492 ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
with the following further communications from the Foreign 
Office : 
“ Foreign Office ; July , 6, 1855. 
“Sir, — With reference to my letter of the 26th ultimo, 
respecting the precautionary measures adopted by the 
Prussian authorities on the Polish frontier against the spread 
of the cattle-disease stated to be prevalent in Russia, I am 
directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be 
laid before the president and trustees of the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society, a copy of a despatch* from her Majesty’s 
minister at Berlin, inclosing a report from the British vice- 
consul at Memel on the same subject. 
I am, Sir, 
Your most obedient, humble servant, 
WoDEHOUSE. 
The Secretary to the Royal Agricultural Society, &c.” 
(Copy.) 
No. 272. 
“ My Lord,— With reference to my despatch, No. 246, of 
23d inst., relating to the prohibition of importation of cattle, 
&c., from Russia across the Prussian frontier, I have the 
honour to forward to your lordship herewith a copy of a report 
on this subject from Her Majesty’s vice-consul at Memel, 
from which your lordship will perceive that there are doubts 
as to the existence of disease among cattle in the provinces 
adjacent to the district in which Mr. Hertslet resides, and 
that other motives may possibly have led interested parties 
to cause the importation of cattle into Prussia to be 
forbidden. 
I have, &c., 
(Signed) Bloomfield. 
“ The Earl of Clarendon.” 
Extract from Mr. Vice-Consul Hertslet to Lord Bloomfield, 
dated 
“Memel; June , 27, 1855. 
“The export of cattle from Russia meets vrith no obstacles 
from the Russian side, but merely from the Prussian autho- 
rities. Live cattle are compelled to go through a three weeks’ 
quarantine at the borders, although the butchers have pro- 
duced bills of health from the Russian authorities of the 
e Hauptman’s Gericht’ of Hasenpotf in Courland, and al- 
* Lord Bloomfield’s, No. 272, June 30, 1855. 
