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Parliamentary Intelligence. 
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DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
]\Ir. Griffith asked the Vice-President of the Privy Council 
whether he had any objection to lay upon the table of the 
House the report of the commissioner sent by Government 
in the course of last autumn to the Continent to inquire into 
the existence of sheep and cattle contag:ious or infectious 
diseases in foreign countries, and into the liability of their 
introduction into this country. 
Mr. Bruce, in the absence of his right hon. friend, said that 
the report, which was a very long one, was now under the 
consideration of the department, and if it were found suitable 
for official publication it would be printed in the appendix of 
the usual annual report of the medical officer. 
Mr. Griffith asked when that document w'as likely to 
appear. 
Mr. Bruce .—Very shortly; at any rate, in a few weeks. 
Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
ATUOCIOUS CASE OF CRUEl.TY TO A BULL. 
On Tuesday, March 24th, at the Town Hall, Tunbridge, before JMr. 
Talbot, chairman, and a full bench of magistrates, Hezekiah Anneatt, 
labourer, of Tunbridge, appeared to answer the complaint of the Royal 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for having cruelly ill- 
treated, abused, and tortured a bull on the 17th ult. 
Mr. W. Love, from the office of the Royal Society, attended to prose¬ 
cute, and stated the facts, from which it appeared that the bull belonged 
to one Mr. Simmons, a butcher, of Maidstone, who purchased it for £25, 
on the day in question, at Tunbridge Market. The defendant was em¬ 
ployed to help to drive the animal to the railway station, and on arriving 
at the station considerable difficulty was found in getting the bull into 
the truck in which it was to be sent to Maidstone. The defendant, who 
was armed with a long, thick stick, having an iron goad at the end of it, 
whilst standing behind the animal, was heard to say, “ I will show y ou 
how to get him in,” and he then thrust the stick into the body of the 
animal, to the extent of two feet, repeating the act a second time. The 
bull was got into the truck, and in a minute or two it sank on the floor, 
uttering moans, and, after enduring much agony, it died in five minutes. 
