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is reported to have said that in other counties the police had 
extra duties imposed upon them, which accounted for the 
higher rates of pay they received. In Staffordshire, for in- 
stance, they acted acted as inspectors under the Cattle 
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, thereby saving the county 
considerable expense. This charge was very heavy in some 
parts of Warwickshire. In the Coleshill division the bills of 
two inspectors amounted to between £200 and £300 for the 
year. He suggested that this duty should be handed over to 
the police. 
Mr. Caldecott, in reply, deprecated any change in the ex- 
isting arrangements, particularly at the present time, when 
pure cattle disease was raging on the Continent. 
Mr. C. N. Newdegate, M.P., entertained a similar view 
upon the subject, but mentioned, as a matter worth conside- 
ration, the relationship which ought to exist between the 
police and the veterinary inspectors. The police could be 
of great service and diminish expense by reporting to the 
inspectors any case of outbreak occurring in the district. It 
would not, however, be prudent for the county to discontinue 
the services of a class of men who, by their experience and 
education, were fitted not only to combat the disease, but also 
to detect premonitory symptoms. 
It was eventually decided to adopt the report for increase 
of pay, and not to interfere with the existing arrangements 
for dealing with the cattle disease. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
It appears that the measures had recourse to for the 
extermination of the cattle plague have sufficed to free 
several of the German states of the malady ; but in others it 
continues to prevail, and in some has reappeared. Prussia, 
the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, and Saxony, where the 
plague had broken out afresh, are, according to the latest 
intelligence, once more free of the disease. East Prussia is, 
however, still threatened by a fresh invasion from the con- 
tiguous Russian States, and also from Poland. We have 
distinct information of its existence in the district of Riga, 
while Poland may be fairly said to be overrun with it, as is 
also the case with Galicia and Buckowina. For many 
months past Transylvania has been suffering to a great 
extent, and it is now reported that the disease has been 
reintroduced into Hungary. The Palatinate of Bavaria is 
