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more thorough inspection of trucks and railway stations, 
there has not been for some years so little foot-and-mouth 
disease in the country as there is at present; and therefore 
he should be extremely sorry if, by a too lavish hospitality 
to foreigners, we should bring over those diseases which 
foreign cattle were somewhat prone to. He would beg and 
urge upon the Council that before the prize sheet was issued 
to the foreigner there should be a clear notice as to what he 
would undertake by entering his animals to be shown at 
Kilburn; and that it was possible that, though he might 
enter his animals within the time specified, circumstances 
might arise before the Exhibition took place which would 
entirely prevent his animals from coming to this side of the 
water. He understood that the Society were going to pro¬ 
vide a quarantine station, but he apprehended that would 
be done under the Orders in Council, and that some quaran¬ 
tine station might be provided nearer to London than South¬ 
ampton. In any Orders in Council issued in accordance 
with the Act he should only make such regulations as he 
deemed necessary to prevent the introduction of diseases into 
the country.” 
It is not necessary for us to add anything to the remarks 
of the Lord President, but we may echo the advice that the 
foreign exhibitor should be made aware that animals from 
various parts of Europe cannot be admitted without under¬ 
going a period of quarantine, the duration of which cannot 
be defined until all the circumstances are known, and they 
cannot be known until the time has arrived for the shipment 
of the animals. As the Duke of Richmond and Gordon 
said, a country which is free to-day may be prohibited to¬ 
morrow, and our wish to reciprocate the courteous treatment 
which our English exhibitors met with in Paris is not likely 
to be so paramount as to obscure our view of the risk which 
will be incurred unless proper precautions are taken. The 
prize sheet is not yet issued, and probably the greater 
number of the English exhibitors at the forthcoming show 
are unaware of the intention of the Society to admit foreign 
animals; they will naturally expect that foreign stock shall 
be so dealt with that their valuable home-bred cattle and 
