ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
(Continued from p. 50.) 
The Hon. Mr. Egerton added that it would be observed that 
the last paragraph but one alluded to the new orders which had 
just been issued, and in consequence of which it would be neces¬ 
sary to provide quarantine ground for animals coming from 
certain countries. In all probability (cattle plague having 
broken out in Germany) Holland and Belgium would be unable 
to send animals to the forthcoming exhibition; but, assuming 
French cattle to be in a healthy state, of course, it was desirable 
that quarantine should be made. He did not think the council 
could ask for a relaxation of any restrictions that might be 
deemed necessary. 
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon , K.G., said, in the first 
place he must apologise to the Council for not appearing to assist 
more in carrying on the business of a Society in which he took 
the deepest and most lively interest—an interest which he had 
inherited, and which he hoped to pass on to those who came 
after him. He appeared before the Council of the Society now 
partly as a member of that Council, partly as an agriculturist, 
but more particularly, probably, as Lord President of the Council; 
and he must say that when he received a copy of the proposed 
prize list, he was struck with the inconsistency of his colleagues 
on the Council and in the Shorthorn Society, in issuing a prize 
sheet in which was included a list of prizes for a number of ani¬ 
mals that were invited to come from foreign countries. Without 
wishing to say anything personal to his colleagues, he thought 
they would all bear him out when he said that since he had had 
the honour of being Lord President of the Council, they had 
continually requested him to legislate for the prohibition of the 
importation of foreign animals. The views entertained by the 
Royal Agricultural Society and by the Shorthorn Society were 
these :—That to get rid of those diseases which, as they stated— 
and he thought perfectly rightly and justly—had affected so pre¬ 
judicially their interests in this country, it would be necessary to 
pass a law enacting that all foreign animals should be slaughtered 
upon the other side of the water. (Hear, hear.) Of course it 
became his duty to look into the matter very closely, and he 
found it was impracticable to carry out those views; and he 
therefore endeavoured to find a mode of solving this difficulty, and 
accordingly he brought in what he thought a good measure, but 
which at the same time was a very stringent one. It dealt with 
foreign animals in a very active manner. That measure, how- 
