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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
Havre and returned to Plymouth. The only foreign animals’ wharf 
there was in the victualling-yard, and as the yard was full the Admiralty 
were unable to accede to the request of the owners to have the sheep 
landed there. They then asked to be allowed to slaughter the animals 
on board, which was done under the superintendence of the inspector of 
the wharf. He might add that if the local authorities of any port con¬ 
sidered that the trade was sufficient to justify their incurring the expense 
of establishing a foreign animals’ wharf, the Privy Council would be ready 
to consider the proposal. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
In answer to Mr. Mundella , who asked whether the Vice-President of 
the Council was aware that Professor W. W. Williams, of the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College, had written a letter denying that pleuro-pneumonia 
had existed in any cattle hitherto imported from the United States, and 
characterising “ as a gross mistake ” the statement of the authorities 
that certain of such cattle had been found to be suffering from pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, 
Lord G. Hamilton said—The statements made by Professor Williams 
were brought under the notice of the Government by the Canadian 
Government, and the following memorandum by Professor Brown, the 
professional officer of the Privy Council, was transmitted to them in 
reply : 
“ On January 26th the Steamship Ontario arrived at Liverpool, 
having on board 195 cattle and two carcasses; 87 head of cattle had 
been thrown overboard, making the total number shipped 284. On 
examining one of the carcasses, the inspector at Liverpool found evidence 
of pleuro-pneumonia, and forwarded portions of the lung to the Veteri¬ 
nary Department. This specimen was found to represent the character¬ 
istic .indications of the contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle so well 
known in this country. By direction of the Lord President I imme¬ 
diately instructed Mr. Duguid, one of the inspectors of this department, 
to proceed to Liverpool and report as to the condition of the animals 
which had been detained there. Mr. Duguid remained at Liverpool and 
superintended the slaughter of the cattle, and in the course of the 'post¬ 
mortem examination he detected thirteen instances of pleuro-pneumonia 
in various stages. Since the landing of the cattle from the Ontario in 
January, cases of the disease have been detected among cattle from the 
United States by the inspector at Liverpool in three other cargoes, and 
in one cargo by the inspector at the Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford. 
Portions of the lungs taken from the diseased cattle were forwarded by 
the inspectors to the Veterinary Department, and I took the opportunity 
of submitting some of the specimens to the inspection of several experts 
whobave made pleuro-pneumonia of cattle a subject of special inquiry, 
and they were unanimous in their expression of opinion that the morbid 
changes were indicative of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. I may add 
that the alterations which are apparent in the lung structure in con¬ 
tagious pleuro-pneumonia, even in the earliest stages, are so different 
from those which occur in any other affection of the lungs of the ox, that 
no competent pathologist would experience any difficulty in arriving at 
a correct conclusion as to the nature of the disease.” 
Since the date of this memorandum six cargoes have been landed from 
America in Liverpool and at Deptford, in which contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia has been found to exist. (Hear.) 
