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any kind prevailed extensively among the live stock of farmers, 
with an instruction to such veterinary surgeon that he should 
report to the Council the result of his personal examination into 
the circumstances of such disease, and into the local cause of its 
recurrence or aggravation, as well as the measures he would 
recommend for arresting its progress, and preventing its further 
outbreak in other districts. 
“ The Committee have agreed to recommend to the Council the 
adoption of this measure, so far that a sum not exceeding £200 
be placed at the disposal of the Committee, who shall carry out 
the proposed plan, after reporting at a future meeting the detail of 
their further proceedings for the confirmation of the Council.” 
STEEPLE-CHASING. 
It may not be the habit of many of our readers to peruse very 
constantly the sporting intelligence published in our columns. It 
might not, however, be amiss if even those who care nothing about 
sporting should take an occasional glance at this portion of The 
Times , and more than a glance whenever the words “ Steeple 
Chase” are found in the report. We wish to uphold all the 
manly sports of the country. We have nothing to say against 
Newmarket, Ascot, or Doncaster. Regattas, cricketing, pedes- 
trianism—nothing of the kind comes amiss to us. The system of 
steeple-chasing, however, stands on a very different footing from 
all other sports now practised in England. It is bad enough at 
all times. Accidents to horse and rider are of constant occur¬ 
rence. Still, the folly and cruelty of these exhibitions are suffered 
to pass unnoticed, until something more horrible than usual calls 
public attention to the subject. The system then receives a tem¬ 
porary check, to be again worked out in its full barbarity when 
the occurrence is forgotten. 
Within the last fortnight there have been two such accidents. 
At Lincoln, a jockey is said to have lost his life ; at Liverpool, 
three horses were killed in less than eleven minutes, the time the 
race lasted. The name of the jockey who met with the accident 
at Lincoln was Wilson. He was riding Captain Reynard’s horse 
“ Blue-bonnet.” It appears from the report, that Wilson came up 
to the second fence at the same moment with the jockey who was 
riding “ Coriander.” 
“ The rider of Coriander says, that when he and Wilson were 
coming up to the fence, he said, ‘ Now, who’ll go first?’ Wilson 
replied, ‘ I willthat he pulled up at the fence, and so did Wil¬ 
son ; and then he, thinking that there was some mistake, dashed 
on just as Wilson did, and that thus the accident occurred.” 
Wilson was thrown, and his mare rolled over him. One arm 
