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essential character, and in the course of treatment which alone 
seems to possess any controul over it, it differs most materially 
from that of 1840. 
Some kind friends have favoured the Editors with a detailed 
account of it— an account which reflects on them the highest 
credit. Still it is a wide field. There are variations in the cha- 
racter of the disease, and in the effect of different modes of 
treatment. It is a most interesting subject, and he will deserve 
well of his country who can throw any important light upon it. 
May we entreat our friends to favour us with their experience '! 
They would, indeed, confer on us, and on their country, much 
obligation. 
Some observations on our gleaning from the French Journals 
shall appear in the next number. V 
THE IMPORTATION OF CATTLE. 
Within the last two or three weeks there has been a very 
extensive importation of cattle. In the course of three days 
there were landed at Hull, from Rotterdam and from Hamburgh, 
no fewer than seventy cattle, fourteen sheep, and ten pigs. Among 
the cattle from Rotterdam were twelve milch-cows, which yielded 
an abundance of milk, and were disposed of at an average price 
of £13 per head. Those from Hamburgh were fine young beasts, 
averaging from forty-five to fifty stones. 
In the preceding week no fewer than ninety were exhibited, 
twenty of them from Spain. The weight of the best of them 
was about ninety stones of eight pounds ; and they sold from 
£16 to £18 each. 
The following scene that occurred at Guildhall ten days ago 
will give a tolerable sketch of the present state of the foreign 
cattle market : — 
Mr. Venables, a very considerable butcher in Newgate Mar- 
ket, having given evidence on a charge, Sir Peter Laurie said he 
was glad to get information from practical men. He wished to 
know whether the importation of foreign cattle was decreasing or 
increasing. 
Mr. Venables said that it was increasing. There were some 
very fine Spanish cattle in Smithfield Market on Monday. The 
price paid in Spain was very low, and the importers had made a 
good profit. 
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