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THE SUN, LONDON, T.HURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1865.

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Mr. Disraeli and the Duke of Buckingham
on the cattle Plagne.
A county meeting As held at Aylesbury yester-
day, for the purpose of considering what means
should be urged on the Government with a view to
the more effectual prevention of the disease. Tho
high sheriff, Mr. N. G. Lambert, presided, and
among those present were the Duke of Buckingham,
Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., Sir 11. Verney,
Bart., 111. P., Mr. C. C: 73u Pre, M.P., Mr. Calvert,
Q.C., Mr. Acton Colonel Ca;ulfeild Pratt;
Colonel Watson, Mr. R. Purefoy Fitzgerald, Mr.
T. S. Chapman, Mr. J. T. Senior, Rev. P. T. Ouvry,
Rev. W. E. Partridge, Re;-. R. W. Scurr, Mr. P.
C. Lovett, &c.
Mr. J. T. SENIOR proposed the first resolution :
" That in the opinion of this meeting all foreign
cattle should be landed at certain specified ports
only, that they should be slaughtered at such ports
when landed, and sent to the various markets in no
other way but dead ; and also that the hides should
he disinfected or destroyed."
After some discussion had taken place,
Mr. DISRAELI said—This is a county meeting,
called upon a requisition which I had not the honour
of signing, but I felt it my duty, of course, to at-
tend a county meeting on a subject of such import-
ance. I did hope that the gentlemen who signed
the requisition would have brought the subject of
this great national calamity, especially as it affects
the interests of this county, before us, and would
have recommended the policy Which they think we
ought to appeal to her Majesty's Ministers to pursue.
I am a little disappointed that we have been exiled
on precipitately to adopt a resolution without that
precise explanation which seems to be expedient. I
came here to listen, not to speak ; I want to hear
the opinion of my constituents as practical men,
farmers, graziers, ani dealers in cattle, on a sub-
ject which, after all, concerns their most vital in-
terests. With regard to the resolution which we
have been called on rather suddenly to adopt, there
are, I think, very grave objections to it. There are
two ways of viewing the conduct which this country
might have pursued with regard to the cattle plague.
In June, when it first appeared, there were

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many measures which might have been taken

such as preventing the moving of cattle about
the country, or preventing the importation of
foreign cattle. But that opportunity has been

lost. The Government was taken by surprise in
June, when this terrible visitation first appeared,
and it was left to a most intelligent gentleman, the
Clerk to the Council, who, I think, met a grave re-
sponsibility with great ability, to meet by appro-
priate measures the probable inroads of this great
calamity. Ido not at all wish to criticise the con-
duct of the Privy Council, as represented by Mr.
Helps, under circumstances of great difficulty. But
the truth is, that what might have been most effec-
tual in June will not probabV, if ite have recourse
to it now, be at all efficacious. The mischief has

happened ; the plague has pervaded the land ; and
these violent measures will have probably no effect
on the plague, while they may have a very injurious
effect on your interests as traders. I will not dwell
on the principal point named in the requisition with
regard to the stoppage of cattle from the metropo-
litan markets, which will be brought before you in
another resolution ; but it is for you to consider
whether it is wise to suggest an interference with
your trade, by prohibiting the importation of cattle
which you have hitherto been in the habit of feed-
ing and preparing for the food of the people—
whether that shall take place with your concurrence
and even at your suggestion. It is a measure which
would have been of very doubtful expediency even
in June, although I can understand that a strong
case might have been made out for violent measures
in June. But it is more than doubtful whether you
should adopt such a course in November, and as a
recommendation to be carried into law, rather (as
it appears) as an experiment, there are I think
grave doubts as to the course which is here recom-
mended to us.

The resolution was carried with about half a
dozen dissentients.

The motion was carried unanimously.
Sir H. VERNEY moved a resolution that in cases
where cattle are destroyed by order of the Govern-
ment inspector some compensation should be allowed
to the owner by the Government.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM thought this one of the
most important questions that could come before
Parliament, and he believed that some system of
compensation would be adopted. But there would
be ample opportunity before Parliament met of con-
sidering the question, and they ought not to go to
Parliament with the disadvantage of having mea-
sures pressed on the Government by one county
which had been condemned in another. There must
be great difficulty in awarding the compensation.
They would best forward their views by abstaining
from any definite proposal until the amount of the
loss could be ascertained. As one who might have
to give a vote on the subject, he could not vote for
the resolution.

Mr. DISRAELI said too much praise could not be
given to the agriculturists of this country for the
way in which they had met this calamity, but he had
said from the first, that supposing it to prevail
largely in this country, it was impossible to suppose
that the arrangements made would be sufficient to
support the sufferers under these circumstances. He
wished especially to draw attention to the efforts
which had been made in Hertfordshire, under the
auspices of Lord Salisbury. An insurance associa-
tion had been formed on the principle of limited
liability. Every person insuring was required to
take shares co the extent of one-fourth of his in-
surance, besides paying a premium ; besides which
it afforded an opportunity to those landowners who
had no cattle to insure to support the agricultural
interest by taking shares. Lord *alisbuTy told him
two months ago be was confident they had already
£15,000 invested, and with the nominal capital
distributed as it was, there would be no difficulty,
without great distress to the county, in supporting
those engaged in this branch of agriculture. He
wished that he could believe there was an equally
satisfactory state of things in Buckinghamshire.
Such an institution as he suggested need not inter-
fere with the associations already existing, for the
able men at the head of these associations would
easily find a way by which they might work to-
gether. (Hear, hear.)

The meeting, after some desultory discussion,
terminated with a vote of thanks to the high sheriff.

The Cattle Plague.

MEETING AT WHITECIIAPEL.

A public meeting on behalf of the East London
Cowkeepers' Mutual Relief Fund Association was
held last evening in the large school-room, St.
Mary-steet, Whitechapel-road, to take into con-
sideration the best means of compensating those who
have been sufferers through the cattle plague. Mr.
occupied the chair. There was an Ayrton, M.P.,
exceedingly scanty attendance of the public on the
occasion.

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stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, Is. 6d., or 20 stamps.

GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na-
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post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.

ITAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX.*ROS'S .DEPIL A. WRY removes,
without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face.
neck, and arms. 3s. Gd., ss. lid., and 10s. 041. ; sent the same
day as ordered by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.

Lately published, id., sent free by post for two stamps
AN ESSAY upon the HUMAN HAIR : Its
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matter at what age. The Agna Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61 Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re-
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Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

WrNsLon HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the care and .comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOISRAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab-
lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable residence,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an .hour
and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, meanow, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For tens and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

IThe Rev. P. T. 01.1vnv moved a resolution re-
commending that the exclusion of sheep and swine
from the local markets be rescinded, the prohibition
as to cattle being retained.
The Duke of BUCKINGH AM said he attended the
meeting without any intention of addressing it, but
he was entirely averse to the motion. He was not
averse to the utmost facility being given for the
carrying on of trade, but the course recommended
would be a step backward instead of forward. He
was not going to blame the Government or the Privy
Council, but the general opinion in the country was
that if there were one point in which blame attached
to any one, it was that not only the Government,
but the country had been too slow in measures of
prevention, and'that these measures were taken on
an insufficient scale. It was clear how much hesita-
tion the Government felt, if welook only to themany
changes and alterations made in the successive orders
in council. It would have been a most important
step if the Government, instead of leaving it to the
discretion of local authorities to have fairs and mar-
kets or to close them, had issued some general order
applicable to every district in the country. The pre-
sent state of things resulted in this—that while they
submitted to the inconvenience of having markets
closed in this county, the authorities 20 miles off
might think fit to keep theirs open, and so all the
benefit of their precaution might be lost. Whatever
difference of opinion there might be as to the origin
of the disease (which for the present purpose was of
little moment), there could be none as to its conta-
gious nature, and the general view was that every
means should be used to prevent its being carried
from one farm to another. He concurred in the step
taken by magistrates in this and other counties, in
stopping the transmission not only of cattle, but of
sheep and swine, to market, and he could not re-
concile it to himself to allow sheep which had come
from his neighbour Mr. Rogers's fields, where
the disease was, to be placed alongside of any
other animals at market. When he remembered
the stringent cautions urged by the Government
as to the dress of men who had to do with diseased
cattle, it `was impossible not to believe that sheep
might convey the infection. But he objected to the
resolution on this ground also, that they were deal-
ing in a piecemeal and partial manner with a mat.:
ter of imperial interest. He thought the agricultu-
rists should urge on the government some uniform
system throughout the country, and that, if neces-
sary, parliament should be called together for that
purpose. (Hear.)
The motion was lost, only one or two hands being
held up for it.
Mr. A. TINDAL moved, "That this meeting views
with great al arm and deep concern the gradual and
continued spread of the disease among animals,
known as the cattle plague, and fully agrees with
the opinion eppressed by the royal commission ap-
pointed to inquire into the origin and nature of the
disease, that it is so highly contagious and undis-
coverable at certain stages, that an absolute prohi-
bition ought, ;to be made against the transmission or

The Chairman, after some remarks of a general
nature on the subject of the cattle plague, observed
that it might be said that this was only a trade mis-
fortune, and that it must be borne in the same way
as other calamities had to bo borne. It was true
that every branch of industry which wasbased upon

the cultivation of animals and plants was liable to
serious derangement. But the question which they
had to consider was, whether, when these misfor-
tunes did occur in a certain degree of intensity,
when they surprised people in the ordinary course
of their business, so as to bring upon them great and
irreparable misfortune, it was not the duty of society
at large to come forward and to render a he Iping
hand, so far as it might be necessary to alleviate any
real and grievous suffering. (Hear, hear.) In
former times when the potato disease afflicted the
people of Ireland, they in England who did not suf-
fer by that calamity came forward in the mostliberal
manner to endeavour to relieve all pressing andreal
wants, and on other occasions whenever a ease has
been presented to them—whether at home or abroad
—of great suffering arising from some unforeseen
misfortune, the people of this country had never
shown themselves backward in doing what they could
to alleviate:it. (Hear, hear.) Now, he held in his
hand a list of the losses of cowkeepers in the Tower
Hamlets, from the Ist of July to the end of Septem-
ber, showing that some persons who had been car-
rying on a very moderate business, probably just
enough to afford them a reasonable subsistence, had
had the whole of their stock suddenly swept away.
That, undoubtedly, to them must be a most grievous
misfortune. There were other persons engaged in a
larger way of business, with a greater number of
cows, who had suffered in a like degree, and if they
had not the means of replacing those cows the loss
to them relatively must be greater and the
change of fortune must be still more oppres-
sive. The question then was, What could be
done for the relief of the sufferings of these
persons ? Looking to the number of persons present
that night he did not think they could do much to
alleviate the misfortunes of that portion of the com-
munity, but that was no reason why they should not
express sympathy with them, and endeavour to
evoke a friendly spirit on the part of others who
were well able to afford them pecuniary relief in
their dire distress. (Hear.) They could hardly ex-
pect that in the district where they had met there
would be the gathering of that wealth and strength
which might have been found if they had assembled
in St. James's Hall, at the west-end of London ;
but there was no reason why the voice of the com-
munity in that district should not reach the ears of
the persons who could respond to it, and be trusted
that what was said that night would not be altoge-
ther said in vain. (Hear.) He depreciated the no-
tion that whenever a calamity of this kind arose the
sufferers' wants should be relieved out of the public
exchequer, and thought it a much wiser course that
they should appeal to public sympathy, and ask
those who were richer than their neighbours, had
more than enough and plenty to spare, should give

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to rho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
ban 05 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases: •
F. P., aged 16, fallen, mother dead. deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents.
aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both part nts dead.
M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged is, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of a to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, R 5, Queen-street. Cheapside; or by Messrs
Dania), and Co, Lombard-street.

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conveyance of animals which have been exhibited
for sale at the metropolitan market."
After • some discussion, the motion was carried

unanimously.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM moved, " That it is
the opinion of this meeting that the restrictions to
be placed on markets and fairs, and on the
trss-
mission of cattle—as well in infected districts as in
the country generally—should be laid down by go-
vernment, and not left to the varying decisions of
separate lo3al jurisdictions, and that it is the opinion
of this meeting that parliament should
.be called
together, in order to any special legislation which
may be necessary to give effect to these views." He
argued that as the government had already prohi-
bited the importation of cattle into Ireland, and

into the part of Scotland north of the Caledonian
Canal, and into theWesternlslands, they 3ould not
be powerless to carry out a uniform system elsewhere;
but, in any case, the subject was of sufficient
_im-
portance to justify the calling of Parliament
together.

Mr:DISRAELI said this was a meeting through
which the Government might learn the general feel-
hig of the country on the matter. But with regard
to calling Parliament together, which was a common
suggestion, at the present time it could not be
effected. There must be sixteen days' notice in the
Gazette, and then a week would be consumed in
swearing in members and choosing a speaker. Then
the Government must give notice of their intention
to bring in a bill, and no Parliament would ever sit
during the Christmas holidays. Speaking now to
farmers and graziers, he would say they were na-
turally much alarmed, and ready to listen to any sug-
gestion made by their friends, and perhaps by some
who did not take so deep an interest in their success.
But all restrictions would be restrictions on their
industry and capital, as farmers and graziers, and
they ought not to adopt any such restrictions unless
they were convinced of their necessity. (Hear.)

out of their superabundance something to relieve
those who were afflicted. (Hear.) Referring to the
report of the Royal commission, the hon. member
observed that he did not discover that in that re-
port any special provision was contained having re-
ference to the position of the keepers of dairies, and
if there were to be no further dealing in live cattle
he did not exactly see how the business of a dairy-
man was to be carried on if he were to be restricted
from replenishing his stock. (Hear.) He had been
handed a statement showing the dealings in cattle
in London from July, 1865, to Nov. 13, from which
it would appear that out of 132,560 beasts, 59,780
being English and the rest foreign, which had been
brought to the cattle market at Islington for sale,
only 270 had been selected by the inspectors as pre-
senting possible symptoms of the disorder, and of
that number only 62 had been finally adjudged to
die as being incurable of the disease. If that be so,
it showed how difficult it was to place the interfer-
ence with trade upon any satisfactory basis. In
conclusion, the hon. gentleman suggested that the
meeting should be considered a preliminary one ;
and that, instead of pursuing their diScussions that
evening, the gentlemen who had called the meeting
should take some more organised action, for the
purpose of seeing what could be done. (Hear.)
This course was agreed to; and a vote of thanks
having been passed to the chairman for his kindness
in presiding, the meeting was adjourned.

MEETLNG AT CHELSEA.
A meeting, consisting principally of cowkeepers
and butchers, was held on Tuesday, at the Pier
Hotel, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, " to," in the words
of the notice convening the meeting, " consider and
resolve upon the best steps to be taken in the un-
exampled blow at the whole of the cattle trade, in
the report just issued by the Royal Commission--
viz., ' The complete suspension of the movement of
cattle from one place in Great Britain to another.'"
Dr. Barclay, the medical officer of health for the
district of Chelsea, presided.
The CHAIRMAN said that on a former occasion,
when he had the pleasure of meeting the cowkeepers
of Chelsea, he ventured then to express his dissent
from the resolutions adopted by the Privy Council,
and said he thought they were not at all adapted
for the purpose for which they were proposed—
namely, the putting a stop to the spread of the
cattle plague in London. Since that time a Royal
Commission had been busily engaged in inquiring
into the subject, and they had made their report.
That report fully bore out the statement made by
him on the former occasion, that this cattle plague
was one of an exceedingly infectious nature. But
the Royal Commissioners went on to make sugges-
tions as to how this cattle plague was to be stopped,
and those suggestions were such as, he thought, would
not commend themselves to the minds of men of
business, and he trusted that they would not com-
mend themselves to the Government of this country
as being measures which were at all justifiable even
in the circumstances in which they were placed.
(Hear, hear.) The recommendations made by
the commissioners were such as would necessarily
be injurious to trade, and lie could not help think-
ing that other measures might have been adopted,
which would have avoided this evil consequence.
He thought they might fairly point to what had
happened in the parish of Chelsea, as showing what
might be done by proper precautions. With the ex-
ception of two particular cases, in which the cattle
were allowed to remain in the sheds to die, the
loss in the one case amounting to six, and the other
to five cows, they had not lost another half-dozen
in the whole parish of Chelsea, owing to the pre-
cautions that had been taken ; and if these precau-
tions had been more carefully 'followed out they
would not have had to point to this loss, which had
been sustained through the introduction of certain
cattle which ought not to have been brought into
the parish. From reports which had reached him

from many quarters he believed that the Govern-
ment inspectors had, from mere apprehension, con-
demned animals which ought not to have been con-
demned. (Hear, hear.) He was of opinion that
the Cattle Plague Commission had gone further in
this matter than they were justified in doing.
(Hear, hear.) If they had confined themselves to
recommending the adoption of measures by which
the removal of cattle from one district to another
should be done only under the supervision of proper
and competent officers, the whole object would, in
his opinion, be obtained. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. DEXTER, a cowkeeper, moved :—" That in
the opinion of this meeting the recommendation,
contained in the report first issued by the Royal
Commission for suspension of the cattle traffic in ,
Great Britain, is of an arbitrary and tyrannical cha-
racter, ill calculated to achieve its object, exceeding
even the practice of indiscriminate slaughter so long
prevalent, and unworthy of adoption by a liberal
and enlightened government." He felt satisfied that
all those who considered this matter impartially
would come to the conclusion that the Govern-
ment had not yet taken the measures calculated to
accomplish the desired object. And the measures

that they had taken had not been taken in proper
time. Warnings had been repeatedly given that
the disease had got into the country, and yet no
steps had been taken by the Government in the
ric atter until the disease had got full possession of
the country, and then appointed young and inex-
perienced men to be inspectors, and the work of
wholesale slaughter went on. The chairman had
expressed his belief that there had been instances in
which cattle had been condemned that ought not to
have been condemned. Now, he (Mr. Dexter)
knew of instances in which the inspectors did not
condemn cattle that should have been condemned.

(Hear, hear.) In contrast to the manner in which
the Government of this country had acted in this
matter he pointed to the measures that had been
adopted on the Continent, and which had been
productive of such good results. lle felt confident
that the measures taken by the Government instead
of checking the disease had had the contrary effect,
and had led to much evasion, at the same time that
they had been productive of much injustice and
hardship. Coming to the recommendations of the
Royal Commission, he expressed a strong opinion
that they would be found impracticable. They
would inflict a great injury not only on the trade,
bulitrh.erocAliouncotrcyKast, large.
seconding e
in a r
the, r
hear.)e
ution, ex-
pressed his agreement with all that had been said
by the chairman and Mr. Dexter on the subject.
Dr. CRISP did not consider that the resolution
was sufficiently stringent in its character. If effi-
cient and stringent measures were not taken they
would not have an ox left in the country. Re-
ferring to the measures adopted by the Government
in the matter, he expressed his surprise that no pro-
vision had been made to compensate those whose
cattle were ordered to be slaughtered, and de-
clared his confidence that when Parliament met they
would never sanction such an injustice. He was
understood to say that he would not oppose the
adoption of the resolution, as he felt that this was
a question which it concerned the trade to deter-
mine for itself.

Mr. DELANY supported the resolution.
The resolution was put and carried unanimously.
Mr. NEW3IAN next moved—" That a committee
be now appointed to confer as to the steps neces-
sary to be taken for the protection of the interests
of those connected with the trade and traffic in
cattle, And that the various members of Parliament
be written to soliciting their aid in any efforts that
may be made to effect an alteration of this threatened
ruin of so large and industrious a class of persons,
who have already suffered to such an extent."
Mr. CRoss seconded the resolution, which was
carried. _ _ _

On the motion of Mr. MORRISON, seconded by
Mr. FREEMAN, it was also resolved that the meet-
ing stand adjourned to that day week, and that the
vestry of the parish of Chelsea be requested to