The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON.D9" FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8. 1865.

nel an German Ocean to all vessels lauen with cattle
of whatever origin, or to subject the introduction of cattle
which shall be:brought into those ports to such measure; as
hould be necessary to guard against the invasion of the
malady, and it is important that similar arrangements
should be applied to our northern and eastern frontiers.
However, notwithstanding all these precautions, the epi-
zootic malady may any day be introduced into our depart-
ments, and the government must therefore be upon its
guard against this eventuality; but it is not necessary to
have recourse to new orders for this purpose. The sani-
tary police, in its relations to domestic animals, is in fact
regulated by a series of decrees of the King's Council, of
royal ordinances and clauses of laws promulgated at dif-
ferent periods, and inspired by the necessities of the time,
which constitute a complete body of legislation on the sub-
ject. Among these decrees and ordinances are a certain
number which have been exactly dictated with a view to
combat the epizootic malady by which we are at present
threatened. These are the decrees of the King's Council of
April 10, 1714 ; March 24, 1745; July 19, 1746 ; Decem-
ber 18, 1774 ; the decree of the Executive Directory
of the 27th Messidor, in the year 5, and the
ordinance of the King of January 21, 1815. These
special acts, which are always in force, have fore-
seen, laid down, and prescribed all the measures
necessary to prevent the spread of the evil in the
empire ; such, for instance, as the obligatory declaration
imposed upon the holders of diseased animals ; the visit of
the cattle sheds, the slaughter of diseased animals and of
animals of the same species which have been lodged with
them, in consideration of an indemnity granted to their
owners ; the sequestration of diseased or suspected beasts ;
the designation by a special mark of those which have been
momentarily unable to be removed from the places in which
they are lodged ; the prohibition of fairs and markets ; the
surveillance of pastures and watering-plac,es—all these being
measures which, applied with discernment, permit of the
restriction of the epizootic malady to such localities, and
thus prevent the considerable losses its propagation would
entail. The experience of past times testifies to the efficacy
of these arrangements. The administration is therefore
sufficiently armed to combat typhus at home. But, under
the present conditions which obtain in foreign commerce it
has not the necessary power to prevent its importation by
way of our frontiers, and it is with the object of investing
it with this power that I have the honour of submitting the
annexed decree to your Majesty's sanction.—l am, sire,&c.,
Thataxxv, Minute Qf
Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works.
The decree alluded to above was signed by the
Emperor upon the sth inst. After the usual for-
malities, it proceeds to order-
1. The importation into France of domestic animals, the
entrance of which should present dangers of contagious
typhus shall be forbidden, or subordinated to such measures
as may be necessary to prevent the invasion of the malady.
2. Decrees of our Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and
Public Works shall determine the frontiers or portions of
frontiers, over which the introduction and passage by tran-
sit of domestic animals shall be forbidden, and the condi-
tion upon which this introduction and passage shall be
authorised.

The Minister of Agriculture has thereupon issued
the following orders :

1. The introduction into France, and the transit of ani-
mals of the bovine species, as well as of raw hides, and
other raw portions of these animals, by way of the ports of
the sea coast, from and including Nantes as far as Dunkirk,
and by the frontiers upon the north and east from the sea
to the Rhine, are absolutely forbidden.
2. The introduction into Fiance, and the transit of ani-
mals of the bovine species, as well as of raw hides and
other raw portionsof these animals, coming from England,
Holland, and Belgium, are absolutely prohibited into all
the ports and custom houses of the empire.
3. In other ports and custom Houses than those to
which clause 1 of these present orders applies, animals of
the bovine species imported from any other source than
England, Holland, and Belgium shall be provisionally in-
spected by special agents. Those which are perceived to be
healthy shall be admitted. Those which are found un-
healthy shall not be admitted. Those which shall only be
suspected, or shall have been lodged with animals found
unhealthy, shall be placed under observation for ten days
in a sufficiently isolated place, and shall not be admitted
until it shall be declared that they do not present any symp-
tom appertaining to contagious typhus.