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THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—EOREIGN IMPORTATIONS. 
The cattle plague, obeying the laws which seem to regu¬ 
late the progress of contagious diseases generally, is advancing 
westward from its reputed home in the Steppes. Hungary 
has been suffering from its effects for some time past. It 
also prevails in Lower Austria, in at least three districts. In 
Transylvania nearly thirty places are infected. Buckovina 
is not free from the pestilence, and Galicia is reported to have 
several infected districts. Altogether, in Hungary, Lower 
Austria, Buckovina, Transylvania, and Galicia there appear 
to exist between sixty and seventy centres of infection. 
Saxony, we learn, has prohibited the passage of Steppe cattle 
over the Sax-Bohemian frontier, but permits the entrance of 
Bohemian cattle with certificates of health. 
The contemplation of these facts is not likely to produce a 
very cheerful state of mind among those who are especially 
interested in home-bred stock. We have felt ourselves toler¬ 
ably secure from invasion up to this time, because we have 
been principally supplied with foreign cattle from healthy 
districts ; but now the grass season is over, and we are about 
to import cattle bred in the districts which are now being 
ravaged by the cattle plague, or in very decided proximity to 
them, Galician, Hungarian, and white Austrian cattle will 
now be sent to our markets; and, although all those cattle are 
presumed to have been feeding for many months in Austrian 
and Prussian distilleries, and growing fat upon the refuse 
products, there is at least a possibility of other animals of 
the same breed being smuggled over the Prussian frontier. 
Indeed, the probability of such an occurrence was distinctly 
admitted by the Veterinary Congress, held in Vienna in I860. 
Our own experience is strongly in favour of the presumption, 
that such violation of frontier rules is neither so difficult of 
execution nor so infrequent as many persons would lead us to 
believe. 
In the spring of 1867 an outbreak of cattle plague in the 
East of London was, with good reason, charged upon white 
Austrian cattle, which, according to the system pursued on 
the Continent, ought not to have been capable of introducing 
the disease. Regulations, however, are not always carried 
