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FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
port of Riga is situated. It has also broken out among the 
cows in the dairies of St. Petersburg. In Southern Russia 
the plague exists to an alarming extent, especially in the 
territory of Donsky, Polaisk, and Chernomere. It is reported 
to have attacked sheep in these districts as well as cattle, and 
that these animals are dying at the rate of a hundred to a 
hundred and fifty a day, over an extent of country varying 
from three to five hundred versts. 
From France we learn that the cattle plague exists in the 
Commune of Hem, Arrondissement of Lille; and in the 
Communes of Artres, Rosult, and St. Saulve, Arrondissement 
of Valenciennes. The disease is also extending the area of 
its existence in the neighbourhood of Havre, and has "within 
the last fortnight broken out near to Dieppe. Haute Marne 
is not yet free, and we learn that a few days since two animals 
were found in the Paris abattoirs suffering from the disease, 
which had been forwarded from that Department. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Very little variation has occurred in the prevalence of this 
disease. The total number of counties returned as infected is 
forty-eight, being four more than last month ; but the centres 
of the malady have decreased, so as barely to exceed two 
hundred. 
In consequence of the disease still continuing in the dairies 
of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and one case having just occurred on 
the town moor, the local authority has suspended the cattle 
fair, agreeably with the power vested in it by the Lords of 
the Council. 
Our information from the Continent is also favorable. 
In Holland the number of cases existing at the beginning of 
the year exceeded a thousand, but these had fallen to less 
than four hundred by the middle of September. The decline 
has been gradual, and nearly uninterrupted throughout the 
year. The provinces of North and South Holland, and the 
western portion of Utrecht, have been the chief seat of the 
disease. 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
This malady still retains a strong hold in many parts of 
Great Britain, while in others the cases are so greatly 
diminished in number as to lead to the hope that, ere many 
weeks have elapsed, the disease will be effectually eradicated. 
