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THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1872. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. —Cicero. 
THE REMOVAL OE THE CORDON EROM THE 
METROPOLIS. 
In an Order of Council of December 20th, which is now 
in force, the following paragraph occurs: 
“ Whereas on the opening of the Foreign Cattle Market 
at Deptford the restrictions on the movement of cattle out 
of the metropolis may be removed.” 
The desire of the “ trade” is at length accomplished, and 
the imaginary but legally impassable barrier which con¬ 
verted the metropolitan district into a trap exists no longer. 
All the machinery of police licences and market passes is 
swept away, and the emancipated ox is free to move in any 
direction by rail or road. 
That considerable inconvenience has attended the en¬ 
forcing of the restrictions on the movement of cattle in the 
metropolis we are not disposed to deny ; but we cannot 
take leave of the protective regulations which have existed 
for so many years without a final testimony to their 
efficacy. On three different occasions cattle plague broke 
out, and continued for some weeks in the metropolis, without 
extending beyond its limits, although during the time many 
infected animals were sold in the metropolitan market, and 
but for the restrictions might have been sent to distant 
parts of the country; and cattle which had been herded 
with others affected with pleuro-pneumonia have been in 
countless instances prevented from spreading the infection 
far and wide solely by the operation of the law, which 
condemned them to be slaughtered within the area of the 
metropolis. All this is now changed, and there is nothing 
to prevent the sending of infected animals out of the 
metropolis and over the country. 
The metropolitan market is a place to which not only 
the best animals, but also the worst, naturally converge. If 
