GOVEllNMKNT ftlKASURKS. 43 



landed. For the particulars of the instructions whicli 

 were issued, we beg to direct attention to the following 

 notice, extracted from The Times : — 



"Foreign Cattle. — With reference to the general orders issued 

 by the Board of Customs to the officers of the department in tlie 

 month of February 1845, directing their attention to the state of the 

 cattle imported, in consequence of a certain disease then raging 

 among cattle on the continent, the commissioners have caused the 

 principals of the department in London, and the collectors and comp- 

 trollers of the Customs at the several outports of the kingdom, to be 

 made acquainted that information has been officially received of the 

 prevalence of an infectious disorder among sheep in several parts of 

 the continent, and have directed that they will give instructions to 

 the officers under their survey carefully to examine all sheep and 

 cattle which may be imported into their respective ports from the 

 continental states of Europe, and that, in the event of their appear- 

 ing to be infected with any disorder, they are not to permit them to 

 be landed from the importing vessel without an inspection as to their 

 soundness by some competent person, and to report the circumstances 

 forthwith to the commissioners for their direction, illusion is espe- 

 cially made in this order to two of a similar character issued in the 

 month of February 1845, on the subject. As the matter is of great 

 pubhc interest and importance, it may be stated, that the first con- 

 sisted of a communication to the Board of Customs from the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury, stating that he had been commanded by their 

 lordships to inform them that intelligence had been received from 

 various quarters of the prevalence of an infectious disorder among 

 cattle in several parts of the continent, and to desire them to give 

 instructions to their officers carefully to examine any cattle imported 

 into this country, and in the event of their appearing to be infected 

 with any disorder, not to permit them to be landed without inspec- 

 tion, and report as to their soundness by some competent person, the 

 circumstances being forthwith reported to the Board ; the second, 

 informing the officers of the department throughout the kingdom that 

 the Lords of the Treasury having, through their secretary, Mr. Tre- 

 velyan, with reference to the instructions already conveyed to the 

 Board of Customs on the subject of a certain disease raging among 

 cattle on the continent, desired that the Board would enjoin upon all 

 their officers the greatest attention to the state of the cattle imported. 



