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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Cattle plague is spreading in Hungary in spite of all tire 
efforts which have been made to arrest its progress. The 
disease has also increased in the Austrian dominions. Since 
the November report, from St. Petersburgh we learn that 
cattle plague occurs in a sporadic form; the last return 
reports fifty-four cases of the disease, of which twenty were 
fatal. The rest of the diseased animals were destroyed. 
It is expected that the ports will soon be closed for the 
winter. 
In Russo-Poland cattle plague continues in the same state 
of prevalence as indicated in the last report. 
From Trieste and Scutari the reports are favorable. 
A case of cattle plague was reported from Diisseldorf in the 
early part of December, in an animal imported from Germany 
to Austria. All precautions were immediately taken, and no 
further outbreak has been reported. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
This malady still continues to prevail in the country, but 
generally in a mitgated form, and in a large number of places 
a considerable decrease in the attacks has been recorded. 
Owing to the introduction of the disease into the Austra¬ 
lian colonies a commission of inquiry has been held at 
Victoria, and the result has been the issue of regulations for 
the quarantine of imported stock. 
THE AMERICAN HORSE DISTEMPER. 
The reports from New York are very satisfactory; the dis¬ 
ease, in fact, has almost disappeared, hut it is prevailing ex¬ 
tensively in New Orleans. 
We have still to notice occasionally concise but somewhat 
alarming reports of the introduction of the new disease into 
this country. We can but reiterate our previous statement 
that influenza is not new to us, and that it existed here in a 
modified form long before we heard of it in America. 
