AGRICULTURAL HALL COMPANY AND SMITHFIELD CLUB. 491 
a report of the evidence taken. Commissioners have been 
appointed under the acts passed to prevent the spread of the 
disease. That the presence of pleuro-pneumonia has caused 
great alarm in the States, may be gathered from the fact 
that, “ the governor of Ohio has appointed three commis¬ 
sioners to visit Massachusetts and other infected districts, for 
the purpose of gathering the facts relating to this disease. 
J. 1!. Kiippart, secretary of the Board of Agriculture; Col. 
S. D. Harris, editor of the Ohio Cultivator, and another gen¬ 
tleman, are the commissioners.” 
At a meeting held to consider the best course to adopt to 
prevent the spreading of the disease, burning the infected 
animals was suggested as the most likely means of preventing 
contagion .—North British Agriculturist, 
THE AGRICULTURAL HALL COMPANY AND THE 
SM1THFIELD CLUB. 
At the special general meeting of the Smithfield Club, 
held, under the presidency of Lord Walsingham, at the 
Freemasons' Tavern, on Tuesday, the 17th instant, a resolu¬ 
tion confirming the adoption of the committee’s reports in 
favour of the arrangement with the Agricultural Hall Com- 
pany, and appointing certain members of the club to sign 
the agreement with the company, was moved by Mr. Sydney 
and seconded by Professor Simonds. To this resolution an 
amendment was moved by Sir John Shelley, and seconded 
bv Lord Tredegar, that the whole matter should be again 
postponed to the general meeting to be held in December 
next; but, after some discussion, this amendment was lost, 
the votes being 9 in favour and 39 against. The original 
motion was then put and carried by 33 to 6—a majority in 
favour of the company of more than live to one. 
The friends of the Smithfield Club (and their name is 
legion) will gladly welcome this solution of the difficult posi¬ 
tion in which the club had found themselves. That the 
Baker Street premises had long been inadequate to the 
demands of the Christmas show was but too evident; and 
that the offer made by the Agricultural Hall Company w r as 
both opportune and, in a commercial sense, liberal, none 
can dispute. The Agricultural Hall Company will, we 
believe, do well that which has been but imperfectly done for 
a long time, and, we sincerely trust, equally to their own 
