§ SIR JERVOISE JERVOISEsaid, referring to the Second Report of the Com missioners of Her Majesty's Customs, 1858 (p. 14); to the Seventh Report, 1863 (p.p. 27 and 94); to the Eighth Report, (p. 26); to the Report of the Committee on the Cattle Diseases Prevention Bill, 1864; to the Report as to the Vaccination of Sheep, 1864; to the Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, 1862 (Appendix IV.); and to the Letter of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, April, 1865(last eight lines), he would beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether Her Majesty's Government intend to institute 298 any measure with a view to obviate the loss, inconvenience, and alarm attendant on conclusions, unsupported by demonstration, as to the so-called dangerous communicable disorders in man and beast?
MR. H. A. BRUCEsaid, in reply, that as the Government did not admit the accuracy of the statements contained in the lion. Baronet's question, nor that the conclusions contained in the Report were unsupported by evidence, but, on the contrary, believed them to be based on the most ample and satisfactory evidence; they were not pre pared to institute any such measure as the question of the hon. Baronet had indicated.