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tions, the revenue authorities have given instructions to their 
officers to carefully examine all cattle and sheep which may be 
hereafter imported; and in the event of their appearing to be in- 
fected with any disorder, not to permit them to be landed without 
inspection as to their soundness by some competent person, which, 
we may observe, will be a very useful regulation, not only in con- 
sequence of the daily increasing numbers imported, but from the 
fact of the prevalence of a disorder among sheep in several parts 
of the continent. — John Bull, Oct . 9th. 
Several valuable Horses Poisoned. 
A VERY serious loss has befallen Mr. Charles Bloodworth, 
farmer, of Empingham. On Saturday, the 2d instant, his team, 
consisting of seven good cart-horses, together with a valuable 
horse borrowed of his neighbour, Mr. Exton, after having com- 
pleted their day’s labour, were fed by Mr. Blood worth’s farming 
servant, who, .being desirous of giving the animals a little extra 
corn, apportioned out to each of them a quantity of oats which he 
knew to be in a bag. They had not long partaken of it, when all 
of them shewed singular symptoms of illness, and before the even- 
ing had expired one of them died. On the following day two 
more died, and on Monday two others, making five. The remain- 
ing three are still suffering, and it is feared there is but little 
chance of their recovery. It turned out, after inquiry, that the 
oats given them were the remains of some which had been pre- 
pared with a mixture of arsenic for seed, which system is adopted 
by some farmers for the purpose of destroying crows. Mr. Blood- 
worth’s loss, we hear, may already be estimated at upwards of a 
hundred pounds. — Lincoln Chronicle. 
Horse-flesh Banquet. 
About 160 persons sat down lately to a horse-flesh dinner, 
at the Adler Hotel, at Bornheim. The dinner was ordered by the 
Frankfort “ Society for the Protection of Animals” ( Rum Schutze 
der Thiere). We are enabled to state, that horse-flesh affords a 
very palatable dish. The dinner was enlivened by many toasts 
and songs. — Frankfurter Journal , Oct. 9th . 
