FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
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Pleuro-pneumonia appears to have been extirpated from 
all the provinces of the Netherlands, with the exception of 
South Holland, where during the four weeks ending the 21st 
of February, only eight cases of this disease were registered. 
In this country pleuro-pneumonia has declined consider¬ 
ably in the last few months ; but fresh outbreaks have been 
reported from Cambridge, Cumberland, Kent, Lancaster, 
Norfolk, Notts, Stafford, York (West Riding), Metropolis; 
and in Scotland, in Fife and Lanark. 
In Ireland, according to the returns the disease has 
decreased recently, but cases have occurred in the four pro¬ 
vinces, viz. in Ulster, three cases, Munster, one case, 
Leinster, twenty-five cases, and in Connaught, three cases. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
One case of foot-and-mouth disease w'as reported from 
Goole, but on inquiry it w r as ascertained that the disease 
was not foot-and-mouth complaint, but some ordinary malady 
which had been mistaken for it. 
SWINE FEVER. 
Swine fever continues to prevail to a serious extent in 
many parts of the country, returns of the disease have been 
received from Bedford, Berks, Buckingham, Chester, Devon, 
Dorset, Essex, Hants, Hertford, Huntingdon, Lancaster, 
Lincoln, parts of Kesteven, Monmouth, Norfolk, North¬ 
ampton (ex. Soke of Peterborough), Oxford, Suffolk, Sussex, 
Warwick, Wilts, York (East and West Riding), Liberty of 
the Isle of Ely, Soke of Peterborough, and Glamorgan. 
We observe that Somerset where the malady prevailed a 
few months ago remains free, a satisfactory result of the 
energetic measures which were adopted by the local 
authority. 
Facts and Observations. 
Poisoning of Horses by Carters. —Three valuable 
cart-horses, the property of Mr.W. Wood, of Harborough, near 
Ulceby, have recently died from the administration of “ Mer¬ 
cury” by the carter. The agent was given for the purpose of 
improving the animals* coats. 
Trichinous Pork.—Madrid, March §th. A Royal 
Order is published to-day prohibiting the importation into 
Spain of Pork in any form from the United States andGermany, 
