298 REPORT ON PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 



disease, and they promised to give the Highland Society satis- 

 faction, but they never got any. There was great cruelty shown 

 in the way the Irish cattle were packed on board ship. 



In reply to Mr Paterson, Lord Cranbrook said he should be 

 glad if the Society would send a digest of the evidence taken 

 before the Highland Society's Committee. 



Mr Paterson said it would be prepared, and sent to his 

 Lordship. 



Mr Stirling said that, as Chairman of the Perth Local Au- 

 thority, he went to Ireland with a deputation some years ago, 

 and Lord Spencer was most kind to us. He certainly took very 

 active steps to carry out our wishes, in the way of drawing 

 cordons round different places ; but, since then, the whole thing 

 has lapsed again, and nothing is being done as it then was. 



Lord Cranbrook, in reply, said the Department was not 

 gifted with money, and had as much trouble in getting hundreds 

 from the Treasury as the deputation seemed to have in getting 

 thousands from their counties. The question of inoculation was 

 clearly one upon which there was a good deal of difference of 

 opinion, but experiments were going on both abroad and at 

 home, and progress was being made in the inquiry. The Govern- 

 ment would take into consideration the representation the depu- 

 tation had made, and would see whether anything further could 

 be done by the Privy Council. With regard to the memorial 

 dealing with the existence of pleuro-pneumonia, they would 

 explain to the Irish Government the forcible remarks that had 

 been made upon the condition of things in Scotland, and see 

 whether they could obtain from the Irish authorities any security 

 against the importation of unsound cattle into Scotland and 

 England. He would communicate with the deputation in writ- 

 ing upon the subject after they had carefully considered the 

 reply from Ireland. 



The deputation then withdrew. 



