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THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1857. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
REMOVAL OE THE RESTRICTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE 
CATTLE-PEST. 
It is gratifying when duties are undertaken for the public 
good, for those who make the suggestions to find that they 
are acted upon, and the advantages they had pointed out are 
at length secured, however tardy the result may be in its 
accomplishment. As public journalists, we have long 
felt the importance of the freedom of our commerce in 
all which relates to the importation of cattle and cattle 
products, and as such are determined to labour for the re- 
moval of the restrictions under which they were laid, if 
no injury would result therefrom. Our readers need not 
to be reminded that we lately felt it a duty incumbent 
upon us to address a remonstrance to the Government 
with reference to its cc Order in Council ” forbidding the 
importations of skins, hides, bones, &c., for fear of the intro- 
duction of the rinderpest, although cattle themselves were 
allowed to be brought in. We are enabled now, however, to 
congratulate both them and the country in general, that the 
phantom which for a time blinded the understanding of our 
rulers has been dispelled, and that trade and commerce are 
once more free to pursue the even tenor of their way. At the 
Court at Windsor, held on the 4th of November, it was 
ordered by the Queen in Council “ that all the prohibitions 
and restrictions now subsisting under the Order in Council 
of the twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-seven, on the importation or introduction 
into the United Kingdom from certain places in or upon the 
Gulf of Finland or the Baltic Sea, of such horns, hoofs, bones, 
and raw or wet hides or skins of cattle, hay, straw, fodder, 
litter, and manure as in the said last-mentioned order men- 
