SELECT COMMITTEE ON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES BILL. 583 
soup. In his concoction of simples, he slyly insinuates his 
“ powdered beet” or his “ cock-chicken.” Certain herbs are 
shown to be peculiarly efficacious i( gathered with the dew on 
them others are of remarkable potency ee if the body be 
exercised after the taking thereof.” In his love of sack and 
canary, he is the very Falstaff of physicians. He holds forth 
on the virtue of moderation, but has evidently no mind to 
treat his friends in private with anything so meagre as (i a last 
year's pippin with a dish of caraways.” — Chambers's Journal. 
PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
EXTRACTS EROM MINUTES OE EVIDENCE OE THE “ SELECT 
COMMITTEE ON THE SHEEP, &c., CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 
PREVENTION BILL.” 
( Examination of Mr, J. B. Simonds continued from p. 536.) 
69„ How do you propose to define the power of the 
inspector; would you give him power to turn such a beast 
as that out of the market which he thought was suffering 
under the incipient stages of disease only ? — Certainly. 
70. Would you give the inspector power to turn every 
beast out of the market which he thought it was possible 
might hereafter become afflicted with pleuro -pneumonia?— 
I would give him power to exclude any animal from the 
market which in his opinion at the time gave sufficient evi- 
dence of the disease, pleuro-pneumonia. 
71. How can the exposure to sale of animals of this de- 
scription in a fat-meat market, where nine tenths of the 
animals will be slaughtered within 48 hours after the market 
has concluded ; how can the exposure of such animals as 
those for sale tend to the spread of disease? — The intro- 
duction of such an animal as that into the fat-meat market 
would not, under the circumstances you have named, tend 
to the spread of disease; but it is well-known that even in the 
so-called fat-cattle market of Smithfield many animals are 
bought for store purposes; bought by farmers, and taken 
into the country. If you could secure the killing of all the 
animals within a given length of time, that is in two or three 
days, then there would be no mischief resulting. 
