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sation, £25 being half the value of the two beasts infected on arrival, 
and £1012 being three-quarters the value of fifty-four beasts under the 
69th section. 
Mr. Justice Lush , in delivering judgment, said he was of opinion that 
no such claim could be supported. There was no liability on the part 
of the Corporation to pay for these cattle. It was quite clear too that 
the Local Authority had no authority under any order from the Privy 
Council to make compensation under circumstances such as these. The 
Corporation had no authority to order the animals to be slaughtered, and 
he did not think there was any evidence that the Corporation did order 
them to be slaughtered, the inspector having acted without authority. 
The Corporation had nothing whatever to do with the matter, and con¬ 
sequently there was no compensation payable out of the borough funds. 
Mr. Justice Manisty concurred. 
Judgment for defendants. 
PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
SHEEP ROT. 
House or Commons, March Sth. 
Lord G. Hamilton , in reply to Mr. Paget, said,—The nature and causes 
of rot in sheep are so well understood, that it is not likely that 
any further scientific inquiry could add usefully to our present know¬ 
ledge on the subject. The results of previous investigations will be 
found in Professor Simond’s treatise, reprinted this year from the 
‘Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society,’ and in Professor Brown’s 
essay in the Bath Society’s ‘ Journal,’ 1861. 
Wet seasons, by favouring the development of the fluke, which pro¬ 
duces liver rot, are the main causes of the disease, and there have been 
serious outbreaks of it after wet seasons—in 1735, 1747, 1765, 1792, 
1809, 1817, 1824, 1830, 1853, 1860, and again in 1879. A dry, hot 
season is the one thing necessary to arrest the ravages of the disease. 
VACCINATION. 
Mr. Sclater-Booth. —I will venture to appeal to the hon. member for 
Glasgow, who has in charge a Bill on the subject of vaccination, which 
stands first on the orders, of the day for to-morrow, and which raises 
points of some complexity and difficulty. I would ask him whether he 
thinks it expedient to proceed with the measure under existing circum¬ 
stances. I can assure the hon. gentleman that the question of the ad¬ 
vantages and disadvantages attendant on the use of animal lymph, 
which have been long engaging the attention of the Local Government 
Board, are receiving fresh illustration by experiments now going on. 
Dr. Cameron thought it was pretty evident that his Bill had little 
chance of becoming law this session, and therefore he would not proceed * 
with it. 
GLANDERED HORSES. 
March \5th. 
In reply to Sir W. Fraser , who asked whether his attention had been 
drawn to a statement made on March 3rd in the Kensington Vestry to 
the effect that no less than 116 glandered horses had been slaughtered 
in that parish during the last six months. 
Lord G. Hamilton said,—Sixty cases of glanders and fifty of farcy have 
been returned in the period named. No facilities exist in the metro- 
