CATTLE PLAGUE. 
In Belgium the repressive measures which have been 
adopted have had the most satisfactory results; nearly all the 
centres of infection which at one time were numerous, are 
extinct. Many of the communes of the arrondissement of 
Audenarde, where the plague recently broke out, and spread 
with considerable rapidity, have been relieved from the re¬ 
strictions which were rendered necessary by the advance of 
the disease. But, as might have been anticipated, fresh 
outbreaks have occurred in new places. For example, on an 
isolated farm at Blancourt, in the canton of Florenville, 
where two beasts have been destroyed. Cattle plague has 
also invaded West Flanders, which for some weeks remained 
free, and we learn from the Journal de la Societe Agricole de 
Brabant that seven beasts have been destroyed at Monseron, 
two at Elverdinghe, and four in the canton of Thielt. 
There are loud complaints in Belgium respecting the feeble 
measures which are taken in France to eradicate the disease, 
particularly in the departement du Norcl. 
From the tone of the information on which we based our 
last report it was not unreasonable to presume that the un¬ 
fortunate system of experimental treatment with which the 
French savans have been amusing themselves had given place 
to an energetic onslaught, in which the pole-axe would take 
the place of all milder remedies. It seems, however, that 
the stamping-out system is not carried out with the requisite 
determination to secure its success. The disease continues 
to spread, and between the first and tenth of January, ac¬ 
cording to the published returns, there were fifteen depart¬ 
ments, including ninety-four communes, in which it was 
raging. If appearances may be trusted France has yet much 
to suffer before cattle plague will be entirely extirpated. 
Cattle plague exists also in several districts of Gallicia, 
and in Lower Austria, in the districts of Sechshaus and 
Mistlebach. 
PLEUBO-PNEUMONIA, 
This disease maintains its normal rate of prevalence as far 
as can be ascertained, but owners of diseased cattle, parti¬ 
cularly in town districts, are not inclined to give information 
which would subject them to inconvenient restrictions, and 
therefore the returns of the number of cases in any part of 
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