New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-24

une persons augur from the proracted silence that
the cable nav not be lost after all ana that the uc
Eastern is occupied in the melancholy task OF n'hins
M the wire till the flaw be ascertained ana repaired
The DELAY however may be explained by few iac's
On her VOYAGE from the More to Valcnts the Levii'han
could scarcely make way against head wind' anu at
her best did some seven miles an hour. Now, wheh
the accident occurred she was 100 miles from Ireland
and still heavily loaded, though she had discharged
half her cable II is scarcely probable that she would
have returned homeward at once, and therefore mp TO
the present time not more than eight days have elapsed
since she is likely 10 have started on her return voyage
To traverse the distance in this period she must have
gone 40 miles day. which quito as much as there ID
any probability of her doing, even in calm weather.
Bat long before this appears you may know all about
her The mismanagement Of everything connected
with
"Ths, strsgsin, logy lummux Of ship"
as X " Pepper call. her in Mrs. Grandy is so pro
verbal that nobody would be surprised to learn that
she had found herself short Of coal and therefore been
Obliged TO run on TO Newfoundland. Ever since her
first sticking in the Thames mud and her temporary
blow.up in the Channel an atmosphere Of misfortune
has enyironed her.
To turn TO another cheerful subject the Russian Cat
tie Psgue or Raderpes as we call IT, is extending
Itself badly in tie counties There have been meetings
about it everywhere the papers with accounts aud
suggestions and The cattle exporting counties in the
North of Europe have received dispatches from the
British Government exhoItng them TO adopt al posi-
bic precautions prevent the export of diseased beasts
under the implied penalty of such restrictions upon
trade as would seriously diminish il. As previously
asserted the pestilence is an old enemy and here is
!;
81" related that in l5lj the sane mischief crossed
the sea IN a parcel Of discurcrcd hides from L'nInd
which were FORBIDDEN sale there. ana should nave
been buried; hut a cOYetOus kudNe sOd thtm lot
leather and the plague struck cattle and spleal
nom Essex a over the kingdom. On taat occa ion u
ragged for ~ loe years bui not till the tmid year an
the Government take ap the matter so seriously os 10
order that every infected animal shOnd be instantly
desiroyed; and in this way alone 5000 head were
killed and paid for. while at least lbOOn died oi the
maidy. In l7i7 $1,000 persisted N NoitDgtansAlfc
and Leicestershire and JoGo IN Cheshfe' WItWh SIX
months. Dc.GfOnd computes the loss oi STOCK D.!
HAT visitation in Europe at 3OOOOOO head Ana
this was but one OF uany previous NSNhtlOn''
The same enemy thinned the pisturages of the
Continent in tIe time Of IbeOdo,lGs; 1t iol
lowed ChaIlemaCIe back from Denmark, and
mlde havoc Of the French herds; 1t scoureed EnrOp'
in Inc years sl7 4. D. in 1913 \. ID. and again III
1923 \. ID. Tne worst instance of all. however, oc.
cnrrcd from llO 10 lel7 Ga that occasion the sicppe
murrain passed by Idrtsry, Russia. and Poland. all
over the West; and in the first three years go 600
oxen persisted. We have spoken OF it ~ l7ij; IN 40
Holland lost in year 355 AL Of her horned cattle
and in 1924 il followed Napoleon into Itly. aud Pied
mont alone paid for his march VITA a,JJ0ODO head.
aust in the FtHsUs dV Cak!ccicar e,tm1t's the Oss
20 France and BciriuD between l73 and 3J0, az The
enormous total 10 coo 90 animals. In sO6 when the
COssacks OF the Don mustered on the Nstua Their Ou
loc ks brought the pesence again and
invasion Of France at tie head Of tie allied forces IN
ltl3 imported 10. Wherever, indeed. war has Diokon
down tho barriers Of sanitary measures. the plague J.
ex tug in The East, ms forced rs way; and IN the
Pa
OF the French and English orries.
80 wonder, Therefore that farmers and graders and
tie beefeating public are pioportionaicly anxious
However he i1crplst got here-whohcr aboard chip,
or Generated 10 unsayory sheds in the vicinity Of this
metropolis, during on unusually ho, Summerhcre It
is exciting TIC usual amount of difference among the
doctors, and an exceptional alarm among the prr-
chasers 1t the great London cattle market they seen
to have adopted every preyeniye chloride Of lime is
spinked about the stalls az freely in the cutters OF
Paris a, early morning; special inspectors have beu
appointed to stop tie Of diseased cattle; H.
srueons have been issued to avoid crowding the ami
mails in tic pens: and persons suspected Of Offering in.
feced beasts are rgdly "had up" before ;he magis.
trates YET % present We hear no Of the aba.c-
meut Of lie maady and harvest weather II, 20 far.
dubious with cloud. aud rain, though The ripened
wheat stands out in the field; while the blkcrs-wiih
daboc anci alton Of evil belonging TO their class,
AMI indeed 70 all tradesmcn-hayo already put up the
quaItern loaf by hnlfpenny to penny ioaf-a con
sderaiion to moro than the agricultural laborers OF
England IT has been suggested that The State shall in
damliy grelors who destroy their diseased cattle but
the proposition is fayoraby received opening It
does such field for obbery eud dishonest speculation.
Wherefore they only bold meetings for the bench.
OF cooperation. which they are doing.
word about politics. albeit they are as dull
ne weather. The profogaton OF Parliament, officially
announced in The Gasene, will be formally declared by
Lord Chancellor cranworh on Tuesday next Uhc ljtl)
IN the House Of Lords to such members OF the Com.
mons as care 10 attend. Ordinarily the act Of profo
CATION, when not done in person by the Sovereign Is
performed by her COMMISSIONER including the Lord
CLancellor but on this occasion it will be underf ken
by that gentleman alone not under commission but in
pursuance OF Her Maestys writ addressed TO his lord
ship. This difference in consequence Of the
occurring when neither House Is regularly Constituted
or going to De-for oa,hs viii be taken no Spcar cr
elected no roll sgned-in short nothing done but tlc
simple business an hand The II. ps, instead Of ss
scmbnc ia their o. house 10 await solemn message
from tie Lords will stroll up to the door promiscuously
AID orc gossip and lounge till the Usher Of the Bacb
Rod thilAs there enough Of them TO be admitted
When tie Chancellor. standing uncovered Except by
his wig "bctwcon tie throne and the woolsack" vii
do what is necessary prorogung eyerybod TO the rs
OF November.
In the meantime the defeated Tories are dilieenil
occupied in making virtue Of necessity and the hes
OF bad market, which VIC have Rabelas's authorit,
for pronouncrg a very good piece Of work. They have
lost taeir money in nd on) the elections but toy
pretend 10 have Won they aIe wholesomely whipped
but assume the air Of whippers-succecding well
most people who attempt sGch an uugratefGl part Tie