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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
This disease continues to prevail to a considerable extent 
in the provinces of Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav, Taurida, 
Kherson, Volhynia, and Podolia in the Russian Empire. 
The cattle plague has again appeared in the Austrian 
Dominions in Moravia among cattle brought from Galicia; 
measures were, however, taken to prevent the spreading of 
the disease, and on the 11th of August Galicia and Hun¬ 
gary were reported free from cattle plague. 
The malady is also reported to exist in Kenneh and in 
the district of Luxor in Egypt. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
During the past two months a considerable increase has 
taken place in the number of outbreaks of this disease in 
England. Eight counties are now returned infected, and 
the disease has spread to such an extent in the County of 
Cambridge that the Privy Council have put in force the 
powers conferred upon them by the recent Act of Parlia¬ 
ment, and have passed an order declaring an infected area 
extending over nearly a third of that county. 
The Mark Lane Express of August 18ih says that —“ In 
consequence of the prevalence of the foot-and-mouth disease 
in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, the usual market was 
not held in that town last week.” 
We learn that Mr. Duguid, Inspector of the Privy Council, 
Veterinary Department, has been sent into the Stratton and 
Wimborne police division of Dorset to make a report on the 
outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, with the view of relaxing 
certain restrictions of a stringent character made by the 
magistrates. 
SIBERIAN CATTLE DISEASE. 
On the eve of going to press with our last number, a 
telegram was received to the effect that the Siberian plague 
had appeared amongst animals in the district of Nova-Ladoga, 
in the Government of St. Petersburg, and that the Prefect 
of the Capital had issued instructions to the house-watch¬ 
men to notify all cases of doubtful illness amongst domestic 
animals, and had at the same time ordered increased police 
and veterinary supervision. 
