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of the Committee. The dead meat trade was extending every 
day, and the live stock trade had also been considerably developed 
lately. The Veterinary Committee did not propose to interfere 
with either trade, but suggested that the live animals imported 
should be slaughtered at the place of landing. He thought it an 
exceedingly fortunate thing that this outbreak of disease had 
taken place before further arrangements had been made for the 
greater extension of the traffic in American live cattle. He hoped 
that the Council would speak with no measured voice, and would 
show the farmers of the country that their interests were being 
upheld by the Koyal Agricultural Society of England. 
Mr. Bowen Jones thought it would be interesting to have a 
little additional information in reference to the outbreak of dis¬ 
ease at Liverpool, and, with the permission of the Council, he 
should like to ask the chairman of the Veterinary Committee if a 
detailed account of the outbreak had been placed before them. 
Eor instance, he would like to ask if the animals were moved 
from the quay by order of the Privy Council, and also whether 
the same quay was used for the reception and landing of other 
animals, and also of the Irish stock coming to England, as, if so, 
it appeared to him that a large amount of danger must be thereby 
incurred. 
The Hon. W. Egerton replied that the animals suffering from 
pleuro-pneumonia came in a mixed cargo of American and Cana¬ 
dian animals, and, although the latter were recognised by the 
Canadian dealers themselves, the Inspector said he could not dis¬ 
tinguish them from the American cattle. With regard to the 
slaughter of the animals, there was no provision at Liverpool or 
Birkenhead for their slaughter on the quay. At present all the 
foreign animals were landed together, as he understood, but the 
Irish cattle were received at a different landing-place. 
Mr. Jacob Wilson added, that the animals actually diseased 
were not moved, but killed on the spot; but the animals in con¬ 
tact w T ere moved and killed in slaughter-houses in the town. 
Mr. Bowen Jones looked upon the outbreak as a matter of the 
greatest importance to agriculturists throughout England. With 
regard to the recommendation made by the Committee, as far as 
it went, he entirely sympathised with them, but it w 7 as a question 
in his mind whether the Committee had gone far enough, for he 
thought it would only have been rational if they had included the 
Dominion of Canada as well as the United States. He added 
that they must continually urge on the Privy Council to carry 
out in its true spirit, and to the letter, the Act passed last session. 
This Act he regarded as a compromise to please the masses in the 
large towns, who were uneducated upon the subject. 
Mr. T. Aveling was adverse to the proposed communication 
being sent to the Privy Council. He thought that, on the one 
hand, the Council had done enough in the matter of legislation, 
while, on the other, they were doing more than enough to encou¬ 
rage the importation of foreign animals. 
