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post-mortem ,” and had expected there would have been discovered 
either vulvxdus or intussusception , or some such irremediable evil. 
Turning out as the case did — in recovery — all we can say is, that, 
had the horse been our own, we should bless ourselves that his 
life had been saved, and have blessed the remedies also that 
saved him, let them have been whatsoever they might. For our 
part, we shall not fail, in like extremes, to take a lesson from 
Mr. Atcherley’s bold and warrantable practice. — Edit. 
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The following is the translation of part of a dispatch from Baron 
O’Hillioun de Grasse, Belgian Envoy at Vienna, dated the 6th of 
January last : — “ The malady termed Peste Bovine made its ap- 
pearance first in Russia and Bessarabia ; then it extended itself 
successively in Moravia, in Upper and Lower Austria, in Bohemia, 
in Poland, and in Gallicia. It has been in these two latter coun- 
tries that it has committed the greatest ravages, but less, however, 
than asserted in the public papers. Thus, for example, in Bohemia, 
not more than 1200 head of stock had died of it on the 20th of 
December. As soon as the epidemic manifested itself in any pro- 
vince of the Austrian dominions, that province was immediately 
placed in a state of suspension and quarantine, so that no horned 
cattle were allowed to be removed from it into any other ; nor 
were sheep, pigs, wool, pigs’ bristles, raw hides, hoofs, or unpurified 
lard, allowed to be exported. In pursuance of this regulation, all 
communication with other parts of the empire, in reference to 
such commodities, was interdicted in Gallicia, Bohemia, Moravia, 
and Upper and Lower Austria; but such interdiction no longer 
remains in force, excepting in the cases of Gallicia and Bohemia. 
Beside these precautions, the Austrian government has established 
a quarantine against Russia, Bessarabia, and Moldavia. Notwith- 
standing the amelioration of the disease in the Austrian states, 
the governments of Bavaria, Saxony, and Prussia, have each 
established a quarantine against the whole of the Austrian pro- 
vinces in which the epidemic had been declared to prevail. With- 
in a few days, however, these three States have permitted the 
importation of wool, on the condition that it shall be always packed 
in bags hermetically closed, as intended for transit, or rather for 
direct transportation to its destined factory. The suspected articles 
already mentioned are principally sent into Prussia, Saxony, and 
Bavaria, for the purpose of being forwarded thence into the Rhenish 
provinces and Belgium, as well as in less quantity into Holland. 
