The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-08 00:00:00

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

At the Northamptonshire January Sessions the
!ollowing orders were made:—

" That it is expedient from the 10th day of Janu-
ary inst. until the Ist day of March next ensuing
that no cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf, and
which are hereinafter designated as cattle, shall be
removed from place to place within their jurisdiction,
except with the licence of two justices acting in and
for the said county, and except such cattle be re-
moved for immediate slaughter, or to the nearest
railway station where cattle are received, to be sent
to some market legally open for the sale of cattle ;
provided also that nothing contained in this order
shall make it unlawful for any person to remove his
own cattle from one part of his farm or occupation
to another, unless such cattle shall, in the course of
such removal, be driven more than 100 yards upon
any highway or public road. Provided also that
nothing contained in this order shall make it unlaw-
ful for any person to bring or send, with the licence
of two justices of the said county, any cattle from
any land or premises in his own occupation in any
place, either within or beyond their jurisdiction, to
any other land or premises in his own occupation
within their jurisdiction. Provided always that pre-
vious to the granting of any such licence the owner
of the cattle to be removed, his or her bailiff or fore-
man, shall personally appear before the said two
justices, and make a declaration, in the form here-
under set out, or to the like effect ; and also produce
to the said two justices a certificate by the church-
warden, overseer, waywarden, or guardian of the
poor of the parish (or of some adjoining parish in
the case of cattle upon an extra-parochial farm) in
which such cattle are at the time of the signing
thereof, in the form hereunder set out, or to the like
effect.

" And the said justices in Quarter Sessions do
order and declare :

" That upon such conditions being fulfilled any
two justices of the said county, acting either together
or separately, m ayi n their discretion grant such li cence,
and any such licence so granted shall be in the form
hereunder written, or to the like effect. Provided
always, that such-licence shall be avaliable for not
more than three days, including the day of the
granting thereof, and then only between the hours
of 6 in the morning and 6 in the evening. Provided
always, that in the event of the person in charge of
the said cattle refusing or failing to produce for in-
spection such licence on demand of any justice, or
any constable of the said county, or of any officer
of the parish or place in which such cattle shall be
on such demand, such licence shall be thereupon
null and void, and the said person so offending shall
be liable to the same penalties to which he would
have been liable if the said licence bad never been
granted. Provided always, that it shall be the duty
of the person in charge of such cattle, immediately
they have arrived at the destination mentioned in
the licence, to return such licences by post, addressed
to the justice whose signature appears first in the
said licence."

NORTHUMBERLAND.

At the general quarter sessions for the county of
Northumberland, held at the Moot-hall, Newcastle-
on-Tyne, onWednesday, Mr. C.W. Orde, chairman,
Mr. THOMAS ANDERSON brought the subject of
the cattle disease before the notice of the magis-
trates, and said that he had first of all to ask them
to adopt the powers given them by the late order in
Council. He wished them thereby to do all that
they possibly could to prevent the spread of the
cattle disease at once, lest the time unfortunately
should arrive when it would be too late to make the
attempt. (Hear.) If the disease were not extin-
guished before the spring, when cattle would have
of necessity to be turned out to pasture, and would
have to pass along the roads—the consequences
might be far worse. Unless the markets or fairs
were stopped, he imagined that nothing could be
done to effectively prevent the plague destroying
the cattle of the county. That would be a very
inconvenient step to take, but in dealing with a
great evil like that, they must make up their minds
to submit to inconveniences, to great trouble and
expense. (Hear.) The disease, as far as he knew,
did not admit of a cure, but it did of prevention,
To obtain prevention it was necessary to obtain per-
fect isolation, and to obtain perfect isolation, the re-
moval of cattle must, as far as possible, be stopped.
For his own part he should wish to see the removal
of fat and lean cattle stopped, because he thought
that there could be no greater difficulty in the way
of the farmers of that county sending their cattle as
dead meat than there was in the way of the farmers
of Aberdeenshire sending their cattle to London as
dead meat. (Hear, hear.) With the view of ac-
complishing the object above set forth, Mr. Ander-
son introduced a resolution embracing certain prin-
ciples—namely, that all proceedings of the Court as
a local authority on the subject of preventing the
spread of the cattle plague should be null and void,
and that the Order of Council should be accepted
as the basis ; that it should not be lawful after the
sth of January for any person to bring any animal
from any other part into the county within their
jurisdiction, and that no person should' send any
animals from one part to another within their juris-
diction. The second clause could not apply to
animals sent by railway, and the third might be
subjected to the certificate of two justices.
Earl GREY said he entirely agreed with Mr. An-
derson that the cattle plague was a serious calamity,
and that they would have to submit to great incon-
venience, trouble, and expense in the hope of get-
ting rid of it. They must, however, take care to
frame their resolutions in such a manner as to re-
duce the inconveniences to the minimum. The last
proviso of Mr. Anderson was not quite to his mind.
A man might have a couple of farms and wish to
remove his stock from one to the other owing to
shortness of food or the like, but by the regulation
to which he referred he would be unable to do
so without obtaining an order from two justices.
On the other hand, there was no doubt that it
was extremelynecessary to see that any proviso which
they introduced should not open the door to abuses

which they wished to guard against. The resolu-
tion should prohibit as far as practicable all removal
. of stock in the county, but he thought at the
same time that there should be certain excep-
tions. He did not believe it possible to prevent the
removal of cattle short distances—from one healthy
district to another. Mr. Anderson had said that
there would be no more difficulty in sending cattle
to be slaughtered at market than in sending dead
meat from Aberdeenshire to London. It would take
considerable time to organise such a system; and,
moreover, a large farmer would be i‘n great difficulty
by it if organised, and likely to be at great loss by
being placed in the hands of the butchers, and not
obtaining a fair price. If such a plan were intro-
duced, it would cause butchers to go and slaughter
on the farms, which would be very dangerous indeed,
as they might even carry about the country the very
infection they wished to stop. The question of re-
moval required careful consideration, as did other
details of the measure, and the noble earl proposed
the appointment of a committee to deal with the
questions while the Court was sitting.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY said it seemed that the plague
was spread by animals being sent to market to be
sold as fat. They were taken to grass in the imme-
diate locality or purchased by small butchers for
the supply of the manufacturing and mining popu-
lation, who were considerable consumers of food,
and through those butchers and such removal the
disease was communicated throughout the west of
the Castle Ward. In one case a salesman took an
animal to Walker, and 15 or 16 others were infected
and destroyed, or died. The same result followed
taking some stock to Mickley. He did believe that
there was a general impression that the disease
would be best checked by allowing no beast sent to
market to leave alive. That might, according to
the last order of Council, be effected with the con-
currence of the borough authorities, provided the
slaughterhouse were contiguous to the place of sale.
The cattle-market was not within their jurisdiction,
and if they slaughtered the animals as they came
out they met with difficulty, as there was no suitable
provision.

Mr. ANDERSON said they had no power to prevent
animals being shown in the Newcastle market, or
being put afterwards into the train and taken to
Morpeth.

Capt. BLACKETT thought it would be well to stop
the markets.

Earl GREY remarked that they could not do so.
Capt. BLACKETr said they might suggest that the
markets should be stopped, and read a paragraph
from a newspaper to show that the cattle-market at
Oxford had been prohibited without inconvenience
to the butchers or customers, while prices were easier.
Earl GREY then rose to order, and recommended
that they should decide upon the several paragraphs
involved seriatim, and arrange the details in com-
mittee. He took it that they were all agreed as to
the desirability of preventing the spread of the dis-
ease by using prohibitory measures in accordance
with the Order in Council. (Yes.) He thought it a
great misfortune that by the Order of Council they
could not prevent cattle shown at Newcastle market
being taken to Morpeth, and thought application
upon that point should be made to Government.

The noble lord then inquired if they were all agreed
to endeavour to prohibit cattle being brought from
other places within their jurisdiction. With regard
to the next point—that of removal within the limits
of their jurisdiction—a sub-committee should be ap-
pointed, as he suggested, to consider the details.
Earl Grey, Mr. Anderson, Mr. T. Ridley, Mr. C.
Grey, and Mr. R. B. Sanderson were then nomi-

nated a committee to consider the whole of the pro-
visions ; and after an absence of one hour and a
half they returned into court, when it was resolved
to prohibit, after the sth inst., the bringing of cattle
into any place within the jurisdiction of the Bench;
also that a license of two justices should be required
before any cattle be removed from one place to an-
other, and to close all•markets and fairs. On the
motion of Earl Grey it was further determined to
send a copy of these resolutions to the Home Secre-

tarn and at the same time to express the opinion of
the magistrates that the present regulations are not
sufficient to check the spread of the disease, the
Bench believing that a uniform and stringent mea-
sure should be adopted throughout the country on
the responsibility of the Government.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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The Lords of the Admiralty have given instruc-
tions for one of the iron mortar vessels belonging to
the squadron laid up at Chatham dockyard to be
lent to the Great Eastern steamer, to be used as a
tender to that vessel during the time she is lying in
the Medway receiving on board the new Atlantic
telegraph cable.
Commodore Dunlop, C. 8., superintendent of
Woolwich Dockyard, has received a circular letter
from the Lords of the Admiralty, desiring him to
make known to the departmental officials of the
yard that their lordships cannot accede to the re-
quest contained in the various memorials for an in-
creased rate of pay. The wages of the ordinary
labourers in the yard will therefore remain as here-
tofore—namely, 13s. per week.

Her Majesty's 20-gun screw corvette Tartar,
1,296, and 250-horse power, now in dock in Wool-
wich, is in course of being surveyed by Mr. Turner
and the shipwright officers of the yard. Some of
the timbers have been removed, and portions of the
hull and other parts of the ship have been opened
out in order to ascertain the requisite expenditure
to render her again fit for foreign service. The
amount is estimated at about £12,000. The Tartar
is sister vessel to the Cossack, both of which were
partially constructed by Messrs. Pritchard, of Black-
wall, to the order of the Russian Government, on
the outbreak of the late war with that country, and
were then taken possession of by this country and
completed at Woolwich.

Mr. Alfred B. Sturdee, master shipwright at
Malta, and promoted from Woolwich dockyard, is
appointed master shipwright at Sheerness, vice Mr.
William Moodie, permitted to retire on superannu-
ation.

The sailing transport ship Havering Wood, in the
London Docks, commenced shipping on Saturday
shot and shell (about 270 tons) from Woolwich.
Arsenal, for Vancouver's Island ; and the Arcadia
made fast inside the T pier, in readiness to load with
600 tons of hutting materials for Bermuda.
The Medusa, 6,350 horse power, Mr. T. Potter,
master-commander, in charge, which was detained
at Chatham until Saturday, left the harbour on that
day—the weather having moderated—with the whole
of the boys and lads, and the complement of officers
belonging to the Wellesley, 72, late the training ship
and guard ship at Chatham, for conveyance round
to Devonport, where they will be transferred to the
Ganges, 84, the new training ship for boys at the
western ports. In case of the Medusa meeting with
rough weather during her passage down Channel
she will put in at one of the ports. The Wellesley
has been re-commissioned by Capt. W. H. Stewart,
C. 8., as the guardship for the dockyard and reserve
at Chatham. Only a portion of the ship's comple-
ment formally attached to the Wellesley will be re-
tailed on board that vessel, the remainder having
been transferred to the Royal Naval Barracks, for
disposal, as supernumeraries. The Royal Marines,
with the exception of a small detachment, have
joined headquarters. Boys and lads desirous of
entering the Royal Navy will still be received under
certain restrictions onboard the Wellesley, and after-
wards transferred to the other training ships.
The ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 14, 1,000 horse
power, at Chatham, is to be fitted with a mechani-
cal engine-room telegraph, by Messrs. John Penn
and Sons, the makers of her engines. The ventilat-
ing arrangements on board for supplying a constant
current of fresh air to the engine-room and aft and
forward stokeholes, will be fitted on the plan recom-
mended byMr. Baker, chief inspector of machinery
at Chatham dockyard, which has been adopted with
so much success in most of vessels belonging to the
ironclad fleet.

The screw gunvessel Griffon, 5, 80-horse power,
attached to the 3d division of the steam reserve in
the Medway, is undergoing some extensive repairs
in No. 2 dock, in anticipation of being again brought
forward for commission. A few months since she
was put out of commissibn after a lengthened period
of service on the West Coast of Africa.

The crew of the Formidable, 84, flagship of Vice-

Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8., Commander-
in- Chief at the Nore, were paid down on Saturday.
The screw steam corvette Malacca, 17, Capt. R.
B. Oldfield, from Portsmouth, en route for Rio
Janeiro and the Pacific, arrived in Plymouth Sound
on Saturday morning. She will convey disposable
seamen for ships on the station.

The screw steam storeship Fox, 2, Staff-Com-
mander H. A. Moriarty, having been repaired, was
removed on Saturday from Keyham Steamyard into
Hamoaze.

The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, Captain
Rochfort Maguire, got up steam on Friday and
went from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze, where
she was placed alongside the jetty at the dockyard,
preparatory to paying off her crew. When her
cable parted during the late gale, her boatswain's
leg was so much injured that he has been placed in
the Royal Naval Hospital.
The screw steam frigate Orlando, 46, the crew of
which were recently paid -off, has been removed
from Devonport Dockyard to the moorings in the
Steam Reserve in Hamoaze.

The lighter Tortoise left Plymouth on Friday
with stores -for Pembroke.

The screw steam gunboat Dapper, tender to the
school ships at Dartmouth, is having defects made
good at Devonport.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. George J. G. Purcell to
the Excellent, for service in the Royal Sovereign ;
James Jack, first-class assist.-engineer, to the
Royal George, vice T. W. Bower ; George J. Long,
assist.-clerk, to the Excellent ; and Walter H. Rae,
assist.-clerk, to the Ganges.