FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
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that a riot took place on October 12th, to prevent the ship- 
ment of cattle by steamers from that port to England. The 
National Guard was called out to protect the shipment in the 
Southampton steamers. A conflict ensued, by which five or 
six of the mob were slightly wounded, and a citizen shot in the 
head. The “ Aurora/ 5 steamer, was obliged to leave in ballast 
for Bordeaux, and the “ Seine/ 5 steamer, was also obliged 
to leave for Havre. The Southampton and Littlehampton 
boats were not allowed to take any live stock or produce. — 
Fall Mall Gazette . 
Lead-Poisoning. — Mr. Alexander Gordon, in a paper 
on the prevention of lead-poisoning, has pointed out that, 
though medical and scientific men had long been unani- 
mous as to the advantage of abolishing lead as a means for 
the storage or distribution of water used for dietetic purposes, 
the conviction as to its danger had not yet fully forced itself 
upon the public mind. He showed from medical sources 
that many obscure diseases, as well as diseases which assumed 
a more palpable form, were due in this country to the impreg- 
nation of water with lead ; and that both soft and pure, and 
hard and impure waters were alike, under certain circum- 
stances, contaminated and that, as lead was a cumulative 
poison, however small the contamination might be, it would 
in the end, if such waters were employed, act with destructive 
effect. The only substitute yet manufactured which, while it 
conserved the purity of the water, was both ductile and cheap, 
was that invented by Mr. Haines, C.E. It consists of a lead 
pipe, with an internal tube of block tin, both having been 
previously welded together so as to form a homogeneous 
whole. By this process the piping retained all the flexibility 
of the lead, while the inner tube of tin was strong and thick 
enough to prevent any access of water to the exterior leaden 
pipe . — Journal of the Society of Arts. 
Necessity for Foreign Cattle Markets. — Food 
supply is an imperial question, and the legislature ought to 
make such broad and general regulations on the subject as 
would benefit the nation as a whole, without contravening 
the principles of free trade. The home cattle and meat mar- 
kets should be separated from the foreign ; and special regu- 
lations should be made for the latter which are not required 
for the former. Such a separation would, in the end, be advan- 
tageous to both departments of this important trade. The home 
breeders, dealers, and salesmen are, on the whole, in favour of 
separate and distinct establishments; the foreign traders would 
be largely benefited by the increased accommodation for and 
development of their trade ; and the public, always more or 
