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GLANDERS. 
The information received respecting glanders does not 
show any material difference in the number of cases of the 
disease ; but it is to be remembered that the greatest efforts 
are made by persons who have glandered horses to keep the 
matter secret, and that cab-owners are accustomed to work 
such horses chiefly during the dark hours of the night. In this 
country, as well as on the Continent, glanders now and then 
breaks out in a most virulent form, assuming on these occasions 
all the characters of an epizootic malady. Such an outbreak 
is reported from the rear of the Prussian army. A letter 
from Saarbriick, published in the Mannheim Zeitung, after 
alluding to a decrease of the rinderpest, says that “ another 
pestilence has shown itself, viz., glanders among horses. 
Against this plague also, equally dangerous to men and 
horses, the Prussian Government have taken the greatest 
precautions. The horses are daily inspected, the infected are 
slaughtered, and the persons who have been in contact with 
them are subjected to quarantine and disinfection. All the 
stables and harness of the killed horses are likewise dis- 
infected.” 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
At the date of our report for the month of October, fifty- 
three counties in Great Britain were returned as having 8*092 
centres of infection of this disease, while at the corresponding 
date for November we find that, although reports have been 
received from fifty-four counties, the centres of the malady have 
been lessened by 248. This diminutioii affords encouragement 
for hoping that the malady is again on the wane. We should 
have a much stronger ground of hope, however, if it were 
found that the local authority was equally energetic in the 
adoption of preventive means in all parts of the country ; but 
unfortunately it still happens that in many the police have all 
power as inspectors, and that in numerous cases cattle in the 
very crisis of the affection have been allowed to enter and depart 
from fairs and markets without any attempt being made to 
stop so illegal and dangerous a practice. 
At the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions, the question of an 
increase of pay to the police came before the magistrates, and 
in the course of the discussion which followed Mr. Darlington 
