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The most important communication received to-day 

 is from Scotland. The malady has undoubtedly 

 broken out near Kelso, on fourteen head of cattle 

 imported into London and sent north. Twenty-eight 

 animals have been seized with the disease at Woolwich, 

 and calves from the London market are said to have 

 taken the malady down to Horsham and Grinstead. 



Information has been received concerning the sale 

 of at least fifty-four diseased and infected animals in 

 the Metropolitan Cattle Market the 3rd instant. 



NOTE M. 



Mr. Charles Panter has, at the request of Earl 

 Granville, drawn up a statement relative to the health 

 of the cows on a farm hired by his lordship at Golder's- 

 green, on the Finchley-road. In publishing the state- 

 ment, Earl Granville says : " When I left England, a 

 month ago, there were about 130 milch cows in four 

 sheds. In the two largest and best managed I found 

 only one cow yesterday (Sept. 4). His Koyal High- 

 ness the Duke of Coburg informed me last week that 

 what he believed to be the same disease visited Coburg 

 last year. No one could trace its origin, and no 

 medical treatment was successful. Air and water 

 were their only remedies. Some men had died from 

 eating the meat killed at a particular stage of the dis- 

 ease. His Royal Highness had seen a horse die in 

 four hours, killed by flies which came from the car- 

 case of a cow which had been allowed to remain above 

 ground. The disease disappeared in the autumn as 

 mysteriously as it had come. I understand that Pro- 



