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is not unfrequently sold, as in England, by the inferior class of 

 butchers, 



A regulation exists with regard to the disease glanders, which, 

 although it does not belong to the special object of this report, 

 may, nevertheless, be mentioned. Horses affected with this 

 disease are not only prevented from being sold or exposed for 

 sale, but the owner is compelled to have them killed ; and he 

 is not allowed, under the pain of a heavy penalty, to sell any 

 other horse out of his establishment, or even to place any one 

 of them in stables belonging to other persons, for six months 

 after the death of the affected animal. 



M. Hausmann, Veterinary Surgeon to his Majesty the King 

 of Hanover, informed us that a conviction had very recently 

 taken place under this law, where a carrier was heavily fined for 

 putting his horses, which had been with a glandered animal, into 

 <i stable at a public inn in the town of Hanover on the occasion 

 of his coming there on the market-day. 



Hamburg. 



This as the chief port of the Elbe receives a considerable 

 number of cattle from the surrounding districts for exportation to 

 England, and large quantities of hides are also exported from 

 hence. Some diminution has taken place in the amount of 

 cattle which has been shipped at Hamburg of late, and from 

 the same cause which is assigned by the exporters from Hol- 

 land, namely, that the price obtained in the English markets is 

 not sufficiently remunerative when compared with that which can 

 be procured at home. The cattle come chiefly from the distillers, 

 sugar-refiners, and farmers in the town and territory of Hamburg 

 and the adjoining duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg. They are 

 usually sent first to the market at Hamburg, and if not- sold are 

 exported to England. An inspection of them is regularly made 

 in the market by a duly appointed veterinary surgeon ; besides 

 which they are prevented entering the town unless found to be 

 in a healthy state. These regulations afford us a certain amount 

 of security against the importation of diseased animals from the 

 port of Hamburg, This system of inspection has been in opera- 

 tion from the commencement of the recent outbreak of pleuro- 

 pneumonia in Holstein, and has been particularly observed since 

 September, 1856, when the following proclamation was made by 

 the Senator of the Marshlands of the territory of Hamburg : — 



Proclamation. 



It liavinp; been communicated to the Senator for the district of the Marsh- 

 lands that in several parts of the duchy of Holstein a pulmonary disease has 



