The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, May
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, accompanied
by Lady Wodehouse and the Hon. Miss Wodehouse,
arrived at Kingston this evening at 5 45 from Lon-
don on board the mail steamer Ulster, Capt. Trip-
hook, R.N., in command. A royal salute was fired
from her Majesty's ship Royal George, the yards of
which were manned, and from the Pier-head Fort.
His Excellency was received at the Castle, Pier by
Capt. 1)e Cetto, A.D.C., Col. Musters, Dr. Hat-
chett, the Hon. Mr. Leeson, Mr. Balfour, Capt.
Roche, R.N., and Capt. Hutchinson, R.N. The pas-
sage from llolyhead was accomplished in three hours
35 minutes. The viceregal party proceeded from
Kingston to Dublin in a carriage attached to the
special mail train, and left Westland-row terminus
for the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix Park, at 6 p.m.
I telegraphed last night that reports of the out-
break of the cattle plague in other parts of the
country had been sent to the Government, but were
not considered well-founded. One of these came
from Ballymena, county Antrim, stating that three
cows had been shot under suspicious circumstances
within one mile of that town on the previous Fri-
day. A large
DI
r. was to be held on this day,
and Ar. Dobbyn,
sub-inspector of constabulary,
believing the disease to be rinderpest, suggested
that an inspector should be sent down at once. Mr.
Lambert, veterinary surgeon, was accordingly de-
spatched to the place where the cows had died—the
farm of a man named Ireland; and, having made a
post mortem examination of one of the animals, he
pronounced that the cause of death was disease of
the liver and diarrhoea, and that there was not the
slightest appearance of rinderpest. Under these
circumstances Mr. Lambert did not consider it at
to-day,al necessary
silo u that b
e
the Bally
ena
market, to be held
m prohibited.
The Northern Whig of this evening, referring to
the two additional cases reported yesterday, as
having occurred at Cabra and Ballinderry, states
that a cow belonging to Mr. M'Cartuey died oia
Friday week, and was buried. .A second took ill on
Thursday morning last, and Mr. Morrow, who has
been appointed local inspector, ordered the cow to
be destroyed yesterday, te]graphing the fact to the
Government. On the receipt of this telegram Sur-
geon Jenks started by the next train, and arrived
yesterday evening at Lisburn, in order to make a
post mortem examination, which was to be done
this morning, and in which he was to be assisted by
Mr. M'Call, a surgeon from the Veterinary Col-
lege, Glasgow, a gentleman who has bad great ex-
perience of the cattle plague in Scotland.
Another report reached Belfast yesterday that the
plague had broken out at Glenmachen, the residence
of Mr. R. W. Gordon, near Ilolywood. Mr. W.
Danville, J.P., and Mr. D. Donnell, R.M., imme-
diately proceeded to the place, accompanied by Mr.
Sub-Inspector Owen and Mr. Lett, V.S., of the
Royal Horse Bazaar, Belfast, lately a Government
inspector in England. They found that one cow had
died and been buried, and that another lay ill in the
cowhouse. After careful examination the disease
was pronounced not rinderpest, but fever. Mr.
King, V.S., arrived while the examination was pro-
ceeding, and concurred in this view of the subject.
Forty.of the constabulary are still in charge of
the infected districtof Drennan. Mr. J. D. Barbour,
J.P., who has taken a most active part in the steps
which have been taken to prevent the spread of the
disease, Mr. Morrow, of Legacurry, the county in-
spector (Mr. Kelly), and all in authority are using
the utmost exertions to prevent the spread of the
disease, and have given the strictest orders that its
first manifestation is to be reported without the
least delay.
The Whig says :
" There is a very general predisposition to discredit the
report that the disease from which the cattle that have died
and have been slaughtered have suffered is the true rinder-
pest. By many persons of no inconsiderable experience it
is stoutly maintained, in the teeth of the Government in-
spector's official report, that the present disease is the well
known lung disease. The following letter from a gentle-
man who resides not far from Drennan expresses this view
Being in the immediate vicinity of the place which is re-
ported as being the seat of the breaking out of the cattle
plague, and having an opportunity of hearing the meritsand
demerits of the case discussed by not only the farming com-
munity, but also by the landed proprietors in this neigh-
bourhood, I beg to inform you that the general impression
prevails that the authorities have been much too hasty in
jumping to conclusions in regard to the disease. Many
persons, and among others I could enumerate one or two
large land agents, are decidedly of opinion that no cattle
plague has yet actuallyappeared, and what has been called
isonbloyananqaugitgeracvoamte:jokninind
tohfislcuonugndt isease—at hthinge plague
that
has
hereto-
fore, but to a smaller extent. I can vouch that the farmers
hereabouts almost to a man hold this opinion."
Mr. Edward Purdon, one of the proprietors of
the Irish Farmers' Gazette, who has visited the

farms on which the cattle were slaughtered, shares
these doubts. He states that the pastures are re-
markably poor, and that the ground is high and
much exposed to the easterly winds, which have been
unusally prevalent and severe this spring. From
this cause cattle are generally subject to lung disease
at this season. Last May the Messrs. Purdon had
100 head of cattle in their farm in the county of
Wexford, and 20 of them had to be driven back to
the byres stricken with lung disease. In the course
of a week ten of the number had died, five in one
day. " This," they remarked, " occurred last May
before we heard of the cattle plague ; what would
be said and done if similar cases took place this
May ?" They join in the general regret that a post

mortem examination did not take place in the first
instance, as it was urged upon the Government by
various deputations. But Professor Ferguson had
no doubt on the subject, and he thought it unneces-

sary to incur the risk of spreading the pestilence by
opening the carcases, especially as many persons of
the farmer class were present. The last difficulty,
however, might have been got over, for the con-
stabulary could have required those people to depart,

and they would have complied as readily as they

desisted from holding the fair at Hillsborough.
Professor Ferguson is preparing a full report for
the Government of the cases that came under his

own observation. But if the Inspector-General

erred, it has been on the safe side. It is much bet-

ter to stamp out a disease which is not rinderpest,

by killing and burying the animals affected, than to

allow the plague to be propogated under another
_ _

name. One thing must be said, that the authorities,
from the Viceroy down, have left nothing undone to
prevent the spread of the disease, and their efforts
have been seconded with the greatest possible alac-
rity by the magistrates, the gentry, the constabulary
officers and their men.

A telegram which appears in the third edition of
the Belfast News Letter fully confirms the view of
Prefessor Ferguson :—" Lisburn, Saturday.—This
morning Mr. Jenks, V.S., and Mr. M'Call, V.S.,
made a post mortem examination of the cow slaugh-
tered at Cabra. Their report is that it was a de-
cided case of rinderpest."
The Evening Mail has this afternoon received the
following telegram from the Governor's secretary,
Isle of Man :—" The importation of cattle and
sheep into the Isle of Man is prohibited from the
18th inst."

The magistrates of Belfast are resolved to enforce
he precautionary regulations of the Privy Council

with exemplary strictness. On Thursday two pig
drovers were brought up in custody at the police-
office, charged with travelling from Ireland to Scot-
land and back without having the necessary regis-
tration certificates. They pleaded they had left the
documents behind them in Scotland, not knowing
they would be required on their return ; but it was
proved that there were printed directions on them
to that effect. Mr. O'Donnell, R.M., said he felt
bound, in the interests of the country, to impose a
penalty of £lO. The fines were not paid, and the
parties were removed in custody.

THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN GENERALS.—Genera
La Marmora is a tall, thin, lanky man, with a long
face, and a prodigious nose. He has a great passion for
his profession, and is an inflexible disciplinarian. General
Cialdini is a good-looking man, below the average height,
with a bushy m oustache and imperial. He has a keen
sparkling eye. This gallant officer is very popular in
Italy, and the soldiers have great confidence in him.
General Durando is a fine old man, with a grand military
aspect, and greatly esteemed throughout the Continent.
General Della Rocca, the King's principal aide-de-camp
and intimate friend, is about GO years old. His hair and
nioustache are quite white, and his general appearenee is
that of a digniiiod, aristocrotio

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocy,

ACCEPTANCE OF THE CONGRESS.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

DRESDEN, May 21, 1 p.m.
An extra edition of the official Dresden Journal
of to-day says :—" The proposed Congress at ParlB
has been agreed to by the Powers, and the first
nieeting will take place on Friday next."