EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
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This regulation was based on the assumption that London 
was an infected district, and that animals could not be 
moved out of the metropolis; but the cordon has ceased to 
exist, and consequently the London market is not in a 
position to call for exceptional legislation in reference to 
the movement of diseased animals. 
The Metropolitan Market will be now like other markets, 
and diseased animals exposed for sale there will come under 
the 27th section of the Act. Owners of home-bred stock 
will probably find, at least if the Act is carried out by 
the local authority, that the removal of the cordon is not 
an universal benefit; but they will not in this instance have 
any reason to complain that home stock are placed at a 
disadvantage. It is true that foreign animals from un¬ 
scheduled countries landed in the undefined parts of 
the Port of London, after being detained for twelve 
hours and passed by the inspector, cease to be deemed 
foreign animals, and consequently may go into the Metro¬ 
politan Market, and thence in any direction; but if a single 
animal in the whole cargo is found to be the subject of an 
infectious or contagious disease, all the animals, cattle, sheep, 
goats, and swine, will be detained for slaughter, or will be 
otherwise dealt with as the Privy Council may direct. 
In reference to foreign sheep generally, there will be no 
alteration in the arrangements which have been in force for 
some time past. When these animals are landed in unde¬ 
fined parts of ports, and have been passed by the inspector, 
they are free to move in the metropolis or out of it, as they 
have been hitherto. 
It would be absurd to expect anything like general satis¬ 
faction with the new state of things. The trade will view 
all the regulations, permissive and restrictive, in one light, 
while the home-breeder will see everything in another, and 
our professional readers will criticise all the changes which 
have been made simply in respect of their sanitary cha¬ 
racter. For our own part we are content to state the case 
for the information of all whom it may concern. 
