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the magistrates are so opposed to government interference, 
and where the chairman of the bench is the owner of the 
fair-tolls and the chief landlord in the locality. 
Indeed, I see no remedy for the state of things existing in 
Ireland except that of the Lords of the Privy Council placing 
the cattle imports into England from this country under the 
same regulations as those from foreign countries. This, 
doubtless, would he a severe measure, and would be much 
opposed, but in a few weeks its good effects would he 
observable throughout the United Kingdom. It is now too 
late to seek an alteration in the Irish Cattle Diseases Act, 
but it is much to be regretted that power was ever given to 
the magistracy to inflict a less fine than five pounds in all 
cases of a direct violation of its provisions. 
Strong measures can alone overcome great evils. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Since the publication of our last number, the cattle plague 
has not only been introduced from Eastern into Central and 
Western Europe, but has followed the Prussian army as far 
into France as Bar-le-Duc, if not still nearer to the walls of 
Paris. Great alarm has necessarily been created for fear the 
plague should find a footing in Great Britain, and our Leader 
and also the Orders of Council, which we publish elsewhere, 
will explain very much of the risk which is incurred, and 
the precautions which have been taken. 
From Berlin we learn that the plague exists to a serious 
extent between that city and Dresden, being chiefly preva- 
lent in the province of Liegnitz. It has also broken out at 
Frieberg, Meissenberg, and near Glauchau in Saxony, as 
well as at Dresden, in which place it has attacked the dairy 
cows. 
From Prussia the plague has likewise extended to Pome- 
rania, having shown itself in the district around Stralsund, 
and, according to some accounts, also in the town of Schwerin, 
in Mecklenburg. 
Following the wake of the army, we have information of 
outbreaks of the plague at Ingelheim, in Hesse-Darmstadt, 
where a third part of the cattle have already been destroyed. 
