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special causes of a destructive epizootic, should fall a sacrifice 
to its effects. 
If that which we have here stated be the case w 7 hen pleuro- 
pneumonia is not very rife, how much the more likely are these 
cattle to be affected when the opposite state of things obtains. 
We would, therefore, counsel agriculturists to be cautious in 
buying Irish cattle ; to select those only which give every 
appearance of health, and on their arrival at home to place 
them in quarantine, as it were, for about three weeks. 
We turn now to the proceedings of our government with 
respect to the Rinderpest. It will be remembered that, in 
consequence of the alarming reports which reached England 
at the commencement of the present year, detailing the rapid 
spread and great fatality of this disease, the government, by 
an Order in Council, put restrictions on the importation of 
foreign cattle. A second Order has recently been published, 
repealing the one made in April last, when, in official lan- 
guage, “ to avert the introduction of infectious diseases, the 
importation into the United Kingdom of cattle and horns, 
hoofs, and raw or wet hides or skins of cattle, which should 
come from, or should have been at any place within certain 
territories, therein mentioned, of the Emperor of Russia, or 
of the King of Prussia, or of the Grand Duke of Mecklen- 
burgh Schwerin, or the territories of the free city of Lubeck, 
was prohibited.” 
The new Order states that it has been made to appear to 
her Majesty that there is no longer danger of the said dis- 
orders being introduced into this country by means of live 
cattle from the aforesaid countries or places, but that there 
is still danger of such disorders being introduced by 
means of horns, hoofs, bones, and raw or wet hides or skins 
of cattle imported thence. 
Therefore, it is now ordered that “ from and after the date 
hereof (August 28th), no horns, hoofs, bones, or raw or wet 
hides or skins of cattle, shall be imported or introduced into 
the United Kingdom, which shall have come from, or shall 
have been at, any place within those territories of the Em- 
peror of Russia, or of the King of Prussia, or of the Grand 
Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, which respectively are in. 
