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to mean somebody’s ideas or convenience, routine or red 
tape. Where there is a charge of about 700 horses, it will 
be imagined that the veterinary department connected there- 
with should possess everything requisite for any kind of 
emergency; however, it does not. We are not conservative 
enough on this point, but we are leading our lives amongst 
the grievances which our civil brethren know nothing of, and 
as a review of the imperfections in the Veterinary Depart- 
ment of the army may not interest them, we beg to retire. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The liveliest interest has been felt during the past month 
in the spread of the cattle plague, especially in France, and 
in neighbouring kingdom of Belgium. So great has been 
the risk of the introduction of the disease here that the lords of 
the Council have seen fit to prohibit the importation of cattle 
and also of “ fresh meat, fresh hides, unmelted fat, hoofs, horns, 
manure, or hay,” from these countries. The Order also pro- 
vides that “ cattle, sheep, and goats being, or having been on 
board any vessel at the same time, with any cattle brought 
from any such place as aforesaid, shall not be landed at any 
port or place in Great Britain.” Cattle plague has manifested 
itself not only at numerous places in the northern and western 
departments of France, and along the vallies of the Sarthe, 
the Marne, and the Seine, but also in several places in the 
eastern departments of the country. From the latter the 
malady w 7 as carried to Switzerland, the disease having been 
detected at the beginning of March at Verrieres in Canton 
Neuchatel, in sixteen stables containing fifty-two animals. 
Of these forty-seven were killed diseased and five died. In 
consequence of this outbreak the importation of cattle, fresh 
hides, and meat, into Italy from Switzerland, was promptly 
prohibited by the Italian Government. 
Normandy and Brittany are also suffering severely, which 
has led to preventive measures being adopted by the Channel 
Islands against the introduction of the disease. An idea of 
the extent of the plague near to Brest may be realised by the 
fact that at Morlaix 300 beasts died out of 700, the remain- 
ing 400 being killed ; and that at Landernau from 2300 to 
2500 died or were slaughtered. By order of the Minister 
