THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, in giving notice of a Question respecting the Cattle 810 Diseases Prevention Act for Thursday evening, said, he was anxious to know, Whether the local authorities which had existed up to the present time under the Orders in Council had now ceased to exist, or whether they would continue until the new local authorities were constituted? For Scotland a new local authority altogether had been invented, and it must take several days before that body could be constituted. He should like to be informed whether the Act of 1848 was still in existence, or superseded, or only in abeyance? Several communications had reached him by post, that morning, from Scotland with respect to the new Act, and but for the haste with which it had been pressed forward these suggestions might have been considered, to the great improvement of the Act.