The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1868.

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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

'NORWICH? MortlY,
the—die# attraction yesterday was the
cathedral. As far as I haVe been able to gather its history,
the first stone of this building was laid in 1090, by Herbert
do Losinga, then Abbot of Ramsay, and afterwards
Bishop of Norwich, the see being removed to the latter
place from Thetford. There is this somewhat curious
feature recorded in connection with the foundation of the
structure—namely, that all the great people in the
neighbourhood had literally a hand in the work.
Thus, after the abbot had placed his stone, the
feudal lord of the castle, one Roger Bigot, came and
placed his, being followed in time by Herbert de Rye, a
deroti from the Holy Land, and the other barons of the
district. The choir and surrounding aisles, the transepts,
and the central tower were completed before the death of
the first bishop, the nave and the nave aisles being erected
by his successor, Bishop Eborard. In 1171 the cathedral
suffered severely from fire, but was restored by Bishop
John de Oxford. It was not till 1500, however, that
it was really completed, and from that time till
now it has passed through alternate stages of decay,
restoration, and embellishment. The tower is a fine speci-
men of Norman architecture in four stages. The first
bishop is buried in the church, but the crypt containing
his remains has long been closed. The cathedral is dedi-
cated to the Holy Trinity, and is one of thirty-eight eccle-
siastical edifices contained within the walls, or rather the
remnants of the walls, of the city. There were two services
yesterday, one in the morning and the other in the
afternoon, and at both every inch of sitting and
standing room was occupied. Dr. Magee, Dean
of Cork, delivered a most eloquent sermon in
the forenoon, and the Dean of Norwich was to have
been the afternoon preacher, but he was unable to reach
the city in time, and his place was supplied by Canon
Evetts. The bishop of the diocese, with Dr. Hooker, the
president of the Association, the Duke of Buccleuch,
ex-president, and most of the wise men at present sojourn-
ing in that quarter of the compass from which we are told
such characters originally came, were amongst the congre-
gations. The offertory in the afternoon was devoted to
the Norwich Infirmary, the funds of which will no doubt
he largely benefited therely.

To-day great excitement prevails in reference to the
excursion at the end of the week; and the local secretaries,
men not easily perplexed, are almost driven to their wits'
ends with the task of allotting tickets. Ten o'clock was
the last hour for receiving the applications, which have
poured in in shoals. The great difficulty experienced by
the secretaries is that the visitors with wonderful
sagacity, spot the most eligible places to visit, and won't
be contented with going anywhere else. Cromer and Yar-
mouth are the most favoured of these. Mr. Harvey's
invitation to Cromer Point, postponed from Saturday, will,
I suspect, be accepted by nearly all the visitors ; and it
may be questioned whether the lecture on "Reverse
Chemical Actions," by Dr. Odling, announced to be
delivered in the Drill Hall in the evening, will be an
attraction sufficient to tear them away from the hospita-
lities of the wealthy M.P., who appears to be very popular
hero.

ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS.
A paper on the cattle plague was brought forward in
this section by Mr. W. SMITH, hon. consulting veterinary
surgeon to the Norfolk Cattle Plague Association. After
describing the nature of the disorder and pointing out
that, at all events as regarded the county of Norfolk, the
treatment by means of drugs, homoeopathy, and vaccina-
tion, signally failed, the author furnished an interesting
sketch of the rise and progress of the disease in this
country. The cattle plague had been known, he said, for
more than 1,000 years to have periodically devastated the
continent of Europe. About 810 it was supposed to have
visited England, but there was no authentic record of
its having broken out again until 1714, when
it appeared in Islington. About the middle of
June it committed great ravages for about three months,
and disappeared towards Christmas in the same year. It
reappeared in April 1745, being probably imported by
some calves from Holland. It lasted twelve years, and
killed many thousand heads of cattle. In March 1770,
the disease was imported into Portsoy, in Moray Firth,
but was stamped out with a comparatively trifling loss by
the judicious and timely slaughter of the affected beasts
And those which had been in contact with them ; and in
Aberdeen, in 1865, it was twice got rid of
by the adoption of similar means. The particulars
of the outbreak of 1865 were then gone into at length by
Mr. Smith, who ascribed the introduction of the disease
into Norfolk on that occasion to a lot of cattle brought
from the metropolitan into the local market. Some of
these cattle were conveyed into neighbouring districts, and
imparted the disease there also. The number of cattle
attacked from the Ist July to the 21st of October
was 705, of which 296 were killed and 290 died.
By November 25, 1,004 beasts had been attacked,
the large increase being due to the utterly
powerless nature of the eight Orders in Council which had
been issued. The above and other statistics of the disease
in Norfolk, showing with what rapidity the number of
beasts at-tacked increased as soon as the provision for the
compulsory slaughter of those infected was removed, and
how the number as rapidly lessened immediately after the
order again came in force, were adduced to prove the utter
uselessness of treating and endeavouring to preserve
infected animals. They must, argued Mr. Smith, be at
once destroyed whenever and wherever disease breaks
out. Legislation, it was pointed out, had been
urged on a little
way in the right direction,
AS the Act of last session was calculated to control pleuro-
pneumonia in a slight degree by inflicting a penalty on
persons exposing animals so affected in the market. Next
session, it was hoped, Government would go a step further,
and prevent such animals from being moved from place to
place on the public thoroughfares until all fear of infection
had passed away. This would tend, in the opinion of
those best acquainted with the subject, to give the cattle
plague a severe check, and consequently would be the
means of cheapening food in this country more effectually
than any other course yet known, not even excepting
foreign importation. The growing desire to cheapen food
had its advantages, but it had also its evils. Free trade in
animals was, to a great extent, as the member for East
Norfolk had phrased it, " free trade in disease." The
paper concluded with the expression of a hope that the
establishment of a market for imported animals would
have the effect of remedying the evils which were likely to
follow from the opposition to the Foreign Market Bill o,
last session by the opponents of the present Government
who would see, when perhaps it was too late, the folly
the course they took.

ELECTION IN7ELLIGENCI4.

FINSBURY.

The prepent members have determined to present
themselves conjointly before the enlarged constitu-
ency of this borough, which, it is estimated, will
now have 40,000 electors. The return of Mr.
Torrens and Mr. Alderman Lusk, who will thus be
united in their canvass, is looked upon as certain,
especially as committees are already being formed
throughout the borough in their names. The Con-
servatives have been using every exertion to secure
names for the " constitutional register," and their
agents have been making a house-to-house canvass
for lodgers to become voters. The papers left for
the proposed voters to fill up are so framed as to
make many fancy that they are filling:up a parish
and not a party document. The only candidate
hitherto brought forward by the Conservatives is
a Mr. Kimber, who addressed a ticket meeting a
short time since. Sir Samuel Baker's name has also
been mentioned as a candidate in the Conservative
interest. A rumour is afloat that Mr. W. Cox, the
late member, will stand, but there has been no public
notification of this.