MR. ENGLEDEW (Kildare, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether greyhounds, dancing and performing dogs are allowed to cross backwards and forwards between England and Ireland, while sheep dogs, sporting dogs, and dogs coming or going to attend dog shows are not allowed the same privileges; and whether he will consider the justice of making one uniform rule in all such cases providing such safeguards as he may think necessary.
*MR. LONGThe conditions under which dogs are allowed to be brought into Great Britain from Ireland have been somewhat modified in the case of coursing greyhounds and performing dogs, in order to avoid particular hardships which would otherwise have arisen, but it is not correct to say that they are allowed to cross backwards and forwards between the two countries. The propriety of the continuance of the concession is now under consideration, but if any alteration of the present practice is to be made it must be in the direction of the application to such dogs of the rules ordinarily enforced for 1321 the purpose of preventing the introduction of rabies into Great Britain.