The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-06 00:00:00

THE S Uri, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E VENIA Cr', SEPTEMBER 6, 1865.

a very numerous attendance of members present.
The Lord Mayor explained the purport of that as-
sembly having been called together, and observed
that he had lately received a great number of letters
on the subject of the cattle disease, and that he had
sent them to the Markets' Committee, who had
made the greatest exertions to perform their arduous
task in an efficient manner. A little time ago a
meeting was held at the Mansion-house for the pur-
pose of collecting the members of the Markets' Com-
mittee, the officers of health, and others concerned
▪ in the matter. These had formed a committee, and
, had an interview with the authorities at the Home-
• office, in order to acquire more power than the Act
of Parliament allowed to them. It is satisfactory to
know that these powers haze been granted, so that
no unnecessary obstacle is interposed to prevent the
fulfilment of the necessary plans. The L'rd Mayor
very truly observed that it was not desirable for all the
members of the Corporation to be out of town at once
now that this dreadful cattle plague was raging and
so much attention and advice were required. The
Chairman of the Markets' Committee moved a re-
solution which embodied the proposals previously
stated, of allowing a thousand pounds for compen-
sation to the owners, and of establishing sanito-
Hums. He stated the various plans which had been
adopted by the Markets' Committee since they had
first received the intelligence of the spread of the
cattle plague. The Islington Market has been dis-
infected, and the inspectors have been empowered
to send additional men to prevent the diseased cattle
from being sold for human food.
It is to be regretted that the powers vested in
these agents are not more extensive, for it appears
that until the issue of the last Order in Council it
was impossible to prevent the diseased cattle from
entering the market, as it was a public one. The
time that was lost in waiting for the tardy appear-
ance of these orders must have occasioned a great
deal of damage, because the evil was gaining
ground and rapidly spreading in all directions. It
is, at all events, satisfactory to hear that the
Inspectors are now making the best use of their
time, as up to the other night as many as two
thousand cows have been killed out of the sixteen
thousand in the metropolis. We may form some
idea of the nature and extent of the calamity, when
we hear that the loss occasioned by the destruction
of these cows amounts to thirty or forty thou-
sand pounds. The description of this plague
here given is truly painful to peruse,
and it shows the sad condition to which
the calamity may reduce the owners of cattle in a
short time. " Those who are in affluence at the be-
ginning of one week may be reduced to beggary by
the sudden destruction of the animals on which they
depended for their livelihood." Mr. GIBBINS ex-
plained the advantages which would be derived
from the establishment of sanitoriums at some
.length, and certainly they seem to be very great
and obvious ones. It generally happens now that
the cowkeeper sends off the infected animals to the
market, or to some slaughter-house where they can
be killed, and great danger accrues from their
passing through the streets for these purposes. If
the diseased cattle were separated from the healthy
ones, and the former sent off to a sanitorium, much
benefit would result, and also the great desideratum
would be gained of their being buried on the spot
where they die. The advantage of establishing a

compensation fund will be that the cowkeepers will
be more likely to send, their cattle when diseased to
the sanitoriums or to inform the local authorities.
Mr. GIBBINS truly remarked that London should
not be behind hand in this emergency, ana that if
the Corporation headed the subscription list with a
thousand pounds the cattle salesmen would sub-
scribe another thousand, and the public would come
forward. He also adduced a painful reason for
some decisive measures being taken, when he stated
that if the disease were not speedily checked,
butchers' meat would rise to such a price that the
poor would be unable to purchase it at all.
It is wisely determined by the committee that

no one shall be recompensed who does not send in
a timely intimation that his cattle are affected with
the disease. This is quite right, because time is
everything in such matters, and any delay is sure
t) be attended with serious consequences. The
report which was read explained very fully what
were the intentions of the committee. "Sanitoriums
are to be established, compensation to be brought

to bear, persons who have cows affected with the
disease are to give timely notice of the same,
and the diseased cattle are to be sent in
proper conveyances to the sanitoriums, where the
medical men will try their hands at effecting a cure."
These objects are laudable in the extreme ; and as
the committee think that from ten to fifteen thou-
sand will be sufficient to meet the necessities of the
case, it is to be hoped that the public will see the
necessity of coming forward with the necessary
amount. Remembering the liberality which has
been displayed on former occasions of distress, such
as the cotton famine for instance, there is no reason

to doubt that many will be wanting in the present
emergency. The motion was put and carried una-
nimously, and thus an undertaking Las been
inaugurated which promises to produce the best
effects, and to meet the calamity that at present
threatens us with increasing to a great extent, and
whose continuance alone will create great misery
if it does not exceed the present aggregate. Lord
GRANVILLE has sent a letter to the Times, in which
he relates the extent to which the calamity of the
Cattle Plague has affected the animals on a farm
in the Finchley-road. When the noble earl left
England a month ago there were 130 cows in four
sheds ; in the two largest and best managed he
found yesterday only one cow remaining on his
return. Lord GRANVILLE mentions that some
people do not think this plague is the same as that
which visited Coburg some years ago. The noble
lord's bailiff has drawn up a statement of
what took place at the farm during his
absence, which will be no doubt of great service to
those intimately concerned in the matter of the
cattle plague. Mr. PANTER states his conviction
that the " disease is atmospheric, and of a typhoid
character." Every possible precaution was taken
in this case of course, but to little avail, as the mor-
tality was excessive, more than eighty having been
lost. A neighbour a mile off also lost a large num-
ber of cows out of a fine herd. Mr. BANTER'S
treatment of one cow proved successful when he
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and this calamity may be said to be one that baffies
for the present all skill and experience.

An interesting ceremony takes place to-day in
the busy town of Birmingham. Its active material
life and stirring business occupations have not
rendered its inhabitants indifferent to the attractions
of science and study. The combination between
thought and action which is often exhibited in
English life will be powerfully illustrated in the
assembly of savans and philosophers upon which the
factory chimneys of Birmingham will this day look
down. The British Association for the Advance-
ment of Science holds its thirty-fifth meeting there,
and wise men from all parts of Europe are gathering
at the Birmingham Exchange. Several pleasant ex-
cursions haye been arranged to take place during the

sitting of the Association, for the neighbourhood of
Birmingham is peculiarly rich in interesting localities,
as by the bridge of the poet " the past and pre-
sent there combine," and the artistic relics of the
past meet the manufacturing industry of the present
in very close proximity. Kenilworth Castle and
Priory, St. Mary's Hall, and the remains of the
Cathedral will be visited on the same day as Messrs.
SKID3IORE'S art manufacture works. Another trip
will include a ruined abbey and abbot's house ; a
third will combine a visit to tile works and a geolo-
gical examination ; while a fourth, not less interest-
ing and instructive, must, of course, conduct the
pilgrims to Warwick Castle and SHAKSPERE'S
birthplace. Birmingham itself has plenty of at-
tractions of its own, and the manufactories are not
less marvellous in their way than architectural relics
or remains. The programme of the meeting shows
that the business of the occasion is not to be for-
gotten in pleasure, and the inaugurative address of
Professor PHILLIPS, the new President, will pro-
bably be deeply interesting. Every year the im-
portance of scientific study becomes more and more
felt and acknowledged. It is no longer left to the
student and the scholar, but it is necessary to the
practical man if he would keep apace with the im-
provements and discoveries of his age. The annual
meeting of the British Association serves to realise
the progress already made, and to indicate the
paths in which our next steps must be taken. It is
as practically useful as it is theoretically interesting,
and we hope the present assembly will pass off with
the accustomed success.

&lease of Consul Cameron.

The following was forwarded to us from the
Foreign-office last night :

" Foreign-office, Sept. 5, 1865.

" Information has this day been received at the
Foreign-office that Mr. Rassam had arrived at
Suez, and had reported to her Majesty's agent and
consul-general in Egypt that Consul Cameron had
been released. No details received."

ACCIDENT AT THE FINSBURY EXTENSION RAILWAY
WORKS. —Yesterday afternoon a serious accident
occurred at the new station of the Finsbury Extension of
the Metropolitan Railway, now in course of erection in
Aldersgate-street. A little after twelve o'clock two men
were engaged in lifting a crate of glass, weighing about
four cwt., on to the roof of the station by means of a crane.
The men succeeded in getting the crate on to a narrow
board which was resting on the iron girders of the roofing.
The board broke in the middle, and the men, who were
standing on it, were thrown to the ground, a distance of

about 70 feet. The glass also fell, and the noise of the
crash was great, and when it was heard by a workman
standing on a scaffolding near, he became dreadfully
alarmed; and running to tho edge of it looked down on
the injured men. He then fell to the ground, and was

fearfully injured. The men who were on the plank in the
roof of the building when it broke were named respectively
Philip Potter, aged 20 years, and Robert Chafe, aged 18.
The unfortunate man, Potter, it is believed, had his back
broken by the fall, and his case is regarded as hopeless.
His comrade, Robert Chafe, escaped with a broken leg and
severe concussion ; though he is at present delirious, his
recovery is expected. The third sufferer, Edward Lewis,
aged 27 years, has had his left thigh and right leg broken,
and he received besides a serious concussion on the right
shoulder. He states that when he was standing on a sea-
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fold he heard the fall of the other men and of the glass,
and that he proceeded to get down hurriedly to go to their
assistance. In doing so his hand slipped, and he, too, fell
to the ground, and so met with his injuries. Lewis, it
would appear, had been employed at the works since their
commencement, and being regarded as a steady hand was
employed to do the dangerous work. He says that he had
frequently been up at greater heights, and had come down
ropes, &c., with perfect safety. The two other men had
not been long employed on the works.

An extraordinary electrical phenomenon occurred
in the Forest of Chantilly two clays since. About
three in the afternoon, a waterspout passed across the forest
in less than five minutes, destroying almost everything in
its passage for a width of 50 yards and a length of nearly
five miles. About 600 trees, many of them oaks of large
size, wore either broken off close to the ground, or torn up
by the roots, and shivered to splinters. Two of the rides,
reserved for exercising tha horses of MM. Lupin and
Aumont, are so blocked up with the broken trees as to be
altogether impassable. The course of the waterspout be-
gan about 200 paces from the station of Orry-la-Ville, and
ended at the Garrefour St. Remi.—Galignani.
BARNET CATTLE FAlR.—This annual fair com-
menced on Monday, and continued yesterday. As
usual it brought together a very large gathering of graziers,
cattle dealers, and others from all parts of the country.
Hereford beasts realised high figures, promising weighty
young steers fetched £lB to £2O a head, and those of small
growth £l4 to £l6. The droves of Devon stock obtained
sale at prices varying from £l3 to £l5. In the field as-
signed- for South Wales runts dealers held out for ad-
vanced prices, and well-grown strong steers realised £l2
to £l5, some inferior sorts going at £8 to £lO ; useful
Welsh heifers for fatting purposes, £7 to £9. In the
North Wales division large steers in fresh condition
realised from £l7 to £l9, and inferior ditto £l3 to £l5.
The Scotch cattle fair bad a good show of stock on
view, Highland steers making £l2 to £l5, and small
Scotch runts £6 to £B. Polled steers in high con-
dition fetched £l5 to £l7, and well-conditioned polled
heifers £l3 to £l5, and a large clearance was made.
Among milch cows business was very flat, and metro-
politan dairymen have abstained from buying in fresh
milch stock from fear of importing cattle disease into their
sheds, and many head of dairy cows were unsold. At the
horse fair, the show comprised a large field of useful ani-
mals ; young sound cart horses for road work realized 25 to
28 guineas, and seasoned ditto for farming work 15 to 20
guineas, handsome cart colts 20 to3o guineas, good roadster
and saddle nags 20 to 30 guineas, and ditto for single light
harness 25 to 35 guineas, and strong grown powerful young
horses suitable for vans, town carts, &c., were in good de-
mand at figures varying from 35 to 45 guineas, and well-bred
horses for riding and driving purposes, 40 to 50 guineas.
There was a fine show of Irish colts fresh imported, and
promising, well-bred, unbroken animals wore bought from
the droves at 17 to 32 guineas, and choice selections at 30
to 35 guineas. Among Welsh forest ponies there was a
quick demand, many of them were only yearlings and found
purchasers at four to seven guineas, and strong useful
ponies at eight to 12 guineas.

IRISHEMIGRATION.—The Irish Registrar-general's
return for the last quarter shows that the population
of the country continues to decrease. It cannot now be
more than 5,400,000. The emigration for the last quarter
was less by 11,214 than in the corresponding period of
1864 ; but adding the emigration of the two quarters of
the present year together, and subtracting these from the
excess of births over death; it appears that the emigra-
tion outnumbered the natural increase by 22,805, which
represents the decrease of the population for the first half
of 1865. From this it will be seen that the exodus con-
tinues, but at an abated rate. It is 20 per cent. less than
last year.

TRIAL OF THE SELKIRK RIOTERS.—Five men be-
longing to Selkirk, who are alleged to have taken
part in the riot which occurred in that town on the occa-
sion of the recent election for the county, have been in-
dicted to appear before the Lords of Justiciary at the Jed-
burgh Circuit Court on the 19th instant. The four men
concerned in the main charge are John M`Lean, mill-
worker; Andrew Heatlie, slubber ; William Lees, coal-
agent ; and James Hardie, powerloom manager. The in-
dictment sets forth that on the 20th July last, being the
polling-day appointed for taking the votes of the electors
of the county of Selkirk fer the election of a member of
Parliament, a mob, or great number of riotous and evil
disposed persons, of which the accused formed part, did, in
a riotous and tumultuous manner,and in breach of the pub-
lic peace, and to the great alarm of the lieges, wickedly
and feloniously assemble in or near Back-row, and in
High-street, Selkirk, for the unlawful purpose of intimi-
dating or putting in terror or alarm various or one or more
electors of the said county, and of attacking or injuring his
or their dwelling houses, or for some other illegal purpose
unknown. The panels are also further accused of taking
part with the mob in an attack on the house of Dr. Ander-
son, Selkirk, in burning an effigy, in an assault upon the
police, while engaged in the execution of their duty, by
pressing against them and pelting them with stones,
whereby Chief Constable Fraser and several officers under
his command were more or less injured, and in an attack
upon the Townhall, and the police constables stationed
there. Another man, also a resident in Selkirk, is charged
in a separate indictment with participation in the crimes
above detailed, and also with a breach of the peace cora-
-1 muted at an earlier hour of the day.—Seotsnutn.
A correspondent of the Birmingham Post writes •
"At Wakefield, a few clays ago, some German gentlemen'
called at the vicar's, and asked for permission to view the
house and grounds. It was accorded, not without surprise
at a request so unusual. When the compatriots of Goethe
and Schiller had satisfied their curiosity, and had departed,
it transpired that they had made a pilgrimage, as they be-
lieved, to the scene of Oliver Goldsmith's story, and that
the vicarage was to them endeared by associations of Dr.
Primrose, Olivia, Sophia, and Moses. May the enthusiastic
Germans never IN undeceived and disenchanted."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTY,R'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN AND ITALY.
MADRID, SEPT. 5 (Evening).

The Queen has determined to give immediately
a special audience to the Marquis of Tagliacarne, in
the quality of ambassador of Italy, in order that he
might officially present Prince Amadeus to her
Majesty.

signing the management, Senor Rubio publishes an
article which is at once a protest against Senor
Olozaga and a formal recognition of hereditary
monarchy as represented by the reigning dynasty.
The schism in the party on the question of leader-
ship is now fully developed, and much curiosity
prevails relative to the course that will be
adopted by Espartero, under the circum-
stances. Many Progressists rejoice rather.,
than otherwise at the turn matters have taken, con-
sidering that this question must sooner or later have
arisen, and might have been biought forward at a
more dangerous juncture. Espartero and Olozaga
would never, it is believed, work harmoniously
together, and the question will now be finally
decided in the next Committee.

In an article reviewing in discouraging terms the
financial condition of the country, the Epoca prints
state that although 800 million reals were realised in
the months of May and June, the floating debt has
not been reduced in equal proportion notwithstand-
ing ample resources voted by the Cortes to relieve
it. The article concludes as follows :—" The Cortes
will reassemble within a few months, and it will
then be indispensable that the real state of the
Treasury should be clearly and thoroughly set forth.
A true balance-sheet must then be presented, show-
ing the exact amount of the deficit, the measures
most expedient to liquidate it, and the reforms
necessary to insure the equilibrium of receipts and
expenses in future. If the next Legislature closes
without having settled in a definite manner the
question of finance, which is now possible by abne-
gation and patriotism, difficulties will arise which
all who are interested in the prosperity of the
country should seek to avoid.

Prince Amadeus arrived at Granada yesterday
morning, being received by the GovQrnor, Mayor,
and other authorities. He would probably leave
that city for Madrid this morning.

The Cattle Disease.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—On my return from Coburg yesterday I re-
quested my bailiff to draw up a statement of what
has occurred during my absence at a farm which I
hire at Golder's-green, three miles from the Regent's
Park on the Finchley-road.
Having perfect confidence in the accuracy of Mr.
Panter's statement, and thinking it may interest the
public, I forward it to you for publication.
When I left England a month ago there were
about 130 milch cows in four sheds. In the two
largest and best managed I found only one cow
yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Coburg
informed me last week that what he believes to be
the same disease visited Coburg last year. No one
can trace its origin, and no medical treatment was
successful. Air and water were their only remedies.
Some men had died from eating the meat killed at a
particular stage of the disease. His Royal Highness
had seen a horse die in four hours, killed by flies
which came from the carcass of a cow which had
been allowed to remain above ground. The dis-
ease disappeared in the autumn as mysteriously as
it had come.

I understand that Professor Symonds is of opinion
that the disease mentioned by the Duke of Coburg
is not the same as that from which we are suffering
here—that its name is the Siberian Pest.-1 am,
sir, your obedient servant, GR ANVILLE.
Sept. 5.

" Golder's-green Farm, Hendon, N.W., Sept. 4.
" My Lord,—Your lordship wishing to have particulars
of the breaking out and continuance of the cattle plague
here, 1 have tho honour to send a statement.
" On the 13th of July I purchased five Dutch cows in the
Metropolitan-market, and placed them in quarantine at
Child's-hill farm, one mile from here. On the 22d of July
one of them showed signs of debility, diarrhcea followed.
Thinking it was only a cold, she was treated accordingly,
but continued to get worse, and died in five days. Two
more were attacked in a similar way, when veterinary ad-
vice was called in, but in five days the whole either died or
were slaughtered. Every precaution was used to prevent
the spread of infection here; the men who attended the sick
cattle were not allowed to go among the healthy ones, and
vice versa.

"But previous to this, hearing of the disease in the Lon-
don cow-sheds, I adopted precautionary measures, such as
a liberal use daily of chloride of lime, administered one
ounce of nitre in half a pint of water to each cow, and a
small quantity of tar, and painted their noses with tar.

"But, on the Bth of August, unfortunately the disease
showed itself here in a fat cow that had been for ten months
in the best built, best drained and ventilated shed. No new
stock had been added for nine weeks. In a few hours four
more cows showed symptoms of it. I immediately had
them all removed andslaughtered, and made a post mortem
examination of them, and found the windpipe in a state of
decomposition, the lungs inflated, the small intestines red
and inflamed, and the meat of a dark yellow colour out-
side, and dark red inside, which I think unfit for human
food after the first stage.
" The disease confined itself to the above shed of 48 cows
(which are now all gone) till the 20th of August, when it
broke out in another shed of 35 cows, some ten yards from
the former one, and continued its ravages, taking from two
to four cows daily, till they are all gone but two, one of
which has not been attacked ; the other, which was a bad
case, is cured, and partly come to her milk again. On the
first symptoms I had her separated from the other stock,
and did not treat her for two days, when diarrhoea set in ;
I then gave her a bottle of brandy and four ounces of
ground ginger in three quarts of old ale. She lay in a kind
of stupor for 12 hours, when I could see a change in her
for the better. I continued to give her daily four quarts of
gruel made with old ale and two ounces of ginger. In four
days she was sufficiently recovered to eat a little hay, &c.,
and do without further treatment. In another case the
above treatment failed, and the animal died in three da) s.
"In other cases I allowed any one to treat them who
thought they had a remedy, both professional men and
others. One persevering young veterinary surgeon came
up out of Somersetshire and treated two cases most ener-
getically, but failed in both ; one died in four, and the other
in eight days. In other cases tonics, stimulants, blisters,
and setons have been tried but failed.
" The whole of the 81 cows lost were of the English
breed ; we have not as yet had any loss out of the other
two sheds, consisting of about half English and half Dutch
cows, and standing about 40 yards from the infected shed.
" It may be interesting for your lordship to know that I
had the shed at Child's-hill farm immediately cleansed
with disinfectants, and washed with hot lime, &c., and
bought 12 fresh cows and placed them there on the 16th,
which are now in perfect health, and a neighbour situated
midway between here and that farm had 23 cows lying in
a field ; the plague took 20 of them, and in three weeks he
replaced them with new stock, which are still healthy, he
having had them a month.

"Another neighbour, a mile distant, had a fine herd of
72 cows (English) lying in the fields a fortnight ago. The
plague broke out among them, and now he has only eight
left in health.

" Froni my own experience, and from all I can learn, I
believe the disease is atmospheric, and of a typhoid cha-
racter.

" The first symptoms in a milking cow is an almost en-
tire loss of milk, then loss of appetite, a watery discharge
from the oyes, nostrils, and mouth, which thickens as the
disease develops itself ; rumination ceases, her ears hang
down, her eyes are heavy and sunken, bloody matter is
seen in the excrement, great debility is seen, diarrhoea sets
in, and death takes place in from three to nine days.
"I have read of iron water being a preventive of the
disease. All the water your cows have drunk comes six
miles through rusty iron pipes.
" I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most
obedient servant, 6° CHARLES PANTER.
" The Right Hon. Earl Granville, E.G., &c."

THE JUDGES' CHAMBERS.—At the Judges' Cham-
bers yesterday Mr. Justice Montague Smith was engaged
to a late hour in hearing summonses and other matters be-
longing to the three Common-law Courts. Mr. Sleigh ap-
plied in the case of " The Queen v. Schmidt " for leave to
put in bail. Tha defendant was committed at Brighton for
receiving stolen property, and his wife was also committed.
A Mr. Pocock had been robbed of his watch at the railway
station by being jostled against by two women and a man.
Mr. Inspector Carpenter, of the London police, attached to
the Brighton Railway, obtained a search warrant, and the
watch, with several others, was found at the beershop of
the defendant at Cross-street, Hove. Tho defendant now
made an affidavit of his innocence, and stated that he was
out all the day attending to the business of a fly-owner.
The learned counsel, mid the prisoner could not be tried
for some time, and he hoped he had shown sufficient for
the learned judge to grant a summons to admit him to bail.
His lordship said the learned counsel might have a sum-
mons, and one was accordingly issued calling on the other
side to show cause.

FATAL SCAFFOLD ACClDENT.—Yesterday after-
noon an accident, which immediately proved to be
fatal, occurred at Messrs. Aldebert and Co.'s premises, Bow-
street, Long-acre. A bricklayer named William Adkinson
was, with other men, engaged in putting another story to
the above premises, when the deceased, in stepping from
the top of a high ladder on to the scaffold, missed his foot-
ing and fell from a height of 36ft. on to a stage Bft. from
the ground. On the lower stage were pieces of brick, one
of which fractured his skull and penetrated the brain, in
which it remains firmly wedged.