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IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE. 
followed, and there stood a British tenant farmer—one like those 
described some years ago, by Nimrod, at dinner, when a plum 
pudding was placed before each. I heard his name. P-. I 
have never seen you, but your father lived in the North Riding, 
tenant of the Duke of Leeds! Yes ; I am.—Well met. He told 
me his case. Return with me ; I am not a practised writer, but a 
similar case happened here in 1847. The new tariff has got you 
into the difficulty. Never mind what the West Riding member says: 
he has received his retainer from another party for these supposed 
benefits of free trade. I am not doubting the policy of the mea¬ 
sure under the circumstances of the times; I shall only endeavour 
professionally to shew the inconvenience in this particular instance 
of the present mode of importation of foreign cattle. The ultimate 
result will shew itself. Has it not already been felt? Free trade 
in cattle or any thing else does not occur in German states, and 
yet the farmer, in your case, receives compensation. Eighty head 
of cattle were destroyed at Eits, near Pinneberg, about eight years 
ago, for Lungensucht (pulmonary consumption). The farmer was 
also a distiller. The cows belonging to other farmers, that had been 
sent to his bull, were also destroyed, though these and others of 
the eighty were not at the time diseased. Two gentlemen from 
Copenhagen came there for the purpose of inspection, besides the 
district veterinary surgeon. I am not aware of their opinions; but 
the whole were destroyed, and buried with the skins on, and every 
thing belonging to the cattle was burned. 
I have not been able to obtain for you the regulations, in print, 
under which these animals were destroyed, and there is no getting 
any thing from the Bureau without paying dearly for it; besides, 
they differ in different states. But, whatever they are, we have 
boasted of bridging the ocean. Now do justice to the British 
farmer, and make no boast of it; if not, do away with the bridge : 
it is, as I have shewn, a positive injury. Would any Member of 
either House like his tenant to come to him, and say his cattle 
were in the state I have described ; or his sheep in the state de¬ 
scribed by Mr. Rawlings, of Bristol, in your Journal for April 
1837? 
“ One farmer at Radstock, in Somersetshire, said that, many 
years ago, in their neighbourhood, he knew a similar disease, and 
it proved very fatal.” I have been absent from England, and, 
when so, I do not see your Journal perhaps for many years, or I 
could pointout other instances. What occurred on the CoLswold hills 
in 1837, and at Putney Heath in 1839, will occur again. A gale 
of wind, and the hatches closed, between Harlingen, Rotterdam, 
and the Thames, or between Hambro’ and Hull, will effectually do 
it, if these cattle and sheep are allowed to run the gauntlet of this 
