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the same courtesy been extended to Ireland by a special Order 
of Council ? The Veterinarian for December states “ that 
the Royal Dublin Society has resolved not to hold its usual 
winter show of fat stock at Christmas, in consequence of the 
continuance of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, and the re¬ 
strictions which the Privy Council have thought it right to 
impose, with a view to prevent the spread of contagion. 
Without wishing to dictate in the least degree to the 
Editors of the Veterinarian , I would mention that too often 
valuable matter would seem to be pushed aside or crowded 
out of the journal, and a grievance inflicted on the reader by 
the issue of double numbers, caused by the publication of 
details of no possible advantage to the profession—such as 
giving verbatim the Order of Council, the origin of these 
remarks, or furnishing in full the names and addresses of ex¬ 
hibitors and breeders, amount of prizes, and age of every 
animal exhibited in the Royal Agricultural Society’s 
show. On referring to back volumes of the Veterinarian , 
I find that in 1861 we were favoured with sixteen 
pages of small print—however, with plenty of intermarginal 
space—of names of exhibitors, &c., at the Leeds Show, and 
so on from year to year, more or less, until 1871, when we 
get sixteen pages of small type, with the intermarginal 
spaces crowded out, in the long list of names of exhibitors, 
&c., at Wolverhampton. What advantage is it to be handed 
down to posterity—and I sincerely hope the Veterinarian 
will be handed down from father to son, and preserved as a 
book of reference until the end of time—that in such a year 
Lord Brown’s heifer gained the first prize, or that Lady 
White’s boar pig was highly commended ? I would not for a 
moment wish to strike out the report of the Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Society’s meetings, especially when I remember the 
obligation the veterinary profession is under to the society, 
but I do object to details of names of exhibitors, &c. Notwith¬ 
standing what I have said I should be always pleased with a 
double number, even if every month, provided we obtained 
value for the increased charge in something really scientific 
and useful. 
[We have given Mr. Howell’s strictures in full, that our 
readers may see that he too has much to learn with regard 
to Government regulations as the measures of an Executive. 
Did he possess this knowledge we should not find him writing 
as if the inspectors of the show were the framers of Orders 
of Council, and responsible also for their provisions; nor 
would he be found to speak of the Privy Council as if 
it was common to both Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. 
