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hension confined to England. Other countries partake of it, 
and are instituting similar inquiries, and adopting like 
precautionary measures ; from all of which good will ulti- 
mately be derived, through the laws that govern epidemics 
and epizootics becoming better known, as well as the condi- 
tional circumstances that favour both their development and 
progress being more clearly understood. 
Although as yet we are not able to give any report as 
having been received from Professor Simonds, we are enabled 
to state that he has been through Holland, Holstein, Meck- 
lenburg, Hanover, Saxony, and Prussia, in search of the 
“ Rinderpest,” and fortunately has not met with a single case 
of it; and he is now gone into the interior of Poland, it being 
known to exist on the Prusso-Poland and Prusso-Russian 
frontiers. Under the head of ‘Foreign Intelligence/ in the 
‘Times* of the 16th ult., occurs the following : “Professor 
Simonds, who has been sent by the British government to 
examine into the murrain which is raging in Gallicia and 
Moravia, is now at Lemberg. M. G. Niklas, one of the 
professors of the Veterinary College at Munich, has also 
been sent there by the Bavarian government.” 
We say fortunately , for we presume no one is desirous of 
seeing this destructive malady in this country, although it 
has been falsely reported that it already exists here. We, as 
a people, are certainly not famous for being too early in the 
adoption of measures, preventive or otherwise ; it is also 
possible that an unnecessary alarm has been created in the 
public mind ; and if so, there at least has resulted this 
advantage — the history of epizootics has been inquired 
into, certain well-known predisposing causes to disease have 
been pointed out, and proper precautionary measures have 
been recommended for adoption, and thus we are early 
placed upon our watch-towers ; since even our isolated situ- 
ation would have given us no immunity, in these days of 
free intercourse between nations, if so be the disease is so 
contagious as has been represented. 
Since the above was written, we have met with the following, 
in the Report made by Mr. S, Hudson, Secretary to the 
