rabbits have been making free, has put a dog's house in
the field for the accommodation of a small puppy. The
puppy is loose by day, and be barks all night long. This
effectually scares away the hares and rabbits.
SHOWING HIS TEETH !—lt is rumoured that a
private examination of Gladiateur's mouth is likely to be
made before the " St. Leger," in order to set at rest the
doubts raised by the opponents of the horse as to his exact
age.
STRANGE TASTE.—A grand landscape in mosaic
has been made by a clerk in the French War-office.
It is composed entirely of insects—of beetles alone there are
more than 45,000—of nearly 4,000 different species, and
took four years in making. The painful piece of work forms
one of the chief attractions of the exhibition of insects at
the Palais do rlndustrie.

The Cattle Disease.

The following circular has been issued from the
Home-office:—

" Whitehall, Sept. 1865.

" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to in-
form you that the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury will undertake for a period not exceeding three
months from the date of the order of the Lords of the
Council of the 26th of August, 1865, the payment to in-
spectors, appointed under the authority of the orders by
the Lords of the Privy Council, dated the 11th and 26th of
August, 1865, in districts affected with the cattle plague,
or in which there is reason to apprehend the approach of
that disease, of the sum of £1 ls. for each day that such
inspectors are actually engaged in the pertorma.nce of the
duties required of them by the said orders, with travelling
expenses, at a rate not exceeding 3d. a mile each way,
upon the condition following :—Their Lordships reserve to
themselves the power of declining to make such payments
in all cases in which the appointments may appear to have
been made without adequate cause, or to have been unne-
cessarily numerous. Every application for payment is to
be accompanied by a certificate from the authority by
which the inspectors have been appointed, stating the cir-
cumstances under which the appointment has been made,
and that the duties of the inspectors have been properly
performed.
"As, however, no provision has been made in the Act
11 and 12 Victoria, c. 107, for the payment of any officer
who may be appointed by the local authorities, as in the
present instance, in pursuance of the order of the Privy
Council to carry into effect, in particular districts, regula-
tions made by such orders, an application to Parliament
will be necessary for its sanction to such payment. A
separate account will therefore be kept by the Treasury
for each locality, of all expenses defrayed from public
funds in respect of these payments to inspectors, which
will be treated as an advance, in order that, if Parliament
should so determine, such expenses may be charged on
local funds.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

" H. WADDINGTON."

MEETING AT THE MANSION-HOUSE,

On Saturday afternoon a meeting of the Sanita-
rium Committee was held at the Mansion-house,
the Lord Mayor in the chair. There were present
Mr. Gubbins, chairman of the Corporation Markets
Committee, Dr. Tripe, Dr. Burge, Mr. Rudkin, Mr.
Guerrier, Mr. Straker, Mr: James Brewster, and
Dr. Ansell, medical officer of health for the district
of Bow.

The LORD MAYOR acknowledged the receipt of
the following contributions to the Compensation
Fund :—The Corporation of London, £l,OOO ; the
Butchers' Company, £lO5 ; the Lord Mayor, £2l;
Mr. James Brewster, £2l ; Mr. John Low, £52
10s. ; Mr. John Higgs, £25 ; Mr. John Giblett,
£2l 10s. ; Mr. Thomas Rudkin, £lO 10s. ; Mr.
Deputy Obbard, £5 ss. ; Mr. Edmund Burke,
£5 55.; and F. 8., £1 is.
The committee were occupied for some time in
discussing the propriety of immediately establishing
sanitariums, the general opinion being that they
should only establish a few of those hospitals at first
in the districts where the cattle disease is most
virulent.

Mr. GIBBINS said it was most essential in arriv-
ing at facts that the :committee should obtain cor-
rect returns of the number of cowsheds, and also the
number of healthy and infected cows in every me-
tropolitan district.

Mr. RUDKIN moved that three sanitariums be
established, one for the north-west district, which
would comprise Hackney and Islington ; one: for
the north-west district, which would comprise Ham-
mersmith, Chelsea, Paddington, and St. Pancras ;
and one for the south of London. He believed that
if the committee set to work at once there would be
no difficulty experienced in raising the necessary
funds, and, indeed, now that the Corporation had
headed the subscription list the money was begin-
ning to flow in.
Dr. TRIPE seconded the motion.

Mr. GIBBINS supported it. He thought they should
make a commencement at once in establishing at
least three sanitariums, and preparing for the estab-
lishment of others in addition, should the disease
progress. The object of the Corporation in sub-
scribing the £l,OOO was highly laudable, and he had
no doubt the example they had so very properly set
in heading the subscription list would be generally
followed up by the public.
The motion was then put and carried unanimously.

Dr. BURGE was of opinion that the sanitariums
should be established on the most healthy, and not
in the diseased, districts of the metropolis, and that
the largest quantity of breathing room should be
afforded to each of them. lie suggested that some
of the railway arches might be rendered available for
the purpose. _ _

Asub-committee of three was then appointed to
view- the various localities and to select the best sites
for the sanitariums, with power to negotiate.
Mr. Gibbs, the private secretary to the Lord
Mayor, was appointed the future secretary of the
committee.

Mr. GIRBINS moved that a circular be sent to the
several cowkeepers in the metropolis, asking them to
send a return of the number of cows, &c., iu their
respective sheds.

Mr. RUDKIN said the cowkeepers might give some-
thing like a return, but that it never could be de-
pended upon. He hoped the committee would
themselves be able shortly to produce a correct
statistical statement.

The motion was adopted.
Mr. JAMES BREWSTER suggested that the secre-
tary should be requested to write to Professor Dick,
of Edinburgh, to inquire what success had. attended
his mode of treating the diseased cows there.
Mr. RUDKIN said that some gentlemen had re-
commended the propriety of fitting up a barge on
the Thames as a sanitarium, but he understood it
would take three weeks to erect a barge, and by the
end of that time the disease might have progressed
more even than it had hitherto done. He
was, therefore, in favour of making an immediate
commencement, in the hope that the hospitals would
be found efficacious in checking the ravages of the
fearful visitation.

A desultory conversation ensued upon matters of
detail, at the close of which the committee ad-
journed,

ESSEX.

The disease has made its appearance in the Ten-
tiring Hundred ; one farmer has lost his dairy, and
estimates his loss at at out £lOO. It is supposed
that the disease was introduced into the neighbour-
hood by some recently purchased cattle. In the
neighbourhood of Colchester the disease has also
extended, and several beasts which were being
fattened for Christmas have been attacked and ear-
lied off.

The disease has prevailed with considerable severity
at Melford. All the cases are distinctly traceable,
and Mr. Mutton, the local inspector, has no doubt
that the disease was introduced into the neighbour-
hood by a number of Irish beasts which came from
Bury St. Edmunds,

CAMBRIDGEsnutE
Lord G. Manners, , hasM.P• been a •
pa iponted
oltn-
chairman of the Cambridgeshire Cattlelv pl
.
veng,iu)er
surance Association, and Mr. 11.
vice-chairman. The Earl of Hardwieke, L„7.
Lieutenant of the county, has subscribed £lOO to_
wards the funds of the society.