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Audenarde, and the other at Elverdinghe, near Ypres. The 
diseased animals were at once killed, and stringent measures 
adopted to prevent the spread of infection. Other cases 
occurring, the Lords of the Council at once determined to 
issue an Order for putting a stop to the importation of cattle 
from Belgium, and prevent sheep also from leaving the place 
of landing alive. 
The information since received from France is equally as 
unfavorable as previously, both with regard to the number 
of the departments and places in which cattle plague still 
exists, and the rapidity with which the disease continues to 
spread. The Central Government, however, seems at last 
to have determined to adopt more effective means for its 
suppression, a circular having been issued by the Minister 
of Justice to the Procureurs Generaux , calling on them to 
enforce the several provisions of the law with rigour, as 
already the progress of the cattle plague had cost the country 
millions. Besides this step in the right direction, the veteri¬ 
nary authorities—who, in 1865, had shown so much energy 
in stamping out the disease, and succeeded so admirably— 
have at length determined to abandon their late vacillating 
action, and no longer subject plague-stricken animals to 
medical treatment. 
From Eastern Europe w 7 e learn that the disease is still very 
rife in Poland, and also extending its area of infection in that 
country. The malady has likewise broken out in the Govern¬ 
mental Province of Kowno, thus threatening to enter Prussia 
from another quarter. This state of things has determined the 
Provincial Prussian Government in the department of Konigs- 
burgh to forbid the importation, or the transit by rail of 
cattle, sheep, and goats, meat, bones, horns, hoofs, fresh or 
frozen hides, tallow (except when packed in casks), unwashed 
wool, rags, and other things likely to bring in the infection. 
Swine are permitted to enter, but only under special regulations 
with regard to railway waggons, &c. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
We have but little alteration to note with regard to either 
the number of counties in which this disease exists, or the 
centres of its infection during the past month. In London and 
the home counties the disease still continues very rife ; but in 
two or three of the distant counties in which it had recently 
broken out it would appear to have been soon exterminated. 
