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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
an instance that the officers of that department were not 
wanting in diligence, he could inform the House that on a 
calf on board the Concordia, from Rotterdam, exhibiting 
symptoms of murrain, they had the animal killed. Investi- 
gation then confirmed the suspicion that the animal was 
infected, and the body was accordingly destroyed. The re- 
mainder of the cargo was examined and found free from 
disease. 
Mr. Stafford gave notice that to-morrow, on the motion 
that the House, at its rising, do adjourn till Monday, he 
should call the serious attention of the House to this ques- 
tion of disease among foreign cattle. 
HOUSE OF LORDS, Friday, Feb. 27. 
THE CATTLE DISEASE. 
In reply to Lord Polworth , 
Lord Stanley of Alderley said, the Government had 
received no additional information of the existence of this 
disease, but the Custom House officers had power by law to 
destroy foreign cattle supposed to be affected with any con- 
tagious disease. The Government would direct communica- 
tions to be made to our consuls at foreign ports requesting 
them to send any information they could obtain, and the 
Custom House officers, having their attention called to the 
existence of the disease, would watch narrowly all cattle im- 
ported from abroad. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS, Friday, Feb. 27. 
THE MURRAIN IN CATTLE. 
Mr. Stafford said that the answer given to him by the right 
honorable gentleman the Vice-President of the Boardof Trade 
last evening had filled him and other honorable members 
with dismay. The right honorable gentleman had saidthatthe 
Board of Customs had displayed extraordinary sagacity by 
the destruction of one calf ; but it was a subject for alarm 
that the remainder of the cargo, of which this calf was one, 
had been allowed to be landed ; and it was probable that they 
might have been infected by it. Would the right honorable 
gentleman state whether the Board of Customs or any 
other department of the Government had made arrange- 
ments for preventing the entrance into this country of one 
