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We extract the following from the Daily News :—Major- 
General Sir Frederick Fitzwygram, of Leigh Park, Hants, 
has accepted the cavalry command at the Aldershot Camp, 
and will enter upon his duties on the 18th April. Sir 
Frederick served for many years in India. 
The United Service Gazette, in confirming the report, says 
that Sir Frederick, as Major-General commanding the 
cavalry brigade at Aldershot, and Inspector-General of 
cavalry in Great Britain, will relieve Lieutenant-General 
Wardlaw, C.B., on the 1st prox., and it adds that u very 
great reforms may now be looked forward to in our cavalry 
regiments, and at the cavalry depot.” 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
Monthly Council, Wednesday, March, 5th, 1879. Present, 
Colonel Kingscote, C.B., M.P, Trustee, in the chair. 
Veterinary Committee. 
The Hon. W. Eyerton, M.P. (Chairman), reported that the 
Committee had received the following report from the Royal 
Veterinary College, including the particulars of an outbreak of 
disease in a flock of ewes, the property of B. Moss, Esq., Arlingdon 
Hall, Essex. 
In consequence of a destructive disease having shown itself 
among lambing-ewes in different parts of the country and 
several diseased animals having been forwarded to the College, as 
well as the carcases of others, a special investigation of the matter 
was ordered to be made by the Principal, who has received the 
following report from Professor Axe : 
“ From communications which have reached the College, it 
would appear that a destructive disease prevails among ewes 
to a serious extent in several parts of the kingdom, the 
mortality from wdiich cannot be less than 70 to 80 per cent, of 
the animals attacked, and, in some instances, as much as 30 to 40 
per cent, of the entire flock. So far as I have been able to inves¬ 
tigate the circumstances relating to the disorder, the following 
facts have been ascertained. The malady is confined to ewes, 
and attacks most frequently and severely the aged, and such as 
are the subjects of debilitating organic affections or constitutional 
weakness. It prevails especially in flocks whose diet during the 
winter months has consisted entirely, or nearly so, of grass, or 
turnips, or which have been otherwise sparingly fed. The Down 
and mixed Down breeds appear to be the most susceptible, as 
well as those ewes which bear twin lambs. It usually appears 
suddenly, about seven to fourteen days prior to parturition, or 
