The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1866.

beasts. Near Ely Mr. W. Pate has lost upwards
of 200 head, and the expense for digging holes for
the reception of the carcases only has been £5O. In
the villages of Sutton and Downham the disease has
been very virulent. At Sutton the number of deaths
has now been carried to upwards of 140. At March,
during the last two months, 256 beasts have died
from the disease, of which Mr. J. Tibbett alone lost
63.

county to any other place within the county, ex-
cept from lands to adjoining lands in the same oc-
cupation. This in effect is a total prohibition of
the removal of live cattle under any circumstances,
where a public highway has to be crossed, till the
Ist of March next, but from a correspondence
which has taken place between Sir Baldwin Leigh-
ton, as Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and the
Home-office, it appears that the magistrates have
misapprehended, in an important particular, the
power vested in them by the Order in Council.
Sir George Grey informs Sir Baldwin Leightonthat
cattle may be driven to railway stations for the
purpose of being conveyed out of the county,
which will, to a great extent, nullify the regulations
of the magistrates. At the adjourned Quarter
Sessions, held at the Shire-hall, Shrewsbury, on
Saturday, Sir Baldwin Leighton in the chair, a long
discussion took place on the subject of relaxing the
regulations. Mr. C. V. Childe Pemberton pointed
out their hardship and inconsistency, and proposed
that they should be relaxed, in districts free from
the plague, so as to permit the removal of cattle from
place to place any distance not exceeding a quarter
of a mile, and for breeding purposes not exceeding
a mile. Lord Hill, Lord-Lieutenant of the county,
said that as the existing regulations would only con-
tinue in force till the Ist of March, the inconvenience
would be trifling in comparison with the importance
of getting rid of the cattle plague. The Chair-
man said he was opposed to the frequent altera-
tion of regulations adopted by the court, but if
the magistrates generally were of opinion that some
modification was desirable, he would suggest that
the details be referred for consideration to a com-
mittee. Mr. Childe Pemberton withdrew his motion
in deference to the suggestion thrown out by the
chairman, and a proposition by Lord Hill against
any alteration being made in the existing regula-
tions was put and rejected by a majority of 15 to 12.
Mr. Childe Pemberton then proposed " That a com-
mittee be appointed to consider any alterations that
it may seem desirable to make in the present order
of the Court relative to the cattle plague, and report
to the Court next Saturday." This proposition,
having been seconded by Mr. Butler Lloyd, was
carried by a majority of 19 to 11, and the Court
adjourned for a week.
The county magistrates were occupied a con-
siderable time at Shrewsbury, on Saturday after-
noon, investigation a charge against the London and
North-Western Railway Company for having, on
the 27th of December, conveyed certain cattle
from Newtown, Montgomeryshire, to Yockleton,
in the Hundred of Ford, Shropshire, in contra-
vention of an order of the magistrates, dated the
16th of December. Mr. Roberts, solicitor, of
London, represented the company. It appeared
that the cattle were consigned to Mr. Jones, of
Yockleton, to Mr. Edward Edwards, of Yockleton,
and that they were conveyed by the defendantsin the
usual way, in pursuance of the traffic management
between the London and North-Western and Cam-
brian Railway Companies, the truck and engbie
used belonging to the former. Mr. Roberts, for the
defence, submitted that railways were not included
in the scope of the order under which the informa-
tion was laid ; that there was no evidence to show
that the cattle were sent to Yockleton for exhibi-
tion or sale, as mentioned in the Order ; and that,
if any offence had been committed, the consignee
was the proper party to summon and not the rail-
way company. The magistrate held that railways
are included within the scope of the Order, and that
the other points raised by Mr. Roberts were not
worth consideration. They consequently convicted
the company, and imposed a penalty of £2O and
costs. Mr. Roberts applied for a case to be sub-
mitted to the Court above, but the magistrates. re-
fused the application.

Mr. Cobden Abroad.

After a brief stay at Bordeaux, where likewise he
was entertained in public by the leading merchants
and bankers of the City of the Vine, he crossed into
Spain. At Madrid another festival in his honour
awaited him, at which several of the leading politi-
cians of the Chamber of Representatives took part.
While in the Spanish capital he witnessed a bull
fight for the first time. The spectacle pained him
deeply. "So long," he wrote, "as this continues
to be the popular sport of high and low, so long will
the people be indifferent to human life, and have
their civil contests marked with displays of cruelty
which make other nations shudder." Narvaez struck
him as the man of "most practical sense and know-
ledge" of the politicians he met with at Madrid ;
for he admitted many of the evils of the prohibitive
system, and owned that one-fourth of the popula-
tion of Andalusia were more or less engaged in con-
traband trade ; but he argued that none but a very
strong Government could reform the tariff in Spain,
and that, if one Administration fell in the attempt,
no other could be formed for many years that
would touch it. The aspect of the Peninsula
and its people, in the eyes of the Manchester manu-
facturer, was not encouraging :—" The Spaniards of
the last two centuries seem literally to have done
nothing but glorify themselves for the deeds of their
ancestors, or 101 l in the shades of their olives and
vines, and leave to nature the task of feeding and
clothing them." Entertainments awaited him at
Cadiz and Malaga, and by the end of the year he
had completed his tour in Southern Spain. * * At
Turin he spent many pleasant and instructive days.
Among the first who called on him were Scialoja
and Charles Cavour, " a young man," 'as he ob-
served, " with a sound, practical head." The inci-
pient statesman clutched eagerly at the opportunity
of learning all he could from lips so ready to impart
information. He had recently visited England, and
studied her industrial and political institutions ; and
although as yet he did not pretend any more than
the rest of his class to see his way to national inde-
pendence, he already believed in the possibility of
working up to constitutionalism, and to agricultural
and commercial freedom in Piedmont. The Admi-
nistration was still indeed in the hands of the ultra
partisans of resistance; and the King, who had never
recovered his early disenchantment with popular
efforts, was too weak and wavering to originate
any measure of importance in the direction of pro-
gress. Cavour spent most of his time with Mr. Cob-
den or his family during their stay, and frequently
accompanied them in their walks and drives into
the country ; and with his uncle, the Marquis
Cavour, with whom he then lived, and MM. Balho,
Collobiano, Polloni, Battista, Biguon, the future
minister attended the banquet on the 24th May, to
do honour to the Apostle of Free Trade. A like
celebration followed in the ensuing week at Milan,
and also at Venice. At Venice he was treated with
every mark of distinction by Prince Metternich, as
at St. Petersburg, by Count Nesselrode. At Berlin,
Humboldt, Ranke, Eichhorn, Bodelschwing, and
most of the eminent men engaged in the Adminis-
tration, were prompt in paying their respects ; and
he was entertained at dinner by the King. His long
tour ended with a visit to Hamburg ; and by the
middle of October, 1847, he found himself once more
at home.—British Quarterly Review.