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danger; and when the Act is passed, which will be, we pre¬ 
sume, immediately after the meeting of Parliament, the task 
of eradication will be a difficult and most expensive one. 
Among the cattle lately destroyed in a diseased state have 
been several working bullocks, belonging to carriers engaged 
in carting supplies up the country, and bringing down wool 
and other produce as return loading; and in no other way 
could the contagion have been more quickly disseminated, 
mixing, as such teams do, at every stopping-place with other 
bullocks similarly employed, and frequently with the cattle 
belonging to the different localities through which they pass. 
Scarcely is one small herd destroyed now before fresh cases 
are reported, each one showing but too plainly the wider 
spread of the disease, and giving more reason to fear the 
announcement, at any moment, of its having broken out in 
one or more of the large herds, when good-bye to the hope 
of eradicating pleuro-pneumonia. Already have some of the 
stock-owners taken alarm; and this, coupled with the fear of 
cattle remaining at low prices, while unbroken horses are 
almost unsaleable, has caused a greater demand for breeding 
ewes than has been known for some years past. Sheep are 
in high favour again, in the belief that wool will pay better, 
and with more certainty, than meat or ordinary light horse 
stock. On Friday last several of the shorthorns imported 
by the f Copenhagen ’ were offered by auction, but only some 
were sold. Of the bulls, Mark Antony fetched <£210, and 
Jason £150; and of the cows, Harmless fetched £120, 
Landlady £100, and Merrythought £75—prices that will 
probably cover expenses, but certainly not such as are calcu¬ 
lated to induce much speculation in this direction. The 
Prince of Prussia arrived by the same vessel in good condi¬ 
tion, and was almost immediately forwarded to his owner’s 
station. 
THE INSPECTORSHIP OF THE METROPOLITAN CATTLE 
MARKET. 
We learn, with much satisfaction, that the choice of the 
c; Markets Improvement Committee has fallen upon Mr. 
George Tegg, jun., vice Nice, resigned, who conducts an ex¬ 
tensive and old-established practice at Stamford Hill, not far 
distant from the market. 
