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from overcrowding, and 718 so much exhausted and injured that they 
had to be slaughtered on arriving at the port of debarkation. He 
thought that under such circumstances the orders issued by the Govern¬ 
ment were either very lax, or at all events very ineffectively carried 
out. 
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon , in reply, reminded the noble earl 
that the report of Captain Tennant referred to the year 1877, which was 
previous to the new departure taken last year, and he thought it would 
be found that since that time there had been a marked improvement. 
Not only was the report inquired into by the Privy Council, but by the 
Irish Government. The noble earl thought that there should be a defi¬ 
nition of the number of cubic feet to be set aside for each animal, but 
that implied that all animals would be of one size, and it was impossible 
to provide the exact space required by cattle, some of which might be 
Derry cows and others short-horned bulls. With regard to cattle coming 
from the United States and Canada he certainly was struck with asto¬ 
nishment, and had called the attention of the shipowners to it, he having 
intended to institute a prosecution in one particular instance, but the 
answer was conclusive, that when the ship started everything was in good 
order, and there was abundant ventilation, but unfortunately the extremely 
bad weather which it encountered upset all the arrangements, and he 
pointed out that however good the arrangements might be at starting, if 
the ship encountered bad weather they could not be maintained, and that 
accounted for the great mortality that had occurred. In regard to the 
motion, he stated that all the orders of the Privy Council referred to 
were already published in the papers laid before Parliament, and which 
the noble lord held in his hand, and in regard to the general action of 
the Government he would only say that he had instituted no less than 
fourteen prosecutions, in all of which he had been successful. 
Earl Delawarr then withdrew the motion. 
THE VIVISECTION ACT. 
House of Commons, Thursday, May \st. 
Mr. Anderson asked under what authority certain holders of licences 
for the practice of vivisection in the University of Cambridge, Glasgow 
Royal Infirmary, and Queen’s University of Belfast had their names 
concealed in the return lately presented to Parliament. 
Mr. Cross replied that he should object very much to individual names 
being published without the consent of the owners, as the latter might be 
subject to annoyance and loss of practice; but when the inspector was 
making his report for this year, he (Mr. Cross) told him to ask whether 
the various gentlemen who practised vivisection objected to having their 
names published. He was glad to say that the vast majority had con¬ 
sented to the appearance of their names, and he hoped that in another 
year their example would be followed by the remainder. (Hear, hear.) 
THE NESTORIAN’S CARGO. 
Friday, May 9 th. 
Lord G. Hamilton, in reply to a question by Dr. Cameron, said he 
would state exactly what did occur in reference to this case. 
Under the Contagious Diseases Acts of last session all cattle or sheep 
from foreign ports to this country must be landed at a port where there 
is a foreign animals’ wharf. The Nestorian arrived with 500 sheep at 
Southampton, where there was no such wharf. She then went over to 
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